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Obama Mystery Theater: What Was Scrubbed in Indonesia?
Posted on May 22, 2014 by Miri | 131 Comments
Remember this October 2008 article by Pam Geller? [emphasis added to quotes]
… [S]ources claim that Obama was adopted and that the Indonesian government is aware of this – so are Obama's people who cut a deal with the Indonesian government to have the records suppressed. …
According to our Indonesian sources, "officials" who accompanied [U.S. Eni] Representative Faleomavaega were interested in acquiring any and all documentation or photographs of a young Barry Soetoro for America's "national archives" and they were offering cash, lots of it. In a show of faith, Barack Obama's childhood school would be one of the very first beneficiaries of this outpouring receiving thousands of dollars to upgrade the school and for the purchase of computer equipment, thanks in part to the benevolence of this visiting junket.
The challenge of course was [that] securing Indonesian goverment records potentially damaging to Barack Obama's candidacy for the US presidency as well as other records pertaining to a young Barry Soetoro and his family wouldn't be so easy to acquire and secure, and for this, the visitors would need the assistance and cooperation of the Indonesian government. …
An article from January 2007 turned up during research for a previous post; this article contained independent observations from a person named Akhmad Solikhin, as translated from an Indonesian television news program that documented a visit by Kaltim Post reporters to SDN Menteng 1 (aka Besuki), the Muslim public school that Barry Soetoro (aka Barack Obama) attended when he lived in Indonesia:
… Timothy [a student] delivered us [the reporters] to see Deputy Principal Akhmad Solikhin who was in his office. Akhmad was being visited by the United States Embassy staff. After having to wait for several hours, the party from the United States embassy left.
Akhmad said that since the news that Barack Obama had previously gone to this school in Jakarta, the world public seemed to be focused on this school that was previously named Carpentier Alting Stichting Nassau School. Including the US Embassy took part in attention. It is said, they want to give a big contribution to increase in the quality of the education in the school, the quality of the students, the teachers, as well as school facilities.
"For a long time we did not have any element of politics, we are always open," …
But after the hours-long visit from the U.S. "Embassy staff" and a promise of a big donation to the school, was the school no longer "always open" to reporters because suddenly "politics" had become an "element?" Can you read his statement any other way?
The deputy principal was seemingly upset that reporters were held up for hours while he attended to U.S. embassy staff concerns–an example of how "politics" was suddenly an "element" of his job. Solikhin was also seemingly upset that his school was, because of politics, no longer "open" (read transparent and accessible).
Of what concern should it have been to employees of the U.S. embassy that reporters were visiting the school that an as-yet-unelected-or-even-declared candidate for the U.S. presidency had attended? In January 2007, Obama had only just announced his "exploratory committee." Perhaps one thing that remained to be explored before Obama committed himself was exactly how successful a mop up of his Indonesian records would be.
"Embassy staff" must mean individuals whose salaries are paid by U.S. taxpayers, which indicates that their schedules, emails, and expenses ought to be public record. An FOIA request might answer many questions.
We might learn the names of the "embassy staff" who visited the school, when they were there, how many times, and for what "official" reason.
We might find out whether this earlier visit (January 2007) to the deputy principal was in preparation for another visit–the one mentioned by Pam Geller's sources, in which a "contribution" would be provided in return for all documentation and photos of candidate Obama. It appears that Faleomavaega visited Indonesia later in 2007. Although he had planned to go in July, he seems to have finally made it (see update at end of post) also been there in November 2007. (Coincidentally, or not, Obama's campaign staff admitted that in the summer of 2007 they were gathering up all the documentation they could find, including ordering a copy of Obama's alleged short-form birth certificate. Interesting timing.)
An article from January 2007, documenting a visit by the U.S. embassy staff to the school's deputy principal, lends credence to Geller's suggestions and indicates that this political plan was long in the making.
More questions need answers:
Why did U.S. embassy staff, way back in January 2007, believe that they needed to pay "attention" to that school, including offering a "big contribution" (that looks so much like a bribe)?
What documents and photos and other information did these U.S. employees (including Faleomavaega) gather up and for which U.S. "national archives?" Where are these documents and photos now?
What is the source of the money donated to the school? Was it U.S. taxpayer money?
How did any of these public employees square their alleged political activity (so called even by the Indonesian deputy principal) with the Hatch Act:
The 1939 Act forbade the intimidation or bribery of voters and restricts political campaign activities by federal employees. It prohibits using any public funds designated for relief or public works for electoral purposes. … The language was crafted so that the Secretary of State was covered by the Act's restrictions on political activity. … Federal employees are still forbidden to use their authority to affect the results of an election. They are also forbidden to run for office in a partisan election, to solicit or receive political contributions, and to engage in political activities while on duty or on federal property.
So if U.S. embassy staff used, as a contribution to the school, any public monies intended for "relief" or "public works" or foreign aid, they may have violated the Hatch Act, depending upon their motivation, which remains to be discerned.
The visit happened during a presidential campaign. The apparent focus upon one school (the one that candidate Obama attended), out of all the schools in Indonesia, seems at least suggestive of partisan political activity using taxpayer resources.
Even if Faleomavaega was exempt from the Hatch Act (which he arguably is not) and even if the "officials" who accompanied him to the school, possibly to hand off the money and collect the documents and photos, were private individuals (such as Obama campaign staff or supporters), the "United States Embassy staff" who greased the skids for the "contribution" back at the beginning of the year were not exempt and were obviously involved in at least the discussion about giving a "contribution."
Even if the money was donated by a private citizen or group, the Hatch Act seems to forbid public employees (i.e., embassy staff) from being involved in "receiving" or passing on what might be construed as a political donation. They are also precluded from taking part in political activities while
on duty,
in a government office,
wearing an official uniform, [and/or]
using a government vehicle.
Since the vice principal was aware that the visitors were U.S. embassy staff, then can we be forgiven if we wonder whether they arrived using the trappings of their office, while "on duty," or whether they made the appointment(s) using embassy resources? This potential violation of the Hatch Act should have been thoroughly investigated back in 2007.
Is it possible that the "universe shattering" information acquired by the Cold Case Posse includes something that fell through the cracks during this alleged Indonesian "mop up"?
Update 5/25/14: One of our commenters, Martha555, pointed out that Faleomavaega did indeed make it to Indonesia in July 2007, so he was right on schedule. (Thank you, Martha.) I misread an article that I linked in the post; the article mentioned that the Congressman was upset when he visited Papua in July 2007 that he was not allowed to "visit the towns of Biak and Manokwari in Papua, and, most importantly, the capital of Papua which is Jayapura." When he returned to Indonesia in November, he was again prevented from visiting Jayapura, which upset him mightily. One wonders what was in Jayapura, the capital city, that was so important for him to attend to.
This is all interesting because Lolo Soetoro worked in West Papua (Irian Barat) during the year in which he returned to live in Indonesia while "Ann" and little Barry allegedly stayed behind in Hawaii. Furthermore, Barry's classmates as well as teachers were said to have assumed that Barry was from Irian Jaya (West Papua) because of his skin color and hair texture. Others believed he was Ambonese, "an Indonesian ethnic group of mixed Austronesian-Papuan origin." One teacher specifically mentioned that Barry had "picked up" the "local" language, leading the reader (me) to wonder if he spoke a different dialect, which explained her reference to the local language and the ease with which he picked it up. In other stories, however, the same teacher changed her tune and said instead that Barry "struggled" with Indonesian.
Does this explain the contradiction between those who say Barry could speak Indonesian well, and others who say that he had to use sign language to make himself understood in school? Is this why Ann had to home-school him in English? This is a child who allegedly lived in the USA from birth until he moved to Indonesia in Oct. 1967 at the age of six. Why did he need English lessons in order to be sent back to Hawaii to attend Noelani school in 1969 and Punahou school in 1971? We know that Lolo was in Irian Barat sometime in 1967 and that Barry (and Ann) appeared in Jakarta in Oct. 1967.
Please note that the Secretary of State in 2007 (as well as 2008) was Condoleeza Rice under a Republican president, George W. Bush. Is it likely that in January 2007 the powers in DC believed that it was important for some reason to have U.S. embassy personnel contact the Besuki school in Indonesia to promise them a big contribution? Why?
Certainly one might believe it plausible that under a Democrat president and Democrat Secretary of State, U.S. embassy "staff" might be sent out on a political mission to help a Democrat candidate for office cover up some "embarrassing information," but does it seem likely that the Republican Bush administration would see fit to help Democrat Obama over his potential rivals for the Democrat nomination?
If the visit to promise a "contribution" to the school was made in return for help with ensuring that certain records were "eaten by bugs" or "destroyed by floods," thus injecting "politics" into the school's openness, where then does the buck stop? Who sent the embassy staff to Besuki and for what reason? Was it their own idea? Were these long-time foreign service employees who perhaps knew and remembered Barry's mother and wanted to help him for their own reasons? Fellow travelers, so to speak?
We know now that Faleomavaega was intent upon visiting the capital city of Papua in July 2007, the same month that Obama's campaign staff were gathering all the documents they could and allegedly ordered his short-form certification of live birth from Hawaii–the document that, according to FactCheck blog, contained all the information necessary to obtain a U.S. passport.
Obama's passport files were "cauterized" in early 2008 of "embarrassing" information. Passport files are overseen by the Dept. of State. Barry's mother, Ann, worked for USAID and in other capacities within the U.S. embassy in Jakarta. The U.S. embassy and USAID are overseen by the Dept. of State. The East-West Center, where both Ann and Lolo Soetoro studied, is also associated with the Dept. of State.
For background: B. Lynne Pascoe was the U.S. ambassador to Indonesia in January 2007. A "career foreign service officer", he was replaced by Cameron R. Hume, another career foreign service officer, in May 2007.
This entry was posted in Obama Eligibility, Obama Mystery Theater, Open Threads, Sheriff Joe, Vetting Obama and tagged Akhmad Solikhin, Barack Hussein Obama II, Barry Soetoro, Carpentier Alting Stichting Nassau School, Cold Case Posse, Eni Faleomavaega, Hatch Act, Kaltim Post, open thread, Pam Geller, SDN Besuki, SDN Menteng. Bookmark the permalink.
131 responses to "Obama Mystery Theater: What Was Scrubbed in Indonesia?"
Zenway | May 26, 2014 at 7:37 pm | Reply
DADDY…. DEAREST ??? just what was really UP with daddy??
http://www.showbiz411.com/2014/05/25/exclusive-hunger-games-killers-dad-sells-art-photos-of-womens-behinds
Welshrune …. 5:50 PM on 25/5/2014
"There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country (US), and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are ….Drugs, ….Alcohol, ……bad Parents, and
Un-Disciplined (JERKER AROUND) children. Period"
~Ted Nugent
Obama: 'If They Bring a KNIFE to the Fight, We Bring a GUN' …2008′
Photo of Elliot's …. Mother … Li 'CHIN' & Father … Roger
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/santa-barbara-killer-parents-raced-stop-receiving-emails-article-1.1805455
I'm curious how he came to have the three Asian roommates. I haven't read extensively about this. Was it a campus apartment? Did these young men decide to share an apartment with him or were they assigned to? Were none of them aware of his videos that were on the Web for weeks? The guns and ammo were in the apartment he shared with three other men? Where were the roommates when the cops came to investigate him? Think about this: It seems to me that any of the others could have given the cops permission to search the apartment. So that story (now) says the parents did call 911 when they saw his latest video and his manifesto. And the cops (now) say they didn't see the previous videos. WHY the heck NOT?
Zenway | May 26, 2014 at 10:08 pm | Reply
SO…. just what does a prostitute REALLY COST? ~ Aunt Jenni
Rodger blames US allowing him to PURCHASE a GUN? what about
the $40,000 BMW he was allowed to DRIVE around in? CARS KILL
He had no rap sheet & the police had no search warrant to enter HIS
dorm….( against the LAW… ?) & he was so GREAT AT dead-pan!!!
He .. "looked normal" at the 2012 Hunger Game Premiere …in 2012′
2 years AGO! ….SO why didn't
"the Family" … call "each GUN store" & put his NAME on a LIST? & be
notify if he "EVER tried to purchase" a GUN? (after he filled out the paper
work…real easy…B SAFE.. COVER your BASES? save lives?) R we 2 babysit their CHILD….? & killing the 3 Asian boys… (I think) it was a way
to get back at his MOTHER…for she was Asian & Short ..she was
different looking …she divorced the dad & spoiled him rotten…love/hate… Freud-ish…
He was going to kill his step-mom & his 1/2 brother BUTT' would have
hard time doing in HIS father…. ? I interact with many like him…I see
them daily-weekly some are really crazy/nuts Butt' they are still here?
http://news.sky.com/story/1268553/elliot-rodger-shooting-family-in-shock
Miri | May 27, 2014 at 12:52 pm | Reply
This is a real circus. The buck passing is amazing. Nobody's to blame except the NRA. They IGNORE the three deceased roommates who were killed with knives. CUTLERY CONTROL NOW!!!! I read an article today that says he previously tried to shove a bunch of kids off a ledge. The cops were called, so why wasn't he on record for that incident? His parents reported him to social services AND the cops, who investigated. So why no "rap sheet" of SOME KIND? They follow up on 5-year-olds who draw pictures of guns! Oh, he was a "disturbed child." No, he wasn't. He was a grown man. Don't insult our troops and veterans. Do we have CHILDREN fighting our wars? By their standards, WWII was won by children, then. His family admits he was always disturbed, so what did THEY do to prevent him getting weapons? Let's guess that the dorm already FORBIDS guns, so how would more laws have prevented anything? There's a BLACK MARKET that some rich kid would CERTAINLY be able to use to get whatever he wanted. He had XANAX and VICODIN. Was that prescribed? If so, blame the doc who gave it to a DISTURBED CHILD. If not prescribed, then there's your evidence that more gun laws would have prevented NOTHING because a rich kid like him could BUY whatever he needed off the street. Pete is sensitive all right. We saw his sensibilities in the naked butt photos. Where's the national news coverage of the candlelight memorial service for the 10 dead (if not more by now) who were killed in Myrtle Beach during Black Biker Week over this past weekend? Oh, wait! There's not even national coverage of the deaths and there's probably no STAGED memorial service because they want the opposite–NO LIGHT whatsoever shone of the black perps who used, no doubt, ILLEGAL WEAPONS. How did THEY get them? This is the second time they blame Asperger's Syndrome when all the docs state that it has nothing to do with violence. He sure was a high-functioning "victim" considering his lifestyle and his well-written manifesto. Yes, we'll believe whatever his family's LAWYER says. He will be busy in the coming months, no doubt, spinning. His family knew, the cops knew, You Tube knew, but nobody was monitoring for further "red flags". Zen, was it a dorm room he lived in? I didn't see that reported anywhere and I wondered. If so, then surely there are restrictions on guns (butt Big Sis already told us the crime couldn't have been predicted or prevented, and yet Tea Partiers are ever on the radar). Unfortunately, nobody can ask his roommates what they knew or suspected about him.
http://jacksonville.com/breaking-news/2014-05-27/story/experts-mass-murderers-elliot-rodger-are-hard-predict
Seems it was a private apartment off campus. He didn't get along with at least two of the roommates, one of whom he made a "citizen's arrest" on for stealing candles from him, he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-27/hamad-elliot-rodger-and-hate-crime-hypocrisy/5478820
Good article about how they ignore the hate crime angle in the misogyny of the shooter/slasher while pumping up the "mentally ill" angle.
Creepy creep.
Sister….Georgia … interesting…. mixed-family
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2640139/Virgin-killer-planned-murder-stepmother-six-year-old-brother-feared-hed-grow-popular-girls-meticulously-planned-rampage.html
the Twisted WORLD of Elliot Rodger … Jack Cashill
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/05/the_twisted_world_of_elliot_rodger.html
HEY….AUNTIE…..what about the ROOM-MATES …. were THEY
FORE-WARNED?….. BY U…..if your knew….he had problems?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10857021/Elliot-Rodger-may-have-used-machetes-and-hammer-to-murder-house-mates-in-killing-chamber.html
interesting……as the world is falling……apart….
http://dailyentertainmentnews.com/breaking-news/lichin-chin-rodger-santa-barbara-killer-elliot-rodgers-mother/
It's still not clear about the apartment. He calls them "housemates" and how they moved in for the "Autumn semester" and says they're "nerds" and that he disliked them. Did he have a choice or were they assigned to live there with him?
Sad thing is that one of them was planning to move but didn't get out in time. Good point. They might have warned the roommates. Why didn't he live at home like so many 20-somethings do?
Instead of calling the family, the therapist should have called the cops, who should have put an APB out immediately.
Very interesting mix. The photo of dad and daughter calls to mind the similar photo of Miley Cyrus with her dad.
Something in the water in CA? Not a good environment in which to raise any kid, I would imagine.
btw, it's VERY typically sexist (and characteristic of Muslims and other like-minded "men") to blame the WOMAN for the feelings they claim the woman CAUSES in them (lust). So now others are apparently trying to blame the little girl who first aroused him (at age 10) for his crimes. It's sick and twisted and in that sense, Elliot's world WAS sick and twisted.
Papoose | May 26, 2014 at 8:11 pm | Reply
Excellent update.
For some reason it makes me recall the World Tour and Hawaiian Vacation…what American Presidential Candidate does that?
Only one candidate that I can think of. Gosh. I forgot for a time all about that world tour. The writing was sure on the fake Greek columns there, wasn't it? "It's in the nation's best interest" for him to be selected (as the first Muslim potus). So sayeth the visitors from VA to the ex-pat.
http://theulstermanreport.com/2014/05/25/ranking-senator-describes-bizarre-secret-meeting-at-obama-white-house/
Rice. What's she doing in secret meetings with the People's Representatives?
That was actually in my local paper. Barry wasn't there, though. Just these senior flunkies. What was great that the senators WALKED OUT on these flunkies. I'll bet Jarrett was there.
I'm putting this here because it relates to the Dept. of State. Now they apologized multiple times but the cat is out of the bag already and this shows you exactly where their COLLECTIVE HEAD IS AT:
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/state-dept-apologizes-for-promoting-muslim-cleric-who-backed-killing-of-u-s-soldiers/
"The State Department's Counter Terrorism (CT) Bureau apologized on Tuesday for promoting a controversial Muslim scholar whose organization has reportedly backed Hamas and endorsed a fatwa authorizing the murder of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
The apology came on the heels of a Friday Washington Free Beacon report detailing the CT Bureau's promotion of Sheik Abdallah Bin Bayyah, the vice president of a radical Muslim scholars group that was founded by a radical Muslim Brotherhood leader who has called "for the death of Jews and Americans."
Bin Bayyah himself is one of several clerics who endorsed a 2004 fatwa, or religious order, endorsing the killing of U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq.
The CT Bureau apologized multiple times on Tuesday for tweeting in favor of Bin Bayyah and promoting an article on his website.
"This should not have been tweeted and has since been deleted," the CT Bureau tweeted at users who expressed anger over the original message.
"It was wrong and should not have been tweeted," the bureau later tweeted in response to other outraged individuals. …"
It was wrong. WHAT exactly was wrong? To tweet it or to think it?


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With a playtime of about 33 minutes, "Life's Phenomenon" is a rather short and fun album, even if it is comprised of eleven tracks that mostly stay within the 3-minute range. Among these eleven songs, two of them are interludes with Finnish titles ("Kuvittelematta" and "Rakastuneet") and are basically spoken word -type tracks that add a bit of mystery for those who don't know the language. The first part of the album should be familiar, as songs from here have already been released as singles. "Imagined Nothing" and "Circus" have powerful drum and bass foundations on top on which the vocals dance freely accompanied by melodic guitar lines. There's a nice contrast between the vocals and the instrumental that makes these tracks quite powerful. Lead single "The Diamond Hills" is more melodic and accessible, with the vocals as the driving force as Rebecca Spörl gets to show off her skills and range. The keyboards create a beautiful layer of underlying melodies that bounce off of the guitars and drums, giving the track a lighter feel. First single "The Sounds of Insomnia" is adorned with some interesting backing orchestrations and keys while the drums are loud and the guitar solo is pretty amazing.
The band's symphonic side is a bit more present in "Hate" as backing arrangements merge with powerful drums and upfront guitars to give the track more style and elegance. Acoustic guitar opens up "Flowers," one of the album's most beautiful moments, as it is centered around Rebecca Spörl's sweet voice. It's deeply melancholic and has an almost imperceptible build-up as more instruments join the fold, yet it is still soft and delicate. The tempo picks up with "The Machinery of Life," a faster number with a lot of bite and energy pulsing through it supported by some nice keys and roaring guitars. "Archives of Love" is an interesting track as it half sounds like a ballad, half like a banger. It adds a bit of variety to the album's sound and makes me wish more songs had this type of structure. "Ghost" benefits from groovy guitar lines, intense backdrop, and some nice, melodic vocals, bringing the album to a neat close.
Since all songs are produced, mixed, and mastered by well-known producer Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, MOONSPELL, SENTENCED, APOCALYPTICA), I expected the quality to be top-notch. Unfortunately, the drums are too loud at times. When they are pulled back the songs sound better and more balanced but when they are in the center they dominate and drown most everything around them. Also, a bit more creativity and diversity in the songwriting department would be nice to hear on the next album, because the talent is there, it just needs to be a bit more polished and updated.
Despite being a rather linear record, "Life's Phenomenon" is still a great listen with plenty of surprises and twists along the way. Moreover, it's a solid first studio effort from such a young and capable bunch of musicians. Fans of such bands as MOONLIGHT HAZE, THE DARK ELEMENT, or ENEMY INSIDE will definitely appreciate what AVERLANCHE has to offer.
Written by Andrea Crow
Kuvittelematta
Imagined Nothing
The Diamond Hills
The Sounds of Insomnia
The Machinery of Life
Rakastuneet
Archives of Love
Rebecca Spörl – vocals
Otto Haalahti – guitar
Joonas Hämäläinen – bass
Antti Kopra – keyboards
Antti Pätsi – drums
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So yesterday I talked about The Doubter, a seemingly harmless version of a stalker that can turn ugly. However, some girls can put up with a doubter – they can find their over-clingy & over-protectiveness as romantic. However, there is one set back.. Doubters have a tendency to also come under the category of the Ambition-less.
When most women are asked what qualities they like in a man, ambition is usually one of them. Ambition doesn't have to mean that your man is aspiring to be an astronaut or an 8 figure lawyer, as long as his ambition seems practical and reasonable this should do.
Let me give an example of The Ambition-less from my own personal experience. I was seeing a guy who was 2 years older than me, when I was at high school, he was at college doing BTEC IT.. By the time I started college, he had left college, got his IT qualification – and decided he wanted to go to college again and pursue his real passion… Acting. Fair enough at this point, he had some ambition in him however this is where it stopped. I don't know whether he tried to get into an acting school after completing another two years of college or get into uni, but after college that was it. He worked at Next for a while and now works 3 hours a day at Iceland. He still wants to be an actor but he doesn't do much other than help his friends that still go to college with some of their projects. But this next point is what tipped me over the edge – he says "He doesn't want to be bait". (bait: (adj.) Known by everyone) I was confused – I asked him how can he want to be an actor and not want to be bait. He replied, he wants to be bait among white people.
Some might be reading at this point and be confused about why the guy I'm talking about is ambition-less. His "dream" is not practical and before we got back together he was sitting at home while I was at uni & when we started speaking again he started job hunting.
Fair enough I was one of the reasons he started doing something again, but that is not enough. I don't want to be the reason for your motivation, your own ambitions should be the reason for your motivations.
An ambitionless guy is the easiest to spot. Even if he doesn't have a career plan in his mind he should still be working on a something. Remember, ambition doesn't necessarily mean being driven towards money. He can be in poetry, photography, volunteering, anything.
Why is an ambitionless guy a wasteman? This is quite a self explanatory but for those of you who want confirmation for your thoughts… An ambitionless guy will bring you down. More often than n0t if you want to do something in life he may support you with it, but if he is constantly not doing anything this can have an affect on you. For example if you end up living with him you may end up being too busy to spend quality time with him and you may start making room in your schedule to make up for lost time.
You must also be careful. An ambitionless guy can fool you into thinking he has something going on. He will woo you with his words and this particular kind of guy I like to call.. The Wordsmith.


It turned out that Futureman Records couldn't make it in a world where record labels were bricks-and-mortar establishments. The album was locked away in the dark; some of its songs crept out when its artists released bonus tracks or odds 'n' sods collections, which only served to further whet the appetites of devoted fans everywhere. It was power pop's own Chinese Democracy.
Then, in 2012, over a decade after the release was scheduled, Futureman Records rose again, as a virtual label on Bandcamp. With their phoenix-like return came The New Sell Out (dedicated to Rick McBrien), and unlike Chinese Democracy, it lived up to its legend.
All the artists clearly share a real affection for the album, most of them sticking close to the original arrangements and the general spirit. There are a few exceptions; one is Splitsville's version of "Our Love Was," which starts out with rinky-dink programming and builds up to a big loud melodic release. One can picture the Who live in concert, amping the song up to make it sound like this. At the end, Ed James does the "Pussycat/Speakeasy" part while Mitch Easter handles the Rotosound strings jingle.
"I Can See for Miles" was the album's biggest hit – the Who's biggest hit in the US, in fact – and the Shazam treat it with great respect, following the blueprint to the letter. That's John P. Strohm of the Blake Babies doing the Charles Atlas ad at the end.
Even when the original tracks were dashed-off pieces of fun, the covering artists gave them their all. Listen to how the Andersons change their style of playing every four bars of the "Heinz Baked Beans" commercial. Also, enjoy Cockeyed Ghost taking a while to get the "More Music" bit right.
The New Sell Out adds bonus tracks of songs that the Who recorded around the same time as The Who Sell Out. One was a John Entwistle song called "Someone's Coming," which told the story of two young lovers meeting in secret. It's a much tenderer song lyrically than ol' Thunderfingers usually wrote, and the Pearlfishers' treatment gets that tenderness across with a very pretty acoustic cover.
SWAG was a "the greatest supergroup you've never heard of," made up of members of Wilco, the Mavericks, and Sixpence None The Richer. Here they take on "Early Morning, Cold Taxi," a rare Roger Daltrey-penned Who song. If you like the sound of this, their 2001 album CatchAll is available on YouTube.
Get The New Sell Out in its entirety at Bandcamp.


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Whether you have a concrete or aggregate driveway, patio, or walkway, keeping it clean can help improve the overall curb appeal of your home. However, many homeowners aren't sure where to start when it comes to concrete cleaning, and a lot of the products available at your local home improvement store are not powerful enough or safe. Instead of risking an ugly driveway or wasting time or money on inefficient products, consider hiring Fellman Painting & Waterproofing to perform your concrete cleaning and sealing tasks. Simply call (386) 597-0645 for a free quote.
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One Very Personal Stuart Scott Story
Stuart may be gone, but his heart, his soul, his spirit, and his story will live on for generations. To say that he impacted lives is an understatement. He knew he might affect them with his speech, and he did, but for one idiot in the Midwest, he forever changed me with a simple act of kindness.
ByDan Duffy, Contributor
Co-Founder, The Half Fund
01/07/2015 01:01pm EST | Updated March 9, 2015
I was playing around on Facebook when my partner in The Half Fund, Joe Farmer, sent me a PM.
"Did you hear about Stuart Scott?"
He didn't have to go any further. I immediately started crying for so many reasons: for my blindness, for my hypocrisy, for my conversion, and for my anguish.
When my parents first got cable, it was 1985... the salad years of MTV showing videos, Not Necessarily The News on HBO, and sports programming on ESPN that, these days, would only be shown on The Ocho. They were also the days of SportsCenter anchors being professional journalists, like Charlie Steiner, Bob Ley, Gayle Gardner, Greg Gumbel, Dan Patrick, and Chris Berman. They treated their sports seriously, even when they couldn't keep a straight face.
And then, there was Stuart Scott. He was loud, brash, bombastic. I didn't understand his lexicon. Whiskey tango foxtrot does "BOOYAH!" mean, anyway?
I didn't like him, or rather, his style. Which means, I didn't like him. I thought he was arrogant, that his lines overshadowed the athletes. Because let's face it, Maddux K'ing 15 is not as cool as "As cool as the other side of the pillow." So I closed my eyes and ears to him. I couldn't see beneath the facade because I didn't bother to look.
And for this, I was the ultimate hypocrite.
When I worked for Steve and DC, one of my roles was to "keep the boys in line." I used to do this by ragging on Steve about his weight every chance I got. It was part of my job (a fun one, mind you), but it was not who I really was. Listeners would ask me if I hated him, or if I had a problem with overweight people, and that answer to both was an unequivocal "No." Once the microphones went off, I never, ever said a single snide comment about his weight. And it irked me that people were not looking beneath the surface.
Pot, meet kettle.
I might never have looked for the deeper meaning to this man had it not been for the September 10, 2004 edition of SportsCenter. That broadcast changed everything.
It was the week of the 25th anniversary of SC, and they were bringing back some of the old-guard to star with the current hosts. On September 10, they were going to pair Gayle Gardner with Stuart Scott. I remember Gardner very well, but I thought to myself, 'How are these two going to mesh?'
At first, it was slightly painful, but not for any reason that I saw coming. When many of the hosts leave ESPN, they go out into the sports world either in television or radio, so they stay "seasoned." However, Gardner had retired many years ago, and on this night, she was nervous, flummoxed, and slightly over her head.
In essence, she had forgotten how to ride the bicycle. We've all done it. It's painful to live through, and it's painful to watch. I winced on a couple of occasions.
When all seemed lost, Scott did one of the most remarkably human things that any person can do for another: He metaphorically took her by the hand and said, "Don't worry... you've got this."
He then put her on his back and carried her for the rest of the broadcast, telling her over and over that it was such an honor sharing a set with her, and how he hoped this was not the last time they would work together. It was astonishingly beautiful and deft. He treated her with such dignity. By the end of the broadcast, she had started pedaling again... partly because of her innate talent, partly because of her gifted and compassionate cohost.
I turned off the television and felt a tugging sense of remorse for having been so closed-minded. I swore to myself from that day on, I would never just simply take someone at face value, and I would look for the deeper meaning behind the humanity I encountered.
I also finally understood what all of the hubbub was about with his style, and today, whenever my sons do something really cool, I look them right in the face, fist-bump-firework with them, and we yell, "BOOYAH!!!"
The last time I saw Stuart Scott on live television, he was accepting the Jimmy V Foundation Perseverence Award on The ESPYs. I had a sinking feeling as he took the stage, and I said a quick prayer that it wasn't the last time I would see him alive.
By the end of his speech, I wept hard. Yet through the tears, I had a tremendous sense of hope for the future, when this dreaded disease is just a memory. And he said something so profound that will live with me forever:
"When you die, that does not mean you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live and the manner in which you live."
God rest him, and God bless all of those close to him. Something tells me it's quite the list.
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Dan Duffy, Contributor


The world of TV had a rough year in 2017, with the death of the beloved Mary Tyler Moore hitting hard. TV's Batman, Adam West, Jim Nabors of "Gomer Pyle," Della Reese of "Touched by an Angel" and "The Partridge Family's" David Cassidy were among other TV notables who died this year.
It was a sad year for music lovers in 2017, with the loss of rock 'n' roll pioneers Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, rock legends Tom Petty and Gregg Allman, and the shocking deaths of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Linkin Park's Chester Bennington.
The past year saw the loss of some renowned character actors, including John Hurt, Bill Paxton and Harry Dean Stanton. We were both shaken and stirred by the death of Roger Moore, who played James Bond more than any other actor. On the other side of the camera, directors Jonathan Demme as well as horror masters Tobe Hooper and George A. Romero died in 2017.


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MORE ON "SINGIN' SANDY" AND SMITH BALLEW FROM LES ADAMS
Les Adams spent time chatting with Bob Steele and Smith Ballew, and one of the subjects was who was the singing voice for John Wayne in RIDERS OF DESTINY and some other Wayne oaters. Les wrote the following piece on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), but the writeup is no longer there:
Enough already! Lay off Smith Ballew ... he didn't do it., 30 January 2004
Author: Leslie Howard Adams from Texas
As one of the biggest and most-repeated myths in Hollywood film history the one about Smith Ballew dubbing John Wayne's singing voice in RIDERS OF DESTINY may well rank close to the top. It is only out there because it was published in a book on Westerns movies circa 1962 that, line-for-line, contained more errors than most of the self-serving, ghost-written Star bios in recent years. The author and name of the book will not be mentioned since the author is dead and nothing he ever wrote is taken seriously by any real fan or western film historian then or now, other than the mention of his name has caused a lot of films historians to moan, throw up or cry. Often all three. Let's start at the top. RIDERS OF DESTINY was filmed in Lancaster and Palmdale California in August of 1933, and Smith Ballew was nowhere near the whole state of California in August of 1933. Books by the likes of the very-respected Bob Nareau and Bobby Copeland, in which each spent hours, days and/or weeks in the company of the film's director and his son, western film star Bob Steele (Robert Bradbury, Jr.), established for a fact that the man who dubbed John Wayne in this film was Bradbury's son and Bob's twin brother Bill Bradbury, who went on to become a prominent physician in California. (The Bradbury twins, as young boys, had starred in a silent series of films directed by their father.) We visited - bull, forget the royal "we" - I visited Smith Ballew in his home in Fort Worth, Texas in 1966 (following his retirement after 25 years with General Dynamics in Texas and California) in company with the late Elston Brooks, columnist and entertainment editor for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and Smith Ballew denied, when asked, that he was the "singing voice" for Wayne in this film. "Who thought up that piece of ..." was the question he asked. The tone of his question was such that I quickly made sure he didn't think I was the one who thought up that piece of ...! Brooks wrote a story on the interview for the Star-Telegram that expressed Ballew's denial of being Wayne's dubber (minus Ballew's question), and did a couple of follow-up stories and/or columns in the following years on Ballew, in which Ballew hastily, and often without being asked, denied dubbing John Wayne anywhere ... anytime. In later years, a tired and much older (in his late 70's) Ballew went to a couple of, or several, film conventions and was asked again about dubbing for Wayne (some dolt source also thinks he dubbed Wayne in 1934's THE MAN FROM UTAH, although Ballew didn't come west to make films until 1936) and I've been told that he sometimes just shrugged his shoulders and said something like "whatever you think", and a very respected western film historian has said that Ballew was old, sick and tired and mostly tired of denying it and wasting the breath to do so. Flash forward to 1971. Cinema Center Films made a little ditty called SOMETHING BIG starring Dean Martin, Bryan Keith and Honor Blackman, and sent some of the stars and supporting players in the film around and about the U.S. on a junket promoting the film. I don't know who went where but do know that Bryan Keith went to Dallas and Fort Worth, while Bob Steele (who played Teamster No. 3 in the film) came to remote Texas outposts such as Amarillo, Abilene, Midland-Odessa and Lubbock to plug the film. Lubbock was a lay-over stop for Steele and I was fortunate enough to get to spend most of a day in his company including breakfast and lunch. A lot of that time was spent discussing, in addition to his own career, the career of his director-father Robert North Bradbury, and RIDERS OF DESTINY came up. Bob Steele said: "My dad used my twin brother Bill to dub Duke in that film, as he had done several times in the past to dub me in a couple of films, as Bill could at least stay on key and carry a tune and I could do neither, and the small fee Bill got helped to pay his bills in medical school." And director Robert North Bradbury said pretty much the same in a couple of well-researched and documented books on western films by the authors previously mentioned. Summary: Robert North Bradbury was there and said Ballew didn't dub Wayne ever ... Bob Steele was there making films for the same producers (Trem Carr and Paul Malvern) and in the vicinity and said Ballew didn't dub Wayne ... Smith Ballew, who wasn't even in the state of California at the time, said he didn't dub Wayne ever. Well, we, excuse me, I wasn't there but I'm more than familiar with Smith Ballew's singing voice (even have some of his earlier recordings he gave me) and, even without Bob Steele and Robert Bradbury's testimony, it would take one tin ear indeed to think that "Singin' Sandy's" singing voice in RIDERS OF DESTINY was Smith Ballew. No way, Jose. I go with the people who were there ... Bradbury and Steele and not there ... Ballew. And Elston Brooks, who was a close friend of John Wayne and spent a few days on location of every film Wayne made from the 60's until his final THE SHOOTIST once asked Wayne who dubbed him in RIDERS OF DESTINY and Wayne's answer was ... "hell, I don't know but 'Pappy' Kirk (Jack Kirk) dubbed me in a lot of the latter Lone Star and Republic westerns". Which brings up who is the source that thinks Glenn Strange dubbed John Wayne in those films? Glenn Strange was in most of them along with his former Arizona Wranglers band members such as Cactus Mack, Chuck Baldra and Jack "Pappy" Kirk, but it is Kirk's bull-frog singing voice dubbing Wayne in those films and not Strange.
(Courtesy of Ed Phillips)
From left to right are Charlie/Charley Sargent, Jack Kirk, John Wayne, Cactus Mack McPeters, Chuck Baldra and Glenn Strange in a scene from Wayne's WESTWARD HO (Republic, 1935). On the far right is the non-singing Tex Palmer. In the film's opening titles, Glenn Strange is credited and "the Singing Riders" is listed under Strange's name. These "guys in black shirts" did double duty as singers as well as members of the "Singing Riders" who rode white horses and assisted Wayne. Below are crops/blowups showing the faces in more detail.
Below: Charlie/Charley Sargent, Jack Kirk, John Wayne, Cactus Mack McPeters.
Above: Chuck Baldra, Glenn Strange, and the non-singing Tex Palmer.
JOHN WAYNE TRIVIA
There's a lot of stories as to how Wayne acquired the nickname of 'Duke'. Among the oft mentioned are: the nickname kinda matched his good looks; a scrapper, he was good with his 'dukes'; and the story that seems to be most quoted is that the Wayne family - or Wayne himself - had a pooch named 'Duke', and that's where the nickname originated.
Mike Newton e-mailed with more info on the Duke nickname:
"... his real name was Marion Michael Morrison and as a young boy, he was shy and not particularly aggressive. His mother was extremely dominant and his father, though likeable, was a rather mild type character, though Wayne admired him. Anyway, the older boys teased Wayne about his name. Wayne took to hanging around the firehouse in Glendale and somehow acquired a dog whose name was "Duke". It may have been the firehouse dog or just a stray. Anyway, the firemen would always call out when they saw them, "Here's Big Duke and Little Duke". Big Duke of course was the dog, but Wayne liked the name so much that he acquired it as his own and when he went to college, that was how he was called. Of course he didn't acquire the name "John Wayne" until his first movie. This information I acquired from interviews done with Wayne over the years ..."
Wayne addresses people as "Pilgrim" in several films. In THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962), he used that response with James Stewart. And in the chaotic mud pit battle in McLINTOCK! (1963), Wayne acknowledges screen tough Leo Gordon as "Pilgrim" ... and then clobbers him.
What are the films in which Wayne was "killed"? There are seven:
REAP THE WILD WIND (1942)
THE FIGHTING SEABEES (1944)
THE WAKE OF THE RED WITCH (1948)
THE SANDS OF IWO JIMA (1949)
THE ALAMO (1960)
THE COWBOYS (1972)
THE SHOOTIST (1976)
As to the number of films where Wayne "died", include the above mentioned seven ... and here's four more:
Add THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962). This film has Jimmy Stewart (as Senator and lawyer Ransom Stoddard) returning home to attend the funeral of Wayne (portraying Tom Doniphon who had passed away from natural causes). Stewart tells the story of Doniphon, Liberty Valance, et al in flashback.
You may or may not include THE SEA CHASE (1955). Wayne is the ship's Captain, Lana Turner is the female lead, and their ship sinks at the end. But the ending leaves the viewer to guess whether they perished or survived.
Thanks to Mark Shaw for his tip on CENTRAL AIRPORT (Warners, 1933) which starred Richard Barthelmess and Sally Eilers. In that film, Wayne has a bit part as the co-pilot of an aircraft that crashes into the ocean.
And another thank you to Leon Lane for e-mailing that Wayne plays the corpse of a murdered actor at the start of THE DECEIVER (Columbia, 1931).
In the photo left, Yakima Canutt gives a helpin' hand to a young John Wayne in THE STAR PACKER (Lone Star/Monogram, 1934).
For those of you who study Wayne, remember the way he often twirls his six-shooter when he draws it? Canutt did the same and Wayne probably copied that mannerism when he and Yak were working on the Lone Star westerns.
Billy Alford sent me an e-mail reminder that this is seen in RANDY RIDES ALONE (Lone Star/Monogram, 1934). Wayne and Canutt shoot at a wanted poster. Yak draws, twirls his sixgun, and shoots. Wayne then draws, does the same twirl as Yak, and fires off a round.
THE WAYNE GUNBELT
Above are crops/blowups of Wayne's gunbelt from a lobby card from BLUE STEEL and a production still from 'NEATH ARIZONA SKIES. He used this gunbelt with the light colored bullet loops and edging during his Lone Star films, and the pattern is very similar to the rig worn by Bob Steele in the early 1930s. Methinks that Wayne's Lone Star gunbelt was influenced by Steele's father, Robert North Bradbury, who directed and scripted many of Wayne's films ... and Bradbury may have gotten the same person that crafted Steele's belt to do one for Wayne. Below is a shot of Steele from his 1932-1933 Monogram films.
Above - Bob Steele is about to chat with the clean shaven Charlie King in THE FIGHTING CHAMP (Monogram, 1932).
But all things change - above is a crop/blowup of the gunbelt that Wayne used as a member of Republic's Three Mesquiteers. Am unsure whether this was made specifically for Wayne or supplied by Republic's prop department.
WAYNE LINKS
John Wayne Enterprises is the sole and exclusive grantee from John Wayne of all commercial merchandising and allied rights relating to the use of his Name, Likeness, Signature, Voice or Photographs. John Wayne Enterprises is a limited partnership owned by the children and grandchildren of John Wayne and is managed by Ethan Wayne. Their mailing address is: John Wayne Enterprises, 210 62nd Street, Newport Beach, CA 92663, and their website is at: https://www.johnwayne.com
The John Wayne Cancer Institute is located at the Saint John's Health Center, Santa Monica, California, and this is their history webpage: https://www.saintjohnscancer.org/about-jwci/
The John Wayne Cancer Foundation was founded by the Wayne family and the website is at: https://johnwayne.org/
The website for John Wayne's birthplace and museum in Winterset, Iowa is at: https://www.johnwaynebirthplace.museum/
Neil Roughley's website on Wayne has tons of details on his films, DVD releases, etc. On this webpage, Neil confirms the running times of about 125 minutes for both the standard 35mm and 70mm Grandeur widescreen versions of THE BIG TRAIL (Fox, 1930). You will need to scroll down toward the bottom of that page to find Neil's notes on THE BIG TRAIL: http://www.dukefilmography.com/john_wayne_dvd_filmography.html#1930s
"John Wayne: The Forgotten History of 'The Duke' " is on the ammo.com website. The article includes Wayne's early years, movies, and lots about his political leanings and conservative politics. There's also a link to a World War II document about Wayne volunteering (unsuccessfully) for duty with director John Ford's Navy photographic unit. During WW2, U. S. Navy Reserve Commander John Ford and crew were under the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and filmed documentaries for the Navy Department: https://ammo.com/articles/john-wayne-the-duke
Kevin Dolph has a John Wayne Fan Forum at: https://dukewayne.com/
There was a website devoted to the artistic works of Pilar Wayne, John Wayne's third wife. However, when I checked in late 2017, the site was no longer working and the domain name was for sale: http://www.pilarwayne.com/
Although some of the data is incomplete or inaccurate, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has information on John Wayne: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/.
The Reel Classics website has a list of the Quigley Publishing Annual Top Ten MoneyMakers Poll from 1932 - 1970, and that includes Gene Autry and Roy Rogers in the 1940s. Wayne first made this list in 1949 and continued to be at or near the top of the list for several decades: http://www.reelclassics.com/Articles/General/quigleytop10-article.htm
Reel Classics pages on Wayne includes lots of images and mp3 audio clips: http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Wayne/wayne.htm
Emanuel Levy authored the book John Wayne: Prophet of the American Way of Life and has several Wayne articles on his website:
https://emanuellevy.com/comment/john-wayne-women-marriage-and-family/
https://emanuellevy.com/review/conqueror-john-waynes-worst-film/
Find A Grave website has a picture of the grave marker for John Wayne at Pacific View Memorial Park, Newport Beach, California: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1079/john-wayne
Jerry Murbach's Doctor Macro website has a bunch of John Wayne photos:
https://www.doctormacro.com/Movie%20Star%20Pages/Wayne,%20John.htm
https://www.doctormacro.com/Movie%20Star%20Pages/Wayne,%20John-Annex.htm
Filmsite has a detailed review and commentary on John Ford's STAGECOACH: https://www.filmsite.org/stagec.html
Tommy Woolley's tribute to John Wayne website is at: http://johnwayne.byethost3.com/The_Duke.htm


One of the things that I decided to give a try this time around is better participation in GoodReads. I joined several groups dedicated to beta reading (seeking for readers and offering to read for others). I've done some beta reading for actual writer friends, so I thought it might be good to branch out. First, I picked a couple of projects that looked interesting to me. One person was asking for a reader for a YA novel that focuses on a trans character. Because the novel was also set in a non US setting and cultural issues were part of the plot, it looked interesting. I contacted the person on GR and gave them my web address, asking them to check out my credentials and email me if they thought we would be a good fit.
The second project I offered to read was actually a work in the same genre as the Olivia Chronicles. I contacted her, let her know that we were working in the same genre and that I'd be really interested in reading her work and offering feedback.
Neither of these messages were responded to by the persons so desperately seeking readers. Instead, I got a message from the moderator asking me if I was charging. No, I said, I am not. However, it seems like for someone to trust me in handing over their work, it would be nice for them to know that I'm not just some gal who likes to read.
I did get some messages from two individuals who were looking for readers. Neither was really in my genre areas (those I write in or that I read) but both folks were earnest and the story pitches were intriguing, at least.
I gave pretty extensive feedback and then when one of them offered to read for me in return, I said sure.
Overall, I enjoyed the book by the person who was reading for me (although I felt it was a bit bloated and one of the characters came across as incredibly sexist and a bit like a male character who had just been turned into a lesbian for shock value). The other person told me that she didn't have a day job, so she really liked doing reading for other people.
In the end, though, I got back comments that all of my characters stink, that there were "errors on every page" and that this person got off their writing schedule because they devoted so much time to my book.
My book was roughly 1/2 the length of the one I read for this person. I do have a day job. And while I have done some editing on the manuscript since that person read it, there were not "errors on every page." In addition, I had a paid reader who gave feedback on an earlier draft (much earlier). That reader actually works for a publishing house. In addition, my regular betas read an early version and didn't find the *problems* this person did. Basically, the feedback was a long *I hate this genre and therefore your writing is bad.* I think the feedback was also geared at "I got a free read from you but I don't want to return the favor."
All she had to do was email me early on and say, "Hey, I am not feeling the MS so maybe I'm not your best option as a reader." It's not like I asked her to eat a dog turd on film (those of you who recognize Divine above will know what I'm talking about).
So, I was left at the end of that experiment feeling like I had just crapped over a bunch of pages and was probably insane because I thought it was ok. The first printed proof came in and I started leafing through it, though, and started finding my way back out of the slump. I started reading other indie novels again (I'm just about done with The Devil in Canaan Parish and will post a review of it soon). I started thinking about my goals in the books I've published in the series so far and my current project.
I'm not trying to write high art here. I'm writing genre fiction that at best will be entertaining. If people find the connections to Stoker's work intriguing and they go back and read (or reread) Dracula, great. My number one fan, Stacy, once told me that she thought the idea of writing a book and having one person read it and find it enjoyable was a wonderful one. I agree. And, so, I press on.
The problem, though, is I don't want to come off like this guy. The other thing I've been doing over the last year or so is listening to podcasts and even attending a webinar or two about book marketing. In a recent one, I did get some good ideas for writing fuller, more "sales-friendly" book blurbs, but I kept peeking behind the green curtain. The example of the writer who cleared $7K in a month? I couldn't find any proof the person even has a book out. Their author site is nonfunctional, and the FB page I found for them makes vague references to the book (not titled) and series (not named) and how they are using a pen name. The webinar host has books out, yes, but his fiction titles don't have a whole lot of reviews.
So, at the end of the day, none of what I've been playing with changes that much for me. I still have a day job and will continue to write and hope that word of mouth helps out in getting my books in the hands or on the eReaders of those folks who might find some entertainment in them. I fear that when Zamani comes out that the beta reader who hated it is going to flay me on reviews. Hopefully, they won't even notice the book is out.


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A revelation of damning text messages in Vybz Kartel murder trial, between victim Clive 'Lizard' Williams and his girlfriend were read in court on Monday and Tuesday (January 13th-14th).
Following a revelation of damning texts in Vybz Kartel murder trial on Monday, more texts between victim Clive 'Lizard' Williams and his girlfriend were read in court on Tuesday.
On Monday (January 13th) the court heard texts between Williams and his girlfriend Onieka Jackson, sent on August 16, 2011, the day when it is alleged Williams was killed by Kartel and his associates over the disappearance of a gun.
Detective corporal Shawn Brown made a PowerPoint presentation of the text messages that were made on August 16, 2011, the same day that Williams was killed, reportedly over two missing guns.
In the series of messages read out in court, Williams allegedly urged his girlfriend to contact his sister for her to call police.
In one of the messages, Williams told his girlfriend that 'Teacha', referring to Vybz Kartel, had sent to call him.
In another message, he told his girlfriend that he was really scared, urging the woman to hurriedly call the police.
He also mentioned that he was being transported in a car to Havendale.
The police believe that Williams was killed at Vybz Kartel's Havendale house.
The court also viewed text message evidence purportedly from Shawn Campbell alias 'Shawn Storm' to Kartel.
In one of the messages, Campbell told Kartel that they had to get back "dem ting deh".
In another message, Campbell sent a message to an unknown person noting that something is going on.
In a series of messages to the same unknown person, Campbell reportedly said people are going to die.
Kartel is jointly charged with fellow entertainer Shawn Campbell also known as Shawn Storm, Kahira Jones, Shane Williams and Andre St John for the August 16, 2011 murder of Clive 'Lizard' Williams.
Williams was allegedly killed for the disappearance of two guns.
William's body was never found.
That was the end of their communication, according to information provided to the court by Corporal Shawn Brown.
However texts from co-accused Shawn 'Shawn Storm' Campbell on the following day, August 17, and also on the 18 were read in court.
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The Truth About Jason Momoa And Lenny Kravitz's Relationship
By admin January 14, 2022 No Comments1 Min Read
It makes sense that Lenny Kravitz, as the ex-husband of Lisa Bonet and father of their daughter together, would have an opinion or two about Jason Momoa when he and Bonet revealed they were serious. Happily for everyone involved, Kravitz really, really liked Momoa right from the start.
While speaking to Men's Health in October 2020, Kravitz shared that he and Momoa get along so well because that's what was best for everyone, including his daughter, Zoë. He explained, "People can't believe how tight Jason and I are, or how tight I still am with Zoë's mom, how we all relate. We just do it because that's what you do."
Kravitz did admit that he and Bonet had to work through their individual hurt following their divorce, but by the time she met Momoa, that was a thing of the past, which allowed him the ability to just really focus on the actor. In light of that admission, it's not really surprising that the twosome hit it off right away. Kravitz said, "But as far as Jason and I? Literally the moment we met, we were like, 'Oh, yeah. I love this dude.'"
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Object of the game To have the highest score after rolling the dice 5 times.
How to play the game The first player rolls all five dice then sets aside the highest dice and rolls the remaining dice. After the first player has rolled five times and set aside five dice, the dice are totaled and the passed to the next player.
You have to set aside at least one dice each turn.
Variations Sometimes people will play for bets where everyone antes up a token and the player with the highest score at the end wins all the tokens.
Other people play where you can set side as many dice as you like instead of just one.


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In the Test of English as a Foreign Language, you will be expected to demonstrate high proficiency in academic writing. The two tasks in the test's writing section are the Independent Task and the Integrated Task. In the Integrated Task, you are mainly tested on your ability to synthesize two sources in a relatively short response. In the Independent Task, you will be tested on your ability to prepare and write a cohesive, well-organized academic essay.
For your Independent Writing Task, you will be asked to give your opinion or preference on a specific topic. Although you are given 30 minutes to complete this task, proper time management is the key to preparing your essay. A good way to prepare is to use five minutes to outline your response. After this, you can use twenty minutes to write a cohesive essay that includes an introduction, a body and a conclusion. In an ideal situation, you will have a few minutes left at the end to edit your work.
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From his elaborate characters and sketches to his provocative songs and animation, Drennon has made a name for himself as one of the most innovative minds in today's comedy scene. His live performances of the "Imaginary Radio Program" combine live music and beat-boxing with one-man sketches into a show that the Los Angeles Comedy Bureau writes "not only lives up to its name, but exceeds expectation in what you could possibly think it is." Drennon recently appeared on TBS's "Conan," and has previously appeared on Comedy Central's "Adam Devine's House Party," NBC's "Last Call" and was a semi-finalist on "Last Comic Standing." His animated show "The Long Legs" can be seen on MTV's "Liquid Television." He was featured in LA Weekly's Top 10 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2014 and 2015 Best Comedy Duo (with Karen Kilgariff), as well as Splitsider's Top 10 Up & Coming Acts in LA in 2015. Drennon is a recurring presence at comedy festivals all over the world including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, SXSW, Riot LA Alternative Comedy Festival, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Vancouver Comedy Festival, the Oddball Comedy Festival, and many more.
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Akil Awan will be speaking at the 3rd ReSHAPE Workshop on Insecurity Complexes: The Response of the EU and Member States, held at the University of Catania, Sicily, 11-12th June, and organised by the Dept. of Political and Social Science.
Last year, the UN Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 2178 on Foreign Terrorist Fighters establishing an international legal framework to help prevent the recruitment and transport of would-be foreign fighters from joining terrorist groups. Unsurprising, considering the alarming growth of IS, which has attracted around 22,000 foreign fighters from every corner of the globe, willing to fight and die for its nascent Caliphate.
Many EU countries have scrambled to instate strategies for dealing with not just the recruitment of fighters - both over social media and in the 'real' world, as well as the inevitable influx of returnees once the conflict is over. Fighters returning from the front lines, brutalized by the ravages of war and potentially suffering from PTSD, may prove incapable of easily slipping back into normal society. With the rise of terrorist attacks in France and Belgium by returnee fighters, they may also pose a grave and sustained threat to their own host countries.
Awan's paper will focus on how EU member states might deal with their errant sons, who choose to return home, particularly as the policy options, ranging from removing citizenship to imprisonment, or deradicalization, are unlikely to catch every potential threat. Awan will delineate the contours of the problem and gauges the effectiveness of some of the policy responses on the table, addressing how we might best respond, as it appears the EU will be living with the insecurity complex generated by the 'Returnee Foreign Fighter' phenomenon for many years to come.


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What is Tamil for Loss? Remembering the Sri Lankan Civil War
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My grandmother always reminds me: you have lost your mother-tongue. When I return to Sri Lanka for brief visits, she tells me how I used to understand her. Like my nephews and nieces do now when I was a child, I would listen to spoken Tamil and reply in English. There is nothing I can say to her accusation except to agree. Yes, I have lost my mother tongue, the words, the sounds, the rhythms of speaking to which I was born. I willfully lost this language, after we moved to Australia where my voice, my skin, my body continually marked me as foreign, different, other. As we all know, primary school children can be cruel: losing my mother-tongue was a way to survive.
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Barkley L. Hendricks's work has been compared to the realism of artists like Philip Pearlstein and William Bailey, both of whom were included in an exhibition entitled Seven Realists held at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, in 1974, the same year that Family Jules (No Naked Niggahs) 1974 (Tate L02979) was painted.1Hendricks's art has also been discussed in relation to the photorealist work of artists like Chuck Close, whose portrait paintings – based on photographs – present close, geometrical studies of his subjects.
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Over the spring break, we set out for London in search of the archives and traveling histories of some of the itinerant and exiled thinkers we were studying. We followed the route of several deportees from the U.S. back to Brixton, a neighborhood in South London where Trinidadian writer C.L.R. James and his compatriot Claudia Jones ended up after their deportations from the United States during the 1950s at the height of McCarthyism.
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Interview: Kyle Richards Talks HALLOWEEN ENDS
After being a part of John Carpenter's original film 44 years ago now, Kyle Richards is set to return to the Halloween franchise one last time for Halloween Ends. As Lindsey Wallace, Richards was able to reprise her role in last year's Halloween Kills, and this time around, we get to see Lindsey bonding and supporting both Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Allyson (Andi Matichak) as the trio of women contend with the aftermath of Michael Myers' attacks that fueled the two previous films from David Gordon Green.
During the recent press day for Halloween Ends, Daily Dead had the opportunity to have a quick chat with Richards about returning to the Halloween franchise after all these years, getting to explore her character more in Ends, her relationship with Jamie Lee Curtis, and more.
Halloween Ends is currently in theaters everywhere and streaming exclusively on Peacock.
Great to speak with you today, Kyle. We're definitely going to get to Ends, but I'd like to back it up to the previous film first. When it came time for Kills, how cool was when you realized, "Oh my gosh, I'm going to get to be a part of this franchise and I'm going to get to be a badass, too, at the same time and take on Michael?" That scene you have with him is still so intense.
Kyle Richards: Oh, I was so excited when David reached out to me and asked me to be in the movie. Then, he started telling me all these pieces of the movie that I was gonna get to do, and I just was so excited, even though I was afraid. I didn't wanna say that at first, the fact that I was scared of getting into a swamp of alligators, but I felt like I would just deal with that when I got to it [laughs]. But that was probably the most fun and the most rewarding part. So, I was just so excited to be able to be in Halloween Kills and the fact that they wrote me into Halloween Ends was great. So, to be a part of this series from the very beginning when I was eight years old, and then all the way to the end, means a lot to me.
For me, as a fan who grew up with these films, it really feels like Ends comes full circle in a lot of ways, but especially for the female characters—Laurie, Allyson, and Lindsey. I like how this allowed us to settle in with these women in ways we haven't before. Was that fun for you?
Kyle Richards: I really liked that this has such a strong female force throughout the movie. And I come from a family of all women. I have four daughters, so that's always something that speaks to me anyway. My relationship with Jamie has evolved so much over these years and our characters Lindsey and Laurie, their relationship has evolved over the years, too. So, it felt really good to have these moments with Jamie because I didn't get to have any scenes with Jamie in the last movie. So this is our first time on camera together since the original film when I was eight years old. And I feel like you can really see that we have that connection, both on camera and off.
And with my character's backstory, that is something that I talked about with David for Halloween Kills but with Ends, we got to show who she is and what she actually does with her life in this movie, even though it was a small role. So, it was fun for me to create who this person that stayed in Haddonfield is after all these years, even though she's been terrorized. She's working in this little watering hole that everyone comes into, but she has her own demons and issues, even though I think she feels safe with these people that she's been traumatized with and terrorized by Michael Myers with. So that's why she's still there; it's almost like a weird safety net for her, oddly enough.
You have been a part of so many really interesting properties and iconic projects over the years, even beyond the Halloween franchise. Like, I remember watching Watcher in the Woods when I was really young and that terrified me. And I know you've been a part of Little House on the Prairie and E.R., too. I'm curious, for you, how much does it end up meaning to you and to your career to be involved with these projects that end up standing the test of time?
Kyle Richards: Well, I started in this business when I was extremely young. My mom used to joke and say, "Kyle was a late starter," because I was like three or four when I started out and my sisters started earlier. But you know, the fact that I've been in this business all of these years and getting to grow up in it and through it, to be able to come out on the other side where I'm still doing it, it's something I'm very proud of. I love being in this business. I love being an actor and doing Real Housewives of Beverly Hills has also allowed me to do other things like producing, too. It's a business that's been really good to me, so I'm just grateful. Always.
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