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10 REASONS WHICH SUGGEST THAT PAMELA FENN DID NOT HEAR ANY CHILD CRYING ON TUESDAY 1 MAY 2007
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Mrs Pamela Fenn's Witness Statement of 20th August 2007...
1. I tend to think she told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
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2. I think some parts of it were true, but other parts of it were not
3. I tend to think that this was an untruthful statement
4. I am not sure what to make of it
Total Votes : 218
Re: 10 REASONS WHICH SUGGEST THAT PAMELA FENN DID NOT HEAR ANY CHILD CRYING ON TUESDAY 1 MAY 2007
by skyrocket on 05.01.19 10:09
@Sharoni – hi. @Verdi - take a deep breath.
I appreciate this is off topic but as it has been raised I'd like to address the 'extra cot/beds' issue because I believe that it is important.
The extra cot requests were simply made in response to MarkWarner policy at the time of booking. On booking every child 2 years and up was allocated a bed by the booking system.
The McCanns: 2 adults + 3 children over 2 years; 2 bedroom apartment with 5 bed spaces required (by booking system)
The booking form automatically generated the allocation of 'extra bed x 1'
The McCanns would have been automatically given an apartment with 5 bed spaces available i.e. a bed sofa in the lounge area.
The Paynes: 3 adults + 1 child over 2 + 1 child under 2; 2 bed apartment with 4 bed spaces required
The booking form automatically generated the allocation of 'cot x 1' for baby Scarlet (this can be found in the line at the bottom of 'Guest List 1')
The Paynes would have been automatically given an apartment with a minimum of 4 bed spaces
During booking, the McCanns and Paynes then request 3 extra cots for Sean, Amelie and Lily.
The McCann apartment should then have had 5 beds (incl. sofa bed as 1) and 2 cots, and the Paynes apartment 4 beds (may also be a sofa bed as standard) and 2 cots.
We know G5A had 2 twin bedrooms and 2 cots; we don't know if there was a sofa bed.
We know G5H had a double and a twin bedroom and 2 cots; we know there was a sofa bed in the lounge area.
Why does G5H seem a sensitive topic – constantly brought up as the 'biggest' apartment?
Why does Matthew Oldfield's description of G5A better fit G5H?
Why was there none of Madeleine's DNA in G5A? (the dogs were not looking for this when they searched)
Why would a grandmother (Dianne) sleep on a sofa bed in a communal area (with the need to make the bed up every night and pack away every morning) when according to the family there were 2 spare single beds in Lily's room? If she had slept in with Lily, as expected by MarkWarner, there would have been no need for a sofa bed. Was this 'extra' bed sensitive to the group?
Sofa beds were not required by either the Mcs or the Paynes, as the twins were using cots. Was Dianne said to be sleeping on the sofa bed in G5H to justify the Paynes being in that apartment and the Mcs in G5A? Did something happen to Madeleine in G5H and the 'crime scene (whatever the crime)' was moved?
@Verdi wrote: So much of this illusion is about timing, not the Team McCann fictive timelines but real time as in the aftermath and the long term strategy - the wider agenda.
1. Pamela Fenn's witness statement - 22nd August 2007
2. Martin Smith's alert - 20th September 2007. Not 9th September when he claims to have watched the television footage of the Mcanns return to the UK but 11 days later.
Following the disturbing visit and forensic inspection by the magnificent duo, Eddie and Keela on 6th/7th August 2007, things started to look very awkward for Messrs McCann. By their own admission they began plans for a return to England despite previously saying they would never leave without their daughter Madeleine. Within the same period, the government Media Monitoring Unit director Clarence Mitchell, resigned his position to take up permanent employment representing the McCanns full-time.
It is not known exactly when Brian Kennedy, the double glazing magnate, was engaged as their wealthy benefactor and ring leader but it was publicly announced during the same period of time - August/September/October 2007.
Curiously, again during this same period, Pamela Fenn gave her first official witness statement and Martin Smith not only publicly refuted reports about his original witness statement taken in May 2007 (August 2007), many days after the event but also in September 2007 he resurfaces with yet another surprise claim. Not, I hasten to add, on 9th September 2007 when he claims to have watched television footage of the McCanns hasty return the the UK but eleven days later.
August and September 2007 was a very significant time for Team McCann .... followed closely by Dr Amaral's removal from the case at the beginning of October 2007 .... the McCanns request for re-interview of named key witnesses by rogatory (in their favour) in October 2007 .... the Rothley Court Hotel meeting in November 2007 .... a media blitz in December 2007 .... new and revamped witness sightings pioneered by Brian Kennedy and representative in January 2008 .... the rogatory interviews in April 2008.
As they say, time is of the essence.
https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t15551-bearing-false-witness#391176
This is an interesting post, thank you @ Verdi.
I was about to note that this discussion was moving somewhat off-topic and was going to suggest that this is a good thing, as the discussion is flowing. I was going to add some comment about cots and beds as well.
In both respects @ skyrocket has anticipated me, and I agree with him that we should let the conversation move along on this thread.
I was going to suggest that there is almost enough material on the subject of 'cots and beds' for there to be a new 'cots and beds' thread set up. But no, let's keep talking here.
One point I remembered from MMRG's first '50 FACTS' leaflet was this:
QUOTE: FACT 10. Gerry McCann on 4 May (the day after Madeleine went missing) said: "Yesterday, Madeleine and and the twins were put to bed in their respective beds at 7.30pm". Yet when the police arrived at about 11.00pm, they found a bed where Madeleine was supposed to have slept and two cots. Moreover, in a magazine interview in January 2008, Gerry McCann said: "On one bed the twins lay sleeping". UNQUOTE
That IMO tends to suggest that the entire story about the beds and cots is not right at all.
As regards @ skyrocket's post, I think the data about G5H and G5A are both interesting and useful, but I cannot see how we get to his deduction that Madeleine might have died in G5H. I would like to hear a more detailed explanation. One other point of note: I think Kate McCann said in evidence somewhere that the curtains and windows in the 'children's room' in G5A were 'closed all week'. That is a very odd comment anyway, but especially so as from Monday morning the weather changed from being hot and sunny (Sunday) to cooler, cloudier and windier, with occasional rain.
Before moving on @ Verdi, one correction: Pamela Fenn's statement was not made on 22 August but on Monday 20 August:
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/PAMELA_FENN.htm
I would also add that the ridiculous statements by Martin Smith (20 September) and Richard McCluskey (25 September) purporting to 'recognise' Gerry McCann from 'the way he was carrying his child' are most likely to have been made by those backing Robert Murat and opposing the McCanns.
The subject of cots and beds reminded me of an incident concerning a cot related by Neil Berry. Here is part of his statement made in April 2018 (a Rogatory statement). There are a number of aspects of his statement which I find of interest.
What is the connection (if any) between Berry & Balu and the Jensen/Wiltshire sisters - who later made very questionable statements identifying a would-be abductor? (their statements were taken by Gary Hagland, Brian Kennedy's money-laundering expert who once flew to Saturn and back with aliens).
Also, is it mere coincidence that Balu and Berry's wives had both previously worked for the same company.
Here is Berry's statement of 18 April 2008. I have highlighted some points that I think are of interest:
At about 16.00 we were at the swimming pool bar within the complex. It was at this time that we had a few drinks with Raj Balu, Jayne Jensen and Anne Wiltshire, as I testified in my statement of 8th January 2008. My family returned to the apartment at about 17.000 and the four of us remained at the pool bar. I must have stayed there for another half an hour before joining my family in the apartment. When I left Jensen and Wiltshire remained at the bar. I do not remember whether Raj left with me or whether he stayed at the bar. From there I returned to my apartment and to my family.
With regard to where I took my meals and with whom:
I do not remember what we did at lunchtime on 3rd May. I only remember about the evening. I tried to reserve a table at the Tapas Bar for that night but it was fully booked. I spoke about this with Raj Balu and we decided to order a meal from the restaurant and we dined together in our apartment, as testified in my statement of 7th May 2007.
With regard to where I was at 18.00, whom I was with and the fact that I was seen by a witness at this time next to stairs and lift of block 5 of the Ocean Club:
I am not certain where I was at 18.00. It is possible that I was already in my apartment or returning from the bar. In order to arrive at my apartment I would walk along the side of the pool, crossing the stairs of block 4. If I were with someone, this person would be Raj, but as I have already said I do not remember whether I returned with him or before him. I do not remember having seen a lift in any of the apartment blocks. I was not in block 5, but had to pass by it in order to arrive at my apartment. It is possible that I was on the other side of the street opposite block five.
With relation to one of the Ocean Club employees having passed close by:
I do not remember having seen Ocean Club staff collecting dirty laundry at this hour.
With relation to where I was between 18.00 and 23.00:
After I returned to the apartment I was with my wife and children. The children went to bed at 19.00 and Raj arrived at our apartment with his family, carrying a cot for his son. We did not manage to set the cot up and I went to find a member of staff. I found a Mark Warner employee, whose name I cannot remember but she was the girlfriend of a maintenance employee called Rob. She accompanied us back to the apartment and managed to set up the cot. We put Raj's child to bed and sat down to relax and have a drink, once the children were asleep.
At about 20.00 Raj and I went to the Tapas restaurant to place our order and wait for our meal. I think that we had a drink while we waited. I do not remember exactly what we ordered but I think it included red cabbage. When we left with the meal we took the same walk back, along the pool, crossing the road back to the apartment. I think that our apartment was 4G.
I remember that at dinner that the McCanns were not at the restaurant at the time that we left and we did not see them while Raj and I were there.
Once back at the apartment we had dinner and remained there.
From 22.00 onwards all the events that took place were already described in my previous statement of 7th May 2007 and i cannot add any further information, other than that which was already added.
With regard to Rajinder Balu:
I met Raj at the welcome ceremony when we arrived at the resort on 28th April 2007. I did not travel with him and we had not met before. I got on well with him and later on we discovered that our wives had both worked for the same company. We did not normally spend the days together, but we would meet up on some evenings to dine and drink. Raj and I spent two evenings watching football matches in a local bar. I do not remember any other information or explanations that are relevant or which could in any way help this inquiry.
10. Gerry McCann on 4 May (the day after Madeleine went missing) said: "Yesterday, Madeleine and and the twins were put to bed in their respective beds at 7.30pm". Yet when the police arrived at about 11.00pm, they found a bed where Madeleine was supposed to have slept and two cots. Moreover, in a magazine interview in January 2008, Gerry McCann said: "On one bed the twins lay sleeping".
Dr Martin Roberts: "The evidence is that these are the pjyamas Madeleine wore on holiday in Praia da Luz. They were photographed and the photo handed to a press agency, who released it on 8 May, as the search for Madeleine continued. The McCanns held up these same pyjamas at two press conferences on 5 & 7June 2007. How could Madeleine have been abducted?"
Amelie Mcann (aged 2): "Maddie's jammies!".
by Verdi on 05.01.19 11:55
There is good reason for keeping threads on topic, a little digression here and there is acceptable (heaven knows I do it myself) - I'd go so far as to say unavoidable, so there lies the reasoning for getting back on track before the topic turns into the proverbial shaggy dog story.
There are a number of search facilities on CMoMM for the benefit of readers to locate topics of interest to them. If searching for a specific subject, say the last photograph for example, I personally find it infuriating to land on page after page pondering the length of Aunt Gert's knicker elastic or what happened to Uncle Dave's false teeth after he put them out on the kitchen windowsill for a laugh.
The forum is packed with valuable information relative to the case of missing Madeleine McCann, navigating the forum is an adventure, a voyage of discovery, especially to new members and readers who are unfamiliar with the case detail. It's important and good for the reader to delve into the wealth of information contained within the forum - it should be encouraged not halted by one particular thread that is allowed to flow from one subject to another.
All members are asked to stay on topic and only stray within the bounds of what is considered reasonable. You are asked to respect the few forum rules in place, they are there to maintain the integrity of the forum. If, as in this case, the subject of beds and cots is of interest then please feel free to start a new topic.
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by Phoebe on 05.01.19 14:30
If Mrs Fenn was working on behalf of the McCanns then they had three and a half months from May 4th until August 20th (when she gave her official statement) to get her to say what they wanted.
Seventeen days after Mrs Fenn made her statement (claiming to have heard crying for 75 mins on the Tuesday night) Kate McCann (Sept 6th) categorically stated that what Mrs. Fenn had claimed about the crying was untrue. She claims instead that on the night in question (Tue) Amelie was crying after midnight and that, as a result, Madeleine came and slept in their room for the remainder of the night.
Why would the McCanns put Mrs. Fenn up to telling a story about crying with which they would, just over two weeks later, rubbish. It makes no sense! If the McCanns wanted Mrs. Fenn to lie for them they had ample time to communicate what they wanted her to say. IMO all the indications are that Mrs. Fenn was not acting on behalf of the McCanns. This is why Kate tries to depict her as a snobbish, unfeeling old woman in her book.
edited to add
This statement of Kate's is one of the most revealing. She states clearly that the cots in the apartment were placed in situ ie. - in the children's room, on Sat April 28th, and remained there constantly during the week. Therefore, if the cleaner says that she saw, while carrying out her duties, a cot in the parent's room (which Kate categorically denies) this can only have happened on the Monday or Wednesday morning of that week as these were the cleaning days. There is no reason for the cleaner to lie about this detail.
by aquila on 05.01.19 14:44
You really do miss the point Phoebe.
@aquila wrote: You really do miss the point Phoebe.
Perhaps you could enlighten me Aquila - why would the McCanns get Mrs Fenn to make a bogus statement on August 20th saying she heard crying from the apartment for an hour and fifteen minutes on Tuesday night and then, just over two weeks later, claim that was Mrs. Fenn stated was totally untrue.
by Flossy on 05.01.19 17:12
I believe Mrs Fenn told the truth. I think it alerts us to the fact that the Mccanns were, at least on one occasion, in the habit of leaving their children unattended for longer periods than 30mins. This then brings into question the time line presented for the night of the 3rd May. Were the checks done at least every 30mins. On the initial post, the question is posed that if Mrs Fenn did hear a child cry for 75mins why did she do.nothing. I believe that this is not unusual. There have been numerous cases of slterriblw crimes being committed whilst been witnessed (or heard) by bystanders. In such cases there is a diffusion or responsibility that occurs. People won't take responsibility because they believe it is not their responsibility to intervene or call the relevant authorities. I had a reminder of this today when I assisted a child who had got separated from his parents. I witnessed at least 10 people pass him before I could get to him to help. The child was crying out for his mummy so it was obvious he needed help. When people can directly witness such things and do nothing it is not surprising that one lady does not intervene when she hears a child crying in the apartment below hers.
@Phoebe wrote:
This is a case in a million. It is NOT an 'Occam's Razor' case.
Therefore we must consider all sorts of scenarios in order to arrive at an understanding of the truth.
Moreover, Praia da Luz seems to have had some weird characters. Sir Clement Freud. The Murat family. The Eveleighs and their 'adult' holidays. Sergey Malinka. The 'ShiningInLuz' character who does the 'McCann mystery' tours. Father Haynes Hubbard and his wife Susan, who jetted in to Praia da Luz three days after Madeleine was reported missing. Father Jose Pacheco. Edward Smethurst, the McCanns' 'co-ordinating solicitor', has holidayed there every summer for 19 years. Jon Corner used to go there often. Martin Smith and his family have an apartment there. And so on.
Consider the claim that David Payne visited the McCanns' apartment at around 6.30pm on Thursday 3 May. We found out later, by analysing the statements, that there were at least 20 (TWENTY) flat contradictions between their two accounts, which amounts to virtual proof that both fabricated their statements. So how did this happen?
Here is a suggestion. Suppose, after Sunday, there was a 'master planner' directing how the hoax would be carried out. He would have delegated Jane Tanner to fabricate an abductor. He would have appointed Nuno Lourenco to take a photo of Wojchiech Krokowski's car and then report an alleged attempted abduction on the morning of Saturday 5 May to try and divert Goncalo Amaral's team.
Did he also say to David Payne and Kate McCann: "Look, David, tell the police you visited Kate at about 6.30pm for some reason or another. That'll help prove Madeleine was alive then". Suppose the two told the police that.
Then come their problems. To test their stories, the police ask a few key questions, like: Did you enter the apartment? How long were you there? What were the children doing? What were they wearing? Did you sit down? What was Kate doing? Why did you go there anyway? What did you talk about?
And then, of course, their fabricated story completely breaks down as each desperately invents what is supposed to have happened!
And doubtless that is why Goncalo Amaral did not accept their fabricated accounts as evidence.
What about Mrs Fenn? We know little about her, her history, her connections, etc. Her niece Carole Tranmer's statement lacked credibility, just like Mrs Fenn's. She (CT) also seemed to have a connection with the army training college at Sandhurst.
What if Mrs Fenn was given an outline statement, and then fluffed her lines when it came to the details? Could she have been told to tell police that she heard "a child of more than two years old crying" on the Tuesday night and that she had suffered a burglary (when in fact neither was true)?
Mrs Fenn said that her reported evidence was "all rubbish - ignore it". Is the simplest explanation here that indeed the whole of her statement was concocted rubbish from start to finish?
@Tony Bennett wrote: What about Mrs Fenn? We know little about her, her history, her connections, etc. Her niece Carole Tranmer's statement lacked credibility, just like Mrs Fenn's. She (CT) also seemed to have a connection with the army training college at Sandhurst.
Carole Tranmer is indeed an enigma.
When fiercely defending Pamela Fenn, people conveniently forget to take into consideration her niece's seemingly unnecessary lengthy testimony taken by Leicestershire Constabulary in April 2008. Pamela Fenn's testimony cannot be successfully debated without factoring in that of Carole Tranmer, her niece.
In reality Carole Tranmer's only input was the tale of a lurking stranger she saw at the foot of the stone steps that led to the veranda of apartment 5a. Just how many more tales of lurking men are required to convince people that it's all contrived to reinforce the abduction claim - all fabrication.
Question remains unanswered - who prompted her to come forward with tales of her visit to Luz and the lurking stranger and why?
Strangers appearing on a nearby balcony leaving a pile of cigarette ends; a lurking man at the foot of apartment 5a block stairwell; the stranger at the foot of apartment 5a veranda steps; the suspicious man lurking in the vicinity of apartment 5a block. Then later along comes a series of sightings old and new to spice-up the mix.
A crying child; an attempted burglary (no confirmation of a police report); a lurking stranger. Pamela Fenn was a resident - a local, for sure she would be acquainted with other residents, particularly of British origin. I should be very surprised if she wasn't acquainted with Jenny Murat, Robert Murat's mother, being from a similar generation.
So what exactly did Pamela Fenn and her niece Carole Tranmer have to offer? Nothing as far as I can see - yet still they are a focal point of the global deception.
Makes you think doesn't it?
by Tuppence on 05.01.19 23:38
I know I posted this a while back but wondered if it was possible that the Baby Monitor could have been used to project the crying heard by Mrs Fenn. In other words, the child heard crying may not have been in the apartment at all but elsewhere and the monitor was used to project the crying ? It may be the monitor could not be used in that way. I don't know. Just a thought
by Verdi on 06.01.19 0:00
Pamela Fenn was apparently in her apartment when the alarm was raised.
Beyond a shadow of doubt, she would have been questioned during the PJ's routine house to house calls.
During this routine process, if Pamela Fenn gave any information or had any information to assist the investigation she would have been called upon to give a formal statement.
This didn't happen immediately following Madeleine's alleged disappearance.
Pamela Fenn gave a formal statement to the PJ over three months later, in August 2007.
No more need be said.
by Phoebe on 06.01.19 0:16
In her interview with Mrs. Fenn she clearly states that "I have been here for three months and in all this time I've never spoken to a journalist. They've written rubbish in the newspapers. I've never even uttered word. I've never - it's all rubbish. Please, please , its a joke forget it"
Given what she says and her obvious annoyance about being hassled by a film crew it is clear IMO that she is refuting NOT HER SWORN EVIDENCE TO THE POLICE" but the speculative nonsense written about her in the tabloid rags.
I consider it beyond credulity that Team McCann approached Mrs. Fenn and asked her to say that she heard a child crying, with mounting distress, for an hour and a quarter on Tuesday or indeed any other night.
What possible purpose could such a fabrication serve - to prove Madeleine was still alive on Tuesday. There was no need - the police already believed she had been alive and well two days later. Was it to prove that the children were left in the apartments during dinner. Again, no need to prove this - the police already accepted this. The main effect of Mrs. Fenn's statement was to make people doubt A) that they checked on the children as regularly as they claimed and B) to belie their claim that their children were always safely asleep during their absence while they wined and dined.
Dear Phoebe, I still think you are missing the point and I am not being mean to you.
Suspend common goodness and common sense for a moment and take a look at the manifestation of a dirty campaign.
aquila. X
by sharonl on 06.05.19 15:39
Pamela Fenn had hearing so good that she could not only tell us that she heard a child crying, she could also specify the age of the child, not a baby of two or under but an older child, and where the noise was coming from. She could also tell us what time someone entered the apartment because she heard the door open.
So what did Mrs Fenn have to say about the events of May 3rd? Dud she not here the abductor entering the apartment, the noisy shutters being jemmied open, and the abductor leaving again?
"WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER" - Rebekah Brooks to David Cameron
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by ferrotty on 06.05.19 19:36
@sharonl wrote: Pamela Fenn had hearing so good that she could not only tell us that she heard a child crying, she could also specify the age of the child, not a baby of two or under but an older child, and where the noise was coming from. She could also tell us what time someone entered the apartment because she heard the door open.
This was posted on FB by
Michelle Wootton-Rowley
quite an interesting read -
More on the deleted call records – Where Was Kate McCann?
By Paulo Reis and associates (*)
The CD issued by Ministerio Publico de Portimao in July 2008, contains a great deal of information on the mobile calls made and received by the "Tapas 9" but it is dispersed, difficult to retrieve and with important pages and charts missing. The main documents of interest from the CD are:
A 3 page report by the Policia Judiaria (undated, but probably 4th May 2007) listing call records retrieved from the handsets of Mr and Mrs McCann
A detailed (and excellent report) by Inspector Paulo Dias, Inspector of UNI-Sector de Análise, Lisbon, dated 9th November 2007
Schedules provided by Vodafone on 14th December 2007 covering a period from 29th April 2007 for Gerald McCann, David Payne, Rachael Mampilly, broken into four separate sections for incoming and outgoing telephone calls, incoming and outgoing SMS traffic
A second report by Inspector Dias dated 5th February 2008, containing time bars, link charts and maps pinpointing where the "Tapas 9's" sets were when they activated antennae
A third report by Inspector Dias dated 2nd June 2008 which includes details of activations of the Luz and other mobile antenna from 28th April 2007 to September 2007
The Rogatory Letter requests and correspondence dated from 5th December 2007 to May 2007 and responses from the Home Office in April and May 2008
The PJ used a program, called the "Analyst's Notebook" as well as "Excel" to handle what were very large datasets. Inspector Dias pointed out that "Excel" was far from ideal, because of its limited capacity and it seems that much of the data provided was paper based and had to be rekeyed. Also the main focus of the research was limited to the evening of Thursday 3rd May 2007. But, despite the problems, the PJ's work is impressive, innovative and very detailed. For example, there is a brilliant analysis (which unfortunately led nowhere) based on the hypothesis of two abductors each working with mobiles in the Ocean Club area immediately before Madeleine was reported missing. There is another excellent piece of work which tracks down a misrouted call, from Swansea, to Kate McCann at 11.21 on Wednesday 2nd May 2007.
However, there are potentially serious omissions:
The most important records were not available when Mr and Mrs McCann attended their "Arguido interviews" on 6th and 7th September 2007 and it is doubtful that they were ever reviewed by the very experienced analysts from the Leicestershire Police, whose team left the Algarve soon after the McCann's return to the UK in September 2007
There are no detailed call records from the mobile operators for Kate McCann, Russell O'Brien, Matthew Oldfield and Jane Tanner
When the PJ obtained the McCann's mobiles they do not appear to have retrieved deleted data or to extract their contact lists
None of the telecom records show triangulation co-ordinates but are limited to identifying the single primary antenna on which calls were registered
The details of over 50 UK subscribers contacted by the Tapas 9 in the critical period, as well as their onward local and international call records, was included in the Rogatory Letter request in December 2007. If this information was provided, it is not in the CD
A critical link chart (Anexo 37) for Tuesday 1st May 2007 is missing from Inspector Dias's report
These omissions make interpretation of the data difficult but what is available provides an interesting picture. First, it is obvious that the memories in the McCann's mobiles were incomplete and, in Kate McCann's case, selectively deleted.
Her mobile memory held details of 39 calls from 18.28 on Wednesday 25th April to 16.35 on 27th April 2007. After her arrival in Portugal on 28th April 2007, with the exception of one incoming call on Wednesday 2nd May 2007 at 11.21 (which, very interestingly, was the Swansea "wrong number"), and one call from her husband at 23.17 on Thursday 3rd May 2007, everything else has been "whoosh-clunked" from memory. These deletions could have been accidental, but a high degree of cunning could be implied. Why would she selectively delete everything up to Thursday 3rd May 2007 with the exception of one wrong number and what was her reason for deleting three of the four calls, between 23.14 and 23.17, from her husband on that critical night?. A possible answer is that she wished to avoid alerting the PJ to evidence that details of around 40 calls had been erased and she felt happier leaving something uncontroversial (or misleading) in memory for them to find. Another answer is that, unsurprisingly, she was under the most extreme stress imaginable following the disappearance of her daughter: but why, in that case, give priority to deleting anything. It is the last thing most parents would think about in the circumstances.
The first call found in Gerald's mobile memory was timed at 00.30 on Friday 4th May 2007. Again matching antenna records to memory suggests that by the time he gave the handset to the PJ the records of 24 calls or SMSs had been erased, including the one from him found on his wife's handset and timed at 23.17 on Thursday 3rd May 2007. It appears that he had deleted details of the four calls he made to her that night and she deleted just three. It was this simple discrepancy that first led the PJ to suspect interference with the handsets.
If the deletions were deliberate (and it is an "if") it implies the McCann's were both "forensically aware" and crafty and wanted to hide something from the PJ. For this reason, it is important to explore the call record data and to match it against other evidence.
On Saturday 28th April 2007, after their arrival in Luz, Kate McCann's mobile triggered the antenna 9 times. It is not possible to say, from the available records, whether these were incoming or outgoing calls or SMSs or for how long they lasted. The last activations were at 20.55 and 20.59 when (based on their statements) the Tapas 9 returned for an early night after eating at the Millennium Restaurant with their children. All of these records were erased from the memory of Kate McCann's mobile. Gerald McCann's mobile did not activate any of the Luz antennae that day.
On Sunday 29th April 2007, the first activation of Kate McCann's mobile was at 9.23, but again there are no Vodafone logs or time bars to provide further detail. However, by internally matching the antenna records it appears that she called her husband at 12.26 and 17.02.
The crèche records indicate that he collected Madeleine at 12.15. He also picked up the twins around 17.00 but mistakenly recorded the time as "12.30". Chances are that the calls from Kate McCann were to check that he had picked up the kids. At 10.13 Gerald McCann received a call from a UK mobile xxxxx3899. The last activation by Kate McCann's mobile was at 19.30 and Gerald's at 17.02.
A pattern on this sheet (and it applies to all of the Tapas 9) is that no activations took place at any time during the week while they were at dinner. So maybe Clarence Mitchell was right, after all, and that they were so "into each other" that they didn't want to be disturbed while sardine munching and left their mobiles in their rooms. They were never specifically asked this question, but it is very important and the point will be addressed later.
On Monday 30th April 2007, neither of the McCann's telephones activated the Luz transmitters. This looks very odd, especially as they were around the Ocean Club to shuffle the kids to and from the crèches. On this afternoon, Madeleine remained in the crèche for only 15 minutes and was picked up by her mother at 15.30. We do not know what Madeleine did for the rest of the day, but it is possible she was being fractious. Interestingly, a friend of Mrs and Mr McCann supposedly told the "Dispatches" team that made a TV program on the tragedy, that "Madeleine was a screamer". This could be interpreted in one of two ways, but any use of the past tense in referring to Madeleine would be very significant. It was such a past tense referral, to her supposedly living children, that alerted the FBI to their murder by Susan Smith, their mother.
On Tuesday 1st May 2007, Gerald McCann's handset was silent all day. Kate McCann's mobile first activated the Luz antenna at 10.16, but all details of the day's calls have been deleted from the handset and there is no nothing in the CD from her mobile provider. Another activation took place at 12.17. The crèche records show that Gerald McCann picked up Madeleine at 12.20 (a bit earlier than usual) but Kate McCann's call at 12.17 does not appear to have been to him, (because his mobile was not activated at all that day). Kate McCann dealt with her last call before leaving for the Tapas Bar at 20.35.
At around 8.45pm on Tuesday 1st May 2007, Miss Nejoua Chekeya, the Ocean Club's busty Aerobics Instructor, held a "Quiz Night" and was later invited, allegedly by Gerald McCann, to join his table which she did sometime between 9.30pm and 9.50pm. She did not say how long she had remained with them, but she is not the sort of woman men would wish see to leave too quickly. Miss Chekeya stated that one dinner setting was unused and that she could not remember seeing Kate McCann.
However, both Jane Tanner and Russell O'Brien have stated that he did not go to the Tapas Bar on the "Quiz Night" (ie Tuesday 1st May 2007), but had stayed in their room looking after his sick daughter. Jane Tanner took his dinner to the room; thus explaining the unused plate setting. Russell O'Brien was not asked by either the Policia Judiciaria or Leicestershire Police whether he had heard Madeleine crying!
Kate McCann's mobile was next activated six times, in rapid fire, between 22.16 and 22.27, after she had returned to Apartment 5A after dinner. The antenna traffic proves that these calls were not made to any of the "Tapas 9".
The evidence from the call logs gives the strongest clue that the "Tapas 9" left their telephones in their rooms when they went to dinner. Clarence Mitchell, the McCann's spokesperson, confirmed this. In an interview, reported on 6th April 2008 by Ned Temko of "The Guardian", Mr Mitchell said: "You had nine people in a bar without watches on, without mobile phones and absolute panic set in when they realised what had happened…. We would say that, if the police had a perfect time line across nine people, that would be a damn sight more suspicious than the fractured, illogical, composite statements they might have got"
Mrs Fenn, the McCann's neighbour, reported that Madeleine had cried for her father between 22.30 and 23.45. The evidence shows that Kate McCann was in Apartment 5A 14 minutes before Madeleine started crying. Tuesday 1st May 2007 is the only night (except, of course, for Thursday 3rd May 2007) that either of the McCanns or any of their friends made calls after dinner.
Mrs McCann volunteered to the PJ that on the night of Wednesday 2nd May 2007, she had slept in the spare bed in her children's room because her husband had not paid her enough attention over dinner. Or put another way, does she mean the amorous Scot was paying someone else (like Miss Chekeya) too much attention, causing her to stomp out of the Tapas Bar before him: ultimately leading to the spare bed in a strop? Gerald McCann said he thought the reason his wife had slept in the children's bedroom was because of his snoring and that he did not even bother asking her the following morning what the problem was.
Could it be that their timings are wrong by 24 hours and that Kate McCann's nocturnal shenanigans took place on the night of Tuesday 1st May 2007? It would fit, but why be untruthful about it? A possible reason is that they wanted to conceal both Kate McCann's state of mind and the fact that she had returned to Apartment 5A, just before Madeleine's cried for help.
On Wednesday 2nd May 2007, Kate McCann called her friend "Amanda" at 7.36.41 and again at 7.36.45. This was around two hours earlier than any of mobile activations on any other morning: so Kate McCann was "up with the larks". Amanda returned the calls at 7.50. There is no record of how long any of these calls lasted or whether they were SMSs. They were all deleted from memory.
At 8.07 Gerald McCann received a call from the SMS message centre (447818520047), but does not appear to have responded. At 8.50 Kate McCann received a call from a UK mobile xxxxx27010 and returned it at 8.53, before going to play tennis. Gerald McCann received a series of calls from his SMS message centre between 9.10 and 10.47, again without response.
At 11.21 Kate received a call from what appears to be a landline in Swansea ( xxxxx0023). The report by Inspector Dias researched this call in detail (Page 21 in his report of 9th November 2007) and discovered that it had not activated any of the Luz antennae. But digging deeper, he found that another UK mobile (xxxxx 1583) had triggered the Luz antenna when connecting to the same Swansea number at 14.01. He dug even deeper, tracked all of the calls made from Luz by xxxx1583 and established it had no connection whatsoever with any of the "Tapas 9". The Swansea call to Kate McCann was simply a "wrong number", misrouted and thus not logged by the Luz antennae.
What Inspector Dias did not realise was that the Swansea call had become so special to Kate McCann that, when deleting all of the other Portuguese call records from memory, she decided to leave this one intact.
Gerald received five further calls from the SMS message centre and at 15.50 called 91121, probably to collect his messages. He received further calls from the centre at 17.49 and 19.49. The records provided by Vodafone show these calls but that they originate from a different mobile number (0xxxx014310)
At 20.08 Kate McCann received two calls from a UK mobile xxxx7624 and six minutes late Gerald McCann called 91121: again to collect messages before he left for the Tapas Bar. This was the last activation of the day by either of the McCanns; probably confirming that their mobiles remained in Apartment 5A when they went to dinner.
On Thursday 3rd May 2007 (the critical day) at 8.23 and 8.24 Kate McCann's mobile activated the antenna to call xxxx7624. There is nothing in file to indicate the owner of this mobile but it does not appear to be any of the McCann family or friends.
At 12.24 Gerald McCann received a call from a UK Mobile xxxx1746. Again there is no clue in the file to the subscriber's name. At 12.31 Kate McCann received a call (or SMS) from her mother's mobile and responded an hour later.
Neither of the McCanns appears to have had any further activity on their telephones until after Madeleine was reported missing when Gerald McCann called his wife four times between 23.14 and 23.52. At 23.40 he called his sister – Trish Cameron and at 23.52 -Janet Kennedy.
The batch of SMS messages received by Gerald McCann on Wednesday 2nd May 2007 seems to have caused him some anxiety. Although the number "07818520047" is in a block allocated to Vodafone, the company has no record of the subscriber's name. When the number is dialed, connection is made to a recorded message which explains that changes have been made to the way customers can access their mailboxes and that they can now dial "121" from their handset or "07836121121" from any other telephone.
Thus the number appears to be a message box for Gerald McCann that sends him an SMS when his mobile is unable to accept a call (because it is out of range or turned off). However, when he was asked by "Expresso TV" on 6th September 2008 about the "sixteen SMS messages" received, he flustered:
"No one has ever asked to see any of my text messages. There is no way that there 16 messages on that day or even the day after, you know. You know, the day after, you know that we got…" Kate McCann came to his rescue and interrupted; "Gerry hardly ever sends text messages until the day after, the day after Madeleine was taken". Gerald McCann continued: "so you know that it is actually rubbish"
Their McCann's denials were, of course, technically true although perhaps disingenuous – because there were only 14 messages received on the day before they reported Madeleine missing and two on the day after.
There were 16 SMS messages, in total, so why prevaricate and deny an allegation that was never made. The question was about received messages, not those sent, and on the day before not on 3rd May 2007 or the day after! In the field of forensic linguistics you must always concentrate on the precise wording of denials and especially on those of allegations not made. The denials made by the McCanns are suspicious. However, Mrs McCann's statement about her husband not sending SMS messages, until after Madeleine's disappearance, is confirmed by Vodafone's records.
Mr and Mrs McCann were never closely questioned by the PJ about the detail of their calls, but Gerald McCann excused the deletions by saying that his telephone's memory only retained details of the last ten calls made. This obvious inaccuracy (It already had retained details of 17 calls) does not appear to have been challenged by the PJ and it does not in anyway explain the selective deletions from his wife's handset.
So the bottom line is that Kate McCann was in Apartment 5A when Madeleine cried for her father between 22.30 and 23.45 on Tuesday 1st May 2007, leading to a unique flurry of late night calls and to unique calls very early the following morning. A forensic examination of the records of Madeleine's attendance at the "Lobsters" crèche on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd May 2007 is critically important because if they have been falsified, to establish she was there when she was not, this case takes on an entirely new dimension and sets different search parameters.
Secondly, if the memories of the mobile telephones were deleted in way suspected, a level of cunning is implied that would be capable of conceiving plan to deliberately delay reporting Madeleine's "disappearance"; if for no other reason than to disassociate it from the crying incident on Tuesday 1st May 2007.
Of course, this is speculation and it is entirely possible that further investigation and the much awaited transparency by Mr and Mrs McCann will totally exonerate them. But why don't they simply produce the SMS messages and explain why call details were deleted?
(*) This report is a result of cooperation with a leading international investigative firm that is in the closing stages of an 18 month intensive investigation that is expected to reopen the case in Portugal and to start new proceedings in the UK.
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@Jill Havern wrote: That work ^^^ is courtesy of Paulo Reis https://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-on-deleted-call-records.html
Yes I noticed after I posted.
by jazega on 10.05.19 2:34
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Very interesting summary of the phone logs,but as with this case,there are more questions than answers.
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On the night of Madeleine's "abduction" the McCanns spectacularly failed to ask Mrs. Fenn (when she called down to them to ask what all the commotion was about) if she had seen or heard anything untoward. Now that is telling! In fact, they fobbed her off by saying " A small girl" had gone missing with no further elaboration. Innocent parents would have been banging on every door near their apartment to see if anyone had seen or heard anything which might help them to find their daughter!
As it turns out, Mrs. Fenn had noticed nothing unusual until around 10.30 p.m. when the commotion in the garden below disturbed her.
Kate told John Corner on camera that their nightly childcare arrangements involved them "bobbing back and forth SEVERAL TIMES AN HOUR", as is also claimed on the sticker-book timeline and in their statements.
While Mrs Fenn could tell the P.J. investigators nothing of value about the night of May 3rd they would, having begun to disbelieve the Tapas 9 story of "checking", have found her account of the night of May 1st most interesting and valuable since it directly contradicted the "checking several times an hour" fable. Presumably it was this information which they desired to get into a formal statement. She is the SOLE witness who can contradict the Tapas 9 claims of their child-checking routine that week.
by pauloalexandre on 13.05.19 0:09
@Phoebe wrote: On the night of Madeleine's "abduction" the McCanns spectacularly failed to ask Mrs. Fenn (when she called down to them to ask what all the commotion was about) if she had seen or heard anything untoward. Now that is telling! In fact, they fobbed her off by saying " A small girl" had gone missing with no further elaboration. Innocent parents would have been banging on every door near their apartment to see if anyone had seen or heard anything which might help them to find their daughter!
That's a good point. What intrigues me the most is the fact that Mrs. Fenn said that Gerry said, "A child is missing".
Not, "My daughter is missing!"
"Having reviewed all of the evidence, I've said that there's no evidence that Madeleine is dead and there's no evidence to implicate us in her death" - Gerry McCann, 23rd September 2009.
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As pointed out by poster pauloalexandre on another thread, Mrs Fenn stated that when she asked what was going on she was told "A" child had gone missing, not that it was Gerry's daughter who had vanished from the flat beneath her. She allegedly offered them her phone to telephone the police but was told there was no need as this had already been done.
It's hard not to get the impression that Mrs. Fenn was being told to keep her nose out of it - a decidedly odd position for frantic parents to adopt. Here was a potential witness who could have information about hearing or seeing an intruder and - she is ignored!
In her book Kate later tries to smear Mrs Fenn by implying that she was uninterested in this "trivial" problem, claiming that Mrs Fenn replied something like "Oh is that all" as if a tin of beans had fallen off a shelf". Yet if Mrs Fenn offered the use of her phone to contact the police it does not suggest she regarded it as a trivial matter.
Kate claimed that half an hour earlier she "Knew" her daughter had been abducted during a break-in, yet she fails to ask the lady upstairs if she had any information regarding this alleged crime which happened just beneath her.
IMO it's clear the McCanns didn't want Pamela Fenn to state that she had heard no jemmying of shutters, no patio doors opening several times during checks etc. They would also have been terrified of her suggesting the child might have awoken and wandered off given that she had been crying hysterically for an hour and a quarter two nights earlier with no one checking on her well-being during that time!
by sar on 13.05.19 10:34
...yeah..detailed accounts of crying, yet no one hears a set of roller shutters being forced the wrong way from the outside by person unseen and unknown
Phoebe #144
Once again you use your own interpretation of what might have been, in preference to looking at face value.
How did Pamela Fenn know, in the dark, that it was Gerry McCann who spoke to her? How were the words used, did they imply panic or confusion or impatience or anger or complaisance?
Gerry McCann or whoever down below, at the time might have said .... 'mind yer business yer nosy old trout', or .... 'no thanks, that's already been done' or .... 'do you mind, we're trying to have a private conversation down here' or .... 'make yerself useful and put the kettle on love'.
Pamela Fenn's statement was taken over three months after the event, when she provided information that could have been vital to the investigation three months prior.
The police would have spoken to her during their routine house to house calls, if she had then provided any information of value, she would have been called on to give a formal statement in the days following the event, that information, if it existed, would be recorded in the PJ files.
This did not happen. Instead Pamela Fenn waited for nearly two and a half months before imparting information that could be of interest to the investigation.
That is what should be questioned - when, what and why.
@ Verdi. How do you know that it was so dark Mrs Fenn could not make out the face of the man standing directly below her. The light on her balcony and the lights from the sitting room area together with any street lights would have provided ample illumination - not to mention Gerry's strong Glaswegian accent being a bit of a giveaway!!!
You ask why Mrs Fenn was not interviewed formally for over two months. Well, she had nothing to tell the police which could shed any light on how Madeleine was "taken" that night. - she had seen and heard nothing untoward. The only thing on which she could cast light (and which formed the bulk of her statement) is the fact that, despite claims to have been checking the children "several times an hour", on Tuesday night one of them was crying and yelling for Daddy for an hour and a quarter. As I pointed out, NO other witness , save Mrs. Fenn has contradicted the McCanns' claims to have checked - several times an hour- that their children remained safely sound asleep. Dr. Amaral recounts that he and his team became sceptical about this checking claim. It makes sense that it was in pursuit of this aspect that Mrs. Fenn was heard formally after any initial informal questioning.
Something I don't understand if supposedly the children were being watched by one of the parents each night how come this child if it was Madeline was left crying for so long?


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Update: ESPN responds to Sage Steele criticism
By Rashad Milligan
(Photo credit: Twitter – @SageSteele) ESPN comes to Steele's defense when social media assumes that she was fired by the network.
ESPN president John Skipper spoke up two days after reports surfaced that Michelle Beadle replaced Sage Steele as the full-time host on "NBA Countdown" April 6.
"Sage has done a wonderful job for us in a number of important roles," Skipper said, according to USA Today. "As previously announced, her 'SportsCenter' presence has grown and this week alone she has led our coverage from the men's Final Four and the Masters. Sage definitely has a bright and long-term future at ESPN and my complete support."
Skipper and the rest of the ESPN family came to Steele's defense after it appeared that many people were celebrating the network's change of hosts on social media.
Sage Steele not going be on ABC and ESPN anymore! pic.twitter.com/eBwwZlLezP
— A Very Depressed Falcons Fan (@_DJ_Scott) April 4, 2017
Steele's opinions on political issues made headlines in the past few months and recently the network adopted new employee policies in terms of voicing opinions on political policies directly related to sports.
"Original news reports should not include statements of support, opposition or partisanship related to any social issue, political position, candidate or office holder," the policy said.
ESPN claimed the new rules had nothing to do with one employee or incident, as opposed to how different the world of media as a whole has gotten.
"We have the convergence of a politically charged environment and all these new technologies coming together at once," ESPN's vice president and managing editor of newsgathering and reporting Craig Bengtson said. "Based on that, we wanted the policy to reflect the reality of the world today. There are people talking about politics in ways we have not seen before, and we're not immune from that."
The network is speculated to cut up to $250M this year and it also has a history of relieving reporters outspoken on politics. Most recently, former Boston Red Sox pitcher and baseball analyst Curt Schilling was fired by ESPN after posting a picture that many considered insensitive in regard to the North Carolina transgender bill. Skipper and the rest of the network assure, however, that this situation won't end up with the same result.
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Gray skies, harsh winds, slushy streets…no offense, winter, but you ain't the prettiest season there is. Once we get to January, I start to feel like I've lost my luster entirely. (Hey, a girl can only endure so many nights that start at 4:30 pm before she starts to forget what a summer breeze feels like.) One's instinct might be to layer on the bronzer and self-tanner in search of a bit of that long-lost summery color, but I always feel that trying to create a faux tan in the dead of winter is a losing game. My solution? Blush. Blush has always been one of my favorite product categories of all time. I mean, who can resist pretty powders, gels and creams in poppy shades of pink, red and coral? The tulips may not be out for a good few months, but that doesn't mean that you can't deck yourself out in the shades of spring right now! Click ahead for my favorite pretty potions, and let me know which one you decide to take for a spin!


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Q: How to fix a Spinner behaviour in a React project to wait img rendering I have a React project deployed at this link: https://musing-hermann-5129b4.netlify.app/models
Recently I added an spinner at the beginning of the rendering, but I didn't find a way to wait that the main page is rendered, so I need to change the spinner behaviour, so it can stop when all the main page finish rendering, specially the images, which take time to load due to the fetch api:
Here is the code of the app.js
import React, { useState, useEffect} from 'react';
import ModelFooter from "./components/Models/ModelFooter";
import FileModel from "./components/FileModel/FileModel";
import Navbar from "./components/Nav/Navbar";
import Models from "./components/Models/Models";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Switch, Route, Link, Redirect } from 'react-router-dom';
import Logo from "./assets/img/logo.png";
import ModelsProvider from "./context/ModelsContext";
import Spinner from "./components/Spinner";

function App() {

  const [ loading, setLoading ] = useState(false);

  useEffect(() => {
    setLoading(true);
    setTimeout(() => {
      setLoading(false);
    }, 4000);
  }, [])

  return (
    <ModelsProvider>
        { loading ?
           <Spinner loading={loading} />
        :

        <Router>

                      <Link to={'/models'} className="menu-items">Modelos</Link>
                      <Link to={`/models/:id`} className="menu-items">Ficha del Modelo</Link>

              <Switch>
                <Route exact path="/"><Redirect to="/models"/></Route>
                <Route exact path='/models' component={Models} />
                <Route exact path='/models/:id' component={FileModel} />
              </Switch>

              <Navbar />

          <ModelFooter />
        </Router>

        }
    </ModelsProvider>
  );
}

export default App;

And here is the ModelsContext.jsx where the app.js fetchs the api data:
import React, { createContext, useState, useEffect } from 'react';

export const ModelsContext = createContext();

const ModelsProvider = (props) => {

        //State de modelos
        const [ modelo, guardarModelo ] = useState([]);
        const [ modelos, guardarModelos ] = useState([]);
        const [ allModelos, guardarAllModelo ] = useState([]);

        const { id } = modelo;

         //Cargar un modelo
         useEffect(() => {
             const consultarAPI = async () => {
                try {
                    const api = await fetch("https://challenge.agenciaego.tech/models");
                    const modelos = await api.json();

                    const api2 = await fetch(`https://challenge.agenciaego.tech/models/${id ? id : ""}`);
                    const modelo = await api2.json();

                    guardarAllModelo(modelos);
                    guardarModelos(modelos);
                    guardarModelo(modelo);

                } catch (error) {
                   console.log(error);
                }
             }
             consultarAPI()
         }, [id]);

    return (
        <ModelsContext.Provider
            value={{
                allModelos,
                modelo,
                modelos,
                guardarModelo,
                guardarModelos
            }}
        >
            {props.children}
        </ModelsContext.Provider>
    )
}

export default ModelsProvider;

I hope I'd had being clear with my explanation, thanks so much in advance!

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After a long battle with Parkinson's disease, Frank Chiarello Jr., 89, passed away Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Frank Sr. and Octavia Chiarello. Frank had three children, Frank F. Chiarello III, Dr. Mario Chiarello and Paul Chiarello.
Frank was a Boy Scout and earned the rank of Eagle Scout. He especially liked the traits of being loyal, trustworthy, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave and reverent. He became a man of very strong character.
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* Lord Commander Stryker's theme army is incorrect. It decreases PC of StormCLADs by one, not Storm LANCEs. The same mistake is present in T4 - it requires two Stormclads, not two units of Storm Lances.
* Siege tiers - Trencher Infantry and Trencher Commandos get the -1 bonus, not Rangers.
* Karchev's tiers don't allow Behemoth. He should be allowed.
* Karchev tier 3 only requires one unit of Greylords, you have it requiring two.
* Vlad Tier 4 requires only Berzerkers and Drago to be valid, you have Marauder listed.
* I Believe Winter Guard weapon crews count as "Winter Guard units" for Sorscha's tiers, but they aren't showing up as such.
There is an issue with Tier 3 for the Retribution Caster Kaelyssa. The text in the Retribution Book state "four or more Mage Hunter Solos" where Forward Kommander limits it as "Four or more Mage Hunter Assassin" This is a copy from Garryth's Tier where 4 MHA are possible. Kaelyssa doesn't have the FA exception to allow her to add 4 MHA. She needs to add Eiryss, Narn, and two Mage Hunters in normal FA to achieve this Tier.
I have a feature request I didn't see in your last poll. With the league and at other times we can often have a point total other than the standard. For example right now I need to make a 37 pt list. It would be great if there was a field to be able to enter a number to add the chosen point total.
Great job with the program thought, we really appriciate it.
The feature Aardon is asking for is also useful for extra casters at lower point levels for special games like Thunderdome (all casters). This feature is available on iBodger.
I would make my request a superlow priority. When I actually went to make my list I went the obvious route and just picked a higher limit. :-) Then just used only up to my unusual limit.


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Boeing 737 Max? The 8200? Whatever you call it, it's coming here soon
MoneyNovember 24, 2020
posted on Nov. 24, 2020 at 4:08 pm
From its HQ close to the Rhine, in the fine German city of Cologne, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (Easa) has been taking an extremely close interest in the Boeing 737 Max. This was the plane involved in the Lion Air crash in Indonesia in 2018 and an Ethiopian Airlines accident in 2019, which together killed 346 people.
The plane was grounded shortly afterwards – more quickly by Easa than the Americans – and remains out of service. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved the Max returning to service, and American Airlines is scheduling the jet to enter service between Miami and New York La Guardia on 29 December.
Easa did not rush to follow the FAA. Its assessment of the supposed safety system that triggered the tragedies is blunt.
"A primary cause in each [accident] was a software function programme known as the Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), which was intended to make the aircraft easier to handle," says Easa.
"However, the MCAS, guided by only one Angle of Attack (AoA) sensor, kicked in repeatedly if that sensor malfunctioned, pushing the nose of the aircraft downward multiple times and leading finally in both accidents to a complete loss of control of the aircraft.
"A fundamental problem of the original MCAS is that many pilots did not even know it was there. In the accident version of the aircraft, there was no caution light to make a pilot aware that the AoA sensor was faulty, making it almost impossible to determine the root cause of the problem."
READ Boeing gives $100m to help 737 Max crash families
Easa has now declared the aircraft "will be safe to fly again" – so long as the danger that Boeing designed in is eliminated, and pilots are fully trained on the risks associated with MCAS. And if the European regulator is happy for the 737 Max to fly, then I am happy to step on board – especially if it is a flight operated by the world's safest airline, Ryanair.
"It'll be late February/early March when we see the 8200 certified, back in service in time for the summer uplift" – so says Eddie Wilson, chief executive of Ryanair DAC, the Irish giant's main operation.
The "8200" is Ryanair's special high-capacity version, with an extra eight seats (and two emergency exits) squeezed in. It requires an extra layer of scrutiny from regulators.
Will Ryanair – which has 135 firm order and 75 options for the plane – rebrand the latest 737 as the 8200? Some have suggested that the "Max" component of the name will be quietly dropped. But Mr Wilson says no: "This is the 737 Max, and it will always be known as the 737 Max."
When Ryanair planned to introduce the plane – originally in May 2019 – it was to be launched on longer routes from Stansted airport: to the Canaries, Greece and Cyprus.
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Genesis 31: Jacob Flees Laban
Yaakov's oath binds Yaakov to freedom from Laban's wickedness, while leaving Laban a prisoner to the curse he has brought upon himself.
31:1 Now Yaakov (Follower after the heel) heard the words Laban's (White) sons were saying, "Yaakov has taken everything that belongs to our father, and from what belongs to our father he has made all these riches."
Radak concludes that Laban's sons were saying these things to everyone, including Laban and that is the reason for the subsequent change in Laban's countenance.
The complaint of Laban's sons is similar to the equally untrue claims of Esau (Gen. 27:36).
2 Then Yaakov saw Laban's face, and he noticed that his expression wasn't the same as it was just a day or two before. 3 Then HaShem (YHVH: Mercy) said to Yaakov, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
Verse 3 recalls the words of HaShem to Yaakov in Gen. 28:15 when he first set out for Charan. HaShem has been with Yaakov protecting his going out and guarding his return. This brings to mind the prayer we pray as we leave and return to our homes, touching the Mezuzah and bringing the promises of the Torah to our lips:
"HaShem (Mercy) will guard your going out and your coming in, now and forever." –Tehilim (Psalms) 121:8
4 So Yaakov sent and called for Rachel (Ewe) and Leah (Weary) to come to the field, to his flock.
By having his wives meet him in the field he was ensuring that they would be out of earshot of the community and in particular, Laban and his sons.
5 He said to them, "I can see by your father's face that his expression isn't the same as it was just a day or two ago. But the Elohim (God: Judge) of my father has been with me.
HaShem (Mercy) had spoken to Yaakov, however, Yaakov now acknowledges HaShem in His role as Elohiym (Judge) when he explains his Divine protection while in Laban's community.
6 Now you yourselves know that I've served your father with all my strength. 7 Yet your father has deceived me and has changed my wages ten times—but Elohim (God: Judge) hasn't allowed him to harm me.
The number ten conveys the great duplicity and wickedness of Laban. Ten symbolizes fullness and completion, in this case it is the fullness and completion of Laban's sinful actions toward Yaakov the patriarch of Israel. Again, in the face of this injustice, Yaakov calls on Elohiym, the Judge.
8 If he would say, 'the spotted ones will be your wages,' then the flocks would give birth to spotted ones. Or if he would say, 'the striped ones will be your wages,' then all the flocks would give birth to striped ones. 9 So Elohiym (God, Judge) has taken away your father's livestock and has given them to me.
It is a judgement passed by the Judge (Elohiym) that has decided the case against Laban and in favour of Yaakov, thus Yaakov has received the flocks that were owed him.
10 Now it happened when the flocks were in heat that I lifted up my eyes and saw, in a dream, behold, the males going up to the flocks were striped, spotted and speckled. 11 Then Malakh Ha-Elohiym (the angel of God) said to me in the dream, 'Yaakov,' and I said, 'Hineni.' (Here I am, ready, willing, obedient) 12 He said, 'Lift up your eyes and see that all the males going up to the flocks are striped, spotted and speckled. For I have seen everything Laban has done to you. 13 I am the Elohiym (God: Judge) of Beit-El (The House of God) where you anointed a memorial stone, where you made a vow to Me. Get up now and leave this land, and return to the land of your relatives.'"
It appears from the recounting of this dream that Yaakov dreamed it while watching the flocks mating at a time prior to his offering the solution of ownership of the speckled, streaked and spotted animals as a wage in the previous chapter. At the end of this account Yaakov is commanded by God to return to the land of his birth. Thus, because Yaakov has said Hineini (Here I am, ready, willing and obedient), it seems likely that he approached Laban with his request to leave (Chpt. 30) soon after having the dream encounter with The Messenger of God, Malakh Ha-Elohiym.
One of the most prominent elements of this dream interaction is the emphasis God places on the fact that it is as a result of the harm He has witnessed Laban doing to Yaakov that He (God) will increase the streaked, speckled and spotted members of the herds. This should be understood to teach that Yaakov's efforts have not brought this about, rather it is God Who has both given the dream and fulfilled it.
14 Then Rachel answered along with Leah and they said to him, "Is there still a portion and inheritance for us in our father's house? 15 Aren't we considered foreigners to him? For he has sold us and has also completely used up our bridal price. 16 Surely all the riches that Elohiym (God: Judge) has taken away from our father is for us and for our children. So now, everything Elohiym (God: Judge) God said to you, do it!"
Rachel and Leah make two charges against their father. First, he has treated them as foreign slaves to be sold like cattle and second, he has used up the bride-price that Yaakov has paid for the privilege of marrying his daughters. The bride-price belonged to the bride and was to act as her security. Laban had kept the just wages of Yaakov's work from him and had therefore stolen the bride-price that should have been passed on to his daughters when they were ready to move into fields and lands of their own. The selfish Laban had been using his daughters as a means for making himself rich.
17 Then Yaakov got up and put his children and wives on camels. 18 He drove away all his livestock and all his possessions that he had acquired—the livestock in his possession that he acquired in Paddan-aram (Field of Exaltation)—to go to his father Yitzchak's (He laughs), to the land of Ke'naan (Lowland).
The text is careful to call all these people and possession's Yaakov's. They are legally and rightfully his. By leaving Yaakov is obedient to God's instruction to t'shuva (return). Yaakov had shown discernment and wisdom in seeking the council of his wives and had received confirmation from God through their words of affirmation.
19 But while Laban went to shear his flocks, Rachel yig'nov took away the teraphiym (household idols, idols of healing) that belonged to her father, 20 while Yaakov yig'nov took away ha-lev (the heart, mind, will, inner man, core being) from Laban the Aramean (Exalted ones) by not telling him that he was fleeing.
The doubling of the yig'nov taking away, emphasizes the removal of all that Laban has wrongly kept as his possessions. Rachel's motivation for taking the household idols is not clear. However, it's possible that she is both seeking to benefit from their value and has some belief in the power associated with these idols. The Hebrew teraphiym (Plural) is born of the root raphah (heal) which infers that there was some connection to the belief that these particular idols were used as a means of receiving occult healing power. If this is part of Rachel's belief system at this point in her faith journey, it is no different than the syncretism found in the faith journeys of many modern Messiah followers.
The literal reading of the Hebrew, "Yaakov yig'nov took away ha-lev (the heart, mind, will, inner man, core being) from Laban the Aramean (Exalted ones) by not telling him that he was fleeing." Proves difficult for many modern English readers and is rarely translated literally into English. However, its literal meaning is important. To say that Yaakov took away Laban's Lev (Core being) is to say that he had taken all cultural respect, title, wealth, position and familial authority from Laban. By going without Laban's approval Yaakov was showing his contempt for Laban's authority and position in the community of Charan.
21 He himself fled with everything that belonged to him, and he got up and crossed the River, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead (Spring of Witness).
Again the text is careful to make clear that Yaakov is fleeing (from an enemy) with everything that belongs to him. These are Yaakov's legal belongings, they are not Laban's.
22 When Laban was told on the third day after Yaakov had fled,
The third day denotes unity of purpose and a process of death and resurrection. Yaakov had been dead in the sense that he had been held captive to Laban's whim, he was now free, resurrected, he had escaped and was beginning anew.
23 he took his relatives with him and pursued him a seven days' journey.
Laban takes his relatives as an army of intimidation and pursues Yaakov with evil intent. His journey lasts seven days, the number seven representing the fullness of Laban's sin and his continued resistance to the God of Yaakov.
Then he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead (Spring/mound of witness). 24 But Elohiym God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, "Watch yourself—lest you say anything to Yaakov, good or bad."
The fact that Laban overtook Yaakov indicates his intention to prevent Yaakov from returning to the Land of Israel. It is Elohiym (God the Judge) Who meets with Laban and not HaShem (YHVH: Mercy). God is fierce for His servant Yaakov. God does not ask Laban, He warns him.
25 So Laban caught up to Yaakov. (Yaakov had pitched his tent in the hill country, so Laban and his brothers pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead as well). 26 Then Laban said to Yaakov, "What have you done, that you've v'tig'nov taken away my ha-lev (the heart, mind, will, inner man, core being) and have driven my daughters away like captives of the sword?
Laban acknowledges that his standing, authority and means of prosperity have been taken from him. However, his claim that Yaakov has driven his daughters away as captives is ludicrous. His daughters went willingly and he knows it.
27 Why did you secretly flee, and steal away from me? Why didn't you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and with songs, with tambourines and with lyres?
Laban knows why Yaakov went away secretly, Laban had no intention of ever letting Yaakov go free because he believed that Yaakov was the reason for his prosperity.
28 And you didn't even let me kiss my grandsons and daughters! "Now, you've behaved foolishly. 29 It is in the power of my hand to do evil with you, but yesterday Ha-Elohiym (the God: Judge) of your fathers spoke to me, saying, 'Watch yourself—lest you say anything to Yaakov, good or bad.' 30 So now, when you up and left because you really missed your father's house, why did you steal my elohaiy (gods)?"
Laban settles on the only legitimate reason for him to be angry with Yaakov's retinue, the stolen teraphiym.
31 In response, Yaakov said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought, 'Suppose you snatch your daughters away from me.' 32 Anyone with whom you find your elohaiy (gods) shall not y'ch'yeh remain live. In front of our relatives, identify whatever is yours that is with me, and take it back." (But Yaakov did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)
The scripture reminds us that it is an undeserved curse that cannot land or rest upon a person (Proverbs 26:2), however, in this instance Rachel is guilty of the actions identified by the curse and is thus under the curse of Yaakov. This is why the Torah makes it clear that Yaakov was unaware of Rachel's actions. If he had been aware he would not have spoken such a dreadful curse.
The midrash Genesis Rabah 74:4 suggests that the curse spoken here by Yaakov is the reason for Rachel's premature death (Gen. 35:16-20).
33 So Laban went into Yaakov's tent, and Leah's tent and into the tent of the two maids, but he found nothing. Then he went out of Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent. 34 (Now Rachel had taken the terafiym (idols, household gods) and put them in the camel's saddlebag and sat on them.) So Laban felt around the entire tent but did not find them. 35 She said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for I am having the way of women." So he searched but did not find the terafiym (idols, household gods) idols.
Whatever Rachel's reasons for taking the teraphiym, the symbolism here is vivid. Rachel, unclean through menstruation (whether by deception or not) is sitting on the elohaiy (gods), the teraphiym (idols, demons) of Laban's household. According to the Torah anything a menstruating woman sits on becomes unclean (Lev. 15:22). Thus both the idols of Laban's household and the household they rule over have been menstruated on. Laban's household has been covered in a curse of barrenness and desecration.
While teraphiym could be life sized (1 Sam. 19:13), these were obviously smaller idols due to the fact that Rachel was able to fit them into her camel's saddle bags.
36 Then Yaakov got angry and argued with Laban. Yaakov answered and said to Laban, "What's my crime? What's my sin that you've hotly pursued me? 37 For you've groped through all my things. What did you find? Any of your household possessions? Put them here, in front of my relatives and yours—so they can decide between the two of us.
Here Yaakov calls on the testimony of Laban's relatives as witness to Laban's mistreatment of Yaakov.
38 These past twenty years I've been with you, your ewes and female goats have never miscarried, and I've never eaten the rams of your flock.
20 years is twice the term of completion and emphasizes the fact that Yaakov has gone far beyond expected societal norms in respect to his commitments.
39 I didn't bring you animals torn by wild beasts. I myself would bear the loss. You would require it from my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40 I was consumed by heat during the day, consumed by frost during the night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. 41 This is how it's been for me twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flocks—and you changed my wages ten times!
Yaakov states the charge of Laban's complete duplicity and wickedness before witnesses (Laban's relatives).
42 Had I not had the Elohiym (God: Judge) of my father, the God Elohiym (God: Judge) of Abraham, and the pachad (fear, terror, dread) of Yitzchak (He laughs), you would have sent me away empty-handed now. But seeing my misery and the toil of my hands and last night Elohiym (The Judge) passed Judgement (Yochach)."
Yaakov calls on God as Elohiym (Judge), "The Judge of my father, the Judge of Avraham". He then uses an unusual title for God, one that also conveys the fear of God that goes before His servants. The text reads, "The fear of Yitzchak". This fear has a twofold meaning. It reveal's Yitzchak's healthy fear and awe of God and at the same time reveals the dread and fear that came upon Yitzchak's enemies. People like Avimelekh. In effect, Yaakov is calling on the entire story of the Patriarchs in order to bring the weight of the Patriarch's God given protection upon Laban.
43 In response Laban said to Yaakov, "The daughters are my daughters, and the grandsons are my grandsons, and the flocks are my flocks. Everything you see is mine. But what can I do for these, my daughters, today, or for their sons to whom they've given birth? 44 So now, come, let's make a b'riyt (covenant, cutting) you and I, and let it be l'ad (a witness) between you and me."
When a woman is released into marriage she and her husband become one. Laban ignores this fact when he claims his daughters as property. He is outright lying when he claims that the flocks are his. If he seeks peace it is only because he is afraid (not in awe) of the God of Yaakov.
45 So Yaakov took a aven (stone) and set it up as a pillar, 46 and Yaakov said to his relatives, "Gather avaniym stones." So they took the avaniym stones and made a pile. Then they ate there beside the spring.
At the beginning of this portion of scripture Yaakov recounted his dream concerning the God of Beit-El. Yaakov had set up a stone of remembrance at Beit–El, thus he remembers God's protection here at Gal-ed. The stone becomes a witness to God's justice. It is a symbol not an idol.
The stones gathered by all present were a separate pile meant to indicate their agreement to making a covenant.
47 Laban called it Yegar-sahadota (Witness heap) and Yaakov called it Gal-ed (spring of witness). 48 And Laban said, "This ha-gal (pile, spring) is a witness between me and you today." That is why its name is Gal-ed, 49 or Mizpah (watchtower), for he said, "Let HaShem (YHVH: Mercy) keep watch between you and me when we are out of one another's sight.
Laban calls on HaShem because he knows that he is in need of a merciful ruling from Elohiym, the Judge.
50 If you mistreat my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters, though no one is with us, look! Elohiym ed (God: Judge is the witness) between you and me." 51 Laban said further to Yaakov, "Behold, ha-gal (the pile, spring) and this matzeivah (pillar) which I've set up between you and me: 52 this ha-gal (the pile, spring) serves as a eid witness, that I won't pass by this matzeivah (pillar) to go to you, and that you won't pass by this ha-gal (the pile, spring) and this matzeivah (pillar) to go to me—with evil intent. 53 May ha-Elohiym (the God: Judge) of Avraham and the elohaiy (gods) of Nachor (snorting), the elohaiy gods of their father, y'shp'tu judge between us."
We note that Laban makes his covenant without blood. The very nature of B'riyt requires the shedding of blood. Also, Laban attempts to place Ha-Elohiym (The God) of Avraham among a pantheon of deities, the gods of Nachor and the gods of their father, false gods. Thus Laban's oath is worthless. It has been made without blood and by using a syncretized pantheon.
Yaakov also made an oath by the pachad (fear, terror, dread) of his father Yitzchak (He laughs). 54 Then Yaakov zevach (slaughtered, offered a sacrifice) on the mountain and he invited his relatives to eat lechem (bread) on the mountain. So they ate lechem (bread) and spent the night on the mountain.
Yaakov distinguishes himself from Laban and honours God by acknowledging HaShem's unique position above all other powers. This is why Yaakov swears his oath, "by the fear of Yitzchak" that is, the fear and awe of HaShem and by the fear and dread that HaShem brings against His servant's enemies. Yaakov makes his oath through blood shed (B'riyt) and has all present eat together in order to recognize this covenant as binding, unlike the oath of Laban which was made without the shedding of blood. Thus Yaakov's oath binds Yaakov to freedom from Laban's wickedness, while leaving Laban a prisoner to the curse he has brought upon himself.


England winger Raheem Sterling has responded to criticism of his gun tattoo by asking why Christians insist on wearing a replica of a torture device used to kill people painfully over several days.
Sterling, who is being accused of glamorising gun crime by precisely the sort of tabloid papers you'd expect to be doing it, insists the tattoo is a constant reminder of his father who was shot and killed in Jamaica when he was just a child.
"What sort of sick mind would wear a perpetual reminder of the death of someone they loved. It's just baffling," mouth-breathed one tabloid reporter, almost certainly clutching their rosary beads while doing so.
Meanwhile, Sterling took a few minutes out from training with the England team ahead of the world cup to address the concerns, by asking about the cross the reporter was wearing around his neck.
"That's very different," explained the reporter.
"I wear this is a constant reminder of the death of someone I love and….oh.


The RNLI's popular Hit the Surf programme is in its fourth week as the lifeguards teach Welsh primary school children how to stay safe on the beach this summer.
This week the team have travelled to Aberavon and Newport, Pembrokeshire as they welcome kids from across the counties to Hit the Surf.
In 2015 over 2,900 pupils joined the RNLI lifeguards for a day on the beach – learning vital safety skills ahead of the summer holidays. Over 700 kids from 30 Welsh primary schools took part in Hit the Surf at Aberavon beach last year as well as over 300 school pupils on Newport Sands.
Hit the Surf sessions cover the meaning of beach flags, the dangers of rip currents and what to do if caught in one; the dangers of tombstoning and the importance of swimming between the red and yellow flags.
Since the end of May the charity's lifeguards have already delivered Hit the Surf sessions at Tenby, Whitesands and Whitmore Bay. Over the next two weeks the team will continue the sessions at Aberavon as well as travel to Poppit Sands and New Quay to teach more kids how to stay safe on the beach this summer.
For more tips on how to stay safe on the coast this summer visit the RNLI website www.rnli.org.uk/beachsafety or download the charity's beach safety mobile app.


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Josef Ferch (* 31. Januar 1840 in Bogarosch, Kaisertum Österreich; † 4. April 1902 in Perjámos, Königreich Ungarn) war ein rumäniendeutscher Lehrer, Komponist, Organist, Chorleiter und Musikpädagoge.

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Ferch besuchte von 1850 bis 1858 das Pädagogische Institut im ungarischen Pest. Nach dem Tod seines Vaters 1862 wurde er Lehrer für Musik, Zeichnen und Klavierspiel in seinem Heimatort und übernahm zugleich die Kantorenstelle. 1867 heiratete er eine Tochter des Lovriner Lehrers und Komponisten Josef Eisenkolb, mit der er neun Kinder bekam. Er gründete einen Männergesangsverein, einen Frauen- und einen Kinderchor sowie ein Fanfarenorchester. Später wurde er Inspektor und Direktor der Realschule in Hatzfeld. Ferch galt als guter Klavier- und Orgellehrer und begabter Improvisator. Er komponierte Chor- und Instrumentalwerke. Im Druck erschien unter anderem das Klavierstück Erinnerungen an Graz.

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Komponist (Rumänien)
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(Update, I think I can put this one to bed; 'As an Egyptian deity, Thoth performed a number of functions. He was a moon god, symbolised by the cusped or horned moon, & silver was sacred to him.' - Baigent & Leigh, 'The Elixir & The Stone' (1997).
'Seth, the reputed forefather of Israel, is only a Jewish travesty of Hermes, the God of Wisdom, called also Thoth, Tat, Seth, Set, & Satan.' - Madame Blavatsky 'The Secret Doctrine' (1888).
'Poseidon's (Zeus) own temple, its exterior entirely covered with silver & its pinnacles with gold, also stood within the citadel (of Atlantis). The interior of the temple was of ivory, gold, silver, & orichalch, even to the pillars & floor. The temple contained a colossal statue of Poseidon standing in a chariot drawn by six winged horses' .
& yet more pagan curiosities from north of the border, these (not the Isis statue) are located in my wife's hometown of Alloa, what on earth could they represent?
Perhaps what's being represented here is Quicksilver.....Mercury.......Hermes.......Thoth? Or maybe it's Isis in her guise as the silvery moon? On the other hand it could all be the work of Larry Silverstein, you never know!
Above is the 'Diana Fountain Memorial' in London, it's changed now but then the symbolism was obvious, a 'G', an Apple (i.e. Eve), the point in the circle etc…….Right next to the Diana (Isis) Memorial is the statue 'Isis' (left), looking distinctly like an Ibis.
Left; 'Museo Soumaya' art museum in Mexico City.
'When thowes dissolve the snawy hoord.


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By Michael Broder Oct 1, 2021
W. David Hardy, M.D., is director of infectious diseases at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and an associate professor of medicine-in-residence at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). For nearly 40 years, Dr. Hardy has been one of the leading figures in HIV clinical research and practice. The following are excerpts from a wide-ranging discussion we had about how living with HIV has changed since the beginning of the epidemic.
Michael Broder: What would you say is new or different about being newly diagnosed with HIV now compared to the past? How would you say the medications themselves have changed since the beginnings of ART over 30 years ago?
David Hardy: I would say there's a huge difference being diagnosed now versus being diagnosed even 10 years ago. The antiretrovirals today are much, much better. They are better in terms of potency and the ability to keep the virus suppressed. They have much less toxicity. And they're much easier to take. You know, right now, the state of the art is single-tablet regimens, one pill once a day. But we've already seen licensure of the first monthly injectable back in January. And before the end of this year, I will wager that we're going to see an extension of that to injection every two months, because the data actually support it from another study that ViiV [the manufacturer] did. There's basically four pharmaceutical companies now that work in HIV: Gilead, ViiV, Merck, and Janssen. Those are kind of the last four standing of the 12 that were there before. So, you know, coming down the pike, all of those companies now are taking the same line of developing long-acting injectable or implantable treatments.
The antiretrovirals today are much, much better. They are better in terms of potency and the ability to keep the virus suppressed. They have much less toxicity. And they're much easier to take.
What has changed about the basic approach to starting HIV treatment?
What is great about today is that a person who is diagnosed can look forward to initiating therapy almost immediately. The back and forth we used to do about should we start now, should we start later, how much the T cells have to fall, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, is over. It's been over since 2012, almost 10 years. But you know, it's—you get diagnosed, you get treated like any other STI. It's different, but it's still kind of the same principle.
What does the future hold for medications?
There are much, much better medications on the horizon, so that the interference that taking medications for HIV has caused in many people's lives, is going to get less and less and less. In terms of treatment, that's a big difference.
What has changed about community and public attitudes towards HIV and PLWH?
In terms of stigma, and sort of living and coping with HIV, there is a difference now compared to the 1980s and 1990s, when there was a great amount of compassion. Red Ribbon compassion for persons who are positive, a lot of that has sort of passed. And that sort of, I'm special because I'm HIV-positive sort of feeling, or I deserve this because I'm HIV-positive, or feel sorry for me because I'm HIV-positive I think has also changed. It has now become, this is part of my life. I accept it. I deal with it. I try not to hide it. I disclose it when necessary, and I no longer live in the state of fear, or shame, that someone's gonna find out, because it is just a fact of life. Like if I had diabetes, hypertension or anything else, it just is what it is. And I get treated for it and take care of myself.
So, I think there's been a huge evolution in terms of what people who are HIV-positive are being exposed to now, compared to what went before. In years past it was always, I can't tell this person, I can't tell that person, and I'm holding this big, nasty secret. I'm hiding my pills as best I can, and making sure no one ever sees them—those days hopefully are over. I think there's a whole brand-new sense of openness, and acceptance. What they used to call "AIDS exceptionalism," the idea that persons with HIV should be granted extra sort of privileges, because they're HIV-positive, I think is also passed, and become more about yes, you're HIV-positive, here are the medications, take advantage of them, and move on through your life because data are showing that your chances of living a long time are very good.
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