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Trump faces Senate revolt in vote on border emergency – World News Gateway
Senate Republicans revolt against Trump over border 14 March 2019 These are external links and will open in a new window Close share panel Image copyright AFP Image caption President Trump says the situation on the southern border constitutes a national crisis Rebel members of President Donald Trump’s party have helped pass a vote to…
Senate Republicans revolt against Trump over border 14 March 2019 These are external links and will open in a new window Close share panel Image copyright AFP Image caption President Trump says the situation on the southern border constitutes a national crisis Rebel members of President Donald Trump’s party have helped pass a vote to reject his declaration of an emergency on the US-Mexico border.
Twelve Republican senators broke party ranks to side with Democrats, approving a proposal to revoke the proclamation by 59-41.
The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives last month backed the measure.
Following Thursday’s vote, Mr Trump tweeted: “VETO!”
Congress needs a two-thirds majority of both chambers to override a presidential veto, which is viewed as unlikely in this case.
Nevertheless, the vote will be seen as an embarrassing loss for the president on his signature domestic issue.
On Twitter, Mr Trump slammed the vote, calling it a “Democrat inspired Resolution which would OPEN BORDERS while increasing Crime, Drugs and Trafficking in our Country”. Skip Twitter post by @realDonaldTrump I look forward to VETOING the just passed Democrat inspired Resolution which would OPEN BORDERS while increasing Crime, Drugs, and Trafficking in our Country. I thank all of the Strong Republicans who voted to support Border Security and our desperately needed WALL! Report End of Twitter post by @realDonaldTrump
It comes just a day after the Senate rebuked him on foreign policy by approving a bill to end US support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen .
The Republican rebels on Thursday were Mitt Romney and Mike Lee of Utah, Marco Rubio of Florida, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Rob Portman of Ohio, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Roger Wicker of Mississippi.
Thom Tillis of North Carolina changed his mind minutes before the vote and said he would oppose it.
The Republican president declared the emergency on 15 February after Congress refused funding for a wall on the US-Mexico border, a key campaign pledge.
He aims to circumvent Congress and build his long-promised barrier by raiding military budgets.
It could free up almost $8bn (£6bn) for the wall, which is still considerably short of the estimated $23bn cost of a barrier along almost 2,000 miles (3,200km) of border, but far more than the nearly $1.4bn begrudgingly allotted last month by Congress. Where authority ends and overreach begins
Gary O’Donoghue, BBC News, Washington
By any standards this is a big rebellion by Republicans in the Senate and therefore a significant embarrassment for the president.
But what it’s not, is a repudiation by them of his border wall policy which many of them support with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
Which begs the question: what were they bothered about?
In straightforward terms, the use of national emergency powers was seen as overreach by the president in two ways:
First, it is a pretty blatant attempt to bypass Congress’s power of the purse – its constitutional right to raise and spend money.
The president had demanded billions for the wall, Congress hadn’t agreed it; the government shutdown; and eventually the White House backed down. So going after the cash by this route was seen as not playing by the rules.
Second, Democrats and some Republicans regard this as a power grab that could set a dangerous precedent.
In the past, a constant refrain from Republicans was that former President Barack Obama regularly abused executive powers to do things he should have won congressional backing for.
And many of the current batch of Republican Senators will be in situ long after President Trump has departed. They might find it harder, if they’d backed the president now, to argue that a future Democratic president couldn’t use emergency powers to, say, move on gun ownership or climate change.
So these rebellious Republicans get to have their cake and eat it.
A marker has been laid down, but, with no chance of a veto override, the president still gets his way.
Or at least for the time being. Ultimately it will be the nine justices of the Supreme Court who will decide where legitimate authority ends and overreach begins.
Earlier on Thursday Mr Trump called Democrats “border deniers” and said any Republican opposing him would be casting “a vote for Nancy Pelosi”.
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Puerto Rico governor slams Trump for relief funds comments: “We are your citizens” By Camilo Montoya-Galvez March 27, 2019 / 2:11 PM / CBS News Puerto Rico faces food stamp cuts Puerto Rico’s Gov. Ricardo Rosselló slammed President Trump for opposing further disaster aid to the island and reportedly telling Republican senators he believed the…
Puerto Rico governor slams Trump for relief funds comments: “We are your citizens” By Camilo Montoya-Galvez March 27, 2019 / 2:11 PM / CBS News Puerto Rico faces food stamp cuts
Puerto Rico’s Gov. Ricardo Rosselló slammed President Trump for opposing further disaster aid to the island and reportedly telling Republican senators he believed the U.S. territory received too many federal relief funds compared to states like Texas and Florida, which have also been battered by storms in the past two years.
“The comments attributed to Donald Trump today by senators from his own party are below the dignity of a sitting President of the United States,” Rosselló wrote in a statement. “They continue to lack empathy, are irresponsible, regrettable and, above all, unjustified.”
“Mr. President: Enough with the insults and demeaning mischaracterizations.
We are not your political adversaries; we are your citizens,” the governor added in his most stinging rebuke of the president so far.
Mr. Trump reportedly told Republican senators at a policy lunch Tuesday that federal relief funds sent to Puerto Rico were “way out of proportion to what Texas and Florida and others have gotten,” according to the Associated Press.
In both public and private comments, Mr. Trump has repeatedly expressed opposition to increased disaster aid for Puerto Rico. The island, home to approximately 3.2 million U.S.
citizens, continues to recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane María, which killed nearly 3,000 people — as well as decades of financial instability .
The president’s reported comments and continued opposition to more federal aid to the island will likely precipitate another tense standoff with Congressional Democrats, who now control the House. The Senate will soon vote on a multi-billion dollar disaster assistance package that includes aid for Puerto Rico and states like California, Georgia, North Carolina and Alaska. House Democrats have vowed to reject any measure that does not include funding for the island.
Rebuffing the president’s “disgraceful” comments, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged his Republican colleagues to make sure the package guarantees federal relief funds allocated for Puerto Rico are released.
“Help us pass a disaster package that addresses the needs, not of some, but of all disaster survivors; that addresses the needs of all Americans who are affected, not just those that president says come from a state or area that he happens to like,” Schumer said on the Senate floor Wednesday. President @realDonaldTrump is continuing to try to block disaster aid for fellow Americans in Puerto Rico and “doesn’t want another single dollar going to the island.”
These political games must stop.
pic.twitter.com/coChwyXsQg — Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 27, 2019
The president has repeatedly clashed with Rosselló and other Puerto Rican officials over federal assistance to the U.S. territory. His administration’s handling of recovery efforts in the aftermath of María and Irma have been sharply criticized by some local residents, leaders and most Democrats in Congress.
Recently, Rosselló has denounced the White House for considering diverting disaster relief funds to finance the president’s long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and opposing $600 million in food assistance funding , which the White House called “excessive and unnecessary.” First published on March 27, 2019 / 2:11 PM © 2019 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Trump just started a new Obamacare fight with Democrats, and it could come back to haunt him in 2020 Bob Bryan President Donald Trump is reigniting the fight over Obamacare, which may not work in his favour. President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that the GOP would become “The Party of Healthcare!” The pronouncement came the…
Trump just started a new Obamacare fight with Democrats, and it could come back to haunt him in 2020 Bob Bryan President Donald Trump is reigniting the fight over Obamacare, which may not work in his favour. President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that the GOP would become “The Party of Healthcare!” The pronouncement came the day after the Trump administration sided with a judge’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, should be struck down in its entirety. Democrats are embracing the healthcare fight with good reason, as a slew of polling shows Americans dislike Trump’s handling of healthcare and favour Democrats on the issue. If the fight drags into 2020, it could be bad news for Trump and the GOP.
President Donald Trump wants Republicans to go all in on healthcare, but there’s a lot of data showing the president’s new policy focus might not be the best idea for the GOP.
In a tweet on Tuesday, Trump declared that the GOP would reform its image around the healthcare issue.
“The Republican Party will become ‘The Party of Healthcare!’” the president said.
The tweet came the day after the Department of Justice said in a filing that the Trump administration supported a judge’s recent decision that the entirety of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, should be struck down.
If Obamacare is struck down, an estimated 20 million more Americans would go without health insurance, popular provisions like protections for people with preexisting conditions would be gone, and a huge portion of the US healthcare system would be faced with a chaotic scramble to adapt.
Read more: Experts think the ruling that declared Obamacare unconstitutional is ‘insanity in print’ and will likely be overturned
Given the ramifications of the repeal, the Trump administration’s decision to support the decision sent shockwaves through Washington and the healthcare policy world.
“From pre-existing condition protections to premium subsidies to expanded Medicaid to closing the Medicare doughnut hole to breastfeeding breaks to menu labelling,” Larry Levitt, the senior vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan healthcare think thank, tweeted. “Undoing the ACA, as the Trump administration is arguing in court, would affect almost everyone.” Getty Images/Pool Trump is taking another whack at his predecessor’s signature law.
Following the Justice Department decision, Trump kept the focus on healthcare during a meeting with GOP senators on Tuesday.
According to reports , Trump applauded the DOJ move and told Republicans that the party should once again focus on health policy in Congress.
But neither the administration nor Republicans in Congress have drafted a new healthcare plan to replace the ACA.
At the same time, House Democrats rolled out a sweeping bill meant to solidify preexisting-condition protections and strengthen the ACA.
Read more: Trump keeps claiming the GOP will ‘protect people with preexisting conditions.’ But he’s been trying to gut those protections for almost 2 years.
The flurry of activity has brought renewed attention to the healthcare fight, which could pose a serious problem for Trump and become a boon for Democrats.
In fact, here are a few reasons that healthcare in general, and the Obamacare suit specifically, could come back to bite Trump: A majority of Americans now support Obamacare: Polls over the past year have shown Obamacare getting a record level of support, with a majority of Americans on board with the law . The GOP’s previous attempts to replace the ACA were incredibly unpopular: The last time the party attempted to repeal and replace the ACA, every iteration of its replacement was deeply unpopular . So unless there is a substantial change in the party’s approach, a new attempt at replacement is likely to be a political loser. Americans are very concerned about healthcare: Healthcare typically ranks among the most important issues to voters in polling, and the looming possibility of a major upheaval in the healthcare industry could make the issue even more of a factor in 2020.
Healthcare was a winning issue for Democrats in the 2018 midterms: Before the 2018 midterms, Democrats went all in on healthcare messaging.
The party attacked opponents over their support of the GOP repeal-and-replace bills, especially highlighting the replacements’ undermining of protections for people with preexisting conditions . Based on exit polling from that election, the attack worked. Healthcare was the top issue for midterm voters, and a majority of voters trusted Democrats’ ability to handle healthcare changes more than the GOP’s ability.
Additionally, a slew of deep-red states voted to expand Medicaid under the ACA – another piece of the law that the lawsuit would repeal. Americans don’t like Trump’s handling of healthcare: While Americans generally trust Democrats’ handling of healthcare, the same cannot be said for the president. In a November 2018 Gallup poll , only 36% of people said they approved of Trump’s handling of healthcare policy, while 58% disapproved. A Fox News poll published Sunday also showed that just 37% of people approved of Trump’s handling of healthcare versus 52% who did not.
In both of the polls, healthcare was Trump’s weakest issue. The timing of the Obamacare lawsuit could be bad for Trump: Given the timing of the lawsuit, there is a chance that the Supreme Court could decide on the Obamacare repeal in the fall of 2020, just before the presidential election. This means many voters could cast their votes within weeks of hearing that the Trump administration allowed a lawsuit to go forward that would force 20 million Americans to lose coverage while undermining preexisting-condition protections. Business Insider Emails & Alerts
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Poll: Three-Quarters Want Full Mueller Report Made Public : NPR
Enlarge this image Special counsel Robert Mueller after attending church on March 24, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Special counsel Robert Mueller after attending church on March 24, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Days after Attorney General William Barr released his four-page summary of…
Enlarge this image Special counsel Robert Mueller after attending church on March 24, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Special counsel Robert Mueller after attending church on March 24, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Days after Attorney General William Barr released his four-page summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation report, overwhelming majorities of Americans want the full report made public and believe Barr and Mueller should testify before Congress, according to a new NPR/ PBS NewsHour /Marist poll.
Only about a third of Americans believe, from what they’ve seen or heard about the Mueller investigation so far, that President Trump is clear of any wrongdoing. But they are split on how far Democrats should go in investigating him going forward.
“People clearly want to see more about the report,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the poll. “They want it released publicly, are eager to see the principals — Mueller and Barr — testify, because they want to see how the sausage was made. They want to see how we got to this point.
At the same time, 56 percent said Mueller conducted a fair investigation, and 51 percent said they were satisfied with it. That included 52 percent of independents who said they were satisfied with the investigation. It’s one of the rare questions in the first two years of the Trump presidency in which a majority of independents sided with Republicans instead of Democrats on a subject.
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The other prominent area where independents have sided with Republicans is on impeachment. An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll last year found that pushing impeachment would not be a winning issue for Democrats.
The summary “could be somewhat of a blessing in disguise for Democrats,” Miringoff said, “because there’s no massive pressure saying, ‘Look at this report, look at this summary — we have to move forward with impeachment.
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Americans: The Barr letter is not enough
Overall, three-quarters said the full Mueller report should be made public. That included a majority of Republicans (54 percent).
Just 18 percent overall said Barr’s summary is enough.
Two-thirds (66 percent) also said they want Mueller to testify before Congress, and 64 percent said the same for Barr.
Trump not in the clear with the public
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toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images President Trump speaks to supporters during a rally Thursday in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Scott Olson/Getty Images Almost six in 10 (56 percent) said that questions still exist, with just 36 percent saying Trump is clear of any wrongdoing. That latter figure is close to where Trump’s approval rating has been throughout his presidency.
In this poll, Trump’s approval rating is 42 percent. That’s up slightly (but within the margin of error) from January, when it was 39 percent and unchanged from December.
But that doesn’t mean the public wants Democrats to go far down the collusion or obstruction-of-justice rabbit hole of investigations.
Politics Trump Takes A Post-Mueller Victory Lap At Michigan Rally On the issue of obstruction, the Mueller report, as summarized by the Barr letter, noted that Mueller did not come to a conclusion on whether charges should be brought against the president. But Mueller said his report did not “exonerate” the president either.
Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein decided against charging the president.
The country was split 48 to 46 percent on whether Barr’s decision not to charge the president should stand or if Congress should continue to investigate obstruction of justice by the president.
Politics Democrats Demand Full Mueller Report, Lay Out Argument For Continued Investigations What’s more, the country was similarly split, 48 to 45 percent, on whether Democrats should hold hearings to further investigate the Mueller report or end their investigations.
“I think they’re on safe footing to want the full report released” and to bring in Barr and Mueller, Miringoff said, adding, “But don’t start saying there’s still collusion, don’t go for obstruction of justice, because then they’re barking up the wrong tree.”
Views of Mueller spike with Republicans
Mueller enjoys an overall positive rating among Americans, with 38 percent favorable, 25 percent unfavorable and roughly a third (37 percent) unsure or never heard of him.
That’s a big change from December, when Mueller was viewed more negatively (33 percent) than positively (29 percent).
That change is largely due to Republicans viewing him far more favorably now, after Barr’s letter was released. In December, just 8 percent of Republicans viewed him favorably, while 58 percent viewed him negatively. After the Barr letter, the proportion of Republicans viewing Mueller positively jumped to 32 percent.
Politics Bolstered By Mueller Synopsis, Republicans Go On Offense Over Investigations Overall, views of Trump are generally where they have been. In addition to the consistency of his approval rating, about the same percentage of people compared to last July think he did something either illegal or unethical in his dealings with Russian President Vladimir Putin — 57 percent now compared to 53 percent then .
Analysis Impeachment Just Got Less Likely And 6 Other Takeaways From The Barr Letter What’s more, 54 percent of registered voters said they are definitely voting against him in 2020.
That is about where it was in January, when 57 percent of registered said so. And, remember, in the 2016 election, 54 percent of people voted for someone other than Trump.
Of Trump’s standing and the political climate, Miringoff put it this way: “Despite the two years of attention, focused on Russia and the convictions and all that, it pretty much is exactly where it was.”.
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Dr. Hinrichs conducts basic and clinical research to discover and develop novel T cell therapies for the treatment of patients with cancer. This work includes a clinical trial of human papillomavirus (HPV)-targeted tumor-infiltrating T cells for patients with HPV+ cancers, which has demonstrated that this treatment can mediate complete regression of cervical cancer in some patients. Dr. Hinrichs' laboratory also has discovered genes for T cell receptors that target HPV, and his group is testing new gene therapy treatments based on these receptors for patients with advanced HPV+ tumors.
Dr. Hinrichs received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from the combined 6-year program at the University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC). He trained in general surgery at UMKC and in surgical oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. He then completed a surgical oncology and tumor immunology fellowship at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Subsequently he trained in internal medicine at George Washington University and in medical oncology at the Medical Oncology Branch of the NCI. Dr. Hinrichs conducts basic research and clinical research to develop T-cell therapies for HPV-associated cancers and other epithelial malignancies.
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The CGT will haunt Labour
April 17, 2019 October 12, 2019 ~ Josh Van Veen
“Under my leadership, we will no longer campaign for, or implement a capital gains tax.”
– Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, 17 April 2019.
So long as Ardern is leader, there can be no capital gains tax. Yet there is a problem with her position. The government is composed of more than Labour. Greens co-leader James Shaw has been explicit in his view that the Coalition was elected on a platform of reducing wealth inequality. The CGT was to be a key part of this. His colleague, Marama Davidson, elucidated the Greens’ position in a speech last month. According to Davidson, the CGT was “just the beginning” of transformational change. She envisioned a society in which houses would no longer be used as a commodity to be traded for untaxed profits. That vision has been shattered by Ardern.
While large numbers might oppose the CGT, however, we should not overlook the ambivalence of public opinion. The recent Business NZ/Reid Research poll reported by Newshub found that 32 percent were in support of the CGT (with 14% undecided). This represents a significant voting bloc. How many of these voters, swept up by ‘Jacindamania’, switched their vote from Green to Labour in 2017? Anecdotally at least, there is growing disillusionment on the left. The Coalition has failed to make any meaningful progress on child poverty and housing affordability.
So far, Ardern is absolved of responsibility for these failures. And her personal support has reached new heights in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings. The CGT announcement will ensure that centre-left voters blame NZ First for any betrayal on tax. But where do they go? Ardern has made it clear that Labour is unwilling to challenge the status quo further. Those wanting fundamental tax reform must look elsewhere. Shaw and Davidson offer a clear alternative. They hold the promise of a transformational centre-left government in 2020.
The Greens now have a major point of difference with Labour. If they choose to, Shaw and Davidson could rally support around the CGT in 2020. This would provide the Greens with the traction they need to displace NZ First as the third party and form a truly progressive coalition with Labour. Such an outcome would prove, once and for all, that Labour cannot take its status for granted. With centre-left voters going back to the Greens, Ardern would likely find herself leading a party not much larger than it was in 2017.
And even if the Greens do not take this approach, National will make sure that voters know precisely where Shaw and Davidson stand on the issue. The CGT may be dead and buried. But its ghost will haunt Labour.
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Kadampa Buddhism is a special tradition of Mahayana Buddhism founded by Atisha (982-1054 CE), an Indian Buddhist Master largely responsible for the reintroduction of Buddhism into Tibet in the eleventh century.
‘Ka’ refers to all Buddha’s Sutra and Tantra teachings, and ‘dam’ refers to Atisha’s special instructions called the ‘Stages of the Path’, or Lamrim in Tibetan.
Kadampa Buddhists integrate their knowledge of all Buddha’s teachings into their everyday lives. The Kadampa Geshes, the followers of Atisha, were not only great scholars but also spiritual practitioners of immense purity and sincerity.
What is the NKT–IKBU?
The New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT–IKBU) is an international association of Mahayana Buddhist study and meditation centres that follow the Kadampa Buddhist tradition founded by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
These Centers all follow the three New Kadampa Tradition Study Programs (see below) and are guided by a common code of moral discipline called the Internal Rules of the NKT–IKBU.
To bring them together under the auspices of a legal entity, every NKT–IKBU Centre is a member of an international Buddhist charity with the same name ‘New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union’.
The charity is incorporated in England, and its constitution is completely democratic, sharing authority between a General and Deputy Spiritual Director, a team of managers and the member Centers themselves.
At general meetings of the charity, each NKT–IKBU Centre is represented by its Resident Teacher.
The NKT–IKBU maintains an ‘International Temples Project’, whose aim is in general to introduce the Buddhist faith of the New Kadampa Tradition publicly, and in particular to exemplify Buddhist practice through public service.
To accomplish this aim the NKT–IKBU continually emphasizes the development throughout the world of:
Local Kadampa Buddhist Centers
Regional Kadampa Meditation Centers
International Kadampa Buddhist Temples
International Retreat Centers
National publication departments
Hotel Kadampas
An independent Buddhist tradition
Although the lineage Gurus of the NKT from Je Tsongkhapa up to Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso are Tibetan Lamas, the NKT is not Tibetan Buddhism.
When the NKT became the International Kadampa Buddhist Union, which is legally registered under English law, it became a legally independent Buddhist tradition.
The main reason why NKT–IKBU has chosen to become legally registered as an independent Buddhist tradition is because it was recognized that in Tibetan Buddhism there are so many political problems. These problems are due to the mixing of Dharma and politics, with higher Lamas using the holy Dharma of Buddha’s teachings for political aims. The NKT wants the holy Dharma to be free from these political problems.
The purpose of the NKT–IKBU
The purpose of the NKT–IKBU is to preserve and promote the essence of Buddha’s teachings in a form that is suited to the modern world and way of life.
Why do we need to study and practice Buddha’s teachings? There are three reasons: to develop our wisdom, to cultivate a good heart, and to maintain a peaceful state of mind. If we do not strive to develop our wisdom we will always remain ignorant of ultimate truth – the true nature of reality.
Although we wish for happiness our ignorance leads us to engage in non-virtuous actions, which are the main cause of all our suffering.
Also, if we do not cultivate and maintain a good heart our selfish motivation destroys harmony and good relationships with others. We have no inner peace and no chance to gain pure happiness.
Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. If our mind is not peaceful then even if we have ideal conditions, we find that we are not happy. On the other hand when we experience
peaceful states of mind, we can be happy even if our external conditions are bad. Therefore, the development of these qualities is of the utmost importance for our daily happiness, and for our society in general.
The history and lineage of this tradition
The lineage of the NKT–IKBU originally came from Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, and was passed down through an unbroken succession of Buddhist Masters to Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419 CE), who was a manifestation of the Wisdom Buddha.
He lived at a time when, although outwardly Buddhism appeared to be flourishing in Tibet, in fact confusion about both doctrine and practice was destroying its spiritual essence.
Through teachings and writings of unparalleled clarity and comprehensiveness, an immaculate personal example and tireless energy, Je Tsongkhapa single-handedly revitalized Buddhism in Tibet, giving it a new lease of life that has lasted until the present day.
Many qualified practitioners and scholars of all other Tibetan Buddhist traditions respected and deeply appreciated him.
Je Tsongkhapa’s books are commentaries to Buddha Shakyamuni’s teachings and all of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s twenty books are commentaries to Je Tsongkhapa’s teachings. Ranging from highly
accessible books for beginners to detailed and lucid expositions of the profundities of Buddhist philosophy, Geshe Kelsang’s books form the most comprehensive presentation of the Buddhist path to enlightenment available in any western language.
Geshe Kelsang is the only Tibetan Lama to have provided a complete re-presentation of the Buddhist path in accordance with the needs and inclinations of the modern world.
Spiritually, all NKT–IKBU Centers follow the same direction and together they constitute the NKT family.
The constitution of the NKT–IKBU charity makes it impossible for the NKT–IKBU ever to become a profit-making organization. It will always remain an association of independent Dharma Centers united by
a common spiritual path.
What does the NKT teach?
Geshe Kelsang has designed three study programs of Buddhist teachings, and all NKT–IKBU Centers offer one or more of these. These programs – called the General, Foundation and Teacher Training Programs – form the very core of the NKT–IKBU, and are what distinguishes the New Kadampa Tradition from other traditions.
The General Program(GP) introduces basic Buddhist view, meditation and practice suitable for beginners. It also includes advanced teachings and practices of both Sutra and Tantra for practitioners with greater experience.
The Foundation Programme (FP) provides a systematic presentation of particular subjects of Mahayana Buddhism to enable practitioners to deepen their knowledge and experience of Buddhism.
The program comprises the following five subjects, based on Buddha’s Sutra teachings and the corresponding commentaries by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso:
1. The Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, based on the commentary Joyful Path of Good Fortune
2. Training the Mind, based on the commentaries Universal Compassion and Eight Steps to Happiness
3. The Heart Sutra, based on the commentary Heart of Wisdom
4. Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, based on the commentary Meaningful to Behold
5. Types of Mind, based on the commentary Understanding the Mind
The Teacher Training Program (TTP) provides a more extensive presentation of particular subjects of Mahayana Buddhism to enable practitioners to deepen their knowledge and experience of Buddhism, and to train as qualified New Kadampa Tradition Teachers.
The Program comprises twelve subjects, based on Buddha’s Sutra and Tantra teachings and the corresponding commentaries by Geshe Kelsang.
Participants also need to observe certain commitments with regard to behavior and way of life, and to complete a number of meditation retreats.
The first five subjects of the Program are the same as for the Foundation Program, and the additional subjects are:
6. Guide to the Middle Way, based on the commentary Ocean of Nectar
7. Vajrayana Mahamudra, based on the commentary Clear Light of Bliss
8. The Bodhisattva’s Moral Discipline, based on the commentary The Bodhisattva Vow
9. Offering to the Spiritual Guide, based on the commentaries Great Treasury of Merit and Mahamudra Tantra
10. Vajrayogini Tantra, based on the commentary Guide to Dakini Land
11. Grounds and Paths of Secret Mantra, based on the commentary Tantric Grounds and Paths
12. The Practice of Heruka Body Mandala, based on the commentary Essence of Vajrayana
‘Geshe’ generally means ‘Virtuous Friend’. Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso studied Geshe training for many years, first in his local monastery called Jampa Ling and then at Tashi Lhunpo Monastic University; and he passed two examinations at that time. One examination was in memorization and the other was the actual examination. Shortly after that people publicly began to address him as ‘Geshe’.
Later he joined Sera Je Monastery near Lhasa, where he engaged in further Geshe training studies. After that, in India he mainly emphasized retreat for meditation purposes. While living in the mountains near Dalhousie in northern India he received a letter from Sera Je Monastery in south India, encouraging him to go there for examination. He did not attend at that time because he had heard that a newly created system of examination had been introduced and he did not accept this new system.
However, in 1973 he did attend his Geshe Ceremony in Sera Je Monastery, making extensive offerings to thousands of monks and receiving a special traditional ‘khatag’ indicating that he was recognized as a Geshe.
Generally, for someone to become an actual Geshe, the Dalai Lama’s recognition is not necessary. Before the Dalai Lamas, many pure and real Geshes appeared, such as Geshe Potowa, Geshe Jayulwa, Geshe Langri Tangpa, Geshe Sharawa and Geshe Chekhawa.
These Kadampa Geshes had no connection with the Dalai Lama. Geshe Kelsang has no connection with the Dalai Lama but is still a pure and real Geshe.
The Dharma Protector
The NKT practises the prayer of the Protector Deity Dorje Shugden. This practice is nearly four hundred years old.
The first prayer practice of Dorje Shugden, called ‘Lhundrup Döma’, was written by the Fifth Dalai Lama.
Later many Lamas of the Sakya and Gelug traditions including Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, the Spiritual Guide of the present Dalai Lama, wrote other praises and practice prayers for Dorje Shugden. All these prayers reveal that Dorje Shugden is an enlightened Buddha.
Some people claim that the Fifth Dalai Lama and a Gelugpa Lama called Ngawang Chogden rejected the Shugden practice, but this is false. There is no evidence to prove this claim, and there is not a single valid reason for saying that Dorje Shugden practitioners are a cult.
Respect for other traditions
The NKT−IKBU studies and practises its own tradition purely but sincerely respects all other spiritual traditions.
This attitude is encouraged by Geshe Kelsang in his teachings and writings, and is included in one of the internal rules of the NKT–IKBU (Rule 7§3 from A Moral Discipline Guide – the Internal Rules of the
NKT–IKBU 2007).
In the past, one NKT Resident Teacher taught his students in a study program class, ‘You should not read books other than those by Geshe Kelsang’. This Teacher’s motivation was to help his students to pass their program examinations by preventing distractions or confusion arising from reading other books. But this is not an NKT rule – NKT people of course have choice about which books they read. This Teacher’s advice was not from a sectarian attitude – he was only trying to help the students to pass their examinations.
At the present time the NKT–IKBU has about 700 ordained monks and nuns around the world.
The way of granting ordination within the NKT tradition was designed by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso following the ancient Kadampa tradition. It is very simple and very practical.
In this tradition, Vinaya – Buddha’s teachings on controlling the mind – is Lamrim, the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, which belongs to the Mahayana tradition. This is therefore an uncommon tradition.
According to the common tradition the Vinaya belongs to the Hinayana tradition; this is not easy for modern day practitioners to put into practice because it has so many rules about physical behavior.
For this reason, Geshe Kelsang has presented the NKT way of granting ordination.
People of course have choice as to which tradition to follow for their ordination, but someone wishing to be an NKT monk or nun should follow the NKT tradition.
Within the NKT–IKBU, the General Spiritual Director has the authority whether or not to accept requests to grant ordination if people ask him or her to do so. He or she will not grant ordination to anyone unless they sincerely request ordination from their own side, and unless they have received permission from their parents and so forth.
Also, he or she will not accept requests for ordination from people who are under eighteen years old, and will usually encourage young people to wait until they are twenty-two years old.
From the time they become ordained, all monks and nuns need to respect their commitments. If any ordained person in the NKT–IKBU breaks their vows then they must leave their Dharma Center and study program for at least one year. After that they may return, but thereafter cannot become an NKT Dharma Teacher.
This rule has been adopted only to protect the purity of holy Dharma, to prevent ordination from being broken in the future, and to save people’s faith.
Where are NKT Dharma Centers found?
According to the 2007 edition of the NKT–IKBU Directory of Kadampa Buddhist Centers and Branches there are about 1,100 main NKT Centers and branches worldwide.
In the UK there are presently 47 Dharma Centers, all of which are registered charities, and about 320 branches of these Centers.
All NKT Centers are listed in the NKT–IKBU Directory, which is updated each year. A database of Centers is also maintained on the NKT–IKBU website.
Who can join the NKT–IKBU?
If someone has a wish to study on any of the three NKT study programmes then he or she can join; there is no discrimination, and everyone is welcome.
How do NKT practitioners live?
Students of NKT Dharma Centers can either live in their Centre if it is residential, or live independently in their own accommodation.
People have complete choice about this. NKT students must support themselves financially in the normal way.
How is the NKT financed?
Fees are charged by NKT Centers and their branches for drop-in classes, and for all other courses and retreats; and in residential Centers rent is charged for accommodation.
In accordance with NKT Center constitutions, none of the income or property of any Center may be paid by way of profit to its Directors, staff, Teachers or Members, or to any other individual person.
Every year at the NKT–IKBU International Spring and Summer Festivals at Manjushri KMC in the UK, people gather together from around the world to attend teachings and meditation sessions.
There are also Festivals and Dharma Celebrations in many other countries around the world. These events are regarded as spiritual holidays, where people can take a break from their normal routine to study and practice in a special relaxed environment.
Surplus profits from these Festivals and Dharma Celebrations, from the publishing departments (Tharpa Publications), from the Dharma Centers – in particular the Kadampa Meditation Centers and International Retreat Centers – and Hotel Kadampas, are all donated toward the development of the NKT–IKBU International Temples Project, for public service only; and in the future all such funds will continue to be donated for the same purpose.
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Review by Chris Chung & Fred Meyer
G.I. Joe 50th Anniversary Heavy Assault Two Pack
Security - Code name: Stiletto
One of the greatest strengths of the A Real American Hero era (and its subsequent variations) is the sheer size of its roster of characters. In spite of some of the marketing efforts of the past few years, the ARAH incarnation of Joe has a cast of hundreds of unique and interesting characters—each with their own backstory, quirks, and personality. As a Joe fan, nothing makes me more excited than when a new character debuts in the line which is why I was ecstatic when Hasbro opened the Fan’s Choice Kindle World’s Poll in early 2016. Essentially this meant that Joe fans were guaranteed to get a brand-new character in one of the upcoming figure packs. After the dust settled and the votes were tallied, author Bill Nedrow’s Stiletto was selected. Paired up with a new version of Heavy Duty this new femme fatale offers up some new blood into the G.I. Joe universe. However, was she worth the wait? Read on and find out two Joe fans’ opinions!
Stiletto made her debut in Bill Nedrow’s third G.I. Joe Kindle Worlds novel G.I. Joe: Body Count in which she appears to be an associate of the former-Cobra-turned-Joe-ally Mercer.
Okay Fred, I haven’t read anything about Stiletto except her painfully trite filecard, so who is she and why should I care about someone else’s fan-fiction (and potential Mary Sue) character?
Sigh… I can’t count on anyone to do their homework these days, can I?
When the winner of the Kindle Worlds competition was revealed, I’d not actually read any of Bill’s Kindle Worlds stories. However the announcement of Stiletto left me intrigued. How did this design actually measure up to the character as described in the e-book? First, let’s take a look at an excerpt from G.I. Joe: Body Count in which Scarlett first encounters Stiletto:
As much as Scarlett wanted to study all four of the newcomers, she found herself unable to take her eyes off the woman who walked before the other three men in her unit. The Asian woman- hailing either from Vietnam or Thailand, Scarlett guessed- looked to be in her late twenties or early thirties, but she walked with a confidence of someone far older. Unlike the ragged and cobbled together clothes of most of the men in Mercer’s group, she wore a tight fitting black outfit that was accentuated with a bandoleer. A number of knives were tucked into sheaths on both her bandoleer and the belt she wore at her waist.
Her jet black hair was braided and ran in a single cord down her back, but this wasn’t what drew Scarlett’s attention to the top of the other woman’s head. Just above Stiletto’s left eye was a streak of white hair. Scarlett would have assumed it was natural had it not given way to a grotesque scar that ran down the length of the woman’s face. The mark went straight through her left eye, which had been left milky and dead why whatever would had left the blemish, and continued down her face. It ended just to the left of her two front teeth and picked back up a couple of millimeters to the left when it began again on her bottom lip and continued to her chin. Scarlett wasn’t sure whether it was the way the scar didn’t line up at her mouth or a natural aspect of her countenance, but Stiletto has the look of someone who was always scowling.
In building the Stiletto figure one would assume that the designers at Hasbro reviewed this description, identified the signature elements of the character’s design, and then attempted to marry those with previously-produced parts. In doing the same, I was left with the following impression:
Body: form-fitting black uniform, bandoleer of knives
Head: young Asian, black hair, dead left eye, scar crossing entire face, scowl
Now, it’s immediately obvious that Hasbro went in a decidedly different direction when it came to the figure’s body design. Back in May 2016, an article published on Hasbro Pulse offered some insight into the design process for Stiletto. It was also the first time that fans were given a look at an early mock-up for the design. However, the final product ended up being something a bit different.
Stiletto is comprised of:
Torso, legs: Agent Helix
Arms: 50th Lady Jaye
In terms of build, it’s not bad. It’s just not quite what I would have pictured for the character based the description in Body Count. Helix’s uniform is rather distinctive and features quite a bit of sculpted detail. As such, it’s a bit hard to look at this w/o thinking that Stiletto raided Helix’s closet as some point. Still, I find that it works well in giving Stiletto a look that deviates from the “badass woman in black” stereotype that has become so cliché in fiction anymore. Plus, her Thai-inspired color scheme definitely makes an impression. I would, however, have liked to see her bandoleer of knives included as I can’t recall another figure that has such a detail in their uniform. It would have helped give her a more distinct appearance.
Stiletto’s coloration is odd---bright green pants, a black shirt, and maroon corset---all offset by a blue neckerchief. Although the colors have grown on me since I bought her, initially I was like “what the heck is with this lame, uber-generic palette?” In hindsight, her green paint is synergetic with Heavy Duty’s green, and those two are also synergetic with Duke’s green, so it does feel like a unified color scheme even if it wasn’t mean to. Or maybe it was deliberate. But it wasn’t a good first impression.
Head Sculpt:
Stiletto has a new head placed on a Helix body with Lady Jaye arms. In theory that was a recipe for success---a new character with a new head! What could possibly go wrong? Plus, looking at the conceptual Stiletto artwork by Robert Atkins [link], I was intrigued at what I saw, and was excited to see the final product.
Unfortunately, when I found her in stores I was very disappointed. The head sculpt upon first glace looked dreadful! (And is very small.) Let’s not mince words---she looked fugly! The overexaggerated receding hairline with the widow’s peak gave her a very masculine appearance. Coupled with the very sharp and narrow chin, she looked like a bizarre human/My Little Pony hybrid undergoing FtM HRT. I was actually shocked when I saw this. I was so flabbergasted; I passed over the pack. It was only when a few of my friends were highly recommending Heavy Duty later on, that I reluctantly went back and picked up the 2-pack---which was peg warming along with three other duplicates.
Fred, Heavy Duty was better than I thought, but I believe my text to you about Stiletto was: “Terrible looking figure. I don’t know if I can salvage it.”
Per the pics you sent me, you definitely tried! In order to avoid turning this into a doctoral thesis on Stiletto, I’ve moved Chris’ alteration suggestions and images to a separate page. Check it out here!
I don’t want this to get too long but I’d like to comment on one detail on Stiletto’s head sculpt—her facial scar. Remember her description from earlier in the review? It’s pretty hard not to read that and come away with the impression that she has a pronounced facial scar and a dead left eye. Yet, in looking at this figure, Hasbro seems to have shied away from both of those details. The scar is there—but without any kind of paint application to highlight the detail, it comes across more as a cooling line in the plastic than an intentional detail. In addition, the paint application on her left eye gives the impression that it is not only functional but also smaller than her right! Did Hasbro decided that a scarred female figure was too much for kids in Toys R Us, even though kids aren’t really buying G.I. Joe anymore? Or was this a factory error?
Even author and Stiletto creator Bill Nedrow posted “fixed” photos of the head sculpt on his Facebook page. (We’ve mirrored one of them below.)
At the end of the day, Stiletto’s head is a bit of a headscratcher… I don’t have the issues with it that Chris does but at the same time I really wish that I didn’t have to fix the paint applications on the scar.
Stiletto comes with the following:
HK MP5 custom submachine gun
Dragunov Sniper Rifle
Smith & Wesson M&P compact pistol
Sheath backpack w/ x2 removable swords
Knives x2
Pouch belt
Filecard
Stiletto comes with a Dragunov Sniper Rifle---which matches her Atkins concept art. The woodgrain on her rifle is painted in a darker shade of brown, which is nice to differentiate it from the standard Cobra version. A customized MP5 and an M&P backup pistol make up her firepower.
In addition to firearms, she comes with four blades---two swords and two knives. The swords can be sheathed in her backpack, but there is no place to put the knives. A belt and neckerchief complete her kit.
In terms of kit, Stiletto’s most definitely reflects that of an assassin, at least as we’ve seen in popular culture. She’s got the sniper rifle, the SMG, and the blades. As I said earlier, I’d have been happier if she’d had the bandoleer of knives as described in G.I. Joe: Body Count as opposed to the typical set of swords. Sure, she’s got two knives but she’s got nowhere to put them, which is a huge pet peeve of mine. It seems like one of the basic tenets of Design 101: everything should have a purpose and a place. However, I like the included accessories well enough.
Fred, you are our resident stickler for articulation. While the Lady Jaye arms have a nice C-grip instead of the useless J-grip, they are a tad on the short side. How is she at holding her weapons or gear?
You just had to go there, didn’t you? Fine… here comes my usual articulation rant. While Stiletto can hold most of her gear ‘well enough’, the included Dragunov is only good if she’s carries it low. Without hinged wrists Stiletto, like most Hasbro G.I. Joe figures, can’t assuming anything resembling a realistic sniper pose. I’ll be accused of nitpicking but seriously--- don’t give a figure an accessory if that figure cannot take full advantage of the piece. Okay, minor rant over.
One gripe I have is a personal one. While I can appreciate her Oriental ethnicity, she is once again one of “those” clichéd and stereotyped Asians that are good with edged ancient weapons and are ninjas or martial artists. That’s actually insulting, as Torpedo and Tunnel Rat are the only exceptions to this lame Hasbro rule. And look at me: I’m very tall---almost 6’ 4”, and I suck at math. Bang! All Oriental stereotypes have just been broken! (And yeah, I use “Oriental”. If anyone is “triggered”, deal with it.)
You mean you DON’T know martial arts? I’m so disappointed…
On the surface Stiletto looks like a wash, but if you spend the time to study her details, she can be made into a decent figure. So while I initially very much disliked her, now that she’s fixed I’m not at all ashamed to add her to my troop roster. Unfortunately this is yet another all-to-common instance of the fans having to fix something right out of the package.
When it comes to Stiletto, I’m torn. I love new characters and the concept of new blood, especially a new female character, left me very excited for this character’s release. She’s got a solid build and a decent selection of accessories and I think that most fans who haven’t read any of Bill Nedrow’s Kindle Worlds books are going to like her quite a lot. However, for those that have, this figure is one that “almost hits the mark.” The changes to the uniform and equipment, the change of faction and an all-too-brief file card, combined with what are essentially MISSING paint applications for her scar and left eye really cause this figure to lose quite a few points in my eyes. It would be like releasing a version of Major Bludd with two functioning eyes or a blonde Baroness. The character has some very distinctive defining characteristics and for some reason Hasbro chose to ignore them. Much like Chris, I don’t feel that fans should have to fix a character right out of the package, just to make her resemble the source material. As such, Stiletto is a good figure, but she could have been truly great, had Hasbro paid a bit more attention to the fine details. Of course, that’s just this Joe fan’s opinion.
The Bottom Line: Stiletto is good figure that could have been so much better with more accurate paint applications. A good new femme fatale that could have been so much more.
(Photo by Stiletto creator Bill Nedrow)
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Great necessities call out great virtues. They were relevant in the shaping of our American history. During wartime, women have historically been called upon to show their patriotism by scrimping and saving.
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The Daughters of Liberty consisted of women who displayed their patriotism by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passage of the Townshend Acts.
Since women often purchased consumer goods for the home, they became instrumental in upholding the boycott, and ensured that women did not purchase British goods, particularly tea. In support of the nonimportation movements of andthe Daughters used their traditional skills to weave yarn and wool into homemade Daughters of liberty they called homespun, which made America less dependent on British textiles.
Mass spinning bees were organized in various colonial cities, and the Daughters advanced that cause most effectively. In JanuaryBoston women signed an agreement, vowing not to drink tea as long as it was taxed. Discoveries like boiled basil leaves to make a tea-like drink helped lift spirits.
Inthese women helped influence a decision made by Continental Congress to boycott all British goods, which was due in large part to the Daughters of Liberty, who were determined to reach demands for homemade clothing. Although it is not often recognized, the organizations formed by women were very also influential during the war.
Revolutionary Women Women also played a large role during the war. Clothing and other materials were needed to clothe Patriot soldiers, so women got together to spin and sew uniforms. When militias appealed to the public for uniforms and food, homespun garments and farm crops came from patriotic women.
Women also stepped forth to fill holes left by fighting Continental soldiers, and performed tasks formerly reserved for their husbands, such as farming and running a business. Many men would have returned to bankruptcy after the war had it not been for the efforts of their spouses.
These newly independent women also had to stand up for themselves and their families when confronted by British soldiers. After the men went off to fight in the war, American women, children, and the elderly were frequently faced with the occupation of their homes, churches, and government buildings by British soldiers.
With all the war, violence, and fighting between the French, English, Americans and Native Americans in the past, colonial women had learned some sort of self-defense. They knew how to threaten force and even kill someone if necessary. Guns were owned by few, so women grew accustomed to using axes, knifes, gardening and household tools for protection.
The country which we lately traversed, about fifty miles in extent, is called neutral ground, but the miserable inhabitants who remain are not much favored with the privileges which their neutrality ought to secure to them. They are continually exposed to the ravages and insults of infamous banditti, composed of royal refugees and Tories.
There are within the British lines lawless villains, who devote themselves to the most cruel pillage and robbery among the defenseless inhabitants between the lines, many of whom they carry off to New York, after plundering their houses and farms.
These shameless marauders have received the names of Cow-boys and Skinners. By their atrocious deeds they have become a scourge and terror to the people.
Numerous instances have been related of these miscreants subjecting defenseless persons to cruel torture, to compel them to deliver up their money, or to disclose the places where it has been secreted.
It is not uncommon for them to hang a man by his neck till apparently dead, then restore him, and repeat the experiment, and leave him for dead.
Her brother, Nathaniel Bradlee, was a patriot and many meetings were held in his home. Hickey had been convinced to join the British side and was conspiring to kill Washington. She informed Washington and in the presence of Hickey, he threw the poisoned peas out an open window into the yard.
Chickens ate the peas and died immediately.
Hickey was convicted of conspiring to kill the General and was hung. Young women also fought in the war, wrote pieces for the local newspapers about the war, held scrap drives, and even made cartridges.
Sybil Ludingtonthe year-old daughter of a patriot general, commanded a Patriot militia unit and rode over 40 miles in the dark of the night to wake the Minutemen. Rebecca Flower Young supported her family by making flags at her shop in Philadelphia.Daughters of Liberty's Legacy, North White Plains, New York.
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The Daughters of Liberty was a group of political dissidents that formed in the North American British colonies during the early days of the American Revolution. The Daughters of Liberty signifies the formal women Patriot association that was formed in to protest the Stamp Act and later the Townshend Acts, as well as a general term for women who identified themselves as fighting for liberty during the American Revolution.
The Daughters of Liberty displayed their loyalty by supporting the nonimportation of British goods during the American Revolution. They refused to drink British tea and used their skills to weave yarn and wool into cloth, which made America less dependent on British textiles.
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A chance meeting opens Fiona’s eyes to some very sexy possibilities.
Recent graduate Fiona Gillespie is stuck working in a grimy pub in London’s East End, and living in a horrid flat. It’s only while she figures out what she wants to do career-wise, but that’s easier said than done.
When she sees an advertisement for a job at a plush Mayfair hotel, she jumps at the chance. Determination and a spot of luck land Fiona her dream role—and it comes with accommodation included.
Her job and living situation sorted, things are on the up. Unfortunately, her personal life is lacklustre. It doesn’t bother her, though—not until she meets businessmen James and Logan, and her head is well and truly turned.
When a misunderstanding leads Fiona to James and Logan’s sumptuous top-floor hotel suite, she has no idea what she’s about to uncover. Her imagination runs wild, but not wild enough to get to the truth—James and Logan are a couple, and they’re into some seriously intriguing activities.
Fascinated, she launches herself into a whole new world with the two men. But is this just physical, or is their arrangement set to become something more?
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Continuing to surreptitiously peer at the men over the rim of her glass, it hit her that this was the first time in months she’d looked at a man with interest, much less two men—and at the same time! She was ready to snatch her gaze away if one of them happened to glance at her, but it wasn’t surprising the pair had attracted her attention.
The tailored business suits would draw the eye even on someone unremarkable. But on these two, the fine clothing was practically an orgasm for the gaze. They sat opposite each other, and their angle to her meant she had a view of both their profiles—lucky her.
The one to her right had very dark, almost black hair, with a bit of a curl to it, a long straight nose, a trimmed goatee and, if she wasn’t mistaken, deep blue eyes. It was hard to tell for sure from this distance and perspective.
The one on her left had lighter, shorter hair, stubble that by some magical feat still looked smart, and the most sinful lips she’d ever set eyes on. And speaking of eyes, she thought perhaps his were green. What she wouldn’t give to go and check both of them out close up, preferably naked.
Shocked at her own sudden lustful thoughts, she inhaled more than drank another sip of the juice. Unfortunately, it hit her throat all wrong and she almost slammed the glass down as she started to cough. She tried so hard to suppress the cough, eager not to draw attention to herself, that she made it worse. Snatching up the thick linen serviette from the table, she held it to her mouth as she spluttered in a most embarrassing manner, and tears began to roll down her cheeks. By now, she was sure the whole damn restaurant was staring at her, and she wished the tablecloths reached the floor, like the ones in the restaurant upstairs, so she could hide under the table until she regained her composure.
Swallowing repeatedly to try to soothe her irritated throat, she gasped as a gentle hand laid on her shoulder, which set her off all over again.
“Oh God,” came a voice. “I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to make you jump. I just wanted to make sure you were all right. See if I could help.”
Unable to speak, Fiona waved a hand to try to signal that she’d be okay, but unless the guy was a mind reader, he’d have no luck figuring that out. Blinking through the tears that marred her vision, her urge to hide underneath the table grew stronger. Christ, it was only the hottie with the blue eyes. And, if she wasn’t mistaken, his sexy friend with the green eyes was also hovering close by, concern etched into his handsome features.
Managing to drag in a breath, she huffed out, “Thank you.”
Just then, Jeremy arrived with a carafe of water, complete with ice, and poured her a glassful. “Here you go, Fiona. Drink this. Are you all right? Anything else I can get you?”
She picked up the glass and took a tiny sip of the freezing cold liquid, hoping it wouldn’t make her cough again. She seemed to have got a handle on it, though her now-sore throat wasn’t at all happy with her. After taking several more tiny sips, she let out a sigh of relief—it seemed her mortifying coughing bout was over. Then she moved on to bigger gulps, buying herself some time to think of something witty to say, anything to convince the three men looking at her that she wasn’t some kind of imbecile who couldn’t even manage a glass of juice without choking.
Unfortunately, her creative brain, which had been on fire up until she’d started lusting over the hotties, had taken its leave. So she decided to opt for the truth. “I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to disturb you. My juice just went down the wrong way, that’s all. I’m fine, really. I’ll just finish my drink and be on my way. Thank you for the water, Jeremy.” She aimed a weak smile in his direction.
Blue Eyes turned to Jeremy. “Yeah, thanks, buddy. If you need to get on, we’ll keep an eye on her for a bit, make sure she’s okay. Don’t worry.”
A little warily, Jeremy looked at the two men, then at Fiona. “Are you going to be all right, Fiona? Do you need me to call someone and let them know you’ll be late or anything?”
She shook her head. “Honestly, Jeremy, I’ll be fine. It was just a coughing fit, that’s all. No lasting damage, except maybe to my makeup. And no, nobody will be missing me yet. It’s fine. Thank you so much, though.”
“Just give me a wave if you need me,” he said, backing away.
With that, he morphed from concerned acquaintance into efficient waiter in an instant and went back to looking after his tables and the patrons frequenting them.
Knowing she’d now have to address the two men who’d caused her blush-worthy incident in the first place, she took yet another huge gulp of the icy water, then dabbed at her face with the serviette. Putting it down, she turned to Blue Eyes, who still stood by her side, but had removed his hand from her shoulder, with a wide smile.
“I’m so sorry,” she said again. “Please excuse the state of me, I’m sure I must look terrible. Thank you so much, both of you, for coming to check on me, but I’m really fine. No Heimlich manoeuvre required. I’ll just finish my drink… drinks… and be on my way. Please feel free to go back to your meeting.”
Green Eyes stepped a little closer. “You look just fine, sweetheart, except for being a little flushed, but that’s no bad thing.” He shot an almost imperceptible glance at Blue Eyes, and Fiona had to wonder if she’d imagined it. And if not, what on earth did he mean by that, anyway?
“Yes,” his friend chipped in, moving around so that he, too, could look at her face. “You look great. We’ll be just over there if you need us, all right? Don’t you hesitate to call out or wave, okay?”
Fiona wished they’d stop making such a fuss. But they were just being polite, she supposed. So, fixing the smile back on her face, she said, “Thank you. And I will. I promise.”
She waited until they’d retaken their seats before she started to make preparations for leaving hers. She didn’t want to dash off straight away as that might concern them further and send Jeremy into a tizzy, so she acted as coolly and calmly as possible, finishing the water, then the juice, as she continued making notes on her tablet. Finally, feeling able to leave without raising any eyebrows, she got up and collected her things.
Her movement attracted the attention of Blue Eyes and Green Eyes, and she gave them both a smile and a nod before moving off. She didn’t see Jeremy, who must have been in the kitchen collecting something, so she made a mental note to thank him when she next saw him. That was the downside to posh material serviettes and electronic devices—it meant there was no paper or pen handy to scrawl him a little note with.
She wasn’t quite ready to head back to the PR & Marketing Suite yet, at least not until she’d fixed her no doubt ruined makeup—which would raise a few eyebrows and spawn some questions—so she decided she’d dash up to her room for a few minutes and sort herself out.
After pressing the button for the elevator, she swiped through some of the photos she’d taken on the tablet as she waited for it to arrive. A couple of minutes later, the car arrived with a ping and a swish of doors. She stepped in, pressed the number for her floor and moved back. Just as the doors began closing, she realised the table the two men had been sitting at was visible from her position.
They were still there, and she was glad no one could see or hear her reaction as she looked at them, only to find two pairs of very arresting eyes looking right back at her—with interest.
And, as her view of them grew narrower and narrower until only a sliver was left, Blue Eyes flashed her a positively wicked grin just before he disappeared altogether.
Clinging onto the brass handrail behind her to steady herself, Fiona willed herself to get a grip. She’d been having a really good day, right up until those two had somehow awakened her hormones and made her bloody fruit juice go down wrong. And the way they’d clearly been watching her… and that smile! Shaking her head, she wanted desperately to believe they were some kind of dodgy perverts who frequented hotel restaurants to prey on lone young women, but common sense and cold, hard facts told her that wasn’t the case.
For one, what had they done? Offered help, and concern. That was all. What had they gained? Nothing, except maybe peace of mind in knowing she was okay. Her tablet and phone were still in her possession, so they weren’t thieves. Dodgy folk didn’t spend time in The Portmannow Hotel. It just didn’t happen.
So if they weren’t dodgy perverts and were just two relatively young businessmen, why had they been watching her like that? Their expressions, the looks in their eyes, indicated something altogether different from innocent concern for her wellbeing. The smile Blue Eyes had thrown her had been nothing short of sinful. Lustful, even. One Lucifer himself would have been proud of.
God, was it possible that they… found her attractive?
Lucy Felthouse is the award-winning author of erotic romance novels Stately Pleasures (named in the top 5 of Cliterati.co.uk’s 100 Modern Erotic Classics That You’ve Never Heard Of, and an Amazon bestseller), Eyes Wide Open (winner of the Love Romances Café’s Best Ménage Book 2015 award, and an Amazon bestseller), The Persecution of the Wolves, Hiding in Plain Sight and The Heiress’s Harem series. Including novels, short stories and novellas, she has over 170 publications to her name. Find out more about her writing at http://lucyfelthouse.co.uk, or on Twitter or Facebook. Join her Facebook group for exclusive cover reveals, sneak peeks and more! Sign up for automatic updates on Amazon or BookBub. Subscribe to her newsletter here: http://www.subscribepage.com/lfnewsletter
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September 23, 2019 Tags: BDSM, bdsm romance, bisexual romance, domination, eyes wide open, Lucy Felthouse, menage, mmf romance, new release, spanking, submission, threesome
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Coup de Foudre – A Guest Post by Justine Elyot (@justineelyot @sinfulpress) #giveaway
Hi, I’m Justine Elyot and I’m here today to talk to you about my new BDSM menage romance, The Story of Jo.
Drifting aimlessly through the romance community on Twitter and the like I sometimes see references (usually scathing) to ‘insta-love’ but I prefer the French term coup de foudre, which amounts to the same thing but in a sexier, Frencher way.
There seems to be a view that it’s unlikely for love to strike in that kind of way – instantly and forever – and I have some sympathy with that view. You can’t look into a stranger’s eyes and know that they are the one who will be with you till death do you part. You can’t know that you won’t ever grow apart, or drive the love away from each other, or meet somebody else after the shine has worn off.
All the same, it can happen and sometimes it does. Perhaps disproportionately in romance novels, but we aren’t dealing with kitchen sink drama here. (Which I just mistyped as kitchen kink, hmm, interesting…) And it happens to Jo when she meets Emmett.
When this kind of immediate, overwhelming attraction strikes, followed rapidly by emotional entanglement, it says a lot about the characters involved. Why are they such catnip to each other? They push each other’s buttons without even trying to, because there is an affinity between them that demands to be explored.
In Jo’s case, she is drifting and longs to drop anchor in a safe harbour. In Emmett’s, he is unconsciously looking for his ‘other half’, to prove to himself that he isn’t a complete misfit. Brought together at the right time and place, they create their own thunderstorm of desire.
Here’s an excerpt from their first meeting:
“Come on, mermaid,” said Emmett, unlinking from me and bending to remove his shoes and socks. “Come into your element with me.”
“Oh my God, are you serious?” I said, half-laughing as he took a step down towards the water’s edge, tiny wavelets lapping against the fading yellow-painted shore.
“Come on,” he repeated, in the water now, turning around to gesture me forwards. “It’s not cold.”
I dithered for a moment, but I was committed now, and still aching for Emmett’s approval, so I kicked off my high-heeled courts and basked in the pleasure of their loss, standing on the sun-warmed concrete slope and stretching out my toes.
Emmett had rolled his trousers up to the knee and was wading through the dark waters, throwing back his head to get the last good rays of the sun on to his sun-starved face.
I pattered down the hill after him, wincing and squealing as the water washed around my feet.
“You bloody liar! It’s freezing!”
He laughed and held out his hands.
“I’ll keep you warm,” he offered.
The temptation to run straight back out and shiver on the bank would ordinarily have won this battle, but Emmett’s force was stronger and I found myself impelled towards him, the water climbing ticklishly up my ankles and beyond while I cut a path through draggling pondweed and floating cigarette butts.
“Why did you say it wasn’t cold?”
“Why did you say I lived on a houseboat?”
I drew near enough for him to seize my hands and pull me in close. Our shirt buttons clashed and cotton met cotton, the warmth and promise inside pressing tight.
“I don’t know. It just popped into my head.”
“Your first thought was about where I lived, and you placed me in your own element – water.” He bent and whispered the words in my ear. “You wanted me, little mermaid. Don’t try and tell me otherwise.”
He hushed my mouth with a kiss, sending the words back down inside me. I stood in the tight clasp of his arms and did what I never did. I opened up to him. I parted my lips and let him inside.
Hazily I wondered Is this me? Josephine Price, so hesitant, so reticent, standing here in a strange man’s arms, knee deep in brackish boating lake water, kissing down the sun.
We stood there, lip to lip, tongue against tongue, hands sliding under jackets in heated exploration, until a gust of chill rippled the water around our legs. My cheeks and chin were sticky and sore with stubble burn; my lips were swollen and chapping. But I still wanted more.
“Actually,” he said, pressing his forehead to mine, “I do live on a houseboat.”
“Oh, you don’t,” I gasped.
“Well, I might and I might not,” he said. “Do you want to find out?”
(Spoiler: she does!)
“I met a man called Emmett, and now I belong to him.”
Twenty-something Jo meets Emmett on a team-building course, and her initial disdain for him soon turns into attraction.
With Emmett’s strong but loving hand to guide her, Jo unleashes her inner submissive and they embark on an intense voyage of sexual discovery.
Their mutual fascination sees them exploring bondage, spanking, toys and more, and their romance is as perfect as Jo could hope for, until another man appears on the scene.
She knows that Emmett hero-worships his former boss and mentor, Charles, but when she finds out that Charles is the man who introduced Emmett to the art of domination, she has no idea how to feel.
With fierce desire growing between the three of them, can they find a way to explore this new dynamic without destroying what they already have?
If you want read more, the book is available now from:
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Justine Elyot is the author of best selling erotic novels On Demand and The Business of Pleasure, as well as enough short stories to fill several anthologies.
She can often be found moaning about stuff on Twitter as @JustineElyot
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Enter for your chance to win a £20/$20 Amazon gift card and a paperback copy of The Story of Jo.
October 16, 2018 Tags: BDSM, bdsm romance, blog tour, erotic romance, erotica, giveaway, Justine Elyot, menage, sinful press, the story of jo, threesome
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Out Now—Stately Pleasures by Lucy Felthouse (@cw1985)
For those of you who love BDSM ménage with a curvy heroine, Stately Pleasures ticks all the boxes! This popular novel has been relaunched with a brand-new cover and updated content.
There are worse things a girl can do to get a boost up the career ladder.
Alice Brown has just landed her dream job as property manager at Davenport Manor, a British stately home. It’s only a nine-month contract to cover maternity leave, but it will provide her with the vital experience she needs to progress in her chosen career.
However, her dream job soon threatens to become a nightmare when she discovers her boss, Jeremy Davenport, in a compromising position. Her shock is exacerbated when Jeremy, far from being embarrassed or apologetic about what happened, manipulates the situation until somehow, she’s the one in the wrong. He and his best friend, Ethan Hayes, the head of security at Davenport Manor, give her an ultimatum. Faced with the possibility of losing her job and endangering her future prospects, Alice reluctantly agrees to their indecent proposal.
When the dust settles, Alice comes to the conclusion that playing their kinky games isn’t such a bad thing, after all. But what happens when she thinks she’s falling for both men?
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Alice took a deep breath, in through her nose, and out through her mouth. Repeated the process once more. Then, realising she could sit there all day doing it and not feel any calmer, she forced herself to step out of the car and close and lock the door.
She bent to peer into the wing mirror of the vehicle and checked her hair and make-up. Satisfied, she straightened, then turned on her heel and walked quickly across the driveway to the great house before her nerve failed her.
Davenport Manor was currently open for visitors, so she walked in through the front door and was met by a smiling elderly lady.
“Can I help you?” the woman asked kindly.
“Yes, please.” Alice twisted her hands together nervously. “I’m here to see Mr Davenport. I’m here for an interview for the property manager’s role.”
“Yes, of course,” the woman replied, “that’s today, isn’t it? Follow me; I’ll take you to Mr Davenport’s office. But just hang on one second.”
She ducked through the doorway into the next room and spoke with her colleague. Alice guessed she was letting her co-worker know she’d be gone for a few minutes. A few seconds later, she was back. “Okay, follow me, Miss…”
“Brown,” Alice said, then fell in behind the other woman as she led her to Mr Davenport’s office, and the interview that could change her life forever. It was hardly surprising that she was shaking like a leaf.
Alice quickly became disorientated as their journey took several twists and turns along dim corridors—their blinds drawn to protect paintings, tapestries, and furniture from the sunlight—and up a flight of stairs. She had a few seconds to worry about finding her way if she was lucky enough to get the job, then her guide stopped outside a door and turned around.
“Here you go, Miss Brown. Mr Davenport’s office. Good luck with your interview.”
Alice smiled and thanked the elderly woman, then smoothed down her skirt, which also conveniently wiped the nervous sweat off her hands. She stood up straight, gave herself a mental pep talk about being more than qualified for the role, and knocked on the door.
“Enter.”
Alice knew that voice could only belong to Jeremy Davenport. The posh accent, and the fact he’d said “enter” instead of “come in”, screamed money and an upper-class upbringing. Alice was suddenly desperately aware of her broad Midlands accent and lowly background, despite the fact she’d worked her backside off to get into a decent university in order to gain a Bachelor of Arts degree and then a Master’s degree. No matter what she sounded like, or what her past was, she had all the skills necessary to do the job she was about to be interviewed for.
She realised she’d left rather a long pause before opening the door, and turned the handle before the occupants of the room thought they were about to interview some kind of simpleton who couldn’t follow a simple instruction.
Fixing a polite—but hopefully not inane—smile onto her face, Alice stepped into Jeremy Davenport’s office. Her first thought—which certainly did nothing to help her nerves—was good God, he’s hot.
October 9, 2018 Tags: bbw, BDSM, bdsm romance, bondage, curvy, domination, erotic romance, Lucy Felthouse, menage, menage romance, MFM, new release, plus-sized heroine, rubenesque, spanking, stately pleasures, submission, threesome
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Lisabet Sarai Releases Dragon Boat Blues: Asian Adventures Book 5
Take your chances as they come
Dragon Boat Blues Blurb
My lost superhero Josh had jet black hair, movie star cheekbones, clever hands, the devil’s mouth, and an instinct for driving me crazy. Josh believed in his own myths. He was forty miles an hour over the speed limit that day, more powerful than a locomotive, when we smashed into the tractor trailer. He blew out like a candle. I sputtered in a sort of half life, year after year, marked forever by that brief dance with insanity.
I booked the dragon boat cruise on Ha Long Bay to use up a few free days at the end of my business trip, figuring my disability wouldn’t be a problem on the luxurious junk. I wasn’t looking for companionship, just a bit of peace. But when British honeymooners Stan and Phil welcomed me into their circle of love, I discovered how much healing I still needed.
Contemporary MMF ménage erotic romance (X rated)
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Dragon Boat Blues Excerpt
We didn’t return to the big boat, though. Instead, we circled the island in the dinghy, hugging the shore so closely that vines hanging off protruding rocks brushed the tops of our heads. I resigned myself to another few hours of sexual frustration.
As it turned out, the beach was lovely, the sand white as crushed pearls, the sea a vivid turquoise. I sat in the shade, watching the others frolic in the water. Most of our group seemed to have worn bathing suits under their clothing. Of course I wasn’t going to remove mine in public, but the trees fringing the beach kept me cool and comfortable.
Phil stripped down to a pair of tight trunks that highlighted the bulge at his groin. Wiry, but not skinny, he had a narrow chest but prominent biceps. His thighs, too, were corded with muscle. Those hay bales, I guessed. I swallowed hard, pushing away the memory of his jerking pelvis as he used his partner’s mouth.
Stan wore more conservative boxer-style trunks. I couldn’t tell if he was as well endowed as Phil, but his arms appeared similarly muscular. Ginger hair dusted his broad shoulders and solid chest. He looked massive next to his companion, powerful and very male.
I licked my lips. Neither was any sort of ideal, but gazing at their bodies as they splashed and played, I wanted them both. Of course, I was still sensitized from the effects of my voyeurism. I might have found any man arousing.
They’re gay, I reminded myself. And in a committed relationship. Well, that was no reason not to fantasize. They’d never know.
About Lisabet
Lisabet Sarai has been addicted to words all her life. She began reading when she was four. She wrote her first story at five years old and her first poem at seven. Since then, she has written plays, tutorials, scholarly articles, marketing brochures, software specifications, self-help books, press releases, a five-hundred page dissertation, and lots of erotica and erotic romance – nearly one hundred titles, and counting, in nearly every sub-genre—paranormal, scifi, ménage, BDSM, GLBT, and more. Regardless of the genre, every one of her stories illustrates her motto: Imagination is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
You’ll find information and excerpts from all Lisabet’s books on her website (http://www.lisabetsarai.com/books.html), along with more than fifty free stories and lots more. At her blog Beyond Romance (http://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com), she shares her philosophy and her news and hosts lots of other great authors. She’s also on Goodreads and finally, on Twitter. Sign up for her VIP email list here: https://btn.ymlp.com/xgjjhmhugmgh
March 24, 2018 Tags: disability, gay, menage, moviestar, romance, travel, Vietnam
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Adriana Kraft Launches Vegas Gambler with a Great Giveaway
Vegas Gambler
Meghan’s Playhouse Series
By Adriana Kraft
Vegas Gambler will be on tour from March 5 through April 5, and we’re giving away one free download from the Publisher’s Website to each of two winners. Winners may select from books One through Four in our Meghan’s Playhouse Series. You can find all series books at this link: http://www.extasybooks.com/meghan-s-playhouse/. Remember you may increase your chances of winning by visiting the other tour stops. You may find those locations here.
He’s fifty-one, they’re in their twenties. Can Jack Hawthorne keep up with two women? How will he protect his heart?
Fresh with success from a recent stint in a musical on the Las Vegas Strip, Meghan Keenan takes some time off to play with her current flame, Jack Hawthorne, professional poker player. She’s delighted to add her petite masseuse Tia Minh to the mix and even more thrilled when she learns Tia’s relationship with her boyfriend Tony Sanders is on the skids. It’s the perfect challenge!
Tia has different ideas – she thinks Tony would be perfect for Meg, and she conspires to throw them together any way she can.
Ever the gambler, Jack catches on to her game quickly and keeps the ruse going behind Meg’s back. Who knew his heart was up for grabs?
This is a Contemporary Erotic Romance.
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Jack cocked his head to the side. “You sure you won’t stay beyond the summer?”
Meg shook her head. They’d been over this ground before. “You know I need to get back to New York. I need to get on with my life.”
“Sorry I’m such a drag on you.” He gave her a wicked smile. “And you always say my age doesn’t matter.”
“Fifty-one doesn’t make you ancient.”
“I have my days,” Jack said, flipping over a card. “But I know what we have is transitory. Don’t worry about me getting carried away.” He smirked. “But you have been a breath of fresh air for me.”
“Cripes, the way you hang out around poker tables, anyone would provide a breath of fresh air.” Meg smiled and purposely softened her tone. “And you’ve been very good for me, too. I don’t know how I would’ve made it through the hectic pace of the last six months without your steady influence. You’ve always been there, and with few demands.”
“Perhaps,” Jack began wistfully, “I should’ve been more demanding.” He must’ve seen her nostrils flare, because he lifted a hand, forestalling her response. “You’ve renewed my faith in life.” He grinned devilishly. “Even in love.”
Winner of the 2014 Bisexual Book Award for erotic fiction, author Adriana Kraft is a married couple writing Sizzling Romantic Suspense and Erotic Romance for Two, Three, or More.
One man, one woman, danger and intrigue – always a happy ending, but oh, what a ride! Readers can count on our Romantic Suspense line for gutsy characters, hot sex, and breathtaking intimacy as our hero and heroine battle outer threats and inner demons to stay alive and fall in love.
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March 12, 2018 Tags: giveaway, launch, menage, new release
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Trump swipes at GOP foe Sen. Jeff Flake: ‘He’s a Flake!’
Posted by Adam Shaw | Jun 7, 2018 | POLITICS AND BUSINESS, TRUMP PRESIDENCY | 0 |
Jeff Flake won’t rule out White House run against Trump
Retiring Republican senator from Arizona says he hopes President Trump faces a challenger or two in the GOP primaries; reaction from Brad Blakeman, former deputy assistant to President George W. Bush, and Dave Brown, Democratic strategist and former senior adviser to Sen. Patty Murray.
President Trump on Thursday took a swipe at Republican foe Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, accusing him of being “humiliatingly forced out of his own Senate seat” and making a play on his name.
Flake said last month that while it’s “not in my plans” to run in 2020 against Trump, he has not ruled it out.
Trump appeared to be responding to that in his tweet Thursday when he asked how Flake could consider running for office considering his “record low polling numbers” and adding that he was “forced” to retire.
“How could Jeff Flake, who is setting record low polling numbers in Arizona and was therefore humiliatingly forced out of his own Senate seat without even a fight (and who doesn’t have a clue), think about running for office, even a lower one, again?” he asked.
“Let’s face it, he’s a Flake!” he added.
Trump and Flake, who is retiring after the midterm elections,, have long thrown barbs at one another. Last month the moderate senator said that the “presidency has been debased” by Trump and accused him of having a “bottomless appetite for destruction and division.”
Flake has stepped into the role of Trump critic from within the Republican Party. Last year he released a book: “Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle.”
Recently he has been a vocal opponent of Trump’s tariffs on aluminium and steel imports, as well as voting against Trump’s pick for CIA nominee, Gina Haspel.
Flake’s barbs have been so intense that they have sometimes drawn criticism from GOP leadership. In January, Flake accused Trump of using Stalinist language and promoting global instability with his criticism of the media.
“It is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies,” he said.
‘Comparing the leader of the free world to murderous dictators is absurd,” Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tweeted in response. “You’ve gone too far.”
Adam Shaw is a Politics Reporter and occasional Opinion writer for FoxNews.com. He can be reached here or on Twitter: @AdamShawNY.
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Adam Schefter: 'I Don't Regret Breaking Andrew Luck News During Colts Game'
posted by Wil Leitner - Aug 29, 2019
Dan Patrick: “Was there any thought to not breaking it during the game?”
Adam Schefter: “I don’t understand that, I really don’t. I’m at a surprise birthday dinner for my mother-in-law… I apologize for not tracking where the Colts-Bears preseason game was when the information is coming in to me. I got the information and never stopped to think ‘boy, I wonder what part of the game they’re in, and I wonder if this would be disruptive.’ I wondered 'how am I going to get this confirmed and how am I going to give people a heads up?'. I called a couple different people within the Colts organization to let them know I was going to be reporting this story, but nobody picked up and nobody got back to me. Somebody could have called me back and said ‘Hey, we're in whatever part of the game we’re in, would you mind waiting 30 minutes?’… Nobody did that. I felt comfortable with reporting it when I did, which I would do 100 out of 100 times.” (Full Audio at Bottom of Page)
Listen to ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter join The Dan Patrick Show to chronicle how he got the scoop on Andrew Luck’s shocking retirement, and why he doesn’t understand how there is a some sort of ‘controversy’ around the timing of Schefter breaking the news.
Schefter was the first person in the media to break the stunning news of Luck’s retirement from the NFL at the age of 29 on Saturday night, but it created an awkward situation when it just so happened to be during the time the Colts and Chicago Bears were playing a preseason game in Indianapolis.
A frenzy then occurred in the stands when fans started spreading the news that Luck was leaving football, while the game was still going on, and even worse, while Luck was on the sideline in street clothes.
What then ensued was a wild scene of fans booing Luck as he left the field at Lucas Oil Stadium for the final time.
Some believed Schefter should have waited till after the game was over to break the news.
Check out the interview below as Schefter says he wouldn’t do the process over again, and says he even tried to warn the Colts at the last second, and would have waited to break the news if they had requested it.
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Tag Archive | Forsvarets M/49
in military history, weapons
Fans of classic P210s may have something to cheer about
The Sig P210, derived from Charles Petter’s Modèle 1935A pistol in 1937 and improved on a number of points, is perhaps the nicest single-stack military-issue combat handgun to come out of the 20th Century (unless you are a well-tuned 1911 purist). The Swiss military and police adopted them for generations as did the West German GSG-9 anti-terror teams and Monaco’s ancient Company of Carabiniers. The gun has a downright cult following and surplus Swiss-made 210s go for big money (like $2K) while Sig Sauer-USA in New Hampshire has begun low rate commerical production (at $1,700) to fill the niche.
However, it looks like there could be a big cache of vintage 1950s-era P210s coming on the surplus market as Denmark, who bought some 20,000 of these sweet 9mms, had recently signed a $3 million contract for new Sig XCarry P320s.
Denmark chose the Sig P320 X-Carry to replace the Sig P210 pistols they have used for more than the past half-century. The latter of which in turn replaced the M1910/21 Bergmann and Lahti M40 handguns in 1949 (Photo: Danish Ministry of Defense)
Tentatively announced in Denmark a few months ago and confirmed by Sig this week, the X-Carry will replace all of the handguns in the Danish military and serve with the country’s Army, Navy, Air Force, and Special Operations Command.
The gun was tested in a month-long competition against the Glock 17 Gen 5, Beretta APX, and Canik TP 9 SF to replace the classic but obsolete Forsvarets M/49 “Neuhausen” pistol, the Danish designation for the Sig P210 adopted after World War II.
Danish Sig P210 Semi-Automatic Pistol (M49), 9mm, complete with classic 21-groove European walnut grips, and crown “HTK” markings to left side frame rail,
The Neuhausen has been a staple of the Danish military since 1949 and, while a number were sold surplus in the 1990s by Sig, the replacement by Sig– who is making more P210s as we speak– could be a good sign for collectors (Danish Ministry of Defense)
The P320 was the unanimous choice after evaluators ran the handgun through grueling field tests followed by accuracy, drop and safety tests. When compared against the legacy Sig, the X-Carry has more than double the magazine capacity (17 or 21 vs. 8) and the capability to use suppressors, tactical lights, lasers and red dot sights. In Danish service, the X-Carry will mount XRAY 3 night-sights, use an enhanced grip with deep trigger guard undercut, flat trigger and extended removable mag well.
More on all this in my column at Guns.com
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February 8, 2016 launchtenn
A Real-Life Entrepreneur’s Guide to Getting Customers Part 1: Direct Sales (How it Really Happens”
My name is Jonathan Sexton and I have a really cool job. I am the Entrepreneur-In-Residence at the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, in Knoxville,Tennessee; a small, but very creative and kick-ass city. My job description is simple: create and grow a business, while helping other entrepreneurs create and grow theirs. But the job itself is far more complex.Sometimes I wonder why anyone would pay me to do this. Build my own exit? But there is actually tons of value to the people that I serve in being “in the trenches” growing a business.
Blackstone Charitable Foundation Announces 2016 Innovation Grant Recipients
The Blackstone Charitable Foundation today announced that it has awarded grants totaling $2 million to non-profit organizations that strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems and support promising entrepreneurs. Now in its fourth year, the Blackstone Innovation Grants program supports innovative regional initiatives and events that foster entrepreneurship. Our grant will fund Launch Tennessee’s 36 | 86 conference in June 2016, which brings together top talent from across the south to further the conversation about entrepreneurship, investment and culture, and to identify and highlight some of the top early stage companies throughout a 12 state SE region.
Entrepreneur Center Creates Health Care Accelerator
The Tennessean
The Entrepreneur Center is launching a new accelerator, Project Healthcare, to stoke the growth of startups in Nashville. The accelerator is the third aimed at local Nashville industries and follows Project Music and 1440 Publishing Innovations. Michael Burcham, a health care heavyweight who recently started Narus Health, will join as chairman of Project Healthcare’s advisory board. “I’m excited to be back working with the Entrepreneur Center as it enters this next phase of support for innovation in health care,” Burcham said in a prepared statement. “It’s time to provide year-round support for health care startups.”
Memphis Biotech Co. Preps Clinical Trial for Knee Implant
Memphis Business Journal
Memphis-based Active Implants has initiated its second clinical trial evaluating the investigational NUsurface meniscus implant. Active Implants will enroll approximately 120 patients with persistent knee pain caused by injured or deteriorating meniscus cartilage at up to 20 sites nationwide. NUsurface will be evaluated as a treatment option to help patients delay or avoid total knee replacement.
Pro2Serve, Covenant Partnership will Use ORNL Technology to Solve Healthcare’s Information Overload
Professional Project Services of Oak Ridge and Knoxville healthcare system Covenant Health have launched a joint venture, VortexT Analytics, using technology developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the national security industry to securely compile and analyze an ever-growing volume of patient data in the healthcare field. The VortexT platform, based on algorithms developed at ORNL and combined with additional patented technology from Pro2Serve, uses big data analysis to find targeted information in text form, such as patient files.
Water-Conscious Tech Startup Launches Kickstarter to Help Scale Business
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The Ark Labs, which is a water-conscious tech startup, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help scale their business, and although it might sound “goofy,” the company’s founder said the fundraiser isn’t only about money. “[I mean this] from deep down inside—our goal is not financial,” CEO and founder Robbie Hillis said. “It would be deemed a success in my mind if we gained x number of community members.” Hillis also participated in The Company Lab’s 2015 Gig Tank and will soon be working with Vision Hospitality Group to beta test his product.
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Motor Vehicle Defects
Top Gratz Motor Vehicle Defects Lawyers - Pennsylvania
Nearby Cities: Lebanon, Harrisburg, Pottsville, Middletown, Camp Hill
Related Practice Areas: Auto Dealer Fraud, Products Liability, Lemon Law
Marzzacco Niven & Associates
Motor Vehicle Defects Lawyers Serving Gratz, PA (Harrisburg)
Our law firm serves central and eastern Pennsylvania, and is dedicated to treating our clients the way we would want to be treated. Former clients describe the law firm’s Harrisburg workers' comp lawyers as confident, knowledgeable, polite and prompt. Marzzacco Niven & Associates comprises a group of competent Harrisburg workers' compensation attorneys. Workers' compensation law protects...
Haggerty & Silverman P.C.
Motor Vehicle Defects Lawyers Serving Gratz, PA (Lancaster)
In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, attorneys from the law office of Haggerty & Silverman P.C. represent those who have been injured due to the negligence or poor choices of others. Our practice includes all personal injury cases such as workplace injuries, product liability, premises liability, nursing home abuse, bad faith insurance, auto accidents and medical malpractice. We have over 25 years of...
Stapp Law, LLC
Motor Vehicle Defects Lawyers Serving Gratz, PA (Williamsport)
At the law office of Stapp Law, LLC, I am dedicated to providing skilled legal services to those in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, who are dealing with matters of personal injury. With over 20 years of experience, I am confident that I can handle any case and help clients get the compensation they deserve after they have been injured at the hands of another. Along with Williamsport, my law office...
Comitz Law Firm, LLC
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Smart, Aggressive and Committed Legal Representation in Pennsylvania If you have been injured because of the negligence or recklessness of another party, you need the Comitz Law Firm, LLC. Combining close to 10 years of experience with a dedication to integrity, we take pride in the relationships that we have built with clients. We represent the families of wrongful death victims and individuals...
Wieand Law Firm
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The Wieand Law Firm provides strong legal representation to individuals in Pennsylvania and neighboring New Jersey who were seriously injured or lost a loved one due to the negligence of another. We are pleased to serve clients at our Malvern location for a wide range of legal matters, including: Personal injury Wrongful death Motor vehicle accidents Whistleblower/qui tam Product liability...
Motor Vehicle Defects Lawyers Serving Gratz, PA (Radnor)
Since the day our law firm's doors first opened in Pennsylvania, we have worked to build a reputation for providing outstanding legal services. Today, the Wieand Law Firm has that very reputation, thanks to our dedication and commitment to client needs. If you live in Pennsylvania or neighboring New Jersey and need a personal injury attorney call us today. We are proud to serve...
The Law Offices of Mitchell Clair
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At The Law Offices of Mitchell Clair, we provide experienced representation and compassionate guidance to personal injury victims in Blue Bell and the surrounding areas of Pennsylvania. Whether you were injured in a car accident, at work or on dangerous property, we can help. Putting Your Needs First Different people need different things from their personal injury attorney. That is why we listen...
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The Wieand Law Firm is focused on protecting the rights of innocent victims who were injured in accidents or through malpractice in Pennsylvania and neighboring New Jersey. We are proud to serve clients at four office locations, including Plymouth Meeting, which allow us to provide convenient service to all the residents of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Wieand Law Firm clients receive personalized...
DiOrio & Sereni, LLP
Motor Vehicle Defects Lawyers Serving Gratz, PA (Media)
Edgar Snyder & Associates
Motor Vehicle Defects Lawyers Serving Gratz, PA (Altoona)
Whether you were hurt in a car accident on I-99 or injured while working in Hollidaysburg, you need a local Altoona attorney who can help you fight for the money that you deserve. Since 1982, the law firm of Edgar Snyder & Associates has protected the rights of injury victims. With five office locations across western Pennsylvania, we have represented over 50,000 clients in personal injury,...
Motor Vehicle Defects Lawyers Serving Gratz, PA (Philadelphia)
With more than 25 years of experience, our firm has represented thousands of car accident victims and while each case is different, we have recovered millions on their behalf. As one of the country’s fastest-growing personal injury law firms, Morgan & Morgan has helped thousands of clients in various cases, including car accidents, slip-and-falls, nursing home abuse,...
Youman & Caputo, LLC
The law firm of Youman & Caputo, LLC represents catastrophically injured individuals in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and government fraud whistleblowers nationwide. Youman & Caputo's founding partners, Andy Youman and David Caputo, have secured or helped secure more than 100 eight and seven figure verdicts and settlements in their decades of representing catastrophically injured...
Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, P.C.
The law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, P.C., is based in Los Angeles with branch offices in both Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. We serve clients from throughout New England, the Midwest and across the nation, who have sustained losses due to: Aviation accidents Pharmaceutical negligence claims Defective medical devices Whistleblower actions Commercial motor vehicle...
The Rothenberg Law Firm LLP
The Rothenberg Law Firm LLP is one of the nation’s leading personal injury law firms. With offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as well as New York and New Jersey, we help injured clients across the country. Our legacy of success spans more than four-and-a-half decades. Rooted In A Passion For Justice For us, personal injury law is more than just a business; it’s a passion. Our attorneys and...
Marrone Law Firm, LLC
At the Marrone Law Firm, LLC, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, we are fully prepared to help you protect your rights while fighting to achieve the favorable outcomes you deserve for the serious and complex legal challenges threatening your life, your livelihood, your freedom and your future. For more than 25 years now, our law firm has been the go-to source for clients throughout the greater...
The Wieand Law Firm was founded by experienced personal injury lawyer, Brent Wieand. Our firm offers high-quality legal services to people who suffered serious injuries in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. We are proud to help victims and families pursue personal injury and wrongful death compensation in a wide range of cases, including: Car, truck and motorcycle accidents Bus accidents and...
van der Veen, O'Neill, Hartshorn, and Levin
At van der Veen, O'Neill, Hartshorn, and Levin, our attorneys provide aggressive and unwavering representation for victims of catastrophic accidents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although we cannot take away the pain and trauma from injuries or the death of a loved one, we use our vast experience and legal knowledge to advocate for clients involved in car and motorcycle crashes, commercial...
Motor Vehicle Defects Lawyers Serving Gratz, PA (Ebensburg)
Since 1982, the law firm of Edgar Snyder & Associates has protected the rights of injury victims, including Ebensburg residents just like you. With five office locations across western Pennsylvania, we have represented over 50,000 clients in personal injury, workers' compensation, and Social Security disability cases. We’ve provided more than 350,000 free legal evaluations to help people...
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Wyandot County OH Newspapers and Obituaries
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Note: This page primarily lists records kept at the county level. Statewide collections are found on the Ohio Newspapers and Obituaries page.
Wyandot County Newspapers and Obituaries
Graves registration of Wyandot County, Ohio SEO Automation Consortium
Index of the Wyandot County, Ohio Democratic Union, 1856-1860, 1862-1864 : (including the Democratic Vindicator, 1856-1857) Bowling Green State University
Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current Ancestry
Ohio Newspapers, 1793-2009 MyHeritage
Ohio, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Obituary Index, 1810s-2013 Ancestry
U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-current Ancestry
Carey Newspapers and Obituaries
Carey Progressor. (Carey, Ohio) 1968-1971 Bowling Green State University
Carey Times. (Carey, Ohio) 1873-1971 Multiple Archives
Progressor-Times. (Carey, Ohio) 1971-Current Multiple Archives
Nevada Newspapers and Obituaries
Nevada Enterprise. (Nevada, Ohio) 1872-1909 Multiple Archives
Nevada News. (Nevada, Ohio) 1909-1932 Multiple Archives
Sycamore Newspapers and Obituaries
Index to obituaries in Sycamore newspapers, Wyandot County, Ohio 1952-1990 Family History Library
Index to obituaries in Sycamore newspapers, Wyandot County, Ohio, 1952-1990 Columbus Metropolitan Library
Mohawk Leader. (Sycamore, Ohio) 1978-Current Multiple Archives
Sycamore Leader. (Sycamore, Ohio) 1892-1972 Multiple Archives
Sycamore's Mohawk Leader. (Sycamore, Ohio) 1972-1978 Multiple Archives
Upper Sandusky Newspapers and Obituaries
Daily Chief-Union. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1938-Current Multiple Archives
Daily Chief. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1896-1938 Multiple Archives
Daily Union. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1916-1938 Ohio Historical Society
Democratic Pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853 Multiple Archives
Democratic Union. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1862-1865 Multiple Archives
Democratic Union. (Upper Sandusky, Wyandot County, Ohio) 1857-1861 Multiple Archives
Democratic pioneer 09/12/1845 to 10/18/1850 Genealogy Bank
Index To Obituaries in Upper Sandusky Newspapers, Wyandot County, Ohio, 1868-1911 Family History Library
Index to obituaries in The daily chief newspaper, Upper Sandusky, Wyandot County, Ohio, 1912-1937 Allen County Public Library
Index to obituaries in The daily chief union newspaper, Upper Sandusky, Wyandot County, Ohio ... Allen County Public Library
Index to obituaries in Upper Sandusky newspapers, Wyandot County, Ohio, 1868-1911 Columbus Metropolitan Library
Index to obituaries in the Daily Chief Newspaper, Upper Sandusky, Wyandot County, Ohio 1912-1979 Family History Library
Index to obituaries in the daily Chief-Union newspaper, Upper Sandusky, Wyandot County, Ohio, 1980-2000 Columbus Metropolitan Library
The Democratic pioneer (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) (from Sept. 12, 1845 to Oct. 18, 1850) MyHeritage
The Democratic pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) (from Sept. 12, 1845 to Oct. 18, 1850) Chronicling America
The Wyandot Pioneer 1845-1868 Newspapers.com
The Wyandot pioneer (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) (from June 3, 1853 to Dec. 31, 1868) MyHeritage
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) (from June 3, 1853 to Dec. 31, 1868) Chronicling America
Weekly Chief. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1879-1887 Multiple Archives
Wyandot Chief. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1887-1906 Multiple Archives
Wyandot County Republican (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) (from Jan. 7, 1869 to March 27, 1873) MyHeritage
Wyandot County Republican 01/07/1869 to 03/27/1873 Genealogy Bank
Wyandot County Republican 1869-1873 Newspapers.com
Wyandot County Republican. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) (from Jan. 7, 1869 to March 27, 1873) Chronicling America
Wyandot County Republican. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903 Multiple Archives
Wyandot Democratic Union. (Upper Sandusky, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1862 Multiple Archives
Wyandot Democratic Union. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1866-1881 Multiple Archives
Wyandot Pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868 Multiple Archives
Wyandot Union-Republican. (Upper Sandusky, O. [Ohio]) 1903-1916 Multiple Archives
Wyandot Union. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1881-1902 Multiple Archives
Wyandot pioneer 06/03/1853 to 12/31/1868 Genealogy Bank
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Newspapers can be a treasure trove of information for your ancestors. Be sure to search the newspapers in the town/city where your ancestor lived, as well as the surrounding area. Obituaries were generally published in about 1890 or later, though in some areas they were printed previously. Death and marriage notices may appear earlier.
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Archive for the tag “war veteran”
Spirit of the Street
Coming from 20 years on a kibbutz (an intentional community), it was a shock to see so many homeless people on the streets of San Francisco and Berkeley. There are over 14,000 people without a home in the City and I think this is a black mark on an, otherwise, amazing urban area.
Compounding this is the alarming amount of war veterans who swell these ranks. The idea that a man or woman was willing to sacrifice their life for their country and to then be thrown onto the street and forgotten makes my blood boil.
I served in the Israeli army, a national service that most Israeli youngsters must do. Afterwards, men serve for up to a month a year as the country and army are so small. If a soldier is wounded, inside or out, they receive the best medical attention possible, the best counseling, and whatever else is needed. It isn’t perfect, and there are a few who slip between the cracks, but there is a national consensus because everyone serves.
It was an incident with a war veteran outside the San Francisco Zoo that served as the kernel for Unwanted Heroes, a fictional account of a war veteran still battling on his own personal front in San Francisco.
The real incident involved a proud war vet selling small American flags for $1 each. Seeing his two rows of medals, I gave my sons $5 but told them to only take one each and leave him the change.
The man began yelling at them and then at me. I had offended him. He did not want charity: he was doing a business. I felt terrible that I had insulted him. I took the change back from him apologizing and took my sons into the zoo where we bought ice cream and I explained to them, as best I could, what had happened.
I am never comfortable giving money to homeless people on street corners for all the stereotypes that prevail: will they spend it on drugs, alcohol, fast food etc. I know it is wrong to feel this way, but I do.
But I never hesitate to buy a copy of Street Spirit, a newspaper sold for a dollar by homeless people.
From the Street Spirit website:
“Street Spirit is a publication of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) that reports extensively on homelessness, poverty, economic inequality, welfare issues, human rights issues and the struggle for social justice. For the past 17 years, Street Spirit has been dedicated to empowering poor and homeless people and giving a voice to the voiceless, at a time when the voices of the poor are virtually locked out of the mainstream media.
American Friends Service Committee shoulders the entire printing costs of more than $3,000 per month to give more than 100 homeless vendors a positive alternative to panhandling, and to give our readers a progressive alternative to the corporate-controlled mainstream media. Help us remain an independent voice for justice! Please donate or subscribe to Street Spirit.”
In addition to offering homeless people a chance to earn money, it also offers them a voice as the homeless themselves write many of the articles. One man who sold us a newspaper told us proudly that he wrote a poem that was in this issue.
My youngest (then 9 years old) opened the paper to where the poem is and asked him to autograph it. You could see the pride in both the poet and my son, who then told him that I was also an author and we shook hands – two writers.
So next time you pass a homeless person selling Street Spirit, see if you can spare a dollar bill. It will help buy a man some food and some dignity.
Alon Shalev is the author of the 2013 Eric Hoffer YA Book Award winner, At The Walls of Galbrieth, Wycaan Master Book 1 and The First Decree, both released by Tourmaline Books. Ashbar – Book 3 – is due for release in October 2013. Shalev is also the author of three social justice-themed novels including Unwanted Heroes. He swears there is a connection. More at http://www.alonshalev.com and on Twitter (@elfwriter).
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The Veterans Must Be Cared For
In my series of individual actions that will have a profound impact on our society, I have covered energy, universal health care, and gun control. Whether you agree or not, these are all legitimate topics. The next might not be, but I want to advocate that it is.
We are a society that believes in the need to defend itself, that we must be the biggest, best armed, and one of the better trained. We define this concept of defense in our own way.
One aspect is that we keep the field of conflict far away from mainland America. Whether you agree or not, it defines the 1st and 2nd World Wars, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan. We fought our enemies far away from here. As a Brit whose father fought the Germans, and whose mother carried the scars of the Blitz, I can understand that.
I can live with this principle and am willing to pay my share of the bill for financing our defense. But this social contract, which is held with those who serves, demands that we take care of them when they return from risking their lives for our freedom.
I have written a number of times about this embarrassing and inexplicable injustice, both in this blog and in my novel, Unwanted Heroes. In Israel, a country that lives under a far greater (proportionally) financial commitment to pay for its military, everyone serves in the army. This fact is probably why it is a given that a soldier, wounded inside or out, will receive whatever help s/he needs. It is, quite frankly, not an issue, and this is probably why I was so shocked when I came to live in the US.
A society that cannot take care of those citizens, who have most earned that care, cannot be expected to build a moral and principled society. If we give our young people the message that it becomes everyone for themselves, then tat is how they will take it. The consequences are fewer taxes gathered, more crime, and a general decay in respect and self-respect.
Our soldiers must be held up as the first line of defense for a society that is under attack…from itself. I don’t believe, in this technological age, that there is any rational explanation why a veteran must wait up to two years and more for their claims to be dealt with.
It is the result of a selfish society that doesn’t care, and has become numb to the needs of anyone outside of their social circle. We are failing our soldiers and failing the younger generation who are watching, learning and judging.
We reap what we sow and we need to become responsible farmers before it is too late.
Alon Shalev is the author of At The Walls of Galbrieth, Wycaan Master Book 1 and The First Decree, both released by Tourmaline Books. Shalev is also the author of three social justice-themed novels including Unwanted Heroes. He swears there is a connection. More on Alon Shalev at http://www.alonshalev.com and on Twitter (@elfwriter).
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I realize that this post is not going to sit well with the audience of Left Coast Voices, and Roger, who already pointed towards the fact that big business is probably salivating at the prospect of making big bucks from another war, presents a scary scenario of those most motivated to crank up the war machine.
I get it and I am pretty sure he is right. But I am not sure that is reason enough to prevent intervention to not step in and stop the Syrian dictatorship from using chemical weapons again on anyone.
In the 1990’s I walked around with a gas mask in Tel Aviv, sealed up a room, participated in the drills, and sat in a shelter wondering if my family and friends were alright – if the missiles landing around us were regular scud missiles or tipped with chemicals.
As a soldier, I trained with gas mask and in gas released scenarios. I will never forget the labored breathing and the sweat that gathered on the gas mask making it so difficult to see. I remember the sarcastic jokes – no wonder Darth Vader turned to the dark side!
I am not even sure I believe in the – It’s an internal matter, we shouldn’t get involved – excuse. Countries are very artificial entities, especially those carved out by colonialist interests. But people are human beings, whether Syrians, Afghans, Africans or Tibetans. The only thing that seems to differentiate is who sits in a country with oil.
With regard to Syria, I’m not even convinced that the line was not crossed long before the chemical attack.
But I’m also astounded at the United Nations. How we find ourselves in a situation whereby the world movement refuses to do anything but shake its head and wag a finger is beyond me. If the world expects America to police the world, a frightening prospect, why are we pumping money into the United Nations? If the US were to pull out, would the United Nations even exist?
Brett D. Schaefer, the Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs at Heritage’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom claims that “the U.S. is currently assessed 22 percent of the U.N. regular budget and more than 27 percent of the U.N. peacekeeping budget” – source. If chemical warfare is a red line that has been crossed why is the US not giving 22% of a UN coalition?
Finally, the fact that President Obama felt he needed more than one man (namely himself) to makes the decision whether the US would strike Syria should not be construed as weakness … rather it is DEMOCRACY. I’m not sure how many 2nd-term presidents would take such a step. I doubt many and I support the President and his decision.
I care less for countries and more for the people who live in them. No one should have to live through a war, whether internal or not. If we truly treasure our freedom, we must understand that we are never free while others are not.
At what point in a war has a country (or faction) crossed the line? Probably when the first bullet is fired. What is clear: once you have fired chemical weapons, you are way past the line and must be stopped.
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Running with the Enemy…Forever
Running with the Enemy is the latest offering from Lloyd Lofthouse, author of My Splendid Concubine. I thought to review the book, but Lloyd is my publisher and mentor. Given the controversies currently surrounding reviews, I think it easier to present (with his permission) the first chapter and let you be the judge.
A word, however, about Lloyd: He served in Vietnam in the Marines and I can only imagine how difficult it is to return there in your mind when writing a novel. As I sent him chapters of Unwanted Heroes, a story about an Asian-American war veteran battling his PTSD seen through the eyes of a young Englishman who befriends him, I often wondered how Lloyd would cope with it. It took a lot of courage to return there, but as one war veteran said after reading Unwanted Heroes: it is a story that must be told.
In this suspense thriller set during the Vietnam War, a rogue CIA agent needs someone to blame for his crimes. Recon Marine Ethan Card is the perfect patsy. As a teen, Ethan ran with a Chicago street gang, and he has a criminal record. He also has a secret lover, Tuyen, who is half Vietnamese and half French.
Tuyen is also a beautiful Viet Cong resistance fighter.
Since she was a young child, Tuyen has lived under the brutal control of her older, sexually abusive half-brother, Giap, a ruthless and powerful Viet Cong leader, who has forced her to kill Americans in battle or die if she refuses.
When Ethan discovers he is going to be court marshaled for weapons he did not sell to the Viet Cong and Tuyen will be arrested and end up in an infamous South Vietnamese prison, where she will be tortured and raped, he hijacks a U.S. Army helicopter and flees with Tuyen across Southeast Asia while struggling to prove his innocence.
The CIA agent and Giap—working together with the support of an unwitting American general—will stop at nothing to catch the two, and the hunt is on.
The star-crossed lovers travel across Laos to Cambodia’s Angkor Wat; to Bangkok, Thailand, and then to Burma’s Golden Triangle where Ethan and Tuyen fight a ruthless drug lord and his gang.
In the rainforests of Burma, Ethan also discovers that a massive assault is planned on his Marine unit’s remote base in South Vietnam with the goal of killing the man he admires most, Colonel Edward Price, who is the only one who believes Ethan is innocent.
Ethan must risk everything to save Price and his fellow Marines. Will he succeed?
Running with the Enemy – Chapter One
On April 11, 1880, General William Tecumseh Sherman addressed a crowd of more than ten thousand in Columbus, Ohio, and said, “There is many a body here today who looks on war as glory, but, boys, it is all hell.”
His lover—a member of the National Liberation Front—was trained to kill Americans. It was possible that she had already killed some of his people, but that wasn’t going to stop him from wanting more of her.
Ethan Card stared out the sunken pit of a broken window at the grounds of the former French colonial rubber plantation, which the South Vietnamese rainforest was reclaiming. Columns of mature, struggling rubber trees marched away from the dying house as if they were soldiers fighting a losing war. A patch of blue sky was still visible, but the rest was an angry blanket of dark clouds.
When the French ruled Vietnam, Ethan thought, this place must have been something.
He heard the distant popping of a firefight that signaled combat and wondered who was dying: Viet Cong, North Vietnamese, Americans, South Koreans, ARVN, or Chinese communists?
The scuttle of a tiny, hard-shelled monster on the gray, wood floor of the second-story room distracted him. He knelt and flicked the insect away; watched it roll into a ball then, slipping into a crack, disappear into the floor.
The house creaked and he shivered. Before returning to the olive-green GI blanket spread on the floor behind him, Ethan looked around warily. Something did not feel right, and he paid careful attention to his warrior instincts.
He sensed Tuyen’s movement and glanced at the blanket where she lay nude on her stomach—her face cradled on her arms. Her long, dark, glossy hair hid most of her features. She was French, Vietnamese and Thai. At least that was what she had told him. There were other indications, as well.
In the village where they met, a Vietnamese woman called her a French bastard behind her back. He was sure Tuyen had heard and ignored it.
Her height and aqua eyes were French, but the rest was Asian. She was tall for a Vietnamese with the slender body of a fashion model. Admiring her nudity, he knelt and traced a line between her shoulder blades down her spine with his finger tips, stopping just above her hips.
Her silky, warm skin excited him causing his heart to race and his breath to catch in his throat. The urge to make love again was tempting, but they had already been in the deserted house too long.
“Why you fuck woman that fight with your enemy?” she asked in broken English.
“Because you told me you are not a communist,” he said. “Why are you fucking me?”
“Maybe you go home to America and replace me with other woman,” she replied.
He loved listening to her throaty, crude accented English.
“I am not a butterfly,” Ethan replied, “and, when I return to the United States, I’m taking you with me.” Otherwise, there wasn’t much for him in America but bad memories and a strict Evangelical Christian mother who often quoted Holy Scripture when lecturing him.
A loud creak sounded outside the shattered window. “What was that?” he asked, aware that discovery by either side would be disastrous for both of them.
A rumble of thunder shook the old house, and it started to rain. The fat drops pounded the leaky roof like a barrage of pebbles.
“It nothing,” she replied, as she rolled over on her back. “Only ghosts. This is old house.” Slipping an arm around his neck, she pulled him down on top of her.
Still, that creaking noise bothered him—it sounded as if someone had shifted weight from one foot to another. His combat sense warned him to listen closer, and when he did, he heard a rat scampering across the rotting attic floor above their heads.
“I think us together this morning too long,” she said.
“Maybe it is your Commie brother, Giap, spying on us.” He watched her features closely and noticed a quiver in her lips as heat climbed into her face at the mention of her half brother’s name.
“No,” she said, spitting her words out as if they were laced with cobra venom. “Giap recruiting in far village.”
Ethan knew that something dark and brooding existed between Tuyen and her half brother, but he couldn’t ask what it was. She had made it clear when the affair had blossomed months earlier that questions of her private life and family were forbidden. To cross that line could mean losing her, and she was his addiction—his opium.
Then as fast as the hate in her face had switched on, it vanished. “I loving you,” she said; then kissed him on the mouth. He felt a thrill shoot through his groin as her lips pressed against his. He should have stopped, but he couldn’t resist.
Victor Ortega picked up the pocket recorder from the windowsill and turned it off. He leaned against the wall and stared at the abandoned rubber plantation that spanned thousands of acres across hills where the jungle was still reclaiming the land. Raindrops from the swollen clouds pelted him. It was time to leave with his evidence.
A smile split his tanned, leathery face. Langley would not approve of him using his CIA skills to frame an innocent man. Ortega’s part-time business—the selling of weapons and information to the North Vietnamese Communists—had put Army intelligence on his trail. He needed a goat and Ethan and Tuyen fit the bill.
Ethan Card didn’t know it yet, but he was going to take the fall for Ortega’s illegal operations. Ortega had been watching several armorers, and because he had discovered Ethan fucking Tuyen, that link made him the perfect patsy. Card was having an affair with a member of the NLF who had a North Vietnamese Communist cadre leader for a brother. Who wouldn’t believe Card was guilty?
Using a miniature, silent camera, Ortega leaned into the window and took half a dozen pictures of the nude couple copulating for the third time.
Perfect! These photos would be the clincher. One shot had caught Ethan’s full profile and her face with eyes closed.
It was time for him to leave, and he had to be careful. Ethan was a recon Marine with a tiger’s senses. Ortega took a cautious step on the blue, rain-slick tiles of the veranda’s roof. He shifted his weight gently from one foot to the other. Then a crack sounded from one of the veranda’s tiles.
Oh, shit!
Icy fear shot through him galvanizing him into action. Moving quickly, he lay against the house below the window opening where the roof met the second-story wall. Holding his breath, he waited.
Ethan couldn’t dismiss the noise this time. He slipped from Tuyen’s embrace, rolled away from her across the floor and grabbed his forty-five caliber M3A1 submachine gun that he lovingly called his Greaser, because it fired four-hundred-fifty rounds a minute.
He waited until Tuyen had finished rolling the other way, picked up her AK-47 assault rifle and pointed it toward the offending window the sound had come from.
She nodded, and he darted toward the window to flatten himself against the wall next to it— his heart hammering from the rush of adrenaline.
Moving fast, he spun and aimed the Greaser out the window until he was flat against the wall on the other side. He stared at her and shook his head.
“We go,” she said, and gathered her clothing.
He watched her long, naked legs slide into black pants. “I can be here early tomorrow morning,” he said.
“Giap back. I no make it.” She slipped the black blouse over her head.
He was disappointed at losing sight of her naked body.
“We together in three days,” she said. “He gone again.”
He finished dressing, went to her, and placed a hand on each of her shoulders. They kissed.
They should have met in another time, another place where there was no war. He worried that someday what he had with her might end. That day would be a clusterfuck! There must be some way he could keep what he had with this lusty beauty.
Ortega, drenched from the rain and sweat dripping from his face, rolled down the veranda’s roof. He dropped easily over the side, twisted his body like a gymnast, and reached out to grab the edge of the roof above him. His brief grip with tiles slowed his momentum, and he landed easily on his feet. Turning right, he ran close to the house and sprinted for the trees.
An hour later, after driving miles through the rainforest, Ortega arrived at the United States Marine Corps recon base camp. Inside the fortified camp, he crept to the armorer’s van surrounded by stacked layers of sandbags.
The rain pounded the metal roof of the van, masking his entrance. Storage lined one wall of the long, narrow space and a workbench took up half the other wall. Shadows smothered the small desk at the far end of the van. To one side of the desk was a file cabinet that Ortega had searched a few times without Ethan’s knowledge. His eyes settled on Lance Corporal Wilson, Ethan’s assistant, who was bent over the bench working on a weapon. The man was an idiot; a fucking lowlife fool.
“Hey, man, did you pick up the fucking weapons at division?” Ortega asked.
Wilson yelped and jumped. “Asshole!” he said, and turned revealing the Ka-Bar he was holding close to his body with the blade’s edge facing Ortega.
Ortega laughed. “You’re such a fucking jerk.”
Wilson blushed and put the knife away. “They’re here.” He went toward the back of the van, returned with a crate, and put it on the bench. “It makes me nervous when you arrive this late to pick up the goddamned weapons. What if Ethan comes back early? What the hell would I say?”
“You worry too much, man.” Ortega reached into a pocket for a roll of South Vietnamese piasters, and threw the money on the counter.
“You bastard,” Wilson said. “I am taking all the risks. If Ethan find out what I’m doing, he’ll skin me alive. Do you know how crazy these fucking recon Marines are?”
“And do you know the strings I had to pull to get you, a regular piss-ant jarhead, assigned to this unit as its assistant armorer?”
Ortega stared with scorn at the lance corporal, and said, “Nothing will go wrong if you do as you are told.” He stopped talking and glanced at the wall clock behind the desk when a helicopter roared overhead. The thin metal roof of the van vibrated from the backwash. He knew it was the evening ass-and-trash flight to the division area at Chu Lai fifty miles away.
Once the noise of the slick was gone, Ortega continued. “You have nothing to worry about, alright, man? Soon, Ethan will be working for me.”
Wilson bared his teeth and pushed his face toward Ortega. “That’s easy for you to say. You don’t know the bastard. He lives by the rules.”
“It’s in the bag, man.” Ortega wrapped a poncho around the crate with the two M-60s in it. He shouldered the weapons and went to the door. “Now, cool it. Tonight I’ll make my pitch to Ethan. Then you won’t have anything to worry about.”
He left the van and went to his Jeep thinking he would have to kill Wilson soon. The man was unreliable and unstable.
Ethan returned from his business in Chu Lai to the recon base camp late in the afternoon. In his olive-drag Dodge M37 truck, he approached the steep narrow climb to the camp at the top of the orphan hill—an island fortress surrounded by rice paddies that in turn were surrounded by a dense rainforest.
A trailer-towing Jeep barreled down the dirt road toward him. Ethan automatically searched the paddies on either side for signs of life, hoping the demolition team had checked the road thoroughly that morning for buried explosive. Satisfied, he pulled his truck to one side, stopped, and waited for the Jeep to pass. His windshield wiper clicked back and forth clearing the raindrops from the glass.
He stiffened when he saw the man driving the Jeep. It was Ortega. The bastard had talked to him once—veiled, probing questions about weapons and how to requisition them. Ethan saw similarities between this man and members of Chicago’s Black P-Stone Nation street gang. As a teen, Ethan knew Jeff Ford, who had united the leaders of about fifty street gangs in Chicago and called the new organization the Black P-Stone Nation.
In fact, Ethan had run with one of the smaller street gangs that joined Fort’s organization, and when Ethan told his fellow gangbangers he was leaving for good, they jumped him and beat him ruthlessly. He’d arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island bruised, limping and wearing torn and bloodstained clothing that didn’t impress the drill instructors. They rode him harder than the others for the next few weeks, but he welcomed the challenge and absorbed the discipline as if it were his salvation.
Ethan had been told that Ortega was a civilian liaison working with tribes living in the Central Highlands of Kon Tum Province, and that his job was to gain their loyalty to fight for America. However, the rumors also said he was CIA and had an army of Montagnards tucked away in the Annamite Mountains straddling the Laotian border with Vietnam.
Ethan inserted the M1911 Colt Forty Five’s new recoil spring as he finished reassembling the weapon, and then rubbed his hot, itchy eyes with the knuckles of his free hand. He had also replaced the barrel bushing to increase the weapon’s accuracy. The large wall clock showed three in the morning. He needed sleep, but there was too much to do. Lance Corporal Wilson was an expert at avoiding his job and seldom kept up with a day’s work.
Sensing movement behind him, Ethan reached for one of the twelve-inch throwing knives he kept on a shelf under the bench near his workstation. He glanced in a small steel mirror on the wall and looked at the face reflected in the polished metal.
“Shit!” He hissed. Putting the knife back, he picked up a rag and wiped his hands. “What do you want?” He faced Victor Ortega.
“We’re about to become fucking partners, man,” Ortega said.
“What the hell are you talking about?” There was something strange about Ortega’s voice. It sounded as though he had just smoked dope. Natasha, one of several girlfriends he had collected during his year in community college, had sounded that way after a few joints—something he never liked about her and one reason he dumped her before shipping out for his third tour in Vietnam.
Ortega spread half-a-dozen requisitions on the counter. “Take a good look at your name. These are fucking weapons you signed for, man.”
Ethan reached out, hesitating when the hill trembled from several artillery rounds going out. The roar of the mobile, armored one-hundred and fifty-five millimeter howitzers shook the hill and everything on it causing a thin haze of dust to rise from every surface.
When the battery stopped firing, Ethan took one of the papers and studied it. It was for two M-60 machine guns and the date was yesterday. “I never ordered these.”
“Of course you did. It’s your fucking signature. Look closer, man.”
The howitzers started firing again, and Ortega spoke louder. “I know for a fact that those weapons are in the hands of Viet Cong, and that there’s a bank account in Okinawa with your name on it. Check the fucking receipts in your file cabinet. They go back months. Some of those receipts are for weapons that have been found in the hands of dead Viet Cong.”
A cold shiver of disbelief invaded Ethan’s gut. His submachine gun was in reach, but the throwing knife was closer. “What the hell is this about?”
“These receipts say you’re going to fucking work for me, man. My customers want what you can supply. You are going to feed that demand. After all, the United States is a demand and supply economy. Anything for money. Say no, and I will hand these papers and others like them to Army intelligence. With your history as a member of a Chicago street gang, you’ll spend the next twenty years to life in a federal pen.”
Ethan couldn’t believe what he was hearing. He reached for his Greaser. “Wilson is mixed up in this, isn’t he?”
“Don’t be a stupid ass, man,” Ortega said, almost shouting to be heard over the roar of the howitzers. “I’m not in this alone, but I wouldn’t work with a fucking idiot like him.” The battery stopped firing leaving a sudden, shocking silence.
Ortega glanced behind him with disgust and lowered his voice to a near whisper. Instead of staring at the barrel of the submachine gun pointed at him, he looked into Ethan’s eyes. “Pull that fucking trigger and friends of mine will turn this evidence over to the Provost Marshall in Da Nang. It doesn’t matter if I’m dead. Your ass is still mine, man.”
Ethan tightened his finger on the trigger. It wouldn’t take much pressure to fire. “You’re bluffing.”
“Do it, man,” Ortega said, and rubbed the tip of an index finger along his top row of teeth. “Go ahead. You have all this fucking honesty and integrity to uphold.” His bark of laughter was chopped off short at the sound of troops running outside. Once the squad was gone, he said, “The people I work with are all over Southeast Asia. You want fucking power. You want fucking money. Join me and you will have both.”
Ortega moved closer to one of the storage racks and placed a hand on the barrel of an M-16. He caressed it as if it were a woman’s leg. “If the Army catches you moving the weapons, man, I’ll know it before they can get to you. When that time comes, I’ll set you up with a warlord in the opium trade in Laos near the Golden Triangle. That will put you hundreds of miles from Vietnam. The fucking Army cannot touch you there. That is a winning deal, man?”
“Fuck you.” But Ethan didn’t pull the trigger. “Maybe I should take you to the Colonel,” he said, “and give him these papers—let him hear what you want me to do.”
“That wouldn’t be smart, man,” Ortega said. “Do that and I’d tell him you caught me going through your files. The fucking rumors are true. I do work for the CIA. Who would they believe? You, a criminal that ran with street gangs in Chicago, or me, a career agent working to preserve democracy throughout the world?”
“I’m not going into business with you.”
“Well,” Ortega drawled, “there is the matter of a little Viet Cong pussy you’ve been banging. The way I see it, you love that slant-eyed snatch. The fucking Army will hear about her if anything happens to me or if you decide not to get with the fucking plan. She will look good sitting in that China Beach prison the ARVN keep for prisoners of war. Imagine what those South Vietnamese intelligence agents would do to her to make her talk.”
Rage pounded inside of Ethan’s skull, and he struggled to keep it under control. His finger twitched against the Greaser’s trigger.
The door creaked. Ortega slid into the shadows behind the door and vanished from sight.
Corporal Alex Smith stood in the opening staring at the submachine gun. With the night behind him, his face glowed as if he were a ghost. “Hey, Card, calm the fuck down and aim that thing away from me.”
Ethan’s friends called him by his last name.
“You work too hard. I went to three fucking places looking for you before I came here. I should have known. Belamy is putting the team together. We are going to Laos to pick up a downed Navy pilot. The air-rescue boys can’t get to him so get a move on. The slick flies in five fucking minutes.”
Ethan stared at him with a dazed look.
“Did you hear me?” Smith said. “Are you fucking shit faced or something?”
“I haven’t slept for forty-eight hours,” Ethan said. “Don’t worry. I … will be there.”
Smith nodded and disappeared in the shroud of darkness outside the van.
“When you have had time to think,” Ortega whispered harshly, “you’ll see how hopeless your situation is. Just remember, evidence is everything, and in a military court, you will be dead meat. I got you, man. You belong to me.”
Ethan looked at the silhouette of the man in the dark corner. “I’m taking you to the Colonel.”
“The Colonel ain’t here,” Ortega said. “He’s off to that ARVN ranger camp near Kon Tum. You’ll be going there when you return from Laos. That is, if you don’t get yourself killed first. The way I see it, man, you have only one choice.”
Ethan didn’t want to deal with this now. He grabbed his gear for the mission and left the trailer in a rush. The noise of a helicopter approaching the hill grew in volume.
The mission wouldn’t give him time to think about Ortega’s demands. Every skill he had would be called on to keep him and the team alive. There was no half effort in terrain controlled by an invisible enemy that wanted you dead. Maybe when he returned, if he survived, he would discover this was nothing but a nightmare—a joke or something. However, the anger and frustration filling him said Ortega’s threats were real.
After his confrontation with Ethan, Ortega flew in a Cobra gunship to the highland ARVN ranger camp.
Back in Puerto Rico in that fucking San Juan slum where he grew up, Ortega’s father had taught him how to read a person’s body language, and Ortega’s instincts said Ethan wasn’t going to cooperate.
He needed the Army to back off their investigation of the stolen weapons. Because Ethan wasn’t going to cooperate, Ortega decided to hand him over, and he would earn credit for solving the Army’s case, while staying in business.
He watched the sun splash brilliant colors across the horizon. The high mound of dirt to his right surrounded the camp and hid the bottom of the rainforest from his view. Logs and concertina wire ringed the top of the mound.
The tall, thin figure of Colonel Edward Price jogged into sight. Price, an African American, was in his forties with close-cropped dark hair peppered with white. Sweat soaked his camouflaged clothing.
“Colonel,” Ortega said, remembering that his old man taught him it was best to talk cultured when around people with money or power.
The Colonel stopped, but his legs continued to pump as he ran in place. Obviously, Price had been running for some time, and Ortega saw that he wasn’t the slightest bit winded.
“I thought it only right to let you know what one of your men has been up to.” Ortega took several forged requisitions and the photos of Ethan and Tuyen having sex and handed them to the Colonel.
Price’s legs stopped moving. His granite face remained expressionless as he studied the papers and the photos. “That’s Ethan Card,” he said. “Where did you get these?”
“Colonel, division will be contacting you today or early tomorrow,” Ortega said. “They want Ethan Card for selling weapons to the Viet Cong, and he will be court-martialed.”
“This cannot be true,” Price said. “Card is a good man.”
“General LaBourne in Da Nang feels differently. His people have been trying to find the traitor for months. Americans have been murdered by weapons Ethan Card sold to the Viet Cong. I recorded a conversation between Ethan and a Viet Cong woman that is his contact. There’s also a bank account in Okinawa in his name with too much money in it.”
Price lifted his gaze from the papers and pinned Ortega with his cold, gray eyes. “I know my men. I know Ethan Card. I don’t believe this crap.” He dropped the papers and the photos to the ground and resumed jogging without looking back.
Ortega knelt, picked up the evidence and smiled. He was pleased. The Colonel had reacted as predicted. With Price primed and angry, Ortega would now arrange through his contacts to make sure General LaBourne called the Colonel to Da Nang. The General was an Arkansas bigot. He and Price had a history stretching back to World War II. Once the two met, Ortega might as well order Ethan’s body bag.
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Unwanted Heroes Created After Insulting A War Veteran
In our humble defense, we were new to America. My family was not used to dealing with homeless people and war veterans. There are no homeless on a kibbutz (small intentional community) and, if a soldier is wounded physically or mentally in Israel, s/he receives the best possible help. It is a given, no one questions it.
So you can understand that my then 7 and 3 year olds and I noticed every homeless person, especially those who were war veterans.
As we approached the entrance to the San Francisco Zoo, we saw a homeless man, clearly a war veteran, selling small American flags for a dollar each. He was smiling and greeting everyone, including those who did not purchase flags from him.
I impulsively gave my eldest son a $5 dollar bill but told him and his little brother to only take one flag each. After cheerfully chatting with my boys, the man took the bank note and went to give them change.
When my eldest said he didn’t want change, the man looked at me to confirm and I nodded. He then tried to give us three more flags and when we declined, he got upset. We had insulted him.
This proud veteran was not asking for charity. He was selling flags as a business. We have offended his self-respect.
It was an unfortunate incident and I was very sad for hurting him. That night, I sat pouring over the Internet, reading issues of war vets, homelessness, and P.T.S.D.
Sometime after midnight, my wife having given up on getting me to come sleep, I typed the following words: Unwanted Heroes, Chapter One.
Alon Shalev is the author of three social justice-themed novels: Unwanted Heroes, The Accidental Activist and A Gardener’s Tale. He is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Hillel Jewish Student Center, a non-profit that provides spiritual and social justice opportunities to Jewish students in the Bay Area. More on Alon Shalev at http://www.alonshalev.com and on Twitter (@alonshalevsf).
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Unwanted Heroes – Released Today In Ebook!
Now that’s what I consider a great Thanksgiving gift!
Three Clover Press announced that Unwanted Heroes is now available on Kindle and Smashwords. The paperback will be closer to the expected January date.
They generously agreed to price the ebook at $2.99 for the present. I would like to take the opportunity to thank Lloyd Lofthouse, a fine author and a war veteran, who personally deals with and writes about P.T.S.D on The Soulful Veteran blog. I am sure it was not easy for him to edit my novel.
Lloyd has overseen the project throughout the various stages and provided me with both honest feedback and tough love.
Here is a quick synopsis:
Unwanted Heroes brings together an old, battle weary Chinese American war vet and an idealistic and somewhat pretentious young Englishmen, who share a love for San Francisco, coffee and wine. They soon discover they share even more when repressed memories bring them together, finding in each other, an unlikely ally to free themselves from the tragic past that binds them both.
Set in beautiful San Francisco, this novel is a tribute to the city, its people and those who sacrificed so much to keep it and America free, as seen through the eyes of a young struggling writer from across the Atlantic, who brings more baggage than just his shiny laptop and romantic ideals.
Unwanted Heroes follows two other social justice-themed novels, The Accidental Activist and A Gardener’s Tale, that were both placed in my native England. This novel is the first of three that will be situated in San Francisco, the city I have grown to love and dare call my home. Unwanted Heroes focuses on the issue of how we treat our war veterans and the homeless. The two future novels will deal with other issues relevant to the US – gay rights and gun control. After that, who knows?
But right now, I am very proud to share Unwanted Heroes with you. If you would do me the honor of reading it, please take a few minutes to post a review on Amazon.com or Smashwords. Reviews are playing an increasingly critical role in guiding readers to purchase a book.
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Early July 4th Post – The Right To Fly The Flag
Larry Murphree is a US Army war veteran and taxpaying citizen. But his Homeowner’s Association decided he had stepped out of line and fined him, with the fine growing every day. This problematic troublemaker had the audacity to fly the U.S. flag in a flowerpot outside his home – in full view of the children!!! Not only that, but he was banned from the neighborhood clubhouse.
In true American fashion, Murphree filed a lawsuit against the HOA, “When I saw state and federal law was on my side, I knew it should be taken care of,” he said.
The HOA saw the errors of its way and agreed to pay Murphree’s attorney fees, restore his rights at the clubhouse, and most importantly… fly his flag.
“I can display the American flag, which is exactly and the only thing I want,” he said.
When another man was told by his Homeowners Association that he could not fly the American Flag in his yard, he chose a different response:
God Bless America! Land of the Free: Home of the Creative.
Happy pre-July 4th to all!
Alon Shalev is the author of The Accidental Activist and A Gardener’s Tale. He is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Hillel Foundation, a non-profit that provides spiritual and social justice opportunities to Jewish students in the Bay Area. More on Alon Shalev at http://www.alonshalev.com/ and on Twitter (@alonshalevsf).
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Conservation and Management of Running Water
The fourth meeting of the SIL Working Group on the Conservation and Management of Running Waters was held in conjunction with the SIL meeting in Dublin on the evening of August 13, 1998.
There were some interesting (and contrasting) short presentations from Gisli Gislason (Iceland), Jan Herrman (Sweden), Susanne Muhar (Austria) and Andrew Boulton (Australia), followed by some vigorous debate from the floor. One of my personal aims for the workshop had been to hear a range of perspectives on a subject of topical relevance to Scottish Natural Heritage, as we are in the process of examining the mechanisms available in Scotland for protecting fresh waters important for nature conservation. In the event, whilst these aims were partially achieved, most discussion centred around the tremendous difference in perception, needs and opportunities between protecting fresh waters in developed countries with those in the developing world.
Some of the members of the working group that attended the meeting are assisting me in writing up a short paper to cover the main points discussed, and I hope that it will, in due course, appear in the SIL Proceedings.
Philip Boon, Chairperson
Biomonitoring
Professor Oscar Ravera has expressed his wish to Professor Robert Wetzel, General Secretary of the SIL, to retire from his position as coordinator of the SIL Working Group on Biomonitoring. I have been asked by Professor Robert Wetzel to take this position for the future, because of my recent activities and initiatives in this field. I have agreed and now await the approval of the International Committee of the SIL.
The next activity of the working group will be the organisation of an International Symposium on Biomonitoring at Karlsruhe, Germany from September 28 - October 1, 1999. The symposium is jointly arranged with the meeting of the Committee on Biomonitoring of the International Union of Biological Sciences and the University of Karlsruhe. At the meeting, future tasks and possible activities of the working group will be discussed and initiated. I have sent invitations to the members of the working group and I now invite anyone who is interested in the symposium and the future activities of the working group to contact me.
Wolfgang Schmitz, Chairperson
Aquatic Birds
The Working Group on Aquatic Birds of the Societas Inernationalis Limnologiae (SIL) was formed in 1992. One of the primary objectives of the Working Group is to facilitate communications among limnologists interested in aquatic birds and ornithologists interested in the aquatic habitat.
Two previous conferences have been held, in Sopron, Hungary, in 1994 and MJrida, Mexico, in 1997. These very successful conferences underlined the necessity of further meetings.
The proceedings from the 1994 meeting have been published:
Faragó, S. and J. Kerekes (eds) 1997. Proc. Limnology and Waterfowl, Monitoring, Modelling and Management Symposium, Aquatic Birds Working Group, Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, Sarród/Sopron, Hungary, 21-23 November, 1994. Wetlands Internat. Publ. 43. 362 p.
This is a joint publication of Wetlands International and Hungarian Waterfowl Publications. It is available from:
6700 AC Washington
The third International Conference of the SIL Working Group on Aquatic Birds is planned for May 1 – 5, 2000 at TÍeboÁ, Czech Republic. The date of the conference is proposed for the Spring, in order to give better possibilities to observe the fish-waterfowl relationship in the field. The first announcement and call for papers for the conference are available on the web page at: www.lf.czu.cz/trebon2000
The main topics proposed for the forthcoming meeting are:
methods of measurement of habitat quality for water birds
carrying capacity of wetland habitat
trophic competition between fish and water birds
ecology of grebes, mergansers and divers/loons
effects of waterflow grazing on wetland habitat
role of water birds in wetland ecosystems
ecology of water birds in stream habitats
development of breeding water bird monitoring systems in Europe (aims, methods, preliminary results and prospects)
Joseph J. Kerekes, Chairperson
Aquatic Primary Productivity (GAP)
GAP VII will be held from 9 to 17 September 1999 at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Peter Bossard and Reinhard Bachofen will co-chair the local organizing committee. The objectives of the workshop are directed towards a better understanding of the dynamics of primary production in spatially and temporally heterogeneous aquatic environments. The following working group topics will be available:
Dynamics of primary production and biological diversity in different aquatic environments and at different time scales.
Effect of UV radiation (UV-A, UV-B) on primary productivity in different aquatic environments.
Role of nutrients (including trace metals) for the primary productivity and phytoplankton community structure.
Approaches and methods to estimate daily primary productivity.
Prior to the start of the experimental activities of the four working groups, participants will hear keynote presentations:
Taking phytoplankton and primary production out of their “black box”: The size distribution of the phytoplankton community and its importance for primary production by Katherine Richardson, ADrhus University, Denmark.
Effect of UV radiation (UV-A, UV-B) on primary productivity in different aquatic environments by Patrick Neale, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA.
Interactions between nutrient uptake and acquisition of other resources: approaches for determining algal nutrient status by John Beardall, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.
Photosynthesis and growth in phytoplankton communities and in related systems by Zvy Dubinsky, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
The final circular is available on the web-site at: www.sghl.ch/gap.htm.
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Machine learning of electro-hydraulic motor dynamics
Luca Baronti ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-706X1,
Biao Zhang2,
Marco Castellani1 &
Duc Truong Pham1
SN Applied Sciences volume 2, Article number: 130 (2019) Cite this article
In this paper we propose an innovative machine learning approach to the hydraulic motor load balancing problem involving intelligent optimisation and neural networks. Two different nonlinear artificial neural network approaches are investigated, and their accuracy is compared to that of a linearised analytical model. The first neural network approach uses a multi-layer perceptron to reproduce the load simulator dynamics. The multi-layer perceptron is trained using the Rprop algorithm. The second approach uses a hybrid scheme featuring an analytical model to represent the main system behaviour, and a multi-layer perceptron to reproduce unmodelled nonlinear terms. Four techniques are tested for the optimisation of the parameters of the analytical model: random search, an evolutionary algorithm, particle swarm optimisation, and the Bees Algorithm. Experimental tests on 4500 real data samples from an electro-hydraulic load simulator rig reveal that the accuracy of the hybrid and the neural network models is comparable, and significantly superior to the accuracy of the analytical model. The results of the optimisation procedures suggest also that the inferior performance of the analytical model is likely due to the non-negligible magnitude of the unmodelled nonlinearities, rather than suboptimal setting of the parameters. Despite its limitations, the analytical linear model performs comparably to the state-of-the-art in the literature, whilst the neural and hybrid approaches compare favourably.
A load simulator [1] is a ground system that reproduces the aerodynamic force on the rudder of a flying aircraft. It is a typical example of passive loading servo system, and finds important application in hardware-in-the-loop simulator devices. It allows designers under strict laboratory conditions to foresee and detect problems related to the rudder mechanics and control policy, cutting down costs and development time.
There are different kinds of load simulators: electric, pneumatic, and electro-hydraulic. The latter excels in terms of durability, power to weight ratio, controllability, accuracy, and reliability [2]. Thanks to these advantages, electro-hydraulic load simulators found wide application in the development and testing of systems beyond the aviation and aerospace domain, such as ship fin stabilisers [3], power steering for heavy duty vehicles [4], and robotic manipulators [5, 6].
To reproduce aerodynamic flow, the load simulator is typically connected with the actuation system via a rigid shaft. The direct coupling between the two systems produces a strong position disturbance on the load system. This generates an extra torque which needs to be compensated mechanically or via a control system [7,8,9,10,11,12,13].
For control and simulation purposes, it is often useful to identify the dynamics of the load simulator. That is, to model the relationship between the device state, control signal, and torque on the load bearing system (including the extra torque).
Several studies described the dynamics of electro-hydraulic load simulators via analytical linearised models [14,15,16,17,18]. Although the structure of the linear relationship is to date fairly well understood, its exact parameterization is still uncertain. Some authors addressed the parameterization problem using a standard genetic algorithm [19], neural networks, [20], and a backstepping genetic algorithm [21]. Unfortunately, these methods either suffered from sub-optimal convergence [19], or required lengthy training procedures [20], or required the introduction of extra system parameters [21]. Moreover, the linearised model does not take into account known nonlinearities of electro-hydraulic load simulators [10], and this limits its precision and reliability. Unfortunately, due to its complexity, a full nonlinear analytical model of electro-hydraulic load simulator is at present not available.
Some authors employed machine learning techniques to either learn the electro-hydraulic motor dynamics [22, 23], or design robust controllers able to compensate parameter uncertainties and nonlinearities [24,25,26].
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) [27] are by far the most common machine learning method used for identification of electro-hydraulic load simulator dynamics. The typical approach is to complement the linear analytical model with an ANN module that reproduces the nonlinear dynamics [10, 28, 29]. Alternatively, some authors used an ANN to identify the full simulator dynamics [30]. Unfortunately, the above studies focused on the accuracy of the whole control system, and did not discuss the precision of the nonlinear model. This paper addresses this gap in the literature, and investigates the use of ANN techniques from a system identification perspective. In addition to the standard control applications, the proposed study is relevant for the general software simulation of electro-hydraulic load simulator systems.
Two system identification approaches are studied, using respectively (a) a full nonlinear ANN model, and (b) a hybrid model comprising an analytical component and an ANN component. The accuracy of these two approaches is compared to that of a standard analytical linearised model, and the differences are analysed. In all instances, the first effort will be to identify the structure (analytical, ANN) of the input-output relationship, and then learn the correct parameterization of the model from a set of data patterns describing the system input, state, and output. That is, to fit the parametric model to a set of data points sampled from an experimental rig at different frequencies.
The analytical linear model was developed by one of the authors (BZ). It will be employed on its own as a term of comparison for the two non-linear models, and as the linear component in the hybrid model. To optimise its parameters, three artificial intelligence techniques were tested: an evolutionary algorithm (EA) [31], particle swarm optimisation (PSO) [32], and the Bees Algorithm (BA) [33]. The latter algorithm showed great promise on various optimisation benchmarks [33,34,35], and its application in this context constitutes a novel contribution to its knowledge. As a term of reference, random guess (RG) was also tested for the optimisation of the parameters of the linearised model.
The non-linear model of the the load simulator dynamics was built using a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) [27] ANN. In this case, the MLP architecture defines the structure of the model, and the connection weights are the parameters to be optimised. The strong points of the MLP approach are the possibility of reproducing arbitrarily complex non-linear mappings [36], and the existence of well-known in-built algorithms to optimise the weights inductively from data points. In this study, a fast weight learning algorithm [37] was used to reduce the ANN training time. The weak point of the MLP approach is the complexity of the ANN, which makes the model non-transparent to the user. That is, the MLP model is a black box.
In the hybrid approach, the analytical model was used to reproduce the main behaviour of the system, and the MLP to fit unmodelled nonlinearities.
The three modelling approaches are presented in Sect. 2, whilst Sect. 3 describes their optimisation. The experimental results are presented in Sect. 4 and discussed in Sect. 5. Section 6 concludes the paper.
Modelling approaches
The overall experimental system is described in Fig. 1. It consists of two subsystems connected by a rigid shaft and a torque sensor: the loading system (on the left in the figure) and load-bearing system (on the right). The overall stiffness of the connecting link includes the stiffness of the torque sensor.
The two subsystems are controlled using closed loop schemes. The angle of the load-bearing system is monitored using an encoder. The signal from the encoder is used by the load bearing controller to achieve servo position control. The load system controller uses angle and torque information to regulate the torque on the load bearing system. The remaining of this section describes the linear and non-linear models of the electro-hydraulic load simulator used in this study.
Schematic diagram of the experimental rig. The components are: 1 load motor; 2 torque sensor; 3 coupling axis; 4 load bearing motor; 5 angle encoder; 6 load bearing valve; 7 AD/DA card; 8 computer; 9 load valve
Linearised analytical model
This section briefly outlines the linear model that approximates the relationship at time k between the current plant output \(\tilde{T_g}(k)\) (output torque of the load-on motor), its previous values, and the current an past values of the two plant inputs: \(\theta _d(k)\) (turn angle of the motor drive shaft in radians), and \(u_m(k)\) (load input from the controller). The derivation of the model is fully detailed in “Appendix 1”.
The linearised model consists of the following equation:
$$\begin{aligned} \tilde{T_g}(k)&=-f_1T_g(k-1)+f_2T_g(k-2)+f_3T_g(k-3)\\&\quad -f_4T_g(k-4)\\&\quad +d_0u_m(k)+4d_0u_m(k-1)+6d_0u_m(k-2) \\&\quad +4d_0u_m(k-3)+d_0u_m(k-4)\\&\quad -e_0\theta _d(k)-e_1\theta _d(k-1)+e_2\theta _d(k-2) \\&\quad +e_3\theta _d(k-3)-e_4\theta _d(k-4)\\ \end{aligned}$$
Equation (1) includes the following 14 independent variables : the torques at time steps \(k-1, \ldots , k-4\) (4 variables), load inputs \(u_m\) at time steps \(k, \ldots , k-4\) (5 variables), and angles \(\theta _d\) at time steps \(k, \ldots , k-4\) (5 variables). The contribution of each of the 14 independent variables is weighted by a number of constant parameters that are detailed in “Appendix 1”, and depend on the 9 primary parameters listed in Table 1. The optimal value of these 9 parameters is not known. The boundaries showed in the table were set based on expertise and the physical properties of the system.
Table 1 Analytical model parameters with boundaries
Multi-layer perceptron model
The analytical model described in Sect. 2.1 approximates linearly the non-linear relationship between the output torque and plant inputs. Given the difficulty of representing such relationship, the linearised model offers a reasonable trade-off between modelling accuracy and mathematical complexity. An alternative approach to circumvent the difficulty of identifying the load simulator dynamics is to employ a non-linear neural network model.
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) [27] are widely used learning systems composed of an input layer of units (neurons), a variable number of hidden layers, and an output layer. The number of units per layer and their connectivity defines the ANN topology.
The multi-layer perceptron (MLP) [38] is arguably the best known ANN model. It is composed of three or four layers of units. Each element is fully connected to all the units in the immediately previous and following layer, with no inter-layer connections between units. Each connection is associated to a weight, which allows modulating the signal passed from one unit to the other. The plant inputs are collected by the first (input) layer and processed in feedforward manner, one layer after the other (feedforward model). The input layer is composed of as many units as the plant inputs, and acts as a buffer. The units of the hidden layer(s) perform a non-linear mapping of the weighted sum of their inputs (i.e. the outputs of the previous layer). Depending on the implementation, the units of the last (output) layer perform a linear or non-linear mapping of the weighted sum of their inputs (i.e. the outputs of the last hidden layer). The output of the units of the last layer constitutes the ANN response to a given input pattern. In the specific case of the hydraulic motor plant, there is only one output unit giving the motor output torque. The transfer function of each unit, which determine the unit response at a weighted input, is the hyperbolic tangent function (tanh).
Given a sufficient number of non-linear hidden units, an MLP is able to approximate any continuous mapping to an arbitrary degree of precision [39]. The ANN response is fitted to the input-output data patterns by adjusting the weights of the unit connections. The supervised learning approach changes (trains) the weights based on the error between the ANN and the actual plant output. In the dataset, the values of the plant output have been divided by a factor 200. This way, all the actual output values present in the dataset are in the \([-\,1,1]\) range, and they can be compared with the MLP output.
The MLP is fed to the same 14 inputs used by the analytical model (Eq. 1), and is required to approximate the the torque \(T_g(k)\) at time step k.
Hybrid model
A common divide-and-conquer strategy is to combine the two models described in Sects. 2.1 and 2.2 into one hybrid model (HM) [40, 41]. In detail, the analytical linearised model described in Eq. (1) is first optimised. In absence of noise, the error \(\varepsilon (t)\) of the optimised analytical model consists of the unmodelled non-linear dynamics of the system. That is, for each pattern p, \(\varepsilon (p)\) is equal to the difference between the desired value \(T_g(p)\) and the analytical model output \(\tilde{T}_g(p)\):
$$\begin{aligned} \varepsilon (p)=T_g(p)-\tilde{T}_g(p) \end{aligned}$$
Rearranging (2), the desired output \(T_g(p)\) can be expressed as:
$$\begin{aligned} T_g(p)=\tilde{T}_g(p)+\varepsilon (p) \end{aligned}$$
An MLP is then trained to reproduce the analytical model error (\(MLP(p)=\varepsilon (p)\), where MLP(p) is the MLP output). Once the MLP has learned to reproduce the error, the plant dynamics are obtained substituting the MLP output in (3).
$$\begin{aligned} T_g(p)=\tilde{T}_g(p)+MLP(p) \end{aligned}$$
Optimisation of models
The experimental rig shown in Fig. 1 was used to generate three sets (series) of data, each containing 1500 samples recorded over a 3 s span (2 ms sampling frequency). Each data sample consists of two input features and the corresponding model output, respectively the load input from the controller at time step \(t-1\) (\(u_m(t-1)\)), the load bearing position (angle) at time step \(t-1\) (\(\theta _d(t-1)\)), and the output torque of the load-on motor at time step t (\(T_g(t)\)). The three sets differ by the frequency of the load input \(u_m\) generated by the controller, which is a sinusoidal signal of respectively 1, 7 and 9 Hz. The measured output torque is always within the range \(T_{g} \in ( - 150,150)\;{\text{N}}\;{\text{m}}\), except for one outlier at \(T_{g} = 194\;{\text{N}}\;{\text{m}}\).
The test set is composed of 1500 data patterns. It was formed concatenating the first 500 instances of each data series (1, 7 and 9 Hz). The training set contains the remaining 3000 data patterns (1000 patterns from each of the three sets). The difficulty of the data series is uneven, as some high-frequency disturbances are present in a small section of the training set.
The three models predict the output torque using information (\(\theta _d\), \(u_m\), \(T_g(t)\)) from the current and the previous four time steps (Eq. 1). For this reason, the first five time steps of each data set are used only as inputs to the model. That is, for each data set, 995 and 495 data instances are used respectively for training and testing the models.
Optimisation of the analytical model
For this task, three different global optimisation techniques were tested: EA, BA and PSO. These techniques use different nature-inspired population-based metaheuristics. All three algorithms use the same representation scheme, fitness evaluation function, initialisation procedure, and are parameterized to sample an equal number of solutions in the search space.
Namely, candidate solutions are encoded as real-valued numerical strings composed of the 9 parameters listed in Table 1. The fitness F of a candidate solution is calculated as the Root Mean Square (RMS) error of the model, that is:
$$\begin{aligned} F=\sqrt{\sum _{i=1}^N\frac{\left( T_g(i)-M(i)\right) ^2}{N}} \end{aligned}$$
where N is the number of data samples (995 for training, 495 for final testing), \(T_g(i)\) is the desired (plant) output for data pattern i, and M(i) is the model output for data pattern i. The initialisation procedure randomly draws the parameter values of the candidate solutions with uniform probability from the range of values defined in Table 1.
In order to obtain the same sampling of the search space, the EA, PSO, and BA used the same number of individuals and were run for the same number of learning cycles. Preliminary experiments showed fast convergence of the three optimisation procedures. For this reason, each run was limited to 100 generations, and the population size set to 100 individuals. These figures correspond to a total of 104 candidate solutions tested per optimisation procedure.
The above conditions ensure that the three algorithms search the same solution landscape (encoding and fitness function), start from comparable states (initialisation procedure), and are given the same search opportunities (equal sampling opportunities). To define a baseline of performance for the optimisation algorithms, RG was also implemented. RG uses the same encoding scheme, fitness evaluation function, and initialisation procedure as the EA, BA, and PSO algorithms, and is allowed the same sampling opportunities. RG randomly picks candidate solutions from the search space with uniform probability, and retains the best solution encountered. A summary of the parameters used in the optimization algorithms is present in Table 2.
Table 2 Parameters used in the optimization algorithms of the analytical model
Evolutionary algorithm
The EA [31] used in this study employed the Roulette Wheel [31] selection procedure to allocate the reproduction opportunities proportionally to the fitness of the solutions, and generational replacement with elitism [31] to renew the population. Genetic mutations were simulated by adding some ’noise’ to each gene. This noise was randomly sampled from a normal distribution centred in zero. That is:
$$\begin{aligned} og_i(j)=pg_i(j)+K_i \cdot N(0,\sigma _j) \end{aligned}$$
where \(og_i(j)\) is the ith gene of offspring j, \(pg_i(j)\) is the ith gene of parent j, and \(N(0,\sigma _j)\) is a random number sampled from a normal probability distribution of mean 0 and variance \(\sigma _j\). The variance \(\sigma _j\) is individual specific; it is initialised at 1 and undergoes adaptation (via mutation) like the other genes. The parameter \(K_i\) rescales the magnitude of the mutation to the range of parameter i according to the following formula:
$$\begin{aligned} K_i=0.1\cdot (par_i^{max}-par_i^{min}) \end{aligned}$$
where \(par_j^{max}\) and \(par_j^{min}\) are respectively the upper and lower bound of the ith parameter (see Table 1).
Cycles of selection and mutation are repeated until a given number of iterations has elapsed. Due to the lack of crossover and the adaptation of the mutation width, the EA employed in this study is close to the Evolutionary Programming paradigm [31]
Particle swarm optimisation
A standard Particle swarm optimiser [32] was employed in this study. At each iteration, the position (x) and velocity (v) of each particle i were updated according to the following equations:
$$\begin{aligned} \mathbf x _i(t+1)= & {} x_i(t)+\mathbf v _i(t) \end{aligned}$$
$$\begin{aligned} {\mathbf{v}}_{i} (t + 1) & = \alpha \cdot {\mathbf{v}}_{i} (t) + \beta \cdot \rho _{1} \cdot [{\mathbf{P}}{\mathbf{B}}_{i} (t) - {\mathbf{x}}_{i} (t)] \\ & \quad + \gamma \cdot \rho _{2} \cdot [{\mathbf{N}}{\mathbf{B}}_{i} (t) - {\mathbf{x}}_{i} (t)] \\ \end{aligned}$$
where \(\alpha ,\beta\) and \(\gamma\) are fixed parameters, \(\rho _1\) and \(\rho _2\) are random numbers drawn with uniform probability in the interval [0,1], PB is the best solution so far encountered by the particle, NB is the best solution so far encountered by the social neighbours of the particle, and t is the current iteration of the optimisation procedure. In this work the whole population was considered connected. That is, the number of social neighbours of an individual corresponded with the population size (100 individuals). The standard values \(\alpha =1,\beta =2,\gamma =2\) were used.
Bees Algorithm
The standard version [33] of the Bees Algorithm was used in this study. The experiments were performed setting the number of elite sites \(ne=2\), the number of best sites \(nb=6\), and allocating \(nre=20\) and \(nrb=10\) foragers to perform local exploitative search respectively in the elite and best sites. The parameter for site abandonment was set to \(slim=10\).
Optimisation of neural network model
The MLP was trained using the Rprop [37] algorithm. Rprop is a fast gradient descent technique that uses only the sign of the gradient, ignoring its module. Rprop increases the step size of the adjustment of a given weight if the partial error derivative along that weight keeps the same sign from the previous iteration, and reduces it otherwise.
The model inputs (\(\theta _d\) and \(u_m\)) were normalised using the mean–variance procedure:
$$\begin{aligned} \theta _d(t)=\frac{\theta _d(t)-\mu _{\theta _d}}{3\cdot \sigma _{\theta _d}}\qquad u_m(t)=\frac{u_m(t)-\mu _{u_m}}{3\cdot \sigma _{u_m}} \end{aligned}$$
where \(\mu _v\) and \(\sigma _v\) are respectively the mean and standard deviation of the input \(v=\theta _d, u_m\).
The MLP structure was experimentally optimised, varying the number of hidden layers (1 or 2) and units per hidden layer (from 1 to 100). The weight decay parameter of the Rprop algorithm was also experimentally optimised. The following procedure was used to find the best ANN parameters. The training set (3000 patterns) was split into one training subset containing 2000 patterns, and one validation subset containing the remaining 1000 patterns. Different instances of MLP structures were trained on the training subset, and their performance was evaluated on the validation subset. For each parameter setting, the training procedure was repeated 20 times, and the results averaged. At the end, the parameter setting that provided the best results on the validation set was retained as the ’optimal’ one. If the difference in the results obtained by two different settings was not statistically significant (Mann–Whitney test), the setting that minimised the MLP structure was preferred.
Using the above procedure, the MLP structure of the non-linear model was optimised to 2 hidden layers of 77 units each. The weight decay parameter was set to 5 × 10−4.
Once the MLP structure had been optimised, 20 different instances of the ANN were trained on the whole training set, and the final performance evaluated on the test set. Since the ANN was optimised and trained using only data from the training set, the results of the final evaluation on the test set are guaranteed to be unbiased.
Due to the relatively fast convergence shown in the preliminary experiments, the training procedure was stopped after 500 epochs.
Optimisation of the hybrid model
The hybrid model used the best analytical linear model obtained in Sect. 3.1. An MLP was optimised and trained to compensate (i.e. reproduce) the error \(\varepsilon (t)\) (Eq. 2) of the analytical model.
The procedure described in Sect. 3.2 was used to optimise and train the ANN. The optimal MLP structure for the hybrid model was found to be one hidden layer of 80 hidden units, with no weight decay in the Rprop procedure.
A summary of the parameters used in the MLP and the Hybrid Model can be found in Table 3.
Table 3 Parameters used in the MLP and hybrid model
The results presented in Tables 4 and 5 show the five number summary of the RMS error (5) attained by the different models on the training and test set. For each optimisation procedure, the tables summarise the results of 20 independent runs. The learning curves are plotted in Fig. 2. Pairwise two-sided Mann–Whitney tests were performed to assess the statistical significance of the differences among the results obtained. The significance level was set to 5%, and the p values are shown in Tables 6 and 7.
Table 4 Results of the different optimization techniques and alternative models on the training set, based on 20 runs
Table 5 Results of the different optimization techniques and alternative models on the test set, based on 20 runs
Learning curves for the MLP and HM, averaged on 20 runs. The RMS error is monitored on the test set. The best result achieved with the analytical model (by the BA) is shown for comparison
Table 6 Mann–Whitney values computed on the training results
Overall, all algorithms gave very consistent results in the optimisation of the analytical model. The BA attained the smallest RMS error on the test set, whilst the PSO gave the most consistent performances. The pairwise Mann–Whitney tests (Tables 6, 7) revealed that the performance of the BA is significantly better than the performance of the other algorithms. In all cases, the RMS error on the test set is smaller than the RMS error on the training set. This result is due to the fact that the analytical model was not able to reproduce the high-frequency disturbances present in a small section of the training set.
Table 7 Mann–Whitney values computed on the test results
The MLP achieved significantly higher accuracy results than the analytical model. The measures of the RMS error obtained on the training and test sets are comparable (Fig. 3), indicating that the ANN model was able to reproduce the high-frequency disturbances in the training set.
Training and test error of the MLP and HM, in the form of the five value summary relative of 20 runs
According to the results of pairwise Mann–Whitney tests (Tables 6, 7), the modelling accuracies obtained using the Hybrid Model are statistically comparable to those obtained by the MLP model.
Three different approaches were tested to reproduce the dynamics of an electro-hydraulic load simulator. These approaches fit the model parameters to a set of experimental data points, measured at three different frequencies of the load input.
The MLP-based non-linear model outperformed the baseline linearised analytical model. The RMS error of the non-linear model on the test data corresponds to about 0.5% of the output variable range, and is about 3.5 times smaller than the error of the linearised model. This result confirms that the non-linear terms in the load simulator dynamics have a significant impact on the accuracy of the model.
The four algorithms (RG, EA, PSO, and BA) used to optimise the baseline analytical model gave similar results: the difference between the most (BA) and least (RG) accurate model obtained is extremely small, amounting to about 3% of the RMS error magnitude. This result indicates that the current error is due to the limits of the linearised approach, rather than inadequacies of the optimisation procedures tested.
The RMS error of the linearised model is higher on the training set of examples, where some short high frequency disturbances are included. The results obtained using the MLP model on the training and test set are comparable. This suggests that the effect of the non-linear terms on the overall system dynamics is larger at high frequencies of the load input signal. In one further test, the training and test set were swapped. That is, the ANN was trained on the test set (not containing the high frequency disturbances) and its performance was validated on the training set (containing the high frequency disturbances). In this case (results not shown), there was a sharp drop in performance between the training accuracy and the test accuracy. The results of this test indicate that the high frequency disturbances contain non-linearities that are not present at low frequency.
Combining the analytical and MLP approach did not bring benefits in terms of modelling accuracy. The difference between the RMS error attained by the hybrid and MLP model is not statistically significant. Overall, the experimental results indicate that the non-linear MLP model is preferable in terms of simplicity and accuracy.
Comparing the proposed approaches with the existing literature is difficult because of the scarcity of quantitative results published, and the different data sets used. Perhaps the most similar tests were carried out by Zhang and Dong [21], who reported a tracking error within 5% of the load-on motor output torque. However, the present study is the only one where the model is optimised and tested at different load input frequencies. Conservatively, it can be said that the accuracy of the linearised model presented in this study is comparable to the accuracy of the state-of-the-art in the literature. The MLP-based model and the HM appear to obtain error magnitudes one order of magnitude smaller than the state-of-the-art in the literature.
The accuracy of analytical linear models of electro-hydraulic load simulators is constrained by the extent of unmodelled nonlinearities, and the difficulty of optimising the numerous parameters that characterise them. A small number of nonlinear models has been reported in the literature, mainly based on ANN approaches. These ANNs were part of larger control systems, and whilst the performance of the whole systems was described, no information was given on the actual accuracy of the models.
This study used experimental data describing the dynamics of an electro-hydraulic motor, and fitted to these data the parameters of three kinds of models: analytical, ANN, and hybrid. The study made the following contributions:
the upper limit of the accuracy of the analytical linear model was estimated using four intelligent parameter optimisation methods.
the difference in accuracy between the linear and nonlinear models was quantified and shown to be significant
it was shown a pure ANN model can be trained with accuracy comparable to a hybrid analytical + ANN model
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is to date the most exhaustive attempt at identifying the dynamics of an electro-hydraulic load simulator, involving different kinds of linear and non-linear models and parameter optimisation algorithms. Despite its limitations, the accuracy of the optimised analytical model is comparable with the state-of-the-art linear models in the literature. The MLP and HM outperform the best models reported in the literature. Given the advantages of electro-hydraulic load simulators in terms of reliability, durability, and performances, the results of this study are deemed significant for the understanding and simulation of such systems. Further work should extend the experimental tests to higher frequencies of the load input, and more complex (e.g. recurrent [27]) ANN structures.
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University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Luca Baronti
, Marco Castellani
& Duc Truong Pham
School of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China
Biao Zhang
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Linearised analytical model: full description
The load system is driven by a servo valve, which is used to control the output torque. The flow equation of the servo valve of the load system is:
$$\begin{aligned} Q_L=K_qx_v-K_cp_L \end{aligned}$$
where \(Q_L\) (m3/s) is the load flow of the servo valve; \(K_q\) (m3/s) is the flow of the gain of the servo valve; \(x_v\) (m) is the opening of the servo valve spool; \(K_c\) (m5/N s) is the flow-pressure coefficient; and \(p_L\) (N/m2) is the load pressure of the load-on motor;
The flow continuity equation of the load-on motor is:
$$\begin{aligned} Q_L=D_m\theta '_j+C_{tm}p_L+\frac{V_m}{4\beta _e}p_L' \end{aligned}$$
where \(D_m\) (m3/rad) is the theoretical displacement of the load-on motor; \(\theta _j\) (rad) is the rotational angle of the load-on motor; \(C_{tm}\) (m5/N s) is the internal leakage coefficient of the load-on motor; \(V_m\) (m3) is the total chamber volume of the load-on motor and pipes; and [\(\beta _e\)] (N/m2) is the effective bulk modulus;
Ignoring friction, the torque balance equation of the load-on motor is:
$$\begin{aligned} p_LD_m=J\theta ''_j+B_m\theta '_j+T_g \end{aligned}$$
where \(P_L\) is the load pressure; J is the equivalent moment of inertia; \(T_g\) (N/m) is the output torque of the load-on motor; and [\(B_m\)] (N m/rad/s) is the viscous damping coefficient;
The output torque equation is:
$$\begin{aligned} T_g=G(\theta _j-\theta _d) \end{aligned}$$
where G (N m/rad) is the rigidity of the connecting link; \(\theta _d\) (rad) is the turn angle of the motor drive shaft;
The spool displacement of the servo valve and the input voltage satisfy the following relational expression:
$$\begin{aligned} K_px'_v+x_v=K_{sv}u_m \end{aligned}$$
where \(u_m\) is the load input from the controller, and \(K_{sv}\) and \(K_p\) are the correlation coefficients of the servo valve.
Combining the Laplace transforms of equations Eqs. (11) to (15), the following equation is obtained:
$$\begin{aligned} \sum _{i=1}^5a_{i}T_gs^{i-5}=K_{sv}u_m-Ga_1\theta _ds^4-Ga_2\theta _ds^3-b_1\theta _ds^2-b_2\theta _ds \end{aligned}$$
$$\begin{aligned} a_1&=\frac{V_mJK_p}{4\beta _eD_mK_qG}\nonumber \\ a_2&=\frac{4\beta _eK_pK_{ce}J+V_m(K_pB_m + J)}{4\beta _eD_mK_qG}\nonumber \\ a_3&=\frac{4\beta _e\left( K_pD_m^2+K_{ce}(K_pB_m+J)\right) +V_m(K_pG+B_m)}{4\beta _eD_mK_qG}\nonumber \\ a_4&=\frac{4\beta _e(GK_pK_{ce} + D_m^2+K_{ce}B_m) + GV_m}{4\beta _eD_mK_qG}\nonumber \\ a_5&=\frac{K_{ce}}{D_mK_q} \end{aligned}$$
$$\begin{aligned} b_1&=\frac{4\beta _e\left( K_pD_m^2+K_{ce}(K_pB_m+J)\right) +V_mB_m}{4\beta _eD_mK_q}\nonumber \\ b_2&=\frac{D_m^2+K_{ce}B_m}{D_mK_q} \end{aligned}$$
$$\begin{aligned} K_{ce}=K_c+C_m \end{aligned}$$
In order to be able to identify the model using the discrete dataset of experimental measurements, Eq. (19) needs to be transformed into discrete form. This is achieved by performing a bilinear transformation of the following equation:
$$\begin{aligned} s=\frac{2}{T}\frac{1-z^{-1}}{1+z^{-1}} \end{aligned}$$
where T is the sampling interval and s is the complex variable. The final discrete equation is obtained:
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} \tilde{T_g}(k)&=-f_1T_g(k-1)+f_2T_g(k-2)+f_3T_g(k-3)\\&\quad -f_4T_g(k-4)\\&\quad +d_0u_m(k)+4d_0u_m(k-1)+6d_0u_m(k-2) \\&\quad +4d_0u_m(k-3)+d_0u_m(k-4)\\&\quad -e_0\theta _d(k)-e_1\theta _d(k-1)+e_2\theta _d(k-2) \\&\quad +e_3\theta _d(k-3)-e_4\theta _d(k-4)\\ \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} f_0&=\sum _{i=1}^{5}a_{i}\left( \dfrac{2}{T}\right) ^{5-i}\\ f_1&=\dfrac{1}{f_0}\sum _{i=1,i\ne 3}^5\left( -4+2(i-1)\right) a_i\left( \frac{2}{T}\right) ^{5-i}\\ f_2&=\frac{1}{f_0}\left( -6a_1\frac{2^4}{T^4}+2a_3\frac{2^2}{T^2}-6a_5\right) \\ f_3&=\frac{1}{f_0} \sum _{i=1,i\ne 3}^5(-1)^{i-1}\left( 4-2(i-1)\right) a_i\left( \frac{2}{T}\right) ^{5-i}\\ f_4&=\frac{1}{f_0}\sum _{i=1}^{5}(-1)^{i-1}a_{i}\left( \dfrac{2}{T}\right) ^{5-i} \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
the parameter \(d_0\) is:
$$\begin{aligned} d_0=\frac{K_{sv}}{f_0} \end{aligned}$$
and the parameters \(e_i\) are:
$$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} e_0&=\frac{1}{f_0}G\sum _{i=1}^2a_i\left( \frac{2}{T}\right) ^{5-i}+\frac{1}{f_0}\sum _{i=1}^2b_i\left( \frac{2}{T}\right) ^{3-i}\\ e_1&=\frac{4}{f_0T}b_2-\frac{1}{f_0}G \sum _{i=1}^2\frac{4}{i}a_i\left( \frac{2}{T}\right) ^{5-i}\\ e_2&=-\frac{6}{f_0}Ga_1\left( \frac{2}{T}\right) ^4+\frac{2}{f_0}b_1\left( \frac{2}{T}\right) ^2\\ e_3&=\frac{4}{f_0T}b_2+\frac{1}{f_0}G \sum _{i=1}^2(-1)^{i-1}\frac{4}{i}a_i\left( \frac{2}{T}\right) ^{5-i}\\ e_4&=\frac{1}{f_0}G\sum _{i=1}^2(-1)^{i-1}a_i\left( \frac{2}{T}\right) ^{5-i}+\frac{1}{f_0}\sum _{i=1}^2(-1)^{i-1}b_i\left( \frac{2}{T}\right) ^{3-i} \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
Baronti, L., Zhang, B., Castellani, M. et al. Machine learning of electro-hydraulic motor dynamics. SN Appl. Sci. 2, 130 (2020) doi:10.1007/s42452-019-1889-y
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Analytical modelling
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My Dog Skip
Role: Willie Morris
Role: Rivers Applewhite
Directed: Jay Russell
Genre: Coming of Age, Drama
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood. Based on the best-selling Mississippi memoir by the late Willie Morris.
Coming of age does indeed seem more poignant, and the moral lessons learned more pointed, when your best friend is coming of age seven times as fast and is almost certain to give up the ghost before you. The film opens in an elegiac mode, and its most effective moments convey the sense of simultaneous gain and loss that love, canine or human, can bring, not least in the corridors of memory.
But it’s not clear what kind of an audience the film is targeting: it’s definitely not appropriate for younger children, who will find the darker issues tackled (segregation, war, alcoholism, bullying, cruelty to animals) overwhelming, especially since none are patiently or coherently explored. For adults, the human characters seem flat, in a uniform manner suggesting directorial choice rather than weak acting.
The cast does their best with what little the script gives them — especially Kevin Bacon, who, as Willie’s stolid, undemonstrative father, portrays a man emotionally damaged but not entirely beyond repair. As Willie, Frankie Muniz (star of Malcolm in the Middle, here distinctly younger) gives a strong performance when not mugging for the camera. The film also features Luke Wilson, marginalizes Diane Lane, and stars the remarkable Moose from Frasier, the most talented thespian ever to be rescued from the pound.
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The Cleveland Gordian Knot (A Genealogical Puzzle), Part Four: James and Fannie
(If you haven’t read parts one, two, and three, you’ll want to do so before diving in to this post.)
When Mary (Nagle) Campbell died from childbirth complications on 31 March 1888,1 her widower James Campbell was left to raise their five children alone. Within a year, the three elder boys (especially George) were on the radar of the local authorities. In May of 1889, both the Plain Dealer and the Leader reported on George Campbell’s miscreant behavior.
George Campbell, bad boy. 30 May 1889.2
George Campbell, accomplished liar. 30 May 1889.3
Although both articles and the teacher who exposed young George’s lies got some details about the family incorrect—namely that George’s parents were alive when in fact only one of them was living—there’s enough accurate information about the Campbells of No. 7 McCurdy Street to infer that James’s third eldest son, George (born in 1879), was the titular “bad boy” and “accomplished young liar.” George ran away again the very same night he was marched home by Agent Poole and remained missing for at least a week.
George Campbell runs away again. 6 June 1889.4
Twelve-year-old Joseph was apparently in trouble as well, and the authorities wanted to send both boys to the House of Refuge. Whether they were actually incarcerated or not is not yet known, but what is known is that a year later, in April of 1890, George ran away again.
Although the Plain Dealer got the family’s surname incorrect and once again implied that George had a mother living when he did not, other details (the address, the first names, George’s age) point to the James Campbell family.5
The fifteen-year-old boy mentioned in “An Accomplished Liar” is probably eldest son Charles, who is almost certainly the subject of a “situation wanted” classified advertisement from March 1889, which seems more likely to have been placed by James than by Charles who, according to teacher T.N. Johnson anyway, “would not work.”
Classified ad, probably seeking work for Charles.6
Between the two younger children, Martha Jane (Jennie) and William (who turned seven and four respectively in 1890), and the apparently out-of-control older boys (especially George), James clearly couldn’t do it all alone. Help arrived on 14 June 1890, when James married his second wife, Fannie “N. Dean.” (Fannie didn’t have a middle name, and “Dean” was not her surname–but that’s all coming up in part five).
Marriage record for James Campbell and Fannie N. Dean.7
The loss of the 1890 United States Census is especially acute when it comes to the Campbell family, as it’s the one enumeration year in which all of the Campbell children should have appeared with their father in one household–although it may or may not have included Fannie since she and James were married twelve days after that year’s official census date, 2 June 1890.8 Luckily, the census isn’t the be-all end-all of genealogical records, especially in a city like Cleveland.
By 1891, Charles Campbell appears to have settled into work as a printer. He’s listed as such in the 1891/1892 Cleveland City Directory, residing at 7 McCurdy av. James Campbell, carpenter, is listed on the very next page, although his entry has him residing at 17 McCurdy instead of 7 McCurdy.
1891/1892 Cleveland Directory entries for Charles and James Campbell.9
Joseph Campbell first appears in his own right in the 1895/1896 edition of the directory, as a teamster residing at 56 McCurdy Ave. James (still a carpenter) and Charles (still a printer) are also listed at 56 McCurdy Ave in 1895/1896.10
No, the family didn’t move down the street. Cleveland’s house and street numbering system was extremely inconsistent until 1906,11 much to Clevelanders’ consternation. For example:
One 1894 Cleveland resident’s complaint about the house numbers.12
The Campbells’ shifting house number is down to the non-standardized and inconsistent numbering system, and not because the Campbell family was moving up and down McCurdy from house number 7, to 17, to 56–although that would have been a good trick, considering how McCurdy was (and still is) a very short street:
McCurdy Ave, far left. A very short street.13
On 27 August 1896, Charles Henry Campbell married Inga Theresa Simmons.14 A year later, on 3 September 1897, he applied to the probate court for guardianship of the estate of his younger siblings, George W., Martha Jane, and William E. Campbell, who were still minors. James and Joseph J. Campbell served as sureties on the guardian bond.
Guardian Bond for Charles H. Campbell.15
Wait. What estate? Let’s back up. In 1883, James and his first wife, Mary, bought property on McCurdy Ave.16 When Mary died intestate (without a will) on 31 March 1888, both her widower James and her children inherited portions of her share of ownership. The minor children couldn’t legally make decisions about their share of the property, but a guardian appointed on their behalf could. So why would the elder brother, Charles, become guardian of his siblings’ estate as opposed to their father, James? Well, according to the 1897 probate code of Ohio, James was ineligible.
Excerpt from the 1897 Probate Code of Ohio.17
On 28 August 1900, James Campbell applied for letters of administration on Mary Campbell’s estate, thus rendering him ineligible to be guardian of the minor Campells’ interest in the same estate.
James’s application for letters of administration on Mary’s estate.18
According to the 1900 Census, the residence on McCurdy was owned, not rented, but it was mortgaged rather than owned free.19 In the 1900 probate case file approving the sale of the property, a petition asserts that the entire family–James, Fannie, Joseph J., Charles, and the younger Campbell children via Charles’s guardianship–was beholden to an $800 mortgage held by one Benjamin Atkinson.20 I don’t know for sure yet (I need to find the Campbell-Atkinson mortgage deed, presuming one exists) but I’m guessing the mortgage with Benjamin Atkinson was executed in about 1897, and was the reason Charles became guardian of his minor siblings’ estate that year.
As for why the actions on Mary’s estate didn’t begin until nine years after her death: so long as the family was living on the property and not attempting to refinance or sell it, then there was no reason to get the courts involved.
In September 1900, the Campbells sold the McCurdy Avenue property to Mary Hawkins, apparently to wriggle free from the Atkinson mortgage. The sale of the lot and house that was the Campbell family home for seventeen years generated a deed which is a treasure trove of genealogical data, linking the entire family together–including Charles’s wife Inga and the tragically deceased Mary Christina (Nagle) Campbell.
Snippet of Campbell-Hawkins deed, recorded 5 October 1900.21
Well, almost the entire family. But I’ll get to that in Part Five.
Although James immediately turned around and purchased a lot on Elroy Street from Mary Hawkins23 after the sale of the McCurdy Avenue property, he doesn’t appear to have ever lived on Elroy Street.
By the time James filed the paperwork to become administrator of Mary’s estate in late August 1900, he was living at 2017 Nelson Street (see his application, above). Charles and Inga lived at 2017 Nelson Street when they were enumerated for the 1900 U.S. census earlier that year,24 so it seems James, Fannie, Martha Jane, and William moved in with Charles and Inga sometime in mid-1900.
James purchased the Elroy Street property in his name alone, perhaps to avoid the hassle of a probate case involving the entire family should he want to sell. If so, his attempt was in vain because when James died in 1910, Mark McElroy (the administrator of James Campbell’s intestate estate) had to go ’round and get the entire family’s approval to sell the property back to Mary Hawkins and give the proceeds of the sale to Fannie.25
As I mentioned in Part Three, Mark McElroy was Martha Jane/Jennie’s husband, and they were married on 7 December 1903. Note Martha Jane’s residence, 2017 Nelson St.
Marriage record for Mark McElroy and Martha Jane Campbell.26
Later that month, George W. Campbell married Mahala J. Wilson on 31 December 1903.27 Joseph James Campbell married Ellen Viola Mattern in Butler, Pennsylvania earlier that year, on 10 June 1903.28 By the time 1904 rolled around, only youngest son William Ernest remained unmarried and living at home.
In 1904, home for William was 1723 Woodland Hills Avenue, which is the address James Campbell’s 1910 death certificate noted as his last home address before he was hospitalized long-term due to Parkinson’s disease.29 It’s also the address William provided as contact information in his Plain Dealer amateur baseball notices.
William Campbell recruiting for The Elms, April 1904.30
Turns out William had at least one pretty amazing outing on the mound, by the way:
Campbell hurls for the win, June 1904.31
In September 1904, Charles and Inga Campbell lost a nine-week-old baby girl to entero colitis32–just two years after they lost a nine-month-old son to cholera in August 1902.33 Both little ones were buried in section 76, lot 51 of Woodland Cemetery–the same cemetery where Mary Nagle Campbell was buried in 1888,34 but not the same plot.
As if losing two babies within two years wasn’t enough, Charles was the victim of a home invasion (and possibly an attempted kidnapping or beating) in late August 1905:
Charles Campbell attacked in the night.35
In the midst of all that, Charles seems to have had difficulty finding a steady occupation. He’s a “wiredr” (sic?) in the 1902/03 directory,36 and a finisher in 1903/04.37 The 1904/0538 and 1905/0639 Cleveland City Directories list him as a millworker. He’s a wireworker in 1906/07,40 then an ironworker in 1907/0841 and 1908/09.42 By 1909/10, Charles (H) Campbell of Nelson Street/Avenue disappears from the Cleveland Directory,43 then reappears on the 1910 U.S. Census living in…Los Angeles. Working as a street car conductor.44 Sound familiar?
It seems both Charles and William headed west to Los Angeles and got into the street car business in about 1909. Charles remained in Los Angeles until his death in 1961.45 He was a street car conductor until at least 1920,46 but by 1930 he was a yard worker in a woodshop.47 By 1940 he was a carpenter, like his father.48
William came back to Cleveland and became (perhaps after learning the trade out in L.A. with his brother) a street car conductor, an occupation he remained in until his retirement.49 In January 1910, William told the county clerk that Los Angeles was his residence when he applied for a license to marry his first wife (my great-great-great grandmother) Evelyn McEachern, daughter of William McEachern and Evelyn Endean.50
Endean.
En-dean.
N-Dean.
N. Dean.
Now, where have I heard that before?
Oh yeah. James Campbell married Fannie N. Dean.
But wait, when Fannie died in 1914, the father listed on her death certificate was “William Gill.”
Death certificate for Fannie Campbell.51
And her obituary claimed her maiden name was McEchren.
Obituary for Fannie Campbell.52
So was she Fannie N. Dean, Fannie Gill, or Fannie McEchren? Was “N. Dean” supposed to be Endean? Was “McEchren” an alternate spelling of McEachern? And what’s with William’s ex-wife’s parents’ surnames showing up in records about his stepmother?
Mrs. Mark “McGray” is a typo. Mrs. Mark McElroy lived at 1344 W. 78th Street.53 Fannie died at her stepdaughter Martha Jane (Campbell) McElroy’s house, but hold up–the obituary also says Fannie was the “beloved mother of Mrs. John Calan.”
Didn’t a Mr. John Callan live with William Ernest Campbell and his second wife Mary in 1920?54
You’re probably starting to get why I call this Cleveland cluster a Gordian knot.
And now, the recap:
Was William Campbell’s mother from England? Or was she from New York, or Pennsylvania? William Campbell’s mother, Mary C. Christina Nagle, was born in New York.
Was Fannie Campbell actually William’s biological mother? No, she was not. She was his stepmother.
Did Fannie have ten children, two of whom survived, or six children, all of whom survived?
When exactly was William E. Campbell born? (The smaller fluctuations in his age from census to census might be resolved by comparing his birth month to the official census date, but other shifts are too large to be tidied up that way.) William Ernest Campbell was born to James and Mary (Nagle) Campbell in Cleveland, Ohio on 29 January 1886.
Did Fannie Campbell die before 1920, or did she just move out? Fannie Campbell died on 5 January 1914.
Are Eveleyin and Mary Campbell the same person? No. Evelyn I. McEachern was William’s first wife, Mary H. Wilson was his second.
What were James and Fannie Campbell each up to before they got married in their thirties? James and Fannie were not married in 1881 as the 1900 census suggests. Before James married Fannie, he had a family with Mary C. Christina Nagle for fifteen years, until her death.
What was William E. Campbell’s connection to Los Angeles, California? William’s brother Charles moved to Los Angeles and became a street car conductor in about 1909. It appears William accompanied his brother to California, then returned to Cleveland.
If Fannie Campbell and Mary Naegel/Nagle are not the same person, what happened to Mary prior to 1900? Fannie and Mary were not the same person, and Mary died after complications from childbirth in 1888.
When did James Campbell marry his second wife, Fannie? James Campbell married Fannie “N. Dean” on 14 June 1890.
What was Fannie Campbell’s maiden name? (Dean, if the James & Fannie marriage record is to be believed. It shouldn’t be.)
What was Fannie up to in the years after her immigration and prior to her marriage to James Campbell?
What happened to the McCurdy Street property James purchased with Mary in 1883 and still owned in 1900? The family sold the property to Mary Hawkins in September 1900, after the census was taken.
Were any of the Campbell boys ever actually sent to the House of Refuge?
Okay, seriously though, what was Fannie’s maiden name?
Was Fannie somehow related to Evelyn McEachern?
Who were Mr. and Mrs. John Calan?
See you in part five, when we finally find out about Fannie’s life before James, including the grisly suicide that made her a widow.
1. Margaret Crymes, “The Cleveland Gordian Knot (A Genealogical Puzzle), Part Three: James Campbell and Mary C. Nagle,” kinvestigations.com, 20 March 2018 (https://kinvestigations.com/2018/03/20/the-cleveland-gordian-knot-a-genealogical-puzzle-part-three-james-campbell-and-mary-c-nagle/ : accessed 19 March 2018), para. 16.↩
2. “A Precocious Bad Boy,” The (Cleveland) Leader and Herald, 30 May 1889, p. 8, col. 2; digital images, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01150128074204280831524378835 : accessed 2 April 2018).↩
3. “An Accomplished Liar,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, 10 May 1889, p. 8, col. 2; digital images, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01150128074204280831524377939 : accessed 2 April 2018).↩
4. “An Incorrigible Boy,” The (Cleveland) Leader and Herald, 6 June 1889, p. 8 , col. 2; digital images, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01150128074204280831524378391 : accessed 2 April 2018).↩
5. “Missing Children,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, 24 April 1890, p. 6, col. 6; digital images, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01150128074204280831524378391 : accessed 2 April 2018).↩
6. “WANTED situation by boy of 15,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, 17 March 1889, p. 3, col. 6; digital images, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01150128074204280831524380702 : 2 April 2018).↩
7. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 34:346, Campbell-Dean, 1890; database with images, “Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-BP97-ZQ : accessed 25 April 2018), Cuyahoga > Marriage records 1889-1890 vol 34 > image 231 of 338;; citing microfilm of original records, Cuyahoga County Courthouse, Cleveland.↩
8. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890_United_States_Census), “1890 United States Census,” rev. 23:10, 15 April 2018.↩
9. The Cleveland Directory, Year Ending July 1892 (Cleveland: Cleveland Directory Co, 1891), 144-145; image copy, Archive.org (https://archive.org/stream/clevelanddirecto1891clev#page/144/mode/2up : accessed 30 April 2018).↩
10. The Cleveland Directory, Year Ending July 1896 (Cleveland: Cleveland Directory Co, 1895), 152-153; image copy, Archive.org (https://archive.org/stream/clevelanddirecto1895clev#page/152/mode/2up : accessed 30 April 2018).↩
11. John J. Grabowski, ed., Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (http://case.edu/ech/articles/s/street-names/), “Street Names,” accessed 30 April 2018.↩
12. “A General Kick,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, 24 April 1894, p. 5, col. 4; digital images, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01150128074204280831524682638 : accessed 25 April 2018).↩
13. Cleveland Historic Maps (https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=ddb0ee6134d64de4adaaa3660308abfd : accessed 3 April 2018), toggle on the 1898 layer, search for “McCurdy Ave, Cleveland, Ohio.”↩
14. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 44:74, Campbell-Simmons, license no. 12300; database with images, “Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-BG9R-TB : accessed 25 April 2018 , Cuyahoga > Marriage records 1896-1897 vol 44 > image 80 of 300; citing microfilm of original records, Cuyahoga County Courthouse, Cleveland.↩
15. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, probate case file no. 16815, Minors of Mary Christine Campbell, guardian bond for Charles H Campbell; digital images, “Ohio, Cuyahoga County Probate Files, 1813-1932,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRPW-R15 : accessed 30 April 2018), Docket 48 > Case no 16786-16818 1897 > image 417 of 448; citing original records, Cuyahoga County Archives.↩
16. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Deed Book 355: 414-415, George and Margaretha Schraufl to James and Mary C. Campbell, 2 October 1883; database with images, Cuyahoga County Fiscal Officer (https://fiscalofficer.cuyahogacounty.us : accessed 19 March 2018), Recorded Documents > General Deed Search > use Book and Page fields, click through to download image files.↩
17. W.H. Whittaker, ed., The Annotated Probate Code of Ohio, Second Revised Edition (Cincinnati: W.H. Anderson & Co, 1897), 355, statue 6256; image copy, Hathi Trust (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hl49z2;view=1up;seq=371 : accessed 30 April 2018).↩
18. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, probate case file no. 23327, Estate of Mary C Campbell, James Campbell application for letters of administration, 28 August 1900; digital images, “Ohio, Cuyahoga County, probate records, 1827-1924,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939N-GFKL-5 : accessed 30 April 2018), Estate files, docket 60, case no. 23299-23340, Jul-Oct 1900> image 366 of 478; citing original records, Cuyahoga County Archives.↩
19. Margaret Crymes, “The Cleveland Gordian Knot (A Genealogical Puzzle), Part One: William E. Campbell in the Census,” kinvestigations.com, 9 March 2018 (https://kinvestigations.com/2018/03/10/the-cleveland-gordian-knot-a-genealogical-puzzle-part-one-william-e-campbell-in-the-census/ : accessed 30 April 2018), para. 2.↩
20. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, probate case file no. 23386, James Campbell vs Charles Henry Campbell et al, petition 17 September 1900; digital images, “Ohio, Cuyahoga County, probate records, 1827-1924,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939N-GF7M-JM : accessed 30 April 2018), Estate files, docket 60, case no. 23379-23417, Jul-Oct 1900 > image 79-80 of 488; citing original records, Cuyahoga County Archives.↩
21. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Deed Book 761: 506-508, James Campbell [et al] to Mary Hawkins, recorded 5 October 1900; database with images, Cuyahoga County Fiscal Officer (https://fiscalofficer.cuyahogacounty.us : accessed 19 March 2018), Recorded Documents > General Deed Search > use Book and Page fields, and narrow by date, then click “Begin Search.”↩
22. Ibid.↩
23. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Deed Book 772: 201, Mary Hawkins to James Campbell, recorded 27 December 1900; database with images, Cuyahoga County Fiscal Officer (https://fiscalofficer.cuyahogacounty.us : accessed 19 March 2018), Recorded Documents > General Deed Search > use Book and Page fields, and narrow by date, then click “Begin Search.”↩
24. 1900 U.S. Census, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, population schedule, Cleveland City, Ward 26, p. 160 (stamped), ED 135, sheet 16-A, dwelling 250, household 282, Charles Campbell; database with images, “United States Census, 1900,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6P63-QQS : accessed 30 April 2018), Ohio > Cuyahoga > ED 135 Precinct C Cleveland City Ward 26 > image 31 of 35; citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1257.↩
25. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, probate case file no. 56874, Mark McElroy vs. Fannie Campbell; digital images, “Ohio, Cuyahoga County Probate Files, 1813-1932,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-YSL9-W73K : accessed 11 March 2018), Docket 93 > Case no 56837-56877 Apr 1911-Aug 1911 > images 379 – 398 of 529; citing original records, Cuyahoga County Archives.↩
26. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 58:155, McElroy-Campbell, 1903; database with images, “Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-BP9P-FP : accessed 25 April 2018), Cuyahoga > Marriage records 1903-1904 vol 58 > image 125 of 302; citing microfilm of original records, Cuyahoga County Courthouse, Cleveland.↩
27. Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 58:217, Campbell-Wilson, 1903; database with images, “Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-BP9R-7Z : accessed 25 April 2018), Cuyahoga > Marriage records 1903-1904 vol 58 > image 156 of 302; citing microfilm of original records, Cuyahoga County Courthouse, Cleveland.↩
28. Butler County, Pennsylvania, Marriage Docket Book 15:172, Campbell-Mattern, 1903; database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VF9V-5V1 : accessed 30 April 2018).↩
29. Crymes, “The Cleveland Gordian Knot (A Genealogical Puzzle), Part Three: James Campbell and Mary C. Nagle,” para. 1.↩
30. “Among the Amateurs,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, 2 April 1904, p. 6, col. 2; digital images, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01150128074204280831525121370 : accessed 30 April 2018).↩
31. “Among the Amateurs,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, 21 June 1904, p. 8, col. 8; digital images, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01150128074204280831525122397 : accessed 30 April 2018).↩
32. Cleveland Department of Parks and Public Property, Division of Cemeteries, Woodland Cemetery Interment Register 5-6:140, no. 45177, Baby Jas. Campbell, 11 August 1902; database with images, “Ohio, Cleveland Cemetery Interment Records, 1824-2001,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9TDQ-QWZ : accessed 30 April 2018), 004466573 > image 143 of 208; citing digital images of originals, Department of Parks, Recreation and Properties, Cleveland, Ohio.↩
33. Cleveland Department of Parks and Public Property, Division of Cemeteries, Woodland Cemetery Interment Register 7-8:36, no. 49015, Baby Campbell, 16 September 1904; database with images, “Ohio, Cleveland Cemetery Interment Records, 1824-2001,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9TDQ-QQZ : accessed 30 April 2018), 004466575 > image 39 of 194; citing digital images of originals, Department of Parks, Recreation and Properties, Cleveland, Ohio.↩
34. Crymes, “The Cleveland Gordian Knot (A Genealogical Puzzle), Part Three: James Campbell and Mary C. Nagle,” para. 17.↩
35. “Free Bath For A Hold Up Man,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, 29 August 1905, p. 14, col. 1; digital images, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01150128074204280831525148111 : accessed 30 April 2018).↩
36. The Cleveland Directory, Year Ending July 1903 (Cleveland: Cleveland Directory Co, 1902), 201; image copy, Hathi Trust (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112033564714;view=1up;seq=189 : accessed 30 April 2018).↩
37. The Cleveland Directory, Year Ending August 1904 (Cleveland: Cleveland Directory Co, 1903), 201; image copy, Hathi Trust (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112033564722;view=1up;seq=191 : accessed 30 April 2018).↩
38. The Cleveland Directory, Year Ending August 1905 (Cleveland: Cleveland Directory Co, 1904), 212; image copy, “U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995,” Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2469/4160752#?imageId=4160851 : accessed 30 April 2018).↩
39. The Cleveland Directory, Year Ending August 1906 (Cleveland: Cleveland Directory Co, 1905), 213; image copy, Hathi Trust (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t2z35f63g;view=1up;seq=207 : accessed 30 April 2018).↩
44. 1910 U.S. Census Los Angeles County, California, population schedule, Los Angeles City, Precinct 206, p. 93 (stamped), ED 251, sheet 6-A, dwelling 139, household 147, Charlies (sic) H. Campbell; database with images, “United States Census, 1910,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RVP-XY4 : accessed 30 April 2018), California > Los Angeles > Los Angeles Assembly District 70 > ED 251 > image 11 of 22; citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 81.↩
45. “California Death Index, 1940-1997,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGT2-SX1 : 30 April 2018), Charles H Campbell, 08 Jul 1961; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.↩
46. 1920 U.S. Census, Los Angeles County, California, population schedule, Los Angeles City, Precinct 603, p. 71 (stamped), ED 289, sheet 9-A, dwelling 164, household 212, Charles H. Campbell; database with images, “United States Census, 1920,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RXR-48 : accessed 9 March 2018), California > Los Angeles > Los Angeles Assembly District 71 > ED 289 > image 17 of 37; citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 111.↩
47. 1930 U.S. Census, Los Angeles County, California, population schedule, San Antonio Township, Florence Precinct, p. 140 (stamped), ED 1367, sheet 4-B, dwelling 104, household 104, Charles H. Campbell; database with images, “United States Census, 1930,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9R4T-CRJ : accessed 30 April 2018), California > Los Angeles > San Antonio > ED 1367 > image 9 of 52; citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 172.↩
48. 1940 U.S. Census, Los Angeles County, California, population schedule, San Antonio Judicial Township, Florence, p. 11787 (stamped), ED 19-630, sheet 3-A, household 96, Charles H. Campbell; database with images, “United States Census, 1940,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9MT-XQZY : accessed 30 April 2018), California > Los Angeles > San Antonio Judicial Township > 19-630 San Antonio Judicial Township (Tract 515 – part) bounded by (N) Florence Av; (E) Hooper Av; (S) 76th; township line; also Florence (part) > image 5 of 24; citing NARA digital publication T627.↩
49. Margaret Crymes, “The Cleveland Gordian Knot (A Genealogical Puzzle), Part Two: The William E. Campbell Vitals,” kinvestigations.com, 10 March 2018 (https://kinvestigations.wordpress.com/2018/03/10/the-cleveland-gordian-knot-a-genealogical-puzzle-part-two-the-william-e-campbell-vitals/ : accessed 19 March 2018), para. 2.↩
50. Ibid, para 5.↩
51. Ohio Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death no. 1166, Fannie Campbell, 5 January 1914; “Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GPJ5-S34Q : accessed 30 April 2018), 1914 > 00001-03000 > image 1351 of 3345; citing digital images of originals, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus.↩
52. “Campbel,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, 8 January 1914, p. 14, col. 1; digital images, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01150128074204280831525206268 : accessed 30 April 2018).↩
53. The Cleveland Directory, Year Ending August 1915 (Cleveland: Cleveland Directory Co, 1914), 1004; image copy, Hathi Trust (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112033564839;view=1up;seq=998 : accessed 30 April 2018).↩
54. Crymes, “The Cleveland Gordian Knot (A Genealogical Puzzle), Part One: William E. Campbell in the Census,” para. 9.↩
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Margaret Crymes is a lifelong family history nerd and puzzle enthusiast in the middle of a transition from semi-pro to professional genealogist. She holds a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University (OL24) and is currently studying with the National Institute of Genealogical Studies and as a member of ProGen 37.
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Worked as drover, cook, teacher, carer. During World War II “she worked as a cook for hundreds of people” at the mission at Arltunga. At time of death, 2010, Alice Spring's oldest…
Nancy KALENIK
Part of pioneering Aboriginal family of Manangoora Station, near Borroloola. Married to a Yugoslavian fisherman who fishes the Gulf.
Nancy Kalenik features in Melissa McCord's…
Doreen Maude KARTINYERI
Born 1935, Died 2/12/2007
Doreen Kartinyeri was a prominent Aboriginal activist and historian. She was a child of the stolen generation, worked as a domestic servant from the age of thirteen, had eight children…
Karen KIME
Also known as: Reverend Karen Kime
Karen Kime was ordained as a priest in the Anglican Church of Australia in 2000.She was the first Aboriginal woman to become a priest in New South Wales. In February 2012, Karen was…
Maureen Patricia KIRK
Born 13/9/1955, Died 23/4/2001
Also known as: née Brown
In 1987, Maureen became the first Indigenous volunteer cancer support worker in Australia. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987 and, at the time, there were no cancer…
Emily Kame KNGWARREYE
Born 1910, Died 2/9/1996
In 1995, Emily became the first Indigenous woman artist to have a major retrospective. She was born in 1910 on Utopia Station where she worked as a stockman and became a senior figure…
Marlene KONG
1997-1998 - Marlene and her twin sister Marilyn were the first Indigenous women to graduate with a Bachelor of Medicine from the University of Sydney. 1993 - Inaugural winner of the…
Rene KULITJA
Also known as: Wanuny Kulitja
Rene Kulitja is the first Aboriginal artist to have her art work painted on a domestic Qantas aircraft. She designed the Yananyi Dreaming for the Qantas Boeing 737. The Yananyi…
Rosalie Lynette KUNOTH-MONKS, OA
Also known as: Ngarla KUNOTH, "Rosie"
In 1955, Rosalie became the first Aboriginal female to take lead role in a feature film (Jedda). This film was Australia's first feature-length colour movie. After leaving the…
Amelia KUNOTH
Born 1880s, Died 1984
Also known as: née Pavey
Pioneer with husband, H.E.“Trot” Kunoth in early development of pastoral properties Utopia, Tempe Downs, and others. Amelia's father Ted Pavey operated the first butcher's…
Marcia Lynne LANGTON
1993 - Awarded Member of the Order of Australia, for service as an anthropologist and advocate of Aboriginal issues. 2000 - Inaugural Professor of Australian Indigenous Studies,…
Georgia LEE
Also known as: Aunty Dulcie Rama Pitt, Dulcie Rama Pitt
Georgia Lee was the first Indigenous Australian artist to record Blues songs, a Blues album, and the first Indigenous woman to record an album. She also is credited as having the first…
Gloria Ouida LEE
Born 14/07/1908, Died 13/04/1995
Also known as: née Hong, Siew Yoke Kwan
Gloria or Siew Yoke Kwan was born in the creek under a tree in Stuart in 1908, the daughter of a Western Arrernte woman Ranjika and Chinese market gardener, Ah Hong. But for her…
Nellie LESTER
1938 - Nellie Lester was the first Aborigine to attend High School at Quorn, South Australia.
First Aboriginal, triple certified, nursing sister. First Matron of Aboriginal descent,…
Amy LEVAI
Also known as: née O'Donoghue
First Indigenous teacher in South Australia.
1989 - Awarded NAIDOC Aboriginal of the Year; 1998 NAIDOC Aboriginal Elder of the Year.
2010 – Received award for Outstanding Service…
Leanne LIDDLE
1988 - Became South Australia's first Indigenous Police Woman
Lorraine LIDDLE
1986 - The Northern Territory's first Aboriginal lawyer, travelling between communities as a Bush Lawyer in Cental Australia.
Susan MARAWARR
Aboriginal printmaker, sculptor, weaver and bark painter; exhibited throughout Australia, toured USA, with exhibition in 2001. Her work is held in many national collections including…
Carol Anne MARTIN
Also known as: née Pilkington
2001 - First Indigenous woman to be elected to an Australian Parliament.
Andrea MASON
2004 -First ever female Aboriginal Party Leader when she was made National President of Family First. 1988 - Bachelor of Arts degree in Aboriginal Affairs and Public…
Sandra MAY
Mabel MEIN-BEL
Also known as: Mabel Jimarin
First Aboriginal woman to have quadruplets (all girls) in 1968, as well as the first Northern Territory quads. Then, in 1969, gave birth to twin girls. Nanagu group; Brinkin…
Alice Mary MILLER
Born 1907, Died 25/03/1974
Also known as: Lulla, Alice Mary Linklater
Part Aboriginal woman who lived as a family member with Lovegrove, Fawcett, Easton, and Fitzer families.
Patricia Ann MILLER
Also known as: née Liddle, Pat
1995 - Named Aboriginal of the Year by National Aborigines and Islander’s Day Observance Committee.
1997 - Received award from National Aborigines and Islander’s Day Observance…
1990s - First successful Indigenous Australian woman photographer and film maker. Moffatt is a contemporary artist using a variety of techniques, such as collage, set design, and text…
Maryanne MORTON
2003 - First Aboriginal woman to head up an Australian company earning more than $50m a year. Awarded Northern Territory Star of Achievement from Chief Minister Clare Martin. 1990 -…
Dorothy NAPANGARDI
Dorothy began painting in 1987. Her artist sister Eunice Napangardi introduced her to it.
1991 - Dorothy won the Best Painting in European Media and 8th Telstra National Aboriginal &…
Sylvia Purrurle NEALE
First Alice Springs Library Indigenous Services Officer.
NGANYINYTJA
Born late 1920s
1993 - Made a Member of the Order of Australia. 5 February 1980 - She chaired the first modern political women's meeting on Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands.
Maude NICHOLLS
Born 08/1902, Died 26/01/1999
Also known as: née Cooper, née Pepperill
Lived on Undoolya Station. Went to school at Ida Standley's Bungalow which was located in Parsons Street at that time.Husband was a road builder and builder of “Turkey Nest” dams…
Born 3/11/1920, Died 16/9/1993
Also known as: Kath Walker, born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska
Self-educated from the age of 13, through her employers' libraries when a domestic servant, this Noonuccal woman from Queensland's Stradbroke Island wrote the anthology of…
Patricia June O'SHANE
Also known as: Pat
Pat O'Shane has many firsts to her name. She was the first Aboriginal woman to become a school teacher in Queensland, the first Aboriginal woman to graduate in Law at an…
Nova Maree PERIS
Also known as: née Peris, Nova Peris-Kneebone
1996 - First Indigenous Australian to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
1997 - Named Young Australian of the Year.
2000 - First carrier of the Olympic flame on Australia Soil at Uluru,…
Hetty PERKINS
Also known as: Hetti
Pioneer of Central Australian pastoral leases.
At the Garden station, north-west of Arltunga, she worked on the property and helped to manage it.
In 1928 she went to the Jay Creek…
Rachel PERKINS
Circa 1991 she became the youngest female Executive Producer at SBS Television. In 1995, Rachel won the first Indigenous Program Scholarship to the Australian Film Television and Radio…
Minnie GILLEN ran the household with the help of two Arrente Aboriginal women, … and Polly, who also looked after her two boys.
Beth PRESS
From Yuanduma - Chair of Council Indigenous Advisory Council - to suggest ways to win Indigenous disadvantage.
Bess Nungarrayi PRICE
Born October 1960
Chair of Council, Indigenous Advisory Council to suggest ways to curb Indigenous disadvantage.2012 - Nominated for US International Women of Courage award.
Puni PUNI
1939 - Aboriginal teenager who ran 80 miles to bring a rescue team to save a three year old boy (Ramon BROWN) from floods at Shirley Well, South Australia.
May RAGETT
Wife of a stockman on Mallapunyah Springs Station, bringing up her family, sending them to the station school then to Charters Towers for further education.
Ranjika
Ranjika, a Western Arrernte woman, was the mother of Gloria LEE.
Samantha Linette Pearl RILEY
Also known as: Sam
World Record holder and Gold Medallist - Swimming - 29 Sept 20011996 - No. 1 Breastroke Champion in world.Won Prime Minister's 'Women In Sport Award'
Daisy Florence RUDDICK
Also known as: née Kumachi Cusack
Pioneer of Darwin, Northern Territory. One of Stolen Generation. Nanny to Austin ASCHE. Nurse who worked with Flying Doctor, Clive Fenton, at Katherine, Northern Territory.
Amboora, Amelia (Kunoth) and Runge, who worked for the Bradshaw family at the Telegraph Station…. as well as Aboriginal housemaids including Amboora, Runge and Amelia, supported Mrs…
Evelyn Ruth SCOTT
Born 1935, Died 21 September 2017
Also known as: née Backo
1991 - First female chairperson of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
2000 - Honorary doctorate awarded by University of Western Sydney. Aboriginal rights campaigner.1977 -…
Marion Rose SCRYMGOUR
First Aboriginal Woman in Northern Territory Labor Party First Indigenous elected to State and Territory Parliament in the Northern Territory
Patsy SHADFORTH
Northern Territory Pioneer of Seven Emu Station.
Barbara Catherine SHAW
A town camp activist. Briefed her agenda to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Fanny Cochrane SMITH
In 1899 she was the first Indigenous Australian to be recorded.
Fanny is considered to be the last fluent speaker of a Tasmanian language. She is considered to be the last fluent…
Gina SMITH
First deputy chairwoman of the Central Land Council. She and Rayleen BROWN founded Kungas Can Cook, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, an indigenous catering company.Ms SMITH opened…
When Mrs Ida Standley was employed as schoolmistress to the children of Stuart and matron of The Bungalow, Topsy became her assistant. Two of Topsy's children, Ada and Jean,…
Beverley SPIERS
Educator in jails, giving Aboriginal art and culture classes and AIDS education to Aboriginal inmates located in Cessnock, Maitland, Bathurst, and Sydney’s Long Bay
Stella was an Allowera (Allyawarr) woman, Jane Webb's trusted Allyawarr Aboriginal friend, who lived at Mount Riddock Station with the Webb family for eighteen years.She helped…
Essie STUART
Also known as: née Simpson
With camel driver husband, brought goods from Maree and Oodnadatta to Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
Ann SVENNSON-McCOY
First female Torres Strait Islander to receive a BSc in Veterinary Biology.
Sandy TAYLOR
Alice Springs first Aboriginal female Alderman. Daughter of HerStory Archive entry Emmie WEHR.
Faith THOMAS
Also known as: née Coulthard, Faith Thomas
Played hockey as well as cricket.
1958 - First Aboriginal female Test cricketer to represent Australia in England.
Awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal, services to…
Aboriginal health worker, Alice Springs Hospital, Northern Territory.
Ruby TILMOUTH
Born 11/1915, Died 09/2005
Also known as: née Schaber
Pioneer and Activist of Central Australia.1950s - Led and organized a protest march against a racist curfew in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
Lalla TRUGERNANNER
Also known as: Truganini, Trucanini, Trucaninny, Lalla Rooke
One of the foremost Tasmanian Aboriginal leaders of the 1800s, negotiator and spokesperson for her people.
Bessie TURNER
Born 1897, Died 14 December 1988
Also known as: née Ah Sam, previously Ning and Trindle, Nanna Bessie
With her husband, drove cattle from Western Australia and the Northern Territory along the Muranji Track and across the Barkly Tablelands to Mt Isa and Dajarra; revered by many on the…
Kemarre Margaret Mary TURNER
Former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) Councillor. National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) Week Aboriginal of the Year. 1997 -…
Patricia Ann TURNER
First Aboriginal woman to head a government department in Canberra. Top Commonwealth Indigenous public servant.Chief Executive Officer of National News Service (National Indigenous TV).
Margaret VALADIAN
Born 3 September 1936
Also known as: Dr Margaret Valadian
1966 - First Aboriginal to graduate from University of Queensland (Bachelor of Social Sciences).
First Woman and first Australian President of the East-West Centre Student Association…
Ada Mary WADE
Also known as: née Smith (formerly Pick)
One of first babies baptised at Alice Springs Catholic Church Pioneer of Arltunga, Tennant creek, Hatches Creek and Alice Springs. Attended school behind old Courthouse.When Mrs Ida…
Gwen WALLEY
First interstate Aboriginal health worker to get Northern Territory registration.
Tjunmutja Myra WATSON
Born 27/09/1927, Died 3/01/2009
Learned to read and write at United Aborigines Mission School at Ooldea, South Australia. After marriage, spent next 27 years at Gerard Mission in the Riverlands. Thirty years at…
Emmie WEHR
Well-respected horse trainer based in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, with many wins to her name. Renowned as a skilled station hand in her early days on New Crown Station where…
Elsie WOODS-HAYES
Born 1918, Died February 2008
One of the original residents of the “cottages” in the Gap area of Alice Springs.
Virginia WYKES
1982 - Believed to be the first Aboriginal woman to gain her Private Pilot's Licence (Cessna 150)
2001 - Only Aboriginal entrant to compete in Centenary of Federation London to…
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VOTE LABOUR & END MEDIA ABUSE & ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES = THE JEREMY CORBYN MURDOCH MEDIA SMEAR CAMPAIGN SHOWS LIES GALORE & HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED FOR LEVESON PART TWO
Posted on October 30, 2019 by klearthoughtsmentalismhypnosis
VOTE LABOUR & END MEDIA ABUSE & ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES
**THE CORBYN SMEAR CAMPAIGN SHOWS LIES GALORE**
Yesterday (Tuesday 29th October 2019) marked not only the day when MP’s voted to hold a General Election – the first December contest since 1923, one which didn’t go so well for the Tories – but also the fifth anniversary of sham press regulator IPSO.
The non-regulator, which has not levied a single fine in its five-year tenure, nor insisted on a front page correction, had the brass neck to hold a party yesterday to celebrate its complete lack of achievement.
The full story of the Comedy of Errors that is IPSO is at the link below on the Zelo Street Website.
https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2019/10/end-press-abuse-vote-labour.html?
Well, now that election has been called, voters have a choice when it comes to press abuse and ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.
Comedian Hypnotist & Comedy Stage Hypnosis Entertainer & Hypnotism Show Presenter to the Stars Jonathan Royle
Because, of the two main parties, only one seeks to continue the Leveson Inquiry, with its second part, which would examine “Who did what to whom”.
The only one of the two major parties committed to Leveson 2 is Labour. Committed to giving redress to victims of press abuse. The Tories don’t care, because that same press is the shock troops it needs to pump out disinformation.
Vote Labour to end the abuse.
That second part would touch on stories like the Daniel Morgan murder, in which the Murdoch press was heavily implicated.
It would also consider the ILLEGAL activities of Mazher Mahmood.
Two Works of FICTION by Mazher Mahmood & Piers Morgan. The Truth behind their lies is exposed on this page.
And in regards to Mazher Mahmood my RENEWED Court of Appeal Application went in on 24th May 2019 and is still being considered full details at www.circusofthemind.net
The only one of the two major parties committed to Leveson 2 is Labour.
Labour are Committed to giving redress to victims of press abuse. The Tories don’t care, because that same press is the shock troops it needs to pump out disinformation. Vote Labour to end the abuse.
Indeed it is that same press that has PUBLISHED SO MANY LIES & misinformation in their attempted Smear Campaign on Jeremy Corbyn over the years.
There is So much Lying Propaganda and misinformation out there about Jeremy Corbyn especially from the Tory owned media
To all of my friends who say they won’t vote Labour because of Jeremy Corbyn.
Take a look at facts – like his voting record. Is there any vote that you would have done differently?
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10133/jeremy_corbyn/islington_north/votes?
I know my “friends” and you are all kind, caring peeps. So I think you will agree that you would vote the same.
AND REMEMBER The Labour Party is the only Main Party Committed to Ensuring Part 2 of The Leveson Inquiry takes place which would expose the ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES of Rupert Murdoch, His Newspapers and many other publications as well.
In that regards check out the evidence, facts and reasons why LEVESON PART TWO is so important to everyone in this Country on my blog page at www.circusofthemind.net
WARNING = Currently, as has been the case for many years the MEDIA IS REGULARLY LYING TO YOU..
But it is worst than that they publish many Completely UNTRUE FABRICATED STORIES and obtain and manipulate others through ILLEGAL means such as Phone Hacking, Blagging, Heck in Mazher Mahmood’s case he even drugged people.
SOMETIMES some of the papers actually manage to publish the truth much to the disappointment of others such as this factual piece:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/16/jeremy-corbyn-leadership-david-cameron-libya-labour
For those who have believed the Propaganda and Lies of the Tory Media which for many years have tried to make you think Corbyn is some kind of Terrorist Sympathizer (which the real evidence proves he is NOT) then I would suggest a look at this:
15 times when Jeremy Corbyn was on the right side of history:
https://theworldturnedupsidedownne.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/15-times-jeremy-corbyn-was-on-the-right-side-of-history/
And this is a very well balanced piece on Corbyns History:
https://www.theweek.co.uk/100943/fact-check-is-jeremy-corbyn-a-terrorist-sympathiser
BOTTOM LINE = LEVESON TWO would expose the real scale of ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES and outright LIES and DISHONESTY in the British Media and thus lead to the TRUTH being told to us all rather than us all being Manipulated and Brainwashed on a Daily Basis with Lies and Propaganda as it currently is..
It would also help many Victims of Media Abuse (Majority of which are NOT famous people and are rather just normal people with normal jobs and life’s that MEDIA LIES have ruined) to finally get JUSTICE.
And once the Lies & ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES in the media are exposed it would then mean that they could not as easily BLACKMAIL Politicians and Powerful People to do what they want for them as is currently the case and has been for years as I mention in this EYE OPENING VIDEO HERE:
THE MEDIA HAVE LIED EXTENSIVELY ABOUT BREXIT.
Another example of Media Lies is how often many (not all but Most) of the Media have lied to you over the years about how the BREXIT Vote was OBTAINED ILLEGALLY and thus should NOT be acted upon, but rather there should be a NEW Legally Conducted Vote.
Seriously the ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES run deep and my friends blog explains the TRUTH ABOUT CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA:
https://neilsandersmindcontrol.com/index.php/neils-blog
REMEMBER = Be Sure to also check out my Blog at www.circusofthemind.net where you will see Evidence Galore of why we need LEVESON 2..
And the best way to get Leveson 2 is to VOTE LABOUR..
#GeneralElection #GE2019 #VoteLabour #VoteTory #VoteCorbyn #JeremyCorbyn #Leveson #Leveson2 #LevesonNow #IPSO #Politics #MazherMahmood #FakeSheik #FakeSheikh #Murdoch #Media #Journalism #Journalist #Brexit
FOR MORE GOOD REASONS & EVIDENCE OF WHY WE NEED LEVESON PART 2 TO TAKE PLACE WHICH IS MOST LIKELY TO HAPPEN BY VOTING LABOUR IN THE NEXT DECEMBER 2019 GENERAL ELECTION CHECK OUT:
https://klearthoughtsmentalismhypnosis.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/the-naked-truth-about-dr-jonathan-royle-aka-alex-william-smith-aka-alex-leroy-hypnotist-magician-and-psychic-entertainer/
Rupert Murdoch’s Journalist The Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood was Jailed
Mazher Mahmood aka The Fake Sheikh dishonest journalist for Rupert Murdoch
Discover The Real Truth about Murdoch’s Disgraced Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood
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British Hypnotist & Victim of Rupert Murdoch’s “Fake Sheikh” Mazher Mahmood Start’s Crowd Justice Fund-Raising Campaign to Fight for Justice for Victims of Media Abuse, Lies & Illegal Activities
Posted on April 26, 2019 by klearthoughtsmentalismhypnosis
PLEASE DONATE WHATEVER YOU CAN POSSIBLY AFFORD TODAY HERE:
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/murdochs-fake-sheikh-mazher-mahmood/
HERE IS THE OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE FOR THIS FUND-RAISING CAMPAIGN:
https://klearthoughtsmentalismhypnosis.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/british-hypnotist-seeks-second-trance-for-justice-for-all-victims-of-rupert-murdochs-fake-sheikh-mazher-mahmood/
Please Help Me & also All Victims of Rupert Murdoch’s Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood & Other Media Abuse Victims get the JUSTICE they deserve by generously donating to the Crowd Justice Appeal here:
NOTE = On the Crowd Justice Page HERE If you click on the ORANGE “Pledge Now” Box at top right of the page it will then give you the option to enter ANY AMOUNT (however great or small) that you would like to donate.
OR: Click on any amount shown under the heading “Support the Case” and donate that amount OR it will then reveal a box where you can enter any amount you are able to afford to donate.
IMPORTANT = Nothing will be debited from your Credit or Debit Card UNTIL 23rd May 2019 and even then will only be taken IF the initial funding target of £10,000 has been achieved or exceeded.
Mr. William Southcott of Ashcott Solicitors in Manchester will be handling the Appeals when the funds are successfully raised. He has prior experience in relation to the “Fake Sheikhs” Lies & Deception.
You can also help greatly by sharing the Press Release Here:
Victim of Rupert Murdochs Media Alex Smith aka Jonathan Royle Hypnotist
EVIDENCE THAT WE ARE INNOCENT & MAHMOOD A LIAR:
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Discover the Real Truth About Jailed Journalist Mazher Mahmood aka The Fake Sheikh former employee of Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch & Former Journalist for The News of the World of Phone Hacking Fame!
Posted on October 9, 2017 by klearthoughtsmentalismhypnosis
For anyone who does not already know, my birth name is Alex William Smith, I made my stage debut aged 3 as Flap the Clown on Gandey’s Circus and by the early 90’s was Internationally known as a Comedy Stage Hypnotist & Celebrity Hypnotherapist in the Stage Name of Alex-Leroy.
These days on stage I am better known as Jonathan Royle, in any event I am one of the people that the Crown Prosecution Service are talking about at this link:
http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/latest_news/action_on_cases_involving_mazher_mahmood/
Yes indeed I am one of the many people who became a victim of the Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood & his dishonesty despite the fact that I was back in 1998 trying to expose his unethical, immoral and illegal techniques at the time he managed to massively screw me over as will be explained further down this page.
Upon this page you will find a Comical & Satirical Look at Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch and his now disgraced and jailed undercover investigative journalist Mazher Mahmood aka The Fake Shiekh who used to fabricate stories for the now shut down (due to Phone Hacking & other Illegal activities) News of the World and then later went on to work for the Sun on Sunday where he met his eventual downfall after being found Guilty by all six jury members at The Old Bailey on the charge of Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice along with his driver Alan Smith in the case of the manufactured story that had been run about British Pop Singer Tulisa Contostavlos.
Sadly it seems that Murdoch’s companies and staff will never learn as is illustrated by this recent court case – https://www.byline.com/project/76/article/1868
Rupert Murdoch Former Employer of Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood
The ironic thing is its taken almost 20 years since I first tried to expose the Dodgy, Dishonest, unethical and often wholly Illegal techniques used by Murdoch’s Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood in the “News of the World” Newspaper along with my attempts to expose how many other so called “True Stories” of both a “News” and “Entertainment” basis are often largely or solely fabricated and made up.
Details of my attempt back in 1998 to expose “The Fake Sheikh” Mazher Mahmood can be seen along with information about how he regularly illegally entrapped people, manipulated them into doing things they would never normally have dreamed of doing and at times even regularly just fabricated situations, claims and false evidence to make his false stories appear to have a basis in truth that actually at heart they did not can be seen here at this link:
MAZHER MAHMOOD aka The Fake Sheikh Convicted of Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice.
UNTOLD – (The Daniel Morgan Murder Podcast) – My Friend & Fellow Fake Sheikh Victim Actor John Alford discusses how Mazher Mahmood set him up in this podcast first broadcast on 10th August 2017 – https://fothom.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/2-7-hotline-to-crime
UNTOLD = (The Daniel Morgan Murder Podcast) = In this episode we discover how Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood learnt the “Dark Arts” he used from Southern Investigations – http://www.untoldmurder.com/eps/2017/7/13/season-2-5-masters-of-the-dark-arts
The Fake Sheikh aka Mazher Mahmood
I’ll remind you again that there is evidence galore against both Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood and also his former employee Rupert Murdoch and also various associates within the information revealed and also linked to on my explosive blog page here:
Heck if the BBC Panorama documentary into Mazher Mahmood aka The Fake Sheikh and how he ruined the lives of people like Former Grange Hill & Londons Burning Actor John Alford and Page three girl Emma Morgan along with people like Boxer Herbie Hides and of course as explained at my earlier blog link myself included then check out
the facts and evidence at these links:
PRESS GANGS INVESTIGATION
https://pressganguk.wordpress.com/2016/10/05/the-fall-of-mazher-mahmood/
https://pressganguk.wordpress.com/mazher-mahmood/
BELLINGCATS INVESTIGATION
https://www.bellingcat.com/tag/mazher-mahmood/
ARTICLE IN GUARDIAN BY ROY GREENSLADE
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/22/mazher-mahmood-fake-sheikh-tulisa-contostavlos
THE TELEGRAPHS ARTICLE ON THE MAHMOOD GUILTY VERDICT
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/05/fake-sheikh-reporter-mazher-mahmood-faces-jail-over-tulisa-conto/
BYLINES REVELATIONS & COMMENTS DAY AFTER THE VERDICT
https://www.byline.com/project/53/article/1284
https://www.byline.com/project/59
(The Earle of Hardwicke and His Partner Walk Out of Court in 1999)
http://www.theguardian.com/media/1999/sep/27/newsoftheworld.mondaymediasection
(The Fiasco of the Red Mercury Case)
If you don’t know Red Mercury Does not and Has Never Existed
INFORMS BLOG POSTINGS ABOUT MAZHER MAHMOOD
https://inforrm.org/tag/mazher-mahmood/
UNTOLD – (The Daniel Morgan Murder Podcast)
http://www.untoldmurder.com/eps/2017/7/13/season-2-5-masters-of-the-dark-arts
https://fothom.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/2-7-hotline-to-crime/
JONATHAN ROYLE’S BLOG ABOUT FAKE SHEIKH MAZHER MAHMOOD
The video above shows me Hypnotist & Magician Alex William Smith aka Dr. Jonathan Royle Ph.D along with Actor John Alford, Boxer Herbie Hides and Former Page 3 Girl and Glamour Model turned Actress Emma Morgan.
We are all outside the Old Bailey on 21st October 2016 just after The Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood had been sentenced to 15 months in prison.
And below is the video of us all on the BBC Flagship News programme Newsnight discussing How Mahmood’s dishonesty and actions has affected our lives.
Once again for more evidence against Mahmood & his associates, including things which seem to indicate that lots of us were Illegally drugged by him, take a look at my eye opening and explosive blog page at this link:
I talk a little further about Mazher Mahmood and how I attempted to expose him (and other dishonest Journalists) back in 1998 in this video interview I did here:
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The Naked Truth About Dr. Jonathan Royle aka Alex William Smith aka Alex-Leroy Hypnotist, Magician and Psychic Entertainer…
RENEWED GROUNDS OF APPEAL = At the Link which follows you can see my self
prepared final “renewed” grounds of appeal exactly as they will look when they are submitted by signed for tracked postal delivery to the Courts of Appeal in London on Friday 24th May 2019 in the continued quest to get my 2 “Fake Sheikh” related convictions overturned.
https://klearthoughtsmentalismhypnosis.wordpress.com/2019/05/14/regina-v-alex-william-smith-renewed-grounds-of-appeal-to-be-submitted-to-criminal-courts-of-appeal-on-friday-24th-may-2019-in-relation-to-my-unsafe-fake-sheikh-mazher-mahmood-convictions/
The Official Press Release Dated 24th May 2019 along with a link to copy of the Letter I have sent the various relevant authorities demanding an Inquiry into Mahmood is here:
UPDATE: The Revised Respondents Notice from the Crown Prosecution Service dated 15th August 2019, along with my Reply and Corrections document which illustrates all of the many glaring errors and omissions they have made can all be viewed and/or downloaded in PDF format from this link:
https://klearthoughtsmentalismhypnosis.wordpress.com/2019/08/18/revised-cps-respondents-notice-from-crown-prosecution-service-dated-15th-august-2019-my-reply-illustrating-their-errors-dated-19th-august-2019-in-relation-to-regina-v-alex-smith-in-my-fake-s/
The Crown Prosecution Service have made Errors and Omissions Galore in their Respondents Notice of 15th August 2019
DID THE POLICE HELP HIDE ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES BY RUPERT MURDOCH HIS EMPLOYEES MAZHER MAHMOOD, REBEKAH BROOKS & LES HINTON ???
Did Dirty Cops turn blind eye to Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood
YES THEY DID = https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2019/02/murdoch-crimes-where-are-cops.html
NOTE = Evidence of Such is mentioned at above link, however there is much more hard evidence of Police Corruption Linked to Mazher Mahmood further down this page.
Sunday Times Self Confessed Blagger John Ford stating that I was drugged & framed by Mahmood.
Former News of the World Journalist Graham Johnson Comment on Mazher Mahmood Hacking Blagging Spoofing
Jonathan Royle – Photo Copyright & Courtesy of Karl at Healeylife Photography. As Taken for a Charity Fundraising Calendar.
UNTOLD – (The Daniel Morgan Murder Podcast) – My Friend & Fellow Fake Sheikh Victim Actor John Alford discusses how Mazher Mahmood set him up in this podcast first broadcast on 10th August 2017 –
http://www.untoldmurder.com/eps/2017/8/9/season-2-7-hotline-to-crime
Criminal Cases Review Commission – CCRC – Letter to Alex Smith
QUOTE A: “One or more Commissioners will consider your case. They will decide whether there is any new evidence or argument that would allow them to refer your case to the appeal court”
(As Shown at Link Below CCRC have helped overturn Fake Sheikh Convictions before)
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/11/20/mazher-mahmood-silence-from-met-cps-and-attorney-general-as-lord-goldsmith-calls-for-re-examination-whilst-beckham-kidnap-lawyers-call-for-an-inquiry/
QUOTE B: “The decision to refer can only be made if the commissioners consider that the new evidence/argument would lead the court to overturn your conviction.”
(As shown at the link below none of our cases would ever make it to court today)
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/11/12/mazher-mahmood-claims-bbc-irresponsible-but-he-has-collapsed-16-cases-since-july/
COMMENT = Please take a look on this blog page at all of the videos, facts, evidence and external third party links to even more cast iron evidence of the “Fake Sheikhs” dishonesty and of the very real fact that our cases should never have made it to court in the first place had the truth, facts and evidence that is available to us now been openly known to us then as it is arguable it should have been.
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BREAKING NEWS: The “Fake Sheikh” Mazher Mahmood was Jailed for 15 Months
on Friday 21st October 2016 for Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice.
In the Video Above my Good Friend and Fellow Fake Sheikh Victim John Alford gives a statement outside The Old Bailey on behalf of Me Jonathan Royle aka Alex Smith, Himself, Boxer Herbie Hides, Actress & Model Emma Morgan and indeed on behalf of all the innocent individuals out there who have been victims of the “Fake Sheikhs” Lies, Dishonesty, Deceit & Deception.
The Above Video Shows Me featured on BBC’s “Newsnight” TV Show on the evening that Mahmood was Sentenced to 15 months in Prison, namely Friday 21st October 2016 and the following video shows how the ITV News reported on this:
Whilst this is how the BBC Television News which was broadcast and syndicated
all around the world reported on the matter:
To Read The Official Statement That Actor John Alford Released Through Our
Mutual Lawyer Siobhian Egan of Lewis Nedas Law please do take a look at the following link and then read the rest of this blog for the full background on this along with CAST IRON EVIDENCE & TRUTH REGARDS ALEX SMITH aka JONATHAN ROYLE
http://lewisnedas.co.uk/Newsroom/News/john-alford-statement.html
BREAKING NEWS – MAZHER MAHMOOD FOUND GUILTY AT THE OLD BAILEY
AND NOW A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ON THE VERDICT & CASE IN THIS VIDEO
AND FOLLOWING THE GUILTY VERDICT MY OFFICIAL STATEMENT IS HERE
THIS ARTICLE GIVES A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE CASE & VERDICT
AND HERE IS A STATEMENT FROM MY CIVIL LAWYER MARK LEWIS
https://web.archive.org/web/20170408203513/https://www.seddons.co.uk/NewsInsight/Insight/2016-10-05/Conviction-of-Fake-Sheikh-Mazher-Mahmood/
AND HERE IS WHAT MY CRIMINAL APPEAL LAWYER SIOBHAIN EGAN HAS SAID ABOUT THE VERDICT:
WERE WE DRUGGED BY THE “FAKE SHEIKH” MAZHER MAHMOOD ??
Media Lawyer Mark Lewis has, once Murdoch’s Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood was jailed mentioned at least twice on Television News Programmes that His Victims may have been Drugged.!!!
Well one thing I can say for certain is that he did NOT call room service to bring us drinks on the occasions I met with him..
Instead he sent his “BodyGuard” or “Personal Assistant” down to the bar which meant leaving the Hotel Suite we were in, going along the corridor, down several floors in the lift, then finding the bar, queuing up and getting served and bringing the drinks all the way back upstairs (or in lift) the same way.,..
WHEREAS he could just have picked up the phone and ordered the drinks by room service and they would have been brought up and no doubt got there quicker…
Could it be the reason for this was so that one of his behind the scenes staff could tamper with the drinks in some way???
John Alford on his Twitter Account Stating that he, just like me & others were drugged by the Fake Sheikh.
I certainly can’t think of any other logical reason for why you would not just pick up the phone and ring room service, especially when your not in a normal hotel room, but rather are in one of the expensive Suites and thus far more likely to get speedy VIP Service.
My research shows that various Fake Sheikh Victims experienced the same, namely that rather than use room service, he instead sent someone down to the bar to get the drinks.
My research also indicates a number of occurrences where extreme reactions to “drink” are involved in the reports of cases…
My research also shows that date rape drugs like GHB can and have in the past been used by people to make others more compliant both in what they say, do and can easily be manipulated into doing and saying where they would not normally have done so.
Self-Confessed Blagger for the Sunday Times John Ford via his Twitter account accuses Rupert Murdoch & Les Hinton of knowing that Mazher Mahmood was drugging his victims.
And a simple internet search reveals other Fake Sheikh Victims who strongly believe that they were drugged by Mazher Mahmood and his team as far back as Jan 1998
(before I was targeted) as is illustrated by this example:
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/I+was+drugged+says+doctor+accused+of+murder+plot.-a060508352 Similar doubts have been raised about Mahmood’s Newcastle directors‘ expose. Hall and Shepherd claim the NoW had set out to prove they were cocaine users. When that failed they suspect Mahmood, or else a member of his team, ‘spiked’ their drinks in order to elicit their indiscretions.
Quoted from: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/may/09/theobserver.uknews3
Similarly, the snooker player John Higgins, who rarely drinks, was suspicious of drinks provided to him when he was enticed in 2010 into saying he would be prepared to fix matches in return for a large payment. No matches were fixed and Higgins protested his innocence. A subsequent tribunal set up by a World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association withdrew all charges of match-fixing.
Quoted from: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/22/mazher-mahmood-fake-sheikh-tulisa-contostavlos
“The tenth Earle of Hardwicke was lulled into a false sense of security at London’s Savoy Hotel, plied with Champagne, possibly “spiked” with the date rape drug Rohypnol, and questioned about his social connections”
From: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Reporter+%27spiked+Earl%27s+drinks+to+uncover+dirt+on+Diana%27.-a060483160
Suspicions have been raised that Lawrence Dallaglio – Former England Rugby Captain may have been drugged by Mazher Mahmood. Indeed his girlfriend said he seemed odd after seeing the reporters. “He has no recollection of what happened. It’s all a blank to him.”
Quoted from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/news-of-the-world-denies-spiking-dallaglios-drinks-1097039.html
Then came the sting. After drinks, which John Alford – like so many other of Mahmood’s victims – believed were spiked, he was asked if he could obtain drugs for the prince and his cronies.
Quoted from: https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jul/27/mazher-mahmood-thepeople
Giving evidence from behind a screen Mr Mahmood was today asked whether he or his associate, known only as ‘Nish’ had spiked the singer’s drink or offered her any money.
Jeremy Dein QC continued: ‘You and Nish spiked her drink didn’t you?’
The witness firmly responded: ‘That is absolutely outrageous.’
Mr Dein continued: ‘You spiked her drinks to get her to incriminate herself.’
Quoted from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2695791/Former-X-Factor-judge-Tulisa-brokered-cocaine-deal-drink-spiked-offered-3-5million-Hollywood-film-undercover-reporter.html
“Tulisa Contostavlos has concluded, in view of the extreme and unpleasant reaction she, GV and Michelle experienced, that the drinks of all three of them must have been spiked,” the document stated.
Quoted from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10983946/Tulisa-Fake-Sheikh-was-trying-to-persuade-me-to-have-sex-in-return-for-film-role.html
FOR THE FULL BACKGROUND ON HOW I TRIED TO EXPOSE “FAKE SHEIKH”
MAZHER MAHMOOD OVER 20 YEARS AGO READ THE REST OF THIS BLOG
Welcome to this rather long informational page (please bear with me) which you have most likely arrived at after having seen some of the Vicious, Vindictive and downright disgusting allegations and outright lies that various childish, jealous, perhaps even mentally ill individuals have been posting about me in various places on the internet.
NEWS UPDATE: Following the collapse of the Drugs Court Trial against British Pop Star Tulisa Contostavlos, during which Former Under Cover Journalist for the now shut down and shamed News of the World, Mazher Mahmood was shown to have lied in his statement and also on the stand whilst giving evidence during her trial:
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jul/21/tulisa-contostavlos-trial-collapses-sun-mazher-mahmood
and this link reveals more:
And also look at this link for more up to date info:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/25/fake-sheikh-mazher-mahmood-tulisa-contostavlos-sun
Fake Sheikhs & Royal Trappings by Peter Durden. A Great Book Revaling many truths behind News of the World, Mazher Mahmood and their Stories!
And also following being sent a disclosure pack by the Crown Prosecution Service as of January 2015 things went in action to appeal my conviction with the aim of it being overturned and revoked.
For the record I was sent one of the disclosure packs and am one of the cases that
the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) talk about at this link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150327091441/https://www.cps.gov.uk/news/latest_news/action_on_cases_involving_mazher_mahmood/
More details about this will follow later on this page, but for now this article from The Heywood Advertiser entitled “Hypnotist Set To Appeal Fake Sheikh conviction”
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/hypnotist-appeal-fake-sheikh-conviction-8623897
At this next link you can see proof that I have now appointed a lawyer to represent me
and take my appeal case to court for me:
http://lewisnedas.co.uk/Cases/Cases/lnl-instructed-by-alex-smith-to-appeal-his-1999-fake-sheikh-conviction.html
Mazher Mahmood aka The Fake Shiekh
And this link shows that some progress has been made with my appeal:
http://lewisnedas.co.uk/Cases/Cases/progress-for-fake-sheikh-appeal.html
Here is how Zelo Street Reported on my Appeal Application:
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/fake-sheikh-back-in-court.html
And here is how the Guardian Newspaper Covered it at same time:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/aug/17/six-appeal-against-convictions-linked-to-mazher-mahmoods-stories
On the rest of this page you will find CAST IRON EVIDENCE that all the Negative Lies and B.S. they have been posting are indeed exactly just that, Negative Lies and B.S. and I strongly encourage you to check out the validity of all the evidence presented on this page to prove to yourself THAT THESE IDIOTS & TROUBLE CAUSER’S ARE NOTHING BUT LIARS.
So to start I would suggest you watch this video within which the REAL TRUTH behind every perceptively Controversial element of my Career and Life to date is discussed, examined and revealed during this video where I am interviewed by Fellow Hypnotist Robert Temple.
Having watched that video I shall now, starting with the Perceptively worst allegations and B.S. that gets posted about me, deal with each aspect in turn, providing you with all the CAST IRON EVIDENCE you need to fully understand and realize how guilty these sick and sad individuals are of trying to spread Lies, Rumors and Bullshit (B.S) whilst also at the same time trying to incite Hatred and Violence towards me, collectively meaning that many of them are Guilty of breaking either Civil Laws or Criminal Laws and in actuality on many occasions these people are Guilty of breaking both CIVIL & CRIMINAL LAWS.
So let’s begin with an Article that appeared in The News of The World British National Sunday Newspaper on Sunday 12th April 1998.
This is an article that only appeared as a result of me engineering a Media Hoax and Sting against The News of The World in my quest to both Expose them and also the Illegal and dodgy tactics and methods used by many unethical Journalists at the time.
Fabricated News of the World Article Sunday 12th April 1998.
NOTE = At The time of writing this blog page (Saturday 19th October 2013) that Fabricated Article is currently Over Fifteen Years Old and as such could hardly be called Breaking news on any level.
NOTE = You can see the entire text of this Fabricated Article which appeared as part of my Media Sting and Hoax against the News of the World and other dodgy publications and Journalists at the link that follows. JUST REMEMBER – I never said or did the vast majority of what they FALSELY CLAIM in this article. The link to see the full text of the article prior to seeing the evidence here that IT WAS ALL JUST A MEDIA STING & HOAX ON THEM and also that they printed many things that I NEVER SAID OR DID is – http:jrnotw.wix.com/jrnotw
EXTRA NOTE = That link of http:jrnotw.wix.com/jrnotw is a Free Website company that has been used by some anonymous moron to post the wording of the FABRICATED News of the World Article upon, so that they can then post it around COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTEXT and without any mention of the Real Truth and the Real Facts Behind it, obviously in some kind of vindictive attempt to incite Hatred & perhaps even violence towards me, which ironically with those intentions, would mean THEY ARE COMMITTING A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
NOTE: Mazher Mahmood is listed at the reporter on the article and credits also appear
for Conrad Brown & Les Chudzicki for the pictures and such like.
Anyhow the simple fact is that I engineered that article in a quest to expose The News of The World, whom you should remember have now BEEN PUBLICLY EXPOSED AND SHUT THEIR DOORS FOREVER as detailed here –
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8624611/News-of-the-World-closed-down-newspaper-staff-direct-fury-at-Rebekah-Brooks.html
An image I used the day the disgraced News of The World shut its doors for good. That weekend I gave my book away exposing them and other journalists for 48 hours.
Further it should be noted that this closure and expose of “The News of the World” led to the UK Government starting the Leveson Inquiry into the often Illegal and unethical techniques and methods used by some journalists and publications further details of which can be seen here – http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/
Ultimately it is true that for about 30 minutes I had what I had been led to believe at the time were some Fake Pound Coins in my possession, HOWEVER I KNEW THEY WOULD NEVER GET INTO PUBLIC CIRCULATION as I knew I was giving them to The News of the World as part of the Sting/Expose that I had engineered against them.
I also knew that what I had been led to believe at the time were Fake Coins would be passed to the Police and that ultimately I would reveal the source of the coins to The Police leading to arrests of those guilty of making and supplying them.
Having worked in the past briefly as a freelance undercover journalist, it was my experience that such action would be excused by The Police and Crown Prosecution Service on the basis that I could prove I has engineered the whole media article to occur, knew that the coins would never be publicly distributed and would rather be handed to the Police and lead to investigation and arrest of some real criminals.
However unfortunately for me, as I was doing this all independently and was not on the payroll of a National Media Publication at the time of doing such, it was deemed that I would not be allowed “Journalistic License” for having the coins in my possession for a short time, despite the fact that I gave all relevant information to The Police in order that they could investigate and catch the real criminals.
UPDATE A = At no time were the coins that Mazher Mahmood eventually gave to the Police claiming them to be the ones I handed to him ever Forensically Tested, Yes indeed as unbelievable as that might sound the coins were never tested and there was absolutely no documented evidence or proof that the coins were anything other than 100% Genuine given to the Police or Courts other than Mahmoods testimony which has now been completely discredited following him being Jailed for Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice.
UPDATE B = Originally I had absolutely no idea where to obtain such coins from in the same way that I had no idea at that time where to source drugs or anything else that was spoken about in the fabricated “News of the World” article. But then as I kept demonstrating that I was unable to get things, pressure was put on me by one of Mahmoods associates to get him some coins and indeed it was this associate who informed me where I could get them from and pressurized me into collecting them using the money that Mahmood gave me upfront in order to make this possible.
UPDATE C = In other words without Mahmood having given me the money upfront
to pay for the coins and without his associate having informed me where I could go to obtain such, it would have proved impossible for me to be able to carry out the transaction which I was pressurized into doing by Mahmoods associate.
UPDATE D = Ultimately I was charged with two separate counts of delivery of counterfeit pound coins, one charge was for delivery of 3 coins and the second
for delivery of 997 coins, a total of 1,000 coins between the two charges. Now this is very odd as the videos showed me giving 3 coins to Mahmood on one occasion (these I know were 100% Genuine as I just gave him 3 coins from my pocket, told him they were samples and he said they were the best fakes he had ever seen) and then on the next occasion the videos showed me giving him a bag which I was sold (by the person Mahmoods associate put me in contact with) as being 1,000 fake coins.
That would make 1003 coins in total that should have been sent to the Police and yet they only ever got sent 1,000 by Mahmood – why was that I wonder?
UPDATE E = Just like in the John Alford Case (and many others) featured on the 2014 “Panorama” documentary after the collapse of the “Tulisa” trial during which Mahmood was exposed as a Liar and in time was found Guilty and Jailed for this, I was offered the promise of Fame and Fortune, the chance to Present my Own Television Series and that all my wildest dreams would come true if I just “bent the rules” and helped the “Fake Sheikh” to get what he wanted.
UPDATE F = And just like in the John Alford case, things were printed that I do not recall ever saying and coincidentally some parts of the meetings with Mahmood were so they claimed at the time, not captured on tape which again seems to occur in many of Mahmoods “Stings”
UPDATE G = Mahmood and his associates plied me with Alcohol from the moment I arrived and as mentioned earlier never used room service despite being several floors up from the bar area, opting instead to send his “Body Guard” down to the bar during which time the drinks could possibly have been tampered with.
UPDATE H = My research shows that the use of certain Drugs placed into someones drink can make them highly suggestible and compliant to orders and instructions from others which would certainly give a logical explanation to as why in my case, that of John Alfords and others, Mahmood often stated things as Orders and Strict Instructions to us rather than as polite requests.
UPDATE I = Although I thought I had engineered the entire situation and original meeting, bearing in mind that it is now clear that my former publicist was a close associate of Mahmoods and that I had previously had discussions with my publicist about how I could possibly go about pulling a media prank on Mazher Mahmood, it now appears that Mahmood and his team were always one step ahead of me and that they
at the very least would have held suspicions that I was going to try and expose their
dishonest, unethical and arguably illegal techniques. No wonder they printed so many things that I either never said, never did, never gave them and most certainly was never reprimanded, charged, cautioned or convicted over. I honestly believe they were trying
to ensure that they had protected themselves and that I could not expose them at the time.
UPDATE J = That may well also explain why I was never telephoned before the article appeared. Usually just before a Story was about to appear in “The News of the World” they would either confront the subject of the story face to face or would contact them by telephone and inform them that on Sunday an article about them doing XY or Z was about to appear and that this was their chance to make comment on why they did it. Well I can 100% honestly state that nobody ever came to confront me in person and nobody ever contacted me on the phone before the article appeared in the newspaper. But there again why would they contact me if they had realized (likely through their double agent my former publicist) that my intention had been all along to expose their techniques?
UPDATE K = When I was finally sent to Prison after being pressurized in many manners by various people & sources behind the scenes into changing my plea from Not Guilty to Guilty, oddly the “News of the World” never published a story bragging about how they had secured a conviction against me. My educated guess is, that this is because in Manchester Crown Court as you will see in a few moments time below, it was accepted & stated that my intention was nothing more than to create a Publicity Prank, so it would not have looked good for Mahmood or the “News of the World” to report on what was said in the Manchester Crown Court.
UPDATE L = Given the additional information, facts and evidence that has come to
light since Mazher Mahmoods Conviction & Jail term for his proven Conspiracy to
Pervert the course of justice in the Tulisa Trial, it has become clear that it is highly
likely that serious levels of non disclosure of relevant data & facts may well have
taken place by the Crown Prosecution Service. Had such knowledge and facts been
available to our legal teams it could be argued that charges would never have been
brought against us in the first place, or that in the unlikely event that charges had still been pressed, with such facts & information disclosed to us (rather than hidden) I
would have been (as would others) far more likely not to bow to behind the scenes pressure, threats and manipulation from Mahmood’s Associates which is the only
reason I changed my plea from NOT GUILTY to guilty with mitigating circumstances at the very last minute.
UPDATE M = Finally please remember that it has now become clear through many
sources (see other links on this blog page) that Mahmood had a long track record
of Lying, Dishonesty & Fabricating False Stories whilst often engineering people into situations where he could then make it look as though they had committed a crime, when in truth the real criminal was it has now become clear the Fake Sheikh himself.
UPDATE N = Also please consider the fact it has now become crystal clear that
compulsive liar Mahmood committed perjury in the first part of the Leveson Inquiry and
that he had regular involvement and contact with the Corrupt Private Investigators
“Southern Investigations” as per https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2014/11/08/did-mazher-mahmood-mislead-leveson-about-the-dark-arts-of-his-past/ .
UPDATE O = Whilst it is true to say that I went into that first meeting with Mahmood knowing who he was, I had absolutely no intentions of doing anything illegal in any manner at any time. I merely intended to ring some escorts from the local newspaper for him then make my excuses and leave (which I did) expecting a story to appear that
Sunday, never did I expect continued contact from Mahmood along with threats and intimidation from behind the scenes from his associates.
UPDATE P = It is also very important to remember that I pleaded NOT GUILTY from the very start all the way up to the first day of trial at Crown Court. I only changed my plea at the last minute to guilty with mitigating circumstances after receiving what I now know to be bad advice from my legal time at the time. This was further compounded by the behind the scenes intimidation & threats I had been getting from Mahmoods associates.
UPDATE Q = When all of this is balanced with the fact that in recent years since the
Tulisa trial collapsed (July 2014) more and more whistle blowers have come out and
admitted that it was regular practice for illegal activities to take place on the part of
reporters at “The News of the World” and other Rupert Murdoch owned publications.
Also the fact that stories were often stage managed, completely fabricated and made
up or distorted to contain only a tiny grain of real truth are also common themes that
these various whistle blowers including (but by no means limited to) The Camera
Assassin “Ian Cutler” and his Friend Bobbie Cummins O.B.E. have stated.
Camera Assassin Book Cover
ALSO CHECK OUT THE EVIDENCE OF CAMERA ASSASSIN IAN CUTLER & ALSO BOBBY CUMMINES O.B.E. THAT PROVES THAT STORIES WERE REGULARLY FABRICATED, FAKED & FALSIFIED FOR MURDOCH’S PAPERS
http://www.cameraassassin.co.uk/
http://rupertmurdochshitmen.com/
Pictured is Gerry Brown a former Colleague of Mazher Mahmood and Father of Conrad Brown who became Mahmood’s Assistant
Consider this quote about Gerry Brown who is pictured above:
“News of the World reporter Gerry Brown was behind many a fake story including Sardine Hostels, the Beckham kidnapping and the Bullets Wizzing Past My Ears rubbish he concocted with Mazher Mahmoud.”
“There were no bullets wizzing around anybody’s ears. I set this picture up at Bisley rifle range in Surrey.”
“Years later after Brown’s death, Mahmoud wrote his obituary for the News of the World. In it the lying bastard used this photo claiming he had taken it.”
Quoted from – http://cameraassassin.co.uk/
Conrad Brown is on the Left
Pictured above on the left hand side of the photograph is Conrad Brown the Son of Gerry Brown. Prior to his death Gerry worked alongside Mahmood concocting stories as exposed by The Camera Assassin Ian Cutler on his site at the link given earlier.
Consider this quote from Guardian Newspaper:
“But the key to Mahmood’s success is the prowess of his technical team and the endless cast of characters at his disposal. Gerry Brown, a former NoW reporter, and his son Conrad, are the ‘sound and vision’ experts, hiding microphones and cameras in vases and picture frames in hotel rooms. Freelance journalists and editorial assistants play the parts of minor Arab royals, minders, chauffeurs and prostitutes.”
Quoted from – https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/may/09/theobserver.uknews3
Indeed Mazher Mahmood himself talked about working with Gerry Brown on many stories in a tribute piece after Gerry’s death in which he said:
“After a recent job in Marbella, where Gerry and I were exposing an Arab terrorist selling a dirty bomb, he turned to me and said, ‘You know something, Maz, you and I could never become top executives because we’ve got investigations in our blood.“
Quoted from – https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/gerry-brown-news-of-the-world-investigative-reporter/
Once Gerry Brown had died, his son Conrad Brown became even more important to the Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood as illustrated by this quote:
“Of inestimable importance to Mahmood is Conrad Brown, son of a former NoW reporter, who operates the concealed video cameras and microphones that provide the vital “proof” of Maz’s investigations.”
Quoted from – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3592327/The-dirty-digger.html
Alan Smith with Mazher Mahmood
Mahmood’s long term driver and often accomplice was none other Alan Smith who pictured above right was found guilty along with Mahmood of Conspiracy to Pervert the course of Justice in regards to the collapsed Tulisa Case and whom it was stated in court already had an extensive Criminal Record.
The more you dig the more obvious it becomes that Mahmood was surrounded by dishonest people and those with a provable track record of Stunting, Faking and Fabricating Stories with a complete disregard for reality or the truth.
Former News of the World Executive Greg Miskiw Supplied Phone Hacking to Mazher Mahmood via Glenn Mulcaire
Pictured above is Former News of the World Executive Greg Miskiw who openly admits that he on behalf of Mazher Mahmood arranged for Glenn Mulcaire to illegally hack phones for him on many occasions as quoted here:
https://www.bylineinvestigates.com/murdoch/2017/11/13/exclusive-fake-sheikh-and-phone-hacking
Seriously look at the rest of the information, facts and evidence on this page and it becomes even clearer that Mahmood operated in an environment surrounded by colleagues for whom fabricating stories and/or acting illegally was to them second nature and so it would seem an everyday occurrence.
Panorama Producer Speaks about Mahmood on Twitter
Above a post from Meirion Jones Producer of the BBC Panorama “Fake Sheikh Exposed” documentary which is on Twitter.
Indeed when you consider this quote from the Independent newspaper it starts to become even clearer the kind of person Mahmood was and is.
“After the trial collapsed, Mr Gashi made allegations which led police to launch an investigation into Mr Mahmood, codenamed Canopus. When Mr Mahmood was interviewed under caution he was asked why he relied on people like Mr Gashi. He told detectives he got information from prostitutes and drug addicts, adding: “I’ve got bent police officers that are witnesses, that are informants.”
Quoted from – https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/fake-sheikhs-convictions-must-be-re-examined-insists-former-attorney-general-9857241.html
And below is a Tweet from a Former New Scotland Yard Detective about Mahmood’s activities.
MOST IMPORTANT POINT OF ALL = Perhaps the most important thing of all to consider and realize at this moment though is the very real fact that I was never Cautioned, Reprimanded, Charged or Convicted in any manner for anything mentioned in that article with the exception of having some fake coins in my possession for a short period of time.
Bearing that in mind, what follows are two Newspaper Articles from the Manchester Evening News who covered the Manchester Crown Court Case relating to the Fake Coins..
Manchester Evening News Jonathan Royle Alex Smith Leroy Article Tuesday 2nd March 1999.
The Above Press Article (You can see a bigger image of it by clicking on the photograph) was taken from Page Seven of The Manchester Evening News – Early Edition – Tuesday March 2nd 1999.
You can obtain a clear copy from your local library if you wish to confirm what I am about to quote from the article as being true.
QUOTES FROM ARTICLE…
*He Knew That The Fakes WOULD NOT be circulated Publically.
*His meetings with the reporters were a PUBLICITY STUNT.
*Judge David Owen Said “I Limit This Sentence because IT IS NOT AN ORDINARY CASE”
*It was a PUBLICITY STUNT to gain media recognition which had backfired.
*Anthony Morris defending said “One of the men he dealt with was Smiths former Publicity Agent, they had been concerned together in earlier SCAMS aimed at getting Smith Publicity, and he knew whatever he said or did would get newspaper exposure!”
*He Has done many outlandish things TO GAIN PUBLICITY”
*Smith Knew the Fake Coins WOULD NOT be circulated Publically in what was a ONE OFF offence by a Man of Good character.
EXTRA POINTS TO CONSIDER…
*In the actual Court Case, the Judge, Crown Prosecution Service and also the Police ALL CONFIRMED IN COURT that having seen all the evidence that they 100% KNEW that it was all a PUBLICITY STUNT & MEDIA STING engineered BY ME to help gain Publicity for myself and also TO EXPOSE DODGY JOURNALISTS AND JOURNALISM.
Unfortunately Court Documents are of Crown Copyright and they told me I could not post such here, BUT PLEASE DO GET YOUR OWN COPY of the Court Transcripts and you will then see that:
*In Court it was proven and accepted beyond any reasonable doubt that the News of the World article was and is complete and utter BS…
*It was mentioned by all (Police, Judge and CPS) that the entire article came about due to me engineering it as a PUBLICITY STUNT and also a way to EXPOSE DODGY JOURNALISTS.
*It was noted that many things that were printed I HAD NOT EVEN EVER SAID OR DONE IN ANY MANNER.
Feel free to obtain a copy of the Court Records and check this out for yourself.
*In court both the Police, Crown Prosecution Service and Probation Service all spoke on my behalf and recommended a NON CUSTODIAL Sentence due to it all being a Publicity Stunt to expose the newspaper.
*When the Judge gave a custodial sentence, everyone agreed I SHOULD BE RELEASED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, hence I only spent 46 days inside.
*The Court records will show that I had character references from The Local Rochdale MP of the time, also the Head of the Local Military Police of the time, hardly what you’d expect if any of the other BS they printed in that NOW SHUT DOWN AND SHAMED Newspaper were in any way true.
The Court Hearing was at Manchester Crown Court on Monday 1st March 1999.
It was The Crown “vs” Alex William Smith.
The Judge was David Owen.
Prosectutor was Stuart Duke.
Defence Lawyer was Anthony Morris.
Manchester Evening News Tuesday 1st March 1999 – Late Edition.
Taken from Page Seven of The Manchester Evening News – Late Edition – Tuesday March 2nd 1999, again as with all images on this page you can see a bigger version of it by clicking on the image above to see the larger version.
*Smith was a man of good character and had been involved in earlier SCAMS aimed at getting PUBLICITY.
You can also find full details of the entire SCAM and attempt to EXPOSE DODGY JOURNALISTS along with the court case in my book which can be got from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Of-Psychic-Hypnotist-Celebrity/dp/1484941748/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381837023&sr=8-1&keywords=confessions+of+a+psychic+hypnotist
OTHER NEWSPAPER ARTICLES WHICH ARE RELEVANT AND PROVE THIS WAS INDEED ALL A PUBLICITY STUNT AND ATTEMPTED EXPOSE OF DODGY JOURNALISTS ARE:
Other Articles Proving my SERIAL MEDIA HOAXER PAST (and lack of truth in any of the BS people are currently posting about me on a certain Websites and other places)
*Chat Show Favourite Was A Serial Hoaker – April 30th 2002 – Sunday Times by Nicholas Hellen & Mark Macaskill (Half Page)
*Chat Rat Nailed – News of The World – April 30th 2000 – by Paul McMullan
*Joke Was On Me In The End – Heywood Advertiser – Thursday May 18th 2000 – by Alison Pilkington
*The Knack – How to Hoak Your Way onto a Chat Show – by Susannah Prain and Jonathan Royle – The Independent – Friday review Section – May 5th 2000
*on Sunday 28th January 2001 The Sunday Sport ran another half page feature “Trisha Guest was a Dirty Hoaker!”
*Trishas Welcome For A Serial TV Hoaker – The Daily Mail – Wednesday 24th January 2001 – by Mark Reynolds & Tony Bonnici or it could have been – on 24-01-01 a half page feature appeared in The Daily Mail “Trisha Show Turns Blind Eye to Serial Hoaker”
NOTICE = Even the “News of The World” ran an article in their paper on April 30th 2000…
FACT = If there was any truth in the BS that the News of the world previously printed about me (back in 1998) Don’t you think they would have mentioned it again in this article of 2000??
That’s aside from the fact that they NEVER did any follow up article to their 1998 “expose” (which was another of my media hoaxes and was engineered by me to expose them and other dodgy journalists) mentioning me getting charged or convicted for anything serious.
AND THAT IS BECAUSE I WAS NEVER CHARGED, REPRIMANDED, CAUTIONED OR CONVICTED OF ANY OF THE SERIOUS BS THAT LIERS AND TROUBLE CAUSERS ARE ACCUSING ME OF ON THE INTERNET.
Indeed Here are a Few Copies of Images of those National Media Articles exposing my Past as A Serial Media Hoaker which further illustrate all of the above things I have stated to be True…
Joke Was On Me In The End – Heywood Advertiser – Thursday May 18th 2000 – by Alison Pilkington
The Article Above Makes it quite clear that I only ended up in prison for a short time (46 days) due to A PUBLICITY STUNT SLIGHTLY BACKFIRING.
Chat Rat Nailed – News of The World – April 30th 2000 – by Paul McMullan
If there was any Real Truth in the News of the Worlds Article from 1998, don’t you think they would have made mention of their Expose of me in this article from the year 2000.
The reason they don’t make mention of such is quite simply because it had already been PROVEN IN COURT that there was no truth in their article from 1998 and that in fact it was all part of an attempt by me to Expose Them and Their Illegal Techniques.
Hence obviously they could not make mention of it, as it would have made them as a newspaper look stupid.
Its for the exact same reason that The News of The World NEVER DID A FOLLOW UP ARTICLE after the 1998 Article (the fabricated one) following the Manchester Crown Court Case as to do so would have made them look stupid given the facts and evidence that came out and were presented to the Court which PROVED BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT that it was all a Media Hoax and Sting engineered by me in an attempt to expose The News of The World.
Further proof that The News of the World Never did any follow up article bragging about
having got me convicted for the coins can be seen along with Proof that Mazher Mahmood “The Fake Sheikh” committed Perjury during Part One of The Leveson Inquiry at this link where you can find the statement of Paddy French:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140122145147/http:/www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Witness-statement-of-Paddy-French-including-exhibits.pdf
Trishas Welcome For A Serial TV Hoaker – The Daily Mail – Wednesday 24th January 2001 – by Mark Reynolds & Tony Bonnici or it could have been – on 24-01-01 a half page feature appeared in The Daily Mail “Trisha Show Turns Blind Eye to Serial Hoaker”
In conjunction with the other articles, this one above further proves my long-term past hoaxing and scamming the media, all of which was part of my research for my book “Confessions of a Psychic Hypnotist” within which I name, shame and expose the often Illegal and very dodgy techniques and tactics used by many journalists and publications and also the unethical approaches and disregard for the truth displayed by many others.
Chat Show Favourite Was A Serial Hoaker – April 30th 2002 – Sunday Times by Nicholas Hellen & Mark Macaskill (Half Page)
This article above, from the Respected “Sunday Times” Newspaper actually plugs the release of my autobiography within which I name, shame and expose dodgy journalists and reveal the full detailed diary of events of how I went about exposing the News of the World which led to their article of complete and utter rubbish, much all of which I never actually said or did in any manner at any time.
Sunday 28th January 2001 The Sunday Sport ran another half page feature “Trisha Guest was a Dirty Hoaker!”
The Above Article from The Daily Sport, a newspaper whose famous headlines include such Comedy Classics as “Statue of Elvis Found on Mars” and “Adolf HItler Was A Woman” and is generally regarded as more of a Comic and Joke Publication than a serious credible newspaper, leads me nicely into showing you the video of a slot I did for a TV Show called “The Dark Side of Stage Hypnosis” which was originally broadcast on UK Channel Four and since has been broadcast around the world on The Discovery Channel.
They link together in so much as the alleged Porn Movie that The Daily Sport article makes reference to WAS FAKED FOR PUBLICITY…
A Glamour Model was paid to pose for the camera AND EVERYTHING WAS JUST SIMULATED (E.g. No Real Sex Ever Took Place) indeed I have on file the signed Model Consent and Release forms from the Glamor Model.
And even if it were in any manner true (WHICH AS JUST STATED IT IS NOT) the article makes it clear as do all other media articles in the past were it says I have apparently hypnotized women for sex, that in all cases THE WOMEN WERE OF WELL ABOVE LEGAL AGE AND WERE ALL CONSENTING…
But as I say the real truth is, they were all really Actresses paid to speak to the media to create and fabricate a Controversial Sounding Story to gain more Print Media, Radio and Television Publicity and Exposure.
So Enjoy the video, but remember I AM ACTING and playing the part of a “Controversial Edgy Over The Top Adults Only Hypnotist” – I AM NOT LIKE THAT IN REAL LIFE.
HELL REMEMBER THIS IS SHOWBIZ…
So with reference to the above video, one other point you should bear in mind is that despite the way they try to portray things I HAVE NEVER BROKEN ANY HYPNOSIS LAWS.
Yes there are Legal Loopholes in the UK’s 1952 Hypnotism Act which in the past I have on occasion used, however using them in the manner that I did is FULLY LEGAL & LAWFUL and means that I was 100% operating WITHIN THE LAW.
NOTE = Also it should be noted that at the time of writing this blog, (Saturday 19th October 2013) that the TV Show from which this clip is taken was broadcast back in September 2003 which is Over Ten Years Ago Now, Once again not exactly breaking news is it, despite what some people on the internet would like to have you believe!
NOW FOR SOME MORE EVIDENCE THAT WHAT THEY POST IS UNTRUE…
Basic Disclosure Showing No Criminal Convictions At All for Alex Smith aka Jonathan Royle.
This was obtained from – http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk/ and shows that at time of getting it I HAD NO CURRENT OR RELEVANT CRIMINAL RECORD WHATSOEVER.
This is further illustrated by the next few closer up images of the document…
Basic Disclosure Showing no Relevant or Current Criminal Cautions, Charges or Convictions on file for me.
And here’s another image….
And Another Relevant Image….
As you can see in the above images Nothing Showed up on my File as at time of getting this done I had (and still have) no current or relevant Criminal Charges, Cautions or Convictions in any manner…
Because of this being a 100% CLEAN DISCLOSURE I was granted a Personal Alcohol License as follows:
Personal Alcohol License as granted to Alex William Smith due to Clean Disclosure Documents.
And here is another relevant image of proof….
For the record I no longer Live in or Reside at the address shown on these documents (and yes The Local Council Know my New Address) that address shown is the property that I did indeed purchase outright for Cash, with no mortgages, loans or indeed any form of borrowing being required before I was 30 years of age.
I now live in a HOUSE whilst the Apartment is producing a rental income.
Once again the above document confirms that I have no Current or Relevant Offenses on file, the simple fact is, if even a tiny element of that 1998 News of the World Article held any truth in it, then I would most certainly never have been granted a Personal Alcohol License.
It seems however that the above proof and evidence was not good enough for some of these vindictive and perhaps even mentally unbalanced Cyber Bullies and they have posted pointing out that a Basic Disclosure does not show Convictions Which are Spent.
If your not aware of what a spent Conviction is then I suggest you look at this page:
http://www.criminalrecordchecks.co.uk/criminal-convictions/crb-disclosure-spent-unspent-convictions.htm
Well they are correct, spent convictions would not show up on a Basic Disclosure, and given the date on my Disclosure is Over Seven Years from the date that I received the Custodial Sentence mentioned earlier which saw me spending JUST 46 DAYS IN PRISON that would indeed not show up.
They also post trying to make out that I may have been Cautioned, Reprimanded, Charged or Convicted of something else since…
What they seem to forget, is that if that were the case and it were to be anything serious THEN MY PERSONAL ALCOHOL LICENSE WOULD HAVE BEEN REVOKED and yet it is still 100% Current & Valid in All Manners.
They also seem to forget that the Conviction that would have been given to anyone who was actually Guilty of anything to do with Drugs, Guns, Pimping of Underage Girls and such like WOULD MOST CERTAINLY HAVE BEEN WELL ABOVE SIX MONTHS.
And as such had I ever done such things, then as is illustrated at the link of:
Then I would most certainly have been given a conviction of Above Six Months and as such it would remain Unspent and on File and show up on a Basic Disclosure for TEN YEARS and thus would have appeared on the documents that are shown above.
After all the Basic Disclosure shown above was issued on the 6th of June 2007, I was given the Fake Coins Sentence on 1st March 1999, so obviously that does not show as it was by 2007 Spent, however The Basic Disclosure issued on and dated 6th June 2007 would show any Convictions of over six months (if there had ever been any) dating back to 6th June 1997 thus also proving that I have never been found Guilty or done anything of the nature people keep lying about during that time scale either.
HOWEVER THEY KEEP SAYING SHOW US A PROPER CRB DOCUMENT…
They Keep saying this as such a document provided by The Disclosure and Barring Service formerly known as a Criminal Records Bureau Check will indeed show everything including both Spent and unspent convictions, cautions etc as is detailed here –
https://www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check/overview .
So in an attempt to shut up these idiots I contacted http://www.acorndirect.org.uk/ and got them to get me my CRB Check Done, images of which you are about to see below..
CRB DBS Document for Alex Smith – October 2013.
As stated earlier you can click on the image to see a larger version of it…
Remember when you see the information relating to Fake Coins that has all already been fully explained earlier on this page (And was all a Media Hoax and Sting Engineered by me) and I ONLY SPENT 46 DAYS INSIDE A PRISON…
And finally I remind you once again you can click on any images on this page to see larger versions of them.
As you can see in the Above Images of my CRB Document provided by The Disclosure and Barring Service and dated 7th October 2013, a document that shows ALL and Everything that could have been on file about me (Both Spent and Unspent) the only thing it shows is the Fake Coins Conviction which has already been dealt with and explained in depth earlier on this page.
Now more recently (early 2016) I have been summoned to take part in Jury Service as can be seen in the image below..
I would not be allowed to do Jury Service if even a fraction of the Rubbish Some Vindictive Liars post about me on the Web were true in any manner!
As it states above, the simple fact is that I would not be allowed to ever do Jury Service if I had ever been convicted of any of the other nonsense (stuff other than £1 coins) that the fabricated News of The World Article made false claims about.
For the record the date of my service has been changed from that shown above, and the actual date has been blanked out of the image below for obvious legal & security reasons.
At this link you can get an idea of the reasons why and types of people who are not allowed to do Jury Service – https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/exemptions-jury-service
The simple fact that I have been accepted for Jury Service proves that I do not and indeed never have fallen into any of those categories and is further proof that what the idiots and liars have been saying about me in various places on the web is complete and utter B.S.
Now for those who may believe the idiots who are claiming that I have photo shopped these documents or forged them in some other Illegal manner, can I please remind you that by contacting Rochdale Council you can confirm my Personal Alcohol License to be genuine and Valid, by contacting Acorn Direct http://www.acorndirect.org.uk/ and quoting my birth name of Alex William Smith and the certificate number of 001420818776 you can also confirm that my CRB Document is Genuine and Valid and same can be said about the Basic Disclosure shown earlier.
It is a Simple manner for anyone who values THE TRUTH to check out and prove to themselves that everything I have stated above is 100% Genuine, Factually and Truthfully Correct and consequently easy for you to discover that all the B.S. People post about me in various places on the internet is exactly that complete and utter Bullshit and Lies.
DESPITE WHAT THESE IDIOT’S SAY I AM NOT SOME UNDERWORLD CRIMINAL
Indeed a couple of final things to consider on the subject of that 1999 Fabricated News of the World Hoax & Sting on them which I engineered are:
*Since the time of the Manchester Crown Court Case I have Traveled to and worked in such Places as California, San Francisco, Sacramento, Seattle, New York, Chicago, Florida and Las Vegas in the United States of America. Also I have been to places such
as Barbados, Bahrain and other places around the World. Many of these places have very strict entry requirements and I would never have been granted either Visa’s or Esta’s to legally enter any of these places if even a tiny element of that News of The World Article had any basis in truth. The Same applies to various other Countries around the world that I have both traveled to and work within over the past 15+ years since that article.
*Finally consider the fact that NO NEWSPAPER OR JOURNALIST HAS EVER SUED ME for the contents of my book originally entitled “Confessions of a Showbiz Celebrity” which has recently been expanded and re-released under the title “Confessions of a Psychic Hypnotist” around the world as follows:
U.K. Amazon Paperback – http://www.amazon.co.uk/Confessions-Of-Psychic-Hypnotist-Celebrity/dp/1484941748/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1382197018&sr=8-2&keywords=confessions+of+a+psychic+hypnotist
USA Amazon Paperback – http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Of-Psychic-Hypnotist-Celebrity/dp/1484941748/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382196946&sr=8-1&keywords=confessions+of+a+psychic+hypnotist
U.K. Amazon Kindle – http://www.amazon.co.uk/Confessions-Showbiz-Celebrity-Professional-Entertainer-ebook/dp/B0049H9DQW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382197046&sr=8-1&keywords=confessions+of+a+psychic+hypnotist
USA Amazon Kindle – http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Showbiz-Celebrity-Professional-Entertainer-ebook/dp/B0049H9DQW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1382196975&sr=8-2&keywords=confessions+of+a+psychic+hypnotist
That is despite the fact that I name and shame various Journalists and also explain exactly how (with easily verified evidence) I engineered things to expose the News of the World and other dodgy unethical Journalists.
Given that the publication of my exposing these people and publications was publicized in various National Newspapers and also led to various Television and Radio Interviews and also because I sent copies to all those I named and shamed in the book, I know for a fact they are all aware that I expose them and their often illegal antics within the pages of my book.
The Simple reason none of them have ever sued me is because the evidence against them is without question!
Oh and take a look at this image which is a screenshot taken from one of the many websites where people often post nasty and untrue stuff about me:
My Ex-Wife Confirming that I was fully Vetted by the UK Social Services Prior to having a vulnerable child released into my care.
Long Story cut short, when I was with my Ex-Wife, I helped her to get the biological daughter of herself and her ex-partner released from Social Services care into my care.
As part of this process I had to be vetted by Social Services who did Police, Court and indeed every other check you could possibly imagine to verify whether or not I was a safe person to release a vulnerable child into the care of.
This happened AFTER the Fabricated News of the World Article and also AFTER the Manchester Crown Court Case and so all of the Evidence relating to those matters was examined and taken into account also.
BOTTOM LINE = They found me to be absolutely no danger or threat in any manner either to the general public or indeed more importantly in this context to a vulnerable child. Further details and facts and evidence relating to everything I have mentioned on this page so far can be found in my book “Confessions of a Psychic Hypnotist”
AND FRANKLY REGARDS THAT ARTICLE I REST MY CASE THE PROOF IS ALL ABOVE THAT WHAT THESE PEOPLE ARE CLAIMING IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT.
Observant ones amongst you will also realize that the above provides proof of the Truth relating to any and all media articles and stories that may have ever appeared about me of a controversial nature anywhere in the world.
The simple truth is they were all Manufactured, Fabricated and Engineered for Publicity and in many cases involved actors or actresses being paid to play parts and say certain things to the media to create an illusion of truth to fool the media into publishing the article, thus creating media exposure for me and ultimately increased demand for my talents and services as a Comedy Stage Hypnotist, Magician and Psychic Entertainer which on all occasions they most certainly did.
NEWS UPDATE – BREAKING NEWS REGARDS MAZHER MAHMOOD
Following the Collapse of The Drugs Trial involving British Pop Singer Tulisa Contostavlos, the former undercover Journalist for the now shut down and shamed “News of the World” Newspaper Mazher Mahmood has been suspended from The Sun on Sunday Newspaper and is currently being investigated by the Police as detailed at these links:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/22/mazher-mahmood-sun-perjury-probe-tulisa-contostavlos-trial
And also check out:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2716456/Mazher-Mahmood-face-jail-allegations-lied-judge-Tulisa-drugs-trial-police-launch-formal-investigation.html
As a result of this Trial Collapsing the Crown Prosecution Service decided to put together Disclosure Packs and to issue these to some of the people who had in the past been given a conviction which involved evidence being given by Mazher Mahmood as the result of one of his “Stings” as is detailed here:
I was one of the people referred to at that link, one of the people the CPS sent a full disclosure pack to and having received such, and also due to new evidence in my favor that has recently come to light, I have now applied (Jan 2015) to the Criminal Cases Review Committee to appeal my case with the aim of getting the conviction revoked and overturned.
With this in mind I am delighted to say that British Super Lawyer Siobhain Egan of Lewis Nedas Law has agreed to represent me relating to the appeal of my conviction and the civil law side of things will be handled as I understand it by Mark Lewis of Seddons.
Both Siobhain and Mark were instrumental in the Phone Hacking Legal Cases against News International and are the best people I could possibly wish for to represent me in these matters as they truly are at the top of their game.
The following link confirms that Siobhain Egan of Lewis Nedas Law is acting for me in these matters:
At this moment she is also representing Former “London’s Burning” and “Grange Hill” Actor John Alford and Former Boxing Champion Herbie Hides in a similar manner:
http://lewisnedas.co.uk/Newsroom/news/herbie-hide-john-alford-apply-to-ccrc-to-have-their-convictions-overturned.html
The next two Links give copies of News Stories relating to the fact that my application has gone into the CCRC in this matter.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/hypnotist-set-appeal-fake-sheikh-8622858
For obvious legal reasons I am currently unable to say anymore on this matter, which could possibly even take years before it is rectified and concluded one way or the other.
But for those of you who may have missed the Expose on Mazher Mahmood and the highly dodgy and unethical techniques he uses (some would argue even illegal) that was broadcast as a BBC Panorama investigative documentary, then please do take the time to watch this video…
The week after that BBC Panorama “The Fake Sheikh Exposed” documentary aired my lawyer Siobhain Egan of Lewis Nedas Law can be heard discussing these matters on BBC’s “The World at One” show alongside Conservative MP John Whittingdale.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02cfyth
NOW THAT HE HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE HERE IS MY OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON THE VERDICT
To Contact My Civil Lawyer Mark Lewis Please Visit his Page of:
And to Contact My Criminal Appeals Lawyer Siobhain Egan Please Visit:
http://lewisnedas.co.uk/Our-Solicitors/siobhain-egan.html
BREAKING NEWS: The Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood was Jailed for 15 Months for Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice on Friday 21st October 2016, fuller details
are at the link which follows which is BBC Televisions official report of events:
Whilst at this next link you can see Television Station ITV’s report on things:
http://www.itv.com/news/2016-10-21/fake-sheikh-mazher-mahmood-sentenced-to-15-months-for-evidence-tampering-in-tulisa-trial/
And Here is how The Financial Times Reported on the event, where you will notice I
am referred to as Alex Smith the Magician within their article at this link:
https://www.ft.com/content/e7a9efe0-9787-11e6-a1dc-bdf38d484582
This is how the Daily Mail reported on Mahmood’s Prison Sentence, notice you’ll
see they have used a picture of me stood outside court with John Alford:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3858660/Fake-sheikh-Mazher-Mahmood-jailed-15-months.html
The Third Picture down in the following Daily Mirror Article on his Prison Sentence shows me outside The Old Bailey as Mahmood arrives to find out his fate.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/fake-sheikh-mazher-mahmood-jailed-9095167
Here is the Telegraph newspapers report on it, within which you will see a video which
I can be clearly seen in as John Alford delivers a statement on behalf of us all
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/21/fake-sheikh-reporter-mazher-mahmood-jailed-for-tulisa-drugs-tria/
Pictured are Actor John Alford, Boxer Herbie Hides, Model & Actress Emma Morgan and Hypnotist & Mind Magician Jonathan Royle aka Alex Smith
There is another video which I can be seen in within the article that the London Evening Standard ran on his Prison Sentence
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/fake-sheikh-jailed-over-tampering-with-evidence-in-tulisa-drugs-trial-a3375456.html
IF YOU MISSED IT EARLIER HERE I AM ON BBC’s NEWSNIGHT TV SHOW
Some Other Resources that you may wish to look at which all contain much invaluable
information and evidence and facts about Mazher Mahmood and his past Lies and
unethical, immoral and arguably illegal actions and behaviours are as follows:
BYLINE ARTICLES ON ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES AT MURDOCH’S PAPERS
https://www.bylineinvestigates.com/murdoch
BYLINE ARTICLE LINKS MAHMOOD TO DANIEL MORGAN MURDER INQUIRY
https://www.byline.com/column/2/article/2035
My Friend Former East 17 Pop Star Brian Harvey in Parliament trying to expose how Murdoch Lied About Him & used illegal techniques.
Brian Harvey has evidence that appears to implicate “Fake Sheikh” Mazher Mahmood and his right hand man Conrad Brown in the fabricated stories that were made about him and indeed such is mentioned in the video with Peter Jukes below..
In the audio recording above Journalist Peter Jukes of Byline is heard speaking with Brian Harvey about documents and evidence he has in his possession. It seems that
this shows a direct link between Mazher Mahmood and Phone Hacking and/or tapping.
With James Doleman Who Live Tweeted the Mahmood Trial
On Thursday 19th April 2018 the Press Gazette Newspaper ran an article about
Dr. Akbar Ali Malik who was a close associate of “Fake Sheikh” Mazher Mahmood
and indeed it is said he played the part of a 2nd “Fake Sheikh” alongside Mahmood
on some occasions in the past.
Dr. Akbar Ali Malik of the now closed down Malik Law Chambers. A close associate of Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood
This article which appears at the following link, states that the Law Firm run by Dr. Akbar Ali Malik has been shut down over dishonesty suspicions.
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice/london-firm-shut-down-over-dishonesty-suspicions/5065717.article
At the next link is mention of Akbar Ali Malik and the fact that he would on occasions
act as a stand in “Fake Sheikh” for Mazher Mahmood.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2008/sep/01/howifakeditbymahmoodthe
In the video above you can see Rebekah Brooks speaking at The Leveson Inquiry and she admits that she has paid Police (which is Illegal) for information in the past.
And in the video below you can hear Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood speaking at Leveson and admitting that he does overstep the line and break the law, however
he insists that he is covered by it being for “Public Interest”
Remember this is the same Mazher Mahmood who has in the past been quoted as openly stated that he has “bent Police officers” in his pocket.
When Mahmood thinks nothing of using bent Police Officiers and Brooks has admitted paying Police for information, it makes one wonder if that is why the Police & CPS were so often so willing to arrest and then charge people who in truth had not really done anything wrong and who were clearly set up, which would have become obvious to all at the time had the alleged “evidence” been properly stress tested which most often it
has now become clear it was not.
You will also no doubt find these two videos of great interest as well…
And Part Two…
I would also suggest that anyone wanting to learn more about how the mainstream media manipulates and brainwashes people with so called “Fake News” – Propaganda and “Social Engineering” should listen to this podcast recording:
And then listen to this even more eye opening recording as well in which I reveal more about “Media Brainwashing” – “Social Engineering” and such like:
I also think people should remember that “The News of the World” was shut down for the Dishonest & Wholly Illegal Actions of Phone Hacking including Hacking the phone of Murdered School Girl Milly Dowler and that despite what he would obviously say to the contrary to protect himself, it seems hugely unlikely that the Owner of at the time “News International” and now “News Corp” namely Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch would not have known what was going on.
Indeed as you will have seen at earlier links on this page, there is mounting evidence that Murdoch knew exactly what was going on with his chief investigations reporter “Fake Sheikh” Mazher Mahmood and was, some say in regular contact with him.
Certainly Murdoch says things behind the scenes which contradict what he may be saying at the same time in public as is illustrated by this video:
The image that follows is of a short excerpt from an article that appeared in the Scottish
Daily Mail on the 6th October 2016 after Mazher Mahmood had been convicted.
The article was entitled “Stars Could Sue for 800m as the Fake Sheikh Faces Prison” and within it there is mention that my application to the Court of Appeal has been turned down, but remember this occurred before Mahmood was convicted and also before further evidence came to light which of course has now been given to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) who are currently reviewing mine and several other Mahmood “Sting Victims” cases.
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/scottish-daily-mail/20161006/281814283367030
These four images which follow below are of the document from the “single judge” who decided in early 2016 to turn down my appeal, it should be noted that this occurred before Mahmood was found unanimously guilty by the entire Jury at The Old Bailey of Conspiracy to Pervert the course of Justice in the Tulisa case and that importantly the Judge confirms within these documents that based upon the available evidence he believes that I knew who Mahmood was and that I believed the coins (that I was manipulated into collecting & supplying by one of Mahmoods associates) would never get into Public Circulation.
It is important to remember that without Mahmood having provided the money upfront to pay for the coins and without one of Mahmoods associates manipulating me behind the scenes and pressurizing me into supplying the “Fake Sheikh” something, then the truth is that I would never have been in a position to supply such at the time.
Also remember that the coins were never forensically tested and as such there was actually no evidence of any kind at any time to prove whether they were real or fake.
Further as the astute ones who study this page will notice below, the judge here mentions 997 coins, and yet in actual fact a total of 1003 coins were handed to Mahmood during the course of events and of those at least 3 were 100% genuine
as they came from my pocket as explained earlier on this page.
In other words he made it happen, however as previously stated, although I was pressurized and manipulated behind the scenes by Mahmoods associates, I knew that I could prove (as I did to the Police, CPS & Courts at the time) that I knew I was dealing with Mahmood, that I had absolutely no Criminal Intent and that I was of the opinion that as I knew the coins would never get into public circulation and would get handed to the Police that I, like Mahmood would be covered by Journalistic License.
Unfortunately as I was not directly on the payroll of a National Newspaper at the time,
and was not, at the time a member of the National Union of Journalists, I was not afforded the same “Journalistic License” that Mahmood was despite the fact that the Police, CPS and Court accepted the fact that I knew who Mahmood was and that my intention was to help expose his unethical, immoral and arguably illegal methods. In truth I feel that the Judge did me a massive favor, as by turning down the appeal application in early 2016, it means that since then there has been time for more & more truths to come out about Mahmoods Dishonesty and also it means that I was then able to apply to the CCRC to have my conviction sent for appeal, the outcome of which is currently still being considered and investigated by the CCRC along with numerous other similar cases where Mahmood followed essentially the same modus operandi.
And most significantly on the 21st October 2016, “Fake Sheikh” Mazher Mahmood was
jailed for 15 months for Conspiracy to Pervert the course of Justice.
I think it is fair to say that the transparently obvious and very crystal clear facts and evidence speak for themselves…
Sadly though as exposed in the BBC Panorama Documentary entitled
“Last Chance for Justice” which was broadcast on BBC One here in England on Wednesday 30th May 2018, it seems that many experts are now saying that they have discovered that the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) may well not be fit for purpose and that many who deserve justice have been wrongly denied it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zg7l1
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6t2vyw
The Crown Prosecution Service aka CPS has been accused of regular Non Disclosure of Key Evidence in Court Cases
The article published on Tuesday 5th June 2018 at the link which follows shows that it has now been discovered that the Crown Prosecution Service has on numerous occasions failed to disclose key evidence and information which had it been disclosed would most likely have led to the trial collapsing or at the very least the person accused
(often wrongly) being found NOT GUILTY.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/05/hundreds-miscarriages-justice-feared-cps-apologises-disclosure/
https://www.rt.com/uk/428865-rape-sex-police-prosecutor-disclosure/
Whilst those articles are largely focused on Rape Cases, it does beg the question of how many other cases have been affected by Non Disclosure by the CPS and could any of the Fake Sheikhs Victims possibly have suffered also due to non disclosure?
It certainly seems that the CCRC is heavily under budgeted and under staffed by mainly by people who have no legal qualifications.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/sep/09/miscarriage-of-justice-bodys-funding-cuts-criticised-as-workload-grows
Nazir Afzal former Chief of the Crown Prosecution Service in Northwest of England.
“One is mindful about the fact there is little regulation on undercover newspaper work and citizen investigators which perhaps needs to be looked into.”
Nazir Afzal – Former Chief of CPS in Northwest.
Quoted From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3825033/Fake-Sheikh-s-Page-3-victim-sue-sting-ended-career.html
Lord Peter Henry Goldsmith QC, British Barrister & Former Attorney General
“The fact that somebody who has been accused by a judge of apparently not telling the truth may be instrumental in those convictions would certainly be a reason to look at those convictions again and to examine them to see whether they are safe,”
(Goldsmith told the Fake Sheikh Exposed Panorama Documentary)
Lord Peter Henry Goldsmith – Former Attorney General
Quoted from: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/12/fake-sheikh-panorama-expose
“I will first deal with unlawful and improper conduct within News International and other newspaper organisations.”
“The Conviction of Mazher Mahmood also raises issues of an entirely different species of unlawful and improper conduct”
Above comments are quoted from Sir Brian Leveson’s letter to the UK Government dated 23rd January 2018 within which as you can see at link below he made it clear that he felt that Leveson Part 2 should go ahead and indeed its remit should be widened.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/684967/DCMS_and_Home_Office_Correspondence_with_Sir_Brian_Leveson.pdf
The Crown Prosecution Service issued me and many other Fake Sheikh Victims with Disclosure Packs and invited us to appeal our Fake Sheikh Convictions following collapse of Tulisa case.
“The CPS said it was in the process of providing the defendants in 25 cases with material that “might cast doubt upon the safety of any convictions”. It said there were no cases in which defendants were still in prison, but that it had identified three live cases where “there was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction” after reexamining evidence provided by Mahmood”
Quoted from: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/dec/04/fake-sheik-mazher-mahmood-cases-reviewed-cps
And further comment about this can be found on the Crown Prosecution Services own blog page here: http://blog.cps.gov.uk/2014/12/action-on-cases-involving-mazher-mahmood.html
Returning to the subject of the Police and/or Crown Prosecution Service not disclosing things to people which would have helped them to be found NOT GUILTY this BBC Panorama documentary entitled “Getting a Fair Trial” is eye opening indeed.
Next let’s take a closer look at what Mazher Mahmoods former Photographer had to say about how the Fake Sheikh Fabricated, Manufactured & Engineered his Stories.
Steve Grayson worked with Mazher Mahmood for years and has now blown the whistle on how Mahmood entrapped people and manipulated them into doing things they would never normally do.
Steve Grayson, who worked with Mahmood on numerous stories in the 1990’s including this one, said of the takedown: “He is a drug dealer, we’re drug dealers, we have paid this guy to supply the drugs to give to her.”
Jonathan Rees who was Daniel Morgans business partner at Southern Investigations a firm Mazher Mahmood used many times.
It seems the Police knew that Mazher Mahmood was an unreliable witness for over a decade before the Tulisa trial collapsed due to his links to the Private Investigation firm Southern Investigations as illustrated here:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/05/met-police-accused-of-ignoring-warnings-on-fake-sheikh
I recently discovered that back in 2012, Channel Four Television here in England ran a documentary called “Undercover at the News of the World” within which jockey Kieren Fallon and politician George Galloway help to show how dishonest Mazher Mahmood always was and how his “stories” cannot be considered anything but works of fiction.
In 2012 Channel Four ran a documentary called “Undercover at the News of the World” exposing Mazher Mahmoods tactics.
Unfortunately I have not been able (as yet) to find a copy of that documentary online, (perhaps legal action was taken by Mazher Mahmood to stop it being shown?) however I have found these 2 relevant newspaper article features:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/aug/03/kieren-fallon-suicidal-news-of-the-world-sting
https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/aug/01/mazher-mahmood-newsoftheworld?newsfeed=true
Lawyer Siobhain Egan said: “The CPS special prosecution team, as it was then, dealt exclusively with these prosecutions and in my view did not seek to test the weight or the veracity of the evidence.”
“As I say, there was a certain MO Mahmood would employ. The same assertions were made by reputable defence teams time and again to the CPS, which were ignored.”
“You also have the Met Police. We now know there were internal investigations by the anti-corruption team at New Scotland Yard into Mahmood’s relationships with serving police officers.”
Quoted from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37571614
“Over the last 25 years, innumerable lives have been ruined by the dishonest actions of Mazher Mahmood. People have lost their livelihoods, their homes and relationships, with some spending time in prison.”
“When the public used to read “Fake Sheikh” articles in British newspapers, they would know there was a criminal at the heart of the story. Until now, readers didn’t realise that the criminal was the “Fake Sheikh” himself.”
MARK LEWIS – LAWYER
Quoted from: https://tinyurl.com/ybom76cy
Ben Rose is the Lawyer that represented British Pop Singer Tulisa in her case which collapsed in 2014 and exposed Mazher Mahmood for the Serial Liar, Manipulator of Evidence and Fabricator of Stories that he most certainly is and at the following link he gives his insights into the whole matter.
Quotes from the link include:
“The real scandal in this case is that Mahmood was allowed to operate as a wholly unregulated police force, ‘investigating’ crimes without the safeguards which apply to the police. As a journalist, he was able to rely on unnamed ‘sources’ and was not required to give full disclosure of his investigation to the defence. As Tulisa’s defence lawyers, we were prevented from properly testing the strength of his evidence.”
“It was obvious from the outset that Tulisa should never have had to go to court. If Mahmood’s evidence had been properly stress tested instead of accepted wholesale by the CPS, we are confident it would have come to the same conclusion.”
https://www.hickmanandrose.co.uk/site/about/press-releases/details/ben-rose-on-mahmood-conviction “Red flags were raised about the reliability of Mazher Mahmood’s stings over decades but the police ignored them.” – Dr. Evan Harris.
Quoted from: https://hackinginquiry.org/press-release-mazher-mahmood-conviction-underscores-need-for-leveson-part-2-to-start-now/
“It appears perverse that, while the law protects against the state causing citizens to commit illegal acts, it does not protect against private parties doing the same thing, where often the participation of the private ‘entrapper’ goes beyond that which would be deemed appropriate by law enforcement officers. Many newspapers stings involve an expensive and targeted campaign on one individual, based on limited or no intelligence, where the inducement is persistent and the primary incentive is to sell newspapers, not to prevent crime.” – David Sleight – Kingsley Napsley Solicitors
Quoted from: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/11/17/mazher-mahmood-lawyers-kingsley-napley-private-entrappers-like-fake-sheikh-often-go-beyond-law-enforcement-officers/
“Mahmood’s methods debase journalism. They often amount to entrapment and, on occasion, appear to involve the use of agents provocateurs. People have been encouraged to commit crimes they would not otherwise have conceived. As if that wasn’t enough, the public interest justification advanced for such activities by the NoW is almost always highly debatable.” – Professor Roy Greenslade – Journalist
Quoted from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/why-i-am-out-to-nail-mazher-mahmood-6103585.html
In the short video/audio below George Galloway MP explains how he tried to
expose Mazher Mahmoods Identity & illegal Activities many years ago now.
Other Relevant Links to George Galloways encounter with Mazher Mahmood are:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/mar/29/newsoftheworld.pressandpublishing
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/apr/07/screwsprivacy
“Panorama increases the strength of the case considerably for a new inquiry… There is a severe question mark over over the tactics he [Mahmood] used… We are dealing with convictions which may not have been properly obtained.” – John Whittingdale MP
Quoted from: https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/nov/20/john-whittingdale-backs-call-for-inquiry-into-mazher-mahmood
“There is a huge danger of accepting Mr Mahmood’s word in respect of any matter.” Stephen Solley QC
Quoted from: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/07/30/other-dark-arts-at-the-news-of-the-world-fake-sheikh-investigated-by-police-just-before-phone-hacking-operation/
“I am minded to refer the whole of this matter to the Attorney General to consider the temptations to which money being offered in return for stories, in particular about celebrities, gives rise to – and the way in which newspaper investigations may have a detrimental effect on – the ultimate court proceedings.”
Judge Simon Smith
Alistair Parker of Brett Wilson has said that more immediately and specifically, there must also be a review of Mazher Mahmood’s previous work. There is a long rap sheet of complaints from Mahmood’s previous targets. All those claims previously dismissed as ‘special pleading’ now sound eerily similar to Contostavlos’ reports, namely that either:-
Mahmood offered inducements to ‘create’ the commission of a crime that would never otherwise have been anticipated,
Mahmood manipulated or ‘spliced’ audio recordings, thus providing police with inaccurate impressions about what was said, or the context of it,
Mahmood misled law enforcement about the ‘originator’ or ‘instigator’ of a criminal enterprise when in fact the origin was either Mahmood, or someone in his pay.
Quoted from: http://www.brettwilson.co.uk/blog/reality-strikes-fake-sheikh/
“We’ve had the case of Mazher Mahmood, the ‘fake sheikh’ who perverted the course of justice to secure his ’scoops’ and left scores of previous convictions unsafe.”
Tom Watson – Labour MP
Quoted from: https://www.tom-watson.com/thrown_to_the_wolves
Other relevant links relating to Tom Watson & Mazhmood include:
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/07/25/comments-on-mazher-mahmood-in-front-of-lord-leveson/
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/may/22/news-of-world-tom-watson
The other thing you might want to look at though is the PCC code: “Clandestine devices and subterfuge. The press must not seek to obtain or publish material acquired by using hidden cameras or clandestine listening devices or by intercepting private or mobile calls, messages or emails…” etcetera, etcetera. And of course it goes on to say: “… unless there’s a clear public interest.”
Alistair Campbell – MP
Quoted from: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/07/25/comments-on-mazher-mahmood-in-front-of-lord-leveson/
“Curiously, he’s (Mazher Mahmood) never been charged with the illegal purchase of cocaine, although there are no legal grounds on which he can do this to perpetrate a sting.” – Peter Burden – Author of Fake Sheikhs & Royal Trappings.
“I am responsible for innocent people going to jail. I tricked them, (to help Mazher Mahmood) and I’m ashamed. It’s time to tell the truth.”
Florim Gashi – Former Colleague of the Fake Sheikh
Also check out these letters about Florim Gashi’s work with Mazher Mahmood:
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/11/20/letters-sent-to-dpp-alison-saunders-and-met-commissioner-bernard-hogan-howe/
William Southcott at Ashcott Solicitors has successfully defended a serving police officer from allegations of ecstasy dealing brought following an apparent undercover investigation by the now infamous Mazhar Mahmood (he of the ‘Fake Sheik’ fame) of the (joyously now defunct) News of the World.
Journalists and a Photographer from the News of the World claimed to have the unfortunate target on tape and film supplying them from a bag containing up to 50 ecstasy tablets. Mr William Southcott was however able to expose lies, half truths and errors within the Crowns evidence resulting in an acquittal of all charges,
Quoted From: http://www.ashcottsolicitors.co.uk/trial-by-media/
David Friesner, for the prosecution, told the Crown Court in Manchester that the CPS had serious concerns over evidence relating to tape recorded and telephone conversations between Mr Rhodri Giggs and the News of the World.
Judge Stuart Fish formally acquitted Mr Giggs, then asked whether charges of inciting to supply drugs and illegal possession had been considered against the reporter, Mazher Mahmood.
Quoted from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/reporter-may-face-charges-in-giggs-case-284853.html
Mr Quinn Hawkins prosecuting (pictured above) said: “The position is that the Crown can no longer rely on Mr Mahmood as a witness of truth in this case, and for that reason, I offer no evidence against Mr Gordon on behalf of the Crown.”
Quoted from: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/another-fake-sheikh-case-dropped-30612217.html
Serious questions have been asked by many about The Crown Prosecution Service along with suggestions that they may have had far too close of a relationship with
Mazher Mahmood & The News of the World.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/11/14/why-is-mazher-mahmood-being-investigated-by-the-same-people-he-worked-with/
There have also been serious allegations that Mazher Mahmood and the Metropolitan Police were too close for comfort as illustrated here:
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2014/11/10/mazher-mahmood-and-the-met-too-close-for-comfort/
And if you have any doubts whatsoever that Mazher Mahmood in the majority of his stories used dishonest, unethical and illegal techniques to entrap people and manipulate them into apparently doing things they would never normally do then be sure to watch the BBC Panorama Documentary “The Fake Sheikh Exposed” again
Bearing in mind everything we have looked at so far, may I now draw your attention to the one and only single thing that I was charged of as follows:
I was charged under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 which can be seen in full at this link: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/45
I was given two charges under Part Two of Section 15 of the act which covers “Offences of Passing Etc. Counterfeit Notes and Coins” and which clearly states:
“It is an offence for a person to deliver to another, without lawful authority or excuse, any thing which is, and which he knows or believes to be, a counterfeit of a currency note or of a protected coin.”
Quoted from: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/45
You will also notice at the above link that according to the Law, the action of Mazher Mahmood purchasing Counterfeit Coins was itself Illegal on his part unless he could prove he had lawful reason and/or excuse, which in short would mean proving that he had acted in the Public Interest and that the story and his actions to get it were truly
in the public interest which as I am sure you already realize having watched the Panorama documentary and looked at this blog page, they most certainly were not.
The above is an image of my DBS aka CRB or Criminal Records Bureau check document which shows quite clearly that according to the Police Charges and Court Records I was charged for TWO separate offences of “delivering Counterfeit coin to another” and that they say BOTH took place on the same date of Thursday 9th April 1998 and I was then convicted on the 1st March 1999 after changing my Not Guitly
plea at the very last minute to Guilty with mitigating circumstances due to the behind the scenes pressure and intimidation I had been facing from Mahmoods associates and also due to the what I now know to be bad legal advice.
FACT: The above is inaccurate as on Thursday 9th April I only delivered one package of coins to Mahmood, namely the 1,000 pound coins that he had provided the money for up front and his associates had provided the information of where to obtain and placed pressure upon me to do such, thus it was Mahmood who made it both possible for this to happen and also manipulated, engineered and intimidated so that it did.
As you can see above the Manchester Evening News who reported on my case printed their report on 2nd March 1999 which was the day after I was convicted.
However The Single Judge who turned down my application to the Court of Appeal in 2016 INCORRECTLY states that I was convicted in February 1999.
He also incorrectly gives the impression that I was only convicted of delivery of 997 counterfeit coins, when in fact as mentioned earlier on this page on one day (which was not the 9th April) I gave Mahmood three (3) Genuine coins from my pocket as apparent “samples” these being the ones he said were the best fakes he had ever seen.
Then on another later meeting on 9th April 1998 AFTER being given the money by Mahmood to enable the purchase of the coins and AFTER being given the information from his associate of where to obtain such along with intimidation that I better get them and keep his boss happy, I finally delivered 1,000 what I was led to believe at the time
were fake coins to Mahmood.
It does not take a Math’s Genius to work out that 3 coins plus 1,000 coins = 1,003.
So why did the Police only ever get sent 1,000 coins in total from Mahmood???
And why was I then charged so it seems with delivery of 3 coins on one visit and just 997 on the second?
Plus how exactly did the Police get the impression that both things took place on the same day (which they did not) of Thursday 9th April?
Close-up (click on it for larger image) from the Manchester Evening News Court Report Published on 2nd March 1998
Could this be pointing towards manipulation of evidence on the part of Mahmood?
Might it be highly likely that he edited video and/or audio footage to DISHONESTLY give the impression that both events happened on the same day?
And how exactly could any of his or his associates actions be considered as “in the public interest” which they would have to be to give him as a Journalist working on such a story lawful excuse to buy counterfeit coins?
Oh and why were the coins never forensically tested, but instead it seems they just took Mahmoods word for it that they were counterfeit?
On the 25th May 2018, the Criminal Cases Review Commission came to a provisional decision that they would not refer my case to the Court of Appeal, but they gave me until 23rd of June to submit anything new I may have for them to consider.
Those observant ones reading this will easily spot the various errors that the CCRC have clearly made both whilst carrying out their review (my case was passed to
numerous different people over the years) and also making their decision.
Click on any of the images and that will make them enlarge so you are then able to read them and spot the various errors made by the CCRC.
One clue I will give you is to look earlier on this page at the images of the Single Judges decision from the Court of Appeal which I got before the CCRC looked (or claim to have) into my case properly and you will notice that for the most part it just looks like they have lazily copied and pasted what the single judge said.
Anyhow they gave us until 23rd of June to submit anything we felt was new
that they should consider and in that regard the following letter was sent to them from my Solicitor Siobhain Egan of Lewis Nedas Law. And along with that letter was a document prepared by my wife which laid out relevant points that the CCRC seemed to have ignored in making their initial decision.
As mentioned earlier by clicking on any of the images on this blog page you will find they enlarge and thus it makes them easier to read.
That was all sent to the CCRC on Monday 4th June 2018, amazingly they have they claim looked at everything and considered all the points fully in just one week as their FINAL DECISION arrived dated Monday 11th June 2018 and again they have stated they will not be referring my case to the Court of Appeal.
On a side note back on Friday 18th May 2018 the CCRC wrote to me stating that they were coming close to the end of their review and that my case worker would be passing my file to a decision maker sometime soon.
Then on Friday 25th May they sent me their provisional decision. Given that 18th May was a Friday and they are off at weekends, do they honestly expect me to believe that the decision maker considered everything fully in less than a week??
Unless of course it is possible that the case reviewer (of which I have had several
over the years) did not give them a huge amount of material to consider?
For example I have recently contacted Journalist John Sweeney who presented the BBC Panorama documentary “The Fake Sheikh Exposed” and he has confirmed that the CCRC have not contacted him about my case, which as I am sure you will agree is ridiculous given what he uncovered during the making of the show. I have also contacted Meirion Jones who was the Producer of the “Fake Sheikh” Panorama Documentary and he also has confirmed that the CCRC have never contacted him despite him being named in the documents I submitted both to the Court of Appeal and also the the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
The same pattern of the CCRC having not contacted the people I mentioned in the documents I submitted to them as being able to confirm Mahmood’s long term dishonesty also continued with Tim Fenton who runs the Zelo Street Blog Page.
I have also confirmed with Journalist Professor Roy Greenslade, and a whole host of other people who I named and mentioned to the CCRC in support of my application that they have not been asked for anything specific to my case from the CCRC. All of the above just being further evidence (and I have even more on file) that proves that the CCRC have not properly looked into or investigated the information and evidence that I submitted to them.
For the record, back in 2015, the likes of Professor Roy Greenslade, Panorama Producer Meirion Jones, Investigative Journalist Peter Jukes and also Paddy French who runs the Press Gang Blog Page all kindly gave detailed statements which were submitted with my original over 500+ page bundle to the Court of Appeal.
When you realize that it also starts to illustrate how the Single Judge for the Court of Appeal missed the point entirely and so it seems totally ignored many of the issues raised in my “bundle” including but not limited to the issues of Non Disclosure by the relevant authorities at the time of me being taken to court in this matter in 1998/1999.
May i once again draw your attention to the BBC Panorama documentary entitled “Last Chance for Justice” that was broadcast on Tuesday 5th June 2018 as per:
Sadly i Can relate to the complaints made in that investigation about how the CCRC may not be fit for purpose, for several main reasons:
a) They seem to have been extremely Lazy and just Copied and Pasted things the Single Judge said to compile their decision.
b) There are factual errors in their documents such as saying I was convicted in Feb 1999 when it was in fact 1st March 1999 and also the number of coins mentioned etc is also wrong as explained earlier on this page.
c) They have not contacted the vast majority of people who are mentioned on this blog page and linked to on this page. This is important as this page and its contents DID
form part of my application to be reviewed and it seems to have largely been ignored.
d) They have concluded that everything I sent them was already considered by the
single Judge in my earlier appeal which again is NOT TRUE as new information regarding the fact I and other Fake Sheikh Victims were drugged has come to light since the single judge looked at my case.
e) Other important things have occurred and come to light since the single judge looked at my case not least of which is Mahmood was convicted for Conspiracy to Pervert the course of Justice.
f) Despite several assurances over the years that my case would be looked at in conjunction with all the other Fake Sheikh victims cases that were/are with the CCRC at the same time, it seems that only the case of Boxer Herbie Hides was actually considered along with mine, despite the fact Mahmood used the same Modus Operandi with all of us.
Ultimately I do not believe for one second that my case has been looked at properly and/or investigated fully.
As I type this latest update on Thursday 14th June 2018, it is now Twenty Years & Nine Weeks exactly since Mahmoods work of fiction about me was published in the now shut down News of the World.
Rest assured I/we shall NOT be giving up until Justice has been achieved and my conviction (and those of my fellow victims mentioned on this page) are overturned.
Even if that means getting a Judicial Review into how the CCRC made their decision,
whatever it takes this fight for Justice and Truth is not over yet.
The image above from 2016 shows that the Single Judge turned down my application for appeal before Mahmood was found Guilty of Conspiracy to Pervert the course of Justice in the Tulisa trial. It also shows that as I have extremely good reasons why I did not renew the application to the court in 2016 (as I was advised to go directly to the CCRC) that arguably I could now apply directly to the court of appeal for an extension of time. Indeed Two Barristers have kindly confirmed this to me also as follows: The image above dated 27th June 2018 shows some Free Advice that The Secret Barrister Kindly gave me via his twitter account of https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret
I have also been fortunate enough on 24th June 2018 to have kindly been given some Free Advice from Barrister Matt Stanbury who runs the excellent informative website of https://appealsbarrister.com/ within which he stated to me:
“I think it is fair to say that this is something of a grey area, but I did a case only last week where the client had applied for leave in 2011, been refused by the single judge, and the Court agreed to list the case for a renewal hearing in 2016 when we received some fresh evidence. This eventually resulted in the case being referred to the full court.”
Another Solicitor who wished to remain nameless for now kindly also spoke to a Barrister colleague of his about my case during September 2018 and as you can
see in the above image which will enlarge when you click on it, the opinion is that I most certainly have a route back to the Court of Appeal to get my conviction cancelled out.
It is also wise to remember that since I was given the advice above during September 2018, that as you will see below I now have evidence from The Royal Mint that despite what the CPS claimed, the coins were never sent to the Royal Mint for testing and thus
were never proven to be counterfeit in the first place.
Also since being given the above advice, more and more extremely strong albeit as yet circumstantial evidence that many of us (including me) were Drugged and/or Spiked without our knowledge by Mahmood’s team on his instruction has come to light as can
be seen much nearer the top of this blog page.
The document above dated 2nd September 1998 shows that originally I was only
charged with one count of delivery of a total of 1,000 Coins.to Mazher Mahmood which took place on Thursday 9th April 1998.
However for some reason as shown by the above document dated 21st October 1998, this was later changed (without my knowledge as far I can recall) to two charges, namely that on Thursday 2nd April 1998 that I gave three £1 Coins to Mazher Mahmood and so they say on Thursday 9th April 1998 then gave him 997 coins, making a total of just 1,000 coins between the two charges.
The above document shows that the records kept by the Courts and CPS seem to be extremely inaccurate to say the least as the above document indicates two charges, one for 3 coins and a second for 996 coins which would be 999 coins total.
In truth it was 3 Real Coins from my pocket on Thursday 2nd April 1998, followed by 1,000 coins which were supplied from the person Mahmood’s associate put me in contact with and for which Mahmood provided the money to get them upfront.
Between these two meetings there had also been other contact both via the telephone and also physically in person both with Mahmood (posing as Perry Khan) and with his associates which included veiled threats & direct intimidation.
The above document (from Courts & CPS records) proves that my Barrister Advised me to change my plea from Not Guilty to Guilty with Mitigating circumstances on the first day of Trial at Manchester Crown Court (something I only did both due to bad advice and behind the scenes intimidation I had been getting from Mahmood’s associates) which was as reported by Manchester Evening News on 1st March 1999, in other-words their documents saying I plead guilty on 1st Feb 1999 are wrong just like many other errors they seem to have made along the way.
It turns out as illustrated by the above image that the Crown Prosecution Services decision submitted to the Single Judge within which they stated they believed my conviction to be safe was from the Chambers of Sarah Forshaw QC.
This is interesting when you consider that SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER submitting such document to the Single Judge, it was Sarah Forshaw QC who on behalf of the CPS Prosecuted Mazher Mahmood & Alan Smith resulting in them being convicted at the Old Bailey.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/28/fake-sheikh-reporter-mazher-mahmood-will-not-give-evidence-in-tr/
As someone who was present at every day of that trial, I know first hand that Sarah Forshaw QC must now be aware of the non disclosure issues that myself and other Mahmood victims have faced, along with the immense evidence available of Mahmoods long term dishonesty & illegal techniques, and so I sincerely trust that she would see things differently now should my case of appeal cross her desk again in the near future.
FINAL NOTE = Look at the above CPS document again and bear in mind that in truth I never knew (and still don’t) whether the coins were real or fake as they were never forensically tested at any time, I merely stated that I was led to believe that they were counterfeit by Mahmoods associate who informed me where to obtain them, something I was only able to do AFTER having the money given to me upfront, AFTER being told were to obtain them from and AFTER being heavily pressurized & intimidated into doing such.
Oh and the coins were never seized from me, how could they be as Mahmood had apparently “bought” them from me and so at that point they were HIS COINS…
Royal Mint Proof Coins were never tested or proven to be Counterfeit
Click on the image above and you can see the email dated 16th August 2018 that I got from Mr. Chris Inson the Legal Counsel and Data Protection Officer for The Royal Mint within which he confirms that they do have records on file of any Counterfeit Currency sent to them for testing & authentication from the time period in question and that they are sent stuff by Law enforcement and CPS etc to confirm if it is real or not and yet THEY HAVE NO RECORDS AT ALL relating to me or the coins that I picked up from the contact suggested by Mazher Mahmoods associate.
As the Crown proceeded against me on the basis that they said & alleged that “I Knew” the coins to be Fake (which I did not ever know for sure) as opposed to “I believed” surely they should have been liable to provide proof that the coins were indeed fake and that would have meant contacting the Royal Mint which the proof now illustrates did NOT ever take place!.
This also illustrates further how the Legal Advice I was given at the time was “bad” as
surely this lack of any existence of evidence of the coins either being real or fake should have been flagged up by my representation at the time as illustration that the CPS did NOT do what they should have done.
The document shown above is from a document showing what details Arco has
about me on the Police National Computer (PNC) as of 25th July 2018.
As you can see according to them I was charged & convicted for two offences of delivery of counterfeit coins. However they INCORRECTLY state that both offences took place at 5pm on the same day of Thursday 9th April 1998.
Firstly how could I possibly commit 2 identical offenses at exactly the same time in
the same location?
Secondly please note that no coins were ever seized from me, indeed once in Mahmood’s possession I never saw them again, they were by him handed to
the Police and thus never in any manner seized from me as he at that time was
the owner of them having “bought” them from me.
Thirdly, as other documents on this page illustrate I gave him 3 coins (real ones)
on Thursday 2nd April 1998 and then another 1,000 coins (supplied via the contact
his associate gave me) were delivered on Thursday 9th April 1998. As such there was
never any possibility of two offences taking place on the same date, same time and
at same location proves the errors on the Arco Police National Computer and also thus
the errors with the information on my CRB documents shown earlier on this page.
I also recently got sent my Subject Access Request file from Rochdale Police Station
where I was finally arrested well over week after the News of the World article dated Sunday 12th April 1998 appeared in the publication.
The only document relating to Counterfeit Coins that they have sent me and thus the only one they say they have is as per the above image and relates to one offense of
1,000 coins only.
You will notice that although the article was published on 12th April 1998, the offense was not reported by Mazher Mahmood and the coins not handed over to the Police by him until Sunday 19th April 1998, why exactly did he wait a week to give them the Coins (they only ever got given 1,000 coins in total so 3 were missing as explained earlier) and to hand his files over to the Police?
I had already gone into the Police Station in Rochdale the moment the newspaper came out on Sunday 12th April 1998 and was told they were not interested until such times
as the offense was reported by Mazher Mahmood & News of the World.
indeed I’d mentioned I was going to be meeting an undercover reporter to members of
the Rochdale CID & Police whilst drinking with them the week before in The Flying Horse Hotel where they used to meet on a Friday for drinks.
For the record it was members of Rochdale Police who in the Flying Horse gave me the information on prices of Drugs, Guns and such like so I could try to look convincing whilst attempting to expose Mahmood’s dodgy, unethical and arguably illegal techniques.
This is one of the reasons they happily gave me a character reference to present to the Judge as they knew I had absolutely no Criminal Intentions in any manner.
Rest Assured this Legal Battle for Truth and Justice is far from over yet…
It seems that as far back as 1998 (possibly earlier) that The Police and Crown Prosecution Service were already aware of Mazher Mahmood’s dishonesty, illegal activities and fabrication of fake stories.
These are things that were never disclosed to me (or other Fake Sheikh Victims) by the Police and/or CPS before or after our cases came to court.
http://www.meccsa.org.uk/news/three-d-issue-27-leveson-part-two-outstanding-issues-and-unheard-evidence/
The photo above shows Jeremy Wright QC who is the current Attorney general at the moment of typing this in June 2018.
At the following link in an article dated 14th June 2018 he is quoted as saying:
“Nothing is more important in the criminal justice system than that principle.(disclosure) I will be as clear as I can be, that we have got to get to grips with this at a senior level. We have been behind the curve.”
In response to the question whether the thought of innocent people being wrongly convicted kept him awake at night, Mr Wright said: “Yes, and it should, and to what extent we can sort out the system.”
Quoted from: https://www.irishlegal.com/12959/england-attorney-general-says-new-cps-head-must-fix-disclosure-system/
This is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT given that the Metropolitan Police (and arguably the CPS) both knew of Mahmood’s dishonesty & illegal activities as far back as early 1998
as is illustrated at this link:
Sir Richard Henriques’ has stated that Police must stop training ‘presumption of guilt’.
His comments follow the collapse of three rape cases in which it was found that the police had withheld evidence from defence lawyers or failed to investigate them properly.
Although these were Rape Cases it is becoming clear that the issue of Non Disclosure by the Police and/or CPS is relevant to many other issues including many of the “Fake
Sheikh” convictions which are now clearly unsafe and should be overturned.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/896348/police-rape-case-collapse-high-court-judge-officer-training-presumption-of-guilt
Pictured above is Lord Justice Peter Gross who on 19th June 2018 gave a speech on the subject of Non Disclosure which he stated is summed up briefly as follows:
My theme tonight can be summarized in a number of propositions:
The law is satisfactory; the application of the law is not
Disclosure must be seen as integral to the criminal justice process – not as a tiresome add-on
The police need an “investigative mindset”
Terminology needs to change, differentiating where appropriate between “complainants” and “victims”, while treating all with respect
There is no place for lingering fallacies
Resources must be addressed
Robust case management is and remains essential
Technology created some of today’s problems; technology/ AI will very likely solve them but not imminently
https://www.judiciary.uk/announcements/speech-by-lord-justice-gross-disclosure-again/
Now things need to be changed so that the CCRC are allowed to refer things back to the Court of Appeal where evidence of Non Disclosure can be shown as it exists in my case and also in the cases of many other “Fake Sheikh” victims.
On 25th June 2018 Michael Mansfield QC opened the evening by reflecting on his 50 years as a barrister. ‘I reckon, probably more than most, I’m entitled to have observations about what has happened during my working lifetime,’ he said. “When I started things were going wrong then. There were problems with legal aid, problems with disclosure and representation. What I find shocking is that things have got worse.”
The human rights lawyer flagged up the recent Crown Prosecution Service review launched in the wake of a series of collapsed rape cases starting with the Liam Allan case before Christmas. The CPS revealed that problems with disclosure had been identified in 47 of 3,637 cases reviewed. ‘That is a lot,’ Mansfield said. ‘We know it is not restricted to sex offenders.’
Quoted From: http://www.thejusticegap.com/2018/07/guilty-until-proven-innocent-book-launch-report/
Professor Roy Greenslade was about to sack Mazher Mahmood for Dishonesty & Tampering with Evidence when Mahmood resigned from Sunday Times in 1988.
Indeed let’s not forget that the evidence of Professor Roy Greenslade proves that Mazher Mahmood has had a total disregard for honesty & truth throughout his career.
in 1988 some 10 years before his sting on me and some 26 years before his sting on Tulisa, Mahmood tampered with evidence at The Sunday Times to try and cover his tracks to hide the fact he had either made mistakes or purposely misinformed about
elements of a story he was working on.
He resigned just before Professor Roy Greenslade could sack him as per:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2011/dec/14/mazher-mahmood-sundaytimes
https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/oct/06/mazher-mahmoods-journalistic-game-has-finally-been-brought-to-book
Judge Alistair McCreath
There were “strong grounds for believing that the underlying purpose of these lies was to conceal the fact that he had been manipulating the evidence in this case” by getting another witness to change his account” Judge Alistair McCreath told the jury.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jul/21/tulisa-contostavlos-trial-collapses-mazher-mahmood
She said: “Mahmood has now been exposed by my lawyers openly lying to the judge and jury. These lies were told to stop crucial evidence going before the jury.”
She added: “Thankfully, the lies have been uncovered and justice has been done.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3859878/What-goes-comes-s-karma-Tulisa-speaks-fake-sheikh-Mazher-Mahmood-jailed-15-months-collapsed-drugs-trial.html
Jeremy Dein QC who was Tulisa’s Barrister on Thursday 6th October had this to say about other Mazher Mahmood related convicitons:
“People who have been locked up in the past are now able to say there is compelling evidence that this man was prepared to lie on oath in order to secure a wrongful conviction, so there’s now a platform for others to come forward and say ‘the same thing happened to us.’”
Quoted from: http://talkradio.co.uk/news/tulisas-barrister-says-fake-sheikh-conviction-will-allow-sven-goran-eriksson-and-others-come
When you take the time to investigate what was revealed about Mazher Mahmood
during the Leveson Inquiry then it starts to open up a massive can of worms.
https://fothom.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/the-fake-sheikh-and-leveson-for-referencce/
It’s clear that Mahmood misled Leveson about his use of the Dark Arts:
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2014/11/08/did-mazher-mahmood-mislead-leveson-about-the-dark-arts-of-his-past/
And there is strong evidence that a Leveson Part 2 would have had much more to
investigate in relation to the Fake Sheikhs Activities as outlined here:
Indeed as Paddy French of Rebecca TV & Press Gang has proven, Mahmood regularly lied about how many convictions his stories had obtained:
Indeed when you also realize that the Police & CPS knew that Mahmood could not
be trusted for many, many years (close to two decades) before the Tulisa trial collapsed the Can of Worms gets even bigger…
Lets also not forget that Mazher Mahmood has a long track record of blatantly lying in his stories just as he did when he wrote about obtaining Fake Passports in the Czech
republic where he purposely misled the reader as he has done many times before & since.
http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/czech-intelligence-service-says-news-of-the-world-got-it-wrong
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/jan/20/newsoftheworld.pressandpublishing
Indeed Mahmood’s own “autobiography” is arguably the biggest work of Fiction you are ever likely to read, I defy anyone to read it after having watched all the videos (especially the Panorama “Fake Sheikh Exposed” Documentary) and looked at all the evidence and links on this blog page which expose the real truth behind his lies, fabricated stories & long term dishonesty. The above image is of page 46 of Mahmoods book and by clicking on the image above it will enlarge making it easier to read.On this page Mahmood reveals his views on how he practiced to be able to give “a good performance before the jury” when in a court of law and how he considers courts to be “pure theatre” amongst other such comments.
The image above is from page 102 of his book “Confessions of a Fake Sheik” subtitled “The King of Sting Reveals All” where Mahmood reveals that after the Beckham Kidnap Story related Court Trial, John Kelsey-Fry QC once told him that his performance in the witness box was the best that he had ever seen in his career.
As such I wonder why, when in 2016 John Kelsey-Fry QC ended up defending Mazher Mahmood in the Old Bailey against charges of Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice (which he lost) that Mahmood was never called to the witness box?
Seriously look at every link on this page, read all the evidence at the links provided, watch all the videos and then read Mahmoods book and you will see just how often he blatantly lies and/or drastically distorts the truth again and again within the pages of his so called autobiography.
The Story surrounding Mahmood’s Sting on Footballer & TV Presenter John Fashanuis a most interesting one and raises many questions in itself.
As mentioned here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Grobbelaar in 1994 The Sun Newspaper ran a story about Match Fixing, but ultimately in 1997 all involved were
found innocent and cleared at trial as detailed here:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/football-stars-cleared-over-match-fixing-charges-1244249.html
It comes as no surprise that Fashanu would be seen as an ideal target for the Fake Sheikh and his team and indeed in July 2003 the “News of the World” published a story claiming that Fashanu had offered to do various things, however BEFORE the article
was published he went to the Police himself as explained here:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/has-fash-the-bash-levelled-the-score-in-match-fixing-sting-or-is-it-a-costly-own-goal-97946.html
And as also detailed here as well:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/28/newsoftheworld.pressandpublishing
What I find interesting is fact that here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Grobbelaar it mentions that Bruce Grobbelar pleaded NOT GUILTY claiming that he was only gathering evidence with the intent of taking it to the police.
Having been the subject of a Sun Newspaper Sting some years earlier, I am sure Fashanu would have been even more on guard than normal and so I suspect there may well me more truth to Fashanu’s claims that he was collecting evidence for the Police than Mazher Mahmood and his colleagues at “News of the World” would ever have admitted at the time or would ever want anyone to realize now for obvious reasons.
Pictured above is Barrister Daryl Hutcheon of Matrix Chambers who at the link that follows gives his Professional Legal Opinion on how those who were lied about by Mazher Mahmood and/or entrapped, pressurized & intimidated into doing things they would never normally have dreamed of doing could go about seeking damages & redress in relation to what was done to them.
https://inforrm.org/2016/11/08/gotcha-civil-claims-arising-from-the-activities-of-the-fake-sheikh-darryl-hutcheon/
However at the next link Celebrity Phone Hacking Lawyer Mark Lewis is quoted as stating that the Civil Claims could easily dwarf Phone Hacking compensation claims.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/05/fake-sheikh-reporter-mazher-mahmood-faces-jail-over-tulisa-conto/
Back in 2006 Sven-Goran Erikkson was the subject of a Fake Sheikh Sting:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jan/16/pressandpublishing.football
Despite a period of around 10 years having passed by, Sven it appears is one of the first people to have successfully taken Legal Action and obtained financial damages
and compensation in relation to the Mazher Mahmood News of the World story which was run about him as detailed here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4970732/Sven-Goran-Eriksson-wins-pay-Fake-Sheikh-sting.html
On Sunday 14th April 2019, the Daily Mail Reported that The Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson’s Damages Case against Rupert Murdoch’s Company in relation to the
“Sting” that the Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood conducted on her had collapsed.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6920029/Fergies-40million-claim-against-Fake-Sheikh-collapses.html
However I suspect that may be misleading when you look at this quote:
“In a document filed at the High Court, both parties agreed ‘the claimant discontinues all of her claims against the defendants’.”
Another quote from the article of interest is:
“No order was made regarding who would pick up the bill.”
Surely if the case had collapsed, a case which she instigated, then surely costs would have to be paid by her??
But there is no mention of that making me think that some kind of “Secret” keep it out of court type settlement deal may well have been agreed??
After all when you consider that just like Sven Goran Erikson she did say the things that were claimed, the cases seem similar and he has already been paid out a settlement as shown earlier above.
Royle in Parliament April 2016 #HackedOff
As shown in the picture above on Wednesday 20th April 2016 I attended Committe Room 14 within the Houses of Parliament in London after having been invited by #HackedOff to come along to their “Lobby Your MP for No More Broken Promises” Event.
To fully understand the importance of this event I would suggest that you take a look at the information on their own Website and also sign the Petition to demand that Leveson Part 2 is allowed to take place as previously promised at this link:
https://hackinginquiry.org/latest-news/leveson-2-now-petition/
About to enter Parliament with Hacked Off to Lobby for Leveson 2 to Occur – 20th March 2018
Then having looked at that page, if you have not already done so, please take a few moments to visit the following link and complete the form to Contact Your Local MP and ask them to lobby The British Prime Minister to ensure that victims of Press Abuse get Justice and that Leveson Part Two Actually takes place to investigate and expose the Media & Press Corruption (and likely even worst) that has been going on for years.
Take a few moments to help make a real difference in the World:
https://hackinginquiry.org/levesonpart2pledge/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rupert-murdochs-117billion-sky-takeover-12650343
As illustrated by the short video above of Labour MP Tom Watson speaking in parliament on Tuesday 5th June 2018 and also by the news article at the above link, it seems that the Tory Government are choosing to ignore the very real and shocking truth about Rupert Murdoch, his businesses and his employees & colleagues illegal activities.
Rupert Murdoch with his right hand man of many years Les Hinton
On Monday 4th June 2018, Rupert Murdoch’s right hand man of many years Les Hinton held his book launch in London. My friend, Fake Sheikh Victim John Alford was there as was former Sunday Times Blagger John Ford, Daniel Morgans Brother Alistair and
others who had some very interesting questions to ask & points to raise which it seems
Les Hinton was not prepared to answer as illustrated here within this article where you
will also see me mentioned:
https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2018/06/murdoch-mafias-sick-making-media-love-in.html
For more on how Les Hinton was confronted including a video check out this link:
Murdoch’s Right Hand Man for many years Les Hinton claims to know nothing of illegal activities
He claimed at his book launch and in many interviews that he knew nothing about the illegal activities taking place behind the scenes at Rupert Murdochs papers and yet the information at the following two links illustrates that to be a massive lie it would seem.
Rebekah Brooks known to be well liked by and close to Rupert Murdoch was many say a close friend of Mazher Mahmood
The picture above shows Rebekah Brooks who basically was in charge of running The News of the World newspaper when it shut down following the public’s discovery that the publication had illegally hacked the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
Put on trial for Phone Hacking she was found Not Guilty and has always claimed no
knowledge of Illegal activities and yet evidence is now coming out to show this is most likely untrue to say the least as shown at next link:
Many insiders have told me that they understand that Brooks and Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood were in regular contact and that she knew exactly the kinds of things he was doing which were unethical to say the least and often illegal as well.
Piers Morgan was appointed editor of The News of the World in 1994 aged 29.
In 1994 Piers Morgan was appointed editor of The News of the World newspaper by Rupert Murdoch, many have accused him of massive dishonesty as illustrated at these few links which follow..
https://pressganguk.wordpress.com/piers-morgan/
https://www.byline.com/project/11/article/148
So It Would appear from what you have seen above, that the vast majority of Key Players at The News of the World during the time Murdoch’s Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood worked there all knew each other and all seem to have been involved in or at very least known about dishonest, unethical and/or illegal activities taking place.
The Daniel Morgan Murder
If I were to say to you that News International (who Published The News of the World) were implicated in the Murder of somebody you would probably laugh your socks off and think that I was mad…
But let me tell you that the Story of Daniel Morgan’s Death (the most investigated Murder in British History to date with Five Police Investigations so far) reveals Police and Media Corruption of the highest order.
And now that Mazher Mahmood has been found Guilty in Court the team behind the Untold Murder Podcast can now reveal that the “Fake Sheikh” was implicated as follows:
https://twitter.com/UntoldMurder/status/783675875296415744/photo/1
Daniel’s brother Alistair has been campaigning for years to discover the truth, shocking truths that are slowly but surely coming to Public Light and indeed he was present and spoke at the Hacked Off “No More Broken Promises Event” in London which I attended on 20th April 2016.
I also mention him here as I contributed to the Crowd Funding Campaign so that he and Journalist Peter Jukes could make this extremely eye opening Series of Podcasts uncovering the Real and often Shocking Truths behind Daniel Morgans Murder.
Watch the short video and read the background facts on their page here:
Buy UNTOLD – The Daniel Morgan Murder Exposed http://tinyurl.com/lq5tjn4 and you’ll see that Mazher Mahmood’s name is mentioned numerous times as you discover more proof on how dishonest and dodgy he is.
On Thursday 18th May 2017 the Conservative Party released their Manifesto for the General Election taking place on 8th June 2017 and within it they revealed that they intend to scrap Part Two of the Leveson Inquiry and also Section 40
This would have investigated Police & Media Corruption at the highest level’s and also
looked into the Daniel Morgan Murder and further into the Engineered and Fabricated
Stories of Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood, Let’s just hope the Tory’s don’t get in.
At this moment I cannot explain to you how all these things seem to inter-link as I do not want to become Guilty in any manner of Contempt of Court, but rest assure I am convinced that within the next couple of years some massive and truly shocking revelations will finally become Public Knowledge, rather than just being known by those of us with Skilled Lawyers and Researchers to investigate and get to the bottom of things.
What I can say is that based on my many years experience of Selling Stories to Newspapers and Media Outlets, together with my time investigating and writing such for them, it is my honest belief, experience and understanding that the Vast majority of “Stories” in Newspapers and Magazines contain little if any truth at all.
Following our day in Parliament The Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport was asked various questions in the House of Commons as detailed at this link:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/21/john-whittingdale-leveson-press-regulation-costs-implement
And in response to his comments “Hacked Off” Published this Press Release:
http://hackinginquiry.org/mediareleases/response-to-whittingdales-comments-at-cms-oral-questions/
Now at first sight you might think that all seems fair enough, but what about when I make you aware that John Whittingdale himself has recently been exposed by the Media with Various Scandals as follows:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/22/john-whittingdale-under-parliamentary-investigation-over-mtv-awards-trip-amsterdam
And also this…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3543701/MP-s-porn-star-lover-shown-Cabinet-papers-John-Whittingdale-new-sex-scandal-SECOND-lover-reveals-affair.html
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/sorry-but-saying-sex-worker-wont-lift-the-stigma/
This Next Article Explains why these things are all so important to the much bigger picture of what is truly going on here:
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/john-whittingdale-and-dominatrix.html
And indeed this link also continues to expand the bigger picture:
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/whittingdale-cover-up-exposed.html
Heck along the way the “Establishment” not suprisingly tried to smear the reputation of some of those trying to get Justice for Victims of Press Abuse such as Hacked Off as is illustrated in this article here:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2016/apr/20/daily-mail-telegraph-byline-hacked-off?CMP=share_btn_tw
The Rabbit Hole in relation to Media Lies, Distortion, Corruption and Law Breaking is it seems way bigger than anyone could ever have realised.
Shortly after The Tories won (to everyone’s surprise) the British General Election in 2015 I published this eye opening and thought provoking article on my blog:
https://klearthoughtsmentalismhypnosis.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/british-general-election-2015-what-do-prime-minister-conservative-party-leader-david-cameron-labour-party-leader-ed-milliband-media-mogul-rupert-murdoch-disgraced-news-of-the-world-journali/
Take a look at it and consider it in relation to everything else I have revealed to you here and you may well start to open your eyes and see how much bigger the real picture is and how massively deep this rabbit hole does indeed go.
Finally just before I get back to addressing the other Rubbish, Lies and Bullshit that some people have posted about me on the internet here is a video of Evan Harris who is one of the main people at “Hacked Off” touching on some raw nerves that seem to make Journalist Piers Morgan squirm.
1st MARCH 2018 = DAY CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT SCRAPPED LEVESON 2
Despite assurances that it would go ahead, on Thursday 1st March 2018 Matt Hancock the Culture Secretary for Theresa May’s Conservative Government announced that
Part 2 of the Leveson Inquiry is officially being scrapped by them and that they will not be activating Section 40 of the Crimes & Courts act which would have helped victims of Press Abuse to get Justice and protect themselves from Corruption & Media Lies.
Indeed he announced they intend to repeal “Section 40” at the earliest chance possible.
These few links will give you some more insight into this tragic day for victims of Media Abuse, Corruption and Lies.
https://hackinginquiry.org/mediareleases/gov-cancels-leveson-accesstojustice/
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/leveson-2-tory-shame.html
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/01/leveson-inquiry-part-2-cancellation-condemned-by-labour-as-breach-of-trust
https://www.thecanary.co/off-the-perch/2018/03/01/leveson-inquiry-2-not-needed-press-excellent-job/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/leveson-2-press-inquiry-police-journalists-matt-hancock-phone-hacking-hacked-off-a8234286.html
https://skwawkbox.org/2018/03/01/video-govt-didnt-just-bin-leveson-2-it-declared-war-on-the-independent-media/
1st May 2018 – UK Prime Minister (Former Home Secretary) Theresa May who Let down Fake Sheikh & other Media Abuse Victims faces pressure to resign.
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/rudd-goes-may-next.html
WEDNESDAY 9th MAY 2018 – 295 VOTES FOR & 304 VOTES AGAINST SEEMS TO END CHANCES OF LEVESON PART 2 EVER TAKING PLACE
https://news.sky.com/story/bid-for-leveson-two-inquiry-narrowly-defeated-11365335
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/press-thugs-let-mask-slip.html
HACKED OFF CAMPAIGNERS SAY THIS IS NOT THE END
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/may/09/vote-against-new-leveson-inquiry-not-the-end-for-hacked-off-campaigners
https://www.byline.com/column/68/article/2166
CONTACT YOUR MP & LOBBY FOR JUSTICE & TRUTH TODAY
https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/
LORDS COULD DEFY GOVERNMENT OVER LEVESON INQUIRY
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/may/10/lords-could-defy-government-over-leveson-inquiry
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/leveson-2-its-not-over-yet.html
MON 14th MAY 2018 – LORDS VOTE 252 to 213 FOR LEVESON 2 STYLE INQUIRY
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/culture/news/95164/house-lords-defeat-government-again-fresh-call-leveson-2
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/house-of-lords-leveson-inquiry_uk_5af9cd6ae4b0200bcab7be3f
TUES 15th MAY 2018 – COMMONS VOTES 289 FOR & 301 AGAINST LEVESON 2
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/may/15/mps-vote-for-second-time-against-new-leveson-style-inquiry
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/mps-crush-bid-new-leveson-12540490
Could Hacked Off’s Judicial Review into Leveson 2 announced on 21st May 2018
be the Phoenix from the Flames that is needed for victims of Press Abuse?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/may/21/leveson-2-government-taken-court-over-cancelled-inquiry
http://pressgazette.co.uk/press-abuse-victims-including-the-mccanns-and-crimewatchs-jacqui-hames-taking-government-to-court-over-decision-to-scrap-leveson-two/
Thursday 29th November 2018 and sadly the verdict in the Judicial Review about Leveson having been cancelled has been decided in favor of the Government. However
it is not over until the fat lady Sings and both “Hacked Off” the Campaigning Group and also numerous Media Abuse Victims will never give up trying to expose the truth.
https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/high-court-judges-reject-press-victims-challenge-over-government-decision-to-cancel-leveson-two/
https://hackinginquiry.org/leveson-two-jr-challenge-rules-in-favour-of-gov/
Sir Brian Leveson has on 21st June 2019 now come out and confessed that he knew various people were lying to him during Part One of the Leveson Inquiry which itself
illustrates further why we need Part Two to take place more than ever.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190622143017/https://bylinetimes.com/2019/06/21/leveson-tells-the-truth-about-press-lies/
On Monday 18th February 2019, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee published the “Disinformation and Fake News – Final Report” and as a result these eye opening articles appeared.
https://bylinetimes.com/2019/02/18/explosive-uk-parliamentary-report-exposes-the-molten-core-of-the-trump-brexit-russia-scandal/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/18/facebook-fake-news-investigation-report-regulation-privacy-law-dcms
In relation to the mention of Russian interference in Brexit, voting for the US President and other matters including “Cambridge Analytica” and how private data was stolen from Social Media Users (I being one of them as of Feb 2019 engaged in legal action against Facebook) this blog by my friend Neil Sanders is well worth reading:
https://neilsandersmindcontrol.com/index.php/neils-blog/the-kochs
AND IN THIS NEXT VIDEO I EXPLAIN SOME OF WHAT MY INVESTIGATIONS HAVE INDICATED IS BEING COVERED UP & SUPPRESSED BY THE MEDIA
AND AT THIS LINK PROOF THAT Sir BRIAN LEVESON DISAGREES WITH THE
GOVERNMENT & FEELS THAT PART TWO OF LEVESON SHOULD OCCUR.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-leveson-inquiry-and-its-implementation
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/04/the-guardians-betrayal-over-leveson-part-two
MORE INFORMATION THAT SHOWS Sir BRIAN LEVESON WANTED PART 2
SEEM’S THE SUNDAY TIMES MAY ALSO HAVE ACTED ILLEGALLY
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/07/i-was-nothing-more-than-a-common-thief-master-of-fleet-streets-dark-arts-reveals-trade-secrets
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/07/labour-demands-reopening-of-leveson-inquiry-over-press-blagging-claims-john-ford
METROPOLITAN POLICE ROLE IN PHONE HACKING & OTHER THINGS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Police_role_in_the_news_media_phone_hacking_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazher_Mahmood
His lawyer Siobhain Egan said of our investigations:
It is as we have long suspected that the Met knew and repressed information about corrupt relationships between their officers, employees of The News of the World and Southern Investigations. This information was deliberately repressed by the Metropolitan police and should have been disclosed to those representing defendants in the so called “stings” orchestrated by Mazher Mahmood. It is information which should be immediately disclosed to those lawyers advising relevant convicted individuals whose cases are now before the CCRC, and the Daniel Morgan Investigation Panel.
Quoted from: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/06/22/revealed-how-the-metropolitan-police-covered-up-for-rupert-murdochs-news-international/
Jonathan Rees Southern Investigations Mazher Mahmood
The Man pictured above is Jonathan Ree’s one of the people who ran Southern Investigations a company and person implicated into the murder of Daniel Morgan
and also whom worked closely with Mazher Mahmood for many years.
He has an extensive criminal record and has also been linked to Police Corruption
in much the same way as Murdoch’s Fake Sheikh also was over the years.
This video and the links that follow explain more about such things.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/notw-hired-disgraced-private-investigator-to-protect-fake-sheikh-6275769.html
https://pressganguk.wordpress.com/tag/southern-investigations/
Another thing to consider is that back in January 1994 “The Sun” Newspaper as published by Rupert Murdoch ran a double page spread on my Hypnosis Show with the headline “Dirty Trancing”.
This article was written by now deceased Journalist Chris Blythe and seemed to prove
that I was Hypnotizing Women at shows into having Sexual Relations with me, something which most certainly was and is NOT true on any level.
Indeed various routines in my show at the time which visually were quite innocent, when written up in a sensationalized manner with no respect for the truth by Chris Blythe suddenly seemed to make me out as some kind of monster.
The lady quoted in that article was an actress that I paid to talk to Chris Blythe and say that she had experienced amazing consensual “Hypnotic Fantasy” style sex with me after a show, however when he wrote it up, what was published bore zero relation to
what my paid actress friend had actually stated and thus back in January 1994 I was to get my first taste of journalists at Murdoch papers who have no regard for the truth and
just distort & fabricate things to then publish whatever they so desire.
I had informed my former publicist Alan Breeze (an associate of Mazher Mahmood as
mentioned earlier on this blog page) that I had recordings of my meetings with Chris Blythe (which at that time I did) which proved that he published fabricated defamatory
lies and NOT what was actually said by me and the paid actress he interviewed.
Now in hindsight I suspect Alan Breeze would not only have tipped off Mazher Mahmood that I was intending to expose his dishonest & illegal activities (although he may have discovered that himself through hacking my mobile phone conversations) but also he would no doubt have mentioned that I had evidence at the time of Chris Blythe’s 1994 Sun Newspaper Story about me having been fabricated and full of untruths.
Chris Blythe was certainly a friend of Rebekah Brooks as illustrated here:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hacking-trial-rebekah-brooks-i-knew-nothing-of-mulcaire-contract-9144653.html
Quoted from above link:
She said the pair became good friends through fellow journalist Chris Blythe, a close friend of Coulson’s, who died in an accident abroad.
She said: “Andy and I in 1996 were good friends, we became good friends through Chris Blythe, but it wasn’t until 1998 that Andy and I became close.”
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Farewell+to+Chris.-a061315200
http://www.media-underground.net/site/index.php?/archives/371-News-Of-The-Screws.html
The two links above show that Chris Blythe died in an accident in 1996 and also that he has been compared to Mazher Mahmood in terms of his dishonesty and fabrication of stories for Murdoch owned newspaper publications.
The article above headed “Look into my Thighs” was published in the News of the World Newspaper on Sunday 12th August 2007 and the Hypnotist who helped the newspaper expose the sick Private Investigator was/is one of my Hypnosis Students Chris Lee.
As I explain at this link https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155778964662806&set=a.149675857805.143324.673582805&type=3&theater
How I was approached first by the Private Investigator, but the News of the World did not want to deal with me, as they knew this was a REAL STORY and did not want it associated with the rubbish they had run about me back in 1998 so instead I ended up just consulting and advising behind the scenes to help ensure the ladies safety.
SO NOW BACK TO THE OTHER RUBBISH PEOPLE POST ABOUT ME…
One final note regarding the media though and the instance where I flashed on BBC Ones “Kilroy” show as mentioned here –
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/FURY+AT+KILROY+FLASHER%3B+Sick+hoaxer+strips+on+live+telly+as+Beeb+chat…-a060571729
I quote from that article above – “a spokesman for Vanessa accused Kilroy of a cheap bid to win ratings. We believe the Kilroy show is feeling the pressure,” he said. “This man is a well-known hoaxer.”
And indeed despite the denials of Kilroy (well lets be honest he couldn’t admit it) I was indeed paid money to go onto that Edition of Kilroy and Cause a Media Frenzy to help them in the ratings war against ITV’s “Vanessa” Show which the same day had started to go head to head with Kilroy in the same time slot.
I’ll also point out that as well as getting paid by the Kilroy show and BBC, I was also paid money by various National Newspapers after the event and also appeared on TV Shows such as “Channel Fours Right to Reply” within which I confirmed it was all a paid for stunt to help them in the viewer ratings battle.
The BBC show “Here & Now” where they claimed to have covertly film me waking up
a Hypnotized Lady at one of my shows in a manner where she thought she had just
been Raped WAS A COMPLETE MEDIA PRANK as firstly the Cameras were
obviously filming and nothing was “Covert” about it and secondly the lady in question
was a STOOGE (Paid Actress) acting the part as I would never and have never used
such a routine on any genuinely Hypnotized individual, it was like everything else just
another Media Prank and Stunt.
Indeed any Females featured on any TV Shows and in any Newspaper or Magazine
Publications with me in the context of “Stage Hypnosis” and Sexual Style Storylines
have all been either Paid Glamour Models or Actresses and all of the stories have
been nothing more than Media Pranks and Stunts.
I’m not mentioning any of the literally 100’s & 100’s of Extensive TV, Radio, Newspaper and Magazine Features that have been done on me around the world over the years to brag or show off, indeed in regards to many of them I now look back in regret at some of the outlandish things I did, in some cases 20 or more years ago in a bid for fame.
However I do standby my actions in engineering certain media hoaxes and stings in order to expose unethical journalists and their often illegal techniques which led to the publication of my book “Confessions of a Psychic Hypnotist”
THE TRUTH ABOUT OTHER RUBBISH THAT PEOPLE POST ABOUT ME ON INTERNET IN AN ATTEMPT TO INCITE HATRED AND VIOLENCE AGAINST ME.
Often they will post this FACTUALLY INCORRECT exert from a Book by Andrew Newton (The Man Who Taught Paul McKenna) –
In a recent book,”All in the Mind” by stage hypnotist Andrew Newton the following material occurs; Dr. Jonathan Royle PhD., an individual who also goes under the name Alex Leroy when he performs stage hypnotism shows in pubs, but whose real… name is Alex Smith, or prisoner number DW4664 as he was known during his tenure at Wakefield Prison, an institution for which he was a guest of Her Majesty following a conviction for handling counterfeit pound coins, amongst other things. Within the profession, he is best known for his claim that he could hypnotise any woman to have sex with him. To back up this immature claim, he provided channel five with a video which apparently shows him having sex with a young lady who appears to be unconscious.
Written by Andrew Newton– in “All in the Mind” page 347– Literally Published Limited-Oxfordshire,UK
(I have never been to, let alone inside Wakefield Prison and the phrase “amongst other things” implies I was convicted of “other things” which is blatantly inaccurate & untrue)
Or when they get really desperate they will post a link to a site such as this one – http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=27857 – notice that this is a website than any Jealous Backstabbing Competitor of mine can join and they can do so anonymously and post any old rubbish and untrue vicious lies that they so desire.
FACT: Whenever I point out to people who post this that it is rubbish they always retort in desperation – “well why haven’t you complained and got it removed” well the answer is simple I HAVE COMPLAINED and the site merely replied directing me to this page where they make it clear that its not their problem either ethically or in law – http://www.scam.com/complaints.html
FACT: Regards the Scam.Com Rubbish, please note that I have NEVER lived in any flats in Rochdale that are dubbed “Smack Head Heights” by the locals and I can easily prove such (as I have a copy of the deeds from when I purchased my flat outright for cash with no mortgages or loans) and any Rochdale Resident would confirm that its location is NOT nicknamed “Smack Head Heights”
FACT: Indeed for the record I no longer personally reside in the flat which I purchased outright for CASH (no mortgages or loans required before the age of 30) as its currently rented out to a private tenant and I personally now live in a three bedroom house with gardens.
FACT: You’ll also notice that the links in the Scam.com article such as www.myspace.com/hypnoticwarning – no longer exist that’s because My Space removed them and banned the person who set up the Fraudulent Profile and indeed those suspected to be involved were visited by and Cautioned by The Police Under The Anti-Harassment Act.
THIS TIME A DISTORTED TRUTH – Sometimes they will post this link as well and yet it seems they have not read and fully understand it – http://tinyurl.com/kmeaoe7
FACT – The Advertising Standards Authority Got it all wrong in this case, the true fact is there is NO such thing as any form of Legally Recognised or Required Qualification for Hypnotherapy etc anywhere in UK – and as for the product the post relates to it has had numerous highly satisfied customers from around the world including some of whom’s testimonials appear here – http://www.magicalguru.com/testimonials
Indeed the fact that there is NO such thing as any form of Legally Recognized or Required Qualification for Hypnotherapy etc anywhere in UK or most other places in the world.
THE SIMPLE TRUTH IS EVERYTHING THEY POST IS EITHER DOWNRIGHT LIE’S & DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER WITH NO BASIS IN REALITY OR IS SERIOUSLY DISTORTED AND OUT OF CONTEXT…
Other times they will try to say I am not a real hypnotist and claim I teach “Con-Hypnosis” they sometimes claim I have never had any real training from others which is untrue as illustrated by just some of the copies of my various Hypnosis – NLP and Related Qualifications which can be seen here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156014565602806.1073741954.673582805&type=1&l=db70cea42a
And trust me they represent only a tiny fraction of the Continuing Professional Development that I have done over the years with some of the biggest names in the industry.
Then often they will come out and say but YOUR DEGREE IS NOT REAL – Well guess what?
I openly admit that I bought it on my courses, in my books and on my DVDs and openly admit that is was awarded based on Previous Life and Career Experiences and Accreditation of Prior Learning.
The Company, which at the time I was under the impression was a Genuine University
from where I obtained my Psychology Degree (after submitting proof of my relevant prior work and life experience, copies of my training products and also a thesis on Hypnosis) was called Chelsea University and the website they used at the time can be seen at this archived link: http://tinyurl.com/mropcbm
FACT: However the document shown here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=28790687805&set=a.28519137805.50987.673582805&type=3&l=08cd01732e&theater and also shown below:
They prove that my Psychology Doctorate Degree has been Apostilled by The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office here in London (UK) and as such is 100% Legal for use (as I use it due to being able to prove that I have the knowledge and expertise that such qualification signify’s) in any Country in the world that is subscribed to the Hague Convention.
Yes I sometimes call myself Dr., simple fact is I have a Doctorate Degree in Psychology.
The Degree was legalized by Apostle as explained with evidence shown above.
The document which I submitted as my Thesis is now available on Amazon as a huge Over 500 Page large A4 format Encyclopedia on Hypnosis and the Psychology of it here:
http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Hypnotherapy-Hypnosis-Complete-Therapy/dp/1481911244/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379186552&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Encyclopedia+of+Hypnotherapy%2C+Stage+Hypnosis+%26+Complete+Mind+Therapy
IT WAS SOME TIME AFTER Having got my Degree that I discovered they were a Diploma Mill, but I checked things out and it seems that I can Still LEGALLY use the Term Doctor before my name (indeed I have credit card and other legal documents which have stated and still do Dr before my name after the companies involved had seen my Legalized Apostatized Degree Document) ,
For the record it should also be noted that it was the people at Chelsea University and
not me that had the Degree Document Apostilled and “Legalized” by the Solicitor Geoffrey Niman in London, so if anybody misled him and said that it was a Real Accredited Degree or anything similar then it was the people at Chelsea University who did that and not me!
Indeed I have been Legally advised that it is Legal for me to use just so long as I have the Provable Knowledge and Experience to back up using the title as otherwise that would be misleading people.
Well the simple fact is I teach Medical GP’s, Surgeons, Nurses, Dentists, Psychologists and a whole bunch of other professionals NLP, Hypnotherapy and such and also have arguably taught more people around the world who are now successful Hypnotherapists and/or Stage Hypnotists as is illustrated on my site at http://tinyurl.com/mxsnkoh (Check out the testimonials that appear at all the links that are given on that page and bear in mind those are just a tiny fraction of the many thousands of such similar testimonials that I hold on File)
In any event as an Ordained Reverend of The Universal Life Church (ULC) I also
passed the exam and was awarded a Doctor of Divinity Non Accredited Religious
Degree around 15 years ago now like the ones they mention here:
https://www.themonastery.org/catalog/drofdivinitycertificatedd-p-68.html
Also it should be remembered that there is a long history of Stage Hypnotists using
Doctor or Dr as part of their Stage Name’s and Stage Personas.
The simple fact is DR can also stand for “Dual Reality” which itself is a very important
principle used both in Hypnotherapy, Stage-Hypnosis and Mentalism…
And of course one should also consider the very real fact that Doctor (Dr.) is NOT a protected title under British UK Law and consequently anyone may Legally and Lawfully use such title just so long as they do NOT mislead or purposely deceive people into thinking they are for example a Medical GP or other Medical Professional as that would indeed be considered Fraud and a Criminal Offense.
This article in the Guardian confirms that Doctor (Dr) is NOT a protected title and that anyone may use such Legally & Lawfully so long as they do not for example claim to be a Medical GP: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/apr/22/badscience.uknews
This post on the UK House of Commons (British Government) website also makes for interesting reading and confirms that as long as I don’t claim to be a registered Medical Practitioner (which I have never done and never would do) then in other regards the title of Doctor (Dr.) is NOT protected under British Law and so I can indeed use such even if I did not have bits of paper saying they granted me such right.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199596/cmhansrd/vo950119/debtext/60119-24.htm
The most important thing to consider and remember is that you can easily see at some of the links already posted above, that I openly ADMIT on my own Blog that my degree is not accredited, there is absolutely no deception on my part and indeed on the vast majority of the products I sell I make it very clear as well, just as I do at all my live training events.
And given that all of my products and courses come with Money Back Guarantees and/or are covered by the distance selling regulations, the simple fact is that if any of my students or customers were ever unhappy they could very easily get all of their money back, in other-words the allegations that I have ever obtained money from people by deception are complete and utterly laughable and unfounded in any manner.
Other times they will post this link – http://www.hypnosisonline.com/forum/pop_printer_friendly.asp?TOPIC_ID=844 and try to make claims that I have ripped off old ladies because of this comment from The Now Deceased Gil Boyne that appears on that page from which I quote:
Reply author: mark-gil
Replied on: 08/22/2006 8:53:44 PM
I lived in London for seven years and I came to know Jonathan Royale
(not his real name) quite well. I also met several elderly women who claimed that they invested in his “promotions” and lost large sums of money. I had to threaten him with a law suit to get him to stop using my name in his mailing pieces, (this course is approved by Gil Boyne) He is considered “disreputable” by many practioners in the UK. LET THE BUYER BEWARE!
You’ll notice on that same page I reply with this comment:
Reply author: magicalguru
[Moderator] Duplicate post – link to same info here:
http://hypnosisonline.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1081
PS: Gil Boyne has also said on some forums that apparently I have “conned” several old ladies out of money??? Who? When? PROVIDE PROOF – this is not true, the only female I know that Gil Boyne may be talking of did buy the rights to market some of my stuff years back but then ILLEGALLY in breach of contract and breach of Copyright Laws attempted to pass my works off as her own and I had to threaten her with Legal Action and ultimately RECLAIMED ownership of my original material… I gather this person still ILLEGALLY sells my materials passing them off as her own having edited my name out and put hers in claiming she wrote them which is FRAUD AND ILLEGAL…. in other-words I am not the one in the wrong..
As for his claims of threatening me with legal action, well the fact is HE ASKED ME TO SEND HIM an example event brochure saying “From The Desk of Gil Boyne” as I had been talking to him and wanted him to rent me his mailing list or send something out to his mailing list for me.
He said he might do so for a fee, but would need to see an example of what I was proposing for him to send out to his list, he was sent such sample, and then being the forgetful individual he was rang me up claiming I was using his name in advertising, he actually apologized to me on the phone in the end once I reminded him that we had spoken about me renting his mailing list and he had asked me to send such example to him.
AND FRANKLY THAT EXPLAINS THE B.S. THAT GIL BOYNE POSTED.
Every now and again somebody will post allegations on the internet claiming that I have Stolen other peoples Copyrighted Ideas, on several occasions people have claimed I have stolen stuff from Kenton Knepper which is ironic when you consider that he stocks and sells many of my ebooks as can be seen here – http://tinyurl.com/kgd9qfc
Frankly I think that link says it all, except to mention one incident that did occur many, many years ago where I bought in good faith a small number (six) of wholesale copies of a Cold Reading Ebook on CD-ROM from an apparently reputable Ebay Seller.
They had lots of Feedback and it was 99% positive and as such I had no reason to be suspicious of anything.
However after selling 3 copies of the CD-ROM I had bought wholesale containing 2 Cold Reading Ebooks by the Late Herb Dewey, it was brought to my attention that his family had never allowed it to be legally released as an ebook or on CD-ROM.
The very moment this was brought to my attention I took the remaining copies off sale and destroyed them, and also made official reports to ebay and ultimately as I understand it the seller who sold me the “wholesale copies” had their ebay account shut down as a result.
Personally I value Copyright and Intellectual Property rights extremely highly, indeed in the past I have taken cases against various people who have stolen my works and profited from them, and indeed one of these cases in the Leeds District Chancery of the HIGH COURT led to the Judge telling me to write out the court order against the other side, which he then looked at and in Public Court Commended me on!
Some individuals who either have a complete inability to use the internet properly to
research things, or more likely just like to ignore the truth have claimed recently on
websites that me claiming to have been featured in USA Today (Americas Largest
Circulated and Read Newspaper) alongside Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro to help
promote their 2002 film “Analyze That” is a lie and therefore Fraud on my part.
Well perhaps they should learn how to use Google Properly and then they would
have been able to find this link http://tinyurl.com/n2paqg9 and also this link as well
http://tinyurl.com/mhadtxk both of which prove that I was indeed featured with them.
Next in relation to the Professional Associations that have said they have approved
and endorsed my Training Courses and/or Products, some have wrongly stated
that I set them all up which I can 100% assure you is most certainly not the case.
for example In regards to The NLPPA = “The Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioners Association” their website used to be this one http://tinyurl.com/l2n4nsa
The main point to remember is that I DO NOT offer membership to the NLPPA, or
Personal Development Associates (USA) or The NLP Association UK or indeed
The Mindcare Organisation UK Ltd as NONE OF THEM ARE MINE.
I did not set any of those up and I have never offered membership to them, rather
I have only ever said (which is 100% True) that they have approved and endorsed
my courses and/or products and therefore also the certifications that I issue.
And in regards to me having been Inducted into the “Hypnosis Hall of Fame” as set
up by The South African Academy of Hypnosis, this is not some lie on my part or
indeed anyone’s part and the truth of the matter can be seen at this link:
https://klearthoughtsmentalismhypnosis.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/hypnosis-hall-of-fame-excellence-award-for-rochdale-greater-manchester-england-hypnotist-jonathan-royle-the-king-of-hypnotherapy-nlp-hypnotism-trainers/
IN TERMS OF HOW I TREAT CLIENTS & TEACH OTHERS TO TREAT THEM
On occasion some people have falsely claimed that I Hypnotize people and make
them believe they have other problems so they will keep coming back to me
and spending more money.
As anyone who has ever come to me for Hypnotherapy already knows and
also anybody I have taught or who has studied my courses/products knows
I always 100% of the time aim to help people to get a successful conclusion
in a single Hypnotherapy Session.
I have never and would never have people coming back without need and
as my students around the world can testify have always taught them to
deal with things as rapidly as possible.
MEN’S SUICIDE PREVENTION WITH HYPNOSIS WEEK
Others try to take things like “Men’s Suicide Prevention Week” and
make untrue comments accusing me of being dangerous and irresponsible.
Obviously they have either not looked at the following link:
https://klearthoughtsmentalismhypnosis.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/mens-suicide-prevention-with-hypnosis-week-24th-april-up-to-and-including-30th-april-important-updates-how-to-give-free-therapy-help-how-to-find-free-therapy-help-please-do-share-with/
And they clearly have never listened to this Radio Interview:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Defiant_Radio/julie-kelly-the-higher-realm-30th-march-2017-alex-william-smith-male-suicide-interview/
Had they done so then they would know that the Campaign is about PREVENTION
and in no way about treating or dealing with people who have suicidal thoughts.
Indeed it is made very clear that such individuals must consult with a Medical GP
or other Medical Professional, ideally in the Mental Health Field.
NOTE = I have never stated that I Personally own the above Car or indeed that I
have ever Personally owned any of the Cars that I have been pictured with. All I have
ever said is that my “companies & associates” own the cars or that “I have control of
the Cars” and both of those statements is 100% True.
Indeed as people who have attempted my live events in the past or had me turn up
at shows know, I have for years been driven around in the car and other cars like
the one in the picture above.
Oh and quite frankly those idiots who have said on the internet that the number plate above has been on a Yellow Transit Van for the past 18+ years, well those people
need their eyes examining along with a lesson in how to research things properly…
ILLEGAL & DANGEROUS STREET HYPNOSIS
Its also true to say that many will often post trying to make out that I have it in for Street Hypnotists and so in their opinions I must be scum.
Well the simple truth is that I ALWAYS OPERATE 100% WITHIN THE LAWS OF ANYWHERE THAT I AM DOING HYPNOSIS.
INDEED MY MAIN CONCERN IS THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF EVERYBODY INVOLVED IN ANY EVENT OR MOMENT WHERE HYPNOSIS MAY BE USED IN ANY MANNER WHETHER ON STAGE, ON THE STREET OR INTHERAPY.
Indeed this is illustrated (with the proof that most all Street Hypnosis is ILLEGAL in UK) at the link of:
https://klearthoughtsmentalismhypnosis.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/does-the-1952-hypnotism-act-apply-to-street-hypnosis-in-england-is-street-stage-hypnosis-illegal-how-can-i-perform-100-legally-lawfully-ethically-safely-in-an-insured-manner-anyti/
As we are getting close now to the end of this blog page, for those who have seen the BS posted that claims I am not able to hypnotize anyone and am (in their opinion) crap as a Psychic Entertainer, all I would say is that everything is entitled to their own opinions but take a look at some videos of me at work on Stage as a Hypnotist and Mind Reader and decide for yourself.
Check out the videos at – http://www.magicalguru.com/
Oh and for those who say “Well Why Not Contact the Police and/or Take Legal Action against the people who post this rubbish on the internet” the simple fact is I HAVE DONE…
Indeed at moment of posting this blog page 19th of October 2013, some people have already been contacted by The Police and others are indeed about to receive legal papers through the appropriate channels.
The simple fact is the law is on the side of people, like me, who are the victims of Cyber Bullying, Internet Harassment, Incitement of Hatred and Violence and Defamatory Comments as is illustrated at this link:
https://klearthoughtsmentalismhypnosis.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/are-you-guility-of-breaking-the-law-of-cyber-bullying-or-other-offences-due-to-postings-lies-untruths-and-vicious-or-defamatory-comments-on-the-internet-about-others-the-truth-about-jonathan-royl/
And on an ironic side note, it often turns out that those guilty of posting such BS can turn out to be so called “professionals” in the industry…
Quite often so called “professionals” who themselves run training courses and would be considered by some as “direct competition”
All I would say is type their names (when you see stuff posted by them) into Google along with the phrase “The Truth About” and you’ll soon find out how reputable some of these people are…
As the old saying goes those in glass houses should not throw stones.
Bottom Line, if you see anything Negative posted about me anywhere by anybody on the internet (or anywhere else) you can be sure that it is complete and utter rubbish with no basis in fact or reality.
These individuals try to post their rubbish to for some reason attempt to incite Hatred and Violence against me (which is Illegal and means they are breaking the law) and they also try to make out that their lies mean that I should not be trusted as a Magician, Hypnotist or Psychic Entertainer or indeed as a teacher of these arts.
Well all I am going to say to that is the numerous Testimonials here – http://tinyurl.com/mxsnkoh speak for themselves.
As do the several videos that follow, the simple fact is I have arguably taught more people around the world who are now highly successful Hypnotherapists and/or Stage Hypnotists than the vast majority of other Hypnosis trainers on the planet today.
The Above video relates to the Hypnosis Training I ran in Las Vegas during October 2013.
The Above video relates to the Hypnosis Training I ran in Sacramento in October 2012.
And indeed here below is an example of someone “Challenging” me during that event and then me rising to that challenge.
And now follows a testimonial from Owen McGough an innovative Magician and Mentalist from the UK who is disabled and has Cerebal Palsy..
Now for some more examples of how invaluable my Hypnosis Training is in the opinion of many:
A comment from one of the delegates of the Hypnotist Entertainment Cruise 2013 that went from Florida to the Bahamas and of which I was the main featured speaker and trainer.
And now I shall let the final word go to a real dummy…
And if you need anymore proof that I am regarded by many as one of the Leading Hypnotists and Trainers of Hypnosis and NLP in the world today then take the time to check out these links:
(Stage & Street Hypnosis Comments) – http://www.magicalguru.com/stage-student-testimonials
(Hypnotherapy & NLP Comments) – http://www.magicalguru.com/therapy-student-testimonials
(Marketing & Publicity Comments) – http://www.magicalguru.com/testimonials
(Magic & Mentalism Comments) – http://www.magicalguru.com/psychic-mentalism-student-testimonials
Plus Tons More Video & Written Testimonials Galore at: http://tinyurl.com/mxsnkoh
Oh and finally some Internet Liars have stated that I have only ever done a few
Stage-Hypnosis Shows and they falsely claim that these were all in Rochdale.
Well the fact is I have performed all over the world and most certainly not just in
Pubs as some like to make out, from Theater’s and Universities to Cruise Ships
I have performed on them all, some clips from my shows can be seen at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK4pimF35bjhUcUfdlgKSMk6SK_I2u2f8
And also at this link there are even more clips…
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDhI8Pk4O_4DXXiDg53V6UzOSJrF1avxf
And for those who look closely at those links you’ll also soon discover that “The
Professional Organisation of Stage Hypnotists” – (P.O.S.H) has hugely successful
Stage Hypnotist members all over the world and not just one member (me) as
again wrongfully stated and published by some complete liars on the internet.
For some more detailed information on my Career Achievements to date (in spite
of all the Media Abuse & Corruption that I have suffered along the way) take a look:
JONATHAN ROYLES MAIN OFFICIAL WEBSITE = www.MagicalGuru.com
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Who’s really to blame for climate failure
by Joe Hildebrand
There is a wry old saying in the bush: The worst time to talk about drought is in the middle of a drought.
In other words, the time to talk about drought is when there is no drought - that's when you need to plan for it, prepare for it and mitigate against it. That's when cool heads prevail, when money is most efficiently spent and when resources are most effectively deployed.
But of course, it is human nature to bask in the good times and blow a gasket in the bad.
By the time the crisis hits, it is too late.
A perverse proof of this wise old truth has come to pass in recent weeks, as Australia's largest city has become cloaked in an apocalyptic smoke. The prevailing theme is that now, as fires rage uncontrollably and homes and lives are under threat, is the time to talk about climate change. In fact, precisely the opposite is true.
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Now is the time to deploy as many emergency services as possible to save those homes and lives. Talking or even acting on climate change will do nothing to ease the threat against those currently in the most imminent danger.
It's a bit like a World War I soldier trying to bayonet Germans in the trenches while the bloke beside him sits on a sandbag and says: "You know who's really to blame for this? Bismarck!"
Of course there is no doubt - at least in my mind - that these fires have been greatly worsened by climate change.
It is hotter and drier and the size of the area being consumed is unprecedented - and all this began long before the first day of summer.
The only real question is how we - Australia and the world - respond.
And I have equally no doubt that talking about it, or talking about talking about it, or taking to the streets, or taking to the tweets, is going to have the scientifically precise impact of sweet f**k all.
Sydney Harbour, tourism magnet and one of nature’s great delights, choking under a smoke blanket.
But hey, how good is stumping up to talk about religious freedom of expression laws @ScottMorrisonMP ?!?
This PM has his finger on the pulse, doesn’t he? https://t.co/mh7vbUYrKP
— Francis Leach (@SaintFrankly) December 10, 2019
What is needed, as always, is practical, popular action. A political consensus and a pragmatic and effective policy response. And to have any effect on the current bushfires we needed to have had it a decade ago.
And guess what? We did.
Exactly 12 years ago, this was precisely the alignment of the planets that the climate change commentariat is now angrily demanding. Labor under Kevin Rudd and the Coalition under John Howard had both gone to the 2007 election promising to implement an emissions trading scheme. Labor won in a landslide with a clear mandate.
Exactly 10 years ago, the legislation went to parliament.
Malcolm Turnbull was the leader of the opposition and had pledged bipartisan support. Then, as we know, he fell victim to a party room revolt and was replaced by Tony Abbott.
The Libs’ inter-party jousting had a much bigger impact than who ended up with a knife in the back. Picture: Supplied
Still, it hardly mattered. Labor had a commanding majority in the lower house and could easily get the ETS through the Senate with the support of the Greens. A carbon price would become as much a part of the national fabric as universal health care, free education and flies on a sausage.
But then the Greens killed it off.
The Greens joined with the Liberals and Nationals to block Labor's ETS because it didn't meet all their demands. That is why Australia doesn't have an emissions trading scheme today - a fact that should never be forgotten.
The blocking of the ETS also set off a chain of events that eventually led to Rudd being knifed by his own party and replaced with a leader who infamously promised: "There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead."
Then when the coup proved disastrous and Labor was plunged into minority government, the Greens declared that the price of them supporting the party they had broken was for Julia Gillard to break her promise and bring on the carbon tax she had promised the people she would never impose.
This breach of faith with the voting public was both shameless and absolute and Gillard was a dead PM walking from that moment forward. Yet, even as she gamely staggered onwards and made good on her deal with the Greens, the minor party then pulled their support when she wouldn't cave in to yet more of their ever-increasing demands.
The one big ‘lie’ that dogged former PM Julia Gillard’s entire term in office was her infamous statement: ‘There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead’, uttered on August 16, 2010.
In short, the Greens prevented a leader with a mandate for a carbon price from implementing one and then forced a leader with a mandate for no carbon price into implementing one.
And then they left her swinging in the breeze.
Thus, in turbocharging such destabilisation and dishonesty for their own political ends, they helped usher in a landslide victory for Tony Abbott - the biggest climate sceptic ever to serve as Prime Minister. Never in Australian history has there been such a potent combination of ideology and idiocy.
The very notion of a price on carbon has been political poison ever since and the Greens were the ones who made it toxic.
And so if they want to talk, let's talk.
Every time a Greens activist tries to tell you that something must be done about climate change, remind them that ten years ago something was being done and they blocked it.
Remind them that they had the chance to tackle climate change but instead, they were prepared to let the planet burn to satisfy their ideological purity.
Remind them that over two successive Labor governments, they first held the planet to ransom and then held the public in contempt.
Remind them that they helped get Tony Abbott elected.
Remind them that the only reason Australia hasn't had an emissions trading scheme for a decade is because of them.
So yeah, let's talk about climate change. Let's talk about that.
Or, better still, let's find ways to act and leave the talking to the perennial party of protest that blew its chance at action a long, long time ago.
Crowds flooded the street, signs and face masks in hand. Picture: Christian Gilles
The only way there will ever be meaningful and lasting action on climate change will be through consensus, not condemnation. Screaming into the void about Scott Morrison will achieve nothing except more resistance - a punishment the extreme left would wholly deserve were there not so much at stake.
So what can we do?
A price on carbon is electorally intolerable in Australia because of the ham-fisted and anti-democratic way the Greens forced Labor to ram it through last time.
And shutting down the coal industry is both unfair to the working people whose livelihoods depend on it and insane in a global marketplace where giants like India and China could simply buy dirtier coal from other countries, leaving Australia poorer and the world more polluted.
But the good news is that renewable energy is going gangbusters and prices are coming down. On the current trajectory, it looks like the market will make electricity greener and cheaper despite whatever the government does or doesn't do.
This map shows where power prices are predicted to fall and where they're expected to go up. Picture: Australian Energy Market. Source: Supplied
Likewise, it may well be that our long-term electricity needs are met by new technologies such as hydrogen power, yet even as this prospect was raised in recent weeks it was criticised by hardliners because hydrogen could be used to store fossil fuel energy as well as renewable energy. Once again, the good is shot down in the name of the perfect.
And aside from the environmental argument, we need to find an economic path for Australia that can give working people the same quality of life - or just the capacity to survive day to day - that our abundance of fossil fuels currently offers.
One obvious opportunity is our potential goldmine of rare earth deposits - if you can forgive such a geologically conflicted expression - upon which Labor and the Coalition are equally set. Another is our potential for the aforementioned hydrogen exports which is another no-brainer for anybody with half of one.
These are the things we need to discuss if we are serious about tackling the so-declared "climate emergency" and yet there is precious little discussion about such things in a political climate that is as heated and smokescreened as the Sydney air.
There seems to be a hope that by simply repeating the words "climate change" over and over again a genie might miraculously appear from the haze.
Indeed, it seems that when some people say we need to talk about tackling climate change they are far more preoccupied with the talking than they are with the tackling.
Joe Hildebrand is the editor-at-large of news.com.au and co-hosts Studio 10, 8.30am weekdays, on Network Ten | @Joe_Hildebrand
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I wish to retire at Real Madrid: Sergio Ramos
09:47 am May 31, 2019 | IANS
Madrid: Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos has announced that he is staying at the Spanish club. It was reported that the 33-year-old had an offer from a Chinese club but his current contract ends on June 30, 2021, reports Efe news. “There has been too much speculation about my future and I wanted to reiterate my commitment to the club,” Ramos told the press at the Real Madrid facilities in Valdebebas on Thursday.
“I have no intention of leaving the club and wish to retire here,” he added. The first team captain arrived at Real Madrid in the summer of 2005 as the first signing by Florentino Perez after he was elected the club’s president. “The relationship with Florentino is father-son and of course that dynamic can have moments of conflict too,” Ramos said. “But like any relationship, it does have some ups and downs.”
He also said that reports in the media had annoyed him and were the reason for him calling the press conference. Rumors about Ramos’ departure had said it was because of money. “We haven’t discussed money and my intention is to talk about this in a frank manner with the president,” he said.
“There is an offer from China and if I didn’t feel wanted then it’s an alternative, but at present, my deal is with Real Madrid and my plan is to see out my contract. “There has been too much speculation and I wanted to clear this matter up, “Ramos said he wanted to help rebuild the team with the club’s president. “My intention is to construct a new Real Madrid with the president and start to look to the future,” he added.
“I still have the physical strength to play for the club.” “When the time comes to move on I’ll do so but in a place where I never have to face Real Madrid,” Ramos continued. “It’s important that I feel wanted here at the club by the fans, teammates and of course the president.”
He said that the team’s 4-1 defeat to Ajax in the UEFA Champions League this season caused a lot of tension among the squad and fans and added that “it was a time for us to reset things.” Ramos has lifted four LaLiga cups with Real Madrid and four Champions League trophies. At an international level, he won the 2010 FIFA World Cup as well as two UEFA Euro titles in 2008 and 2012.
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Caffeine-infused underwear fails (there is a great stagnation)
by Tyler Cowen September 30, 2014 at 8:08 am in
Bras, girdles and leggings infused with caffeine and sold as weight loss aids were more decaf than espresso, and the companies that sold them have agreed to refund money to customers and pull their ads, U.S. regulators said on Monday.
The Federal Trade Commission said Wacoal America and Norm Thompson Outfitters, which owns Sahalie and others, were accused of deceptive advertising that claimed their caffeine-impregnated clothing would cause the wearer to lose weight and have less cellulite.
There is more here, and for the pointer I thank Glenn Mercer.
How come they didn't run afoul of the FDA in the first place? Whether effective or not doesn't matter.
September 30, 2014 at 10:48 am Hide Replies 2
I would consider this the equivalent of a supplement. Not many supplements go through the FDA approval process. To me, this is akin to those copper lined knee, and elbow sleeves that claim therapeutic benefits.
If they claim transdermal absorption I should think FDA has jurisdiction. Antifungal creams for instance are FDA approved.
September 30, 2014 at 12:42 pm Hide Replies 4
Fair point, but I imagine this falls somewhere between the first link and the second.
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/OfficeofMedicalProductsandTobacco/CDER/UCM148055.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration#Advertising_and_promotion
Waiting for Alex to complain that medical device regulation is costing us billions...
I guess I get the joke, but the product didn't fail.
It was regulated out of the market.
I do think this is funny:
""If someone says you can lose weight by wearing the clothes they are selling, steer clear. The best approach is tried and true: diet and exercise," said Jessica Rich, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection."
It's certainly the place of the FTC to regulate a company that makes product claims that haven't been substantiated at all. But it's hilarious to me that the director of the federal trade commission's bureau of consumer protection thinks I'm looking to her to be an expert on the "best approach" to weight loss. Thanks, Ms. Rich.
@Marie, you could say Ms.Rich's advice is rich--said ironically, not like a rich diet.
In the patent sphere, once in a while the PTO gets this sort of FTC regulatory fever and forbids patents that say they can cure cancer in humans (but it's OK to say they cure cancer in vitro or in mice), or any magnetic bracelet can cure any ailment by wearing it. Ironically --no pun intended--magnetism and blood do have an attraction, and there may be some medical pull involved, since hemoglobin is influenced weakly by electromagnetic radiation, as Fe Man could tell you.
October 1, 2014 at 8:34 am Hide Replies 8
Groan laugh!
Edward Burke
What might this say about the appeal of science education to women of the feminine persuasion?
September 30, 2014 at 9:10 am Hide Replies 10
Caffeine is a diuretic so it's possible that wearing it might have the same/similar effect as drinking it (i.e., water loss). If Rogaine absorbed into the scalp can reduce hair loss, then why can't caffeine absorbed into the legs reduce water weight.
Dehydration problem.
That Rogaine can be absorbed does not mean that caffeine can be absorbed. First you'd have to prove that caffeine can be absorbed by the skin.
I don't think that's hard to prove one way or the other, and I'm pretty sure it does get absorbed.
I worked in a greenhouse, it's amazing how people think as long as they don't breathe in or drink a pesticide they're fine. My guess (purely) is that chemical more often than not are absorbed through the skin.
But that doesn't mean it has the same effect on the body as it would if you drank it. Different systems. You can drink insulin and it doesn't have the same effect as injecting it into the fatty tissue.
It's not stupid to think you can absorb caffeine through your skin. It's the weight loss / wearing clothes with caffeine thing that's probably the FTC hitch.
Info from caffeinated soap,
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/nov/27/thisweekssciencequestions1
"Caffeine does go through the skin if you apply it to the surface in solution," says Faith Williams, who researches the skin's permeability to various chemicals at Newcastle University.
Why didn't Daedalus and Icarus just eat more poultry?
Then they might have chickened out.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Not only that, the product was easily replicated:
Just pour some Folgers Instant Crystals
In your shorts.
chuck martel
Well, since I already got them, I'm gonna wear them.
Calling Tea-Party !
Wonder what Tea-infused underwear would have caused . Constitutional imbalance ?
"Caffeine-infused underwear": aha, that must be how old-fashioned American coffee was made.
david condon
Why not just buy the caffeine pills?
Alex would say the caffeine pills are hung up in FDA review.
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Or - and this might sound crazy - you could drink coffee.
signed, guy who is on his 4th (5th?) cup
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January 4, 2019 December 26, 2018 Martini Fisher mythology
Hero Born in Sorrow: the Birth, Love and Death of Tristan
A fragment of Tristrant, by Eilhart von Oberg. Parchment manuscript written in East Alemannian with Middle German-Lower German Elements in the early 13th century
In an expedition to the court of Mark, king of Cornwall and England, Riwalin, king in the land of the Parmenians, had become acquainted and subsequently passionately in love with Mark’s beautiful sister, Blancheflure. Later, as he was assisting Mark in a campaign, Riwalin became mortally wounded and was carried to Tintajole. Blancheflure, disguised as a beggar maid, hastened to his sickbed and saved Mark’s life through her devoted love. The lovers then fled together to his native land and Blancheflure was proclaimed as his consort. However, Morgan attacked Riwalin’s country and, the king entrusted the pregnant Blancheflure to his faithful retainer Rual. Rual placed the queen for safekeeping in the castle of Kaneel. Here she gave birth to a son and died as her husband fell in the battle against Morgan.
In order to protect the king’s son from Morgan’s pursuits, Rual spread the rumor that the infant had been born dead. The boy was named Tristan because he had been conceived and born in sorrow. Under the care of Rual and his wife, Tristan grew up strong in body and mind until his fourteenth year, when he was kidnapped by Norwegian merchants, who then put him ashore in Cornwall because they feared the wrath of the gods. Here the boy was found by the soldiers of King Mark, who was so pleased with the brave and handsome youth that he made him his master of the chase.
Meanwhile, the faithful Rual set forth to look for his abducted foster son. Disguising himself as a beggar, Rual found Tristan in found at last in Cornwall. Rual revealed the story of Tristan’s birth to the king who was delighted to see in him the son of his beloved sister and raised him to the rank of knight. To avenge his father, Tristan proceeded with Rual to Parmenia, vanquished Morgan the usurper, and gave the country to Rual as the liege while he himself returned to his uncle Mark.
In the service of Mark, Tristan killed Morald, the bridegroom of Isolde. Being severly wounded, Tristan was saved by Isolde herself. Tristan then asked her hand in marriage on behalf of his uncle Mark. When he fulfilled the condition of killing a dragon, Isolde reluctantly accompanied Tristan to Cornwall. On the journey they unwittingly drank a disastrous love potion which bound them together in frenzied passion.
“Sir Tristram and La Belle Yseult Drinking the Love Potion”,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882)
On Isolde’s wedding night with Mark, Isolde had her faithful maid Brangäne represent her and sacrifices her virginity to the king. Next followed the banishment of Tristan, Tristan’s attempts to regain his beloved, although he had meanwhile married another Isolde (“Isolde the White Hand,” of Brittany) who resembled his beloved “Isolde the Fair.” At last Tristan was again severely wounded. Only this time his beloved Isolde arrived too late to save him.
A plainer version of the Tristan saga is found in the fairy tale “The True Bride,” quoted by Riklin from Rittershaus. In this story, the childless royal pair were much less affectionate. The king threatened to kill his wife unless she bears a child by the time of his return from his sea voyage. Seeing that sea voyages are long and the king was, apparently, rather stupid. The queen was secretly brought to him during his journey, by his zealous maid-servant, as the fairest of three promenading ladies, and the king took her into his tent without recognizing her. After sleeping with the king, the queen returned home without having been discovered. She then gave birth to a daughter, Isol, and died.
When she was older, Isol found a most beautiful little boy in a box by the seaside. The name of the boy was Tristram. Isol raised him and became engaged to him. The subsequent story, which contains the motif of the true bride, is noteworthy for present purposes only in so far as here again occurs the drink of oblivion, and two Isoldes. The king’s second wife gave a potion to Tristram which caused him to completely forget his Isol, leading him to marry Isota. However, he ultimately discovered the deception and became united with his Isol.
Overall view of the so-called Tristante carpet, wall hanging, circa 1300, wool. Kloster Wienhausen at Celle, Germany.
Tagged love, mythology, tristan and isolde
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MySpace Music to Add Paid Downloads
By Pete Cashmore 2006-09-02 02:04:49 UTC
In a direct challenge to Apple's iTunes, MySpace has announced its intention to sell songs from the 3 million unsigned bands on MySpace.com. Even more surprising: the songs will be sold as unprotected MP3s, free from DRM. MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe told Reuters: "Everyone we've spoken to definitely wants an alternative to iTunes and the iPod. MySpace could be that alternative." Mashable readers won't be surprised to learn that the new feature will be powered by Snocap, the music distribution service from Napster founder Shawn Fanning. Snocap only recently launched a MySpace music player, which allows users to buy unprotected songs via Paypal. Snocap charges the artists a small distribution fee, and most of the tracks are DRM-free. Unlike the fixed-price model of iTunes, artists on Snocap set their own price. Once the service is live, DeWolfe wants to add copyright-protected songs from major record companies, and it's rumored that MySpace has spoken to EMI regarding the move.
It's worth noting that America's second largest social network, Facebook, is already a promoter of iTunes - it's currently giving away free iTunes tracks to members. YouTube is also getting into the music game: in mid-August the site announced its intention to host "every music video ever created". And in late July, booming social network Bebo launched Bebo Bands, with a near-identical setup to MySpace music. But the move to sell music directly through an embedded player is a bold one: MySpace users are notoriously hard to monetize, yet they continue to pay for music downloads. This latest addition could help MySpace monetize its users far more effectively, dramatically increasing the site's revenue. With a $900 million search deal under its belt, MySpace's revenue opportunities are looking better than ever before.
However, the move could spell trouble for some of the startups that are plugging in to MySpace. The music community ProjectOpus released their own MySpace music player earlier this week, providing a link to a page where users can purchase the track. Sonific, another startup, has also begun an invite-only beta of its music player for MySpace, blogs and social networks. Sonific is focused on building a massive database of licensed music, and users can buy the tracks through iTunes or CDBaby, with Sonific pocketing the affiliate commissions. Once MySpace begins to offer music sales directly through its own player, there's a risk that these services could be sidelined.
(via Reuters)
Topics: MySpace, myspace music, Social Media, web 2.0
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Perfect Ten: Solo prequel games to MMORPGs
Justin Olivetti
When studios go about making MMORPGs, risk comes along with the effect as a matter of course. The only question is how to reduce that risk as much as possible. An easy way to take the risk factor down a bit is by latching the MMO to an earlier proven and successful video game.
In fact, when you look at the overall field of MMORPGs, you start to see a whole bunch of titles that are actually the latest entry in a franchise. Today we’re going to look at the very early inspirations for these franchises and see how they eventually became an online role-playing game.
By the time that Ultima Online arrived on the scene in 1997, Richard Garriott’s franchise had been stealing hearts and transporting them to his fantasy realms for the better part of two decades. UO represented the 10th entry in the saga, with the maiden Ultima debuting in 1981 as the first open-world computer RPG. The most popular entry up to Ultima Online had been 1992’s Ultima VII: The Black Gate, which won multiple awards and was ported to several systems including the SNES.
About the same time that Ultima arrived on the scene, Wizardry was created thanks to a couple of Cornell graduates who wanted to fashion their own fantasy setting. While the series got its start in the United States, it was Japan where the franchise found its fandom. Wizardry titles ran from have seen nine official entries and nearly 40 spin-off titles — including 2011’s Wizardry Online, which was developed by Gamepot.
Allods Online is probably one title on this list that few people know is a sequel in any way, shape, or form. In fact, it was the latest in a series that goes back to a 1998 Russian real-time strategy-slash-roleplaying game called Rage of Mages. Rage of Mages II (1999), Evil Islands (2000), and Evil Islands: Lost in Astral (2006) all proceeded, eventually followed by the 2011 free-to-play fantasy MMORPG set in the same universe.
On the other hand, 1987’s Final Fantasy is one of the most well-known stories of all of video game development’s history. Square’s “final” shot at making a game before going bankrupt ended up saving the company — and launching a long-running series that spawned dozens of sequels, spin-offs, and (yes) two MMORPGs including 2002’s Final Fantasy XI.
The Sims Online
The Sims became a breakout smash hit when it debuted in 2000. Little did players know that they would be mortgaging their homes for the countless expansion packs to follow. Maxis moved fast to get The Sims Online out the door in 2002 to capitalize on the MMO craze, but perhaps it moved too quickly, as 2004’s The Sims 2 instantly made this title look antiquated and creaky.
2005’s Uncharted Waters Online was originally released in Japan and only made it across the ocean in 2010. This shouldn’t be a surprise, as the Uncharted Waters series was largely a Japanese favorite, giving players all the way back in 1991 the opportunity to sail, explore, trade, and fight with 16th century vessels. There have been roughly a dozen games in the series so far, although the MMO doesn’t seem to have made great waves in the west since its launch.
Every SEGA fan worth his or her salt knows full well the acclaimed sci-fi RPG Phantasy Star series, which ran from 1987 through 1993 on the SEGA Master System and Genesis (in fact, the recent release of the SEGA Genesis Mini has a couple of them for people to enjoy today). There were a few spin-offs, including some text adventure games, and the PSO series itself, which will return to North American shores next year with the release of Phantasy Star Online 2.
A decade before World of Warcraft’s release in 2004, Blizzard Entertainment took the RTS world by storm with its 1994 launch of Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. The polished series was a smash hit that went on to ring up huge sales with Warcraft II (1995) and Warcraft III (2002). Fans most familiar with the MMORPG might find the RTS games delightfully quaint yet containing some hints and characters of the franchise to come. GOG.com currently sells the first two RTS games in a bundle if you want to go back to an earlier era on Azeroth.
The open-world action RPG series known as Elder Scrolls also made its debut in 1994 with Arena, sparking the start of a vastly popular series by Bethesda. There have been several other entries in the main series (Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim) prior to the launch of Elder Scrolls Online in 2014 as well as quirky spinoffs such as 1997’s Battlespire and 1998’s Redguard. Fans quickly grew to love the freedom the games gave for players to explore the world in any direction they chose and to craft the kind of character they liked.
If you were a gamer even passably interested in sci-fi in the 1980s, then chances were very good that you had a copy of Elite on whatever home computer was in your house. Released in 1984, Elite’s space trading, pirate blasting sim gave gamers a wide open playground in which to fulfill whatever destiny they chose. There were a couple of sequels in the 1990s under the Frontier label before the franchise was resurrected via crowdfunding for the 2014 MMO.
Everyone likes a good list, and we are no different! Perfect Ten takes an MMO topic and divvies it up into 10 delicious, entertaining, and often informative segments for your snacking pleasure. Got a good idea for a list? Email us at justin@massivelyop.com or eliot@massivelyop.com with the subject line “Perfect Ten.”
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allods team
astrum nival
bethsoft
broadsword online
classic mmo
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Mewmew
I’ve seen those first two Rage of Mages games, they’re fairly decent and interesting despite their age. If I had the extra time I wouldn’t mind playing one today. The somewhat detailed 2D graphics (for the time) in those first two have held up much better than the ugly 3D sequels I’m seeing when looking them up.
camren_rooke
They are on Gog.
Covynant001
Fallout 76?
/ ducks
Jeremy Barnes
The world needs a new single player jRPG Phantasy Star
(in fact, the recent release of the SEGA Genesis Mini has a couple of [Phantasy Star games] for people to enjoy today)
Only Phantasy Star 4, but the Sega Genesis collection for PS2 has 2 &3, iirc.
Schmidt.Capela
There’s also an improved version of the first Phantasy Star for the Switch. It’s the same old game (apart from allowing you to use FM sound from the Japanese version in the English-language one), but the official emulator it runs on was tweaked to provide real-time mapping and keep the party statuses to the side of the screen (though you can disable all of those improvements if you want a purer experience).
Oh, BTW, the Genesis versions of Phantasy Star II, Phantasy Star III, and Phantasy Star IV are available on Steam for $1 each. Or as part of the SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics package, where you pay $30 for 59 Genesis games. And the emulator is quite good, adding challenges, achievements, support for mods/romhacks through Steam Workshop, rewind, and so on.
Rodrigo Dias Costa
Also they’re officially available on smartphones. Just need to pay to not be shown the ads. Not sure if the emulator works well tho.
Rage of Mages is the first game I rage quit. To the point I cut up the Cd it came on. It was an awful cheaty tactical game.
Jaymes Buckman
You are one of the titular mages.
I do have a robe and a wizards hat.
You cut up the CD?! Daaaaang.
Ive only ever cut up ond game and one book in my life. You know what you did Alan Dean Foster.
No Knights of the Old Republic?
Bryan Correll
Eh, I think the list was just for games with primarily game origins. SWTOR certainly is intended as a semi-followup to the KotOR games, but the Star Wars ipo still began with a film.
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You are here: Home / News / Business / Publicly Funded Elections Bill Moves Forward In Hawaii State Legislature
Publicly Funded Elections Bill Moves Forward In Hawaii State Legislature
April 4, 2013 by Axel Beers Leave a Comment
This week the Senate Ways and Means Committee passed House Bill 1481 HD2 SD1, stated a news release sent out today from the non-partisan organization Voter Owned Hawaii, which supports the bill. HB 1481 would create a full public funding option for state elections.
“We’re delighted with this bill’s passage, and excited about the prospect of leveling the playing field for House candidates,” said Janet Mason, Vice President of the League of Women Voters, Hawaii, in the news release.
As the bill states, the public funding option grants candidates for state house representatives a competitive amount of campaign money (based on last election’s average expenditures by winning candidates: $34,000) on the condition that the candidate first collects 250 donations of at least $5 from constituents in their district. Single donations may not exceed $250, and total seed money cannot exceed $3000. If the candidate does receive public funds, he or she is barred from receiving any outside donations.
“Candidates are spending 30-70 percent of their time raising money from private sources,” Kory Payne, executive director of Voter Owned Hawaii, told me. “Instead of raising money, they can spend time with their constituents and solving problems. Americans’ belief in our system and trust in legislators is the lowest in recorded history. At the root of this cynicism and distrust is the problem of money in politics. Sure, individual citizens can donate, but our voices are getting drowned out by the largest campaign donors.”
Payne shared a March 2005 AARP study to verify his claims. The survey shows that 86 percent of Hawaii residents believe that campaign contributions moderately or greatly influence policies supported by elected officials while 82 percent think that changes are needed in how campaigns are financed in the state. Given the increasing foothold of seed and development companies in our Aloha state and the presidential election we held last year one might venture that these numbers are higher today.
“Special interests donate to politicians to get a return on their investment, and right now they’ve cornered the market on elections and the public is not invited to the party,” Payne said in a Mar. 26 news statement. “Publicly funded elections will save taxpayer money by allowing politicians to make decisions based upon what’s best for the people instead of campaign donors.”
Voter Owned Hawaii argues that the benefits will be worth the monetary costs of public funding, which the proposed measure places at a minimum of $3.5 million by Sept. 1, 2015 (the Hawaii Election Campaign Fund currently has a balance of about $3.2 million). This amount would have to be renewed by each election cycle.
Additionally, in testimony, the Hawaii State Campaign Finance Committee cited costs in the form of new positions required to take on the duties required by the bill. They concluded, “Thus it is certain that unless the Legislature provides funding for this program and other Commission expenses, this proposed comprehensive public funding program will not be implemented in 2016.”
To put this into perspective, Payne wrote in a Mar. 13 Honolulu Star-Advertiser editorial that “To fully fund every House and Senate race, both winners and losers, would have cost each taxpayer a little over $2.50 per year. That’s a small price to pay for the public to take back control of our laws.”
For more information on the bill, visit Capitol.hawaii.gov and Voterownedhawaii.org.
Filed Under: Business, News Tagged With: Bill, Campaign, elections, Hawaii, House, money, NEWS, public, state, Upfront News
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Letter of fraternity — c. 1395-1402, 1450; English
Alexander de Villa Dei, etc. — c. 1300
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Christ Church MS. 99
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MS. Digby 104
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Bible, Epistle and Gospel list — 13th century, second quarter; additions, 13th - 15th century; English
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Guardbook of manuscript and printed leaves with commentary by William E. Moss
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South English Legendary, King Horn, Havelok, etc.; England (perhaps Oxford?), c. 1300 with additions
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Speculum Christiani, Questions for a priest to ask the dying, etc. — 15th century; English
Chronicle of England (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) to 1154 ('The Peterborough Chronicle'), Chronicle of England to Edward I — c. 1121-31; additions c. 1154 and 13th century, second half; English
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Philosophical texts; Padua, c. 1581
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MS. Rawl. B. 449
Cartulary of Fountains Abbey — 13th century, late, and 14th century; English
Cartulary of the pittancer of Fountains Abbey — 13th century, late; English
Collectanea of Sir James Ware, comprising fragments, extracts and notes mostly on Ireland but including (fol. 85) cutting without text from a Psalter, English, Winchester, 10th century, second quarter — 10th century - 17th century; English, Winchester (in part)
MS. Rawl. C. 641
Leges Edwardi Confessoris, Constitutions of Clarendon, etc. — 12th century and 13th century; English
Martyrology — Multiple dates; English, Shrewsbury, collegiate church of St Chad
MS. Rawl. G. 18
Deed — 16th century (temp. Henry VIII); English
Psalter, Religious poem, etc. — 13th century, early (probably before 1221); additions, 13th century; English, East Anglia (?)
Two French songs and one English song accompanied by music — 13th century, first half
Psalter — 12th century, second half; English, North-East (?)
MS. Rawl. G. 109
Ovid, Ranulf de Glanvill (attrib.), etc. — c. 1200
Suffolk court-roll — 14th century; English
Psalter — late 13th or early 14th century; English
MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1
Manorial court rolls for Marden, Clehonger and Eggleton, 1325-6 (fols. 5r, 6r, 7r) and 1347-8 (fols. 7r-v), Obligation, 1536, etc. — England
MS. Tanner 169*
Psalter and masses, with calendar — 12th century, end (c. 1192-1193); English, Chester (?)
Hymns to the Holy Cross and to St. Oswald, with musical notes — 13th century, end; English, Chester (?)
Alliterative poem — 13th century; English, Chester (?)
MS. Tanner 400
Charters relating to John Cobham, Statutes of England, etc. — 13th century and 14th century, beginning; English
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What is the Stack Exchange (Staff) process of launching a site?
I've heard bits and pieces from various sources, but I would really like to know, what does the Stack Exchange staff do to launch a new site? What are the milestones? I'm talking about Area 51 milestones, reviews to leave private and public beta, other reviews that might happen along the path during a public beta, etc. I'd just like to get an idea of what Stack Exchange Employees do when when it comes to launching a new site.
If possible, I would like to know approximate days of the week, site milestones, etc, with the understanding that things change based off of holidays and other special occasions.
discussion area51 stack-exchange beta-phase
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I think that review #1 is at the start of commitment. Review #2 is 5-6 days into private beta, review #3 is there if private beta gets extended, and after public beta reviews are only there if the site is in trouble. In addition, staff members visit regularly for quick checks. – Manishearth Oct 4 '13 at 13:41
@Manishearth: I've posted what I've been able to piece together. I think there's a few more reviews along the way, but I know there's more to it then that. – PearsonArtPhoto Oct 4 '13 at 13:51
Manish and Pearson both got it pretty much right, a bit more to it though. Grace Note is going to write up a nice somethin-or-other since it'd be nifty to have it somewhere we could point. – Tim Post♦ Oct 4 '13 at 14:11
I'd really like to see a blog post about this. – aug Oct 9 '13 at 0:12
This is a rundown the major milestones each site goes through from proposal through graduation. The process may vary from time to time as we improve the process or take on “special projects” as opportunities present themselves, but for the most part, this is the gist of it.
Proposal Submission — When a new site is proposed, we do a quick sanity check to find egregious problems, like overlapping scope or subjects that aren't well-suited to our Q&A format. But generally we’re okay to let a proposal develop before passing judgement.
Discussion and Comment — We don’t generally get involved the day-to-day discussions around an evolving proposal, unless someone is asking about the Area 51 process itself, or is seeking some policy input about the viability of a proposal. Communities are largely free to discuss and experiment at this stage without a lot of interference from us. But all the discussions (and example questions) are always reviewed and considered when when we do our “Final Review.”
Late-Stage Final Review — When a proposal reaches about 40-50% commitment, we do a final review to make sure the proposal is healthy, well-presented, and everything is ready in preparation for the final launch. We’ll look over the example questions and the audience building the site to make sure it matches the proposal title and description. Often the title and description are consolidated to get rid of a lot of extraneous detail for use in the ‘help center’ once the site is created.
Site Launch — When a proposal hits 100% commitment, we do a final sanity check before we submit the site for launch into the private beta. Barring any technical or scheduling conflicts, private betas generally start 1-2 weeks after completion on either Tuesday or Wednesday. Anyone committed to the proposal will receive notification via email.
Early Moderation — Prior to appointing moderators from the community, the Stack Exchange Community Managers will take on the primary roles of site moderation. During the opening weeks, we will generally take care of any ‘flags’ and other urgent matters which cannot wait for the moderator appointees. During the private beta, there is also an increased sense of rigorous moderation while we prepare the site for opening day. If there is anything we can do to help set the community on track towards a stronger launch, the Community Team will take a more active role in community education.
Private Beta Evaluation — After one week, we will evaluate how the private beta is doing. If the content looks strong and the community highly engaged, we will open the site to the public. If there are any problems (or the community simply needs more time to develop) we may extend a private beta out to a second week. But once the stage is set and everything looks good, it’s time to open the the doors to the public.
Proposal Reboot — On occasion, a community might not be able to get it together during the private beta. There may be nothing wrong with the subject itself. Perhaps we didn’t quite get the scope right, or the community just wasn’t well-equipped to pull it off. But whatever the case, sometimes we just have to close a private beta and (hopefully) send the idea back to the drawing board as a new proposal to try and get it right the second time around.
Appointing Pro Tem Moderators — A few weeks after launch, we start the search for “pro tem moderators” who will watch over the site prior to the general elections (when the site graduates). This process may take awhile depending on how clearly candidates emerge from the early community, and how amenable they are to taking on that role. We try to appoint three candidates in the first round, but we may start with fewer and appoint the rest as soon as we can if the process drags on too long.
Moderator Review — Moderators are given special abilities to be the “exception handlers” to take care of situations that cannot easily be handled through the normal community process. But moderators are expected to agree to and abide by a Moderator Agreement which outlines their responsibilities and how they are expected to carry them out. Moderator actions are logged and user messaging is monitored to review how they are doing overall. It is very unusual to find any problems in this area, but when they do, the Community Team is here to advise.
On-going Community Self-Evaluations 90 days into the public beta, the system will solicit the first community self-evaluation, wherein the community will be asked to review ten recent, randomly-selected posts to see how they are performing relative to similar sites on the subject. The evaluation runs for about one week, at which time we will receive the results for review. We use this opportunity to evaluate every site more holistically, combining the participation in the self-evaluation with other metrics (e.g. traffic, user engagement, overall activity, moderation, meta involvement, etc). This cycle repeats every 180 days to track on-going progress and to be sure the site gets any attention it needs to help them build towards a successful graduation.
Graduation — Once a community reaches a tipping point where the quality remains high, the community is engaged and self-sustaining, and the traffic growth reaches a critical mass that assures continued success for the foreseeable future, we can start the process of graduation. This starts with our designer(s) who will start brainstorming custom designs for the site (watch the meta forum for announcements). It’s difficult to estimate the timeframe to complete this process. Designs vary and the workload varies, but input from the community is always appreciated.
Graduated Site
At this point the site is pretty much self-sustaining. The community becomes eligible for a few new features like creating a site blog, or creating their own “Community Promotion Ads” by submitting suggestions to the meta post by the same name. But the first order of business is to hold a general election where the community will replace (or re-elect) the provisional moderators with those elected by the community. Watch for the announcements starting about one month after graduation. After the first elections, we’ll generally check to see if new elections are needed about once per year. But elections can be held at any time, if additional help is needed. The Moderators are well equipped to watch over the site and let us know if there are any issues that need our attention. And there’s a lot of checks and analytics in place to let us know that everything is pretty much running on track.
wow! thats indepth about the process +1 – Sid Oct 11 '13 at 11:37
I've never seen such a "Community Self-Evaluations" in Code Golf. Has that changed? Did I look at the wrong corner? – Johannes Kuhn Oct 15 '13 at 15:14
@Johannes We actually have Self-Evaluations disabled on both Code Golf and on Code Review. This is because the process consists of "Look for these questions elsewhere on the internet, and see how our answers compare against what is found out there", which is fine for the majority of sites. However, the nature of these two sites doesn't exactly make "Compare against other sites" a functional strategy to analyze the quality of the content there. For this reason, we disabled them. Our internal reviews look at several other metrics as mentioned, though, so those would still help. – Grace Note♦ Oct 16 '13 at 15:05
Thanks for that info. It's good to hear that both Code Golf and Code Review are considered "special". The traffic, well, we have to advertise a bit. Questions? Wouldn't improve much, because writing good challenges is hard. – Johannes Kuhn Oct 16 '13 at 15:40
Is this Private or Public Beta, I can only see "Beta": codereview.stackexchange.com – Dmitri Zaitsev Dec 12 '13 at 4:28
@Dimitri It's public. A private Beta is only for the first week or two that a site exists, and it has select invite access (hence anyone who gets in during the private session will know it is private). – Grace Note♦ Dec 12 '13 at 5:56
Then I am puzzled why closure is only mentioned briefly and only for Private Beta, when it actually happens for active Public Beta sites. Are there any clear closure guidelines? I'd find it fair to give some peace of mind to people who invest their time in creating quality content and linking to it. Here is also my subjective opinion on the subject of closing. – Dmitri Zaitsev Dec 17 '13 at 11:35
@Dmitri There aren't any clear closing guidelines for public beta. Private Beta closures come as a result of insufficient performance during a small time period of less than a month. We don't have such an easy metric for public, as it more happens that we spend months looking into a site and trying everything we can to make sure it doesn't close. Think of three routes - a growing beta eventually graduates, a stagnant beta sits in beta, and a dying beta may close. What qualifies as dying rather depends on the site though, but largely starts from "not enough community backing." – Grace Note♦ Dec 17 '13 at 14:00
Then is there any clear warning to contributors that their contribution and reputation can be gone any time the decision makers come to the conclusion the site does perform enough? – Dmitri Zaitsev Dec 17 '13 at 15:13
@Dmitri We usually inform people when we think anything might be even remotely a concern, and from there it'll take months before things even come close to the chopping board, and from there if we do make a final decision we state as such in advance. Things can't just disappear at any time. – Grace Note♦ Dec 17 '13 at 15:17
What I mean is to state clear that there is always a risk the site gets closed, all links disappear and the whole content becomes only available as data dump. It is not fair only to inform people much later after they have contributed and relied on the site, when the actual concern occurs. I understand that it can easily occur should the site stop performing any time in the future. – Dmitri Zaitsev Dec 17 '13 at 16:07
Here's what I've been able to piece together:
There is a review about half way through the commitment phase (45%), where they get the name of the site settled, and otherwise prepare the ground to go. The most visible sign of this is that the title of the proposal is edited to its final name.
There is a final review after it meets the commitment requirements, usually on a Monday. The site will then launch in the next day or two
There is a review on the Monday in to private beta. If the site is progressing, it is made public, otherwise, it is given more time to find itself. If it passes the review, it will be made public within the next day.
There is a review held at 90 days, which is a community self-evaluation.
Presumably there is a review held periodically on sites at Stack Exchange, the details of which I don't know, to determine which sites are ready to launch, and which need some help.
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MIDAS: Methodological Innovation in Digital Arts and Social Sciences
Digital Technology and Embodiment
Cross-Case Themes
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MIDAS Agenda Setting Workshop 2 (30 May 2014)
This MIDAS Agenda Setting Workshop 2 was the second event in a series of four. This event took place on the 30th May 2014. It was hosted by the Royal College of Art, held in the nice and unique Senior Common Room. We were surrounded by art pieces by Lucian Freud, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney and Henry Moore, among others. The event included a mix of presentations, activities, and discussion to explore the synergies, challenges, and potentials for new interdisciplinary insights into the digital and embodiment. Find below audio files or video files of the presentations that took place.
Invitation to the MIDAS ASW2
Programme for the MIDAS ASW2
‘Creativity and Innovation’ by Professor Neil Maiden
Neil is Professor of Systems Engineering, Head of the Centre for HCI Design and cofounder of the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice at City University London. He has won and led research worth over £3 million as part of research projects collectively worth over £35 million. He is currently the principal investigator on the COLLAGE, CHOReOS and MIRROR projects, and previously led the S-CUBE, APOSDLE, TRACEBACK, SeCSE, VANTAGE, SARA, NATS-EASM, BANKSEC, CREWS, GOMOSCE, ISRE, RESCUE, RESCUE-DMAN, SERPS and SIMP projects.
For more about Neil’s work: http://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/neil-maiden
Abstract: ‘Creativity and Innovation’
In this talk, Neil offers a systematic and methodological perspective on creativity and innovation. He approaches creativity as information search and idea discovery, drawing on established theories and models of creativity.
‘Bioart’ by Professor Sue Broadhurst
Susan is a writer and performance practitioner and Professor of Performance and Technology in the School of Arts, Brunel University, London. Her publications include Digital Practices: Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology (2007), Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance (2010) and Identity, Performance and Technology: Practices of Empowerment, Embodiment and Technicity (2012), all published by Palgrave Macmillan; together with several peer-reviewed journal articles exploring and examining the same area. Her practical work has been presented at London venues, including the ICA. As well as being the co-editor of the online journal Body, Space & Technology now in its thirteenth year of publication, she is also co-series editor for Palgrave’s ‘Studies in Performance and Technology’.
For more about Susan’s work: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/cbass/arts-humanities/theatre/staff/sue-broadhurst
For more about this talk: Programme for the MIDAS ASW2
Abstract: ‘Bioart’
This presentation is the first of a series of case study/scenario presentations on interdisciplinarity across the arts and social sciences, the body and the digital, discussed during the day. Susan talks about Bioart. Bioart centres on the artistic investigation of biotechnology and raises complex ethical issues, such as, those relating to the patenting and sale of genes. At the same time genetic engineering is transforming forever our notions of and relationships to life forms including our own. Moreover, the discipline of biological studies is increasingly changing from a life science into an information science. For instance, ‘biosemiotics’ is an interdisciplinary science that studies communication and signification in living systems. Contemporary artists have responded to these changes by working with transgenics, cloning, reproductive technologies, tissue culture engineering and hybridization techniques that reconfigure the borders of artwork and life.
‘Bioart’ Presentation by Professor Sue Broadhurst from MIDAS_LKL on Vimeo.
‘Fertilised Futures’ by Veronica Ranner
Veronica researches the emerging field of the bio-digital – a converging knowledge space where digitality and biological matter meet. Her current doctoral work explores paradigm shifts in reality perception by coupling speculative (bio)material strategies and information experience through design research. Veronica has worked cross- disciplinary with a variety of science institutions and biomedical companies and is interested in complex networked cycles and potential new roles for designers.
For more about Veronica’s work: http://vroniranner.bplaced.net
Abstract: ‘Fertilised Futures’
This presentation is the second of a series of case study/scenario presentations on interdisciplinarity across the arts and social sciences, the body and the digital, discussed during the day. Veronica presents her work Fertile Futures. Fertile Futures (FF) provides a glimpse of a speculative future: a particular designed human reproductive experience is demonstrated through the use of imagined artefact and scenario. The narrative of this short film is based on research undertaken at the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology (IRDB) at Imperial College in London. It describes one potential direction that technologically facilitated human reproduction could take. Both, the intricate interplay of progress in current research and societal development, as well as this science as active driving force with agency accelerating the entry of invasive technology into the human body in an increasingly opaque manner, are compound and broken down into this experience on personal level.
‘Fertilised Futures’ Presentation by Veronica Ranner from MIDAS_LKL on Vimeo.
‘Craft + Technology residency’ by Heidi Hinder
Heidi is an artist-maker and researcher. Trained in Jewellery, Silversmithing & Related Products, Heidi’s practice now broadly incorporates wearable technology and interaction design, in addition to more traditional art objects. Through collaboration, she explores the opportunities afforded by digital innovation in her work, while maintaining integrity to her craft-based training and an adherence to the value of materials and making. Heidi is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Birmingham City University (3D Design) and is leading a collaborative research project with the V&A Museum.
For more about Heidi’s work: https://www.behance.net/HeidiHinder
Abstract: ‘Craft + Technology residency’
This presentation is the third and last of a series of case study/scenario presentations on interdisciplinarity across the arts and social sciences, the body and the digital, discussed during the day. In this presentation, artist Heidi Hinder shares some personal reflections and insights, from the processes involved in two current examples of interdisciplinary collaboration: ‘Money No Object’ and ‘Tangible Memories’. She identifies and explores points of similarity, intersection and opposition in the different research projects, both of which have developed out of the Pervasive Media Studio and its associated community of collaborators, in Bristol.
‘Craft + Technology residency’ by Heidi Hinder from MIDAS_LKL on Vimeo.
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Ever since I started working, I’ve had a lot of different jobs. I’ve worked in pizza restaurants, lobster diners, giant banquet halls and everywhere in between. I started working when I was 15-years-old (and I don’t think I’ve had a day off since.) But the job I still think about is my time at McDonald’s. I, like hundreds of thousands of Canadians, worked at McDonald’s during high school and all these years later, I still look back on it and smile.
And I think that even though I was barely older than an okay bottle of whisky, I knew that I had a good job. It was safe, fun, and challenging and yeah, the employee discount was pretty sweet. Especially because the McDonald’s I worked at shared a parking lot with my high school. The above photo is actually of the McDonald’s I worked at in Fredericton back when I had hair on my head and not my face.
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“On Wednesdays we wear pink…and eat Big Macs.”
Before she was a Mean Girl, Rachel McAdams worked at McDonalds.
“I would get a little bit flustered when it got a little bit busy.” In an interview for her movie (and one of my favourites) About Time, she shared this funny story.
Gas Boy
Okay, yes, Gas Boy was my nickname for a while and though I’m not famous like Shania and Rachel, but in some circles (mainly my parents’ house) people know my full name. But back in my McDonald’s days, my nickname around work was Gas Boy. No, not for the reasons you think. It’s because on my first day of work, I called the pedal you have to push to make McFlurry’s the gas pedal. In my defense, all these years later I still don’t know what you’d call it. But the name Gas Boy stuck and I’m happy to own it to this day.
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The Ethnography of Charles Darwin
A Study of His Writings on Aboriginal Peoples
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SKU: 9780786448777 Categories: History, Interdisciplinary Studies, Social Sciences, Sociology & Anthropology, Victorian Studies, World Tag: ethnography
Because of his stature as one of the great minds of the nineteenth century, Darwin and his work have been examined from almost every conceivable angle. This has led to much critical disagreement on his thoughts regarding the dignity of man, particularly of aboriginal peoples. This book attempts to reconcile the prevailing dual visions of Darwin—as racist and as humanitarian. By consolidating Darwin’s fragmentary ethnographic writings, the text charts his switch from early resignation regarding the victimization of native tribes to advocacy for their plight. While recognizing the differences between modern Europeans and primitive communities, Darwin developed a firm belief in the dignity of man and ultimately viewed the exploitation of aboriginal peoples as morally indefensible.
Charles De Paolo, the author of numerous books, is a professor of English at Manhattan Community College, the City University of New York. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.
Charles De Paolo
Abbreviations 15
Part I. Precursors and Analogues
1. Humboldt’s Critical Ethnology 17
2. Malthus’ Theological Demography 29
3. King and FitzRoy in Tierra del Fuego 39
Part II. A Voyage to Humanity
4. Slavery in South America 61
5. FitzRoy and Darwin in Tierra del Fuego 79
6. The “Barbarians” of Argentina 97
7. “The Mysterious Agency”: Darwin in the South Seas 112
8. The Making of Humboldt’s Ethnology 135
Part III. The Post-Voyage Ethnology
9. Allied Kingdoms, 1836 to 1870 141
10. Natural Selection: The Bio-Ethical Dilemma 163
11. Transportation and Census 178
12. Descent as Synthesis 187
Works Cited 197
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A well-known inherited property, The Botanik at the Hillview area close in 1 Jalan Remaja is under the development of the Tuan Sing Holdings. The developer has exercise an option to buy the prime piece of freehold land at Hillview for $7.8 million from Andermatt Investments Private Limited. The developer has anticipated that they can construct One hundred residential units based on the 4,046sqm and a plot ratio of 1.92. The Mont Botanik Residence in Hillview area offers a great comfort and ease for the future residence since it was carefully created by Tuan Sing Holdings. The Mont Botanik Residence floor plan is available in the brochure at the showflat. If you’re curious for the other information of The Mont Botanik Residence including project details and floor plans, you may check it yourself. Among the well-known estate developer in Singapore is the Tuan Sing Holdings and been the most requested Singapore Real Estate Developer. The main objective of Tuan Sing Holdings would be to create an undisputable real-estate projects with top quality to attract more stake holders. Tuan Sing Holdings was able to keep more stakeholders simply because they have maintained a higher standard of corporate structure. Tuan Sing Holdings know that personnel are its greatest asset and always seek empowerment thru constant training and motivation for its staff. Tuan Sing Holdings holds a precaution safeguard on working amenities to ensure that the employees are always safe, they also give them career development and training opportunities. There’s really a huge difference when it comes to land sales since the government noted it fewer sales than the 99 years leasehold land. Understanding the situation, some developers are making an effort to bid in the market so that they can ensure a development land to utilize for their real-estate development project. The Mont Botanik Residence Condo which sits on a freehold land would be highly sought after by investors and home stayers who’re searching for new developments.
Serving Hillview is the Hillview MRT Station through the Downtown Line. Even though putting educational center was not part of the draft during 2014, but they’re considering to develop it between Elizabeth Drive and Hillview Avenue. In that sense, more amenities and establishments will be created in Hillview Avenue to make it far more convenient to the property owners. You don’t need to bother about the way of transportation since it is very available close to the Mont Botanik Residence Hillview Avenue. The Hillview Avenue and Upper Bukit Timah Road is just situated close in the Mont Botanik Residence. Visiting the Jurong area and also the Central Business District by car is therefore very hassle-free. Bus stops and stations are convenient to access with. Hillview MRT Station and Downtown Line is too close to the The Mont Botanik Residence.
Educational facilities like Yusof Ishak Secondary School, Lianhua Primary School and Assumption English School is positioned near in The Mont Botanik Residence. Pan Island Expressway (PIE) is the most secure and fastest way to go with other facilities in Hillview for car owners.
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Why are those robots called Jaegers?
When watching Pacific Rim in German it didn't strike me much to hear those giant robots being called "Jäger" (hunters), only to be surprised by the fact that they are called "Jaegers" in the original, too (and the beginning of the movie, when the word's definition is given alongside "Kaiju", says that this indeed derives from the German word for "hunter").
But while the name "Kaiju" is an obvious hommage to the Japanese origin of this whole movie genre with giant monsters, the choice of the word "Jaeger" for those robots seems rather arbitrary while still pretty unusual. Is there any explanation why the term "Jaeger" was chosen to name those giant robots or any connection of that word to the mecha genre those things were meant as an hommage to?
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Since I hope this to have some deeper reason or being an hommage to something, I hope the analysis tag to be justified. Feel free to remove it if you don't think so. – Napoleon Wilson♦ Jul 30 '13 at 21:33
Jäger in German military context does not just mean hunter but is a term for specialized combat units and light infantry: Urban combat, Paratroopers (Fallschirmjäger) or mountain warfare (Gebirgsjäger). Of course the term derives from hunters who first formed these units when normal infantry was formed from untrained conscripts. – his Apr 15 '14 at 19:26
@his True indeed. – Napoleon Wilson♦ Apr 15 '14 at 19:28
The only language the Japanese geek out over as much as they do English, is German. There are plenty of examples, particularly in anime and Japanese video games of German words and German or German-sounding names in use. For the life of me I can't find it via Googling but I swear I've seen some game or anime use the term Jaeger for its mecha in the past. IMO, Del Toro is just following a popular anime/mecha meme that also conveniently fits in with the focus on the Jaeger program being an international effort. I tried to find some nice lists of definitive examples but seriously there's just too much commentary out there to pull wheat from the chaff. Look around a little bit. There's tons of observation of the phenomenon of German in manga/anime/games out there.
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Hmm, sounds interesting. Some more references (or even reasons) would be appreciated, though. – Napoleon Wilson♦ Aug 7 '13 at 9:49
google.com/… – Erik Reppen Aug 7 '13 at 9:56
Hmm, indeed seems to be a common phenomenon without an obvious reason. – Napoleon Wilson♦ Aug 7 '13 at 10:30
Yeah I've always wondered about the popularity of German in anime. I guess that's a good question for anime.SE! – System Down Aug 7 '13 at 10:56
I don't know if it's the historical relationship or Japan's even pre-Meiji cultural-absorbing tendencies. For all the history of geography-bolstered isolationism and devotion to tradition they seem to more rapidly borrow and integrate from other cultures they're exposed to than the anglos ever have and the anglos are pretty much filthy dirty sluts on the cross-cultural pollination front. – Erik Reppen Aug 7 '13 at 14:36
The scientist who created the Jaeger mechs was Jasper Schoenfeld (a german name). Hence while naming his ideas and creation, he may have chosen a german term for hunter.
As to why the plot contains this obvious german reference, it is unclear whether Del Toro chose a german word because it pairs up with Kaiju or because of german prowess in automotive engineering is not clear.
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"Jaeger program" was presented and started by "Jasper Schoenfeld", he is stated as American citizen but his place of birth or ancestry isn't mentioned, we can only guess from his surname that it is from German speaking countries, which would explain why he chose the German word for hunter.
But still there are lot of speculations about this, especially since lot of trivia is between movies and comics.
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Jeager is a common name for strong military leaders (side doesn't really matter, but usually good) and robots (manned or AI) in Japanese manga series or stories and games inspired but such series... some examples below:
Gray Fox (Frank Jaeger), a character in the Metal Gear series
Jagar Tharn, a fictional character of The Elder Scrolls universe
Karl Jaeger, a playable character in the game Alien Swarm
Felix Jaeger, a fictional character in the Gotrek and Felix series
Jägermonsters, a fictional race from the Girl Genius comics
Gen. Radi Jaeger, a fictional villain in the video game Valkyria Chronicles
The Strong Jaeger, a red and yellow robot with a signature J on his chest appearing in the videos of songs of the same name in the beatmania IIDX music games
Jäger, the field-name of the first and most basic of the Southern forces in the video and board game series Heavy Gear
Jaegers, small steampunk-style attack bots used by Nemesis in City of Heroes & City of Villains
Each of the "Invisible 9" units of the manga and anime series Pumpkin Scissors is nicknamed using "Jäger"; the soldiers of the most prominent unit, 901 are known as Gespenst Jäger
The Bishop's Jaegers (1932), a comic novel by Thorne Smith
Pilgrim Jäger, a Japanese manga series
Jaeger Corps in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
Jäger Sucher, German for hunter searcher, clandestine government group of werewolf hunters in the Night Creature series by Lori Handeland
Jaegers, a fictional type of giant robots used in the 2013 film Pacific Rim
Eren Jäger, protagonist in the Attack on Titan manga and anime
(Pure speculation, it might not at all be correct.)
My friend told me that it was because the intended effect was, these giant mechas are going to "hunt" Kaiju. And giant robots named Hunters, doesn't sound very impressive. But giant robots named Jaegers, now that's more intimidating. Couple this to the whole Japanese obsession towards German words, and Jasper Schoenfeld.
I also thought it might be a reference to Alex Jaeger, someone who had quite substantial work in this movie, though I'm not sure as what. Feel free to edit if you can make it clearer who Alex Jaeger is.
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During the mid-1800's through early I mid-1900's Japanese created a lot of words based on German. They both had a mutual respect often referring to Japan as "honorary Aryan's" and the purest racial elite of Asians. You can search for words in Japanese derived from German/English words. Also remember English is a Germanic language so similarities will be seen.
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Breed Profiles Kurdish Shepherd Dog
Kurdish Shepherd Dog
Sometimes referred to as the Pshdar Dog, Kurdish Kangal, this is a very old livestock guardian breed of the Kurds, used to drive and protect their Karakul sheep from wolves, bears and thieves. The history of its ancestors dates back to the 3rd millennia according to Assyrians and Babylonian clay tablets found in what is today's Kurdistan. It is also employed to hunt badgers and other game, as well as to guard the Kurdish settlements. The exact origin of the dog is shrouded in antiquity and fable but some believe that it descended from the Molossers of Central Asia. The Kurdish Shepherd Dog is believed to be a result of the natural breeding of ancient Turkish Kangal type dogs with other molossoid dogs that accompanied caravans and nomads of the time.
It is similar in appearance to the Turkish Kangal Dog, with which it's often confused, but this Kurdish breed is lighter and leaner. It should be noted that the Kurds are not the only ones who keep these dogs, many Turkish families own working Marmar Sheepdogs too, although they rarely acknowledge their Kurdish ancestry, due to the long history of conflict between the two nations. The Kurdish Gammal is also one of the progenitors of the modern Anatolian Shepherd Dog, a breed disregarded by many authorities as an unpure Western creation.
Although the Kurdish Shepherd Dog is relatively unknown and unrecognized, the breed exists in sufficient numbers and is held in high regard by Kurds everywhere. Unlike its closest cousin, the Kangal, this rugged working Molosser isn't as standardized and it comes in a variety of coat types and colors, from short-haired dogs to those with a full rich coat and even some bearded specimens can be rarely seen. Tall, deep-chested and muscular, the Kurdish Dog is a resilient and athletic Molosser.
The Pshdar Dog is a very powerful and self-aware molosser with a marked sense of purpose and highly developed protective instinct and to harness this raw natural power this breed requires proper training and boundaries. Often used as a guardian and herding dog, this powerful dog will protect its property and owners by attacking any perceived threat. This breed should not be let loose in crowded environments. He is loyal and obedient to his owner and has a good relationship with children and family members.
The head is round, has soft loose skin and some wrinkles big dewlap, a slightly elongated muzzle and strong jaws. The nose can be black, white, brown and red. The ears are usually cropped, but this practice is losing favor and the majority of dogs found today are unaltered. The tail can be either docked or left in its natural state and is usually raised to the top of the waist.
The most common coloring has traditionally been white, fawn, brown, blue and black, but today the majority of the dogs are bicolored. The average height is around 30 inches, although smaller examples exist.
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The future of cryptocurrency is here, and every investor needs to be prepared for all the changes it's going to bring – not just to investing, but to nearly everyone's daily life.
I just returned from the three-day Consensus 2019 cryptocurrency conference in New York. Although I have followed this space closely since 2011, when I first discovered Bitcoin, some of what I learned surprised me.
My big-picture takeaways are:
Much more progress has been made in the cryptocurrency sphere than people realize.
The blockchain technology that underpins cryptocurrency will touch many facets of our lives.
As the many pieces fall into place over the next couple of years, they will create a massive tailwind for crypto prices, with Bitcoin leading the way.
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The Future of Cryptocurrency Is Happening Now
Crypto products and services fall into two broad categories: those that are blockchain-based and those that serve the needs of trading cryptocurrencies as assets.
What struck me at Consensus 2019 was how many of these products and services have moved from development to reality – and how many household names are adopting the tech.
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International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) announced its blockchain-based platform for tracking food through the supply chain, the IBM Food Trust, last October. It allows producers to trace food from its origin though processing and distribution.
Food producers can use this data to streamline their systems, but the benefits go beyond that. Many consumers today want to know where their food comes from and how it's produced. Plus, when tainted food ends up in grocery stores and restaurants, blockchain technology greatly speeds up the process of tracking down the bad items so they can be pulled before people consume them and get sick.
In a pilot program, IBM said it was able to cut the time it took to trace bad food from seven days to 2.2 seconds.
IBM has already signed up such heavyweight users as Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT), Nestle SA (OTCMKTS: NSRGY), and Dole Food Co.
I also stopped off at Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ: MSFT) booth at Consensus to learn about a similar "blockchain-as-a-service" product it launched less than a month ago. The company has linked the new tech to its rapidly growing Azure cloud service and counts such companies as Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) among its customers.
At the same time, dozens of startups are solving problems that have served as roadblocks to the adoption of cryptocurrencies, particularly in the area of investing.
These companies are building the digital infrastructure of the future…
Startups Chopping Down Barriers to Cryptocurrency Investing
Several significant "pain points" have discouraged both individuals and institutions from putting more money into cryptocurrencies.
Here are the major areas where startups are creating solutions to those pain points:
Custody/Security: A concern for both individual and institutional investors is making sure their crypto is safe. Companies like Paxos, BitGo, and Nukkleus Capital all were touting solutions to these issues at Consensus.
Clearing and Settlement: The clearing and settlement system for equities is robust and well established, but has been lacking in the wild world of cryptocurrency trading. BitGo is building a sophisticated clearing and settlement system that fulfills compliance requirements and minimizes counterparty risk. This is exactly the sort of service veteran traders require. Nukkleus Capital also offers clearing and settlement services aimed at institutional clients.
Compliance: Governments still don't know how to regulate digital assets and markets, which means laws and enforcement are constantly changing. More than a dozen federal agencies in the United States claim some sort of jurisdiction over crypto, and individual states like New York and Wyoming have passed their own laws. Chartwell is a company that helps crypto and other fintech companies navigate these choppy waters.
Trading Data: For professional traders, having accurate, real-time data is essential. And they can get it from reliable sources like Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters. But unlike with stocks, where trading is limited to a handful of exchanges and trading only happens between certain hours, crypto trading goes on 24 hours a day at hundreds of exchanges scattered all over the world. At Consensus, I ran across two companies looking to fix that. Lukka's goal is to normalize and consolidate crypto asset data to assist traders and improve financial reporting. Another firm, Xena, launched a tool this month that aggregates and charts live data from largest crypto exchanges.
These solutions will make investing in cryptocurrencies easier, but several regulatory pieces need to fall into place for crypto investing to become commonplace.
As these pieces come together, we'll see a massive movement of capital into Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, driving prices up rapidly.
Here's what I learned at Consensus about where the regulators stand on crypto – and it was more optimistic than I had assumed…
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Over the course of his journalistic career, Dave has covered many diverse subjects. Since arriving at Money Morning in 2011, he has focused primarily on technology. He's an expert on both Apple and cryptocurrencies. He started writing about Apple for The Sun in the mid-1990s, and had an Apple blog on The Sun's web site from 2007-2009. Dave's been writing about Bitcoin since 2011 - long before most people had even heard of it. He even mined it for a short time.
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“Understanding irrationality to save the human race”: Lord John ALDERDICE
Posted by Allan LEONARD on 19 May 2019 in @SharedFuture, @SluggerOToole |One Comment
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast hosted a spring conference in honour of the 10th anniversary of the awarding of an honorary degree to President Daisaku Ikeda (President, Soka Gakkai International (SGI)). The evening before the day conference was marked by the unveiling of a commemorative peace bench in the university’s quadrangle garden, as well as a peace tree in Botanic Gardens. With a welcome by Professor Hastings Donnan and introduction by Professor Richard English, Lord John Alderdice delivered a keynote speech in the Great Hall: “Respect and Understanding: Civil Paths to Peace”.
Alderdice described how, as a young man, he saw people making decisions in Northern Ireland that were not in their best interests; he was observing a cycle of violence and political stalemate. He explained how he entered the study of psychiatry, to learn why people make irrational choices. He thought that if he could understand this from an individual’s point of view, then perhaps he could understand this at a larger, communal perspective. Alderdice proceeded to describe how difficult this has been.
When Alderdice was elected in 1989 to Belfast City Council, Councillor Alex Maskey extended his hand. At that time, it was customary for opponents of Sinn Fein to not respond in kind. But Alderdice explained that he did shake hands with Maskey: “I treated him as a fellow human being.” But he continued by saying that incorporating human feelings in political life is not without consequences. When his brother, David Alderdice, led the Alliance Party group in the council to approve a proposal for the selection of Maskey as the Lord Mayor of Belfast, opponents “couldn’t find David’s house, so they threw bricks through my windows”.
But Alderdice added that was okay, because windows could be replaced; feelings are another matter. He has learned that what people will remember the longest are feelings of disrespect and humiliation — not poverty, injustice, or disagreements. If someone publicly humiliates you, for example, you’ll remember that feeling long after you’ve forgotten what the argument was about.
Alderdice argued that this sense of resentment works at a group level, too. He made the case of the extension of university education and fair employment legislation in Northern Ireland; as Catholics still found themselves disadvantaged, that community’s call for respect got louder. Some resorted to violence, which Alderdice argued could not have been a strategic decision, because there are many historical lessons that show terrorism usually affects your own community worse. So why does terrorism happen?
Alderdice disagrees with the notion of trying to address “extreme thinking” (en vogue with efforts to combat “Muslim extremism”). Rather, those who are incredibly angry and frustrated will take actions at great costs, to themselves and even their own community. Alderdice said that those who deem themselves to be in an existential threat will think differently, in what are called not rational, but “devoted actions”, based on sacred values.
This helps explain some responses to peacemaking, when one actor spurns any financial incentive for cooperation. There are some relationships that you cannot put a monetary value on, such as one’s wife or say, one’s tribe. But acknowledge the hurt caused and you could have a basis to keep talking, this line of negotiation suggests.
So, Alderdice argued, Northern Ireland’s problems weren’t fundamentally economic or poor policy decisions, but “bad historical relations”. He said that it was right to explore the perspectives of power and humiliation through the three-stranded approach among the British and Irish jurisdictions. Alderdice lamented that this multilateral relationship building has not continued.
Looking beyond Northern Ireland, Alderdice suggested not that there is no role for military force in global security, but “the military cannot deliver peace”. He underlined that “the salve of civility has a role — listening, engaging, understanding”.
“How we feel is part of the way we think, and we need to incorporate this in our business of learning,” Alderdice concluded.
In the following Q&A session, Grainia Long (Commissioner of Resilience, Belfast City Council), asked about post-conflict trauma, especially that presented by children who never experienced traumatic events firsthand. Alderdice replied that “what we are doing to our children is worse than we thought”, explaining how not only is trauma transferred down generations by social means, but that some psychological damage can permanently affect one’s genes and thus create a biological basis of transgenerational trauma. He suggested interventions at group levels as a potential remedy.
Another member of the audience asked about the relationship between feelings and knowledge. Alderdice made reference to our current experiences of disruptive technologies (social media, automation, machine learning), and argued that “rationalism alone has run its course. It is not good science to think humans behave like computers — the way you wish humans reacted instead of what they actually do.”
Alderdice concluded: “We need to study irrationality as an opportunity not only to understand, but to survive as a human race.”
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STARRING: Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar
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Glucose and Oxygent Improve Memory Formation
Increasing glucose and oxygen supplies to the brain seems to allow iniformation to be committed more accurately and fully to memory; in other words, you learn better. This means when you come to recall it at a later stage, you will undoubtedly do better, because the information there is clearer and more comprehensive. The reverse does not seem to be true, however. If you first encoded something without the aid of extra oxygen and glucose, suddenly making more oxygen and glucose available when...
Folksonomies: cognition memory health
Not memory retrieval, but well-timed breathing exercises and soda can improve the retention of learning.
Douglas Engelbart's Idea of Small Changes
I'm reminded of Douglas Engelbart's classic paper "Augmenting Human itellect,"2 on his belief in the power of computers. He wrote this in 1962, way before the PC, and argued that it's better to improve and facilitate the tiny things we do every day than it is to attempt to replace entire human jobs with monolithic machines. A novel-writing machine, if one were invented, just automates the process of writing novels, and it's limited to novels. But making a small improvement to a pencil, for ex...
Folksonomies: invention change
Make a change to novel-writing and you've affected a small, specific domain, but improve the pencil, and you've impacted a wide range of domains.
22 OCT 2013 by ideonexus
The Steel Man Argument
Sometimes the term "steel man" is used to refer to a position's or argument's improved form. A straw man is a misrepresentation of someone's position or argument that is easy to defeat: a "steel man" is an improvement of someone's position or argument that is harder to defeat than their originally stated position or argument.
Folksonomies: debate
Contrasts with the straw man, work from an idealized articulation of your opponent's viewpoint and try to improve upon it.
In a recent study, a group of psychologists decided to see if this differential reaction is simply behavioral, or if it actually goes deeper, to the level of brain performance. The researchers measured response-locked event-related potentials (ERPs)—electric neural signals that result from either an internal or external event—in the brains of college students as they took part in a simple flanker task. The students were shown a string of five letters and asked to quickly identify the midd...
Folksonomies: intelligence plasticity
Understanding that intelligence is plastic and improvable increases performance on certain tests.
11 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Science Works from Approximation to Approximation
I have no patience with attempts to identify science with measurement, which is but one of its tools, or with any definition of the scientist which would exclude a Darwin, a Pasteur or a Kekulé. The scientist is a practical man and his are practical aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the who...
Folksonomies: science progress
Getting better all the time.
Improve Ourselves, but Also Contribute to the Improvement...
We cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individual. Toward this end, each of us must work for his own highest development, accepting at the same time his share of responsibility in the general life of humanity—our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Folksonomies: science virtues
Quoting Marie Curie.
28 JUL 2011 by ideonexus
Sign Language May Boost Cognition in Children by 50 Percent
Gestures and speech used similar neural circuits as they developed in our evolutionary history. University of Chicago psycholinguist David McNeill was the first to suggest this. He thought nonverbal and verbal skills might retain their strong ties even though they’ve diverged into separate behavioral spheres. He was right. Studies confirmed it with a puzzling finding: People who could no longer move their limbs after a brain injury also increasingly lost their ability to communicate verball...
Folksonomies: parenting child development
Children who learned the form of communication in the first grade performed 50 percent better on a series of cognitive tests.
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Tina Knowles Reveals She Put Beyonce and Solange in Counseling as Children
Nick Mojica
Beyonce and Solange are two of music's closet siblings but according to mother Tina Knowles, she instilled their love for each other at an early age and got some help with counseling.
In a clip posted by TMZ, Knowles sat down to Maria Shriver to discuss the singer's upbringing and revealed how she had both of them in counseling at young ages. "I took them to counseling very early so that the counselor could help Beyonce be more sensitive to Solange," she said.
According to Knowles, Solange was only five years old at the time and Beyonce, was 10, but on the brink of stardom. While family thought Knowles would make her daughter's "crazy" with counseling at that age, she said it did the opposite. "It made [Beyonce] more sensitive and protective, and they're still fiercely protective of each other," Knowles said.
Bey and Solange continue to share a close bond and the singers even shared the stage during the 2018 Coachella music festival. During both weekends of Beyonce's headlining set, Solange joined her sister on stage to perform with her.
In related news, Beyonce's name was recently brought up in a report that accused Tidal of falsely inflating streaming numbers. According to Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, Tidal generated more than 300 million fake streams for Kanye West's The Life of Pablo and Bey's Lemonade.
Check out Tina Knowles chatting with Maria Shriver below.
Stars Who Performed While Pregnant
Source: Tina Knowles Reveals She Put Beyonce and Solange in Counseling as Children
Filed Under: Beyonce, Solange
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About NDM
NDM prides itself on cost effective solutions and resolving matters expeditiously
Practice Areaswebadmin2019-09-17T15:17:05-07:00
Automobile Litigation
Construction Defect Claims and Litigation
Employment Counsel
Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Disputes
Livestock Litigation
Outdoor/Adventure Activities
Premises Liability Defense
Professional Liability Defense
Nathan Dumm & Mayer handles all areas of automobile liability defense, including no-fault and uninsured motorist claims, coverage disputes, and subrogation. This practice area has been a significant focus for our firm throughout its existence. Our attorneys represent insurance companies, municipalities, corporations, and the people they insure. Our experience and knowledge enable the firm to provide effective representation in automobile insurance defense litigation. Attorneys practicing in this area: Ellis Mayer, Bernard Woessner, Andy Nathan, Marni Nathan Kloster, Ashley Hernandez-Schlagel, Mike Lancto, and Kaitlin Akers. back to top
Civil Rights and Governmental Entity Law
NDM has extensive experience representing governmental entities throughout the State of Colorado, including cities and towns and all of the departments within these entities, as well as special districts. Our representation of governmental entities is wide-ranging and includes proficiency in civil rights defense, employment litigation, land-use litigation, municipal code enforcement, police liability litigation, and general tort defense, as well as other issues that affect governmental entities. NDM’s in-depth experience enables us to provide responsive and effective representation in defending all types of lawsuits brought against municipalities and special districts. The firm’s representation of governmental entities includes the successful defense of the City of Littleton before the United States Supreme Court, which established a precedent regarding the regulation of adult businesses across the country. Attorneys practicing in these areas: Andy Nathan, Marni Nathan Kloster, Bernard Woessner, Tim Fiene, Ashley Hernandez-Schlagel, and Nick Poppe.Back to top
In the past two decades, Colorado has experienced unprecedented growth. A by-product of this growth has been an explosion in construction defect litigation. NDM’s experienced trial attorneys effectively defend developers, general contractors and subcontractors. NDM’s construction defect counsel handle third party claims against subcontractors while representing developers and general contractors, taking a unified approach to defenses whenever possible. NDM is particularly aware of the risks associated with “pay and chase” scenarios when representing general contractors. The firm has effective procedures in place to avoid unnecessary conflict with third party defendants. Attorneys practicing in these areas: Mike Lancto, and Ellis Mayer.Back to top
NDM has demonstrated capability in defending a broad range of employment issues. The firm’s experience allows it to provide a uniquely comprehensive representation to its clients with respect to employment disputes, including issues involving Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Title VII discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims, wrongful termination, constructive discharge, First Amendment retaliation, and workers’ compensation claims. The firm counsels both public and private employers concerning preventive employment law practices, including developing and revising employment policies and defending employers in both the administrative process and litigation. The firm also performs and/or manages investigations of claims made by employees. This firm has substantial experience representing employers before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Colorado Civil Rights Division, administrative hearing officers and in civil court. Attorneys practicing in this area: Andy Nathan, Marni Nathan Kloster, Ellis Mayer, Bernard Woessner, Tim Fiene, Ashley Hernandez-Schlagel, and Nick Poppe.Back to top
NDM provides in-depth and nuanced analysis of insurance coverage matters, as well as representation of insurance companies in contract disputes. The firm has extensive experience providing coverage opinions, defense of bad faith lawsuits, and prosecuting declaratory judgment actions. NDM promotes a direct and common-sense approach to these volatile disputes. Recognizing issues and intervening at an early stage serves to minimize exposures to liability. Attorneys practicing in these areas: Ellis Mayer, Bernard Woessner, Tim Fiene, and Kaitlin Akers.Back to top
NDM lawyers have extensive trial experience before the state and federal courts, as well as the state and federal courts of appeal. Our attorneys practice in all areas of insurance defense including negligence cases arising from auto accidents and premises liability, workers’ compensation, legal malpractice, product liability and bad faith litigation. NDM also has a large department that emphasizes the defense of governmental entities and their employees. NDM gains a clear understanding of the insurers’ goals through early communication and analysis. The attorneys practicing in these areas: Kaitlin Akers, Ellis Mayer, Bernard Woessner, Timothy R. Fiene, Andy Nathan, Nicholas C. Poppe, Marni Nathan Kloster, Ashley Hernandez-Schlagel and, Mike Lancto.Back to top
The proliferation of litigation in our society led to an increase in the amount of litigation directed toward the legal profession itself. While often the cases are the last bastion of an underlying failed case or claim, many of these cases are quite complex and create significant risks for the insured attorney. NDM effectively defends legal professionals in claims of professional negligence. Attorneys practicing in this area: Ellis Mayer.Back to top
NDM travels all over the state to defend ranchers and farmers involved in livestock liability claims, including motor vehicle collisions with livestock and claims of inadequate fencing resulting in trespass and damage. Attorneys practicing in this area: Ellis Mayer. Back to top
The defense of a premises liability case is an important focus of the firm. NDM’s attorneys represent insured and self-insured businesses, property management companies, and municipalities and individuals in defense of such claims. Our knowledge and experience provide effective representation in premises liability defense litigation. Attorneys practicing in this area: Mike Lancto, Ellis Mayer, Andy Nathan, Marni Nathan Kloster, Tim Fiene, Ashley Hernandez-Schlagel, and Kaitlin Akers.Back to top
NDM attorneys represent licensed professionals, including attorneys, design professionals, and accountants in civil claims based on an alleged breach of the standard of care. Its attorneys provide a strong and effective defense to such claims and work with its clients toward a successful and goal-oriented resolution. NDM also offers services and representation for licensed professionals in Board disciplinary inquiries and mandatory Board reports relating to professional licenses and has provided representation to clients before the Board of Accountancy and the Board of Licensure for Architects, Professional Engineers & Professional Land Surveyors. Attorneys practicing in this area: Ellis Mayer.
Workers’ compensation claims require mastery of the ever-changing laws in this area along with the application of persistence, energy and innovation. NDM has tirelessly practiced and developed these qualities since the firm began. Whether an employee slips on a banana peel or claims exposure to toxic materials, the firm has a solid record of effective client representation. Its client base includes large self-insured employers as well as the “little guy” who has workers’ compensation coverage through various forms of insurance coverage. The firm works with employers and carriers on every level, from developing risk management policies to assisting with the investigation of claims, from trying the case before the Administrative Law Judge to arguing that case before the Supreme Court. Credibility, communication and integrity are of paramount importance without regard to venue. Attorneys practicing in this area: Bernard Woessner, Tim Fiene, and Kaitlin Akers.Back to top
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Soros, Clinton-Tied Group Prepares to Challenge Trump's 'Racist Wall' in Courts
Demand Justice organization planning legal battle against border wall
on 12th January 2019 @ 8.00pm
Liberal billionaire George Soros is a long-time financial backer of Hillary Clinton and the Democrats
A group tied to liberal financier George Soros, that's founded by former members of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, is preparing a legal challenge to President Donald Trump's proposed border wall, claiming the barrier is "racist."
Demand Justice, an organization associated with a “social welfare organization” financed by billionaire globalist Soros, is raising money for a court battle against what it describes as President Trump’s “racist, unnecessary wall.”
In a statement, Demand Justice claims: “This lawless president has created a humanitarian crisis along the southern border of our country by targeting asylum seekers; already, two children have died in U.S. border patrol custody.”
The left-wing group fails to mention that Trump, along with many American citizens, is seeking to stop the “humanitarian crisis” of illegal aliens, including children, by building a wall to stop migrants attempting the dangerous trek to cross the porous U.S.-Mexico border.
Demand Justice is associated with a an organization funded by George Soros
According to Breitbart, in an email blast, Demand Justice asks supporters for $5 to eventually challenge any proposed barrier in the court system:
If Trump takes this unprecedented action, it WILL be challenged in the courts. This is why we fight. Give $5 now.
We won’t allow Trump to hold our country hostage with his fearmongering and scare tactics. The courts may be our last line of defense against Trump’s authoritarian impulses and now is the time to show him we won’t stand down. Give $5 now to help us fight back.
Clinton herself put her name on a separate fundraising email pitch via her associated Onward Together progressive organization seeking funds to “fight back against the administration’s hateful rhetoric and harmful policies — donate directly to the organizations helping to reunite and provide support to families seeking asylum at the border.”
Demand Justice, which formed last year, took center stage when it helped lead opposition to Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.
Breitbart News reported that less than one hour after Trump announced Kavanagh as his nominee, Demand Justice had already put up the website stopkavanaugh.com, exclaiming: “We need to demand that the Senate defeat the Brett Kavanaugh nomination.”
The organization came under news media scrutiny for its refusal to disclose its donor list.
The Associated Press reported:
Demand Justice was formed just a few months ago and is structured in such a way that it doesn’t have to file annual tax returns. That’s because it’s “fiscally sponsored” by a tax-exempt social welfare organization called the Sixteen Thirty Fund. The Sixteen Thirty Fund files federal tax returns but doesn’t have to disclose the identities of its donors.
A recent Daily Caller investigation found that Soros’s Open Society Policy Center (OSPC) previously donated some $2.2 million to the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the fiscal sponsor for Demand Justice.
The Sixteen Thirty Fund describes itself as providing a “fiscal sponsorship vehicle for donors to direct capital toward social welfare projects that include advocacy, lobbying, and some political and electoral activities.”
The group claims Trump's proposed border wall is 'racist' and 'unnecessary'
Demand Justice was founded by Brian Fallon, who served as press secretary for Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The group’s digital team is headed by Gabrielle McCaffrey, who was a digital organizer for Clinton’s campaign.
Working at Demand Justice is Paige Herwig, a former Judiciary Committee aide to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).
Prior to her stint with Feinstein, Herwig served as counselor to Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
According to emails released by the Justice Department, Herwig was included in a chain of emails crafting the initial media response into Lynch’s infamous tarmac meeting at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in which former President Bill Clinton, the husband of the FBI’s main subject in a criminal probe, boarded the attorney general’s plane and reportedly stayed there for about 20 minutes.
Demand Justice’s formation was encouraged by former Obama White House counselor John Podesta, who served as chairman of Clinton’s latest presidential campaign.
“We have ignored this field of battle for too long,” Podesta told the New York Times regarding Demand Justice.
Even before Trump announced Kavanaugh as his nominee, Demand Justice committed to spending about $5 million to oppose the eventual nominee. The organization seeks to raise$10 million in its first year.
In a recent interview with the New York Times, Fallon would not comment on the source of the group’s financing, but the newspaper noted that he was a featured speaker at the conference of the Democracy Alliance, a grouping of progressive donors.
Democracy Alliance’s founding donors include Soros and billionaire Tom Steyer. Indeed, Fallon’s panel at Democracy Alliance was moderated by Sarah Knight of Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
Democracy Alliance directs donors to leftist groups, including the ACLU, the Women’s March, Media Matters for America, and reportedly the radical Indivisible group known for storming Republican town halls.
Democracy Alliance highlighted anti-Trump organizations to donors in a “resistance map” suggesting which activist groups would be opportune for funding.
Already, Indivisible received funds from donors and coalitions associated with Democracy Alliance financiers, the New York Times reported.
tags: George Soros | Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton Says ‘No Emergency at Border,’ Twitter Takes Her Down
Former secretary of state met with criticism for hypocritical remarks 10th February 2019 @ 4.00pm
Federal Lawsuit Filed Against Obama, Comey for Hillary Clinton's Crimes Cover-Up
Ex-US Navy whistleblower launches major lawsuit for 'protecting' Clinton 10th July 2018 @ 12.00am
Hillary Clinton is a ‘Drunken, Lying Hag’ Blasts James Woods
Veteran actor slams Clinton in viral outburst 10th July 2018 @ 7.00pm
George Soros Attacks Donald Trump: 'He's Going To Destroy The New World Order '
Soros is currently facing a worldwide backlash 10th June 2018 @ 2.13pm
George Soros Accused Of Funding Fake Trump/Russian Dossier
Globalist involvement could add new dynamic to Russian narrative 10th March 2018 @ 10.17am
10th February 2019 @ 4.00PM
10th July 2018 @ 12.00AM
10th July 2018 @ 7.00PM
10th March 2018 @ 10.17AM
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NACAS Lounge
More About NACAS
NACASTODAY - July 2019
In this issue of NACASTODAY:
- Member Spotlight: Jim Dwyer, ASU
- NACAS Volunteer Deadline Approaching
- Ask a CASP: Diane Reynolds, VCU
- Member Benefit of the Month: Recorded Webinars
- Staff Spotlight: Lindsay Hodges, Registrar and Operations Coordinator
Jim Dwyer
Chair, C3X Committee
Executive Director, Auxiliary Business Services
1. Please provide a little background info about yourself and your history with NACAS.
I have worked in higher education auxiliary operations for over 20 years and have always known NACAS to be a highly reputable organization of thought leaders that connects the many different ways institutions support students, faculty, staff and the community. Personally, I see NACAS as a way to push myself to maximize engagement within the industry and learn from the best, which has led me to volunteer for just about any opportunity I can get with NACAS since officially joining just over 2 years ago.
2. Why volunteer with NACAS?
Volunteering with NACAS in general is a great way to gain perspective, which can be invaluable in how you show up on a day-to-day basis in an industry that still relies a lot on doing things the way they have always been done. Being a part of an incredible team of volunteers on the C3X Committee is particularly rewarding because we are getting to help develop the thought leadership content that will ideally lead to impactful change across the entire industry.
3. What would you say to someone on the fence about attending C3X to convince them to join us ?
I would ask them what they are doing to prepare for the massive amount of change affecting our institutions at an increasingly faster rate and level of complexity and urge them to connect that to the content of educational sessions offered at C3X. Ideally, a quick ROI analysis will be enough for anyone to get off the fence and complete the registration process!
4. What are you most looking forward to this year at C3X?
I am really looking forward to the keynote speakers and ed sessions in particular. I believe these are historically some of the most impactful elements of C3X and feel that this year the committee has worked hard to find timely, relevant and actionable content that will be delivered by a dynamic and diverse group of leaders.
WILDCARDS:
1. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Coffee, but without the milk or sugar, so basically just a cup of coffee….
2. If you could go on vacation anywhere in the world, where would you go and what would you do there?
I would go to Ireland and just start walking. I do not think there is any better way to experience a new place and immerse yourself in the culture.
3. If you had $100,000 to give to a charitable organization of your choice, which one would you choose and why?
I would donate to university programming. A big part of embracing the culture of working at a university or college and living in a “college town” is integrating into what it provides to the community. I support university initiatives that directly impact the community because it is a part of my job, but more importantly because it effects the place that I live and the future being built for my children.
+ C3X
+ Volunteer
Calling All Volunteers!
Lend your talent to NACAS as a volunteer!
At your institution or business, you’ve gotten where you are based on your aptitude, vision, and follow-through. At NACAS, our rock star volunteers lead our organization with those same qualities to create opportunities for our community. Lead alongside us and become invaluable to our profession.
While NACAS takes volunteer inquiries and content submissions year-round, the deadline to apply for placement on a committee for a term beginning Fall 2019 is August 15.
Ask a CASP
Diane Reynolds, CASP
NACAS Past President (2017-2018)
Assistant Vice President for Business Services
1. Please provide a little background information about yourself and your history with NACAS.
After graduating from VCU with a BS in Marketing, my career goal was to become a retail buyer. I was hired by Best Products after graduating from VCU and my buying career migrated from buyer of accessories in the jewelry department to senior buyer of home furnishings with $100 million budget for 200 stores nationwide. I left Best Products to work for my alma mater, Virginia Commonwealth University, as the manager for contracts and compliance in Procurement. In 1998, I was asked to be the Interim Director of Business Services primarily because of my retail background. That’s when my journey in Auxiliary Services began and I’ve never left!
Because I knew nothing about dining services, parking services, mail services and bookstores, I attended my first NACAS conference to learn about auxiliaries and connect with experts that I could turn to for advice and guidance. I’ve only missed two national and two East region NACAS conferences since 1998! I’m able to take something away from every NACAS conference I’ve attended and have connected with peers that have become lifelong friends. After 21 years, I continue to learn from NACAS and my colleagues. I became involved with NACAS as soon as I landed in the field of auxiliaries and have served as NACAS East president, on the East board of directors, NACAS President and on the board of directors, and various volunteer committees and roles.
2. What does CASP mean to you? What is the value of the certification?
When I served on the East Board, I attended a Leadership Team Meeting in Houston, Texas. During that meeting, an intense discussion took place as to how NACAS could become “The Conference” and resource for auxiliary managers and staff? How could NACAS differentiate itself and support auxiliary leaders? There is no college degree in Auxiliary Enterprises, so the concept of a certification program was initiated and developed. Other certification programs exist in other fields of expertise, such as Parking, Purchasing, etc.
I was in the first official group of folks that signed up to take the CASP exam. Not only did I want the credential that authenticated my expertise in the field of auxiliary services, it was important to me to demonstrate my support of the program. I passed the exam and received the designated CASP certification distinction that I include with all of my professional correspondence and emails. When hiring for key positions in our department, “CASP preferred” is always included. The CASP designation behind an auxiliary professional’s name signifies that individual is a subject matter expert in the field of auxiliaries. It demonstrates their commitment to the profession and it elevates their qualifications in a competitive and specialized field.
3. What would you say to someone on the fence about applying for CASP?
Face the fear and do it anyway! Once you pass the examination, there is a sense of pride that goes along with that significant achievement. In our profession of auxiliary enterprises, the CASP designation is an honor. I hold an MBA, but I am also proud of my CASP designation because it separates the skills that I possess in auxiliaries from those who do not have the certification. If you lead a team of auxiliary professionals, it’s important to lead by example. If you have been in the field of auxiliaries for five years, receiving CASP demonstrates to your university that you have the credentials certifying your expertise.
+ CASP
Member Benefit of the Month: Recorded Webinars
Missed a webinar? No problem!
Recorded online events give NACAS members the advantages of customized, convenient education. Search for topics that are relevant to your needs, and digest course material at your own pace. Invite your auxiliary service colleagues to do the same! Webinars are uploaded one-to-two days after the live event takes place.
+ Recorded Online Events
+ Upcoming Online Events
Lindsay Hodges, Registrar and Operations Coordinator
1. Please describe your roles and responsibilities with NACAS.
I am the Registrar and Operations Coordinator. I assist with the registration process for conferences and other events. I went to St. John’s University in Queens and studied Sport Management.
2. What’s your go-to Spotify playlist right now?
My go to Spotify playlist is either the Trap Mojito Playlist or Summer Songs of the 90’s!
3. What shows/movies are you bingeing on Netflix?
Last Chance U!
4. What is a skill you would like to master?
I would like to master some more Spanish language skills.
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Ryan Reed’s status for 2019 uncertain after sponsor leaves
By Dustin LongOct 15, 2018, 1:37 PM EDT
Lilly Diabetes announced Monday that it will not return to Roush Fenway Racing after this season, ending five years with the organization and Ryan Reed, who said he was unsure of his plans for next year.
Lilly Diabetes issued a statement that read:
“For the past five years, we have been fortunate to have had a wonderful partnership with Ryan Reed and Roush Fenway Racing. Together, we have increased awareness among NASCAR fans about the importance of managing diabetes and have inspired people with diabetes to live the lives they want to live. Moving forward, we have decided to shift our focus to other initiatives that support the diabetes community and, therefore, our partnership with Roush Fenway Racing to sponsor Ryan will end at the conclusion of the 2018 NASCAR season.
“We are grateful to Ryan for his dedication to the diabetes community, and we admire all he has accomplished. We wish him all the success in the future as we turn from sponsor to fans. We also thank Jack Roush and the team at Roush Fenway Racing for their exceptional partnership. As the Official Diabetes Health Partner of NASCAR, we look forward to continuing our support of fans impacted by diabetes through our educational initiatives that raise awareness of the importance of diabetes management and overall good health.”
Reed, who was eliminated from the Xfinity playoffs at Dover, offered his thanks to Lilly Diabetes in a statement and said: “I am ready for the challenge of free agency and putting myself in the opportunity to do what I love, which is win races and be a champion for others that live with diabetes. (Seven)-and-a half years ago when I was diagnosed, I was told I would never drive race cars again. I defied that then and have no doubt will continue to defy that and compete in the sport I love.”
I appreciate everything you have done for myself and the diabetes community @LillyDiabetes. pic.twitter.com/WeY3pi0J6S
— Ryan Reed (@driverRyanReed) October 15, 2018
The 25-year-old Reed has two career Xfinity victories. Both came in the season-opening race in Daytona. He won there in 2015 and ’17.
Roush Fenway Racing also issued a statement Monday:
“We would like to thank Lilly Diabetes for a truly great partnership over the last five seasons. We consider the program a success, as we were able to win two races at Daytona, qualify annually for the playoffs, and educate the racing community on important health initiatives, while at the same time inspiring those living with diabetes to live their lives to the fullest.
“We wish Lilly Diabetes nothing but the best going forward, as they continue their effort to push this important message.”
Tags: Lilly Diabetes, nascar, roush fenway racing, Ryan Reed, xfinity series, Ryan Reed
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2018 MUSE Silver Award in the Games and Virtual/Augmented reality category from the American Alliance of Museums for the game Utah Climate Change.
Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence 2016 and 2017 Winner
Best of Utah 2017 Readers' Choice Award for Best Museum — presented by City Weekly
International Dark-Sky Association 2016 Lighting Design Award to the Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center, University of Utah with special recognition to Ennead Architects (NY), GSBS Architects (UT), and Brandston Partnership (NY).
Salt Awards, 2016 Readers Choice Award, Best Museum--from the readers of the Salt Lake Tribune.
2015 Governor’s Medal for Excellence in Science and Technology—Special Recognition Dr. Sarah George, Executive Director, Natural History Museum of Utah
New Media Consortium Annual Summer Conference, Best of Show Award: Research Quest, June 2015: Advancing Critical Thinking (ACT)
Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Case District VII), Category: Individual Special Events, Expedition of Wonder 2015 Gala, Award of Excellence, Bronze 2016
Buildy Award for Most Outstanding Large Museum Construction Project for 2013 - Presented by: Building Museums Conference - February 18, 2013
2013 Muse Silver Award, Excellence in Exhibition in the Animation Category for "Lightweeds."- Presented by: American Alliance of Museums - Award Partner: Simon Heidjen
Global Design Merit Award - Presented by: Society for Environmental Graphic Design - June 8, 2013- Award Partners: Ralph Applebaum Associates, Poulin + Morris, Infinite Scale Design Group, Ennead Architects, GSBS Architects, and Design Workshop
Excellence in Architecture for a New Building Honor - Presented by: Society for College and University Planning/American Institute of Architecture Committee on Architecture in Education - July 14, 2014 - Award partners: Ennead Architects and GSBS Architects
Best Ideas Contest - Best Broadcast Campaign - Presented by: Utah Tourism Industry Coalition - September 25, 2014
2012 MUSE Gold Award in the Video, Film & Computer Animation category for Native Voices, a five-screen video presentation - Presented by: American Association of Museums - Award Partner: Northern Lights Productions
2012 MUSE Bronze Award in Audio Tours and Podcasts category for Trailhead to Utah - Presented by: American Association of Museums -
Award Partners: Frankly, Green and Webb, and Mediatrope
2012 Best of the Beehive: "Best Family Membership Deal" in Salt Lake Magazine
"NHMU offers charter members free admission, invites to preview exhibits, special entry and 10 percent off at the store and café. For $95, the entire family gets those benefits, plus discounts on kids’ camps, birthday parties and sleepovers."
2012 Best of the Beehive: "Best Place for Unique Jewelry" in Salt Lake Magazine
"After you’ve explored the exhibits on Utah’s life and land, go to the NHMU’s store, which features one-of-a-kind jewelry crafted by local artists and regional Navajos. The shop has a collection of handmade toys and clothing, too."
Best Government/ Public Building - Presented by: Engineering News Record - December 10
Award Partners: Big-D Construction, Ennead Architects, GSBS Architects, DFCM, Colvin Engineering Associates, Dunn Associates, Spectrum Engineers, and Stantec Consulting
Award of Excellence - Presented by: Society of American Registered Architects, National Council - December 10
Award Partners: Ennead Architects and GSBS Architects
American Architecture Award - Presented by: European Centre for Architecture, Art Design, and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum - December 10
Best of the Best Overall Intermountain Project - Presented by: Engineering News Record, Mountain States - November 8
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Award Partners: Ennead Architects, GSBS Architects, and Big-D Construction
Merit Award - Presented by: American Institute of Architects, Utah Chapter - October 26
Award Partners: GSBS Architects and Ennead Architects
Client Achievement Award to Recipient: Sarah George, Executive Director - Presented by: American Institute of Architects, Utah Chapter - October 26
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Award Partners: Ennead Architects, GSBS Architects, Rio Tinto/ Kennecott Utah Copper
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Award Partner: Big-D Construction
Jury's Choice Award for Excellence in Concrete - Presented by: American Concrete Institute, Intermountain Chapter - March 14
Award Partner: Big-D Construction
Best Project for 2011, Commercial Category - Presented by: Intermountain Electrical Industry - March 2
Award Partner: Wasatch Electric
Cultural Project of the Year 2011 - Presented by: Associated General Contractors of Utah - January 28
Award Partners: Big-D Construction, Ennead Architects, GSBS Architects, the University of Utah, and DFCM
Rated the Best Portland Cement Concrete Pavement Pervious Parking Lot Project Completed in the State of Utah in 2011 - Presented by: Utah
Chapter, American Concrete Pavement Association Utah Department of Transportation - January 19
The Janus Award for Custodial Services - Presented by: University of Utah
The Janus Award is intended to acknowledge our role as stewards of the University’s assets. This award recognizes the facility crew leader and their respective crews for equipment care but also for exceptional building cleanliness, inventory management, safety compliance and facility stewardship. Each university facility is inspected monthly and the winning team is honored with a “U” trophy for and a catered breakfast. August was the kickoff month for this inspection and award program. The custodial team for the NHMU and NPS won this award with a 97.07 inspection rating.
Susan Narduli's Land and Time art installation was selected as one of the Top 50 public art projects in the country for 2011 - Presented by: Americans for the Arts Public Art Network - June 7
2011 Excellence in Construction, ABC's 2011 - Presented by: Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. - April 12
ABC's 2011 Excellence in Construction, Champion of ABC Utah - Presented by: Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. - April 12
2011 Excellence in Safety - Presented by: Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. - April 12
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The Two Faces of Squidward
"The Two Faces of Squidward"
Casey Alexander
Zeus Cervas
Richard Pursel
Alan Smart
"What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?" "SpongeHenge"
"The Two Faces of Squidward" is the first segment of the 100th episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.
The episode begins with SpongeBob and Patrick singing at the Krusty Krab. Squidward becomes very annoyed, so he goes to tell them to stop. Just as he reaches the door, Squidward's face is hit by SpongeBob, who accidentally slammed the door on his face. Squidward ends up needing surgery after what SpongeBob did. After undergoing plastic surgery for two weeks, Squidward suddenly becomes handsome.
At first, everything was going fine, like getting comments from both females and males, signing autographs and getting a ride home in a limousine.
But all that changes when Squidward's fans go crazy and take his stuff to the point where they won't leave him alone. Everything is too much for Squidward so he goes to SpongeBob for help. Squidward wants to become his normal self, so he and SpongeBob race to the Krusty Krab with the crowd following them. Mr. Krabs becomes overjoyed to see everyone at the entrance and begins to name all the prices. While he does that, Squidward tells SpongeBob to slam the door against his face in order to make him normal again. SpongeBob doesn't want to do it, but Squidward threatens to hurt SpongeBob if he doesn't hurt him. So he begins to slam the door against Squidward's face repeatedly, but it only makes Squidward even more handsome. Suddenly, the flying fish's other bowling shoe falls out of the top, and SpongeBob, who was alarmed by it, pushes Squidward out of the way. SpongeBob's push sends Squidward flying dramatically and causes him to hit a pole, while the shoe just bounces off of SpongeBob's head. The blow from the pole causes Squidward's face to become normal again. The crowd, who is disappointed to see Squidward not handsome anymore, begins to walk away miserably, but Mr. Krabs, who is unhappy to see his beloved customers go away, tries to return Squidward's handsomeness by slamming the door repeatedly against his face.
SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob's WhoBob WhatPants?
The episode is banned in some countries due to the constant hitting Squidward with the door, and the two handsome versions of Squidward.
The original way how Squidward got his face back to normal was that he got hit by a car, but it got changed to a support beam in the Krusty Krab, likely because the original scene would have been too frightening for young viewers.
Purple Doctorfish, the doctor, differs from his previous episodes in terms of mean behavior and voice.
This episode was paired with "The Inmates of Summer" during its first airing in Super Stuffed Nicksgiving Weekend 2007.
This was Charlie Bean's only episode as writer and storyboard director.
Squidward would again have a change in appearance after a head injury into a baby in "Squid Baby."
In the scene where SpongeBob is clipping his toenails, there is incense burning in the background.
During the hospital scene, there is a television set in Squidward's room which Purple Doctorfish said "for the patient's enjoyment," which Squidward can't possibly watch due to the bandages on his head.
Squidward's head was really broken twice in this episode because before Squidward's face was broken in the beginning, he was shown as a thermometer, and when the mercury was reaching to the boiling point, his forehead breaks off.
When SpongeBob and Patrick are first seen, SpongeBob is not wearing his Krusty Krab Employee Hat.
The second time they are seen, SpongeBob is wearing his hat.
This is one of the few occasions when Squidward was acting like a friend to SpongeBob.
On Squidward's second "handsome phase" it shows that he wears a belt on his shirt.
Running Gag: Every time Gill Gilliam tries to cut the bandages, SpongeBob shouts: "Wait!" or "Hold it!"
In this episode, Squidward plays his clarinet well, while in others, he is shown to be very bad at it.
During the scene where SpongeBob pushes Squidward out of the way to avoid the other falling bowling shoe (and reverting him back to his old self), the opera Pagliacci's aria "
In the patient's room, when SpongeBob watches television, it shows Fred as a doctor with a female fish.
When SpongeBob is hitting Squidward repeatedly with the door, you hear some cracking noises.
This could mean he is breaking some bones or his face.
Vesti la giubba" by Ruggero Leoncavallo was heard in the background during the scene when Squidward avoids a falling shoe.
Squidward's second "handsome face" became a famous meme and running gag on the internet, being especially used as a Facebook profile picture or on other social sites and galleries.
It has also been used in the One Direction fandom, where a mathematical formula shows One Direction's Zayn Malik being added to Squidward's "even more handsome" stage, resulting in one of the guys from The Wanted.
"Squidward Had a Krabby Patty" is a reference to "Mary Had a Little Lamb." The other two songs are set to "The Can Can" and "She'll Be Comin' 'Round The Mountain When She Comes," respectively.
This episode's title spoof of the 1957 film, The Three Faces of Eve
When Squidward looked even more handsome, he resembles Auguste Rodin's The Thinker and Sylvester Stallone.
This episode seems to be an extended tribute to The Twilight Zone episode "The Eye of the Beholder.
This episode, particularly the ending, is similar to The Simpsons episode "Pygmoelian", where Moe gets plastic surgery to make himself "handsome."
In the Krusty Krab, when Squidward's face is back to normal, there are only a few characters in the background as if the others had left.
When the camera cuts outside, they are back before they leave.
The floor in SpongeBob's House is brown, instead of the usual sand floor.
When Squidward walks in on SpongeBob clipping his nails, he is wearing only a towel, and nothing else.
When Squidward pulls SpongeBob by him, SpongeBob is wearing his normal clothes.
SpongeBob's legs were unusually hairy and bulged while he was clipping his toenails.
When SpongeBob and Squidward rush into the Krusty Krab and get chased by the Bikini Bottomites, the Chum Bucket across the street cannot be seen.
At the Krusty Krab, a red fish in the background only has eye pupils for a moment while Mr. Krabs is speaking. In the next shot, his full eyeballs are back.
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The No. 10 Florida Gators host the No. 7 Auburn Tigers on Saturday afternoon in an SEC showdown. (Photo credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports)
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(Morristown, NJ) - Erica Nagel of Oakland, NJ, has joined the New Jersey Theatre Alliance (NJTA/the Alliance) in its newly established position of Deputy Director. Nagel comes to the Alliance from McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton where she worked for the past eight years, first as Director of Education and Engagement and more recently as Director of Creative Development and Strategy. Prior to her time at McCarter, she served as Producing Associate and Resident Dramaturg at Premiere Stages at Kean University in Union. “I’m thrilled to be joining the Theatre Alliance at this moment in time,” said Nagel. “I’ve experienced the impact of their work from the member theatre perspective, and I’ve long appreciated the integrity and passion with which the organi-zation helps theatres build capacity and supports theatre professionals throughout the state. The Theatre Alliance is always looking at how they can be most effective and successful in helping the theatre ecology in the state flourish, and I’m excited to work with the board, the staff, and the member theatres to help expand and increase that im-pact.”
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Nagel received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and has an M.F.A. from University of Texas. She has been a guest lecturer at Princeton University, where she taught a course in Community-based Performance and advised theses for seniors interested in the intersection of theatre and social justice. She has also guest lectured at Brown University, Columbia University, and Texas A&M, among others.
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Tag: Melancholy
Holy Sons – I Want to Live a Peaceful Life
Originally released on CD in 2003 2019 Pressing, First Vinyl Issue, Remastered Format: LP Features 2 previously unreleased tracks
2000s, 2002, Alienation, Country-Influenced, dark, Depressive, Emil Amos, Holy Sons, lo-fi, Loner, Lyrical, Melancholy, nocturnal, Singer/Songwriter, Vinyl
David Sylvian – Secrets of the Beehive
Released in 1987 on Virgin Records Format: LP
1980s, 1987, Ambient Pop, Art Pop, Atmospheric, Autumnal, Danny Thompson, David Sylvian, Horns, Lush, Lyrical, Masterpiece, Melancholy, Mellow, Orchestral, Peaceful, Piano, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sentimental, Solemn, Spiritual, Strings, uplifting, Upright Bass, Vinyl, Virgin
A.A. Bondy – Enderness
Released in 2019 on Fat Possum Records Format: LP
2010s, 2019, A.A. Bondy, accessible, Ambient Pop, Atmospheric, Catchy, Fat Possum, introspective, Love, Lyrical, Melancholy, Mellow, Polished, Singer/Songwriter, smooth, Soft, Sparse, Surreal, Vinyl
Burial – Truant / Rough Sleeper
2010s, 2012, Ambient House, Atmospheric, Burial, Cold, Dubstep, Electronic, EP, Future Garage, Futuristic, Hyperdub, Hypnotic, Lonely, Melancholy, Mysterious, nocturnal, sampling, sombre, Urban, Vinyl
Jim O’Rourke – Eureka
Released in 1999 on Drag City Records Format: LP Includes Poster
1990s, 1999, Alienation, Atmospheric, Chamber Pop, deadpan, Drag City, Existential, humorous, Jim O'Rourke, Lounge-Influenced, Lush, Masterpiece, Melancholy, Mellow, Melodic, philosophical, Playful, Progressive Pop, Satirical, Singer/Songwriter, Vinyl, Warm
Six Organs of Admittance – School of the Flower
Originally released on CD in 2005 on Drag City First vinyl pressing – 2009 Format: LP
2000s, 2005, Acoustic, American Primitivism, Contemplative, Drag City, Droney, Folk, Loner, Melancholy, Psych folk, psychedelic, Repetitive, Six Organs of Admittance, Vinyl
The Antlers – Burst Apart
Released in 2011 on Frenchkiss Records Format: LP
2010s, 2011, accessible, Angsty, Art Rock, Atmospheric, Breakup, Dream Pop, Ethereal, Indie, intimate, Lyrical, Melancholy, Melodic, Moody, Passionate, Reflective, The Antlers, Vinyl
Released in 2000 on EMI Records Format: 10″x2
2000, 2000s, Abstract, Alienation, Anxious, Apocalyptic, Art Rock, Classic, Cold, Cryptic, Electronic-Influenced, EMI, Existential, experimental rock, Futuristic, Influential, Innovative, Jonny Greenwood, Kosmische-Influenced, Masterpiece, Melancholy, nocturnal, Radiohead, sampling, sombre, Studio-as-an-instrument, Thom Yorke, Vinyl, Winter
Bowery Electric – Beat
Originally released in 1996 on Kranky Records 2016 Reissue Format: LPx2
1990s, 1996, Atmospheric, Bowery Electric, Droney, Hypnotic, kranky, Lethargic, Loops, Melancholy, Mellow, nocturnal, Rainy, Repetitive, sampling, Shoegaze, Slow, Trip-Hop, Urban, Vinyl
Duster – Stratosphere
Originally released in 1998 on Up Records 2019 Numero Group Reissue Format: LP
1990s, 1998, Atmospheric, Duster, Hypnotic, introspective, Lethargic, lo-fi, Lonely, Melancholy, Mellow, Numero Group, Rainy, Repetitive, Slow, Slowcore, Space Rock, Spacey, Vinyl
Burial – Kindred
Released in 2012 on Hyperdub Records Format: 12″ EP
2010s, 2012, Ambient House, Burial, Cold, Dance, dark, Electronic, Future Garage, Hyperdub, Lonely, Melancholy, Murky, nocturnal, Rainy, sampling, Urban, Vinyl
Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz
Released in 2010 on Asthmatic Kitty Records Format: LPx2 Artwork by Prophet Royal Robertson
2010, 2010s, Asthmatic Kitty, Bittersweet, Christian, Complex, Conceptual, Dense, eclectic, Epic, Futuristic, Imaginative, introspective, Love, Lush, Masterpiece, Melancholy, Melodic, Orchestral, Progressive, Progressive Pop, religious, Sentimental, Singer/Songwriter, Spacey, Sufjan Stevens, Triumphant, Vinyl
Burial – Untrue
Released in 2007 on Hyperdub Records Format: LPx2
2000s, 2007, Alienation, Atmospheric, betrayed, Breakup, Burial, Classic, Dubstep, Electronic, Future Garage, Hyperdub, Influential, Innovative, Loner, Masterpiece, Melancholy, Monochromatic, nocturnal, Rainy, Vinyl
Edith Frost – Calling Over Time
Released in 1997 on Drag City Records Format: LP
1990s, 1997, Breakup, Country-Influenced, David Grubbs, Drag City, Edith Frost, introspective, Jim O'Rourke, Lethargic, Loner, Love, Lyrical, Melancholy, Mellow, nocturnal, Sad, Singer/Songwriter, Slow, Slowcore, Sparse, Vinyl
Atlas Sound – Parallax
Released in 2011 on 4AD Format: LP
2010s, 2011, 4AD, Atlas Sound, Atmospheric, Deerhunter, Dream Pop, Dreamy, Lonely, Melancholy, Melodic, psychedelic, Singer/Songwriter, Surreal, Vinyl
Julian Lynch – Terra
Released in 2011 on Underwater Peoples Recorded in 2010 Format: LP
2010, 2010s, Cryptic, Dreamy, Julian Lynch, Loner, Melancholy, Mellow, Murky, Mysterious, Psych folk, psychedelic, Singer/Songwriter, Slowcore, Vinyl
The National – Sleep Well Beast
Released in 2017 on 4AD Records Format: LPx2, Blue Vinyl
2010s, 2017, 4AD, Breakup, Chamber Rock, Depressive, introspective, Lethargic, Lonely, Lyrical, Melancholy, nocturnal, Orchestral, Rock, sombre, The National, Vinyl
Aerial M – Aerial M
1990s, 1997, Aerial M, Atmospheric, Chicago, Dave Pajo, Drag City, Hypnotic, Instrumental, Lethargic, Louisville, Melancholy, Mellow, minimalistic, Post-Rock, Rainy, Slowcore
Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
2000s, 2009, amazing arrangements, Americana, Bill Callahan, Country-Influenced, Drag City, inspiration, Loner, Lush, Lyrical, Melancholy, Mellow, nature, Poetic, Rural, Singer/Songwriter, Vinyl
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972
2010s, 2011, Abstract, Ambient, Atmospheric, Digital, Distorted, Drone, Droney, Electro-acoustic, foggy, Haunting, Hypnotic, Innovative, Instrumental, kranky, Meditative, Melancholy, minimalistic, Murky, Mysterious, nocturnal, Noisy, sombre, suite, Tim Hecker, Vinyl
Cat Power – Moon Pix
Released in 1998 on Matador Records Reissue Format: LP
1990s, 1998, Australia, Cat Power, Country-Influenced, Depressive, Dirty Three, Drum Machine, Flute, introspective, Lethargic, Lonely, Loner, Lyrical, Matador, Melancholy, personal, Rainy, Reflective, Sad, Singer/Songwriter, Slow, Slowcore, Vinyl
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band – Horses in the Sky
Released in 2005 on Constellation Records Format: LPx2, etching on D-side
2000s, 2005, Chamber Punk, Chamber Rock, Classism, Communal, Conscious, Constellation, Death, Depressive, Dynamic, Dystopian, Lyrical, Melancholy, Passionate, Political, Post-Rock, rebellious, Silver Mt. Zion, sombre, Strings, Vinyl, War
Mickey Newbury – Looks Like Rain
Originally released in 1969 on Mercury Records 2011 Drag City Pressing Format: LP
1960s, 1969, Bittersweet, Breakup, Choir, Country, Drag City, Harmonica, introspective, Lonely, Love, Lush, Masterpiece, Melancholy, Mercury, Mickey Newbury, Rainy, Sad, Sitar
Magnolia Electric Co. – What Comes After the Blues
“Human hearts and pain should never be separate, then they wouldn’t tear themselves apart both trying to fit”. The first album under the Magnolia Electric Co. name touches on the loneliness and depression of much of Jason Molina’s work, but it also contains a fair amount of the hope, light, and perseverance one needs in times of struggle. The musicians here were recorded live in a room by the great Steve Albini, featuring slide guitar, fiddle, and beautiful vocal harmonies from Molina’s band members. With its mix of melancholy Americana, country-tinged rock, and stripped back folk, What Comes After the Blues feels like a continuation of Neil Young’s great ditch trilogy.
2000s, 2005, Americana, Country Rock, Depressive, folk rock, introspective, Jason Molina, Lonely, Lyrical, Magnolia Electric Co, Melancholy, Passionate, Rootsy, Secretly Canadian, Singer/Songwriter, sombre, Steve Albini, Vinyl
True Widow – True Widow
Released in 2008 on End Sounds Format: LPx2, 180g 2014 repress on orange vinyl Limited to 1000
2000s, 2008, dark, Depressive, End Sounds, Fuzzy, Heavy, Lethargic, Melancholy, nocturnal, riffs, Shoegaze, Slow, Slowcore, Stoner Rock, True Widow, Vinyl
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band with Choir – “This is Our Punk-Rock,” Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing
Released in 2004 on Constellation Records Format: LPx2
2000s, 2004, Anarchist, Chamber Music, Chamber Punk, Chamber Rock, Communal, Constellation, Dystopian, Efrim Menuck, Group Vocals, Lyrical, Melancholy, Passionate, Political, Post-Rock, Silver Mt. Zion, uplifting, Vinyl
Mogwai – Come On Die Young (Deluxe Box Set)
Originally released in 1999 on Chemikal Underground 2014 Deluxe Pressing Format: LPx4 box set, includes poster
1990s, 1999, Apathetic, Atmospheric, Box Set, Chemikal Underground, Dave Fridmann, Depressive, Lethargic, Melancholy, Mogwai, Post-Rock, psychedelic, Slow, Slowcore, Suspenseful, Vinyl
Sufjan Stevens – Michigan
Released in 2003 on Asthmatic Kitty Records Format: LPx2
2000s, 2003, Acoustic, Asthmatic Kitty, Banjo, Bittersweet, Chamber Folk, Christian, Complex, Conceptual, Group Vocals, Horns, Humanitarian, intimate, Intricate, Lush, Lyrical, Masterpiece, Melancholy, Morning, Odd Time Signatures, Political, Sad, Singer/Songwriter, Storytelling, Sufjan Stevens, Vibraphone, Vinyl, Vocal Harmonies, Winter, Woodwinds, Xylophone
Mogwai- Government Commissions
2000s, 2005, Bombastic, Dynamic, Live, Matador, Melancholy, Mogwai, Moody, nocturnal, Noisy, Rainy, Sad, Slow, Slowcore, Vinyl
Gastr Del Sol – Camofleur
Released in 1998 on Drag City Format: LP
1990s, Acoustic Guitar, Active Listening, Complex, David Grubbs, Drag City, eclectic, experimental rock, Exploratory, Gastr Del Sol, Innovative, Jim O'Rourke, John McEntire, Melancholy, Post-Rock, Spring, Vinyl, Warm
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
Released in 1967 on Columbia Records Format: LP
1960s, 1967, Columbia, Existential, introspective, Leonard Cohen, Lonely, Love, Lyrical, Melancholy, philosophical, Poetic, Singer/Songwriter, Strings, Vinyl
Grizzly Bear – Yellow House
Released in 2006 on Warp Records 2012 Pressing Format: LPx2, 180g, 45rpm
2000s, 2006, Acoustic, Autumnal, Chamber Folk, Chamber Pop, Dynamic, Grizzly Bear, Haunting, Lush, Lyrical, Masterpiece, Melancholy, Progressive, Psych folk, psychedelic, Vinyl, Vocal Harmonies, Warp, Woodwinds
Dirty Three – Horse Stories
The third album from the Melbourne (Au) violin/guitar/drum trio consists of loose, drifting instrumentals that conjure images of vast, open plains. Though the music here is often melancholic and lethargic, it is occasionally swept up with bursts of passionate energy and possessed by cathartic longing (especially the pleading and utterly beautiful violin solo on “Warren’s Lament”). All three instrumentalists have very individual styles that complement and dialogue with each other in refreshingly unique ways.
1990s, Atmospheric, Dirty Three, Dynamic, Impressionistic, Instrumental, Lethargic, Longing, Loose, Meandering, Melancholy, Passionate, Post-Rock, Raw, Slow, Slowcore, Touch and Go, Vinyl, Violin, Warren Ellis, Western
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band – “Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward.”
Released in October, 2001 on Constellation Records. Recorded at the mighty Hotel2Tango Format: 10″x2
10", 2000s, 2001, Atmospheric, Chamber Music, Chamber Punk, Chamber Rock, Communal, Constellation, Depressive, Dystopian, Efrim Menuck, Gloomy, Hotel2Tango, Lethargic, Melancholy, Moody, Orchestral, Passionate, Political, Rainy, Sad, Silver Mt. Zion, Vinyl
Six Organs of Admittance – Dark Noontide
Released in 2002 on Holy Mountain Format: LP This lo-fi psych-folk classic has a near-perfect tracklist of songs, eerie ambient … More
2000s, Active Listening, American Primitivism, Atmospheric, Avant-Folk, Cold, Drone, Droney, Eerie, Folk, Forest, Guitar Genius, Holy Mountain, Indian-Influenced, intimate, lo-fi, Loner, Masterpiece, Melancholy, middle eastern influence, Mysterious, nature, nocturnal, Psych folk, psychedelic, Six Organs of Admittance, Vinyl, Witchy
Bert Jansch – L.A. Turnaround
Originally released in 1974 2018 Earth Records Pressing Digitally Remastered Format: LP
1970s, 1974, Acoustic, Acoustic Guitar, Bert Jansch, Chamber Folk, Contemplative, Loner, Lyrical, Melancholy, Mellow, Morning, Peaceful, Singer/Songwriter, Vinyl
Palace Brothers – Palace Brothers
1990s, 1994, Acoustic Guitar, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Drag City, Folk, intimate, introspective, lo-fi, Lonely, Loner, Lyrical, Melancholy, Mellow, Raw, Singer/Songwriter, Sparse, Vinyl
Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom
Released in 1974 on Virgin Records Original U.S. Pressing, Promo Copy
1970s, 1974, Aquatic, Bittersweet, Canterbury Scene, Complex, Contemplative, Depressive, Droney, experimental rock, Exploratory, Imaginative, introspective, Loner, Lyrical, Melancholy, Mysterious, philosophical, Playful, psychedelic, Robert Wyatt, Romantic, Singer/Songwriter, Studio-as-an-instrument, Surreal, Vinyl, Virgin
Mogwai- Rock Action
2000s, 2001, Atmospheric, Dave Fridmann, Depressive, Gloomy, Melancholy, Mellow, Mogwai, Moody, PIAS, Post-Rock, Slow, Soothing, Synthesizers, Vinyl
Songs: Ohia – Didn’t It Rain (Deluxe Edition)
Originally released in 2002 on Secretly Canadian 2014 deluxe reissue Format: LPx2 (full album on first LP and demos on … More
2000s, Acoustic Guitar, Atmospheric, Depressive, folk rock, intimate, introspective, Lonely, Loner, Lyrical, Melancholy, Mellow, nocturnal, Rainy, Raw, Sad, Secretly Canadian, Singer/Songwriter, Slow, Songs: Ohia, Soothing, Vinyl
Bibio – Silver Wilkinson
2010s, 2013, Acoustic Guitar, Atmospheric, Bibio, Catchy, Contemplative, Electronic, Folk, Folktronica, Loner, Melancholy, Morning, Rainy, Spring, Vinyl, Warp, Watery
Neil Young – On the Beach
1970s, 1974, Depressive, Lonely, Loner, Lyrical, Melancholy, Neil Young, Reprise, Singer/Songwriter, Vinyl
Caravan – In the Land of Grey and Pink
Information: Originally released in 1971 This deluxe pressing was released in 2013 on Klimt Records Format: LPx2 (second LP contains … More
1970s, 1971, Canterbury Scene, Caravan, Complex, Eccentric, Epic, Groovy, introspective, Jazz-Rock, Klimt, Melancholy, Playful, Progressive Pop, Progressive Rock, Rock, Romantic, sunny, Technical, Vinyl
Shlohmo – Bad Vibes
Makes me feel like I’m sitting alone at a party, gazing across a dark, smoky room; an outsider looking in. Chill beats, hushed atmospheres, melancholy melodies.
2010s, 2011, Atmospheric, Beats, Electronic, FoF Music, introspective, Lonely, Melancholy, Mellow, nocturnal, Percussive, Shlohmo, Vinyl, Wonky
Godspeed You Black Emperor! – F#A#
Album Information: Released in 1997 on Constellation Records Format: LP, includes inserts, a flyer, and a penny smashed by a … More
1990s, 1997, Ambient, Apocalyptic, Atmospheric, Chamber Rock, Cinematic, Constellation, Droney, Dynamic, Dystopian, Experimental, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hazy, Melancholy, Montreal, Murky, Post-Rock, Spoken Word, Vinyl
Ryley Walker – Deafman Glance
Acoustic-shredder/singer-songwriter ventures out of the jazz-inflected folk-rock territory explored by his last few albums to create something that feels fully himself. Deafman Glance is full of angular left turns, complex structures, airy flutes, jazz detours, and psychedelic atmospheres. A balance of great songwriting, jazz musicianship, and experimental/art-rock tendencies. Recommended to fans of Tortoise’s Standards, Tim Buckley’s Starsailor, and King Crimson’s Red. (Click for full review).
2010s, 2018, Art Rock, Chamber Folk, Complex, Contemplative, Dead Oceans, Dynamic, Energetic, Exploratory, Jazz Folk, Jazz-Rock, Lyrical, Melancholy, Psych folk, Ryley Walker, Singer/Songwriter, Vinyl
Cat Power – What Would the Community Think
Album Information: Released in 1996 on Matador Records
1990s, 1996, Cat Power, dark, Depressive, introspective, lo-fi, Loner, Lyrical, Matador, Melancholy, nocturnal, Outsider, Sad, Singer/Songwriter, Vinyl
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – I See a Darkness
Album Information: Released on Palace Records in 1999
1990s, 1999, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, dark, Death, introspective, Loner, Lyrical, Melancholy, nocturnal, Palace, Rainy, Singer/Songwriter, Slowcore, Vinyl
Tim Buckley – Blue Afternoon
Blue Afternoon continues the flowing jazz-folk of Tim’s previous release (Happy Sad) while starting to detour into the avant-garde atmospheres that would manifest more fully on his next two albums, Lorca and Starsailor. The songs and lyrics refuse to be boxed into one category as “joyful” or “lonely” or “sad” and instead reflect the intangible multi-dimensionality of feeling.
1960s, 1969, 4MenWithBeards, Acoustic Guitar, Folk, introspective, Jazz Folk, Lonely, Loner, Lyrical, Masterpiece, Melancholy, Mellow, Morning, Outsider, Passionate, Singer/Songwriter, Straight, Tim Buckley
Songs: Ohia – The Magnolia Electric Co
“Sometimes it’s hard doing anything”. Somehow Jason Molina knows how to perfectly express what depression feels like without ever succumbing to hopelessness. His music has been a friend and a voice of encouragement when I need it most, reminding me to persist and not beat myself up when I feel unproductive or lazy or unmotivated. “The real truth about it is no one gets it right. The real truth about it is we’re all supposed to try”
2000s, 2003, Americana, Contemplative, Depressive, Jason Molina, Lonely, Loner, Lyrical, Magnolia Electric Co, Melancholy, personal, Reflective, Secretly Canadian, Singer/Songwriter, Songs: Ohia
Tim Hecker – Harmony in Ultraviolet
A dense fog you can sink into and never want to leave…Glacial, enveloping waves of sound meticulously sculpted from processed organs, piano, and distorted guitar feedback.
2000s, 2006, 45rpm, Ambient, Atmospheric, dark, dark ambient, Drone, Experimental, foggy, Hypnotic, Instrumental, kranky, Melancholy, Murky, Mysterious, nocturnal, Slow, Tim Hecker
Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
Album Information: Released in 1969 by Island Records Recorded between June 1968 and June 1969 at Sound Techniques in London, … More
1960s, 1969, Acoustic Guitar, Chamber Folk, Depressive, Folk, Island, Lonely, Lyrical, Melancholy, Mellow, Nick Drake, Orchestral, Pastoral, Peaceful, Rainy, Singer/Songwriter, Vinyl
Western Skies Motel – Settlers
Somber ambient-folk with layers of delicate, circular fingerpicking and sparse arrangements of droning harmonium, piano, guitar feedback and the occasional chirping crickets. The soft reverb dampens everything like a light drizzle over the American prairie
2000s, Acoustic, Acoustic Guitar, Ambient, Ambient Folk, Atmospheric, Folk, Instrumental, Lost Tribe Sounds, Melancholy, Minimalist, Rainy, Sparse, Vinyl, Western Skies Motel
Jason Molina – Pyramid Electric Co.
Unlike Molina’s work with Songs: Ohia or Magnolia Electric Co, this sparse, weary record is void of guest musicians or overdubs, leaving his words alone with nothing but a damp bed of reverbed guitar or mournful, sustained piano chords supporting them.
2000s, 2004, Depressive, Jason Molina, Lonely, Magnolia Electric Co, Melancholy, nocturnal, Secretly Canadian, Singer/Songwriter, Sparse, Vinyl
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Matt Heafy + Ihsahn Finally Piecing Together Black Metal Album
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Home/Corporate News/MAPFRE raises revenues by 8.9 percent, to 7,515 million euros, with pre-tax profits of 459 million euros, up 4.7 percent
MAPFRE raises revenues by 8.9 percent, to 7,515 million euros, with pre-tax profits of 459 million euros, up 4.7 percent
Claves del trimestre
Premiums exceed 6,114 million euros, up 2.6 percent.
Attributable results surpass 201 million euros.
Shareholders’ equity rises by 14.6 percent, to 9,338 million euros, while total assets amount to 70,651 million euros (up 16.5 percent).
Managed savings grow 12.7 percent, exceeding 40,119 million euros.
MAPFRE has reached an agreement with Catalunya Banc on the sale of its stake in jointly managed insurance subsidiaries, pending receipt of required regulatory approval, for more than 606 million euros.
Shareholders will receive a final dividend of 0.08 euros per share on June 18 next.
MAPFRE’s revenues totaled 7,515 million euros between January and March 2015, up 8.9 percent with respect to the same period of the previous year, and premiums rose 2.6 percent, to 6,114 million euros. Pre-tax profits increased by 4.7 percent, to 459 million euros, and attributable results stood at 201.4 million euros, down 8 percent, due to a relatively greater profit share attributable to external partners in jointly operated businesses.
MAPFRE has decided to apply the SIMADI exchange rate in its Venezuelan accounts from March 31, resulting in a decrease in shareholders’ equity of 266 million euros. Despite this, shareholders’ equity amounted to 9,338 million euros, representing a year-on-year increase of 14.6 percent, while total assets rose by 16.5 percent over the last twelve months, to 70,651 million euros.
The combined ratio has been affected by exceptional losses arising from the heavy snowstorms that hit the United States in February (which added 2.6 percentage points) and the increase in claim frequency in various markets, and stood at 98.8 percent. Excluding the United States effect, the combined ratio would have been 96.2 percent.
1. Business development
The Insurance Unit generated premiums of 5,217 million euros and net results of 157 million euros, while the Reinsurance Unit reported premiums of 934 million euros and its net results amounted to 49 million euros. The Global Risks Unit recorded premium volume of 236 million euros, with net results of 18 million euros, and the Assistance, Services and Specialty Risks Unit produced revenues of 329 million euros and net results of 3 million euros.
Premiums from the Iberia Regional Area, which represent 33.1 percent of the total, exceeded 2,185 million euros. This figure is down 16.8 percent on the same period last year, due principally to the reduction in Life premiums from Savings insurance. These figures do not include premium revenues from the insurance business operated with Catalunya Banc, with whom MAPFRE has reached an agreement on the sale of its stake in jointly managed insurance subsidiaries, pending regulatory approval, for 606.8 million euros.
In the Motor line, premiums grew 0.1 percent, to almost 491 million euros, and the Health line recorded a 7 percent premium increase, (double that of the market), exceeding 455 million euros, thanks to a solid performance from the Health insurance business.
In the Life business, premiums totaled 452 million euros (down 49.9 percent), due to, among other factors, a change in the scheduled sales plan for the year and lower Savings insurance issuing as a result of the unfavorable interest rate environment.
The positive development of MAPFRE’s asset management business deserves particular mention, with growth of 12.4 percent in managed savings, to 32,876 million euros. There was also a noteworthy increase in investment funds and managed portfolios, which rose 21.3 percent, to 3,866 million euros. Pension funds stood at 5,058 million euros (down 7.5 percent). Excluding the impact of the Catalunya Banc operation, pension funds would have grown by around 15 percent.
Premiums from the LATAM South Regional Area rose by 16.3 percent, exceeding 817 million euros, with noteworthy growth in Peru (up 65.3 percent) and Chile (up 32.8 percent). Pre-tax profits in this Area grew 89.9 percent, to 62 million euros. Premiums from LATAM South represent 12.4 percent of the total.
Premiums from the LATAM North Regional Area, which represent 6.3 percent of the total, increased by 37.2 percent, to nearly 412 million euros. Of note is Mexico’s growth, up 35 percent, thanks to strong performances in the Motor, Health, Transport, Life and Global Risks lines. Pre-tax profits in this Area were up 24.4 percent, to 24 million euros.
Premium volume from the EMEA Regional Area grew 17.5 percent, to nearly 381 million euros, as a result of the healthy performance of the Life-Savings business in Malta and the contribution from the Assistance business in the UK and Turkey. Of note is business growth in Turkey, where premiums increased 13.3 percent, to 180 million euros, due in the main to the positive development of Health and Fire lines. The EMEA Regional Area represents 5.8 percent of the Group’s total premiums.
The North America Regional Area, which contributes 9.6 percent of the Group’s total premiums, recorded a 30 percent premium revenue increase, to 632 million euros, driven by solid Home insurance performance. In dollar terms, the growth in the insurance business for this Regional Area is 3.9 percent.
Premiums from the APAC Regional Area rose 36.6 percent, to 32 million euros. In this region, which accounts for 0.5 percent of the Group’s premiums, the contribution of the Philippines, with 15 million euros (up 72.1 percent), driven by the General Insurance line, merits attention.
Premiums from MAPFRE RE contribute 14.2 percent of total Group premiums, and between January and March they amounted to 934 million euros (up 5.4 percent), thanks to new Life business volume. Pre-tax profits increased by 12.9 percent, to 68 million euros.
2. Dividend
The Board of Directors has resolved to pay a final dividend of 0.08 euros per share against the 2014 results on June 18 next.
Once this dividend has been paid, the total outlay against the 2014 results amounts to 431 million euros, which represents an increase of 7.7 percent compared to the amount paid against the 2013 results.
Main Consolidated Figures
Million €
GROSS WRITTEN AND ACCEPTED PREMIUMS 6.114,10 5.961,20 2,60%
Non-life 4.924,30 4.362,80 12,90%
Life 1.189,80 1.598,40 -25,60%
TOTAL CONSOLIDATED REVENUES 7.515,20 6.901,00 8,90%
RESULTS BEFORE TAX AND MINORITY INTERESTS 458,5 438,1 4,70%
RESULTS AFTER TAX AND MINORITY INTERESTS 201,4 219 -8,00%
EARNINGS PER SHARE (euro cents) 6,54 7,11 -8,00%
TOTAL ASSETS 70.651,40 60.637,60 16,50%
MANAGED SAVINGS(1) 40.119,40 35.613,90 12,70%
SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY 9.338,20 8.148,90 14,60%
Main Figures By Regional Areas
Gross written and accepted premiums
IBERIA 2.185,30 2.627,00 -16,80%
BRAZIL 1.192,00 1.174,10 1,50%
LATAM SOUTH 817,6 703 16,30%
NORTH AMERICA 631,8 486 30,00%
EMEA 380,9 324,2 17,50%
LATAM NORTH 411,9 300,2 37,20%
APAC 31,7 23,2 36,60%
MAPFRE RE 933,7 885,8 5,40%
Results before tax and minority interests
IBERIA 155,7 176,6 -11,80%
BRAZIL 228,5 151 51,30%
LATAM SOUTH 62,3 32,8 89,90%
NORTH AMERICA -68,6 9 —
EMEA 24,7 24,8 -0,40%
LATAM NORTH 24 19,3 24,40%
APAC 0,4 1,5 -73,30%
MAPFRE RE 67,6 59,9 12,90%
(1) Includes: Life technical reserves, mutual and pension funds.
2015 First Quarter Results – Press Release (PDF, 191 KB)
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A deadly delay: risk aversion and cash in the 2011 Somalia famine
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Are cash transfers the new normal in the Philippines? Challenges and opportunities from Typhoon Haiyan
Bigger, better, faster: achieving scale in emergency cash transfer programmes
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Cash transfer programming in emergencies
by Paul Harvey and Sarah BaileyJune 2011
One of the more exciting innovations in the response to humanitarian crises of recent years has been the use of cash. Across the humanitarian sector there is growing recognition that cash and voucher transfers can support people affected by disasters in ways that maintain human dignity, provide access to food and shelter and help rebuild or protect livelihoods. The question is no longer whether cash is an appropriate way to meet the needs of people engulfed in crisis, but how organisations, donors and governments can use cash transfers to best effect.
This edition of Good Practice Review is intended primarily for humanitarian practitioners who plan and implement emergency responses both those who are already familiar with cash-based interventions and those who are not. It synthesises cash transfer guidelines, highlights lessons from evaluations and adds practical examples drawn from experience in the field.
Good Practice Review: Cash transfer programming in emergencies is commissioned and published by the Humanitarian Practice Network at ODI in partnership with the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) with support from the Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO), through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
This Good Practice Review has been translated into French and Spanish. Click the ‘Language versions’ tab at the top of the page.
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Vanderhall goes electric for latest open air roadster
It's not a motorcycle. Not a car either. The auto-cycle rolls somewhere inbetween. Vanderhall's Laguna three-wheeler was released in 2016, and followed with the Venice Roadster. Both of those open-air two-seaters had gas engines running the show, but that's changed with the all electric Edison2.
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Taylor McFerrin, Robert Glasper, Ruby Ibarra, and IV of Spades will be performing at White Beach, the festival’s bigger and better location, which will also have works by Leeroy New, Denis Lagdameo, and Olivia d’Aboville.
ANCX | Feb 15 2019
The 9th staging of the Malasimbo Music and Arts Festival will feature a couple of firsts this year.
Perhaps its most noticeable change is its bigger and more accessible venue. The international music festival moves from the Malasimbo Amphitheater to White Beach, Puerto Galera. The new venue allows for bigger and more stages this year. There will still be a traditional main stage in a natural amphitheater nestled among trees. The main stage will feature jazz, soul, world music, and OPM.
Taylor McFerrin
Dance music will be played at the DJ stage, which will play until early morning. Acts for this year include New York DJ Danny Krivit, Kristian Hernandez, Manolet Dario, Emel Rowe, Badkiss, and Nomoclasiq. Meanwhile, there will also be a Silent Disco stage, which will feature three DJs providing different music choices.
Apart from those mentioned, this year’s lineup features a heady mix of returnees and first-time Malasimbo artists. Headliner Robert Glasper joins music producer, keyboardist and beatboxer Taylor McFerrin for the first day. McFerrin released his debut album Early Riser in 2014, which features guest appearances of several Malasimbo acts including Glasper and Nai Palm of Haitus Kaiyote. Filipina lyrical rapper Ruby Ibarra, who wowed the crowd at last year’s event, returns, this time with a full band.
Malasimbo co-founder Miro Grgic and Taylor McFerrin
In-the-moment rock-funk band IV of Spades will lead day two, along with fellow Malasimbo rookie CoffeeBreak Island. The latter is one of the more well-known bands in the Manila ska, reggae, soul, punk and rock & roll scene. Anomalie, Ian Lofamia band, Extrapolation, I Belong To The Zoo, Carousel Casualties, Extrapolation, and Dayaw are also some of the confirmed acts performing.
Malasimbo 2019 program schedule
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Pilot your life and realize your dreams with TW Steel
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Tha Good Life - by John Paul 'JP' Tanchanco
Posted at May 25 2013 09:04 AM | Updated as of May 25 2013 06:13 PM
MANILA, Philippines - The Dutch CEO of global watch brand TW Steel visited Manila to launch the firm's "Pilot Your Life" campaign and collection.
I was able to hang out with the hip co-founder and chief pilot, Jordy Cobelens, during his visit to find out more about their success story and global campaign.
TW Steel is a watch brand from the Netherlands. The brand is known for its oversized watches and chronograph.
The company was established in 2005 in the Netherlands by father-and-son team Jordy and Ton Cobelens.
JP Tanchanco, Jordy Cobelens
According to Cobelens, watch designing has been part of his family life since he was 14 years old.
"My father started designing watches for his own brand in Holland when I was 14. I actually had an interest in the business side so I sold his designs to my friends, uncles and acquaintances," says Cobelens.
The DJ-CEO
After 4 years of helping his dad, Cobelens decided to pursue his personal passions in music at age 18.
"I had a passion for music and decided to pursue my dreams. So I started my professional DJ career at the age of 18. That's when I started my own record store, JC Records, in Amsterdam," says Cobelens.
Making it big
According to Cobelens, his inspiration to renew his interest in his dad's watch business struck him while doing gigs in clubs.
"I was DJing around and I saw that a lot of females were wearing male watches. Since male watches were large, they looked oversized and cool on ladies. I thought that there was a gap for new designs. Then I talked to my dad and we decided to fill that gap," he says.
TW Steel was born in 2005 with 4 initial designs that created a mark as a niche product.
"In 2005, my father designed four design executions of oversized watches and I sold them in my record store. Our first order was 1,200 pieces, 300 of each design execution that my dad made," adds Cobelens.
The niche product the father-and-son duo created penetrated the market and its distributors, and eventually, TW Steel became a commercial success.
"After the initial success, I started to travel and meet distributors. Soon, we expanded the brand massively because of the warm acceptance of the market," he says. .
Cobalens attributes their success to their unique product design and value marketing.
"Our product design was very crucial but it's our marketing style that plays a very big role in assuring success. We even invest in events such as Motorsports, AWGP and even the Formula 1 racing, " he says.
TW Steel F1 campaign
Music Synergy
In 2011, Cobalens decided to marry his love for EDM music and its lifestyle with their watch brand. He opened an entertainment firm called Steel Entertainment Group.
"Me and my friend decided to start a 360 management agency and label for DJs and EDM producers. We built events around our artists while promoting the watch. Our company produces about 250 events per year around Holland and EU [European Union]. We also have some gigs in the United States and in Asia, " he says.
Steel Entertainment's most popular artist is DJ Chuckie.
"Let the Bass Kick " by DJ Chuckie
The Pilot Collection
Cobalens is happy to be in Manila to launch their new campaign, "Pilot Your Life".
"I'm very happy to introduce our new campaign and watch designs. The 'Pilot Your Life' campaign enhances TW Steel as a symbol of success and achievement," he says.
Peek at the Pilot Edition Collection
I think "The Pilot Your Life" campaign comes to our country at a very timely season. It supports and delivers inspirational messages of empowerment that a growing number of successful Pinoys nowadays can follow.
The new designs of their Pilot Edition Collection are in the center of the campaign. I specifically loved the one with rose gold and blue.
JP Tanchanco enjoying a Swiss-made Pilot
Cobelens is a living example of the campaign's piloting-one's-life-and-making-dreams-happen attitude. His achievements are officially validated by an "Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year" accolade at the prestigious Ernst and Young Business Awards.
TW Steel Pilot Your Life Video led by Jordy Cobelens
To strengthen the "Pilot Your Life" campaign locally to Filipinos, TW Steel chose four "Icons of Inspiration"--Bb. Pilipinas Universe Venus Raj, runner Rio Dela Cruz, Marvin Agustin, and Azkal Chieffy Caligdong were the recipients of the initial "Pilot Your Life" award.
Pilot Your Life Ambassadors
Proud to be in The Philippines
TW Steel's first international store is in Philippines.
"I'm very proud to be in the Philippines. Our partners here are really doing a great job. We aim to have more stores in the country by end of the year, " says Cobelens.
Pilot Ambassador Venus Raj
Pilot Ambassador Rio dela Cruz
Pilot Ambassador Marvin Agustin
Pilot Ambassador Chieffy Caligdong
"I think the Philippine economy is growing very fast. There is a growing wealthy class and it's the best time for everyone to pilot your life in this country," he adds.
TW Steel Timepiece buyers are eligible to join the "Pilot Your Life" contest. Should you be the grand prize winner, you will have the opportunity to realize your dream such as opening a business, driving an F1 race car, travel abroad or do whatever your heart desires.
For more info, log in to www.twsteel.com/pilotyourlife/
John Paul C.Tanchanco is a travel, food, party, film and music aficionado. He is also an economist, businessman, MYX/Awit award-winning media producer and Kala guitarist.
"Tha Good Life" is a special feature for ABS-CBNnews.com about pop culture, travel, music, entertainment, business, food, clubbing, shopping and events.
For questions, features and comments, e-mail him at [email protected] or [email protected]
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Even the man who designed Clippy is frightened by pregnant Clippy
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Photo: Stan Honda/Getty Images
Clippy is, at this point, one of the icons of the ’90s PC boom, along with the flying toasters screensaver, the Windows start-up sound, the dancing baby GIF, and pretty much everything related to AOL. Clippy was a notoriously useless personal assistant, the worst-possible example of computer interfaces being dumbed-down and made approachable for the clueless grandparents who would theoretically be figuring out how to “process words” and “play solitaire” on their new, fancy calculators.
All of which makes old Clippy ripe for parody and subversion, but all of which does not explain how pregnant Clippy came to be:
Pregnant Clippy raises a lot of questions. First off: Is it necessary that Clippy be female? Could Clippy have reproduced asexually? If not, who is Clippy’s partner, and how did they procreate? Why does Clippy appear to be blushing here—have we caught them at an inopportune or somehow revealing time? Or perhaps Clippy is merely blushing as if to say, “It’s me, your old friend, and I am growing a baby Clippy within my womb. All is well with me; I will be a good parent.”
Motherboard tracked down Clippy’s creator, Kevan Atteberry, to ask these questions, and he was unfortunately unable to provide a response.
And pregnant Clippy is the weirdest one you’ve seen?
I’ve not seen anything weirder. I’ve seen pregnant Clippys, suicide Clippys, things like that. But to take him and, first of all, there’s no volume in a paper clip, and to use the paper to make him pregnant… The fact that I’ve always considered Clippy a male… How did he get pregnant? Maybe I’m reading too much into it. Who got him pregnant? How is this possible?
Before actively searching for it, I didn’t realize how weird these fan art Clippys get.
They get very weird. But the pregnant Clippy, that was a first. They get violent, they get mean, they get funny and irreverent, and I love it all. But I’ve never seen anything like that.
They move on to discuss Clippy erotica such as the self-published book Conquered By Clippy: An Erotic Short Story, which is on Amazon and probably does get a little more into the specifics of how a Clippy could become pregnant, though judging by its sample portion, it features a more male version of the iconic, useless, much-despised digital assistant. The full interview explores that distaste, as well as the fact that Atteberry designed the damn thing on a Mac. We can’t choose our parents, after all, even if we’re just an anthropomorphized paperclip.
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Police Chief Punished For ‘Puffy Nipples’ Comment To Female Officer
Filed Under:Chris Melore, Florida, Local TV, police, sexual harassment, Talkers
PALMETTO, Fla. (CBS Local) – A Florida police chief has been ordered to go through sexual harassment training after an investigation into comments he made about a female officer’s body.
According to WKMG, Palmetto Police Chief Scott Tyler and other officers were punished following a city review into several comments made towards a female reserve officer. A female detective complained after the reserve officer was reportedly told by Chief Tyler that her “puffy nipples” could be seen through her shirt.
Chief Tyler denies making the comment and claims he actually defended the reserve officer against comments allegedly made by her fellow officers, who took issue with the way she was dressed.
The female officer who brought the complaint to the Palmetto mayor’s office is also the subject of an investigation of her own. Detective Chris Cavazos is being investigated for allegedly “being the aggressor in a domestic violence incident involving her husband,” according to the Bradenton Herald.
“We want to do what’s necessary to move past this,” Chief Tyler added.
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GOING THE DISTANCE WISCONSIN COACH PETER TEGEN ALWAYS HAS HIS WOMEN IN THE RUNNING FOR NCAA TITLES
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By Lisa Gaumnitz
IN THE chaos and penury of postwar Germany, Peter Tegen's
youthful deceit nearly cost him his life. It also sowed the
seeds of a women's distance-running program that yields an
annual crop of U.S. champions at the University of Wisconsin.
When the 12-year-old Tegen lacerated his chest in a bicycle
accident in 1952, he hid the mishap and its results from his
parents, fearing they would be angry because he had ruined one
of his precious few shirts. Two weeks later he was hospitalized
with a tetanus infection that would soon leave him paralyzed
below the waist. It took doctors almost half a year to control
the infection and reverse the paralysis. By then the combination
of wartime malnutrition and the infection had left him wasted
"The most motivation I ever got was from a physical education
teacher two years later who said, 'Tegen, you will never make
it,'" Tegen recalls. "I think he said that to make me feel
better, because I was trying so hard but just didn't have the
equipment. From then on, I wanted to run, to prove to him and to
myself that he was wrong."
In the 41 years since then Tegen, now 55 and married for a
second time, has striven mightily to prove that teacher wrong.
He became a high school sprinter and gymnast, and played goalie
on the 1959 German national champion high school team-handball
squad. But it has been in Madison, Wis., a city set in a lush
landscape reminiscent of Tegen's homeland in western Germany,
that he has reached the athletic heights he always dreamed of.
In 22 years Tegen has built track and cross-country programs
that have produced 38 national collegiate champions in a state
that is better known for producing champion bratwursts, beers
and snowstorms. Next month he will take his seven-woman team to
the NCAA cross-country championships in Ames, Iowa.
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"There's no question the success of our programs belongs to
Peter Tegen," says Kit Nordeen, the now retired Wisconsin
assistant athletic director, who hired Tegen in 1973 to start a
women's track and cross-country club.
Tegen began with 10 pairs of racing shoes, uniforms to be shared
with the basketball team, a recruiting budget that covered only
flyers to advertise the new program, and a handful of women who
were enthusiastic but who had never run competitively. The
following year women's track and cross-country became varsity
sports at Wisconsin, and Tegen took his ragtag band to the
national outdoor track meet, where the squad finished 19th out
of 96 teams. Since then the cross-country team has never placed
lower than 10th in the nationals, and it won back-to-back titles
in 1984 and '85.
In track Wisconsin has been national indoor runner-up three
times and almost always finishes in the top 20, powered by its
distance runners, who have collected 149 of UW's 180 All-America
honors. Most notable among them are Cindy Bremser and Suzy
Favor-Hamilton, who qualified for the Olympics in 1984 and 1992,
respectively. Favor-Hamilton is the winningest woman in NCAA
track and field history. Last spring Wisconsin senior Amy Wickus
achieved a three-peat in the NCAA indoor 800 meters and won the
1,500-meter NCAA outdoor title. Sophomore teammate Kathy Butler
finished first in the 3,000. The Badgers have won seven of the
last nine NCAA outdoor 1,500s and two of the last three 3,000s.
"It would be very difficult for me to name someone else in Peter
Tegen's class, including myself," says "Uncle" Marty Stern, who
retired from Villanova in 1994 after guiding that school's women
to five consecutive cross-country championships from 1989 to '93
and to seven top-four finishes in NCAA indoor and outdoor
championships from 1987 to '94. "I respect him as much as any
coach--his tactics, his methods of training and the way he
handles his athletes." In 1984 and '85 Tegen's coaching
colleagues named him national cross-country coach of the year.
Despite his long tenure and high achievement, Tegen remains a
puzzle to most in his sport. The dark-haired, dark-eyed,
diminutive coach is reticent with strangers and reluctant to
trumpet his success. At track meets he eschews old-boy
camaraderie and avoids social events. "People always ask me,
'What's Peter like?' and 'What is his training like?'" says Mary
Grinaker, who has known Tegen for 15 years, first as one of his
athletes and now as his assistant coach.
Tegen answered the second of those questions himself as he
jogged across the infield at Wisconsin's outdoor track on a
muggy day last June. He was midway through a workout with
Wickus, who had qualified for the 800 in the world championships
in August in Goteborg, Sweden, and Sarah Thorsett, a former
Badger runner who had qualified in the 1,500 (each lost in the
first round). The women had already run a series of 100-meter
dashes and were completing three 1,000-meter intervals.
"This is one kilometer with very fast and moderate 200s built
into it," Tegen said as they glided through their penultimate
lap. "That becomes all of a sudden mentally and physiologically
a lot more valuable. If we did that at the same pace the athlete
would settle into a pattern that can impede progress. In a
high-level athlete it's crucial that we destroy the patterns."
That means running low-mileage, high-quality workouts that vary
greatly from week to week and month to month but always stress
acceleration and deceleration. Such shifts teach runners to
break away from their comfortable strides, helping train their
bodies to cope with recuperation in a very short time, Tegen says.
"Getting ready for the very last one. We're going to nail this!"
the coach hollered as the women rolled into their last lap,
Wickus slightly in the lead. "Come on Sarah, let's go. Let it
fly." He sprinted down the field and caught up with them as they
finished. "Yes! Good stuff. Two-forty-six. One thousand meters
with surges. Very nice."
More professorial than dogmatic, Tegen encourages his athletes
to speak up if they have questions about his methods. He loves
feedback, and he has an easy rapport with his runners. But he is
also a fierce competitor and a wily tactician. "He's a very
combative, warlike competitor," Stern says. "He teaches tactics.
He may have two athletes box a runner in. The tactics are fair,
always within the rules, but sometimes questioned by coaches who
lose to him."
While Tegen can be parsimonious with praise, he is no Bob
Knight. "I don't scream and rant and rave, because I think it
destroys the relationship between the coach and athlete, and
that relationship is very important and very delicate," he says.
"It's important that a coach be supportive, not only in training
but overall. Demanding, yes. Nothing comes from nothing. An
athlete will have to earn his or her status."
In recent years Tegen has been criticized in the press for his
penchant for lean runners. The critics have charged that Tegen's
preference has contributed to eating disorders among some of his
runners and that the coach has ignored the situation. Tegen says
that in 1991 a handful of his runners "crossed the fine line"
between maintaining the low body fat desirable for
high-performance athletics and developing unhealthful eating
habits, but he bristles at any suggestion that he didn't
intervene. He says he called four athletes into his office, told
them he would withdraw them from competition until their
physical appearance changed, and got them in touch with
physicians if they weren't already. "I very much cared about
every single one, and I tried to do the right thing," Tegen
says. He insists that the team has not had runners with eating
disorders for several years.
Tegen is known for having built a drug-free program and for
graduating 63% of his athletes. What most people don't know
about Tegen is what an amazing life he has led. He has 1,001
stories about his travels through Europe, Africa and Latin
America in a Volkswagen van while he was teaching two-week
athletics clinics at universities and high schools in some 14
countries from 1967 to '68. Two months before the 1968 Olympics
in Mexico City, he posed as a banana deliveryman to gain entry
to the athletes' village to see whom he might meet. After doing
so for several days he met a German TV broadcaster who hired him
to pull cables and move equipment. Credentials in hand, Tegen
saw many Olympic events, including much of the track and field.
On long road trips Tegen entertains his athletes by playing
requests on the banjo, the accordion or any of a half-dozen
other instruments he mastered as a child and now plays at his
home recording studio. And his athletes practice their Spanish,
French and German conversational skills on him. "People always
want more Peter time," Grinaker says. "He's definitely a
fun-loving guy."
Tegen's tendency toward hard work and fun is rooted in a
childhood dominated by war and hardship in Stauchitz, Germany.
He was five years old in the spring of 1945, when Allied bombing
runs turned the night sky over nearby Dresden into a deadly
fireworks display. A year after the war ended Tegen, his two
older brothers and his mother, Gertrude, learned that the boys'
father, Rudolph, a paratrooper, was alive and had been released
from an American POW camp. They joined the procession of
refugees going west, walking, riding in horse-drawn carts,
taking trains where the rail lines were intact and sleeping in
ditches. Over two weeks the Tegens made the 200-mile trek to
Celle, Germany, where they were reunited with Rudolph.
"We were starting from ground zero," Tegen recalls. "My father
was a farmhand. It was quite a struggle. We spoke a strong
dialect--it was quite noticeable. German officers were not
always welcome. They took up living space and resources."
In those lean years the Tegens supplemented their income by
performing around northern Germany, like the Trapp family
singers. Soon Rudolph started a youth movement to atone for his
involvement in the war and to preserve the folklore, songs and
other cultural traditions of eastern Germany, where he was born.
Peter and his brothers were leaders in that movement, helping to
organize plays, performances, camping trips and other activities.
In spite of the hunger that at times led the brothers to fight
over the bread their parents gave them, the youngest Tegen
regards those years as an adventure. "They have not left any
scars," he says. "I don't feel I was that much deprived since I
gained so many other things."
Perseverance, a long-term vision and a love for the freedom of
movement were the gifts Tegen brought to the U.S. in 1973. He
also arrived with graduate degrees in English and sport sciences
from the University of Freiburg and an impressive coaching
rasuma. The erstwhile banana deliveryman had returned to the
Olympics, this time as coach of the 1972 Peruvian track team and
of the reigning South American women's 100-meter champion, Maria
Luisa Vilca.
"He walked into my office and said he wanted to help coach
track," recalls Nordeen, who was Tegen's boss for 17 years. "He
had just finished coaching in something like 14 countries, and I
thought, I can't believe this is happening. At that time, anyone
who wanted to coach women and had some experience was welcomed
with open arms. Wisconsin was really fortunate."
That first year Tegen, too, welcomed all comers. Cindy Bremser,
a junior, saw a flyer announcing the creation of the team and
joined because she thought it sounded like fun, though she had
never run competitively. But even Bremser had more experience
than Gilda Hudson (now Hudson-Winfield), who had never competed
in any sport. A freshman lonely for her native New Orleans,
Hudson joined the team after seeing its members enjoying
themselves as they ran. The next season Bremser won a place on
the national track team for the first of 13 consecutive years.
Two years later at the 1976 Big Ten championships Hudson won the
100, took second in the 220 and ran a leg for the winning 440
relay team.
"It was phenomenal for Peter to take a little lump of clay and
turn her into a champion," says Hudson-Winfield, now a Chicago
attorney and a member of the Wisconsin athletic board. She
attributes her success to Tegen's strength-and-stamina training.
She remembers Tegen taking her and the other sprinters out to a
local ski hill to run stairs and hills, a pioneering practice at
the time, and having to run scores of intervals.
Bremser's workouts involved running up stairs sideways while
wearing a vest filled with small bags of sand, and chasing a
moped around the track while attached to the moped with surgical
tubing. The latter technique was intended to increase Bremser's
speed by getting her to turn her legs over more quickly. "Every
year he'd develop some new exercise or running program to build
upon previous strengths," says Bremser, who trained with Tegen
throughout her career. "I don't think I would have gotten as far
as I did if it weren't for him."
"Peter exuded a championship mentality," Hudson-Winfield says.
"If you worked under Peter you knew you had worked well in
practice, and you had the times to take on anybody." Wisconsin
runners also knew, then as now, that they would have a race
plan, as Jenny Kraeger did in 1991, when she and her coach
plotted to have her sprint the 11th of 25 laps in the
10,000-meter race at the Big Ten outdoor track championships.
Kraeger followed the plan perfectly, and none of her competitors
recovered from the surprise tactic.
Tegen smiles when reminded of that race and of the runner, a
woman who was "full of fire" like himself and who won only a
year after walking on to the track team. And then he thinks of
the crop of runners he's training this fall and the plans he has
for them in this year's cross-country nationals. "The truth is
there are new challenges out there every day," he says. "And
that's what's fun."
Lisa Gaumnitz covers educational issues for the Bellingham
Herald in Washington state.
COLOR PHOTO: ROB KINMONTH With Tegen behind her, Favor-Hamilton earned the most wins in NCAA women's track history. [Suzy Favor-Hamilton and Peter Tegen]COLOR PHOTO: JOE PICCIOLO Tegen has put his runners through their paces in preparation for the NCAA cross-country meet. [Peter Tegen]
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Students caught vaping in school can expect a lot more than a warning or detention in one North Texas district starting this fall. They will be forced to attend a special, isolated disciplinary school for a month.
“Hopefully it’s more of a deterrent,” said Michael Stevens, superintendent of Channing Independent School District, about 50 miles northwest of Amarillo, referring to the new policy. “It’s a severe health problem.”
Channing is not the only district getting stricter about vaping. Another Texas school system has hired a resource officer to assist with vaping prevention. Thousands of schools across the country are installing sensors in bathrooms to catch offenders. One school in Alabama has gone as far as to remove bathroom stall doors.
The new measures follow the disturbing rise of a mysterious respiratory illness that U.S. health officials have linked to e-cigarette use. So far, six deaths have been reported by state or federal officials.
The American Medical Association on Monday urged Americans to stop using electronic cigarettes and vape pens until scientists understand the root cause of the respiratory illnesses.
In recent years, vaping has exploded in popularity among young people and adults alike. More than 3 million U.S. high school students used e-cigarettes in 2018, a 78% increase, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Schools nationwide have banned e-cigarettes on school property in the last few years. Disciplinary measures for student violators have ranged from warnings to suspensions.
But high schools and middle schools still struggle to stop students from smoking e-cigarettes on their premises. Not only are they easy to conceal, resembling USB flash drives, but they produce no smoke and often emit no scent.
With the recent deaths and illness, efforts to stop vaping on campus have taken on new urgency, and schools are looking for fresh approaches to tackle the problem.
INSTALLING SENSORS, REMOVING DOORS
The Channing district, which has about 170 students, tried to stem vaping last year by requiring students to roll up their sleeves when entering school in an attempt to prevent them from hiding e-cigarettes.
It also enforced in-school suspension for students who were caught vaping. Now, offenders will have to attend the disciplinary school for a month.
In the first four weeks of the school year, no students in Channing have been caught vaping and none have been sent to the disciplinary school, which Stevens said is run by the school district “in an isolated setting” about 30 miles away.
He expected that will change. “I’m not naive enough to think they’re not sneaking around and trying it,” Stevens said.
Hundreds of U.S. school districts have ordered vaping sensors for bathrooms, according to IPVideoCorp, which launched one of the first sensors on the market in April.
David Antar, president of IPVideoCorp, said the number of weekly requests for the sensors from school districts has in the last month almost tripled to more than 200. Since April, the company has sold sensors to schools in 46 states.
“The demand for this, especially with school just starting, has gone through the roof,” Antar said.
Wilson High School in Florence, Alabama has gone farther by removing the doors from stalls in the boys’ bathroom to prevent students from vaping, local TV station WAFF 48 reported.
Principal Gary Horton told the TV station that the rule went into effect after a student was found unconscious on the bathroom floor from excessive vaping.
Administrators at Wilson High School did not respond to requests for comment.
E-cigarettes were introduced to the U.S. market 15 years ago as safer alternatives to traditional cigarettes, which kill up to half of all lifetime users, according to the World Health Organization. Manufacturers, including the market leader Juul Labs, have claimed that their target consumers are adults addicted to cigarettes.
But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has condemned Juul for advertising their products to youth in schools and falsely calling them “totally safe” while the long-term health effects of e-cigarettes are unknown.
Gregory Conley, a spokesman for the American Vaping Association, pointed out that the rise in teen vaping coincided with a decline in youth cigarette use.
“No youth should be experimenting with any adult substance, but we don’t live in a perfect world. We make tradeoffs,” said Conley. “We recognize that one bad situation is better than a worse situation.” (Reporting by Gabriella Borter and Matthew Lavietes in New York; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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USAAF, 5th Air Force, 49th Fighter Group, 8th Fighter Squadron P-40 Pilot
In Memory: Joel D. Thorvaldson passed away on November 5, 2014
My relatives are from Iceland, that is where my surname 'Thorvaldson' comes from. I was born at Spanish Fork, Utah. My relatives made the trek over to Utah in the 1880s and settled in that place, known as "Little Iceland". I grew up in Utah. I had a sister, she married a man who worked in the silver mine there, but then instead he decided he was going to fly airplanes. He became one of the first pilots for Northwest, delivering the mail. They ended up getting divorced, but he would send me his cloth flying helmet and I would wear it to grade school, quite to the envy of all the other kids!
Later, I moved up to Spokane, Washington. That is where I met my wife, in junior college. WWII was starting to come up, and they had a civilian flying program at Feltz Field in Spokane. I actually learned to fly before the war. I had 60 hours in PT-13 up there and in Ontario, CA. Because I was in that program, 2 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, I was told to report to Fairchild Airbase.
They told me: "We are going to sigh you up as a pilot. We want you back here tonight." Then, it was "Stand up, hold up your hand, your an aviation cadet." I told them, "I can't I have a job." They would not listen, they told me to report to Bakersfield, CA for cadet training. I told them I already knew how to fly, they did not care about that either! Six months la term, I was flying combat. I did my final training at Luke Airbase, and I was flying out of Tampa, learning to fly P-40, P-39s. I lost 26 teammates during that time. They were all crashing! "One a day in Tampa Bay", that was what they said! Because they were flying the B-26 Marauder. I was in fighters only thankfully!
I got married to my sweetheart from Spokane on August 10, 1942 in Tampa, just before we went overseas, I when to check out, and then got married! We have been married ever since! While my wife & I were downtown, I ran into some of my buddies, buying up all the toothpaste in a store and saying "We are going overseas - better be ready, get your toothpaste!" I had to say goodbye to my new wife, I left her for a couple years right off the bat, then again for Korean and Vietnam later! We were loaded on trucks with secret orders. Someone opened them up, and it said we were heading to Sacramento, CA.
We going overseas on the ship HMS Torance. This was the first troop ship overseas! I remember eyeing my team mates, your in stateroom C. I thought, great! We are all in the same room, how nice! It ended up we were all in the same state room, all the way to the back poop deck, down to the bottom, all full of hammocks, along with hundreds of other men! Two battleships, four cruisers escorted us all the way to Australia, zigzagging all the way and shooting for practice. It took us 26 days to get to Townsville. We all wanted to get up to combat, but had no planes! We went to Charters Towers, to do more training with the P-40s. They had some B-25s and A-20 around too. They asked me if I would rather fly a bomber, but I didn't not want to do that.
While we were there, at Charters Towers, a B-17 landed a high ranking officer came out and said he was to pick up some P-40 pilots to go up to Port Moresby in New Guinea in a hurry. We had only an hour to get ready, then flew up to Port Moresby and reported to the General! General Kenny! When we got there, he said "I don't want pilots, i want crew chiefs!" So, the B-17 took us back took back and loaded up with crew chiefs instead. So we had to wait around at Charters Towers for a while. Later, we got sent up again, and took twenty of us pilots up. We went in to see General Kenney again. He lined us up, and asked "Five of you came up about six months ago, step forward". We were all nervous, but did as he said. He told us: "I was impressed with you. We are up her flying with nothing, eating SPAM, and you wanted to come up here when life was better down in Australia. So, you can take your pick about what unit you want to be assigned." We all wanted to fly the P-40 and picked the 8th Fighter Squadron of the 49th Fighter Group, and we were shooting at Japanese airplanes five days later!
All my combat was in the P-40. It was a good airplane, maneuverable. We would make a fast pass at the enemy, break loose and come back, reverse turn with the Zeros, come over top, that is how we would get them. We could out run the Zero, make one pass then come back around, and get more on the 2nd pass. That is how we got most our kills. We started out with the model "K" it was heavy and clunky.
Then, we got the model "N" it was lighter weight, but had this initial starter, so the crew chief had to turn crank to start it - to "Wind it up!". P-40 would loose control in high wind during a landing, cartwheel around, and it had no tail lock. The P-47 Thunderbolt was better, wider gear, and a tail lock, wouldn't let loose control. My plane i shared with another pilot and we each painted on side his was "Mr. Five By Five" and mine was "Punkins", my wife's nickname.
Also, there was the P-38 Lighting in New Guinea. Richard Bong was in the 49th, but another Squadron. They were faster, and they would go in ahead of us, way ahead of us and get the first crack at the fighters! They would make head-on pass at the Betty bombers. Bong's thing was to come in from behind, at close range to shoot them down. He was cleaning house with that plane! And, there was the P-39 Airacobra. That plane had a very high wing loading. It could not turn, and reversed on you and spin, it was very bad. We didn't like, it just wasn't good. It had those two30 cal, and a cannon out the nose. Those guys didn't get many kills, and got their asses shot off in the air.
Life In New Guinea
Buna was captured by the Australians and US Army. We flew from there for a while [from Dubodura]. There were thousands of dead Japanese still around, I wandered around there looking at them, they were just skeletons inside a uniform. I found a sword and bayonet there, I still have them. A Zero was abandoned at the airfield, so we climbed all over it to see what one looked like up close. One person got a 20mm shell out of its wing, but while sawing after it, it exploded in his hand. That put an end to that exploring.
We flew any plane that was available, if yours available you would fly it. I did have my 'personal' airplane, shared with another pilot, but I would say I only actually flew it 25% of the time. But, the crew chiefs stayed with a specific airplane, it was just the pilots that moved around. Pilots had to have rest and everything else so that is why you would rotate planes. Sometime also we flew 2-3 missions a day. Every three months or so, they sent us to Australia in a C-47. We would stay a week, then go back, that was our only R&R time.
In New Guinea, the weather is beautiful on coast. The Owen Stanley Mountains, the clouds build up. If you had to cross them, you better do it in the morning because thunder storms happened all afternoon and you didn't go in there. We didn't know how to fly instruments, we had no training in that. Rabaul one time, we went to a strip on New Britain, gassed up for flight up there. They wanted us to cover the bombers, the Navy went in there that day too. We had drop tanks 265 gallon ones I think. Wewak, I flew over there, that is all I can remember, no time on the ground there, luckily! That was Japanese territory! Tsilli-Tsilli was dusty and hot, level, wide open runways.. we not there very long before we moved up farther. I would get malaria, go to the hospital, and when I got out, we had already moved twice further up the Ramu valley!
We did occasionally drop bombs mounted on our wing racks. We were not taught how to bomb! The first time, my bombs fell 2 miles short! No one told me you had to drop them at 45 degrees. We didn't do too much bombing, it wasn't effective. Left that work to the B-25s and A-20s!
September 13, 1943 Force Landing
I took off piloting P-40N "Mr. Five by Five" / "Punkins" 42-104977. We scrambled and the bombers were already coming in to bomb our base. We saw them, and tried to maneuver into position. There were about a dozen bombers in a 'V' and forty fighters ahead and behind them. We saw them way out, cut them off, got a head on pass from 3,000 above them, rolled in. There were seven of us, in echelon, i was #7 i was right in the back, and had to pull really hard to keep up! I lined up, zeroed in on one of them. I picked #4 bomber on left side of the V put a bunch of 'sparklers' in the front of a bomber. Know why we called them 'sparklers'? Because they sparkled when they hit the plane, because of the high explosive shells, and you knew you were going to get them. Then, you get chased by the zeros. My plane was bad plane, I thought there was a problem with the engine because it started smoking, but now I know from your photos of the wreck they must have hit my engine, the Zeros nailed me! I never knew it! I thought it was a maintenance malfunction, and crash landed in a grass field.
When I got on the ground, the kunai grass was so high, I fired a flare to burn the grass. When we did that paratrooper drop over Lae at Nadzab, they did the same thing, they dropped flares the night before, burned all the grass and had a parade ground when they landed. They knew i was out there. A friendly plane spotted me on a river bank and dropped me a raft that I used to go down the nearby Ramu River.
There were about five crocodiles at every bend of the river. The local people beat their drums each evening until about 11pm. Only saw a few of them moving through the jungle foliage, they tried to avoid me which was okay with me!
It took me nine days to get back. At the mouth of the River, the Australians picked me up. They had only taken Lae two days before they picked me up. I had gotten credited for one kill before I even got back, because everyone had seen me shoot this plane down over the strip. I was the first rescue for the squadron too, they did a victory roll for me when I got back. I claimed 2 and a bomber. I was supposed to get a purple heart for my wounds but they said my plane crashed from mechanical failure, not enemy fire, so I didn't get it. Now, from your photos of the wreck, it looks like it will finally get my purple heart! I did see a piece go by in the air, but had no idea they even hit me.
P-40 Wreckage Today
Its unique that my old plane is still there! The wreck should stay as is I feel. It is very visible from the air. In fact I have a copy of of a photo taken in 1943 which is almost a copy of the aerial photograph that John Douglas took. It could remain a source of history and tourism there. Nobody ever talked to me about recovering it, I wish they would tell me something about it, send some photos or ask me about my feelings. I heard about it from Pacific Wrecks that was the only news I got about it.
Air Combat in New Guinea
I continued to fly over 200 combat missions in in WWII, I shoot down three confirmed Zeros (#1 September 13, 1943, #2 November 7, 1943, #3 November 15, 1943), My first confirmed kill was on the mission when I force landed, and I got two more after that.
My 2nd confirmed kill I remember there were four zeros, but we overshot them. I came up pulled up and turned back around, and hit in. I came across, he made an immelmann, and I caught him at the top. I really poured it into him! Nine guys had been firing at this plane before, and all claimed it, but I was the guy who finally got him. My third confirmed, i really do not remember too well.
I also claimed four probable Zero's, 2 Probable Betty bombers, 1 Probable Lilly Bomber, and 1 probable Ki-46 Dinah. The Dinah, that was at Port Moresby on their big 100 plane raid, the last time they hit us there in force. We cleaned house on Japanese. I chased a Dinah that morning trying to take photos. I am sure I knocked it down. See, not only did a pilot have to report it, but someone else had to confirm it too! MacAurthur didn't like us aviators I guess! We had to double prove our kills! Film plus another confirmation, both were hard to get!
I came back home to the States in 1944. I kept getting malaria, recurring from when I crash landed and spent those nine days by myself. The attacks of malaria were bad sudden chills and heat. They would have you take Quinine, but the only way to beat it was let your body build up immunity , which mean getting attacks every 3-4 months. My wife met me at the airport, she had moved back to Washington State to wait until i came back from the war. They sent me back to the states, to Washington State where I flew fighters for the rest of the war.
At March field, first jets landed at the base, i was chief of maintenance. At that time, the jets were highly classified airplanes. Some P-80s landed and were put into hanger and the doors locked. I checked out in one. Then the P-59 came in, i check out in that too, i was base test pilot. At March, Tex Hill and all the big aces started showing up when they were forming the first jet fighter wing I was only a maintenance officer there! That was "Project Comet " touring around with the P-80, doing air shows. During that time, I also went to college. I was in air force a regular officer, but also went to University of Oklahoma. did that for 24 months, graduated 3.96 GPA!
I flew in the P-80. I was the one that knew all about it when i got back from college, also I was maintenance control officer of the 5th AF, we had to get these planes out of there when we started loosing the north. I had to go to the bases, find out what is wrong, fly them out of there, get them out of there. We got 17 planes out of 49th wing at Pyongyang before the Chinese came in the next morning. We were blowing up everything in town. i was told to set fire to the hangers and all the planes that were left, so we poured napalm in there and lit it. When the General saw the fire he said, Jesus Christ. We were the last plane out of there, our tanks were crossing the runway. I had to get general's jeep go down there and tell them to move so we could take off. I think we were the last plane out of North Korea! I also flew over 300 combat missions in Korea. I helped convert our wing from P-51 to P-80 while were were in combat, that was a major feat! All of the maintenance we did in Japan, I had that idea, and just up to Korea to stage for the combat while the rear echelon maintenance was safe in Japan.
I flew 264 missions in Vietnam. I flew the F-4 with 12 TFW at Caron Bay, the biggest base in all of Vietnam, all kinds of planes were there. I was base commander of the 41,000 people there, that was in the late 1960s for two year. 620 combat fighter missions total in all three wars! I wrote paper on close air support, which spawned the idea for the A-10.
Mr. A-10
Chyenne Helicopter got money to build A-10. They asked me to work for them, that was about 1969. I was in charge of it all, looked at the designs, and requirements that it had to survive all this stuff for the close air support requirements. It had 4 hydraulic systems and cable, you could loose an engine, change to another one, or change to another or even fly it just on cables. We were competing about the Grumman A-9. We won the contract, we had to build the A-10 in a hurry! They ordered 10 aircraft for development, then for 100 right off the bat, we ended up building them for 17 years! I worked all over the map, I had to go to build up our Air Force bases, get them ready for the plane and servicing its engines and gun. That was 15 years of going around as the chief of that task force. am still employed by the same Defense Contractor that built the P-47/P-84/F-105/A-10. My car's license plate reads "Mr-A-10".
Life Today
Everyone wants me to write a book about my 64 years of uninterrupted work with the military. My answer is: "Why should I write it now when I have twenty more years to go!" I, and my wife of 64 years, are in almost perfect health And as the originator of the A-10 Warthog I continue to be employed as a Consultant to the same company that built the A-10. I have flown all the fighter aircraft, including the P-36 P-39, P-38, P-47, P-59, P-63, and jets Including P-80, F-86D, F-102, F-106, F-84, F-4, F-105, F-15. Also I have a few combat missions in B-25, C-47, A-20, L-4, AT-6, T-33. I have not changed much. I still weigh the same. 142 pounds, and still am very, very active. I'm 85 now, and my birthday is next week I'll be 86! I have one son, and two grandsons!
NARA World War II Army Enlistment Records - Joel D. Thorvaldson
P-40N 'Mr. Five by Five / Punkins' 42-104977 pilot Thorvaldson crashed September 13, 1943
Thanks to Joel D. Thorvaldson and Eric Thorvaldson (son) for additional information
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Mexican drug cartels eyeing ‘Thai market’: Police
This file photo shows a drug user holding low-grade crystal meth tablets, known in Southeast Asia as "yaba", in Muse, Shan State, along Myanmar's border with China. (AFP Photo). Sketched by the Pan Pacific Agency.
HAWAII, Dec 12, 2019, Bangkok Post. Mexican drug syndicates are trafficking methamphetamine into Thailand and other Asian countries, according to Earl Hampton, deputy director of the United States’ Joint Interagency Task Force West (JIATFW), Bangkok Post reported.
Citing reports from US anti-drugs authorities, Mr Hampton said Asian countries are vulnerable to trafficking of meth produced by Mexican cartels.
The Mexican-manufactured drug is similar to the meth produced by drug labs along the Thai-Myanmar border, as both use the same precursor chemicals, he said, adding that Myanmar’s United Wa State Army continues to produce and smuggle the drug into Thailand.
Briefing Thai reporters at the US Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii, Mr Hampton said Thailand remains both a market and a transit point for drug traffickers.
Mr Hampton said the JIATFW, whose mission is to combat drug-related organised crime in the Indo-Asia Pacific, is working closely with Thai police and civilian agencies to stamp out use of precursor chemicals and synthetic drugs.
He also said that Fentanyl, which is blamed for a surge in opioid-related deaths in America, is being trafficked into the US from abroad.
However, despite Mr Hampton’s warning, the Thai Narcotics Suppression Bureau says initial checks found no evidence that Mexican cartels are smuggling drugs into Thailand.
Narcotics Suppression Bureau chief Chinnapat Sarasin insisted smuggling drugs from Mexico would be uneconomical given there were existing sites for cheap production of narcotics on Thailand’s border.
“I think Mexican drugs are not a worry compared with meth smuggled from neighbouring countries,” he said, adding this was a chronic problem.
Meanwhile, police on Wednesday announced the arrest of three suspects in two anti-drug missions. Among them was Malaysian national Magesh Muniandy, who allegedly smuggled nearly 100,000 sedative-like Nimetazepam pills into Thailand.
Mr Muniandy was nabbed while allegedly delivering the drugs to Songkhla’s Hat Yai district. Investigators believe the drugs, which are usually sold as an ecstasy (MDMA) substitute, are being “trial marketed” here.
Police say they also intercepted a Khon Kaen village head along with his accomplice at a petrol station in Udon Thani’s Kumphawapi district, as the duo were trying to smuggle 300 kilogrammes of marijuana into the country. The suspects admitted the cannabis was for clients in Bangkok and neighbouring provinces, officers said.
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Some day, Baby. Some day.
For reasons unknown to me, family members enjoy offering Baby Joseph food and laughing at his complete disinterest in this strange multi-colored stuff we’re putting in our mouths.
My youngest daughter said to him in her high-pitched little voice, “You want chips and salsa, Joe? You want some beer?” (Please note that she was consuming neither.)
But the goofiness doesn’t end there. My oldest spilled dry Rice Krispies on the floor. Did she sweep them up right away? No. She brought out our hamster to do the deed for her.
When Punzi’s cheeks had reached max-capacity, my daughter had to resort to the dust pan. Apparently Punzi made some space, however, as she jumped in after it. I do like to teach my family members not to waste food.
I call this piece “Back view of Syrian longhair, with Rice Krispies.”
Filed under Funny parenting stories, Kids DO the darndest things, Kids say the funniest things and tagged babies, cleaning up spilled cereal, feeding babies, funny kids, funny kids stories, funny things kids do, funny things kids say, hamsters | 56 Comments
aFrankAngle on October 19, 2017 at 4:50 pm said:
Nothing like an animal to rid the human mess. Keep laughing, Mom!
ParentingIsFunny on October 19, 2017 at 5:07 pm said:
That’s what pets are for, right? 🙂
Carrie Rubin on October 19, 2017 at 4:58 pm said:
Ha, who needs one of those robot vacuums when you’ve got Punzi!
Originally I wrote, “Back view of Syrian longhair, aka Roomba, with Rice Krispies.” We think alike! Uh-oh, I might start thinking about how to murder people now.
If you do, we’ll have to collaborate on a book. Punzi, the Psycho Hamster series. 😄
Haha. Love it. Tagline: “She’ll clean up your messes” with a picture of her standing on a dead body, blood dripping from her long hair.
Haha, now you’re starting to creep me out.
Wow. That’s an accomplishment! And I didn’t even have to mention that I was on your doorstep! 😉
Andrew Reynolds on October 19, 2017 at 5:15 pm said:
Kind of confused here – is this a problem for you? Seems like a reasonable response to me. 😉
Come to think of it, it truly is. I don’t know why I’m so surprised by it.
Shelby R on October 19, 2017 at 5:18 pm said:
What else is a pet for than eating up food messes off the floor?? (Says the petless lady scraping up dried Cheerios from under the table)
This is what I’m learning. Who needs a Roomba! Great to see you here, Sherb! 🙂
Victo Dolore on October 19, 2017 at 6:45 pm said:
Hah! My kids are begging for something small and furry right now…
Hamsters are fun and easy.
vikingspaul on October 19, 2017 at 6:57 pm said:
Looks like a fluffy dust bunny. 🙂
Fluffy dust hamster.
Ha. Love it. Dust hamster.
She does look like she could be used as a feather duster, come to think of it. Hmm…
Robert on October 21, 2017 at 11:28 am said:
Some maker of hair care products — shampoos, rinses, combs, brushes, pomades — should use one of those as a mascot. “When you’re made mostly of hair, you take its care seriously.” Or, “You may never have hair care needs this severe, but isn’t it nice to know that if you did, you could rely on…?”
ParentingIsFunny on October 21, 2017 at 12:12 pm said:
Ha. Hilarious.
Ally Bean on October 20, 2017 at 6:21 am said:
I like Punzi’s work ethic. Doing all that he can to make your home a better place. What a fun little critter you have there.
ParentingIsFunny on October 20, 2017 at 9:22 am said:
I suppose it makes up for the droppings he throws with his mouth out of his cage onto the floor. We’ve seen him do it. I guess he likes a clean cage more than a clean mouth!
Chatter Master on October 20, 2017 at 6:45 am said:
Sometimes the names we give a ‘piece’ are just appropriate. Perfectly apt.
Heehee. Thank you, CM.
Chatter Master on October 21, 2017 at 3:56 pm said:
Julie Holmes, author on October 20, 2017 at 7:33 am said:
LOL! And here I thought it was a Tribble 😀 Having a pet to clean up the floor is nice and convenient especially with a kiddo like Joseph. Then again, they’re convenient when us older folks get clumsy. Our dogs are handy that way! 😀
Yes, not as big of a stomach as a dog, but easier to take care of. As the messes get larger, we may need to move up in the world, pet-wise.
ParentingIsFunny on October 20, 2017 at 10:51 am said:
I had to look up Tribbles. So you’re a Treky, eh? Those do look rather cute. I may have seen that episode ages ago.
Robert on October 20, 2017 at 8:17 am said:
Oh, you were so devilish with placement of the break in the e-mail before the jump to the blog. “She brought out…” and I expected some account of the baby’s being held by the ankles and attempted to be used as a carpet sweeper or upright vacuum cleaner!
Do you also manage this with typesetting page breaks in your books? I was sure that in at least one place in a paperback edition, Robert Heinlein worked that trick.
Meanwhile I’ve had trouble just getting editors to not “correct” perfectly good words I’ve used in a ms. that the editor’s vocabulary didn’t include, like “monopsonist” or “diplomate”. But when I’ve been an editor, an author complained that I didn’t change a grammatic “mistake” that isn’t necessarily one, where I trusted he meant it when he wrote, “I am as an expert in..,” just because most people would leave out the “as”.
Wow, tricky words. Maybe your editor was editing with the vocab of your reader in mind.
Robert on October 22, 2017 at 6:46 pm said:
No, they each told me they just didn’t know the word. So Lincoln Review changed “monopsonist” to “monopolist”, and Nomos changed “diplomate” to “disciple”. At least these days they could find words online. Meanwhile my friend Bob is telling our other friends I did a bad job proofreading & copy editing a short story of his 5 years ago because NOW he checked and saw I let thru that “I am as an expert” plus one missing letter in another word. The missed typo was my failing, but considering how admittedly dyslexic he is, he puts in so many that I think I’m doing a great job for what he pays just to knock the mistakes down to a few.
lardavbern on October 20, 2017 at 8:43 am said:
I wonder if they will be as generous if it was a food they really wanted and he could say yes. Hmmm.
Good thought, but he’s such a little play thing to them that I’m sure they’ll enjoy feeding him and think he’s adorable. They think everything he does is adorable. Well, almost everything. 🙂
heylookawriterfellow on October 20, 2017 at 10:33 am said:
Aw! But I need the front view, too!
Front view contained here: https://parentingisfunny.wordpress.com/2017/06/21/okay-ill-do-it/
Mark Petruska on October 22, 2017 at 7:58 am said:
Chips and salsa? Ha! Nothing like grooming Baby Joseph early. I’m sure someday he will love those. (And beer.)
Very likely.
D. Wallace Peach on October 22, 2017 at 11:59 am said:
It’ seems like a stretch, but somehow kids survive their older siblings. Ha ha. So do hamsters. 😀
And somehow parents survive kids. 😉
D. Wallace Peach on October 22, 2017 at 12:20 pm said:
Ha ha ha. That too!
P.S. Love that you shared Mike Allegra’s post. I read it already, as I follow him too, but, yes, he is funny and needs to be shared with the world more. 🙂
D. Wallace Peach on October 22, 2017 at 1:06 pm said:
Thanks! I’ve shared a few of his. He just cracks me up and laughter is a great thing to spread around. 🙂
Cecilia on October 23, 2017 at 9:49 am said:
You made me smile, and that back view too … )
So glad. 🙂
thefolia on October 26, 2017 at 4:41 am said:
I like the way she thinks even if the initial intention wasn’t meant to be wasteful but who can I delegate this inconvenience of mine to. I suppose there is almost always someone willing to do the dirty work for whatever benefits.
Too bad bringing out the hamster didn’t keep her from having to get the dustpan regardless.
Aunt Beulah on October 27, 2017 at 9:44 am said:
This is a charming description of small children and your enjoyment of them. It made me feel happy.
I’m happy it made you happy. 🙂
Allie P. on October 27, 2017 at 10:13 am said:
Unfortunately, that’s how my dustpan looks on a regular basis between my shed hair and the dog’s as well as remanents from the kid’s breakfast. Honestly, I don’t know how there is always so much cereal on the floor considering how much I see them shovel away. I can only assume it must multiple on contact.
Haha–multiply on contact. I know what you mean. And those days were all but behind me. Then I hit the reset button. 🙂
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Daily Dose: February 2nd
I woke up this morning to something you don’t often (ever?) see in Austin, TX: rolling blackouts. It’s Coldpocalypse 2011 here in Central Texas and it sucks. No, it’s not as bad as the feet of snow being dumped on the Midwest and Northeast, but it’s all about context. I don’t live in those places for a reason. I hate cold weather and so 15 degrees with a wind chill of 0 is my own personal winter hell. Oh for those who don’t know, I grew up in Detroit where obviously I went through plenty of blistering winters. The fact is I lived there from 0-14 and you just don’t have the same disdain for inclement weather at that age that you do as an adult.
I can’t fathom how anyone would rather be cold than hot. Give me 100 any day of the week over 40, much less teens. Sure, sometimes the sweltering heat can be annoying, but it doesn’t instantly put me in a bad mood like freezing cold. I think heatwaves can cause rolling blackouts, too, but since I have never experienced them in the summer, I will forever associate them with awful cold weather, increasing my utter disdain for winter temperatures.
OK, enough of my frozen tears as I’m sure plenty of you reading this have 9 ThermaCare wraps on your back to alleviate the uncontrollable pain sustained shoveling 23 inches of snow out of your driveway. Time for the Daily Dose.
One of my favorite articles every winter is the List of 12 by Cory Schwartz (@schwartzstops) from MLB Network’s Fantasy 411 TV show and podcast. Schwartz developed the list years ago (the original iteration had 12 guys if you can believe that) as a way of identifying potential breakouts in the upcoming fantasy season. It’s not as simple as being on it makes you a breakout candidate, which is why Schwartz analyzes each of the 15 arms on this year’s list. There are some very enticing names on the list including Jason Hammel and Shaun Marcum. I’m worried that Marcum’s offseason trade to Milwaukee may raise his profile a bit when he would otherwise be an overlooked gem.
I swear I’m not a Baseball Prospectus fanboy. You’re going to have to trust me on that, but I could understand how it might look that way with so many of their links popping up in the first two editions of the Daily Dose. It was quite fitting on that on National Signing Day, they unveiled a talent-laden recruiting class of their own. If you’re not already a subscriber, today should be your impetus.
Obviously there is a lot of great free content out there, but your money would be well invested in a BP subscription. Congrats to entire new group of writers over there, but specifically my good friend Jason Collette (@jasoncollette), who I have known for years and Sky Kalkman (@Sky_Kalkman), who I’ve known virtually for some time as we are both members of the Rotojunkie message.
One of the debuts was from Jason Parks (@ProfessorParks) who took the devil’s advocate approach to prospects by looking at what could go wrong in 2011. He looked at five Kansas City Royals prospects first. The Royals are widely regarded as the best system in baseball right now and Parks looked at the five best in their organization, so he was getting at the best of the best and making sure you don’t get too caught up in the hype and understand that it might not pan out as planned right away.
It’s one thing to be a pretty face. It’s quite another to be a very pretty girl who also happens to be absolutely hilarious and that’s what ESPN’s Michelle Beadle (@ESPN_Michelle) pulls off regularly. Most recently it was in this excellent Super Bowl Ad video. Lots of girls are pretty, Michelle is attractive because she seems to offer much more than her looks. Oh yeah, she’s also from Texas and her birthday is just a day before mine (Oct. 23rd).
Speaking of pretty girls, AskMen has released their Top 99 Women of 2011 and Mint.com does a great job breaking down the list in a series of interesting ways. I definitely don’t agree with their #1, Blake Lively. She’s definitely pretty, but not #1 pretty. Scarlett Johansson remains my #1 with my #2 matching AskMen’s, Mila Kunis. I was happy to see that brunettes overwhelmingly dominated the list proving what I’ve known for some time: they are just better than blondes. I’m glad to see they wedged Emma Stone in there with her strawberry blonde/reddish hair as opposed to her natural blonde look which doesn’t look natural (or good) at all. I couldn’t help but laugh when they listed someone named Whitney Port as a notably absent “A-Lister”. I thought A-Listers were people that everyone knew? I had to Google this no-talent hack to find out exactly why I had no clue who she was: she’s an MTV “reality” person. Who are your favorites on the list? Any major snubs in your opinion?
I have long detested “reality” TV if for no other reason than the completely idiotic name. It couldn’t possibly be less real if it tried yet this name has inexplicably stuck. I was thrilled to see the czar of this genre, Mark Burnett, agree with my sentiment recently:
Muttered the man seated behind me: “Um, it’s a reality show.”
No it’s not! says Burnett. “I hate the word ‘reality.’ I think it’s just a made-up word by journalists. What the hell has it got to do with reality? Reality is me standing here right now. Let’s face it: None of the shows are reality. They’re not really marooned on the island in Survivor. [laughter] But the feeling’s real. They’re not really applying for a job with Donald Trump. I mean, who would?” [more laughter]
IMDB.com released part one of a four-part documentary on the making of The Social Network. I love behind the scenes looks into things so I was really interested in this documentary especially because I really enjoyed the movie back in October. My only real problem is that for some reason Rooney Mara, the girl who played Mark Zuckerberg’s girlfriend in the opening scene, is being getting so much attention for her innocuous scene.
I’m so sick and tired of hearing how great she was in her 9 seconds of screen time. I was surprised she wasn’t up for Best Actress in the Oscars after hearing everyone talk about it. I’m sure most of it is just to build hype for her in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but it didn’t make the gushing any less nauseating. She didn’t steal her scene let alone the movie. It was standard Sorkin dialogue that she executed well enough, but the hype to performance ratio is off-the-charts.
Podcast Recommendation: First off, I feel like not enough people listen to podcasts. They are excellent. They are a much better version of sports radio (mainly because there are no commercials). Whether you’re new to podcasts are a savvy veteran, you have to subscribe to The Jonah Keri Podcast. I dare you not to get the theme song stuck in your head after hearing it once, but beyond that it’s just a brilliantly done show. He gets amazing guests including writers, announcers, bloggers, ballplayers and other podcasters and while most are sports-centric, he isn’t just focused on one sport. He did a Hall of Fame week back in January where he did five days of shows including ones with Tim Raines and Bert Blyleven. Keri has put together arguably the best podcast going and yet it’s all of 21 episodes old.
As I noted yesterday, I’m a 2K sports guy. Of course, since I have an Xbox360, it isn’t 100% by choice, but I’ve been happy with their improving baseball series the last few years. In the interest of equal time, though, here is the MLB 11: The Show trailer
Knowledge Bomb: Baltimore Orioles outfielder Nick Markakis is likely to fly a bit under the radar in drafts and auctions this year as he not only failed to meet the high power expectations of him (12 HR in 2010), but he fell off significantly from his 2009 figure of 18. Mix in weak counting stats (60 RBI, 79 R) thanks to an anemic Orioles offense (613 runs, 27th in MLB) and it was a tough season for the 26-year old. But don’t forget his primary category where he counted to be a high impact producer: batting average. Markakis hasn’t hit below .291 in any of his five seasons and delivered 629 at-bats of .297 goodness last year.
If you replace 550-600 ABs of a fantasy team’s batting average with Markakis, it is worth three batting average points. That may not sound like a lot, but when you’re talking about one guy impacting a 6500 at-bat sample by three points, it is significant. Replacing Mark Teixeira, who had an atypical batting average year in 2010, with Markakis would have been worth four batting average points.
When you are looking to build your batting average, the high volume of at-bats is just important as the average itself. In the last three years only Markakis and Ichiro Suzuki have managed a .290 or better average in 595 or more at-bats. You don’t have to necessarily build for batting average when taking one of these guys, they can be your insurance policy to roster a low-average, high-power type like Adam Dunn, Mark Reynolds or Carlos Pena who all come at a bit cheaper because of their unappealing batting averages.
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What to Do When Negotiations Are Premature: Learning From the 2013-2014 “Kerry Initiative” in Israel/Palestine
The following analysis is from Volume 3, Issue 6 of the Peace Science Digest Citation: Ramsbotham, O. & Schiff, A.
Adding Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping to the Toolbox of International Intervention
Recognizing the restrictions of the current context (e.g. acceptance of nonviolent peacekeepers to host state and access to particular regions) of allowing professional unarmed civilian peacekeepers to enter the conflict scenario, we want to share some insights from peace science that should at least add Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping to the toolbox of international intervention to reduce violence and suffering, even if it is only an aspiration in this moment of time.
Can International Organizations Help Prevent Violence in Palestine and Israel?
Violence erupted on Friday after protests took place demanding the right of return for Palestinian refugees and their descendants to land in Israel. Peace Science provides examples of how international groups can help prevent more violence.
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations and Mediator Leverage
The Palestinian leadership has condemned President Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, which it said effectively disqualifies the United States from serving as peace broker. A mediator’s use of information, contextual knowledge of the conflict, and a perceived commitment to the peace process is most effective at generating durable and longer lasting peace after the agreement.
Casualty Inequity, Politics, and Public Support for Israel
The following analysis is from Volume 1, Issue 5 of the Peace Science Digest This research examines
Diversity, Identity, and Privilege Among Multinational Activists in Palestinian Civil Resistance
Contrary to widespread stereotypes regarding the nature of Palestinian resistance, there has long been a tradition of unarmed civil resistance
Threats, Public Support, and Military Intervention
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Will the Military Require a Mandatory Keto Diet?
Published July 20, 2019 by
Corey Nelson
Corey Nelson is a freelance writer, quantum health and wellness coach, and personal trainer. He has provided guidance to well over 1000 clients in the past 10 years. In his writing and health coaching career Corey initially focused on pharmacology, endocrinology, biochemistry, and genetics, but now focuses primarily on mitochondrial health, quantum biology, and the relationship between human environments, health, and disease.
A mandatory ketogenic diet may be the future of the military. Learn why the ketogenic diet captured the military’s attention and what it means for non-soldiers.
Published July 20, 2019 by Corey Nelson
The Proposal: A Mandatory Keto Diet for the Military
Why Would the Military Ban Carbs?
The Takeaway: Go Keto for Elite Performance
According to Defense Department officials, the ketogenic diet, or “keto” for short, may be the future of the military.
A recent proposal from Special Operations Command (SOCOM) recommends changing to the low-carb, high-fat keto diet.
Lisa Sanders, director of science and technology at SOCOM, commented in May at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference that the diet could enhance the performance of elite units on the battlefield.
If the keto diet works well in trials with special forces operators, it may become mandatory for the entire military.
Read on to learn why the keto diet captured the military’s attention, how mandatory keto might look, and what it means for people who aren’t in the military.
Why is the Defense Department considering adopting a mandatory keto diet for combat personnel?
The reason keto caught the eye of top military officials is primarily because of a recent study by Dr. Jeff Volek at the Ohio State University published in the journal Military Medicine.
While some people are citing legal and ethical concerns over requiring the keto diet, the scientific evidence is promising for health, performance, and combat readiness.
In the 12-week study, Dr. Volek and his colleagues put overweight ROTC cadets on the keto diet while measuring their body composition and performance compared to a high-carb control group.
The cadets ate fewer than 50 grams of carbs per day and agreed to daily blood ketone testing. They didn’t count calories, and ate as much as they wanted.
Here’s what the researchers found:
The keto diet group lost an average of 17 pounds, decreasing their average body fat percentage by about 5%
Visceral fat, which is associated with increased inflammation and risk of heart disease, fell by over 43%
Insulin sensitivity improved 48% on average
The keto group maintained equal exercise performance to the high-carb group
The keto diet deprives your body of glucose, forcing it to burn stored body fat instead. Based on the 2019 results published in Military Medicine, it’s not hard to see why these benefits have attracted attention from military officials.
Here’s How Mandatory Keto Might Work in the Military
Although the military may require mandatory keto for all combat personnel in the future, they’ll roll it out among special forces operators like Navy SEALs first.
If the results are favorable among elite units, there’s a good chance the Defense Department will require other branches to go keto. Here’s what that would look like.
Daily ketone testing
For keto to work, you have to follow it strictly. For soldiers, that includes after-hours and on weekends.
Even service members on leave would probably need to follow a low-carb diet, because binging on carbs kicks your body out of ketosis.
To ensure compliance with the keto diet, soldiers would likely receive daily blood or urine ketone testing. This isn’t just speculation–Lisa Sanders has said as much. In May, she stated, “That kind of technology is available today. We can tell whether you are or are not in ketosis.”
Different menus
On military bases, the new diet could result in dining facilities serving zucchini spirals instead of pasta, mashed cauliflower instead of pasta and rice, and avocados and salad bars instead of ice cream and dessert bars. Pizza and beer would be a thing of the past.
Not only that, military spouses and households would need to shift to menus higher in vegetables and whole food sources of fats and protein.
New MREs
Meals ready to eat, or MREs for short, are self-contained individual field rations. Service members rely on MREs during combat, or in field conditions without food facilities.
MREs are energy-dense, and usually rich in carbs and sugar. But if the military adopts the keto diet, they’d also need to revamp the current MRE selection, which includes choices like pepperoni pizza, chili mac, and beef enchilada.
Obesity and Readiness
Over 60% of military personnel are overweight or obese[*]. That’s a big issue for a group of people who are expected to maintain optimal health and combat readiness. That’s why the CDC recently declared that “obesity is impacting national security”[*].
With that in mind, it’s no wonder that the Defense Department noticed the 2019 Military Medicine study. Dr. Volek demonstrated that soldiers could lose up to 20 pounds of fat in 12 weeks without compromising fitness or combat preparedness.
Lightweight and Efficient Source of Calories
In addition to carrying their own food, weapons, and ammo, many soldiers wear body armor weighing nearly 100 pounds. A study of the energy requirements of military personnel found that they burn up to 7000 calories each day[*].
While carbs and protein provide 4 calories per gram, fat has 9 calories per gram. Because the keto diet is typically 75% fat, keto rations would weigh significantly less than current high-carb provisions.
That means that a day’s worth of keto MREs would weigh up to 500 grams less than a high-carb MRE. Combat personnel could carry more food or reduce the amount of weight they carry.
Not only that, soldiers could lose 20 pounds or more of body fat without counting calories, allowing them to maneuver more effectively with their equipment.
Oxygen Metabolism for Divers
The ketogenic diet changes oxygen metabolism in your body, allowing you to maintain a constant state of fat-burning[*]. As a result, you can also use oxygen more efficiently and withstand oxygen deprivation better[*][*].
That’s one reason why elite Navy SEALs are on the front lines of the keto rollout.
As Lisa Sanders says, “One of the effects of truly being in ketosis is that it changes the way your body handles oxygen deprivation, so you can actually stay underwater at depths for longer periods of time and not go into oxygen seizures.”
Evidence is mounting that the keto diet could be a fantastic choice for military personnel, but the Defense Department may not be able to mandate it.
There’s no precedent for the military exerting 24/7 control over a service member’s diet. Instead, they might offer financial incentives, promotions, and other bonuses for voluntary adaptation of the keto diet.
But whether or not you’re in the military, there’s no question that keto is an excellent way to lose weight without counting calories, enhance your mental and physical performance, and improve your health and wellness.
If you want an edge on the battlefield of life, going keto is a winning move.
Protein Shakes and Protein Powders That Are Great for the Keto Diet
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Posttraumatic stress disorder in female veterans with military and civilian sexual trauma
Naomi Himmelfarb, Deborah Yaeger, Jim Mintz
This study examines relationships among military sexual trauma (MST), non-military sexual trauma, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A sample of 196 female veterans was assessed for trauma occurring before, during, and after military service, and for current PTSD. The prevalence of MST was higher than that of premilitary and postmilitary sexual trauma. Premilitary trauma did not significantly increase the odds of experiencing MST, but did increase the odds of experiencing postmilitary sexual trauma. Logistic regression analyses revealed MST was more strongly associated with PTSD than was premilitary or postmilitary trauma. Women with MST had the greatest increased odds of developing PTSD. Understanding risk factors for and taking steps to prevent MST may reduce cases of PTSD in female veterans.
Journal of Traumatic Stress
https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.20163
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
Risk-Taking
Himmelfarb, N., Yaeger, D., & Mintz, J. (2006). Posttraumatic stress disorder in female veterans with military and civilian sexual trauma. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 19(6), 837-846. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.20163
Posttraumatic stress disorder in female veterans with military and civilian sexual trauma. / Himmelfarb, Naomi; Yaeger, Deborah; Mintz, Jim.
In: Journal of Traumatic Stress, Vol. 19, No. 6, 01.12.2006, p. 837-846.
Himmelfarb, N, Yaeger, D & Mintz, J 2006, 'Posttraumatic stress disorder in female veterans with military and civilian sexual trauma', Journal of Traumatic Stress, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 837-846. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.20163
Himmelfarb N, Yaeger D, Mintz J. Posttraumatic stress disorder in female veterans with military and civilian sexual trauma. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 2006 Dec 1;19(6):837-846. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.20163
Himmelfarb, Naomi ; Yaeger, Deborah ; Mintz, Jim. / Posttraumatic stress disorder in female veterans with military and civilian sexual trauma. In: Journal of Traumatic Stress. 2006 ; Vol. 19, No. 6. pp. 837-846.
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Anuj on August 25, 2014 at 6:50 am said:
We had 2 female adopted cats (Singapura-7 years old and a cross of a Singapura and a Persian-1 year old-name Zeena) and have just added a 2 month old male Ragdoll. The older one is very calm and has happily accepted the little one but the 1 year old(Zeena) is getting more and more aggressive by the day. The redirected aggression is getting more by the day when today she badly bit our housekeeper who’s primarily cat she is – so badly that her hand had to be dressed up. She has attacked the new addition in the past so we are keeping them apart. Can you please help as we are extremely distressed. To add to the information, Zeena has always been the aggressive one…
Michael Broad on August 25, 2014 at 7:13 am said:
Hi Anuj. I’ll come straight to the point. Zeena may in time get better. Probably will. In other words Zeena will calm down and accept the newcomer. However, because of her extreme reaction indicating a lot of upset, I am not sure she will ever become as settled as she was before the newcomer’s arrival. Cats do have preferences and make friends and have emotions as you are aware. I believe that for some cats it is like putting a strange person in someone’s home and expecting the home owner to accept it. It may never happen.
They say Feliway (an artificial hormone) helps calm down cats under these circumstances. But it is an artificial solution. They say to keep cats apart and introduce them gradually (which you are doing).
Ultimately there is no easy fix. It is down to the cat. That sounds depressing but you’ll find it is the truth. In the worse case the newcomer should be rehomed. Good luck.
Ammar on August 23, 2014 at 12:38 pm said:
Hello Micheal I just wanted what infections you would have if u own a cat because i once heard that u could get cat parasites that infect the brain so i just wanted to know what else problem there? i need info because im writing an essay.
Michael Broad on August 23, 2014 at 3:05 pm said:
Hi Ammar, the parasite you refer to is toxoplasmosis but it highly exaggerated. Please read this:
https://pictures-of-cats.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Toxoplasmosis-2.pdf
There are no other parasites on cats that affect us except for the cat flea. The flea can jump onto people and bite them but there is little hair on people so the cat flea does not like to be on people. Lice are species specific so do not go from cat to persona and vice versa.
Ringworm (a fungus) is transmitted from cats to people. It is very easy to get it from cats but it is not a parasite or a virus.
Cat infections are not transmitted from cat to person. Swine flu can it seems be transmitted from person to cat but not the other way.
Cat scratch fever can be given by the cat to us if the cat scratches us. It is a bacterial infection. Bites from a cat can give us a bacterial infection which can be serious.
Generally viruses affecting cats don’t affect us and vice versa.
Due to time constraints this is not necessarily a complete list.
Caroline Giffordc on September 13, 2018 at 9:09 pm said:
You should have just told her.
Michael Broad on August 20, 2014 at 10:05 pm said:
Are you employed by Google to spam websites? It looks like that. If so I am astonished. Who are you? What are you doing? If you don’t respond I’ll presume you are spamming on behalf of Google. I have to. No one would do it voluntarily.
Wendy on August 20, 2014 at 2:31 pm said:
I am an animal lover & graphic designer/label printer. I have 2 cat rescues & 1 pit mix rescue & they all are one big happy family. I have a client that has a domestic bengal cat & wants a pic of her cat jumping/lunging on the side of her boat. I wanted to please purchase the image I saw of a Bengal jumping & if it goes to help cat rescues all the better. The wed site is not letting me purchase the photo, although it appears that it is for sale? Please call me asap at 239-281-8669. Thank you:-)
Hi Wendy, thanks for visiting and asking. I am not sure where you downloaded this photograph from but it should not have been there unless it was the website of the breeder of the cat.
The photo is by Helmi Flick and she has copyright of the photo. I can ask her if she would agree to you using the photo but I don’t have the authority to grant permission for its use. I am sorry that I can do no more.
You might like to ask her direct. If you Google “Helmi Flick” you’ll find her website and there should be a contact page on it. If I can help in anyway please ask.
If you could tell me where you found the photo that would be nice of you. Good luck.
LOST BREED – SUSUKI (AUSTRALIA)
The Susuki was a short-lived breed created in Australia in 1957 and developed for about a decade as an “experimental breed”. At that time, the genetics of blue eyes was not properly understood. This article appeared in “The Age,” Monday March 13, 1961 (a newspaper from Melbourne, Australia):
….please click on this link to read the whole comment which is now an article.
Sarah Hartwell on August 1, 2014 at 8:18 pm said:
I’ve just been out on an emergency rescue – 3 very scared indoor cats from an empty flat after the owner died (being fed, but otherwise no human company). The owner had problems looking after himself, but loved his cats. On Monday they are off for snipping & chipping and once they’ve re-socialised the 2 youngsters will be made available for adoption together while the older cat will stay with me. Kitty, who went missing for 6 weeks and recently returned emaciated, dirty and scared hasn’t yet discovered the lodgers, but I doubt she’ll be impressed!
My arms are a mess from scratches and bites, but at least the cats are safe and have a bright future ahead of them, either here or in a new forever home. I am probably going to spend way too much time lying on the spare room floor trying to persuade them that I’m not a nasty person and I have a good line in tasty treats!
Anonymous on September 13, 2018 at 7:57 pm said:
I need Michael to reply asap.
alesia on July 29, 2014 at 2:12 am said:
hi i really want to find out what kind of cat my little kittie tiger is
heres another picture
Michael Broad on July 29, 2014 at 6:24 am said:
Hi Alesia. I depends on which country you live in. I presume you are in America. If so your cat is random bred cat with a very special spotted tabby coat that is has the Egyptian Mau purebred appearance. The coat is rare in that the spots are small and well defined. The grey color is not quite accurate because the photograph has desaturated colors. If you had lived in Egypt that would explain things because your little tiger looks like an original Egyptian Mau in Egypt.
Thanks for visiting and asking and sharing!
Katherine on July 26, 2014 at 12:34 am said:
I am trying to figure out the breed(s) of my cat. I got him from my child when she moved. He is very affectionate and intelligent. I have attached some pics as well. He has long hair and a plume tail and talks a bit.
Hi Katherine. He is a medium long haired orange classic tabby. He is not a member of a cat breed in my opinion i.e. not purebred pedigree but don’t feel bad about that. Ginger (red) tabbies are fine cats, very popular with a tendency to be boss cat! Thanks for visiting and asking.
Click on this link to see some pages on the red tabby.
Dee (Florida) on July 26, 2014 at 5:01 pm said:
Oh Katherine, he is one gorgeous cat.
Michael, ofcourse, is the expert; but that tail reminds me of a maine coon.
Sarah Hartwell on July 22, 2014 at 7:24 pm said:
I got round to updating my index page with all the books I’ve contributed to (with links to Amazon of course). Visitors kept asking if I had anything in print.
Sarah on July 22, 2014 at 11:00 am said:
A few years ago, I was tasked with researching the breeds and writing impartial histories and descriptions, providing some oddments of information and finding sources for photos of the rarer breeds. Even during that research period, new breeds were appearing, and a few were disappearing. It will be available in August.
The Original Cat Fancy Cat Bible The Definitive Source for All Things Cat by Sandy Robins, Dr Arnold Plotnick, Lorraine Shelton & Sarah Hartwell
http://www.amazon.com/Original-Cat-Fancy-Bible-Definitive/dp/1933958790/
Here are a few bits about my input from the pre-publication review:
The Original Cat Bible promises to be the most complete and authoritative book of its kind, authored by award-winning writer Sandy Robins with special veterinary chapters by Dr. Arnold Plotnick and an extensive breed section by Sarah Hartwell and Lorraine Shelton.
The Original Cat Bible discusses the development of cat breeds and the genetics of purebred cats. While the establishment of purebred cats is a fairly modern development, some breeds have existed in a “pure form” for many centuries. In order to explain the significance of specific breeds, the author describes the essential physical characteristics of the cat, including body types, coat types, colors, and patterns. Guest authors Hartwell and Shelton, both highly regarded experts in the purebred cat world, present seventy-five breeds of cat from the familiar Siamese and Persian to the lesser known Australian Mist and Pixie Bob, describing their origins, breed standards, personalities, all accompanied by dazzling color photography. The book features expansive coverage of every recognized cat breed in the world, plus many experimental and new breeds that have come and gone.
It will be published in August, but I hope to be getting an early copy soon 🙂
Michael Broad on July 22, 2014 at 11:38 am said:
Fantastic, Sarah. Well done. You deserve that recognition. I might do a page on this. Hope you are well.
Michael Broad on July 22, 2014 at 6:53 pm said:
Hope this gets found by Google:
https://pictures-of-cats.org/the-original-cat-fancy-cat-bible-the-definitive-source-for-all-things-cat.html
Suzy on July 17, 2014 at 7:40 pm said:
I love your website and gain many hours of satisfaction from reading the articles and also all the debates and advice given are second to none.
I saw this on YouTube and would like to know how people feel about domestication of servals? I can agree this beautiful creature clearly loves the woman but why does she have one in the first place, is she going to breed from it? In which case I fell very disappointed in her intentions if that it’s only for monetary gain.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8dfXBy_JDFk
Monica on July 14, 2014 at 1:28 am said:
Hello. I was told Bandit could be a Maine Coon. Since he was a rescue, I doubt it. What are your thoughts? He is 3 months.
Hi Monica. Bandit has a very beautiful bull-eye style classic (blotched) silver tabby coat. He may have some Maine Coon in him because the genes that make the Maine Coon are everywhere. The MC has been around in the USA for 400 years and initially for almost the first 300 years the MC was a moggie barn cat. If Bandit was living in Maine in 1850 in a barn on a farm he’d be classified as a Maine Coon. Thanks for asking.
Peter McCarville on July 13, 2014 at 7:27 pm said:
After almost two years of mourning for my cat Dusty I did some internet surfing and found your site. I have never really considered that he was a special breed of cat. He was small (runt of the litter?), abandoned when we found him at ~4-6 weeks old, and lived to be 17.5 years with his last in a battle with CRF. He was an indoor/outdoor cat, bold for 6 lbs, talkative, a great mouser, playful until his death, and downright a beautiful cat.
I was so excited to see that he really fits the look and description of a TIffany Cat breed (poor name but it is what it is). He was a very cool cat and the best companion I have ever had. We really bonded. It is so great to see others with “look a likes” of Dusty.
I have attached a photo. He was hard to take a good picture of. The eyes were so bright, the coat was black to chocolate, to auburn, to slightly flecked with white (hence the name Dusty). I hope this capture some of his beauty. Thanks for the site. Peter McCarville from Crawford, CO
Hi Peter, you wrote a fine comment full of your love for Dusty, which shouts from the page. Dusty could well be a Tiffany. The only problem is that in the US cats have to be registered to be called a cat breed. No matter. Your relationship trumps everything we can write about him being a cat breed or not. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the reply as I was just reading your take on some of the ideas of “breeds” and the lot. I too think the relationship is what it is about, not the name or idea that it may be a “breed”. I do like some of the traits that this breed (if indeed that is what he was) exhibit. He was not a great lap cat until he was much older and dependent. He was a very “busy” hunter, in his younger years, on our rural farm in western Colorado. I liked his talking, his devotion to me (although my wife and daughter had a bond too), his “dog-like” nature of coming when I called, hanging out with me, and his docileness. He trusted so well. Now, I understand that some of this is genetic, some is environmental and how we raised him. It is a lot like humans. He never had the classic (negative) cat attitude, nor aloofness, nor crankiness, nor finicky eating. He grew up with another cat (only a year older) who was a domestic North American short hair (from the pound). They were the best of buddies. Really like brothers at times who could play and tussle. Dusty was always the little brother who antagonized Mucki (1 year older but much larger). Mucki was a regal, lover of a cat, and loved sitting on your lap. He was a cat that helped my wife through cancer. He was not as good a mouser. He was born in the city! He was a socialite, however, as compared to Dusty. How does one separate breeding from nurture/bonding? Is this the age old question of nature/nurture? How much credit does one put on the “breed description” of a cat? I know that both our cat had very different personalities but they were both so loving, gentle, and connected to us. Dusty might have been even more so to one person than Mucki. I know many cat lovers who are kind of “on the fence” about their own cats. They have a love/hate relationship with them.
I too think the relationship is what it is about, not the name or idea that it may be a “breed”
Agreed because the breeds are an artificial human creation if we are honest. They are just domestic cats labelled breeds because they are registered and have a 4 year pedigree. Cat breeds can have certain personality traits but it is not precise because individual cats have their own personalities as well which blurs the breed characteristic. Appearance is easier to create and control by breeders.
Alice Duggins on June 30, 2014 at 4:29 am said:
Dear Michael, there is a federal cat trapped in a building , below me, I have called the police but to no avail,the humane society, they won’t help either, they called the office, they were told the cat comes in and out, not true it makes and wants out.
I hear it my daughter hears it, the lady who feeds it takes pictures of it every day, it will come to her, all they have to do is open the door, and leave the door open with no one there it will come out . There is a new law that has passed about abusing cats and animals, I need help to get this cat out, please help me. Please contact me, aliceduggins@gmail.com ph no.
Michael Broad on June 30, 2014 at 6:14 am said:
Alice, I have emailed you.
Barbara on June 20, 2014 at 2:49 pm said:
I live in France near Lourdes and I’m trying to find a grain free healthy kitty food. Any ideas and suggestions. Post would be very heavy and costly to send here if I have to. Thanks for advice.
Michael Broad on June 20, 2014 at 3:59 pm said:
Hi Barbara. You can probably get it online within France. Try:
http://www.zooplus.fr/
and these:
Grau Gourmet Grain-Free
Bozita Chunks in Jelly
Acana Cat Food
Almo nature and Applaws also have grain-free wet, but are very pricey.
I don’t know if these will help. They might.
Jasmine on June 9, 2014 at 5:40 pm said:
Dear Michael, thanks for replying so quickly. We have been wondering for a long time and suspecting that she has Maine Coon genes or Siberian Forest Cat genes, etc. She is just over a year old and though larger than a moggy she is smaller than most Maine Coons I have known. It has been a subject of hot debate at home 😉
Here is one more recent picture of her – you can see the ‘mane’
Hi Michael, you must have had loads of these questions but … what breed is my cat?
Here is another picture of her (she is still a kitten). Her facial structure is round and symmetrical, a slight ruff under her neck but not too substantial. Her ears have hairs but are not large for her build. Her front legs are significantly shorter and her fur is extraordinarily soft (unlike my ragdoll’s – and is much softer). Her eyes are a shade of amber and her nose is brown. She is a caramel sort of tabby, difficult to describe and unique.
Michael Broad on June 9, 2014 at 5:24 pm said:
Hello Jasmine. Thanks for asking. Your cat is a medium-long-haired brown tabby cat with a wonderful plumed tail and heavy “ear furnishings” meaning lots of ear hair together with small lynx tips on the end of her ears.
She is, though, a random bred cat. Although she is really beautiful with a wonderfully sweet face.
In order for a cat to be a member of a cat breed and a pedigree cat, he or she needs to be registered with a cat association (in the West). Sometimes random bred cats are also registered at cat associations and they are shown in what is called the household pet division. They are, though, still random bred cats and not members of a defined cat breed.
Now that does not mean anything really because you have a beautiful cat and she may have some genes from for example the Main Coon cat breed in her. She may be a purebred mix which means not quite a purebred cat.
Don’t worry and don’t be upset because as I say you have a beautiful cat who looks stunning.
South FL Dawg on May 14, 2014 at 6:16 pm said:
Hi Michael, here is a link to a neat story that I thought you would appreciate:
http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/05/hero-cat-saves-child-vindicates-cat-lovers-everywhere/370866/
Michael Broad on May 14, 2014 at 6:51 pm said:
Wow, that is awesome. I have never seen a video like that before. Fantastic story. I’ll do it this evening (in bed!). Thanks for showing me. Very nice of you.
kylee on May 11, 2014 at 11:17 pm said:
hi michael just wandering when my article goes up. ive tried emailing but havent hearld back??
Dave on April 22, 2014 at 4:21 am said:
Article Title: “Veterinarian Now” Advice Doesn’t Achieve Anything
Being in the animal field for several years I understand the importance of proper care. Without the right care for certain ailments like feline infectious peritonitis, the condition could be absolutely fatal. People with no knowledge of treatment might have no idea how to manage the illness or lack the right medicine to do it at home. Further more, poor decisions could worsen these conditions such as using human medications. Immune suppression that often accompanies common diseases can cause various problems – one of which that can incur a secondary bacterial infection…….see the rest of this comment in an article. It is good believe me (Michael)
Michael Broad on April 22, 2014 at 6:12 am said:
Thank you, David. I have your article and I will publish it later today or within the next 12 hours. Is the e-mail address that you used the same one that you use for your PayPal account? If not, do you have a PayPal account?
David on April 22, 2014 at 12:17 pm said:
Hello Michael, currently I don’t have a PayPal account as I usually use my cc or money orders for online. I have thought about making one in the next month but haven’t got to it just yet.
Michael Broad on April 22, 2014 at 12:38 pm said:
David, I’m just about to publish your article. No problems about your PayPal account. You can either set one up in the future and then tell me about it and I will send you the money (you can trust me) or elect to be paid in some other way other than a bank transfer because the fee they charge is out of proportion to the amount, in this instance, that is to be paid.
Michael Broad on April 22, 2014 at 1:08 pm said:
David, I tried to email you but it failed. This is your article:
https://pictures-of-cats.org/veterinarian-now-advice-doesnt-achieve-anything.html
Sarah Hartwell on April 17, 2014 at 6:37 pm said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2606587/Retired-guard-dog-never-puppies-finds-tiny-kitten-park-taken-care.html
Dog adopts abandoned kitten. It’s a dog breed that usually gets a bad rap.
Thanks for this, Sarah. It’s a good one partly because the park where the kitten was found is a well-known park next to a main road where pets are routinely dumped. Horrendous. As the woman says there is a massive size difference. I’ve never seen such a size difference between mothering dog and her adopted offspring. I’ll do this tomorrow.
Annette on April 4, 2014 at 4:21 am said:
Hello. I have a rescued cat that I’ve had a little over a year (ROCKY). He is an older, neutered, male cat, and has always been the only pet & the spoiled king of the house, I might add. Around 2 weeks ago, I brought another rescue home, but this time being about a year old , female (LIBRA). Upon them 1st meeting, they hissed and meowed and chased each other. So, I separated them. At first, I kept Libra in my spare bedroom with everything she needed, food,water, litter box, and a nice fluffy blanket to relax on. Rocky had the run of the house so his food was in the kitchen and his litter box was always in my bedroom. I’d let Libra out once a day and put her back in the spare bedroom at night. Whenever Libra was out of the room, Rocky would just hide in my bedroom, in his safe box. When Libra went back in the spare room, Rocky would come back out. I did this for about 3-4 days and Rocky had the same reaction everytime. One day, I let Libra out and thought maybe they’ll learn to get along, and just left the door open in the spare bedroom. . Well, it’s been about a week and for that whole week Rocky just chills in his safe box all day and won’t come out of my bedroom at all. He even has a huge cat tree that’s located in my living room, that he absolutely loves and always used to sleep on. And I feel bad that he confines himself and is missing out on his awesome cat tree and tv time with me. I was scared he wasn’t going to eat so I put his food and water in my bedroom. How in the world can I get these two kitties to get along???? Libra also might be pregnant, given I found her outside. She has seen the vet, got her shots, and was checked out. Do you have any advice to give? Will my poor Rocky isolate himself forever?
Michael Broad on April 4, 2014 at 5:51 am said:
Annette, thank you for commenting and asking. I think what I will do is to turn your comment into an article and respond to your question myself within the article and also allow the regular visitors to see whether they can give you some advice themselves. I will do that immediately.
Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
Diphtheria and Cats
For many decades it was believed that cats transmitted diphtheria to people. Experiments in the 1920s showed that cats did not contract or transmit the disease and suggested that diphtheria-like symptoms in cats were by a different pathogen that wasn’t transmissible to humans.
The New York Times, July 9, 1888 reported “Diphtheria Spread by Cats – from the London Sanitary record.” This stated:
In his report on the recent sustained prevalence of diphtheria in Enflield, Dr Bruce Low of the Medical Department of the Local Governance Board incidentally states that during the continuance of the epidemic cats were observed to suffer in considerable numbers from illness, and in December 1887, and January, 1888, there was a large mortality among those animals, so much so that the attention of the dust contractor was directed to it.
He mentioned two cases specifically:
A little boy was taken ill with what turned out ultimately to be fatal diphtheria. On the first day of his illness he was sick and the cat, which was in the toom at the time, licked the vomit on the floor. In a few days (the child meanwhile having died) the animal was noticed to be ill and her sufferings became so severe, and so similar to those of the dead boy, the owner destroyed her. During the early part of its illness this cat had been let out at nights in the back yard as usual. A few days later the cat of a neighbour who lived a few doors further off was noticed to be ill. It had also been out in the back yards at night. The second animal, which however recovered, was the pet and playfellow of 4 little girls, who grieved at the illness of their favourite, nursed it with great care. All 4 girls developed diphtheria, their mother being convinced that they cat it from the cat; and, indeed, no other known source of contact with infection could be discovered.
From this, he concluded that close association with sick cats could transmit diphtheria to humans and vice versa.
The New York Times of May 16, 1915 reported “Boy Gets Diphtheria from Cats” – 4 year old Richard Allen was believed hto have contracted the disease from two cats with which he played, and which have were pronounced as suffering from diphtheria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this sort of report added to anti-cat sentiment and calls to round up cuty strays as diease spreaders.
WIilliam G Savage, M.D., County Medical Officer of Health, Somerset, published a paper called “Cats and Human Diphtheria” in The Journal of Hygiene (London). Feb 1920; 18(4): 448–462. (it can be found in full at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2206851/pdf/jhyg00389-0096.pdf), but here is a short summary of his findings.
Savage wrote:
“IT is a widely accepted belief amongst medical men, particularly those who are Medical Officers of Health, that cats may suffer from diphtheria and convey it to humnan cases and that they are a not uncommon source of infection. It is of considerable practical importance to determine to what extent this belief is based upon reliable scientific data or whether it is another of those opinions, still far too prevalent, which arise from the acceptance of insufficiently tested and incorrectly interpreted observations.”
First he summed up several cases that implicated the cat. The most importance study in terms of influencing medical opinion was that of Klein (1888, 1889, 1890) who had inoculated several cats with diphtheria bacilli (rod-shaped bacteria). Six out of 10 cats died and were found to have diphtheria-like changes to their kidneys. Cats infected with the bacilli in their throat apparently became ill, but those that drank milk contaminated with the bacilli showed no sign of disease. Despite the absence of symptoms, Klein interpreted the appearance of their kidneys as indicative of diphtheria infection. In other cats, Klein found bacilli that resemble diphtheria in their throats. He concluded that catarrhal symptoms + bacilli = cat diphtheria. He then listed a number of reports where human diphtheria coincided with sick cats and he decided this was evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship.
In his experiments, William G Savage tried to infect young cats with diphteria either orally, nasally or by inoculation. Only when inoculated subcutaneously with a diphtheria culture did the cats become ill and die. In all the other cases, the diphtheria bacilli only survived a short while in the cat’s nose or throat, while those that were given food laced with the bacilli thrived, showing no signs at all. This meant that infected vomit could not give a cat diphtheria.
Having proved that the bacilli could not thrive in cats, but that the toxin it produced could kill if injected, Savage took a fresh look at cases where cats were blamed. He also obtained cats implicated in more recent cases and tested them for the pathogen. In all the cases he investigated, the cats had some sort of bacillus, but staining and culturing it proved that it wasn’t the diphtheria bacillus. He mentioned a study by Gray (1896) that stated that the so-called cat diphtheria was a contagious and 90% deadly cat-specific disease caused by a micro-organism not yet identified. Gofton (1913) stated that the supposedly abnormal kidneys noted by Klein as evidence of diphtheria infection were actually well known in cats.
“Summing up the matter I am of opinion that the common and widely accepted view that cats can suffer from a naturally acquired disease caused by the diphtheria bacillus is entirely without foundation. The reported cases of such an association are based upon insufficient examination and differentiation of the bacilli due to a failure to realise that a large proportion of healthy normal cats contain in their throats bacilli which closely resemble and are difficult to distinguish from the true B. diphtheriae.”
Despite this, people continued to believe they could get diphtheria from cats and some elderly individuals claim to this day that when they were young they “caught it from the cat.” Today, cat diphtheria is better known as cat flu and is due to a variety of viral infection. The bacilli that Savage found in sick cats were probably secondary throat infections.
kylee on March 7, 2014 at 10:09 am said:
will prob just email it too you. 😉
hi michael im thinking about writing an article. Mostly Scrapbook Pages of my cats, as well as marc and ruth cats. With a wee story. Will write some soon.
Michael Broad on March 7, 2014 at 10:43 am said:
Sounds fine Kylee. Just email me and we can take from there.
Sarah on March 4, 2014 at 1:15 pm said:
Four inquests where the cause of death was due to the cat; three cases due to infection at a time before antibiotics and one due to accident towards the eand of the Great War when buildings were in a state of disrepair.
News of the World; Jul 13th, 1851: Death From the Bite of a Cat.
An aged and respectable female, of the name of Allan, residing at the West Port, died in consequence of the bite of a cat, received ten days previous. The animal, which belonged to a neighbour, had been in the habit of going into her house and sgtealing milk and other article. On Sunday fortnight, she had noticed it in the house, and was putting it out, when it turned round and bit her arm. Inflammation appeared next day, and continued to spread till it reached the shoulder. Various remedies were tried, but without success, and she died on the second Wednesday after she had been bitten. The cat, we understand, was in a very diseased condition, which probably accounts for the fatal consequence that ensued.
Manchester Guardian; Jan 1st, 1856: Death from the Scratch of a Cat.
A case awaits a coroner’s inquest at the king’s College Hospital, london, where a poor woman has died from teh effects of injuries produced by the scratch of a cat. The name of the deceased is Anne Smith, 30 years of age, the wife of a tailor, residing at 12, White Horse Chambers, Fetter Lane, and from what can be ascertained of the matter, it appears that she was chastising the cat in some way, when the animal turned round and scratched her on the arm. She took little notice of the wound until the arm began to inflame, and it soon assumed such a painful state of swelling, that application for medical assistance became indispensible. She was accordingly admitted an in-patient, under the care of Mr Partridge, but the inflammatory symptoms were of so obstinate a character that they failed to yield to surgical treatment, when erysipelas supervened, and she died on Saturday last in the greatest agony. – Globe.
Weekly Dispatch; Date: Jan 17, 1886: Death From the Bite of a Cat.
On Saturday afternoon, Mr St Clair Bedford, the Coroner of Westminster, held an enquiry at the St Martin’s Vestry hall, concerning the death of John James Ridley Marsano, aged thirteen years, an errand boy, lately residing with his parents at 6 1/2, Hallet’s-place, Rosoman Street, Clerkenwell, who died in the Charing Cross Hospital from the effects of the bite of a cat, inflicted on September 22 last.
Mrs Marsano deposed that on the evening of September 22, when her son returned from work, he complained of having been bitten by a cat on the thumb. She took him to the Royal Free Hospital in Gray’s Inn-road, where the wound was cauterised. Since then no particular notice was taken of the matter, but when the cold weather set in about a week ago he began to complain of his hand hurting him. Witness then bandaged it up, and on the previous Saturday he said the pain had gone up his arm. On Sunday week he complained again, and witness said, “Never mind, old man; it’s only the rheumatics,” and that seemed to pacify him. On the following Tuesday morning his breath seemed very much affected, and the boy expressed a wish to be taken to the hospital, so witness obtained a letter for his admission. When he had been placed in a cab he asked for some water, but when some was shown him he hissed and scratched like a cat.
By the Coroner: It was a strange cat that bit him, and it had not since been found. Frances Dickinson, a girl living at 10A Hallet’s-place, stated that she was with the deceased at the time he was bitten. The cat, which was a black one, was running along making a peculiar noise, when the deceased caught hold of its tail, and the cat turned round and bit him on the thumb. Witness did not know whose cat it was. It also bit witness’s brother at the same time. The animal was not making a noise usually made by cats.
Dr Charles Freeman, house physician at Charing Cross Hospital, said the deceased was brought there about quarter-past one on Tuesday week, complaining of a pain in the thumb and spasm of the throat. He was unable to swallow, and when blown or breathed on the spasms reappeared. he was taken up stairs and put to bed. He could not drink any water from a cup, although he was able to lap from a saucer or spoon. The case was seen by the senior physican, but the deceased became more violent, and died at a quarter-to-one on the Thursday afternoon, the cause of death being hydrophobia.
By the Coroner: It was not a very common thing for people to die from hydrophobia through the bite of a cat, because so few cats went mad; but there were cases on record. Cases of hydrophobia had been known to arise through the bite of a rat. The jury returned a verdct of “Death from hydrophobia.”
News of the World; Jun 9th, 1918: Cats Set bed on Fire
How two cats set a bed alight and caused the death of George Herbert Parsons (4), at Beaconsfield-buildings, York Road, King’s Cross was described at the inquest at St Pancras yesterday. From the evidence it appeared that the mother worked by night at a munitions canteen, leaving her 14-year old boy Horace Richard, in charge of the three younger children. Every night a paraffin lamp was left burning on the table by the side of the bed, which all four occupied. – The lad told the Coroner that he was awakened at 2 a.m. by the lighted lamp falling on his pillow. He saw a strange cat spring off the table, rush into the kitchen, followed by another cat, and jump out of the window through a broken pane of glass. He and two of the other children got out of bed, and, as the clothes were smouldering, he went for some water, thinking that the youngest would be in safety where it was lying at the bottom of the bed. When he returned he found that the child had crawled to the top, and before he could pick it up the bedding burst into flames, burning the boy, who subsequently died. He added that he had previously seen cats jumping through the broken pane and roaming round the room. “Accidental death” was the verdict.
Rachel Castagne on February 25, 2014 at 12:22 pm said:
interesting to see the judgements people have that limit the possibility of seeing anything outside of those judgements
Michael Broad on February 25, 2014 at 3:33 pm said:
Massively. The world needs a more objective, open, enlightened vision about ourselves and humankind.
Sarah Hartwell on February 22, 2014 at 2:24 pm said:
It’s a condensed version derived from several of my pages.
Linda on February 21, 2014 at 8:34 pm said:
Many thanks for all the info on the possible identity of my Esperanza in Costa Rica! Hoping to get a pix to you soon. Very fascinating stuff from you and Sarah.
Michael on February 21, 2014 at 8:40 pm said:
We like having a dialogue with you because we like the sort of things you want to discuss. Thanks for visiting the website and sharing.
CAROL WALKER on February 21, 2014 at 7:16 pm said:
I came to your site to read “We’ve Had 4 Cats Die of Mothball poisoning”. Though this article is an excellent, though sad, reminder to us all, I was ‘APPALLED’ to see the comments that followed !!! Not the fact that there are ‘IGNORANT, CRUEL’ responses; … but that “YOU ALLOW THEM TO REMAIN ON YOUR SITE”! What kind of site are you???
Sadly, I won’t be back.
Hi, thanks for the comment Carol. I don’t know what you mean. Do you mean that you want everybody to agree with each other, pat each other on the back, tell each other how wonderful they are, turn the site into a mutual admiration society? Or do you want to see a real discussion from real people with different points of view? Some people hate cats, some people like cats.
As it happens, I have forgotten what the comments say but I’m presuming in my last paragraph that there are people who are stating things with which you disapprove and which upset you. We need to have comments which are difficult to digest in order to fully appreciate the comments that we like. Also, no one is forcing you to read the comments. You could just read the article and leave it at that. You are probably used to going to sites that are heavily censored. The unreal world of the fluffy cat, the declawed cat. Really we can do better than that.
By all means go way and go to some fluffy pink site of fakery but if I were you I’d stick around in the real world.
Michael on February 22, 2014 at 7:52 am said:
Hello Carol, I have already answered your question but just to repeat that this site is a very real site. We live in the real world and in the real world there are many people who like to poison cats with substances including mothballs. We have to recognise that. By giving them the opportunity to express their views we can see the reality of the situation which allows us to do something about it. If the problem of cat haters who like to kill cats is brushed under the carpet it will never be resolved.
Sarah on February 21, 2014 at 3:13 pm said:
LOST & DISCONTINUED BREED
Over the last 150 years, numerous varieties have been discovered or developed, but only a few these become long-lived breeds. Here are some of the “lost” breeeds and the reasons they aren’t around today.
1. ALBINISTIC ABYSSINIAN
These blue-eyed creamy-white Abyssinian cats were bred by Sir William Cooke, of Newbury, until 1927. Sir William was confident that these were not Abyssinian-Siamese crosses; though keen cat historians will know that a descendent of the Swiss Mountain cat (a solid brown Siamese-type cat that carried the recessive colourpoint gene) was used in developing early Abyssinians. The Albinistic Abyssinians were creamy white, with rabbit-coloured fur on their ears and an “eelstripe” along their spine. In terms of colour, they sound more similar to Singapuras than to silver Abyssinians.
Died out because: lack of interest.
2. AUSTRALIAN CAT
These were bred in the USA in the 1890s to the 1900s. They were very sleek, with satin-like fur and narrow, rather pointed heads (like modern Orientals). Like the Siamese of the time, they disliked the cold. In 1902, they were described as having multiple kinks in their tails and curious hindquarters so that they sat up like kangaroos. The most famous was probably a striped tabby called Tricksey whose photo apperaed in several early cat books. They were bred in tabby, tortie and solid colours, with and without white markings. One photo shows a cat with peculiarly thickened forelegs that seem to have duplicated leg-bones inside; this anomaly was not typical of the breed. Australian Cats were exhibited in the USA up until the 1920s. By 1925, a lack of males caused the breed to decline rapidly and become extinct in the USA. A white Australian Cat was exhibited in England in 1926 and three were exhibited in 1927, but the breed disappeared soon after.
Died out because: lack of breeding stock.
3. BUNNY CAT
Often confused nowadays with the Abyssinian, the Bunny Cat was a distinct British variety in the early days of the cat fancy. They were born black and lightened to an unbarred ticked coat – a ticked form of British Shorthair and Longhair. They were probably used in developing early Abyssinians. The recently developed British Tick recreates the shorthaired form of the Bunny Cat, but ticked Persians haven’t yet appeared to recreate the longhaired form.
Died out because: not recognised by early cat fancy.
4. ORIGINAL BURMESE
The “Burmese” cat originally imported into England in the 1890s was an Oriental ticked tabby. They were probably seen as non-pointed Siamese-type cats and therefore mis-mated curiosities rather than a potential breed.
Died out because: cat fancy would only accept pointed cats from that region.
5. CANON GIRDLESTONE’S BREED
Short-haired blue cats with faint tabby markings were imported from the north of Norway and known as “Canon Girdlestone’s breed”. Mrs Carew-Cox owned a pair of these in 1890, but they succumbed to illness without ever breeding.
Died out because: poor health and lack of breeding stock.
6. CHINESE LOP-EARED CAT
The Chinese Lop-Eared cat was allegedly found around Peking, China. It was described as a longhaired cat with a glossy black or yellow coat and pendulous ears, but much of this description was based on confusion with a type of marten kept as pets and rodent-controllers! A yellow-throated type of marten called the “Sumxu” or “Samxces” had been described in the 1700s. When a droop-eared cat was noted in another region of China in 1796, a series of mistranslations and misconceptions in natural history books led to this cat being confused with the Sumxu. A museum specimen suggests that the Chinese Lop-Eared cat was more like a cream-coloured Angora with drooping or folded ears. It was described as dull and inactive (perhaps docile would be a kinder term), kept by ladies as pets. In the 1920s, cat fanciers sought this variety without success. The last reported sighting was a droop-eared white cat from China.
Died out because … uncertain whether it really existed as a breed.
7. ORIGINAL HIMALAYAN CAT
Today, the name “Himalayan” means a colourpoint Persian. originally the name referred to a large, robust, blue-eyed, pure white longhair found in the high forest regions of Northern India that bordered Tibet. The variety was allegedly centuries old. Himalayan cats imported into Britain were used to improve the eye colour and coat texture in white longhairs.
Died out because: used to improve cat fancy longhairs.
8. MEXICAN HAIRLESS
A brother-sister pair of Mexican Hairless cats was imported to England at the end of the 19th century. Unfortunately the owner did not let them breed together and he couldn’t find hairless cats to breed them to. When the male (Dick) escaped and was killed by dogs, he couldn’t find a hairless mate for the female (Nellie). Given to the owner by Jesuit missionaries, the pair were allegedly the last of an Aztec breed known only in New Mexico (more likely they had resulted from a spontaneous mutation). Evidently he sold Nellie, who was renamed “Jesuit” and exhibited in England under that name. Although livestock breeders understood how to outcross animals and then backcross them to restore a trait (Bakewell had demonstrated how to line-breed livestock), Nellie/Jesuit’s owners didn’t seem to consider this option. The loss of the Mexican Hairless was preventable.
Died out because: poorly managed breeding stock.
9. THE PEKE-FACED CAT
Occasionally, a mutation in Persian cats produced cats with a very Bulldog-like face. These were first described in the 1860s (though some also had bandy legs in addition to their protruding lower jaw). A strain of Peke-faced Red Persian was developed in the USA, but died out in the early 1990s due to problems giving birth (the kittens’ heads were too large) and problems suckling (high palates). These rounded-headed, flat-faced cats had additional indentations on the forehead that set them apart from other extreme-typed Persians. Although modern ultra-typed Persians are sometimes referred to as Peke-Faced, their features are due to the selective breeding of multiple genes rather than a distinct mutation.
Died out because: health and breeding problems.
10. OJOS AZULES
This breed began with a blue-eyed tortie cat. Vivid blue eyes do not normally occur in coloured cats; it’s a trait associated with white cats and with Siamese cats, so this cat became the founder of the Ojos Azules breed. Unfortunately, the gene for “cornflower blue eyes” appeared inextricably linked to a gene that caused gross malformations, hence breed development came to a halt. Healthy blue-eyed coloured cats sometimes turn up in the random-bred population, but the Ojos Azules type hasn’t been revived.
Died out because: health issues linked to the mutation.
11. SHORT-HAIRED PERSIAN
In 1926, a cat show in Lille had classes for “Short-hair Persians” as well as for normal Persians and normal Shorthairs. It’s tempting to think of these as Exotic Shorthairs, but iIn those days the Persian was more like a “British Longhair”. Nothing more was heard of it.
Died out because … possibly never really existed!
12. SWISS-MOUNTAIN CAT
Several breeds have claimed this as their ancestor. In the late 1890s and early 1900s they were described as brown cats “probably from South East Asia as a branch of the Royal Cats of Siam”. They resembled “Siamese with coats of burnished chestnut with greeny-blue eyes” and were bred for a while. In the 1920s, the Siamese Cat Club of Britain discouraged the breeding of any but blue-eyed Siamese. Many of the progeny of the Swiss Mountain Cats were colourpointed and one was even used as an outcross for early Abyssinians. This type of cat (albeit unrelated) is probably represented by the modern Havana or Chestnut Brown Oriental, though these are undoubtedly more extreme in conformation.
Died out because: cat fancy only accepted pointed cats from that region.
13. RUSSIAN LONGHAIRS
The Carthusian cat was a self-coloured ashy-grey to slatey-blue variety with long fine hair, black lips and soles. Kumani cats, originating from the Caucasus, had thick hair of white, black or rust-red and its lips and soles were flesh coloured. The Tobolsk cat from Siberia was red or fox-coloured, while those from the Cape of Good Hope were blue or red. The Khorassan seems to refer to Angora/early “Persian” longhairs. The Kazan cat could be black or silvery blue with blue extremities (i.e. black or blue smoke) and resembled the Turkish Angora with whome it shared its ancestry. The Crimean cat was pure white with a coat shorter than that of an Angora. It was already extremely rare between 1853 and 1856, and probably extinct by the time of the organised cat fancy. In general these cats had large heads, small ears and bushy tails and appear to be various colour varieties or regional variations of the Russian Longhair. The Russian Longhair is represented on the modern show-bench by the Siberian, although the modern Nebelung aimed to emulate it. None of the Russian cats described had the the refined conformation of the modern Russian Blue.
Died out because: bred with early Longhair, becoming the cat fancy Persian.
14. SINGHALESE
The Singhalese was developed in the late 1960s using Siamese crossed with red/red-tabby Angoras (the cat fancy type, not the true Turkish type). The aim was to create a semi-longhaired Siamese-type cat. Its fur was shorter and fluffier than the Balinese; its tail was much fluffier! Its temperament was closer to the Angora than to the more highly strung Siamese. These were red-series equivalents of Balinese, since the US registries only recognised Balinese in seal, blue, lilac anc chocolate points. The Singhalese was allowed to be bred to either Balinese or to Himalayan, but was judged to the Balinese standard with allowances made for its fluffier coat. It seems to have been too close in type to the Balinese to be a viable proposition; especially when flame-point Balinese appeared.
Died out because: nearly identical to Balinese.
15. AUSTRALIAN CURL
In the 1990s, a curl-eared stray kitten turned up in Australia. When old enough, she was mated, but none of the kittens had curled ears. Unfortunately, Matilda (the original female) became seriously ill and had to be spayed. For some reason, none of her kittens were bred among themselves or to other cats to see if the trait was inherited recessively, and Matilda was the only known Australian Curl.
Died out because: unable to perpetuate trait.
Sarah, thank you very much for this comment. Is this original text that you have written or text that you have taken from your website? I can’t believe that it is the latter but I would like you to confirm the situation, please.
If this is original text then I can certainly convert it into an article and make the usual donation to Cats Protection.
Sarah on February 21, 2014 at 12:02 pm said:
Maybe a myth-busting article for you?
THE FABLED REFRIGERATOR CAT
Several books and websites mention a long-lost American breed known as the (Pittsburgh) Refrigerator Cat or Eskimo Cat. In 1896, Lydekker wrote a report in his Handbook to the Carnivora, Part I, using it to illustrate feline adaptability.
Note from Michael (administration): I have removed the text below and pasted it into a wordprocessing program on my website because it is copied text from another website and I’m not sure whether the search engines approve of that.
Also, there is no need to leave the text here is it simply makes the page slow to load.
Thanks for this Sarah. I’ll read and digest and then do something.
The offspring of Oncillas and domestics can be healthy, but they appear to be sterile (in many felid hybrids, the females are fertile). I have information and photos of the hybrids here:
http://www.messybeast.com/small-hybrids/nigripes-oncilla-hybrids.htm
Thanks for this Sarah. By the way if you want to write another article for this site please do so and I will make the usual donation. Hope your job is going OK.
Linda on February 20, 2014 at 11:31 pm said:
I moved to San Isidro de Grecia, Costa Rica, some 3 years ago with my 2 CFA Manx cats. About 10 months ago a small kitten showed up in my carport. At first she resembled a regular brown tabby, then a Mac/Tab and lately, spotted. At first I couldn’t get near her, but with feedings and caution she got tamer. Lately I’ve been wondering what to call her coloring, so I contacted a breeder of Manx about it. She suggested that my cat, Esperanza, could have some wildcat in her. Looked on internet and through my Costa Rican wildlife guides, and found her… an Oncilla. Want to find out if the Oncilla can interbreed with DSH or if Esperanza is actually a tamed wildcat. Help?
Hello Linda. Apparently, the little spotted cat (Oncilla) can interbreed with domestic cats. However the resulting offspring are often stillborn. This wildcat is also very aggressive and a meeting between the wildcat and domestic cat can result in the death of the domestic cat.
As I understand it, the little spotted that has two chromosomes fewer than the domestic cat which results in this mating mismatch. Apparently, newsletters from the Long Island Ocelot club referred to the little spotted cat mating with domestic cats producing hybrids.
As you can see, therefore, it can happen but is highly unusual. If you have a photograph that you can upload to this website of your cat that would help assess whether she is a wildcat hybrid or indeed a wild cat species.
We do get quite a lot of reports of domestic cats that look like wildcat hybrids on this website and although many are simply an expression of the aspirations of the cat’s owner, there is no doubt in my mind that there are genuine examples of crosses between domestic cats and wildcat species in America.
ginger on February 19, 2014 at 4:18 pm said:
can a cat have bengal nose if hes not a bengal my maincoon kitten 7mo has all symptons and looks exactly like picture and vet and dermantoligist all say i dont know what it is please help can i put anything on it
Hi Ginger. The truth is that not enough is known about this health problem for anyone to say that it might affect other cat breeds including the Maine Coon cat. I am sorry that that is not helpful. I have always believed that the condition is an autoimmune problem. Autoimmune problems can exist in any cat or person so it is possible that it may affect a Maine Coon cat I would doubt that your veterinarian knows much or anything about it.
ginger on February 19, 2014 at 11:02 pm said:
thank you michael for getting back to me so soon is there anything i can try to help for two months they have givin max drugs nothing is working. Im hoping it will clear up as he gets older. I just worry about his nose closing up and it sounds and looks like bengal nose anyway thank you for any advise you can give. now hes on famciclovir for herpes virus which vet said that virus doesnt affect nose but it worth a try he not sick just dry crusty nose
PFJ on February 11, 2014 at 11:05 pm said:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Awwducational/comments/1xmllp/bengal_house_cats_are_one_of_the_very_few_house/
A poster has appropriated one of your images. You may wish to converse with them directly in the thread.
Thanks PFJ for notifyng me.
Westminster cat-of-the-year contest ‘hit by vote-rigging’
That’s a good one Sarah. Thanks.
Mary on February 7, 2014 at 2:13 pm said:
I have been following the actions of Caboodle Ranch since the beginning. At Christmas time I sent a $10 ck that was never cashed. Today a friend of mine received a note with an old photo of Craig asking for money for cat food. She has never sent anything but a Christmas card to him in the past. Something does not seem right here. Do you know what the update is there? I have looked at the facebook page and nothing has been posted since Nov. and only old photos. Is the place running again or is someone at the ranch putting out feelers in hopes of getting a little cash in an envelop for their own pocket. I have looked on the web for any updates and yours was the newest I could find ( a year old). The last I heard he was going to start up a place in another state, according to his facebook page. Since there has been no public articles telling of his progress and plans we are very wary of sending any money.
Michael on February 7, 2014 at 2:20 pm said:
Hi Mary, you ask an excellent question that demands a full response. I’ll do some digging around and do an updating article in a day or so. Thanks for asking.
Sarah Hartwell on February 4, 2014 at 6:53 pm said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551494/The-little-big-cats-Animal-haircuts-craze-sees-pets-turned-predators-cruel.html
Thanks a lot Sarah.
https://pictures-of-cats.org/fancy-feline-haircuts.html
Ashley Marie on February 3, 2014 at 8:05 am said:
Hello Michael, I have been looking over your site and I am interested in a cat. I really would like a small, dwarf cat and checking out the Singapura cats (I think that is how you spell it?? Sorry if I am wrong on the spelling), I would be very much interested in one of these. A few questions. Are they good hunters? I just moved to the city and of course the cat would be an indoor cat, but I am dealing with mice and it freaks me out. I need a cat to help me deal with this issue. Can you suggest how I can get one of these cats? How much do they cost? I live in Massachusetts and would love to find a breeder or someone who has them locally. I hate the fact of putting an animal on a plane if I can avoid it. Or is there another type of cat that you would recommend to me? A small, dwarf cat is really what I want. I do have a dog, but he is great with all animals. I also have a parrot but my parrot is not prey to cats. How about Singapura cats? Are they fine with parrots? I would think they would be if gotten as a kitten. That is the other thing, I would like to get one as a kitten too. I await your response. Ashley
Michael on February 3, 2014 at 8:49 am said:
Hi Ashley. The Singapura is a rare cat breed. They are the smallest cat breed. There are probably not that many breeders. Dwarf cats are normal sized cats with short legs. They are pretty rare too. Both will have the usual cat characteristics – naturally drawn to hunting. It is in their DNA. Some individual cats are better hunters than others. It is an individual cat trait. Both are OK for an indoor life provided they are socialised to it (used to it from kitten-hood) and provided there is plenty of stimulation (an enriched environment).
As for parrots, I would have thought that most or all cats would initially see them as prey unless they are socialised to be friendly with them. If your parrot is in a cage he/she may be stressed by the presence of a cat in the home. I am not sure about that. It seems likely to me. You might inquire about that or check it on the internet.
As for breeders of Singapuras and dwarf cats, most cat breeders have websites these days so you can do an internet search. You may be lucky in find one nearby. I always recommend visiting the cattery to inspect the facilities. A lot of catteries ship cats these days. I am not sure about that. I don’t really like it.
Dwarf cat links to breeders
USA Singapura breeders on Breedlist.com
Hope this helps a bit and thanks for visiting and asking.
Kari and the Kitty Krewe on March 1, 2014 at 10:06 am said:
Also, in many cases, “dwarf” or “miniature” cat breeds are the result of a genetic deformity or a glandular problem, or even inbreeding if the breeder is unscrupulous. Singapuras are small cats, that’s their breed. But the others are mutations (I hate to call it that, but it’s true) of so-called “normal” breeds, and that’s kind of an ethical dilemma.
It is an ethical dilemma – a big one.
Jesse on February 2, 2014 at 10:06 pm said:
I’m just really curious what type of cat my cat is? His name is beans and he’s about 6 years old. I found him wondering the streets when he was a couple months old covered in fleas and starving. I called over to him kitty kitty kitty and he came running over and from that day forward he’s been family. He’s very docile and extremely mellow. He a talker for sure ad is very stretchy has lots of extra skin and a big flap of I don’t know under his belly. But if you could tell me his breed I would really appreciate it?
Thanks Jesse
Michael on February 2, 2014 at 10:52 pm said:
Hi Jesse, thanks for visiting and sharing. It is 99.9% certain that your sweet cat is not part of a cat breed based on what Americans (I presume you are in America) have decided what a cat breed should be, which is that the cat needs to be registered with a cat association and purebred.
Your cat is probably what people call a “domestic short hair”. A random bred cat with short hair of various coat types. The most typical coat type is tabby after the wild cat ancestor that is the ancestor of all domestic cats: the North African wildcat.
He is docile and mellow at least partly because you make him feel secure and comfortable. Well done.
d on January 31, 2014 at 3:50 pm said:
Please remove your photo of Dewey …. The kitty with the chemical burn
It was myself who was unmindful about having the Reed Diffuser in the Room where Dewey was. Not his fault or the diffusers fault. Had I taken the time to look around and be aware of what might have been harmful to him…… this would not have happened.
In my own selfish way…… I pulled that diffuser out of the garbage after my partner had thrown it away!
I know it should have stayed in the trash. I was being very unmindful about my partner’s wishes
These may be a dangerous product but it is MORE of a danger to be unmindful!!!
Dewey is a very special little boy and it hurts me that I was the one that caused him harm.
Will be giving him all the lovin’s he wants…. And be more mindful in the future.
He came to us as a stray and needed a warm home and food. These babies that are tossed out because their homes don’t want them or because they have too many cats or because they come from a home that has unfixed pets and they just give them away. This is the pet owners being uncaring about these babies……. I will always give them a home if they need me.
Our actions in caring for our pets starts at the very beginning of their life. A pet is a Lifetime commitment and should only be taken on as such. There are SO many unwanted pets in the wild and in shelters. Just think…. If everyone who truly wanted a pet would save one from a shelter. And everyone would take care of spaying or neutering their pets….. there would be a lot less of these babies that would need help.
I know I will be trying even harder to be more mindful and would ask that EVERYONE who cares does the same.
Michael on January 31, 2014 at 4:16 pm said:
Hi, thanks for contacting me. please confirm that you are the copyright holder of the photo and please explain why you have made the request when the photo has been shared 166,000 times on Facebook. It is all over FB and on Snopes etc. Why this site? Have you banned it from other sites?
Anne on January 27, 2014 at 4:44 pm said:
I am posting the full reply here. I did not wish to take away from Depot’s thread with my gripe.
Yes, without being verbose. Too many folks confuse well thought and well-written opinions with an officious lecture, which are oft given by pseudo-omniscient persons.
I do understand your need to clarify my thoughts. as you are obvioulsy interested in protecting Depot. I didn’t say any more, because others had already expressed that opinion. May I suggest that when you clarify someone’s thoughts for them that you do not say that is what you are doing? I know this is a technique used in some professional conversations, but for some reason, I found it to be offensive. I’m fairly sure other’s might too. I even read your other replies to be sure. I tried to post this privately, but I did not see a link for that feature.
Depot has lived at the store most of her life. Unless a change is necessary for her health and safety, she should stay, but with protective nighttime accommodations. Home Depot should be able to create acceptable accommodations for her without excessive expense or difficulty.
As a one-person staff for several felines during most of my adult life, I can verify that cats do not accept change well, even when exposed to it on a regular basis. Depot should stay unless a move is better for her health.
Hi Anne, I am sorry you found what I wrote offensive. That was not on my mind. I wrote that comment very quickly and instinctively to basically agree with and then made an extra point that come into my mind as I was writing.
Feel free to criticise me on the page in question next time. I don’t mind. I like transparency, fair play and honest open opinions.
Sue Sweetman on January 17, 2014 at 8:08 pm said:
I see you do not have any Highlander’s listed? The Highlander Cat is registered with TICA And is a recognized Breed.
The Origin of Highlander Breed:
The Highlander breed first began development in 2004 with its roots tracing back to the Highland Lynx,. An east coast breeder developed the Highland Lynx in 1993 and although given the name that included “lynx”, these domestic cats were not of any lynx ancestry. These cats immediately attracted interest and a devoted following rapidly developed due to their unique looks, size, and playful, clown like personalities. Upon welcoming the Highland Lynx into our homes and families we immediately realized that these cats were special, both in personality and looks. Uniting together we worked together to set up our breeding programs and develop a standard that we all agreed to adhere to and began working to develop a cat with a “big cat look” in a purely domestic breed.
In late 2005 we took the name Highlander to further identify our cats as a breed of their own merit. We worked diligently to educate the public; to bring about an awareness of how special these cats are, both in personality and looks; and mostly to earn respectability for this breed and eventual championship status as a member of the cat fancy in one of the largest cat registers in the world, TICA
Our foundation cats were carefully hand picked for the qualities important to our development in producing the Highlander’s “big cat look“, with domestic short hair and domestic long hair being allowed as acceptable out crosses when needed. It is important to note that Highlanders have never used any other recognized breed as an outcross.
We have carefully selected each and every Highlander foundation cat by a combination of the unique Highlander profile that immediately draws attention to the long-sloping forehead, intense wide set eyes are separated by a wide nose with substantial nose leather to give Highlander a look of its own. The nose, muzzle, and chin form a blunt look to give an overall boxiness in profile. The Highlander has also maintained the loose curl that affects the top 1/3rd of the ear. It is not a tight curl like the American Curl.
The photo that you see is a photo of my Sheetah Wood She Has 16 best-of-breed awards so far. Please feel free to go to my website and look at the photos if you see any photos there that might Be better Please just let me know I would Am glad to help With any question you may have I have been breeding This breed for 12 years And I am a foundation cattery For the Highlander. Thank you for your time Sue
Fantastic comment, Sue. It is very nice of you to make this extensive comment. The photo is excellent too. I do have a page on the Highlander. I wrote it at least three years ago. The date on the post is incorrect. You’ll possibly find something wrong with it 😉
I’ll copy your comment to the Highlander page. Sue please remind me of the link to your website so I can link to it.
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Michael on August 29, 2013 at 7:17 pm said:
Hi Philip. Thanks for contacting me. I’d interested in discussing it. My email address is:
mjbmeister [at] gmail.com
Jennifer Doherty on January 19, 2013 at 12:27 pm said:
I was just going through some pets related sites and came across your site (pictures-of-cats.org) too. I really found it interesting and informative. I am working and associated with much pet related sites as a content writer and I write articles on various topics pets like: pet shop, pet’s behavior, pets health care, pet’s insurance, pet’s training, pet’s food, travel with pets etc. I really liked the way you have presented your site. I have found a guest post submission option in your site. I would love to do a “Guest Post” for your site like I did for other sites without charging you a penny. 🙂
It would be great to be a part of reputed site like yours.
I guarantee you that the article will be 100% copyscape protected and will be of around 500 words. There will be “dofollow” links for my site.
Please let me know if this sounds good to you, so that we can start working on your article.
Contact me at writerjennifer.doherty@gmail.com.Looking forward for a positive reply. 🙂
Michael on January 19, 2013 at 12:48 pm said:
Hi Jennifer, I have responded to your email. Thanks for contacting me.
Leathe Van Meter on December 8, 2012 at 2:21 pm said:
Is there such a thing as a coon cat? I have seen two cats that look like regular house cats but their tails are bigger and they have rings on them juct like a raccoon.
Michael on December 8, 2012 at 4:43 pm said:
There are no cat breeds called “coon cats”. If someone is calling a cat a “coon cat” is an informal name and description. They may be referring to the Maine Coon. There is no formal recognition of this name as far as I am aware. Thanks for visiting and commenting.
Wendy on November 8, 2012 at 7:01 pm said:
Is there anyone on the www. who can identify my furry baby by me sending a photo? I see many like my own but I just can’t figure out what they are. Thanks.
Michael on November 8, 2012 at 8:03 pm said:
Hi Wendy, you can email me a photo and I’ll respond with my thoughts. I own this site. My email is
mjbmeister[at]gmail.com
replace [at] with @ in the address.
darlene burrow on August 15, 2012 at 12:32 pm said:
i am very sorry to hear this maybe if it is possible call some humane societies to see if they can take care of tiger for the months until you find a home of your own maybe that might work its worth checking into i think hope all goes well with you and tiger
Wendy Scott on July 25, 2012 at 4:11 am said:
I have to be out of my house by the end of this month (July) and I don’t have anywhere to go for at least 2 months. A friend has offered to put me up for a couple of months but my problem is Tigger. He is a ginger and has cat aids and my friend has cats and does not want Tigger in his house. I don’t know what to do with him as I cannot afford to house him in a cattery and it is difficult to place him because of his illness. Please could you help in terms of trying to place him. It would only be for 2 months. I would very much appreciate your assistance with this. Thank you.
Michael on July 25, 2012 at 7:18 am said:
Hi Wendy. Sorry to hear about your difficult predicament. I would like to help. What would you like me to do? What you could do is write a post about Tigger and ask for help. Just jot down something about 15 lines long if you can and paste it into the input form and I’ll add some words too. At least tell me where you are so we can try and find someone to foster Tigger for at least 2 months.
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For Southwestern Pennsylvania, a Few Reasons to Be Thankful
In the Thanksgiving tradition of reflection and expressions of gratitude, here are a few trends that have raised the quality of life a bit in southwestern Pennsylvania, which is always a reason to be thankful.
Pittsburgh Today and Tomorrow 2019
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In this 2018 Pittsburgh Today & Tomorrow report, we compare the seven-county Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area with regions across the country in key quality of life measures.
Nobody Home: The Rise of Vacancy
In this seven-part series of articles, Pittsburgh Today takes an in-depth look at the quiet crisis of vacancy and blight in southwestern Pennsylvania, the state and the nation, reporting on the people and places affected, its social and financial impacts, the strategies that have failed to stem the problem and the innovative solutions…
Regional Energy Use
In a region where coal was once king, nearly half of the electricity consumed today is generated from non-carbon sources. Yet, wind, solar and other renewable sources claim a tiny fraction of the local energy portfolio.
Regional Crime
When Pittsburgh rises to the top of various “best places to live” lists, one indicator often cited is the region’s relative safety as measured by crime rates, which typically are among the lowest of U.S. metropolitan areas.
Regional Housing Trends
More southwestern Pennsylvanians have been able to find housing that fits their budgets in the past decade, despite steadily rising home values and rents. But there are stark disparities in the affordability of housing across income levels.
Regional Poverty
Poverty remains a stubborn problem for most regions in the United States and southwestern Pennsylvania is no exception.
Combined Sewage Overflow
Abundant annual rainfall leaves southwestern Pennsylvania in a fortunate position as much of the world grapples with the prospect of a shortage of fresh water. But effective stewardship to protect the quality of its rivers and streams has not been the region’s strong suit.
Infant Mortality Trends
Infant mortality remains a serious public health issue in the region, nation and around the world. Local data, however, is encouraging.
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Douglas Heuck
A journalistic innovator, Heuck has been writing about Pittsburgh for 25 years, as an investigative reporter and business editor at The Pittsburgh Press and Post-Gazette and as the founder of Pittsburgh Quarterly. His newspaper projects ranged from living on the streets disguised as a homeless man to penning the only comprehensive profile in the latter years of polio pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk to creating a statistical means of judging regional progress that has led to similar projects across the country. Heuck’s work has won numerous national, state and local writing awards. His work has been cited in the landmark media law case “Food Lion vs. ABC news.”
Changing the cottage
In April, my wife and I made the 600-mile drive to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula unusually early. We went to meet with contractors to begin fixing up the old cottage.
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Pittsburgh Today & Tomorrow
Twenty years ago, when newspapers were strong, the coin of the realm for ambitious reporters was winning awards. A slightly caricatured general rule was: The more intractable, insoluble and depressing the issue you wrote about, the more awards you’d win. Newspapers were in the business of problems, not solutions.
Citizens of Aspinwall & State Spending Priorities
Last summer, Susan Crookston looked at the 8-acre Aspinwall Marina site on the Allegheny River, which was about to become a 650-car parking lot. When she saw it, the Aspinwall mother of three said, “If this plan falls through for some reason, we should try to buy this ourselves.”
Stocks & pedestal — Fall 2011
When your team’s winning, there’s nothing like baseball. Nothing like listening to the radio in the late innings of a close game. The pitcher waves off signals and finally goes into his motion.
What could be nicer than a family trip with all three kids just before they head off to college and my wife and I become empty nesters? This, at least, was my thinking when I signed up for a three-day, two-night pack trip into Yellowstone Park this summer. Ride in on horseback, do…
A Pittsburgh Original
At a civic event 11 years ago, I saw an unusually dapper fellow — navy pinstripe suit, rep tie and perfectly combed white hair. The fact is, I thought he was someone else. I went over and introduced myself, and he said, “Bill Dietrich.” The name meant nothing to me. But after chatting for a…
Capital ideas
Currents in the nation’s philanthropic world continue to take their lead from Western Pennsylvania patterns and people. In May, the Council on Foundations held its annual meeting in Pittsburgh, co-hosted by the Heinz Endowments and the Pittsburgh Foundation. At the meeting, the Council chose Heinz’s Max King as its new chairman. The other…
From the Publisher, Fall 2006
On my last night on the island I sat down to pen this column. Ahead lay fall and a return to the world of squeezing productivity from every minute of the day. On the porch of the old house overlooking the water, I considered what I was leaving behind. On the far shore…
2006 Spring/Summer
The Pace of Progress
In the game of Monopoly, sometimes you land on Community Chest. If fate smiles, you draw a little yellow card that says “Advance to Go” or “Bank error in your favor,” and you collect $200. The worst card shows the mustachioed Monopoly man stooped over, carrying a pick and shovel with the words…
Symphony festival wanted
Several years ago, the rush was on to figure out what should be Pittsburgh’s “First Day Attraction” — the one-of-a-kind crowd pleaser that would bring tourists to Pittsburgh. The experts pointed to Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Bilbao’s Guggenhem Museum as examples.
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THE MISSING SPIRIT
ORIGINS AND COLLABORATORS
A FOREIGN PERSPECTIVE
Two hundred thousand years ago, several proto-human species roamed the Earth. Among them, one went by undocumented: the Devine. This immortal people was gifted with phenomenal abilities, powered by a mysterious mineral, the remnants of an asteroid known as blustone.
“The Missing Spirit” begins at a point when Devine society has become highly sophisticated, while the wild peoples of the outside world still struggle to make fire, hunt down woolly giants, and survive a grueling Ice Age.
Living in LUMEN, the heart of the Devine civilization, KEANA MILFORT is a fifteen-year-old girl, who has always looked different. Her faded ebony skin and honey-colored hair and eyes serve as painful reminders of her unknown heritage.
Only now, at the brink of adulthood, something else has made her stand out: everyone her age has received an invitation to try out for LUMEN ACADEMY. Everyone, except for her. The coming-of-age event is the moment when young people discover whether they will receive supernatural abilities of their own or be dismissed and forced to join the much-reviled category of REGULAR people.
Frustrated at her missing invitation, the young girl can’t come to terms with a harrowing fate as a regular and decides to take matters into her own hands. But if Keana manages to unearth her forbidden heritage, the Devine may have to make sacrifices in order to protect their powers, their privilege and their immortality. Even if it means sacrificing her life.
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Chapter 491: War Continues (6)
Translator: _Leo_ Editor: Kurisu
People who helped in the plan would be buffed and protected by the power of nightmare. Angele would acquire more and more power of nightmare as the two realms got closer and his true power would recover gradually. He would be able to acquire the power of the refined true form after the two realms connected.
Angele was accepted by the Nightmare Realm and that was how he received the power of nightmare through the dimension channel.
The red light around Angele’s body was getting intense. The strong power of nightmare was the source of the red light and the light brightened up the area around him.
The ground turned red, the green grass withered, and insects were burnt black under the intense red light.
A sulfurous smell permeated the air and the temperature was raising.
The power was out of Angele’s control.
‘Power of nightmare is the like an endless pollution. The power will become stronger if the world is a chaos. However, I didn’t expect it to create a heat aura around my body.’
His brow furrowed, he hated that he could not control his own power.
The heat aura was out of control, it was the physical display of the power from the Nightmare Realm.
*PA*
He stepped forward and the grass in the front turned in to ashes.
Viss and the other two finished the job, they brought back the fainted eyepatch brothers.
“Master?” Viss was a bit confused as he saw Angele.
The red aura was similar to the high temperature field. The aura was effective on normal creatures, however, it would not do anything to strong living beings.
“Throw them to me,” Angele muttered.
Viss’s body was a bit blurry in the black smoke. He grabbed the two fainted wizards and threw them to Angele.
The eyepatch brothers were illuminated by the red light.
“Ah…!” The two wizards were groaning in pain.
Blisters appeared on the surface of their bodies. Their skin that was exposed to the air was covered with blisters and sticky yellow liquid spurted out of their eyes. Their eyeballs were burnt and that was where the liquid came from.
White steam rose from the two wizards’ bodies as their skin started drying. They were struggling on the ground as water left their bodies.
Angele walked to the two dying wizards and stabbed their skulls using hair. The hair pulled two red souls out of their body and quickly absorbed them.
Viss could not see the souls, he watched the two wizards turn into two burnt bodies, but he remained silent during the process.
The eyepatch brothers were killed by the aura easily.
The two dead bodies were ignited and they were turned into two piles of ashes.
“The aura…” Viss was terrified.
“I’m just testing its power. The aura will only be effective when the target loses his ability to fight,” Angele explained with a smile on the face. “It seems like you’re injured.”
The three smoke balls did not respond.
“Were they strong?” Angele questioned in a calm tone.
“Master, their power exceeded our expectations. I suggest that we retreat immediately. Their main force set up an ambush in the area and it’s nearly impossible for us to stop them,” Freylin said in a deep tone. He was severely injured and the smoke surrounding his body turned gray.
“Don’t worry…” Angele remained calm. His power level was increasing gradually as the Nightmare Realm approached the wizard world. His power level was already higher than the power level of an average rank 4 wizard so there was no point for him to hide.
Also, the more people died, the faster he would be able to collect the souls, and Angele had to collect the souls by himself.
“Master, we’re here to assist you, but we’ll not sacrifice our lives for you,” Viss advised. “Prince Evil Dragon won’t blame us if we decide to leave you behind.”
“I understand.” Angele chuckled. “The enemy’s main force probably already detected us and they’ll come for us. They are not far from here, if you don’t want to be backstabbed on the way, you can just leave now.”
“We’re the shadow force and we know how to stay undetected,” Viss responded in a calm tone.
“Go ahead then.” Angele was not concerned.
The battle in the city almost ended, two red strings returned to Angele and turned into 12 lion men.
They were all injured, some of them lost their arms during the battle and were still recovering.
Two of the lion men already had the power level of a rank 3 wizard and the rest of them had the same power level as a rank 2 or rank 1 wizard. It seemed like they absorbed a decent amount of souls and negative emotions on the battlefield.
The lion men’s power level would increase as they fought. Every time they absorbed negative emotions or souls, they would be strengthened; however, they would never be stronger than Angele.
The highest power level the lion men could reach was the same as a rank 4 wizard. Their attack power and defense power would be around 1000 degrees which were the same as Angele. This power level was not calculated using Angele’s true form or refined true form.
If the lion men could reach rank 4, they would be good enough for the wizard world.
Each of the lion men was around two meters tall but they were over three meters tall after being strengthened. The two rank 3 lion men were over four meters tall.
Viss was surprised after seeing those lion men.
“Alright, Master, it seems like you already have your plan, so…” Viss recalled the words Prince Evil Dragon told him.
“…So, we decided to follow you and assist you”
Angele hesitated for a second and smiled. “Thanks, I’ll remember that.”
Suddenly, he looked at the far side of the valley as he detected a strong energy wave coming to him.
“Our friends are here.”
Angele stepped forward, raised his right hand, and grasped at the air.
A large piece of white stone mixed with mud and turned into a large stone bow that was over six meters long and one meter wide. Angele held the stone bow in hand carefully.
The bow looked like a large tower shield.
“First, let me send them a welcome gift…”
Angele pulled the bow using the left hand.
The bowstring was formed by his long red hair and was fully drawn.
A loud noise was coming from the ground.
Broken pieces of stones floated in the air, they mixed with mud and turned into an enormous gray arrow on the bow.
Countless red dots left Angele’s body and sank into the arrow. The whole arrow was coated by a red glow and it turned translucent.
“Go now.”
Angele pursed his lips into a smile and blue light dots flashed in front of his eyes.
The arrow drew a red string in the air and disappeared. Countless dark red dots covered the sky after several seconds.
Somewhere in a valley in the Innova Mountains.
A team of soldiers in white armor was rushing to the deep valley. The leader was a woman in white armor and there was a shadow plate rotating behind her. The woman was surrounded by strong invisible energy waves.
“Hurry! Move!” the captains behind the woman shouted.
There were more than three hundred soldiers on the team and some of them were in charge of the cannons.
The woman had a blank expression on the face.
“How long until we can reach the Innova City?”
“One glass hour!” the middle-aged man behind her responded.
The woman glanced at her team. She was the only one that was not sweating, the other soldiers were all tired. Their hair was soaked in sweat.
“We need to have some rest here. The team is exhausted!” the man advised.
“We have no time to waste. Ask the soldiers to drink the potions,” the woman responded in a cold tone, “and keep moving!”
The man was a bit speechless, he asked the messenger to inform the soldiers.
The soldiers took out some pink potions and quickly drank them all.
“Keep moving!” the messenger shouted.
The team kept advancing in the valley.
The woman’s expression suddenly changed after they advanced for a while.
“Wait!” she shouted and flew into the air. “Prepare for a strike!”
Raising her head, the woman looked at the sky.
A red dot appeared in the gray sky. Seconds later, the second and the third red dots also appeared.
The sky was covered with countless dark-red dots in the blink of the eye.
The woman quickly grabbed a greatsword from the shadow plate.
*Clank*
The greatsword blocked an arrow.
*CHI CHI CHI*
The endless rain of red arrows started dropping one after another.
The soldiers were groaning after the arrows landed, the energy barriers they put up were easily destroyed like sheets of paper. Each arrow could deal a lot of damage, only the rank 2 wizards could block the arrows. However, none of them could cast strong defensive spells, including the woman.
“Damn! This energy wave…” The woman narrowed her eyes.
“How familiar! It’s that guy!”
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SEBTS Hires Gay Affirming Feminist Who Says 'Abortion Isn't Murder' to Teach at SBC Seminary
SEBTS Hires Gay Affirming Feminist Who Says ‘Abortion Isn’t Murder’ to Teach at SBC Seminary
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forrest, a seminary belonging to the Southern Baptist Convention, just hired a radical leftist and gay-affirming feminist to its faculty. Karen Swallow Prior’s days at Liberty University were limited after promoting her pro-gay book on Liberty’s campus only months ago and her increasingly brazen liberal stances becoming more apparent since Pulpit & Pen began to report on her shocking liberalism since 2015.
Our first post on this exceedingly wicked woman aged exceedingly well, and over the years, verified on every point beyond a question of a doubt. That article, Gay Affirming Research Fellow at ERLC, Shocking Liberalism, laid out how Prior repeatedly uses affirming language toward the LGBTQ (James White agreed that her language was “affirming” on an episode of The Dividing Line), attended pro-LGBTQ fundraisers, supported pro-LGBTQ ad campaigns, and back-peddled and soft-handed abortion while pretending to have been a pro-life advocate (various claims about her past activism cannot be substantiated). Radical animal rights activists saw Prior as an “ally and resource contributor” to “invade right-wing evangelical institutions with an animal-first agenda” as far back as 2007.
Prior giving glowing accolades of a book that argues against the pro-life position. Prior said in Christianity Today that abortion is not murder and defended abortionists from the accusation of being “murderers” Prior said that calling abortion murder is unchristlike. She also is on record saying that animal cruelty (in this case, dog-fighting) bothers her more than abortion. Don’t worry though, she’s against capital punishment, so it’s all good. In fact, Prior has even been glib about dining with the director of Planned Parenthood, almost reveling in the fact it didn’t kill her appetite. Here’s a partial list of all the news sites, commentators and blogs who have noted Prior’s compromise on abortion.
Dr. Prior seems intent on corrupting young people. Prior praised the “It Gets Better Campaign,” which is a pro-LGBT campaign targeted at youth and children and produced videos from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton encouraging kids in their homosexuality. Dr. Prior praised Common Core curriculum, calling it Good News (I kid you not). Prior endorsed the use of gay porn propaganda in high schools and colleges. Pulpit & Pen has written extensively on Prior’s liberal influence on young people in the post, The Liberal Influence on Children and Karen Swallow Prior.
Dr. Prior believes that pets go to Heaven because when you name them it gives them personhood. Prior says she wants an end to modern animal husbandry and factory farms “even if the economy of the country be damned.”
Dr. Prior is a political leftist as well. She was thrilled when Bernie Sanders came to Liberty University. But, we can find no such enthusiasm from Prior for any conservative speaker (although she speaks against the President regularly). When the late Rachel Held Evans was appointed to Obama’s faith advisory council, Prior was giddy with excitement and enthusiastically applauded her. Prior has given affirming words towards the anti-cop hate-group, Black Lives Matter. Prior ridiculed Mike Pence for following the Billy Graham Rule. Prior promotes and supports illegal immigration. Prior says that poor people in bad neighborhoods shouldn’t have firearms.
As a feminist (that’s a term she uses to describe herself), Prior has launched a ministry program with other progressive-liberal women to promote what they call “hospitable orthodoxy.”
Prior has been pushed out of Liberty University because she has been implicated with involvement in the attacks against Jerry Falwell (they have come from Prior’s gay protege, Brandon Ambrosino, who credited Prior with the courage to “come out of the closet”). After promoting and selling her pro-gay book on campus, her days were limited.
Now, Prior has been hired by Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, which has reverted to a pre-1979 liberalism every bit as progressive as it was prior to the Conservative Resurgence.
Prior will now be the “full-time research professor of English and Christianity and Culture” starting in 2020.
Sources indicate to Pulpit & Pen that Prior began looking for alternative career options after Falwell became wise to her undermining ways and extreme leftism. Primary options for Prior were Wheaton College through avenues created by Ed Stetzer or a position secured for her at SEBTS by Russell Moore.
Prior, who endorsed the pro-gay Revoice Conference, will fit in well among the cesspool of liberalism that is the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
In the meantime, Southern Baptists need to know every time they put a dollar in the offering plate, they are supporting the Cooperative Program which will fund the salary of this gay-affirming, abortionist-defending, animal rights activist and feminist. And that wicked woman is who will be teaching young Southern Baptist leaders.
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WSJ On The Shell Cordovan Shortage
By Derek Guy
If you’ve been in the market for shell cordovan shoes, you may have noticed there’s been a shortage lately. Retailers have been slow at getting them in, largely because manufacturers can’t get the material from Horween, who is the most popular supplier for the leather. When they do get some in, it’s usually in darker colors (such as the Horween’s “color 8” and black), as lighter colors show imperfections in the leather too easily. Which means if you’ve been wanting a pair of cigar shell cordovan boots from Alden, like those shown above, you’ve had to sit on a waitlist that stretches back almost a year (I’m on such a list, and am still waiting for a phone call).
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article about what might be going on:
In the clubby world of men’s high fashion, there are rumors and theories. Some blame hide speculators who snapped up skins as the price of leather was about to rise. Others point to Chinese shoe manufacturers, saying they bought up entire horsehides—which include both the coveted small rear shell pieces and the cheaper and larger front pieces—in lieu of more expensive steer hide when prices for the latter spiked to historic highs in 2012. However, there is little proof of either.
Matthew Abbott, technical sales director at tannery Joseph Clayton & Sons Ltd., based in Chesterfield, England, said the supply of hides was also hurt by a horse-meat scandal last year in the U.K. “There was nothing wrong with the meat, just that it was misidentified,” he said. “But I suppose people didn’t want anything to do with horse for a while.”
On the upside? Things might be rebounding.
Nevertheless, there is a glimmer of hope for those seeking a pair of loafers or oxfords. Mr. Horween reported that the hide supply began to return to pre-drought levels at the end of the last year, which means cordovan supplies for shoemakers may soon be back to normal. His advice to covetous shoppers: Sit tight. More is coming soon. That doesn’t quite mean that cordovan shoes will be plentiful, however. “It’s still not as much as the market wants,” said Mr. Horween.
Here’s to hoping.
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Johnson & Johnson settles Washington pelvic mesh lawsuit
Posted 11:29 AM, April 22, 2019, by Associated Press, Updated at 11:30AM, April 22, 2019
SEATTLE (AP) — On the eve of trial, Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $9.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Washington state accusing it of misrepresenting the risks of pelvic mesh implants.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued the New Jersey-based health-care giant in 2016, saying that it and its subsidiary Ethicon Inc. violated the state’s Consumer Protection Act by failing to tell patients and doctors about the risks and occurrences of dire, sometimes irreversible complications. Those include urinary dysfunction, loss of sexual function, constipation and severe pain.
Tens of thousands of patients have sued Johnson & Johnson and other companies over the products. Ferguson said the money from the settlement would be used to help Washington women who had mesh implanted.
Johnson & Johnson did not admit wrongdoing. Trial had been due to start Monday in King County Superior Court.
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World Australia seizes record-breaking $830 million in methamphetamine and heroin
23:52 05 december 2019 Source: cnn.com
Australia seizes record-breaking $830 million in methamphetamine and heroin 2019-12-05 2019-12-05
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LONDON — Homeless drug users in Scotland will be allowed to inject pharmaceutical-grade heroin twice a day under the supervision of medical officials as part of a new program intended to reduce drug deaths and H.I.V. infection. © Mary Turner for The New York Times The clinic opened in Glasgow after Britain’s Home Office granted it a license. Scotland’s drug death rate is the highest in the European Union. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week, a $1.
Authorities in Australia have seized a record - breaking haul of methamphetamine worth 0 million , hidden inside stereo speakers shipped from Thailand, the country's federal police and border force announced.
Authorities in Australia have seized a record - breaking haul of methamphetamine worth 0 million , hidden inside stereo speakers shipped A further 37 kilograms (37.4 pounds) of heroin worth 18.5 million Australian dollars (.6 million ) was also seized . The drugs were found concealed
Authorities in Australia have seized a record-breaking haul of methamphetamine worth $820 million, hidden inside stereo speakers shipped from Thailand, the country's federal police and border force announced.
© Australina Federal Police Drugs seized by Australian authorities Wednesday, December 4 are seen in this handout photograph.
The massive bust fetched 1.596 metric tons (1.75 US tons) of meth -- the largest haul on record in the country -- worth almost 1.2 billion Australian dollars ($820 million). A further 37 kilograms (37.4 pounds) of heroin worth 18.5 million Australian dollars ($12.6 million) was also seized. The drugs were found concealed inside the speakers at several locations across Melbourne.
Newport man sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute crystal methamphetamine
A Newport man was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison Wednesday for conspiring with others to distribute crystal methamphetamine. According to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Timothy Fairless, 51, of Newport, admitted to investigators that he conspired with others to distribute more than 1.5 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine between August 2016 and March 2018. Sign up for our Newsletters A number of packages of crystal methamphetamine were sent through the mail from California by James Alarcon. The packages were sent to Fairless at various addresses throughout Northern Kentucky.
The record haul of more than 1.6 tonnes (1.75 tons) of methamphetamine (also known as crystal meth or "ice,") and 37 kilograms (82 pounds) of heroin was smuggled in stereo speakers shipped from Thailand and discovered in Melbourne by Australian Border Force officers in April.
Authorities in Australia have seized a record - breaking haul of methamphetamine worth US0 million , hidden inside stereo speakers shipped from Thailand, the country's federal police and border force announced. Australian police seize record US0 milllion in meth .
The two agencies alleged in a joint press release that the drugs were imported by two men and a woman, all in their late 30s. Two of the suspects were described by Australian Federal Police (AFP) Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan as "trusted insiders" in the customs industry.
A spokeswoman for the AFP said the duo were not employed by the government.
If convicted, the three suspects could face life in prison, authorities said.
Australian authorities began investigating after they detected a huge amount of vacuum-sealed drugs at a customs checkpoint in Melbourne in April, 2019. After an extensive investigation, authorities conducted several searches Wednesday, during which they seized the massive haul of drugs.
"This joint operation has identified and removed serious vulnerabilities from the Melbourne waterfront," Gaughan said.
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Watch CBSN Live. Record 1.7 tons of meth found hidden in loudspeakers bound for Australia . Six people, including two Americans, were arrested after what authorities said Friday was the largest-ever seizure of methamphetamine on U.S. soil and the biggest drug haul bound for Australia .
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia seized a record 1.6 tonnes of crystal methamphetamine from a ship off the northern island of Batam on Tuesday, a The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that Southeast Asia’s trade in methamphetamines and heroin was worth
© Australian Federal Police The drugs were hidden in speakers shipped from Thailand, police said. A lucrative market
Australian authorities have conducted a series of high-profile drug busts in recent years, seizing billions of Australian dollars worth of illicit substances hidden in everything from Sriracha bottles to snow globes.
"Australia is a lucrative market for drug traffickers only due to the amount of drugs consumed by the public and the price paid for those drugs. This is a social problem that is the responsibility of everyone to address," Gaughan said.
The speakers were originally shipped from Bangkok, the AFP said, meaning it's possible the drugs were manufactured in the Golden Triangle, a region straddling the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar that has a notorious reputation for drug production.
The methamphetamine trade has gone into overdrive in recent years, as crime syndicates have increased production of synthetic drugs that are cheaper to make than plant-based substances like heroin. They've been able to operate in relative peace by moving production to some of the more lawless regions of the Golden Triangle, especially on the Myanmar side -- an area where militias and local warlords retain control.
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(Reuters) - Authorities in California have seized a record 1.9 tons of methamphetamine worth some .3 billion along with heroin and cocaine, all bound for Australia . It was the biggest seizure of methamphetamine in the United States and amounted to about 17 million doses, authorities said
In recent years, experts say drug traffickers have flooded the market with cheap meth in order to grow their customer base. The trade is now worth somewhere between $30 billion to $61 billion, according to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. And massive busts have not appeared to impact the street price of drugs, a key indicator of whether seizures are denting the supply and gangs' profits in a significant way.
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Authorities in Australia have seized a record - breaking haul of methamphetamine worth $820 million , hidden inside stereo speakers shipped from Thailand, the country's federal police and border force announced.
Australian police seize record - breaking $820- million in meth
Authorities in Australia have seized a record - breaking haul of methamphetamine worth $820 million , hidden inside stereo speakers shipped A further 37 kilograms (37.4 pounds) of heroin worth 18.5 million Australian dollars ($12.6 million ) was also seized . The drugs were found concealed
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3 charged in Australia over country's largest ever meth seizure
Authorities in Australia have seized a record - breaking haul of methamphetamine worth US$820 million , hidden inside stereo speakers shipped from Thailand, the country's federal police and border force announced. Australian police seize record US$820 milllion in meth .
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia seized a record 1.6 tonnes of crystal methamphetamine from a ship off the northern island of Batam on Tuesday, a The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that Southeast Asia’s trade in methamphetamines and heroin was worth $31
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Australian police arrested six people after what authorities said Friday, Feb. 8, 2019 was the largest single seizure of methamphetamine in the United Authorities say 1.7 tons of methamphetamine bound for Australia was concealed in this shipment marked as loudspeakers and intercepted at the
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Domtar shutters Quebec pulp mill
MONTREAL—Domtar announced on Friday that it would permanently close its pulp mill in Lebel-sur-Quévillon, Que. The mill, which produced 300,000 tonnes of softwood kraft pulp annually, has been idle since November 2006. Domtar blamed the state of the economy and the weak Canadian dollar for the decision. The mill employed 425 workers.
C.J. Graphics expands, adds new facility
TORONTO—C.J. Graphics is growing, with the addition of a new 35,000 sq. ft. digital facility in Etobicoke, Ont., and a second Xerox Docutech. A Xerox iGen4 is also currently being installed, replacing the shop’s iGen3-90. Additionally, the shop just hired 20 former Grafikom employees, and added a multi-colour Heidelberg, and a 6-pocket stitching and collating line to its main Toronto facility. C.J. Graphics specializes in high-end work for designers, and was founded in 1981.
Four resign from Quebecor World board of directors
MONTREAL—Four individuals have resigned from Quebecor World’s board of directors, the company announced yesterday. Pierre Karl Péladeau, son of Quebecor World founder Pierre Péladeau, and his brother Érik Péladeau, vice chairman of the board, stepped down, as did Jean La Couture and Jean Neveu. The resignations are related to claims filed by Quebecor Inc. and its subsidiaries as part of Quebecor World’s restructuring process, the company said in a statement. Also, Quebecor World spokesperson Tony Ross told PrintCAN today that the company would consider changing its name to avoid confusion, when it exits creditor protection, likely to happen in the first half of 2009.
There was reader reaction to a Canadian Press story the Globe and Mail ran on the subject yesterday, including one former Quebecor World employee who commented “He (Péladeau) is the one responsible for the mess they are in now. This is by far the best news for the current employees. Maybe now they can be the great company they once were before PKP ruined what his father built.” To see the rest of the comments click here.
October shipments rebound
OTTAWA—Printing shipments were up slightly in October, after falling in August and September, according to figures from Statistics Canada. Note that these numbers are not seasonally adjusted.
October $933.29 million $919.97 million 1.4%
Year to date $8.27 billion $8.12 billion 1.8%
Toronto shop adds second Inca Spyder
TORONTO—About a year after installing an Inca Spyder, RP Graphics purchased a second. The shop also recently upgraded its prepress department with a high-speed Fujifilm Javelin 880011 with multiple and single cassette autoloader. RP Graphics specializes in digital and commercial printing, and 1:1 marketing. It has been in business for more than 30 years and employs 65 people.
With the new Spyder from left to right are: Danie Didow, press operator, and Brian Auty, chief technical officer, both with RP Graphics.
Sales down for Komunik in second quarter
MONTREAL—Komunik, which has been operating under creditor protection since late November, yesterday released its second quarter results, for the period ending October 31, 2008. It reported sales of $23.33 million, down from $30.51 million in the same period in 2007. The company also saw its net income fall, reporting a loss of $1.05 million, compared to a net income of $11,342 in the second quarter last year. Komunik is seeking potential buyers, and interested parties have until January 15, 2009 to submit purchase offers.
Quebecor World to install three Manroland web presses
MONTREAL—Quebecor World has disclosed the make and model of three new web presses it recently purchased to install at facilities in the U.S. and Canada. Three Manroland Lithoman S web high-speed offset presses will be dedicated to the company’s retail insert and delivery systems, segment, and the first will be operational in the third quarter of 2009.
RR Donnelly buys Grafikom MIL facility and other assets
TORONTO and CHICAGO—RR Donnelley is buying the assets of Grafikom’s Toronto-based MIL plant, the company announced today. RR Donnelley is also purchasing selected equipment from other Grafikom facilities in Canada to boost its printing services. The deal with RSM Richter, the receiver for Grafikom, is subject to court approval but is expected to close within two weeks. Grafikom also has facilities in Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, and Mexico, all of which have been idled since the Nov. 10 receivership announcement. Montreal-based Phipps Dickson Integria confirmed on Monday that it had bought the assets of Grafikom’s Sherbrooke, Que. plant.
Higher revenues, lower net income for Transcontinental
MONTREAL—Transcontinental today released its fiscal 2008 figures posting a revenue increase of 4% over 2007. The company reported revenues of $2.43 billion, compared to $2.33 in 2007. For the 12-month period ended Oct. 31, the company pulled in $7.9 million in net income, compared to $120.6 million for the same period last year. Transcontinental attributes the drop to costs associated with the restructuring and consolidation of direct mail services in the U.S, and the write-off of goodwill related to those services. In its fourth quarter results, revenues rose 6% to $653 million from $618 million in Q4 of 2007. Net income was down, sliding from $38.6 million in 2007 to a loss of $94.2 million.
Winnipeg shop adds two new HPs
WINNIPEG—Light Visions recently added two HP Scitex FB6100 presses to its shop floor. The company specializes in large-format digital printing for the real estate, retail, and telecommunications industry.
With one of the new Scitex’s from left to right are: Roland Dupont, general manager; Doug Seney, vice-president, and Allan Brooks, president, all from Light Visions.
DI buys Grafikom’s Sherbrooke plant; MIL also in play
TORONTO—PDI (Phipps Dickson Integria) announced yesterday that it has purchased the assets of the Grafikom-Sherbrooke facility, formerly known as Graphica. In a statement, the company said it is in the process of re-establishing communications with customers, and plans to re-open the facility in the near future. PDI is a sheetfed firm with about $43 million in annual sales that provides pre-media, offset and digital print, multimedia, Internet, and fulfillment services. In related news, Grafikom receiver, RSM Richter confirmed to PrintCAN that it is also negotiating the tentative sale of the MIL plant in Toronto but the spokesperson did not confirm the identity of the prospective buyer. PrintCAN has, however, heard from several sources that the interested buyer of the MIL plant is Chicago-based R.R. Donnelley, but the company could not be reached for comment. RSM Richter is also soliciting bids from liquidators for the remainder of Grafikom’s equipment, mostly from plants in Western Canada, that will be auctioned off in the first quarter of 2009. Grafikom went into receivership on November 10.
Quebec bindery expands, installs new gear
MONTREAL—Reliure LeBlanc has doubled its floor space and installed an assortment of new equipment, owner Michael McLaren told PrintCAN today. The bindery, which McLaren purchased in February, was expanded from 7500 sq. ft. to about 15,000 sq. ft. in the summer, and now houses a new FMC horizontal flow wrapper, Rollem Slipstream, and two three-knife trimmers. McLaren said the plant was expanded to make room for all the new gear, including a second Rollem, not yet installed. Reliure LeBlanc specializes in traditional bindery services for the card packaging industry and employs 22 people.
Quebecor World wins in dispute with Quebecor Media
MONTREAL—The events at Quebecor World continue to take strange twists and turns. A Quebec judge has sided with Quebecor World in a dispute between it and its former parent company Quebecor Inc., over the recently announced web-press purchases. The dispute arose because Quebecor Media claimed the new web press would cause it “serious harm” and tried to prevent the purchase, the Canadian Press reported. In 2005, Quebecor Media and Quebecor World entered into a verbal agreement whereby Quebecor World would utilize 90% of the excess capacity of a US$51 million press that Quebecor Media uses to print the Le Journal de Montreal and the Ottawa Sun. Quebecor World never signed the agreement, but Quebecor Media claimed in court that the agreement was legitimate because the two parties agreed in 2007 that Quebecor World would print the Yellow Book at the facility in Mirabel, Que. That contract came to an end about a year later. Quebecor Media stated in its claim that Quebecor World’s new press would negatively affect revenues at the Mirabel plant. A spokesperson from Quebecor World could not be reached for comment.
PIA/GATF changes name, logo
Printing Industries of America’s new logo
PITTSBURGH—PIA/GATF has changed its name to Printing Industries of America, in a move to better communicate its actives and values, the company announced yesterday. It has also unveiled a new logo, and re-named its website. Additionally, the two magazines the organization produces, GATFWorld and Management Portfolio will be combined into a new publication, titled Printing Industries of America: The Magazine.
Ottawa shop upgrades with new Presstek
OTTAWA—BCT Ottawa installed a Presstek 34DI in an attempt to offset a decline in its thermography business, and has since seen sales grow 10%. The company, which prints spot colour business cards, postcards, and brochures, had been relying on thermography, and said it upgraded with the Presstek, in part, because the press is waterless and uses no platemaking chemicals.
With the Presstek 34DI is Graeme Olmsted, left, and press operator, Marc Couturier, both with BCT Ottawa.
September shipments continue to fall
OTTAWA—Printing shipments were down again in September after falling in August, according to figures from Statistics Canada. Note that these numbers are not seasonally adjusted.
September $840.2 million $860.6 million -2.4%
Year to date $7.22 billion $7.2 billion -0.7%
Sina Printing prints MetalFX award winner
MARKHAM, ON—Full-service branding company Alive Pro Studios was the only Canadian company to win a MetalFX award in the annual international competition, creative director Javad Ahmadi told PrintCAN today. The company was named Design Agency of the Year for its Alive Pro Studios Corporate Brochure, which was printed using MetalFX at Sina Printing in Markham, Ont. Sina used embossing and foil stamping on the cover, and 12 pt. gloss stock throughout the 24-page brochure. It was also wire-bound and printed on a 10-colour Heidelberg. This was the final year of the MetalFX awards, because the company is ceasing operations Dec. 19.
The Alive Pro Studios Corporate Brochure.
Ontario shop installs second HP Scitex
RICHMOND HILL, ON—Large-format printer Icon Digital has added an HP Scitex FB6700 to its shop, to complement the HP Scitex Turbojet 8300 it installed earlier this year. The company says the new FB6700 will handle rigid substrates, and the Turbojet will print on pressure-sensitive vinyl. Icon Digital specializes in banners, posters, and vehicle wraps.
Juan Lau, president, and Peter Evans vice-president, both from Icon Digital.
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Paul Gilchrist
Clarifying street culture: Integrating a diversity of opinions and voices
Ross, J. I., Daichendt, G. J., Kurtenbach, S., Gilchrist, P., Charles, M. & Wicks, J., 22 Jun 2019, In : Urban Research & Practice. p. 1-16 16 p.
diversity of opinion
Embodied causes: climbing, charity and 'celanthropy'
Gilchrist, P., 13 Oct 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : The International Journal of the History of Sport.
Reframing rural governanance; Gerontocratic expressions of socio-ecological resilience
Gearey, M. & Gilchrist, P., 29 Apr 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Journal of Depopulation and Rural Development Studies.
Roses and castles: Competing visions of canal heritage and the making of place
Wincott, A., Ravenscroft, N. & Gilchrist, P., 3 Dec 2019, In : International Journal of Heritage Studies.
shipping lane
Davis, Ian Gordon McNaught -
Gilchrist, P., 15 Feb 2018, Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press.
Risk and benefits in lifestyle sports: parkour, law and social value
Gilchrist, P. & Osborn, G., 9 Feb 2017, In : International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. 9, 1, p. 55-69 15 p.
Risk and lifestyle sports: the case of bouldering
Gilchrist, P. & Osborn, G., 27 Dec 2017, In : Entertainment and Sports Law Journal. 15, 1, p. 1-4 4 p.
Signposting risk: parkour parks and the materialities of regulation
Gilchrist, P. & Osborn, G., 1 Jul 2017, Lifestyle sports and public policy. Turner, D. & Carnicelli, S. (eds.). London, UK: Routledge, p. 157-179 23 p.
juridification
The social benefits of informal and lifestyle sports: a research agenda
Gilchrist, P. & Wheaton, B., 14 Apr 2017, In : International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. 9, 1
'Where do heritage trails go to die?' stepping out at the British seaside
Gilchrist, P., 7 Mar 2017, Heritage and tourism in Britain and Ireland. Hooper, G. (ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 195-212 18 p.
cultural development
qualitative method
"Countercultural" sport
Gilchrist, P., 24 Oct 2016, Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics. Bairner, A., Kelly, J. & Lee, J. W. (eds.). London, UK: Routledge, p. 388-400 13 p.
'Hail, Tyneside lads in collier fleets': song culture, sailing and sailors in North-East England
Gilchrist, P., 10 May 2016, Port towns and urban cultures: international histories of the waterfront, c.1700 to 2000. Beaven, B., Bell, B. & James, R. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave, p. 29-48 20 p.
Lifestyle and adventure sport among youth
Gilchrist, P. & Wheaton, B., 7 Jan 2016, Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport. Green, K. & Smith, A. (eds.). Oxford, UK: Routledge, p. 186-200 15 p. (Routledge International Handbooks).
'Nothing can be done to make our markets clean': A qualitative study of attitudes of the African marketplace users toward waste
Abigo, A., Gidado, K., Gilchrist, P. & Aboagye-Nimo, E., 6 Apr 2016, In : The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management. p. 44-57 14 p.
management practice
The spaces and times of community farming
Liu, P., Gilchrist, P., Taylor, B. & Ravenscroft, N., 15 Aug 2016, In : Agriculture and Human Values. 34, 2, p. 363-375 13 p.
everyday action
everyday experience
Co-designing non-hierarchical community arts research: the collaborative stories spiral
Gilchrist, P., Holmes, C., Lee, A., Moore, N. & Ravenscroft, N., 1 Nov 2015, In : Qualitative Research Journal. 15, 4, p. 459-471 13 p.
dynamism
Facilities management for African urban marketplace
Gilchrist, P., Gidado, K. & Abigo, A., 1 Sep 2015, Proceedings of the 6th West Africa Built Environment Research (WABER) Conference. Accra, Ghana: WABER, p. 503-516 14 p.
Facilities management for African urban marketplace: attitudinal change to waste as a core strategy
Abigo, A., Gidado, K. & Gilchrist, P., 1 Jan 2015, The 6th international conference on engineering, project, and production management (EPPM2015). Australia: Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University, p. 174-184 11 p.
Coast and the creative class: relocation and regeneration at the edge
Church, A., Gilchrist, P. & Ravenscroft, N., 1 Jan 2014, Coastal cultures: liminality and leisure. Gilchrist, P., Carter, T. & Burdsey, D. (eds.). Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association, p. 95-115 21 p.
Creative Class
Coastal cultures: liminality and leisure
Gilchrist, P. (ed.), Carter, T. (ed.) & Burdsey, D. (ed.), 4 Dec 2013, Eastbourne: LSA Publications. 1 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - edited
Gender and British climbing histories: introduction
Gilchrist, P., 13 Sep 2013, In : Sport in History. 33, 3, p. 223-235 13 p.
Mountains, manliness and post-war recovery: C.E. Montague's 'Action'
Gilchrist, P., 24 Aug 2013, In : Sport in History. 33, 3, p. 282-302 21 p.
Manliness
New media technologies in lifestyle sport
Gilchrist, P. & Wheaton, B., 9 Jul 2013, Digital media sport: technology, power and culture in the network society. Hutchins, B. & Rowe, D. (eds.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 169-185 17 p. (Routledge research in cultural and media studies).
Property ownership, resource use, and the ‘gift of nature’
Ravenscroft, N., Church, A., Gilchrist, P. & Heys, B., 1 Jan 2013, In : Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 31, 3, p. 451-466 16 p.
right of ownership
Beyond the brink: Beachy Head as a climbing landscape
Gilchrist, P., 1 Mar 2012, In : International Journal of the History of Sport. 29, 10, p. 1383-1404 22 p.
Space hijacking and the anarcho-politics of leisure
Gilchrist, P. & Ravenscroft, N., May 2012, In : Leisure Studies. 32, 1, p. 49-68 20 p.
Introduction: the politics of sport - community, mobility, identity
Gilchrist, P. & Holden, R., 1 Mar 2011, In : Sport in Society. 14, 2, p. 151-159 9 p.
Lifestyle sport, public policy and youth engagement: examining the emergence of parkour
Gilchrist, P. & Wheaton, B., 1 Mar 2011, In : International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. 3, 1, p. 109-131 23 p.
sports policy
qualitative interview
Paddling, property and piracy: the politics of canoeing in England and Wales
Ravenscroft, N. & Gilchrist, P., 1 Jan 2011, In : Sport in Society. 14, 2, p. 175-192 18 p.
Outdoor recreation and the environment
Ravenscroft, N. & Gilchrist, P., 2010, The new politics of leisure and pleasure. Bramham, P. & Wagg, S. (eds.). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 45-62 18 p.
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The effect of municipal treated wastewater on the water holding properties of a clayey, calcareous soil
Sonja Loy, Amjad Assi, Rabi H. Mohtar, Cristine Morgan, Anish Jantrania
Wastewater reuse is a practice that has been gaining attention for the past few decades as the world's population rises and water resources become scarce. Wastewater application on soil can affect soil health, and the manner and extent to which this occurs depends heavily on soil type and water quality. This study compared the long-term (15+ years) effects and suitability of using secondary-level treated municipal wastewater and brackish groundwater for irrigation on the water holding capacity of a clayey, calcareous soil on a cotton farm near San Angelo, Texas. The soil-water holding properties were determined from the extracted hydrostructural parameters of the two characteristic curves: water retention curve and soil shrinkage curve based on the pedostructure concept. In the pedostructure concept, these hydrostructural parameters are characteristic properties of the soil aggregates structure and its thermodynamic interactions with water. Results indicate that use of secondary treated wastewater increased available water capacity in the top horizon (0–15 cm) and decreased the available water holding capacity of this particular soil in the sub-horizons (15–72 cm). The brackish groundwater irrigation resulted in no effect on available water capacity in the top horizon, but significantly decreased it in the sub-horizons as well. The rainfed soil was the healthiest soil in terms of water holding capacity, but rainfall conditions do not produce profitable cotton yields. Whereas, treated wastewater irrigated soil is producing the highest yields for the farmer. Thus, this treated wastewater source and irrigation system can serve as a suitable irrigation alternative to using brackish groundwater, enhancing the water resource sustainability of this region.
Science of the Total Environment
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.104
calcareous soil
soil aggregate
Pedostructure
Soil characterization
Soil structure
Loy, S., Assi, A., Mohtar, R. H., Morgan, C., & Jantrania, A. (2018). The effect of municipal treated wastewater on the water holding properties of a clayey, calcareous soil. Science of the Total Environment, 643, 807-818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.104
The effect of municipal treated wastewater on the water holding properties of a clayey, calcareous soil. / Loy, Sonja; Assi, Amjad; Mohtar, Rabi H.; Morgan, Cristine; Jantrania, Anish.
In: Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 643, 01.12.2018, p. 807-818.
Loy, S, Assi, A, Mohtar, RH, Morgan, C & Jantrania, A 2018, 'The effect of municipal treated wastewater on the water holding properties of a clayey, calcareous soil', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 643, pp. 807-818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.104
Loy S, Assi A, Mohtar RH, Morgan C, Jantrania A. The effect of municipal treated wastewater on the water holding properties of a clayey, calcareous soil. Science of the Total Environment. 2018 Dec 1;643:807-818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.104
Loy, Sonja ; Assi, Amjad ; Mohtar, Rabi H. ; Morgan, Cristine ; Jantrania, Anish. / The effect of municipal treated wastewater on the water holding properties of a clayey, calcareous soil. In: Science of the Total Environment. 2018 ; Vol. 643. pp. 807-818.
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iPhone X Commercial: Unlock with a look ft Bollywood song sample by @petecannon #ListenToRadha #iPhoneX #UnlockWithALook
My son has recently mastered the game of Uno so we typically sit down after dinner to play as a family. The tv is usually playing in the background, tuned to some harmless network channel, mostly as a light source in an otherwise dimly lit living room (you know, for ambiance). Recently, during one of our intensely competitive rounds of gameplay, I heard this distinctly Desi sounding song coming from the tv, and glanced up to see this iPhone X commercial.
I immediately hit rewind (thank you Xfinity X1) and Shazam’d the commercial, confirming my initial hunch. The wordless ad features a young woman unlocking various items with just a look, alluding to how amazing it is that the iPhone X is able to be unlocked with facial recognition (Full disclosure: I have an iPhone X and the Face ID only works about 60% of the time) all to the early 80s era, Bollywood pop hit, inspired song “Bang Bang” by Pete Cannon.
He’s British which explains the Indian music, ’cause we all know that England continues to be the motherland for all Desis. The cover art features a mendhi inspired drawing with the author’s name and track title running across it. I can’t seem to find much more about him online, so if anyone knows what his connection is to the Brown world or how he happened to stumble upon this sample, I’m curious to know more!
The YouTube page includes the credit: The track “Bang Bang” features a sample of “Meri Nazar Hai Tujh Pe’” sung by Asha Bhosle music by R.D. Burman and lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi licensed courtesy of Saregama PLC. The original song itself borrows some influence from Spanish Flamenco which of course is par for the old school Bollywood course; they are well known for “borrowing” influence in their songs/films. Also, the movie it was in is called “The Burning Train“. This just gets weirder and weirder!
Author radha824Posted on April 9, 2018 April 9, 2018 Categories Bollywood, Family, India, Movies, Music, UncategorizedTags 80s, Apple, Asha Bhosle, Bang Bang, Bollywood, British, Commercial, cover art, desi, England, Face ID, facial recognition, Family, Flaminco, henna, Indian, iPhone, iPhone X, mendhi, Meri Nazar Hai Tujh Pe, motherland, Music, old school, Pete Cannon, pop culture, R.D. Burman, Sahir Ludhianvi, sample, Saregama, Shazam, song, Spanish, track title, tv, unlock with a look, Uno, Xfinity, YouTube7 Comments on Unlock with a look
Danny Pudi in “The Tiger Hunter”
There is so much great work being done by film makers and actors outside of the realm of Bollywood and I want to do my part in helping them succeed. This will be the first in a series of posts about independent movies. As I watch them, I’ll update the post to include my review or thoughts.
Plot Summary: A young Indian man relocates to 1970s Chicago to become an engineer, but when his job falls through, resorts to an elaborate charade with misfit friends in order to woo his childhood sweetheart.
The Tiger Hunter deals with my favorite topic: the Indian-American Immigrant experience, and takes place in my favorite city – Chicago! Also, the movie features my favorite Chicago Desi Actor, Parvesh Cheena. Go see the movie and leave a comment below with your thoughts!
Read this article for insights from The Tiger Hunter‘s director, Lena Khan, and why this movie is so important for the Indian-American community or this one in Teen Vogue on being a South Asian Muslim in Hollywood.
Author radha824Posted on October 11, 2017 April 3, 2018 Categories Actor, Chicago, Immigration, India, Movies, South Asian Arts, WomenTags 1970s, Beyond Bollywood, Chicago, Danny Pudi, engineer, female director, Hollywood, Immigrant, independent movie, Indian, Indian American, Iqbal Theba, Jon Heder, Karen David, Kevin Pollak, Lena Khan, movie review, Movies, Muslim, Parvesh Cheena, Rizwan Manji, Sam Page, South Asian, sweetheart, Teen Vogue, The Tiger HunterLeave a comment on The Tiger Hunter
Karan Soni, on “How To Win An Oscar”
Loving all things Desi and American, seeing Karan on the promo spot piqued my curiosity so I found the video and Googled who was the actor.
The 89th Annual Academy Awards a.k.a. the Oscars are on this Sunday and I plan on putting the kid to bed early so I can not only watch the ceremony but listen to all the speeches and revel at the performances. It’s always exciting to hear how those speeches pull from current events and might influence pop culture. I’ve long been a movie buff and with the Oscars being the ultimate “who’s who” of actors and movies for the year, I make it a point to be at home, alone, to watch it every year. I’ve already told my husband that we’re getting take out and not leaving the house, lest I miss even a moment!
In anticipation of the show, ABC has been running promo spots with host Jimmy Kimmel. One in particular, inspired this post. Jimmy Kimmel walks us thru his guide on how to win an Oscar while actor Karan Soni is acting the steps out in the background.
Loving all things Desi and American, seeing Karan on the promo spot piqued my curiosity so I found the video and Googled who was the actor. Turns out Karan has been quite busy in Hollywood and is going to be in many upcoming, high profile projects. He made his mark as the nerdy tech in a series of AT&T commercials then played small roles in Deadpool and Ghostbusters. Currently he’s a series regular in Starz’ Blunt Talk. He’s also going to be in the next season of FX’s breakout hit Fargo, due to be out later this year.
What a banner year with (my fav) Riz Ahmed and Dev Patel winning BAFTAs and hopefully Oscars too! I see good things for young Karan Soni as well.
Author radha824Posted on February 21, 2017 Categories Actor, Movies, TelevisionTags ABC, Academy Awards, actors, american, AT&T, BAFTA, Blunt Talk, ceremony, Commercial, Deadpool, desi, Dev Patel, Fargo, FX, Ghostbusters, Google, Hollywood, Jimm Kimmel, Karan Soni, movie buff, Movies, Oscar, pop culture, promo spots, Riz Ahmed, Starz, take outLeave a comment on Karan Soni, on “How To Win An Oscar”
Watch Recap of South Asian International Film Festival on Zee TV
Zee TV will be playing a telecast of NYC’s South Asian International Film Festival on Saturday, January 14th at 5:30 EST.
Zee TV replays SAIFF on 1/14
The 13th Annual South Asian Film Festival was held in New York City on November 30 – December 4, 2016. Check out the awesome films and talent showcased at the event!
Author radha824Posted on January 13, 2017 Categories Movies, South Asian Arts, TelevisionTags Film, Film Festival, International, Movie, New York City, NYC, recap, South Asian, South Asian International Film Festival, Zee TVLeave a comment on Watch Recap of South Asian International Film Festival on Zee TV
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NOW BOOKING: Chinese Visual Festival (02 to 09 MAY)
29th April 2019 10th May 2019 by Radiant Circus
Chinese Visual Festival opens this week at BFI Southbank & King’s College London (02 to 09 MAY). Projecting “the very best in the cinema of the Chinese language speaking world” the programme combines special guests, rare screenings & plenty of Q&A. Here’s our guide to what’s on.
Chinese Visual Festival; ROUGE at BFI Southbank (04 MAY).
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Headlining the 9th Chinese Visual Festival (CVF) is this year’s special guest, Stanley Kwan. Described by Festival Director James Mudge as one of the filmmakers who “played a key role in shaping modern Hong Kong cinema”, Kwan is known for “emotionally nuanced, formally inventive films” which reveal “a particular sensitivity to women and an interest in social constraints, past and present” (The Rough Guide To Film). Kwan will be presenting the UK Premiere of his new film FIRST NIGHT NERVES, 2018 (02 MAY 18:10, BFI) as well as rare screenings of his classics ROUGE, 1987 (04 MAY 18:15, BFI – already looking SOLD OUT!) and WOMEN, 1985 (05 MAY 15:30, King’s College).
Elsewhere, CVF 2019 comes to a close with the UK premiere of award-winning transgender drama TRACEY, 2018 (09 MAY 18:00, BFI – also looking SOLD OUT!). Billed as “the first film of its kind from Hong Kong” , director Jun Li, writer/producer Shu Kei and actress Jennifer Yu will take part in a Q&A. If there aren’t any ticket returns for that event, you could consider joining the same talent lineup for an earlier In Conversation (09 MAY 15:00, King’s College, FREE!) where they will be discussing their lives and careers in the Hong Kong Film industry.
Chinese Visual Festival: MEILI at King’s College (06 MAY 13:00).
Other special Q&A include director Ying Liang screening his early works WHEN NIGHT FALLS + A SUNNY DAY (03 MAY 19:00, King’s College) as well as his latest A FAMILY TOUR, 2018 (04 MAY 14:00, King’s College). Then, queer filmmaker Fan Popo attends the UK premiere of his new short THE DRUM TOWER, 2018 (06 MAY 13:00, King’s College) which is paired with similarly LGBTQ-themed MEILI d. Zhou Zhou, 2018 (06 MAY 13:00, King’s College).
For non-fiction fans, there are UK premieres of four docs: STAMMERING BALLAD d. Nan Zhang, 2018 (05 MAY 13:00, King’s College); THE LAND OF PEACH BLOSSOMS d. Mingying Zhou, 2018 (05 MAY 19:15, King’s College); FOUR SPRINGS d. Lu Qingyi, 2018 (07 MAY 19:00, King’s College); and, IN CHARACTER d. Don Xueying, 2018 (08 MAY 20:45, BFI).
James Mudge summed up the unique appeal of this year’s festival: “I’m very proud to be bringing a fantastic selection of docs and independent films to the London audience, giving a chance for audiences to see a variety of different stories and subjects from the Chinese language speaking world”.
There are handy Festival Passes which mean you can see everything in the King’s College lineup for £40 (a saving of nearly 50%!). Single events at Kings’ are free for their staff and students, only £5 for students from elsewhere and £8 for everyone else. All In Conversation and Roundtable events are free of charge, though tickets must be reserved via the event pages.
Chinese Visual Festival: STAMMERING BALLAD at King’s College (05 MAY).
The 9th Chinese Visual Festival screens at BFI Southbank and King’s College London (02 to 09 MAY 2019). Find the full programme right here.
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Rakuten Marketing Announces Winners of the 16th Annual Golden Link Awards at DealMaker New York 2018
SAN MATEO, July 10, 2018 – Rakuten Marketing, a leading technology company that enables brands to increase sales through data-driven marketing, today announced the winners of the 16th annual Golden Link Awards that took place June 27 at the Rakuten Marketing 2018 DealMaker event in New York. More than 350 leading advertisers, publishers and agencies in the Rakuten Marketing Affiliate network attended the awards ceremony.
The Golden Link Awards – hosted by New York based actor and Saturday Night Live stand-up comedian, writer and cast member, Alex Moffat – recognized and celebrated excellence and innovation of the industry’s top-performing digital marketing leaders. Golden Link Award category winners include the following:
Advertiser and Publisher Collaboration: Gilt & Dealmoon
Affiliate Manager of the Year (Advertiser): Neil Baker – JP Morgan Chase
Affiliate Manager of the Year (Publisher): Jillian Posada – TopCashBack
Best Global Strategy: MatchesFashion
Best Multi-Channel Performance: PacSun
Lifetime Achievement Award: Kevin Joyce – Brad’s Deals
Most Innovative Campaign: Sam’s Club
New Rising Star Publisher: Stylight
OPM Agency of the Year: PartnerCentric
Publisher’s Choice: Macy’s
Advertiser’s Choice: Honey
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You’re Crazy – Volume One
By Craig Lewis You’re Crazy Volume One compiles twenty-five first-hand accounts of people from the punk scene who live with mental health struggle, addiction and trauma. This volume also includes two stories of punk rockers who are allies to those of us who struggle and their experience. This book exists to help empower the writers who are sharing their personal experiences so that they can be better understood. It also exists to help show that we are not alone in this world and that life can get better. It’s a necessity in our community. We all deserve to be heard. You’re Crazy aims to help decrease the stigma that the authors, and those like them, face while dealing with mental health struggle, addiction and trauma. By sharing their stories they are putting themselves on the line as they take ownership of their lives and experiences while demonstrating the reality of their lives. These stories educate and inspire, increasing understanding and empathy while reducing stigma.
PACE, Recovery Guide
Printed version of the PACE manual.
Also available in PDF format via the home page of NEC website. Available in English, Spanish and Japanese Japanese Translation by: RACA - Recovery Alternative Change Association
PACE Recovery Reader
Research studies, articles and book excerpts on recovery. All compiled into one publication!
This publication dispels the myth that people labeled with mental illness need to lead lives of endless desperation and broken dreams. Inspire a new generation of consumers, caregivers, administrators, and families!
Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness
By Will Hall Paperback 402 pages
By Judi Chamberlin
On Our Own is Judi's story as a patient in both public and private hospitals. The story explores her experiences while being a patient as well as the lessons she learned while using services controlled by the patients themselves. It makes a compelling case for patient controlled services; a real alternative to the institutions that destroy the confident independence of so many. This is a work of great hope and optimism. On Our Own is now translated in to Korean, thanks to Ji-Eun Lee. To download the Korean version, please click here.
Living for Two
By Lauren Spiro
A Daughter's Journey From Grief and Madness to Forgiveness and Peace
This courageously personal memoir describes Lauren Spiro’s journey from unbearable emotional pain following her father’s murder, down into psychosis, through the depths of our dysfunctional mental health system, and finally to a place of transcendent healing and peace where she knows that we are all connected much more deeply than we understand. This book has been a way of sharing meaning found in madness and honoring the vision of a sixteen year old that has lead to her life’s work. The Dialogues of Discovery book tour is a testament to the power of dialogue to transform consciousness and an invitation to explore topics touched on in the book, such as; How do you redefine who you are? How do you fill the emptiness in your soul? How do you come to know who you were born to be? How do you find liberation for yourself and others? How do you access and trust your own innate wisdom? Ms Spiro is passionate about developing our capacity for compassion, appreciating the vast intelligence and creativity of the human mind, and co-creating pathways so everyone may come home.
Lauren Spiro’s magical book conjures creativity from tragedy, visions from madness, and leadership from despair. I was especially inspired by her courage to challenge racism in the context of a terrible crime. This heartfelt account of Lauren’s life will inspire everyone to reach higher. ~ Will Hall, host of Madness Radio and author of The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming off Psychiatric Drugs
In this moving, beautifully written memoir, Lauren Spiro tells of unfathomable loss, the madness of a psychiatric system that would diagnose her with “chronic schizophrenia†at age 16, and her ultimate recovery from both of those childhood traumas. In her poetry and prose, we see too that words—the language that can bring us understanding and compassion—can have a healing power of their own. ~ Robert Whitaker, award-winning author, Anatomy of an Epidemic
In vivid prose and poetry, Lauren Spiro has painted for us a picture of her spiritual journey, a journey that took her from unbearable emotional pain, down into psychosis, through the depths of our dysfunctional mental health system, and finally to a place of transcendent healing and peace. This is a story of hope and love, the story of how a daughter, so devastated by her father’s senseless murder, was rescued by his cherished spirit awakening in her adult life. The message is clear: healing of the mind and heart is always possible, love needs to be the guiding star in recovery, and we are all connected, much more deeply than we understand.†~ Dr. Mark Foster, Family Physician
A beautiful story of liberation and growth, Living for Two eloquently expresses the path to forgiveness and offers the reader tools and inspiration to get there. Interspersed with dream-like color paintings and poetry, Lauren’s story blends her personal life history with accounts of the larger movement for mental health liberation. A revealing story that will help other survivors of loss and trauma find hope and possibilities. ~ Cassandra Nudel, Editor, Firewalkers: Madness, Beauty & Mystery
Lauren’s story embodies the strength and resiliency of persons who have experienced trauma. With refreshing insight she graciously shares her journey and the tools and resources that have been the wind beneath her wings. ~ Nikki Migas, MPA, Managing Director, CARF International
Lauren takes us on a journey where culture and cosmology enter different doors of the same house. Living for Two is a love story that celebrates the fragility of humankind and the resiliency of one very brave and wise little girl. ~ Cardum S. Harmon, author, Mandala Project: Transfiguration of Ordinary Souls
Lauren Spiro’s Living for Two provides a compelling account of the struggle to map the unfathomable territories that lie at extremes of human experience. Her recovery and transformation after senseless violence, profound loss, spiritual emergency and extreme mental states exemplify hope, resilience and post-traumatic growth. People in recovery, psychology and social work students, helping professionals, children of violence, and others will find this small volume worthwhile. ~ Priscilla Ridgeway, PhD, co-author, Pathways to Recovery
Lauren invites the reader to accompany her through experiences of devastating personal loss and abuse, and being further harmed by the mental health system. Lauren’s creativity, reflected in her prose, poetry, and painting, evoke insight and empathy in the reader. Living for Two takes its place in the literature of personal challenge and recovery, and the ensuing social activism they engender. ~ Jonathan Finkelstein, PhD Associate Dean, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
A powerful story of a young woman’s experiences with trauma and her courage to reclaim a path of recovery and healing. This memoir should be read by all who work in the mental health field. ~ Kevin Ann Huckshorn PhD, RN, State Director, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, Delaware
Lauren’s story is as courageous as it is tender in her exploration of how our deepest losses shape the soul, how fear and misunderstanding can too easily silence it, and how love can give our souls voice again, no matter how long they have been silent. Lauren’s memoir invites us to consider whether there is any wound love cannot heal. A question we must answer with our own lives and hearts. ~ Jennifer Maurer, Managing Director, Mother Bear: Families for Mental Health
Powerfully written, this personal journey from loss and sadness to reclamation and healing is soul-redemptive and emotionally stirring. Thank you Lauren for being real, vulnerable, and sharing your story which will ultimately empower others to share theirs. ~ Amikaeyla, Singer / Songwriter / Executive Director, ICAHSI, The International Cultural Arts & Healing Sciences Institute
By Hanne Arts Paperback 218 pages
Heartbeats of Hope: The Empowerment Way to Recover Your Life
By Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
I hope for a day when: Every person who experiences extreme emotional states is engaged in respectful, hopeful, humanistic, and empowering relationships that enable them to heal and recover full, meaningful lives in the community. Instead of being seen as threats to society, we will be seen as a source of wisdom that we have obtained through our recovery. Practices like Open Dialogue will eliminate the long-term iatrogenic effects of a prophesy of doom and lifelong illness. Suffering will be seen as an understandable human response to trauma rather than a chemical imbalance or a defective fear circuit. Voluntary, community-based, recovery-oriented, culturally attuned, traumainformed services and housing will replace psychiatric hospitals. The mental health system will be run by persons with lived experience of recovery from extreme emotional states. Everyone will learn how to assist each other through extreme emotional states by learning communication skills such as Emotional CPR.
Hearing Voices, Living Fully: Living With the Voices in My Head
By Claire Bien Paperback 272 pages
Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite
By Bruce Levine
Polls show that the majority of Americans oppose recent US wars and Wall Street bailouts, yet most remain passive and appear resigned to powerlessness. Many Americans have lost confidence that genuine democracy is possible, and Get Up Stand Up explains how major US institutions have created fatalism. When such fatalism and defeatism sets in, truths about economic injustices and lost liberties are not enough to set people free something else is required. For democratic movements to get off the ground, individuals must recover self-respect, and a people must regain collective confidence that they can succeed at eliminating top-down controls. Get Up, Stand Up describes how anti-elitists can unite and recover dignity, confidence, and the energy to wrest power away from the ruling corporate-government partnership (the “corporatocracy”). Get Up, Stand Up details those strategies and tactics that oppressed peoples have successfully employed to gain power. As you read Bruce Levine’s rousing Get Up, Stand Up, inevitably you will be reminded of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, which served as a rallying cry for the colonialists to take action against their British rulers. Today, Levine argues, Americans are ruled by a tyrannical “corporatocracy” i.e. government by big business and for big business and his analysis of why the American people remain so passive in the face of such tyranny is smart, lucid, and passionate. Readers will also find, in his proposals for how the “people” today can stand up and “do battle” with the corporatocracy, a stirring call for action that surely needs to be heard.” Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic and Mad in America
Emotional CPR Participant Workbook (Book)
Developed with the assistance of diverse leaders from across the U.S.
Emotional CPR is a public health education program designed to teach people the skills to assist others through emotional crisis and regain a sense of hope and purpose in their lives. This workbook was developed for the eCPR certification training and provides a thoughtful discussion of the values of eCPR, the features of dialogue, and the primary components of eCPR: C = Connection, P = emPowering, and R = Revitalizing. Other sections include how to prepare oneself to provide eCPR as well as tips for self-care. The workbook is filled with inspiring quotes, real-life examples of embodying the practice of eCPR, sample instructions for role plays, and other exercises. The workbook is designed for anyone who may encounter a person in emotional crisis – law enforcement, mental health peers, mental health providers, family members, and others. If you are interested in learning more about eCPR, or would like to request an eCPR training, please visit www.emotional-cpr.org.
Coping with Voices Booklet
By Patricia Deegan, PhD
Self-help strategies for people who hear voices that are distressing
This self-help guide can help you gain control over or eliminate voices that are distressing. The 22 page booklet, includes 18 fully illustrated self-help strategies that can help you take a stand, find your own voice and reach your goals!
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RESURRECTION MISSION STATEMENT
LEARNING to meet the challenges of the future
GROWING in our Catholic faith and
BUILDING a better community.
At RCSS, we are not only a community committed to learning excellence but one that helps cultivate the holistic formation of all individuals who will be living witnesses to their faith. We support all our students in their subject areas not only by presenting knowledge and skills to be attained, but also truths and values to be discovered.
Waterloo Catholic District School Board Mission Statement
As Disciples of Christ, we educate and nurture hope in all learner to realize their full potential to transform God’s world.
Religious Accommodation
The vision of the WCDSB is, Our Catholic Schools…Heart of the community ~ success for each and a place for all
To ensure the realization of our vision, Resurrection will take all reasonable steps to accommodate an individual’s desire to honour their religious beliefs and practices. Such areas of accommodation may include recognized religious holidays, religious dress, and dietary or fasting requirements. The procedure for requesting an accommodation is as follows:
A written or verbal request for accommodation from the parent/guardian or student (in cases where the student is over 18) should be presented to the principal or vice-principal at, or as close as possible to, the beginning of the school year
The request for accommodation should describe the specific needs of the student
The principal or vice-principal will consider and confirm the accommodation with the parent/guardian, the student, and appropriate staff (i.e. attendance office, teachers, etc.)
Chaplaincy is one of the features that make us unique as a Catholic school. The Chaplain, representing the Catholic Church in its mission to evangelize staff and students, promotes Catholic-Christian values within the school. Chaplaincy provides the following services:
Peer Ministry/Bereavement Support/Crisis Intervention
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Staff faith development
The Chapel of the Resurrection is located on the second floor of our school. The Blessed Sacrament is reserved in the Tabernacle. Students and staff are invited to visit this sacred space to pray or reflect at any time during the school day. The Chapel features various stained glass windows created by both students and staff from our school community.
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By Editor Edison – CalPatty Press Editor for Revenge of the Ghost Wolf
Traditionally RAPE SEASON is fully underway this time of year at Glenville State College the small liberal arts college in Gilmer County West Virginia, which is known as having one of the worst academic records, if not “THE WORST,” in the entire state of West BY GOD Virginia.
The list of respected citizens and alumni who were so proud of GSC would fill a book. Many people that we know love and are related to graduated from GSC. Even my own grandmother, aunt, father and a cousin or two are graduates. It is painful for them to know that one of their own is so caught up in reporting how bad it has gotten. Or, even more importantly, to be frequently educating the public to all of the new dangers that have come with modern times! It all boils down to little known sociological term called eco-centrism and the uniqueness about GSC and Glenville. What is different about Glenville State College is that it teaches by example how to run a totalitarian form of government!
“Feudalism doesn’t get any better in West Virginia than in a place known to many as ‘Crooked County’ that is located down by the Crooked River… Glenville, West Virginia!’
It all has to make you wonder, what’s really going on?
Is the financial situation that bad?
Please don’t tell me that every girl at GSC is a slut and asked for it because the football players are just that cool.
We have learned this week that Football players at GSC are not RAP stars and they are not Michael Vick of the NFL, hell, our former QB Steffan COLON was also a former football player and a former student of a college that expelled his dumb ass for acting like a gangster, getting arrested, and then embarrassing the shit out of the college. Once the story hit the TV stations that cat was out of the bag, and the only place lower to go was Glenville, WV and GSC!!
How did GSC this once nationally respected school for Teachers drop to a fourth tier liberal arts poor excuse for an institution of higher learning? A college that boost admissions through no qualifications – if you play football! A college that teaches you how to deal your drugs and teaches you how to kick down – rape a girl or a brand new co-ed or five – and then bring your baby mama to the hotel to sling some hash and hide some stash!
Well one way is to get headlines like these …
Another GSC Football player is in jail for RAPE!
A QB Gabe Prophet for the Glenville State College Football team is behind bars for sexual assault charges. The incident allegedly occurred last Friday June 17, 2011 at his home.
“The definition of 1st degree sexual assault is forced penetration, causing
serious bodily injury, or use of a deadly weapon, but then I guess a big black hard dick could be considered a weapon and the preferred weapon used by students at the HOME of Rape and Murder in CROOKED COUNTY — Glenville State College!”
Gabriel Prophet, 22, was arraigned by Gilmer County Magistrate Robert Minigh on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 and is facing two felonies charges involving sexual assaults of 1st and 2nd degree. Why the GSC Football player was just booked into jail today, instead of right before or after the arraignment is unknown until the matter is looked into further.
Prophet is just one of many football players for GSC to be accused of rape, but there have been no convictions.
Prophet was booked at Central regional Jail today June 23, 2011.
Imprisonment Status: Pre-Trial Felon
Full Name: Prophet, Gabriel
Height: 6′ 2″
Birth Date: 2/2/1989
Booking Date: 06/23/2011
Facility: Central Regional Jail
Offender Court Order Information
Court Info Number Issuing Agency Location
11F55 AND 11F54 GILMER COUNTY – Bail Amount: $25,000.00
If your looking to rape a hot white chick at a local college you never have to look further than Glenville State College high on the hill overlooking Crooked County down by that Crooked River!
The victim who had the holy bejesus fucked out of her alleges that she was raped, and then sought treatment at Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital after the pounding by the QB of the GSC Football team from Washington DC. The criminal complaint stated that the victim “Feared for her life,” during the entire terrifying sexual attack!!
Rape cases are seldom carried forward in Gilmer County because they don’t want to tarnish the image of Glenville State College — and many rapes go unreported. Local law enforcement handled the Edwin Dale Kinnison rape case by the book, but it was never brought to trial after being in the court system for over a year!
Edwin Dale Kinnison should have been convicted of Rape as well as Erik Davis both students at GSC, but it is widely known that Glenville State College has become the home of rape in West Virginia! Crooked County has become as dangerous as the old west for rape and murder!!
Even if rape charges are carried forward Gilmer County doesn’t have a skilled enough prosecutor to win the case, as witnessed by the Glenville rape case of GSC football player Erik Davis!
The Erik Davis rape case was a real circus and Gerald B Hough got his ass kicked in court by defense attorney David Karickhoff of Sutton, WV in a case that should have found the rapist guilty, but Karickhoff is a far superior attorney than Hough will ever be.
If GSC wants to win again all they need to do is call David Karickhoff and the QB walks and GSC may be on their way to a half-way decent team again this year.
Although, they won’t have Crooked County Crook and Circuit Court Clerk David LAME Smith to hand pick a jury bound for acquittal!
For the jury that heard the famous Erik Davis rape case was rigged by Smith!!!
But, really all GABE has to do is make sure that Karickhoff is retained as defense counsel and Hough will lose another rape case, although Hough lied to a Parkersburg newspaper and stated he never lost a rape case!
Hough is no match for Dave Karickhoff or any other decent attorney and will lose because unless Gerry can cheat and pay some false witnesses like he was caught doing by title opinion in the “Travesty of Justice” case, Hough will lose every time!
“Way down here in Crooked County it seems one must serve the Church of Ike to get ahead. Man or woman must bow to Idols of Gold yet never own one in Gilmer County!”
A HISTORY of RAPE at Glenville State College in Gilmer County West Virginia!
The power elite business agenda we follow so blindly has promoted drug dealing, money laundering, book making, prostitution and the rape of our youngest and finest women, yet we sit like stones along the bank down by the Crooked River, with no reaction — as do the leaders that currently rule the roost. Our Gilmer County youth are victims of our own unwillingness to take responsibility for the results of a self serving political agenda. This brings one question to mind.
“When does the agenda to make these victims top priority become more important than protecting the GSC reputation and making money? “
16 Rapes TOTAL In ALL – Just like the Candles there on my wall!
The Sigma Omega Beta (SOB) frat house, Opie Watkins lured “AMANDA” the victim to Goodwin Hall at GSC she was served high proof alcohol mixed by Jayde Layne a student at GSC which contained a rape drug – Members of the non-academic achievers SOB GSC Fraternity are involved with the RAPE and a cover up!
Take me to the Crooked River and drop me in the water!
Dip me in the river, drop me in the water
Washing me down, washing me down!
To know our history in Gilmer County is to begin to see how to take up the struggle again. Acknowledging the sins of the past can help push us to stop and realize why we are failing to succeed in business and in life — And what needs done to GET BACK to where we once belonged. It should remind us to keep the promise of a future worth having for the next generation we must inevitably leave behind.
The GSC Co-ed who is a rape victim has a name, her name is Amanda, the girl who’s only mistake was to trust Opie Watkins – And she is appreciated for the fact her efforts in academics have been rewarded with good grades, for she is to be honored and respected, she is not an object for the pleasure of misguided male GSC students that should not even be allowed in the same room with this outstanding student for their poor performance in academics and ungodly drunken behavior, but if this student were to be raped at GSC the staff and faculty already have a history of backing the rapist all the way through the court system, become active in name calling — And in the last documented rape case, the victim was also threatened by the FERPA VIOLATOR himself Gilmer County Prosecutor Gerald B Hough and told to shut up!
There are many behaviors or actions in society that are punishable by law. The more serious of these are crimes of violence such as murder, forcible rape, robbery, and assault.
Jayde Layne with her SIGMA OMEGA BETA boyfriend wearing the FRAT T-Shirt, and we have had countless contacts today from a Sigma Omega Beta FRAT Member from GSC saying they had nothing to do with the rape, while there is one of their members grabbing onto the bitch Jayde Layne that mixed the alcohol with the date-rape drug in it that led to the rape of Amanda Smith. Oh yeah, y’all had nothing to do with it. We got countless mail from them saying that is not their frat house anymore, but of course it was around the time of the subsequent rapes and in the same time frame as the rape of Amanda Smith, so we searched our archives since Jayde Layne and all alleged guilty parties to the rapes have ripped their Facebook pages off the internet. That is kind of funny to us since we got everything we needed from those pages six months ago, so taking them down had no impact on our situation other than the general public can no longer cruise their pages getting names and evidence freely displayed on the FB page, like the dumbest asses from the Church Ike that ever came down the pike!!
Even though RAPE should be viewed by Gilmer County Law Enforcement as a violent act, the stereotype still persists of the victim contributing to his or her own victimization. We have heard all the excuses from all the unsolved rapes, which is ALL of them! Sheriff Metz is O for 16 in solving rapes and that is not a very good record!!
Rape victims being seen as contributing to their victimization and rape viewed as a private sexual act may be two reasons why rape often goes unreported, but especially unpunished in Gilmer County that leads the state of WV in unsolved and unpunished rapes!
Sometimes,Gilmer County, even brainwashed the victim to believe that stinking thinking bullshit and nothing is done by those investigating the crime to correct that wrong thinking. In fact it is encouraged!
Another stereotype is that rape is overwhelmingly perpetrated by a stranger, which is another load of crap fed to you by Gilmer County authorities who have become down right dangerous, with their unproven and untrue opinions.
It is documented that rapes committed by total strangers to the victims range from 42 to 53 percent of total rapes. The remaining percentage is done by friends, associates, or relatives of the victim. Rapes that occur between a victim and assailant known to one another are called acquaintance rape.
We all know about DATE RAPE, and some have even heard of marital rape but more recently Glenville State College and seemingly our law enforcement leaders have gone so far as to be complicit with GANG RAPE on campus and will not prosecute!
“There are no consequences what so ever for RAPE in Gilmer County, West Virginia, home to Glenville State College!”
Gang rape stands out as both heinous and frightening. Multiple sexual violations are enough to haunt anyone, but the ominous aspects of group dynamics that gang rape uncovers are even more sinister. We must understand that campus gang rape may also be called acquaintance rape because it most often occurs during a social get-together. Both the perpetrators and the victim know each other.
Recently a leader and in the criminal justice department was asked if they thought members of the SOB fraternity could commit the rape they are accused of being involved with in which Jordan Opie Watkins is the main suspect, and that person said, “Yes,” I think if they thought they could get away with it, as many have at GSC, Yes, I believe they were involved in raping that girl, but all I can really tell you about were the rumors I heard,” those were the words of an on campus leader and someone deserving of respect as told to the Supreme Commander of the Secret Seven Coalition. Photo above is of SOB fraternity members suspected of the rape of a co-ed that left her in the intensive care unit at Stonewall Jackson Hospital in Lewis County.
“When are we going to open our eyes and admit that people really are hurt by inappropriate sexual behaviors? When are we going to take responsibility and change the way business is done? We fought for it once before; do we not have the strength to fight now? When will we take back our morals, ethics and dignity?”
“When are we going to deny the officials at GSC and the POWER ELITE of Glenville to have another successful cover up!”
The address of the SOB Fright House “Frat House”(pictured above -first photo at top of this article) is 710 N. Lewis St. which is less than 1/2 mile from the intersection of W. Va. 5 and U.S. 33/119. A reverse search shows the address has a listed telephone number for Florence M. Shiflet.
However, when the number (304) 462-5570 was punched in SS investigators received a message saying the number is not in service, so if you know anything about the Secret Seven Coalition … you know the next thing we are going to say is we suspect this property is owned by the SLUM LORD himself Gerald B Hough for what more of a perfect owner could be picked for a palace of rape and humiliation?! A federal attorney requested a detailed list of all property owned by Gerald B Hough in Gilmer County — And we won’t be surprised if “Gerry” does own the “Fright House” and is making a profit on all the rape and mayhem going on at Glenville State College in Glenville, West Virginia the “Home of Rape and Murder!”
The SEXUAL ASSAULTS at GSC were first only reported by the SS and then finally the birth of the FREE PRESS in Glenville the GILMER FREE PRESS, the reports of HELL ON EARTH sexual torture soon was revealed to a mainstream audience while the local newspaper the Glenville Democrat makes it a policy not to report any negative news, but others say Dave Corcoran – Democrat Publisher and Editor is bought off like a Colombian Whore for a CIA agent while President Obama is having a fine vacation in Bogota!
The statistical majority of individuals who commit gang rape are reported to be young adults somewhere around the age of 23.
This crime is more common on college campuses just like Glenville State College,than it is in the larger school that are not in a lawless society like Glenville, West Virginia with its bought and paid for law enforcement, especially for the fact the ultimate authority Gilmer County is under is totalitarian leadership — ruled by the Church of Ike. Those who are usually involved in gang rape are members of a fraternity like the GSC SOB fraternity — or the famous GSC Football team who having a winning record and lead the State of WV in RAPE!
It is stated, with regard to publicized cases, that elite groups on campus are most likely to engage in group sexual assault. Take for example, that, football and basketball players have more prestige and status than baseball or soccer players and are more likely to be involved in gang rape. Social status is often implied with participation in certain fraternities. Many of these members view themselves as a cut above most students with more money, better cars, and better attire. This type of group identity may discourage moral self-assessment. The group mentality which downplays the importance of that moral compass can lead to the occurrence of gang rape by fraternity members.
In a group mentality no one individual in a gang rape believes that he is solely to blame for the crime taking place ..so the words of Jordan Opie Watkins, and his excuse of, “Things got out of hand,” just doesn’t cut it around here.
There is no doubt that GANG RAPE is group oriented. One reward of gang rape is described as camaraderie among the men involved. Other listed benefits include rapport, fellowship, and cooperation. Another primary motive, especially for group leaders, is to maintain an authoritative image within the group. Participation among the other members stem from indebtedness to or emotional dependency on the leader.
“What happens when Cowards and Bullies are put in power?”
“The answer is nothing. The same happens as what has already happened in Gilmer County. Around here and in surrounding counties too ..that is nothing happens, until some Nit Wit named Blankenship — whose County placed dead last in the state for performance in County Schools — comes in as a so-called expert, now that is another kind of RAPE!
No progress, no growth, no improvement of the human condition in Crooked County, not unless you are a member of the Church of IKE!”
When you put someone in power who will work on a set up basis, one who will not make decisions but follow orders like Larry Chapman former County Commissioner and blame their employees when that plan fails it is time to change the leadership model if anyone but the leaders is to survive. Lately when I heard the endless spewing forth of bullshit from Glen Ashley on the Gilmer Free Press, I thought to myself, how much is that bully boy piece of shit Larry Chapman paying this dumb son of a bitch!
Leaders are leaders whether male, female, old, young, formally educated, or schooled in hard knocks. Leadership either is or it isn’t present. Right now, today, we have far too many followers and little to no leadership in Gilmer County! The President of the Gilmer County Commission Brian Kennedy is a NO TALENT KNOW NOTHING and just as big of a “Little Bitch” as his wife Tara Kennedy who believes all of the FREE PRESS publications should be shut down!
“One good thing is that the Secret Seven Coalition of Central WV have exposed crimes and proven themselves resourceful and accurate in its reporting through superior leadership!”
However, under the power elite control with orders given by Sandy Pettit, we have a major leadership failing in Gilmer County and our population and business losses support this statement unequivocally.
We must stop putting people in place who have the ego to be the leader but do not have enough responsibility to take the blame, like Kennedy, Hess, Metz, Hough, R Terry Butcher, Timothy B Butcher, Peter Barr, Ike Morris and the list goes on and on!
“In a group mentality no one individual in a gang rape believes that he is solely to blame for the crime taking place .. so were the words of Jordan Opie Watkins, and his excuse of, “Things got out of hand,” just doesn’t cut it around here!”
Loss of individualism is encouraged to promote group spirit or to prompt behavior that is viewed as unacceptable, to promote a feeling of belonging and fitting in. Strong cohesion within a group eliminates the need for self control and guilt and instead gives that control to a group identity with its own histories and beliefs. It would stand to reason that if one’s group identity is stronger than one’s personal identity then acceptance of gang rape by the group would out-weigh one’s individual objections. When that group identity produces conformity then not only does watching the rape of an individual demonstrate the appropriateness of the behavior taking place but it also shows how it is done.
The Gas Station Man from Myrtle Beach South Carolina that Janice Weldon local Glenville Attorney and Associate of Peter Barr President of GSC and IL “Ike” Morris …brought to GSC named “Jordan Opie Watkins” that led the attack by the SOB’s is an alleged rapist of the Victim that was given Date Rape Drugs in Goodwin Hall
Individuals behaving within a brotherhood may perform acts that they would never do alone. It would not be unusual to find a person who is an upstanding citizen with no prior criminal record accused of being a perpetrator in a gang rape. This individual acting alone may have no known violent tendencies. The gang rapist may be no different from anyone considered “normal”. Membership in a cohesive group can break down one’s personal values and beliefs which can lend to the occurrence of gang rape.
There is definitely a positive correlation between traditional sex role attitudes and the prevalence of rape. How a female is perceived in the family role can determine a young male’s reaction when placed in such a situation.
Since a large proportion of gang rapes occur in or around college campuses it is important to address college policies and procedures that are set up to deal with acquaintance rape. The way in which administrators deal with rape cases that are brought to their attention usually determine the extent to which future cases will be reported. If a female student does not feel that she will be taken seriously by the college she might not report an assault.
It is important that college administration believes and makes it clearly known that sex is not something that men have a right to and if they disregard a woman’s wishes they will be held accountable for their actions. That does not happen at Glenville State College. Protect our good name and our job at all cost comes first in the mind of the administration. Protect the bosses legacy to save our job comes first in the mind of our law enforcement officials. Your sons and daughters come last as they do their best to discourage public consequences for perpetrators and think only of how this could affect the bottom line. They will say they are trying to save you from embarrassment and protect your good name. In reality, their status in the hierarchy is the only thing protected and all that matters. The long term damage done to your child is never taken into consideration.
The VICTIM of the RAPE in GOODWIN HALL at GSC actively being covered up by the college — Gilmer County Law Enforcement and GSC Public Safety officer Dan Bell says, the “Last thing I remember, I was holding a cup of a strong mixed drink of alcohol, and I could tell I was getting kind of drunk, and the next thing I know I am in the shower with 5 members of the SOB fraternity standing over me in the suite of Jordan Opie Watkins. Plenty of evidence existed that a rape took place, but the evidence they told me Dan Bell from GSC admitted losing, but people were there that were witnesses and I myself am a witness!”
Gang Rape is something that GSC college students should become informed about. With its prevalence on campus higher than in society as a whole gang rape should not be taken lightly. It is also an important issue that needs to be addressed by college administration and the right to safety of the students made a number one priority. The first task needs to be the steady breakdown of sexist attitudes. In our culture there still exists a rigid sex-role ideology in which the male role is more valued. If women step too far out of their prescribed sex-role they may be punished by rape or the threat of rape. This should not be a college level mind set. The second must be to discourage the group mentality thinking and encourage individualism.
Unless and until women are viewed as equals worthy of respect rape may never decrease considerably. These young women must learn their own value beyond that of a sex object from a very early age. They must learn that self respect and self protection is an entitlement, a right they must not let be denied and there is no amount of money which can buy those values. Until we teach our young men that the female is more than her sex and that wants must be controlled. Until we teach both genders that authority and power must be tempered with mercy and consideration for others and that their own personal dignity is priceless this story may never change. Until we value our youth more than material gain and refuse to accept this treatment of them, no man or woman in this county is worthy of being called “a leader”.
What really hurts even worse than the trauma of finding out your daughter or family member was almost killed for the sexual pleasure of Glenville State college students, is the knowing that if GSC were even close to being in a normal location other than Crooked County there would have been no need to worry about a vicious sexual assault that almost ended in death for your loved one and preferred student.
The GOOD OLE BOY SYSTEM here in Gilmer County often makes for poor choices for recommendations for sponsorship. A good example of this situation are import problem students like Jordan Opie Watkins who barely held a D average when brought to GSC by ELITE Sponsor Janice Weldon local attorney and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina socialite connection!
“Poor excuses for human beings that don’t really deserve a second chance — like OPIE seem to be under the belief that they have some sort of god given entitlement — And that they are allowed to rape a naive and somewhat young and innocent honor student – just starting her second year of college after an academic performance of straight A’s! “
If you are a parent of an unsuspecting CO-ED coming to Glenville State, the shock and horror of the inevitable …a Brutal Rape is compounded by the ultimate trauma that your daughter or close family member was raped in the Twilight ZONE!
Gerald B Hough just before making his first FERPA Violation so that he could threaten a RAPE VICTIM while he represented his client the alleged RAPIST WILKIE PEREZ who moved on to be a big football hero QB at WVU so might as well be a god at GSC if he was gonna be all that, well hell that means he could fuck any chick he wanted to in Glenville and he would get his own lawyer out of the deal and wouldn’t even have to pay for it!! Free SEX and a scholarship and can just take the first bitch he see’s sling her down to the ground slap the shit out of her until she is so terrified she may wet herself, but before that can happen Wilkie is headed in the out door and setting a precedent and soon to be guideline standard for a classic brutal sexual assault at Glenville State – The HOME of RAPE and Gerald B Hough on his way to being the Patron Saint of Sport Fucking beaten and unconscious women!!
“I’m GERRY HOUGH the Earl Scheib of RAPE at GSC, where male students can rape any girl, any time — day or night — for the cost of tuition!! Feel ups, and extras included in the foreplay at Goodwin Hall”
Raped in the TWILIGHT ZONE for the reason that the VICTIM soon finds out the evidence is conveniently lost on purpose — And for those reasons that there is no longer any evidence — the prosecutor Gerry Hough IS NOT going to pursue the matter!!
For that is how they do it down in Gilmer County… THE TWILIGHT
They are not very bright at GSC but do lead the state of WV in RAPE although cannot spell very well by this write up (above)in the GSC paper that goes with the photo of Gerry Hough appearing to be high as a kite!!
ZONE!! But even in the TWILIGHT ZONE a bad lawyer can get caught in the act of a FERPA Violation, but Gilmer County was not informed until recently when the matter was published in the West Virginia Record, and now we clearly can see why HOUGH filed a civil action against the author of this article, “Lawrence Smith,” who informed us all that even when caught in the Twilight Zone you can be held accountable!
News > State Supreme Court
Hough cautioned for ’98 FERPA violation
Date line 9/16/2011 By Lawrence Smith -Statehouse Bureau – The TRUTH about Gerald B Hough is now told!
CHARLESTON – Records show very early in his legal career, Gerry Hough was scolded by the Lawyer Disciplinary Board for violating federal law when he improperly accessed a Glenville State College student’s academic records in the course of representing her accused attacker in a sexual assault case.
The Board on Dec. 9, 2000, filed a one-count statement of charges against Hough for committing three violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct when he asked for, and received, a copy of Anita Phillips-Wiseman’s transcripts on Nov. 13, 1998. At the time, Hough was representing Wilkie Perez, a GSC student and quarterback of the football team, on charges he raped Phillips-Wiseman.
Jordan married Jordan recently, for that is Jordan Bennett who traveled to Georgia to marry Jordan Opie Watkins one of the alleged rapists at GSC — Jordan mixed the drinks with another GSC student Jayde Layne who said she should be the one to mix the drinks because her mother was a bartender, and mix those drinks they did, only the VICTIM had date rape drugs added to hers, so this victim was not only gang raped but set up by the girls, now that is a first!! …Or is it, in Crooked County down by the Crooked River!!
In the statement, which acts as an indictment for disciplinary purposes, the Board stated that Hough was also a member of the GSC faculty at the time he was representing Perez. Hough, the statement alleged, used his position on the faculty to mislead the GSC Registrar’s Office into getting a copy of Phillips-Wiseman’s transcripts for the sole purpose of aiding in Perez’s defense.
Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, strict limits are placed on disclosure of a student’s academic records, and who has access to them. Among those who are permitted access to a college student’s records, including his or her transcripts, is the student’s advisor.
According to the statement, at the time he requested her transcripts, Hough was not Phillips-Wiseman’s advisor. Because of that, the Board charged Hough with violating Rules dealing with truthfulness in statements to others, respect for the rights of third persons and misconduct.
Eventually, the Board on Aug. 4, 2004, opted to dismiss the charge, and “caution” Hough, who by this time had become Gilmer County’s prosecutor, for his conduct, and fine him $400. The reason for the Board’s decision was due to the fact that at the time of the incident, Hough had been a member of the state Bar for only a month, and, upon learning of his actions, Thomas Powell, GSC’s then-president, reprimanded Hough, and denied him a pay raise given to other GSC faculty and staff.
As part of the agreement to dismiss the charges, Hough, despite his initial denial, had to admit to them, and express remorse for his actions.
Records show the sexual assault charges against Perez were dismissed.
It was pointed out to us by one of the newest members of the Secret Seven Coalition, and if the situation was noticed, or overlooked prior to this day, well then, better that you get it in your head now how dire the conditions are at GSC when something so awful happens that you hope nobody ever finds out about it.
What they don’t want you to know at GSC is that the same week, that when the mainstream press announced that the Edwin Dale Kinnison rape case was dropped by Hough within a matter of days of that announcement another brutal rape took place and was first mentioned in the Gilmer Free Press as a comment left by relatives of the rape victim and also mentioned in this RGW Article:
More RAPES at GLENVILLE STATE COLLEGE and more cover ups! Gilmer County SEX SCANDALS in review!!
I heard about a girl being drugged and raped at GSC just a couple months ago in a dorm room at Goodwin Hall… She had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance after she was found in critical condition, ended up in ICU for a few days. All the evidence needed, was gathered from the room… as she was being transported. I am going to predict GSC, Mr.Bell and Hough all three… try and cover this one up… even though there are witnesses and evidence… not to mention the victim!!! GSC has a responsibility to it’s students and the public to inform them of such criminal activities… but has done nothing about this one either… One would think… GSC would want to be known as the #1 college that puts their students safety first… above all else… instead of the #1 college that covers up crimes!!! As far as the Law in Glenville… what a joke!!!
By Squaw on 12.07.2010
From the entry: ‘Gilmer County Prosecutor Lets the GSC Rape Case Go‘.
Rodney L Smith was allowed into the room with Traci Kelley (shown in this photo) and Kayla Jarvis,Rodney asked her if she wanted to have sex & KELLEY said NO NEGRO Smith then proceeded to grab the breasts of Traci Kelley which was turning into something more than just copping a feel according to the eye witness at the scene. Things started getting OUT of HAND and IN HAND too roughly, roundly and most soundly! Another BLACK MAN at GSC had just got himself a piece of white breast and we ain’t talkin no chicken neither, that Rooster was gonna booster that chick when KAYLA JARVIS ran out of the room to go get help!!
Hough, Bell,and local law enforcement are corrupt.
My stepdaughter was drugged and WHO knows what else. Hough sent my wife a letter stating that evidence has been lost.
Bell is an ASS.
He is not a law enforcement officer.
He has been bought by the college.
Maybe he needs a taste of what he is putting our kids through.
FATE WILL COME FULL CIRCLE!!!
By hiphappens – P-Burg on 12.06.2010
Please send the facts of that rape in which the girl was drugged and info involving allegations of a cover up to:
secretsevencoalition@gmail.com
The Central WV SS has been reporting on and publishing stories on rapes that were covered up by GSC since Timothy Butcher, then foundation President and City Attorney disturbed the routine questioning of the rape suspect Erik Davis just before we witnessed the tragedy of Justice when the GSC Football player was found innocent of raping an underage high school girl whose reputation was trashed for the convenience of the Power Elite not to mention her virtue sold like some type of unnecessary White Trash
By Anonymous on 12.07.2010
What we did not know when the Above ran on the Free Press that just at the same time the Gilmer County Prosecutor let the rape case go (which you can review by clicking the green link above) there was another rape even more brutal and vicious that almost ended in the death of an honor student!
“It was like a sign from GOD just as one rape is covered up officially … slam bam thank you for some all night sex with an unconscious beauty it happens immediately again!”
Only this time this latest RAPE DISCOVERY has been exposed by the West Virginia SS and we are informing all Concerned Citizens by publishing this Sunday nights article that GSC signed a 12 page Resolution with the OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS at the beginning of 2012 because of the rape of AMANDA?!
Several steps must be followed which will include the reopening of the case, although Gerry Hough went to great lengths to cover up this brutal sexual assault along with DAN BELL — the public safety officer from GSC that was told to lose the evidence!
An investigator states ….
” It is apparent that law enforcement botched the investigation from the BEGINNING!”
Several documents are currently available to verify this information.
The beautiful VICTIM of rape was also denied civil rights by being denied access to her complete medical file at Stonewall Jackson Hospital ! Hospital officials are complying with the cover up to keep from being liable.
Some students got sent some money from home,and students decided to buy the strongest alcohol the money could buy. The RAPE happened in a suite in Goodwin Hall occupied by Jordan OPIE Watkins who was brought to GSC by local attorney Janice Weldon – The VICTIM, “Amanda” was given a cup of alcohol laced with date rape drugs and ended up in an ambulance, flat lining and in intensive care after the brutal rape that also involved several members of the SOB fraternity!
Meghan Ruddlesden shown in this photo was contacted by the SC of the SS and asked if she could please support AMANDA SMITH in her federal lawsuit filed against GSC.SMITH who was raped just 12 days before Meghan reported her rape, is seeking damages from the school and students that assisted in the rape and from the alleged rapist. Amanda was injured and almost died from the drugs and alcohol that were used in the sexual attack on her in Goodwin Hall on Campus, not long after the official opening of the dorm!
The suppression of females in leadership positions is a political struggle, first and secondly a class struggle, especially in Gilmer County, and especially at GSC where Glenville State College is #1 in RAPE leading WV — But is number 73 out of 73 schools dead last in academics.
Lower class movements which have struggled to be free from the established authorities. Some like Amanda have risen up through the ranks to be an honor student — that is someone to be proud of and someone to look up to which we have so proudly displayed at the top of the page!
The Church of Ike serves the ruling class in the politics of business, and the politics of politics and has the whole fucking state of West Virginia wired in with the greased pockets of Phil Reale who makes sure that he lobby’s all the Charleston press for the GOOD IMAGE of GSC and Gilmer County, so the Power Elite covered up yet another rape, but this time they covered up a rape of someone that could be the Miss America of our fine state for all that she has accomplished and for all the fine friends she has made!
“Think of all the things we could have had until those SOB’s RAPED AMANDA and it was really bad!”
“She cried, then nearly died, and I can still hear her say…”
Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Take me to the river, dip me in the water
Washing me down, washing me down
I don’t know why you treat me so bad
Think of all the things we could have had
Rape is an ocean that I can’t forget
And the SS haven’t got all you yet…
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BACK TO SCHOOL AT GSC – CLASS STARTS TODAY FOLLOWED BY WHITE ASS RAPE TONIGHT!! Glenville State College is #1 in RAPE in the State of West Virginia, but last in Academics for Southern Colleges!
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TODAY Friday, August 15th, 2014 marks the day which is the official kick off day for Move-In Weekend at Glenville State College and classes officially begin on Monday, August 18th.
MONDAY August 18th is the first official day of classes and asses waiting to be raped like a BITCH at GSC! Which one of these Glenville State College co-eds will be the next victim of sexual assault
In HONOR of this special event Revenge of the Ghost Wolf and the Central West Virginia Secret Seven Coalition hereby republish our BACK to SCHOOL at GSC article from August 19th 2013.
Glenville State College in Gilmer County, West Virginia is near dead last in academics in the State, but leads all the rest of the colleges for the number of alleged sexual assaults with ZERO convictions!!! Since the infamous Erik Davis RAPE case in 2006 more than 20 sexual assaults have met with NO CONVICTIONS due to the fact the county prosecutor Gerald B Hough a ferpa violator has no interest in prosecuting a rape case for the reason of possibly damaging the image of the college sometimes known as the FRIGHT HOUSE on the hill.
By Editor Edison – CalPatty Press Editor/Lawrence Smith – GSC Free Press/Winnie the JEW with news and the latest from the GSC Campus
Glenville State College known for its multiple rapes and the fact there has been no convictions, and school officials actually work against the rape victim and for the rapist ruining countless lives all for the sake of trying to disguise a quite ugly mess known as Glenville State College its Board of Governors and ship full of fools running that freak show high on the hill overlooking Crooked County down by the Crooked River!
“MONDAY AUGUST 19th 2013, TODAY …is the day that gets us back to class and some more WHITE ASS at Glenville State College located high atop the county seat of Glenville, in Gilmer County which is referred to as far away as Charleston as CROOKED COUNTY!”
“IT IS NOT Safe for any female at Glenville State College,”
..said rape victim Amanda Smith that filed a civil action for her rape on campus in US District Court in an effort to EXPOSE corrupt GSC school officials and local law enforcement.
RAPE after RAPE after RAPE has taken place at Glenville State for years and not one god damn thing has been done about it by local law enforcement who were stupid enough to follow those bullshit orders from Sandy Pettit of WACO OIL who claim ownership rights to the town,the college, and the county!
Now those same law enforcement officers may be ridiculed their entire lives in the national press for ruining several young girls like Mary Hudnall who was raped by a quarterback of the Glenville State Football team, Mary who we all saw at GO MART everyday since she worked there was doing it right, she was working,going to class and doing well in school, that is until she was viciously RAPED in Glenville — And then she saw that RAPE TEAM in action that was assisted by the Gilmer County Sheriff who also should be charged with aiding and assisting in the wrongdoing for all the harm the law enforcement agency caused and all the lives that were ruined as a result!!
Gabe Prophet getting fucked up and ready to rape some more bitches like he did MARY HUDNALL at GSC since he can since it is all part of the GSC football program plan where they recruit black criminals like their GSC quarterback Justin Feagin from a BIG TEN college where he was busted for dealing COCAINE!! Thanks IKE !!!
The local courts often cooperate as to not give the college a bad image, when in reality GSC should be closed for the crimes already committed against women there, with the full cooperation of campus police, in fact, campus police, or rather the Public Safety Department have been accused of RAPE at Glenville State and have assisted the rapist by losing evidence on almost every single rape case that has ever been told about up at that FRIGHT HOUSE on the hill!
“Just think boys, if I was a student at GSC, and I was a freshman, I would get raped faster than Meghan Ruddlesden did, during freshman orientation, HELL YEAH, the GSC staff and faculty would let my ASS get it all day and all night and not do a fucking thing about it but cover up the evidence, and or participate themselves like several members of the public Safety Department at GSC have already been accused of!”Meghan Ruddlesden was raped Aug 22 of her freshman year after meeting football player O’Neil Blake at a freshman orientation.
Lets review the latest documented RAPE CASE of which happened on 12-12-12. THREE OTHER rapes have taken place since then!
The Rodney Smith rape and sexual assault case has led to cooperation of the local courts in attempt to KILL the case in favor of the rapist and also has led to a situation in which the local Secret Seven Coalition have noticed the court appearances have also been manipulated to defeat the case in favor of the rapist as usual. This type of BAD BEHAVIOR is par for the course for any judge or magistrate in Gilmer County, but if you really want to play ball in Glenville, you have to be willing to make up your own rules and break the law, just like Gerry Hough who got started protecting the rapist and attacking the rape victim as far back as 1998.
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(Click green links for official court documents on this sexual assault at GSC)
GSC student charged with kidnapping, sex assault
A Virginia man is accused of attempting to rape a Glenville State College co-ed in her dorm room during final examinations last week.
Campus police on Thursday, Dec. 13 arrested, and charged Rodney Lionel Smith,Jr. for attempting to sexually assault a fellow GSC student. The charges stem from an incident the day before when police say Smith, 19, of Manassas, Va., invited himself in the dorm room of Traci Kelly, and Kayla Jarvis where he then, despite being repeatedly rebuffed, attempted to have sex with Kelly.
According to the criminal complaint filed by GSC Public Safety Officer Samuel W. Cutlip,
Smith at an unspecified time on Wednesday, Dec. 12 knocked on Kelly and Jarvis’ dorm room door. The complaint does not specify if they were residing in Pickens or Goodwin halls or Pioneer Village.
Nevertheless, at the time, Kelly and Jarvis were “getting ready for finals and watching movies.” When Smith said he wanted to watch movies with them, Kelly said it was okay to let him come in.
According to the complaint, Smith shortly thereafter put his arm around Kelly, and asked her if she had a boyfriend. Despite Kelly telling him she did, and was “very happy,” Smith then asked her if she wanted to have sex.
Though she told him no, Smith began touching Kelly’s breast. At that point, the complaint says Jarvis determined things “were getting out of hand, and went to get help.”
Sometime after Jarvis left, Kelly alleges Smith asked her to perform oral sex on him. After telling him no, and moving into the shower, the complaint states Smith “pinned her against the wall.”
In the course of pinning her against the wall, Smith unzipped his pants, and exposed his penis. After breaking free from his grasp, Kelly says Smith “got between her and the door so she couldn’t leave.”
Next, Smith began pulling Kelly’s pants while she “went to the closet to get her clothes.” Just as Smith was about to force himself on Kelly, the complaint says Jarvis “came in the room with some help.”
The complaint is unclear who arrived back in the dorm room with Jarvis to help Kelly thwart Smith’s attack. Nevertheless, it resulted in him “leaving the room.”
Following his arrest, records show Smith was charged in Gilmer Magistrate Court on one count each of kidnapping, and attempted sexual assault in the second degree. After he was taken to the Central Regional Jail in Sutton, Smith was released on $50,000 bond.
The case was assigned to Magistrate Carol Wolfe, and believe you me WOLFE has no intention of doing her job, or moving the case forward, she has every intention of breaking every rule there is to see this man gets another chance at WHITE PUSSY for FREE at GSC!
Gilmer Magistrate Court, case numbers 12-F-175-176
The Council of Concerned Citizens have also said that,
“Magistrate Carol Wolfe has no intention of seeing this RAPE CASE prosecuted she just wants that NEGRO out of her court and off of her plate of things to do before any of the local journalist for the SS find out what she is up to and then EXPOSE her to the public for it!”
Well what we have here is another person, “CAROL WOLFE” willing to IGNORE the LAW and play ball with the Church of IKE. SS members have vowed to run that dumb bitch Magistrate Carol Wolfe the fuck out of Gilmer County if we catch her even bending one fucking rule and we feel she has already fully committed to getting rid of this case, which means WOLFE is as dishonest as the rape itself and just as ugly. We may tell the truth about her little cock sucking husband in the national press, the alleged pedophile whom she has tried to protect all these years, that story may go national too, when the shit hits the fan soon in Gilmer County, WV. We have kept quiet about it all, but the info will be appropriate while explaining the HISTORY of corruption in Gilmer County, West Virginia which CAN’T be denied.
REAL MEN Don’t Rape!” …says the 4-Star Supreme Commander of the Central West Virginia Secret Seven Coalition sharing some of his stars with the girls at the BACK to SCHOOL party
“Make Love, not War” was obviously the theme of the documented get together with the Fire Starting CULT who were late, but recently they decided that maybe Glenville State College needed a little heating up in regard to their attitude about raping young innocent college co-eds, first time at school and away from home.
“Now get those stars off you!”
“It is time to take me to class and so let’s go get that ASS up on the hill, and we won’t even have to take a pill because y’all are already in the mood!”
WE HOPE TO FRY SOME PEOPLE IN THE NATIONAL PRESS At Glenville State College SINCE THE SC of the SS has spent hours in conference calls to MAJOR MARKET news outlets and one of them is keeping their eye on Glenville and we may break this RAPE STORY nationally, since the members of the public safety office are accused of breaking the law and covering up evidence.
Gerald B Hough the Gilmer County Prosecutor has done more than cover up evidence, you can verify facts for yourself that Hough has actively attacked the RAPE VICTIMS while protecting the rapist by reading this article written by SS Captain Lawrence Smith.
By Lawrence Smith
Gerald B Hough as prosecutor of Gilmer County has brought false cases against journalists, like award winning major market California Broadcaster Jim West aka Dan Bingman by declaring old used rusted farm equipment that sat on their farm for 25 years as brand new and stolen. Since then Judge Richard Facemire and Hough have teamed up to attack and bring to court on false civil actions Dave Ramezan of the GFP and Lawrence Smith a journalist from Charleston.
These charges being dismissed issue set a trend as far back as 15 years ago, and in all of the 15 years there has NOT BEEN ONE RAPE CONVICTION — BUT YET COUNTLESS RAPES are now history and it has all been covered up by an irresponsible school which should pay the price, and be held accountable along with an unlawful Gilmer County Sheriff who should also be held accountable, for not even investigating the rapes which is beyond pathetic.
Artistic rendition of the RAPE of Amanda Smith in the room of Jordan Neal (Opie) Watkins, who at one time put his clothing on her using the excuse that she had vomited, but later his clothes were also removed during the sexual assault. The rape was aided by a lethal dose of drugs and alcohol. NO FEMALE IS SAFE at Glenville State College according to RAPE victims AMANDA SMITH and MARY HUDNALL was brutally attacked and raped horribly while beaten by a quarterback from the GSC football team by the name of GABE PROPHET.Negro football players brag about all the white pussy they get at GSC & there is so much they can just take it with no consequence since the law enforcement in Gilmer County is corrupted & has not prosecuted even ONE of the countless rapes at Glenville State College to protect the image of the school. School officials,Sheriff Metz (who will later deny this happened under his watch)and Gerald B Hough Gilmer County Prosecutor should all be jailed for their active roles in the cover up of sexual assault and brutal rape on campus and off.
DO WE HAVE A WHOLE YEAR OF RAPE to LOOK FORWARD TO AT GSC or are the citizens going to rise up and take control?
This year we intend on going after all those that participate in a rape cover up, and wouldn’t it be nice if those that are guilty could get raped for their awful actions of the past.
What goes around comes around!
The REVENGE Of the GHOST WOLF, there is nothing like it, better be a lookin over that shoulder and listening for a fast moving pack!
God damn it, Glenville State College officials like RAPE and that is why the State Police and the Gilmer County Sheriff don’t say a fucking word about it. With all the RAPES in the last 15 years, not one was prosecuted, and Gerry Hough actually has been documented defending the rapist while trying his best to destroy the victim. Here in Glenville the POWER ELITE KIDS get turned out into Sexual Deviants at a young age. DRUGS SEX and ROCK n ROLL it might as well be a major at Glenville State! FUCK YOUR MORALS wasn’t that the MOTTO of the BUTCHER BITCHES? And their DADDY was on the BOARD of GOVERNORS at GSC. Concerned Citizens, this Glenville College CO-ED says “RAPE ME” and lets have some god damn fun like the Butcher Bitches do. By the way RAPE must be legal here in Gilmer County because the cops have not convicted one person for RAPE yet!!
UPDATE AUGUST 25th SUNDAY – The FOOTBALL TEAM at GSC…HAS SOME CREAM!!! RAPE RAPE RAPE it is all GOOD at the FRIGHT HOUSE on the HILL – GLENVILLE STATE COLLEGE
GSC PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER AND FORMER WVU FOOTBALL PLAYER Cymone Andrae Wright was arrested in the early morning hours on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 by the Gilmer County Sheriff Deputy Cason Jones in night time burglary attempted RAPE in Glenville — The SS has reports this man did rape a co-ed that left the college for being raped by this man on campus after midnight on school grounds, and he is currently being sought for questioning. When you are raped by uniformed campus police the situation had grown beyond dire and the only remedy is the Ghost Wolf of Gilmer County
MARTIN LUTHER KING SPEECH – “I Have A Dream”was 50 years ago and NOW EVERY DAY is Martin Luther King Day in Gilmer County!
Football team QB Gabe Prophet fucked the holy bejesus out of GSC student Mary Hudnall and the Council of Conservative Citizens are lookin to speak personally with Gabe about that rape, there are a few questions that needed to be asked, and maybe if a negro or two like this black man had to face some pissed off white folk and some consequences like a bad hog on the farm, maybe things would have a hope of changing at GSC.
Wilkie Perez the GSC RAPIST QB that was named as the attacker of Anita Wiseman and also was the case in which Gerald B Hough the Gilmer County Prosecutor was cited for his FERPA violation for illegally obtaining records of the RAPE VICTIM to hurt her while he protected the rapist. This proves Hough is a dishonest piece of shit and needs to be run out of Gilmer County forever — Hough’s house did not sell, so even though he was told to leave Gilmer County he has not.
More than a quarter-million people came to the nation’s capital on August 28, 1963, to protest discrimination, joblessness and economic inequality faced by millions of African Americans, but now the shoe is on the other foot and it is WHITE AMERICA that suffers!
Many consider the march and Martin Lither King’s “I Have a Dream” speech a turning point in the civil rights movement, but what it has done in Glenville, West Virginia is an outrage for now every day is Martin Luther King day in Gilmer County home of Glenville State College, whose President Barr authorizes the infamous Barr Code.
Fifty years later, although progress has been made, the nation remains racially and politically divided, much of it linked to America having a black president, and then there is the BARR CODE up at GSC, the Peter Barr code, “Don’t lay on your back unless he is BLACK!”
Being released is “The Butler,” a film about a real-to-life long-serving butler to presidents since Harry Truman, which reflects on his traumatized family in America’s south, but now the traumatized families are MIDDLE CLASS and POOR WHITES!!
The film is based on stories written by former Charleston Gazette copy editor Will Haywood, now with the Washington Post, but where is the representation for the hard working white man living in a West Virginia POLICE STATE first implemented by a corrupt and lawless governor by the name of Joe Manchin. To make matters worse, now we have top-dog replacement Earl Ray Tomblin who brings a who’s who history of corruption to the West Virginia’s Governor office.
The black film captures the sweep of racism and how a gentle, black man “learned his place” as a butler, widely adored by American presidents, but where is the film of the white man, and even educated professional white man that is brought before the courts on false charges, but charges that were knowingly false.
In days long in the past in the Village of Hur, the hillbilly community the Hur Herald is named after, the Hicks family who lived in one of two Calhoun black communities, had “learned their place,” always refusing invitations by local residents to “come on in,” a modest four-room house to warm themselves or have a cup of coffee. No minglin with white or black back then.
GSC Football team member Erik Davis got to fuck the bejesus out of a 17 year old high school girl in Glenville that was drunk all doped up and fucked like a black cat in the back alley as she screamed no which only got her pussy rubbed harder by a negro wanted on COCAINE charges in FLA – this case was rigged by Gilmer County — READ ALL ABOUT IT in old issues of the CalPatty Press!
When passing by with a horse and sled going to the store, they would stop and talk from the road, and occasionally sit on a roadside bank, then black folk knowing their place, but that is not what things are like in modern day.
Watch this rape suspect closely while GSC covers up another sexual assault but this one is frustrating because Rodney Smith shown in the picture never got a nut and just danced around a lot with his dick out rubbing it up against the victim and was about to throw her down and shove it in when a Resident Assistant walked in and said whose penis is that? Put that penis away, and now the local Crooked County Courts are gonna bungle it in the jungle and then the SS is going to have its way with that particular magistrate, and they will be exposed fully for their crime against humanity!
Some back then, could not understand why, because ones extended family thought highly of them.
Now what crazy town folk are proud to say, as a young man I walked with the “Negroes” in their quest to be treated like the rest of us, hell they invited me to a couple of their RAPE PARTIES up at Glenville State College!
GLENVILLE STATE COLLEGE NUMBER ONE IN RAPE SINCE WILKIE PEREZ WAS QB OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM – GSC IS NUMBER ONE IN RAPE AND LAST IN ACADEMICS AND OFTEN FILLED WITH BOARD OF GOVERNOR MEMBERS WITH EXPIRED TERMS LIKE THE CURRENT BOARD OF GOVERNOR MEMBER TIMOTHY B BUTCHER THE UNCLE TO THE INFAMOUS BUTCHER BITCHES WHO OFTEN HUNG OUT THE SEXUAL INVITATION OF “RAPE ME” JUST BY THE CLOTHES THEY WEAR AND THE CUM IN THEIR HAIR!!
King’s quest for his people still has a long way to go, given powerfully in one of the greatest speeches in American history – “I Have a Dream.”
But KING can rest easy now that the GSC football team, has made a mockery of that slogan with their, “I have some Cream..” offer to the countless rape victims at Glenville State College.
August 26th Report on Crooked County Attorney F John Oshoway
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CHARLESTON – Along with a mild rebuke, a Calhoun County attorney has been ordered to compensate a New York woman who alleged he misrepresented her interests in a dispute over her late father’s estate in neighboring Gilmer County.
The investigative panel of the Lawyer Disciplinary Board on July 7 closed Marlea Cottrill’s ethics complaint against F. John Oshoway. Though the panel determined he committed no violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct, Charles J. Kaiser, Jr., the panel’s chairman, said Oshoway was wrong to charge Cottrill for work he performed after she dismissed him.
Along with an order to repay Cottrill $262.50 within the next 60 days, the panel instructed Oshoway, 61 and a sole practitioner in Granstville, to “take steps to improve his office polices and procedures,” with a warning that “any similar conduct in the future will result in sanction.”
In her complaint filed April 12, 2012, Cottrill, 52 and a Jordan, N.Y., resident, alleged after hiring him “in a panic,” Oshoway did little, if any work, to represent her interests in a suit to quiet title her brother-in-law, Michael Murphy as executor to the estate of her father, Willard, filed in Gilmer Circuit Court against Ruth Mitchell, Willard’s live-in companion.
Since he did not properly create a life estate for Mitchell in his will, the suit sought to have her evicted from the home she shared with Willard prior to his death on Oct. 20, 2010.
Despite not living on the property in Linn, and an heir to the estate, the suit named Cottrill as a co-defendant.
From the time she hired him in August 2011 until she discharged him seven months later, Cottrill said Oshoway failed to communicate with her about not only the status of the suit but also its implications. In her complaint, Cottrill went so far as to accuse Oshoway of engaging in “legal tomfoolery” for the lack of work he did after paying him a retainer of $2,000.
Cottrill said she kept abreast of the case via Mitchell, who forwarded her pleadings filed in case she received from her attorney, Dan Grindo.
Last August, Judge Jack Alsop granted summary judgment in favor of Mitchell, finding that Willard Cottrill’s last will and testament was clear enough that she was allowed to remain on the property as long as she desired.
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Firaaq – Episode 11
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We can finally stop guessing what is wrong with Imroze because the cat is out of the bag. Imroze’s reaction was not surprising at all because we are all well aware of how negative he is by now, even the positive streak in him that was revealed when he asked Roomi to let Paymaan think that he left her because he was not loyal to her was not very convincing. A man must have a very big heart to make such a sacrifice even if he is about to die. We can only wonder if Imroze loved Paymaan enough to put himself through all this pain in order to ensure that his wife can move on and have a happy life because from the very first scene to the last one of Imroze and Paymaan’s life together we never saw them happy. Paymaan always felt like she was not good enough or that Imroze did not love her enough. Imroze’s character will most probably make its exit in the next episode and I still feel like the viewers weren’t even introduced to his character properly unlike all the other characters in the play. It is somewhat ironic that the writer and the director managed to cover the smallest details about the past and present of the side characters brilliantly without leaving any loop holes but failed to do the same for the man who is going to play a major role in changing the life of our leading lady. So, Imroze was all alone in this world after all, he did not have an ugly past or a dirty secret …. basically there wasn’t much to his character at all except that he was lonely, depressed, insecure and now very sick too and he only entered Paymaan’s life only to ruin it forever!
Poor Roomi has yet again been given a huge responsibility and like a good friend he only questions Imroze’s future plans instead of revealing the truth to Paymaan. Roomi tried to make Imroze realize that he was being unfair to Paymaan but Imroze just wants to go away so that Roomi and Paymaan can have a happy life!! I must say that Imroze’s character had potential, if we could have been shown the good and the bad in him but all we saw was a lot of negativity which basically makes it impossible for me to feel for his character.
Tabbasum, Haider, Shams and Sara finally got their happy ending. It was quite predictable what Tabbasum had in store for Shams but the complete change in Shams’ stance regarding having a child came as a good surprise. It was good to see Tabbasum and Haider dance in joy but even these two loveable characters could not keep my interest in the story alive tonight. Things keep on moving forward in Firaaq but do they really make you look forward to more? I have to say not at all. There is too much talking in the play and most importantly our leading lady has become very dull. Tabbasum wants to mend fences with her daughter next and honestly speaking I am not looking forward to it one bit! Can Paymaan be any more berung? Do I want to see Roomi playing the savior yet again? I guess not! Roomi’s character is sweet but the story is too predictable and there is hardly any chemistry between Sanam Saeed and Noor Hassan. Why would someone like Roomi want to be with someone like Paymaan? I hope that the drama gives us something new and entertaining to watch in the upcoming episodes because for now there isn’t much I can connect to. The highlight of tonight’s episode was Shams and Sara’s reunion and it was nice to see Sara wearing Tabbasum’s wedding dress. Honestly speaking, I couldn’t care less about what was going on in the lives of our main protagonists – which is sad!!
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Dr Sonia Sharp fresh problems in Australia!
Ex-Rotherham Council children’s director under review by new Australian bosses
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/ex-rotherham-council-children-s-director-under-review-by-new-australian-bosses-1-7167113
Previously (late December 2014)
Victorian education official Sonia Sharp sidelined over UK sex abuse cases
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/victorian-education-official-sonia-sharp-sidelined-over-uk-sex-abuse-cases/story-fni0fit3-1227162902857
Labor backs down on pledge to remove education deputy secretary Dr Sonia Sharp
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/labor-backs-down-on-pledge-to-remove-education-deputy-secretary-dr-sonia-sharp-20141220-12b6ld.html
Research provided by Regular Reader
This may well be of interest to readers, Common Purpose – Sharp Practice, available as a .pdf download/read, click here.
Crikey Sonia!
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4 thoughts on “Dr Sonia Sharp fresh problems in Australia!”
R. Wilde on March 21, 2015 at 6:39 pm said:
Somehow I don’t think things are getting any better for her:
“Sonia Sharp – who was director of children’s services in Rotherham between 2005 and 2008 and THEN HELD A SIMILAR POST IN SHEFFIELD FOR FOUR YEARS”
Sonia Sharp:
“I regret every case of exploitation of vulnerable girls that was not prevented, but feel strongly our collective efforts led to gradual but essential improvements in the situation for many young people.”
I would imagine 1400+ victims would strongly disagree with that statement.
Well clearly this woman was totally inept at her job in Rotherham and now as we are finding out in Sheffield. she must have thought by legging it to Australia, enough distance and time would’ve been put between the scandals and her past. But has were finding out about Cyril Smith, eventually everything comes out.
You shut the **** up about Sonia she’s a good person
rothpol on September 7, 2015 at 7:50 pm said:
Sonia’s record speaks for itself, she condemned many children to suffer appalling abuse, while she was in Rotherham. Australia was welcome to her!
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Written on January 27, 2014 by Russ
Mark of a New Trilogy … or Aperitif? Chris Daughtry’s ‘Baptized’
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Some movie trilogies peak in the middle, such as The Empire Strikes Back, the second installment of the Star Wars saga. And others really nail it in the final outing, as with The Return of the King, the third movie in The Lord of the Rings epic.
The same principle can hold true in music.
Chris Daughtry burst on the scene in ‘06 with the solid, self-titled rock album Daughtry, after he rose to fame with his run on American Idol. The band’s follow-up album, Leave this Town, was an overall improvement, although very similar in feel and tone to the first.
But much like with The Lord of the Rings, Chris and the boys really brought it all together with his third — and IMHO, best album — the vastly underrated and underappreciated Break the Spell. A combination of soaring guitars, falsetto choruses, sing-alongs, and rolling thunder.
So how does this tie back to the movies?
Intentional or not, Daughtry’s first three albums form a trilogy — an evolution of musical creativity, telling one, longer epic story with a beginning, middle, and end. The first song on Daughtry? The ironically titled It’s Not Over. The final song on Break the Spell? Spaceship. That’s quite an evolution.
And now the boys are back with their fourth album, Baptized.
The title is no accident. Chris has re-emerged with a completely different kind of album. Gone (for the most part) is the growling rocker, replaced instead with a pop storyteller, as if Chris called upon his inner Rhianna, Fun!, and Katy Perry, and comingled them with his matured Hall of Fame voice, more engaging and emotionally resonant than ever.
Click here for my album review.
But with this bold new sound, a question comes to mind: Is Baptized now the beginning of a new trilogy of albums? Is this the new mojo we can expect from him? Or is Baptized an aperitif? A palate cleanser? A way for Chris to internalize the first trilogy of albums, take a (mostly) fun-filled getaway, and move on from them as an artist, so that he can emerge with an even more fully realized writing style?
But regardless of whether we’re experiencing the first installment of a new trilogy, or just a one-off album … I’m strapped in, like a Renegade, along for the ride.
It is said that even the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Where will Chris’ travels take us next? Have we really been Baptized?
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Lucifer S03E22 Review – All Hands on Decker
May 3, 2018 · by rustysoapbox · in Article. ·
That finale is not so far away now and once again, this episode moves things forward but not by much. It pretty much sort of rights the wrongs of last weeks episode. But not entirely. Let me explain.
The fallout is still settling from the explosion of Chloe and Pierce’s engagement. They have both agreed that they want to get married as quickly as possible and Lucifer reacts in the most peculiar way possible… even for Lucifer. Whilst Chloe goes on leave to prepare for the wedding, Lucifer has to work with Dan on a murder at a dog show. As ever, the case isn’t very interesting but Lucifer’s behaviour is beginning to border the same region. He has decided that he must act like Chloe in order to understand her decision to marry Pierce and at the same time, Amenadiel and Charlotte Richards hatch the important plan to break up the happy couple.
Divide and Conquer is basically the plan. Charlotte Richards gets invited to Chloe’s hen night (I know the Americans call it a ‘bachelorette party’ but in Britain we call it a ‘hen night’ and I’m going to have to type it a lot) and decides to plant the seed of doubt whilst Amenadiel tackles Pierce.
Unfortunately for Charlotte Richards, Mazikeen is also invited and she has a plan of her own. Instead of a wild party involving drink, strippers and inflatable penises, Maze has something more sophisticated planned which includes non-alcoholic beverages, wedding dresses made out of toilet paper and no dirty talk at all. Charlotte makes a new plan. She hires a party bus which is full of the aforementioned delightful debauchery.
Maze is not happy about this. She decides the best course of action would be to throw the ‘male entertainment’ off the bus. But she’s too late. Charlotte has already planted the seeds of doubt in Chloe’s mind.
Did I mention that Lucifer’s behaviour is weird. He embraces his inner Thespian and embodies Chloe as a character. He dresses like her, drives like her and behaves like her. But the twosome is not similar enough. Since he needs the kinship to be exactly alike to get inside Chloe’s head, Dan must act exactly like Lucifer so Lucifer can yell at Dan in the exact way that Chloe yells at Lucifer. Everyone with me so far.
All of this leads to the ending where Lucifer figures out the identity of this weeks killer but Dan figures it out first. Dan ends up with a gun on him but Lucifer arrives to save the day. He yells at Dan for being so reckless and comes to an epiphany. Lucifer is reckless and acts impulsively whilst Pierce is methodical and thinks things through. He now realises Chloe’s reasoning.
The inevitable occurs. Chloe returns home drunk as a skunk and finds Pierce with a sleeping Trixie. She does the best thing for the sanity of the audience and breaks up with Pierce. The next day, she returns to work and starts a new case with Lucifer. Now, they are back to being the best of friends which is eerily observed by Pierce.
At least one of my predictions came true. Maybe not by the method that I predicted but Maze’s plan will come out by the end. I am most faithful, that Lucifer’s secret will be revealed to Chloe also. Time will tell.
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'I'd Rather Not Leave' Savannah Salvation Army Resident Helps in Relief Effort
Savannah, GA (September 5, 2019) – For 119 years, the red shield of The Salvation Army has been a symbol of hope and help to the people of Savannah, Georgia. Through the good times and bad, The Salvation Army in Savannah has been a steady and consistent fortress of refuge for those experiencing personal and natural disasters in life.
Savannah is located on the upper Georgia coast, nestled comfortably just before the South Carolina state line. It has endured its share of hurricanes over the years, but when Hurricane Dorian mushroomed into the second most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record and set its course toward Georgia’s largest coastal city, The Salvation Army of Georgia put their emergency disaster services in high gear.
“Hurricanes are unpredictable, so it’s best to be prepared if one is headed your way,” says Major Paul Egan, The Salvation Army Savannah Corps Officer, “Dorian was a powerful storm and we help during these times by providing feeding, hydration and emotional and spiritual care to Emergency Operations Centers, disaster responders, residents, and evacuees.”
Ahead of Hurricane Dorian, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp extended a state of emergency to 21 counties in South Georgia and declared a mandatory evacuation for individuals living east of I-95 in Bryan, Camden, Chatham, Glynn, Liberty, and McIntosh Counties. Among the evacuees were sixty Savannah Salvation Army rehabilitation center shelter residents who were shuttled inland to the safety of The Salvation Army’s shelter in Augusta…except for Bobby Harding. Bobby did not want to leave – he wanted to help.
Bobby is a barber by trade from Vidalia, Georgia, but at age 50, years of substance abuse had taken their toll and he found himself looking at a parole situation when he was given an opportunity to be part of The Salvation Army’s Corps Salvage and Rehabilitation Center in Savannah, Georgia. The CSRC is a Salvation Army ministry that helps those facing the challenges of drug and alcohol abuse rise above their circumstances.
“The Salvation Army has been such a blessing to me,” says Bobby, “When the evacuation order came, I just did not want to go. There are a lot of people in this world who need help, and I wanted to be there to help these people – to show them that somebody cares.”
Bobby and a few others from The Salvation Army’s Savannah rehabilitation center shelter program joined the dedicated Salvation Army officers and staff who stayed behind to serve their community in the face of the potential destructive forces from Hurricane Dorian.
“Bobby was always there with a smile, ready to do whatever was needed,” says Linda James, Business Director for The Salvation Army of Savannah, “He helped load and unload trucks, he helped feed evacuees, and pushed those in wheelchairs to help them during the evacuation process.”
Each day, in Salvation Army locations around the world, lives like Bobby are being transformed. Thanks to The Salvation Army, they discover a personal relationship with God, a deeper meaning to their existence, and a foundation of values.
“Bobby is a great example of what The Salvation Army can do in a person’s life,” says Major Egan, “Hurricane Dorian may have brushed by us this time, but we will be ready for whatever the next hurricane brings, and if it comes by anytime soon, I’m sure Bobby will be there with us again, serving our community in their in time of need.”
To date, The Salvation Army has served 6,000 meals, 8,100 drinks and 6,400 snacks to first responders and evacuees in 11 locations across Georgia located in Savannah, Augusta, Macon, Columbus, Douglas, and Waycross.
“Bobby and the rest of us will all be here to help evacuees as they return to Savannah,” says James.
Hurricane Dorian lashed out at the Georgia Coast as it passed by far enough offshore to spare Georgians from its full wrath. However, others were severely impacted by this year’s second Atlantic hurricane.
“Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with those impacted by this massive hurricane,” says Major Egan, “But I know that wherever people are impacted from this storm, The Salvation Army will be there.”
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Zaira Wasim And The Collision Of Understanding
July 9, 2019 Sami Naik
Is it a drop of blood from a disgrace or did I confuse a phrase? In no time, an alarming wave of emotion twists the fate and admittance or riddance of false feelings dictates the change in remedies. Was I wrong before, am I right now or vice versa? Anyway, I hereby announce that I quit from my piece of Neverland and discover a new America of hope. Yikes, the worlds of pious and Godless Freeville collide over my early retirement. Run Zaira Run…
I don’t realize why I wrote the above paragraph. Maybe it is making any sense or maybe not. But the news spiced all over breaking the guitars and sitars across India over the young secret superstar, Zaira Wasim, waving her final goodbyes to the social media spectators before she sailed into the religious cruise ship. We are not aware of the coordinates of this voyage but the eyebrows of the observers have been raised as if she has eloped with her boyfriend for good.
Many questions have been raised over her professional departure, numerous people have shared their opinion, and many have criticized her explanation about quitting on her Instagram account. So I thought, why shan’t I jump into this crazy center of the jury and advertise my blog. Perhaps, the readers may find my opinion interesting.
Ok, so here is the peanut butter on your toasted bread. Zaira Wasim posted an announcement on Instagram that she is quitting the showbiz with a lengthy explanation which, after reading and observing, I have understood that she has considered the profession as a path of ignorance ‘for her’ which she feels is misleading and distancing herself from her faith. Zaira perhaps feels that this line of profession is taking her somewhere else from where she cannot return and maybe the Lord will be extremely unhappy of her supposed-to-be wrongdoings. Therefore, Zaira decides to leave this line of work so that she can focus on her religion/faith. Maybe in the future, she does something different than showbiz which won’t distract her from practicing her faith.
WHAT MADE THIS NEWS SENSATIONAL?!?!
Hmm… Most of the popular leading Indian actresses have taken early retirement or temporarily disappeared due to their marriage. I am not remembering if any ‘well-known’ Muslim woman in the Indian film industry quit for her religion. So many well-known actresses from the Muslim background made their name in the industry but neither their work nor their faith was a hindrance.
Zaira’s popularity in the mainstream Bollywood was broadly speaking especially after her fabulous performance in Secret Superstar. She worked in two films and on both the occasions, she shared the silver screen with none other than Aamir Khan. Aamir even went on to state about her that she is the best female actor in the film industry which was an extremely bold statement. With such a reputation, Zaira’s breaking ties from her work for her faith came as a shock.
NATURE OF ACCEPTANCE IN DIFFERENT CULTURES
In my opinion, the news is also shocking because of the culture an Indian film industry brings to this secular country. People belonging to different faiths (either they practice their faith or not) work together and contribute. So it is hard to digest/accept the fact that a Muslim personality in this showbiz can quit at her career peak for the religion. Now take an example of their neighbors. Pakistan’s showbiz is mostly populated with Muslims so if someone quits for a religious purpose, most of the people accept. Famous Pakistani actress, Sarah Chaudhry, left showbiz at her peak to practice her faith. No one had an issue with it.
SHOWBIZ AND PRACTISING FAITH
Most of the observers have taken Zaira’s Instagram explanation very severely. She opened up pretty much like her working in an environment that interferes her faith on a consistent level, or her relationship with her faith being threatened, or leading towards a path of ignorance, etc. which all sounds like if showbiz is a hellfire where the people of Islamic faith should not step in.
Generally, it is not easy to practice their faith in the showbiz especially Muslims. We have a few Muslim cases where they have practiced their faith to some extent and stayed in showbiz. But it is not easy for most of the Muslims. And this is a girl in her late teens.
Let’s assume, Zaira comes from a background where the family performs their religious and professional duties on a daily basis as for example if she prays 5 times a day or let’s assume say 3-4 times, how is she going to pray that much on daily basis being in showbiz? Then her line “working in an environment that interferes her faith on a consistent level” perfectly fits. We have to go deep and understand about a Muslim woman in showbiz instead of passing judgment over her statement.
DID SHE APPEAL TO DISSUADE SHOWBIZ?
The most important part for the reader/observer is to understand before reacting over her Instagram message. Many are arguing because they think this is a silly reason. But what the readers are forgetting or not understanding is that this is her part of the story, she is addressing her problems on the platform. She is resting her case in front of the viewers and giving the reason for her announcement of quitting.
Did Zaira suggest anywhere that the people of her faith should not step in this line of work? NO.
Did Zaira discourage the readers/observers that the people of her faith will meet the same fate as hers if they enter this industry? A big NO.
Is Zaira rallying/protesting/voicing for the Muslim community to boycott the film industry because of above-mentioned reasons? NO, NO, NO.
Then why are people making it an issue or digging controversy in it? Did she advice/request the Muslim community to stop watching films or listening to the songs? No, right?
Yes, it is a piece of big news because no one at her height of showbiz career leaves for her faith in India so the media can run this story but why is the news triggering many people? Why is her reason unfortunate or regressive for some readers? Whatever she has decided, it is a personal matter.
WHERE IS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM OR WOMAN’S FREEDOM OF DECISION NOW?
In this point, I will try to raise some questions similar to her case to give a better understanding instead of surrendering in state of confusion.
Now, in the wake of this feminism wave for some years, most of the people have advocated individual freedom and liberty. People even voice that the woman or generally us humans should make decisions about their personal lives and faith. We have the right to decide what and how should we practice in our faith. It is about religious freedom. No?
So here my observation complains because I just don’t understand why people make objection when the decision about liberty or freedom is made. If a woman wishes to wear a veil or hijab why do most of the observers start to believe that she has been forced to cover her head? Maybe she has made her choice to wear a veil or hijab or maybe she feels more protective. Same case with Zaira. If she has made the choice that she will leave this line of work and focus on her religion because of whatever reasons then why many observers think that she has been forced or brainwashed? Why don’t they accept that she has made her choice? Where is the freedom of making your own choice now?
People speak about woman’s freedom and the woman herself advertises her liberty especially when she leaves Iran, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia. But what if she likes or prefers to stay/live there. That is also her freedom of choice. We are no one to dictate her then. Why do most have to apply or assume if she has been forced to live there or wear a veil or hijab by her father, brother or husband? Now, how quick was Anupam Kher to believe that something assisted Zaira to take that decision when she gave her explanation?
TWO MUSLIMS AND THEIR PERSPECTIVES
New Delhi: Actress and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Nusrat Jahan at Parliament House during the Budget Session, in New Delhi, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist) (PTI6_25_2019_000100A)
Many people in their defense are comparing Zaira and bringing the example of local MP Nusrat Jahan who being a Muslim sports sindoor (red dot on the forehead of Hindu married woman) and mangalsutra (a sacred necklace to be worn by a Hindu married woman). She is married to a Hindu and the Muslim clerics have issued a fatwa (legal opinion by a jurist on a point of Islamic law) against her.
Now the defenders against Zaira’s will states that being a Muslim, Nusrat Jahan can adopt the culture or tradition of other faith but Zaira feels discomfort to continue her work due to her faith being threatened. In my opinion, Nusrat is free to sport sindoor/mangalsutra or adopt any Islamic/non-Islamic culture or tradition if she wishes to. The same case with Zaira too, if she wishes to quit showbiz for religion then she is free to do. Both are Muslims, both are from the same film industry, both are from the same country but both have different perspectives in their lives. Not all are equal and have the same choices, right?
I don’t have many words to type upon this case any further. All I can say is that we are no one to dictate or instruct what a person should do. Zaira surely had thought to somehow work this career out for long and perform religious responsibilities. Just like most of the people in sports have to give up their education to focus on their game, Zaira also gives up one between the two. If Zaira has made the decision, I wish her all the best wherever her decision takes her to.
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Goddess Plague Mariamman
Written by Santhipriya
Irrespective of where one live – rural or urban, no matter what their caste is, most of those affected by Small pox and Chicken pox visit temple sites of Mariamman, Seethal Matha and Renuga Devi and offer worship to appease her anger and to get cured of the disease whenever such epidemic surfaced in their locality or homes. The fear psychosis which was very high some centuries back, though on the wane, continues to prevail in the mind of people even after generations who believed that the disease had come due to the wrath of Mariamman. But what surprised me was that similar to temples for Mariamman group of deities who were considered controller of Small Pox and Chicken Pox diseases, century old one or two temples dedicated to Goddess of plague called Plague Amman also exist, but only in Bangalore and people have worshiped her to get cured of the dreaded epidemic Plague when it erupted in 18th century in Bangalore. People believed that Goddess Plaegamma would cure them of plague or keep them safe from contacting the dreaded disease. The Plague Amman was also called Rajarajeswari Amman by some locals, but she is certainly not the Rajarajeswari Devi linked with Sri Chakra. There are also no references to any forms of Plague Amman in any of the Puranas or in folk tales connected with Village deities.
At one stage Plague was considered a deadly and infectious disease caused by bacteria called enterobacteria. It is primarily carried by rodents and spreads to humans through fleas. It spread quickly and uncontrollably wherever unsanitary conditions exist and in the dense city areas through rats which carry the bacteria. Though universally there were three types of Plagues, the worst amongst them was called Black Plague, one of the most deadly pandemics in human history in which the the plague-boils caused blood seeping out of the strange swellings, followed by a host of other unpleasant symptoms like fever, chills, vomiting, diarrhea, terrible aches and pains and then in short order death took severe toll of human lives. However this dreaded disease Plague has been claimed to be fully eradicated, thanks to modern sanitation and public-health practices which have greatly mitigated the impact of the disease but have not eliminated it completely, isolated cases of Plague surfaced in lesser magnitude in and around 19th century. The disastrous part of this epidemic is once someone got affected by this disease, death was the end. During 18th century this epidemic has taken many tolls in the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Kamaon, Karnataka, Bombay and Calcutta etc. However the most documented and dreaded outbreak in India was of bubonic plague that spread terror across Bombay and Calcutta Presidencies, Mysore State, Dharwad and Hyderabad during 1896-1899.
It is believed that the worst epidemic was brought to Bangalore in the year 1898 by a railway employee who landed in Cantonment area in Bangalore, soon to spread in the whole area. When the epidemic began to spread and took toll of many lives, people deserted Bangalore and even the British Govt employees from Europe housed in the cantonment area sent back their families to England. The homes of those who had affiliated to this dreaded disease and subsequently died were demolished and area fumigated and disinfected. Severe restrictions were imposed on the visitors entering the city unless they had entry permit which were issued like Visa, or they were vaccinated. In spite of all the precautions, plague struck both the City and Cantonment areas of Bangalore. It was a major catastrophe that changed the face of Bangalore.
When all out efforts of the Govt failed to bring the epidemic under control, community members of the localities affected by the disease, especially those in localities like Tyagaraja Nagar and Siddapura prayed to an unknown deity in the form of Plague Mariamman to show mercy and save them from the epidemic. Because they did not understand the biology of the disease, they believed that Plague was a kind of divine punishment, retribution for sins against God such as greed, blasphemy, heresy, fornication and worldliness. By this logic, people thought the only way to overcome the plague was to win God’s forgiveness.
It was a strange experience for the public to pray an unknown deity in the name of Plague Amman seeking her mercy and protection against Plague. They went to the extent of establishing a place of worship for the Plague Amman in isolated locality which subsequently became smaller shrines. This was reportedly done based on a dream of a person in which an unknown deity called Plague Amman assured the people that she would mitigate their suffering if she was worshiped and prayed and thus emerged small open shine in which two rock stones were erected and treated as Plague Amman. However none were sure whether Plague Amman belonged to Mariamman group of deities or local Village deity manifested of her own or tutelary deity of Mariamman but the firm belief at that period was that the Plague Amman was the controller of the dreaded epidemic Plague similar to Mariamman who control Small Pox and Chicken Pox. Nowhere in India had one ever known of a deity worshiped for eradicating the dreaded disease Plague or a temple exist for her except in Bangalore even though several forms of Mariamman are worshiped for eradication of Small Pox and Chicken Pox epidemics all over the world.
People who belonged to the families of those who had witnessed the scenes at the site of those temples said the people used to come and perform Pooja to seeking mercy of Plaegamma to keep away the dreaded disease from entering their homes and after performing Pooja when they went back, like display of Rangoli in front yards, every day they wrote in the entrance doors of their houses ‘Plaegamma, Naale baa’ in Kannada meaning ‘Plague amma come tomorrow’ with belief that the Plague Amman would feel shy to enter uninvited and so will go back once she see the writing requesting her to visit their home next day. Lighting an oil lamp made of lemon is the specialty in Plaegamma temples. The lemon is cut into two pieces, the inside pulp is removed and filled with oil, thread or cotton wick is inserted inside oil and lit outside the temple.
We learn that in the Plaegamma temple in the vicinity of Tyagaraja Nagar* only two stones were worshiped as Plaegamma a century ago, and those two stones later were added with an additional idol of Rajarajeswari devi for worship (*Rajarajeswari Plaegamma Temple, 2nd Block, 2nd Main, Thyagarajanagar, and Bangalore). The temple is in a small road and cannot be easily seen. Similarly another temple dedicated to Plaegamma can be seen in Bigihalli village in Jigini post, Anekel taluk in Bangalore. One can travel via Bannerghatta Road and reach the temple which is in the main Road. We were not allowed to take the photograph of Plague Amman in sanctum in the temples.
The Plague Mariamman temples are more than a century old, still people continue to perform Pooja and worship in them even today for other reasons too besides Plague disease. These temples are the only mute witnesses to the disastrous epidemic that struck Bangalore in the 18th century.
Photo above: Plague Amman Temple, Thiyagaraja Nagar, Bangalore
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Plague Amman temple in Jigini, Anekal Taluk, Bangalore
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100 in 1 Day (and More) 2015 at the Old Eastern Avenue Bridge
100 in 1 Day is an initiative of citywide ‘interventions’, aimed at making the city a better place. There were many to choose from (far greater than 100 actually), but I chose to go the ‘Learnt Wisdom: Above and Beyond’ lecture.
There were a few reasons for attending this particular intervention. First, it would be held at the old Eastern Avenue bridge, which I’ve read about and seen pictures about, but I’ve never actually been to. Second, one of the hosts – Daniel “The Urban Geographer” Rostzain (I feel like I gave him a wrestling name) – is doing really great things with his library-philia, Jane’s Walking, and everything else. And third, it’s about storytelling – and who doesn’t love a good story?
The meetup point is at King and River Streets. While waiting, I chat with Daniel, who I have bounced tweets back and forth but never met in the flesh. I also meet Kyle Baptista of Park People. On top of that, I encounter fellow tweeter Sean Marshall at the bridge. It’s a wonderful meeting of the online community!
Also while waiting, I do a panorama of the interesting sites in the vicinity. To the south is the sleek black River City complex of condos, which, in the last time I wrote about Corktown, was not completed. To the east is the always intriguing convergence of King and Queen Streets. There’s a triangular island and undeveloped plot of land, which Kyle believes is supposed to be a park eventually. Makes sense. To the immediate north is the old Scotiabank and beyond that up River is the 1907 Queen City Vinegar Co. Lofts.
The walk to the Eastern Avenue Bridge travels down Lower River Street, which was absent from Toronto’s street grid up until a few years ago. We pass Underpass Park (great use of dead space), Lawren Harris Square (not to be confused with Lawren Harris Park), and come to the Corktown Common. Only, we don’t actually come to the Corktown Common because it’s been fenced off for the summer for the PanAm games. A shame because it’s a great recreational space which doubles as a natural flood plain.
It’s amazing to think of the reconfiguration the West Don Lands has gone through in the last little while and over the last hundred years. River and Bayview Streets have southern extensions. The railway lands that dominated the area are gone. All the industry that once prevailed on or near the banks of the Don are gone. It’s remarkable to think, in that regard, that the Corktown Common was once occupied by the William Davies Co. pig processing operation.
Corktown & West Don Lands. Source: Goads Atlas, 1924
We travel around the security zone and come the Lower Don Trail. My eye catches a couple of Heritage Toronto plaques highlighting the stories of the waterway. But more than that, the graffiti is disappointing to see. I don’t see a reason to mark up a plaque.
Far into the distance is the Unilever Plant, which is the subject of a lot of city building discussions including the Gardiner East debacle debate. Every week for the final year of the soap plant I saw the striking workers camped outside the factory. Then, they weren’t there and the plant succumbed.
A stroll up the trail (very well used on this sunny Saturday) and we’re at our destination. The Eastern Avenue Bridge is pretty much a bridge in only name because it doesn’t connect anything. It’s truly a bridge to nowhere. On one side is the trail with the meager security and on the other the Don Valley Parkway.
In a pre-DVP world, Eastern Avenue ran a straight course east and west of the Don. But with the construction of the highway in 1961, Eastern was rerouted to curve up from about Broadview Avenue to about Cherry Street before following its original course again.
The Eastern Avenue bridge, the third version of its kind at this crossing, is a big hunk of metal with cool zig-zaggy beams and locales where explorers have left their mark. It’s a dead space, but for our purposes makes a great performance venue – surprisingly so with the highway running beside us. As Natalie – the other creator/host of Learnt Wisdom – told me, their past venues have included underneath the Leaside Bridge, a pool, the Toronto Islands. Their next one is at a cemetery tucked in at a highway interchange.
The lecture starts and, one by one, four speakers come up and tell us their tales of going ‘above and beyond’. I won’t recount the stories themselves, but the messages behind them were great: how being lazy and doing nothing can actually be a good thing; and how small people can do big things & if you have an idea, for it.
If the goal of 100 in 1 Day was to inspire change that would make Toronto a better place, I think the Learnt Wisdom intervention achieved it with the messages of the story tellers.
On that note: If you, reader, have a story to tell on the theme of ‘Milestones’ or have an idea for am unusual venue, get in touch with them.
Following that, Kyle and I retrace our steps back to King Street, and get a good look at the city skyline from the development lands.
My streetcar isn’t going to arrive for another 10 minutes lamentably, so I get a coffee and walk down the street to pass the time. At St. Lawrence Street, a building catches my attention. At first I think it’s a church because of the northern part that juts out, but on further inspection, I better suspect that it’s a factory. Further research has produced that this was originally the Simpson Knitting Mill in the 1920s. Today, it’s work-live lofts.
A peer down Sumach and its almost completed Cherry ROW streetcar line to the Distillery District follows.
Finally, I check in with the great art pieces under the Richmond and Adelaide Street overpasses. The nautical exploration themed design catches my attention most. It’s about this time that, not a boat but, a rocket picks me to conclude this adventure.
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One response to “100 in 1 Day (and More) 2015 at the Old Eastern Avenue Bridge”
icelandpenny | June 11, 2015 at 12:04 pm | Reply
Great piece & photos about a greatly intriguing, emerging section of town. Lots more will tumble into place once the Games are over, the fencing down, and new buildings are claimed by their legacy owners (e.g. the Cooper Koo Cherry St. Family Y). Incidentally, those great painted trestles you show at the end were a commission carried out by three people who often work together or in varying combinations: Bruno Smoky, Shalak (or Shalak Attack) & Fiya Bruxa.
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In Review: Star Trek: New Visions #18
A good mystery becomes a fight for survival with visuals that are epic. This is how Star Trek should be.
by Patrick Hayes October 14, 2017
The cover: Underneath the glorious title “What Pain It Is To Drown”, the saucer section of the USS Enterprise is shown surrounded by giant water droplets. Is the ship underwater or is it surrounded by the monstrous beads of H²O in space? There’s only one way to find out and that’s to read this book. Excellent tease from John Byrne. Another plus for this cover is that this scene actually appears in this story, so there’s no false advertising in this image. I love the Enterprise and I love to see it in environments that weren’t in any of the original series’ episodes or films. Overall grade: A
The story: On its way to Polymax VII for routine resupply, the crew of the Enterprise becomes concerned when signals from the world have stopped in the last three hours. Nothing unusual is detected by long rang scans, but Captain Kirk wants to get there sooner than expected. Once there the crew is shocked to discover that the Earth-like world is completely flooded: no life forms are detected, the oceans are toxic, and the air too humid to breathe. As Spock begins to scan the surface, Uhura receives an emergency beacon from Tasus V, the next planet on their present course. Kirk sets the ship to that world and goes to Dr. McCoy’s office to get some advice. Their conversation is interrupted by a call from the bridge about something they’ve come upon. John Byrne has a great mystery afoot in this issue. The characters smartly try to discover what’s occurring and it’s incredibly interesting. I’ve not read this type of Trek story before and that’s just one reason why this is neat. Having water be a threat is a neat antagonist for the characters and their ship and the solution to this mystery involves the inclusion of a popular character on Page 12, which was more than enough reason for me to pick this up. There are several moments in this issue, such as Pages 17 and 18, that would have broken the show’s budget and they are epic and awesome. Page 23 introduces a neat character that delivered several clues to this issue’s dangers. A great mystery with a great solution. This story goes where no Star Trek story has gone before. There’s also a one page story titled “R.H.I.P.” Even at this short length, Byrne gives the two characters some fun moments that will leave a fan smiling at the conclusion. Overall grade: A+
The art: Seeing these characters, looking as I remember them from the show, is a delight. Having them act out in a new story is twice as fun. The second page showing Polymax VII in its new fatal form drew me in deeper to the emerging story, because this was a new sight in Trek storytelling. The look of concern on Kirk’s face in the third panel on the third page is exactly how he should be coming upon such a disturbing sight. It foreshadows his mood during his conversation with McCoy on Page 4. The visuals outside the ship on 4 and 5 look as though they could be from an actual episode. The large panel on 9 nicely shows some unusual action, with John Byrne creating a good sense of speed. I practically did a cartwheel seeing the person on 12, who is wearing a different outfit than what she is known for. The suits on 13 are outstanding. I really like seeing the crew wearing outfits for unique environments and these more than fit the bill. Their design makes them a perfect fit for this series. The budget busting scenes of 17 and 18 are outstanding, with 22 having the unthinkable shown. The character on 23 is fun, having elements of what one would expect for such an environment, yet having some qualities that are surprising. Pages 33 – 36 capture speed excellently, making the climax of this tale dramatic. I’m continually in awe of how Byrne’s photomontages create new adventures with these beloved characters. Overall grade: A+
The lettering: The Captain’s Log, dialogue, the glorious opening narration, book credits and story title, sounds, and yells are also created by John Byrne. I’m such a fan of this show, it’s impossible not to smile while looking upon the book’s credits and the story’s title. I’m always pleased when letterers employ different fonts for narration and dialogue and that’s what done in this book with the Captain’s Log. Though it’s not technically lettering, the dialogue balloon that contains the speech of the character encountered on 23 is a neat visual effect that reinforces the individual’s identity. Very slick. Overall grade: A+
The final line: The voyages of the original Star Trek crew continue to be thrilling and spectacular with John Byrne in the captain’s chair. A good mystery becomes a fight for survival with visuals that are epic. This is how Star Trek should be. Highest possible recommendation. Overall grade: A+
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