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Lenny's Last Laugh
by Jeffrey Peter Bates
Written by Jeffrey Peter Bates Mon Nov 21, 2016 Actors, Comedians, Fiction, Film, Lawyers, Short Story 2
Hollywood investigator McNulty must fulfill a comedian's final wish. 2,287 words. Part Two. Illustration by John Donald Carlucci.
Lenny Hazeltine was dead.
"How dead was he?" echoed the voices of a phantom TV audience in McNulty's head.
So dead he stopped getting robo calls from politicians.
So dead Nigerian Princes quit emailing him.
So dead his three ex-wives stopped suing him for more spousal support.
Yes, Lenny Hazeltine, one of America's most beloved funny men, was truly, absolutely and undeniably dead. Not that he wasn't used to it.
"I've died so many times on stage," he would joke, "my undertaker's on speed dial."
But now, in the truest sense of the word, Lenny Hazeltine, the man who claimed he'd been cited by the Center For Disease Control for spreading infectious laughter, was dead. And that was bad news for McNulty, Hollywood's most infamous private eye. Not only because a close friend had passed away, but also because the day had finally come when McNulty had to make good on his marker.
The IOU had come about a few years earlier when Lenny, one of the more notorious and self-admitted degenerate showbiz gamblers, invited McNulty to sit in on one of several underground poker games that had become a high-stakes pastime among A-list celebs, high-rollers and other moneyed mucky-mucks. McNulty's invitation was a so-called "bonus" after he'd saved Lenny a bundle in outrageous spousal support from his second wife. To prove that she had been the unfaithful party, McNulty's team of Nerd Ninjas had hacked into her cell phone and downloaded explicit photos and videos of her and a soap opera hunk engaged in a catalog of Kama Sutra positions.
"They were tied up in so many knots," Lenny joked, "the Boy Scouts awarded them merit badges."
The more popular of the underground poker games was Dolly Blossom's, an extremely attractive, ambitious and ruthless young woman who had elevated her venues from dingy backrooms to the penthouse suites of L.A.'s poshest hotels. She served snacks of caviar and fine cheeses, and hired a coterie of beautiful women to serve drinks and offer massages to the players. It was at one of Dolly's games where Lenny Hazeltine slyly tricked McNulty into signing a rather unusual IOU.
The buy-in was five grand a player, and there were nights when a single pot would go as high as $25,000. On this particular evening, they were eight hours into the game, with just over $12,000 on the table, when McNulty held a solid full house hand of kings over jacks. As the betting escalated with ever increasing raises, four of the players dropped out, leaving only McNulty and a high-powered entertainment attorney to battle. The raises had depleted McNulty's stake, and it was clear to him that the attorney was trying to "buy" the pot.
"I'm going all in," the attorney finally declared with an arrogant smirk, knowing full well that McNulty didn't have enough to call.
With a shrug, McNulty was about to throw in his cards when Lenny suddenly spoke up.
"I'll cover it," he said with a grin. He gave McNulty a reassuring nod.
"I call," McNulty said evenly. "Let's see 'em."
Tight-lipped and red-faced, the attorney angrily spread his cards on the table. An ace-high straight!
McNulty fanned his winning hand out on the table. "Thanks, Lenny," he said.
When the game broke up an hour later, McNulty took Lenny aside to settle up.
"Here's the six grand I owe you," McNulty said, pressing a wad of folded bills into Lenny's hand.
"You keep it," Lenny smiled, scribbling something on a paper napkin. "If my tax bracket gets any higher, the IRS'll need Sherpas to audit my returns." He handed the napkin to McNulty. "Let's do this instead."
McNulty looked at the napkin. On it, Lenny had written: MCNULTY OWES LENNY HAZELTINE ONE FAVOR. PAYABLE ON DEMAND.
Thinking it was a joke, and with Dolly Blossom and the other players looking on, McNulty shrugged and signed it. Little did he know then just how big a joke it would be.
Over the next six years, Lenny never once mentioned, or called in, McNulty's marker. But now that Lenny was gone, McNulty decided to pay back the six Gs he'd borrowed, plus interest, to the late comedian's estate. Lenny, however, had other ideas.
"What the fuck is this?" McNulty demanded, clutching the flash-drive he'd been handed moments earlier by Saul "Solly" Teesdale, Lenny's attorney and the executor of Lenny's estate.
They were meeting in a small private office at the ultra-exclusive Century City Country Club where Solly was hoping to tee off for a quick nine before lunch. The staid white-shoe club had for years been known for its strict policy of barring those of the Hebrew and Thespian persuasions. As he drove through the gate, McNulty recalled a story he'd heard about how the actor Victor Mature had been turned away at the club's door.
"I'm very sorry, Mr. Mature," the CCCC manager snidely informed him, "but club rules prohibit actors from entering the premises."
"I'm no actor," Mature supposedly snapped back, "and I've got 26 pictures to prove it!"
It was one of McNulty's favorite Old Hollywood stories and it always made him chuckle. But he wasn't chuckling now.
"It's Lenny's last wish," Solly replied, failing to suppress the smile tugging at his lips. "He's calling in your marker." The lawyer pointed to a laptop sitting on the desk. "Play it. Lenny will explain."
McNulty inserted the flash drive into a USB port. A few keystrokes later, Lenny appeared on the screen. He was reclining poolside at his Beverly Hills home, wearing Bermuda shorts and a colorfully loud Hawaiian shirt.
"L'chiam, Mac," Lenny said, wishing a long life to McNulty. "Of course, if you're watching this, you're now one up on me." He took a sip of his large gin and tonic. "I'm sure you remember this," he went on, holding up the napkin bearing McNulty's IOU. "Well, it's time to make good, old buddy, and I'm about to tell you how. As everyone in this facacta town knows, I was a gambler. Cards, sports, the ponies, you name it and I'd bet on it. Won more times than I lost, too." He gestured to the palatial house and grounds around him. "But there was one bet I made – you were there — and I had to wait until now to win it."
McNulty remembered the bet. At one of Dolly Blossom's poker games, Lenny had suddenly and brazenly boasted that he could lie naked in bed with Hollywood's reigning sex goddess, Eden La Peer, and make her howl with delight.
"Bullshit! You're a fucking garden gnome," the other players guffawed. "You'd be lucky if she let you in the same zip code."
They had a point. Like many comedians, Lenny Hazeltine wasn't the handsomest of men, but he had, over his long career, used laughter to entice many of Hollywood's top glamour girls.
"Fifty grand says I can," Lenny told them. "It'll take some time, I admit, but I can almost hear her howling right now."
"Sure, why not?" they finally agreed. "Fifty grand, it is."
"Fifty grand from each of you," Lenny said with a sly smile. "Bet?"
McNulty could see then that Lenny had something up his sleeve, and it wasn't a hidden playing card. "Too rich for me," the imvestigator said. "But you guys go ahead."
The other five players, all Hollywood big shots, considered the odds were definitely in their favor. "Okay," they said. "You're on."
And so, with two hundred and fifty K on the table, they all shook on it.
"It's time I collected on that bet," Lenny's video continued. "And, because you owe me, you're gonna help me do it."
When Lenny's video concluded, Solly asked, "So what do you say? You in?"
McNulty sighed heavily, knowing his nuts were in a vice. "I'm in," he replied reluctantly.
Now McNulty sat in his office, quietly sipping his Glen Livet neat and pondering Lenny's wacky assignment to pay off the P.I.'s IOU. Lenny's video had made clear that, should McNulty not carry out his last request, Solly would spread the word that he was nothing more than a deadbeat. A threat that would not only permanently stain McNulty's personal and professional reputation, but also impact negatively on his business. While Hollywood could tolerate just about anything – adultery, child molestation, drug addiction, even murder – welshing on a debt was the one transgression completely unforgivable, a heinous taboo held sacrosanct by a town filled with thieves, swindlers and con artists, or, as they were known professionally, studio executives, producers and agents/managers.
McNulty drained his glass. "Wanda!" he barked into the intercom, "Alert the guys. We've got a job to do."
"What'll I tell them?" Wanda asked.
"Tell 'em to hurry," he grumbled. "We only have forty-eight hours to pull it off."
It wasn't a lot of time, but as everyone in Hollywood knew, if the task was impossible, McNulty could be counted on to find a way to do it. Which is why Lenny was relying on him. Since his meeting with Solly, McNulty had spent the last few hours noodling possible solutions. When he finally settled on one, he knew instinctively that it could work. All it would take was a load of luck, and a pinch of showbiz magic to pull off the practical joke.
Besides the tight 48-hour time frame, McNulty faced two other major obstacles. The first was Lenny himself, who was a critical component in this whole outlandish enterprise, and whose memorial service and cremation would occur when the 48 hours expired. The second was the premiere of Eden La Peer's latest motion picture, Midnight Seduction, which was a star-studded Red Carpet event scheduled for the next evening at the Hollywood Chinese Theater.
"She can't be in two places at once," Wanda observed after McNulty's Nerd Ninjas hacked into Eden's cell phone and downloaded her calendar and appointment book.
"Sure she can," McNulty said confidently. "Call the Popped Cherry in WeHo. Tell Sasha I need him."
There were other obstacles, of course, but those were minor and McNulty was pretty sure he could overcome them. He spent the next 36 hours lining up all the elements he'd need to ensure that Lenny's last laugh went off without a hitch, leaving a lean 12 hours to actually pull it off. Logistically, it was like producing a major motion picture in two days. Not a lot of time, especially since his leading man would be a pile of ashes the morning after.
McNulty took out a burner phone and sent a text to Solly Teesdale: SEND PACKAGE.
The dapper lawyer read the message and, with a wry smile, nodded to the owner of the funeral home where Larry Hazeltine's body lay in a polished mahogany casket. Sweating profusely, the mortician nervously wiped a handkerchief over his balding head and face. He was clearly having second thoughts.
"It was Mister Hazeltine's last request," Solly reminded him. "Not only have we indemnified you, but you're being well compensated. If you refuse, I'll bury you in so many law suits you'll wish you were one of your own customers."
"Fine," the mortician gasped. "Just promise me you'll have him back in time for the memorial service."
"He'll be here," Solly grinned. "He's the headliner."
Solly signaled to four of McNulty's operatives who lifted Lenny's corpse from the casket, gently placed him into a zippered body bag, and carried it out a rear door to a rented van bearing the name of a bogus plumbing company painted on its sides.
As the van drove off, Solly sent a text to McNulty's burner: PACKAGE DEPARTED. Then followed it with a second text: PUN INTENDED.
Not "ha-ha:" funny, McNulty thought, but Lenny would have enjoyed it. McNulty knew this was completely nuts, but this wasn't the first time a celebrity's corpse had been spirited away (pun intended) for a final send-off.
According to Hollywood legend, when actor John Barrymore, a well-known alcoholic, died suddenly in 1942, director Raoul Walsh reportedly bribed the mortuary attendants so he could drive his old drinking buddy up to the Mulholland estate of Errol Flynn. With the help of Flynn's Russian butler, they carried the corpse into the house and sat him down on his favorite chair. When a drunken Flynn returned home, he nearly jumped out of his skin when he saw the dead actor. Barrymore was propped up in Flynn's living room with a glass of whiskey in his cold dead hand, and Walsh sat across from him woozily drinking to his health.
"Jesus, Raoul," Flynn exclaimed, "they'll give us life for this!"
"Good." Walsh hiccupped, then gestured drunkenly at Barrymore's corpse. "He can use all they got!"
Another version of the story had Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre, while shooting Casablanca, stealing Barrymore's corpse and smuggling it into the home of studio chief Jack Warner, who, upon discovering the body, screamed out a stream of profanities so offensive people wondered where he'd learned such foul language. "Bette Davis," Warner admitted. "Got a mouth on her that'd make a maggot puke."
Whichever version was true, McNulty felt a strong kinship with those Old Hollywood rascals, all of them mad talented film buccaneers who never backed down from a brawl, a drink, or any other outrageous exploit that so gloriously captured the free-wheeling spirit of that long ago golden age. McNulty so embraced that era that he often saw himself as a man from another time when the movies were black and white and the people who made them were as vivid and colorful as a Technicolor print.
Jeffrey Peter Bates is a longtime member of the WGA and the Academy for Television Arts and Sciences. He is currently the Creative Director at Onyx Productions Direct Inc where he writes and directs commercials and infomercials. He sold a screenplay, had several scripts optioned, has written his first novel The President's Widow now out to publishers and is at work on a sequel.
About Jeffrey Peter Bates
Jeffrey Peter Bates is a longtime member of the WGA and the Academy for Television Arts and Sciences. He is currently the Creative Director at Onyx Productions Direct Inc where he writes and directs commercials and infomercials. He sold a screenplay, had several scripts optioned, has written his first novel The President's Widow now out to publishers and is at work on a sequel.	View all posts by Jeffrey Peter Bates →
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2 comments on "Lenny's Last Laugh
Dave Wollert ... 'Lenny's Last Laugh' says:
Mon Nov 21, 2016 at 11:47am PST
Okay, so I've only read Part One, but so far "Lenny's Last Laugh" seems to be one of McNulty's best laughs. I like the way Bates is working in some of those great old Hollywood stories, and I'm wondering how the hell McNulty (and Bates) are going to bring Lenny's deadwood to life.
Ken Ross ... 'Lenny's Last Laugh' says:
Mon Nov 21, 2016 at 9:39am PST
Wow. Mr Bates just gets better and better. Good story beginning peppered with great wit. I cant wait for more….


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Canadian-Nigerian Human Rights Engagements (1999-2011): An Introduction
Obiora C. Okafor, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow
(2016) African Yearbook of International Law
More contemporary Canadian-Nigerian human rights engagements have occurred against the backdrop of a relatively long history of engagement in this area between the two countries, and alongside an even longer history of Canadian-Nigerian relations more generally. These are histories within which one must situate the human rights engagements between these countries during the specific period under study here. As is well known, Canada established diplomatic relations with Nigeria shortly after Nigeria's independence from British colonial rule in 1960. Nigeria reciprocated in 1973. It is noteworthy that Canada has for several decades now funded or otherwise supported many human rights efforts and struggles in Nigeria (as elsewhere), including in relation to judicial reform, institution building, democratization, and poverty alleviation. While Nigeria has – over time – more or less remained engaged in this relationship, the evidence suggests that Nigeria has not tended to act in a similar manner toward Canada. While the preliminary evidence suggests that the interventions from Canada have played some kind of role in Nigeria, the exact nature, attainments, problems, and prospects of such Canadian-Nigerian human rights cooperation has not been as rigorously studied and widely understood in the scholarly literature as might be expected. The relevant literature (especially its human rights sub-set) is thus relatively inadequate at the moment. Neither Howard-Hassman's very important 2004 piece on the Canadian intervention regarding the flogging of Bariya Magazu by the authorities in one far Northern Nigerian state (province), nor Sonia Cardenas' excellent exploration of the various ways in which the Canadian Human Rights Commission has sought to assist national human rights bodies around the world, come close to filling this huge gap in the literature. Similar points can be made concerning work done by the now defunct CIDA, and the writings of scholars such as Feyisetan; the Reliefweb; and Aiyede. As such, it is clear that Canadian/Nigerian policymakers, development practitioners, and scholars will benefit significantly from any additional insight into the afore-referenced questions. So will many among the lettered and relevant segments of the Canadian/Nigerian public. Needless to say, important (albeit preliminary) analogies could also be made from the discussion here in relation to the similarly under-studied aspects of Canada's human rights role in other African and even developing countries generally.
Okafor, Obiora C., "Canadian-Nigerian Human Rights Engagements (1999-2011): An Introduction" (2016). Articles & Book Chapters. 2650.
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Born in Coromandel Valley on 3rd September 1886, Harold was the younger son of William and Harriet Sullivan.
After attending Coromandel Valley Public School, Harold worked as an orchardist before enlisting in the 9th Light Horse Regiment at Morphettville, South Australia on 10th September 1914. It must have been a frightening time for William and Harriet, as Harold's older brother Herbert, born 1878, enlisted in Western Australia in September the following year.
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H Sullivan, b. 3 September 1886, d. 11 February 1917
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Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford: A Moses to His People
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Ford, Arnold Josiah (23 Apr. 1877-16 Sept. 1935), rabbi, black nationalist, and emigrationist, was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, the son of Edward Ford and Elizabeth Augusta Braithwaite. Rabbi Ford asserted that his father's ancestry could be traced to the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria and his mother's to the Mendi tribe of Sierra Leone. According to his family"s oral history, their heritage extended back to one of the priestly families of the ancient Israelites, and in Barbados his family maintained customs and traditions that identified them with Judaism (Kobre, 27). His father was a policeman who also had a reputation as a "fiery preacher" at the Wesleyan Methodist Church where Arnold was baptized; yet, it is not known whether Edward's teaching espoused traditional Methodist beliefs or embodied the radical reconsiderations of Christianity and the embrace of Judaism that his son would later advocate.
Ford's parents intended for him to become a musician. They provided him with private tutors who instructed him in several instruments—particularly the harp, violin, and bass. As a young adult, he studied music theory with the Edmestone Barnes of London and in 1899 joined the musical corps of the British Royal Navy, where he served on the HMS Alert. According to some reports, Ford was stationed on the island of Bermuda, where he secured a position as a clerk at the Court of Federal Assize, and he claimed that before coming to America he was a minister of Public Works in the Republic of Liberia, where many ex-slaves and then early black nationalists attempted to settle.
When Ford arrived in Harlem around 1910, he gravitated to its musical centers rather than to political or religious institutions—although within black culture, all three are interrelated. He was a member of the Clef Club Orchestra, under the direction of JAMES REESE EUROPE, which first brought jazz to Carnegie Hall in 1912. Other musicians who were black and Jewish, such as Willie "the Lion" Smith, an innovator of stride piano, also congregated at the Clef Club. Shortly after the orchestra's Carnegie Hall engagement, Ford became the director of the New Amsterdam Musical Association. His interest in mystics, esoteric knowledge, and secrete societies is evidenced by his membership in the Scottish Rite Masons, where he served as Master of the Memmon Lodge. It was during this period of activities in Harlem that he married Olive Nurse, with whom he had two children before they divorced in 1924.
In 1917 MARCUS GARVEY founded the New York chapter of the Universal Negro Improvement Association [UNIA]. Within a few years it had become the largest mass movement in African American history. Arnold Ford became the musical director of the UNIA choir, Samuel Valentine was the president, and Nancy Paris its lead singer. These three became the core of an active group of black Jews within the UNIA who studied Hebrew, religion, and history, and held services at Liberty Hall, the headquarters of the UNIA. As a paid officer, Rabbi Ford, as he was then called, was responsible for orchestrating much of the pageantry of Garvey's highly attractive ceremonies. Ford and Benjamin E. Burrell composed a song called "Ethiopia," the lyrics of which spoke of a halcyon past before slavery and stressed pride in their African heritage—two themes that were becoming immensely popular. Ford's efforts in the movement place him in the category of GEORGE ALEXANDER MCGUIRE, Chaplain-General of the UNIA, and various Islamic and Christian clergy who were each trying to influence the religious direction of the organization.
Ford's contributions to the UNIA, however, were not limited to musical matters. He and E.L. Gaines wrote the handbook of rules and regulation for the African Legion (which was modeled after the Zionist Jewish Legion) and developed guidelines for the Black Cross Nurses. He served on committees, spoke at rallies, and was elected one of the delegates representing the 35,000 members of the New York chapter to the "First International Convention of Negro Peoples of the World," held in 1920 at Madison Square Garden. There the governing body adopted the red, black, and green flag as its national ensign and Ford"s song "Ethiopia" became the "Universal Ethiopian Anthem," which the UNIA constitution required be sung at every gathering. During that same year, Ford published the Universal Ethiopian Hymnal. Ford was a proponent of replacing the disparaging term "Negro" with the term "Ethiopian," as a general reference to people of African descent. This gave the line in Psalm 68 that "Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hand to God," a new significance and it became popular slogan of the organization. At the 1922 convention, Ford opened the proceedings for the session devoted to "The Politics and Future of the West Indian Negro," and he represented the advocates of Judaism on a five-person ad hoc committee formed to investigate "the Future Religion of the Negro." Following Garvey's arrest in 1923, the UNIA loss much of its internal cohesion. Since Ford and his small band of followers were motivated by principals that were independent of Garvey's charismatic appeal, they were repeatedly approached by government agents and asked to testify against Garvey at trial, which they all refused to do. However, in 1925, Ford brought separate law suits against Garvey and the UNIA for failing to pay him royalties from the sale of recordings and sheet music, and in 1926 the judge ruled in Ford's favor. Yet, despite his personal and business differences with the organization, Ford remained active in the UNIA as a rabbi, giving invocations and benedictions.
Several black religious leaders experimented with various degrees of Judaism between the two world wars. Rabbi Ford formed intermittent partnerships with some of these leaders. He and Valentine started a short lived congregation called Beth B'nai Israel. Ford then worked with Mordecai Herman and the Moorish Zionist Temple, until they had an altercation over theological and financial issues. Finally, he established Beth B'nai Abraham in 1924. A Jewish scholar who visited the congregation described their services as "a mixture of Reform and Orthodox Judaism, but when they practice the old customs they are seriously orthodox" (Kobre, 25). Harlem chronicler JAMES VANDERZEE photographed the congregation with the Star of David and bold Hebrew lettering identifying their presence on 135th Street and showing Rabbi Ford standing in front of the synagogue with his arms around his string bass, and with members of his choir arrayed at his side, the women wearing the black dresses and long white head coverings that became their distinctive habit and the men donned in white turbans.
In 1928, Rabbi Ford created a business adjunct to the congregation called the B'nai Abraham Progressive Corporation. Reminiscent of many of Garvey's ventures, this corporation issued 100 shares of stock and purchased two buildings from which it operated a religious and vocational school in one and an apartment house in the other. However, the resources to sustain this enterprise dwindled as the Depression became more pronounced, and the corporation went bankrupt in 1930. Once again it seemed that Ford's dream of building a black community with cultural integrity, economic viability, and political virility was dashed, but out of the ashes of this disappointment he mustered the resolve to make a final attempt in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian government had been encouraging black people with skills and education to immigrate to Ethiopia for almost a decade, and Ford knew that there were over 40,000 indigenous black Jews already in Ethiopia who called themselves Beta Israel, but who were commonly referred to as Falasha. The announced coronation of Haile Selassie in 1930 as the first black ruler of an African nation in modern times raised the hopes of black people all over the world and led Ford to believe that the timing of his Ethiopian colony was providential.
Ford arrived in Ethiopia with a small musical contingent in time to perform during the coronation festivities. They then sustained themselves in Addis Abba by performing at local hotels and relying on assistance from supporters in the United Sates who were members of the Aurienoth Club, a civic group of black Jews and black nationalists, and members of the Commandment Keepers Congregation, led by RABBI W. A. MATTHEW, Ford"s most loyal protégé. Mignon Innis arrived with a second delegation in 1931 to work as Ford's private secretary. She soon became Ford's wife, and they had two children in Ethiopia. Mrs. Ford established a school for boys and girls that specialized in English and music. Ford managed to secure 800 acres of land on which to begin his colony and approximately 100 individuals came to help him develop it. Unbeknownst to Ford, the U.S. State Department was monitoring their efforts with irrational alarm, dispatching reports with such headings as "American Negroes in Ethiopia—Inspiration Back of Their Coming Here—"Rabbi Josiah A. Ford," and instituting discriminatory policies to curtail the travel of black citizens to Ethiopia. [Explain why briefly]
Ford had no intention of ever leaving Ethiopia, so he drew up a certificate of ordination (shmecha) for Rabbi Matthew that was sanctioned by the Ethiopian government with the hope that this document would give Matthew the necessary credentials to continue the work that Ford had begun in the United States. By 1935 the black Jewish experiment with Ethiopian Zionism was on the verge of collapse. Those who did not leave because of the hard agricultural work, joined the stampede of foreign nationals who sensed that war with Italy was imminent and defeat for Ethiopia certain. Ford, it was said, died of exhaustion and heartbreak in September, a few weeks before the Italian invasion.
The papers of Rabbi Ford are held largely in private collections; however, correspondence between Ford and Matthew is contained in the Rabbi Matthew Collection at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, along with other collections relating to Harlem's black Jews. Detailed records of Ford"s efforts in Ethiopia are available at the National Archives, State Department Records for Ethiopia.
King, Kenneth J. "Some Notes on Arnold J. Ford and New World Black Attitudes to Ethiopia," in Black Apostles: Afro-American Clergy Confront the Twentieth Century, Randall Burkett and Richard Newman, eds. (1978).
Kobre, Sidney. "Rabbi Ford," The Reflex 4, no. 1 (1929): 25-29. Scott, William R. "Rabbi Arnold Ford"s Back-to-Ethiopia Movement: A Study of Black Emigration, 1930-1935," Pan-African Journal 8, no. 2 (1975):191-201. and Richard Newman (1978) and William R. Scott. "Rabbi Arnold Ford"s Back-to- Ethiopia Movement: A Study of Black Emigration, 1930-1935," Pan-African Journal 8, no. 2 (1975): 191-201.
*This article was published by Rabbi Sholomo Levy in African American Lives (2004) and the African American National Biography (2008). Both volumes were edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and printed by Oxford University Press.
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Last night, Rita Ora premiered her debut single "Party & Bullshit" on New York's hit music station Z100! The 21-year-old English singer-songwriter was joined by Roc Nation label boss Jay-Z as they played her debut single for the very first time. There has been much buzz surrounding Rita ever since she was quietly signed to Roc Nation back in '09 and with a current #1 in the UK with DJ Fresh's "Hot Right Now," it may finally be time for her to step out into the spotlight. "Party & Bullshit" was penned by Bonnie McKee and produced by The Runners and it is the exact radio-ready pop track that will most likely help break her into the U.S. While there really isn't anything particularly interesting or fresh about "Party & Bullshit," It's a lot of fun and is perfectly crafted for summer. The song will serve as a great intro for her in the U.S. but if she plans on sticking around she indeed will have to go harder on the second single. What do you guys think?
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Before you extend UFT support for a custom control, you must have access to its class and an application that runs it.
In this section, you create an Eclipse project containing the Javaboutique custom toolkit classes. The AllLights class can run as an Applet, so there is no need for an additional application containing the custom control.
Run Eclipse and select File > New > Project. The New Project dialog box opens.
Select Java Project and click Next. The New Java Project dialog box opens.
Enter Javaboutique in the Project name box.
Select the Create project from existing source option.
Click the Browse button and browse to the <UFT Java Add-in Extensibility SDK installation folder>\samples\Javaboutique\src folder. Click OK to return to the New Java Project dialog box.
Click Finish. A new Java project is created with the Javaboutique sample source files. The new project, named Javaboutique, is displayed in the Package Explorer tab.
Note: The steps for creating a new project in Eclipse may vary, depending on the Eclipse version that you use.
After you create the Javaboutique project, expand the project to view its content. The Javaboutique\src package folder contains the org.boutique.toolkit package. This package contains three custom controls: AllLights, AwtCalc and ETextField.
In this lesson, you create the UFT Java Add-in Extensibility project for the Javaboutique custom toolkit and the support class for AllLights.
Clicking in different parts of the grid area turns different lights on (or off), according to an internal set of rules, updating the LightOn and LightOff counters.
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Q: A (First-Order) theory T such that every embedding between T-models is elementary I was wondering, is there a characterization for such a theory? It seems like a pretty handy property so there must be something. Would really appreciate any insight.

A: This property is called model completeness and it is well-studied. It is easy to see that if every sentence is equivalent mod $T$ to a universal sentence, then every embedding of models of $T$ is elementary (or if equivalently, every sentence is equivalent to an existential sentence). It turns out, via a compactness argument, that this is also necessary, so this is a convenient characterization of model-complete theories. It follows immediately that any theory with quantifier elimination is model-complete.  The converse doesn't hold.
It's worth noting that despite the name, completeness and model completeness are incomparable properties. For instance, the theory of $(\mathbb N,+,\cdot)$ is complete by definition, but not model-complete, since it is pretty clear that not every sentence is not equivalent to a universal one. Likewise, the theory of dense linear orders with endpoints is complete but not model complete (the first nontrivial embedding you can think of is probably not elementary). On the other hand, the theory of algebraically closed fields has quantifier elimination, but it is not complete until you specify the characteristic. There are simpler examples as well. Like if we have a language with a single predicate symbol, the theory of one-element models is not complete (since we do not specify whether the predicate is satisfied), but any embedding of one-element models is an isomorphism.

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Nokia's first smartphone will be released exclusively in China and will be powered by Android operating system.
Cellphone users of a certain age tend to have a soft spot for Nokia. For quite a long time now Nokia has subjugated the mobile phone market with its solid and less costly devices. How else can anyone forget its significant ringtone?
Nevertheless, the arrival of other competitive companies producing smartphones such as Apple's iPhones in 2007, cutout Nokia's global dominance.
And now the Finnish brand is having another green light at smartphones. It is wagering on the vast and aggressively economical Chinese market as the place to start.
It was at the CES tech show where the first Nokia for Google's Android Operating System was unveiled. This was done on a Sunday night in Las Vegas. The Nokia 6 will be available exclusively in China, through online retail giant JD.com (JD).
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But these phones are not made by the old Nokia mobile handset business. Instead, Nokia has accredited the use of its brands to fellow Finnish company HMD Global. This is after suffering waves of heavy cuts by it owner Microsoft.
In agreement to Nokia's bygone popularity, JD.com executive Shengli Hu said the corporation with HDM will enable Chinese consumers "communicate with Nokia phones."
HMD is facing a competitive market with similar products. Giant companies like Apple (AAPL,Tech30) and Samsung (SSNFL) are already competing the popular local brands Oppo,Vivo,Huawei and Xiaomi for a share of profitable smartphone market in the whole of China.
Well, despite of its success not guaranteed in the Market Nokia still enjoys Brand awareness in China.
Nicole Peng, a Chinese smartphone expert at tech research firm Canalys, said that the Chinese consumers recognize the Nokia brand for sure. She later questioned how much of that will transfer to a buying decision and also how many people will pay for it.
She also emphasized that the New Nokia phone is targeting the middle of the market, this is because it is priced at 1,699 Yuan ($245) which is about a quarter the price of a new Apple iPhone 7 Plus. For most international brands like Samsung, they have wavered in their dominance in the China market.
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There will be a great challenge for Nokia to win over most of the young buyers in China.
The IDC analyst who is covering the smartphone market in China says that the people born in 1990s or even the 2000s knows nothing concerning Nokia. They just use new brands made by them.
Similar features are shared by Nokia 6 to current smartphones on the market are as follows; a 5.5 inch screen, HD resolution, and front and rear facing cameras.
For some time now Nokia has been the leading smartphone company in China. And at its peak in 2010, the company was able to sell 82.5 million mobile devices in the whole country.
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Facebook is Enabling a New Generation of Touchy-Feely Robots
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This article is about the New Generation of Touchy-Feely Robots. Before going to discuss this unique type of Robot, we will start with Examples like Frankenstein's monster would never have discovered that "fire was bad". If he didn't have a sense of touch, we would have had an unstoppable reanimated killing machine on our hands. So be grateful for your most underrated sense, one that robots may eventually enjoy as well. On Monday, Facebook announced the development of a set of tactile technologies that will give robots a sense of touch that the mad doctor could never fathom.
Why is Facebook interested in research for the New Generation of Touchy-Feely Robots?
I was conversing with Mark Zuckerberg before I joined Facebook, and I asked him, "Is there any area connected to AI that you think we shouldn't be working on?". During a recent press call, Yann LeCun, Facebook's chief AI scientist, recalled. "And he said, 'I can't think of any good reason for us to focus on robotics. That was the beginning of our FAIR research, that we weren't going to work on robotics."
"Then, after a few years," he continued, "it became clear that a lot of interesting progress in AI work is happening in the context of robotics because this is the nexus of where people in AI research are trying to get to. The full loop of perception, reasoning, planning and action, and then getting feedback from the from the environment."
As a result, FAIR's tactile technology research has focused on four key areas of investigation: hardware, simulation, processing, and perception. FAIR's hardware efforts have already been seen: the DIGIT, a "low-cost, small high-resolution tactile sensor" first unveiled by Facebook in 2020.
DIGIT, which uses a tiny camera pointing at the pads to provide a detailed image of the item being touched, was released as an open-source design in 2020. In the image at the top, you can see the fingertips themselves; they're incredibly sensitive.
The DIGIT project dates back to 2009; we previously covered the MIT project GelSight in 2014 and again in 2020 – the company has since spun off and is now the manufacturing partner for this well-documented method to touch.
An alternative approach is taken by the ReSkin system. In essence, magnetic particles are suspended in a soft gel surface, and a magnetometer beneath it detects their displacement, converting the motions into precise force maps of the pressures that cause the movement.
One of the benefits of a ReSkin system is that the hard component — the chip with the magnetometer and circuitry, for example — is completely independent of the soft component, which is simply a flexible pad impregnated with magnetic dots. That means the surface can become dirty or scratched and be readily changed, while the sensitive component can remain hidden beneath.
DIGIT is a vision-based tactile sensor, unlike traditional tactile sensors that rely on capacitive or resistive technologies. No doubt if we are able to build a New Generation of Touchy-Feely Robots, that can be proven a revolution.
One of the benefits of a ReSkin system is that the hard component for the new generation of touchy-feely robots— the chip with the magnetometer and circuitry, for example — is completely independent of the soft component, which is simply a flexible pad impregnated with magnetic dots. That means the surface can become dirty or scratched and be readily changed, while the sensitive component can remain hidden beneath.
In the case of ReSkin, this means you can connect a bunch of the chips in any shape and cover them with a slab of magnetic elastomer, then integrate the signals to receive touch information from the whole thing. It's not quite that easy, because you have to calibrate it and all, but it's a lot easier than other artificial skin systems that could function at scales larger than a few square inches.
Robots and other devices can detect the presence of objects and impediments more simply with a pressure-sensitive surface like this, rather than depending on extra friction from the joint exerting force in that direction. As a result, assistive robots could be much gentler and more receptive to touch, not that there are many such robots in the first place. But part of the reason is that, because they lack a keen sense of touch, they can't be trusted not to crush things or people.
Facebook's goal here isn't to come up with new ideas, but to make a proven strategy more accessible and affordable. The software foundation will be open source, and the devices will be reasonably priced, making it easy for other researchers to enter the sector. Building a new generation of touchy-feely robots is a great goal for Facebook or metaverse that is going to be appreciated all over the world.
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Paul Jennings has crewed in seven Bermuda Races over the years and is gearing up to put his own boat on the starting line for the 52nd running of the 635 nm race when it gets underway June 18, 2022.
As a child, Paul started sailing with his father on the family's s Cape Cod Marlin 23-footer. One of the first fiberglass boats in production in the late 1950s, Altair was built by Cape Cod Shipbuilding and is still in the family, with four generations aboard. He learned to race through the Off Soundings Club of southeastern New England.
In recent years, Paul spent time getting the boat back into shape after it had been out of the water for about 20 years.
During that period, he owned En Charette a custom 27-footer built by Ron Noe in 1974 (below). He sailed her competitively on eastern Long Island Sound, making regular appearances at Block Island, Key West, Charleston Race Week, and Off Soundings events; his racing results include two overall season victories in the Eastern Connecticut Sailing Association.
In addition to sailing around the buoys, Paul got involved in distance racing. He sailed six Bermuda Races aboard a Carter 39 named Light Fantastic owned by Sylvain ("Sy") Schemitz and a seventh race aboard Fearless, a Farr 395.
After this range of experiences, Paul developed a serious interest in racing as an owner. "It was on my bucket list and it was just a matter of choosing a boat and assembling a crew," he says. In the fall of 2016, Paul bought a Cal 40 and began preparing her for the Bermuda Race.
"I chose this boat because of its history; it is an established production boat with a great racing pedigree," he reports. "I bought my boat, Towhee, from Drew Lyman at Lyman Morse Boatyard in Camden, Maine. She is hull number 92 and was built in 1967." When Paul purchased her, the Boatyard had already completed much of the major work to ready Towhee for offshore racing.
"I was fortunate when I purchased her in that they had spent a considerable amount of time and effort on the things that are typical problems for Cal 40s, but I did have to optimize her further. I added handrails down below and had to beef up and replace all the standing and running rigging, and the storm trysail track on the mast. In addition, I updated all of the electronics and the sail inventory to be ready for racing."
His intention was to do Bermuda in 2020, but the race was cancelled due to the pandemic. As part of the preparation, Paul and his team had competed in a number of offshore races together, including the 2019 Halifax Race. Since then, they have appeared in the Annapolis to Newport Race, the Vineyard Race, and the Block Island Race.
"My philosophy," Paul states, "is that I'm not going offshore with anyone who has not been sailing with us for more than one race."
Now he has seven crewmembers, including his two sons and five others, with whom he has sailed frequently in the past. One of the key figures in his racing history is Edgar Smith, a friend and competitor who grew up sailing on a Cal 40.
"When I told Edgar that I was going on this adventure and getting Towhee ready for distance racing, he was all in," notes Paul. The other crew members understand the Cal 40 and the racing prep work well too. "We have worked hard on a watch-standing system, safety measures, and different drills over time," he adds. "We knew that we were not going to go unless everyone was committed to learning and could participate."
In terms of local knowledge, Paul's Ambassador for the Bermuda Race, Hiro Nakajima, has extensive experience with the route from the Northeast.
"When I first did the first race in 2003, there were so many basic logistical questions," admitted Hiro. "Where is the best place to get fuel? Where do you reprovision the boat? Things like that. I wish that there had been an Ambassador program then, so when I was invited to help the Newport race in this way, I was more than willing to do so."
Turning to his current Ambassador relationship, Hiro offered a warm endorsement: "For many years, Paul has competed in numerous distance races including Bermuda Races and he's finally decided to campaign his own boat. He is very organized and had it pretty much down from the beginning."
When asked about offering a word to the wise, Paul was emphatic about timing. "Start early and you can never be too prepared; that goes for the boat and crew alike," he said. "Hiro's been a great help too. I contacted him prior to 2020 and he has offered great insights on what he has done to get his boats ready for the Bermuda race."
One issue with Paul's Cal 40 was its age. For boats of this vintage, specifications of build standards are often unavailable. "This impacts the race application process, as the prospective entrant may not be able to fill out some sections of the mandatory safety documentation," notes Hiro.
However, in the case of the Cal 40s, since there have been numerous prior entries in the Bermuda Race, the specs are well established. In this situation, the Race's Technical Committee can typically issue a separate letter of compliance to meet the race requirement.
"I had the same problem with my 1971 custom S&S 49," says Hiro, "and I had a sense of how to address it so that Paul would be in compliance."
Paul also notes the value of their conversations on equipment, strategy, and crew. "Hiro was able to give me advice on sails and how to do well in this race. He also connected me with Bob Langstine, a friend and classmate I hadn't seen in years, who had sailed with Hiro in a bunch of offshore races. It was great to have that reintroduction and renew that friendship," he adds.
Turning to the path ahead, Paul is optimistic. "If you look at the 50-plus year history of the design, the Cal 40 has done well in every major ocean race across the board." Clearly, there has been a major effort to ensure that Towhee can give her best performance. "No matter whether it is your first race or your tenth, it's a process," says Paul.
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IVORIAN President Alassane Quattara at the weekend inaugurated the country's newly completed embassy in Abuja.
Quattara, who is in the country for the 60th Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) inaugurated the embassy located in the Diplomatic Drive, Central Area, Abuja
The foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Chancellery was laid in December 2018. The three story building sits on an area of 8130m2.
According to the current Ambassador of Côte d'Ivoire to Nigeria, Kalilou Traore, the building consists of eight ambassador's offices, 15 Agents' offices, three large meeting rooms and a Presidential Suite.
Speaking at the ceremony, the Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Integration and Diaspora, Mrs. Kandia Camara, said the new building is a prospects for cooperation between the two countries.
Camera said with more than 860 billion CFA francs in global trade, Nigeria is the first African trading partner of Côte d'Ivoire.
She also invited Nigerian businessmen to strengthen their partnership with their Ivorian counterparts.
She expressed the hope that the building will also play an interface role between our country and ECOWAS, adding that the embassy will constitute a solid foundation for the strengthening of cooperation between the two countries as well as for exchanges with Nigeria, ECOWAS and all partners, while being the House of Côte d'Ivoire.
The ceremony ended with a guided tour by the President Ouattara.
The Nigerian Government was represented at the ceremony by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Mohammed Mahmoud Aboubakar and ECOWAS by the President of the Commission, Mr. Jean Claude Brou.
Buhari not aware of anyone in Villa working against Tinubu – FG


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package org.jbpm.dashboard.renderer.backend;

import org.dashbuilder.dataset.def.DataSetDefRegistry;
import org.dashbuilder.dataset.def.SQLDataSetDef;
import org.jbpm.workbench.ks.integration.KieServerDataSetProvider;
import org.jbpm.workbench.ks.integration.event.QueryDefinitionLoaded;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.kie.server.api.model.definition.QueryDefinition;
import org.mockito.ArgumentCaptor;
import org.mockito.InjectMocks;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.runners.MockitoJUnitRunner;

import static org.jbpm.dashboard.renderer.model.DashboardData.DATASET_HUMAN_TASKS;
import static org.jbpm.dashboard.renderer.model.DashboardData.DATASET_PROCESS_INSTANCES;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class DataSetDefsBootstrapTest {

    @Mock
    DataSetDefRegistry dataSetRegistry;

    @InjectMocks
    DataSetDefsBootstrap dataSetsBootstrap;

    @Test
    public void testProcessInstancesDataSet() {
        QueryDefinition qd = QueryDefinition.builder().name(DATASET_PROCESS_INSTANCES).expression("SELECT *").source("source").target("target").build();
        dataSetsBootstrap.registerDataSetDefinitions(new QueryDefinitionLoaded(qd));

        ArgumentCaptor<SQLDataSetDef> argument = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(SQLDataSetDef.class);
        verify(dataSetRegistry).registerDataSetDef(argument.capture());

        SQLDataSetDef dataSetDef = argument.getValue();
        assertEquals(DATASET_PROCESS_INSTANCES,
                     dataSetDef.getUUID());
        assertEquals("target-" + DATASET_PROCESS_INSTANCES,
                     dataSetDef.getName());
        assertEquals(KieServerDataSetProvider.TYPE,
                     dataSetDef.getProvider());
        assertEquals("SELECT *",
                     dataSetDef.getDbSQL());
        assertEquals(10,
                     dataSetDef.getColumns().size());
    }

    @Test
    public void testHumanTasksDataSet() {
        QueryDefinition qd = QueryDefinition.builder().name(DATASET_HUMAN_TASKS).expression("SELECT *").source("source").target("target").build();
        dataSetsBootstrap.registerDataSetDefinitions(new QueryDefinitionLoaded(qd));

        ArgumentCaptor<SQLDataSetDef> argument = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(SQLDataSetDef.class);
        verify(dataSetRegistry).registerDataSetDef(argument.capture());

        SQLDataSetDef dataSetDef = argument.getValue();
        assertEquals(DATASET_HUMAN_TASKS,
                     dataSetDef.getUUID());
        assertEquals("target-" + DATASET_HUMAN_TASKS,
                     dataSetDef.getName());
        assertEquals(KieServerDataSetProvider.TYPE,
                     dataSetDef.getProvider());
        assertEquals("SELECT *",
                     dataSetDef.getDbSQL());
        assertEquals(11,
                     dataSetDef.getColumns().size());
    }
}


Jharkhand govt decision to reduce eggs in midday meal to children "shocking"
The Right to Food (RtF), Jharkhand, has said, it is "shocking" that the Jharkhand government has decided to reduce the number of weekly eggs in school midday meals from three to two. Earlier, the government allotted Rs 4 per egg. With increase in price of eggs, it has revised the allotment to Rs 6 per egg.
Jharkhand's children are amongst the most malnourished in the country. According to the National Family Health Survey 4 conducted in 2015-16, 35.8 per cent children were underweight across the country. In Jharkhand, the corresponding ratio was as high as 47.8 per cent.
Currently, eggs are served across 12 states of the country. Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu serve as many as five eggs per week.
RtF further said, the centralised contract to Kisan Poultry Farms (KPF), which "is a very shady entity", and happens to be "a shell company of Christy Friedgram Industry, which is being investigated for large-scale fraud in similar ICDS-related contracts in Tamil Nadu", has created problems in the supply of eggs in Jharkhand.


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ABOUT INTENTION (138) At the heart of every action we take is desire. What drives that desire can be split into two energy sources: expectation or intention.
Expectation is the hard path. What we expect others to do or say and what we expect from ourselves is always a painful struggle. Even if we reach this expectation there is always a longing for something more.
Intention is the path I recently started to travel down and has been the most rewarding. By letting go of our assumptions for the future we can embrace who we truly are in the present moment.


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The class of vulnerabilities Draper and others discovered was limited to call-routing switches that employed in-band signaling, whereas newer equipment relies almost exclusively on out-of-band signaling, the use of separate circuits to transmit voice and signals. Though they could no longer serve practical use, the Cap'n Crunch whistles did become valued collector's items. Some hackers sometimes go by the handle "Captain Crunch" even today; 2600: The Hacker Quarterly is named after this whistle frequency.


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Shape and Form. Speaks of Kafka's "The Metamorphosis "
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"The Lion in Winter" by John Goldman.
A Psycho-analysis of The Oval Portrait, and "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe.
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One of my oldest and dearest friends, Janis appeared on The Aftermath last week to help shed light on the life and disappearance of Shelly Miscavige.
Her fantastic, almost photographic memory is a treasure that should not be taken for granted. And she has put her gift to excellent use in the two books she has published so far chronicling her life which also serve as the definitive history of the Sea Organization.
If you want to know what life was like with L. Ron Hubbard in the formative years of the Sea Org, the first two volumes of Janis' story are the only place to go. Her extensive access to Hubbard, her inquisitive nature and her ability to make friends with everyone served her well. Her depth of knowledge of events and the characters that populated the scientology world in the 60's and 70's is unparalleled. Nobody before now has been able to put together such a complete picture — and I suspect nobody will in the future. Janis' access to the inner workings of the world of Hubbard and scientology is unique. Not only was she one of Hubbard's original "Messengers", she was also the daughter of one of the most celebrated Sea Org members (Yvonne Gillham) and one of the most widely known and recognized scientology "Field Disseminators" (her father Peter), thus she was right there experiencing virtually everything that happened.
I cannot recommend these books highly enough as the ultimate, fascinating insider history of the formation of the Sea Organization and an important part of the life of L. Ron Hubbard.
Both volumes are available on Amazon. I hope Volume 3 is on the horizon.
I was never in Scientology and Ms. Gillam-Grady doesn't know me from Adam, but when I contacted her with questions, one more than one occasion, I should add, she always answered me A.S.A.P. I was surprised, impressed and grateful for her generosity in replying. I am very impressed by her honesty and willingness to open up to an outsider. She is a truly impressive person!
Good Lord but I love this woman. I bought her books in kindle and softback to both have and support her. She's a jewel. I'm so glad for you to share such a friendship with her. You both deserve it!
Having served with Janis on the Apollo I agree with Mike. Janis's books are unique as only a commodores messenger could write. And Janis is tops.
She saw him as he was, on an every day basis. No master, no god, a human being.
Insider and eyewitness stories are vital. Who knows what outrages are happening at the top.
Two more ebooks I need to purchase!
Read the books twice. I could read them 3 more times again.
The two weeks it took me to read the two books, totally disrupted my life and mind, due to it putting so much behind the scenes history behind all those same years of policy and tech writings and lectures of Hubbard in context.
jI was an admin writings of Hubbard nerd, a Flag Course Sup for admin training, so the whole enchilada Hubbard admin writings I scoured over and over and over.
Janis' books ought to be in the Flag Course rooms and all other course rooms in Scientology, for history.
The day Scientology allows Janis' books in their course rooms and in the Qual Library, for reference history books, then the movement will have changed in a significant way.
In fact, all of the ex member books and critical books ought to be in the course room ref section and qual library, and also on the shelves of the non-existent WDC and Exec Strata "think tank" members who are supposed to handle long range strategies for the movement.
If Scientology only were to allow the members to see the critical and history books on their movement, and allow them to discuss and decide how to fix a few things, they'd be the wiser and less damaging to their membership.
I look forward to Janis' next book(s) as she continues forward into the rest of her career.
I read Janis' second volume and loved it! Such details. Janis gives the extra of life on the Apollo, for sure. Sent it to a friend as an early Christmas gift.
I sat spellbound as I watched the show, "Where's Shelley?" A fantastic run down on The Commodore. But the best line came from LRH's ship's captain when he indicated that he knew they were nuts, "but he'd wait for LRH to return." My, oh, my, beyond belief. And a special thanks, to you, Janis!
Thank you Janis Gillham Grady for doing something about Scientology.
Your information is helping me work on getting an old timer out for ever.
It is so sad – he is elderly and the Cult bankrupted him and he has no money left or family.
He has huge debts from the shenanigans the Cult did to him while he got auditing at Flag.
He is so afraid the cult is going to come after him – what a number they do on people in Scientology.
Mary – I love that "Book One' reference to Jefferson Hawkins His book was my Bridge to Clear – n His book helped me understand clearly understanding why I could never get out of doubt in Scientology – for real. I blew after I read it.
Thank you everyone for all of your contributions.
We love you all and lets continue to expose this fraudulent corporation making billions….off of people that think they are part of a church.
As a marketer for a Fortune organization (that I don't mention because we are also prohibited in personal cause issues), and a long-time member of the legal community before that, I learned and learn a lot about sending out personal causes on corporate letterhead. I, like the snippet below from Dr. Murray, would be perceived as speaking for this organization every time I do that. I must specifically put "words my own, not affiliated with my employer," and just like your policy, we're not allowed to use our org's logo ANYWHERE on a personal cause issue. This letter violates nearly every USC identity Guideline, particularly the ones on brand and accuracy.
It doesn't matter to me what side of the argument you take as my views are not relevant to this; my issue is with misuse of brand trying to give more weight to the opinion with USC blazing on the letter. I've seen every one of these shows (and watch other viewpoints also), and each and every one of these shows demonstrates in the beginning a clear effort to invite Scientology to be on the show and they REFUSE to participate. Now blaming the tragic synagogue tragedy on this show? It's non-sequitur and I'd like to see every single peer-reviewed reference to substantiate the opinions in this letter and the link between this show and the tragic synagogue shooting. Saying "I understand that…" is irresponsible of USC and I for one want to see every single fact that bears this up which is in this letter bearing your branding. It's your responsibility as it's on your letterhead.
I couldn't agree more. Janis' books are a unique, intimate look at Hubbard's daily life and psyche.
Admirably, she refrains from criticism and just relates the events as they happened.
For anyone trying to peel the onion and understand Scientology, they are essential reading.
One other book I would like to recommend is Alec Nevala-Lee's "Astounding", a biography of John Campbell. It includes deeply researched history about Hubbard pre-Dianetics. It documents the roles that Campbell and Dr. Winters had in the development of Dianetics – the techniques that were written in DMSMH were developed by them.
I can't wait for Janis' Book 3!
I have read both , they are important because of the remarkable precision and the recollection of an innocent 16 year old who gives it to us « as it was ».
There is nowhere to hide for LRH , the words of a child do not lie or embellish.
It reminds me a bit of Amy Scobee's book , no opinions , just the facts.
As a public scientologist that I was , it gives so many answers as to where the sea .org craziness and '' disorganized organization'' came from.
Mike do you know when series three will be shown in other countries like the UK? The more people see this the better! Merry Christmas and thanks for everything you're doing!
Series 3 starts in the UK 10th January on the Crime and Investigation Chanel on Sky. Series 1 is being shown on Quest Red on Sky at the moment. Going Clear is available on demand on Sky Atlantic.
White sorry I made a mistake Aftermath starts on th 2nd January on C&I.
Thank you Mike for acknowledging the great work and contribution Janis has made. Yes, her recollections are outstanding and it was so important for her to have done this and given the true history of the sea org and LRH. These 2 books are great and I cannot wait for the 3rd book………It is a must read book for anyone to read.
Thank you Janis for your HUGE contributions of information about the history of the Sea Org and L. Ron Hubbard and for contributing to The Aftermath series about Shelly Miscavige. You are a treasure and the information you provide gives readers/listeners a succinct history of the church of scientology and the two leaders it has had.
Before your two books was Jefferson Hawkins book "Counterfeit Dreams" which was my Book One and it lite up my world and helped me wrap my mind around what had been going on in the church I was a part of since the early 70's. I'm sure your two books do the same thing for so many that were in early or not.
What a Lovely Tribute Mike to a Lady I have long Admired. A True Shining Spirit who took millions of lemons, rotten ones, that the cult of Scientology threw at her & made more than just lemonade! HerTrilogy will stand as one of the Best about Sea Org life etc. I am eagerly waiting for book #3 as well. Love to All You All are so Special to Me.


Reading Football Club have confirmed that striker Jason Roberts will be retiring from football when his contract ends this summer.
Roberts last played in December 2012, and has been forced to retire from playing on medical grounds following his long standing hip injury.
The striker played a big part in firing Royals to the Premier League.
He scored on his debut against Bristol City and added a further five goals as Brian McDermott's side went on a memorable run to lift the Championship title.
The 36-year-old will continue to work in the local community on behalf of the club for the remainder of his contract.
Roberts said: "I've had an amazing 17 years playing professional football and I'm proud of everything I've achieved and grateful for all that I've experienced.
"I've played in every division and I have fond memories of my time at each and every club I have represented, and also playing internationally for Grenada.
"I am now looking forward to the future and having time to focus on my charity The Jason Roberts Foundation. I am also excited about continuing my media work and having recently passed my corporate governance exams, I'm looking forward to exploring this area further.
"I have met many fantastic people during my time as a player and I am grateful to the game for the opportunities it has given me.
"I'd also like to thank the Reading fans and staff - particularly the physio team - for their continued support during my time here, especially through my recent rehab."