Nadex is the only broker on binaryrobot.org that accepts US customers. In this Nadex review, we will bring out all important facts about binary options services provided by Nadex. Traders will recognize that this is not a classic broker, after all, it is specially tailored for US market and according to the rules of CFTC. NADEX is regulated by Commodity Futures Trading Commission. NADEX Special Features While we are constantly searching for new brokers that support US traders, we have found out that NADEX is one of few exchanges on the binary market that supports US traders to trade legally. The signup process is pretty much the same, as it is for other brokers. When you become a NADEX client, there are various trades or contracts that can be chosen to trade with. Registration with NADEX is completely free, but it is important to point out there are different fees that arise while trading. Nadex serves two trading account types, with one being only for US residents and second for international clients. Minimum deposit is $200 Maximum Returns - Unlimited Minimum investment - $0,01 Maximum investment - $100 There is also a Permanent Demo Account available and it is funded with $25,000 virtual money. Nadex members can practice trading different strategies, learning to handle the platform all use demo account for free. Traders who have opened real trading account can also use a demo. Our Nadex review showed that demo is the best way to start trading with Nadex, as a result of Nadex being different than other regulated binary brokers. Trader platform claims to represent real time charts with very detailed insights about trades. Accoridng to NADEX, platform gives accurate, fast and reliable access to all assets which makes decision making much easier. Traders can customize their trading account according to their preferences. NADEX Software Platform Nadex platform is very different from what we are used with other European brokers we have reviewed. The trading platform is very much alike MS Windows operating system. We like the Nadex welcome note which shows each time traders login to their account. The welcome note provides a daily market overview with all important news that can be used for placing future trades. We recommend traders to read market news on a daily basis. Nadex platform is also available for mobile devices offering apps for Android and iOS phones and tablets. You can trade from anywhere using Nadex free apps. Mobile platforms offer same powerful features that are available with the desktop version. Mobile apps let you: Filter strike prices for preferable trades Using portrait charts mode for multiple strike prices Landscape mode for price history and technical indicators Demo account One tap order replacement from chart Pinch and zoom control Customizing charts using different indicators In comparison with European traditional brokers, Nadex has a lower amount of options which limits the liquidity. Available options are High/Low, Long Term and Nadex Spreads. There are no short term options like 60 seconds or 1 minute trades. On the contrary, Nadex clients can use the opportunity of an early close feature if they feel they have the wrong prediction for placed trade. In our Nadex review, we have found traders can trade with stocks, commodities, and Forex. NADEX Support Information The trading platform is only available in English language and it is based on the Proprietary platform. We find this unusual since the broker offers its services worldwide and it is an industry practice to be available for more languages. From our perspective, Nadex should add Spanish, French, Italian and German languages into consideration. Customer support is available through phone or by email - [email protected] and one of the shocking things is, there is no live chat option. Support phone line is available from 6 pm ET Sunday through 4:15 pm ET Friday. We need to point out that Nadex platform and customer support closes its service during US national holidays. Nadex seems to be oriented towards the education of its clients since they offer a vast amount of handbooks and organize webinars. Some education materials are free of charge. There is also Nadex glossary and FAQ section where traders can find answers to all frequently generic questions. NADEX Banking and Company Information Nadex is part of IG Group - global financial services provider . Nadex has enabled many convenient payment methods for withdrawals and deposits: MasterCard Visa Bank Wire Minimum deposit of $250 is valid for both US and non-US clients. US clients can deposit with a debit card, bank and wire transfer and paper check. Non-US clients can only deposit with a debit card or wire transfer. The maximum deposit you can transfer through debit card is $50,000. We want to point out that non-US traders can withdraw only by wire transfer, while US clients can withdraw through a wire or bank transfer. If a money was deposited through debit card, there are special terms applied that regards withdrawals. Traders have to send withdrawal request and bank statement with a 9-digit routing number. Withdrawal will be transferred through bank wire. As we have already mentioned before, Nadex is charging additional fees for some of its services. For wire transfer, Nadex will charge $20 for deposit and $25 for withdrawal. Clients are limited to 4 possible deposits in one month. Returned check will also be charged $25. Withdrawals are processed very fast, usually in the same day. It takes about 3-5 days to have funds visible on the account.
Nadex is the only broker on binaryrobot.org that accepts US customers. In this Nadex review, we will bring out all important facts about binary options services provided by Nadex. Traders will recognize that this is not a classic broker, after all, it is specially tailored for US market and according to the rules of CFTC. NADEX is regulated by Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
While we are constantly searching for new brokers that support US traders, we have found out that NADEX is one of few exchanges on the binary market that supports US traders to trade legally. The signup process is pretty much the same, as it is for other brokers. When you become a NADEX client, there are various trades or contracts that can be chosen to trade with. Registration with NADEX is completely free, but it is important to point out there are different fees that arise while trading.
Nadex serves two trading account types, with one being only for US residents and second for international clients.
There is also a Permanent Demo Account available and it is funded with $25,000 virtual money. Nadex members can practice trading different strategies, learning to handle the platform all use demo account for free. Traders who have opened real trading account can also use a demo. Our Nadex review showed that demo is the best way to start trading with Nadex, as a result of Nadex being different than other regulated binary brokers.
Trader platform claims to represent real time charts with very detailed insights about trades. Accoridng to NADEX, platform gives accurate, fast and reliable access to all assets which makes decision making much easier. Traders can customize their trading account according to their preferences.
Nadex platform is very different from what we are used with other European brokers we have reviewed. The trading platform is very much alike MS Windows operating system. We like the Nadex welcome note which shows each time traders login to their account. The welcome note provides a daily market overview with all important news that can be used for placing future trades. We recommend traders to read market news on a daily basis.
In comparison with European traditional brokers, Nadex has a lower amount of options which limits the liquidity. Available options are High/Low, Long Term and Nadex Spreads. There are no short term options like 60 seconds or 1 minute trades. On the contrary, Nadex clients can use the opportunity of an early close feature if they feel they have the wrong prediction for placed trade.
In our Nadex review, we have found traders can trade with stocks, commodities, and Forex.
The trading platform is only available in English language and it is based on the Proprietary platform. We find this unusual since the broker offers its services worldwide and it is an industry practice to be available for more languages. From our perspective, Nadex should add Spanish, French, Italian and German languages into consideration. Customer support is available through phone or by email – [email protected] and one of the shocking things is, there is no live chat option. Support phone line is available from 6 pm ET Sunday through 4:15 pm ET Friday. We need to point out that Nadex platform and customer support closes its service during US national holidays.
Nadex seems to be oriented towards the education of its clients since they offer a vast amount of handbooks and organize webinars. Some education materials are free of charge. There is also Nadex glossary and FAQ section where traders can find answers to all frequently generic questions.
Minimum deposit of $250 is valid for both US and non-US clients. US clients can deposit with a debit card, bank and wire transfer and paper check. Non-US clients can only deposit with a debit card or wire transfer. The maximum deposit you can transfer through debit card is $50,000.
We want to point out that non-US traders can withdraw only by wire transfer, while US clients can withdraw through a wire or bank transfer.
If a money was deposited through debit card, there are special terms applied that regards withdrawals. Traders have to send withdrawal request and bank statement with a 9-digit routing number. Withdrawal will be transferred through bank wire.
As we have already mentioned before, Nadex is charging additional fees for some of its services. For wire transfer, Nadex will charge $20 for deposit and $25 for withdrawal. Clients are limited to 4 possible deposits in one month. Returned check will also be charged $25.
Withdrawals are processed very fast, usually in the same day. It takes about 3-5 days to have funds visible on the account.


Nokia Mobile launched the Nokia X7 in China last month and the phone came with Android Oreo. Nokia Mobile being super fast in providing Android updates is all set to begin the Android Pie beta testing for the Nokia X7 in China. For this, Nokia Mobile has already started accepting user registrations for the Beta program. The beta testing program in China is very different than the Beta Labs program which we see globally.
Nokia Mobile is accepting user registrations for Android Pie Beta Testing on the nokibar forums of Baidu. To register, Nokia X7 owners have to reply to this post, their model and network operator and their past experience with the Beta Testing programs.
Nokia Mobile also expects the users to have some past experience in testing Beta software since it might have bugs and it is not for the ordinary user. The beta testers will also have to sign a confidentiality agreement. Devices which are rooted and have unlocked bootloader are not eligible for the beta testing.


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Cindy was very helpful in finding the best priced mortgage for our new home. She made complicated things clear and was able to make things happen quickly. We would happily work with her again.
Getting a mortgage (or in my case bridging an existing mortgage) can be a very stressful time. Trying to determine the best option is a real challenge. I did my homework, but it was a daunting task until Cindy MacFarland at TMG (The Mortgage Group) contacted me. She came recommended by my current mortgage lender Merix. Due to the fact that I live in Prince Edward Island and Cindy resides out of New Brunswick the process was conducted via phone and email, which was a great option for me. Cindy answered all my questions in a professional and prompt manner and showed me various options that she felt would be best for me. She was even able to work out a reasonable down payment. Cindy was able to work closely with my real estate agent and lawyer. Thanks to Cindy at TMG we completed the process quickly and painlessly. I couldn't be happier with the service I received, and will definitely be returning to Cindy after my term is complete. Many thanks to Cindy MacFarland at TMG!
Selling or buying a home is a big move in anyone's life and I have to say there are two people in the city of Saint John that will make it happen with ease and comfort are Bob McVicar from Exit Reality and Cindy MacFarland from TMG . Working with these two professionals made it so easy and we Love our New Home !!!!
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World Day of the Sick: A mother remembers the gift of her son
Clara Fox | Angelus News
Evan and Ellen Harrington. (photo courtesy Harrington family)
Evan Harrington had a contagious joy. He would grab onto your arm and laugh, and you'd find yourself laughing too, as though you were both sharing a joke, even though Evan hadn't said anything.
Evan was termed "nonverbal" and "nonambulatory." Since birth he had been in and out of emergency rooms for seizures, respiratory problems and low immunity, which meant catching a cold could be fatal. He was also mentally disabled. All these things can result in exclusion, but his family wouldn't let that happen.
Ellen and Stephen Harrington welcomed Evan into their family in the same way that they had welcomed their three other children. "We didn't think of him as different. He was just the fourth child."
Ellen was at Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral on Feb. 11 to celebrate the annual World Day of the Sick Mass. She said the celebration was beautiful, noting that the cathedral was filled with other faithful who had come to reflect on the needs of the sick and the suffering.
Ellen first heard about the Mass a few years ago through a member of the Order of Malta, the organization in charge of organizing the celebration. Tom Pieronek, a Knight of Malta since 2009, had approached Ellen at American Martyrs Church in Manhattan Beach, asking if she would be interested in going with her son on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, the site of a series of Marian apparitions and miracles.
The Lourdes pilgrimage, sponsored by the Order of Malta in the spring of 2015 was a spiritual journey, Ellen recalled. Although the event came just months before Evan tragically passed away suddenly — and just a month shy of his 18th birthday — their experience at Lourdes helped her find peace after Evan's passing in November 2015.
At Lourdes, the sick and disabled were able to bathe in the famous waters where Our Lady had instructed St. Bernadette to "drink at the spring and wash in it." Afterwards Evan was laughing for an hour, grabbing on to anyone who came near him and causing everyone to join in the laughter.
"Evan was filled with joy and simply wanted to share that unbridled excitement and happiness with everyone," Ellen said of the experience.
The pilgrimage allowed her to reflect on the gift of her son's disability. "Having him be a part of our lives, albeit for a much shorter time than we expected, has changed the way we interact with everyone," she said. "Especially those that may be challenged in some way."
Evan took the people in his life into a deeper level of being human. "As much as we made Evan a part of our world, he also brought us into his. He taught us how to talk without words, how to laugh without there seemingly being a reason, and how to cherish and enjoy the most simplistic of moments."
Ellen considered it especially important to find or create a community where Evan belonged. "Growing up, his siblings came to understand that having a brother with special needs wasn't unusual; it meant our family was special — everyone in our community knew who we were."
Ellen stressed that although Evan had special needs, he was never a burden. His challenges were just different from the challenges that her healthy children faced. Finding a school was difficult at first, but once she found one, she knew that Evan had found a place where he felt welcomed and belonged. Evan also had the assistance of a caregiver with whom he formed a special attachment.
She added, "The adage that God never gives you more than you can handle was the mantra of our home."
The family always made sure to bring Evan to Mass every Sunday. Participating in Mass and other religious community events were ways of teaching Evan the faith.
"It's not like you could sit him down and teach him the rosary," said Ellen. But he could be with others through the celebration, participating in his own way. Evan would often vocalize during the hymns. "And that was his way of singing," Ellen said.
Pieronek was with Ellen and her son at Lourdes. He remembers Evan's infectious smile. "There was an ability to communicate at the most basic level," he said. "You don't rely on the verbal; you don't rely on the conversation."
Pieronek said he saw the Lourdes trip as a blessing to Ellen since she had the opportunity to be with a community where everyone was eager to reach out to her son. "Her child was an object of attraction," he said.
Pieronek recalled Ellen speaking to the group about the difficulty some people had in communicating with her son. She told them to make the first move, to kneel down to his level, talk and put an arm around him.
"Just try," Pieronek said. Although people may feel shy about reaching out to the disabled, it's an important thing to do, he said, or else the disabled can find themselves isolated from others.
The Knights of Malta are well versed in communicating with the sick and the disabled. During the pilgrimage, "everyone just wanted to say hi, everyone just wanted to come out to him," Pieronek said.
Ellen noted, "As parents, we are supposed to be teachers for our children, leading the way and setting the examples — but Evan taught us far more than we could have ever taught him; he led us and set the examples for us to follow."
She added, "We were privileged to be his family. We are thankful for the realization that our simple family existence impacted others."
Since the pilgrimage, Ellen has begun the process of joining the Order of Malta. Next year, she will be invested as a Dame of Malta, and she will continue to serve the poor, sick and disabled. She sees it as carrying on the mission of her son.
"We were honored that, despite having never spoken a single word, Evan touched the lives of so many others," said Ellen. "We have carried on without him, forever holding his spirit, his infectious smile and unbridled joy in our hearts, realizing that our lives have been forever changed for having known him."
Clara Fox
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Bishops in Ghana launch diabetic clinic to mark World Day of the Sick by Catholic News Service February 10, 2020

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Dr. Vahram Shemmassian to Virtually Discuss New Book on Armenians of Musa Dagh
Dr. Vahram Shemmassian to Virtually Discuss New Book on Armenians of Musa Dagh - 41 mins ago
Turkish President to 'Take Action' on Dink Case
ANKARA (Hurriyet Daily News)—Turkish President Abdullah Gül has revealed plans to take action in the controversial Hrant Dink murder case upon his return to Turkey, telling reporters in Strasbourg that he plans on ordering further investigations into the stalled case.
Dink, a Turkish journalist of Armenian origin who wrote on subjects that included the denial of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey and the reconciliation between Armenians and Turks, was murdered four years ago.
The Dink family recently made a new plea that police and gendarmerie officials not questioned during the investigation be brought into the scope of the investigation, given a recent European Court of Human Rights decision that found Turkey guilty of both failing to protect Dink and his freedom of speech and not properly investigating civil servants suspected of being involved in the murder.
Gül said he was ashamed that the Turkish government was not able to protect one of its citizens and that the system in place in Turkey had proven to be "deeply troubling" given that the Dink case remains unsolved after four years.
Gül said he planned to instruct the State Audit Board (DDK) to further investigate the Dink case and bring to light what remains hidden. Leaving the murder unsolved would be a "stain" on the country's history and raise concerns regarding the judiciary process, he said, adding that solving the case with a determined approach would prevent similar incidents from happening in the future.
The DDK recently called for a new investigation into a 2009 helicopter crash that killed a right-wing political party leader, Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, after it found serious flaws in the Turkish state's response to the incident.
Meanwhile, opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said Gül's announcement could finally allow the investigation to reveal the truth behind the murder.
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) "conceals evidence, instead of revealing it. We know that those who hide evidence are elevated to high positions. It is a great development that the president is stepping in. Maybe the public can finally learn the facts that have been hidden," Kılıçdaroğlu said.
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Raffi - January 28, 2011 said:
Pure propaganda, If in Turkey for every case for justice needs to be pressured by the whole world to act, that says a lot on Turkey's justice system.
ARA - January 28, 2011 said:
Hogwash by the turks as usual. They need to giv e our lands back and leave us alone. Their bullet to Hrant was their teachings and laws that say what it says. The politicians are full of it and even with most of the world on our side-they still do NOT get it. They killed, they lied and they lie- they drown in their own blood
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Dr. Vahram Shemmassian, Director of the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Northridge, will speak about his new book "The Armenians of Musa Dagh: From Obscurity to Genocide Resistance and Fame 1840-1915."


A switch from the film industry to politics, has been a big one. This shift has been undertaken by Ollywood celebrities in large numbers this year for coming elections.
Prashant Nanda and Siddhanta Mahapatra are two star politicians who have succeeded in politics till now.
Now three main political parties of Odisha (BJD, BJP and Congress) have some Odia film actors each.
Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has Anubhav Mohanty, Siddhanta Mahapatra, Munna Khan, Prashant Nanda, Mihir Das, Papu Pam Pam, Arindam, Satyaki Mishra and others.
Congress has Bijay Mohanty and Aparajita Mohanty, who will contest for Lok Sabha.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has Sritam Das, Pinky Pradhan and Pintu Nanda.
Watch OTV Janamancha video on topic 'Ollywood celebrities in Odisha politics' and the participants are recently celeb-turned-politicians : Bijay Mohanty, Mihir Das and Pinky Pradhan.


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Real Life Hitman Gaming Experience Will Change Your Perception Of Video Games
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Trending News: These Guys Turned Hitman Into A Real World Game
Alex Giardini
Because pressing buttons to make pixels move is so five years ago.
Realm Pictures have released video of Real Life Hitman, a real-world interactive game where featured character Agent 47 is guided by players who send commands to control his every move.
Realm Pictures, an interactive company specializing in narrative films and fictional storytelling, released a "live" version of the popular action franchise Hitman. Last summer, the same guys showed off a very fun and very successful "Real Life First Person Shooter" game that followed real people who took commands from gamers. Agent 47 now gets his turn.
Honestly, it's probably the closest you'll ever get to being James Bond, so watch and enjoy.
The video serves as a game, but can be viewed as a short movie as well. Agent 47, followed by a camera in his journey (third person view), chokes, strangles and shoots anyone in his way while following instructions from multiple interactive users. The goal of the game is to defeat a Serbian arms dealer, with target eliminations throughout, all in the span of one hour. If you've ever seen the movie Spy, this will all seem pretty familiar.
But not every outcome is a positive one for the special agent, seeing how his life is in the hands of others.
To see how this was all made possible, check out a behind the scenes video.
The stealth video game series came to prominence in the mid-2000s, and the franchise has released eight games since 2000. The newest installment is due out today. There have also been two Hitman films released.
This is much better.
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Disrupt Your Feed: That actor might turn into a real hitman after having to listen to people tell him what to do all day.
Drop This Fact: Hitman has sold over 8 million units.
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Captain James Cook (1728-1779) was apprenticed to John Walker in Whitby for about 10 years and, when ashore, tradition has it that he lodged in the house which is now this museum. As well as telling the story of Cook's remarkable career as a Royal Naval officer, explorer and surveyor, charting New Zealand, parts of Australia and several Pacific islands, the museum holds many original letters, maps and artwork in its collection. Cook's boats were built in Whitby - the museum has models on display. Cook was killed in Hawaii by native Hawaiians.


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Sean Gertner has more than 27 years of experience handling a wide array of civil, commercial and administrative matters for his clients. He currently focuses his practice on issues involving municipal zoning, commercial transactions and litigation and elder law.
Born and raised in Lakewood, he has devoted his career to serving the citizens of Ocean and Monmouth counties. Sean has served as the Municipal Attorney for Lakehurst Borough since 2001 and the Zoning Board Attorney for Jackson Township since July 2006, roles where he finds his degree in Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia quite useful. He has also served as the Municipal Attorney for Point Pleasant Beach, and has served as a Public Defender and Conflict Public Defender in several Jersey Shore municipalities.
Sean serves as the Patient Advocate for Ocean County and is an approved defense attorney for the Municipal Joint Insurance Fund and has served as defense counsel. He often serves as a temporary guardian or court-appointed counsel for those in need of guardianship services and elder law and is well acquainted with the needs of such clients for estate planning and litigation. When advising on commercial transactions on behalf of business entities and individuals, he is well versed in the complexity of issues faced and focuses on liquor license transfers with his knowledge of state and local government.
Throughout his career, Sean has been able to not only provide these entities with general legal services, but also defend their interests in civil claims and assist in administrative actions. He has also represented both plaintiffs and defendants regarding workers compensation, personal injury and contractual claims. Serving the community, he currently chairs the Ocean-Monmouth Legal Services.
Admitted to bar 1990 New Jersey and Virginia; 1991 Maryland and the District of Columbia; 1994 United States Supreme Court. Education: University of Virginia (B.C.P. 1987); University of Virginia (J.D. 1990Member: American, New Jersey and Ocean County Bar Associations.
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Jerome Gertner was born Elizabeth, N.J. and was admitted to bar in New Jersey in 1962 and to the United States Supreme Court in 1994.
He was educated at Rutgers University (B.A. 1959) and the University of Virginia (B. Laws. 1962). Jerome is the former President of the American Judges Association (1989). He is also a retired Municipal Court Judge, Ocean County (1978-2000) and the former State Commander Jewish War Veterans (1973).
In addition, Mr. Gertner served as Notes Editor, Court Review. He is a member of the New Jersey and Ocean County Bar Associations.
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Forged document from the SEC against Tether
By Marco Cavicchioli - 19 Aug 2022
In recent days, a forged document was circulated online according to which the SEC accused Tether of selling securities, resulting in a sanction.
SEC's accusation against Tether is fake news
However, it was instead a fabricated fake, as revealed on Twitter by the anonymous db profile.
Fake Tether SEC cease and desist making the rounds on Twitter
It is an edited copy of the BlockFi release, see the release number pic.twitter.com/WqtyWhPhqt
— db (@tier10k) August 18, 2022
The authors of the fake document downloaded an official SEC document dating back to February, and directed against BlockFi, and changed some of its words to make it look like an August document against iFinex, i.e., the parent company of the group to which Tether also belongs.
In February, the SEC had fined BlockFi for offering unregistered securities for sale. The matter had then been relatively easily and quickly resolved only by the payment of a hefty $100 million fine, and of course the delisting of securities from products offered by BlockFi.
The goal of the fake document was probably precisely to scare the markets by fearing a forced withdrawal of USDT from the market, yet USDT is a completely different asset from that offered by BlockFi which was blocked by the SEC in February.
Nevertheless, someone took the bait on the hoax, so much so that the value of USDT in the market has dropped slightly in the last 24 hours. A few hours after this small drop, the price of Bitcoin also fell.
Tether's CTO, Paolo Ardoino, later accused one of the people who spread the fake news on Twitter of doing so for personal interests.
As always @cryptowhale is a clown. Wonder who's paying him. Cui prodest?
Who takes benefit from this fake news?
Not even good with forging. Hoping that his funders will ask for refund. https://t.co/Kb0v5rD4Lz
— Paolo Ardoino 🕳🥊 (@paoloardoino) August 18, 2022
Indeed, he claims that there are people who are paid to spread fake news about Tether, not least because this has been going on for several years.
In this specific case then, it is very easy to see that it is a fake news because it is more than evident that the document spread is a forged copy of a legitimate document from February.
The hypothesis is that $50,000 was paid to spread this fake news, and at this point, a question arises: who makes so much money from spreading this news that they can afford to spend this kind of money to spread it?
The question is, of course, WHO paid the $50,000 to CryptoWhale to post this forged document?
And then why is a known scammer still verified and able to post forged documents on this platform?
Like, exactly how much does it cost to keep that blue seal of approval? https://t.co/JjnN95ljmb
— Stacy Herbert 🇸🇻 (@stacyherbert) August 18, 2022
Furthermore, yesterday Tether had announced its compliance with the top five accounting firms in the world, and that upcoming audits will be performed and published by BDO Italia.
Tether Announces Alignment With Top Five Accounting Firm And Confirms Attestations Will Now Be Completed By BDO Italia https://t.co/2vO7F2c3b2
— Tether (@Tether_to) August 18, 2022
Nonetheless, it is difficult to imagine that this will stop the spread of fake news.
In the meantime, USDT has recovered all that it had lost in the past few hours, even though it was a very small amount, and has returned to the classic value of $1.
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It's easy to overlook success in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, so we wanted to applaud some of the great work being delivered by clients who have positively reacted and adapted during this time.
Media and Digital Limited
Cheshire based digital marketing agency MaD (Media and Digital Limited) put their digital wherewithal to excellent use with the development of a new website, "Support Warrington", which allows local businesses in Warrington and the surrounding areas to advertise for free and tell the world they are still open for business during COVID-19. If you would like to sign up please visit https://www.supportwarrington.com
Whilst access to schools has been severely restricted, MaD have also launched a 'Virtual Tours' service, allowing Year 6 pupils and their families to experience their new school from the safety of home, together with a 'Transition' service, to offer reassurance to new pupils, allow them to meet their new teachers virtually, and welcome them to their new school. You can view an example here.
The People's Powerhouse
Like most organisations, Manchester based movement and voice for the North The People's Powerhouse have had to shift focus to how to adapt their work to be relevant and possible during the pandemic. Earlier this year The People's Powerhouse had secured funding to embark upon a road trip across the North of England to canvas as many opinions as possible on their views on life in the North, and their visions for improvement of their regions. However they found their visionary plans severely curtailed when the lockdown was imposed.
As a result, The People's Powerhouse partnered with media company Northern Soul to share good news stories from across the North in England showing the best of humanity through COVID-19. The People's Powerhouse have now featured over 100 organisations in their good news articles: https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/good-news-positive-stories-from-across-the-north-10/
Looking ahead to recovery post-COVID 19, The People's Powerhouse are also inviting public opinion on a large and grassroots scale from voluntary and community organisations across the North as part of their Recovery Coalition. To become involved please email The People's Powerhouse.
Spice Kitchen Online
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Optimum Group
In early April, Liverpool based Optimum Group turned their attentions from coffee and desserts to the assembly and delivery of PPE visors, suitable for NHS staff and other key workers for use in the fight against coronavirus.
Spurred on by the dire shortage of PPE for frontline workers, the group sourced a large quantity of polypropylene and acetate together with a blueprint to produce medical visors. Their actions have seen the team assemble almost 40,000 visors to date for distribution to various organisations, including the NHS, care homes, funeral homes and public transport companies.
The Group have turned two of their Costa stores in Gateacre and Crosby over to PPE Collection and Assembly hubs. Instead of coffees and desserts, staff from the Group's Costa Coffee shops and Kaspa's dessert parlour have been taught how to assemble PPE visors, and they are now manning the hubs 6 days a week distributing visors to those in need.
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14th C. – Merrion Castle, Co. Dublin
Merrion Castle was a medieval castle situated in present day Mount Merrion. Built in the early fourteenth century, it was from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth century the principal seat of Viscount Fitzwilliam.
1570 – The Wooden House, Drogheda, Co. Louth
The Wooden House, Drogheda; erected 1570 by Nicholas Bathe at the junction of Laurence and Shop streets; taken down 1824.
From The Dublin Penny Journal,
15th C. – Brown's Castle, Dublin
Approximately where Cornmarket is now, Brown's Castle was better known as the Black Dog prison. The castle became a tavern from which the prison got its name.
1600s – Blayney Castle, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan
The area of Muckno and Ballynalurgan was granted to Sir Edward Blayney under the Plantation of Ulster in 1607 and 1611.
1603 – St. Augustine's Fort, Galway
Work began on the Augustinian foundation in Galway in the early 1500s. Located outside the city walls, the lands were seized in 1546 following the dissolution of the monasteries.
1610 – Belfast Castle, Belfast, Co. Antrim
John de Courcy built a castle on what is now Castle Street in the city centre in the 12th century. By the early 17th century when Sir Arthur Chichester,
1619 – Castle Caldwell, Co. Fermanagh
Castle Caldwell was built between 1612 and 1619, during the time of the Plantation of Ulster, by the Blennerhassetts, in classic Planter style;
1620s – Charlemont Fort, Co. Armagh
Charlemont Fort was a garrison built in Charlemont in 1602 by Lord Mountjoy. It was destroyed in 1920 by fire and the only building remaining today is the gatehouse.
1622 – Exchange or Market House, Derry
Originally erected by the London Corporation at a cost of over 500 pounds after a decision taken in 1616 that "a market house and a town house should be erected in Derry,
1630s – Inchmore Castle, Co. Kilkenny
"This highly picturesque ruin is situated on the Nore, about four miles from Kilkenny, and derives its name, Inchmore, or the Great Island,
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The United States Institute for Peace released a new and very important study on social media and the conflict in Syria last week, which I highly recommend to anyone using social media sources in their research, whether focused on Syria or other arenas.
The study raises some extremely important points about how structural biases in social media can distort our picture of events on the ground, and it introduces some important caveats that every journalism, academic and government researcher should keep in mind.
They are highly insular, meaning that groups self-organize into communities which reinforce their own world view while excluding data that does not fit with the community's agenda.
They are highly curated, in that a relatively small number of influencers set the agenda for a much larger group of users and ultimately exert tremendous influence on what content gets redistributed. The authors compare the magnitude of this influence to that of a newspaper editor or television producer.
These conclusions make sense as far as the data set which was examined -- tweets including the word "Syria" and the number of retweets of specific content.
But they can also lead to a misunderstanding about the strength of insularity and curation. While I agree these qualities are often not adequately accounted for in research, the analysis of retweets only (a focus dictated by reasonable practical obstacles in data collection on this scale) can make them appear more powerful than they are.
Based on my own ongoing research looking at smaller datasets, there are two Twitter relationship types that balance, to some extent, the bias toward insularity and curation, neither of which was examined in the study -- following and mentioning.
Although there are clear example of insular communities within different segments of the Syrian conflict's social media landscape, almost everyone involved in the conflict follows at least some people outside of those insular communities. That means they are being exposed to content that cracks the wall of insularity, even if they are not retweeting that content.
The question of whether those users are reading this content and integrating it into their worldviews (which is not the same as adopting the views represented in the content) can be gauged to some extent by mentions -- when people respond to the content, whether in agreement or disagreement. In smaller datasets, where collecting mentions and follow relationships can be done in a practical way, it's clear that very few users are wholly insular and that social media is introducing people to information that may differ from their assumptions about the world.
This dynamic is pretty clearly visible in the current fitna among Syrian jihadi groups, where angry and sometimes lengthy exchanges break through the wall of insularity as people mount arguments and defend allegiances. And we are only beginning to see how these challenges to insularity are creating a more "democratic" jihadi movement where dissent is aired publicly and leaders must for the first time compete for popular support from footsoldiers in the movement.
Curation, similarly, has dimensions that are not necessarily obvious without a deeper and more structurally complex examination of how content spreads. Curators are not necessarily the originators of content, and items can organically recommend themselves for curation based on how they are received at lower levels. While I agree curators and influencers are incredibly important, I would not credit them with power comparable to a newspaper editor or television producer. The latter are gatekeepers for institutions, the former are participants in a community exercise, even though some are more equal than others.
UPDATE: It occurs to me that a better way to describe my key question about curation is whether curated items are imposed from the top down (i.e., influencers pushing an agenda) or whether it functions from the bottom up (i.e., influencers reflecting the content they see as gaining momentum organically). The answer, of course, is that it's a little of both, with the balance shifting depending on the specific piece of content, and the behavior of each individual curator. So while curators are indeed power-brokers as far as what content reaches a large audience, many of them act more as amplifiers for messages which are already gaining traction organically.
That said, both curation and insularity are factors in how information is distributed, and they become more important when you are talking about journalists and researchers who simply wander into social media and begin using the sources as they find them, without necessarily understanding them in context. So the warnings in the study are well-taken, but they should be understood as one part of a massively complex picture.


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Searching for Sheridan
THE MAN AND THE MYTHS BEHIND The Curtis Creek Manifesto
Words: Brett Tallman
My first copy of The Curtis Creek Manifesto was given to me by an old professor. He wasn't much of a fisherman, but he knew about such things. I told him I'd taken up flyfishing, and he went looking for something in his shop. He stopped rummaging long enough to give a lecture on the mechanics of the pocket watch and the implications of its development on the oceangoing explorers of the Pacific Coast—namely Captain Cook, a distant relative of his. After the lesson, he remembered his task and produced a ragged pamphlet he called "The Book."
That summer, when the professor drove home to Prairie City, OR, he invited me along.
We fished a creek in the Strawberry Mountains and the professor brought along an old bamboo rod with cracked ferrules and a too-small reel attached to the rod with duct tape.
His brother—a one-armed machinist who fished with an old Colt Navy on his hip—had stayed in Prairie City and wasn't big on Portland fishermen. The old revolver, which didn't fire, had once been a prop in the 1969 film, Paint Your Wagon. Lee Marvin, he said, had toted it around in front of the cameras.
By noon, the professor and his brother had killed two good browns for lunch and released a dozen more. I was shut out, but the two men were kind enough not to suggest they should have killed a third. "What's the name of this creek?" I asked over a handful of sunflower seeds. They let the question hang before the professor replied, "Curtis Creek."
"So," his brother asked, "have you read The Book?"
"What's the name of this creek?" I asked over a handful of sunflower seeds. They let the question hang before the professor replied, "Curtis Creek."
ABOVE "After my brother Sheridan died, I was sifting through his stuff and came across these photos and placed them in a photo album. Sheridan was always the flyfisherman, I wasn't. Regretfully, I have no idea where or when the pictures were taken. Sheridan died March 31, 1984 and I still miss him very much." Photo: Michael Anderson
"There were a lot of people dirtbagging then, but nobody fished except me and him. We'd fish the Merced and all the little creeks. There's a series of deep pools below upper and lower Yosemite Falls. It was a pretty easy climb, so we'd fish them from a rappel. We caught some nice 14-inch rainbows that way that must have come over the falls." —Yvon Chouinard
In the spring of 1975, an unsolicited manuscript landed in publisher Frank Amato's mailbox in Portland, OR. It was a 48-page fishing instructional done entirely in comics. "I liked it immediately," Amato said. "The humor, the straightforward presentation—I thought it was just brilliant."
The envelope had a San Francisco return address and enclosed was a phone number for the author, Sheridan Anderson. "Normally I'd send a letter," Amato said, "but I was so interested I called him and asked if I could come to San Francisco."
It was the first time Amato had flown anywhere to meet a potential author, but before the week was up he was on a plane to San Francisco. "Sheridan cut quite the image," he said. "He picked me up at the airport wearing a long black coat and a black, brimmed hat. He was a dead ringer for Long John Silver. He even walked with a limp."
They discussed the book at Sheridan's apartment in the Mission District, but Amato's mind was already made up. He was in San Francisco to meet the man behind the manuscript. He flew home and mailed Sheridan a contract. In 1976, Amato published The Curtis Creek Manifesto. Immediately popular, the book reimagined the instructional flyfishing guide. Illustrated in Sheridan's irreverent underground comic style, the book was an engaging, hilarious and completely refreshing take on a centuries-old sport. It was a breath of fresh air and it invigorated a generation of anglers 16 years before A River Runs Through It hit the big screen.
"The book sold like crazy right out of the gate," Amato said. By the 1980s it was being translated into German and Japanese and, according to Amato, it sold especially well in Japan. Since 1976, it has been reprinted at least 20 times and sold several hundred thousand copies.
"The book is pure Sheridan," Amato said. "Nothing changed in the layout, the writing is 99 percent unedited, it's all hand done—he was a real master."
"I heard later that he had done some off-color rock-climbing cartoons," Amato said, but before The Manifesto, Amato, like most fishermen, had never heard of Anderson. It was Sheridan's first fishing work and, in spite of its resonance, it would be his only one. But by the time The Curtis Creek Manifesto was published, Sheridan had been contributing to the climbing magazine Summit for more than a decade. He also illustrated a pair of how-to books on the subject, written by the late Royal Robbins and, throughout the '60s and '70s, his cartoons appeared regularly in Ascent, Mountain, Mountain Gazette and, under the pseudonym E. Lovejoy Wolfinger III, in the "off-color" climbing 'zine, Vulgarian Digest.
"The book sold like crazy right out of the gate," Amato said. By the '80s it was being translated into German and Japanese and, according to Amato, it sold especially well in Japan. Since 1976, it has been reprinted at least 20 times and sold several hundred thousand copies.
ABOVE Anderson dubbed this the illustration the "'Flip' or Snap cast." Today we're more likely to call it the bow-and-arrow cast. Regardless, his caption, "If it's easy you're probably doing it wrong," is as true today as it was when The Curtis Creek Manifesto was published in 1978.
Illustration: The Curtis Creek Manifesto, Sheridan Anderson, Copyright 1978, Frank Amato Publications, Portland, OR
ABOVE Appearing on page four of The Curtis Creek Manifesto, this illustration is a perfect example of Anderson's immense talent—meticulous draftsmanship, an easy, engaging style, beautiful lettering and approachable, humorous writing.
Sheridan wandered into the climbing scene at Yosemite by way of Reno, NV; Bishop, CA; and Salt Lake City. He was born in 1936 outside of Los Angeles, but grew up in Utah, where his two purposes in life were to fish and draw. "Sheridan could get right to the heart of a person," his brother Michael Anderson said. "Even as a kid, he could make the magic strokes that would make a person come out in a drawing."
"I went fishing with him once or twice," he said. "I spent most of the time untying knots. Sheridan was down low the whole time, crawling around and sneaking up on fish—I didn't get it."
The Andersons were not a fishing family, but Uncle Grant, who married in, changed that. "Sheridan really looked up to him," Anderson said. "Grant would spin these corrupt stories that couldn't have been more than half true, but we didn't care because he told them so well."
And he taught Sheridan to fish.
Grant Wooten is the first person listed under The Manifesto's "Acknowledgements and Thanks," alongside his photo—the only other photo in the book besides the author's. "Without [his] genius," Sheridan wrote, "this book would not have been possible."
"I got hold of some correspondence later on," Anderson said, "and he asked Grant to go in on it with him. Grant told him, no, this is your baby. You can do this."
After high school, Sheridan studied art at the University of Utah, dropped out after a semester or two, and in the early '60s wandered into Camp Four.
Camp Four is a dusty, walk-in campground in Yosemite National Park. But with Half Dome to the east and El Capitan to the west, it was, and, for all I know, still is the heart of American rock climbing. Sheridan took part in at least two first ascents—Andy's Inferno in 1964, and Aunt Fanny's Pantry in 1965—but, by all accounts, he was never an elite climber.
Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, was an elite climber. The year Sheridan climbed Andy's Inferno, Chouinard was part of the first ascent of the North America Wall of El Cap without fixed ropes. The next year he climbed the Muir Wall. But as a teenager Chouinard had spent an inordinate amount of time poaching panfish from the water hazards at private Burbank golf courses. Like the only two fishermen in any setting, it was inevitable Chouinard and Sheridan would find each other. "There were a lot of people dirtbagging then," Chouinard said, "but nobody fished except me and him. We'd fish the Merced and all the little creeks. There's a series of deep pools below upper and lower Yosemite Falls. It was a pretty easy climb, so we'd fish them from a rappel. We caught some nice 14-inch rainbows that way that must have come over the falls."
Aside from supplying dirtbag climbers with fresh trout, Sheridan was also Camp Four's artist in residence. The late Royal Robbins would write, in 1984, that Sheridan was, "one of the chief chroniclers of the foibles, vanities and pretensions of the period." He was friendly, even close with most of the best climbers of the '60s and, with a knack for reading character and rendering personalities, he wasn't shy about lampooning them with pencil and paper. "I never met anyone who could do what Sheridan could do," photographer Ed Cooper said. "He could put a person's personality right into a sketch."
"When he got on a project, he'd really go at it in a big way. He liked to work standing up and he'd tack a sheet to his huge wooden easel and just start drawing. Sometimes, when he was really rolling, it would spill over onto the walls."—Ed Cooper
ABOVE Sheridan Anderson in the panhandle of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, in October 1967. He is sharing or selling a copy of The Oracle, an underground newspaper whose contributors included such beat writers as Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He is wearing the paint-splashed pants of his sometime profession—a sign painter. Photo: Ed Cooper
In 1966, Ed Cooper had just quit a job at a brokerage firm in San Francisco. He landed in an apartment on Haight Street; a crash pad for itinerant climbers, drug scenesters and garden-variety misfits. Sheridan was there too.
"People were always coming and going," Cooper said, "but Sheridan and I stuck around." By sticking around, Cooper and Sheridan got to know each other and agreed to look for somewhere more permanent to live. At the edge of Haight-Ashbury, they found a one-time restaurant being rented as an apartment.
"They still had deli furniture out front," Cooper said. "We thought it was perfect."
Sheridan dubbed it the 6th Avenue Delicatessen & Commune. He staged his easel in the dining area and Cooper set up a darkroom in the kitchen.
"When he got on a project, he'd really go at it in a big way," Cooper said. "He liked to work standing up and he'd tack a sheet to his huge wooden easel and just start drawing. Sometimes, when he was really rolling, it would spill over onto the walls."
When the work didn't come easily, Sheridan would stand and stare at the blank sheet.
"Some nights he'd go on benders," Cooper said. "He'd get real melancholy and sing the old Lee Marvin song 'Wand'rin' Star.' He loved that song."
Cooper lived with Sheridan for about a year and a half between 1967 and '68, but the two spent little time together. "I'd be coming back from the mountains," Cooper said, "and Sheridan would be leaving for the Russian River, the Sierras, or back to Yosemite."
Climbing writer Joe Kelsey met Sheridan at Yosemite Lodge in the spring of 1968. Sheridan was in Camp Four and Kelsey, who edited a posthumous collection of Sheridan's climbing cartoons, had just driven across the country with a friend who knew Sheridan and invited him for breakfast. "Of course, I knew who he was from the cartoons he did for Summit," Kelsey said. "It was really an honor to meet him. I don't know what I expected, but I was surprised to find this big, boisterous guy with a laugh that filled up the lodge."
One year, Kelsey arrived in Yosemite to find Sheridan had taken up oil painting.
"Right in the middle of this dirtbag climbing camp is Sheridan copying Remingtons and Charlie Russells," Kelsey said. "He'd have his easel up against a pine tree—complete squalor all around—painting with oils."
In 1971, Sheridan fractured a vertebrae in a fall and stopped climbing altogether. "He was always kind of vague about it," Kelsey said, "but, from what he told me, he fell off a trail hiking in the Sierras."
According to Frank Amato, he'd fallen off a billboard he was painting. Fellow climber Dick Dumais thought he'd been caught in a rock fall. One magazine bio claimed he'd been "scrambling unroped on his way to a rather informal climbing school run by Warren Harding."
After the accident, Sheridan drove to Jackson, WY to stay with Kelsey. "He was in pretty bad shape," Kelsey said. "While we were off climbing, he'd hang around camp and fish. There was a creek running over slabs near camp that was full of tiny, fingerling-sized trout. He'd catch them and laugh his head off. He said it was great practice—that it kept him sharp."
Kelsey returned to San Francisco sometime in the mid '70s to find Sheridan already at work on The Curtis Creek Manifesto. Sheridan was living in a funky, slice-of-pie-shaped apartment on Potrero Hill. "I stayed there a few months while I was working in Berkeley," Kelsey said. "I'd go off to work for the day and when I'd get back there'd be something new hanging on the wall."
When he needed inspiration, Sheridan would wander down to the casting ponds at Golden Gate Park or over to the Winston fly shop on Third Street. "He started coming in around the time I showed up," Glenn Brackett, then-owner of the Winston Rod Co., said. "That would have been 1974 or '75. At that time, San Francisco was the focal point of fishing."
"A lot of great things came out of the San Francisco fishing scene," Brackett said. "The Golden Gate Casting Club, the Tyee Club, all the tackle history. And it's a great jumping-off place for fishing. You could be fishing for stripers one day and steelhead the next. You had great salmon runs on the Eel, the Smith, the Mad, the Trinity—not to mention the small coastal streams. A couple hours away, you had the Sierras and the Truckee and Hot Creek. It was so rich in varied fisheries."
Sheridan would lay out pages on the counter and he and Glenn Brackett would go over them. "He was all business," Brackett said. "He came in to talk about his book. He really wasn't very sociable, but I was very drawn to him."
ABOVE The more things change.… One of Anderson's endearing talents was the ability to gently satirize his subjects, pointing out the absurdities, the pretensions and the humor in his subjects. Illustration: The Curtis Creek Manifesto, Sheridan Anderson, Copyright 1978, Frank Amato Publications, Portland, OR
Sheridan would lay out pages on the counter and he and Brackett would go over them. "He was all business," Brackett said. "He came in to talk about his book. He really wasn't very sociable, but I was very drawn to him."
The last time Brackett saw Sheridan was the day Winston Rod Co. left San Francisco for Twin Bridges, MT. It was early Sunday morning, before traffic, and a semi was parked in the road. "Here came Sheridan, wandering along," Brackett said "We were loading the rod-building equipment into the trailer and he asked if we needed any help. I took one look at him—he'd clearly had a big night—and I told him, 'No, Sheridan, you just take it easy.' He had no idea we were leaving, but that was Sheridan—always showing up at strange times."
Brackett lost touch with Sheridan when he left San Francisco, but when The Manifesto came out he saw that Sheridan had done the job right. "It's brilliant," Brackett said. "It cuts through all the bullshit in the fishing business. There was a period of time that we'd provide a copy with all the rods that went out of the shop."
Painter Russ Chatham also crossed paths with Sheridan in 1970s San Francisco.
"I loved the guy," Chatham said. "I was in my late 30s then and up for any kind of hijinks. He was obviously on the same wavelength, running around with the ZAP! Comix guys—R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson—who were some of the smartest and the most bizarre people I've ever known."
In a storage locker in Montana, Chatham has a huge collection of underground comics. "The kind of stuff Sheridan and the underground guys were doing was deceptively simple," he said. "It seems goofy, but that's not really right. It's quite sophisticated, if you want to know the truth."
Of the underground comic artists, Sheridan was closest with the legendary S. Clay Wilson. In 2008, Wilson suffered a severe brain injury. He rarely speaks, but through his wife, Lorraine Chamberlain, he was able to relate a list of people from the underground circle who knew Sheridan—a list that included the painter David Geiser.
Geiser met Sheridan in 1969 at a comic convention in San Francisco. "This great big grizzly character comes up to my table and starts chuckling," Geiser said. "He introduced himself and I pulled out a bottle of something and that was that. We were all living deep in the bowels of the Mission. We'd go down to Dick's Bar to meet Wilson and the rest of the drinking buddies and storytellers. It was a really rolling scene for a neighborhood bar; a couple of big communes close by in the Castro, [writer/editor] Warren Hinckle was right there and he'd bring in Hunter Thompson. It was a real daisy chain."
Though Geiser was and is a flyfisherman, he and Sheridan never fished together. But Sheridan was adamant about teaching S. Clay Wilson to flyfish.
"Poor Wilson probably thought he was going out to drink Jack and stare at a bobber," Geiser said. "When they came back, Wilson had this befuddled look. 'Sheridan's worse than a goddamn Parris Island drill instructor,' he said. I asked Sheridan about it later. He shook his head and said, 'It's a good thing Wilson can draw.'"
"I loved the guy. I was in my late 30s then and up for any kind of hijinks. He was obviously on the same wavelength, running around with the ZAP! Comix guys—R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson—who were some of the smartest and the most bizarre people I've ever known." —Russ Chatham
ABOVE Despite Anderson's humorous, irreverent style, he had the uncanny ability to relate complicated technique in a simple, easy-to-understand manner. Illustration: The Curtis Creek Manifesto, Sheridan Anderson, Copyright 1978, Frank Amato Publications, Portland, OR
In the late '70s, emphysema forced Sheridan out of San Francisco. He bought a cabin in the high desert of southern Oregon. A short walk from the Williamson and Sprague Rivers, and in need of repairs, he dubbed the cabin the "Visqueen Manor." Fishing on both rivers for big rainbows and browns can be spectacular—just what a traditional trout fisherman like Sheridan would have been looking for. But Chiloquin, OR, must have been short on the spontaneous, open-ended fun that had been so plentiful in Camp Four and San Francisco.
"He'd hang around the bars in Chiloquin drinking with Paiute Indians," Geiser said. "One night—after he'd gotten a phone in the cabin—he called to tell me he'd ended up on his back with a revolver in his face. I'm sure he went in there saying, 'Hey, let's talk,' and started in with the John Wayne shtick. I had to tell him to cool it."
Summers in Chiloquin were a welcome change from San Francisco, but the winters were too much for Sheridan's emphysema. In the fall, he'd drive east to Las Vegas to stay with his grandmother Hazel. "She was old and feisty and lived a couple blocks off the strip," Kelsey said. "Her passion in life was the dollar slots. He was there to take care of her, but we were never quite sure who was taking care of who."
Sheridan would walk his grandmother to the casino every day in the winter and wait at the bar reading Tolstoy and Chekhov while Hazel worked the slots. "He'd call me in the middle of the night howling drunk and lamenting being down there," Geiser said. "He'd tell me stories about old-timers in Iron Bay work gloves hauling away on the slots with right arms like Schwarzenegger's. Said he might join Mensa just to find some decent conversation. We were all devastated when his ticker popped."
At 47 years old, Sheridan died of an acute attack of emphysema on March 31, 1984 in Las Vegas. One of the first calls Hazel made was to S. Clay Wilson, but he was in Scotland. Friend Sabeth Ireland took the message. "I can still hear her saying, 'Tell Wilson Sherry died,'" Ireland said.
"I had him cremated in Las Vegas and brought him back to California in a little box," Michael Anderson said. "I kept that box around the house for the rest of the winter."
In the spring, Michael hired a plane to fly him over the Golden Trout Wilderness. It was a place Sheridan loved, where he had gone to fish and to dry out. The plane took off from an airstrip in Lone Pine; two runways in the afternoon shadow of the southern Sierras. "We were circling up to get enough elevation," he said. "We kept circling and circling and circling up until, pop, we were over the crest and in the Tunnel Meadows."
I haven't been back to the Strawberry Mountains, but now I have my own Curtis Creek—a cutthroat stream in Oregon's Willamette Valley. I lost touch with the professor and gave his copy of The Manifesto to a friend. These days I keep several on hand so I can give them away, and for 99 cents at the local Goodwill, anyone can own an instruction manual that is the best way into a sport blessedly full of storytellers, oddballs, bullshitters, artists and raconteurs. Sheridan was all of those things and described himself as a "foe of the work ethic." He was an engaging eccentric and massive talent who left the world too young, but left behind a work that distilled an ever-evolving sport into 48 timeless pages. Even now, 33 years after his ashes have settled over Tunnel Meadows, his old friends hear new stories and say, "Hell, I never heard that one, but it's true—whether it happened or not."
Sheridan would walk his grandmother to the casino every day in the winter, and wait at the bar reading Tolstoy and Chekhov while Hazel worked the slots.
ABOVE Anderson was a huge proponent of stealth and concealment in his approach to flyfishing. "The Curtis Creek Sneak," is an excellent example of his genius mix of technique and humor—not to mention beautiful and meticulous drawing. Illustration: The Curtis Creek Manifesto, Sheridan Anderson, Copyright 1978, Frank Amato Publications, Portland, OR
ABOVE Spend a few moments with The Curtis Creek Manifesto and you are guaranteed to become a better angler, or at least pick up a tip or two. "The Book" has provided more "light-bulb moments" to anglers than perhaps any other modern instruction manual. Illustration: The Curtis Creek Manifesto, Sheridan Anderson, Copyright 1978, Frank Amato Publications, Portland, OR
This story originally appeared in The Flyfish Journal Volume 8 Issue 4.


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In loss to Iowa, Northwestern sees what may be down the road
The young Wildcats could learn a few things from the upperclassmen-led Hawkeyes and, in a few years, might be a very similar team.
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Chris Collins, when asked about his program in relation to others in the Big Ten, always answers with some variation of said coach--be it Tom Izzo, Bo Ryan, Thad Matta, etc--serving as a template for Collins and his Northwestern team. Who knows how much of that is fluff and how much is actual praise.
However, when he talks about Iowa and Fran McCaffery--who Collins was a ballboy for when McCaffery played the University of Pennsylvania--he seems to be sincere. This was an idea he reiterated after his team got beat down by McCaffery's Iowa team. The Hawkeyes led the whole way, en route to a fairly easy 69-52 victory.
On Aaron White's (game-high 25 points, eight rebounds), Gabe Olaseni's and Josh Oglesby's Senior Day, Iowa showed how good a team filled with juniors and seniors can be when it fully matures. Northwestern, with most of its key contributors returning for next year and beyond, can take note of how the Hawkeyes have developed.
"Iowa has been a role model for what we want this program to be," Collins said. "They took their lumps early [as a program] and now they're starting to perform."
Iowa, now 21-10 overall and 12-6 in the Big Ten, is a near-lock for the NCAA Tournament, with its seeding dependent on what it does in the Big Ten Tournament. Outside of the Hawkeyes' important seniors, juniors Jarrod Uthoff (16 points and eight rebounds) and Adam Woodbury (13 points) also were big against Northwestern and have already has distinguished careers.
Right now, it's hard to imagine the current Wildcats two-three years in the future, but eventually, they will get there and, if Chris Collins is lucky, they might end up something like White, Uthoff and Olaseni. None of those players are outright superstars--the argument for White could be made--yet they constitute a complete team that can compete in the conference and on a national stage.
After the game, Collins was extremely complimentary of Iowa, saying how he sees in the Hawkeyes "a team that looks fresh and is poised to play well in the postseason." There was a hint of dissatisfaction in NU's coach in saying that, as his team heads to another March without an NCAA Tournament berth and only playoff hopes resting in the CBI, a pay-to-play tournament.
As he has said multiple times, Collins has known McCaffery for a long time and clearly hasn't been able to avoid seeing how successful he has been even at non-traditional basketball powerhouses, a category into which Northwestern would certainly classify.
The question is whether freshmen and sophomores like Vic Law, Bryant McIntosh, Scottie Lindsey and Nathan Taphorn--to name a few--as well as the incoming recruits can live up to their inflated hypes.
Collins has already built his base at NU, and he's done with an ensemble format without any true stars, similarly to how McCaffery has done. All that's left to see is if that base can support a legitimate contender.


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