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The Horse Racing Radio Network Podcast
05:50 min | 3 months ago
"mary bowl" Discussed on The Horse Racing Radio Network Podcast
"Getting the horse settled and ready for the race that had had us hold and put the picture in front of the horse. Happy before the race and I thought it's unbelievable story. It's this guy that before it's got some screenwriter come up with it and Hollywood the business and so on out and say the company story so great is this. So then you run up fantastic race with the prediction of a win from Cody Dorman in Saratoga and beat the horse with the quality of Jackie's warrior who's superstar and never beat the entire target before. So it's great. I think people realize how good a horse he is as well as all those with a wonderful goal as well. So we're very much looking forward to the business club and hopefully the time you can guess get out here and see the horse as well and the plan to be there as I believe this cup for the races and team and the goal to help host them. So it's a fantastic story. It certainly is. And I really appreciate you taking time to walk through that from the beginning, Michael. That was fantastic. And if folks aren't when we talk about Cody doorman, 16 years old, since he was born with wolf, hirschhorn syndrome, which is a rare genetic disorder which affects many body parts. He experiences frequent seizures and is unable to walk or to speak, which is why, of course, he's in the wheelchair. He relies on a tablet to communicate and his father, Kelly, estimates that Cody has undergone between 40 and 50 operations, including open heart surgery. And this connection with this horse has, I mean, when you read the stories and you see that presentations that have been put together about this particular horse in this relationship with young Cody Dorman, it's so inspirational, Michael, and you just get the sense that this is something that Cody Dorman, boy, his face just lights up when he gets a chance to see this horse. Perhaps absolutely. And that's why his parents have said all along the soul animators. And maybe that's what he sees but after his visit the horses come to the races and seeing them dies is really a connection and obviously your 16 years with someone that's had a major major medical issues all along and who's been non verbal and non communicative to be able to light up like that has been just an absolute blessing for the family as well and enjoyed this slide. So well through there and we're just so lucky that that whole connection was made and to give them that opportunity to come along for the ride as well as couldn't just fantastic story, especially those couple of years at the pandemic as well and where people have had to deal with some real problems and would you just outlined we all seem to have some problems once you realize what a kid like this has come true in 16 years of his life. It's just mind boggling and so just I think we've all been uplifted by this connection they've had between the horse and the boy as well. It's been absolutely wonderful and then all the NBC and a lot of the networks are all going to pick up in the story for the greatest scope and I'm sure there will be some great stories surrounding that the British club weekend, but probably no better story than that and we obviously hope that we can come over to win. Obviously it will be tough but it will be a bad storyline if we could keep magic on. Yeah, Cody's father Kelly in an article that I was reading that was on bloodhorse described Cody is having a no equipment. And I don't think there's any doubt about that. And it seems as if Cody's wished the horse has embodied that same no equipment. I mean, you look at the win over Jackie's warrior and a horse that didn't start out winning with his first couple of races and now has persevered and turned into a top class race horse and I think there's so many parallels there. Who came up with the idea to name the full Cody's wish. Because that was our office manager and gainsborough Mary born who also along with Danny had coordinates to make a wish day as well as she was very involved at hosted the family arcane and that day. And so when the time came to name horses, she put that forward and it was a great name for that particular course from his experience with quality and the visits and she put forward and then called his wish. So we ran with that and Jackie told there gave us a thumbs up so it was all down to Mary bowl and she was the one that's demanding for us? What a story and Michael banning is the director of bloodstock for Gaddafi USA and kind enough to join me this morning and walk through that entire
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10:00 min | 1 year ago
"mary bowl" Discussed on Capital Allocators
"How do you achieve low fees a good investment process. It's scalable ross. Is the way if you're going to something steal away. Don't wanna have john. Mary bowl and each one different being in each of it or no we want them to go through the cheating consensus in the the best thing possible so the both from thing is fundamentally different from the way that we run in here we run not cheating on a much more collaborative framework where we really tried to train up people. We don't go off in equivocated percenting. The research team the notes that people have access to knowledge in a up to achieve the block for business model is not a direct threat to us in the different time will tell which is smuggle think about the actual operative reach developed here over the that intellectual property. That body of work is the reason why i can easily step away. Is somebody else can succeed because they can in that has a life of its own because it coats. There's a body of id in that thinking. If i'm being the latest and get some show running one hundred dollars off. So we'll see where that goes. Those of enterpreneur on is on my goodness there later. Twenties which one just a two thousand. That is a lot of hard you always and they always hard. I think resilience is perhaps the most relied upon action. You talk and this is probably why the man in the street is not interpreted by the lemon street. Laxed look good job. Everyday that paid for conscient- and when you want to maybe you all the right things. They work super hard at things. Just a workout indeed able to survive. That is very good. You and i have both been doing some work with the standard board for alternative investment. Can you take a few minutes to tell me about the reason you join and the work that we do. The i is so unique. It puts together the momma just and the arcade around the and these are people that whose relationship has some natural elegance attention the allocate this they want better at dan's lower fees the manages one support for the periods the manager see although rimouski house aware weird all the competition in in the sba provides a forum for a constructive set. Bronchitis and that's fine. One in this would want. I don't think of another industry with. Bob exists if you think about it. The car industry has own lobby people in the regulators of the sign the oil disturbing the necessary to groups that have common goals but in the medium potentially dance conflicting interests and gets them to have reconstructed dialogue and so things out funds fantastic. And then as you know the quality of the work. The quality of the suggestions in the cheerios protocols that come out of the sba is outstanding. Earning so that's an easy one is just the nation. No you're right and it's well said and it's sort of the growing ecosystem that flywheel effect that's keeps on going which to me is just amazing. It's been a real tree actually to be with you on on that board now for several years now so thank you so the Closing questions my favorite part. What is your favorite avi or activity outside of work and family. The activity for me is fitness. In general i tried to exercise with age comes the realization that the only you can lose the state and i take great pleasure of exercising cycling business-related activities that i used to tomorrow. The boss have become difficult. I look scuba diving. Them a little bit of rock. Climb unite night but bit more specialized insist but guys have come up with an initiative that because system action his so they have to all sorts of eight of them to in the to the to putting the fact with the admits. I'm to cyclist. So they always they. They're really committed. Athletes and so. The selection is a pin here. What is your most important daily abbott. It's somewhere between this idea of exercising keeping fit but also this habit of doing hide things or you know. We all want to be busy. Doing whatever we're doing it doesn't have to be worth but just tackling the difficult things head on and just not running away from. It often wants to them. They will feel a lot easier than you thought like you not the emotional cloud the to build around the things that you think. Hard to do is often a bit out of proportion. I'm taking that one on. That's for sure lleida. The biggest personal pet peeve. I think cynicism. I had a colleague who used to be always very sarcastic in his comments. Very cynical about all things to and once again appraisal time and i said to how about you might be too bad once on how citizens of leadership in achieve with sarcasm. Cynicism invested romania. But what he would she. Somehow we have a wonderful model. Did in our personal and a small amount of everything in your portfolio dr beggars. Gatien's that's a good thing. But it's not something that i think is. Productive doesn't achieve much somme go negative energy. I agree with you on that. What is your biggest investment. They've well for the this democracy trainer. It's overfishing is just look all that you know founded randomness coming out and see how this is going to be a big instructed right so overfishing to the date for setting self demo- next these studies the big question. What is your favorite book. Probably stumbling on happiness so stumbling on happiness is been bilan colonial gilbert and he's a harvard professor in stumbling on happiness stocks about the objective of life Talk level like thought node of the tree. Affordability this to be happening like so. How do you big decisions in your life of the utility function of being happy and analyzes all the plummeted biases that we all have boo'd make decisions about our lives. Basically the book is so to say that you know you so so happens really because this is making process is not very good. I guess i read this billionaires ago. And i've given to make people scenes and now that i've made that a bit of agree as to trader. I think it's all big to disney is making decisions filled with emotion and how that can really backfire is suppose. That's what the is saying. What is the biggest mistake made. And what did you learn from it. Career wise in the running the strategies that we have ron over the years the mistakes that i have made i regret have almost all of them probably be related to unwinding strategies in the drawdown. Then you say okay. What is the mistake them. Is it because you lost confidence on rounded the doubt i guess no mistake actually upstream from that where you would probably not running the risk that you should have. Because if you're running the right outraced you can stop the drawdown. I guess as a generalization but it's probably the interventions that i would have regretted and the last one what teaching from your parents most stayed with you. The expectation was always that that we would do a very good job no matter what he did that was always the expectation and there was ever any bush on this community about career or so just an expectation. But if you're doing something really tried to do a good job would say. It doesn't matter to clean the streets being that street so that it's perfectly and i guess that is what has seen me the idea that you can get satisfaction from just about anything to excellence. If you do a very good job well let This interview will jar awesome. This was terrific. Thank you so much for your time. I really really enjoyed my time. So thank you so much. Thank you all the best. I hope you enjoyed this conversation. And maybe even pique your interest to explore further cenex.
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Cracking the Code of Spy Movies!
"mary bowl" Discussed on Cracking the Code of Spy Movies!
"Thanks the crew in a related article. Christopher mcquarry posted an instagram. With a shoutout to i eighty mary bowling hitting her hundredth day in that role for mission impossible. Seven the article points out that most movies are done filming in less than one hundred days. So this is a big deal. It's great to see the director call out crew members especially as the end of filming is insight. We see so many articles with people talking about the actors who are important. But the crew often doesn't get the same treatment so kudos to chris for acknowledging mary bowling and kudos to all the cast and crew for sticking with this impossible filming schedule due to the pandemic. The gray man wraps filming. We've been talking about the gray man for a while. Now this is the russo brothers. Movie with ryan gosling and chris evans based on the mark greenie novel of the same name. Well rich knight has an article that tells us that the gray man has wrapped as everything except mission. Impossible seems to be doing. This is a netflix production. As we've discussed before so far there are nine books in the gray man series and assuming the first net flicks one is a success. Netflix plans to continue making the gray man. Movies as a reference twenty five james bond movies including no time to die have been produced by ian productions based on ian fleming's twelve james bond novels and two short story collections. Following that example might be a good idea. There might be lots of gray man movies in the future. All that said the important thing is that they've wrapped the movie but have not set a release date yet. Will martin campbell. Direct another james bond movie. Wow according to an article by djamil david on cinema blend dot com casino. Royale and goldeneye director martin. Campbell was asked on a reddit ama if he considered doing another james bond movie is response was yes i would. I love the franchise and it would be with a new bond which is always interesting especially given my to bond movies had different bonds. Yeah yet pierce brosnan. And of course daniel craig. We'd love to see that campbell's current movie is the prochet which was just released through the. Us theaters this past weekend. That movie is about the world's most skilled contract killer and we have a quickfire. No spoilers podcast out on the protege already so check it out in memoriam. Alex cord were said the report. The passing of actor. Alex cord although probably best known for playing archangel on the tv show. Air wolf alex was also one of the leads in the nineteen ninety two spy movie. Cia codename alexa and mark tarlov. We also lost more tarlov in the spy world. He was a producer on the man who knew too little and dan. Niece cinematographer cameraman dan. Niece also passed this month. Niece was a prolific cameraman and cinematographer with more than one hundred and eighty credits according di di. We like to highlight that. Dan was a steady cam. Operator on the nineteen ninety. Two columbo episode titled no time to die. Wow okay that's a wrap. Follow us on facebook. Join our private facebook group. The worldwide community a spy movie fans and follow us on twitter. Youtube instagram to important. Give us suffice iranian on your favorite podcast app. Help us. thanks for listening we appreciate..
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Riders Lounge Podcast
03:08 min | 2 years ago
"mary bowl" Discussed on Riders Lounge Podcast
"Top. Riders came out here. Nate adams start border via mary. Bowl tweet everybody. Like norway i saw was riding good and they came here was like dude. I need to learn how to ride. It was pretty good. I remember i had Conversation with ila on the red blue ex-fighters author party. I believe was one of the most important Conversations off my whole career. And i'm pretty sure he doesn't even remember it because you know it was a nascar potty. Nobody by swat happens. But i was i went to. We were talking in whatever A hundred because he was super nice to me. I mean he. Everybody was but he was like really he. He saw was struggling on the course because virus are used to be like really and he was really really nice me. That's a what what you think about the presume. Riders saw my writing. I was trying to get some feedback. You know and he was straight up like we. Just don't me like you guys need to work harder. Yeah straight got. And i was like holy shit bets through you. Know for real. And that's but the on. That sounds like you would say it was. It was insane. Idea was good. Because that's what i really was looking for a real feedback. Not some eagle stuck. You know i wanted to get real about. Yeah that's good. It was good because he changed my mind. Laud i bland like my Might california a stuff because brazil. The closes place is of the others. The california like it's cheaper and closer than europe. So i ran everything i was like. Dude he wants who wants to ride a disguise. neither one wants to. I need to practice with them. So that's that's when that was a really Up man. That is awesome. That's actually really good to hear. Because that's basically want. Everyone needs to know the work that goes into be at that level is like it's more than a full-time job..
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90.3 KAZU
"mary bowl" Discussed on 90.3 KAZU
"You want to get something from point A to point B. In this economy, Chances are real good. It's going to get there on a truck. Trucking companies have been complaining for years. About a shortage of one kind of very essential worker truckers, one of many reasons, freight costs are high, a situation exacerbated by the pandemic. But filling out that labor pool had already been getting harder last year, due in part to increase access true drug test results for truckers And this your national drug testing data base is about to enter its second year marketplaces pre Benesch or has more on that. It's hard to run a trucking company. If you can't find truckers, Mary Ball works for heading your trucking in Missouri. At one point, they had 17 truckers. Now they have nine. It's not fun at all. We really struggled to get people in here. Nationally. Speaking part of the issue is demographics. Sean Garni is VP of scope, elitist consulting. Truck drivers in general are older than the general working population, which means that there are more of them retiring and it's hard to find new drivers. You gotta be 21 to get a commercial driver's license, and by that age people have invested in other careers. Bob Costello, chief economist with the American Trucking Association, says the pandemic made things worse. You can't train is many new drivers to the industry. When you talk to truck driver training schools, they have trained 20 to 50% fewer drivers in 2020 compared to 2019. This year. On top of all of that drug tests, A federal clearing house went into effect early last January that allowed states and companies to share drug test results nationwide. So a driver who fails the test in one state can't just go drive in another. Tens of thousands of drivers have been disqualified again, Sean Garni. It's hard to deny the fact that 47,000 drivers have been identified as you notable to operate a commercial motor vehicle since the beginning the clearinghouse. Half of the violations are for marijuana, a drug that is increasingly legal or tolerated in many states, but is a controlled substance at the federal level. Here's Mary Bowl again over it, heading our shipping. She says. Some drivers are put off. We've had some that have said Yes, until they found out about having to register with the drug and alcohol clearing house and they didn't want to do that. Of course, one consequence of high demand for truckers could be better pay in New York. I'm simply been ashore for marketplace Busses in Washington, D C. Are charging for rides again. Fares had been waived since beginning back in March, Passengers got on through the back doors as a way to keep drivers safe. Collecting payments again is an indicator of how transit systems are just trying to hang on until things go back to normal or Really? Whatever the new normal is going to be. Ridership is down in every major city. As we have been telling you. Marketplaces Kristin Schwab has more now on how transit funding an investment could change. Transit ridership had been falling long before the pandemic..
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WNYC 93.9 FM
"mary bowl" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"You want to get something from point A to point B. In this economy, Chances are real good. It's going to get there on a truck. Trucking companies have been complaining for years. About a shortage of one kind of very essential worker Truckers, One of the many reasons freight costs are high, a situation exacerbated by the pandemic. But filling out that labor pool had already been getting harder last year, due in part to increase the access True drug test results for truckers and this year national Drug testing Data base is about to enter its second year. Marketplaces prevent ashore has more on that. It's hard to run a trucking company. If you can't find truckers, Mary Ball works for heading her trucking in Missouri. At one point, they had 17 truckers. Now they have nine it not fun at all. We really struggled to get people in here. Nationally. Speaking part of the issue is demographics. Sean Garni is VP of scope. Elitist consulting truck drivers in general are older than the general working population, which means that There are more of them retiring and it's hard to find new drivers. You gotta be 21 to get a commercial driver's license, and by that age people have invested in other careers. Bob Costello, chief economist with the American Trucking Association, says the pandemic made things worse. You can't train is many new drivers to the industry. When you talk to truck driver training schools, they have trained 20 to 50% fewer drivers in 2020 compared to 2019. And this year on top of all of that drug tests, A federal clearing house went into effect early last January that allowed states and companies to share drug test results nationwide. So a driver who fails the test in one state can't just go drive in another. Tens of thousands of drivers have been disqualified again, Sean Garni. It's hard to deny the fact that 47,000 drivers have been identified as you notable to operate a commercial motor vehicle since the beginning the clearinghouse. Half of the violations are from marijuana, a drug that is increasingly legal or tolerated in many states, but is a controlled substance at the federal level. Here's Mary Bowl again over it, heading our shipping. She says. Some drivers are put off. We've had some that have said Yes, until they found out about having to register with the juggernaut called Clearing House, and they didn't want to do that. Of course, one consequence of high demand for truckers could be better pay in New York I'm simply vanish or for marketplace Busses in Washington, D C. Are charging for rides again. Fares had been waived since beginning back in March, Passengers got on through the back doors as a way to keep drivers safe. Collecting payments again is an indicator of how transit systems are just trying to hang on until things go back to normal or Really? Whatever the new normal is going to be. Ridership is down in every major city. As we have been telling you. Marketplaces Kristin Schwab has more now on how transit funding an investment could change. Transit ridership had been falling long before the pandemic..
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7 July, 2020 · 10:15 pm
During lockdown I've been walking a lot round my local cemetery, Kingston Cemetery in Portsmouth. Actually, it's very local – I can see it from my back window. And as you would expect, it has a lot of war graves – over 500 to be exact.
When I was doing some research last year on casualties related to D-Day, I came across one naval officer who had a fascinating career. And with the National Archives free downloads during lockdown I have been able to piece together his career. While on the face of it he may not have seen active service in the Second World War, he did serve 41 years including two world wars, and rise from Boy Shipwright to an Engineer Lieutenant-Commander.
Henry Southcott Burge was born in Portsmouth on 2 September 1884. He joined the Royal Navy on 28 May 1903 for an initial engagement of 12 years. After initial training as a Boy Shipwright in Portsmouth Dockyard he was rated as Shipwright from July 1903, onboard HMS Duke of Wellington (depot ship), HMS Firequeen, HMS Thames (submarine tender at Sheerness) and HMS Drake (armoured cruiser). On 1 October 1905 he was promoted to Leading Shipwright – at the age of 21 and after only two years service. He then served at HMS Victory II (Portsmouth naval barracks), HMS Emerald and HMS Essex (Armoured Cruiser) before being promoted to Carpenters Mate on 3 December 1909. In this rank he served on HMS Essex, HMS Fisgard (Engineer training, Portsmouth) and HMS Vernon (Torpedo school, Portsmouth). On 1 December 1912 he was promoted to Shipwright 1st Class, and served on HMS Vernon and HMS Cochrane (Armoured Cruiser). Then on 5 October 1913 he was made a Chief Shipweight, in which rank he served on HMS Cochrane, HMS Victory, HMS Attentive (Scout Cruiser) and HMS Arrogant (Submarine depot ship).
On 1 April 1915 he was made an Acting Carpenter, a Warrant rank. He served as such at HMS Pembroke (Chatham naval barracks) for serving on board HMS Lord Clive (monitor), before being confirmed as a Carpenter on 1 April 1916. He then served in this rank for nine years, on HMS Lord Clive, HMS Vivid (Devonport naval barracks) for HMS Hood, HMS Victory, HMS Maidstone, HMS Lucia (both submarine depot ships) and HMS Columbine (stone frigate at Port Edgar on the Forth, depot for Torpedo Boat Destroyers). While at Columbine he was made a Commissioned Shipwright on 1 April 1925. He then served on HMS Columbine, HMS Vulcan, HMS Victory for service on HMS Malaya, HMS Malaya proper, HMS Vivid for trials on HMS Malaya, HMS Victory for service on HMS Barham, HMS Warspite and HMS Victory for service on Warspite.
On 2 September 1934 he was placed on the retired list and promoted to Shipwright Lieutenant, after more than 31 years service. However on 12 September he was recalled and served at HMS Royal Arthur, a training establishment for hostilities only personnel at the Butlins camp at Skegness. On 12 September 1942 he was promoted to Engineer Lieutenant-Commander. However on 21 December 1943 he was admitted to the Royal Naval Hospital in Chatham with lung cancer. His condition did not improve and he was discharged home, where he died on 6 July 1944. He was 59.
A couple of things jump out from Burge's career. Firstly, 41 years is a long career in anyones book, and that is a lot of different ships and stone frigates. Secondly, it is noticeable how joining a specialised trade in the Royal Navy opens up prospects for promotion – it is a similar situation today with in demand trades like engineers. And thirdly, while Lieutenant-Commander Burge may not have served on D-Day for example, one of the ships that he was a Shipwright on did, and he no doubt trained many sailors who did, particularly in the hostilities-only dominated landing craft. That pretty much sums up total war – everyone playing their part, in the way that they best can.
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3 September, 2017 · 3:58 pm
It's been really interesting, over the past few years, visiting newly redeveloped museums. And even more interesting reading the various reviews.
Lets face it, we all like a good moan. And even more, we like to try and knock down something thats new or different – we all think that we could do better. But it almost seems to be an assumption among many people that if something is new that it must inherently be worse. Cue cries of 'they've ruined it!'
Criticism can be a particular problem in areas that are often very insular or based around long-held traditions, such as military museums. Often regimental museums, for example, are the preserve of a small number of retired senior officers – tribal elders – who get a position on the museum committee once they reach a certain rank, and have spent most of their lives in the military. It is understandable that people who have existed within a military environment stick with what they know. But, as the military shrinks, so will the number of potential visitors if the scope of the museum is limited. And with government funding contracting, it is a case of adapt or die. Aside from funding, surely military museums also have a role in promoting the role of the military within society, and increasing awareness, advocacy and support for the armed forces covenant?
Visitors can become very attached to a particular museum, display or object in terms of the when they first saw it, and struggle to accept that anything else could possibly be better. We like what we know and know what we like, after all. The removal of the blitz experience from the Imperial War Museum was greeted with much criticism, yet the same display was much criticised when it was first installed.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that many enthusiasts and specialists fail to understand or accept that a museum – or any other institution for that matter – does not exist just for them. Ownership is on thing, but suffocating is quite another. I cannot help but feel that a lot of specialists resent anyone else playing with their train set. I struggle to understand that – if you really are an enthusiast about a subject, you should be glad about the thought of it being shared with more people, and new people getting the opportunity to enjoy it as much as you have.
I think that part of the problem is that museums, on the whole, are not very good at why the have made the changes that they have. The museum jam-packed full of objects for a small number of enthusiasts to gaze at lovingly has got very little in terms of impact or effect to argue for it. Some museums that have been criticised for supposedly putting less objects back on display were actually re-displaying more objects than were there before. But, interestingly, they did not communicate this.
Resilience matters. A museum that atracts more people – especially from outside its core audience – will inevitably make more money. Therefore its very existence is assured, and it can look to continue developing. But a museum that preaches only to the converted will not only be in a precarious position financially, but its impact will be miniscule. Specialist and enthusiast audiences will almost always be small.
And, put simply, the goalposts have moved since the old days. And rightly so. With the advent of Heritage Lottery funding came a responsibility to think about the very people who were funding heritage through their lottery playing. And with greater scrutiny of public finances, taxpayers are more demanding of – and deserve – an awareness of what their hard earned taxes are being spent on. Museums just do not exist any more for their own gratification or for their core audiences.
Another aspect of modern museums is that the visitor experience is given much more emphasis now. Some of the 'holy grail' museums that are invoked with misty eyes were dark and dingy jumble sale-alikes, difficult to navigate, inaccesible, had poor cafes and just weren't much fun to look round. And I say that as an enthusiast and a specialist. Quite rightly, visitors want their spare time to be spent in ennjoyment, not migraines.
Nobody ever tries to wreck a museum. For a start, if you want to wreck a museum you're really working in the wrong job, and secondly most curators really don't posess that kind of malevolent power. But most curators are passionate about showing their collections to as many people as possible, and to people who may not normally think about coming to their museum. If that is a bad thing, then you really should think about why.
5 August, 2017 · 10:22 am
I've been watching some of the debates centred on military history with great interest. The Centenary of the Third Battle of Ypres (or is it Paschendaele?!) and the release of the film Dunkirk have inspired much navel-gazing and hand-wringing from military historians.
I think it's fair to say that my thoughts on military history have evolved somewhat over the years. My interest was piqued at a very young age by my family history. Of course I went through the watching-war-films phase, and the button-counting and badge-checking and predictable-self-righteous-indignation-when-something-was-wrong phase.
But over time I think – and hope – that my motivation for 'doing' history has grown up somewhat. Accuracy is great, but what does it achieve? Yes, it is misleading if things are wrong, but is it possible to worry far too much about things that are details, and completely forget about the bigger picture? That is, what people are thinking and feeling, and what the bigger lessons of conflict are?
I guess I am quite lucky in that I have been 'doing' my history in quite a public way, and I get to interact with a lot of 'normal' people (even if that has involved writing books that are longer than a PhD thesis but most 'proper' historians would not lower themselves to cite as a source…) But it has reallt reinforced my belief that preaching to the converted on the minutiae is one thing, but making a real difference to people who are not enthusiasts is the real coal face of history.
The more I have worked in public history, the more I have become more and more convinced over time that echo chamber history is virtually pointless – what purpose does it really serve? Recent events – Brexit, for one – suggests to me that history, and especially military history – has failed in terms of its broader role in society. Or, at the very least, history has not exactly covered itself in glory.
If the most important thing about a war film, for you, is that one of the cap badges is wrong or the repro battledress is the wrong shade of khaki, personally I think that you're kind of missing the point. Anal retentiveness really will have overtaken the bigger issues. It reminds me of an account I read of the BEF in 1939-40. Apparently Lord Gort issued numerous orders regarding uniforms and standards of dress, perhaps unsurprisingly for a Guardsman. Yet sartorial elegance did not stop the debacle that led to Dunkirk.
I think the crux of all history is that what you do is affected very much by why you do it. If your primary interest is checking cap badges and counting buttons and then getting smugly outraged when not everything is completely right, chances are you're probably less worried about what effect your work is going to have on people. Which does lead me to wonder if some historians really aren't all that fussed about what effect their work has. After all, there are plenty of supposedly influential academic tomes that retail at £80 and have probably sold four or five copies, and can only be found in impenetrable libraries somewhere. What effect is that kind of history really having on anyone? Yet I have also seen plenty of sneering posts on twitter bemoaning arts projects, interpretive dance, and well, anything that isn't either a book or a lecture. Aside from showing a complete lack of understanding of the modern world and the potential to reach new audiences, it seems possible to me that many enthusiasts would not be unhappy if militaty history stays in a position where they could bemoan the lack of interest of the general population, but they can also also smother the field so that said population are less likely to become interested in it. Schrodingers geek, you might describe it as.
To put it quite bluntly, I started out on the path of military history because of my family history. That family history tells me quite unequivocally that war is pretty awful, and really, isn't that the whole point of military history, letting people know that war is a god-awful business? To be quite blunt, aside from making sure that something does not look completely ridiculous, I'm really not all that fussed about counting badges. However, if something I write or a display that I put together makes people go away and think something or feel something, that's an outcome I can feel proud about.
The centenary of the Great War does feel like a missed opportunity in some respects. Not, I hasten to add, to just re-energise interest, but for military history as a concept to take a deeper look in the mirror. Maybe the nature of military history in 2017 is the problem. Caught between the ivory towers of academic military history on the one hand and the geekier end of the spectrum, there is more than ever a need for a middle way that takes into account the nature of the world we live in today, and the needs of the people who live in it.
For that to happen all parts of the field would need to take a hard look at themselves. It would require less factionalism between sectors, and academics, museum professionals, enthusiasts, tour guides and broadcasters. Getting away from secret societies and closed shop conferences and journals that won't acknowledge your existence if you are not a PhD. Ironically, I think these kind of factors that have been in evidence during recent debates, are also part of the problem. And, even more ironically, military historians are showing signs of fighting todays problems with yesterdays tactics.
But most of all, thinking long and hard about why we do military history, and what it is all for.
Filed under historiography, Uncategorized, writing
4 August, 2017 · 6:15 pm
HNoMS Helge Ingstad, a Norwegian Navy Otto Svedrup class Frigate entering Portsmouth last week escorting the USS George HW Bush.
USS Phillipine Sea, a Ticonderoga class cruiser of the US Navy, called in at Portsmouth last weekend escorting the Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush.
It's on it's way home after a week-long exercise. Time for a paint job I think!
28 July, 2014 · 10:33 pm
Book Signing – Saturday 2 August 2014
I know that it's been a long time – I'm still recovering after D-Day 70! – but just to let you all know that I will be signing copies of 'Portsmouth's World War One Heroes' at Waterstones in Portsmouth this coming Saturday, 2 August, between 12 and 2pm.
13 June, 2014 · 9:43 pm
IT Band = History?
Well it seems like weeks since I've last updated here – in fact, its been months!
After getting frustrated with the lack of progress with my IT Band, I finally bit the bullet and went to see Cliff at Kings Road Clinic in Southsea for some physio. After a session of ultrasound, heat treatment and deep tissue massage, all aimed at breaking up the scar tissue, I could barely walk! But a couple of days after I could run, and run more comfortably. Then, the next couple of weeks I ran 9.2, 13.1 and 11.2 miles respectively. Considering I had been running 3 miles a week – if that – then getting into double figures again was a significant achievement. And the progress has carried on since, apart from a few quiet weeks due to work commitments. I've been running more comfortably, and further, and faster – all gradually. A couple of weeks ago I ran 6.8 miles for my long run, and I've done a couple of 5ks at 23:50ish, which considering my PB is 20:12, isn't bad after three months injured.
I've been doing a lot of strengthening work to try and help out with the muscles that have allowed my IT Band to get weak – abs, hip, glutes etc. And so far it seems to be working. I do squats and planks every night, along with a few other random exercises thrown in for variety. Cliff gave me some stretches to do. I'm sure many of you will be familiar with the lying down IT Band stretch – as it says, you lie down, raise one leg up with your feet near your other knee, then cross it over your body and use your hand to apply some stretch. Doing this little and often – 3 to 4 times a day – has definitely helped to stretch my Bands.
I'm almost fit enough to start running with Pompey Joggers again – I'll probably start with one of the slower groups and do 5 miles or so at 8-9 min/mile pace. All being well I'm getting back to fitness just in time for the Lakeside 5k series over the summer, the run leg of the Portsmouth Triathlon (doing it as a team with my dad and brother) and the Hampshire Road Race League which kicks off again in September, with the Overton 5 and Victory 5.
Early tomorrow morning I'm going over to France to take part in the Courant de la Liberte 10k in Caen, as part of the Portsmouth team in a challenge against runners from our twin city Caen, and their twin city Wurzburg in Germany. It's my first race since early March, so I'm not sure how I'll get on – my PB is 42:48, but I won't get anywhere near that – I hope to run under 48:00 at least, and 45:00 would be a real achievement.
16 May, 2014 · 12:10 am
Military History: is there anything new to learn?
Last weekend I spent a very interesting couple of days working at our D-Day 70 Community Conference. As well as a visit to Southwick House which served as Eisenhower, Montgomery and Ramsay's headquarters in the days prior to D-Day (I'd never been before), we also had talks from a range of different speakers. And hearing Dr Simon Trew from the War Studies Department at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst talking about whether there is anything new to learn about D-Day really got me thinking.
My first love in military history was – and still is – Arnhem. For family reasons the airborne battle in Holland in September 1944 has always been very close to me, and I've spent years poring over every book I can possibly find on the subject. Even when I have been working on radically different topics, Arnhem has always been there in the background. It's always been an ambition of mine to write a book about Arnhem, but at the same time I've always been hesitant. It's been written about so extensively that there are literally hundreds of books on Arnhem and Operation Market Garden. There are a wide plethora of specialist books on particular units or individuals, but my biggest bug bear has always been the sheer number of general books on the battle. There are so many, to the extent that with many of them, you could swap the authors names around, and the texts appear to be almost identical in content. Very few of them offer any kind of new research or new insight. Why would I want to wade into that historiography, just to cash in? No, I like to feel that if I am going to spend 2+ years of my life working on a book, that it will contribute something new to people's understanding.
Hence I've left Arnhem well alone. But hearing Simon's talk about the state of '1944' historiography really got my thinking. And I have to agree, that despite the apparent extensive coverage of the subject, if you look beyond the surface, there is still plenty of work to be done. Very little of the Arnhem historiography is ground-breaking. Surely there must be some documents out there, at the National Archives perhaps, that have not been looked at? Or, are there assumptions in the historiography that need re-visiting? For example, has it occured to anyone that there is no credible evidence that General Browning's of-quoted 'Bridge too far' was ever said? Can more work be done on the large number of oral histories and personal testimonies of other ranks involved in the battle?
One immediate area that occurs to me is the time period between 6 June and 17 September 1944. The British airborne landings in Normandy were an almost complete success, in particular the Pegasus Bridge and Merville Battery operations. How, just over three months later, did the same planning staffs manage to oversee a debacle like Arnhem? Many of you may know the well-known line in 'A Bridge too Far' when General Browning refers to fifteen airborne operations being cancelled since D-Day. How much do we know about these plans? Very little, it seems – some of them do not even seem to have received a code name. But they must have generated planning documents, and references in unit war diaries. Do these planned operations explain how Operation Market Garden transpired?
D-Day on your Doorstep
The D-Day landings and the campaign in North West Europe in 1944 and 1945 are normally thought of as beginning in Normandy on 6 June and ending in Berlin on 8 May 1945. As usual with anything military history related, the real story behind the scenes is much different. The whole campaign from D-Day onwards depended on much preparation in Britain for months, if not years afterwards. In fact, virtually every corner of Britain will have some kind of connection with D-Day.
Millions of troops in Britain – British, American, Canadian and from many other allied nations – had to be accommodated somewhere. They all had to train somewhere. Equipment had to be manufactured and stored; supplies had to be delivered. There were marshalling camps, embarkation points; places where Mulberry Harbours were constructed. Dockyards, airfields, factories. The many units and organisations required numerous different headquarters. It is pretty obvious that in early 1944 Britain was one large armed camp geared up towards becoming a launchpad for the second front.
We're currently working on a new page on the D-Day Museum website called 'D-Day on your Doorstep'. Over the coming months we will be adding D-Day related locations to the map, and building a picture of Britain's role in launching D-Day. We would love to hear from you if your area has any D-Day links, or if you would like to add any detail to the locations that we have already uploaded.
To see the 'D-Day on your Doorstep' page visit the D-Day Museum website here.
Filed under d-day, Museums, Uncategorized, World War Two
Tagged as d-day, D-Day Museum, Operation Overlord, second world war, World War Two
The Long Long LONG Trail: First World War on the TV (part 1)
With the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War looming, we have already seen a steady increase in the amount of programs related to the First World War on television. Here's my assessment of what we have seen so far.
Jeremy Paxman's 'Britain's Great War' was a welcome surprise. I must admit, I find Paxman rather unlikeable on Newsnight, which, as it turns out, does him a great dis-service as a presenter. I really enjoyed 'Britain's Great War', and I felt that it covered many aspects of the First World War that have been previously ignored. We all know about the Somme and Gallipoli, for example, yet how many people knew that Britain was bombed during the First World War? Or about conscription, or rationing?
Max Hastings' 'The Necessary War' was a disappointment. Aside from the fact that I find Hastings style incredibly grating, I felt that 'the Necessary War' was essentially produced for a 'Daily Mail' market, as per much of Hastings work, and was full of great power, imperialist nostalgia of a significantly conservative bent. It is certainly useful to question previously held assumptions – of which the 'futile war' argument has become something of an orthodoxy. Presenting the First World War as unavoidable is slightly ridiculous – is any war ever completely unavoidable? If not then we might as well all just kill each other now and get it over and done with!
I have long been a big fan of Niall Ferguson's book 'The Pity of War', but the TV adaptation was rather disappointing. I enjoyed the open format, and it was very refreshing to watch a topical issue being debated in the studio by the audience and academic alike. However I felt that Ferguson's segments did not really reflect the content of the book on which the program was based, and some of the elements were completely off on a tangent. I felt that it slightly missed the point overall, but the intention was noble and the format more interesting.
So far '37 Days' has, in my book, been by far the most impressive. A three part docu-drama following the events of July and August 1914 as the unfold, in Sarajevo, Vienna, Berlin and London. As a series it fills a gap in popular understanding. It is not enough to cite' the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand' as the cause of the First World War – so much happened in between that and the first shots being fired, as this program shows. And I had not realised just how dramatic events were, how interlinked events were, and the complex personalities involved. I am not normally a fan of the 'great man' school of history, but this was illuminating, insightful and entertaining in its own right.
We can expect a significant amount of First World War-centric television over the next few months. As much as I welcome the interest, I do hope that we won't experience overkill by the time 4 August arrives – in the rush to produce topical and relevant documentaries, we can only hope that there is a marked improvement in the scope and quality!
Tagged as bbc, first world war, max hastings, Niall Ferguson, World War One
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters honours the father he never knew
I just caught this story at the end of tonight's ITV News, and I'm glad that I did.
Earlier today Roger Waters, ex of Pink Floyd, unveiled a memorial to his father, near where he was killed at Anzio, during the Italian Campaign in the Second World War – 70 years to the day after the death of the father that he never knew. Waters had had no idea about when and how his father had been killed, but thanks to research by another veteran, Waters now knows the exact location and manner in which his father, Lieutenant Eric Waters, died.
Waters wrote frequently about his fathers death with Pink Floyd. I'm mindful of one particular set of lyrics, from 'Another Brick in the Wall part 2':
'Daddy's gone across the ocean, leaving just a memory'
Read the Telegraph story here
Tagged as Anzio, italy, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, second world war, World War Two
'the tail': US Army logistics in Britain, 1944
It's the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings coming up soon, and aside from the blanket coverage of the First World War, expect various documentaries about the subject.
One of the things that has always interested me about D-Day and Operations Neptune and Overlord, is the sheer amount of administration, planning and 'behind the scenes' work needed to keep an army in action. I can't remember the exact figure, but I think during the Second World War less than 20% of all servicemen in allied armies fought in the 'teeth' arms. War had become so technologically advanced that it took far more resources to keep vehicles, weapons and the men that operated them in action.
One case in point is the huge number of US units based in England from 1942 onwards. American units began to arrive from early 1942 as part of Operation Bolero – the American build up in Europe – but the numbers of troops and units reached a high water mark just before 6 June 1944.
Very few parts of the British Isles did not have US troops stationed near them. There were particularly large concentrations of US troops in places such as Northern Ireland, the West Country in Devon, Cornwall and Wiltshire, and Eight Air Force airfields in East Anglia.
Hilsea in Portsmouth was home to a significant US Army supply depot. Under General Depot G-65 came 1 Special Services Company, 51 Ordnance Group, 53 Army Postal Unit, 91 Finance Distribution Section, 120 Chemical Procurement Company, 193 Chemical Depot Company, 196 Quartermaster Battalion, 208 Army Postal Unit, 245 Quartermaster Battalion, 284 Quartermaster Refrigeration Company, 298 Ordnance Company, 321 Ordnance Battalion, 346 Quartermaster Depot Company, 350 Ordnance Battalion, 532 Quartermaster Salvage Repair Company, 555 Army Postal Unit, 604 Ordnance Base Armament Maintenance Battalion, 784 Base Depot Company, 864 Ordnance Heavy Auto Maintenance Company, 1212 Engineer Firefighting Platoon, 3040 Quartermaster Bakery, 3267 and 3269 Quartermaster Service Companies and 4232 Quartermaster Sterilization Company. Clearly, Hilsea was a significant Ordnance and Quartermaster Depot, which supported US units in the Portsmouth area. It must have consisted of thousands of men, none of whom were infantrymen, artillerymen or tank men.
It was a similar situation at airfields. Stoney Cross airfield, in the New Forest in Hampshire, hosted the 367 Fighter Bomber Group Headquarters and 392, 393 and 394 Fighter Bomber Squadrons of the US Army Air Forces.These Squadrons operated P-38 Lightnings and during D-Day and the three days after flew nine missions. But aside from these rather more glamorous units, the station was also home to 17 Station Complement Squadron, 32 Mobile Reclamation and Repair Squadron, 217 Medical Dispensary, 327 Service Group, 807 Chemical Company, 1113 Signal Company, 1180 Quartermaster Company, 1292 Military Police Company 1830 Ordnance Company and 2200 Quartermaster Truck Company. To keep aircraft in the air, the men operating them needed engineering, signal, logistics, transport and ordnance support. And once you have that many men on an air base, you are bound to need medical and provost services to keep them healthy and well-behaved! And Stoney Cross was a particularly small and remote place – check it out here.
Some of the units that we see here are not the kinds that we think of. I love Band of Brothers, but how many men behind the scenes worked to get Easy Company into action? Sometimes it is all too easy to overlook the many unglamorous units and roles in an army, but they are all part of the same spear, with the infantry, armour and artillery being the sharp tip.
For more information about US Army units in GreatBritain in 1944, have a look at these invaluable documents prepared by Phil Grinton.
Filed under d-day, World War Two
Tagged as d-day, logistics, normandy, Operation Bolero, Operation Overlord, second world war, US Army, World War Two
20 January, 2014 · 11:34 pm
The land at the end of our toes, goes on… and on… and on… and on…
Last May, some, hmm…8 months ago, I took up long distance running. A slightly unusual thing for a military historian to do, I concede.
One of the problems with writing and researching history is that it is very much an indoor job. Couple that to a day job, then it is completely possible to hardly see sunlight for months on end. As interesting and productive as it can be, it isn't always conducive to good health, mentally or physically. I had been having a tough time with aspects of my life last year, and realised that I needed to do something positive to try and get some endorphins going and make a change. I'd spend months on end in doors, practically welded to my laptop. I had to get out and do something.
But why running, a seemingly insance pursuit? To regress, some family history. My dad took up running during the 'running boom' in the late 1980's, and ran some very good times – 59 minutes for 10 miles, and a marathon in 3:04:00. He also had a rather intriguing obsession with running up and down Butser Hill, for which I believe there is professional help. But I grew up watching my dad train, while also being a dad and working full time. The smell of deep heat stays with you for many years! Years later my younger brother, Scott, took up running, and within a few years had also run 10 miles in 59 minutes.
I grew up seeing the benefits of long distance running, but also the extreme hard work that it takes to not just complete, but compete. Having been the black sheep of the family and having never run more than a mile for many years, on a whim I signed up to run the Great South Run for Mind, the mental health charity. It is a cause that it very close to my heart, and completely appropriate given the benefits of exercise in beating mental health problems.
Make no bones about it, if you're not in good shape, starting to run is incredibly hard. Those first few miles are no doubt the hardest, breaking the three mile barrier is like an ever-present brick wall. But to a bloody-minded individual like myself, I find it hard to just complete something, I always want to do it to the best of my ability, to push myself and see what I am capable of (and also prove people wrong too!). I'm never happy with my time in any race, as soon as I finish, I'm thinking how I can break the next milestone – what does it take to run 10k in under 40 minutes, of 10 miles in under 1 hour 10 minutes?
In some respects, long distance running is like planning a military operation. You have to think about what you want to achieve – a time target, or a certain distance, whatever – and the resources that you have – time, money, nutrition, your body etc. Think about the time that you have, and plan how you are going to get there. Looking back, it seems quite ironic that I was writing about thousands of servicemen, who would have been at the peak of fitness and displaying supreme feats of endurance, and I was a couch potato, stuck to my laptop!
There are other military parallels. I had always marvelled at the physical feats of some of the people I have read and written about – Chris Ryans epic march out of Iraq after the Bravo Two Zero operation, the epic yomp across the Falkands, or the advance of the Paras from their drop zones outside Arnhem to the outskirts of the town, almost ten miles, heavily laden and under fire. Sometimes these feats seem super-human. You wonder how people manage it – are they like the rest of us? And it dawned on me, after watching a video by CT Fletcher, the inspirational American bodybuilding guru. He explained that most servicemen are in the best shape of their lives during basic training. As he says 'what you didn't think you could do, your drill Sergeant MADE you do'. And that probably explains why standard for the Paras is 10 miles in 1 hour and 10 minutes – a time that few runners manage, in running gear and on flat courses. A big, scary bastard shouting at you helps, but if you want it bad enough, you will be able to beast yourself towards it.
The funny thing is, that although there are more people running now than ever, the average times have dropped compared to when my dad was running in the 1980's. Why is this? Are people happy to complete rather than compete? It's hard for me to say; I'm by no means an elite athlete, far from it. But I do sense that people do not tend to push themselves in terms of intensity – what can I achieve? What am I capable of? Personally I feel that when I am pushing myself to the limit, that is when I'm really getting the benefits. If you say, 'I don't think I can run that fast', that's the biggest impediment to you doing just that. I know it is possible to do things that you have never thought possible – I've seen people do it. I also think that you need to have a strategy. The marathon is obviously the ultimate symbol of long distance running, and has a mythology all of its own. But I don't want to get drawn into the 26.2 just yet – I'm not really interested in running 26.2 miles at an 'ok' standard, if I can't really push myself at 10k and 10 miles first. It doesn't seem to make sense to me to try and 'run' before I can 'walk'!
There is plenty of literature out there about running. I have particularly enjoyed ' Running with the Kenyans' by and 'Running with the Mind of Meditation' by Sakyong Mipham. Running with the Kenyans looks at the secrets of the Kenyan runners who have been the best long distance runners in the world for the past two decades. Many people have tried to find some supposed 'secret' as to why the Kenyans are so good. It transpires that there is no 'secret' as such, just a combination of factors, and a lot of hard work. Meditation and running also have strong parallels – breathing and thinking are very important to both, and the power of the mind, when harnessed, can take you places. Sakyong Mipham is a Tibetan meditation master, and ran the Toronto Marathon with a new pair of socks – a classic error. After a few miles he developed a blister, and by the end of the race his shoe was full of blood. He managed to finish the marathon by telling his mind that the blister simply 'wasnt there'. Inspiration stuff (if a silly mistake in the first place!)
Running really is a lifestyle. I joined Portsouth Joggers Club last year, and have found running with likeminded people to be not only beneficial to my training, but also great fun. A little tip – run with people who are just a little bit faster than you – it pulls you along much faster than you would ever run on your own! When I run on my own I always run with music – I have a playlist of songs that are just the right tempo to push me along. Although running keeps you healthy, there is a downside – if you are eating for stamina and putting in the miles, you are looking at lots of carbs – and that means pasta, rice or potato. And day in day out, there is only so much that you can do with staple foods like that!
Tagged as Long-distance running, marathon, running
11 January, 2014 · 11:40 am
Portsmouth's World War One Heroes – book talks
I'm going to be giving some talks based on my new book, 'Portsmouth's World War One Heroes', courtest of Portsmouth Library Service:
Portsmouth's World War One Heroes
Saturday 8 February – 1.30pm, Carnegie Library (Fratton)
Saturday 8 March – 1.30pm, Southsea Library
Over 6,000 men from Portsmouth are believed to have been killed during WW1. Not only were thousands of Portsmouth soldiers killed on the Western Front, but Portsmouth-based ships were sunk throughout the war, causing massive loss of life. Thanks to a
wealth of sources available, it is possible to tell their stories in more detail than ever before.
Researching your World War One Ancestors
Saturday 29 March – 11am, Central Library
A special talk for the 'Lost Hour' event, this talk will show you how you can research your ancestors who took part in the First World War, using examples of men from Portsmouth who fought and died, and shwoing you the sources available to help with your research.
All talks are fully illustrated, and copies of my book will be available for purchase. Hope to see you there, come and say hi!
For more information about how to find the venues, and about other events taking place at Portsmouth Libraries over the next few months, click here.
Portsmouth's World War One Heroes is also available to purchase on Amazon and other online booksellers, Waterstones Commercial Road, Blackwells at the Student Union, the Royal Armouries at Fort Nelson and the City Museum.
Tagged as first world war, Portsmouth, Portsmouth Libraries, World War One

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Napoli wants to consolidate its good position in the standings. The Chievo Verona will try to bring back a positive result of this perilous displacement.
2nd of Serie A, Napoli still concedes 6 units behind the 1st place. In confidence, Carlo Ancelotti's men have lost none of their last 5 league games (4 wins and 1 draw). Before the truce, they logically dominated, out of their bases, Genoa (2-1).
In great difficulty on the field but also outside (penalty of 3 points for falsification of accounts), Chievo Verona occupies the last place in the ranking with a record of 9 defeats and 3 draws. On the last day, Valter Birsa's partners put an end to a terrible series of 7 setbacks by preserving, at home, the point of the draw against Bologna (2-2).
3 substitute elements are missing in Naples this weekend: it is the defender Chiriches and wingers Verdi and Younes, injured. Insider, Mertens and Milik attackers are available.
For Chievo Verona, the important defenders Cacciatore and Tomovic and the recruit Djordjevic are stuck in the infirmary. The red lantern has the worst defense and the worst attack of the championship.


With the economy in a coma, a pervasive unease has settled on businesses. Executives worry about the state of the company; employees fret about losing their jobs. What's a leader to do?
Work, especially when the stakes are so high, is serious enough that a manager shouldn't add to the tension by over-managing or going around with a sour puss. It is up to the leader to inspire hope and confidence and one way to do it is by spreading some good cheer. Here are a few things to try.
Relax your mood. There is nothing a manager can do about the tanking economy, but he can do something about how he reacts to it. Grim-faced expressions do not make people want to work harder, but a frequent smile and a friendly nod can do something about the way they feel about their work.
Create laughs. World War I British troops living in trenches amused themselves by staging lighthearted theatrical productions. It was a taste of home and a reminder that as bad as things can get, we all need to laugh, if only to remind ourselves that we're human. So find ways to lighten the mood. Spring for lunch, order cake for the break room, pass out movie tickets or DVD rental coupons, or post cartoons on the billboard. Doing these things reminds people that all work and no play makes for dull living.
Keep your door open. Let people know that you are available to chat. Most often people will come by to discuss work, but there will be times when conversation about life in general is more appropriate. This is not slack time; it's human time. Be available when people just want to talk about things, even about the fate of the company. Be honest and open. You cannot guarantee lifetime employment, but you can promise straight talk.
There is precedence for levity. Abraham Lincoln kept his cabinet and his generals loose by telling stories that would amuse but were also instructive. Case in point. When associates sought to poison the reputation of U.S. Grant by calling him a drunkard, Lincoln famously quipped, "Send whatever Grant is drinking to the rest of my generals." Grant was winning; the other Union generals were not.
Franklin Roosevelt held regular happy hours in the White House, even during the darkest days of the Depression and the Second World War. It was a time to kick back, gossip, and share some laughs.
No one would call Lincoln or Roosevelt inattentive to their situations; both men knew how to find a moment of distance from reality as a means of refreshing themselves and their aides.
Few would argue for excessive levity — that's foolhardiness. A manager needs to keep the team focused on the priorities at hand, but she can do it while being professional about the work and appropriately lighthearted with the people who do it, including herself.


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Bigamy and Polygamy questions repeatedly bring Fifth Amendment from Alamo
The Commercial Appeal
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Questions repeatedly bring Fifth Amendment from Alamo
A federal prosecutor Thursday accused Tony Alamo of having as many as seven wives at a time, beating teenage followers to assert his authority and directing an arson to collect insurance. Alamo, on the witness stand for the third day, repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination as he was drilled by Justice Department lawyer Christopher Belcher.
"You coerced several (women) into marrying you by saying you had a message from God that something very bad would happen if they didn't marry you?," Belcher asked.
Alamo took the Fifth Amendment on that question, as he did when Belcher inquired if it was true that Alamo had threatened to throw the parents of one young woman out of the church unless they gave permission for their daughter to marry him.
Alamo is charged in federal court with falsifying his income tax return for 1985 and willfully failing, to file for the years 1986, 1987 and 1988. U.S. Dist. Judge Jon McCalla allowed prosecutors to probe Alamo's personal life, including his marital status, to counter testimony Alamo gave earlier about his good deeds.
During his cross -examination Thursday, Belcher produced records to show that Alamo was still married to a Birgitta Gyllenhamer when he married Elizabeth Caldwell.
Alamo said he may still have been married to Caldwell when he was married in a church ceremony to a third woman, Elena Williams.
"It's possible … I don't recall. In my mind I was divorced."
Asked whether he has had up to seven wives at a time in the last two years, Alamo again reached for the Fifth Amendment.
When Belcher asked whether he followed state laws on bigamy. Alamo invoked the Fifth Amendment at the advice of attorney Jeffrey Dickstein.
Alamo denied the child beating and arson accusations.
He said he did not direct the beating of a 14 -year-old girl on Valentine's Day in 1984. The girl, Belcher said, was hit more than 100 times with a board.
Alamo denied laughing when an adult member told him "the board was still smoking" after the alleged beating of another youth.
Alamo faces felony child abuse charges in California in the alleged beating of the son of a former member.
Belcher asked Alamo about a series of fires that occurred between 1990 and 1992 to buildings connected to Alamo or his church, and specifically about a fire at his home in Nashville in 1992.
"For sure, I don't know anything about it," Alamo replied.
Asked whether he had people in his organization who would set fires at his command, Alamo answered, "I believe there are in your organization."
Alamo expounded on his theory that the Vatican directs a world-wide "Lucifer-worshiping" conspiracy to control the world through a church/government. Also included in the plot are the international banking community, labor unions, Mafia, and "most of the heavy-weight news media," he said.
The federal building, where he is on trial on the tax charges, is a church house for the "one-world government" said Alamo.
At one point in the cross-examination, Alamo turned to McCalla and said,
"They're trying to make me out to be a kook."
When Belcher pointed out that the command by Jesus Christ to render to Caesar his due appears in two books of the New Testament, Alamo laughed.
"The government's read the Bible, praise the Lord."
SOURCE: Chris Conley The Commercial Appeal
In: 1990-1999, Polygamy In The News


The Sumer and Aztec cultures are as ancient of documented civilisations that we have access too today, and it's fascinating that within these developed societies, we always find the secluded obsessional belief by groups, of child killings for ritual practices, guided by a leader or sect who channel orders from intangible intellectual super sources.
When we break down this system, we find an organised belief structure, which in many regards is the foundations of the successfully developed society. This notion baffles many archaeologists that what we understand today as religion, is the underlying internal key, that guides a group of people into intellectual progress.
Specifically, a 'religion' or esoteric 'guides' whom its practices and teachings, actually deliver results, this can be any religion, but here, we will more specifically analyse the religion of the so-called elite of today and their forefathers.
The last time we see Moloch is when Moses came down from Mount , Sinai, and abolished the worship, of the golden calf, by his fellow Israelite's. According to the bible, Moses' brother, Aaron, 'made up' a god, and it was to be the golden calf Baal, if taken in the context of gods and sorcery, then, Aaron, used magic, to conceive the deity, and this knowledge could be explained, by his royal Egyptian upbringing, where the worship of bulls, is extremely popular.
The Bohemian club hell raisers (The Bohemian Grove), in California, home of the rich and famous politicians, identify their idol, to be of Babylonian roots, referring to histories, Babylonian empire. During Egypt's, 18th dynasty pharaoh, Thutmose the third, rule, the Babylonian empire, was under the reign, of the pharaohs god, which was, Amun. History depicts biblical Moses, to be this 18th dynasty's, 6th pharaoh, and it is during this time, this calf deity, came in the form, of Moloch, and even by some Egyptian sects, as Apis Bull.
The 'raging bulls', was the name given, among the top generals, of the 11th, Mentuhotep, dynasty. This Egyptian god, Montu, is represented, by the Egyptian hieroglyphic, for M, which is, of course, the owl. Apis was also a bull god, which was worshipped for over centuries, when Memphis, was capital, of Egypt, in the Old Kingdom.
It was during the 2nd Dynasty, that the pharaoh, Raneb Kaiechos, was said to have introduced, Apis worship, which remained the main god of worship, in the capital Memphis for 6 centuries. Raneb Kaiechos, believed that Apis, was the manifestation, of the god, Ptah from the teachings of the 1st pharaoh of the 1st dynasty, Menes who was said to have made up, a new god, in honour of his establishment, in Egypt, when he built the capital city, Memphis. Beginning circa 18,420 B.C.E. Ptah, became the first king of Egypt, and was known as, the Creator God.
Ptah worship, goes back to Sumerian mythology, dating before Egyptian, where Ptah, was known as, Enki, from the Annunaki, alien race, a god that created the humankind, with the blood, of the god, Kingu. It is from Enki that the Sumers worshipped a mythical serpent known as Quetzalcoatl, this female serpent was the mother of Enki.
In Babylonian texts she was described to be defeated by the gods, for her wicked ways and trapped in between 4 ferocious celestial winds, she later gathered an army to make revenge against the gods, however in battle, Marduk (Enki's son) killed Quetzalcoatl. We understand that another name for the serpent was Tiamat in Sumerian mythology, not to be confused with the leviathan, Tiamat is the serpent of the Draco constellation.


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A bit chaotic, cause it spans about 20 years of artwork mashed in and out of each other, but hopefully it gets the point across. Images include scanned, filtered, and hand-pixellated artwork.


I know the church is a whore, but she's my mother and I love her.
There's not a thing you could say, or price you could pay to make me think any less of her.
I know the only reason your crown stays on your head is because of your horns.
You pretend to be king. You have nightmares for dreams.
You hate the fact I was born.
They want to take my guns away and take me to a place where I can feel safe.
At least that's what they say.
That's just what they say.
That's the one that they love.
That's the one they love.
Just because you call a rattlesnake a lamb, it doesn't make it less deadly.
And now I can see just what it means to see the world with both eyes open.
You've got an engagement ring shining on your finger.
You're waiting to be married to hell.
Look at all of the beautiful buildings still shattered on the ground.
Now, look at the way the world is ending.
This is the start of the new beginning.
The truth went and told on you. It's chaos outside your mouth.
The truth went and told on you.


Everyone agrees that facial hair makes men look better, that's a no brainer, but what about the new holiday trend beard decorating? Ladies would you like it and fellas would you even try it? We've all got food on the brain, no surprise there, but when you think of pie and Thanksgiving what comes to mind? The internet has it totally wrong and AJ & McCall can't believe it. AJ & McCall have their Christmas shopping mostly done but that doesn't mean they'll be sitting out Black Friday. McCall sneaks purchases and AJ ruins other's Christmas presents for him, but for the Debate At 8 what is your confession? Our mothers may have disowned us after our turkey in the microwave prank, or offered to do the cooking, but a trusted source says you actually can microwave a turkey.


This book is a true story about me, a very ordinary Chinese who was never physically tortured or prosecuted by 'the evil communist regime', but still had to 'escape' from China for a better life. This book is also a true story of what happened inside China after the Cultural Revolution, especially in the last 30 years when it has grown from one of the poorest developing countries to the world's second largest economy. Furthermore, this book is about how a new-generation Chinese migrant finds his place in the Australian society and works towards his Australian dream.
Let me begin this book with a few special moments of my life. In September 2011, my wife and I landed at the Kingsford Smith Airport after our 'exodus' from China. All we had on that day were two suitcases of clothes and a six-month-old unborn baby in her belly. We had no place to live in Sydney, no relatives, no jobs and not much savings. No one came to welcome and pick us up at the airport. We rented a small car at the airport from Budget, and bought two mobile phone numbers with the cheapest plan from Vodafone. Then we drove to the Ibis Budget Hotel I had booked online.
After dinner at McDonald's, my wife was quite tired. She has vomited many times during the eleven-hour red-eye flight. I knew she had no appetite at all, but was forcing herself to eat for the sake of the baby growing inside her. When I put our dirty clothes in the coin-operated washing machine in the laundry and returned to our small room, she was already asleep in the not-so-comfortable bed. She had to sleep on her side because her belly was too big. Looking at her back, I almost started crying. I felt so sorry that I had to put my six-month-pregnant wife through this unpleasant journey, and the worst part was that I had no idea where I was heading. But I had no time to cry. I wiped off the tears in my eyes and turned on my laptop to look for a place we could afford. I had no idea if anyone would rent out to a jobless pregnant couple at all.
One week later, we bought a twelve-year-old car and moved into a small apartment in Westmead. In a day, I had assembled all the furniture from IKEA with my own hands, including a nappy-change table and a baby cot. I was exhausted, but I felt overwhelmingly relieved that I finally had a place for the baby if it somehow decided to come early. I could also cook some nutritious and healthy home meal for my wife. Finally, we were no longer homeless. When everything was done, I pretty much dropped on the carpet and fell asleep instantly.
On the second day, my wife had her first check-up at the Westmead hospital since our arrival. The baby was fine. Although I still had not found a job, my wife was not worried. Maybe she had strong faith in me, or maybe she did not want to show her feelings and create extra pressure on me. I told her that if I could not find a job in accounting, I would do any work to make sure she and the baby had everything they needed. I even started to apply for cleaner jobs on the local newspaper.
I did not find a job in accounting. It was not long after the global financial crisis. Very few businesses were hiring. I found a commission-based sales job. There was not much job security, but I finally started making money again. My wife was so happy. Besides paying for rent and basic living expenses, we spent all the money on baby clothes, nappies and a pram.
On an early December night, my wife started to feel contractions. I was so excited. We rushed to the hospital and started our 48-hour battle. I could never truly feel my wife's pain, but after one day of her screaming, I could see my wife was exhausted. I too, was exhausted. When the doctor told me that the baby was not coming out and they needed to perform a Caesarean delivery and there was a small chance that she could die, I almost collapsed. She was holding my hands extremely tightly because she was in great pain from contractions. I was also holding her hands very tightly because I was extremely worried that I might lose her that night.
At midnight, my son was finally born. In the operating theatre when I was holding him for the first time, I finally started crying. I just could not hold it anymore. He was so small, so precious, so ugly, and so beautiful. My wife has lost a litre of blood during the birth, but luckily she was okay. I felt extremely happy and blessed. Besides my son, also born that night was a new man – me. For the first time in my life, I understood what it felt like being a man and a father.
On the second morning, I sent a text message to my parents in Beijing, telling them that their first grandson had been born and everyone was okay. Although they were happy with the news, I knew deeply that they still could not forgive me for fleeing from China like I had. I did not care because I was a father too, and I knew I was doing the right thing for my wife and child. Even without the blessings of the grandparents, I would still do my best to ensure that my son had the best life possible.
On the third morning, I have received a phone call from a HR agent. She told me that I had a job offer. It was a full-time telemarketing job with a 12-month contract in an IT company. She was not sure whether I would accept it as it was just a 12-month contract and the pay was only fifty thousand a year. I said yes, definitely yes! I was so happy that I could secure 12 months of income for my new family. That was definitely the most exciting job offer I had ever received.
Three months later, my wife also found a contract job near home. We were lucky to have her mother came from China to help look after our boy. My wife went to work in the morning, and came home at lunchtime to breastfeed, and then went back to work again in the afternoon. With her income, we started saving because we hoped one day we could buy our own property.
Six months later, my parents came to Australia to see their grandson for the very first time. I could see that they loved their grandson, although they were still very disappointed in me for escaping from China and doing some embarrassing sales job.
Twelve months later, I had completed the telemarketing contract. Although the company wished to keep me in sales, I knew it was time to move back to accounting, something with a better future given my educational background. After trying and trying, I finally found an entry-level auditor job in PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) – the world's largest accounting firm. The pay was not great, but I was still excited. It was a dream job that I could not have gotten many years ago. I was about ten years older than my peers, who have just graduated from universities, but I know it was never too late to start something great.
Another twelve months passed, and my wife found a better job. We finally had enough savings as deposit for our first home. It was a very old unit in the northern suburbs of Sydney, older than both of us were, but we felt so happy when we moved into the first home we owned. A few months after we moved, my wife was pregnant again. When my second child was born, I also got promoted at work.
Last year, I moved to the Audit Office of New South Wales as an experienced financial auditor. My wife landed a job in a world-leading fast-moving consumer goods company as a financial analyst. We had finally gotten the job and life every new migrant dreamt of. When we returned to Beijing with two lovely children during Christmas, although my parents did not say it, I knew that they had finally accepted that I had made the right decision in leaving China five years ago.
So why did I have to escape from China in the first place? For you to really get the story, I need to share more of the background. In Chapter one of the book, I will tell you more stories of the new Chinese – myself – and of my father, whose life journey had a significant impact on mine. In Chapter two, I will describe the four generations of Chinese since the establishment of communist China, and more real stories since the end of the Cultural Revolution, when China transformed from a poor and extreme country to what it is today. In Chapter three, I will describe the different types of Chinese living inside Australia. In Chapter four, I am going to try to depict the full picture of politics in China without getting my book banned in my home country. Then in Chapter five, I will talk about the traditional Chinese culture and how it still shapes the mindset of the Chinese today.
In the second half of the book, I will touch on some more practical issues with the Chinese. In Chapter six, I will talk about the Chinese working in Australia and illustrate how different it would have been for them if they had been working in China. The reason that I had to escape from China will be revealed in this Chapter. In Chapter seven, I will share the 'secret' of how the Chinese became so rich in just a few decades. Then in Chapter eight, I will discuss how the Chinese spend their money and what people should do if they wish to sell to the Chinese. And then in the final Chapter, I will present my views on whether China the rising super power could be a threat to world safety. I will conclude this book with my own prediction (or wish) for China's future.
I hope you enjoy reading my story and the story of the new China.


Excellent apartment located in new residential building with two apartments per floor. Apartment features lots of open space,modern layout,high ceilings, spacious and bright rooms. It features hallway, kitchen, living room with dining area, terrace with stunning view, master bedroom with bathroom and terrace, study room, two more bedrooms, bathroom and guest toilet. Apartment has designated parking place in underground garage. One of the best property in Vracar area!


This sparkling crystal chandelier comes standard at 45" tall and a diameter of 34". It comes with a longer stem than is shown in the photo.There is a single tier of lights, with layer upon layer of crystals to add sparkle. Due to popular demand, we now offer the Oxley Giddings in an antique finish, which works well with bronze and oil rubbed bronze home hardware.
Rather than just being some thrown together crystal chandelier with no history (like others on the market), ours is a documented gas chandelier made about 1870 by the high end manufacturer Oxley-Giddings. Nice to have authenticity when carefully re-doing a fine Victorian home.
For more photos of this historic crystal chandelier in the polished brass finish, click here . We make the same design with two tiers of lights , if you need a larger presence.
This lovely piece sparkles like a jewel, appearing to be more than its 600 watts. Pair with one of our genuine plaster ceiling medallions for traditional Victorian style.
We show this splendid chandelier in polished, unlacquered brass, as it would have been originally manufactured. If you prefer, we can custom finish it to an antique brass patina.
Shades are sold separately. Since it has 4" fitters, any 4" fitter shade can be used, even antiques.But, we recommend the oakleaf crown shade, or our hand-cut lead glass shade shown here.
If 45" is too tall, we can adjust by deducting the two optional top tiers of crystals to get it as short as 34". Or, we can make it anywhere between these two heights but will take some adaptation and perhaps moving crystals around.Lengthening is also possible for a small additional charge. For such special orders, please call 360-379-9030.
We offer three choices of matching Oxley Giddings crystal wall sconces, pictured here also: single prism sconce ; double prism sconce; and deluxe double prism sconce. For a chandelier with even bigger impact or for larger rooms, see our 10 light crystal chandelier .
Up to 600 watts incandescent.


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1 in custody after pizza delivery driver's vehicle stolen from Cary, involved in rollover crash on I-90
Luis Gonzalez-Garcia, 18, of Woodstock
Police say two men stole a pizza delivery driver's car in Cary on Friday and one of them was arrested after they were involved in a rollover crash on Interstate 90 near Elgin.
The Cary Police Department responded around 5:15 p.m. Friday to the Rosati's Pizza, 395 Cary-Algonquin Road, for a report of a vehicle theft.
Officers arrived on the scene and met with the male victim, an employee of the business, who reported that he returned to the restaurant after making a delivery.
He left his vehicle running with the keys in the ignition and the vehicle unlocked, according to Cary Deputy Police Scott Naydenoff.
While the victim was inside the business, a witness came into the restaurant and told the victim that two men entered his vehicle and drove out of the parking lot.
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Officers were able to obtain a physical description of the two men who entered and stole the vehicle based on witness statements and video surveillance.
On Sunday, the Cary Police Department was notified by the Illinois State Police that the stolen vehicle was involved in a rollover crash on Interstate 90 in the Elgin and Dundee area, Naydenoff said.
The occupants of the vehicle fled the scene on foot. Luis Gonzalez-Garcia, 18, of Woodstock, was taken into custody while attempting to flee.
Gonzalez-Garcia, who was wanted on two active warrants issued in McHenry County for battery, was transported to St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates for a medical evaluation.
Investigators were able to positively identify Gonzalez-Garcia as the suspect who entered the driver's side of the stolen vehicle and drove it from the parking lot, Naydenoff said.
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After being released from the hospital, Gonzalez-Garcia was transported to the McHenry County Jail by the Illinois State Police for his warrants.
The Cary Police Department charged Gonzalez-Garcia with one count of theft over $500, a class 3 felony.
Gonzalez-Garcia remains in custody at the McHenry County Jail on a $25,000 bond.
The Cary Police Department continues to investigate the incident and is attempting to identify the suspect who assisted Gonzalez-Garcia in the vehicle theft.
"The Cary Police Department would like to remind the community these crimes of opportunity are often preventable, and not to leave vehicles running, unlocked, and/or leave valuables in plain view inside the vehicle," Naydenoff said.
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Woodard Briarwood Metal Dining Table 190303 Finish: Espresso Table Size: Rectangular 42" x 84"
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Woodard Metropolis Sling Metal Dining Table 190228 Finish: Sandstone Table Size: 42"
Wicker frame. Not recommended for granite or stone table tops. Suitable for outdoor use. Will hold 54 in. or 60 in. top. 28.6 in. H x 34 in. D Weight: 24 lbs..


A monument, situated in front of the present MacGregor Elementary School, commemorates MacGregor School, formally established in September 1883 with a building erected at NW33-11-10W in 1886. It was replaced by a structure designed by Winnipeg architect H. S. Griffith, and constructed around 1903.
The original school bell sits atop the monument. As of 1 January 1965, it became part of MacGregor Consolidated School No. 2434, along with several schools in the vicinity, including Beaver Creek School No. 103, Birmingham School No. 2086, Chipping Hill School No. 488, Emmeline School No. 683, Image Creek School No. 712, Macaulay School No. 1159, Path Head School No. 675, Southend School No. 1158, and Squirrel Creek School No. 76.
Among the teachers at MacGregor School were Wilfrid B. "Wilf" Book (1938-?), Agnes S. Crickard (1953), John Alfred Hammond, and William J. Grant (c1896).
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 85.
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - MacGregor 1.


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https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Remains-may-be-missing-girl-s-body-11616480.php
?Remains may be? missing girl's body?
Associated Press,
CITRONELLE, Ala. -- Police said a search of woods next to a rural Alabama road Saturday uncovered human remains that likely belong to a young girl whose father is charged with killing her and her brother.
Search teams found the skeletal remains about 40 feet from a county road in Citronelle, about 30 miles north of Mobile, Mobile Police Maj. Kara Rose said. They had only been searching the site for a half-hour.
Rose said investigators believe the remains belong to Natalie DeBlase, who would have turned 5 in late November. Skeletal remains found Wednesday in the woods of rural Mississippi are believed to belong to her 3-year-old brother, Chase.
John DeBlase, 27, is charged with two counts of felony murder and two counts of corpse abuse. DeBlase's parents have said the last time they saw the children was in February, when they found DeBlase living at a mobile home park in Citronelle with his common-law wife, Heather Leavell-Keaton.
Police have said Leavell-Keaton also is responsible for the killings. She has been charged with child abuse but not murder. She was being extradited to Alabama and was expected to arrive there today.
DeBlase's court-appointed attorney, Jim Sears, has said DeBlase maintains that he is innocent and that Leavell-Keaton killed the children. She has blamed DeBlase for the children's deaths.
Attorneys for DeBlase have said he will plead not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. Sears said Friday that comments made by friends that called into question DeBlase's mental health are "certainly not without reason."
Mobile County Assistant District Attorney Jo Beth Murphree said Friday that authorities would soon be upgrading Leavell-Keaton's charges from child abuse to more serious aggravated child abuse counts. She also was to be charged with two counts of corpse abuse.
DeBlase had told police he dumped his daughter Natalie in the woods north of Mobile in March. He said he discarded the boy's body, dressed only in a diaper and stuffed into a plastic garbage bag, in Mississippi in June on or around Father's Day. Police say the children were killed separately, then immediately disposed of.


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4. then drive the target areas and find couture boutiques that are surrounded by other women markets so passerbys say from restaurants will also pop-in to see your works… make sense ?
also find out where hot boutiques are and negotiate maybe being carried by them ..
work local to ensure you have good production patterns and see upon success of sample sets the local manf can drop ship to botiques in high traffic markets .. miami, la etc. maybe you have a local friend in la to have consignment ?


Adults and children 12 years of age and older: At the onset of symptoms, dissolve 5 pellets under the tongue 3 to 4 times a day until symptoms are relieved. Decrease frequency with improvement. Children under 12 years of age: Ask a doctor.