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We appreciate your continued support and the possibility of returning to our programing October 2022 through May 2023. Our Speaker Series is held on the second Tuesday evening with the location to be announced in September 2022, and our (limited participant) organized field trips are on Saturdays October thru May.
The SFAS membership year is September through August coinciding with our programming year. If you are not currently a member of Santa Fe Audubon and wish to join or if you would like to make a contribution to the ongoing conservation activities of the chapter, information is located here on our website under "more detail on SFAS" on the left side by our territory map.
We are in touch with members and some non-members with our monthly newsletter, The Kite. If you would like to be on the email list for our newsletter, please email us at santafeaudubonfl@aol.com.
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SFAS Program Meetings
Active: Oct. - May
When: Program Meetings are held the Second Tuesday of each month at 6:45pm.
Where: To Be Announced
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Public programs are presented on the second Tuesday of each month September through April at Trinity Episcopal Parish Hall, 204 SR 26, downtown Melrose.
Field trips and walking workshops are scheduled on Saturdays. Citizen science and other special projects are as listed.
About field trips
Come early and be ready to LEAVE at the times listed.
Bring water, binoculars, hat, sunscreen, and raingear.
Wear sturdy walking shoes. Binoculars are available on loan.
2019-2020 Field Trip Schedule
Field Trip: Beginning Bird ID at Gold Head Branch State Park
Meet at 7:45 a.m. at Melrose Heritage Park (west side) to carpool or or 8:30 AM at Gold Head State Park at the Mill Site Parking Lot ($5 per car park entrance fee.)
SFAS Contact: Laura Berkelman, 352-475-2023 or lberkelman@windstream.net
Learn basics of birdwatching followed by a walk in the woods to practice new skills. Approx. 2 hours.
Difficulty Level 2: May involve uneven terrain; 1-2 miles.
Field Trip: Migratory Birds at Newnans Lake State Forest
Meet at 7:45 a.m. at Melrose Heritage Park to carpool or at 8:15 AM at the Lake Pithlachocco Trailhead at Newnans Lake State Forest
Anne Casella, past president of Alachua Audubon, helps us look for migratory species on the east side of Newnans Lake State Forest. The area is managed for sparrows, but we may also see warblers making their way south. Approx. 3 hours.
Difficulty Level 3: May involve elevation change, uneven terrain, and/or be greater than 2 miles.
October 2019, specific date to be announced.
Fun Work Day: Annual Etoniah Rosemary Survey, Etoniah Creek State Forest Previous Surveys
Start at Etoniah Creek State Forest Office, 8:30 am
SFAS Contact: Joyce King, (353) 475-1999.
Found nowhere else, and listed as an endangered species. A census to assess the health of this rare plant population is held each October when the plants are in bloom. Volunteers are invited to participate; training is provided. (Halloween candy also provided!) Call Joyce King to volunteer (353) 475-1999.
Field Trip: Paddle the Ichetucknee
Meet at 7:45 a.m. at Melrose Heritage Park to carpool or at park site TBA. Park entry fee: $6 per car.
SFAS Contact: Joy Segall, 352-475-6234 or jrsegall@verizon.net
Join naturalist, local history buff and master river guide Lars Anderson for a memorable paddle through shaded hammocks, floodplain forests and wildlife-rich wetlands on the crystalline Ichetucknee. Approx. 3 hours.
Limit: 24 people. $30 trip fee, covers equipment.
Call Adventure Outpost 386-454-0611 to make your reservation.
120th Christmas Bird Count (Previous years)
SFAS Contact: Joyce King 352.475.1999 or joyceking2635@gmail.com
The world's oldest citizen-science project relies on volunteers to collect data that contribute to bird conservation, indicate the movement, declines & advances in bird populations & indicate the possible results of climate change. No need to be an expert birder! Each team will have experienced leaders who can help newcomers. If you can count, you can participate!
Difficulty level varies.
Contact Joyce by December 1 to participate.
Field trip: Sweetwater Wetlands Park
Meet at 7:45 a.m. at Melrose Heritage Park (west side) to carpool or at 8:30 at Sweetwater Wetlands Park, 325 SW Williston Road, Gainesville.Park entry fee: $5 per car.
SFAS Contact: Sallie Carlock, 561-908-6525 or santafeaudubonfl@gmail.com
A great outing for beginners! Michael Drummond, Alachua County Environmental Protection Dept., joins us for a walk at this man-made wetland with great bird diversity. The birds are accustomed to humans, so they are not very skittish. Approx. 2 - 3 hours
Saturday, January 25, 2020.
Event: Yesterday's Festival, 9 am to 4 pm, Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park
Experience the Florida of days gone by! Re-enactors, Historic Demonstrations, Cast Iron Cooking, Live Music, Antique Cars, Steam Engines and Tractors, Park Ranger Tram Tours and so much more. Free with park admission. Call (352) 473-4701 for more information.
Friday-Monday, February 14-17, 2020
The Great Backyard Bird Count
Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, the Great Backyard Bird Count was the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds and to display results in near real-time.
Now, more than 160,000 people of all ages and walks of life worldwide join the four-day count each February to create an annual snapshot of the distribution and abundance of birds.
We invite you to participate! Simply tally the numbers and kinds of birds you see for at least 15 minutes on one or more days of the count, February 14-17, 2020. You can count from any location, anywhere in the world, for as long as you wish!
Log on to http://gbbc.birdcount.org/ for complete information and how to get started.
Field trip: Santa Fe Zoo Excursion
Meet at 7:45 a.m. at Melrose Heritage Park to carpool/caraavan or 8:45 AM at the entrance to the Zoo, 3000 NW 83rd St., Gainesville.
SFAS Contact: Gloria Sheffield, 352-514-9364 or sheffieldglo@aol.com
Tour the Santa Fe Teaching Zoo with many animals found in Florida including Bald Eagle, Barred Owl, Blue-winged Teal, Roseate Spoonbill, Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Florida Red-bellied Turtle, and Eastern Indigo Snake. Our visit includes an animal encounter where we meet and touch 3 to 4 animals. Approx. 2 hours.
Difficulty Level: 0 - Impaired mobility has been considered for this trip. The SFAS Contact has details.
Participants must wear closed-Toed shoes!
Limit: 20 people. Prepayment of $10 to SFAS required by February 11
POSTPONED Until Further Notice: Saturday, March 21, 2020
Birds, Bees, Native Plants and Trees Festival
Melrose Heritage Park 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
SFAS Contact: Gina Hopen, 954-802-0922 or ghendurocat@yahoo.com
Live Music! Food Trucks! Vendors! Native Plants! Nature-themed Art! Children's Corner! Nature Talks! Conservation Groups! Live Birds! Bee Demo! Fun!
Field trip: Bolen Bluff Trail at Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park
Meet at 7:45 a.m. at Melrose Heritage Park (west side) to carpool or at 8:45 AM at the Bolen Bluff parking area in Paynes Prairie State Park.Park entry fee: $6 per car
This trail at the south rim of the park loops through a magnificent hardwood hammock with a large diver-sity of animals. Bolen Bluff is an open grassy knoll halfway along the loop. Approx. 3 hours.
Difficulty Level: 3 - May involve elevation change, uneven terrain, and/or be greater than 2 miles.
POSTPONED Until Further Notice: Saturday, April 25, 2020
Field trip: Birding Cedar Key by Boat
Meet at 11:45 AM at Melrose Heritage Park to carpool/caravan or at 1:30 PM at Tidewater Tours, 302 Dock St, Cedar Key.
SFAS Contact: Elisabeth Summers-Howe, 904-250-6996 or seagypsytiki26@yahoo.com
Experience the pristine waters of Cedar Key by boat! Travel to the outer islands of the Cedar Keys Na-tional Wildlife Refuge to experience the rich avian fauna and marine life. Encounters may include peli-cans, willets, different species of terns and gulls, godwits, oystercatchers, dunlins, dowitchers, dolphins and stingrays. The boat departs at 2 PM at the Tidewater Tours dock in Cedar Key. Approx. 2 hours
Limit: 25 people. Prepayment of $26 to SFAS required by April 11.


READY FOR IT'S 6TH FANTASTIC YEAR! THE ALTERNATIVE FESTIVAL NOT TO MISS IS BOUNCING BACK FOR ANOTHER ROUND AT DREAMLAND, MARGATE ON THE 13TH & 14TH OF APRIL 2018. DAVE BOOKER FROM KENT BAND 'SURGERY WITHOUT RESEARCH' SHARES WHAT MAKES THIS FESTIVAL SPECIAL & WHY YOU SHOULD GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
I have attended every Undercover festival since it started life as a 3 dayer at Bisley Pavilion 5 years ago. Undercover five though was my first in attendance as part of the acts!
Very chuffed that Surgery Without Research were asked to play and the fact that the festival was in its new home of Dreamland in Margate was an added bonus as this is our home turf.
Bisley was an excellent venue but circumstances change and after a year in Brighton we are now reaping the benefits of having the best independent Alternative Music Festival here in Thanet.
One of the things that sticks out about Undercover is the atmosphere. I have never ever seen one bit of trouble with the crowd and everyone is always smiling and having a good time. There is always an eclectic mix of bands and therefore a similarly diverse audience and a varied age range too. Despite this everyone gets along and this is what really makes for a great event.
There are local bands on the bill, young up and coming bands, established acts and big name headliners. Every year I have seen new bands that the organiser and Mr Undercover himself, Mick Moriarty, has championed and given a chance to. Many of these acts have shot up the popularity charts as a consequence. This is the place to get in and see them first!
A great example of this is the excellent Riskee & The Ridicule. A local band from Ashford in Kent that I first saw at Undercover festival some years ago. At the time Mick had been telling me about them and how good they were. I was amongst a select few who saw them that day and immediately thought they were great, so much so I bought the album there and then. Time moves on and they are regularly pulling in a crowd wherever they play. So it was great to see them back at Undercover V where they smashed it with an excellent set. Not even letting a small thing like broken guitar strings stop them in their tracks.
There are two stages in close proximity to each other so it's easy to flit from one to the other. As a band is finishing on the Main Stage you can then take the short walk to the smaller Scootering Magazine Stage. One minute you might be watching Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band and then fancy some classic Punk with the Angelic Upstarts! It really is a great mix, young bands like Skaciety, old Mods with Chords UK, classic Canvey Islanders Eddie & the Hot Rods, Tom Robinson, Dr & The Medics and Jilted John to name just a few.
I don't know anybody that has attended one of these festivals that didn't enjoy it and didn't want to come back. It may sound like a cliché but you really do make new friends here as I can contest to when pitching my tent next to a couple of top blokes one year at Bisley and been mates ever since.
I was so pleased when I heard that Undercover is coming back to Dreamland for 2018. This time in April with another superb line-up including Sham 69 (Pursey/Parsons/Treganna/Guy), The Blockheads, Roddy Radiation, Kirk Brandon. Once again some local favourites too like, Russ Crimewave, The Warriors, The Commited and I'm pleased to say us lot, Surgery Without Research, are back also.
http://www.undercoverfest.com and I'll see you down the front! Cheers.


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The Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry would like to clarify misinformation regarding the Industrial Development Act and Industrial Development Regulations, 2020 and Trade Act and Trade Regulations, 2020 which appeared in the Government Gazette Extraordinary Vol. LVIII, No. 49 of the 20th May 2020, both of which will commence on the 1st June 2020.
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There is a high chance that you are currently trying to sell. Your job title might have the word "sales" in it. If you work in consulting, your employer might be expecting that you are able to identify your client's unarticulated problems and offer them the tools and resources to solve them (this is what selling is basically about). You might be selling your freelancer services or you might be selling yourself as a job applicant to future employers.
You might be even able to identify sales tasks in your work that other people don't traditionally consider as sales.
There is this idea that we are all in sales. We are all trying to persuade people to take action. We are all trying to connect and build trust for some mission.
You might agree with this idea. But you might not identify yourself as a person who is good at selling. You hear people tell their sales success stories and you wonder why you struggle with sales so much. Someone tells you that sales is easy but that's the exact opposite of what your personal experiences tell you.
I feel this way constantly. I personally believe that we are all in sales whether we like it or not. But I often also get discouraged. I think to myself that I'm not made for sales. There is some natural talent or a personal trait that successful sales people have and I lack.
But here's the thing. For the most of us, selling is not easy. Selling is hard and selling is scary. Don't feel discouraged if the idea of calling a client makes you sweat.
The story of Sara Blakely (founder of Spanx) is all I need to remind myself that the fear of selling doesn't mean I can't do sales--or have those moments of success in sales.
Before founding Spanx, Blakely was selling fax machines door-to-door. She had to deal with rejection constantly. And sometimes she just wasn't able to handle all the noes. She felt defeated. She would drive around a same block multiple times before she was able to convince herself to walk in through a client's door. On some occasions, she had enough courage to walk in through the door but when someone asked what her business was, she would instantly turn on her heels and walk away.
Blakely's story is not the story of a perfect sales person bursting with confidence. It's a story of a sales person who is human and who has to deal with human feelings. And most importantly it's a story of hope. After all, Blakely didn't quit sales. Instead, she built a billion dollar company on top of her sales skills.
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In the last few days our average number of locks per day has gone up quite a bit. We've come down the 19 Lapworth Locks and the 21 Hatton Locks and here is the story of those descents:
Last Sunday our friends Maurice and Carolyn cycled to us on their tandem and then helped us down the Lapworth Locks:
Before they arrived we came down the first four locks which are further apart and there is then a gap before the work starts in earnest. Here we are looking back to the second lock in the flight.
Once down the first four we boiled the kettle and waited for the tandem to arrive. We found room for the bike on the roof and for the riders inside. Much cake and biscuits were eaten on Sunday.
The Lapworth Locks are narrow ones and each only averages about 7 feet deep so they are fairly easy, especially with two extra crew. In this photo at lock 18 near the bottom before Kingswood Junction, Helen is on the left and Carolyn on the right. Maurice has gone ahead to set the next lock.
Here is Kingswood Junction. To the right leads on towards Stratford where we went a month ago. Our way this time lay to the left where one final lock dropped us down to the Lapworth Link which connects with the Grand Union Canal.
We enjoyed our day with Maurice and Carolyn and hope they did too. We were certainly grateful for their help and the descent of the locks was surprisingly relaxing. We moored on the Lapworth Link and later said our goodbyes as they left on the tandem to go home.
We could have done the Hatton locks the following day but decided to have an easier day on Monday and stopped a mile short of the top of the locks and carried on down on Tuesday.
On the way we cruised through the surprisingly wet Shrewley Tunnel. If you look above and to the right of the canal tunnel entrance you can see a separate tunnel for the towpath. The towing horses had to go through this dark hole. The inside of the canal tunnel is lined with stalactites and water pours through the roof onto poor unsuspecting boaters at several points.
On Monday a walk from our mooring took us to the Hatton Locks Cafe near the top of the flight, so more tea and cake. On Tuesday we met Kieran and Christine on Ellisiana at the top of the locks and shared the flight with them. Being on the Grand Union we are now on a wide canal and two boats fit in each lock. In this photo Ellisiana is coming out of the top lock as we start our descent together.
This view is looking down the straight section of the flight. The tower seen below is that of St Mary's Church in Warwick.
The Hatton flight is sometimes called the "Stairway to Heaven" and this gives you some idea of why.
Kieran and Christine decided to moor four locks from the end of the flight but were kind enough to continue on foot to help us down the last of the locks. A very kind gesture and we were thankful for their help. We turned off the canal at the bottom onto the Saltisford Arm and this view is taken from our mooring there. The Arm is owned by a charity and mooring costs £6 a night but it is a lovely spot and the moorers and the manager, Ian, are very welcoming. It is also closer to the centre of Warwick.
We stayed two nights in the Saltisford Arm and spent Wednesday visiting the sights of Warwick. It is a lovely town though perhaps has too much traffic going through. It has innumerable corners full of fine historical buildings.
We started our day by climbing 160 steps to the top of the tower of St Mary's Church. Here is the view looking towards Warwick Castle. We had visited the Castle before so we went instead to other sights.
If you go to Warwick do visit the Lord Leycester Hospital. This is not a hospital but a home for ex servicemen founded in 1571. Ex servicemen still live there and show visitors round. It is a wonderful collection of medieval buildings which date back a further century before its foundation.
This is the Great Hall where James 1 was guest of honour at a banquet which nearly bankrupted the town. He sat in the chair seen on the left. The Hall is still used for banquets, usually for weddings.
This is the Courtyard with the Master's House beyond and a galleried landing to the right.
Left is the Guildhall where the town's worthies discussed how the town should be run and organised its government.
The Hosptal has a lovely garden. The Norman arch was found on the site and re-erected as a garden feature. The urn is from ancient Egypt.
Part of the Lord Leycester Hospital site includes a chapel over the West Gate to the town. At the other end of the High Street is the East Gate shown here which also has a chapel on top.
The building on the left is Thomas Oken's House. He was a major benefactor to the town from the 1500s and a charity he founded still supports the town and its people.
I like the roof lines in this photo taken from the town walls which is also within the Hospital site.
So, we were really impressed with Warwick and after touring the sights, sat down to rest on a bench by the River Avon. Perhaps one day we'll be able to navigate up the Avon from Stratford, saving a lot of locks up to Lapworth and back down again!
Even more surprising was that we found a proper ironmonger's shop in Warwick - Torry's on West Street. We have been looking for a 4 inch chimney flue brush for ages and they actually had one in stock!!
So do visit Warwick it is well worthwhile.
Today (Thursday) we've come through Leamington and have moored in open country near Radford Semele. But more about that in our next posting.
South on the South Oxford
Nearly to Birmingham and out again
Down and Up to Droitwich and Back
Back on still waters!
Down the Avon to Tewkesbury


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Lauren and Erik's first date was a little out of the ordinary. It was Erik's 29th birthday party! Props to Lauren who was brave enough to not only meet Erik but also over 40 of his closet friends all in the same night! A few years later, they would return to the location of that party, Rivermont Pizza in Lynchburg, VA, Erik surprised Lauren by proposing in the same spot.
Next weekend, they'll be joined by their closest friends and family to celebrate their wedding at the Thomas Birkby House in Leesburg, VA with our amazing associate planner, Lauren. While our dear friends at Bakerture Photography will be taking their wedding day photos, Lauren's sister, Megan Kaplar, a family photographer, captured their engagement photos.
We're so excited for this sweet couple!
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Jeff Dingle As Bruno Mars Band - Fri 7th Apr 2023
An amazing double header with the brilliant Jaff Dingle and his Band with their superb tribute to Bruno Mars, plus the fabulous Ragdolls with their sensational tribute to Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.
Jeff Dingle is the Number 1 Bruno Mars tribute artist in the business today. Selected from thousands of hopefuls worldwide to perform as one of only six artists on BBC's 'Better Than The Real Thing' Jeff has also featured on American Idol and has won acclaim from industry royalty the world over.
Originally from LA, Jeff is now available for UK bookings as well as international appearances as a soloist, with a live band or a full production show which includes our superb backing vocalists and dancers. Jeff will make any night feel like a truly star-studded occasion.
The Ragdolls
Jersey Boys Tribute – The Ragdolls are Nominees and Winners of the best Frankie Valli Tribute Act for 2014, 2015 and 2016! The Ragdolls are undoubtedly Europe's Premier Frankie Valli Tribute Show!
Established in 2009, this well perfected show is is sure to make your evening unforgettable!
They have performed at prestigious events for clients such as Lord Spencer, The Royal Family, Claridges, The BBC and the ever popular Butlins and Warner Holiday Parks.
They have also been pleasing crowds in theatres across Europe including The National Concert Hall in Dublin, The Cork Opera House, Gleneagles and most recently Annabel's Private Members Club in Mayfair which regularly plays host to a wide variety of celebrities.
Working with big names and legends in the industry, such as one of Irelands top show producers, Pat Egan, who has been linked to many great artists over the years, including the great man himself,
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As the exterior progressed and our client's enthusiasm grew for his exterior renovation, he felt the interior was not compatible. Inside was done up by a local decorator and was very 'pretty' – the kind of pretty that keeps the fellows hanging out in the garage. We were asked to help bring the men inside! Criteria was to have the luxury feeling, while being comfortable and with easy maintenance for their busy and growing family.


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Released in 2017 in honor of the Bicentenary of of the birth of Bahá'u'lláh, this printable (pdf) activity page is wonderful for helping children learn the whole prayer and the parts in order.
Watch as our Auntie Lili shows some of the learning activities we can use with pictures of each of the "blessed" locations identified in the prayer. In this example she made discs of each part of the prayer. See some of the games she plays with them.
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Twitter Mailbag: On QBs And Marcus Peters
By Tim McManus· 4/16/2015, 3:15 p.m.
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@Tim_McManus if Mariota doesn't happen, what's the long term plan at quarterback? Does it involve drafting somebody else this year?
— Nurbs (@NatetheBRD) April 16, 2015
I'd imagine the hope is that the 27-year-old Sam Bradford plays at a high level and solidifies the quarterback spot moving forward. But given his injury history and contract situation (his current deal is up at the end of the year), it would be smart of Kelly to have a contingency plan.
The question is whether this draft will allow him that luxury. The consensus seems to be that there is a pretty sizable drop-off after Marcus Mariota and Jameis Winston. Kelly didn't give any indication that he disagrees with that sentiment. Asked about this QB crop at the owners meetings, he said: "I think there's two really good ones. Two really good ones."
How does he feel about the signal-callers beyond that? Is it worth using a second-round pick, say, on Brett Hundley, or a third-rounder on Bryce Petty or Garrett Grayson? With needs at other positions, he'll have to be sold on one of these quarterbacks to pull the trigger that high.
My guess is that he passes, and maybe adds a developmental prospect like Cody Fajardo late if he goes that route at all.
@Tim_McManus any chance Chip will take Marcus Peters if he's available at 20? — Jeff (@PhillyFreck215) April 16, 2015
It's rather quiet on the Eagles/Marcus Peters front, far as I can tell. They'd be vetting him pretty hard if they were serious about drafting him, and there has been very little in terms of information or reports connecting the two. I'm operating under the assumption, then, that he is not a primary target.
Defensive back seems like a good bet in the first round, though. The Eagles have reportedly shown interest in UCONN's Byron Jones, Wake Forest's Kevin Johnson (who I really like; Sheil wrote about him today) and LSU's Jalen Collins, among others. I wouldn't be surprised if they used the No. 20 pick on one of these players if they're still on the board.
@Tim_McManus is there anyone you could see the Eagles trading up for besides Mariota?
— Matthew Grumbrecht (@MattGrumbrecht) April 16, 2015
I'm not ruling it out. Last year, they missed out on all six of the players they liked by staying put. I'm sure that didn't sit very well with Kelly, and I doubt he'll accept a similar fate this time around. But every draft is its own entity, and I feel like some of their targets will still be on the board when the No. 20 pick rolls around.
Maybe it's one of the corners I mentioned above. My guess is that Jake Fisher will still be there (though a couple teams right after them have interest, apparently). Some feel that USC receiver Nelson Agholor will be taken in this range. The draft never goes according to script, but I feel like there will be a decent amount of options remaining when the Eagles get on the clock.
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She welcomed the Public Health Minister's cross-party approach and the £6 million funding that has been allocated to support children whose parents abuse alcohol, after significant lobbying from Caroline and other cross-party MPs.
Caroline raised Family Moving On Together, an eight week support programme for Doncaster families with young children aged between eight and 18 years old, where one or both parents or carers have experienced, or are still living with, substance misuse.
She encouraged the Minister to go around the country and see similar projects, to see how the £6 million could be spent.


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Thorybos
by Niklas Göransson
Dreadful secrets and lost wisdom buried by time and dust. A spirited discourse about the mysteries of pre-history with V. Tyrant of German black metal cultists Thorybos.
This is an excerpt from the full article, which is almost twice as long and published in Bardo Methodology #7. The same issue also includes conversations with BLACK WITCHERY, GOSPEL OF THE HORNS, MACABRE OMEN, ANTEDILUVIAN, ATLANTEAN KODEX, MGŁA, Cold Meat Industry, MORTIIS, MONUMENTUM, WARLOGHE, ORDO TEMPLI AETERNAE LUCIS, and HEXVESSEL.
The Foul and The Flagrant by Thorybos
– The recent EP just kind of… happened. There's not really all that much to say about it. We had a few ideas in mind for our second album but – as has always been the case – things turned out vastly different from the original plan. At some point we became irrationally driven by a strong impetus, resulting in what's probably our most relentless and straightforward material to date. Everything was written by the musical mind of THORYBOS, guitarist Darklord, and recorded in our rehearsal room, which is a kind of garage-slash-barn located somewhere in the woods of north-eastern Germany.
The title of the EP in question, "The Foul and the Flagrant", is a wordplay hinting at a 1988 book by historian Alain Corbin called The Foul and the Fragrant: Odour and the French Social Imagination, which is apparently an influential sociological study on stench and unpleasant aromas in 19th -century France. Riveting stuff, no doubt.
– It was meant as a subtle nod towards certain synesthetic ambitions of THORYBOS; our audible material is meant to be transduced, felt, smelled, and physically experienced as the throbbing, oozing, sacrificial performance it is. It's these spatial configurations of rhythm, pattern, light, smell, temperature – the whole sensory experience – that constitute the specific aura and unique atmosphere of the 'sensescape' we seek to capture. This approach is complemented by lyrics made up from notes taken at various inspiring historical sites all over the world.
THORYBOS frontman V. Tyrant has a PhD in Classic Archaeology with Greek, Roman, and Mediterranean cultures as specialisation. Whilst his professional vocation is as an archaeologist, he prefers to call his field of work 'Ancient Studies'.
– My research and lectures focus on ancient Mediterranean images and material culture, understood through a rather broad and multidisciplinary Ancient Studies approach. For example, the PhD I finished in late 2015 was based on self-representational imagery of selected kingdoms, analysed against the background of iconographic tradition, epigraphical remains, literary accounts, and theories on the sociology of domination: examining their rulers' medial communication of power. Add to that different positions at various universities, research projects, and excavations around Germany, France, Greece, and so forth.
When V told me that he'd visited Göbekli Tepe during the summer of 2017, I damn-near fell off my chair. This historical gamechanger was discovered and subsequently excavated by another German archaeologist, the now-departed Klaus Schmidt, back in 1994. Following a hunch, Schmidt investigated a previously known but incorrectly dated and not properly examined site in south-eastern Turkey. After a bit of digging around, what he found hidden under the soil and sand would send shockwaves across the planet – more than two hundred stone pillars of several metres in height, many of which feature stunning art carved out of the rock. Meaning, as opposed to etched into it. What's most astounding here is the carbon dating results, with the oldest layer having been constructed some 12,000 years ago. Bringing additional mystery to the site is the fact that it was intentionally decommissioned, covered, and abandoned in 8000 BC.
– I was lucky to have pre-established contacts in the German excavation team, so not only did I enjoy their welcoming hospitality but was also given access to the site despite it being closed for restoration. I'd just come from the former Commagene region in what's now south-central Turkey and was initially only meant to stay for a few days. However, I went for a road-trip to Harran and other sites in the cultural landscape of northern Syria – at least those already cleared of landmines – when a stupid car breakdown occurred. The locals insisted that I accompany them in search for help; an excursion which somehow landed me, all by myself, in a nasty refugee camp three kilometres from the Syrian border.
This was the promised help?
– No, that turned out to be just another local, but with a big-ass wrench. Anyway, once I finally made it back, I embraced my then-prolonged stay at Göbekli Tepe with long walks at dawn, barbecues at dusk, enjoying patient explanations at the site, and sitting on the floor of the excavation house's balcony at night, talking for hours with the chief excavator while hiding our beers from the Muslim neighbours. If you ever plan on visiting, make sure to also include the museum at Şanlıurfa to see the astonishing totems from Göbekli Tepe as well as a reconstruction of enclosure D in its actual size. It also has some of the oldest works of art ever produced by mankind, such as the Urfa man.
Also known as the Balıklıgöl statue, the sandstone sculpture discovered in Urfa – about ten kilometres from Göbekli Tepe – has been dated to approximately 9000 BC, making it the oldest known life-sized depiction of a human being. Göbekli Tepe has three layers and enclosure D is part of the oldest; it consists of rings of monolithic four-metre stone columns with two even taller T-shaped pillars in the middle. It's especially interesting to note that the oldest layer contains the most advanced structures: a mysterious global phenomenon observed everywhere from the British Isles and prehistoric Hellas to Ancient Egypt and the Americas.
– That's right, the structures – including the well-known T-shaped pillars – belong to the oldest layer but are nevertheless the most impressive. And indeed, there's a certain pattern of cultural evolution that occurs frequently through documented history; starting with rough archaic times of origin, reaching its apex, climaxing, and then followed by a time of gradual deterioration. However, this does not necessarily apply to single monuments, of course, where older structures can be inferior. But I see your point and it is indeed one of the most fascinating unanswered questions: why the earliest known megalithic structures are also the most remarkable.
Photo: DAI, Orient Department K. Schmidt
Is it true there are carvings of animals that have never been native to the area?
– No, I don't think so. On the contrary, I believe all the animals depicted were part of the wild natural hunter-gatherer's surrounding in the region. Weather conditions back then were different compared to today, which naturally affected the local wildlife. Similarly, both the famous gate in Mycene as well as the myth of Heracles and the Nemean lion also reflect the well-evidenced presence of real-life lions in Ancient Greece; a species that went extinct well before the time of Christ. The surrounding region has plenty of contemporary works of art with a similar range of animals – there are several research papers about them, but their specific symbolic, religious, if not spiritual connotations are still widely unclear as far as I know. Enclosure D surely points to a complex narrative, as does the interesting and anything but random distribution of animals in the enclosures. One great example of this may for sure be Pillar 43, the one with the famous 'handbags'.
In archaic art from ancient sites all over the world – the Americas, Mesopotamia, New Zealand, and Egypt to name a few – there is a recurring symbol that bears a striking resemblance to a handbag. Göbekli Tepe's Pillar 43, also known as the Vulture Stone, boasts the oldest known example.
– Some interpretations suggest it's a depiction of some kind of architecture, but that's just a tentative theory. However, as you know, I'm quite hesitant with sweeping cross-cultural comparisons, especially for such a simple pattern. Roman bullae look the same, as do the kettlebells in my gym. To me, it's far more interesting to look beyond superficial resemblances in images, gestures, or poses and start with the cultural context at hand. Imagery is dependent on the successful communication in which the sender encodes a message, one that can only be decoded by recipients adhering to the same system of signs and cultural horizon of meaning. So, within this very horizon, the imagery and iconography should first be understood in their proper context.
How much does Göbekli Tepe impact the orthodox interpretation of prehistory, I wonder? According to conventional archaeological wisdom, the site was built by nomadic hunter-gatherers who survived by foraging flora and hunting fauna. They would've first had to cut stone in a quarry – without metal tools, mind you – and then, thousands of years before the invention of the wheel and animal domestication, haul sixteen-tonne pillars to the building site before carving them into sculptural masterpieces infused with esoteric symbology. The very notion might sound preposterous, but it's the only available explanation since there are presently no known civilisations going back that far. I'm toying with the notion of how an archaeologist would've been received by his peers if he, before Göbekli Tepe was discovered and then carbon-dated, claimed that pre-Mesopotamian nomads had not only cultivated an architectural tradition capable of envisioning and then erecting something like this, but also organised the manpower required. I'd wager that not a single one of them would have taken it even remotely seriously. But one German archaeologist with a hunch turned everything upside down and now forces some impressive exercises in imagination.
– For now, I think Göbekli Tepe's significance is best laid out by Klaus Schmidt's monography Sie bauten die ersten Tempel – 'They Built the First Temples'. I don't think an English translation exists, and I disagree on his use of the word 'temple' here, but to summarise the evidence at hand: we have the tools, nutrition, carbon dating and context of Pre-Pottery Neolithic A hunter-gatherers as builders and users of the site. There has been no evidence of settlement, agriculture, domestication, or stockbreeding – all this happened well before the timeframe currently assumed for the so-called Neolithic Revolution.
Surely, architectural skills like these must have taken untold generations of uninterrupted practice and innovation to develop? One does not take a sudden leap from smearing together mud huts to carving three-dimensional animal depictions out of 5.5-metre stone pillars in a generation or two. Especially not a nomadic society with no written language or more than a cursory understanding of basic mathematics. Complicating matters further is a 2017 study by the University of Edinburgh. Besides the handbags and other details, the Vulture Stone, or Pillar 43, bears carvings of a number of animals, a headless human, and a circle. Suspecting the depicted animals to have astrological significance, researchers fed their likeness into computer software and, based on their position in relation to each other, could match them to constellations in the sky around 10,950 BC, give or take 250 years. This is what's called a star map: dating a piece of art by depicting the constellations which graced the night sky upon its completion, used on everything from cave paintings to the Hoover Dam. What makes this particularly interesting is how there's a lot of evidence pointing to a cataclysmic comet impact dated to about 10,890 BC. In their peer-reviewed paper, Decoding Göbekli Tepe with Archaeo-astronomy: What Does The Fox Say?, the scientists claim that the circle symbolises this comet and the decapitated human represents catastrophic loss of life. They suggest that Göbekli Tepe was built in commemoration of a disastrous global event and then used to observe heavenly items such as comets and meteor showers. If their paper is correct, it means the ancient architects had even figured out that the earth is round.
– Of course, this raises fundamental questions about social organisation; the structuring of such an enormous working effort and the craftmanship which would undoubtedly have been necessary to build such a huge and elaborate monument. All I can say at this point is that it contradicts our established ideas about small, loosely organised hunter-gatherer groups. Furthermore, if the currently prevailing interpretation of the site as some kind of cult centre is correct – and we stick with at least semi-nomad hunter-gatherers – Göbekli Tepe challenges the traditional notion of settlements coming first and temples later. I should add here that recent excavators don't agree with all of Schmidt's conclusions, so let's wait with anticipation for what insights this amazing site will yield in the future. For example, it's still unclear whether the big enclosures were hypaethral, roofed, or even subterranean, which would of course throw any theories pertaining to astral observatories straight out the window. As for the decapitated human, I'd prefer relating it to an ancient skull cult, as evidenced on-site by the manipulated human craniums found there three or four years ago. No skeletons, just skulls.
Regardless of roofing situation, the monument's very existence has a significant impact on many established theories. I'd go so far as to say that the site appears to have been received as somewhat of a frightful annoyance by much of the archaeological community.
– I strongly disagree that the general perception of Göbekli Tepe among archaeologists is that of a 'frightful annoyance' – it's a great discovery of tremendous significance to our understanding of early human civilisation. Göbekli Tepe is widely regarded as one of the most important recent findings, the excavations would not have been granted long-term funding otherwise. But, given that only a small part has been excavated thus far, the site does indeed raise more questions than it provides answers.
I can think of several prominent archaeologists to whom Göbekli Tepe is likely to have been a nuisance. In 1992, geology professor Dr Robert Shoch of Boston University presented what he claims is evidence of water erosion caused by extended periods of rainfall on the Great Sphinx of Egypt. The lion monument standing on the Giza Plateau, gazing precisely towards the point on the horizon where the sun rises at the equinoxes, is currently believed to have been built around 2500 BC. Should Dr Shoch be right about this, it lends support to alternative theories of the Sphinx being far older than what's currently accepted and pushes its construction back at least three thousand years, to times when Egypt had a very different climate. Dr Shoch was instantly and vehemently dismissed by prominent Egyptologists – but not on a geological basis. As celebrity Egyptologist Dr Mark Lehner put it in a subsequent debate:
Our reaction is if it was built by a civilisation or a culture that's that much earlier, where is the other evidence of this culture? Where? Show me a pot shard. Show me a tomb. Show me an inscription. Show me any other piece of sculpture. Show me any archaeological site that dates to this period.
On a related note, it's worth pointing out that Göbekli Tepe, which is only 1,100 kilometres (700 miles) from Giza, has a sphinx of its own. Whilst preparing for this conversation, I actually tried to find Dr Lehner's thoughts on Göbekli Tepe, but he appears to have refrained from public comment. If he even knows about it, that is. The former Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities, Zahi Hawass – one of the world's leading archaeologists, once listed by Time Magazine as among the hundred most influential people in the world – clearly didn't when he was supposed to debate British author Graham Hancock in 2015. Asked by an audience member if Göbekli Tepe made him reconsider his stance on the dating of the Sphinx, Hawass had no idea what she was talking about. He deflected the question and then walked out of the long-anticipated debate before it had even begun. A video of the spectacle is available here.
– Haha, I guess Hawass was having a bad day and got heavily triggered by Hancock. Still, it would've been far preferable to engage in a healthy debate rather than storming out of the building. I absolutely don't intend to put Robert Schoch's water erosion theory into the fringe-fantasy-circuit, but it's not an undisputed claim; as far as I know, there are alternate explanations still aligning with the traditional dating. But you should bear in mind that the Egyptian monuments, just like the Easter Island statues or Nazca Lines, are sites that for ages have inflamed massive public interest along with numerous attempts to solve alleged greater mysteries. American archaeologist Kenneth Feder outlined this whole fringe phenomenon splendidly: while academia has overcome these notions, people in general seem to still have a soft spot for bogus astronomy, math-play mumbo jumbo, and so on. Nowadays we have a situation where these 'alternative thinkers' are seen as outsiders, and people love outsiders. In order to explain why academia rejects their 'revelations', they must first establish a stubborn ignorant enemy – the 'mainstream'. Göbekli Tepe might piss off individual orthodox Egyptologists who are driven by their own agendas, and I'm not defending them in any way, but such attitudes are rare. Problem is that there seems to be this vast misconception of some kind of united academic front. Far from it! Individual researchers debate, argue, and question each other all the time.
Gunung Padang in Indonesia is another example of archaeologists taking on pesky geological findings armed with the same argument. A team of geologists claim that an oddly shaped mountain with a known megalithic site on top is, in fact, a man-made pyramid built 20,000 years ago. It is now covered by soil and vegetation, but radar scans have indicated multiple cavities within – as per their study published in late 2018. Upon first discovery, Indonesian archaeologists collectively implored the government to put a swift end to these investigations. Or at least leave it to them: the real experts. They appear entirely unmoved by the radar findings and instead focus on explaining how this can't possibly be true since there are no documented civilisations in the vicinity capable of something like this. I found the following remark from one of them to be quite telling.
In archaeology we usually find the 'culture' first … Then, after we find out the artefact's age, we'll seek out historical references to any civilisation which existed around that period. Only then will we be able to explain the artefact historically. In this case, they 'found' something, carbon-dated it, then it looks like they created a civilisation around the period to explain their finding.
– We indeed close to always require some manner of context for any work of art: tools, stratigraphy, iconography, style, script… see, in Ancient Studies we don't operate with 'truths' or 'facts', but with data, interpretations, and plausibility. In this Gunung Padang scenario there's a decision to be made between, A, this new dating without context based on one theory, and B: the established dating with context based on another. If both theories sound equally convincing – and bear in mind that I'm no geologist to judge this – plausibility sides with the latter. Most colleagues I know collaborate closely with other fields and their experts, and all have a serious and healthy scientific ethos and graciously concede if their theories are proven wrong. On the other hand, I absolutely agree that there are ignorant individuals resisting any kind of modern approaches. At times it can certainly be a shady game of which theory gets publicly promoted. In recent times, most annoyingly, rubbish like feminist and gender archaeology has become a thing, thanks to the ever-offended hash-tagging, safe-spacing, and ideologically science-denying leftist campus-speak generation. Regardless, the vast majority of fuckery and fake history happens outside of academia, in media outlets with political agendas. It's not all historians who poison society with the in itself problematic idea of colonialism. And it's certainly not them decreeing Transatlantic slavery a crime against humanity by the big evil Western culture, whilst willy-nilly ignoring those who question why the, both in numbers and intensity, way more gruesome African slave trade by Arabic countries is not included. Historical scholarship should defend the scientific demand for objectivity against such political and moral axioms and raise its voice against any instrumentalisations of the past, no matter from which direction they come.
Then, of course – and I can almost visualise the sceptical reader emitting exasperated sighs now – we have Atlantis. Before proceeding, I must stress that I'm not interested in the various fringe theories and speculations about the legendary island nation, only the dating-related peculiarities. The myth of Atlantis stems from Plato, a widely influential Athenian philosopher, wrestler, and initiate of the Eleusinian Mysteries, who made several references to it in his works Timaeus and Critias. Plato's Atlantis is generally considered to be a mythical allegory to Athens but, as far as I understand, the main argument for this is the lack of known civilisations who could possibly have been the Atlanteans. Plato lived around 400 BC, roughly 2,400 years ago. He learned about Atlantis from the writings of an Athenian statesman and poet named Solon, who was three hundred years his elder. Solon claimed that Egyptian priests told him Atlantis had been engulfed by the ocean nine thousand years prior: 9700 BC, 11,700 years ago. Calculating the date based on these sources places its submergence in the same timespan as the end of the catastrophic global event known as the Younger Dryas, a mini-ice age lasting one thousand years and which concluded by seawater levels suddenly rising over sixty meters (200ft). Geological research indicates that the meltwater was set in motion by a comet, the one allegedly depicted on the Vulture Stone in Göbekli Tepe, striking the North American ice cap around 10,890 BC.
– Numerous elaborate attempts have been made to refer Plato's Atlantis to Minoan Crete, Thera, Madagascar, and Antarctica, just to name a few. The assumption that the account of such a respected figure is historically based surely is tempting, but Plato is basically the sole source. Given the lack of any other positive evidence of Atlantis, I prefer appreciating the reference to the author's immediate cultural surrounding – his literary context and tradition – as well as the point he's trying to make in the narrative. It's not solely the missing archaeological evidence, but the literary accounts themselves are problematic. Neither Timaeus nor Critias were intended as works of historiography. Even actual historians of old such as Thucydides, whom I consider as possibly the greatest of historiographers, made several proven mistakes. And the same positivism giving credence to Plato's Atlantis would lead to our biology books featuring Herodotus' monstrous gold-digging ants from India.
As it happens, ethnologists do believe our biology books contain the fabled ants – but under the name Himalayan marmot. Another Indian myth enjoying some latter-day vindication is that of the Seven Pagodas of Mahabalipuram, which claims that a lone shore temple in present-day Mamallapuram was once joined by six additional temples. Legend had it that the god Indra became jealous of the monuments' architectural elegance and, as a result, unleashed floods which submerged the city, save for the few structures visible now. Speculation ended with the 2004 Christmas Day tsunami, as its brute force temporarily pulled the ocean back half a kilometre and gave local fishermen the surprise of their lives. 'You could see the destroyed walls covered in coral and the broken-down temple in the middle,' commented one of them. 'My grandfathers said there was a port here once and a temple, but suddenly we could see it was real, we could see that something was out there.' Even if Atlantis is allegory, it's not entirely unlikely that analogous events could've happened; especially given that mankind's most advanced civilisations tend to settle along coastlines. History is filled with disastrous deluges, as evidenced by the several hundred different primordial flood myths from all over the world.
– I absolutely agree that underwater archaeology is possibly the field with the most potential for fascinating future endeavours. But regarding Atlantis, ancient historiography is often a beautiful blend of history, ethnography, geography and mythology, yet also enormously diluted with made-up allegories, fantasy, second-hand hearsay, inaccuracies and contamination, conflations and simplifications, and – first and foremost – specific intentions of the author. Of course, this doesn't automatically result in rejecting Plato but should at least raise serious concerns about the historicity of the information within a non-historiographic work, and rather question why people so desperately fall for it. Fair enough, Schliemann was also perceived to be a lunatic before brutally unearthing Troy, so I could wilfully and enthusiastically be wrong here.
The city of Troy – theatre of conflict during the Trojan War, as chronicled in Homer's Iliad – was long considered myth. Then, in 1868, another one of these hunch-smitten German archaeologists, Heinrich Schliemann, began excavating a site in modern-day Turkey and proved otherwise. Anyway, I have no idea what to make of this Atlantis dating, but I'm as hesitant to write off such precise timing of a proven drastic rise in sea-water levels with the alleged nautical submergence of an island as simply a freak coincidence. Comparatively, I am equally dubious of scholars who write off the Piri Reis map – which not only included Antarctica, in its proper place, three hundred years before the continent was even discovered, but also an accurate depiction of its coastline – as, and I quote, 'dumb luck'.
– Academia is not explicitly keen on disproving anything, but rather finding reasonable explanations for why such a reference might exist despite further evidence lacking for now. In the case of admiral Piri's map, experts in medieval and early modern cartography might point out the full context given in its notes – as well as the general anomalies of early modern maps that usually merge various older charts, or just make up stuff. They could also mention that their interpretation of the continent as South America at least works well with the transcription of the places named in Arabic on the map itself. If I'm not mistaken, haven't climate researchers evidenced that Antarctica was fully covered in ice already millions of years ago?
No, the Antarctic coastline is believed to have been ice-free by 4000 BC, six-thousand years ago. Another curiosity is how Turkish admiral Piri Reis – who used about twenty older sources, most of which are now lost – drew his map using the Mercator Projection, a mapping technique which didn't come into use until the late 16th century. I am most certainly not a cartographer and have no idea whether this is credible, but I can't help but notice another display of this scholarly logic: no matter if the damn thing accurately charts the Antarctic coastline, in its actual location, it must be the dumb luck of someone attempting to depict South America. Because no previous civilisation could possibly have known about it before ours did.
– Maybe I'm just too sceptical again, but early maps are a problematic business. Claudius Ptolemy already featured a southern continent he couldn't have known about in 150 AD, but, admittedly, only hypothetically included his Terra Australis for reasons of balance. In the end, you, me, and your readers will probably disagree on details or interpretations in this thought. But that's a good thing, everyone's entitled to have their own opinions and raise questions. Still, we should all remember the very first rule of history: all knowledge is losable. We need to constantly question, evaluate, and remember, because the past is fundamentally important for everyone's cultural identity.
This was an excerpt from the full article, which is almost twice as long and published in Bardo Methodology #7. The same issue also includes conversations with BLACK WITCHERY, GOSPEL OF THE HORNS, MACABRE OMEN, ANTEDILUVIAN, ATLANTEAN KODEX, MGŁA, Cold Meat Industry, MORTIIS, MONUMENTUM, WARLOGHE, ORDO TEMPLI AETERNAE LUCIS, and HEXVESSEL.
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Radio 1: The Jocks
GREENING, Kevin
MUCH-MISSED master of tape-fiddling who started off messing around with bits of old adverts and Camberwick Green in a Weekend Breakfast slot, before graduating to lunchtimes where he perfected such demented features as the 'Mr Whippy's Van' quiz, the exploits of faded sixties hipster Raymond Sinclair, and the epic-length surreal monologues of Eric The Gardener. Convoluted career path involved plans to move him to The Graveyard Shift when Mark & Lard took over Drivetime, derailed when Chris Evans left unexpectedly early and Greening doing a bit of Breakfast stand-in while the duo were readied for that slot, before ending up in 'Driveltime' himself. Kermode-supported irate pisstaking of slot-related inanity followed by a move to Breakfast alongside Zoe Ball, bringing back all the old characters plus some new ones (including xenophobic travel report maniac Major Holdups) but not really working and he was off within the year. Radio 1 seemingly couldn't be bothered finding him a proper new slot again, and wasted one of their best ever talents on swing jock duties, to the audible dismay of Mark Goodier after he said goodbye to Greening on-air for the last time ("one of the best DJs this station's ever had"). Radio has never been the same since.
Related Items:"I don't know about you... but I'm not feeling very funny this morning", "The Sound Gallery is full of stuff I've been using for ages already!!", Blo-Chap!, Creighton Wheeler, Eric The Gardener, Kevin Greening, Major Holdups, Mr Whippy's Van, Raymond Sinclair
BALL, Zoe
It was Goodier seeing him off, wasn't it? His last show was a Sunday morning "best of the week" slot and Goodybags would have been there after standing aside from drivetime for Pearce.
And – yes, I should have read it all first – Kev only did the day Evans didn't turn up, Mayo covering the three weeks before Mark and Lard were ready.
"It's time to play Ray's Organ! Yeeeesssssssss!!!!!!"
Eric the Gardener
Whenever I hear Michael Jackson's Earth Song, I'm not reminded of Jarvis Cocker so much as Kevin Greening telling the listeners that the sound of Michael going "Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!" at the end of it was Kevin punching the King of Pop for keeping Mike Flowers Pops off the Christmas number one and thereby losing Kevin a lot of money in a bet.
A little bit of Raymond Sinclair to remember him by:
http://www.jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/1199970238_3680_FT55425_kevin_greening__raymond_sinclair_in_amsterdam.mp3
Was it Raymond Sinclair that suffered from the incurable 'Splicer's Disease'? I also remember a gentleman perpetually thwarted in his attempt to speak to someone on other end of the telephone: "Ello, it's Sid the Manager here, 'ello, 'ello?"
The Splicer's disease sufferer was Creighton Wheeler. Both he and Raymond Sinclair were characters written and performed by Andrew McGibbon – formerly Morrissey's drummer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McGibbon
Mr Grimsdale
Too clever for yer average Radio One audience. Was more of a "broadcaster" rather than a "disc jockey" and maybe should've moved sideways to Radio 4 or summat.
Also remember him taking the piss out of IKEA brand names, at a time when they had only just started in this country and I'm not sure how many people got the joke
I used to listen to Kevin's early Saturday morning shows and absolutely loved Raymond Sinclair in particular who was a terrific example of a character who was funny largely because of the voice ;although some of those Blochap ads were brilliantly written. One of the best examples, for me, was an ad which went into great detail about one of the many vaguely mysterious Blochap products and the byzantine way it had to be assembled which ended with the brilliant "and, hey presto! [a beat] You're ready to start again…". It's actually quite difficult for me not to see, for example, cheesy old '60s print adverts without reading their blurb in my head in a Raymond Sinclair voice. Sadly, there seem to be hardly any clips of his sketches on the internet.
Friends in Space
My Top Twelve/My Top Ten


Radiology. Autonomous vehicles. Super computing. The changes sweeping through all these fields are closely related. Just ask NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
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US House of Representatives Passes Resolution in Support of the Iranian People and Opposition
Written by Admin on July 30, 2018 . Posted in MEK (PMOI) IN MEDIA
The HR1304 resolution referred to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, expressing concerns over the terrorists activities of the Iranian regime and supporting Iranian people's quest for freedom.
A resolution submitted to the US House of Representatives on Thursday, July 26th condemning the Iranian regime's state-sanctioned terror plot in Europe. In the second session of its 115th Congress, the House of Representatives submitted resolution 1034.
The text of the resolution explicitly condemned the Iranian regime's use of state-sponsored terrorism against Iranian dissidents and US citizens. It also expressed solidarity with the Iranian people "who are engaged in continuing legitimate and peaceful protests against an oppressive, corrupt regime".
The bill acknowledged the role of the Iranian regime in the foiled terror attack on the Free Iran rally in Paris. It also recognized the rights of the Iranian people "to establish a democratic, secular, and non-nuclear republic of Iran."
State-Sanctioned Terrorism
The move comes after details emerged of a terrorist plot organized and planned by the regime leadership in Iran. French authorities arrested a Belgian couple of Iranian descent with explosives in their possession. Their target had been the 2018 Free Iran rally, organized by the Iranian resistance coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and the People's Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (MEK).
The rally, which took place on June 30th, drew in a crowd of more than 100,000 people, as well as delegations of politicians, journalists, and activists from the US, Canada, France, Germany, the UK, among others.
Following the arrest, the couple admitted that they had received their orders and the explosives from Assadollah Assadi, a diplomat working within the Iranian embassy in Vienna, and an agent for the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). Assadi was arrested by German authorities following the couple's admission.
The foiled plot is merely the latest development in a long history of state-sponsored terror and violence. The Iranian regime's leadership have been behind hijacking, assassinations, kidnappings, and bombings which have taken place across the globe since the 1980s. Hossein Abedini recently described his harrowing experience of being attacked by two masked gunmen in 1990.
A Firmer US Stance
While European Governments have offered muted responses following the failed terror attack on French soil, the US has been unequivocal. On July 22nd, Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, addressed the Iranian-American community at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library. He pledged the support of the US government to the Iranian people in their quest for democracy and regime change.
A Senior Official in the State Department also urged the international community to investigate diplomat activity in Iranian embassies. The anonymous official stated, "all nations need to exercise vigilance to protect themselves against the Iranian [regime] threat".
The latest resolution from the House of Representatives is in line with the US Government and the Trump administration's firmer stance towards the clerical regime in Iran. It also goes further than previous messages of support.
The bill acknowledges the regime's involvement in terror activities and condemns it accordingly, but it also recognizes the right of the Iranian people to establish a democratic republic in Iran.
The resolution explicitly mentions President-elect of the NCRI, Maryam Rajavi's 10-point plan dedicated to establishing a secular, democratic, non-nuclear Iran. This holds significance for the Iranian people and the opposition coalition.
Rouhani's brutal and violent regime cannot be permitted to engage in international acts of terrorism with impunity. The US has taken the lead in condemning the abhorrent actions of the mullahs. Now the rest of the world, particularly Europe must follow the US Government's lead. The Iranian regime must be held accountable for its violence.
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By Richard Clarke Alex Song powered home a last-gasp header to end Arsenal's frustration at Emirates Stadium on Saturday.For 88 minutes, it seemed to be one of those afternoons for Arsène Wenger's side. Although not at their best, they created a plethora of chances only to be kept at bay by a mixture of wayward finishing, bad luck and, most importantly, West Ham keeper Robert Green.The England man made decent saves from Song and Sebastien Squillaci in the first half and even better stops from Theo Walcott and Cesc Fabregas in the latter period.It looked like being enough until Gael Clichy angled in a cross from the left and Song stooped to crash home his fourth strike of the campaign.The goal – and the points – kept Arsenal right up with the title pace. Wenger's men are still second and doing all they can at the moment. Of course they have not been faultless this season but they have won at tough grounds, beaten a title contender and built up a strong home record. Today they did something else - squeezed a result in tight circumstances when they were not so fluent. They will have to do much more of the same to lift the Premier League trophy in May but dogged determination is a key part of any title-winning season.And Arsenal displayed that in abundance this afternoon. The heavens opened minutes before kick-off. It was a soggy end to a week that had given Arsenal inspiration and aspiration in equal measure.They had won 3-0 at Manchester City last Sunday and followed that up with a 4-0 drubbing of Newcastle in the Carling Cup. For the latter game, Wenger had played a stronger side than usual but there were still significant changes. Compared to the Eastlands game, Wenger made one alteration this afternoon. Laurent Koscielny replaced Johan Djourou to complete an all-French backline. Despite their midweek heroics, Theo Walcott, Wojciech Szczesny and Nicklas Bendtner were on the bench. Jack Wilshere sat out the last game of his suspension. Robin van Persie (ankle) and Aaron Ramsey (leg) were not ready but are set to return to full training next week. Abou Diaby (ankle), Thomas Vermaelen (Achilles) and Manuel Almunia (elbow) are a little further away from fitness.This was a meeting of in-form versus no form, second top versus rock bottom. However you could not have told in the opening 15 minutes.Yes, Arsenal had ample possession, threatening when Song nodded over and Arshavin's shot was deflected wide. However West Ham's ambition was far above their League position. Mark Noble troubled Lukasz Fabianski into punching away a couple of free-kicks, Luis Boa More fired over and Frederic Piquionne made one jinking run to the byline that the keeper snuffed out.The game was pacy and passionate enough but it was 'bity'. By the midway point, neither side had really fashioned a 'move'. That changed in the 24th minute and it so nearly saw Arsenal take the lead.Song threaded a ball through for the overlapping Bacary Sagna in the right-hand channel. He stretched to the byline and cut the ball back into the area towards Fabregas. The captain's contact was good but Green threw himself to his right and plucked the ball out of the air.
The chance changed nothing. Arsenal were on top but there was a tension in their game. West Ham seemingly sensed that and broke with invention.
Nine minutes from the break, Noble raced clear once again and thundered a shot into the chest of Fabianski.Just before the whistle, Song exchanged passes with Fabregas on the right of the area but the Cameroonian's low shot was blocked by Green. From the resulting corner, Squillaci saw his header was tipped over the bar.It was stale-mate for Arsenal at the break. Wenger's men had been out of sorts but, in fairness, West Ham had done their best to put them in that position. There was a general unease at Emirates Stadium as the team went into the tunnel.However Arsenal would emerge for the second half with much more purpose. In the opening minutes, Arshavin dragged a shot across the face of goal and then Nasri looked to extend the best scoring run of his career by smashing a drive against the bar from 25 yards.The home side were trying to up the ante.Just before the hour, Fabregas and Denilson both saw shots blocked in a frantic ping-pong passage of play on the edge of the West Ham area. The Spaniard's drive thundered straight into the face of Scott Parker, who needed a few minutes of treatment before he recovered. Midway through the half, Arsenal won a free-kick and Wenger took the opportunity to bring on Walcott. After the ovation had died down, Arshavin floated in the ball and, for once, Chamakh could not convert his header when well-placed.However Walcott would soon make his mark. Fabregas swivelled a wonderful pass into his path on the right wing. The England winger roared clear of his marker to face Green. His low cross-shot beat the keeper's outstretched right hand, hit the base of the post and then bounced back into the grateful arms of the West Ham No 1. A huge let-off.The second half had been much more one-sided than the first. But West Ham were still prepared to chance to their arm. In the 74th minute, Manuel da Costa's powerful downward header was clutched among the flailing legs but Fabianski.Shortly afterwards, only Clichy's cover header prevented Valon Behrami converting a left-wing from Herita Ilunga. Those chances prompted Wenger to throw on Bendtner. Arshavin made way.Eight minutes from time, Green made another super save, this time from Walcott's deflected drive. The England keeper made another fine stop shortly afterwards when he turned aside a close-range shot from Fabregas.It seemed that Green would be Arsenal's tormentor until Clichy's cross found Song.It was a rapturous finish to a game that had seemed to be slipping from Arsenal's grasp.
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Kwiatkowski Gets 2018 Sam Adams Award. Read the Citation and Her Acceptance Speech Here.
Here is Karen Kwiatowski's acceptance speech for the 2018 Sam Adams Award at a ceremony in Washington on Saturday night, preceded by the citation, that was read by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
Hersh Receives Adams Award for Integrity
Journalist Seymour Hersh, whose career includes exposing U.S. intelligence abuses, received an award for integrity from an organization of former U.S. and Western intelligence officials who share Hersh's ethical concerns about such abuses.
Seymour Hersh Honored for Integrity
An organization led by former U.S. intelligence officials has selected legendary journalist Seymour Hersh to be the recipient of an annual award for integrity and truth-telling, named for the late CIA analyst Sam Adams.
CIA Whistleblower Kiriakou Honored for Integrity
The U.S. government gives free passes to officials who commit war crimes but imprisons whistleblowers who tell the truth, a fate that befell CIA's John Kiriakou for disclosing torture. But he was honored by some ex-intelligence officers, reports Ray McGovern.
Honoring NSA's Binney and Amb. White
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In our age of careerism, it's rare for high-ranking officials to sacrifice their powerful posts for principle, but that was what NSA's William Binney and the late U.S. Ambassador Robert White did. Their sacrifices and integrity were honored by likeminded…
NSA's Binney Honored for Integrity
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Retired National Security Agency official William Binney, who challenged decisions to ignore the Fourth Amendment in the government's massive — and wasteful — collection of electronic data, faced career and legal repercussions. Because of his courage, he is being honored by…
US Intel Veterans Honor Pvt. Manning
A group of former U.S. national security officials will bestow its annual award for integrity in intelligence on U.S. Army Pvt. Manning, honoring the imprisoned whistleblower's release of evidence showing the human consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Snowden Accepts Whistleblower Award
Though former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has been indicted for leaking secrets about the U.S. government's intrusive surveillance tactics, he was honored by a group of former U.S. intelligence officials as a courageous whistleblower during a Moscow ceremony, reports ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern…
Brandon Toy's Act of Conscience
Exclusive: Courage, like cowardice, often comes in individual, incremental pieces building toward something great and honorable, or small and dishonorable. The resignation of Brandon Toy from General Dynamics fits into the former category and is so honored by an organization…
Snowden Honored by Ex-Intel Officials
Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, an organization of former national security officials, has honored NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, praising his decision to reveal the extent of U.S. government electronic surveillance of people in the United States and around the world.