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Gotham Votes 2013
50th City Council District
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Hurricane Sandy slammed into this part of Staten Island with a vengeance. Some experts estimated that 3,000 Staten Islanders were displaced from the storm. The majority of those lived in the 50th district, or the "Mid-Island", which includes a small part of Brooklyn and the entire middle of Staten Island, from its heavily populated east coast to its more industrial west coast. Over the past three decades, new townhouse development has been intense along this district's eastern coast. (from Stormy City Council Race For District Hard-Hit By Hurricane Sandy by Melissa Checker, Gotham Gazette, Sept. 30, 2013)
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John Mancuso (D, WF)
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Steven Matteo (R)
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Lisa E. Giovinazzo (R)
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Mendy Mirocznik (D)
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The Prescient Stamp of Shanty Tramp
The timeless links between a Southern sizzler and a current critical hit.
One of the most acclaimed films of 2016 was Anna Biller's beautifully staged satirical tragicomedy The Love Witch, telling the story of a glamorous woman drawn to supernatural practices who, in the course of seeking an ideal man, finds all of her conquests to be empty disappointments, while leaving betrayal and death in her wake. With imagery drawn from pulp novels, hard three-point lighting as seen in classic noir and Technicolor dramas, and acting based in archetypes rather than average behavior, all shot and edited on true 35mm film, it celebrates lost aspects of cinematic expression. These throwback elements, however, are in the service of a striking and firmly modern feminist point of view, addressing the impossible expectations foisted upon women for generations. As the frequently internet-engaging director stated on Twitter, "My work comes from a place of being female, and rewrites film genres from that place." The heady brew of ideas in her film has left audiences, well, spellbound.
Our Saturday, January 21st midnight show, Jose Prieto's 1967 Shanty Tramp, may not appear to have much in common with Biller's arthouse hit, any more so than one would serve Waffle House hash browns at a Victorian high tea. But there is a unique sort of kinship, in theme and in work ethic, between these divergent projects. And since The Love Witch is enjoying a healthy Los Angeles run, patrons from those screenings who come to ours with her movie still fresh in their heads may well derive an added amount of enjoyment from both films.
The title character in question is Emily (Eleanor Vaill, credited as "Lee Holland"), who lives in poverty with her ne'er-do-well father (Otto Schlessinger, credited as "Kenneth Douglas"), and spends her time looking for good sex, cold cash, or preferably both, to mollify her rancid circumstance. In one fateful night, she gets propositioned by a silver-tongued traveling preacher (Bill Rogers), toys with a would-be beatnik, runs afoul of an abusive biker (Lawrence Tobin), and briefly finds satisfaction with a good man (Ray Aranha, credited as "Lewis Galen"). Unfortunately, that man is black, and when her father catches them in the act, violent fiery repercussions and murder will follow.
Shanty Tramp was the first original narrative film produced by former carnival operator K. Gordon Murray, who had previously become synonymous with profitably reformatting foreign-made films into American hits, Rene Cardona's 1959 Santa Claus and an early Santo wrestling adventure retitled Samson vs. the Vampire Women among them. Stars Vaill and Rogers had appeared in a Coral Gables production of The Fantasticks in November 1966 and were recommended by their stage director to Herschel Gordon Lewis, who cast them in A Taste of Blood in early 1967; Schlessinger and Tobin, co-stars from Blood, were recruited to appear with them in Tramp shortly after. A crew of mostly Cuban expatriates, led by director Jose Prieto, who all previously worked on the English dubbing of Murray's Spanish-language pickups, made the film in the Miami metropolitan city of Davie in the spring of 1967. Bob Clark, who recently enjoyed a large number of tribute screenings at our theatre this past December, was assistant director, one of his earliest film credits.
It is not the intent of this essay to propose these two films are equals. They come from different eras and states of mind. Shanty Tramp was made to cash in on the popularity of both "Southern discomfort" dramas and the rising freedom to depict adult topics on screen, while The Love Witch is the passion project of a thoughtful, focused auteur. And Biller has stated bluntly that, contrary to many film writers' ascriptions, there was no inspiration from sex-driven exploitation films, her actors were not coached to mimic performances from such films, and her intent was never to emulate that genre. In keeping with that mission, no such suggestions are made, and none should be taken. What is present within these stated divisions between these two works is an intriguing overlap. Put it this way: when you pour foundation and post beams for a building, it's not yet determined what it will turn into. These two movies share a structural design, but Murray and Prieto created a juke joint while Biller opened a think tank.
Older blog essays by Biller posted during the release of her 2007 film Viva delve into her scholarly interest in select filmmakers of the "sexploitation" era, and reveal a professional respect for their ideas and their determination. In an entry on Joe Sarno's All the Sins of Sodom, she wrote:
"The big, dirty secret in many 1960s sex films and pulp novels is that many women enjoy sex, and that they have sexual desires and fantasies of their own. Although this is a fact that must have been playing out in bedrooms everywhere for all of human history, it could not, for most of human history, be discussed in society, in literature, or in film…One finds a quality in much of this sex literature and film from the 1960s of curtains being ripped off houses and inhibitions ripped off psyches to reveal what's really going on inside of peoples' lives and minds…What's most striking about this time period is, it's a tiny window of time in which the male and the female unite against society at large in order to rally for sexual freedom. And thus, curiously, it's one of the few times we find the battle of the sexes as expressed in culture actually diminished or put on the back burner."
And in an entry on Andy Milligan's Torture Dungeon, she wrote:
"[He] had a real atmosphere, created for pennies, [and] it is not easy to create an atmosphere on any budget…[it] takes itself very seriously. It's not trying to be schlock, it's trying to be good. When I see that it's very weird, because it's what I do. I've never quite seen anyone do what I do before; that is, try to make a period masterpiece with no money and no help. It reminds me a lot of my Super 8mm stuff, where I made everything out of nothing, just hobbled it all together."
Murray and Prieto did not likely possess the curiosity of Sarno or the mania of Milligan, but in the manner of Biller's observations, they understood there was a generational shift happening that should be addressed, and while they wanted to get a movie shot and released fast (Tramp premiered in Buffalo, NY, weeks after wrapping), they wanted to make it entertaining. Thus, despite their primary motivations for lucre, they managed to be on the right side of history and of the creative process.
From his years in both carny and cinema ventures, Murray could certainly claim expertise about the worst aspects of men, since they comprised his customer base. The kind who were decrying sexual libertinism in church and press, then lining up to see his dancing girls in a tent or his "hygiene films" at the drive-in. While hardly a progressive or a feminist, Murray, with his co-screenwriter Reuben Guberman, used this occasion to directly indict the very types that he knew would come to see a movie called Shanty Tramp, and throw their hypocrisy, their casual abuse of women, their racism and general brutality right in their face, under the pretense of promising Emily's wanton pleasures writ large. Whether they got the message or not was likely irrelevant, since the ultimate goal was getting their box office money, but he got those licks in all the same. This assessment from Jacob Knight at BirthMoviesDeath tells it well:
"Murray (who co-wrote the script) and Prieto undoubtedly judge these poor bastards for being the reflexive hounds they are; lured by their dicks whenever a woman unafraid of her carnality is present. All men are dogs, but the meat they crave is sentient, wanting to pervert and discard their carcasses at will. [Vaill]'s performance (along with all of the other untrained thespians) is strange and affected, a dead-eyed China Doll with nothing but lust on her mind. Yet the non-actress recognizes the moments when the temptress appreciates how she can wield her sex like a weapon and use these mindless motherfuckers to her advantage…In this way, Shanty Tramp becomes a chicken and egg type moral parable, as Murray reveals the one thing he'd known his whole life: every person on this planet enjoys iniquity; it just takes a proper manipulative mind in order to exploit each individual's unique perversion. But which came first: the sin, or the schemer?"
Again, though coming from a diametrical place, Biller expresses a similarly bleak assessment of men in general in her film. All of Elaine's would-be paramours see her as a bauble and not a person, her supposedly enlightened pagan friends seem to be more interested in how their magick draws hot women to their enclave, and the other male townspeople quickly gather into a rape-hungry mob when Elaine is publicly accused of a criminal act. Not only does this echo Murray's nihilism, it shows that in nearly 50 years, little has changed. And Biller's description below of her heroine acknowledges mutual, though not equal, culpability about her fall on a par with Emily's (writer's note – paragraph cobbled from two different interview quotes):
"Elaine is not a monster, except insofar as she is selfish and narcissistic. She does not destroy out of some evil power, but because she is unstable and is the type of person who creates chaos around her. But she is fully human, and she is sympathetic because you can see why she's turned out the way she has…Elaine is coping with a history of abuse the best way she knows how. Everything and everyone in society has conspired to make her what she is, so she can't really be blamed for making the choices she makes. But she is also sociopathic, either from birth or through life experience or both. She is a psychologically realistic, dimensional character, who has been driven crazy just trying to negotiate her place as a woman in the world."
Much like that ubiquitous drawing of literary heroines Dorothy and Alice having a chat, one could envision Emily and Elaine on a park bench sharing cigarettes and telling each other, "I've seen some weird shit."
Murray was a wily, hands-on producer and marketer. For his foreign pickups, he worked out how to make his English dub tracks match lip movements. He would send actors dressed as fairytale characters to schools and hire hearse drivers to ferry coffins with ersatz zombies inside to theatres to promote his releases. When initial engagements of Shanty Tramp saw minors getting admitted to see the depravity without hassle, and the Dade County State Attorney's office took action, he gleefully put text in his later ads warning that teens needed permission slips and doors would be "supervised by uniformed police." He particularly loved narrating his own radio commercials, relying heavily on lurid copy and loud reverb effects on the title. And this one he voices for Shanty Tramp follows the same formula, promising it "makes those Swedish movies look like a Sunday School show." (And Murray was a Knights of Columbus member, he knew all about Sunday School!)
While not a hard-sell ballyhoo merchant by comparison, with only two feature films and some shorts, Anna Biller has also successfully promoted herself as a brand. She began word of mouth on The Love Witch in 2011 on her blog, and frequently provided advance looks at the production on her various social media accounts. She spent years to make costumes and props, write music, and do other hands-on work for the film that would normally be farmed out to others, both to save money and to achieve her desired intents. After the film's acquisition and release, she has made herself available to press, bloggers and fans on social media, and used these platforms to address other artistic and social issues that matter to her. She has become an inspiration to multiple groups who have long been ignored by Hollywood, demonstrating that staying true to yourself and going independent can pay off.
Despite all their probable philosophical differences, Murray would have been enormously impressed with Biller's self-advancement. And, if he were alive and still in business today, after seeing her film, in the same manner that Warner Bros. revived interest in an older property by telling moviegoers, "Prepare yourself for The Exorcist with The Devils!", Murray would likely be prepping a shameless "Before you see the Witch, see the Tramp!" revival campaign. As a convergent precedent, for a '70s reissue through Jerry Gross' Cinemation company, Tramp was paired with a controversial classic sublicensed from WB, Elia Kazan's child-bride potboiler Baby Doll.
Whether you're a cultural scholar interested in older cinematic depictions of sexual desire, or just a fan of bawdy exploitation, you should take advantage of this one night chance, this Saturday at midnight, to watch Shanty Tramp on the New Beverly big screen with an audience. Meanwhile, we also suggest you take advantage of the multiple opportunities to see The Love Witch; heck, since the movie's available in 35mm, you may well see it on our screen some time. And if you get to see them both, you'll have the launch for an interesting film conversation later on.
Shanty Tramp screens January 21.
Huge thanks to Daniel Griffith, Charles Kilgore and Anna Biller for their invaluable assistance in the assembly of this article.
Marc Edward Heuck


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Exploring Abandoned Fort Jefferson — A Historic "Floating Fortress" 70 Miles Beyond Key West
Posted by Thomas Kenning on December 16, 2020 January 1, 2021
Urban explorer Thomas Kenning takes you on a guided tour of the most stunning abandoned fort in the Western Hemisphere. This is an extended excerpt from Sunshine Sentinels — a guided photographic tour of Florida's abandoned coastal defenses. Available now from all fine booksellers.
Visitors to the Dry Tortugas arrive by ferry, seaplane, or private vessel. Two of these sightseers stand atop the northwest bastion of Fort Jefferson (1846), fifty feet above the Gulf of Mexico on the fort's open upper level, known as the barbette tier. (Photo by Thomas Kenning)
Seventy miles beyond Key West lies a sandy chain of islands devoid of any freshwater. These desert islands make an ideal sanctuary for hundreds of nesting sea turtles and ocean birds. Collectively, they are the aptly-named Dry Tortugas. The shallows that dominate the floor of the Gulf between here and Key West are a natural minefield, slashed where small boats have run aground and scarred with the shipwrecks of those possessed of a deeper draft and less luck. In centuries past, most ships in transit between the northern Gulf and the Atlantic would naturally hew to the navigable passage of deep water that brings them within a cannonball's shot of these lonely keys.
Thus, the quixotic Fort Jefferson, a floating fortress, Florida's first theme park — a military fantasia in brick and mortar, comprised of sixteen million blocks forming a two-tiered hexagonal structure complete with firing positions for 420 large guns, arranged so that 125 of them could zero on the same target simultaneously. Its eight-acre parade had room for two massive powder magazines, a three-story thousand-man barracks, officer quarters, and a hospital. There's also a hotshot furnace for heating cannonballs until they glowed red — the better to ignite the last generation of wooden warships, still in use when this fort was conceived.
The open casemates of the northeastern wall recede into the afternoon sunlight. Each archway delineates a distinct firing position. Had an enemy ship ever approached — and had the fort ever been armed to its full potential — this design would have allowed 125 guns to zero on any given target all at once. (Photo by Thomas Kenning)
When you see it from the air, before the window of your seaplane is misted over with a salty spray, when you can take the whole thing in at once, Fort Jefferson is an unrivaled colossus. Pure military might astride tiny Garden Key, an awesome American island in command of a wide-open sea — a projection of power that you can't help but believe.
There's the theme for your park.
There is exactly nothing understated about Fort Jefferson, a structure that seems to have little regard for the laws of nature.
Built over the course of three decades as a part of the Third System of coastal fortifications, which itself was an ambitious but awkward adolescent phase of the United States' military ascendency, Fort Jefferson is more stagger than swagger. Its intricate cistern system never worked properly and actually managed to turn its collected rainwater salty. As at other forts in Florida, yellow fever was a serious issue from the moment that work crews of enslaved laborers arrived on Garden Key in 1846.
(Top) The large parade magazine — the most complete of five planned — dominates the north corner of the eight-acre parade ground. Its arched roof was designed to deflect enemy cannonballs, but advances in rifled artillery — capable of penetrating its brick veneer — made it a giant Achilles heel. It never saw service. (Bottom) Each bastion tower contains gunrooms, magazines, and a granite spiral staircase leading from the parade all the way up to the barbette tier. By design, the spiral steps are considerably narrower at the inside than the outside — a last-ditch defensive measure to throttle traffic up the staircase should intruders ever breach the fort.
(Top) Since few guns were ever deployed to the fort, many second-tier casemates became prison cells. The fort's most famous inmate was Dr. Samuel Mudd, who aided a wounded John Wilkes Booth in his escape after Lincoln's assassination. After an attempted escape in the coal bunker of a supply ship, Mudd settled into life at the fort, helping to stem a yellow fever outbreak in 1867. (Bottom) Each of the freestanding officers' quarters along the northwest end of the parade featured detached kitchens and outhouses. Despite the prevalence of diseases like yellow fever and scurvy, as well as the persistent threat from heat and hurricanes, some officers brought their families to live at remote Fort Jefferson.
Even as you stand in the overgrown grass amidst cracked foundations on the parade, it's hard to believe the scale of their work — Fort Jefferson's two shortest curtain walls measure 325 feet in length, while the remaining four stretch to 477 feet. Most guns are long gone, but the 303 open-vaulted casemates remain, facing toward the sea through tattered embrasures.
Fort Jefferson is audacious in scale. It demands to be shot in widescreen. Vertically it can be described in geological terms.
Into those walls, the sediments of history — the coming of the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, the rise of wage labor — are demarcated as the epochal events that they were. Like a layer of ash from the catastrophic eruption of some ancient volcano, you can see where, four-fifths of the way up the wall, the jaundiced brick produced by enslaved hands in Pensacola gives way to a ruddy variety imported from Maine, baked by anonymous European immigrants and laid by Confederate prisoners of war.
The onset of the Civil War disrupted supply chains for the incomplete and unarmed Fort Jefferson. The yellowish bricks that comprise the majority of the fort were produced near Pensacola — suddenly out-of-bounds in enemy hands. Construction was completed using red bricks sourced all the way from Maine, as seen near the top of the curtain wall. (Photo by Thomas Kenning)
The fort was largely stripped of its heavy guns and abandoned to the elements by the 1870s. A small caretaker force maintained the hospital as a quarantine station. During this period, it also served as a convenient coaling station for the navy's Caribbean operations. In fact, in 1898, Fort Jefferson supplied the USS Maine with the coal that would blow it sky high over Havana harbor just days later, igniting the Spanish-American War.
In 1908, the Dry Tortugas became a national wildlife refuge, and in 1992, a national park.
Until recently, you could walk around the entire fort on top of the counterscarp, or moat wall. Successive hurricanes have since shattered that wall, making a complete circuit possible only with snorkeling gear. Even as the National Park Service undertakes conservation projects on features of Fort Jefferson like the Garden Key Lighthouse, it's not hard to imagine a day in the near future when it's unsafe to climb up to the barbette tier.
Like all of the gunports at Fort Jefferson, this iron-reinforced embrasure once featured Totten shutters. These iron shutters would be forced open by the rush of gas produced by a firing artillery piece then rebound shut immediately, shielding the gunners from any incoming fire. (Photo by Thomas Kenning)
(Top) This 10-inch rifled Parrott gun weighs 27,000 pounds and could fire a 300-pound projectile. While it was capable of hitting targets with a high degree of accuracy, it was also known to explode, posing an extreme hazard to those operating it. As a result, only around forty of this type were ever produced. (Middle) The parapet — a low defensive wall along the edge of the roof — would have offered a limited degree of protection to gunners on the barbette tier. (Bottom) The ineffectual Confederate Navy posed little threat to Fort Jefferson. The captain of an armed Confederate schooner issued the single credible demand for its surrender in January 1861. The fort's Union commander successfully bluffed that he would destroy the ship unless it retreated; in reality, the unfinished fort possessed no artillery.
The counterscarp doubles as a breakwater, defending the fort not only from attack, but also wave action and storm surge. Recent hurricanes have caused portions of the wall to collapse, making a complete circumnavigation of the fort possible only with the aid of a snorkel. (Photo by Thomas Kenning)
Fort Jefferson is a relic, a brick-and-mortar cul-de-sac of war-making technology from a time before large caliber rifled artillery could penetrate such brittle walls, before a changing climate threatened to swamp the whole unrealistic scene.
Get on a seaplane, take a ferry — get to Fort Jefferson before antebellum becomes antediluvian.
From the window of a DHC-3 Otter seaplane, the fort seems to inhabit the exact middle of nowhere. In actuality, it commands a 75-mile-wide strait linking the Gulf and the Atlantic Ocean. Scores of shipwrecks dot the reefs and the vast shallows on either side of the strait. (Photo by Thomas Kenning)
Thomas Kenning's new book Sunshine Sentinels — a guided photographic tour of Florida's abandoned coastal defenses — is available now from all fine booksellers.
Sunshine Sentinelsis a stunning visual survey of Florida's historic coastal defenses — those sun-faded outposts of empire, crumbling now on shifting sands near the end of the beach. It is a guided tour in book form, perfect for these stay-close-to-home kind of times! Seven thrilling tales, supplemented by 140 original images reproduced at the highest quality, providing a view of the Sunshine State that rarely makes the postcard.
You can find additional an additional preview of Sunshine Sentinels on his website, thomaskenning.com.
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danielwalldammit says:
Super cool photos.
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Thank you, @danielwalldammit! I hope you get a chance to check out the book!


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FLAT EARTH: FACT OR FICTION?
Before we get started, you literally can't believe anything you see in any TV media outlet. Here's why:
NOTE: Here's how you can tell if your programming ingrained in you from an early age, from the school systems has been broken. If you understand and "get" this article, your programming has been broken. if it makes you angry and upset, you still need to break your mind controlled programming from the past.
REMEMBER, THE MEDIA IS CONTROLLED BY 6 CORPORATIONS!!!! General Electric (GE), Disney, News Corp., TimeWarner, Viacom and CBS…just six corporations…each members of global mgt. team. The media (so-called left and right), functions as the"official mouthpiece" of global mgt. team — they have concentrated control over what we see, hear and read, from cradle to grave! These giant companies are vertically integrated, controlling everything from initial production to final distribution…
Before we get started, we want to show you why television is so important in controlling people's minds, emotions and actions. When the popular sitcom "Gilligan's Island" aired back in the 60's, people were actually contacting government agencies to rescue the people stranded on the Island. The same thing held true in the 80's when the TV show "Dallas" came out. People hassled Larry Hagman who played the villain J.R. Ewing in public because they really thought he was in fact J.R. Ewing. In Bill Cosby's case, people are more likely to believe he is "Cliff Huxtable" than believe in a violent and evil rapist which is what he really is.
Television has the unique capacity to lower people's critical thinking and heighten their suggestibility to the point where they are in a hypnotic state and will believe almost anything. Most people don't go into that "beta" state to where they believe most TV shows are real, although it happens more than you would think, but that's why so many people are fooled by these fake and phony school shootings, church shootings, supermarket shootings etc, and why they believe these slimy politicians who are in reality are on the same side but seem to support these evil people no matter what.
By the way, all presidential elections are scripted as well, but just because people see them on their television, they assume it is all real and happening in real time. Even Sherwood Schwartz is amazed by it and says "this happens in no other medium beside TV."
As you well know as long time readers of this website, the same factions that own the World's governments also own the media as well as the motion picture industry. Often times they will give you a lot of truth in the movies. Many times they use "predictive programming" to tell you about an event before it happens.
This time, they are alerting us that we can't even trust the school systems to tell us where we live according to accepted geographical locations on any map. In other words the world we have been presented is a deception and we can't even trust it to tell us where we actually live, and to take it even a step further…..do we really live on a Globe Earth? Take a look at the graphics in the background at :40 actually presenting the Firmament/Dome model and is used throughout the presentation in this episode of "The West Wing" Season 2 Episode 16
Case in point, look at how easily NASA has fooled you for so long. This is obvious CGI. In this picture on the right from 2012, America takes up the entire northern hemisphere! This is where you have been told you live:
It's quite apparent you have been deceived:
NASA just gets lazy with their photoshopped composites as you can see here. This is their official picture of earth allegedly taken from space in 2002:
(BELOW) Here's why this photo allegedly taken from space in 1972 is not a real picture. The continents in light and dark are NOT how they would really have to be in this photo. The continents that are in the suns light vs the continents in darkness is an impossibility:
(BELOW) In reality we have the superimposed continents behind the "globe" where it should be dark and where it should be light. The photo in the background is where it should be night and daytime is impossible on the photoshopped globe picture where we see only Africa and the Middle East in daytime and everything else in the back where it should be night: DO YOU SEE THIS? If it doesn't make sense to you, it's because you have been programmed not to logically decipher this. Just think about it for a few minutes and the truth will pop out at you!
~From Founded Earth Brothers
Oh and just another heads up for people who think we live on a "globe". There is nowhere you can go to photograph an entire half of a "globe" and not see any continents like Elon Musk seems to think…absolutely ABSURD!!!! By the way, how did they even get this picture? Who took it?
This is a fascinating look at this entire fraud by Rob Skiba, who is no longer with us because he "knew too much".
Now look at this idiotic picture below. NASA says it was taken from a million miles away. Look at the moon casting a shadow on the earth. Now what land mass is this? It looks like it's supposed to be the west coast of the U.S. Where is South America? Does this look like any of the previous pictures NASA put out on what a "globe earth" is supposed to look like? This is unbelievable that this was put out as a real photograph and even more unbelievable that most people actually believe this is reality.
When in reality, we live under "The Firmament" just like the Bible tells us:
We are not done yet going down this rabbit hole. The fact is, we have been lied to about everything. The book of Enoch tells us the Sun and Moon are the same size, just as they appear, and are close and smaller than the Earth, just as they appear. Also, the Earth is stationary, just as it would seem and the Sun and Moon revolve around the Earth just like you would think if you hadn't been told any different all of your life:
(BELOW) The lie you have been told is the Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun. Why are they lying about this? Remember, the "powers that be" don't want you to believe in God or the Bible and want to hide God's divine creation and magnificent design. So what do they do? feed us lies and tell us it's all an "astonishing coincidence".
BTW, All secret societies know this truth about the earth we live on and have known all along. It's just you and I they want to keep in the dark:
Not only do they know the truth about the fact we live in an enclosed system under a done "firmament" but they flaunt it right in front of us!
They constantly reveal this truth to us in TV and movies, including The Simpsons:
Disney knows we live under a dome:
Steven Spielberg knows we live under a dome:
Diamonds Are Forever, Hollywood is always giving us hints they know the truth about The Firmament and that we live under a dome:
All the Illuminati high ups know the truth and they let you know right in your face. They also know most people won't "get it" That's why they are able to hide truths in plain site.
Here's a clincher if there ever was one. Even evil Nazi scientist Wernher Von Braun knew on his deathbed, we live under the Firmament Dome:
If you have followed our articles in the past, you know how the illuminati tells us about things years in advance in "The Illuminati Card game", like 9/11.
They are doing it again here. Obviously they are mocking what the firmament and Dome really is with this ridiculous square, but they are giving some cryptic information about the Dome and the fake space program:
WHY THIS TRUTH IS HARD FOR MOST PEOPLE TO ACCEPT:
Do you remember the episode of The Andy Griffith show where the "intellectuals" were looking for a cow thief and they concluded it was "three large men" and even had plaster casts of the footprints? Andy was the only one who figured out the "three men" was actually one man and a cow with shoes. When they finally found out this truth, they couldn't believe it was possible and how they could have all been fooled. But yet the "impossible"..the seemingly crazy explanation was in fact the truth.
Here's an fascinating look at "the firmament" from a biblical point of view which tells us that "outer space" is a lie from the beginning. I've included what I believe are the absolute best videos out there on this subject below. Once you see the truth, it's really hard to fathom how our "programming" has kept us in the dark for so long.
The U.S Government at the highest levels knows the truth…they just don't want YOU to know!!!
All the World leaders and their secret societies know about this truth. How do we know? Because they tell us in plain site the way all Capitol buildings are designed. You see a flat surface, upon metaphoric "pillars" (Like the Bible says) and over it is a literal "dome" or "firmament", (Like the Bible says) and it's stationary and not moving (Like the Bible says):
This is a short video from "Divergent". It's really hard to find anything wrong with his logic. It's almost hard to believe that we all believed anything else for so long:
WHY WE CAN'T AND SHOULD NEVER "TRUST THE SCIENCE"
Well it's for the very simple reason that "science" has not only been wrong too many times to list, but it has also deliberately lied to you and deceived you throughout history and continues to do so to this day.
SO WHY ARE WE LIED TO ABOUT ALL THIS? IT'S VERY SIMPLE…TO MAKE YOU THINK WE ARE ALL RANDOM ACCIDENTS AND TO GIVE ALL CREATION ORIGINS IN THE OCCULT, IN SHORT…TO HIDE THE MOST HIGH GOD OUR CREATOR!!!
SUN GOD WORSHIP AND THE HELIOCENTRIC MODEL:
Now let's move on to other things we have been lied to about for a long time….
Before we start, let's listen to George W. Bush admit that many videotapes used on the news stations are put out by the government for propaganda purposes but are presented as actual news stories:
In this short video (BELOW), you'll see proof that actors are used in creating the news that you thought was real…
Now let's look at actors posing as parents in the Sandy Hook hoax:
Here's what we know now. At least two of the Sandy Hook parents are frauds. Laura and Nick Phelps are really actors Richard and Jennifer Greenberg Sexton. We suspect we will find more evidence of actors posing as parents in the days ahead.
Now it gets really creepy. Here is Jennifer Greenberg introducing herself as "Laura Phelps" on That Morning Show for a segment called "Expressing Motherhood" at the 1:56 mark in the below video where you can see her acting on stage. NOTE: She has other "acting" credits in a play called "Never Tears" and she is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild.
(BELOW) The kid on the left is supposed to be the grieving brother of Victoria Soto, Carlos Soto and the kid on the right side is a relation (son) to a man named Leon Greenberg. The image on the right side is a screenshot taken directly from Leon Greenberg's facebook page which has since been deactivated. Leon is the brother of the woman already identified as playing the role of Laura Phelps from the CNN interview. We now have three positive identifications of Sandy Hook imposters tracing back to the Sexton/Greenberg clan: Richard Sexton as Nick Phelps, Jennifer Greenberg Sexton as his wife Laura Phelps and this kid here who appears to be the son of Leon Greenberg and is NOT Carlos Soto as he claims to be.
(BELOW) The deleted Leon Greenberg facebook page.
Here's the Greenberg family again showing Leon Greenberg and the supposed Carlos Soto as his son:
As a matter of fact, this is another case when they use "crisis actors" as grieving relatives. Here you can plainly see the actress they used named Alex Israel who was supposed to be a classmate of Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook shooting hoax is now Katie Foley, the sister of alleged beheading victim James Foley (BELOW)
Here's Barbara Starr (Adriana Munoz) acting as a Pentagon correspondent for CNN and as a crisis actor during the Sandy Hook and Boston Marathon false flag events.
Same mouth, same nose, same hair.
More on the Sandy Hook False Flag here:
THE SANDY HOOK FALSE FLAG EVENT
(BELOW) Here's more lies you may have thought was real.
Brian Williams Admits He Never Came Under Fire in Iraq: "I Apologize"
(AP) – After twelve years, Brian Williams is coming clean, admitting the helicopter he traveled in during NBC's coverage of the 2003 Iraq invasion never once came under fire, despite Williams' story to the contrary.
On Jan. 30, NBC Nightly News posted a video of Williams to Facebook, in which Williams recounts the story during a news segment. Williams references "a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq, when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG."
A user by the name of Lance Reynolds, who purported to have served in Iraq during the incident in question, subsequently commented on the video, writing, "Sorry dude, I don't remember you being on my aircraft."
Reynolds added, "I do remember you walking up about an hour after we had landed to ask me what had happened. Then I remember you guys taking back off in a different flight of Chinooks from another unit and heading to Kuwait to report your 'war story' to the Nightly News."
Willams responded to the comment via his verified account, writing, "To Joseph, Lance, Jonathan, Pate, Michael and all those who have posted: You are absolutely right and I was wrong.
"In fact, I spent much of the weekend thinking I'd gone crazy. I feel terrible about making this mistake, especially since I found my OWN WRITING about the incident from back in '08, and I was indeed on the Chinook behind the bird that took the RPG in the tail housing just above the ramp.
"Because I have no desire to fictionalize my experience (we all saw it happened the first time) and no need to dramatize events as they actually happened, I think the constant viewing of the video showing us inspecting the impact area and the fog of memory over 12 years made me conflate the two, and I apologize.
"I certainly remember the armored mech platoon, meeting Capt. Eric Nye and of course Tim Terpak. Shortly after they arrived, so did the Orange Crush sandstorm, making virtually all outdoor functions impossible. I honestly don't remember which of the three choppers Gen. Downing and I slept in, but we spent two nights on the stowable web bench seats in one of the three birds.
"Later in the invasion when Gen. Downing and I reached Baghdad, I remember searching the parade grounds for Tim's Bradley to no avail. My attempt to pay tribute to CSM Terpak was to honor his 23+ years in service to our nation, and it had been 12 years since I saw him.
"The ultimate irony is: In writing up the synopsis of the 2 nights and 3 days I spent with him in the desert, I managed to switch aircraft. Nobody's trying to steal anyone's valor. Quite the contrary: I was and remain a civilian journalist covering the stories of those who volunteered for duty. This was simply an attempt to thank Tim, our military and Veterans everywhere—those who have served while I did not."
IN SHORT, HE JUST ADMITTED HE LIED TO YOU!!!!! HOW MUCH PROOF DO YOU NEED!?
THE AMERICAN EMPIRE: DENIAL, DELUSION AND DECEPTION
You need to take a look at this video. You know if YouTube age restricts it then that means they want this information censored that you need to be aware of. Illustration. If you asked the smartest college student how many Vietnamese were killed in the Vietnam war, they would answer 100,000 or less. The answer….. 3 MILLION! Learn how you are duped by the media and your own government in this video.
Now, what is Isis and how is this newest illuminati lie shifting our thinking? Don't believe for a minute there is a group like this be-heading children and that American Christians are next! Jeeez! People will believe anything it seems.
READ MY LIPS!!! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ISIS!!!!
This is just a ploy of the globalists to get people from the West outraged at those "savage" Muslims. Remember, we have seen this all before when the lie was spread that Iraqi soldiers were taking babies out of incubators and throwing them on the floor..remember? Don't fall for this kind of fear-mongering lie again!
The Kuwaiti Incubator Babies was a LIE. Behold the lie that got the public behind the war – The Kuwaiti Incubator Babies…LIE. This entire story was manufactured. The "innocent" girl who testifies "tearfully", is, in reality, a member of the Kuwaiti royal family and her "story" has been given to her – she was coached. Behold the former head of the CIA and then current President of the United States, George H.W. Bush, LIE through his teeth, about the incubator babies. Do you think that the former head of the CIA would make up such a story? The Incubator babies of 1990. How many lives and how many billions did this lie cost?
Take a look at the actress making up the incubator story:
Now let's look at the Foley beheading hoax:
There are lot of questions, and no answers. One thing we do know, it has more illuminati numerology involved:
James Foley was captured 11/22, the same date John Kennedy was murdered. There's that number 11 again.
Firstly, a masked jihadist can be seen repeatedly seen (at least six times) drawing the knife across the 40-year-old war reporter's neck, but no blood was visible. They stopped the film before the beheading actually took place. Also, in what has to be a joke from the producers of this hoax, the man in the dark grim reaper suit, allegedly from the Middle East, speaks perfect English with a British accent..YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! This must be a joke…right?
Secondly, there didn't appear to be any blood spilling from Foley's throat, and the sounds he made at the moment of his death are obviously fake.
Third, Foley's reaction seems to be very disconnected; he appeared to be very calm and collected as he read out his statement, raising many questions that he was about to be brutally executed
Fourth, in the barbaric footage, as the beheading occurs, the screen suddenly fades to black.
Fifth, the next shot is of Foley's bloodied head resting on his back.
Sixth, the Islamic State featured an English-speaking executioner; there were lack of references to the Quran and no chants of "Allahu Akbar" as the execution take place.
All in all, the video points out various factors that clearly suggested the James Foley video was not what it was reported to be.
Image Below: The militant spoke English with a British accent before beheading; it is unclear where the video was filmed. But it's very obvious this is a staged production and the lines for both "actors" was scripted and not real.
Now let's shift our attention to Charles Jaco was the CNN reporter famous for covering the 1990 Persian Gulf War.
The first part of the below video shows the stage set he was on, and he was clowning around with fellow CNN staff during the breaks. The Saudi Arabian "hotel" in the background were fake palm trees and a blue wall in a studio. This clip was leaked by CNN staff.
The second part of this video was a live CNN satellite feed recorded onto VHS showing the final cut. Charles Jaco was wearing a different jacket, but he had the same act. The acting was terrible as Charles Jaco wore a gas mask, and his fellow correspondent Carl Rochelle wore a helmet. The sirens and missile sound effects are part of the stage set. The camera never pans out or shows the sky.
These clips are the highest quality of this newscast and behind the scenes.
Yes, Charles Jaco was a reporter for CNN. Google his name and read the results.
This is another reason why I don't trust mainstream news. It is all theater and it's completely staged. I only use the news as a guide to get an idea of what fake propaganda they are telling people now, and then I do further research myself.
This video is FAIR USE depicting an historical event. I encourage this video to be downloaded, and re-uploaded to other websites to get more people to see this.
Charles Jaco currently works as a reporter for FOX 2 NOW in Saint Louis, Missouri. It's amazing this clown still has a job. But keep in mind, it's not about Charles Jaco, it's about the "powers that be" that control him and allow him to do this…AND ENCOURAGE IT!
One only has to WATCH THIS to understand. THIS IS REAL FOOTAGE OF THEM FAKING A NEWS STORY, REAL PROOF of how the media can fool the population.
THIS WAS NOT A BAD COMEDY SHOW, THIS WAS CNN 17 YEARS AGO. Google Charles Jaco! Now, the typical idiotic reaction applied on this: "Why would they fake it? Wouldn't it be easier to make real news in real places instead of faking them?" The answer is NO! IF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA WAS FAKING NEWS STORIES IN 1990, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY EVER STOPPED? Let's break down what we have just seen (BELOW)
Now listen to this account from Bill Newman as he specifically said the shots in the Kennedy Assassination came from the grassy knoll which directly contradicts the media reports of his statement. The media says "Newman was unsure of where the shots came from". But listen him him stating emphatically that he knew where the shots originated.
Now at the 1:00 min mark, let's listen to Bill Newman SPECIFICALLY say he heard shots from behind him on the knoll (hill, mound or garden next to the overpass) on the very day of the assassination!
MIND CONTROLLED PUPPETS IN THE MEDIA "GLITCHING" OUT AND THAT INCLUDES JOE BIDEN.
The Media is also full of mind-controlled puppets as well. Look at CNN anchor Robin Meade who is in a trance so deep she's actually drooling…Look at her post hypnotic stare that she only comes out of when she blinks:
Now look at Al Roker go into an MK-ULTRA trance when the word "Holy Ghost" is mentioned:
Now look at Shaquille O'Neil having an MK-ULTRA mind controlled glitch here. Keep your eyes on the left of the screen.
Then ask yourselves this: How could the BBC, in this live report run a crawl across the screen that World Trade Center 7 had collapsed when it's still standing in the background? Who was it that actually knew it was going to come down later? (BELOW)
Now, look at how the Mass Media brainwashed America into believing Osama Bin Laden was involved in planning the events of 9/11 (BELOW)
Here's another government lie about "when" George Bush knew about 9/11 that the media uses to control you.
Okay, okay, we're way ahead of ya', we know this globe model below isn't an accurate shape of the earth as we have it on all of our articles, but it's still a graphic showing you the hits we are getting on this website and no one out there will reproduce this in the way the earth really looks…..so we have to go with this for now:
In reality, it should look more like this, although this isn't correct either:
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ITK7 wrote on 04/27/2010 09:35 AM
I see "the battle has been joined" ...just posted "Speaking With One Voice: Rothschild Funded Nazi-Mind Science Controls Media"...Enjoy! great clip of BBC sloppiness, that's what arrogance does, blinds you to your own ineptitude. "Arrogance and self-awareness rarely go hand-in-hand" -- M from James Bond will be doing something on 9-11, but don't want to "re-ivent the wheel" would like to cover from a unique perspective... Be Well & Stay Vigilant
FutureShock wrote on 08/02/2010 09:51 AM
On the Robin Meade clip, check the crawler at the bottom. It's speeds back up when she comes round so the trance bit was a lot shorter than shown. Can't believe the Charles Jaco clip, you couldn't make that shit up! So fucking arrogant, fuck the MSM liars.
Shulz wrote on 08/12/2010 09:57 AM
I'm just curious when all this f-king 6 who drive the Media will go to Hell , just like to free join .
Summer Cruz wrote on 02/21/2013 05:57 PM
I cam across this and figured out that what I said in the past about news reports and "live" scenes are all FAKE. I am 15 going on 16 right now and I figured this out when I was around 6 years of age. It was obvious in some ways that media is bull.
Carljohn Veraja wrote on 03/02/2015 07:31 PM
House of cards set to fall.
Jess wrote on 03/19/2015 01:31 PM
Sandy Hook was a Gun Grab Hoax -- to attack Home Schooling, and ban AR15 rifles nationwide. LT Vance was suddenly removed from his Spokesman job (CT State Police) in FEB 2015, and reassigned to the Traffic Division. http://i.imgur.com/ibE2yKy.jpg Is that because LT Vance keeps lying about where Adam Lanza's body was "found?" http://i.imgur.com/jWGVW6W.jpg Police Evidence photos show a gun-range target stamped "FBI USE" in Nancy Lanza's basement: http://i.imgur.com/lS7BxK0.jpg Everyone knows Sandy Hook shooting was a Hoax (to ban AR15 rifles) but LT VANCE keeps lying and pretending it was real. http://i.imgur.com/ptZoQEf.jpg Forensic Proof that Adam Lanza's AR15 DIDN'T blow out the window at Sandy Hook Elementary: http://i.imgur.com/mXV3g7C.jpg Is Malloy (CT Governor) worried about LT VANCE getting subpoenaed during the next Vance press conference? Is that why CT moved Vance from his 16-year Spokesman job to the Traffic Division? http://i.imgur.com/R7XVajR.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zTa1iFQ.jpg Lt Vance's SON controls who can sue the State of CT. Vance JR is the CT Claims Commissioner. http://i.imgur.com/agzjUJZ.jpg AR15 wasn't used at Sandy Hook. CT already banned assault rifles, but the gun grabbers have 49 more States to go. http://i.imgur.com/YgP8sWJ.jpg CT Governor Dan Malloy locked down ALL Death Certificates across CT to conceal Sandy Hoax. How long can CT keep this Sandy Hook scam going? http://i.imgur.com/WAQ3S8J.jpg Adam Lanza is fake. He was created in PhotoShop to seize AR15 rifles and attack Home Schooling, since Adam Lanza was supposedly Home Schooled by Nancy Lanza. http://i.imgur.com/FBMPIFW.jpg During his press conference at Sandy Hook, Governor Malloy (CT) said he was "Spoken to that something like this might happen" in his State. In other words, he KNEW the Sandy Hook "shooting" was pre-planned. Yet Malloy is still using Sandy Hoax to push gun confiscation and attack Home Schooling. http://i.imgur.com/Q7N3jnM.jpg Obama flew fake Sandy Hook "parents" around the USA on Air Force One, to grab guns. http://i.imgur.com/jP0i76c.jpg Obama's CT SSN was stolen from Harrison Bounel (died in NEWTOWN, CT) at this hospital: http://i.imgur.com/OiGqp9g.jpg Wayne Carver (CT Medical Examiner) helped Malloy lock down ALL DEATH CERTIFICATES for ANY DEATHS in CT. http://i.imgur.com/jluf36X.jpg Obama (DHS) uses fake shootings to disarm the USA. Ask LT PAUL VANCE: http://i.imgur.com/YR1h25s.jpg
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The Lincolnshire Landscape by Jon Fox
A new book about the landscape of Lincolnshire has been published recently.
The book 'explores the diverse landscapes within the historic county, revealing and interpreting both their natural and human heritage in an informative and accessible way.'
The book is available now in bookshops and visitor attractions across Lincolnshire and neighbouring areas, and can also be ordered through the author's website, www.greenploverbooks.co.uk.
This entry was posted in Lincolnshire, Publication on 24/03/2016 by Andy Nicholson.
East Midlands History & Heritage Magazine, Issue 2 out!
A wide variety of historical articles in the latest edition of East Midlands History & Heritage: letters from Charlie Clarke on the Western Front to his girlfriend back in Gainsborough; the trial and execution in 1823 of three men convicted of sodomy; defamation in Nottinghamshire in the early modern period; The Battle of Waterloo and Nottinghamshire's 'chosen men'; the Reformatory at Mount St. Bernard in Leicestershire; Magna Carta and the Uffington
Connection; discovering the Archaeology of Rufford Abbey Country Park 2013-2015; the Mayflower Pilgrims
in the East Midlands; Ellerslie House for Paralysed
Sailors and Soldiers in Nottingham.
Read the magazine ….
This entry was posted in East Midlands, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Publication on 05/01/2016 by Andy Nicholson.
Innovation in Museum Displays project
Innovation in Museum Displays was led by Professor Graham Black and Deborah Skinner, lecturers at the Nottingham Trent University Centre for Museum and Heritage Management. They were supported by Stephen LeMottee and Charlotte Pratley, of East Midlands Museums Service.
The aim of Innovation in Museum Displays was to encourage dialogue between the museum and the user and to get visitors talking to each other. The project ran from 2013 and involved eight East Midlands heritage organisations. Although the funding has now ended the project leaders are investigating how to continue to build on this activity. If you would like to stay informed, please sign up to the EMMS mailing list at www.emms.org.uk.
Visit the website for further information:
http://www.innovationinmuseumdisplays.co.uk/
This entry was posted in East Midlands, Project on 10/11/2015 by Andy Nicholson.
Time Team archaeologist Carenza Lewis leads Lincolnshire dig for teenagers
Aspiring archaeologists have uncovered coins, medieval pottery and animal teeth and bones in a two-day excavation with archaeologist and television presenter Professor Carenza Lewis.
Schoolchildren from across Lincolnshire unearthed the discoveries as part of the Lincolnshire Higher Education Field Academy (HEFA), a new collaboration between the University of Lincoln and the University of Cambridge aimed at school pupils aged 14-17 to raise aspirations for higher education.
The items were found across 10 different dig sites in the Lincolnshire village of Bardney, as 40 schoolchildren from 12 different schools joined Time Team presenter Professor Lewis. The finds will now contribute to important historical research at the University of Lincoln.
The HEFA lasts three days – the first two days were spent excavating, and the final day was held at the University of Lincoln's main Brayford Pool Campus, when participants evaluated their finds and learned more about studying at degree level.
The Academy is designed to develop pupils' knowledge, skills and self-confidence through active contribution to new academic research.
Professor Lewis, who joined the University of Lincoln as Professor for Public Understanding of Research in September 2015 and is based in Lincoln's School of History & Heritage, said: "We are absolutely delighted to be bringing the Higher Education Field Academy to Lincolnshire. This first dig been a great success, with more than 40 local children taking part. It is a wonderful experience for them; getting out of the classroom and piecing history together for themselves.
"This dig has been a fantastic collaborative effort, involving not just the Universities of Lincoln and Cambridge and the schools, but also local history groups and the Bardney village residents who have kindly donated their gardens for us to explore. The students have made important new discoveries about the history of the village while developing knowledge, skills and attitudes which will help them in the future."
The pupils worked in in small mixed-school teams supervised by Professor Lewis and other experienced archaeologists. The HEFA follows a unique format devised by Professor Lewis in Cambridge in 2005. Lincolnshire teenagers involved in the Bardney excavations now join the ranks of more than 5,000 other teenagers who have taken part in HEFA in East Anglia, more than 90% of whom have rated the experience as good or excellent.
Emily Walton (16), who attends Branston Community Academy near Lincoln, said: "It has been a great experience because when we started digging we found small pieces of pot, but as we got deeper into the ground we were discovering much larger pieces of medieval pottery, glass, metal, and even some animal teeth and bones. It was fascinating to look around at the house and garden we were in because it all looked so modern and pristine, but underneath it there are layers and layers of history.
"In the future I'd love to go to university to study history and archaeology, so this is an ideal experience for me, and it has been lots of fun to meet people from different schools, to work as part of a team and to get out of our comfort zones."
This entry was posted in Lincolnshire, News on 29/10/2015 by Andy Nicholson.
Take a part of the Northamptonshire archive home!
The Northamptonshire Archive, based at Wootton Hall Park in Northampton, has launched a range of high quality products featuring selected images from the archive collection. Exclusively available online , each item is produced to order and delivered to the customer's address.
Whether it's a quirky mug, some Christm
as cards or a beautiful framed print, there is something to suit all budgets. Images currently available include vintage maps and Victorian Christmas cards – although the range will be extended.
The range can be seen at www.redbubble.com/people/northantspast
This entry was posted in News, Northamptonshire on 21/10/2015 by Andy Nicholson.
Grave slab of Robert de Markham rediscovered
The grave slab of a medieval monk who was buried at Rufford Abbey in Nottinghamshire has been rediscovered in English Heritage's national collection store at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire.
The decorated slab commemorates Robert de Markham and dates from 1399. It was removed from the chapel at Rufford Abbey in the 1950s when the building was partially demolished.
Further details from the BBC Nottingham website.
This entry was posted in News, Nottinghamshire on 14/10/2015 by Andy Nicholson.
Following the successful launch of the first edition of our magazine this summer, we are now planning issue two, which will appear around Christmas. This is an open call. Unlike issue one, which focussed on the English Civil War, and issue three (mid 2016), which will adopt the theme of 'Hidden Voices', every second issue of the magazine will take contributions on any topic relating to the history and heritage of the East Midlands area.
We're looking for stories of between 2,000-2,500 words long, and news events/notices of up to 500 words. The cut-off date is mid Nov 2015. We actively encourage the inclusion of images, artwork, etc. Imagine a History Today for the East Midlands.
Please look at the East Midlands History & Heritage Style Sheet below before you start.
Please email with any questions/queries.
Nick Hayes (editor)
emhist@virginmedia.com
Download document (PDF)
This entry was posted in East Midlands on 09/09/2015 by Andy Nicholson.


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Q: Visual Studio Unable to read the NuGet.Config file - just downloaded for mac
I Get this error whenever I open a new project on visual studio for mac. I just installed the software and don't understand why it can't locate the folder. How do I fix this?

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Step 2 - Right click into a Nuget.config file and get info
Step 3 - in sharing and permission click in plus(+) button and add your user with read and write permission
Step 4 - Close and open Visual Studio

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Bethlehem city officials consider raising cost of parking and fines
By Joyce Evans
FOX 29's Joyce Evans spoke with Bethlehem residents and business owners over the possible increases.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Residents and business owners in Bethlehem are concerned over possible parking increases around town.
People plunking in quarters in Bethlehem's business districts say they know how easy it is to overstay what you paid and the consequences of an expire meter.
"I have a parking ticket. $10 and after 14 days, 30 bucks not so great," Pat Hess told FOX 29's Joyce Evans.
Hess says he's even hotter to hear the next ticket he may get could cost him much more if city officials decided to raise the fine.
"I think that's ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous already," he said.
How much is being considered may vary, but people who visit and especially those who work downtown say they're already overburdened by recent increases in the cost of meter parking from $1 to $1.50 an hour and steeper increases for city-owned, off-street parking like the parking lots and garages.
Business owner John Saraceno fears increases in new foot traffic downtown may be short-lived. Others believe it may encourage drivers to keep the meter paid up.


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Cancer survivor touts 'right to try'
Christopher Behnan
Mark Howell counts himself as one of the lucky ones.
His condition, unlike that of many people entered into medical trials, improved dramatically despite a year of red tape and bureaucracy to find experimental treatment that worked.
But the Oceola Township man may have had access to the lifesaving treatment a year earlier under "right to try" legislation.
"Right to try" allows drug companies and physicians to provide non-U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved medications to patients with proven advanced or terminal illnesses.
"That's definitely an option that I could have had that I really didn't have at the time. For me, especially, that would have kept another door open," said Howell, who is being treated for stage 4 melanoma.
"There's so many different rules and regulations for who is eligible," he added.
The Legislature is considering a bill that would provide legal protections to pharmaceutical companies and physicians who provide unapproved drugs in Michigan. To qualify, a drug in question would have to complete an initial medical trial.
A challenging year
"Right to try," in concept, could untangle a complicated web of bureaucracy to access experimental drugs, Howell said.
His journey made headlines in October, when the congressional shutdown temporarily short-circuited his plans for a federally funded treatment program that has up to a 70 percent success rate.
Howell was eventually approved for screening at the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, after a local support effort.
Howell was awaiting word from the NCI when he learned its admissions system closed because of the shutdown.
He later participated in a chemotherapy medical trial through the University of Michigan. Tumors that first shrunk about 40 percent through chemotherapy eventually grew back.
This spring, he was enrolled in a trial of a drug treatment known as PD1, a treatment that strengthens the immune system to allow it to kill cancer cells.
The PD1 treatment made the most difference, recently resulting in as much as a 400 percent reduction of his two major tumors.
The treatment was a Phase 4 trial when Howell first applied for it. The classification means it has the most limited access on the federal government's four-phase scale.
PD1 was later approved for "compassionate use," which allows physicians to administer the drug in potentially lifesaving situations.
Medical trials often cut short access to potentially livesaving treatments when patients choose separate options, Howell said.
While he has shown dramatic improvement, Howell said he would have gained peace of mind with access to PD1 a year earlier.
"How many people are faced with similar situations and frankly don't have some of the luck that I've had? A lot of other people are left out to dry," Howell said.
The state Senate approved Senate Bill 991 this month, and it could be considered in the House as early as this week.
It would not require medical coverage of unapproved drugs.
It received bipartisan support and little, if any, public protest.
Critics elsewhere have challenged the safety of the concept, however.
A potential fallback of the bill is that it can't overrule FDA rules because the Legislature can only change state law.
Michigan is about the fourth state to pass "right to try," however, which is drawing growing attention to the issue, said bill sponsor Sen. John Pappageorge, R-Troy.
Pappageorge said it's only a matter of time before Congress enacts a nationwide "right to try" law. The World Health Organization recently adopted the policy to treat Ebola patients in Africa.
Pappageorge's wife died in 1993 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He said they would have considered any treatment option available in her final days.
"We tried everything we could, and had there been something like 'right to try,' we would have done that, too. When you're in that situation, to have somebody say, 'We don't know if this is safe or not,' is silly," he said.
State Sen. Joe Hune, R-Hamburg Township, voted in favor of Michigan's "right to try" bill.
Hune said he supported the bill because it has clear guidelines that ensure unapproved drugs are only made available in cases of last resort.
He said the FDA could still target drug companies, but that they would at least be protected in Michigan courts.
"If you're in your last days of your illness and you have sought every other alternative, this may be an issue. It's something for folks to consider, but I don't see it as a harmful thing," Hune said.
"I think it's a humane step forward," he added.
Contact Daily Press & Argus reporter Christopher Behnan at 517-548-7108 or at cbehnan@gannett.com. Follow him @LCLansingGuy on Twitter.
The Daily Press & Argus has followed Mark Howell's medical progress since the congressional shutdown short-cut his original treatment path 10 months ago.
For the past several weeks, Howell has been administered the PD1 immunotherapy treatment at a Mayo Clinic facility in Jacksonville, Fla. He flies to and from the Florida clinic for the treatment.
Last week, Howell learned that what were once two baseball-sized tumors are now only acorn-sized tumors, he said.
"We're expecting more good results," Howell said. "We're just continuing to watch those and treat those. Nothing new has popped up, so that's good news as well."
The hope is for the PD1 treatment to remove remaining signs of his cancer. Removal of what remains of the tumors also could become an option.
He and his wife, Christina, and son, Gabriel, 1, recently sold their Brighton Township home and moved to Oceola Township.
The cost of Howell's treatments necessitated the move.


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