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Register for HCC Partners’ webinar, “How to Recruit Talent for Your Key Positions” on February 25, 2020 at 11AM. | https://hccpartners.com/register-for-webinar/ | 1,664,958,854 | 481.3 |
This is the heartwarming moment anglers saved a sea turtle after it was found tangled in fishing nets.
Khoo Wee Lee from Lure Haven freed the marine animal by cutting the net with a knife while his colleagues assisted him in the boat on the east coast of Singapore on April 5.
His friend John Koh said they were a group of fishing enthusiast so they felt good to be able to help the turtle.
He said: ‘It was such an honor to be able to help an endangered species. In case we encounter similar animals in the future we are glad to help them again.’ | https://newswire.viralpress.com/31140/anglers-save-sea-turtle-tangled-in-fishing-nets-2/ | 1,664,175,782 | 335.3 |
But it's not the beer or the chicken wings that bring him back. Instead, it's the generosity of one of the waitresses.
"Mariana had only been here a short time," Thomas said. "I just barely knew her when she made the offer."
"I said, 'Well I have two kidneys, do you want one of mine?'" said Mariana Villarreal, a waitress at Hooters.
"My reply was, 'I will accept it,'" Don said.
Mariana doesn't know Don outside of work. But she feels a higher calling.
Her grandmother recently passed away from kidney failure.
I think most males realize that as soon as they step foot in to a 'Breasturant', as the sexually inhibited feminists like to call them, we are pretty much labeled as perverts. Not like the 'taping a mirror to your shoe' level of pervert, but like the regular amount of pervert. Pervert on a novice level, if you will. I know that, you know that and Don Thomas knows that. That's why he has taken it to the next level. If you going to be viewed as such there's no downside to going back on a regular basis. Sure, the Hooters regular might be viewed as bit creepy, but if everyone else is thirsty than the females will probably flock to the table that has the drink order they know best. Perverts need friends too. Why not go back and be the sounding board for a waitress that spends all day getting hit on?
You know how some guys befriend girls in hopes of playing the long game. Maybe the girl is seeing someone else, and the guy is just waiting out the inevitable breakup? This is the sickly old man version of that. While the desperate 20-somethings are trying to sneak out of the friend zone and into some drawers, Don Thomas is just looking for a new kidney. Pretty genius if you ask me. There's no downside to being the nice old man in the corner table, but who knew it could save your life? Everyone and their mother knows why Donnie boy keeps going back to Hooters. Sure the beer is cold and wings are tasty, but age is nothing but a number. No man outgrows the joy experienced by gazing upon some supple bosoms. When Mr. Thomas says he goes back for "the generosity of the waitress" we all know he is talking about her generous display of cleavage. Turns out Mariana turned that line of BS into a self fulfilling prophecy when she decided to offer up an organ. When they said that healthy sex drives are key to a longer life I don't think this is what they were talking about, but I'll be damned if it isn't just as efficient. | http://www.unsportsmanlike-conduct.com/blog/a-hooters-waitress-is-donating-a-kidney-to-one-of-the-regulars | 1,665,003,331 | 371.6 |
A user’s identity is key to their security access. Check out how you can use OneLogin and Jumio to implement identity verification. | https://www.onelogin.com/blog/author/marc-maguirequest-com | 1,664,251,448 | 346 |
Host a jewellery party and invite friends and relatives who love and appreciate artistic jewellery. We will come and set up about an hour before your guests are expected to arrive so everything is beautifully displayed. Contact us at [email protected] to book a jewellery party or to inquire about hostess incentives.
JEWELLERY MAKING CLASSES
We will come to your place of residence with jewellery kits and instructional brochures for you and your guests and conduct a jewellery tutorial. Adult wire work (up to 10 attendees) and bead stringing jewellery fundamental (up to 15 attendees) group and individual classes available. In addition, we also have a children's (ages 6-12) bead stringing and knotted jewellery tutorial available (up to 20 attendees). Contact us at [email protected] for more details or to book a jewellery session.
CHARITY EVENTS
Will you be hosting a charity event? We will come to your event and bring our fabulous artistic jewellery to you as well as donate a percentage of our sales to your applicable charity. Contact us [email protected] to book a charity event. | https://www.jetdesigns.ca/services | 1,664,703,566 | 870.1 |
"Proceedings of the 22nd University Conference on Ceramics, and the International Materials Symposium, held July 28-31, 1986, at the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
著者標目
Pask, Joseph Adam, 1913-
Evans, Anthony G. (Anthony Glyn), 1942-
*University Conference on Ceramics (22nd : 1986 : University of California, Berkeley)
International Materials Symposium (22nd : 1986 : University of California, Berkeley)
件 名
LCSH:Ceramic materials -- Congresses 全ての件名で検索
書誌ID
1000056853
NCID
BA03867653
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Home Job Redesign(JR) Concept Job Redesign in Accountancy Possible impact of JR Overview of Possible Impacts of Job Redesign
Overview of Possible Impacts of Job Redesign
Overview of Possible Impacts of Job Redesign
There are three main ways that a job can change over the course of a job redesign
Enlarged
Enlargement is the simplest way a job changes through job redesign, as the tasks carried out by the job is largely the same or similar.
An example of job enlargement is that a bookkeeper carries out data entry for other non-bookkeeping roles or processes more invoices and reports with assistance of technology.
We expect that at the start of the job redesign journey, the majority of the organisation will first enlarge their roles before moving on to enriching and/or reconfiguring these roles.
Enriched
Enrichment is an evolution of the job where it has additional, higher value tasks and relationships that increases their contribution to the company’s overall goal.
An example of enrichment is a bookkeeper carrying out simple financial analysis for their clients as an additional service.
For enrichment to be successful, there must be investment of both time and money to upskill the staff to allow them to do new tasks well.
Re-configured
Re-configure is where we break down the job and shift the tasks and relationships across different jobs to better align these jobs with the business process and the organisation’s goals.
An example of re-configure is splitting the role of a bookkeeper into two job roles: a data entry specialist and an accountant specialist, allowing them to specialise and focus.
When you re-configure a job, it is important to keep in mind all the relationships and interactions that the initial job has and to make sure that when the role is reconfigured, all of that is accounted for. | https://toolkit.isca.org.sg/job-redesignjr-concept/job-redesign-in-accountancy/possible-impact-of-jr/overview/ | 1,665,014,103 | 488.9 |
The Pixies were a phenomenal band in their heyday, launching an entirely new wave of music, with Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain even admitting that one of his band’s best-known songs (‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’) was just a bad Pixies knock-off. And decades after their formation—and several years after their re-formation following a well-documented fallout-reunion-fallout (their original bassist has been replaced in their latest incarnation by Paz Lenchantin, and I’m happy to report she aced it live1)—they still brought their A-game to the show.
(Sure, yes, they have a new album to peddle.)
Seeing them play live, for the second time, canvassing a rich selection from their back-catalogue, I was palpably reminded of why their music had the incredible impact that it had in the first place. Their music is simple as far as technical playing skill goes—even I can hammer along on the guitar or bass to most tracks—but it gets interesting when you consider their sonic palette and the dynamics they’re willing to play around with: there’s their well-known and genuinely ground breaking loud-quiet-loud oscillations2, the sometimes loping and lopsided drum rhythms, the lead guitar that cuts like a rusty razorblade, the bold chord progressions, the barked and snarled or else sweetly falsetto-sung lyrics about incest and aliens and art-house cinema, and those solid slabs of bass that evoke greater feeling in three or four modest notes than some artists manage to squeeze elaborately out of a grand piano.
The point being that the Pixies wrote solid songs, and they knew how to wrangle their instruments, but they never deferred to the annals of safe songcraft when it came to the sonic and lyrical spaces they were willing to explore. Instead, they experimented with the noises and attitudes and ideas that nobody else was playing around with3 and just went ahead and did what felt interesting and right to them. At one point in the concert, the drummer, David Lovering, threw the lead guitarist, Joey Santiago, a drumstick, which Joey then used to slap at the strings of his instrument, occasionally also whacking the guitar’s kill switch to bring the buzz-saw bedlam abruptly in and out of hearing, and this all constituted his grand guitar solo, lasting several minutes. Of course, it was really an anti-solo, and something of a piss-take (particularly felt with Guns ‘n’ Roses—a rock band that is everything the Pixies are not—having visited our shores only a few weeks prior, booking out a football stadium). It was also a weird bit of noise that worked perfectly in the song simply as a weird bit of noise. And it was a lot of fun—the crowd lapped it up.
It’s nice to know that committing to your own interests and your own voice, and following them down the rabbit hole to whatever strange lands they may lead you to, can pay off. And that as long as you can justify the choices you make within the context of the thing that you are crafting—that is, as long as the thing gels, hangs together, as long as it works and avoids being lame4—then that’s perhaps all the permission you need to proceed.
I say that because, on a personal note, this concert was the ideal way to cap off the first, nerve-wracking week of what will no doubt be a rewarding but also harrowing year undertaking a Master of Arts in Creative Writing5. The concert was like a combo pep talk and shining example of ‘finding your voice’—the stuff that starting-out creative types hear about so often—all channelled through immensely crazy and lovable songs.
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1 For example, taking up the vocal lead, plus of course the bass, on the encore of ‘Into the White’, which was experienced as a pure wall of sound, with the stage flooded by totally band-obscuring smoke.
2 There’s a terrific documentary about the band actually titled loudQUIETloud.
3 I’m simplifying history, but it’s true the band was doing something that felt very new.
4 To paraphrase contemporary American author George Saunders, regarding fiction writing: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/04/what-writers-really-do-when-they-write
5 Through the International Institute of Modern Letters, at Victoria University of Wellington.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anthony Lapwood lives in Wellington. This review was originally written as part of his MA in Creative Writing at the IIML in 2017. | http://turbinekapohau.org.nz/archive-issues/2017-contents/readingroom-anthony-lapwood-2/ | 1,664,915,476 | 334.4 |
It's the end of an era and the beginning of a new one as Lotus has concluded production of the Elise, Exige, and Evora to prepare the Hethel factory for the new Emira. The Norfolk-based sports car marque introduced the Elise Series 1 in 1996, followed by the hotter Exige in 2000, and the more civilized Evora in 2009. All three received many derivatives throughout the years, and now the British brand is bidding adieu to all three at once.
During this 26-year interval, a total of 51,738 vehicles have been produced, which is almost 50 percent of the company's entire production run since Colin Chapman founded Lotus back in 1948. The Elise/Exige's "small car platform" was also used for the 340R, Europa, 2-Eleven, and 3-Eleven, as well as non-Lotus models such as the Opel Speedster / Vauxhall VX220 and the Tesla Roadster. Combined, these underpinnings served as the backbone for 56,618 vehicles.
Gallery: Lotus Elise, Exige, and Evora production ends
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Although not mentioned in the press release, the Hennessey Venom GT of which only 13 units were made (seven Coupes and six Spyders) used a heavily modified configuration of the same platform. It was once the fastest car in the world and set multiple other speed records before the Texas-based tuner replaced it with its own car, the new Venom F5.
The literally ultimate trio is represented by a yellow Elise Sport 240 Final Edition, a Heritage Racing Green Exige Cup 430 Final Edition, and a Dark Metallic Grey Evora GT430 Sport. None of these will be sold as they’ll become permanent members of Lotus’ heritage collection. The Geely-owned company has put together 35,124 examples of the Elise, 10,497 of the Exige models, along with 6,117 of the Evora.
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⠀ Watch Lotus Emira V6 First Edition Work Hard At Hethel Test Track
Lotus Emira Looks Mighty Fine On The Streets Of New York City
The three will be replaced by the new Emira set to enter production next spring at the same plant where the all-electric, limited-run Evija hypercar is also assembled. Lotus will expand its portfolio next spring with the unveiling of an electric SUV due to be assembled at a new factory in Wuhan, China. | https://www.motor1.com/news/556507/lotus-elise-exige-evora-production-ends/ | 1,664,677,626 | 333 |
Earn To Die 2: Exodus begins with a short backstory explaining the context of the game. There’s a zombie outbreak with a limited amount of survivors. A military base in Florida has one of the last evacuation points, and the main character needs to get there as quickly as possible. Thus begins multiple days of driving through the apocalypse, running over as many zombies as possible before you run out of fuel. The game is similar to mobile apps like Tiny Wings or Alto’s Adventure in that you go on multiple short runs, earning upgrades each time you advance a little farther. Earn To Die 2: Exodus is also available as a mobile app. Running over zombies, traveling a long distance or going quickly earns you cash, which you can use to upgrade your vehicle with weapons or fuel boosts. Once you reach a certain checkpoint, you start the whole process over with a new vehicle. It’s an incredibly fun, addicting game that you should check out in any of its formats — especially this online flash one. | https://blog.allmyfaves.com/weekly-faves/earn-to-die-2-exodus/ | 1,664,869,952 | 307.4 |
The Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas (JNI) will partner with the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) on a special Constructive Journalism reporting project for 2020.
JNI’s involvement will help hundreds of students and staff complete projects on the working theme of ‘Making a Difference’.
Two students judged by JNI, JERAA and The Junction, to have completed the best work will be offered a one-month secondment in 2021 to one of the world’s leading journalism institutions, the Constructive Institute in Denmark. One student will be from the Pacific Islands.
Working with the Constructive Institute’s founder and CEO, Ulrik Haagerup, the student fellows will take part in meetings with start-ups, media, politicians, and will take an active role in the Constructive News Lab. The students will gain insight and complete an intensive course in the principles of Constructive Journalism.
Image: Constructive Institute founder and CEO Ulrik Haagerup.
Hundreds of students enrolled in journalism classes around Australia will be able to take part in the reporting project, culminating in the production of high-quality stories using video, audio and multimedia for The Junction, a national collaborative student publication.
The Junction is a project of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia and features the best student work in all mediums from university journalism programs. Twenty-five universities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific currently support and publish on The Junction website.
Insights and ideas • 10 March 2020
Constructive Journalism: Rebuilding audiences' trust
In response to the Constructive Journalism funding grant, JERAA president Alex Wake praised the Judith Neilson Institute for again showing its strong support of excellence in journalism training.
“Everyone knows that the news media industry is in the fight of its life, with COVID-19 hastening publisher closures and journalist job losses, but this time of disruption also brings innovation and opportunities,” Dr Wake said.
“By encouraging academics and students to explore the idea of Constructive Journalism, where stories are presented in a fully contextualised manner, this new generation of journalists can refresh and renew attitudes to journalism.
“Universities may wish to create pieces on how government decisions will impact on young people or explore how domestic policies impact neighbouring countries (energy policy/coal, for instance) but the emphasis must be on constructive journalism.”
Image: Student journalists work on The Junction’s 2019 federal election coverage.
The Junction editor Andrew Dodd said this gives students across Australian the opportunity to explore new ways of doing journalism and producing stories that have depth and nuance.
“We look forward to publishing their work,” Assoc. Professor Dodd said.
“This project builds on our hugely successful national election coverage in 2019, and it will again showcase the talents of the next generation of journalists.”
In 2019, the Judith Neilson Institute funded The Junction’s national student-led federal election television coverage, which broadcast live on community television and radio.
The Executive Director of JNI, Mark Ryan, said JNI had also helped bring Ulrik Haagerup to Australia in March this year for a series of events and newsroom workshops and was keen to extend that relationship.
“JNI wants to support journalism education, and to play a role in connecting students from Australia and the region with some of the best emerging ideas internationally.
“We think this initiative is just one step towards doing that, and in the process we can all learn a lot that can be incorporated into future constructive news projects.”
About the Constructive Institute
The Constructive Institute was founded by Ulrik Haagerup, a former executive director of news at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, in response to the increasing tabloidisation, sensationalism and negativity of the news media.
The Institute promotes solutions-focused, nuanced journalism that makes a positive contribution to democracy. The Constructive Institute is based at Aarhus University in Denmark. | https://jninstitute.org/news/jni-partners-with-jeraa-for-constructive-journalism-project/ | 1,664,811,915 | 436.7 |
Lion One Metals – Updates For The Ongoing Drill Program at Tuvatu, Including Infill Results Showing Very High Gold Grades
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Quinton Hennigh, Technical Advisor at Lion One Metals (TSX.V:LIO – OTCQX:LOMLF) joins me to update us on the ongoing drill program at the Tuvatu Gold Project in Fiji. On January 24 the Company released 10 more drill hole results, mostly infill, that hit some very high grades. the headline numbers were 359.8 g/t Au over 1.8m, including 1,616.0 g/t Au over 0.4m.
I have Quinton provide an overview of the drill program and how he sees these high-grade results, that are much higher than the resource. It all deals with the alkaline gold system the Company has proved out. We discuss how these high-grade results could play into a mining scenario and the additional drilling planed to isolate the high-grade areas, or “branches” as Quinton referred to them. | http://www.kereport.com/2022/02/01/lion-one-metals-updates-for-the-ongoing-drill-program-at-tuvatu-including-infill-results-showing-very-high-gold-grades/ | 1,664,114,656 | 864.7 |
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his administration plans to tackle the rise of e-cigarettes by removing all nontobacco vape flavors from the market, including menthol and mint.
“A lot of people think it’s wonderful,” said Trump on Wednesday. “It’s not a wonderful thing.”
The announcement comes a year after former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb described teen vaping as an “epidemic” and amid an outbreak of a vaping-linked lung illness that has killed five people.
Roughly 450 people, mainly young people, across 33 states have been affected by the outbreak. Their symptoms include shortness of breath, coughing, fever, fatigue, and respiratory failure. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned consumers to avoid using any kind of vape device.
Over the last year, the FDA has been focused on curbing youth vape use. It has issued more than 8,600 warning letters and more than 1,000 fines to online and brick-and-mortar stores for selling vapes and vape products to minors. Working with the Federal Trade Commission, it removed dozens of vape products resembling juice boxes, cereal, and candy from the market and warned others for statements made by social media influencers marketing their products.
The FDA also warned Juul Labs this week about marketing its products as safer than regular tobacco products. It requested additional information about its marketing practices to children in schools and tribal reservations. Juul owns more than 70% of the e-cigarette market.
“President Trump shouldn’t follow the lead of San Francisco, Mike Bloomberg, and the far left anti-business extremists,” the Vapor Technology Association, a lobby group for the vape industry, said in a statement. “We urge this administration to change course before millions of Americans are forced to switch back to deadly cigarettes, small businesses around the country are forced to close their doors, and tens of thousands of people are laid off.”
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LAS VEGAS, NV - MAY 21: Rapper Lil' Wayne performs during the 2017 Billboard Music Awards at T-Mobile Arena on May 21, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
“D6 is coming y’all way soon!”
Tunechi took to Instagram to share that the anticipated album ‘Dedication 6’ would be on the way very soon. Check out the caption:
Happy Thanksgiving! I'm so thankful for all my fans for standing by me while I'm enduring this fight with this label. I ain't shit without y'all! D6 is coming y'all way soon! Thank You
114.6k Likes, 1,884 Comments - Lil Wayne (@liltunechi) on Instagram: "Happy Thanksgiving! I'm so thankful for all my fans for standing by me while I'm enduring this..."
It’s been a while since we’ve had a full feature from Lil’ Wayne rather than just spots on other artists’ albums.
While we’ve been waiting, DJ Drama teased the project, as well as Wayne’s manager, according to XXL.
We’re also still waiting on the rumored ‘Tha Carter V’ which is on hold due to legal battles with Birdman. XXL quotes Weezy saying:
“Of course you’re going to see Tha Carter V… I just don’t want to put it out the wrong way. Honestly, I can do what I want at any time. The fans deserve it to be right and that’s how it’s gonna be. I’ma make sure it’s right. I can drop whatever I want to drop. That’s why I keep dropping whatever I want to drop. But I’m not gonna give them Carter V the wrong way.”
No word on if his health problems recently have affected the album’s processes, but personally, I’m gonna say “don’t hold your breath” when it comes to ‘Carter,’ but I’m pretty sure we can feel safe saying that D6 is truly the next project from F Baby. | https://1051thebounce.com/2017/11/27/lil-wayne-confirms-dedication-6-way/ | 1,664,601,703 | 290.9 |
Next weekend should be fun: Easter, a new Doctor Who episode and the beginning of the 2013 baseball season. 🙂 | https://paulhadsall.com/2013/03/23/bbcs-prelude-to-next-weekends-new-doctor-who-episode/ | 1,665,122,292 | 365.1 |
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Normal Dungeons [1-1: Departure Tower] - [3-8: Starlight Sanctuary]
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I began giving private guitar lessons my students at the Swedish school when I realized that there was only a piano teacher giving lessons at the school.
Today, I’m also giving lessons at Musikraum, at home and at my students homes.
Instruments
I’m teaching guitar, drums and piano for kids/beginners and doublebass and electric bass for higher level students and professionals.
Other lessons
I’m also giving lessons in ensemble playing in rock, pop and jazz for all levels.
How
I’m teaching kids in a very relaxed way and I always try to make it fun. No pressure on homework, the most important thing for me is to keep them engaged and don’t make them loose theirinterest.
The student is encouraged to bring music that they like and would like to play. We could also work with a method book, if you would like a more traditional approach.
Vision
Listening to music is proven to stimulate the brain in many different ways and playing a musical instrument gives even more benefits. Children can easier focus and usually improve in their normal school subjects after beginning to play an instrument. Meeting an adult that is not their parent or caretaker one to one once per week is also something that I believe is very good and healthy for a child.
After studying an instrument for awhile, then the real fun begins! The child can begin to play with others and put together their own bands and make concerts.
This develops social skills, planning skills and vision and will hopefully remain a source of joy and learning for the rest of their lives! | https://www.lindkristian.com/me-and-my-music/musikozy/ | 1,664,661,950 | 472.9 |
Reflections are due on the Wednesday before our scheduled class. The reflection post should be brief and pertaining to the readings. I want students to use this reflection effectively, analyzing the readings and making sense of it for yourself. What did you learn? Do you have any questions that have been left unanswered? Do you have opposing point of views, if yes, why? Do you agree with the author, if yes, why?
You are required to work on a term paper during the entire semester on a topic related to Human Development and Learning. Email me (usnayar[at]gmail.com) with "HDL <Last Name> Term Paper" in the subject line to discuss paper topics. The paper is research analysis that will be 20 to 25 pages. Think of this as a document that can be publishable or worked on beyond the class. If you are having trouble deciding on a topic, email me with your specific areas of interests and goals from this class.
Unless otherwise noted, all due dates and times are generally Wednesdays by 11.59pm. Make note of these dates and times and meet your deadlines. | http://www.usnayar.com/home/human-development/hdl-assignments | 1,665,107,910 | 448.4 |
Did you know that most of Malden’s population is under the age of 30? Shouldn't that mean that youth are taken more seriously when it comes to the government and its choices? That is the goal behind the Malden Youth Political Forum.
Hosted on October 21st, 2021, this was the first ever youth-run Malden Political Forum. With the help of Billy Zeng and Alexandria Onuoha, a group of Malden youth worked together to host this event with the same goal: How could they inspire other youth to use their voices when it came to local government? Because, in the end, local government matters just as much as the federal government does.
For the students who worked hard to prepare the event, it was a great experience. Throughout the long preparation process the teens worked together beginning in August. They finally managed to host the event after having it moved from their initially scheduled time in September.
Throughout the long organizational process, Zeng and Onuoha had been “taking a back seat, and just making sure all the logistics flow together,” as Zeng had mentioned. After the whole thing came together Onuoha felt that it “was probably one of the most organized political forums.” She felt extremely proud of the youth organizers who had worked so hard together. Onuoha feels that “youth are very much capable” of doing anything they set their minds to but are often shut down because of ageism.
Zeng had felt it was incredibly important for a forum like this to happen because youth are often overlooked in Malden. Zeng wanted to make sure that the candidates were aware of the fact that “we exist and we are going to be listened to.”
Ryan Li, one of the youth organizers, also felt it was important to get more “youth to be aware of politics” because in the end these candidates affect the youth more than anything. Even if they were too young to vote they should be aware of what the adults around them were deciding.
In the end, the best way they felt they could be heard was to host their own forum. This was what Ketshaly Philome, one of the youth organizers, felt would “create a space for other youth to get involved.” So all together, a handful of youth aged 14-19 started meeting roughly once a week in constant contact as they worked out their plans. The process was in three big parts: the initial conversations, the rough sketch as well as the rehearsals and final details.
But of course like any other event, Leslie Rodriguez, another youth organizer, felt that there “were definitely a few hiccups here and there,” which had to be expected as no event would have been perfect. Though they all definitely felt it went extremely well, aside from the fact that some candidates had said they would come but never ended up showing.
As the date started to near for the Malden Political Youth Forum, the students started promoting the event, even though there was only a week left. They didn’t mind if a lot of people joined as they planned to record the event. Either way, even if only one person had heard them as Onuoha had said, their “message is going to spread,” Rodriguez added that “young people still have a voice in our city.”
Before the event some of the youth organizers had some mild worries. Li said people “nowadays more or less lash out at each other,” over their political views. But thankfully all candidates were respectful and listened to the youth when told their time was up, as they were given limited time every time they spoke.
The Malden Youth Political Forum ran smoothly, as many viewers would agree. Malden High School teacher Katherine Haskell, who despite not living in Malden, wanted “to understand what the candidates stand for,” in the city she works in. Haskel also found it nice to attend events where she gets to see her “students do exciting things outside the classroom.”
Jessica Webber, another teacher at Malden High School, is an active Malden voter. She really enjoyed “seeing how well organized it was,” and was extremely impressed by how professional and well put together it was for a youth run forum. Webber found it extremely exciting “seeing some of the youth engaged in what we need,” as a city.
The candidates themselves also had great things to say about the event, like Ward 5 Council Candidate Ariane Taylor, who found it amazing to see “young people involved ... when they are excited or interested in government.” Taylor felt that overall this was an important forum that she had to attend as a candidate because she knows that they are going to affect “the next generation” with their decisions.
From a candidate's perspective Taylor felt the questions were “tough” and that “they were well thought out.” Onuoha believes this is important because youth are great at asking challenging and complex questions that are truly relevant, which is needed. Taylor feels as though youth forums in general should be normalized in Malden and that more youth at the Malden political table is what the city needs; it would greatly improve the quality of decisions and discussions, because the perspective of youth is quite different than the ones currently at the table.
The forum itself lasted around an hour and forty minutes, starting around 6pm. Towards the beginning the youth organizers introduced themselves before allowing the candidates 45 seconds to introduce themselves. Following that they began to play videos from candidates who could not make it because they felt they wanted to give every candidate the chance for their voice to be heard.
After that they transitioned into the questions session. With three questions in total, they gave each candidate two minutes to respond. The youth made sure to remind everyone to make sure they were muted and did not speak over one another. Once they finished the questions they moved on to closing statements where each candidate was given 45 seconds. Following that the meeting came to a great end. Throughout the entire forum it was clear just how much time and effort was put into it.
In the future the youth hope that others reach out. As Rodriguez said “the door is always open for us to reach out,” to our local politicians to make a difference. So “reach out to local community organizations, reach out to local city councils, city council officials,” as Zeng encourages others to do. Because in the end youth voices are some of the most important voices in Malden.
A screenshot of the opening screen at the beginning of the forum.
A picture of the Kahoot game hosted at the beginning of the forum to lighten the mood. The questions were all about the history of Malden. | https://www.maldenblueandgold.com/2021/11/malden-youth-hosts-political-forum-in-preparation-for-municipal-elections/ | 1,664,740,495 | 321.2 |
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There were two scuffles in Minecraft Club on Friday. TWO! This is unprecedented. Minecraft/Anime Club has never known any level of violence, unless that time when “CHEEZEWHIZZZZZLENOOOOOOO!” from a PVP round that ended poorly counts. Minecraft Club happens on Fridays. This year, though we are not ASB sponsored (because I just don’t want to fill out the… Read More Tales from the Tattle Crypt | https://mrskellylove.com/category/playground-politics/ | 1,664,727,838 | 561.3 |
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What is one hobby you can enjoy throughout your entire life, no matter the circumstances? The Orchestra knows the answer to that question as they shared their love of music with members of the Sylvania Community Orchestra (SCO) at the side-by-side concert on October 27.
After two evening rehearsals on October 17 and 24, the Chamber Orchestra performed an Americana-themed concert with members of the SCO at their sides.
Because music is a timeless skill, the SCO members range from high school students to players in their eighties, according to Orchestra Director Pamela Thiel.
The Chamber Orchestra has performed with the SCO four times with this concert and will continue in the future. At the Sunday afternoon performance, the group played songs to honor the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg that included “Down a Country Lane” by Aaron Copland, Ashokan Farewell by Jay Ungar, and Civil War Fantasy by Jerry Bilik, according to Mrs. Thiel.
“It was really fun and different to play with a new stand partner who had a lot more experience than I do. I learned a lot,” junior Jonas Humphrey said.
The group, to enrich their music experience, was directed by both Mrs. Thiel and SCO and Southview Orchestra conductor, Kathi Hafner. The Chamber Orchestra also added in their own fall music selections of Dance Macabre by Camillie Saint-Saens and Possibilities by Brian Balmages.
“It is a great experience to perform side-by-side with a community orchestra. The most important aspect is having our students see that music can be part of their lives for a long time and the SCO members model that,” Mrs. Thiel said.
On October 29, both the Chamber Orchestra and the younger Concert Orchestra took their talents on the road to the annual Fall String Festival at Whitmer High School. The orchestras joined ensembles from SV, Maumee, and Whitmer to showcase their talents for students and parents from different schools. Each orchestra performed two to three songs and was able to listen to each other, according to Mrs. Thiel.
“We have been a part of the String Festival for over 40 years. Participating is a nice way to hear other orchestras in our community like the band gets to every Friday night,” said Mrs. Thiel
Both the orchestras also received constructive comments from Alan Smith, a cello professor at Bowling Green State University and Valerie Palmieri, the orchestra director at Adrian College. | https://nvstudentprints.com/68/arts-and-entertainment/orchestra-performed-with-sco-and-at-whitmer-for-string-festival/ | 1,664,232,186 | 305.8 |
(Springfield, Missouri) – With the Pizza Hut where he worked just closing, 31-year-old William Hotop was concerned when a man began to break down the front door in an attempt to gain entry.
That’s when Hotop lunged for a handgun that another employee kept by the cash register. Seeing the suspect raise his firearm, Hotop opened fire in self-defense. The suspect also fired his weapon, and the two engaged in a back-and-forth gunfight.
“It was a good old-fashioned gunfight,” Hotop said. “I protected (Pizza Hut) like it was my home. I love my job.”
Eventually the suspect fled, and police have not been able to locate him. The restaurant does not have security cameras.
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After saving the lives of multiple coworkers and securing Pizza Hut’s money, Hotop was immediately suspended while his supervisor was immediately terminated.
“I can’t believe that after I protected the store, I’m basically losing my job,” Hotop said.
Authorities are still searching for the suspect, while Hotop is still hoping to get back to work. Missouri is a Stand-Your-Ground law state.
Read More Here: http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2017/09/26/pizza-hut-shooting-springfield/704970001/ | https://www.secondamendmentdaily.com/2017/11/pizza-hut-employee-gun-fight-thug/ | 1,664,381,485 | 451.5 |
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Isabellas by San Pedro Shoes - Made in Manila
by Michelle Villanueva March 12, 2019
So excited for today. First day. New job. Ready to embark on a new chapter.
Looks like rain. Who cares. Love my shoes. It is ready to take on that next step.
My uni friend Barbara launched San Pedro Shoes in October 2018. "San Pedro of Manila is a handcrafted shoe collection made by the sapateros in Manila. They were meticulous in making every shoe with eco-friendly man-made leather and black matted rubber outsole for extra grip. Every pair comes in an eco-friendly re-usable pouch bag. I know we cannot please everybody but we want the ones who own San Pedro Shoes to be happy with their purchase."
Her superfly comfy shoe line are made for moms and daughters, sisters, besties. Made to match each other; or twinning as we say it today. My favorite is the black and white Isabella shoes which remind me of wing tip loafers. You can find this on my site www.filipinotown.ca. Buy.
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Lumago Upcycled Fairly Traded Accessories at the REUZ Market in New Westminster April 6th
by Michelle Villanueva March 03, 2019
I'm excited I signed up with REUZ Market www.reuz.ca to sell Lumago Design's upcycled, fairly traded accessories. It's a perfect match. REUZ is committed to providing a market for sustainable shopping. Where like-minded people who have an interest in upcycling, re-purposing and re-use come together.
In faraway Dumaguete City, in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines, UK-born Becky Stanbridge and a group of women living close to the garbage dumpsite create beautiful, fashion forward jewelry. All from used, recycled and upcycled materials. #filipinotownlovesthis
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Definitely not a beauty blogger!
by Michelle Villanueva January 27, 2019
Hey! I am definitely the last person to write anything about beauty tips. But I need to write about Kim.
Kim is passionate about her family, skincare, travelling and about beautiful and relaxing things. I asked her why she loved what she does, she says" I have this passion for creating relaxing and calming experiences. I think we all need a time out of this hectic world. When you feel good about your skin, it resonates physically and mentally." If you would re-invent yourself, what would you be doing? " Lifestyle Vlogger!". If you were a food dish, what would you be? A CREAM PUFF. That she is. Sweet.
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2001 started as always with Mike's calving season and Darlene's tax season. Mike actually had a night time calver during the week for about 4 weeks which really helped. Of course consequently most of the calves were born during the day, but at least everyone got a little more sleep than during the past years. Mike again took part in the Trailhead Replacement Show and Sale where his pen of 10 heifers won 1st place for the 3rd year. Our annual bull sale was the3rd Tuesday in March, and we felt very fortunate with its results.
April Through May
Mike always seems to manage to start the AI program over Easter and this year was no exception. Since he synchronizes them, he has to breed about ninety in three days and it always helps to have the kids home for Easter to help. Since the 15th fell on a Sunday, Darlene's tax season didn't end until the Monday after Easter, so she had to work over Easter weekend. In between breeding the heifers and cows we made a short trip to see Darlene's mom in Lewistown and Molly's dorm room which we had never seen, and she was almost ready to start packing to move out. After branding and sorting, we finally got the cows out to pasture by the 10th of May just in time to make it back to Bozeman for Jason's graduation from college. Molly also was playing in the state rugby game that day so we went from one event to the next.
June Through August
Haying started early this year at the end of May because of the drought. Damian does all of the swathing and then as we have two balers, he bales right along with Mike. Molly was the one who kept the summer fallow in line. Jason and Molly went down to South Dakota for a couple days and went on a biking trail there. We only went on one packing trip this year. We packed into the Spanish Peaks area just south of Bozeman and north of Big Sky. It was a trip Jason picked out for us. We went in early July but the trail still had lots of fallen timber that hadn’t been cleared, and we had to continually stop on a single file switch back trail to cut logs out of the way. By the time we got to our intended 1st night camp site, both us and the horses were worn out. Because the trail was so rough and rocky we didn’t even attempt to go over the pass which had been our goal. For the 2nd night we just moved camp about ½ miles and then headed back home the next day. Pictures of Trip
Damian went to Washington, DC the 2nd week of July for a FHA Leadership Workshop. He's only regret is that his bus is the only one that didn't make it to the Pentagon.
Darlene went with Jason to San Diego to apartment hunt the last week of July just as harvest was starting. The 2nd cutting of hay was put up in early August, the fields irrigated again and then we were ready for another vacation. We backed out of our 2nd backpack trip and just told Jason that we actually needed a “vacation” vacation, not one where we were worn out when we got home. So we never actually went any where other then a 2-day ski trip to the lake and another 1 day jaunt.
September Through November
We actually took our 1st kid to college this year when we helped Molly take her stuff. Before that everyone had just got our of here as fast as they could. We weaned the calves the 10th of September, completed the 3rd cutting of hay, and then Darlene started summer fallowing in preparation for seeding winter wheat, even though there was very little moisture.
Mike, Damian, and Troy actually went on two elk hunting trips this fall, but it was to the same place and only about 100 miles from home instead of to the other side of the state. They were only gone a couple nights each time. Damian had drawn a cow elk tag there and he finally bagged one the second time. Since all the boys have now each shot an elk, the new hunting rules are that no matter who draws a tag, it’s going to be open season for whoever sees the elk first!
Darlene then got involved in what has turned out to be her favorite project and that is a "kitchen remodeling." Last fall Darlene got bought out of my interest in my mom’s duplex, and Mike decided that I could take that money and remodel my kitchen instead of losing it in the farm as usual. We started planning last fall but didn’t have enough time, so started again after tax work. We anticipated the starting date for September when we would be in the fields, but it wasn’t until October 25th that they started. By Thanksgiving they had managed to have the kitchen completely torn apart. However, we did have lots of empty space to set up a camp with the propane hunting stove. I had my ovens and the microwave: it’s just that I couldn’t find where I had stored anything. I had put it in every nook and cranny and in the calving barn. It was pretty wild, but we had plenty to eat even though all the dishes had to be washed by hand. The majority of the cabinets are finally in, but we still don’t know whether the counter top will be in by Christmas, or any of the kids room’ habitable.
December
Where has the year gone. The kitchen is still not going to be completed by Christmas. We have no decorations up, but we did get a tree to hopefully fit in some corner out of the way. The weather is beautiful if we could just appreciate it instead of worrying over the lack of moisture. | https://www.ballensky.com/darlene/xmas/xmas2001.htm | 1,664,278,748 | 385.3 |
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More than ever, Catholics need to grab on to the Rosary and to pray with all our might. Because we are faced with situations in our private lives and in the Church that are very serious and confusing.
Let us take comfort in the fact that, for centuries, Catholics have turned to the Rosary to overcome problems big and small.
It has won battles, fought off heresies and wrought countless miracles. A multitude of saints and popes have endorsed it. Pope Pius IX declares, “Among all the devotions approved by the Church, none has been so favoured by so many miracles as the Rosary devotion.”
The Rosary’s efficacy proven in history
We need only to recall how Pope Pius V convoked the Christian world to pray the Rosary to ask God for victory in the crusade against the Ottoman Turks which culminated in a famous sea battle at Lepanto in 1571. And when the Turkish fleet was repulsed and vanquished, the elated pontiff established the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary on October 7 in thanksgiving to the Mother of God.
There is also the story of eight German Jesuits who lived just a kilometer away from ground zero when the A-bomb exploded in Hiroshima, Japan in August 1945. They attributed their miraculous survival to observing the message of Fatima by praying the Rosary daily.[1]
And how can one explain the sudden pullout of the Soviets from Austria in 1948? A striking quandary to military experts and historians, but not to men of faith who know that 70,000 Austrians under the leadership of Father Petrus Pavlicek prayed daily rosaries to drive the militant forces of atheistic Marxism from their country.[2]
Never out of fashion
Nihil sub sole novum.( Ecclesiastes 1:10.) There is nothing new under the sun as the famous line goes. What more can be added to the glories of the Rosary?
This most revered of Catholic devotions never goes out of vogue. As one website reveals, personal testimonies show the power and relevance of the Rosary in our days. From something trivial as passing a driving test to escaping a horrendous vehicular accident unscathed, people always turn to the Rosary.
Baghdad horror
More recently, a survivor’s gripping account gives yet again another convincing testimony of the power of the Rosary. A 25 year-old female student who lost her brother and mother in the terrorists attack in the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad on October 31, 2010 relates[3],
“Next to my brother, there was also a woman who was bleeding profusely. She asked the terrorist: ‘Kill me, please, do not let me suffer any more.’ He answered her: “No, suffer; that way you will experience hell on earth and after your death.” And he repeated: “You are infidels, Allah ou akbar!” And I, then, prayed the rosary, with my head bent down towards the floor. A terrorist came and asked me: “What are you praying? What do you venerate? Do you venerate Christ?” And then, some grenades exploded and we truly had the impression that the church was going to collapse on us. I myself absolutely did not think that I would survive. I prayed as if I was about to die. It is Our Mother who saved us.”
Needed more than ever in our times
Amid that horrific bedlam and terrible carnage, the student courageously hung on to her rosary and prayed even as the Islamist terrorist accosted her. By the grace of God, she was spared from death.
That was chaos on a smaller scale. On a grander scale we find ourselves amid the turmoil and moral corruption of our times, mankind continues to flaunt the sins of abortion, homosexual acts, pornography, drug abuse and many more grave offenses against God with wanton abandon.
Our Lady delivered her maternal warnings at Fatima. And like a true mother, she also gave us the solution. She asked for the daily recitation of the Rosary and requested the establishment of the devotion to Her Immaculate Heart as well as the five First Saturdays devotion. Sadly her maternal warnings remain largely unheeded.
Message of Hope
Our Lady also assured us that “Finally, my immaculate Heart will triumph.” But at a time when all seems lost humanly speaking, when events turn for the worst, we must not give in to the temptation that her promises are empty. We must confide in her and reject that temptation with all our hearts.
We do have a powerful weapon in the Rosary. Let us cling to it and ask our heavenly Mother to intercede for us and intervene for the greater glory of God. Historical antecedents show how the Rosary gave victory to those who prayed it assiduously with faith. Let us expect no less during our tumultuous times. Let us pray the Rosary daily and look forward to a glorious Catholic Civilization in the Reign of Mary as St. Louis Grignion de Montfort prophesied.
“Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.” Pope Pius IX
Notes
[1] Donal Anthony Foley, “The Priests Who Survived The Atomic Bomb,” http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/2010/08/05/the-priests-who-survived-the-atomic-bomb/
[2] Charles E. Schaffer, “Expelled By The Rosary,” http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/About-the-Rosaries/expelled-by-the-rosary.html
[3]Iraq: A survivor of the attack in Baghdad tells her story, DICI – Documentation Information Catholiques Internationales, http://www.dici.org/en/news/iraq-a-survivor-of-the-attack-in-baghdad-tells-her-story | https://canadaneedsourlady.org/public-square-rosary-rally/turn-to-the-rosary-for-help/ | 1,664,348,737 | 395.6 |
Chef Jordan Andino continues his tour of the South in Charleston, S.C. He starts off at one of the city's finest taprooms, Craftsmen Kitchen and Tap House, where each menu item is expertly crafted to pair with one of their many beers. Jordan tucks into crowd-pleasing, Mexican-style street fare with a zesty scallop ceviche and roasted street corn. He also tries the Crunchy Dame, an old French favorite -- the croque madame -- that reaches new levels of Southern decadence with the addition of pork belly and cherry jam. Next, he heads to the city's most glamorous diner, The Rarebit, where the chef is cooking the way his grandma taught him. Jordan learns the secrets behind the mouthwatering shrimp and grits and tries a real Southern staple, fried chicken and waffles. Lastly, it wouldn't be a trip to the South without some award-winning barbecue, so Jordan ends his journey at Home Team BBQ. They knock pulled pork nachos out of the park, and Jordan finishes off the night with one of his favorites, smoked wings with Alabama white sauce. | https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/shows/late-nite-eats/episodes/charleston | 1,664,923,922 | 362.1 |
The first one showed how to create your IoT application using MicroEJ and explains that each application is running on top of MicroEJ OS on a sandboxing layer.
The second demo was developed with MicroEJ developer tools for IoT with our partner Xively. It uses IoT cloud connectivity and cloud platform technology. We were showing here how easy it is to get some data and send it up to the cloud into a platform for various processing, business intelligence, and other cloud applications.
MicroEJ Developer Zone at CES 2017
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A simple Hello World demonstration with MicroEJ Studio
In the video of the demo, you can see MicroEJ Studio running on a PC. MicroEJ Studio is one of our developer tools for IoT devices built on Eclipse. It is free and available for download. In this demonstration, we have a very simple Hello World application written in the Java language. As MicroEJ provides a virtualization layer that separates the software from the hardware, we’re capable of running this application on a PC simulator. With the simulator, it is very easy to do early prototyping and debug of your application.
Here, we just modified the text and entered Hello Vegas. Then we just pushed a button to deploy the application to the target.
And here we go! Hello Vegas is now displayed on this board. The code that is now running on the target board is exactly the same as the code that was running on the simulator.
In the other hand, this small Hello World application is available among other applications that can be pre-installed and flashed or dynamically loaded, installed, and uninstalled if a connection to the online MicroEJ Store is available. All these apps are running on top of MicroEJ OS on a sandboxing layer. It means that each app is running independently from each other. The sandboxing layer also offers additional security and safety for software execution.
A cloud data demonstration with Xively
This demonstration of MicroEJ developer tools for IoT shows how to collect some data from a sensor and send it up to the cloud. Here, we’re simulating a temperature sensor. We’re sending this data over the internet using a xively application. The launch of the app establishes a connection to the Xively platform in the cloud using the MQTT protocol. Note that it is is a background application. It means that it has no GUI.
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Orthodontics is the branch of dentistry dealing with the treatment of various, complex malocclusions and its’ correction. A beautiful smile is not only associated with healthy and white smile, teeth should also form a harmonious bow, which effects in improving of the appearance of the face. Our orthodontists at Perfect Smile Clinic, deal with the treatment of malocclusion at children and adult patients. Modern orthodontics allows the effective and safe treatment of each malocclusion, regardless of age.
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The Iraq war saw British and American intelligence agencies fabricate and misrepresent evidence to justify an invasion in a process in which British and American governments were complicit. It worked perfectly well. Politicians and spooks reached into the magic hat called “intelligence” and pulled out whatever claims they needed. No one else was allowed to see into the hat, and those few people who had seen inside it would go to prison if they told you what was really in there.
None of that is honestly disputed by serious and sensible people. It has been the subject of much concern. However, most of this concern has been outward facing. That is to say, it has focused on the war’s disastrous and criminal effects upon the Middle East. Focused internally, this concern never developed much beyond a hatred of neoconservatives and corporate media. People never examined the constitutional impact of this “magic hat”, perhaps because it was felt the episode was a one-off. Sadly, as manifestly egregious as this process was, it was not a singular event. It is a built-in feature of the Western world. It’s an intrinsic capacity which cannot be removed without fundamentally altering the country we live in. Given what is currently happening in the US, it is absolutely vital that the constitutional impact of this system is considered as soon as possible.
The Hillary Clinton camp spent much of her doomed campaign blaming Vladimir Putin for Trump’s electoral successes, a deception which intensified once the election was decided. This dishonest Russia-bashing reflects terribly on the sort of President Hillary would have been, and in truth I am glad that she lost.But the important point is this: the intended effect of claiming Russia somehow rigged the election is not to vilify Putin. It is to de-legitimize a domestic democratic election. And like Blair and Bush, Hillary has been able to count on spooks in high places to back up fanciful claims.
The Director Of National Intelligence (DNI), James Clapper issued an official statement this Friday that Russia somehow hacked the US election result. Here is the statement. Clapper was the same DNI who lied to the US Congress in order to conceal America’s mass surveillance programme (it was Clapper’s false testimony which prompted Edward Snowden to leak the truth). Like all politically helpful spooks in high places, Clapper has gone entirely without punishment for his crime, because that is simply what happens.
The system, or mechanism, which facilitated the Iraq War is not just alive and well. Its resources and powers have grown phenomenally. It is to Britain’s credit that the same thing has not happened here – yet. But it will. The political class tried to de-legitimize the last two leadership elections of the Labour Party in a way that is broadly similar to the way the political class in America are trying to defeat the President Elect. Those hundreds of thousands of incoming Labour members who voted for Jeremy Corbyn were hailed as anti-Semitic Trotskyist infiltrators, and while I am relieved that our own intelligence agencies were not a driving force in this, they did leave a footprint or two.
Any political party that wants to earn the trust of the electorate needs to make the politicisation of the intelligence services an urgent matter of reform. Western intelligence services have been influencing elections abroad for generations. It is only a matter of time until the chickens come home to roost.
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Why senior spooks are faking Brexit worries
On the front page of today’s Sunday Times comes a carefully controlled release from John Sawers, ex-C of SIS, and Jonathan Evans, ex-head of MI5. They warn that Brexit would leave the UK in a more dangerous position, as intelligence-sharing arrangements with Europe would suffer.
The real reason Sawers and Evans have been ordered to go on-record is that the UK has to pretend that all the intelligence it sucks up via bulk intercept is done with EU permission, and thus some belated concern has to be shown that we care. You need to remember that MPs Tom Watson and David Davies will soon have their day in court over the UK’s secret mass surveillance programmes – and they have chosen (for reasons not entirely clear) to go to Luxembourg, not Strasbourg. The EU has expedited the case with unusual and deliberate efficiency. The hearing is not far off.
In fact, the UK’s EU membership makes little difference. Britain is going to scoop all that information up regardless, from the UK and the EU and everywhere else Five Eyes can get access to. Remember that a few days after Bataclan another ex-C, Richard Dearlove, wrote in Prospect that “whether one is an enthusiastic European or not, the truth about Brexit from a national security perspective is that the cost to Britain would be low.” That’s the truth of it. Omand has been more cautious about Brexit, but then he is compelled to by dint of the warning he earlier issued against Scottish independence: it would (supposedly) give “rUK” a borders problem.
Sadly, senior spooks can never be taken at face value.
What underpins today’s release from Sawers and Evans is the drive to maintain and protect the mass surveillance machine. Bulk interception is a behemoth that has come to dominate the entire intelligence community, and this is already having a constitutional effect. It is a monster that cannot be stopped unless the West can tame or redefine the concept of national security, or find some way of subjecting it to the rule of law. You’ll know if that happens when judges start sending the odd senior spook to prison (for things like contempt of court, obstructing the course of justice, or perjury).
Alas, judges have always shown extreme deference to the intelligence community, and have done ever since the days of Mansfield Cumming. And so it is inevitable, given the rapid acceleration in growth which the IC has experienced through the War on Terror and bulk intercept, that the spooks present a real and growing constitutional concern.
It is becoming common for senior spooks to weigh in on all kinds of public policy issues. Other civil servants hold their tongue, but the spies enjoy special priviliges: lying to the public for the executive is part of their job description. If you’re in any doubt about that, I refer you to the history of Iraq.
PS The President of the European Commission has announced that the EU should form its own intelligence agency. Newspaper reports in the mainstream media are at unusual pains to make clear this is a product of his own internal think-tank. I doubt that. I suspect the proposal has come about because the USUK bulk interception boys have decided to offer the EU some of their intelligence take as a way of keeping Brussels on board with their covert data collection. Such an agency would provide the mechanism by which this product could be shared.
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Judas Iscariot is the Secret Saint of Spooks and Agents
“He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.” John 1:10.
“Not one, but all of the things attributed by tradition to Judas Iscariot are false.” Thomas De Quincey
The man who really gave us the Easter Bank Holiday probably isn’t the guy you think he is.
It was never about the money.
At Sunday School children are told that Judas Iscariot is the arch-betrayer, the fallen apostle who gave Jesus to the Romans, consigning the Son of God to a public and excruciating death for thirty pieces of silver. Like all mainstream media narratives, that tale is useful to certain powerful parties, but it doesn’t really make much sense, does it?
Let us forget for a moment the theological paradox that it is impossible to betray an all-knowing deity, and focus on the prosaic. As certain intrepid Gnostics have pointed out, Jesus Christ was a famous preacher who gave daily performances to audiences of thousands. Roman security services hardly needed a visual id on the suspect. They couldn’t possibly have required the services of Judas Iscariot. Judas, as he is officially portrayed, is entirely superfluous.
Many of the Gnostic texts, dismissed by the early church as heretical, described him as the best of the apostles (whether he was the best or the worst, he was still selected by an omnipotent deity, so one can safely assume Judas possessed at least some virtue). De Quincey later postulated that Judas must have led the authorities to Jesus so that the Son of God would be forced to reveal his true divinity, in all its powers, thereby triggering a mass uprising against the Roman Empire. Others have resorted to philosophy in order to justify the story. Some argue Judas vilified and mortified his own flesh so as to glorify Christ, some offer that Judas believed himself unworthy of being good and acted out of humility, some maintain Judas sought hell because he thought happiness and morality to be divine attributes only, some consider him to be an instrument in the mystery of humanity’s pre-planned redemption. That last viewpoint is perhaps the only one which is broad enough to be irrefutable, and it makes clear that Judas Iscariot was a tool. He was an agent, and not of the Roman Empire.
The true nature of Judas’ actions are unknown. His motivation is a mystery, and his ultimate fate is widely disputed. Matthew has him hanging himself in the Potter’s Field, as per the conclusion of some vague prophecy. In the Acts of the Apostles he simply falls down and bursts asunder. The Codex Tchacos, found in Egypt in the seventies, says he was stoned by the other disciples. The early Christian leader Papias told his followers Judas wandered about like a tramp until he was run over by a chariot. I like to think he went to ground somewhere and died in his old age.
In Three Versions of Judas, a short story of characteristic genius by the brilliant Jorge Luis Borges, he is revealed to be… well, I think you should read that yourself, if you’re interested.
But a famous, vilified, individual, about whom we know nothing except that the official version cannot be true, an individual who appears, pivotally, at a turning point in history? Judas Iscariot’s canonization is officially refuted by all organised Christian religions, but somewhere a very small circle of people knew what he did and why. The reasons are all gone now: forgotten, lost to history. The truth of it will never be known. The only thing we have is the outcome. I wonder if it all worked out as intended. I doubt it. Life never does.
So here’s to all the Judases, to the mysterious and despicable names which confound us, the Mohammed Emwazis and Lee Harvey Oswalds and Saad Al Hillis and Jonathan Moyles and Edward Snowdens and Kim Philbys and Hafizullah Amins, and to their handlers, the Sarah Davies’ and Anthony Arnolds and Michael Savages. May the secret policemen of the world keep their distance a little while longer yet.
Ends and means, my readers. Enjoy your eggs.
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“Spookthink”: intelligence agencies and institutional mindsets
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Civil Service personified.
Intelligence agencies are institutions. If we really want to understand the reality of our domestic and foreign policy, we must remember that every spook is a civil servant, and every agency is ultimately no more than a government department. Increasingly I have adopted the view that Britain’s “intelligence community” have no grand, inter-generational geopolitical plans. In this day and age, what government department really does? That requires vision, which is not the stuff of bureaucrats. What our spooks actually crave is an easy life, except for the ambitious, who seek status and promotion, much like anyone else. I recently encountered two examples which illustrate this nicely.
Alex Wallerstein’s commendable nuclear secrecy blog, Restricted Data, has examined the uncensored Franck Report. Essentially, this was the work of a very small sub-group of civilian scientists who were part of the thousands of scientists working on the Manhattan Project. They grouped to form the Committee on Political and Social Problems, and were chaired by Nobel Laureate and German-Jewish émigré James Franck. They were the only part of the Project to officially register any inquiry at all into the political and social problems of this new atomic weaponry. They predicted the arms race and the problems of proliferation, and observed that a global atomic arms control regime would become imperative. They went on to say that the US would find this difficult to implement if it launched these secret weapons against occupied cities, because its global moral standing would sink to the level of Nazi Germany. They proposed “demonstrating” the bomb instead of using it against civilian populations, and allowing hostile governments to see what it could do.
How Little Boy was eventually “demonstrated”.
Their report was more or less ignored. President Hoover was never told it existed. Nobody even mentioned the demonstration option to him. The report remained classified until after the war, and when it was finally published, in the May 1946 Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, it was heavily censored. Unredacted reports began circulating on the net two or three years’ ago (Wallerstein’s research shows that the redactions were entirely political, and nothing to do with national security).
“It doesn’t appear that anybody who had the authority to drop the bomb agonized over the question before dropping it,” Wallerstein writes. “What agonizing there was mostly came after the fact.”
As the notes of the Targeting Committee reflect, the men of the Manhattan Project spent far, far longer deciding where to drop the bomb than whether they should drop the bomb at all, and what the wider consequences of that act might be. The most awesome and destructive weapon mankind had ever devised was dropped simply because it was built. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the inevitable consequences of institutional mindset, with its inherent inability to question itself from any external perspective.
Franke’s Committee succeeded, at least, in raising the concerns of the US Secretary of War, who safeguarded himself by demanding that some other senior scientists be found to disagree with it. This doesn’t seem to have been particularly difficult. The Manhattan Project promptly supplied another committee in response, the so-called Scientific Panel of the Interim Committee on Nuclear Power, an ad hoc line-up consisting of Arthur Compton, Ernest Lawrence, Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi. They signed off on a short paper titled Recommendations on The Immediate Use of Nuclear Weapons.
Ernest Lawrence later told a friend that they only debated the matter for ten minutes prior to signing the document. That bears some repeating: the architects of the atomic bomb spent ten minutes debating whether or not it should be used. The Manhattan Project had by then been running for about three years.
After Hiroshima, Ernest Lawrence told everyone he had been in favour of the demonstration option all along. James Franck abandoned atomic physics and worked on photosynthesis instead. Only one scientist ever left the Manhattan Project on the grounds of conscientious objection. He was a Pole named Jospeh Rotblat. When he asked to leave, he was immediately and groundlessly traduced as a Soviet spy. Unknown sources fabricated evidence to this effect.
(That Rotblat was eventually awarded the Nobel Peace Prize is a reflection of how independent the Nobel Committee, and Sweden, used to be. Would Martin Luther King get a Peace Prize from today’s Committee? I think they would be more inclined to J. Edgar Hoover’s view. But I digress.)
One should bear Joseph Rotblat in mind on the rare occasions when the employees of secret institutions are openly seen to display objective thought. The treatment of Edward Snowden shows that nothing has changed. This is how institutions work. Such entities cannot question themselves, and reflexively abhor constituent individuals who can. This tendency is probably strongest in “secret” institutions, because the nature of that secrecy acts to further prohibit scrutiny while providing easier ways to castigate dissent. Meaningful self-inquisition is vital for institutional functionality, and it is a virtual impossibility in places like GCHQ, SIS, MI5, the DIS, or indeed anywhere in the MOD.
You could improve the efficiency of this place simply by boarding it up.
My second lesson on how the institutional mindset affects intelligence agencies was provided by a reading of Kim Philby’s autobiography. As far as I’m aware, Kim Philby is the greatest British spy who ever lived. He spied for the other side, of course, but the fact remains (and tells us something about the nature of the intelligence world itself, but I digress). Anyway, during World War Two, the British Legation in Berne had a German walk-in carrying suitcases full of Nazi documents. It took a lot of nerve to cross the Swiss border with a suitcase full of secret Nazi paperwork, so the Brits rejected him out of hand as a plant. Undeterred, the German promptly walked over to the Americans’ newly opened OSS office, then headed by Allen Dulles, where he was warmly welcomed. The documents he carried proved to be authentic and were highly valued by all customers. Dulles reckoned he was the best Nazi source of the war. He was almost certainly Fritz Kolbe.
One of the greatest walk-ins of all time. We told him to bugger off.
Philby recounts how senior officers at SIS responded to news of their mistake not by accepting and learning from the obvious truth, but by continuing to dismiss the intel as fake without even attempting verification. The worst of the bunch were Claude Dansey, then Assistant Chief, and Felix Cowgill, Six’s head of counter-espionage, both of whom sought to repress any product from the Berne walk-in purely to protect their own reputations and advance their own careers. Bear in mind this was before 1943 was over; prescient minds may have seen which way the war would end, but there was still an awful lot of it left. Philby was only able to authenticate this valuable information, via the Government Code and Cypher School, because his superior, Cowgill, went off to America for a few weeks. And he was only able to secure authorisation for distribution from Dansey by offering to fake its origin, so that when the OSS’ Berne stuff arrived on British desks it looked like it was from a British source (with this in mind I am extremely curious about the actual origin of things like the Oslo Report).
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Claude Dansey considered himself pretty amazing.
I find the attitudes Philby relates very telling. They are entirely in accordance with the institutional mindset. Namely, that the first priority of any member of any institution is always their standing within that institution. Their second priority is the reputation of the institution itself: Dansey did tell Philby he didn’t want SIS to be overshadowed by the OSS, but this only as a subsequent justification when his transparent careerism came to light. These priorities, together with the incapacity for objective judgement outside the institutional lens (see above), comprise the Iron Law of Institutions, which needs to be borne in mind whenever one considers any intelligence agency or service. We might call it spookthink.
Spookthink does a lot to explain Iraq, and indeed Iraq does a lot to affirm the Law. There are a lot of people who could probably have stopped us waging an illegal, destructive, misguided war if they a) had some objective, non-institutional idea about the failings of their department/s and b) hadn’t cared more about their own good standing (as they saw it). Perhaps, like Dansey did, some of these folk argue they only sought to protect the reputation of their employer instead. If so, that reputation was upheld only in certain parts of Washington, and perhaps not even there. Amongst the British people, and maybe most of the world, it remains irrevocably damaged.
Two conclusions spring to mind. One: institutions are probably the worst entities which could exist for collecting and analysing secret, important information (“intelligence” is wholly an institutional term). Two: if, as Karl Popper argued, our institutions are what safeguard open society, they might just as easily close it too. Perhaps, by dint of their very structure, they might be more inclined to do so.
The Master of Pembroke College. Worryingly.
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Where Are You, Steven Hayden?
I’m trying to find one Steven Hayden, a former Chief Petty Officer of the Royal Navy, who once lived in Purbrook in Hampshire. He had/has a family and would be around 47 years of age now.
If you know him, if you knew him, or if you are him, could you please drop me a line? I heard he was at Leydene in the early nineties, was then attached to Naval Intelligence for a spell, did some time in the Adriatic listening to Serbian comms, and was next posted up in Lincolnshire (New Waltham, maybe?). In 1997, if the Rumour Mill is grinding the right way, he was on HMS Beaver when it Crossed The Line. It would be good to hear any of that confirmed by someone real.
At the moment I’m not 100% sure the gentleman ever really existed, despite the fact he was tried in court. Well, to be clear, he pled guilty to (deep breath) “without lawful authority [making] a damaging disclosure of a document relating to security or intelligence which was in [his] possession by virtue of [his] position as a Crown servant”. He told the court he sold a classified warning about Iraqi anthrax to The Sun for £10,000. If you have long enough memories, this was a ridiculous story about the Iraqi military attacking Britain by smuggling anthrax into the country via duty free bottles of alcohol and perfume.
‘Saddam’s Anthrax In Our Duty-Frees’. Utter bollocks.
“Because of the national security implications,” the BBC reported, “the details of the offence cannot be reported and were explained during a closed session.” Right. What could possibly have been sensitive about it? You can’t expect you can protect your source if you splash his (obviously duff) product over every docks and airport in the country. In truth the warning Hayden passed on was itself deliberate misinformation. It was supposed to be leaked to the media. That was why it had been written, and that was why it had been distributed as an all-ports bulletin. With perfect timing it hit the papers a few days before America planned to bomb Iraq in 1998, thereby generating a groundswell of supportive public opinion; a good little bit of psyops from somebody.
“Saddam Hussein is plotting to flood Britain with deadly anthrax disguised as duty-free goods,” blasted The Sun. “Saddam could kill the world. Before long, the boil on the world’s backside must be lanced. Before its poison spreads too far.”
That could practially have been drafted by an intelligence officer (think Colin Wallace). It’s almost too perfect.
The tell here is that the US had planned to bomb Iraq the next week, but within days Scott Ritter, as team leader out in Iraq, decided to pull back from a deliberately provacative UNSCOM inspection, so it was cancelled. This was top secret stuff. Very few people knew about that. Instead the bombs fell in December, six months later.
Some people thought it a little unprofessional of The Sun to publish such a panic-inducing, unfounded story. Guess who didn’t? The following day, in a piece titled “Blair: Well-Done My Sun”, the paper reported how the Prime Minister “last night praised the Sun’s ‘responsible’ reporting of Saddam Hussein’s threat to unleash deadly anthrax on duty-free shoppers. The PM rejected claims that our story yesterday about a secret ‘all-ports alert’ was likely to cause panic.”
The reason it didn’t cause panic was because it was ridiculous. But Blair had already begun his toxic love-in with the worst of the British media. It bode ill for an awful lot of people.
Hayden did a year in jail. Rather unfairly, and entirely inevitably, nobody from The Sun was ever prosecuted. Apparently they’re allowed to bribe intelligence officers with envelopes full of cash (assuming an exchange or offer of money was ever made in the first place. Decades later Rebekah Brooks admitted in court to authorising the payment, but I’m not sure I believe a word she says).
Lancaster and Hayden arrive at court.
I would contact the lawyer who defended Hayden, former Lieutenant Commander David Lancaster, but he’s not exactly high profile these days either. Lancaster was an equity partner in Hampshire law firm Warner, Goodman and Street, and had a lot of RN personnel on his case book, Wrens in particular. In this sense Lancaster was a logical choice for Hayden to make: by all accounts the lawyer did a good job for his RN clients, which made him fairly popular amongst the rank-and-file. He stood up for their employment rights, and rebuffed lazy prosecutions from the service’s Regulating Branch, which was often profoundly unethical. He succeeded against the Ministry of Police too. David Kelly could have done with someone like Lancaster in his corner.
They got him in the end, though. An undercover reporter from the regional BBC programme Inside Out pretended he’d been charged with possession of a Class A drug, and approached Lancaster for help. He then used a hidden camera to film Lancaster offering him some rather too handy advice. As a result Lancaster was struck off and sentenced to three years, over what was an imaginary fifty quid wrap of cocaine, for a case that didn’t exist. Hardly cutting-edge journalism. I have a pretty strong suspicion it was the Ministry of Defence police who stuck the BBC team onto Lancaster in the first place.
Oddly enough the reporter chiefly responsible for Lancaster’s retreat-from-view has also gone-to-ground: he hid out in mid-Wales for a couple of years then re-emerged as an author. His past does not appear in his author bio.
Puzzling business all round, no?
(I can’t suppose this might be anything other incidental, but one of Lancaster’s wins against the Minstry of Defence police was presided over by a Judge Andrew Chubb, yet another ex-Navy officer, whose charred body was found in the ashes of his garage a few days later. His garage had exploded. The widow Chubb might know something more about it but she moved to Australia and refused to leave for a second inquest. People have always speculated on Chubb’s death, because his life included not only a mysterious explosion but a divorce, a big house, and a possibly crazy mistress, but there are plenty of other reasons why people might be murderously angry with judges. The Daily Mail is the sort of paper where you can read your fill on this: here.)
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A Death in Wester Ross: Willie MacRae’s flat tyre
“You don’t trust the political establishment in Scotland or in London, and that’s lesson number one.” Willie MacRae after the Mullwarcher Inquiry, 1980 I spent years studying the life and death of David Kelly before I concluded, on the balance of probalities, that the scientist did commit suicide. There are many legitimate complaints that can be made about the way his disappearance and death were handled by the state, but I do not think these undermine the murder/suicide fundamentals. The deep state has covered up murder in this country, however. With that in mind, this hogmany led me to reflect on the fate of Willie MacRae.
The mysterious death, in April 1985, of SNP vice chair and prominent anti-nuclear activist Willie MacRae continues to provoke astonishment. His Wikipedia bio provides a brief description of the man as politician, and as corpse. In short: he was found unconscious in his smashed car in a burn thirty yards from the A87, a couple of miles upstream from Loch Cluanie, by an Australian tourist named Alan Crowe [sic], who reportedly turned out to be a pilot in the RAAF. Only when MacRae arrived at Aberdeen Infirmary (having transferred from Raigmore in Inverness) did a nurse disclose he had been shot in the head. He died that night. A pistol was subsequently or retrospectively discovered in the burn by police, after the car had been removed. Suffice to say none of the civilian eyewitnesses present at the crash site saw one there.
Willie MacRae’s antique pistol. Apparently.
The coroner ruled it a suicide: MacRae had got drunk, crashed, and killed himself with it. MacRae held no firearms certificates, but the other partner in his law firm, one Ronald Curren Kerr Welsh, told police “he was aware that MacRae possessed a small calibre revolver, and indeed the gun found at the crash site was a knackered .22 Smith and Wesson. Two shots had been fired. Welsh also told police he was so worried about MacRae’s whereabouts that night that he rang every police station on MacRae’s route. If this is true, than as with Kelly, MacRae “disappeared” in his final hours. After talking to the police, Welsh disappeared himself. He has given one press interview in thirty years. Nobody knows where he is or what he’s doing. Google him. It’s like he doesn’t exist. He’s the Mai Pederson of the tale, and as with Mai Pederson, Welsh was plagued by allegations of financial irregularities.
Like Kelly, McRae had been alone for an undetermined number of hours prior to his discovery, and his movements leading up to his death are unknown (or undisclosed). Like Kelly, Macrae had obscured links to the world of intelligence, having Cold War connections to foreign communist movements. MacRae saw out World War Two as a young officer in the prestigious Seaforth Highlanders, and saw combat in Europe, but as the war ended the regiment was sent to the Far East, where under Louis Mountbatten’s South East Asia Command (SEAC) it was used to maintain Dutch colonial rule in Indonesia. Rather than go home in 1946, when Dutch troops relieved them, it appears MacRae transferred to the Royal Indian Navy. It was a strange decision. Most troops were eager to get home. They had wanted to defeat Hitler, not supress colonial subjects, and some SEAC units grew so disillusioned they mutinied: the RAF in India, the Parachute Regiment in Malaya, the crew of HMS Northway in Singapore. With Britain’s military presence in the region crumbling fast, rebellion spread to the colonial forces. The Royal Indian Navy was next. Back in Blighty the establishment press blamed Soviet infiltrators. Russophobic scapegoating has long been habitual to our civil service, but these reports may have rested on a kernel of truth.
In either case, MacRae’s wartime experience meant he must have been either a subversive red or an imperial authoritarian, a confusing choice of opposites which is characteristic of many agents from that era. After his death there were reports that MacRae also served in military intelligence, but I can’t see how these were sourced. Nevertheless I am tantalised by the possiblity that during this period MacRae became an agent for one side or the other. In either case he would have remained a compromised indiviudal for the rest of his life. I feel I should further add at this point that MacRae was also, reportedly, homosexual. Naturally this only emerged after his death.
Like Kelly, MacRae’s body was found outdoors, in a remote spot. As with Kelly, the site was interfered with by parties unknown. Like Kelly, MacRae was involved in very public government inquiries (or committee hearings). Like Kelly, the feelings of his bereaved family were, cynically, invoked by the state as a reason not to embark on a more serious investigation. Like Kelly’s, that family has remained silent. As with Kelly, state actors were briefing against MacRae subsequent to his death: he was troubled, he was alcoholic, he was homosexual, he was heartbroken, he had a string of drink driving offences and was worried about facing imprisonment for a further charge (hence his abrupt, drunken crash, and subsequent suicide in the driving seat – although MacRae’s blood was never tested for alcohol or drugs, and his driving record has never been publicly substantiated or officially disclosed).
Look, for example, at the letter the young Lord Advocate Baron Fraser of Carmyllie wrote to fellow Tory Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, the Solicitor General for Scotland. He wrote that “the irresistable inference to be drawn from all the facts and circumstances surrounding this tragic death is that MacRae took his own life. This inference draws yet further support from the conversation Mr McRae [sic] had with his brother and another friend [note that Ronnie Welsh’s name is not disclosed] indicating firm suicidal intentions following a number of personal incidents which troubled him deeply… McRae’s death was neither suspicious nor unexplained… if an inquiry had been instructed… law officers might well have been criticised for using an inquiry only to cause embarassment to the SNP. All that an inquiry would have revealed would have been deeply unhappy personal details of a very unhappy member of that Party. I trust I have reassured you there is no mystery about his death. It was a sad and unhappy end for Mr McRae. It is now time to respect the wishes of his family and leave his memory in peace.”
Suffice to say Fraser hadn’t talked to Fergus MacRae, or Ronnie Welsh. Fraser was simply repeating, probably in good faith, what he had been told by the police, specifically Special Branch, who had actually been monitoring Willie MacRae at some length. Indeed, we now know that many of the people who walked in and out of his office were paid-up Security Service/Int Corps stooges, like Adam Busby.
Perhaps most coincidentally of all, purely from my personal point of view, is that at the time of MacRae’s death, Kelly was working a few miles down the road. He was busy decontaminating Gruinard Island, where the Army had tested wartime anthrax bombs. Let’s be clear about this: that part of Scotland, during the Cold War era, was pure spook country. You had the submarine bases at Faslane and Coulport and Rosyth. There was a NATO muntions store at Glen Douglas, and other armament depots at Beith and Crombie. Much nearer still you had Gruinard, and the Z-Berth at Loch Ewe, which was a deep sea dock for submarines, which means they can stay underwater until the very last moment. It isn’t on any map. It’s marked only by a single buoy. BUTEC, over the water at Applecross, was where they monitoried submarines’ accoustic signatures. That’s some pretty secretive stuff.
Spies roamed the countryside. Whenever subs launched there were foreigners taking photos from the waters’ edge. The men in trenchcoats were something of a standing joke. I have it on personal authority that for many years the Post Office in Aultbea, the tiny village on Loch Ewe, stocked the Soviet newspaper Pravda. Initially I thought this may have had something to do with the fact the Murmansk convoys left from Loch Ewe during the Second World War (my great uncle sailed on them). I realise now it was simply a gag. Whatever the reason, MacRae died in the midst of all this. His anti-nuclear campaigning, his Scottish nationalism, his wartime record, this all put him very firmly on that radar. Like Kelly in his final weeks, he was followed on and off by the Security Service.
A number of documents were quietly released by the Northern Police in April 2013 thanks to a Freedom of Information request by Andy Muirhead. These reveal a few interesting details. The pistol MacRae is alleged to have owned, and shot himself with, turns out to be a Smith and Wesson Model 1, of the first or second run. That means it was at least 117 years old. It would be interesting to know where that came from. According to the police, there was a box of ammuntion in the car, and MacRae had fully loaded the gun. It had fired two shots. One entered MacRae’s right temple. What happened to the other bullet is not recorded.
Even more exotic were the Bank of China foreign exchange notes found in his possession. They only amounted to what would then have been about eighty quid, but these yuans were not commonly seen in the UK in 1985. Where did they come from? Why did MacRae have them? Was he being paid off, or paying someone off?
Photos of the “wreckage” bothers me slightly. The car doesn’t appear wrecked at all. It may have rolled, because there appears to be mud on the roof. It also lost both wing mirrors and the entire rear window, including the seal. There’s impact damage to the front, yet it went off a straight, kerbless road onto a descending incline. I don’t feel qualified to make a judgement, but I wish the police had recovered all the car parts, to ensure the car had not been involved in an accident elsewhere earlier that evening. It doesn’t look like they bothered.
The crash site.
What the police documents do not reveal (or disprove) are the claims that MacRae had changed a tyre that night. During that evening one of his tyres burst, or was slashed, and was changed for a spare. As far as I can see, these rumours have persisted for years. I don’t know where they originate, and would like to, because I think they could be important. Here’s why. There was a retired SIS agent living in Inverness called Stephen Kock (he was involved in arming Iraq during the eighties, questions were later asked about him in Parliament, he’s in Hansard).
Stephen Kock before a Defence Select Committee.
In 1990 he appeared in Oban Sheriff’s Court because on another remote road west of Glasgow, one very like the one MacRae travelled, he had approached two men changing the tyre on their van. He then produced a pistol and fired off a couple of warning shots, telling them “I am a soldier, you know.” He was fined £650.
Changing your tyre in that part of Scotland looks like an element of tradecraft to me. Need to justify waiting on a deserted road without arousing suspicion? Need a clear visual signal to rendezvous with unknown party? Jack up your car.
Who MacRae met when he changed his tyre (if he changed his tyre) is unknown. I’m pretty sure it would be instructive.
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The BBC’s torture problem
I have blogged before about how mainstream Western journalism is – at best – in something like collective denial about the fact we’ve been torturing people on a routine basis for over a decade now. Even an after an eye-opening admission from the US President (“we tortured some folks”), news outlets soon resumed their editorial policy of not mentioning torture at all, or putting the word in quotation marks (there is no reason why the word torture should always need quotation marks). The best example of this is the BBC.
So, let’s take the Obama admission, which was as clear as a bell. Here’s the BBC headline:
9/11: Obama admits CIA tortured suspects after attacks
Somehow, a subber managed to sneak that one through. Immdiately afterwards, the BBC reverted to form. Last night I believe I watched it cover this week’s Senate torture report without using the word torture once. But let’s look at BBC headlines for US-UK torture stories since the war on terror began. The word will be put in quotation marks, or not used, and this is a deliberate policy. Here are a few examples, and remember these are all, unequivocally, indisputably, stories about actual, admitted torture:
Report on CIA details ‘brutal’ post-9/11 interrogations
‘Torture report’ stirs up row in US
CIA ‘torture': Senate due to publish report
Newspaper headlines: America’s ‘torture shame’
Bahrain blogger ‘tortured’ in jail with Shia opposition
CIA interrogation report: Battle lines being drawn
CIA report – as it happened
CIA interrogations report sparks prosecution calls
‘Vomiting and screaming’ in destroyed waterboarding tapes
UN publishes Afghanistan prisoner ‘torture’ report
Woolwich murder suspect: Michael Adebolajo held in Kenya in 2010
Hooded men: Irish government bid to reopen ‘torture’ case
UK pays £2.2m to settle Libyan rendition claim
The BBC cannot bring itself to admit the truth. Rarely is its deep-seated institutional bias so obvious. After all, it has no such qualms with the word torture when our enemies are accused of committing it. No inverted commas here!
Inside Saddam’s torture chamber
Saddam trial told of Iraq torture
Iraq’s tortured children
Syria accused of torture and 11,000 executions
Syria crisis: Living with the mental scars of torture
Torture claims by slain Russian
Russia torture-in-custody case: Police pair jailed (Jailed, you’ll notice!)
Russia forces accused of torture
Libya: Tripoli survivors tell of Gaddafi regime torture
And so on, and so on.
In contrast to its news coverage, the BBC does explicitly address the issue of torture in the “ethics” part of its website, where I found the following comments telling (italics mine):
“Torture involves deliberately inflicting physical or mental pain on a person without legal cause… Before you object that there can’t ever be a legal cause for inflicting pain, consider painful medical treatments, soldiers wounded in a legally declared war, or contestants in a boxing match… For much of history torture was used quite commonly, and without huge outcry. Civilisations such as the Egyptians, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans all used torture. Even the Church regarded it as an acceptable part of their armoury. Torture was used as part of many legal systems in the West until the early 19th century.”
Torture isn’t wrong or unethical if its legal, you see. What an interesting thing for a state broadcaster to say. It’s almost as if BBC editorial policy was being drafted by Foreign Office lawyers. Perhaps it was, albeit through a few proxies.
It’s interesting to reflect that in 2006, while Western torturing was in full swing, the BBC commissioned a (transparently biased) global poll to see if people supported torture. The UK government couldn’t have got away with that, nor the Foreign Office, but the BBC could. “Nearly a third of people worldwide back the use of torture“, it reported. Suffice to say a pro-torture tone crept into more than a few BBC reports and interviews, during the heyday of the GWOT. James Naughtie and Stephen Sackur were particularly suspect.
Unsuprisingly, perhaps, the ethics section of the BBC website is no longer updated, otherwise it might have to revise its comment that “evidence obtained through torture is not admissible in British courts.” Similarly, perhaps it might parrot less confidently the FO’s claim that “the UK is committed to combating torture globally, and continues to implement an active campaign to help eradicate it.” That seems a somewhat bold assertion, given that Bahrain, for example, routinely tortures pro-democracy activists, yet the Royal Navy has just established a permanent base there, “just one example of our growing partnership with Gulf partners to tackle shared strategic and regional threats” (according to our Foreign Secretary). Or, as I have also blogged before now, that SIS is managing a Kenyan counter-terrorist unit that routinely tortures its suspects and agents.
Bear this in mind, because torture is not going to go away. In fact, it is becoming systemic and institiutionally entrenched. That SIS-assisted torture I mentioned is occurring right now. The CIA’s black bases remain open. Guantanamo is still running. Appendix M of the current US Army Field Manual still lists “interrogation technics” which the UN’s Committee Against Torture says (PDF) amount to torture. One interesting unredacted disclosure in the US Senate report is that the CIA paid over $80 million to psychologists to refine and develop “enhanced interrogation” techniques. That’s an investment predicated on a return over time.
Most tellingly, the American right-wing now officially considers the Senate report itself a form of treachery, and warns of terrorist reprisals, a percevied threat which like all perceived terrorist threats since 9/11 has been taken with the utmost seriousness. It will only result, of course, in more state-sanctioned torture, and a greater suppression of truth, because this isn’t just about torture. This is also, inevitably, about lying, transparency, justice and democracy itself. Torture is not the only crime the Senate report exposes. But the train has left the station, it shows no signs of stopping, and we are all locked in the same carriage.
The only person so far arrested for torture has been the guy who told us it was going on.
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Deciphering the ISC’s Woolwich Report Part Two: MI6’s Dirty War in Kenya
After a few news cycles it seems the media have finally caught up with the report’s most significant aspect: the harassment and torture of Adebolajo by MI5 and SIS respectively. I was amazed the Committee bothered to ask any questions about this at all, but they did. I’d be surprised if it was Rifkind’s idea. Understanding the significance of these questions necessitates context.
What transformed and magnified the murder of Lee Rigby into an act of terrorism, and a major politico-cultural event, was the British establishment and the milking of public sentiment. In fact it was this sensationalism which made the ISC report compulsory – the idea a man should be stabbed on a British street does not normally call for a pretend overhaul of the county’s intelligence apparatus. A British soldier was stabbed to death in Cyprus six months previously, and again the following summer in Barbados, without triggering government inquiries. The neighbourhood where Rigby was murdered sees stabbings on a weekly basis without arousing the slightest concern in Parliament or the media. Similarly, none of the murders committed by soldiers themselves (and there have been several in between the death of Drummer Rigby and today) have raised governmental eyebrows or editorial alarm. Ironically, it is the earnestness of the Woolwich report which reveals the mechanics of this absurd amplification.
To any neutral observer, Rigby’s murder was homicide as a precursor to suicide-by-cop. Any terroristic ambitions on the part of his killers had been reduced to nil by the 22nd of May 2013. The sudden, futile murder of Lee Rigby was the final act of two hopeless men. Given that the harassment and infiltration of Britain’s Muslim communities is intense, I had privately assumed, on hearing the news, that the pair had killed their handler. But the British military was simply following its standard procedure of informing the serviceman’s family before the press. Nevertheless my assumption was not a wholly misplaced. The report confirms what has already become widely known: Adebolajo spent his final years of freedom surrounded by aspiring handlers, against whom he ultimately rebelled.
The circumstantial and indirect evidence for this is abundant. The answers of the intelligence and security services on this point, and SIS in particular, when pressed by the Committee itself, are described in the report as “dismissive”, “pre-judging”, “completely inappropriate”, “uncertain”, “unclear”, “difficult”, “deeply unsatisfactory”. Suffice to say the Committee “does not agree with SIS’s assessment” and is “deeply concerned”. The root of all this is Adebolajo’s arrest and torture in Kenya.
Adebolajo flew to Kenya in late 2010, reportedly under a false passport which gave his name as Michael Olemindis Ndemolajo. Obtaining a false UK passport is tricky, but procuring one of specific age and ethnicity (a Nigerian Yoruba) under a very similar name is impressive – unless you’re an intelligence agency. The Kenyans arrested “Ndemolajo” in late November, at a guesthouse on the Kenyan island of Lamu, on the understanding he was trying to cross into neighbouring Somalia, and some days after this arrest Adebolajo appeared in court, and thus in Kenyan media, under that assumed identity. The Foreign Office apparently provided consular assistance to him under that name also.
SIS told the ISC they had no idea Adebolajo was in Kenya until two days after his arrest. In truth Adebolajo had been picked up by a Kenyan counter-terrorist unit that was part-staffed by SAS soldiers and part-run by SIS. Furthermore, one of the people instrumental in facilitating Adebolajo’s pseudonymous trip was a Kenyan-based British “Subject of Interest” already known to MI5. Five asked Six if he was their guy. Answer came there none, at least as far as the ISC knows.
So let’s recap: Adebolajo gets, from somewhere, a superb fake passport. He flies to Kenya. He has arranged to meet a guy out there who is probably already an MI6 agent. He is arrested and detained almost immediately, with the participation of British Special Forces. No legal grounds are given for his arrest. Despite this, he appears in court anyway, and his photo thus appears in the press.
Adebolajo as ‘Ndemolajo’ in a Mombasa courtroom. British officials told Kenyan police he was a “clean man.”
Interestingly, the photo was taken by one Michael Richards, an unknown photographer who has only ever distributed two photos through AFP – this, and one depicting the January 2012 appearance in a Mombasa courtroom of Lamu cleric Aboud Rogo Mohammed, charged on six counts related to the illegal possession of firearms. He was bailed, and reappeared on the same charges in August, when the Kenya police explained they hadn’t actually taken any photos, or even an inventory, of the weapons in question. That’s because Rogo had been fitted up by the same SIS-led anti-terror unit that entrapped Adebolajo. When the trial duly collapsed, that same unit killed Rogo in an extrajudicial execution, shooting him more than seventeen times while he was driving his car, narrowly missing his five year-old daughter, but catching his wife in the leg. Still, that’s pretty good aim for a drive-by. That was in late August, 2012, and it triggered riots. It is impossible to understand the Woolwich killing without taking into account MI6’s dirty war in Kenya.
“The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers,” Adebolajo told a passerby that May morning on Wellington Street. “So what if we want to live by the Sharia in Muslim lands? Why does that mean you must follow us and chase us and call us extremists and kill us?”
Adebolajo had been detained by those British soldiers. He had been tortured, or at least threatened with torture, by either those soldiers or their Kenyan accomplices, and he had a better idea of what the Secret Intelligence Service were doing in Kenya than any mainstream media outlet. By October this SAS-SIS Kenyan anti-terror outfit (ARCTIC in the ISC report) had performed five assassinations – that we know of- in as many months. The total as of today is 21.
On his return to the UK, Adebolajo is freely readmitted (Kenya maintains he was deported, the ISC were told he flew back under his own ticket). No interest is shows in his passport, his treatment while detained, the legal grounds for his arrest, or the identity of the individual/s he met during his stay. The Kenyan sojourn is as clear a set-up as you’ll ever see. Either SIS were trying to turn Adebolajo, or they were trying to turn his younger brother, a teacher in Saudi who they were in contact with around this time.
Back in the UK, separate from SIS’s efforts, MI5 step-up their attempts to claim him for their own. As far as we know, they confine these attempts to police harassment, or “disruption”. “Disruption,” the report explains, “is the term MI5 uses describe ‘actions taken to manage risks posed by Subjects of Interest or networks,’ for instance arresting and imprisoning an individual.” So at MI5’s insistence they pick Adebolajo up again and again, for alleged drugs offences (the ISC report refers to him openly as a drug dealer), for involvement in the London riots, anything they can possibly think of. He is never charged.
“Disruption based on criminal activities offers a potential opportunity to reduce the threat posed by extremists,” the report notes, approvingly, while failing to reflect that every known criminal allegation against Adebolajo was a fabrication by MI5. Bear in mind that during this time there is also a photo of Adebloajo, as Ndemolajo, in that Mombasa courtoom, registered with the photo library at AFP. Only SIS know that it’s him. This is probably just one of the things that Vauxhall Bridge had over the Adebolajo brothers. Anything recorded or videod during Michael’s Kenyan detention would also constitute effective leverage.
That’s the full backdrop to Michael Adebolajo’s last act while a free, albeit compromised, man. His younger and more impressionable co-criminal remains a cipher. Adebolajo’s decision to a murder a British soldier was his own, but it was shaped and formed by two things. The spirit of Islamist jihad was one. The second was his treatment by British intelligence. Each must share equal blame. It isn’t appropriate, or right, for SIS to treat UK citizens like they were Soviet officers. I wonder if those who aspired to control him have the self-awareness to feel guilty. Knowing the institutional mindset, I doubt it.
In between my last two posts the media have come somewhat closer to all this. Cameron has announced the new Intelligence Services Commissioner will look into possible SIS miscounduct. This will occur under greater secrecy, and with even more bias, than the ISC routinely operates, so I would expect it to be completely pointless. Very few people care anyway.
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Deciphering the ISC’s Woolwich Report Part One: it isn’t about Facebook
Well, the ISC report into the murder of Lee Rigby turned out to be a 200 page pdf which did contain some surprises (see my previous post). In an age of 24 hour rolling news cycles, it’s clear no media outlet bothered to properly read it before commenting. Some broadcasters and newspapers announced the report deemed the attack “unpreventable”, others the exact opposite. This sort of ambiguity does not creep into parliamentary reports by accident, I can promise you. It is very deliberate and there is a knack to it.
In this case the big “what if” lauded by the report was the “discovery” that apparently Michael Adebolajo contacted “an individual overseas” in December 2012 on an unnamed social network and told him, graphically but non-specifically, of his intent to kill a soldier. The Committee were told (by whom we know not) that this material came to light only after the sad murder of Drummer Rigby. We can only assume they were not misinformed. I wouldn’t be greatly suprised if the message had never existed in the first place. In any case:
“It is difficult to speculate on the outcome,” wrote the Committee, modestly, before adding with no discernible effort “but [if MI5 had access to this exchange] there is a significant possibility that MI5 would then have been able to prevent the attack.”
What the report doesn’t reflect is that all the social media are backdoored to hell by the NSA. The Snowden leaks made all this perfectly clear. There may very well be some interdepartmental squabbles, and the information might not flow with complete freedom across the Atlantic, but all MI5 had to do, if it wanted to see that message, was look. It didn’t.
“The party which could have made a difference,” the Rrport opines, “was the company on whose platform the exchange took place. However, this company does not appear to regard itself as under any obligation to ensure that its systems identify such exchanges, or to take action or notify the authorities when its communications services appear to be used by terrorists. There is therefore a risk that, however unintentionally, it provides a safe haven for terrorists to communicate within.”
Much like the Royal Mail doesn’t open everybody’s envelopes, for example. The ISC now seem to want pro-active scanning – presumably on some automated keyword algorithm basis – that automatically scans Facebook content so it can be passed on to the authorities for anything terror-related. This is probably already being done. The ISC, untroubled by legal implications or current practices, or indeed the possibility that it might alert the world’s terrorists to an open channel, decided to hoist this flag up the mast anyway, although it admitted it had no real idea what was going on.
“It has been difficult to gain a clear understanding from GCHQ and the company of exactly what happened in this particular case. The monitoring process used by the company is still not sufficiently clear to the Committee or, it appears, to GCHQ. On the basis of the evidence we have received, the company does not have procedures to prevent terrorists from planning attacks using its networks.”
You can perhaps forgive the ISC for failing to achieve clarity here. After all, their US equivalent has no idea what’s going on either. The US Senate’s Intelligence Committee has been lied to repeatedly by very senior people about the scope of the NSA’s DIGINT activity. In fact, the NSA even hacked the computers of the Committee itself, which it then intimidated and smeared (I’m sure the NSA knows quite a lot about Rifkind et al too).
Whether the Committee were hoodwinked about this communications blackspot or not, what beggars belief is the idea that they should then chose to conspicuously highlight it. Hey, it’s official! If you’re a UK terrorist, get your Facebook dummy accounts set up now!
You’re left wondering if this is disinformation, which is exactly the sort of thing a hobbled ISC would put out, or incompetence, a binary dilemma which has long been the hallmark of intelligence services everywhere. Conventional government departments can easily be dismissed as unfit for purpose, while those which labour under the veil of the Official Secrets Act offer the tantalising prospect there is actually something else going on. Often there is: lying. However, in this aspect the report’s opinions neatly echo those expressed by GCHQ’s new director Robert Hannigan in the FT earlier this month (which includes the inevitable swipe at that great whistle-blower Edward Snowden). The report and the FT article are so obviously synchronised one is reminded of Rifkind’s stated belief that the Committee should be a public relations agency for the intelligence services. Is “Colonel” Rifkind a spook manqué or is he just expertly handled?
In summary, the Facebook stuff is a bum steer. Possibly, assuming actual competence, it was conceived as an easy headline to distract from the Report’s meatier element: the very likely role of the SIS in facilitating the torture of British citizens abroad (in this case Adebolajo). To my great astonishment, this is something the report actually touches on.
More in Part Two.
NB Aside from the ISC’s uninformed and remit-breaking decision to blame the internet for everything, The Open Rights Group have listed twenty two other missed opportunities, beyond this Facebook message, which should have flagged Adebolajo as a threat. These are all listed in the report itself, but de-emphasised, so the focus can rest on social media. The Group’s list can be read here. Personally, before Britain’s Perma-War on Terror opens a new front in Palo Alto, I think it might be worth reassessing the bloody shambles that is our foreign policy, but that would probably require a revolution a la Russell Brand.
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Waiting for Rifkind to do his thing
The Intelligence and Security Committee will soon publish its report into the killing of Lee Rigby.
It will conclude that the Security Service needs more powers to spy on British citizens. It will demand a greater level of operational activity on the part of MI5 and Special Branch, and thus greater funding. It may hint at the need for more draconian anti-terror legislation. It won’t mention the Secret Intelligence Service whatsoever, despite the seminal events that occurred abroad. In terms of actual criticism, it will probably hint at better inter-departmental communication. Well, possibly. If that. It will certainly contain, at the very least, qualified praise for all the services involved.
I know what the ISC is, and I think I know which way its chairman leans too. He fell under the spell a long, long time ago. How did Lord Macdonald describe him? “Badly compromised.”
I have little doubt, but let’s see.
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Consequently, Islam obliges Muslims to take care of themselves both spiritually and physically. Islam thus stresses that our health and well-being, as well as health and well-being of other human brothers and sisters, are each and everyone’s responsibility.
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One of the objectives of Islam and its laws is preservation of life because life is a sacred gift of God and Muslims are commanded to preserve it. Harming it in any way, physically or symbolically, is prohibited (Haram).
Health is a necessary condition for the preservation of life. It is only healthy humans that could establish healthy societies and implement ethical and just system for all.
Al Ghazali points out: “A proper understanding and implementation of religion, from the standpoint of knowledge and worship, can only be arrived at through physical health and life preservation.”
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“To God-fearing (people), health is better than wealth.” (Ibn Majah, Al Hakim, Ahmed)
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A 96-year-old woman in Scotland had come up with a remarkable solution to the isolation she had been feeling since her partner’s death 15 years earlier.
With no friends and family, she decided to hold morning teas to, as Martin puts it, “escape her cage”. The concept was a big success and Martin was sold.
“I can do this,” he told himself and so his novel networking idea – Scone Time – was born, 18 months before Covid-19 hit.
Scone Time quickly became a community connector where seniors could come together with family, friends and local business owners over fresh hot scones loaded with home- made jam and whipped cream.
Suddenly Martin found himself making hundreds of scones a week to meet the demand for his special morning teas held in venues around the Sunshine Coast.
The arrival of the pandemic ground the concept to a temporary halt but now things are getting back into full swing and Martin is sorting his tea cups and refining his recipe.
A New Zealander by birth, Martin said he had always been a keen cook and foodie.
“It started with my grandmother, she was an amazing cook, an amazing baker and every time I went there she would make something different, but unfortunately her recipes went with her,” he says.
“She gave me a cookbook when I was seven, for Christmas. It was the New Zealand Women’s Weekly Cookbook. I kicked mum out of the kitchen and just kept on cooking.”
After completing a chef apprenticeship in his New Zealand home town of Temuka, he came to Australia where he worked on the islands and later opened a cafe in Terrigal on the New South Wales Central Coast.
He then graduated to opening and running cafes in Brisbane where he would regularly network the local traders.
Martin also would travel between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast where he ran a cooking school, but six years ago the commute became too onerous and he has now settled in Palmwoods.
He is now the ambassador for Food Agribusiness Network and president of Country Noosa.
But it’s his Scone Time that has really captured the imagination, particularly among seniors all over the Coast, although non-seniors are also welcome, of course.
The simple concept involves Martin setting up at a venue – usually a local hall or meeting room.
These often hold memories for guests who may have attended dances or supper clubs there in the past.
Along with volunteers, he sets up tables with vintage tea sets, gets the coffee and tea brewing, and warms up his freshly made scones along with lashings of jam and cream sourced from local farmers.
The biggest“ thing for those who attend is the connection,” he says. “There are some amazing stories.
“One guy hadn’t been out for two years after his wife had passed away, and I told him ‘you’ve got to come’.
“He wasn’t on the internet so I said, ‘just come, come with me’ and I put him on a table with a lot of girls – the youngest was 82 – and they brought him into the fold. That’s what I love.
“One 92-year-old lady has missed only one event – because she had to go to the doctor … she comes in on a zimmer frame.”
Volunteers, traders and farmers often join in Scone Time and Martin said he loves the idea and the camaraderie that comes with it and hopes that it will become his legacy,
“When I pop off, it will still be here, going,” he says.
Despite often making 360 scones a week with his own extra nutritious recipe which includes vanilla, yoghurt and egg, Martin says he never gets tired of them and quite happily scoffs them himself on a regular basis.
As Scone Time winds up again, with between 50 and 120 or more people at any one event, Martin is getting local cafes and bakers on board with his recipe, to help meet the demand.
He hopes to eventually have enough teacups and cutlery at each venue to save all the packing and unpacking.
“I only charge $8 and people can come and eat their bodyweight in jam, cream and scones,” he says. “And I hate waste, so if there is any left over I sell them to people to take home. They love that.”
And when he’s not whipping up the next batch of scones?
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March 24: Caloundra CWA Hall, 17 Kalinga St, 10am-11.30am
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Female or male threaded? Dual threading for both male- and female-threaded faucets (this aerator’s thread sizes: male 15/16”-27, female 55/64”-27 with removable threaded inserts to hide threads when installing with female connections)
Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 1 x 1 inches
For additional installation information, please visit the Niagara Tri-Max™️ Series Faucet Aerator Installation Guide. | https://aepenergyrewardstore.com/products/niagara-tri-max-series-faucet-aerator | 1,664,914,818 | 1,105.2 |
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An Android app should be one of the priorities for today’s entrepreneurs, SMEs and enterprise businesses for the growth of their businesses, as the number of devices having Android OS is comparatively very higher than any other mobile operating systems. It enables to create feature-rich apps with great functionality and usability.
Being an open-source operating system, Android app development company develops customized software as per the client’s needs with ease and generates augments growth and tremendous business opportunities.
Most of the off-the-shelf apps available today are extremely customizable products. Yet, custom Android app development is gaining marvelous attention. Below are characteristic of custom applications
Delivers Perfect Solution for Distinctive Wants
Each business is different, and therefore needs a distinct solution for their unique business needs. Packaged products often come with excellent quality and reliability, but they can ultimately be an impediment to your business goals.
Many times, packaged app users may find it essential to adjust and alter their business activities to accommodate the application. A custom application could always prove to be a better solution than readily available.
Tailor-made, innovative and individualized processes give custom apps the flexibility to suit your business in-house operations. Also, custom apps can be localized to maximize use and increases productivity.
Save Money and Time
App development costs can be highly deceptive. The expense of developing a custom Android app may or may not be cheaper than purchasing out-of-the-box solutions. Although, it helps to stay on time and on a budget throughout the development period.
Readymade apps will not bear the costs for customization, installation, training the workforce, data import, and further support. The long-term advantage of custom made business apps is much better than that of the readymade ones.
Fewer Complications and Compatibility Issues
If an application customized and designed initially in accordance with the end-user requirements, it will be user-friendly and quick to use. Very limited training will be required as the application includes a self-explanatory user experience.
While using it as an operating system there will be very fewer complications by the business software and applications compare to another operating system.
Enhanced Business Security
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Hackers usually attack the known vulnerabilities in the applications. Hence, business security risks are very steep for third party applications.
Reliable and Efficient Technical Support
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