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Duplicate Despatches from the Governor to the Secretary of State
Date Range: Series 1851 - ? 1856
1851 - 1856 Governor (including Lieutenant Governor 1851-1855 and Governor's Office) VA 466
1982 - cont Department of the Premier and Cabinet VA 1039
This series consists of unbound duplicate copies of despatches forming the official channel of communication from the Governor of Victoria to the British Secretary of State responsible for the administration of the Colonial Office. The original despatch was sent to London, whilst bound handwritten copies of the despatches in this series for the period covered are found in VPRS 1084 Despatches from the Governor to the Secretary of State.
It is unclear why this series was created as a duplicate copy of each despatch was sent to London on a separate vessel as a security measure. The value of this series lies in the fact that the individual despatches usually contain copies of any enclosures sent which were generally not included in VPRS 1084. Despatches are generally bound in bundles arranged in despatch number order. This number can be obtained from VPRS 1083, Register of Despatches from the Governor to the Secretary of State. The range of despatches in the series is 1851/1 - 1856/65
A despatch dated 18 July 1850 from the Superintendent to the Secretary of State has been bound in the front of the volume.
1851 - 1856 Register of Despatches from the Governor to the Secretary of State VPRS 1083
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(miss)understood interview from TeamAyu magazine translation
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Here we took a look back on 2005 and spoke about the coming year of 2006, and, of course, we asked about the new album "(miss)understood," to be released on January 1.
Q: Firstly, we'd like to ask you to reflect on your 2005...
ayu: Even before I went to the Asia Song Festival in Korea in November 2004, I was already looking ahead to the upcoming MY STORY tour and taking auditions for new dancers. I performed to the Asia Song Festival with new dancers, old dancers and the same band members as always. After that, we went full steam ahead into the Countdown Live, and then began rehearsals for the MY STORY tour soon after the year began... That's why, strictly speaking, in my own mind the years of 2004 and 2005 are connected to one another, and 2004 itself continued up until the MY STORY tour.
Q: I see. You certainly would feel that way.
ayu: If I look back on it, I certainly do, but I think my dancers and all the staff concerned would share that feeling. I think it was amazing how everybody was able to maintain their focus throughout that period. That's also why I had such an enormous sense of fulfillment and accomplishment regarding the MY STORY tour.
Q: The reception to that tour certainly was favorable.
ayu: But after running through everything at such a high speed, right after it was all over, I was overcome by a feeling of emptiness. That's why 2005 felt like it began in June for me, soon after the tour was over, when I went to Hawaii for the shooting of "fairyland."
Q: So Hawaii was the starting point of your efforts to dispel that feeling of emptiness.
ayu: Yeah. Oh, speaking of, the setlist for the Kouhaku Uta Gassen (hereafter Kouhaku) has already been announced, hasn't it?
Q: That's right. It was revealed just the other day.
ayu: This will be my first time performing something other than a ballad at Kouhaku since I first appeared there with "Boys & Girls." Everybody is probably surprised by my unexpectedly picking "fairyland" when it's a summer song, right? There were probably a lot of people who thought I'd go with a staple ballad like "HEAVEN" or "Pride" given that it's my last appearance on TV (on a music program) for the year. But I didn't think "HEAVEN" was the right choice for bringing this year of 2005 to a close, personally.
Q: You can add one more person to those who were surprised... (bitter smile)
ayu: The thought of singing "fairyland" at Kouhaku is really fun and fresh to me! Because it's the first time I can appear with my dancers at Kouhaku thanks to it being an uptempo track. Additionally -- and this applies to everything, not just my music -- I'm always thinking of how to do things differently to how I've done them up until now, but in this case there was also the factor of my having worked in consultation with the NHK staff for both the set and the production, for which we kept the PV in mind, so I feel a little bit like my wish has been granted.
Q: It sounds like your eagerness to perform "fairyland" at Kouhaku is the kind of thing that may have a profound impact on the Ayu of the future...
ayu: I think so, too. Because "fairyland" is the song I started 2005 with, in my own way. That's why I also wanted to come full circle and end 2005 with the same song.
Q: Your single "Bold & Delicious / Pride" came out in November 2005 to decidedly mixed reception, didn't it? In all honesty, did that not make you feel a little uneasy?
ayu: I didn't feel any uneasiness or hesitation about it when I started working on it and I don't feel any now. Everything I do I have my own reasons for doing, and there's always a basis for it in my own mind when I go ahead with something. To be a bit more specific, this kind of song was something I'd always wanted to do, but I had certain constraints upon me that stopped me from doing so, and I also felt afraid to and lacked the necessary self-confidence. Now, however, I'm in a position where I feel like it's possible, and the environment around me is one that permits me to go ahead with it. The result of those two things put together is something that holds its own meaning -- that result being "Bold & Delicious / Pride" -- and I believe that will be connected to what I continue to do heading forward, as well.
Q: You went to New York to shoot the single "Bold & Delicious / Pride." This is addressed in the PV Report on pages 8-9 as well, but at that time, things felt quite different to the way they'd felt up until then. The method for shooting and the way you went about things -- to give a more concrete example, the staff you were working with were all foreigners...
ayu: I genuinely had so much fun! Of course I place a lot of trust in the staff that I normally always work with, and there are things that I wouldn't feel comfortable doing anything with anybody else, but I really feel that as I worked with other people for the first time (the foreigner staff in New York), they were revealing new aspects of myself that I didn't even know about.
Q: So there were things you were unaware of while you were working in your normal environment as normal but that you came to understand better through working with the staff over in New York. Of course that's something you would've experienced behind the scenes, but given how different the imagery and the videos are to what we're used to, I can't help but feel like that change is something that is conveyed through the songs as well.
This might be a difficult question to answer, but what is New York to you?
ayu: New York to me... is a place that really stirs up excitement within me. I was living there before my debut, and at that time it was an important place where I learned a great many things, and my most recent visit there was when I was shooting the jacket for my 5th album "RAINBOW," but at that time I really wasn't fond of it in the least... At that time I didn't really understand what I was doing, and yet I feel like I was dashing forward single-mindedly. I couldn't really make anything out, let alone the road ahead of me, and yet I was running... So considering those feelings, I really didn't enjoy New York at that time. In fact, after that, I was avoiding it for a long while. But now, I feel like if I go there, I might understand things. I might become aware of them, and I might even discover something new. It's not that I'm going out of my way to "return to where it all began" as such, but perhaps I just wanted to experience something for myself in going there after those years away from it.
Q: I see! In any event, let's move on to your new album. First of all, let's start with the reason behind "(miss)understood"...
ayu: When I was thinking of a title for the album, I thought it would be good to choose one that held a variety of meanings within itself. So when I was looking into different words, "understand" (= rikaisuru (TN: rikai = "understanding")) and "misunderstood" (= gokai (TN: gokai = "misunderstanding")) stood out to me... My first impression of those words and the impact they had on me were quite strong. But at first I was hesitant and I wondered if it would really be okay to go with that, and right up until the deadline I was looking into alternatives and considering other titles, but there wasn't anything that I felt was better. Looking back on it, you could say I'd already decided on "(miss)understood" from the very beginning, subconsciously.
Q: I want to ask you about the two different jackets as well. You're covering your face on the CD+DVD version, and on the CD-only version you're giving us a smile.
ayu: With the CD+DVD cover I thought "this is the one!" and decided upon it the day ater shooting. Even though you can only see my eyes. (laughs) But you can tell that it's Ayu! So I really like that. Also, (for the pictures) I thought it would be good to go with a natural appearance, a look that didn't feel like it'd been set up specifically for the purpose of a photoshoot. The pictures came out spontaneously, from moments where I was just chatting with somebody else. And the CD photo isn't me smiling because I'm having my picture taken, but rather a natural smile that happened when I was just laughing, and I thought that was better. I was in the middle of laughing and the picture was taken with a "click" and all. That picture, as well as the CD+DVD one where I'm covering my face, are pictures the likes of which I haven't really had taken. But you know, I don't really like the way I look when I'm smiling naturally. The picture of myself that I have in my mind is one where I'm expressionless. That's just how I see myself. An image where I'm smiling doesn't really come to mind easily... So I think that going out of my way to use these kinds of photos is quite a bold move for me.
Q: So your mental approach has changed -- evolved, even? Or perhaps Ayumi Hamasaki herself has changed? I'm sure there are various meanings and intentions that you had in mind with them, but when I saw the two jackets, the first thing I thought of was the difference between a straight pitch and a curveball. By the way, I wrote this on the Team Ayu homepage's Message Corner as well, but I think smiling really suits you. There are images of you smiling in the web-only CM on the Team Ayu official homepage.
ayu: I hope everyone will see that.
Q: Yes. Whatever way you look at it, this is a kind of first attempt of yours. I'm really looking forward to hearing what kinds of impressions people say they get from it. And the other day you wrote on the homepage, "what kind of thing did you see in this album? Light? Darkness? Or something else?"
ayu: Of course, I see both of those things as the one who made the album, but forward-facing listeners might see the light side of the album, and others still may feel a kind of darkness exuding from it... which one do people feel? Or maybe there are people who feel both of those things as well.
Q: There are quite a few songs with considerably deep lyrics, too. The titular track "(miss)understood", "criminal" and "Pride", for instance.
ayu: That's right. The lyrics of the songs toward the middle of the album are quite... (laughs) But that's my area of expertise, so...
Q: Lastly, I want to ask you a question that I saw in the Message Corner. What is being said in the background of "Ladies Night"?
ayu: Well... how should I put this (laughs). It's not necessarily that what's being said in the background has any significant meaning. You could say that we were just playing around with words. I just went with what I liked the sound of. It seems like there were a lot of questions similar to this! I've gotten a lot of them in person as well.
Q: Indeed. That's why I wanted to make sure I asked you about it as well! Now, just one more thing. I want to ask you what you hope for from 2006, but I get the feeling that if I do you'll tell me that you're not wishing for anything in particular. (laughs) So I'll ask you what you want to do in 2006 instead.
ayu: I've been saying I want to go surfing, but my staff wouldn't let me because they say it's too dangerous, so... (bitter smile) Hmmm... I wouldn't mind going in a private trip around the world. Also... I want to see my own lives from the perspective of the audience!
Q: Those two things seem like they'd be quite difficult to make a reality...
ayu: The trip around the world is something I'd do by plane, not by boat! I mean, ships are quite scary... (laughs) If you start sinking, you have nothing but the ocean around you, so...
Q: Huh!? But isn't a plane crash just as scary given that you're high up in the sky and all...? (laughs) Well, what about in terms of your work?:
ayu: I want to visit the rest of Asia (for work). Because I haven't really done so recently. And I'd really love to perform live in front of the people of Asia!
Some very interesting insights about the B&D/Pride single along with the reasoning behind the covers/booklet!
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thank you so much for this truehappiness and remove-mom! the interview sounds like a conversation between friends. I love the insight it reveals from ayu's worldview—some of which are the things I'd always wondered about Bold & Delicious and (miss)understood.
I'm glad that she was unfazed with the "decidedly mixed reaction" to Bold & Delicious. she sounds like a person resolute about finally getting to do what they like, no matter what people say, and I admire that.
also, the (miss)understood album photos! I remember when they came up a lot of people (including myself) remarked how 'awkward' her smile looks on the CD-only jacket—turns out she was in the middle of laughing! I really disliked the booklet photos when I first saw them, but then I saw that they were "candid" photos taken by mikajohn throughout her stay in New York. considering how much fun she was having re-visiting the town, it was no wonder she liked these pictures so much that they deserved to be on the booklet!
I love reading this so much. thank you again.
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^She wanted to show off her fresh veneers too !
Loving these interviews thank you!! I really liked the part about NYC since I live here and have watched it change. I can relate to how one has a love and hate relationship with it.
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I'm always thinking of how to do things differently to how I've done them up until now
Wish she kept up with that mentality esp after 2010
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Thank you for this translation. It's very interesting to plunge back in the past and read her mind at that time.
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Kingfisher Airlines NEWS -- Part 7
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 4:29 pm Post subject:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/government-set-to-auction-vijay-mallyas-personal-airbus-jet-other-aircraft/articleshow/51401928.cms
Government set to auction Vijay Mallya's personal Airbus jet, other aircraft
It's not just the banks, the government is getting set to auction off Vijay Mallya's assets — including his personal Airbus ACJ 319 — as it looks to recover service tax dues of Rs 812 crore, which includes penalties and interest. Government set to auction Vijay Mallya's personal Airbus jet, other aircraft
Apart from the Airbus corporate jet, the government wants to sell five smaller ATRs and three helicopters belonging to Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines (KFA), which owes banks more than Rs 9,000 crore and stopped flying in 2012. The aircraft have been attached by the service tax department.
"We are going ahead with the auction," said a senior Central Board of Excise & Customs ( CBEC) official. The reserve price for the aircraft will be set by MSTC Ltd, a government company that has expertise in auctions. The PSU will auction the personal jet on May 15-16, said the official.
Authorities don't see any hindrance to such a plan as Mallya's personal jet was on lease and no entity has approached the authorities or the courts regarding the plane. A standard Airbus A319 has a list price of nearly Rs 600 crore. Of the total Rs 812 crore, Rs 32 crore is tax that was collected from passengers but not deposited with the government.
The tax department had sought Mallya's arrest last year but was rebuffed by a Mumbai metropolitan magistrate on the execution of a personal recognisance bond of Rs 50 lakh. The tax department had argued that Mallya could leave the country and not return to face trial and had asked the court to direct him to surrender his passport. In his February 16, 2015, order, the magistrate directed Mallya to present himself in court when required.
The department challenged the order in the Bombay High Court soon after. With the plea pending for a year, the department filed a fresh miscellaneous case on March 2 seeking a direction to secure Mallya's presence. The case will now be heard on March 28. In addition, the company faces a separate case related to service tax dues.
http://www.livemint.com/Companies/3Dmw6PPg2FqWmWLcuUEXsN/Airbus-to-reduce-orders-placed-by-Kingfisher-Airlines-from-i.html
Airbus to reduce orders placed by Kingfisher Airlines from its book
Airplane manufacturer Airbus SAS on Thursday said it will continue to reduce aircraft orders placed by Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, which has not flown since 2012.
Airbus executives said Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines had ordered five Airbus A380, the largest civilian airplane ever built, and 10 A350 planes.
Joost Van dee Heijden, vice-president, marketing Asia and customer affairs at Airbus SAS, said the company is continuing to reduce its orders from the order book list.
He said the current 70% of the market share of Airbus is excluding Kingfisher Airlines’ orders.
He did not disclose details about other orders, including Airbus A330s and Airbus A320s.
However, the website of Airbus still features the name of Kingfisher Airlines along with its then low-fare subsidiary Kingfisher Red.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Banks-put-Kingfisher-Airlines-brands-on-the-block-for-Rs-366cr/articleshow/51609081.cms
Banks put Kingfisher Airlines brands on the block for Rs 366cr
Lenders to Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) have put on the block the trademarks of the airline, including the famous flying bird logo which was adopted from the UB Group's iconic beer brand. The reserve price for the trademarks, which will be auctioned on April 30, has been fixed at Rs 366 crore. The trademarks include the tag lines 'Fly the Good Times', 'Funliner' and 'Fly Kingfisher' in addition to the brand name and the logo, which have been separately copyrighted by Kingfisher.
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 1:27 pm Post subject:
Kingfisher Airlines founder Vijay Mallya reportedly approached lenders through one of his companies seeking a settlement by paying INR20 billion (USD302 million) (financialexpress.com, 30-Mar-2016). This is a fraction of the INR70 billion (USD1.1 billion) owed to creditors with the consortium of lenders led by State Bank of India (SBI) turning down the offer due to the shortfall in amount.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/airlines-/-aviation/only-aviation-companies-can-fly-with-kingfisher-logo-warns-united-breweries/articleshow/51639288.cms
Only aviation companies can fly with Kingfisher logo, warns United Breweries
United Breweries has said the Kingfisher logo that belonged to Kingfisher Airlines can only be used for aviation and warned of legal challenges if it is used in other categories.
In the first official comment on the issue after the banks' decision to auction the logo, United Breweries, the maker of Kingfisher and Kalyani Black Label beers, said a buyer will be able to use the logo only to set up another airline and for nothing else.
Using the logo for any other purpose will be legally challenged by UB since it holds exclusive rights to the brand, the company warned.
"We are not expecting any bids at the auction, but we have to follow the process," said a banker on the condition of anonymity. "If we don't put these intangible assets on the block there will be pressure from the Central Bureau of Investigation and Central Vigilance Commission alleging that we didn't do our fullest to recover dues."
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/vijay-mallyas-airbus-auction-kingfisher-bad-loans-debt/
Vijay Mallya’s luxury Airbus A319 being auctioned to recover dues
The service tax department is set to auction defunct Kingfisher Airlines chairman Vijay Mallya’s luxury Airbus A319 to recover part of dues of over Rs 800 crore. The department hopes to raise Rs 150 crore from the auction.
Over a dozen monogrammed towels and napkins bearing the initials of Vijay Mallya, a copy of Ambani & Sons by Hamish McDonald and DVDs of over 100 films curated by Mallya himself will be sold along with the aircraft on May 12.
The service tax department, which seized the Airbus A319 in December 2013, has appointed Air India as technical consultant for sale of the aircraft. Air India has also been entrusted the task of cleaning the aircraft before potential buyers begin physical inspection.
Sources said the department will not remove personal belongings of Mallya, including a framed photograph of his family, from the aircraft.
“Everything that was inside the aircraft when it was seized like framed paintings of deities, bar accessories, some of the finest wine and whisky glasses, toiletries and electronic goods will be handed over to its new owner after the auction. It is on ‘as is where is, as is what is, whatever there is and no complaint’ basis,” sources said.
The aircraft is owned by C J Leasing (Cayman) Ltd and was given on lease to Kingfisher. Last year, the Bombay High Court observed there was no legal trouble in auction of the aircraft which is on financial lease. Proceeds of the sale will be deposited with the High Court.
Other than Mallya’s jet, five ATR aircraft and two helicopters have been confiscated by the service tax department.
After the department published an advertisement on March 24 for the sale of the Airbus, several foreign and Indian companies have shown interest, sources said.
United Breweries (UB) said the Kingfisher logo that belonged to Kingfisher Airlines can only be used for aviation and warned of legal challenges if it is used in other categories (Economic Times, 31-Mar-2016). UB said using the logo for any other purpose will be legally challenged by UB since it holds exclusive rights to the brand. This marks the company's first official comment on the issue after the decision to auction the logo as part of efforts to recover dues owed to creditor banks.
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Thus ensuring that nobody in his/her right mind will ever want to acquire the logo.
Do you even read before you post ? The same article is posted one post above yours !
Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 8:03 am Post subject:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/7-kingfisher-aircraft-still-at-airport/article8549170.ece
Seven aircraft of Kingfisher idle at Chennai airport
Four years after the scheduled operations of Kingfisher came to an end and the Air Operator Permit had lapsed, seven aircraft of the airline remain at the Chennai airport.
Airport director Deepak Shastri said, “The dues of Kingfisher so far with Chennai airport alone is about Rs. 10 crore. But we cannot take a decision on what can be done with the aircraft here, to recover the dues. The headquarters in New Delhi only can take a decision.”
The dues include payment for various facilities over the years including parking, landing and usage of hanger charges, sources said. But the dues of Kingfisher to Airports Authority of India (AAI) for availing various facilities stand at Rs. 294.57 crore, including interest.
Sources with AAI said that of the seven aircraft, three belonged to Kingfisher and the remaining four were leased from private companies. The four leased aircraft were deregistered by the respective companies with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), sources added.
“But the companies are yet to take possession of them since there some issues are involved,” a source said.
Three years ago, the Ministry for Civil Aviation announced its decision to withdraw the International Bilateral Traffic Rights given to the airline between 2008 and 2011. When the airline started operations in Chennai way back in 2008, it used to operate 60 flights a day from the city. But in 2012 itself, the operations came down to 45 before the operations stopped completely.
Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 7:16 am Post subject:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Auction-of-Mallyas-private-jet-deferred-to-June-29-30/articleshow/52226097.cms
Auction of Mallya's private jet deferred to June 29-30
Service Tax Department has deferred the auction of liquor baron Vijay Mallya's private jet to recover Rs 535-crore dues to June 29-30, after just one potential bidder showed interest, an official said.
The auction was earlier scheduled for May 12-13.
The Department, which had invited the bidders globally for the auction to get maximum sale price in its attempt to recover dues of Rs 535 crore from Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines (KFA), got only one bidder.
However, even this sole bidder didn't deposit Rs 1 crore earnest money with Metal Scrap Trade Corporation (MSTC), a Government enterprise which is acting as auctioneer, within the scheduled time, and hence the auction will not be held on the scheduled date and fresh date has been decided by MSTC.
"We got only one registration request from the Netherlands Government for participating in the bidding of the plane as of May 10. However, as per the norms, the bidder has to deposit an earnest money amounting to Rs 1 crore and the Netherlands Government had not deposited the earnest money with reason unknown to us," a Service Tax Department Official told today.
"Therefore, we informed the Bombay High Court (which had allowed the auction on the Department's plea) about the position and the court has given the department the liberty to adjust the date for auction," he said, adding "the department discussed the matter with Air India Engineering who are the technical consultants for the auction and MSTC and finally we decided to hold the auction of the plane on June 29-30."
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 4:20 pm Post subject:
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/india-to-auction-off-vijay-mallyas-acj319-426578/
India to auction off Vijay Mallya’s ACJ319
India’s tax authorities will auction off an Airbus Corporate Jets ACJ319 aircraft previously used by Vijay Mallya, the former chairman of defunct Kingfisher Airlines.
The auction will open on Wednesday 29 June and close on Thursday 30 June, according to Indian government auction website MSTC.
The aircraft bears registration number VT-VJM and the manufacturer’s serial number 2650. Flightglobal’s Fleets Analyzer database shows that it owned by Caymen Islands firm CJ Leasing.
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 7:41 pm Post subject:
The A319ACJ is being qouted too high...at this rate it will never get picked up.
http://www.huewire.com/headlines/indian/vijay-mallyas-personal-jet-on-auction-only-bidder-offers-rs-1-crore/182933/
Vijay Mallya's Personal Jet On Auction, Only Bidder Offers Rs 1 Crore
Vijay Mallya’s personal jet went up for auction for a second time today, in an attempt to recover over Rs 9,000 crore that Mr Mallya owes banks in loan defaults for his now defunct Kingfisher Airlines.
The reserve price was set at Rs 152 crore and an earnest deposit of Rs 1 crore was mandated to take part in the auction.
But to the authorities’ surprise, the private jet of Mr Mallya, who is known for his lavish lifestyle, could only attract one potential buyer, and a single bid of Rs 1.09 crore.
“The company has offered a paltry Rs 1.09 crore against our reserve price of Rs 152 crore. Since the bid was much less than our reserve price, we rejected the offer,” a Service Tax Department official told Press Trust of India.
The official said the department may go in for another round of bidding involving domestic aviation companies alone, or lower the reserve price, depending on what the government chooses to do.
http://www.livemint.com/Companies/ybVfqvbtfCm97vFoEx9fPJ/Kingfisher-Airlines-books-go-missing.html
Kingfisher Airlines books go missing
The investigation into an alleged fraud at the now defunct Kingfisher Airlines Ltd has run into an unlikely hurdle: the airline’s books of accounts have vanished.
Executives of the grounded airline have informed officials of the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) that a vendor had carted away the computers and servers that stored the financial accounts of the airline for non-payment of dues.
The airline claims that it has no backup of the files, two SFIO officials said, requesting anonymity.
SFIO, which works under the ministry of corporate affairs, is seeking details from former employees of the airline, lenders and audit firms about loans taken out by Kingfisher Airlines and the collateral for these.
“It was rather strange when the top management representatives of Kingfisher Airlines informed us that the airline has lost its books and accounts as vendors pulled out the system which had the accounts. The airline executives claimed that they never had a backup,” said one of the SFIO officials cited above.
The second official said the investigation has been delayed owing to the disappearance of the books of accounts. “However, we are seeking details from lenders and all financial institutions involved with Kingfisher Airlines. We are going ahead with questioning the top officials,” he added.
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:10 pm Post subject:
Amazing....How its so easy to cover the track of any huge scam which involves influential elements
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 8:59 pm Post subject:
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/kingfisher-airbus-kingfisher-airline-buyer-backs-out-auction/1/774503.html
Kingfisher airbus to be auctioned again after buyer backs out
SGI Commex claimed to have bought airbus A319-133 at a price of Rs 27.39 crore ($ 4.1 million), which was nearly one-sixth of the reserve price.
An aircraft of embattled Kingfisher Airlines is slatted for a re-auction as the bidder SGI Commex informed the Bombay High Court on Monday that they want to withdraw their bid.
The auction of the jet was challenged by the Mumbai airport, who claimed an unpaid amount of airport fees.
As per an order passed on August 22, SGI Commex will have to pay an additional amount under taxes, hangar charges and the cost of equipment to be installed to make the aircraft air-worthy.
Justice SC Dharmadhikari was hearing a plea filed by the service tax department, challenging a 2014 decision of the debt recovery tribunal that had waived off dues worth Rs 18 crore of the Kingfisher Airlines.
Last week, court had observed that Mallya "Couldn't have come up with a better name than 'Kingfisher' for his entity, for just like the bird can fly with no boundaries to prevent it, he flew away."
Service Tax Department had informed the court that it wished to recall the auction as the highest bidder who bid for the airbus had bid only "81 per cent of its total cost".
Its likely that the aircraft will undergo rebidding to recover dues. Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh said that both the Union government and the Service Tax Department were committed to selling the airbus and only needed to work out some modalities.
SGI Commex claimed to have both airbus A319-133 at a price of Rs 27.39 crore ($ 4.1 million), which was nearly one-sixth of the reserve price.
On June 30, the department had conducted an e-auction for the airbus advertising it as "designed exclusively for exotic and luxurious use" but recalled it after the highest bidder at the time offered just Rs 1 crore.
In August this year, it conducted a second auction saying that it had set the reserve price of the airbus at Rs 152 crore. That's when SGI Commex bought it at a much lower price.
When the aircraft is under custody of the Mumbai airport, shouldn't they have the first right to auction it to reclaim their dues? Why is the Service Tax dept auctioning it? Who decides who gets to auction?
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 12:09 pm Post subject:
First right is always with the taxation authority. Clear your tax payments, only after that other payments including salaries of employees, rent etc. can be made.
http://www.indialivetoday.com/tribunal-tells-airbus-to-deposit-rs-192-crore-in-kingfisher/47902.html
Tribunal tells Airbus to deposit Rs 192 crore in Kingfisher
The Debt Recovery Tribunal on Tuesday ordered global aerospace major Airbus Industries to deposit Rs 192.5 crore with it in eight weeks towards pre-delivery payment a consortium of banks made for purchase of aircraft by defunct Kingfisher Airlines of tycoon Vijay Mallya.
Tribunal presiding officer K. Srinivasan passed the order on an amended petition the consortium filed to recover the payment made for the aircraft on behalf of the airline over a decade ago.
The consortium includes state-run Oriental Bank of Commerce, Corporation Bank and United Bank of India.
Though Airbus and Kingfisher signed the purchase deal in 2005, the aircraft were not delivered even till the debt-ridden airline was grounded in October 2012.
When Airbus failed to repay, the consortium made budget carriers Indigo and GoAir a party to the case under “garnishment” and sought a direction to them to deposit the money with the tribunal instead of paying the former (Airbus) with which they also placed orders to buy its aircraft.
Garnishment is a legal process where payment towards a debt owned by an individual or a firm can be paid by a third party, which holds money or asset that is due to the individual or firm directly to the creditor.
A court or tribunal order of garnishment allows a creditor (consortium) to take the property of a debtor (Kingfisher) when it does not possess the asset (aircraft).
The low-cost airlines rejected the consortium’s plea, as making them party to the debt recovery case would affect their business operations.
Airbus too objected to such an arrangement (garnishee order) as it was not a party to the case and neither a borrower or defaulter.
Consortium counsel, however, contended that the tribunal had jurisdictional powers to adjudicate the case, as the agreement was signed in India between banks, Kingfisher and Airbus, and the aircraft were to be delivered in India.
Agreeing with the counsel’s view, the tribunal on September 27 directed the consortium to amend its petition in the garnishee proceedings for making Airbus deposit any amount it receives from an Indian carrier for purchasing aircraft with it.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/airlines-/-aviation/karnataka-hc-orders-winding-up-of-kingfisher-airlines/articleshow/55502763.cms
Paving way for liquidation, Karnataka HC orders winding up of Kingfisher Airlines
The Karnataka High Court on Friday ordered winding up of bankrupt businessman Vijay Mallya's defunct carrier Kingfisher Airlines, paving way for an official liquidator to take charge of assets and books. Justice Vineet Kothari passed the order on a day when a lawyer representing the airline withdrew from the case, claiming that he had received no instructions from his client to appear on behalf of the airline, said two people who were present at the hearing.
The court was ruling on the winding-up petition filed by Aerotron, a UK-based aircraft component supplier and one of Kingfisher's many creditors. Kingfisher, controlled by the flamboyant Mallya, now in London, owes more than $1 billion to Indian banks and several hundred crores to airports and tax authorities.
"The petition was filed by Aerotron in 2012 and we had filed our objections then. The court took note of the objections and passed its order (for winding up)," said SV Rajesh, the lawyer representing Kingfisher. The airline owed Aerotron about $5 million, he added.
Emails sent to a spokesperson for Kingfisher Airlines and Aerotron's London office didn't elicit a response. Recently, the State Bank of India wrote off Rs 7,000 crore in loans, including that of Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines. The Union finance minister had to clarify later that this wasn't a loan waiver, that banks are determined to recover loans from errant borrowers and that the liability on the borrowers still remains.
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-after-two-failed-attempts-service-tax-dept-to-auction-vijay-mallya-s-luxury-jet-again-2277441
After two failed attempts, Service Tax dept to auction Vijay Mallya's luxury jet again
In its bid to recover around Rs 535 crore due from beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya, the Service Tax Department is looking at having more participation when it re-auctions his luxury personal jet on November 28-29.
The e-auction will be carried out by MSTC, the department said, adding it had roped in a professional valuer for revaluation of the aircraft following a recent Bombay High Court order to do so at a reduced reserve price.
The department had initially fixed a reserve price of Rs 152 crore but could not find a buyer following which the HC had ordered to review the price. But the department official refused to share the quantum of price reduction saying doing so would hamper sale prospects.
This will be the third time that the department is going for e-auction of the plane as it failed both the times in the past. "We are trying to get potential buyers globally and we have got the forthcoming auction advertised in international journals in our bid to have more participation," a department official told PTI. "We are in touch with all the parties who have shown interest in the aircraft in the past and we hope they will participate in the sale process this time as well on November 28-29," he said.
The highest bid received by the department at the second auction held in August was a measly Rs 27 crore against the reserve price of Rs 152 crore which was offered by a domestic firm SGI Commex. At the first auction held in June, only one bidder--a UAE-based aviation support firm Alna Aero Distributional Finance Holdings--had participated and had made an offer of Rs 1.09 crore for the jet.
The department has got conducted borescope, which is a technical analysis of the plane, by Air India Engineering. "We have got borescope of the aircraft conducted by Air India Engineering," he said.
http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2017/jan/30/mallyas-lavish-corporate-jet-airbus-319-aircraft-has-no-takers-now-put-on-auction-for-the-third-t-1565046.html
Mallya's lavish corporate jet, Airbus 319 aircraft has no takers, now put on auction for the third time
After two unsuccessful attempts to auction debt-ridden liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s personal aircraft Airbus A319-133 CJ, the Service Tax Department on Monday issued online bids for the sale of the corporate jet yet again to recover dues of Rs 800 crore from the defunct Kingfisher Airlines.
Ganesh Yadav, a senior official with the state-run MSTC Limited, which is conducting the e-auction for the sale of the aircraft said they have not been able to get potential buyers and so they have put the aircraft for re-auction for the third time.
“The global online e-auction for the aircraft will be held on March 15 and 16. We will conclude it only if we get a good deal,” the official explained adding that they are yet to take a call on auctioning off five ATR aircraft and two helicopters of KFA that were also confiscated by the Service Tax Department in December 2013.
According to airlines sources, the Mallya's lavish corporate jet aircraft is worth over 550 crore but the government has been able to get a little over 100 crore through previous global auction. "Clearly nobody wants to ride on a horse, whose owner has not serviced and taken care of it well over the years," said an industry official.
Other than Mallya’s jet, five ATR aircraft and two helicopters of the defunct Kingfisher Airlines have been confiscated by the Service Tax Department in December 2013.These planes are currently at Mumbai International Airport.
The Service Tax Department, which seized the Airbus A319 (of the defunct Kingfisher Airlines) in December 2013, had appointed Air India as a technical consultant for the sale of the aircraft. Kingfisher Airlines was grounded in October 2012.
The prospective bidders will have to submit interest-free pre-Bid Earnest Money Deposit (EMD or the initial amount to be deposited before participating in the bidding is Rs one crore for all bidders is Rs 1 crore.
The previous bidding on the same was conducted on November 28-29 by MSTC, the selling agent of the Service Tax Department.
The aircraft is owned by C J Leasing (Cayman) Ltd and was given on lease to the now defunct Kingfisher Airlines. In 2013, the Bombay High Court observed there was no legal trouble in an auction of the aircraft which is on the financial lease. Proceeds of the sale will be deposited with the High Court.
Additionally, besides auctioning of KFA aircraft, banks too have begun the process of recovery of Rs 9,000 crore from Vijay Mallya.
Other than Mallya’s jet, five ATR aircraft and two helicopters of the defunct Kingfisher Airlines have been confiscated by the Service Tax Department in December 2013. These planes are currently at Mumbai International Airport.
Those ATRs are certainly not at BOM. They're at MAA, AFAIK.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/vijay-mallya-blames-pratt-whitney-engines-for-collapse-of-kingfisher-airlines/articleshow/57446475.cms
Vijay Mallya blames Pratt & Whitney engines for collapse of Kingfisher Airlines
Loans defaulter and fugitive Vijay Mallya today blamed "faulty" Pratt & Whitney (PW) engines for the collapse of his Kingfisher Airlines business.
Mallya also said on Twitter that he's sued a company called IAE, which is a PW Group Company, for compensation towards "defective" aircraft engines supplied to Kingfisher Airlines.
"Not surprised at DGCA enquiry into Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines. Kingfisher Airlines sadly collapsed also due to faulty engines. We have sued IAE a Pratt & Whitney Group Company for compensation towards defective aircraft engines supplied to Kingfisher Airlines."
The former liquor baron's comment came two days after it was revealed that India's aviation regulator is investigating Pratt & Whitney engines in A320 NEO planes. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday ordered a detailed examination of the engines after planes installed with them continually developed snags. These engines have been plagued with issues like slow engine start-up times and erroneous engine software messages.
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http://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/for-the-fourth-time-no-takers-for-vijay-mallyas-personal-jet/articleshow/57743657.cms
For the fourth time, no takers for Vijay Mallya's personal jet
For the fourth time, the Service Tax Department has failed to find a buyer for the personal jet of Vijay Mallya. This is despite the fact that it cut the reserve price to $12.5 million from the earlier $22.5 million on the Bombay High Court’s direction in a related case.
The department had invited global bids for selling off Mallya’s jet, grounded at the Mumbai airport, for recovery of its dues. The latest bidding was conducted by MSTC on March 15-16, a senior official of the department said, adding it failed despite reduction of reserve price to $12.5 million. The only bidder who participated was the US-based Aviation Solution LLP which quoted just Rs 17 crore ($2.65 million), the official said.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/clear-aircraft-not-auctioned-from-airport-hc/articleshow/62701164.cms
Clear aircraft not auctioned from airport: HC
With efforts to auction an Airbus 319 owned by Kingfisher Airlines failing to find buyers for the fourth time, Bombay high court on Monday said the aircraft, parked at the airport here, should be removed at the earliest.
"The aircraft has been occupying space at the airport for five years. If it is not airworthy, remove it immediately from the airport," said a division bench of Justices Satyaranjan Dharmadhikari and Bharati Dangre.
The official liquidator of the Karnataka high court is in-charge of the assets and records of the airline.
The aircraft was seized by sales tax department over dues of Rs 1,000 crore, liable to be paid by the airline, owned by businessman Vijay Mallya. The aircraft price had been reduced from $22.5 million to $12.5 million at the auctions. Airport authorities had informed the HC that the aircraft's value had depreciated and it must be sold as scrap.
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 8:13 am Post subject:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/mallya-jet-finally-auctioned-bought-by-us-firm-for-rs-35cr/articleshow/64801221.cms
Mallya jet finally auctioned, bought by US firm for Rs 35cr
Vijay Mallya’s luxury jet, which bears his initials ‘VT-VJM’ in its registration number, finally found a buyer on Friday. .
After at least three failed auctions and protracted legal procedures, the Airbus A319-133C VT-VJM MSN 2650 was auctioned by the official liquidator attached to the Karnataka high court in Bengaluru.
The US-based Aviation Management Sales, LLC, emerged the highest bidder as the auction was closed for the bid price of Rs 34.8 crore ($5.05 million). The highest bid is subject to the approval of the Bombay high court. The bid is higher than the ones received at the previous e-auctions conducted by the service tax department. The bid opened at $1.9 million.
The auction was held to recover dues and penalties owed to the service tax department by Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines (now in liquidation). “The grounded corporate jet is a sort of a prize catch as its customised interiors are unmatched in luxury. While its current list price would be approximately around $100 million with a standard specification, it was sold at dirt cheap price due to its grounded condition. It was not in airworthy condition as it has been grounded for nearly five years,” said a person privy to the development.
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2019 4:24 am Post subject:
https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/vijay-mallyas-jet-being-dismantled-at-ai-hangar/articleshow/68295466.cms
Vijay Mallya’s jet being dismantled at AI hangar
Vijay Mallya’s private jet, Airbus A 319 (VT – VJM), which was auctioned to US-based Aviation Management Sales (AMS), is being dismantled at the Air India hangar for the past few weeks as making it fly-worthy had become difficult.
After Kingfisher Airlines was grounded, the Service Tax Department had seized the aircraft. The AMS, which won the bid for the seized aircraft for Rs 34 crore in June last year, was unable to take possession of the aircraft because of bureaucratic hurdles. Three previous bids had filed to attract any buyers. Under the bidding conditions, the aircraft had to be removed from the airport premises within 60 days, said sources in the aviation industry.
On February 13, the aircraft was towed from the Lima apron along the Kalina Kurla road to the Air India hangar. Air India’s regional director (West) Mukesh Bhatia told Mumbai Mirror, “This aircraft can’t be made fly-worthy. It is being dismantled in our workshop. The process of dismantling is on and it will take some time.” Sources said that AMS requested Air India to dismantle the aircraft and send them the parts.
The plane was attached by the service tax department in December 2013. It was only after the airport authorities moved the Bombay High Court that the service tax department was forced to auction the jet. The Mumbai International Airport Limited told the court that it was facing a loss as the jet was parked permanently and was resulting in non-productive use of its space.
The Registrar of Companies was appointed as the official liquidator of all the assets of Kingfisher Airlines by the Karnataka High Court in 2014. The permission of the official liquidator appointed by the High Court of Karnataka was granted for disposing of the aircraft in 2016.
Official sources in the liquidator’s office told Mirror, “The auction process was completed eight months ago and the purchasers were given a deadline to move the aircraft. The plane was not in flying condition. It was left to the purchasers to take it away in any manner that was fit. It was moved out of the parking space around 15 days ago.”
Dee Garay, chief financial officer of AMS did not comment on the issue. The official liquidator and the MIAL spokesperson also did not comment.
The Fissure-King's original private jet, N727VJ, seems to have relatively outlived his Hawker & ACJ; as seen at Kingman Airport, Arizona on 11 March 2019.
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 9:26 pm Post subject: Vijay Mallya loses appeals against extradition from Britain
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/indian-tycoon-mallya-loses-appeals-105153205.html
Vijay Mallya loses appeals against extradition from Britain
......Mallya may now be able to appeal to Britain's Supreme Court if his legal team argue there is a matter of law that needs to be clarified.
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:28 pm Post subject: Re: Vijay Mallya loses appeals against extradition from Brit
He is never going to get extradited. When the GoI has not been able to bring back much smaller fry, fat chance they will have with Mallya.
VJM will continue enjoying his 'good times' in his London mansion.
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Tag: 2009 Calgary-Glenmore by-election
What if Paul Hinman had lost the 2009 by-election in Calgary-Glenmore?
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Former Wildrose Alliance Party leader Paul Hinman is expected to maybe become interim leader of the new separatist Wildrose Independence Party.
Former Wildrose Alliance Party leader Paul Hinman staged an odd and brief reappearance on Alberta’s political stage this week when he announced his plans to run for the leadership of the United Conservative Party. But when the Sept. 12, 2017 deadline for candidates to deposit a $57,500 fee had passed, Hinman did not appear to make the cut.
Hinman’s blip on the political radar this week got me thinking about the bigger role he has played in shaking up Alberta’s political environment. Not as a major player but as a secondary character.
His time as leader and sole MLA representing the social conservative Alberta Alliance and Wildrose Alliance from 2004 to 2009 was fairly unremarkable, but it was the role he played after he resigned as leader that had a much bigger impact in our province’s political history.
After he was defeated in his bid for re-election in Cardston-Taber-Warner in 2008, Hinman was returned to the Legislature by a 278-vote narrow victory in a September 2009 by-election in Calgary-Glenmore. The seat was previously represented by deputy premier Ron Stevens and was believed to be a Progressive Conservative urban stronghold.
Even though he would again be unsuccessful in his bid to get re-elected in the following general election, Hinman’s win undoubtably added to the momentum of Danielle Smith‘s Wildrose Alliance going into the 2012 election.
But what would have happened if Hinman had lost that by-election race in Calgary-Glenmore?
Hinman’s by-election win provided early credibility for the Wildrose Alliance by showing that the party could elect candidates in long-held PC Party constituencies. Without this by-election win, the Wildrose Alliance’s momentum could have stalled or slowed going into the 2012 election.
Liberal candidate Avalon Roberts finished only 278 votes behind Hinman. Had she won the by-election, David Swann might have stayed on as party leader instead of resigning in 2011. A win in Glenmore might have led the Liberals to experience a resurgence in support going into the 2012 election, building on the party’s 2008 gains in Calgary. Or maybe the PCs would have simply won back the constituency in the following general election, as they did in 2012.
Popular city councillor Diane Colley-Urquhart placed third as the PC candidate in the by-election, which was not really a reflection of voters feelings towards her but of the unpopularity of then-premier Ed Stelmach in Calgary. If Colley-Urquhart had held on to Glenmore for the PCs, would PC MLAs Heather Forsyth and Rob Anderson have crossed the floor to the Wildrose Party in January 2010?
And an even larger ‘what-if’ question is, if Hinman had not won the by-election and his party’s momentum had sputtered, would Stelmach have resisted pressure from his cabinet and party to resign in 2011? Would he still be premier today?
While Hinman’s narrow win in a 2009 by-election is now an obscure footnote in Alberta’s political history, its impact on our province’s political environment and the split it helped create in the conservative movement in Alberta was huge.
Thinking about these kinds of scenarios can be endless fun for politicos (or at least for me).
Tags 2009 Calgary-Glenmore by-election, Alberta Alliance, Avalon Roberts, Calgary-Glenmore, Danielle Smith, David Swann, Diane Colley-Urquhart, Ed Stelmach, Heather Forsyth, Paul Hinman, Rob Anderson, Ron Stevens, United Conservative Party, Wildrose Alliance Party
Can the Alberta NDP win in Calgary?
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Edmonton-Strathcona MLA Rachel Notley
To describe it as a long-shot is polite, but two Edmonton MLAs running for the leadership of Alberta’s New Democratic Party say that growing support in Calgary is critical. Edmonton-Strathcona MLA Rachel Notley launched her campaign for her party’s leadership at Niko’s Bistro in Kensington this week. And Edmonton-Calder MLA David Eggen described Alberta’s largest city as ‘unploughed ground’ for the NDP.
Edmonton-Calder MLA David Eggen
At her Calgary launch, Ms. Notley was introduced by former alderman Bob Hawkesworth, one of the last New Democrats to be elected under that party’s banner in Calgary. Mr. Hawkesworth was elected along with fellow New Democrat Barry Pashak in the 1986 and 1989 elections. Both men were defeated in the 1993 election, along with every other NDP candidate in the province.
The NDP has regained support in Edmonton, earning 21% in the last provincial election, but it has never recovered in Calgary. In the past two provincial elections the NDP earned less than 5% of the total vote in Calgary.
Although the provincial NDP earned 19,942 votes (4%) in Calgary in the 2012 provincial election, the Orange Wave in the 2011 federal election helped that party collect an impressive 51,652 votes in cowtown.
A handful of popular Liberal MLAs – like David Swann, Kent Hehr, and formerly Harry Chase – have successfully held the progressive (non-PC Party) banner in that city for the past three elections. But a decline in Liberal Party support may open an opportunity for a resurgent NDP looking for gains in Calgary, if the NDP actually work for it.
Back in 2009, I was a freelance writer covering the annual NDP convention. While most delegates were caught up debating constitutional resolutions in a dingy and windowless conference room in downtown Edmonton, the Calgary-Glenmore by-election was heating up.
When I asked an NDP organizer why they hadn’t hired a bus to shuttle the 150 delegates down south for a day to help their candidate (a move that would have been a strong show of support), the individual replied that they were sure the party had it under control. Come election day, Wildrose candidate Paul Hinman narrowly defeated Liberal Avalon Roberts, with Tory Diane Colley-Urquhart placing third and the NDP candidate placed a distant fourth with an insignificant 1.3% of the vote.
Any viable opposition party in Alberta needs to be competitive in the province’s largest city. Even if they are only competitive in a few constituencies, the NDP need to have a presence in Calgary before they can claim to be a true provincial opposition.
NDP could make gains in Lethbridge
This week the NDP nominated researcher Shannon Phillips as their candidate in Lethbridge-West. The NDP hope that with some hard work Ms. Phillips can build on her 2012 results, when she boosted her party’s support to 29%, up from 10% in the 2008 election. Those 2012 results placed Ms. Phillips ahead of the Wildrose candidate and just over 1,000 votes behind PC MLA Greg Weadick.
A Rural Target?
Last month, the NDP sought to hire a field organizer based in the Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater riding, which is currently represented by controversial Education minister Jeff Johnson.
While the area northeast of Edmonton has not been a hotbed of traditional support, NDP candidate and potential leadership candidate Mandy Melnyk earned 13.7% of the vote in the last election, the NDP’s best result in rural Alberta.
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The Forgotten History of Inoculation
in Current Affairs, History
Gavin Weightman—
The huge international effort to develop an effective vaccine against the coronavirus suggests that it is only with the development of modern medicine that an antidote could be found for a deadly virus. Yet the concept of immunization is hundreds, if not thousands, of years old. And its discovery had absolutely nothing to do with medical expertise: it was a folk procedure derived from common experience.
Disease itself—smallpox—provided the clue to protecting against infection. It was a terrible affliction, which covered the victim’s body in burning pustules, killing and maiming. But smallpox had one redeeming feature: if you survived an attack you were sure to be immune for life. This suggested that if there was a way to get a mild attack, it would provide protection when the next epidemic struck without endangering your life.
In China, dried scabs of smallpox pustules were sniffed like snuff to induce immunity. More commonly the infection was injected into the arm of a child or adult who was brave enough to try inoculation or “engrafting,” as it was known in Turkey and some other parts of the world.
In England, the medical profession knew about engrafting in the early 18th century as it had been described in papers sent to the Royal Society in London and published in its Philosophical Transactions. It had been observed mostly in Turkey where elderly Greek women equipped only with a rusty needle appeared to have great success immunizing children against smallpox. Their “vaccine” was the smallpox infection itself. This was collected from the pustules of the already infected and preserved in walnut shells. Engrafting involved nothing more than pricking the skin of the child, in the arm or leg or both, and rubbing in the infection. If smallpox “took,” as it invariably did, the patient developed symptoms of the disease that were mostly mild and after two weeks subsided. Reports suggested that it was a miraculous defense against smallpox but the medical profession found it abhorrent and quite incomprehensible.
Their resistance was broken by a very brave aristocratic lady, Mary Wortley Montagu, who saw the Greek women in action when she lived briefly in Istanbul where her husband was ambassador. She had her son and later her daughter “engrafted” with complete success. Royalty was impressed, if the medical profession were mostly hostile. There followed in 1721 a bizarre piece of medical research the like of which would have been unthinkable today: prisoners in Newgate Gaol in London were offered freedom if they would undergo engrafting. All six volunteers survived. Next, some orphans were taken as guinea pigs, and they survived.
Gradually, Royalty and the upper crust began to adopt engrafting, which became known as inoculation. It was for the elite only until a physician practicing in the Yorkshire woolen town of Halifax thought he would try it, having read the papers published in the Royal Society. Just as Lady Mary was a brave woman, the doctor, Thomas Nettleton, was a brave man. But he was driven to try inoculation by the terrible plight of families in Halifax and the small towns and villages that he served. If anyone doubted the efficacy of the procedure, he had stories to tell which still send a chill down the spine. He wrote it all down in a letter to a friend in London who passed it on to the Royal Society.
His second patient, one of the first ever to be inoculated by a doctor in England, was a two years old girl. Four of the children in the family had already died of smallpox and were buried. Anxiously, he injected smallpox into her arm and observed the reaction. The girl was feverish, had a “convulsive fit,” and suffered the eruption of smallpox pustules on her body. But she survived.
Nettleton recorded a great many heartrending stories of families desperate to save at least one of their children. However, he did so in the teeth of local opposition and decided to inoculate only those who approached him. It was a number of years before engrafting became acceptable, and it was made widespread and popular not by the leading doctors of the day but by rural surgeons.
Most medical histories have lost sight of this crucial era in the development of what became known as vaccination. I believe the reason is that when a country surgeon, Edward Jenner, proposed that it might be safer to inoculate with a milder disease known as cowpox that inoculation was forgotten about.
Jenner dignified cowpox with a Latin invention: he called it variola vaccinae to mean “smallpox of the cow.” But nobody really knows what his vaccines were. In the late eighteenth century, medicine was blissfully ignorant of germs of any kind. That Jenner’s vaccine worked was, in retrospect, a miracle. However, it did not work quite as well as he had hoped; his vaccines needed a booster after a few years.
The virus which caused smallpox before it was killed off for good in the 1970s was one of a class of infections which affected a variety of animals. It was not, as Jenner thought, only an infection of cows but one of a family of orthopoxviruses. And it was a very long time before there was some understanding of why injecting smallpox or cowpox induced a mild does of the disease. I am not sure it is really understood now, though we do know it has to do with the way in which our immune system can be stimulated to set up defenses against an infection.
Vaccination has been hugely successful saving millions of lives. But there is no telling if one will be found to protect against coronavirus. Whereas smallpox had been around for centuries, COVID-19 is new; we do not know if an attack triggers the body’s defenses in such a way that future attacks are easily repulsed. But it should be remembered that the very concept of inoculation goes far back into medical history and the pioneers, however rustic their techniques, should not be forgotten.
Gavin Weightman is a historian and former documentary filmmaker. He has written extensively on the history of science, and is the author of Eureka, The Frozen Water Trade, and The Industrial Revolutionaries.
Featured Image: Photo by CDC on Unsplash
Tags: Gavin Weightman, history of medicine, immunization, vaccination
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September 7, 2020 by: Camille O'Connell in Entertainment
Garrett Yrigoyen, Becca Kurfin Split | Garrett Yrigoyen Age, Height, Ex-Wife, Kids & Net Worth!
by: Camille O'Connell
2 Is it over for Garrett Yrigoyen and Becca Kufrin?
3 Garrett Yrigoyen Net Worth
4 Garrett Yrigoyen Wiki-Bio
Last Modified On: 7th September, 2020
Garrett Yrigoyen is a reality-TV star who became famous after appearing in The Bachelorette season 14. He was also the winner of the show, winning the heart of Becca Kufrin. The duo was engaged and on their way to get married. However, the pair shocked the Bachelor Nation when it was revealed that the duo has split and might not be exchanging vows.
Garrett Yrigoyen has been quite popular ever since his appearance in The Bachelorette. Learn more on Garrett and get to know more on what happened between him and Becca, his net worth, and much more.
Birth Name Garrett Vincent Yrigoyen
Birthday February 24, 1989
Birthplace Manteca, California
Profession Television Personality
Parents David Yrigoyen, Barbara Yrigoyen
Dating/Girlfriend Rebecca Kufrin
Married/Wife Kayla Yrigoyen (m. 2015–2016)
Net Worth Under Review
Is it over for Garrett Yrigoyen and Becca Kufrin?
Garrett Yrigoyen seemed to have a perfect relationship with Becca Kufrin, whose heart he won during The Bachelorette season 14, in 2018. The couple was engaged in the summer of 2018, and everything seemed perfect for the reality star couple. Moreover, Garrett had shared many pictures with his soon to be wife on Instagram, even celebrating their first anniversary on May 12, 2019. However, Garrett and his partner are no longer together. Becca had hinted her time apart from Garrett on her Instagram.
Another year around the sun produced more epic memories, friends, and adventures I’ll never forget. I couldn’t fit everything I wanted to onto one post. These are at least some of my favorite moments from my 30th year on this beautiful planet. I never thought I’d make it to and or past 30. It was sort of a nightmare I always had growing up. It ended up being a blessing because it helped set the tone for my mindset to say “yes” to as many things as possible and always be daring to try out something new. I look forward to continuing with that throughout my life and not worrying about when exactly it is that I’m going to die, but how I’m going to live. Think less, smile more, do everything with a purpose, and fire it up. Thank you everyone for the kind words and birthday wishes. Looking forward to 31. #garrettlife
A post shared by Garrett Yrigoyen (@gy_yrigoyen) on Feb 25, 2020 at 12:25am PST
Moreover, fans also spotted Becca without her engagement ring. Likewise, a source confirmed the news sharing that couple of two years have broken up. Furthermore, Garrett and Becca are living separately as Garrett is doing a backpacking trip in the wilderness, and the couple is low-key trying to work things out, but the relationship is done. Before Becca, Garrett had tied the knot with Kayla Cunningham on September 19, 2015. However, the couple called off their wedding after six months on March 25, 2016.
Garrett Yrigoyen Net Worth
Before appearing in the reality show, Garrett worked as a medical sales representative. He is also a Distal Extremities Surgical Technology Consultant at Arthrex, an international global medical device company with officers in Reno. Moreover, his appearance on the show also increased his popularity, and now has nearly 700k followers on his Instagram.
Tell me somethin’, girl. . . Family and friends came out to show love and support for Becca at @bachelorliveonstage
Garrett has also arrived on TV shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live, Good Morning America, and Live with Kelly and Ryan. Besides, the TV star has also partnered with various brands like Tommy John, Heineken, Total Wine, Wayfair, Manscaped, and Sleep Number.
I love talking to my nephew like he can understand what I’m saying. In this moment I carried him over to @austinkeen2002 and said something like this… since your arms can’t reach the steering wheel and your feet can’t reach the pedals, you can sit on my lap and I’ll assist you. Let’s turn your hat backwards because we’re going to be haulin’ ass & I need your eyes on the gauges, I’ve got the road. Place your hands in a comfortable position on the wheel, don’t choke it, hold it like your baby bottle. Often (throttle/gas) is on the right, sometimes never (brake) is in the middle, and coming in clutch is on the left. Do you understand the difference? Gahgfrsh-ahh (that’s his response)…exactly! You keep your hands on the wheel and make sure we don’t crash, I’ll do the gears. Clutch pressed all the way in, I’m going to progressively and smoothly let the clutch all the way out. As I do that, I’m going to give as much gas in – as clutch I’m taking out. Make sense? ahh-fdroolhrgzh… good! Without getting too technical, I’m going to press the clu… Uhh wow @jay11sticks , I think he just shit his diapy and it soaked through onto my lap, grab him please! Don’t worry @austinkeen that last part was fabricated… I wasn’t actually going to press in the clutch. ————————————————— Stories with Mav to be continued…
A post shared by Garrett Yrigoyen (@gy_yrigoyen) on Feb 11, 2020 at 9:23am PST
As of 2020, Garrett’s net worth is still under review. However, his ex-fiancé had earned a $1 million salary for her Bachelorette lead appearance. The duo had also purchased a new home at Carlsbad, California.
Garrett Yrigoyen Wiki-Bio
Garrett Vincent Yrigoyen was born in 1989 in Manteca, California. His birthday falls on February 24, which makes his age 31 as of 2020. Garrett is the only son of his parents, David and Barbara Yrigoyen. He also has a sister named Allison. Garrett was a baseball star in high school. He played football for San Joaquin Delta College, later transferring to the University of Nevada.
Garrett holds an American nationality and comes from White ethnicity. he has a height of 6 feet and 2 inches.
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Rumor Patrol: Gwen Featured In Upcoming Fishbone Documentary?
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Now this would be amazing! According to this website, Fishbone are releasing a new DVD, “Everyday Sunshine”, and will feature many of thier famous fans, and Gwen is a name they list. She is known to have been a fan since she was in high school, she actually used to ditch class to go see them with Tony. Before I start this off though, I do want to mention that the whole band is huge Fishbone followers, but it seems like Gwen’s name is the only one they name. She has also appeared on their Sly and the Family Stone cover of “Everybody Is A Star” and singer Angelo Moore has also appeared on the band’s early “Doormat” demo back in 1989 and even Gwen’s “Fluorescent” track from The Sweet Escape. This band is honestly the best live band I have ever seen (besides No Doubt of course) and we are so excited for this release, even if Gwen doesn’t make an appearance. The reason that we showcase the flyer above is that Angelo joined the band onstage for the last part of the concert and even joined Gwen in a cover of “Any Way You Want It” by Journey. Ahh — I wish these videos existed!
Spinner — What do Chuck D, George Clinton and Tim Robbins have in common? The same thing that would keep Flea, Gwen Stefani and Ice-T engaged in conversation, were the three ever to find themselves trapped in an elevator: Fishbone, the long-running California band that’s the subject of a new documentary due out this spring.
The film, ‘Everyday Sunshine,’ will feature interviews with all of the aforementioned stars, as well as a handful of other famous fans.
The film traces the band’s entire 30-year history, telling the story of six kids from South Central Los Angeles that dared to mix ska, punk, funk, metal, hip-hop and virtually any other genre they could think of, creating a sound no one had heard before. The final scenes focus on singer Angelo Moore and bassist John Norwood Fisher, the only two original members still part of the band. In addition to celebrity interviews, ‘Everyday Sunshine’ will include rare live footage from throughout the band’s run.
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Maribeth Curley says:
Ahh Jenny! I’m seeing them on SATURDAY! I’m so excited!
PS: Check out the notes on this video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ts27KDHNx4
That is awesome! You will have such an amzing time! I saw them back in 2008 — it was honestly one of the best concerts of my life. I was front row center and Angelo stage dived right onto my head… but it was worth it, lol.
I met him after the show, too, and got my Fishbone poster signed.
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Coldplay top 20 songs
Coldplay biography
Coldplay is a British alternative rock band, formed in London, United Kingdom in 1997. The band comprises vocalist and pianist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland – who met each other in September 1996 at Ramsay Hall (halls of residence) at University College London - bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion. Not only have Coldplay had 7 highly successful studio album releases (all of which debuted at #1 on the UK album chart) - with their latest 7th studio album released on December 4, 2015 (A Head Full of Dreams) - Coldplay have also achieved great success with their singles, such as Yellow, Speed of Sound, the Grammy-winning Clocks and the US and UK #1 single Viva La Vida. Influences Coldplay's early material was often compared to that of Jeff Buckley and Radiohead, while also drawing comparisons to U2 and Travis. Since the release of the band's debut album, Parachutes (2000), Coldplay has also drawn influence from other sources, including Echo and the Bunnymen and George Harrison on A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002) and Johnny Cash and Kraftwerk for X&Y (2005). Frontman Chris Martin credits 1980s Norwegian pop band a-ha for inspiring him to form his own band. Coldplay never intended to become England's favorite rock & roll sons when their signature rock melodies ruled the charts throughout 2000. The quartet yearned to mess around a bit, plucking their own acoustics for fun while attending the University College of London. All had been playing instruments since their early teens and had been influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan, the Stone Roses, Neil Young, and My Bloody Valentine. They never imagined taking reign of the UK's ever-changing rock scene. Each member had come from a solid household of middle-class parents who encouraged music. Chris Martin, the eldest of five siblings, began playing the piano as a young child. He started playing in bands around age 15 and sought solace in the words of Tom Waits. Jonny Buckland, on the other hand, was into the heavy guitar work of Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix and was playing guitar by age 11. Scotland native Guy Berryman was into funk instead of indie rock, therefore leaving him to play bass. The multi-instrumentalist Champion had not planned to be a drummer until he joined Coldplay. He favored playing guitar, bass, and the tin whistle, but caught on to playing percussion when the band became official. When they burst onto the scene, Coldplay were heart-wrenching like Travis, passionate like Jeff Buckley, and as fresh as Oasis. They played their first gig at a festival for unsigned bands in Manchester, and the Safety EP was issued shortly thereafter. The Brothers & Sisters EP was issued by Fierce Panda and released a year later. (Both releases saw only 500 pressings.) Their sweet melodies and swooning lyrics landed Coldplay a UK deal with Parlophone in April 1999, and the five-track limited edition Blue Room EP followed that autumn. With nods from the media, the dream pop foursome was hailed as the next Travis, thanks to their simplistic acoustics and charming personas. Two more EPs, Shiver and Yellow, arrived in Spring 2000. Albums The band has released 5 albums with the latest sixth album scheduled for release in May 2014: Parachutes (2000), A Rush Of Blood To The Head (2002), X&Y (2005), Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008), Mylo Xyoto (2011) and in May 2014, Ghost Stories (2014). Parachutes (2000) Their full-length debut album, Parachutes, earned the band a Mercury Music Prize nomination in the UK. It saw a US release in November 2000, and a month later Yellow, was chosen as the theme song for all promo spots for the American TV network ABC. The well-received hype surrounding Coldplay continued throughout 2001 as well; they were nominated for three Brit Awards and embarked on a sold-out ten-date tour of the US. Rumors of a split consumed most of the US tour. Martin frequently battled nasty colds and voice exhaustion, which led Coldplay to cancel a series of American dates and scrap a European tour. With all gossip aside, Coldplay resumed playing in Summer 2001 and earned additional success with second single Trouble. A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002) By the autumn, they had headed into the studio for a second album. Rumour had it that it might be Coldplay's last album, since the band members felt they might not capture such brilliance again. A Rush Of Blood To The Head was released in August 2002. The CD/DVD package Live 2003 was issued a year later. Capturing the band's show at the Horden Pavilion in Sydney, Australia, it highlighted Coldplay's monumental success worldwide with A Rush Of Blood To The Head. Martin specifically earned a higher notch on the celebrity scale by marrying actress Gwyneth Paltrow in December 2003. Paltrow gave birth to the couple's first daughter, Apple Blythe Alison Martin, the following April. X&Y (2005) Fatherhood did not stop Martin from working, as Coldplay began recording material for a third album within weeks. Previously recorded material with long-time producer Ken Nelson was scrapped early on, while producer Danton Supple (Morrissey, The Cure) joined Coldplay to complete the recording of X&Y. Speed Of Sound marked Coldplay's first single from their long-awaited third effort in Spring 2005; the album followed in June, topping the charts around the world, including America and Britain. Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008) Coldplay's fourth album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends was released on June 12, 2008 in the United Kingdom, with the first single Violet Hill having been previously released as a free download through their official website for a week from April 29, 2008. Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends was produced by Brian Eno, mixed by Markus Dravs, and drew influence from the time the group spent in South America. The album received lots of positive feedback for its originality in melodic acoustics and slightly less 'synth-dependent' riffs. It offered a great insight into how significantly the band's music had adapted and developed to themselves and the public. Charity duet (single) for World AIDS Day (2008) Barely a week before the album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends was released, a duet with Kylie Minogue, which was intended to be used on the album, was scrapped with the comment that 'it’s just too sexy […] also we haven’t quite finished it'. The track, Lhuna was subsequently released as a charity single to promote World AIDS Day 2008 on December 1, 2008. Mylo Xyloto (2011) Coldplay's fifth album, Mylo Xyloto, was released on October 24, 2011, with the first two tracks from the album - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall and Paradise - were released on June 3, 2011 and September 12, 2012 respectively. The album was no.1 in over 34 countries, and has sold over 8m copies worldwide. Ghost Stories (2014) The band's sixth album, Ghost Stories, was officially released on May 19, 2014. Prior to the release, Coldplay made the full album available to stream via iTunes, with an animation of the album artwork designed by Mila Fürstová, one week ahead of the official release date. The first track from the album, Midnight was released on February 25, 2014. The album was recorded at The Bakery and The Beehive studios in London, England. Ghost Stories entered the Billboard 200 as Number 1 and marked Coldplay's fourth straight number 1 studio album, selling 383,000 copies in the US in the week ending May 25, 2014 - of which 64% came from digital downloads according to Billboard. A Head Full of Dreams (2015) The band's 7th studio album, A Head Full of Dreams, was released December 4, 2015 on the Parlophone label. The 11-track album (with an additional hidden track called “X Marks The Spot”) was recorded in LA and London, and was produced by Stargate and Rik Simpson. A world tour is promised to accompany the album in 2016. Super Bowl in 2016 - on December 4, 2015, it was announced that Coldplay would headline at the much coverted Super Bowl 50 half-time show in 2016. The band's artistic director, Phil Harvey, also revealed that there would be a yet-undisclosed "special guest" during the performance Commercial endorsements Coldplay are one of very few current British music acts to achieve major success in North America. Despite their large worldwide popularity, the band has remained protective of how their music is used in the media, refusing its use for product endorsements. In the past, Coldplay had turned down multi-million dollar contracts from Gatorade, Diet Coke, and Gap, who wanted to use the songs Yellow, Trouble, and Don't Panic respectively. According to Martin, "We wouldn't be able to live with ourselves if we sold the songs' meanings like that." On the other hand, Yellow has been used to back TV trailers for "The Simpsons" and Viva La Vida featured on an iTunes TV advert. Political and social activism Since 2002, Coldplay have been active supporters of various social and political causes. They have been visible advocates of Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign and Amnesty International. The group has also performed at various charity projects such as Band Aid 20, Live 8, and the Teenage Cancer Trust. Official website: www.coldplay.com
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You guys are one heck of a band. Love all the 5 studio albums. I grew up grew-up with 'The Scientists', In My place, Yellow & such. Yellow & In My Place R my fav Will let 'em play In My Place/sung by a choir on my wedding day & my funeral.
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Friday links! Actually, I’m crazy edition
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Valerie Stamey returns, clothed in righteous fire
By Dan Brooks in Self-Promotion July 13, 2017 0 Comment
Former Ravalli County Treasurer and missing person Valerie Stamey
It’s been over a year since the last time we heard from Valerie Stamey. Last May, we got the headline Former County Treasurer Found and Served, which pretty much tells you what you need to know about my favorite story in Montana politics. Stamey was appointed treasurer on a 3-2 vote by Ravalli County commissioners in 2013. She served about eight months before she was suspended in June 2014. During her tenure, the office filed no monthly reports and the fire department ran out of money. After she left, investigators found $780,000 in undeposited checks lying around her office. The county estimates it spent around six figures putting the office of the treasurer back in order after she left. Stamey was found guilty of official misconduct and fined in absentia, but by that time, she was gone. Her husband told reporters she was in a different state, but he wouldn’t say which. Process servers who hoped to find her at the auction of her home were disappointed.
Now she’s back, though, and more Stamey than ever. Last week, her attorney announced that she was suing the county and about a dozen of its employees for $20.2 million—that’s $240,000 for “lost economic opportunities” and $20 million in punitive damages. Among those to be punished are the county attorney, the former treasurer, three former deputy treasurers, the county clerk and the owners of the Bitterroot Star newspaper, all of whom are named as defendants in the suit. Their co-defedants include Greg Chilcott, J.R. Iman, Jeff Burrows, Chris Hoffman and Suzy Foss—the five members of the Ravalli County Commission that made her treasurer in the first place.
Stamey’s lawsuit claims that county commissioners conspired with treasury employees and the newspaper to “create the false impression that she was incompetent.” I’m no lawyer, but I think she’d have a better shot if she didn’t put the word “false” in there. This conspiracy does explain why the county commission appointed a treasurer who had no experience in managerial accounting, a history of bad debts, and a FUFI judgment against her. They needed a patsy. The only other explanation is that they made the worst hiring decision in Ravalli County history, exhibiting astonishingly poor judgment in the process. You can read all about it in this week’s column for the Missoula Independent. We’ll be back tomorrow with Friday links!
Friday links! I can’t breathe edition
By Dan Brooks in Friday Links December 5, 2014 0 Comment
Four NYPD officers kill Eric Garner on video.
The picture above shows Officer Daniel Pantaleo applying a rear naked choke to Staten Island man Eric Garner in the moments before Garner’s death. The NYPD forbids choke holds, because they can kill people when applied improperly. In the picture above, Pantaleo fails to get his elbow below Garner’s chin; instead of applying pressure to the carotid arteries, cutting off the blood supply to Garner’s brain, he presses against Garner’s throat, potentially damaging his trachea. But an autopsy found no injury to Garner’s windpipe. He died of cardiac arrest, which just happened to result from four officers using explicitly prohibited force to arrest him for selling loose cigarettes. As you have certainly heard by now, none of those officers will be charged. A grand jury declined to indict Pantaleo, who testified that he was merely trying to wrestle Garner to the ground. Today is Friday, and the police are above the law. Won’t you stagger beneath it with me?
NYC police clear Zuccotti Park
By Dan Brooks in Public Discourse November 16, 2011 4 Comments
Occupy Wall Street protestors return to Zucotti Park on Tuesday afternoon. Photo from the Guardian, where they are not afraid to put other journalists front and center.
“I’m calling you to update you on what we did,” Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson told the chair of the Lower Manhattan Community Board. “We came in the middle of the night.” Thus ended the occupation of Wall Street, after police executed Mayor Bloomberg’s order to clear Zuccotti Park of tents and protestors around 1am Tuesday morning. After a series of temporary injunctions and contradictory judicial rulings, protestors are no longer camping at the Occupy Wall Street demonstration. They trickled back into the park during the day, but no one is allowed to lie down. As winter sets in, more than one person is probably relieved not to have to do the sleeping on the cold ground part of civil disobedience. Yet the clearing of the park feels undeniably like the end of something, and it raises plenty of questions. “Is it over?” is not the only one.
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www.edenpublicschool.com - THE OFFICIAL WEB SITE for Eden Public School (contact www.artfillz.com info@artfillz.com +91 9745524409)
Eden is well known for its eco-friendly nature and has won the award for the ‘Best Eco-friendly school in Kottayam District in the competition conducted by VegaLand Amusement Park.
Two short movies were filmed by the students of Eden Public School, ‘The Last Leaf’ and ‘Paradise Lost’ to spread the message of social cleanliness while chikun guinea and dengue was rampant in the locality. The technical details of the films were handled by students under the supervision of renowned film make sri.Jayaraj. The films were duly released by the Hon’ble speaker of the Legislative assembly of the Kerala sri. K Radhkrishnan and exhibited before the Hon’ble ministers and M.L.A s at the Kerala Legislative Assembly Banquet Hall.
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AMPED™ FEATURED ALBUM OF THE WEEK: NEW FOUND GLORY/FOREVER + EVER X INFINITY
While melodic Pop-oriented Punk has existed since the late ‘70s, the term ‘Pop Punk’ (or ‘Punk Pop”) wasn’t widely used until bands like The Offspring, Green Day, Rancid, and Blink-182 brought the genre to the mainstream, selling millions of albums in the process. MTV and radio embraced this new movement that was as hook-filled as it was loud and aggressive. It is hard to tell whether Pop Punk was a reaction against the slick Pop and smooth R&B that filled the charts at the time or a full-on musical revolution but whatever happened, happened. Another band that made their mark in 1997 was New Found Glory, the Coral Springs, Florida-based band that seemed to have a never-ending supply of anthems for the Punk kids. Within two years of their debut EP, the band were one of the biggest Pop Punk bands in the land.
New Found Glory’s first full-length album, Nothing Gold Can Stay (1999) set the wheels in motion and by 2000, they had signed to Drive-Thru Records and released their self-titled second album. Over the next two decades, the band has released a series of hit records and spent plenty of time on the road, promoting their albums and entertaining audiences everywhere. They signed with Hopeless Records in 2014 and released Resurrection. The band returned three years later with Make Me Sick. In 2019, they released the third in their From The Screen To Your Stereo series. Unlike many of their Pop Punk contemporaries, New Found Glory have shown no signs of slowing down.
Forever + Ever x Infinity is their 2020 album and their 10th studio album of original material (the band’s catalog also includes covers albums, live releases, EPs, and a few ‘hits’ collections to boot). The songs on this new release combine the spirit of classic New Found Glory with the spit of heavy Rock. The melodies still soar, but the guitars have a meaner bite. The songs still come fast and furious, but the guitars have a lean Metal-like chug-chug that makes each song hit harder but without causing any damage to the listener. Produced by Steve Evetts, the album features key tracks like “Himalaya”, “Shook By Your Shaved Head”, and the first single “Greatest Of All Time”. Forever + Ever x Infinity, amen!
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June 19, 2020 Steve Schnee
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“The Winds of Khalakovo” by Bradley P. Beaulieu (R...
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“The Enterprise of Death” by Jesse Bullington (Reviewed by Robert Thompson and Liviu Suciu)
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Read Fantasy Book Critic’s Review of “The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart”
AUTHOR INFORMATION: Jesse Bullington is a folklore and outdoor enthusiast who holds a bachelor's degree in History and English Literature from Florida State University. His bibliography includes The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart and The Enterprise of Death.
PLOT SUMMARY: As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent.
She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr. Paracelsus, and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank, and church wall, the apprentice becomes increasingly aware of the great dangers that surround her. She realizes she must revisit the fell necromancy of her childhood . . . or death will be the least of her concerns...
CLASSIFICATION: Like The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, The Enterprise of Death is a hard-to-classify fusion of folklore, historical fiction, fantasy, horror and black comedy in the vein of the Brothers Grimm, Clive Barker, Chuck Palahniuk, Warren Ellis and a bit of Joe Abercrombie. In this case, the historical-influenced setting is centered around the Spanish Inquisition, the Italian Wars and the Protestant Reformation during the late 15th/early 16th centuries. Actual historical figures, items and events woven into the novel include Boabdil’s exile from the city of Granada and the words his mother supposedly spoke to him upon reaching a rocky prominence—“Thou dost weep like a woman for what thou couldst not defend as a man.”—Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, his wife Katharina and the painting the book’s cover is based on; the Swiss mercenary captain, Albrecht von Stein; Heinrich Kramer’s treatise on witches, the Malleus Maleficarum; Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Dr. Paracelsus; and the Battle of Bicocca. Fantasy elements meanwhile include necromancers, animated corpses and vampires.
FORMAT/INFO: The Enterprise of Death is 464 pages long divided over a Prologue and thirty-nine Roman-numbered/titled chapters. Extras include an Excerpt from Jesse Bullington’s debut novel, The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, and a Bibliography of the material researched for The Enterprise of Death. Narration is in the third person via several different point-of-views including Awa, Omorose, Niklaus Manuel and Monique. The Enterprise of Death is self-contained. March 3, 2011/March 24, 2011 marks the UK/North American Trade Paperback publication of The Enterprise of Death via Orbit Books. Cover art is based on this painting by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch.
ANALYSIS: The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart may have been extremely vulgar and gruesomely violent with a disappointing ending and possibly the most revolting protagonists to ever star in their own book, but for all of that, Jesse Bullington’s debut offered a very different, and at the same time, very rewarding reading experience. As such, I was excited to see what Jesse Bullington’s sophomore effort would bring to the table.
Unfortunately, The Enterprise of Death did not immediately grab me the same way that Jesse Bullington’s first novel did. Part of the problem can be attributed to a somewhat confusing narrative that alternates between the story’s present time and past events, although that distinction does not become clear until later in the novel, while the author’s annoying tendency to switch between viewpoints without any warning only added to the confusion. The real problem though lies with how vile things can get at the beginning of the book with cannibalism, necrophilia and self-cannibalism some of the more disgusting topics covered. For all of its vulgarity and gruesomeness, there was always a healthy dose of dark humor in The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart to help lighten the mood. In contrast, humor has been significantly reduced in The Enterprise of Death, and what humor is present is of the more morbid variety. As a result, it’s much more difficult not to be disturbed by the vileness in The Enterprise of Death, and I have to admit there were a number of times when I almost gave up on the book altogether.
Thankfully, I stuck it out and I’m glad I did. Once I got a handle on where the story was heading, who the major players were, got past the novel’s more repulsive moments, and became fully acclimated to Jesse Bullington’s writing style, reading The Enterprise of Death was a much smoother and more entertaining affair. Of course, it helps that Awa is a lot more likable as a protagonist compared to the Grossbart brothers, even if she is a necromancer, remarkably nonchalant about killing people, and suffers from shallow characterization. In fact, I really grew to care about Awa and whether or not she would be able to break the curse and defeat her evil master. The supporting characters meanwhile—which includes the real-life artist/mercenary Niklaus Manuel, the African beauty Omorose, the Dutch gunner/whoremonger/giantess Monique, the historical figure Doctor Paracelsus, etc.—are an eclectic bunch, but don’t really add much to the novel apart from some engaging dialogue on things like the differences between faith and religion and whether necromancy is good or evil.
Personally, what made The Enterprise of Death worth reading was Jesse Bullington’s clever writing—“Two individuals of the opposite sex will, if forced to go on a journey together, fall in love. Often begrudgingly, and with a great deal of reluctance by at least one of the parties, to be sure, but love will fall as surely as night after day. In the unlikely event that one of the two is homosexual, asexual, already in a loving relationship, or otherwise disinclined from romancing their traveling companion, love will fall all the harder, like cannon fire upon a charging cavalry; indeed, the less likely the two are to fall in love naturally, the more certain it is that the sojourn will bring them together.”—and a vivid imagination which included everything from fire salamanders and a hyena-like demon to a different kind of vampire and unique necromantic abilities like being able to kill someone with a simple touch, speaking with the spirits of things both animate and inanimate, and healing incurable wounds by ingesting body parts. The ending is also a lot more satisfying than the one in The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, and even leaves room for a sequel or two that I would love to check out, especially if the author wrote one featuring the Bastards of the Schwarzwald.
Overall though, The Enterprise of Death is not as good as The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart. Jesse Bullington’s sophomore effort pushes vileness to a whole new level, but without the humor and entertainment that made the author’s debut novel such a unique reading experience. Still, it’s hard not to be impressed by the author’s boldness and creativity, and that alone is enough to keep me interested in whatever Jesse Bullington decides to write next...
Liviu's Take: The Enterprise of Death is an interesting book in many ways and I think that if you liked the author's debut for his "take no prisoners style" you will like this more since the content is more unpredictable and the characters from Awa to Manuel and Monique are more interesting and less of a caricature, but I had two major issues with the book:
First I found it hard to take it seriously since all those raising of dead persons, the dead and undead characters and the "today magic happens at 1 pm but not at a 2.15 pm" - no consistency in the laws of the nature in other words is essentially solipsistic so why care? So my suspension of disbelief broke any moment when I got out of the flow of the novel and started thinking for a second.
And here came the second problem: if the style of the author would coincide to my taste, I probably would have enjoyed the novel for the characters - especially Awa and Manuel whose banter was always entertaining - but sadly the novel lacked that special "magic" for me that would make me turn page after page and forget the essential inconsistent nature of the world building, so when reading it, I would find myself often thinking "how absurd, if this is allowed by the laws of the universe why not that happens?" way too many times too enjoy it where "this" ranges from waking the dead to the clear delineation of mind-body and "that" ranges from why do not the dead take over to various issues well known about the mind-body duality.
Another smaller problem I had with The Enterprise of Death at least for a while was the fact that it sounded anachronistic: the way the characters talk sounds very 21st century, not 15/16th century. This is of course more a matter of perception than of fact lacking a time-machine to go and see how people really talked then and considering that written artifacts tend to be conforming to official styles in many periods of human history, but I found a gap between the world view of the 15th century that is generally accepted in history books and the way people are portrayed to think in this book
All in all The Enterprise of Death (C) is a book that I had high hopes for and it just did not pan out though the author's style was entertaining enough in his dark, ultra-cynical way that we got to expect to keep me reading. I expected literary fantasy and I got mostly formula and sadly the formula of the kind I do not overtly care for the reasons mentioned above - nothing wrong with formula btw as long as is the kind I appreciate. Though I see myself opening another Jesse Bullington book if the subject is more appealing than here.
Arguably the worst beginning to a book I've ever read.
As for the rest...
I have to disagree about the "worst beginning" It sets the entire book in its historical and social context" I did though have the feeling that Columbus was to play an actual role in the story. Still he got to go on and help destroy an entire continent so that's a big enough story for him anyway.
At the moment I am liking the story even though it is far from anything I have read before. I had no problems with the displacement of time.
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Reviews of music and musicians who haven't made it big--yet.
Lori Ludy - The Cat's Pajamas
If you've never seen Lori Ludy live, you have missed a treat. She's goofy and fun, she's serious and riveting. You can find her on myspace to check out upcoming gigs and listen to some of her music, or you can buy a great kid's CD on cdbaby.
I should warn you up front, that this CD that I'm reviewing is not a kid's album, and some songs would not be playable on broadcast radio. Lori has a tasty raunchy side that comes out at late shows without kids, and some of the songs she would do at a concert for adults are on this CD.
What people love most about Lori Ludy is her big dramatic bluesy voice and great guitar playing on her '36 Gibson. She writes and plays music in the stylings of the 30s and 40s--everything from blues to romantic ballads to novelty songs. I don't want to lead you astray, she's not some wannabe pretending to be able to do this music, she is the real thing. Had she been around back then she would have had steady work with her choice of bands. I also don't want to lead you astray and make you think that this is all she does. She sings Motown, and rock and folk and everything else. She's a powerhouse.
Her singing blows people away. She can emote anything. And I'm talking with voice and guitar. She leads a band, Purple Hat, and plays with some ad-hoc groups, but the work on this CD is close to the experience when you see her performing live at a solo gig. She takes advantage of the studio environment to do some layering, so when you hear great harmony, that's her on every part. The only thing you miss from a live performance is the adoration and riotous applause of her audiences.
This CD is produced by, recorded by, mixed by, sung by, and played by the immensely talented Lori Ludy. The only hesitation I had about reviewing it is that you can't get it on-line. You have to contact her (maybe message her on myspace), or find her performing live to buy it. Nevertheless, it's such a significant piece that I decided finally to review it.
I can heartily recommend that you get this CD if you can. Like most performers, the energy of the crowd gets great live performances out of Lori, but given that, she also does a great studio album. The production is great, and every song is a gem. I was particularly fond of the novelty song, Why Settle For One, which starts off with a sweet voice reminiscent of Rosemary Clooney, quickly dips into raunchy double entendre, and near the end asks for a revolving door for her bedroom! There's not a weak song on this CD, so, figure out how to buy it!
The Cat's Pajamas - This is a terribly unkind song. Trust me, you don't want to be the guy that Lori is singing about here. The production is flawless, and the song is crazily funny. Nice work.
The Answer - You do want to be the guy she's singing about here. The vocals are in the close harmonic style of the Andrew Sisters. The singing is great, and what could be greater than a song with a lyric, "I see dinner dancing toward me!"
Back Home - This road trip song is told backward, and glorifies the joys of coming home.
Baby, What Can I Say? - What a great love song. All about missing someone you care about.
Evil Eyes - All about fatal attraction to someone you shouldn't be with, but can't resist. Probably my second favorite.
Just You - A grand romantic ballad.
It's You're Fault - Starts and ends with only percussion and vocal, but has nice sensitive guitar in the middle. Dark song of despair and loss. Really painful to listen to if you've experienced loss, but you come out of it, somehow, feeling better.
If You Were My Man - Daydreaming about a guy. Sweet song, wondering what they would do, and whether it would work out.
Pussy With an Apron - Dramatic bluesy song, full of pain and straight talking, about not being seen for the talented complete person you are. It's easy to see that Bessie Smith and Billy Holiday are influences.
Why Settle For One? - Funny, funny, song. People asked her to get this recorded
for years. It's reminiscent of great novelty songs of the forties and fifties.
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Regression analysis of cancer incidence rates and water fluoride in the U.S.A. based on IACR/IARC (WHO) data (1978-1992). International Agency for Research on Cancer
Author: Takahashi K, Akiniwa K, Narita K.
Journal Name: Journal of Epidemiology
Publish Date: July 2001
Volume/Page: 11(4):170-9.
Type: Human Study, Epidemiology
Categories: Cancer
Age-specific and age-standardized rates (ASR) of registered cancers for nine communities in the U.S.A. (21.8 million inhabitants, mainly white) were obtained from IARC data (1978-82, 1983-87, 1988-92). The percentage of people supplied with “optimally” fluoridated drinking water (FD) obtained from the Fluoridation Census 1985, U.S.A. were used for regression analysis of incidence rates of cancers at thirty six sites (ICD-WHO, 1957). About two-thirds of sites of the body (ICD) were associated positively with FD, but negative associations were noted for lip cancer, melanoma of the skin, and cancers of the prostate and thyroid gland. In digestive organs the stomach showed only limited and small intestine no significant link. However, cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx, colon and rectum, hepato-biliary and urinary organs were positively associated with FD. This was also the case for bone cancers in male, in line with results of rat experiments. Brain tumors and T-cell system Hodgkin’s disease, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma, melanoma of the skin and monocytic leukaemia were also correlated with FD. Of the 36 sites, 23 were positively significant (63.9%), 9 not significant (25.0%) and 4 negatively significant (11.1%). This may indicate a complexity of mechanisms of action of fluoride in the body, especially in view of the coexising positive and negative correlations with the fluoridation index. The likelihood of fluoride acting as a genetic cause of cancer requires consideration.
A brief report on the association of drinking water fluoridation and the incidence of osteosarcoma among young males
Executive Summary It is well known that fluoride provides important public health benefits by effectively preventing dental caries in children. The Public Health Service (1991) endorses artificial fluoridation of drinking water at a concentration of 0.7-1.2 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water (or parts per million) as the optimally beneficial
Fluoride exposure in public drinking water and childhood and adolescent osteosarcoma in Texas.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the association between fluoride levels in public drinking water and childhood and adolescent osteosarcoma in Texas; to date, studies examining this relationship have been equivocal. Using areas with high and low naturally occurring fluoride, as well as areas with optimal fluoridation,
Fluoride in drinking water and cancer mortality in Taiwan
The possibility that cancer risk is associated with naturally fluoridated water in Taiwan is examined. The 1982-1991 age-adjusted mortality rates for cancer for 10 municipalities whose water supplies contained the highest naturally occurring fluoride concentrations in Taiwan were compared to those rates for 10 matched municipalities with unfluoridated water. The
Is fluoride a risk factor for bone cancer? Small area analysis of osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma diagnosed among 0-49-year-olds in Great Britain, 1980-2005.
BACKGROUND: Artificial fluoridation of drinking water to improve dental health has long been a topic of controversy. Opponents of this public health measure have cited the possibility of bone cancer induction. The study objective was to examine whether increased risk of primary bone cancer was associated with living in areas
Fluoride & Liver Cancers in NTP Bioassay
On October 28, 1988, Battelle Columbus Laboratories submitted its Final Report to the NTP concerning the results of the Mouse study. The principal finding of Battelle's report was that a dose-dependent increase of a rare liver cancer (hepatocholangiocarcinoma) had occurred in the fluoride-treated male and female mice.
Fluoride's Mutagenicity: In vitro Studies
According to the National Toxicology Program, "the preponderance of evidence" from laboratory "in vitro" studies indicate that fluoride is a mutagenic compound. Many substances which are mutagens, are also carcinogens (i.e. they can cause cancer). As is typical for in vitro studies, the concentrations of fluoride that have generally been tested
Fluoride's Mutagenicity: In vivo Studies
Consistent with dozens of in vitro studies, a number of in vivo studies, in both humans and animals, have found evidence of fluoride-induced genetic damage. In particular, research on humans exposed to high levels of fluoride have found increased levels of "sister chromatid exchange" (SCE). As noted in one study: "In
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Profile: Lucchese family capo “Fat Pete” Chiodo
Posted by Gangsters Inc. on March 28, 2016 at 8:00am
Never was a nickname more appropriate than the one of Lucchese crime family captain Peter Chiodo. They called him Fat Pete. Why? Well, his weight ranged from 400 to 500 pounds. Like I said, appropriate.
“Fat Pete” Chiodo was the quintessential street smart mobster. He was capable of violence, as one had to be in the Mafia, but he also saw the lighter side of “the life,” approaching it with a sense of humor.
Like the time he was asked in court if he had threatened a “kid” on behalf of a friend who had discovered that this kid was a thief.
Chiodo denied the accusation, saying “I just told him he was out. I know he was stealing money and… I might have growled at him as I told him that, but for the most part, I simply said, ‘You're out.’”
He was then asked: “You're physically bigger than this kid, I would imagine, right?”
“There are not too many people I'm not physically bigger than,” Chiodo said with a smile while he rubbed his hand over his huge belly.
And just like Paulie in Goodfellas, Chiodo didn’t have to move for anybody.
That is why other gangsters would often come to him, or the Lucchese family in general, for help in settling disputes. When Greek and Russian mobsters argued over a shopping center, Chiodo and the Luccheses helped out and interceded in a civil suit about the issue. Chiodo even stood in front of a judge to smooth things over.
Years later, he was asked whether he had told the judge he was a legitimate businessman, Chiodo replied: “I could have. I probably did. I mean, I surely didn't tell him that I was a captain in the Lucchese family. What I do remember is that when it was all said and done, I had the judge convinced to give us the time we needed. We told him that we would make the repairs within a certain amount of time. We did and everybody was happy.”
As is evidenced by Chiodo’s lines, he has a witty comeback. One he perfected in the early 1980s when he owned the Home Bar on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
The Home Bar was a small, quiet, neighborhood watering hole. Chiodo (right) bought it as a place to call home. “I had a place to hang out,” he said. “The bartender took a salary, he was happy. I had a place to hang out in, drink for free. I was happy with that.”
The intimate atmosphere attracted a special kind of clientele. The Beatles star John Lennon liked coming by for a drink before he was murdered in 1980, Chiodo said. “In fact, in one of his album covers, he's wearing a T-shirt from the Home Bar,” he added.
Near the bar, there was the Comic Strip, where standup comedians practiced their routine. After they finished, they’d visit Chiodo’s joint for a relaxing drink. Guys like Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, and Sam Kennison all were frequent guests.
“Eddie's my friend, and I loved him,” Chiodo said. Adding, “Eddie knew my reputation and who I was, though I never involved him in any way in any of that stuff. I think the reason Eddie and I became such good friends is because I didn't want anything from him. I didn't want to be in show business, I didn't want a job, I didn't want his money, and he kind of appreciated that. He told me once, ‘Petey, you the only guy that ever picks up a check for lunch around me. I'm the one always paying all the time.’”
Several years later, in 1987, he expanded his circle of friends when he became a made guy in the Lucchese crime family. Unfortunately for Chiodo, not everyone there was as fond of him as Eddie Murphy was.
By the late 1980s and early 1990s, power in the mob family had shifted to boss Vic Amuso and underboss Anthony Casso. The ruthless duo established their presence with intimidation and violence.
Always paranoid that someone might flip and turn government witness, Amuso and Casso began whacking anyone they deemed at risk of becoming a rat. In 1991 Chiodo had come under their deadly suspicion.
On May 8 of that year, Chiodo was at a Staten Island gas station getting his Cadillac checked when all of a sudden he heard a popping sound and saw something impact the cement floor. It was a hit! Chiodo immediately pulled out his gun and began firing shots at his two assailants.
One of the two hitmen was Joseph D’Arco, the son of Lucchese acting boss Alphonse D’Arco, who was eager to please and impress his mob father with his involvement in this high-profile hit. D’Arco’s shots kept coming at Chiodo as he was hit by a total of 12 bullets. Lying on the ground, a bleeding heap of 500-pound flesh, Chiodo waited for the final shot as D’Arco came closer.
Then, nothing.
D’Arco’s gun jammed and the two hitmen fled the crime scene thinking they had done enough to send the mob capo to the other world. But Chiodo was a lot more resilient than one would expect from looking at his obese frame. He survived.
Two months later he became the highest ranking New York mobster to become a turncoat. He would lose that distinction to the father of the man who tried to kill him and Gambino family underboss Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano several months later.
If he thought his decision to become a turncoat would end the violence against him and his family, he was wrong. In an unprecedented move, Amuso and Casso ordered a hit on Chiodo’s sister, an innocent civilian and the first female relative to be targeted for death by the American Mafia. Lucchese gangsters stalked her for a month before shooting her after she arrived home from dropping her kids off at school on March 10, 1992. She too survived, but the tone was set.
It only motivated Chiodo more to do his former partners-in-crime some serious damage in court. And he succeeded, his testimony meant the end for two bosses, two underbosses, and 18 other wiseguys, who were sentenced to long prison terms. Including Vic Amuso, the man who ordered the hit on his sister, and is now spending the rest of his life in prison.
After testifying, Chiodo disappeared into the Witness Protection Program. He remained there, hidden and anonymous, somewhere in America, until his death of natural causes in January of 2016. He was 65.
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List of Crap #75: Top 50 Ghosts Countdown
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"Ever since I was a little boy, I always wanted to be a ghost. Luckily it happened sooner than expected."
(73 points on 4 of 12 lists. Top Vote #2 Stethacantus and Tripe)
The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever. The myth is likely to have originated from 17th-century nautical folklore. The oldest extant version dates to the late 18th century. Sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries reported the ship to be glowing with ghostly light. If hailed by another ship, the crew of the Flying Dutchman will try to send messages to land, or to people long dead. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship is a portent of doom.
Spoilered for length.
The first reference in print to the ship appears in Chapter VI of A Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) (also known as A Voyage to New South Wales), attributed to George Barrington (1755–1804):
“I had often heard of the superstition of sailors respecting apparitions, but had never given much credit to the report; it seems that some years since a Dutch man-of-war was lost off the Cape of Good Hope, and every soul on board perished; her consort weathered the gale, and arrived soon after at the Cape. Having refitted, and returning to Europe, they were assailed by a violent tempest nearly in the same latitude. In the night watch some of the people saw, or imagined they saw, a vessel standing for them under a press of sail, as though she would run them down: one in particular affirmed it was the ship that had foundered in the former gale, and that it must certainly be her, or the apparition of her; but on its clearing up, the object, a dark thick cloud, disappeared. Nothing could do away the idea of this phenomenon on the minds of the sailors; and, on their relating the circumstances when they arrived in port, the story spread like wild-fire, and the supposed phantom was called the Flying Dutchman. From the Dutch the English seamen got the infatuation, and there are very few Indiamen, but what has some one on board, who pretends to have seen the apparition.”
The next literary reference, which introduces the motif of punishment for a crime, was in John Leyden (1775–1811): Scenes of Infancy (Edinburgh, 1803):
“It is a common superstition of mariners, that, in the high southern latitudes on the coast of Africa, hurricanes are frequently ushered in by the appearance of a spectre-ship, denominated the Flying Dutchman ... The crew of this vessel are supposed to have been guilty of some dreadful crime, in the infancy of navigation; and to have been stricken with pestilence ... and are ordained still to traverse the ocean on which they perished, till the period of their penance expire.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) in his poem Written on passing Dead-man's Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Late in the evening, September, 1804 places the vessel in the north Atlantic: "Fast gliding along, a gloomy bark / Her sails are full, though the wind is still, / And there blows not a breath her sails to fill." A footnote adds: "The above lines were suggested by a superstition very common among sailors, who call this ghost-ship, I think, 'the flying Dutch-man'."
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), a friend of John Leyden's, was the first to refer to the vessel as a pirate ship, writing in the notes to Rokeby; a poem (first published December 1812) that the ship was "originally a vessel loaded with great wealth, on board of which some horrid act of murder and piracy had been committed" and that the apparition of the ship "is considered by the mariners as the worst of all possible omens."
According to some sources, the 17th century Dutch captain Bernard Fokke is the model for the captain of the ghost ship. Fokke was renowned for the speed of his trips from the Netherlands to Java and was suspected of being in league with the Devil. The first version of the legend as a story was printed, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine for May 1821, which puts the scene as the Cape of Good Hope. This story introduces the name Captain Hendrick Vanderdecken for the captain and the motifs (elaborated by later writers) of letters addressed to people long dead being offered to other ships for delivery, but if accepted will bring misfortune; and the captain having sworn to round the Cape of Good Hope though it should take until the day of judgment.
“She was an Amsterdam vessel and sailed from port seventy years ago. Her master's name was Van der Decken. He was a staunch seaman, and would have his own way in spite of the devil. For all that, never a sailor under him had reason to complain; though how it is on board with them nobody knows. The story is this: that in doubling the Cape they were a long day trying to weather the Table Bay. However, the wind headed them, and went against them more and more, and Van der Decken walked the deck, swearing at the wind. Just after sunset a vessel spoke him, asking him if he did not mean to go into the bay that night. Van der Decken replied: "May I be eternally damned if I do, though I should beat about here till the day of judgment. And to be sure, he never did go into that bay, for it is believed that he continues to beat about in these seas still, and will do so long enough. This vessel is never seen but with foul weather along with her".
There have been many reported sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries. One was by Prince George of Wales, the future King George V. During his late adolescence, in 1880, with his elder brother Prince Albert Victor of Wales, he was on a three-year voyage with their tutor Dalton, temporarily shipped into HMS Inconstant after the damaged rudder in their original ship, the 4,000-tonne corvette Bacchante was repaired. Off the coast of Australia, between Melbourne and Sydney, Dalton records:
“At 4 a.m. the Flying Dutchman crossed our bows. A strange red light as of a phantom ship all aglow, in the midst of which light the masts, spars and sails of a brig 200 yards distant stood out in strong relief as she came up on the port bow, where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her, as did the quarterdeck midshipman, who was sent forward at once to the forecastle; but on arriving there was no vestige nor any sign whatever of any material ship was to be seen either near or right away to the horizon, the night being clear and the sea calm. Thirteen persons altogether saw her ... At 10.45 a.m. the ordinary seaman who had this morning reported the Flying Dutchman fell from the foretopmast crosstrees on to the topgallant forecastle and was smashed to atoms.”
It’s a mystery. There are reports of it being punished for a crime or in league with the devil, but there’s little to confirm. However, as a portent of doom, it should be avoided.
Spookiness
There is something deeply unsettling about the boat and the knowledge that something bad is going to happen.
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The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come
(75 points on 5 of 12 lists. Top Vote #6 Imrahil)
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, also known as The Ghost of Christmas Future, or sometimes just Christmas Future (if you are dumb and lazy) or Pointy the Spooky Pointing Ghost, is the ghost that haunts the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, in order to prompt him to adopt a more caring attitude in life and avoid the horrid afterlife of his business partner, Jacob Marley.
Scrooge found the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come the most fearsome of the spirits; he appeared to Scrooge as a figure entirely muffled in a black hooded robe, except for a single gaunt hand with which he points. Although the character never spoke, Scrooge understood him, usually through assumptions from his previous experiences and rhetorical questions. The Ghost's muteness and undefined features (being always covered by his robe) may also have been intended to represent the uncertainty of the future
When the Ghost made his appearance, the first thing he showed Scrooge is three wealthy gentlemen making light of a recent death, remarking that it will be a cheap funeral, if anyone comes at all. One businessman said he would go only if lunch is provided, while another said he did not eat lunch or wear black gloves, so there was no reason for him to go at all. Next, Scrooge is shown the same dead person's belongings being stolen and sold to a receiver of stolen goods called Old Joe. He also saw a shrouded corpse, which he implored the ghost not to unmask, and a poor, debtor family rejoicing that someone to whom they owed money was dead and thinking his successor creditor wouldn't be as harsh as the deceased creditor was. After pleading to the ghost to see some tenderness connected with death, Scrooge is shown Bob Cratchit and his family mourning the passing of Tiny Tim. Scrooge was then taken to an unkempt graveyard, where he was shown his own grave, and realized that the dead man of whom the others spoke ill was himself.
Moved to an emotional connection to humanity and chastened by his own avarice and isolation by the visits of the first two spirits, Scrooge was horrified by the prospect of a lonely death and by implication a subsequent damnation. In desperation, he queried the ghost:
“Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point,” said Scrooge, “answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that will be, or are they shadows of things that may be, only?”
Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood.
“Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,” said Scrooge. “But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!”
And in an epiphany in which he understood the changes that the visits of the three spirits have wrought in him, Scrooge exclaims:
"I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope! ... I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!”
His transformation complete, Scrooge was ready to re-enter the world of humanity as a changed man as he does in the almost immediately.
Tee-hee. Intercourse.
Not evil, just the facts.
The future can be a scary place
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Large Marge
(79 points on 4 of 12 lists. Top Vote #1 Cole Stratton)
http://www.youtube.com/v/RryZV8NK9-Q
She gives rides and her passenger seat smell like musty blankets and stale coffee. Nice!
GAH! CLAYMATION!
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Samara Morgan/Sadako Yamamura
(88 points on 6 of 12 lists. Top Vote #2 George Harrison)
Sadako Yamamura (山村 貞子) is a ghost who haunts people also over Japan though a videotape and kills them 7 days after they watched it. There are also ghosts similar to her in Korea and America, though have different names.
Early reports say that Sadako is intersex. It has also been hinted that she is the daughter of some oceanic based entity, making her a quasi-oceanic demigod.
Her Japanese name combines the Japanese words for "chaste" (sada) and "child" (ko).
The American girl who is uncannily like her is Samara Morgan, an otherworldly little girl (Born 1970, died 1978) responsible for the creation of the cursed videotape. Her usual appearance is of a girl with long, dark hair covering her face and wearing a white dress. Samara possesses the power of nensha (thoughtography), capable of burning images onto surfaces and into the minds of others. Using these powers, Samara makes the cursed videotape with her own thoughts, and imbues it with the power to kill the viewer within seven days. She also has other abilities such as possession, water manipulation, and the power to climb out of electrical screens like television sets. One person tried to prevent Samara's escape from a television set by breaking the screen, but she then tried to emerge through the screen of a video camera as the victim recorded her appearance.
Samara’s mother, a woman named Evelyn, believed that her daughter had a demon inside her and tried to drown the girl, but she was prevented by nuns. Evelyn was sent to an insane asylum, while Samara was put up for adoption.
Samara was adopted by Anna and Richard Morgan, who owned a horse ranch on Moesko Island, Washington. As Samara grew older, her powers burned horrible images into her adoptive mother's mind, nearly driving her insane. Richard banished Samara to live in the ranch's barn, but she used her powers to drive Anna's beloved horses to suicide. At some point, Samara was taken to a psychiatric hospital but the doctors were unable to explain how she created the images. During a family vacation on Shelter Mountain, Anna attacked Samara as she stood before an old well, suffocating her with a garbage bag and then dropping her down the well. Anna then committed suicide by jumping off a cliff. However, Samara clung to life for seven days alone in the well before dying of hypothermia.
Eventually, a set of rental cabins were built near the well, with one on top of it. This allowed Samara to project her visions into a VCR tape, creating the seven-day curse. Samara's curse killed Katie Keller, the niece of journalist Rachel Keller, who investigated the tape's origins. Rachel, her ex-boyfriend Noah Clay and their son Aidan all watched the video. Rachel met Richard, who warned her to stay away and then killed himself. Rachel and Noah eventually found Samara's corpse in the well and buried it, but this released a corporeal form of Samara's spirit and she later killed Noah. Rachel destroyed the original video cassette in a fit of rage, but used a copied version of the video to continue the curse in order to save Aidan.
Samara deliberately manipulates the tape to get back to Rachel, having decided to make Rachel her new mother. After Rachel burned the tape, Samara possessed Aidan. Rachel drugged Samara and then nearly drowned Aidan to pull Samara out of his body. Samara retreated to a television set, Rachel being willingly pulled into Samara's visionary world and down the well. Rachel climbed out of the well with Samara pursuing her, but Rachel covered the seal on the well just in time.
Though, to be fair, this eight year old dead girl is a better film maker than James Ngyen. And her film made more sense.
She does go down a few when we see her face. It’s like an angry monster face, while when it’s just hair covering her face it looks FAR more unsettling.
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(118 points on 8 of 12 lists. Top Vote #2 Cole Stratton)
Slimer (also known as Onionhead and Little Spud) was a ghost made up of pure Ectoplasm and the first ghost successfully captured by the Ghostbusters. Slimer is well known for his gigantic appetite and the slime he leaves behind when he passes through solid objects.
Slimer was a legendary ghost to all on the original staff of the Sedgewick Hotel. His usual territory was the twelfth floor, but his outings were usually non-violent and simply involved eating food. As a result, the hotel was able to keep a lid on the supernatural problems (for a while). For some reason, Gozer's approaching time of arrival provoked Slimer (and many other ghosts) into being much more active than usual. Eventually the staff couldn't keep the ghost a secret anymore and called the Ghostbusters. However, the Ghostbusters had not yet fully tested their equipment and weren't completely prepared for a full capture. Ray was the first to find Slimer, but missed him and Slimer escaped into the next hall, where he slimed Peter Venkman. After many errant shots and the resulting destruction, Slimer flew into the Alhambra Ballroom where the Ghostbusters made another attempt at capture. Though Slimer is at first tossed around by some more missed shots, the Ghostbusters eventually manage to get him in the streams. Slimer was then caught in the Trap and put in the storage facility. However, he was released with the many other ghosts when the storage facility was shut down. Slimer occupied a hot dog cart on on 1221 Avenue of the Americas in front of the Rockefeller Plaza. When the Hot Dog Vendor opened the cart, he was naturally shocked to see a ghost. After the Ghostbusters defeated Gozer and left Central Park West, Slimer was sighted in the area.
Slimer seemed to be a pet to the Ghostbusters, though it's unknown what he had been doing since the Ghostbusters were put out of business years ago. Slimer did resurface after the Ghostbusters started up again and had apparently gotten much fatter in the span of five years. Throughout the Vigo incident of 1989, Slimer interacted with Louis Tully. The two first met when Louis caught Slimer eating his lunch, to which the two of them fled in fear. On New Year's Eve, Louis decides to take up a Proton Pack and help the Ghostbusters. In an attempt to patch up their initial misunderstanding, Slimer helped an exhausted Louis by giving him a ride to the Manhattan Museum of Art (to which Louis wonders how he got his license). It seems likely Slimer had simply commandeered an abandoned bus from the havoc resulting from Vigo's Mood slime assault.
At some point, Slimer was recaptured and kept in a Paranormal Containment Research Tank in the Firehouse in the lobby. Egon Spengler used him for various paranormal studies (sometimes noted that this is a nod to The Real Ghostbusters shows take on Slimer). On Thanksgiving weekend 1991, Slimer was playing with Peter Venkman's ESP cards inside Paranormal Containment Research Tank.
He can be aggressive, but is harmless and just wants to eat.
He’s weird looking and gross, but in a cute sort of way.
The Headless Horseman
(122 points on 11 of 12 lists. Top Vote #2 Imrahil)
The headless horseman has been a motif of European folklore since at least the Middle Ages.
The Irish dullahan or dulachán ("dark man") is a headless fairy, usually riding a black horse and carrying his head under one arm (or holding it high to see at great distance). He wields a whip made from a human corpse's spine. When the dullahanstops riding, a death occurs. The dullahan calls out a name, at which point the named person immediately perishes. In another version, he is the headless driver of a black carriage. A similar figure, the gan ceann ("without a head"), can be frightened away by wearing a gold object or casting one in his path.
The most prominent Scottish tale of the headless horseman concerns a man named Ewen decapitated in a clan battle at Glen Cainnir on the Isle of Mull. The battle denied him any chance to be a chieftain, and both he and his horse are headless in accounts of his haunting of the area.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a Middle English poem which utilises a decapitation myth.
The German Legends of the Brothers Grimm (Deutsche Sagen) recount two German folk tales of a headless horseman being spotted with their own eyes.
One is set near Dresden in eastern Germany. In this tale, a woman from Dresden goes out early one Sunday morning to gather acorns in a forest. At a place called "Lost Waters", she hears a hunting horn. When she hears it again, she turns around she sees a headless man in a long grey coat sitting on a grey horse.
In another German tale, set in Braunschweig, a headless horseman called "the wild huntsman" blows a horn which warns hunters not to ride the next day, because they will meet with an accident.
In some German versions of the headless horseman, he seeks out the perpetrators of capital crimes. In others, he has a pack of black hounds with tongues of fire.
The American legend of the Headless Horseman begins in Sleepy Hollow, New York. The Horseman was a Hessian of unknown rank, one of many hired to suppress the American Revolution. During the war, the Horseman was one of 51 Hessians killed in a battle for Chatterton Hill, wherein his head was severed by an American cannonball. He was buried in a graveyard outside a church. Thereafter he appears as a ghost, who presents to nightly travelers an actual danger (rather than the largely harmless fright produced by the majority of ghosts), presumably of decapitation.
It was said that an apparition of an actual headless rider on horseback had once been seen in Winfield, West Virginia. On an unrelated but interesting note, on the third season episode of the TV series Haunted Collector it was confirmed that during the Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro, Tennessee during the American Civil War, Union Lt. Col. Julius Garesché was actually decapitated by a cannonball while riding alongside Union Major General William S. Rosecrans.
Though at this point the exact number cannot be calculated, based on his actions it is between these numbers
GASP! HE HAS NO HEAD! GASP! HE’S ALSO INTO PUMPKIN CARVING!
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And your NUMBER 1 Pick...
(170 points on 9 of 12 lists. Top Vote #1 Raven, ScottotD)
Beetlejuice, is a freelance "bio-exorcist" ghost who specializes in scaring humans on behalf of other ghosts. Though he treats it like a job, there is no sign that he “charges” anybody, and is most likely more in it for the pleasure of scaring humans. He has a very bad reputation in the afterworld, where those who manage it warn people against using his services. However, most times he is in a powerless forum unless he is invoked. The only way to summon him is to say his name three times in a row, which is also the only way to banish him (though the latter must be done in his presence). He is unable to say his own name, but he is not forbidden from given clues.
One of his most famous hauntings (and a cautionary tale to ghosts who would summon him) was being haunted by a pair of relatively new ghosts named the Maitlands, who asked for Beetlejuice to scare away a new family, the Deetzes, who had occupied their house and had attempted to turn the house into a tacky nightmare and the Maitlands into an attraction. The Maitlands hired Beetlejuice to scare the Deetzes, only to discover that Beetlejuice’s unique brand of haunting too mean-spirited and dangerous. Beetlejuice is summoned once more to save the Maitlands by the Deetzes’ daughter Lydia in exchange for her hand in marriage. He fulfills his promise and fights the Maitlands in a supernatural battle (sort of) and is forced to return to the afterworld after being eating by a Saturnian sandworm.
Beetlejuice was last seen in the afterworld, waiting for his turn to enter the afterlife, though there are rumours of his return.
Though he has never been reported as killing anyone, his style of haunting is dangerous and reckless. He also seems uninterested in the plight of anyone but himself and is only interested in having fun through extreme haunting.
Unlike a lot of these ghosts, Beetlejuice is very away about this kind of scale and should he choose to, could easily spike to 10. When he is talking to other ghosts, he’s at a 4 (off putting and rude, like that drunk guy at a party you don’t know how to deal with), but often spikes to 8 when haunting with shown potential (to the Maitlands) to 10.
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That's it everyone! Have a happy Halloween and a delightful Día de Muertos! Thanks for contributing to the new edition of Tobin's Spirit Guide! Hope everyone picks up a copy this Christmas. My next project will be a new edition of How I Did It by Victor Frankenstein.
Now enjoy this spooky short film!
http://www.youtube.com/v/7_Okf__vMI4
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Not Quite Legend
E Pluribum Anus forever
Thanks Johnny, great work!
1. Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice)
2. The Deadite(s) (Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness)
3. Samara/Sadako (The Ring)
4. Tomás (The Orphanage)
5. Dr. Malcolm Crowe (The 6th Sense)
6. Large Marge (Pee Wee's Big Adventure)
7. The Headless Horseman (Sleepy Hollow)
8. Santi (The Devil's Backbone)
]9. Alice (Lake Mungo)
10. The Ghost House (Ghost House)
11. The Stewart Family (the Others)
12. The Sisters (A Tale of Two Sisters)
13. The Librarian (Ghostbusters)
14. The Grady Twins (The Shining)
15. The Spirits (Insidious)
16. Rebecca (Rebecca)
17. The Poltergeist (Poltergeist)
18. Miss Jessel and Peter Quint (The Innocents)
19. School Bus kids (Trick ‘R Treat)
20. The Ghost of Christmas yet to Come (Scrooged)
21. The Amityville Ghost (The Amityville Horror)
22. Candyman (The Candyman)
23. Elizabeth Dane crew (The Fog)
24. Bathsheba (The Conjuring)
25. Susie Salmon (The Lovely Bones)
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"A thing I like that there was no chance would ever continue until recently is now continuing but it doesn't meet my exact personal specifications so fuck this"
- how I read any complaint about MST3k (or Star Wars or Ghostbusters)
1. Ammeline Hamstring (because her brief passage makes me tear up still)
2. The Flying Dutchman
3. Jennet Humfrye (The Woman In Black)
4. Hearne the Hunter
5. Edgehill : http://www.real-british-ghosts.com/edgehill-ghosts.html
6. 50 Berkley Square : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Berkeley_Square
7. Timothy Claypole : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentaghost
8. Borley Rectory : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borley_Rectory
9. The Sorrel Weeed House : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorrel_Weed_House (the stuff they tell you on the tour is less spooky than the things experienced by people who’ve owned it, I know a couple of them)
10. The Winchester Mystery House (since the building has stopped the inhabitation has to have occurred by now )
11. Miss Jessel and Peter Quint
12. Old Jeffrey : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epworth_Rectory_haunting
13. La Llorona : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Llorona
14. The Headless Horseman
15. Blackbeard’s Ghost : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard%27s_Ghost
16. “Pipes” : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwatch
17. Banquo : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banquo
18. Joseph Carmichael : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_(1980_film)
19. The Enfield Poltergeist : http://www.real-british-ghosts.com/enfield-poltergeist.html
20. Traverse City State Hospital : http://www.michigansotherside.com/Articles/Traverse_City_Hospital.htm
21. Taskerlands : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stone_Tape
22. Blake et al : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_fog
23. Silverpilen : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverpilen
24. Old Hamlet
25. Moaning Myrtle (film version only because Shirley Henderson is hot) : http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Myrtle
And here are my selections for the mini-list.
1. Egon Spengler
2. Madame Arcati
3. Dean & Sam Winchester
4. Madame Flora
5. Frank Bannister
I think I reddened and bolded all the ones that made it yes?
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Much fun, thanks for the invite...
Mine...
1. The Spectre
2. Samara Morgan (The Ring)
3. Eva/Alma from Peter Straub’s Ghost Story
4. Elisa Cameron, Ghost (Dark Horse comic character)
5. Santi (From the Devil’s Backbone)
6. Beetlejuice
7. Bloody Mary
8. Space Ghost
9. Fenny Bates from Peter Straub’s Ghost Story
10. The Stewarts from the movie “The Others”
11. Spooky, the Tuff Little Ghost (Harvey Comics)
12. The Canterville Ghost (surprised this didn't make it. Fun Charles Laughton flick as well)
13. Izabel from the comic Saga
14. The Ghost of Humphrey Bogart in Woody Allen’s “Play it Again Sam”
15. Deadman (DC comics)
16. The Twin girls from the Shining
17. Dr. Malcolm Crowe (The 6th Sense)
18. The Dead Boy Detectives from Gaiman’s Sandman
19. The Black Knight in the Kolchak episode “The Knightly Murders”
21. The Bell Witch (used to live in Nashville, we heard a lot about this one)
22. The White Lady
23. The Pacman Ghosts, Inky, Pinky, Dinky, and Clyde
24. Hamlet’s Father
25. Vi from Tormented
Suplimental list
1. John Constantine
2. Tangina Barrons (Poltergeist)
3. Peter Venkman (Ghost Busters)
4. Father Merrin (The Exorcist)
5. Adrianne the angry Psychic from Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders
Great list, Johnny. Loved the write-ups.
1. Deadman
4. The Overlook Hotel
5. The Woman in Black
6. Roland and Paine, The Dead Boy Detectives
7. Sai
He's the go (as in the 4,000 year old board game) playing ghost from the manga/anime Hikaru No Go, a go master from long ago who committed suicide after his reputation was ruined when he tried to expose a rival's cheating and was blamed himself. Since then, he's been only seen by two humans, both who learned from him and became go masters themselves. The character is great and I love the way the series plays out with the main character (Hikaru) acting as a proxy for Sai, then finding out that he loves the game and decides to play for himself. This causes problems when a young aspiring go genius who was completely trounced by "Hikaru" suddenly finds his rival's skill take a tremendous drop. It's a really good series and is drawn by the artist behind Death Note.
Interestingly, the series created a surge in the popularity of Go among young people, which was long considered an old man's game.
http://www.youtube.com/v/qewJwOxXn68
8. The Winchester Mystery House
11. Candyman
Shame, I was really hoping he would make it.
12. The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come
13. The Hitchhiker (as in the Vanishing Hitchhiker)
14. Emeric Belasco
From the Legend of Hell House
15. Teke Teke
A Japanese ghost who was split in half in a train accident and hunts people while saying "teke teke" (which is the onomatapeia for a train)
16. Samara/Sadako
17. Slimer
19. Jacob Marley
20. Hill House (The Haunting is a pretty great movie)
21. Vi (Tormented)
22. Cyrus (The Frighteners)
23. Candlejack
"I'm going to need more rope."
24. the High Plains Drifter
To be fair, this is ambiguous, but it is heavily hinted he's a ghost. He might have been higher on my list if it wasn't for that rape scene that's not played as such. Icky. Other than that, you totally revel in his revenge and watch him subvert the usual western tropes.
http://www.youtube.com/v/Ek9CwmjisLE
And if you ever wondered where the recurring reference on MST3k to "WHHHOOOOOOOO ARRREEEEEE YOOOOOOOU!", it's in this.
25. BOB (AKA Killer Bob)
Even though he was at the bottom, I was really praying Starman would come in and put him on the list.
http://www.youtube.com/v/iN02pNRqgM8
See I'd include BOB as a demon but not a ghost, none of the residents of the Black Lodge really seem like ghosts.
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Impact of Carbon Tax...how has it affected you?
Thread: Impact of Carbon Tax...how has it affected you?
August 3rd,2012 09:39 AM #1
Dennis Lapierre
Falkland, BC
From the outset, when the province announced its intention to impose a carbon tax, the BCAC has pushed to have that tax not apply to agriculture.
The argument is put succinctly in the 2011 BCAC Annual Report:
British Columbia is the only jurisdiction in North America with a Carbon Tax. Other jurisdictions in the world with a carbon tax have exempted agriculture. It has added about $27 million in direct annual costs to the production of food in B.C. It will jump to $36 million annually after the proposed increase in 2012. As a result, many affected B.C. farm businesses are seriously considering relocation to more tax-friendly areas outside of the province. The BCAC met with Minister McRae in November 2011 to highlight the repercussions that the Carbon Tax has on farmers and local food production. The BCAC initiated discussions with the Ministry of Agriculture to move toward a more sustainable policy such as the elimination of the Carbon Tax currently imposed on growing food.
The part of the agriculture industry in BC that was most severely affected by the imposition of the tax was the greenhouse industry.
A product of the outcry by the greenhouse industry on its impact resulted in the province providing a grant more or less equal to the cost increase the greenhouse industry would be facing. As well,on June 28/12 the province announced that it would be conducting a review of the tax and will consider the effect of the tax on the competitiveness of B.C. businesses such as those in the agriculture sector, and in particular, B.C. food producers. Ref.: http://policymonitor.ca/climate-chan...ia-carbon-tax/
Towards conducting that review, it needs information on how the tax has affected you. So, how has it?
What the BCAC would like is for producers, or producer groups to outline the effect, report it to the BCAC, which, in turn will summarize the responses and deliver them to the province.
Your help in this matter would be appreciated.
Please feel free to post your comments on this Forum, as well.
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Amenemhat and what he did to prevent famines in Egypt
The Nile usually behaves with remarkable accuracy, rising exactly a specific number of feet year after year, at a scheduled pace. The farmers knew how much the Nile would rise at a specific day of the year. But in rare cases it went off its schedule.
In some rare cases, which happened once in two or three centuries, the Nile would rise way beyond its usual level. The farmers are than forced to flee to the harsh dessert. And once they returned they would find their cattle drowned, and their mud houses destroyed. Loss of property and even loss of lives was tremendous when that happened. If the river continued to rise beyond limits for a long time, thousands or millions would die. If it receded quickly, farmers would return to their homes to see their properties destroyed.
A more probable scenario, however, was the opposite behavior of the Nile. Sometimes it would not rise very much at all. That led to only the lowest parts of Egypt supplied with water. The rest of Egypt was thrust into a year of drought and famine.
Every year, Egyptians nervously watched the progress of the Nile from day to day. If it did not rise as fast as it should, the feeling of doom kept covering the inhabitants. The agony of suspense kept increasing until the "hundred day" mark, at which point everyone knew the river will not rise any further.
That is the reason, ancient Egyptians worshiped the Nile so much.
When the river did not rise, great starvation would follow, unless large amounts of grain were saved from previous years, or could be easily imported from surrounding lands. So Joseph saved a lot of lives and did a great service to Egypt when he told the pharaoh about the coming 7 years of drought, followed by the 7 years of surplus. At a time when the surrounding lands were struck by drought as well, they were all so lucky Joseph received a revelation about the coming drought. No wonder, the pharaoh made Joseph the second man in the kingdom and all of Egypt respected him after this.
So, Egyptians were hoping for mercy from the Nile year after year. Than, the "great Amenemhat" got to thinking. He wondered if he could do something to prevent such disastrous actions from nature in the future. And he found a solution in a deep and vast depression in the Libyan hills west of the Nile valley.
He dug up a canal from the western branch of the Nile and to that region. With a system of sluices and flood gates he was able to retain absolute control of how much water passed through. Thus, a huge reservoir of water was established, reaching the depth of the Nile at its highest point. In the year of need, the reservoir could be opened, and the land of Egypt would be supplied with the precious fluid.
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THE CYCLE CONTINUES
This is not where Irene and I had envisioned ourselves in our senior years. We worked hard, played by all of the rules, and we certainly believed that at this stage in our lives, all of yesterday’s “trials” would be manifested in today’s “tribulations.” Many times this train has been forced off the tracks with frivolous legal motions, or switched into some remote “adjournment” siding. Our friends and our family have been our strength with their unwavering support and stabilizing counsel. They bolster our spirits and sustain our faith in mankind.
These are troubling times for us all, and hopefully what we are witnessing is a purging of the greed and corruption that has insidiously crept into our society. Seeing “the glass as half full” I’m confident that the good and decent people of America will ultimately prevail, and that we will soon restore the fundamental principles that made our nation great!
And so…It is with great reluctance and deep regret that after nearly twenty years of welcoming Family, Friends and Guests to The Griffin House Bed & Breakfast, the time has come for us to close the doors and bid adieu to another era in our lives. We’re proud of “our creation;” of the recognition and awards we’ve received and of the far reaching contributions that it has afforded the community at large. Most of all, we’re grateful for the experience of meeting, greeting and serving you; it has been our very special privilege and we will miss you all.
Some of our fondest memories are associated with the conversations that took place around the breakfast table. The coffee flask was always a particular source for wonderment. When guests struggled with getting at the life giving liquid residing inside, we would comfort them by saying, “that’s alright, it takes a neuro-surgeon to open it.” And then one morning came the inevitable retort, “I am a neuro-surgeon, and I can’t get the damn thing open!”
Or…once, as Irene was washing up at the sink after the morning’s uniquely cerebral discussions, and the phone rang. The voice on the other end asks if we have hot water. Confused and believing that it must be a hoax or somebody looking for a room, she answered, “sure! of course we do. Where are you?” The voice on the other end responded, “I’m in the shower in the Griffin Room…could you send some up?” She turned off the water at the sink and asked, “how’s that?” He answered, “Great! Thanks!”
Then there was the gentleman in the Lancastrian bathroom who ran out of toilet paper. He looked around and saw that there was a fresh roll on the ledge of the transom window behind him. Unfortunately, in his attempt to retrieve it, he dropped it and in the process of bending over to pick it up, he burned his bare buttocks on the exposed steam pipe, which immediately and violently propelled him, headfirst into the wall
We’re sincerely grateful when guests and community members alike recall for us the very special benefits, fundraisers, and dinner concerts where Irene miraculously prepared six course dinners for forty people, and then followed with her own one woman show. Once the last dinner guest had departed, and the in-house guests were safely tucked away in their rooms, we would begin the cleanup of all of the china and silverware from forty diners…moving the catering furniture to the carriage house, and returning with the main house furniture, and finally setting and making preparations for breakfast. Exhausted, we would fall into bed around 3:00am only to awake again at 5:30am for the early risers.
We’re also proud to have played a major role in some of the happiest occasions in the lives of our guests. Many an engagement ring has found its way onto an accepting finger, and we are honored to have been selected for countless Weddings, Anniversaries, Birthdays and Christenings. Our own lives have been all the more enriched by the mutual joy that we have all shared.
These amazing memories evoke a deep sigh and a contented smile. Thank you, one and all!
Click here to see a pictorial review of what we went through
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