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An attorney appointed by the federal government to investigate and prosecute federal government officials.
Before 1988, independent counsel were referred to as special prosecutors. In 1988, Congress amended the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (Ethics Act) (92 Stat. 1824 [2 U.S.C.A. §§ 701 et seq.]) to change the title to independent counsel. This change was made because lawmakers considered the term special prosecutor to be too inflammatory.
Independent counsel are attorneys who investigate and prosecute criminal activity in government. They hold people who make and implement laws accountable for their own criminal activity.
The need for independent counsel arises from the conflict of interest posed by having the established criminal justice system investigate government misconduct. Prosecutors and law enforcement agencies work under the authority of government leders. When government leaders are accused of wrongdoing, these entities face conflicting duties: the duty to uphold the laws on the one hand, versus the duty of loyalty to superiors on the other. Independent counsels do not answer to the government officials they are assigned to investigate, and therefore they avoid much of this conflict of interest. One potential element for bias remains: the political affiliations of the accused government official and the independent counsel. The people rely on independent counsel's duty as a member of the bar to uphold the laws and the U.S. Constitution, to overcome any similarities or differences in political beliefs. Independent counsel who appear to be motivated by political or other bias may be dismissed.
President ulysses s. grant was the first to appoint independent counsel to investigate high-level federal government officials. In 1875 Grant's personal secretary, Orville E. Babcock, was indicted in federal district court on charges of accepting bribes. Babcock had allegedly arranged favorable tax treatment for a group of moonshiners who were known as the Whiskey Ring. Grant removed the federal district attorney and replaced him with an independent counsel, who finished the investigation and the trial.
In the early 1920s, another Bribery scandal, known as teapot dome, led to the appointment of an independent counsel. President warren g. harding appointed independent counsel to investigate the sale of oil-rich federal lands. The independent counsel's investigation led to the prosecution of Harding's secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall.
In its later days, President Harry S. Truman's administration labored under allegations of corruption. Specifically, officials in the Internal Revenue Service and the Tax Division of the Justice Department were accused of giving favorable treatment to tax evaders. Attorney General j. howard mcgrath appointed a special assistant attorney to investigate. When the special prosecutor sought to investigate McGrath, McGrath fired him. Truman then fired McGrath and refused to pursue the matter.
The Watergate scandals of the 1970s gave Congress the incentive to create the first statutory framework for investigating government officials. In 1973, newspaper reports concerning a Burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., implicated officials in the administration of President richard m. nixon. Attorney General elliot l. richardson appointed Archibald Cox, a Harvard law professor, as independent counsel to investigate the situation.
Cox endeavored to uncover the facts surrounding Watergate. As it became apparent that White House officials were involved in the episode, Cox was forced to investigate the president himself. When Cox asked Nixon for White House tape recordings, Nixon sought to have Cox fired. One weekend in October 1973, in a turn of events later known as the Saturday Night Massacre, Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus resigned rather than carry out Nixon's order to fire Cox. That same night, Solicitor General robert h. bork, who had just become acting head of the Department of Justice, carried out Nixon's request and fired Cox.
Nixon then appointed Leon Jaworski to be the second independent counsel to investigate Watergate. Like Cox, Jaworski sought Nixon's White House tapes. After a court battle that reached the U.S. Supreme Court in united states v. nixon, 418 U.S. 683, 94 S. Ct. 3090, 41 L. Ed. 2d 1039 (1974), Jaworski successfully subpoenaed the tapes. Nixon resigned the office of president shortly thereafter.
After the Saturday Night Massacre and the Watergate matter, it became obvious that independent counsel were necessary to check government misconduct. In 1978, Congress passed the Ethics Act to establish on the federal level a statutory scheme for policing the Executive Branch.
Ethics in Government Act
Under the Ethics Act, the process of appointing independent counsel began when the attorney general received information on criminal activity. The attorney general could investigate all violations of Criminal Law other than minor misdemeanors and minor violations. This permission included special ethics laws that applied to Executive Branch officials, such as laws that make it illegal for an Executive Branch official to receive money from a person if the official has arranged for that person to be employed by the federal government.
There had to be sufficient credible information of criminal activity to constitute grounds for an investigation, and the information had to pertain to the president, the vice president, a member of the president's cabinet, a high-level executive officer, a high-level Justice Department official, the director or deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, any person with a personal or financial relationship with the attorney general or any other officer in the Department of Justice, or the president's campaign chair or treasurer.
Once the attorney general received credible inculpatory information, the attorney general had to decide within 30 days whether to investigate the matter. If the attorney general determined that the matter warranted an investigation, he had to begin an investigation. The attorney general could not conduct this initial investigation for more than 150 days. At the close of the investigation, the attorney general submitted a report to the Independent Counsel Division of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The members of this three-judge panel were appointed by the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the report, the attorney general requested or declined the appointment of independent counsel on the matter. A court could not review this decision. If the attorney general requested independent counsel, the panel appointed one and defined the scope of the investigation. Generally, the panel limited the counsel's investigation to certain persons or certain issues.
The appointment of independent counsel was unusual because the Department of Justice already is required to police the Executive Branch. In theory, the attorney general is an independent official. In practice, however, he usually is a political ally of the president. Like other Executive Branch officials, the attorney general is appointed by the president and reports to the president. Because the attorney general decided whether independent counsel should be appointed by the panel, an investigation could be influenced by the Executive Branch. An attorney general might have been reluctant to recommend the prosecution of a political ally. However, if enough sources exerted sufficient pressure, the attorney general could be forced to avoid the appearance of favoritism by requesting the appointment of independent counsel.
The appointment of independent counsel was often politically charged, in large part because independent counsel investigated Executive Branch officials and their political opera-tives. When politicians are investigated, an invariable response is that the investigation is politically motivated. Nevertheless, most politicians considered independent counsel to be crucial to conveying at least the appearance of propriety in the Executive Branch of government. The danger of independent counsel is that they may be called for on a regular basis by politicians who are opposed to the president, for the sole purpose of demoralizing the Executive Branch and gaining an electoral advantage.Once appointed, independent counsel could proceed as any other prosecutor. Counsel filed criminal charges in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and had the power to subpoena witnesses, and to grant Immunity to witnesses.
Under the Ethics Act, only the attorney general could fire independent counsel. Independent counsel could be dismissed only for good cause or because a physical or mental condition prevents counsel from performing the position's duties. Dismissed independent counsel had the right to appeal to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
The first government officials investigated under the new Ethics Act were two officials in the administration of President jimmy carter. After investigating allegations of drug use and conflict of interest, the independent counsel declined to file criminal charges.
In May 1986 an official in the administration of President ronald reagan mounted a challenge to the Ethics Act. Theodore B. Olson, a former assistant attorney general in the administration (and now solicitor general), argued that the Executive Branch had the power to conduct all criminal investigations, and that it was unconstitutional for Congress to give the judiciary the power to appoint independent prosecutors. The U.S. Supreme Court disagreed, ruling that the Ethics Act was constitutional because the attorney general, an officer within the Executive Branch, had the power to remove independent counsel and therefore retained ultimate control (Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654, 108 S. Ct. 2597, 101 L. Ed. 2d 569 [1988]).
The list of federal government officials investigated or prosecuted by independent counsel under the Ethics Act is long and ever growing. In December 1987, Michael Deaver, former aide to President Reagan, was convicted of perjury after prosecution by independent counsel. In February 1988, Lyn Nofziger, another presidential aide, was convicted of ethical violations. Nofziger's conviction was later overturned on appeal. President Reagan's attorney general edwin meese iii resigned in July 1988 after an investigation by independent counsel James McKay. Although Meese was not prosecuted, McKay stated in his report to the panel that he believed that Meese had broken the law by helping a company in which Meese owned stock, Wedtech Corporation, to solicit contracts with the U.S. military.
In December 1986, before he resigned, Meese appointed Lawrence E. Walsh as independent counsel to investigate and prosecute wrongdoing in the burgeoning iran-contra scandal, which involved trading arms to Iranians and diverting the proceeds to fund a covert war in Nicaragua. Walsh was able to obtain several convictions of high-level Reagan administration officials, but some of those were overturned on appeal.
The administration of President bill clinton was heavily investigated by independent counsel. In 1994, Donald C. Smaltz was appointed as independent counsel to investigate Clinton's secretary of agriculture Mike Espy. The independent counsel was directed to investigate whether Espy had accepted gifts from organizations and individuals with business pending before the Agriculture Department and whether Espy had committed any crimes connected to, or arising out of, the investigation, such as Obstruction of Justice and false testimony or statements.
In October 1994, just a few months after Smaltz began work, Espy resigned his office. Nevertheless, the investigation of Espy and several associates continued. Over the next four years, Smaltz spent more than $17 million to bring 30 counts of corruption against Espy. At Espy's 1998 trial, Smaltz produced 70 prosecution witnesses, yet a jury took just nine hours to acquit Espy on all 30 counts.
In January 1994, Robert Fiske Jr. was appointed as independent counsel to investigate the death of White House counsel Vincent Foster and alleged financial misconduct by Clinton and the first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Because the Ethics Act had lapsed, Attorney General Janet Reno herself chose Fiske. When Congress reauthorized the Ethics Act, Reno submitted the matter to the panel, which appointed a new independent counsel, kenneth w. starr.
Starr, a former U.S. solicitor general and U.S. district court judge, worked on the Clinton investigation until 1999. He obtained convictions against a number of Clinton associates, but it was not until 1998 that he ensnared President Clinton. Allegations of a sexual affair with a White House intern shifted Starr's work. In January 1998, Clinton was deposed for the Sexual Harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Jones. At the deposition, Clinton denied that there had been a sexual relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky. In August 1998, he changed his story when called before Starr's Grand Jury, but he still would not give details. In the fall, Starr sent his report to the House of Representatives and testified before a House panel. Starr accused the president of having had a sexual affair with the intern. The report, which contained graphic sexual descriptions from Lewinsky, claimed that Clinton had committed perjury and obstruction of justice, and that he had abused his presidential power in an effort to keep the affair from coming to light. This report led to the House passing Articles of Impeachment in December 1998. Clinton was acquitted of the charges by the Senate in February 1999.
By the end of Starr's investigation, very few people in Congress or the White House had positive feelings about the Ethics in Government Act. The 1980s and 1990s had seen independent counsel spend years and millions of dollars on seemingly open-ended investigations of official misconduct, usually with little to show for it. Even Starr agreed that the law should expire, testifying to that effect before Congress in April 1999. With no congressional support for its continuation, the act was allowed to expire on June 30, 1999. Although bills have been introduced seeking to curtail the powers of future independent counsel while requiring greater accountability, Congress has not acted.
Congress and Independent Counsel
When Congress is in session, independent counsel do not investigate or prosecute the criminal activities of members of Congress. Instead, Congress polices its members through ethics committees and can expel a member with a two-thirds vote of the member's house (U.S. Const. art. I, § 5, cl. 2). Members of Congress cannot be arrested while Congress is in session, except for Treason, felony, or breach of the peace (§ 6, cl. 1). When Congress is not in session, members of Congress are not exempt, and they may be prosecuted in the jurisdiction where an alleged offense occurred.
Congress may also investigate official wrongdoing in the Executive Branch. When Congress and independent counsel are investigating the same persons or events, the matter can become a political tug-of-war, and one investigation can run afoul of the other. For example, if Congress grants immunity to a witness who is under investigation by independent counsel, it becomes difficult for independent counsel to prosecute the witness.
State or Local Independent Counsel
Independent counsel also may be appointed at the state or local level. In Alaska, for example, executive branch officials may be investigated by independent counsel who is appointed by a special personnel board (Alaska Stat. § 39.52.310 [1995]).
In its broadest sense, the term independent counsel can describe any attorney who is appointed by one party to represent, prosecute, or bring suit against someone who is connected with that party. For example, in Alaska, a municipal school board is represented by a municipal attorney. If the municipal attorney has a conflict of interest in a particular matter, the school board may appoint independent counsel for that particular matter (§ 29.20.370). Thus, if the municipal attorney owns stock in a construction company that is hired by the school board, the school board might seek a different attorney to handle legal issues associated with that company, in order to avoid the appearance of collusion between government and private business. The new attorney would be called an independent counsel, to describe his or her independence in the matter.
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Usage in French Canada still lags that of English Canada, yet has grown from 11% of media time in 2001 to 29% of media time spent in 2012. Internet is now the #2 reach medium for adults 18-24 and 25-34 in Quebec.
Quebecers have a long-standing love-affair with radio – and some of the highest loyalty when it comes to hours tuned. On average, Quebecers listen to radio for more than 22 hours per week (well above the national average).
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Made both morning and afternoon trips again today. On the morning trip we did not have very good drifting conditions. We picked some shorts everywhere we went and ended up the morning with some keepers. On the afternoon trip the fishing was much better. We had a nice cool breeze that gave us good drifting conditions. We caught plenty of shorts and had more keepers then the morning trip.
I wish I could say I had gotten my revenge on the fluke today. I tried a few different areas today but none were holding the mother load of Fluke.
On the morning trip we picked at the shorts but caught some keepers each drift. We are half day fishing for fluke everyday making two trips(8am to 12 30 and 1 30 to 6pm).
Slugged away on shorts and keepers with a couple very nice fish in the mix.
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REX, GA – Three people are dead including a Clayton County Police officer after a woman was gunned down by a driveby shooter. Responding police officers were ambushed by gunfire.
On November 30, 2021 at 8:40 p.m., Clayton County Police Department received a call advising there was a drive-by shooting near the 3600 block of Jervis Court, Rex, GA. A secondary call advised there was a female lying motionless in the yard which changed the call to a shooting. A third call came in advising a juvenile male was shot at a secondary location.
By this time, officers had arrived on scene trying to locate the juvenile and render aid to the female victim in the front yard. While trying to locate the juvenile victim and render aid to the female victim, officers received fire from an unknown location.
At this time, three victims are deceased one of which is Clayton County Field Training Officer Henry Laxson. We have one juvenile victim in critical, but stable condition. A second Clayton County Police Officer Alex Chandler was shot in the hand. The suspect was killed during the exchange of gunfire with law enforcement.
The investigation is ongoing. At this time, we are not releasing the names of the victims due to the next-of-kin not being notified.
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Best Mortgage Adviser Award for Mortgages for Business
Readers of The Money Pages have voted Mortgages for Business Best Mortgage Adviser in this year's Personal Finance Awards.
The awards which are now in their 20th year celebrate the best businesses and products in the UK's dynamic personal finance markets through gauging consumer opinion over a comprehensive voting process.
Commenting on the win, Beckie Pepperrell, Head of Residential Mortgages at Mortgages for Business said:
"We are delighted. We've been working hard to let consumers know that we can help with their home-buying mortgage and remortgaging needs. Over the last year we have increased the number of expert mortgage advisers on the Residential Desk to keep up with the increased demand. Clearly the word is out and we look forward to helping more people next year. We'd like to thank everyone who voted for us, it means so much!"
Beckie mentioned that in the past many people assumed that Mortgages for Business could only help with buy to let and commercial mortgages. Colleague and mortgage adviser Charlie London said:
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Farmers rise up against Modi in India's winter of discontent
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Protesting farmers block a highway at the Delhi-Haryana state border.
A chilly breeze whirls through New Delhi in the mornings and the sun is partly obscured by toxic haze, a marker of another winter in the Indian capital. But along the city's borders, this year is visibly and viscerally different.
The perpetually busy arterial highways that connect most northern Indian towns to this city of 29 million people now pulse to the cries of "Inquilab Zindabad" — "Long live the revolution." Tens and thousands of farmers with distinctive, colorful turbans and long, flowing beards have descended upon the city's borders, choking highways in giant demonstrations against new farming laws that they say will open them to corporate exploitation.
For more than a week, they've marched toward the capital on their tractors and trucks like an army, pushing aside concrete police barricades while braving tear gas, batons and water cannons. Now, on the outskirts of New Delhi, they are hunkered down with food and fuel supplies that can last weeks and threatening to besiege the capital if Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government doesn't meet their demands to abolish the laws.
"Modi wants to sell our lands to corporates," said one of them, Kaljeet Singh, 31, who travelled from Ludhiana city in Punjab, some 310 kilometres north of New Delhi. "He can't decide for millions of those who for generations have given their blood and sweat to the land they regard as more precious than their lives."
At night, the farmers sleep in trailers and under trucks, curling themselves in blankets to brave the winter chill. During the day, they sit huddled in groups in their vehicles, surrounded by mounds of rice, lentils and vegetables that are prepared into meals at hundreds of makeshift soup kitchens, in enormous pots stirred with wooden spoons the size of canoe paddles.
Anmol Singh, 33, who supports his family of six by farming, said the new laws were part of a larger plan to hand over the farmers' land to big corporations and make them landless.
"Modi wants the poor farmer to die of hunger so that he can fill the stomachs of his rich friends," he said. "We are here to fight his brutal decrees peacefully."
He paused, then reconsidered: "Actually, let him and his ministers take us on. We will give them a bloody nose."
Many of the protesting farmers hail from northern Punjab and Haryana, two of the largest agricultural states in India. An overwhelming majority of them are Sikhs. They fear the laws passed in September will lead the government to stop buying grain at minimum guaranteed prices and result in exploitation by corporations who will push down prices. Many activists and farming experts support their demand for a minimum guaranteed price for their crops.
The new rules will also eliminate agents who act as middlemen between the farmers and the government-regulated wholesale markets. Farmers say agents are a vital cog of the farm economy and their main line of credit, providing quick funds for fuel, fertilizers and even loans in case of family emergencies.
The government has argued the laws bring about necessary reform that will allow farmers to market their produce and boost production through private investment. But farmers say they were never consulted.
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The Flight Test Safety Committee is sponsoring a Flight Test Safety Workshop on 29-31 October 2013 at the auditorium of the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR in Amsterdam.
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Last night Gaea's Garden hosted a live video presentation on the topic of C60 fullerenes and updates on our latest C60 Product launches.
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We have continued to deepen our involvement with our neighbours in the asylum community. Members of the Social Action team make a weekly collection of clothes and other needed items that are delivered to the two Day Centres closest to us. We also set up and ran a local Garden project. Through the generosity of parishioners, we have provided a variety of much needed items for individuals and families being moved into private housing. Members of our church have also offered accommodation/rooms to rent to individual refugees who have been granted permission to stay but who struggle to find accommodation of their own. In addition, we offer language lessons and conversation, mainly English and weekly Art Therapy sessions at the Gland Day Centre. When possible, we include asylum seekers whom we get to know in church and family activities, offer transportation and assist with legal procedures. Through a coordinator, refugees are linked up with members of our community (church and other) to assist with gardening, decorating, moving house etc. in order to earn money. Our Chaplain works with a representative of the Westlake Church in Nyon, in a weekly "open house" for refugees and with the Pastor of the local Swiss church in Gland, ministering to the asylum seekers in general and to individuals with specific needs. This has included a sponsored bike ride in support of a gardening project, offering pick-up for church services and events, providing practical support in their search for jobs and accommodation, as well as friendship, hospitality and a listening ear when problems threaten to overwhelm their well-being.
We also look for ways to encourage the learning of the whole of our church community through services with a specific theme. In the future we would like to encourage members of our church with particular expertise in areas of development, ecology, science and social entrepreneurship to help us explore some of these issues that underpin the problems of inequality and poverty. Awareness raising comes through getting to know people and projects struggling with these problems.
In addition to these local projects, our Church looks to the wider world and has makes many donations to charities.


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Uzbekistan has been rocked by its largest protest in nearly two decades. What happened – and who's to blame?
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Why Uzbekistan's journalists still yearn for change
In recent years, Uzbekistan has embarked on ambitious reforms. But for the country's long-struggling journalists,...
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In Uzbekistan, homosexuality is illegal. Here's what LGBT life is like there
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Published on: 4 July 2019
Uzbekistan still lacks a law on domestic violence, and legislation on gender equality is yet to appear.


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It's permanent exhibits like the all-new Lone Star Dinosaurs, ExploraZone, KIDSPACE and DinoDig. The Omni Theater, an IMAX dome, uses an 80-foot domed screen and 72 speakers to present a wide variety of giant-screen adventures. The Noble Planetarium presents regular astronomical programs. Museum School offers classes for preschool and elementary school-aged children.


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The Insufferable Movie Snob
All Spoilers, All The Time
DVR Alert -- But Not Pre-Code!
I'm traveling this weekend and may not have time for a full essay, but I wanted to alert people to set their DVRs for a NON-Pre Code movie.
I Walked With A Zombie is a cool little horror movie produced by Val Lewton in 1943 and directed by Jacques Tourneur. Lewton described it as "Jane Eyre in the West Indies," but that jokey description conceals what the true horror examined in the film is: the lingering aftereffects of slavery on both the former owners and the former slaves.
But it's also an atmospheric gothic tale with a strong heroine and no gore (under the Code, no gore was allowed anyway) that's well worth watching. Even horror movie chickens should be able to handle this one.
CORRECTION! Airs Saturday Oct. 19 at 2:15 am ET / Friday Oct. 17at 11:15 pm PT. Enjoy!
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Complicated Women by Mick LaSalle
The Dame in the Kimono by Leonard J. Leff
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From Reverence to Rape by Molly Haskell
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Sin in Soft Focus by Mark A. Vieira
This blog examines "Pre-Code" American films, the short period between the coming of sound films and the establishment of the Production Code Office, when (almost) anything was okay to show in American films.


Well if you have the dollars, 12 million of them, you could be the proud owner of your very own island in the Florida Keys. Located a quarter-mile off the Atlantic shore of Marathon, Fla., this small and private oasis on East Sister Rock Island is surrounded by white sand and coral reef. It comes complete with a 5,000 sq. ft. home with 360 degree views of the neon blue water.
Here's what Erika Riggs of Zillow had to say about the property.
The Marathon home for sale is completely off-the-grid. It relies on solar panels on the roof and side of the house for power, and cisterns collect rainwater.
Built in 1980 as a family getaway spot, the home holds all the vacation essentials: a wrap-around porch measuring 2,700 square feet, private dock and 21-foot-long boat, which is included in the sale. The island also has a helipad for ease of transportation to the Marathon and Miami airports.
The Bahamas-style residence was updated in 2001 and features enormous windows and 19 sliding glass doors that open out to veranda. In addition to the three bedrooms and two bathrooms in the main home, there is a smaller, detached 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom guest house.
The owners, according to Arrieta, are listing the property because they no longer use the island as often as they'd like.
The property is designed to be a vacation paradise. The coral reef surrounding the home is perfect for snorkeling and just off the home's shores are plenty of fishing areas or other opportunities for water sports, explained Arrieta.
If you find the $12 million price tag a bit too much too swallow at once, the private isle is also available for rent: $5,000 a week.
Okay, so you don't have $12,000,000 in cold hard green backs sitting around, neither do I. But here's an idea. What if a thousand of us all chipped in $12,000 and bought the place. We could have multiple families spend one day there each year, with a new group coming in everyday. Sure it might not be ideal, but at least you'd be a proud parent and get show off photos of your baby to strangers, and say…yeah, that's mine.
Dude, love the idea of chipping in 12Gs each to buy a piece of the island.
So very tempting! Did you stay there?
Ha! That's true Scott, we will have to take it easy the night before we spend our day on the island paradise. A group buy this expensive, we can't spend our day hung over!
BigKahuna…I'd knew you'd be all in! Cheers!
I suppose I could be convinced to leave the rum at the bar… No, I couldn't! We'll keep you up though!
Just watched a piece on this island on Island Hunters. Apparently still available!


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8 Modern Mythological Creatures
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5. Kuchisake-Onna
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Kuchisake-Onna is an urban legend from Japan. Its origin goes back to an unfaithful wife who cheated on her samurai husband, who retaliated by cutting her face with his sword. Later on, the story of a slit-mouthed woman wearing a surgical mask who slashed at people who answered her questions wrong surfaced in the '70s and started scaring the Japanese public. This legend soon jumped to South Korea, where the woman wore a red surgical mask.
6. The Annabelle Doll
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The Annabelle doll is a Raggedy Ann doll that is supposedly demonically-possessed. According to demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, the doll's name came from the spirit that haunted the doll—a dead girl named Annabelle Higgins—but this was actually a lie made by the demon in the doll. The doll became so popular when it was first seen in James Wan's movie The Conjuring in 2013, it had its own spin-off movie the following year.
7. "The Hands Resist Him" Painting
Via Dailydot
Not a creature technically, this creepy painting has achieved a certain notoriety after it was traded on eBay. This painting actually has a mundane origin: created by the artist Bill Stoneham in 1974, he based it on an old photograph of him and his neighbour while they were children. The painting soon acquired its own legend when it was reported that the figures in the painting moved on its own. This object actually represents a number of supposedly haunted kitschy objects available on eBay.
8. The Flying Spaghetti Monster
Originally a satirical tool, the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is a deity of a full-blown social movement. First cited by Bobby Henderson in 2005 to protest the decision of the Kansas State Board of Education to allow the teaching of intelligent design in schools, the FSM is the god of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarianism, and has its own developing mythology (colanders, anyone)?
Know of any other modern mythological creatures we missed out on? Let us know below!
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ELLE KING TO SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN LIVE ON HBO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING AT THE WLADIMIR KITSCHKO VS. BRYANT JENNINGS FIGHT BROADCAST LIVE SATURDAY APRIL 25TH AT 9:30 PM ET IN OVER 110 COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE
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(New York – April 20, 2015) Having just released her critically-acclaimed debut album LOVE STUFF , RCA recording artist Elle King will be performing the National Anthem at the top of the main KLITSCHKO vs. JENNINGS fight as part of the World Championship Boxing series broadcast live at 9:30 PM ET from Madison Square Garden on HBO in over 110 countries worldwide.
This performance of the National Anthem will be Elle King's Madison Square Garden debut.
The undisputed World Heavyweight Champion, KLITSCHKO will defend his 10-year title reign against top rated challenger JENNINGS on Sat., April 25 emanating from the "The World's Most Famous Arena", Madison Square Garden and televised Live on HBO World ChampionshipBoxing beginning at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.
About Elle King:
Having just released her debut album LOVE STUFF, Elle recently performed her current single "Ex's & Oh"s on The Today Show and on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. (click hyperlinks to watch her performances). Jon Pareles of The New York Times describes Elle King as "a sassy, hard-drinking, love-'em-and-leave-'em hellion with bad tattoos and a broad pedigree across rock, pop and country. She has Adele's determination and Joan Jett's stomp, Brenda Lee's high-voiced bite and some AC/DC shriek."The Wall Street Journal calls her voice "a powerful instrument that reflects the influence of Aretha Franklin and rockabilly pioneer Wanda Jackson," and Teen Vogue declares her "Blond and boisterous…music's newest hot chick." Elle King will be joining James Bay as the opening act on select dates of his sold out tour starting May 7th in Denver, Colorado. She will also be performing at Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Hangout Fest, Beale St. Music Festival and Squamish Valley Music Festival in the coming months. Elle has toured with Of Monsters and Men, Train, Ed Sheeran, and many others. www.elleking.com
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A headache, when it strikes, is not very pleasant to contend with. It may strike you on a daily basis when you get up or it might be sudden and/or severe. For example, imagine a situation where you have taken your kid outside with plans of a full-fledged picnic just for the two of you. The plan, along with the overjoyed child, may be spoilt because your headache strikes just as you are ready to leave.
Maintain a headache diary and see what triggers your headache. In some people, noise might be the causative factor while in others it may be an excess of caffeine. So observe what triggers your headache and then avoid that.
Avoid tobacco or anything to do with it. Smoking is not only injurious to health but it may trigger very bad headaches in those susceptible to smoke.
Have your proper meals at regular intervals of time. Do not skip meals.
Go to bed at a proper time each night and try to secure at least eight hours of sleep. However, don't overdo it as oversleeping is also bad. It is sometimes oversleeping, which may lead to a headache.
Too much of sun can also give you a headache. So try to avoid going out under a very harsh sun.
Keep yourself hydrated at all times by having plenty of water and fluids, especially when you are under the sun. Dehydration can also lead to a very bad headache.
Alcohol causes headaches in several people. So, try to avoid alcohol in the first place.
Women, beware!! Do not wear your hair too tightly in ponytails as that may lead to a tension-type headache.
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You can use heat and cold to your advantage. With some people, it is the application of a cold pack which gives them relief whereas with others, hot showers and massages. See what works for you and use it.
The excess of artificial lighting can trigger a headache in susceptible individuals. See if you are letting in enough natural air and sunshine. Do not subject yourself to stuffy atmospheres and conditions.
Be under the regular supervision of a doctor and avoid taking medicines on your own. A regular checkup will help you identify a problem at its onset and you could then arrest it effectively.
Try to lead an active and healthy lifestyle.
Although stress is a part and parcel of every day modern living, do try to minimize it.
These steps would help you arrest your headaches even before they begin. So follow these steps and take good care of yourself.


The number eight is a lucky number in the Chinese culture, even though many versions of it may have more ingredients than eight, people still call it Eight Treasure Congee. Different versions of eight treasure congee have different ingredients for different types of healing. Most ingredients include Chinese red date, red bean, black walnut, pine nut, dried persimmon, sweet rice, millets... STORY BEHIND THE RECIPE. My Celestial Eight-Treasure Duck is a perennial family favourite that I will cook every Chinese New Year for reunion dinners, or for special birthday parties.
Eight-treasure rice pudding is a specialty of southern Sichuan—tender, sweet and not greasy. It is easy to cook and the ingredients are simple. For these reasons, it has become a popular food... Eight treasure glutinous rice cake recipe. Learn how to cook great Eight treasure glutinous rice cake . Crecipe.com deliver fine selection of quality Eight treasure glutinous rice cake recipes equipped with ratings, reviews and mixing tips.
Healthy eight treasure congee also known as mixed congee, eight treasure porridge is a conge used to celebrate Laba festival. So it is also called as Laba congee. Chinese people are quite enthusiastic about glutinous rice, which can be proofed by many holiday foods like Nian Gao(steamed rice cake how to buy a house in dragonsreach This recipe is a modified Chinese classic, eight treasure duck. Hoisin sauce is brushed over duck breast fillets, roasted and served with rice.
The main tip to making fried rice is to use cold, previously cooked rice, preferably at least one day old. (Use your fingers or a spatula to break up the cold clumps of rice). how to cook with sofrito The main tip to making fried rice is to use cold, previously cooked rice, preferably at least one day old. (Use your fingers or a spatula to break up the cold clumps of rice).
Combine the rices and wash 3 times. Heat the groundnut oil in a wok till almost smoking. Stir-fry the mushrooms, the Chinese sausages, chicken, dry shrimp, lotus seeds, onion, and bamboo shoots for 1 to 2 min. Add in the soy sauce, 5-spice power, sesame oil, and salt.
So don't feel afraid of cooking, the dish, 8-Treasures Duck, definitely isn't as complicated as it sounds! So here we go! Before I start, a little background of this dish that we are going to make!


Residents able to handle a tarantula and a snake during activity session at care home.
Residents and staff at The Hillings care home in St Neots enjoyed the company of some unusual visitors last week, including a snake and a tarantula.
They were given the opportunity to handle the exotic creatures during a visit to the home, in Grenville Way, from a group calling itself Lion Learners, which organises animal educational experiences and visits for a wide range of organisations, including schools and care homes.
The visit was arranged by the home's activities co-ordinator, Sharon Woodham.
"The activities programme we run at the home is considered a vital part of the overall care services we provide to our residents" explained Sharon.


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Need a jump start some mornings? I know I do.
And you'll want to be awake before you leave home, because there's a new threat to our networked world: GPS jamming. The notion of inexpensive jammers messing with my GPS ... that's very upsetting. As is the possibility (see the same article) that 4G LTE mobile broadband services will interfere with GPS on a wide scale.
But the bigger buzz kill is a recent blog post by SF colleague Kristine Kathryn Rusch. In "Writing like it's 1999," she paints a picture of authors needing to become their own agent, publisher, and promoter combined. (And when, you might ask, are we supposed to write?) I like to think there's some hyperbole involved, and that prospect for traditional publishing isn't quite as harsh and bleak as Kris portrays it.
But I can't dismiss her viewpoint out of hand. Like two-headed calves and the sky raining stones, there are portents of a (publishing) apocalypse: The Wall Street Journal reports that 99-Cent Titles From Unknown Authors Put New Pressure on Big Publishers. Like ebooks outselling mass-market paperbacks -- and the Association of American Publishers ought to know -- authors bypassing publishers is surely a sign of ... something.
I know that cell phone jammers have been cheap to build for a long time, and dangerous when used by people who don't know their range. You can order them online for $20, and many churches or restaurant use them.
I find the bit about 99c books and small publishers interesting. It could be beneficial for the market to move this way. Piracy of ebooks is damned easy and 99c books would be very competitive with pirated ones.
It's difficult to justify spending $30 on a book when it is available for free on the internet, unless of course it is a favorite series or author. There are also a lot of people who like to hold the physical book.
How much of a cut do publishing companies take from physical books, and how much from e-books. I'm willing to guess that an author like yourself could benefit from using traditional publishers to print/sell dead tree books, and independent/untraditional publishing methods for e-books. If there is some way to give the publishers less dollar when you sell digital, maybe you can make your prices low enough to compete with piracy, while still making about the same amount yourself.
I've noticed that your ebook prices are already pretty low, so maybe there's not much room to reduce them further. It all depends on what cut the publisher is getting.
Will, or should, authors become their own publishers? That is the core question, and -- trust me -- authors all talk about it.
As for me, I'm not there yet. Ebooks make self-publishing mechanically easier than it once was -- but having an ebook does not confer visibility (over the other bazillion ebooks) or credibility. Few authors are Stephen King or J. K. Rowling, with hordes of fans scouring the web for any sign of a new book that they'll buy with no further recommendation than the author's name.
A major publisher's participation does more than get dead-tree books into brick-and-mortar stores and the hands of reviewers. The publisher's backing is, minimally, proof that a professional editor selected the manuscript (and, hopefully, improved it) -- that someone other than the author's mother liked the book. That endorsement has value for ebooks, too.
As for pricing and royalty rates, every publisher and author in the world is presently struggling to find the right levels. One way or another, someone must incent authors to produce books, and editors to improve them, and artists to produce cover art for them ... all at a unit price that keeps readers buying.
There's an old joke wherein a business owner is asked about his low, low prices. He explains, "I lose money on every sale, so I have to make it up in volume." 99-cent ebooks could turn out like that for many authors.
One of the benefits for me of my Nook -- is the samples. Which are distributed by the publishers.(And hey I found you because I read Analog on my Nook!) I go to B&N.com and can download samples of almost any e-book that vaguely interests me. And read them at my leisure.
Unlike the bookstore or even the library, I don't have to decide right now, I don't have to choose between this book and that book right this second. I can read the book that drew me in first, then when that's finished pick up another sample. If I like it, I download it and keep reading.
But I do have that faith in the publisher that you mentioned - someone has waded through what Marion Zimmer Bradley always called "The Slushpile" and found the writers who have a story and likeable characters and gotten rid of the ...well, slush. That I, the paying reader, don't have time or energy for.
I would say I've actually spent more on books since I got my ereader (XMas 2010) than I did on books for myself all of the previous year. Before I wouldn't get hooked from a sample, and I wouldn't spend the money on something I wasn't sure of - I'd place a hold at the library and wait. (I know, I'm so old school - the library!) Once I've read the sample, I have less patience for that time-lapse.
And yes I have some public domain freebies on there -ALL THE OZ BOOKS!! and I have figured out how to use my library's e-branch.
I'm not anti-ereader, just attentive (and sometimes edgy) about their still TBD impacts on publishing. Think of me as a small-business owner facing a revolution in the means of distribution between me and my customers.
As for free samples as a way to draw readers -- absolutely, that's a Good Thing.


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Dave and Diane Quinn, owners of Miska Haven Bed & Breakfast, located east of Enderby along the Shuswap River. The couple say 60 per cent of their guests have been from B.C. in 2020, compared to about 15 per cent last year. (Contributed)
'Staycation' spike keeps North Okanagan bed and breakfasts bustling
Owners say locals have been filling the void left by fewer travellers from afar during the pandemic
Brendan Shykora
Despite having fewer visitors from afar this year, bed and breakfasts in the North Okanagan have been kept busy with guests looking for a peaceful retreat closer to home.
B.C.'s tourism and hospitality sectors have suffered from a dearth of out-of-province vacationers since the pandemic began. But for Dave and Diane Quinn, owners of Miska Haven Bed and Breakfast, a rise in 'staycations' has helped make up the difference.
Miska Haven sits on 1,800 feet of waterfront along the Shuswap River, a 10-minute drive east of Enderby. The Quinns started the year-round business in June 2019 on the remote, forested property overlooking the Hunters Range hills.
It's as good a place as any for a pandemic holiday.
"We are at a dead-end road so there's not a lot of traffic, not a lot of potential for interaction with other people. We really are secluded and away from other folks," Dave said.
Last year about 85 per cent of Miska Haven's guests came from Alberta. While that's down to about 40 per cent this year, their cabin and yurt have remained full with guests from the Okanagan.
"This year probably 60 per cent are from B.C.," Quinn said. "We're seeing people from Armstrong, Vernon, Kelowna — we've even had people coming out from Enderby just looking for a bit of a getaway."
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It's been a hectic year of adapting to health and safety guidelines from the provincial health officer and the B.C. Hotel Association. With additional guidance from the Enderby and District Chamber of Commerce, the owners have found ways to make their guests feel safe while maintaining the experience.
"It's been a significant increase in the workload, but it's been very satisfying in that we've been busy, and people, when they've come, have actually been able to forget about COVID for the two or three days that they're here," Dave said.
Check-in times have been spread out to allow time for thorough cleaning. Everything comes out of the units after guests have left, and items like books and games, if used, are removed and isolated for four days. The two guest areas have been separated to prevent mingling between people in different social bubbles.
Breakfast has been the biggest challenge, with meals having to be pre-packaged in disposable containers. Dave said they've switched to offering breakfast by request, lowering their pricing for those who would prefer to provide their own meals.
The experience has been similar for Yvonne Meyer and Joey Minshall, now in their fifth season running J-heart-Y Bed and Breakfast on Twin Lakes Road in Enderby, where they host guests in their cozy, 100-square-foot treehouse.
"The COVID cleaning protocols were something to wrap your head around," Meyer said, adding they started their season a month late while protocols were being ironed out.
She said far more guests have come from the Okanagan and Interior than in recent years, and the treehouse was booked every weekend throughout the summer.
Though the cost of operation has been higher as they work to adhere to protocols, the semi-retired couple isn't concerned about profit; they're happy to offer a service that's given more locals an escape this year.
"People are in awe of the experience because it's so quiet and so peaceful," Meyer said. "I just feel that we're the right kind of people to offer a service like this."
Miska Haven is open for the winter, and the Enderby chamber has worked with them to develop a 'staycation' package through the Okanagan We Got This chamber network.
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Your self-worth is the value you assign to yourself. You can't estimate your self-worth by comparing yourself with others. It has little to do with your accomplishments or the value that society places on you or your work. Your precise self-worth can't be measured, because it's priceless. You can get the best estimate of your self-worth by asking someone who loves you unconditionally how much he or she values you. The answer would likely be trillions of dollars, if not more.
Don't use this realization to become arrogant. Instead, use this understanding as a reminder that you don't have to prove yourself to anybody; that you are intrinsically priceless, and that it's just fine to be humble and live a life serving others, in whatever way is most meaningful to you.
But we don't typically live with these thoughts. Instead, we let inappropriate evaluations of ourselves — whether they come from others or ourselves — define our self-worth. We also often value ourselves based on the outcomes of our actions, not our intentions or efforts. This is a mistake, because outcomes are unpredictable and dependent on many other factors that are out of our control.
Value gets even more complicated when we think about what others think of us. Others generally place value on us based on their ideals, the part of us they see, and how much they think we value them. The internet further complicates the issue of value when we get five stars and one star for our work in a span of five minutes.
Do you see how your self-worth can be constantly shifting, affecting your mood, the way you treat others, and your productivity?
Try applying these lessons. Remind yourself of the following.
I am priceless, just like everyone else is.
If I have to judge myself, it's best to look at my intentions and efforts, not at the outcome of my actions.
I can use every bit of well-meaning feedback, positive or negative, to become a better person.
I help my own self-worth when I give well-deserved, positive feedback to others.
This approach may help give you a more secure sense of self, which might prompt you to help others feel the same way about themselves. Maybe someday, all of us will wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and say, "You are a good human being; you are priceless." Live your day remembering this fact and help others feel the same.
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Fight for your Rights: Student Press Under Attack
Dec 12, 2016 by Kaila Davis	in Politics
Recently, campus press freedoms have been in a tight spot.
While many campus papers such as The Collegian at Pennsylvania State University, The Daily Northwestern, and The GW Hatchet at The George Washington University are independent of the schools they cover, most college media outlets are affiliated with the universities they cover.
Independent papers are student run, privately funded, and put distance between the reporters and their subject. However, many public, private, religious and secular colleges have papers beholden university administrations according to a report by The American Association of University Professors and three other organizations who attempt to protect publications from censorship.
Student Media Under Fire https://t.co/xCoY1gaA3I via @AcademeBlog #studentpress #journalism #highered
— AAUP (@AAUP) December 1, 2016
The report, released on Dec. 1, explained how student journalism is under attack. It cites an incident at the University of Missouri, which was again named the top journalism school in the country in a poll of news professionals, where an assistant professor of communication attempted to stop two young men from photographing and filming an on-campus protest, as well as various other examples of censorship.
Apparently "it has become disturbingly routine for student journalists and their advisers to experience overt hostility that threatens their ability to inform the campus community and, in some instances, imperils their careers or the survival of their publications." According to the report, these instances are routinely swept under the rug.
Post-election, it has become extremely important for universities to assert themselves on the side of the first amendment.
"Like our country, Boston University will flourish if we adhere to enduring principles that have defined our community for 150 years: respect for all people and their right to free expression, adherence to the rule of law, and respect for reasoned arguments and scientific findings," Boston University President Robert Brown said in an interview with The Daily Free Press.
Statements like these show that some universities are still committed to transparency. Mount St. Mary's University President Tim Trainor has been adamant that a free press is necessary for an institution to function, according to the managing editor of The Mountain Echo, Rebecca Schisler.
"I don't think free press is being treated at the Mount right now, but I do think it is a larger scale problem for many other universities," Schisler said.
Slate recently published an article bringing attention to the censorship problem some student journalists face. Reporter Rebecca Schuman claims that misadvising of student papers is bad for democracy.
"We had no faculty adviser, received no course credit, and certainly enjoyed a mixed reputation on campus, but we loved every second of it, and some of us even grew up to be (more or less) journalists," Schuman said, reflecting on her time at Vassar's campus paper, The Miscellany News.
Publicity works both ways. Schuman notes the economic consequences of bad publicity, but also acknowledges that universities can benefit positively from committing themselves to open dialogues with campus newspapers.
Campus papers let students practice what they're learning in classrooms and are excellent training centers for professional newsrooms. Student journalists, like the ones here at MediaFile, may very well be at the media helm in future generations. Where they get their start, and where they train at the university level, is key to the future of media.
Tagged with: BU, campus press, free press, GWU, Penn State, student press, The Collegian, The Daily Free Press, The Daily Northwestern, the gw hatchet
About the author Kaila Davis
Kaila is a sophomore at The George Washington University, majoring in political communication and minoring in sustainability. She currently works as a policy research intern at NASA's Office of Legislative Affairs. She has experience running social media accounts for Think Food Group and is a reporter for GW-TV covering campus and local news. She loves yoga, chips and guacamole and her small poodle named Floyd.


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The Wolf Dog
Posted on April 20, 2013 by filesofjerryblake under G-Man and Detective Serials, Mascot Serial Reviews, Reviews
Mascot, 12 Chapters, 1933. Starring George J. Lewis, Frankie Darro, Boots Mallory, Hale Hamilton, Henry B. Walthall, Niles Welch, Stanley Blystone, Tom London, Fred Kohler Sr, and Rin Tin Tin Jr.
Flyer Jerry Patton dies in a plane crash in Alaska during an attempted round-the-world flight, leaving his faithful dog and flying companion Pal (Rin Tin Tin Jr.) stranded in the wilderness; the dog soon fights his way to the leadership of a wolf pack. Meanwhile, young Frank Stevens (Frankie Darro), living in the Alaskan woods with his kindly mother (Sarah Padden) and his brutal trapper stepfather (Fred Kohler Sr.), discovers that he is actually the son of a recently deceased tycoon named Courtney and now controls the Courtney Shipping Line. Setting out for California to claim his inheritance, Frank encounters Pal, now The Wolf Dog, who has been wounded by ranchers; after the boy nurses the dog back to health, the two become traveling companions. Reaching a seaport, Frank and Pal are intercepted by Frank's "stepfather," who hopes to cash in on Frank's inheritance; fortunately, the duo is rescued by Bob Whitlock (George J. Lewis), radio officer on a Courtney Line steamship. Bob helps Frank and Pal get to Los Angeles, where the Courtney Line's crooked chairman Norman Bryan (Hale Hamilton) is less than pleased by the appearance of a Courtney heir: having previously framed Frank's uncle Jim (Henry B. Walthall) for embezzlement, Bryan had expected to win sole possession of the shipping line after the death of Frank's father. Bob and Pal must now help Frank dodge Bryan's attempts to remove him, while also trying to clear Jim Courtney and protecting a valuable invention of Bob's (a ray device that ignites gasoline over long distances) from the greedy Bryan's grasp. Despite Bryan's friendly pose, the trio of heroes manage to unmask him, with help from Jim Courtney's daughter Irene (Boots Mallory), who's been working as Bryan's secretary under an assumed name in hopes of clearing her fugitive father.
The Wolf Dog is one of Mascot's least-known serials. John Wayne's three chapterplays for the studio continue to enjoy a certain fame because of their star, while the Mascot vehicles of other big names like Tom Mix and Red Grange receive similarly automatic attention. Still other Mascot chapterplays have repeatedly attracted viewers through their colorful mystery villains. Wolf Dog has no mystery villain, and, while hero George J. Lewis is well-known to serial fans as a heavy, he's not considered an iconic hero. To make matters worse, good viewing copies of Wolf Dog were impossible to find until collector David Crowley and Eric Stedman of the Serial Squadron website finally located a clear and non-splicy print of the chapterplay and transferred it to DVD in 2015. As a result of these various handicaps, Wolf Dog is generally overlooked by serial fans–which is a pity, since it's an entertaining, lively, and thoroughly solid effort–not as fantastical as some of Mascot's other outings, but much more smoothly plotted than the studio norm.
Above: Frankie Darro and Rin Tin Tin Jr. encounter each other for the first time.
Although they spend more time than necessary on Pal's first-chapter origin story, Wolf Dog's writers–Colbert Clark, Wyndham Gittens, Sherman Lowe, Al Martin, and Barney Sarecky–otherwise keep their plot firmly on track through the serial's twelve chapters, with none of the logic gaps so common to Mascot. The simplicity of the storyline does lead to a certain amount of repetitive hero-villain dueling, but the continual shift of narrative focus between three overlapping subplots–Bryan's attempts to eliminate Frank, his pursuit of Whitlock's invention, and the good guys' efforts to clear Jim Courtney–keeps things from seeming too repetitious. The definitive wrapping-up of the Jim Courtney subplot halfway through the serial further diminishes the wheel-spinning feel of the storyline, as does the new subplot that takes its place–the heroes' investigation of Bryan's aide Mason, which ultimately snowballs into an investigation of Bryan himself and leads to the climactic action. However, even with three plot threads in hand, the writers–as in The Devil Horse, Mystery Squadron, and other Mascots of the period–are forced to resort to brief but irritatingly numerous recap scenes to pad the serial out to the full twelve chapters.
Like almost every Mascot outing, Wolf Dog features interesting location work–the railyards, city streets, country roads, and (especially) ships and harbors that serve as backdrops to the action are almost all genuine. Directors Colbert Clark and Harry Fraser stage many excellent action sequences in these and other locations; among the highlights are George J. Lewis's rope-swing rescue of Frankie Darro as Darro dangles from some suspended crates aboard ship in Chapter One, an excellent motorboat chase sequence later in the same episode, and a car-motorcycle chase (in Chapter Nine) during which Lewis, Darro, and Rin Tin Tin Jr. escape the villains by taking their cycle down a steep hill (this chase, like many similar scenes in other Mascot outings, is filmed on the roadways near Bronson Canyon).
Above, top left: George J. Lewis swings to the rescue of Frankie Darro in Chapter One (both actors are presumably doubled here). Top right: Lewis chases Max Wagner up a dockyard sandhill during a Chapter Four clash. Bottom left: Lewis zooms through a California crossroads town during a good car chase in Chapter Eight. Bottom right: A shot from the wild downhill motorcycle ride in Chapter Nine.
Other standouts include the extended fistfight in the dockyards in Chapter Four–with our trio of heroes taking on Fred Kohler and Max Wagner–and the well-staged and well-shot mass attack on Henry B. Walthall's house in Chapter Eleven, with the thugs attempting to break in from all sides and Lewis, Darro, and Rinty desperately trying to stop them. Lewis' final pursuit of the exposed Hale Hamilton, with a grisly finish for the villain in the harbor, is also memorable. Yakima Canutt, George Magrill, Kermit Maynard, and others handle the dangerous stunts, but the actors–in typical Mascot fashion–seem to handle a good deal of the fights and chases themselves.
Above: A villain draws a bead on George J. Lewis during the excellent Chapter Eleven shootout, but heroine Boots Mallory shouts a warning in time for Lewis to rout his antagonist.
The cliffhanger sequences and very good for the most part, particularly Lewis' Chapter Four fall down a hillside into the path of a speeding train and the motorcycle crash that follows the above-mentioned downhill run; the Chapter Two shooting/explosion cliffhanger is memorable too, but its resolution seriously strains credibility. Perils are evenly distributed between the protagonists, with the writers avoiding contrived attempts (like those seen in Mascot's earlier Last of the Mohicans) to involve the trio in simultaneous danger at the end of every chapter. Rinty, like Mascot's other animal heroes, gets to experience some standard serial-hero perils himself; one chapter ends with him battling in a villain in an out-of-control car and then trying to haul the unconscious Frankie Darro out of it before it goes over a cliff.
Above: Rinty grapples with Niles Welch in a speeding car towards the end of Chapter Eight.
Most of the leading actors deliver energetic performances to match the serial's swift tempo, particularly leading man George J. Lewis. Lewis barks out his lines in such intensely eager fashion as to almost sound crazed at times (particularly when he's enthusing about his invention); his facial expressions are similarly emphatic. The performance will be something of a shock to those familiar with Lewis's later, more restrained serial turns, but his characterization–though highly theatrical–is still very likable for its sheer exuberance.
Above: Frankie Darro watches as George J. Lewis enthuses about his invention.
Frankie Darro's performance is just as energetic, but much more subtle and natural than Lewis's. As in his other chapterplays, he strikes just the right balance between youthful emotionalism and youthful spunk, conveying proper pathos when being bullied by heavies, but also displaying a likable self-confidence when rushing into action. Rin Tin Tin Jr, whose famous father co-starred with Darro in The Lightning Warrior, doesn't play as central a role in the plot as his parent did in the earlier serial, but he still serves as an appealingly offbeat co-hero and gets several action scenes all to himself.
Above: Frankie Darro pleads for Henry B. Walthall (far left), who's about to be arrested. Hale Hamilton (far right) feigns sympathy, while Niles Welch glowers.
Hale Hamilton is wonderfully entertaining as the villainous Norman Bryan, delivering a scenery-chewing performance worthy of Noah Beery Sr. He snarls, chortles, gloats, and blusters his way through his role–maintaining a pompous but convincingly jovial manner when interacting with the good guys, but ordering his henchmen about in tyrannically overbearing fashion; he successfully steals every scene he's in. Niles Welch, as Hamilton's villainous associate Mason, is hammy as well, but in quieter fashion; he spends most of his time skulking in the background and registering "menace" with a series of extremely sinister facial expressions.
Above: Hale Hamilton pretends to congratulate a happy Boots Mallory on the exoneration of her father.
The great Henry B. Walthall, slumming in serials after his days as an acclaimed silent-film star, nevertheless lends genuine emotional depth to his turn as Jim Courtney, conveying an earnestness and a quiet dignity in the face of continual persecution that is downright touching. Former Ziegfeld girl Boots Mallory is very attractive as his daughter, and conveys a pleasantly sympathetic personality, but betrays a lack of acting experience; her line delivery is generally flat and she rarely varies her facial expressions.
Old pros Stanley Blystone and Tom London are fun to watch as Hale Hamilton's lead henchmen– the former loud-mouthed and swaggering, the latter furtive and cautious. Gordon DeMain and Donald Reed are also good as a pair of slick and shifty "detectives" hired by Hamilton to "protect" Darro, and George Magrill is memorable in a small part as Hamilton's resourceful chauffeur/henchman. Fred Kohler Sr. is intimidatingly nasty as Darro's "stepfather," functioning as a wild-card villain until he (disapointingly) drops from sight halfway through the serial. Sarah Padden is very sympathetic as Darro's kindly foster-mother, while Max Wagner is Kohler's loutish cohort.
Lafe McKee pops up as a veterinarian, Kernan Cripps as a police official, Lane Chandler as a ship's officer (and later as a police radio dispatcher), and Yakima Canutt as a thug. Cornelius Keefe plays the ill-fated Jerry Patton in the first chapter, while Dickie Moore, star of Columbia's Cody of the Pony Express serial nearly twenty years later, appears as a young boy watching Patton's takeoff in the first chapter.
The Wolf Dog deserves greater attention from serial buffs, particularly those who are fond of Mascot's chapterplays. Its leading performances are engaging, its pacing up to the studio's usual standard, its locations interesting, its action sequences first-rate, and its plotting (though somewhat thin) is much less needlessly convoluted than that of many of its peers.
Above: Rin Tin Tin Jr. corners a villain in the railyards.
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2 thoughts on "The Wolf Dog"
Thanks for another great review!Too bad this and other great Mascots are not available or in such poor shape.
Ken W.
James Swan
Excellent review, as always. This one had everything that I enjoy in the best of the Mascot serials – good action, interesting and varied performances by the cast, and some really well-done location work. As an added bonus, the plot line was actually comprehensible and came together nicely. All in all, definitely worth viewing.


In what can only be described as a modern medical marvel, 10-year NFL veteran defensive back Antonio Cromartie just welcomed his 11th and 12th kid into this world, despite getting his wife pregnant after having a vasectomy.
Cromartie's wife, Terricka, gave birth to twins, Jynx Revell-Antonio Cromartie and J'adore Nayvi Cromartie, on Mother's Day, and while the couple appears overjoyed at bringing two new babies into this world, you have to think they're also wondering how this is scientifically possible.
According to reports, 32-year-old Cromartie now has 12 kids by eight different women.
I really thought I was dreaming, even after, I was just in total disbelief.
To be honest, I've gone back and forth about if I wanted to share the news or not. All my children are blessings, and all of Antonio's children are blessings, for that matter. It was made to seem that my children weren't a blessing because they were categorized by a number, and for that reason and that reason alone, I hid both of my [first two] pregnancies with my husband, just so I could enjoy them with those who were really happy for me.
In case you were wondering -- because I know I was -- it looks like in rare cases it is possible for a man to impregnate a woman after undergoing a vasectomy.


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The Harvey Cartel
Ottawa rockers The Harvey Cartel have been playing venues in and around the capital since 2007, taking their act on the road throughout Ontario and Quebec. Bringing together a variety of musical backgrounds from blues to country, folk-rock and punk, they've been honing their sound and channeling their creative energies into their second studio album, They Think They Are So Fine.
Founded by the capital's own Chris Landry, the band's current lineup includes bassist Andy Ehlers, guitarist and backup vocalist Elie Abdelnour and drummer David DiMaria. We caught up with perpetual frontman Chris for a chat ahead of the band's upcoming Ottawa concert.
What's the story behind The Harvey Cartel? How did the band originally come together?
I had just returned to Canada after touring Australia with a country band and was hungry to get a band started and start playing and gigging again. I was still really into playing and writing country tunes and also wanted to start playing rock music.
I tried to put two bands, an alt-country and a rock band, together but it was too difficult to try and get two brand new projects off the ground. Eventually the two merged into one.
How did you decide on your band name? The name came about as a bit of a joke. We were kicking around some ideas for a new name and it was a very long and frustrating process. I was sitting around at a friend's place one night going through some old video tapes he had lying around. We found Pulp Fiction in the pile of tapes and somebody said something about Harvey Keitel being in the movie and how they were a fan, so I said that we should call ourselves "Harvey Cartel." It started as a joke, but it stuck.
Is composing your original music a collaborative venture or a solo project?I write all the songs and bring them to the band. I show the arrangements to the guys and we jam on them while they come up with their parts.
Have there been any major changes to the band's sound?Originally, we were a five-piece band which included a banjo player. The loss of the banjo was tough to take. I really enjoyed having that twang, and I think that really set us apart from other bands.
On the bright side, I think that we've now been able to pursue a more straightforward rock sound. We still have the roots flavour to a lot of our material, but we've added a heavier, more guitar-oriented sound. And there's a lot more jumping around on stage!
Over the years, there have been a few other changes in lineup, and each change definitely affects the overall sound of the project. But since I write all the songs, musically and lyrically, it gives me the freedom to carry on with new people.
You define your music as crossing all kinds of genre boundaries. Do you feel like there's still lots of 'new' music left to be made, or are most bands today just recycling and revamping what's already been done?
I think it becomes more and more challenging to make new music as more and more music is created. It's up to the artist to be critical of what they're creating to maintain that originality. I think you have to write from your own personal experience and perspective, because everyone's experiences are unique.
If you're copping somebody else's sound or style too much, it's like taking the easy way out and riding someone else's coattails. The radio is full of bands like that. But of course there's still new music to be made!
How did you find the experience of recording the album as compared to playing live shows? I hated my first studio experiences. It felt very sterile and fake. I hated the pressure of trying to play a part perfectly. I've always been a live player and not one to play songs the same way every time. I think music is a live thing and it's always evolving and changing.
The way you're playing a song at any given time can depend on how you're feeling at that moment, what's going on in your life, and how you've changed as a player and performer. You can forget words or parts of songs and have to come up with something new on the spot. Sometimes that's where new songs have originated!
I've become more accustomed to the studio the more I've done it, and we had the opportunity to record with Yogi at his Meatlocker studio. Those experiences were more enjoyable and positive.
Tell us something about the new CD.The new album is called They Think They Are So Fine, and it's a collection of new songs that I wrote over the spring/summer of 2009. It's rock 'n' roll.
What are your favourite places to play or see live music in Ottawa?The Rainbow, Atomic Rooster, my bedroom!
What's your dream venue to play?Each one we play is my dream venue.
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