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Garnet Jackson Collins
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Name Garnet Jackson Collins
Nickname Doc
Born 1882 Grahamstown, New South Wales, Australia
Name: Garnet J Collins
Birth Date: 1882
Father's Name: Alfred H Collins
Mother's name: Annie
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Place: Adelong, New South Wales
Registration Number: 28400
(New South Wales Historical Birth Index 1788-1913)
Obituary 31 Dec 1918 Young Witness, New South Wales
DEATH OF MR. G. J. COLLINS.
Garnett Jackson Collins (popularly known as "Doc.") passed away in the Coast Hospital on 21st inst., after a very lengthy illness, aged 37 years. Deceased was a native of Young, and a son of Mr. A. H. Collins, of Edward street. By reason of his occupation as a bookmaker's clerk, deceased was well known on the race courses in the south and west, being very highly esteemed by followers of the turf. The remains were brought to Young and laid to rest in the Church of England cemetery, the last rites at the grave being performed by the Rev. S. A. T. Champion. All the local sports were present at the funeral.
Young Witness, New South Wales, Tuesday, 31 December 1918
Died 22 Dec 1918 Coast Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death Date: 1918
Death Place: New South Wales
Father's Name: Alfred H
Registration Place: Redfern, New South Wales
(New South Wales Historical Death Index 1788-1983)
Buried Young General Cemetery, Young, New South Wales, Australia
Person ID I13676 Hickey, List, Bundesen, Thomsen, Jensen, Jessen
Last Modified 16 Jun 2014
Father Alfred Henry Collins, b. 30 Jan 1845, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , d. 15 Jan 1930, Burragong District Hospital, Young, New South Wales (Age 84 years)
Mother Annie Orr, b. 1849, Wangaratta or Ovens, Victoria, Australia , d. 30 Aug 1915, Young, New South Wales, Australia (Age 66 years)
Married 1867 Beechworth, or Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
Name: Annie Orr
Spouse Name: Alfred Henry Collins
Marriage Place: Victoria
Registration Place: Victoria
Registration Number: 3619
(Victoria Marriage Index)
Garnet Jackson Collins and his mother Annie Orr Collins
Cemetery: Young General NSW
Person Id: 9233699
Surname: Collins
Given Names: Garnet Jackson
Birth Date: 1881?
Portion: Ang
Remarks: son/Alfred H & Annie
(Photographed by: Beck, Adrienne, Ann Gardner & Young High School students Transcribed by: McDonell, Reg & Jean for Australian Cemeteries Index)


Waller. I strongly advise you to read the article. I am sure you will think a bit different then. Some things are proven and that is more than suspecting fraud.
I can state neither Braude nor Nahm wanted to debunk Muegge. They were for sure in a belive Situation, willing to find waterproof facts for the evennon believers. What came out for sure did not look that good as hoped. But those are proefessionals and so far they also had to track down that truth. The articles do not debunk Muegge in total, they just state some things seemingly are fraud and maybe others are real. I did not hear the interview but have in mind, those People invested many days and travel for their work and now see themselves faced by suspected show magic. That for sure does not make your relation better to the man claiming himself as medium.
Small box thinkers are something completely different. Those two guys really worked with believe on that story for long with the wish to prove in their heart but the responibility to show the reality in their brains. Everyone is always crying for facts, here was a fair attempt to get some. Lets see if Muegge someday reacts. He if genuine has all means to prove finally he is gifted. I would be beyond the first telling my congratulations if so.
This is a very interesting discussion which is well worth following up. Waller we have no position but a search for the truth, as Lis has made very clear. Reality of survival is critical to both of us as Lis and I are well regarded as mediums and teachers who focus upon the reality of survival. We have seen Mr Thompson work.
I think you should have a really detailed look at the threads on here. In terms of Thompson, we have comments from two of his long term circle leaders which recommend that proper research be conducted. Read and think but remember it may not be the best thing to ask directly, a previous issue cropped up on the forum where some one on PM4U came here after being almost victimised for just asking questions. It may be better to observe and question discreetly while holding onto your own opinion.
There are many of your points which I cannot agree with, for a start if you are a physical medium you are responsible, as I am as a mental medium, for truth.
I can also bend spoons, dowse for streams etc etc but that is not mediumship just an expression of the psychic abilities inherent within all of us. Lis is a great mental and trance medium, can do transfiguration and Spirit Art. We both write and study the philosophy and history of Spiritualism with an involvement with research, other researchers, Psypioneer and we were regular contributors to Psychic News, indeed this forum took one of the major roles in ensuring it resumed publication.
Anyway its a good topic which may help move things on but our total responsibility is to the truth. There is no personal truth just a personal opinion Truth is objective and provable.
Thanks Jim. I agree with you, especially concerning questions regarding mediums like Thompson. That can run out of control. Maybe you are aware of the "Stenman Case" as I call it. Very interesting to follow the let's call it "friendly discussion" in Roy Stenmans blog between Thompson and Roy who was interested in some things on Thompsons mediumship and received disturbing answers.
It has been deleted now in parts I guess (the site crashed), very bad luck as the comments were of high value since people who attended sittings also put some words on all. It for sure is better doing research in private and facing so called gifted mediums with facts if you have some.
Accusations without evidence are dangerous, unfair and for sure totally wrong. We for sure all want the good to come up and the higher to be proven even to the sceptics, not setting up a witch hunt.
Nevertheless frauds must be debunked as the light can only shine trough if the walls of cheating have been torn down to ground. If we say it's time for the truth lies have no more roads to run.
But I totally agree, it was a an intersting place and Roy was and sure is a man of honesty and one of those guys I call healthy sceptics. We dont get a step further without evidence and Roy was searching for that, always being objective in his articles.
on Stenman's to and fro with David Thompson.
Here's a question. I have notes and links to dozens of people who have had personal survival evidence presented to them in Thompson's (and Muegge's for that matter) sittings. This is evidence that meets the traditional definitions - intimate information that could only be known and shared between two people and impossible for the medium to know.
Are they all liars and/or mistaken? That is immensely improbable especially considering the reputations of many of these people, experienced in the subjects of PM, afterlife research and spirit communications. R. Craig Hogan for example.
It follows then regardless of the issues about the genuineness of phenomena generation that Thompson and Muegge have provided survival evidence. If survival evidence is the key to genuine mediumship then how is it possible that Thompson and Muegge would be considered less than genuine?
The key is partly in who the evidence has been given to. For example, you may describe the most amazing personal evidence but if I do not know you and cannot assess your judgement then your testimony is of marginal value to me, though it may be incontrovertible to you. Could they all be mistaken? It depends on their individual accounts, the records of the sittings, their recollection of the circumstances and other factors to do with their bona fides as witnesses.
Waller asked: "It follows then regardless of the issues about the genuineness of phenomena generation that Thompson and Muegge have provided survival evidence. If survival evidence is the key to genuine mediumship then how is it possible that Thompson and Muegge would be considered less than genuine?"
obiwan wrote: The key is partly in who the evidence has been given to. For example, you may describe the most amazing personal evidence but if I do not know you and cannot assess your judgement then your testimony is of marginal value to me, though it may be incontrovertible to you. Could they all be mistaken? It depends on their individual accounts, the records of the sittings, their recollection of the circumstances and other factors to do with their bona fides as witnesses.
One white crow would be enough.
The sheer numbers of positive experiences, I have over two hundred many from people of irrefutable character in the parapsychological and related fields, related to post mortem survival evidence is proof beyond any reasonable doubt that the Thompson and Muegge PMs produce genuine incarnate-discarnate communications.
It is outside statistical probability that they are all mistaken, lying, fooled or idiots. I know many of them personally.
That's fine for you but, with respect, not much use to me as I know nothing about you or the soundness of your judgement.
The burning question is whether it is a White Crow Waller.
A lot of negative material does not reach our attention because of the forms people sign beforehand which can be backed up by a threat of legal action. Roy's was some of the strongest from a very experienced sitter.
Now what I am about to say is a hypothetical. I raise it because this is the way that the famous cheat William Roy worked and is the way that I know Camp Chesterfield used to achieve its results.
In both cases the mediums obtained copious details about sitters and people before working. They were then able to bring this intimate knowledge into play in the séances.
In Mr Thompson's case he insists on having all the details, including the id he requires on the day of the sitting, provided in the form which must be filled in. This also instructs the sitter what he may do with the information he gets in the séance. He greets each sitter on arrivaland personally seats them.
Now, given you have linked me to your blog and interests I could find out a huge amount about you within a day, if I so chose. You tell us you have regular contact with Muegge and Thompson so they have even more knowledge of you.
Some of the sitter reports, even positive one's, indicate that at times the "materialised" relative goes to the wrong person first. It is also clear that many who receive messages and comment in support either know Mr Thompson well or have been in communication with him (or communicating their excitement about their intended attendance on forums, facebook etc). Very different to all the early mediums who in test conditions, or even ordinary séances had little, or deliberately no knowledge of attendees, nor did they meet them before and then personally sit them down.
This leaves the whole issue of who is communicating and where the information coming from totally open to conjecture, making the job of sceptics very easy.
Now when two of Mr Thompson's ex circle leader, who sat with him and ran the séances for over 10 years, indicate that testing should be done it raises serious questions for me, why are they doing this? I guess Mr Thompson would come up with some reason like spite because they had been discarded but I got to know both people quite well. I may have been at odds with him but I did admire Chris Hood with his partner Rosheen Mason as the Australian circle leader and business manager respectively. They were devoted to Mr Thompson's cause previously and helped him personally in one of his darkest hours.
Here is Chris Hoods post on this forum, he led COSC for around 6 years https://www.spiritualismlink.com/t2121-mediocrity-in-physical-mediumship and attended many of the séances where positive reports came from.
Now none of us can be certain that the William Roy scenario above is not being used and none of us can say it is being used either. I am aware Mr Thompson is a mental medium as well, but having seen him he prefers the fishing net approach throwing out material until he gets the right person. However, I have also seen him work directly to a person with survival messages so he could just be using this faculty too.
In the end I will go with his ex circle leaders, testing to prove veracity, in the meantime Mr Thompson will have his believers and his doubters even though as a doubter of his materialisation I refuse to call him a fraud because I have no specifically clear evidence and know he has mediumistic abilities.
However I will never attend a dark séance, why when so much used to be achieved in dim or full light. I have seen enough to convince me, without sitting in a dark room, in uncomfortable conditions to watch trumpets fly and be unconvinced by the messages and the trance from a guide who never was who he claims to be.
What I do hope is that all of these, if tested, prove genuine because the damage to the survival movement would be very great.
Oh by the way the link to Chris Hood's post will back also give you the key links to most of Roy Stemman's Thompson posts.
That's the point I am making, Wan. It has nothing to do with my judgment, your judgments or any judgments. The numbers of people regardless of who they are make it are statistically impossible that so many people who relate similar experiences in being provided post mortem survival evidence are inaccurate.
Yet for some odd reason when discussing Thompson and Muegge they are not allowed this statistical proof yet the same people who would hold up Harris, Higginson, Goold, Duncan, Home or other not-so-modern PMs claiming they are genuine.
Having never set foot in one of their seances so how do they ascertain that they were genuine? By the number of people who have testified that they were.
It's baffling this issue. Sorta.
It may be a simple difference of perspective. Personally speaking one good, well documented experience by someone I can trust trumps 100 experiences attested to by strangers I know nothing about.
I am not sure your argument in favour of numbers holds water. It seems akin to the thousands of people who claim to have been cured by televangelists - maybe they were but I wouldn't put much store in it simply based on the numbers. Or to be crude - let's all eat horse dung, millions of flies can't be wrong.
To be serious though I do get the point you're making, which is I think: is it possible that so many witnesses could be mistaken? My answer would be 'Yes of course it is possible' for many reasons.
Ah but is it likely they were mistaken? Well that depends on their powers of observation, the controls in place to reduce the risk of fraud and the nature and quality of the survival evidence along with the trustworthiness of the witnesses.
The reports of witnesses to the two people you mention, that I have seen anyway, are mostly lacking in sufficient detail for me to assess their validity. There is also little to no evidence in most of the reports I have seen that tell me much about the sitters either.
I'm not saying that either medium is not genuine. I simply cannot tell.
Concerning Thompson I myself made the following experiences.
1 You have to show your ID Card days before.
2 You are checked with a metal detector.
5 Thompson talks to persons, one lady had a broken leg. Guess who later on was visited by the materialized ones?
6 The materialized have problems in the dark. Often they walk to the wrong person (happened twice when I was there) and / or touch the wrong person. The girl for example had a broken left leg. Bad luck the materialized one touched the right one for faster healing.
7 The materialized are good in reacting. Being confronted with the wrong leg of the girl, the materialized said "well this one also has problems"
8 The materialized loose their language skills. A ladies granddad (or dad) appeared and she welcomed hin in her mother language. Bad luck the materialized did not understand what she said as he seemingly lost his mother language and reacted in english.
9 The materialized seem very patient. Why else would people like Louis Armstrong spent eternity with guest starring at each Thompson event? Even if eternity has endless time, this somehow must get boring someday performing again and again.
10 The materialized prefer entertainment instead of important messages. Hand on your heart. If you came back from eternity, materialize with huge effort. What would you do. Make senseless jokes and play with luminous objects.
11 The materialized are not shaped like humans. A materialized lady entered the scene and a sitter was allowed to touch her breasts. The sitter said she feels a man.
12 The materialized love loud music. In between the seance again and again very loud music was played so you could not hear anything else.
13 The materialized Need pich black. Besides they use all the energy and ectoplasm they never ever even showed in red light when I was at a seance. Thompson and his team also used tapestrippings for the small lights on the tapedeck they used so the Little lamp would not cause a light.
14 The materialized seem to wear sneakers. This is a second hand info from another sitter who seemingly felt that when a materialized tapped on his barefoot.
15 The materialized seem to look like... I leave that open half, some sitters said that light once entered the room by fault and they could see a special person in front of them.
Point 14 and 15 are just taken from other vsitors. The rest is own experience. A longer time anyone could buy the audio recordings from the seances and besides they are cut and not full length they have some of the errors on. Now These days the Thompson page no longer has that material online for purchase. I wonder why.
Up to you. I strongly adivse anyone out there investing on your own. You may say it was a waste of money afterwards maybe but is it really a waste if you get a clear and own impression. I dont think so. And the above written which is my Impression for you already is second hand. I totally understand that noone can take that for granted in total as you dont know me.
Let me add, I wished my experiences would have been of a better kind. Not for the money but the feeling and evolvement. I nevertheless have no doubts in a higher world. I just doubt the cooperation between some people here and the ones one step in front of us.
I had a bit of survival evidence at a Dave Thompson séance back in 2003.
At the time I was a regular sitter with Colin Fry who used his large shed AKA Spirit Lodge in the back garden of his house in Haywards Heath and Dave had just moved into the house next door, I never worked out if that was coincidence or not, but Dave then started to use Colin's Lodge to do a few public PM demonstrations. It was at one of these public demos that one of Dave's controls, Tim, announced he had a lady called Emily who wanted to speak and asked if anybody knew an Emily. Scott Milligan was one of the sitters and he spoke up to say he knew an Emily but when Tim said she was a grandmother Scott wasn't so sure. I then said I had a grandmother called Emily. Tim asked me if my name was Nicholas and whether that was what she'd have called me and when I said yes Tim said she'd try and come out the cabinet to speak to me. After a bit of music to build up the energy she came through with a message that I should be sitting as a physical medium myself. She then asked me if my chest was alright now as I'd had a little touch of the flu a few weeks ago. This wasn't the case but she said Henry had said I wasn't well. I then questioned who Henry was as I didn't recognise the name and she said he was uncle Henry on my father's side. At the time none of this made sense to me but when I got home I found a family tree and there was a Henry who would have been my granddad's uncle so she would have known him as uncle Henry and he would have been my father's great uncle.
This to my mind was good survival evidence and the fact that it wasn't in my mind at the time goes a long way to rule out telepathy.
Ahhh...the good old days! Good evidence, Nick. It's the kind we all wish we could have and especially the sort you have to research to identify the communicator.
Now why can't all evidential mediumship be as evidential as this...???
be sure I love to "hear" such answers. I would give months of wages for being false in my impression towards Thompson and others based on my personal experiences. What you encountered is exactly of that kind each of us wants to receive. For you sure this was good evidence and I thank you for sharing it.
nick pettitt wrote: I had a bit of survival evidence at a Dave Thompson séance back in 2003.
Forgive me for saying Nick that whilst I accept you rate the evidence it doesn't strike me as strong at all. Uncle Henry being you grandad's uncle (if I read it correctly) would strike me as particularly general - I am sure we all have a Henry somewhere up the maternal and paternal lines if we look far enough.
You gave him the name Emily really it seems to me - he mentioned the name and someone said they knew an Emily (ie you), although I am not saying it was cold reading it's a common cold-reading technique.
I don't mean to sound disrespectful to you.
Yes you're right, and of course it would have been much more evidential if he had come straight to me and said I've got your gran Emily here instead of asking the initial questions to everybody in the room, although I did wait till he'd confirmed it was a grandmother called Emily before I said anything.
When Henry came into the conversation and I questioned who he was she said it was uncle Henry. Uncle Henry was my granddad's uncle so he was probably know also to my gran as uncle Henry at the time.
I don't know what the odds are of one of the sitters, I think there were about 20, having a grandmother called Emily who had an uncle called Henry. The only thing I know for sure is that nobody in the room that night knew about Emily or Henry and I only knew about Emily.
Fair comment. It might not be as much of a stretch as you'd think but I take your points.
Interesting but it sounds a lot like mental mediumship not physical mediumship Nick. I have seen him work at that, throwing information into the room, so it sounds very familiar but that would not be in trance, it actually adds a question for me.
throwing information into the room.
obiwan wrote: Fair comment. It might not be as much of a stretch as you'd think but I take your points.
What are the pure statistics on this event happening by chance?
(Whose uncle? If medium assumes it is someone related to Emily then possibly up to a couple of generations a back. The medium doesn't say who Henry is the uncle of. So this Henry could be anywhere in the family tree.
Question: how common was Henry as a name then? Let's assume fairly common. I know I have a couple of Henrys in my family tree, so does my partner.
Now I am not saying what the medium was doing was fishing or disingenuous. Also, I am picking a couple of pieces out of a longer conversation. It might well be the case that the communication was exactly what Nick interpreted it to be. The point I am making is that from an evidential point of view, to me, it is weak. This is of course simply my subjective judgement of the report.
It's important to take into account what a medium gets wrong, rather than just looking at what they got right. I once saw a highly regarded medium perform in public and she gave some impressive evidence of survival, but that evidence was overwhelmed by the constant fishing and questions she asked, as well as the numerous things she said that were wrong. The hits outnumbered the misses by close to ten to one, and seriously undermined any credibility she had in my eyes.
My point would be that by being as objective as possible, and taking into account everything that was right, and everything that was wrong, you have a better chance of making a fair assessment of how a medium performed on the day in question.
Wes wrote: It's important to take into account what a medium gets wrong, rather than just looking at what they got right. I once saw a highly regarded medium perform in public and she gave some impressive evidence of survival, but that evidence was overwhelmed by the constant fishing and questions she asked, as well as the numerous things she said that were wrong. The hits outnumbered the misses by close to ten to one, and seriously undermined any credibility she had in my eyes.
IMHO Wes it's not just what is right and what is wrong, but also how the information was obtained (which you also allude to).


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Build a mass movement to beat the far right
Published Tue 16 Oct 2018
Anti-racists opposing the DLFA in London last Saturday (Pic: Guy Smallman)
The Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) international conference this Saturday takes place against the background of the growing threat of the far right.
From Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil to the AfD party in Germany, fascist and racist parties are gaining ground in elections. And in Britain, supporters of Nazi Tommy Robinson sense an opportunity to build on the streets.
Socialist Worker stands with all those who are fighting racism and fascism in Britain and internationally. But we also need to discuss the best strategy to win.
If the fascists seized power anywhere, it wouldn't just produce a nastier variant of the mainstream right. It would mean a qualitative leap into horror that in the 1930s produced the mass slaughter of the Holocaust.
It's true that the Democratic Football Lads Alliance mobilised in London last Saturday only a fraction of those who've joined previous protests for Robinson.
But let's not be complacent.
We've recently seen far right demonstrations of 15,000 in Britain—and state racism and austerity mean there are ripe conditions for more. So it's not just Nazis we face.
The Tories' regime of racist laws and policing, border controls and deportations wrecks people's lives—and sometimes kills.
We need mass movements against racism, Islamophobia and fascism.
Our movement must be big enough to give confidence to anti-racists, shape debates inside the working class, and inspire hundreds of thousands of people to be active. There have to be local groups everywhere.
That's a long-term task that has to unite anti-racists whether they are in the Labour Party, the revolutionary left, the SNP, Plaid Cymru, the trade unions or have no party. This cannot be left to a Labour Party that has a terrible record of conceding to racism and implementing racist laws.
It means systematic building, relentless arguments against racist lies, millions of leaflets and intensive social media.
We have to combat—not concede to—racist myths about migrants lowering wages or Muslims being terrorists and rapists.
SUTR is leading this work. It has to be strengthened.
Within such a broad movement Socialist Worker will argue against all immigration controls. And we will argue for a socialist revolution to tear out the roots of racism.
To defeat the Nazis we also have to break their momentum.
We have to separate the fascists from their softer racist support and deny them control of the streets.
That requires mass confrontation—which is not the same as small groups seeking punch-ups with individuals.
Let's build SUTR, and make the national demonstration on 17 November a turning point against the far right.
Tue 16 Oct 2018, 15:43 BST
Fight the far right by challenging racism—not conceding to it
State racism—fuelling the fire of fascism
2,000 anti-fascists deal a blow to the far right DFLA
'Together we can take on racism and the right,' say activists at 1,400-strong conference
Unite Against Fascism

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In this Episode of Marijuana Mania, Berner 415 gives us an insiders look at the Cookie Family Farm. He gives us an inside look at some of the new things they have going on. He also gives us an inside look at the 3rd generation family farms producer of Zkittles.
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Have you watched the action bronson ancient aliens series that VICE did? They were hilarious but it's been a good while since they made a new episode, I hope they make more.
I've been trying for a while now to get Berner over here on Smoke. He's a busy guy.


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Imaginary Track Bias?
By Justin Dew | February 24, 2020
Not enough time has passed just yet for me to write about my performance at the NHC earlier this month. It's just something I am not emotionally prepared to put to words. In short, I had a bad Friday, a great Saturday, and a Sunday that didn't really matter. We'll leave it at that for now. But as for Friday, as race after race was going against me, I thought I noticed something that, in actuality, may or may not have been there.
Over the course of the day at Gulfstream Park on Friday, February 7th, it felt to me like horses that stayed near the rail around the far turn, as well as those that could stay on the rail or move to the rail in the stretch, were able to close better than those that did most of their running off the rail. Now, on its face, this may seem like the Captain Obvious Statement of the Month. It's rarely an advantage to be wide anywhere. And for sure, anyone that watches the replays of this day at Gulfstream will easily point to a number of big efforts from horses who ran wide and/or closed down the middle of the track. That said, an objective review of at least the stretch runs from the dirt races will highlight multiple strong finishes that at the very least give reason to believe it helped to be along the rail at Gulfstream that day.
In Race 1, the top three finishers did the overwhelming majority of their running way down on the inside. The winner ducked inside late and passed them all, though he may have been the best of the bunch anyway.
In Race 3, the winner went wide as the odds-on fave. But the eventual runner-up at 48-1 hugged the rail all the way around until it was time to pass tiring rivals. The 3rd place finisher never got off the rail, was no threat to the top two, but did "win the gallop-out" along the rail, for whatever that is worth.
In Race 9, 85-1 shot Running for Riz went fast and worked hard early, and would not be denied the place spot after getting passed in mid-stretch by the rival who ended up 3rd. Running for Riz was inside the whole way.
This evidence for a "rail bias" is spotty at best throughout the rest of the card. However, Trappezoid went wide in Race 10 en route to a solid 4th place finish, and then came back to win on February 23rd at 3-1. So perhaps early evidence is indicating that horses who went wide on February 7th and ran well actually ran better than they appeared to. Maybe?
Let's test the very tepid theory this Wednesday (2/26), in Race 2 at Gulfstream. #6 Took a Cab comes out of the aforementioned Race 1 on the February 7th- the race where the top three finishers were along the rail pretty much the whole way. Took a Cab was wide around the turn and way off the rail in the stretch that day. At 6-1 on the morning line, I'll take a stab.
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Agameofskill on February 25, 2020 at 4:33 pm
It seemed real at the time. The guy next to me was talking about it


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P-Bruins 4, Penguins 2: McIntyre makes 31 saves in Providence win
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- Zane McIntyre made 31 saves and Peter Cehlarik and Ryan Donato scored goals 65 seconds apart in the second period as the Providence Bruins beat the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Penguins, 4-2, on Sunday afternoon.
The victory gave the P-Bruins a sweep of their two-game Pennsylvania swing after Saturday night's 6-3 win over Lehigh Valley.
McIntyre kicked out 11 of 12 shots in the third period to preserve Providence's lead.
Fitzgerald opened the scoring with a power-play goal at 2:56 of the first period, finishing off a tic-tac-toe passing play with Jan Kovar and Donato.
The Penguins answered with a power-play tally by Adam Johnson with 44 seconds left in the first period.
Cehlarik gave Providence a 2-1 lead at 11:55 of the second period after taking a pass from Mark McNeill. Then Donato extended the lead to two goals at 1:05 later after some nice work by Fitzgerald along the boards.
Jarrett Burton brought the Penguins within a goal at 15:56 of the third period, but Providence's Jakub Zboril salted away the win with an empty-net goal with three seconds left.
Justin Peters stopped 15 shots for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.
The P-Bruins return home to face Charlotte on Friday night at the Dunkin' Donuts Center. -- MARK DIVVER


Just as various global media outlets face challenges from the decline in print, the New York Times bucked the trend and reported good financial results for the financial year 2014. Operating profit increased more than two fold from $16.5 million to $38.1 million, despite a fall in revenue to $383 million.
The key to the financial success, is part owed to the publication's usage of digital media and their reaching out to digital audiences. Just four years after it switched to its metered pay model, the publication has reached 1 million digital-only subscribers. Additionally, digital advertising grew by 14.2 per cent.
As traditional media giants such as the New York Times begin shifting their focus to the digital space, it is the time for communicators to really start thinking about how to change their content strategy accordingly, to navigate the evolving media landscape.
For the time being, traditional print outlets remain fundamental and extremely relevant to gaining public attention, as readers look for detailed opinion and investigative stories. However, as more people begin using the digital space as their primary platform for sourcing news and content, it is vital to ensure that companies create press material that is not only interesting but also digital friendly. In addition to creating detailed press materials for traditional outlets, it is important to also attend to the needs of the online journalists. Short, snappy, press releases with searchable titles help win these kind of journalists.
Companies also need to ensure that press materials are mobile friendly. Earlier this week, Ofcom reported that smartphones have now surpassed laptops to become the most popular way to browse the internet in the UK. In addition to written content, easily digestible videos are bound to win the attention of mobile audiences. For companies, that means it becomes vital to have spokespeople that ooze charm in front of the camera whilst re-iterating their key messages. News outlets such as the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal are increasing their use of video stories and this trend is likely to continue so whether you are a CEO of a FTSE 100 or an exciting start-up consider your digital presence more than ever!


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Since the Beatles are notorious for refusing to release their music online, the mere fact that BlueBeat.com was selling them was kind of strange, which probably explains why EMI just sued them for copyright infringement. But BlueBeat has come up with a perfectly reasonable explanation. The songs aren't really Beatles songs, you see, but "psycho-acoustic simulations" and therefore original works.
Macworld points out that even if this were a sane argument that was remotely believable, BlueBeat sells their so-called knockoff Beatles tracks as real Beatles tracks, complete with "album title, track titles, record label, and release date." I just hope BlueBeat presents some sort of online demo of what "psycho-acoustic simulation" entails, so I can duplicate it at home and create my own music store.


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Commentary: Democrats play defense on security
Julian Zelizer: Obama, Democrats have been on defense about national security
He says Republicans have traditionally had the edge on the issue
Democrats can garner support for policy that uses diplomacy and rule of law
Zelizer: Democrats must provide bold, coherent vision of their policy
By Julian E. Zelizer
Special to CNN
Editor's note: Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. His new book, "Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security -- From World War II to the War on Terrorism," will be published this fall by Basic Books. Zelizer writes widely about current events.
Julian E. Zelizer says President Obama has been struggling with national security issues.
(CNN) -- President Obama has been struggling to get things right on national security. The president has not displayed the same kind of poise and confidence as he has with domestic issues.
In contrast to the economic stimulus and health care reform, there have been a number of missteps, reversals and intra-party tensions over national security since Obama took office.
Obama, who in February 2008 said the trials of Guantanamo detainees were "too important to be held in a flawed military commission system," now says that he will continue to use that system, though in slightly modified fashion. When Obama announced that he would not release photographs of mistreated detainees, many of his supporters could not help but be disappointed.
The most recent controversy has been the battle over a briefing about the CIA's interrogation methods. The battle has been damaging to Democrats because it pits House Speaker Nancy Pelosi against the CIA. The controversy has inspired Republicans to argue that Democrats were complicit in the interrogation methods they have been criticizing.
Republicans have jumped at this opening. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has sounded as if he is running for the presidency in 2012, repeatedly complaining that the nation is less safe than it was under President Bush. Republicans are out in full force with the old mantra that Democrats are weak on defense.
Many Democrats are nervous. The party lives with the fear that Republicans have held a national security advantage over Democrats since the 1960s, with Democrats perceived as the party of George McGovern and Republicans as the party of Ronald Reagan. According to this logic, Americans are more likely to trust Republicans when dealing with national security.
The perception is grossly exaggerated. Indeed, the 2006 and 2008 elections showed that in many instances Americans have been far from pleased with the strategy of Republicans and more open to diplomacy and the rule of law. A new survey released by Democracy Corps and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner (based on phone surveys between May 10 and May 12) finds that voters now trust Democrats as much as Republicans to handle national security and prefer the Democrats on issues like Afghanistan.
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But Democrats remain scared, even with a politician in the White House who built his entire campaign around directly taking on Republicans in this realm of policy -- refusing to back down on issues like Iraq and torture.
Democrats have three choices. The first is to be defensive, avoid clear positions and just work on rejecting Republican accusations. The second is to stand in a circle and start firing at each other. The third is to take a proactive stand by offering a coherent agenda of what Democrats hope to accomplish.
Great politicians turn moments of adversity into opportunity. President Obama and congressional Democrats must start to tackle several important questions. The first is what are the rules of engagement in the war on terrorism?
The basic argument promoted by the GOP has implied that there should be no restraint when we pursue terrorists. This is the kind of argument that allowed for the CIA to conduct assassination operations in the 1950s and 1960s during the Cold War against communism.
Democrats have been reluctant to offer a bold response. Their best bet would be to argue that this is a nation built around constitutional law and that it is not an option that we combat national security threats by eroding our own foundation. The other central argument must rest on the extensive evidence showing that boundless interrogation does not guarantee good results, and in fact can often produce bad information. Torture also makes it difficult to protect our own captive soldiers in the future.
When the controversy flared over Pelosi's level of knowledge about harsh interrogation tactics, her press conference turned into a media frenzy about what was said at a briefing seven years ago. The focus was shifted away from the prime issue -- what methods were used by the CIA under President Bush and whether laws were broken in the interrogations.
If Pelosi was told about the tactics, which is not clear, her credibility on her exact knowledge is in doubt. But few can dispute that Pelosi and congressional Democrats have been vocally criticizing these tactics for many years. In fact, this has been a main point made by Republicans who have criticized her.
The second question has to be what the administration's goals are with regard to homeland defense. Democrats had been extraordinarily critical of the Bush administration for speaking a tough game but not doing enough. Since 2006, Democrats have spoken about areas of vulnerability, like port security and bioterrorism, where, they say, Republicans had refused to invest sufficient resources needed to ensure the safety of the nation.
But other than a few provisions that were contained in the economic stimulus bill that dealt with these issues, Obama has been relatively quiet about his homeland security plans.
The final issue has to do with America's role overseas. President Obama, as a candidate, defined himself by rejecting President Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq and his failure to conduct diplomacy. This was a defining argument in the Democratic primaries, when he and his supporters lashed out against then-Sen. Hillary Clinton for having been too timid in taking on the president. But now the tide has turned. It is far from clear where this White House is going overseas.
We have a growing military engagement in Afghanistan, the possibility of greater involvement in Pakistan, and the announcement that Obama plans to leave between 30,000 and 50,000 troops in Iraq after the "withdrawal" next year. To be sure, Obama has sent Clinton to embark on a more ambitious diplomatic agenda, but we have only seen the outlines of what they hope to achieve. The administration must start explaining what the primary objectives of its foreign policy will be.
The more thought that goes into what we are doing before a crisis hits, the better prepared we are to deal with a crisis should it occur.
But Democrats have a political incentive to be proactive as well. Democrats have shown in the previous two elections that Republicans don't have an electoral monopoly on national security debates. But unless they provide a bold and coherent vision of their alternative, Democrats will continue to play defense.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer.
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Steven Berkoff: I won, and I won again! Shakespeare's Heroes & Villains wins Film Festival Award
Steven Berkoff is no stranger to the limelight. At 81 the actor, playwright and theatre director shows no sign of slowing down. Currently he is working on a one man, one act play based on the recent #MeToo allegations against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. But his most recent film, a perilous journey through some of Shakespeare's most notorious creations, shows that there is much more for the 'enfant terrible' still to say.
This confrontational aspect is crucial to the man's work. Indeed, it has served him well enough to earn him the nick name of one of the 'bad boys of British theatre', a moniker which endeared him to Hollywood casting agents in the '70s and '80s. On screen he has fought James Bond, John Rambo and Axel Foley, on stage he has brought his brash physicality to many of the great roles, notably his work adapting Shakespeare.
His continued fascination with getting under the skin of the corrupt and the powerful will have been a factor in his recent film Shakespeare's Heroes and Villains. The film won Best Documentary at the Cheltenham International film festival recently, and provided a highlight of the executive producers Red Rock Entertainment film festival news. Here's the trailer,
Now that we're deep in Film festivals 2019 season, it's a chance to see a far more varied range of films on the big screen. The Cheltenham International Film Festival award for Berkoff's latest will hopefully bring the actor's charismatic bellicosity to a wide audience. This is certainly proving the case for Claire McCarthy's latest film, Ophelia, which tells the familiar story of Hamlet from the perspective of his doomed love Ophelia. It played extremely well at Sundance and has garnered solid film festival reviews across the world. Like Berkoff's film McCarthy's latest takes a fresh look at some of the most enduring characters in the Bard's work.
Berkoff is himself something of a master of reinvention, and there is something about the fierce propulsion of his career, even in its seventh decade, which compels his audience. His self-imposed status of outsider has enabled him to reach out to people who may not consider the theatre to be for them. In conversation with The Guardian's Lyn Gardner two decades ago Berkoff opined, 'Anyone of any quality feels like an outsider', and this tenet plays itself out once again in his work.
Along with the eye of director Stephen Cookson, Berkoff's take on the Bard's baddies has something of a personal element to it. When you dedicate your life to bringing such energy to some of the greatest parts any actor can take on, your own understanding of the roles are greatly imbued with experience. It makes sense that his take on Richard III or Macbeth will have greater weight having played them. In 1980 at the Roundhouse in London, Berkoff directed and took the lead role in Hamlet, which was, in his own words, staged with 'utter simplicity'. Twenty-nine year later, he calls the ruminative Dane a 'student villain'. Who could disagree?
With Berkoff you have the essence rather than the granduer. In taking on the Bard's greatest characters he imbues them with a lifetime of treading the boards, unmasking them as players in his own life's work. There are few others who could do the same.
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HOME GROUP PORTFOLIO THE GRAND HOTEL & SPA YORK
Grand Hotel, 5 Star Luxury Spa Hotel in York, North Yorkshire, YO1 6GD
Yorkshire's only 5 star
Splendid Hospitality acquired Yorkshire's only five-star hotel in August 2014. The Grand Hotel & Spa with 207 bedrooms including the Penthouse Suite is a jewel in the SHG crown. Originally built in 1906 as the North Eastern Railway Company's headquarters and a "palace of business", this Grade II building is an iconic landmark at the heart of the historic city of York.
Vist The Grand Hotel & Spa website here.
The The Grand Hotel & Spa York features the following:
Three AA Rosette Restaurant - Hudsons
1906 bar
Spa with Gym, Pool, Sauna and ESPA treatment rooms
7 Event and Conference spaces
Cookery School - opening March 2019
More Grand developments
Already regarded as one of the north's leading luxury hotels, a £15 million redevelopment completed earlier this year has seen The Grand double in capacity with an additional 100 guest rooms and a new 140 seater restaurant, The Rise, Restaurant, Terrace & Bar, which alongside the renowned 3 AA Rosette restaurant Hudsons and the Spa at The Grand, will firmly position The Grand amongst the UK's elite hotels.


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2019 RECORD: 20-14; GNAC: 9-7 / NCAA Tournament Appearances: 2 / GNAC Titles: 2 (1999 & 2003)
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Western Slips Past Falcons 3-2
Western Conn. St. (10-5) 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 0
Albertus Magnus (8-10) 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 4 1
2B: Ej Lavoie; Chris Callahan
2B: Justin Poirier 2
The Albertus Magnus baseball team fell to Western Connecticut State University 3-2 on Thursday night in West Haven, Conn. as the Colonials scored the game-winning run in the top of the seventh inning on a double by Chris Callahan.
Western (10-5) opened the contest with a two-run first inning as Matt Greene registered a two-run single.
The Falcons (8-10) cut the lead to one in the bottom of the frame as Nick Sedia (Bronx, N.Y.) singled to get on base before scoring on a Justin Poirier (Meriden, Conn.) double to right center.
Albertus tied the game at two in the bottom of the third inning as Sedia got on base with a walk before scoring on another Poirier double. Poirier finished the game 2-for-2 with two RBI and one walk. Sedia went 1-for-2 with two runs scored and a walk.
In the top of the seventh, Western scored the game winner as Callahan tallied his fifth double of the season to score Gus Constantino from second.
Western's Josh Zurita earned the win for the Colonials as he improved to 1-1 on the year. Zurita struck out three batters and walked three as he allowed two runs on four hits in six innings. Rob Valunas came into the game and picked up the save, his second of the season, as he struck out the side.
Jon Criscio (East Haven, Conn.) earned the loss as he gave up five hits in six innings of work as he left the game after walking the leadoff batter in the top of the seventh.


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Oil Pares Loss as Investors Weigh Chance of Price-War Truce
April 6, 2020 EnergyNow Media
By Elizabeth Low and Alex Longley
(Bloomberg)Oil pared losses amid signs that Saudi Arabia and Russia are making progress toward an agreement to curb crude output as the coronavirus wreaks havoc on the global economy.
Futures fell 3.3% in New York, having earlier plunged 11%. Large oil-producing nations are racing to negotiate a deal to stem the price crash, but hurdles remain. A meeting of OPEC+ and others — already delayed once — is only tentatively scheduled for Thursday. Russia and Saudi Arabia want the U.S. to join in, but President Donald Trump has so far shown little willingness to do so.
"The fact that the OPEC+ alliance agreed to return to the negotiating table marks an important breakthrough," said Stephen Brennock, an analyst at PVM Oil Associates. Nevertheless, the supply curbs being discussed "would fall short of the current loss in demand" and "would not prevent a further upswing in bloated global oil inventories."
As crude futures fluctuate, the market for real barrels shows renewed weakness, trading several dollars below headline prices. Sellers from Russia to Congo are slashing prices in an effort to sell cargoes. At the same time, gasoline — a premium product in normal times — is currently unprofitable in Europe and barely profitable in America.
West Texas Intermediate for May declined 3.3% to $27.40 a barrel as of 11:09 a.m. London time
Brent for June fell 3.5% to $32.91 a barrel
Riyadh and Moscow are "very close" to an agreement on cuts, CNBC reported Monday, citing the head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund. Still, a lack of participation from the U.S. — the world's largest producer — could prove to be a stumbling block. Despite originally calling for a deal, Trump on Saturday described OPEC as a cartel and threatened tariffs on foreign oil.
Diplomats are now trying to stitch together a meeting of G-20 energy ministers for Friday, part of an effort to bring the U.S. on board, according to two people familiar with the situation.
Meanwhile, Saudi Aramco has delayed the release of its closely watched monthly oil-pricing list until Thursday to await the outcome of OPEC+ negotiations, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The U.A.E. signaled the same move on Monday, while also indicating that it had sharply increased production so far this month.
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Michelle Banfield, RPP
Director of Development Services
michelle.banfield@barrie.ca
Georgian Neighbourhood Study Area Boundary Map
Recommendation Report for Proposed Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-Law Amendment
Second Suites in the Georgian Neighbourhood Study Boundary Area
The City of Barrie is considering amendments to the Official Plan Section 3.3.2.2(e) and Zoning By-law 2009-141 to consider the creation of second suites within the Georgian Neighbourhood Study Boundary Area, where they are currently not permitted.
Council Consideration
The recommendation to consider the restriction of second suites in the Georgian Neighbourhood Study Boundary Area was recommended at Planning Committee on Tuesday January 7th, 2020. The recommendation was then approved by Council on Monday January 13th, 2020. An adopting by-law and Official Plan Amendment is expected to be approved at the City Council meeting on February 10th, 2020. After that approval, there will be a twenty-day (20) appeal period following the notice of the passing of the by-law and Official Plan amendment. At the end of the appeal period second suites will be permitted across the City.
The General Committee of the Council of the Corporation of the City of Barrie held a public meeting on Monday June 10, 2019, at 7pm in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 70 Collier Street, to review municipally initiated amendments to the City of Barrie Zoning By-law 2009-141. Read the full Public Notice.
Purpose of the Proposed Amendments
The proposed amendments to the Official Plan Section 3.3.2.2(e) and the Zoning By-law 2009-141 are to consider permitting second suites within the Georgian Neighbourhood Study Boundary Area, where they are currently not permitted. The proposed amendments include text changes to the Official Plan and both text and mapping changes to the Zoning By-law 2009-141. In addition to the changes outlined below, amendments to the standards and provisions for second suites may be reviewed and amended based on comments received during the public process. The proposed amendments would apply to dwellings in the Georgian Neighbourhood Study Area Boundary.
The Strong Communities through Affordable Housing Act (2011, Bill 140) includes actions to address housing affordability in the Province of Ontario. Part of those amendments requires municipalities to establish Official Plan and Zoning By-law provisions to allow second suites in singled detached, semi-detached and townhouse dwellings. Currently in the City of Barrie second suites are permitted in all residential zones, with the exception of properties zoned residential in the Georgian Neighbourhood Study Boundary Area.
There are standards in Zoning By-law 2009-141 that would be applicable, such as: one second suite per lot, maximum of 2 bedrooms, minimum size requirements and a minimum of one parking space per dwelling unit. These standards are not proposed to be changed and further standards may be considered as part of this public process.
Second suites that have existed prior to May 22, 1996 are currently not subject to the standards outlined in Zoning By-law 2009-141. These second suites must in continuous use up until registration with the City. Through An Act to Amend Certain Statues Concerning Residential Property (1994, Bill 120), second suites are permitted to be registered with the City under separate building code, fire and property standards requirements without meeting the standards of the current zoning by-law. The proposed amendments will not change any of these requirements.
Nature of the Proposed Amendments
To consider changes to the Official Plan and Zoning By-law to permit second suites in residential zones in the Georgian Neighbourhood Study Boundary Area the details of the amendments would be:
Amendment to the Official Plan
That Section 3.3.2.2 (e) be replaced with the following;
"Second Suites are permitted in single detached, semi-detached, duplex dwellings and street townhouses subject to the standards and provisions of the Comprehensive Zoning By-law. Second suites are permitted in all areas of the City to encourage affordable, safe housing".
This section currently states;
"Second Suites are permitted in single detached, semi-detached and street townhouses subject to the standards and provisions of the Comprehensive Zoning By-law. Second suites are not permitted in the area of the Georgian College Neighbourhood Community Improvement Plan on the basis that the City has taken significant initiatives to encourage purpose built student housing within this area in order to maintain the stability of existing neighbourhoods and minimize the impact of an undue concentration of second suites within this area. (OPA 51 ByLaw 2015-055)".
Amendment to the Zoning By-law
That Section 5.2.9.1 (a) be removed;
This section currently states "A second suite shall not be permitted in the Georgian Neighbourhood Study Boundary Area identified in Schedule "A",
Schedule "A" be amended to remove the 'Georgian Neighbourhood Study Area' boundary, and;
Appendix "D" Second Suites Exclusion (Georgian Neighbourhood Study) Area of Zoning By-law 2009-141 be removed.
What happened at the Public Meeting?
There was a presentation made by City Staff. The meeting was open to members of the public to express any comments or feedback on the proposed amendment. Members of Council were able to ask questions of clarification to City Staff. No decision is made at a Public Meeting.
What happens after the Public Meeting?
City Staff take all of the comments received at the Public Meeting in addition to comments received before the public meeting and make a recommendation to Council at a later date.
Additional information can be obtained by contacting Michelle Banfield, RPP, Director of Development Services, at 705-739-4220 x5466
or michelle.banfield@barrie.ca or by visiting the Department of Planning on the ground floor of City Hall (Monday–Friday, 8:30am–4:30pm)


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Andrew has over 25 years' experience specialising in property disputes, contract disputes and professional negligence claims. His property litigation experience spans the full range and includes dilapidations claims, enforcing covenants, tenant insolvency, restrictive covenants, lease renewals and suing other solicitors who have drafted property documents negligently.
He is an experienced tactician, a solicitor advocate. He recently won a Court of Appeal case, as sole advocate, successfully arguing against the QC on the other side. Andrew is also experienced at using "no win no fee" to his clients' benefit.
Andrew acted for the successful tenants in the largest ever enfranchisement claim -
Westbrook Dolphin Square Limited v Friends Life Ltd.
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Dolphin Square enfranchisement claim
Andrew acted for the successful tenants in the largest ever enfranchisement claim Westbrook Dolphin Square Limited v Friends Life Ltd [2014] EWHC 2433 (Ch). Following the trial the judge declared the proposed £111.7 million purchase price as realistic and dismissed all six of the landlord's attempts to block the enfranchisement.
Property joint venture disputes
Andrew acted for the successful defendants in a dispute concerning a failed joint venture to build a shopping centre in Wolverhampton. Multi Veste 226 BV v NI Summer Row Unitholder BV [2011] EWHC 2026 (Ch). Multi Corporation sued Andrew's clients for £56 million. The judge awarded Multi just £2 (and made them pay Andrew's clients' legal costs).
Andrew acted for a property developer who took Lidl to the Court of Appeal when Lidl pulled out of a property joint venture- Generator Developments Limited v Lidl UK GmbH [2018] EWCA Civ 396.
Andrew acted on a £5 million dilapidations claim against BT (settled just before trial, again with his clients getting their costs).
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Andrew also advised on a professional negligence claim from a top 60 law firm on their mishandling of the contracts and guarantees that underpinned this acquisition of the retail premises.
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