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Robin J. Kohn, AIA, NCARB – President
Following his achievement as Director of Regional Engineering at Henkels & McCoy, Inc., Robin started Betzwood Associates in 1992 out of a desire to generate a workforce to address the growing need for design in the wireless communication arena. Over the years, Robin has grown the company to expand into the fields of traditional architecture, electrical engineering and structural engineering.
Robin has worked on a variety of projects in his career. While with Henkels & McCoy, Robin designed and oversaw the installation of a utility bridge across the St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada. Robin also designed and oversaw major renovations for several manufacturing plants in the area, including Certainteed/St. Gobain, Atofina, N.A., and Owens Corning. Robin performed design and oversaw the installation of fiberoptic communications systems for MCI and AT&T. The design of voice communication and data systems for Merrill Lynch in buildings C & D of the World Financial Center in Manhattan was also Robin's responsibility.
Robin took the experience he gained with Henkels & McCoy and used it to develop new clients for Betzwood Associates requiring design services for datacenters, wireless communications systems and pharmaceutical research. Eventually, this developed into manufacturing, commercial buildings, single and multi-family residences, and a wide array of others. Robin has recently been retained as an expert by counsel for several residential contractors in the Delaware Valley.
Robin has a Bachelor of Science from Temple University in Architectural Engineering Technology. A Masters of Science from Pennsylvania State University in Regional Planning, Post-Graduate Studies from Pennsylvania State University in Alternative Energy Sources and Post Graduate Studies from Temple University in Project Management and is a licensed Architect in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, Ohio, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arizona and California.
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Regis has been in overall charge of numerous multi-million dollar communication construction projects including the installation of the National Telephone System in the Country of Iran. He was the engineer of record for the design and construction of the Communications System for the Lagos airport in the country of Nigeria, East Africa. Regis was the principal in charge for the design and installation of the first cellular communications system for Ericsson in Detroit, MI. He has over 40 years experience working in the telecommunications industry and in the wireless industry since 1982.
In addition to his communications experience, Regis has had extensive experience in electrical design for various heavy industries such as refineries, steel mills, printing plants, government facilities and electric utility company facilities as well as high technology applications such as computer data facilities and telephone switching buildings. Regis is also a nationally recognized as an expert in the field of Cathodic Protection, Corrosion Control and Grounding.
Regis has a Bachelor of Science from Drexel University in Electrical Engineering, Post-Graduate Studies from Pennsylvania University in English and Technical Writing, Post-Graduate Studies from Penn State University in Business and Real Estate Law and is a licensed Electrical Engineer in Pennsylvania.
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Anthracus vanharteni is een keversoort uit de familie van de loopkevers (Carabidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 2009 door Jaeger & Felix.

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2011 May » Welcome to vSphere-land!
VMware products have come a long way since the mid-2000s. Back then, virtualization was more of a niche technology with a cult following.
Today server virtualization has become ubiquitous, and VMware products dominate the market. The company has capitalized on this success and now offers other data center platforms, tools and services. Currently, VMware is making a concerted push into the cloud-computing market with products and initiatives such as vCloud Director, VMforce and Cloud Foundry.
Recently VMware has enjoyed record growth, as demonstrated by its recent acquisitions and Q1 revenue. To trace the company's success, let's review its recent milestones, product launches and initiatives. We'll start in 2004, with the first VMworld conference.
The first VMworld had 1,400 attendees — which isn't bad, but far less than the 17,000 attendees in 2010. Over the past seven years, VMworld attendance has increased dramatically, which reflects the growing popularity of virtualization (see Table 1).
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a hosted virtualization product along the lines of VMware Player, Workstation and Fusion and Microsoft Virtual PC. But VirtualBox has some unique features and use cases of interest to server virtualization admins.
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a lightweight application that allows you to run virtual machines (VMs) on a variety of host operating systems. Following Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, VirtualBox was officially renamed Oracle VM VirtualBox, and in February 2011, the company released version 4.0.4. VirtualBox is free and open source, but there's also a free, closed source extension pack available with additional VirtualBox features.
Your customer's vSphere environment may seem healthy enough at first glance, but external appearances can be deceiving. Hidden problems may lurk under the cover that can eventually cause the environment to become unhealthy.


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De Kersauson eyes Round Britain record
Elaine Bunting
After 5,000 miles of sea trials, Olivier de Kersauson says his maxi tri is ready to show her potential
Sea trials have been completed – again – by Olivier de Kersuason in his maxi trimaran Géronimo. The boat is, he says, ready to start on the first of her record attempts as soon as the right weather arrives.
Géronimo was damaged when a Figaro yacht collided with her in June, but after repairs to the starboard float de Kersauson's crew have been out sailing widely in the North Atlantic. In the last few weeks, they have worked with meteorologist Pierre Lasnier to encounter as great a variety of conditions as possible and have sailed in 23 different weather systems, going as far north as 60°.
This has helped the team at sea and ashore to gauge the success of the trimaran's new rudder blade, which was redesigned after problems earlier this year. Despite sailing so many miles, though, de Kersauson says they will have to wait for 'more demanding conditions' to complete tests.
That done, he hopes to leave in September to attempt the Round Britain and Ireland record. The current record of 5 days 21 hours 5 minutes was set in 1994 by Steve Fossett in the 60ft trimaran Lakota. In theory, the maxi tri should be well capable of slashing this time, but the 2,000 mile route is one of the hardest over which to find consistent favourable winds.

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NEW DELHI: Terming the fire at Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai as a "serious lapse", the government today said the two-member probe team has prepared its report and a meeting will be convened soon to discuss it, following which strict action will be taken against those who violated norms.
with Maharashtra officials and Mumbai Municipal Corporation, strict action, if required, will be taken under the Environment Protection Act against violators.
"Our team has just prepared the report which is under examination. I will discuss it tomorrow with my officers. Within two days, most probably on March 30, we will call municipal and state officials concerned. Then we will discuss the whole report and ask for a time-bound action plan.
"It is a serious lapse and we have taken it very seriously. We will issue, if required, necessary orders under Section 5 of Environment Protection Act. This means strict action. We will issue directions. They have to comply with it," Javadekar told PTI.
Asked about reports hinting that the fire was a 'sabotage', he said that all such aspects will be discussed during the meeting and action will be taken accordingly. The Environment Ministry had earlier constituted a two-member team to probe the fire. Javadekar had earlier said that team will submit its report today.
Air quality in several parts of Mumbai had oscillated between 'poor' and 'very poor' in the wake of the fire. According to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), the average level of fine respirable pollutants PM 2.5 fell in the 'poor' category in Mumbai recently.
A six-month old boy had also died in a locality near Deonar dumping ground with the parents saying he died of suffocation due to emission of toxic gases from the blaze, a charge which had been refuted by officials.
Reports said that even as cooling operations continue at the dumping ground, residents in the area and policemen deployed at the site are facing health issues due to the smoke still emanating out of the dump.
Congress had staged a road blockade recently near the Deonar dumping ground and demanded that it be shifted to Taloja in Navi Mumbai.


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Chef Valentine Warner says Britain should go back to basics, cooking with nature's natural larder. Savour's Rosie Jenkinson chats to the revered chef about his back-to-nature approach.
"We live in this very sanitised, health and safety conscious world," says Valentine Warner, who's passionate about people connecting with nature.
"I understand it but it is very far away from any idea of sustaining yourself and being joyful about food.
"While we have clean and abundant food we have lost that link with nature. All you need to do is go to France, Italy or Spain and people are still very aware of their environment and the place they live in. "
When I go abroad, I look forward to the markets there, because I know the chickens are going to have their heads on, I know that I might find a bathtub full of lampreys thrashing around. I know there is some kind of mad plant that I've never seen before which is bitter as hell and that the locals love to eat in salads.
"It's foreign markets in France and Spain that have so much excitement in them because they seem more normal. The very fact that the chickens have their heads and feet on. I know that when I put my hands inside them all the giblets are going to be in there and that's really how I like to cook. I'm a visceral cook, I'm a very instinctive cook and I will cook with whatever is around me."
The chef, who's appeared on numerous food shows and written five cookbooks, is on a mission to inspire people to learn more about the heritage of food. "Cooking is a fundamental life skill. You might not enjoy it, you might not even be that interested in eating, but you have to know how to do it because there's a responsibility in it. It helps your head, your wallet, and the environment if you know more about it.
"I think by having your hands in the soil, by having a fishing rod in your hand or going out with the fishermen, by making stuff, you then begin to understand.
"The more involved you are, the more you know about food, the more things you can cook and you know how to get the most out of your ingredients. It's logical."
Even from a young age, Valentine has been a purveyor of nature. He grew up in Dorset surrounded by a love of good food. "Both of my parents are brilliant cooks. I remember my father bringing home handfuls of meadowsweet and pocketfuls of mushrooms for dinner, or rose hip to make cough syrup.
"He spent time travelling with the Foreign Office, and had a huge interest in the natural world.
"We'd eat out in very simple places which my father loved; some old Greek widow cooking some wonderful wild herb and snail dish or something. It was never just about fancy restaurants. It was just as much about eating in a tavern on the side of a mountain than a nice restaurant in wherever, and being very inquisitive. I grew up understanding the world was either edible or inedible."
Valentine's pathway into cooking seemed a natural progression from his childhood experiences, but before entering the culinary world, he was an art student at Byam Shaw School of Art training in portrait paining.
"I quickly realised that I spent far more time thinking about food than finishing my commissions and pretty much overnight, I picked up the spoon and put down the brush. I just made the decision one day when I was sitting in a cafe that I wanted to cook and that was it really."
COOKING CAREER
His first job was at the former, four-star Halycon Hotel in London, before going on to work for British, celebrity chef Alastair Little.
"I think he was without doubt one of the most important chefs in the UK," says Valentine. "He really put provincial farmhouse food from Italy and France – and all over the place – on the table.
"His kitchen was very small, there was no kind of brigade, everybody had to learn everything. It was more about cooking than cheffing in a funny kind of way. Of course there was a lot of technique and stuff, but it was very much based around the cookbooks rather than chefiness.
"It was really like international grandmother food, if you know what I mean. London hadn't seen that before."
Throughout his illustrious career, Valentine has also worked alongside Nathan Outlaw, Fergus Henderson and Mark Hix.
"I like cooks rather than chefs as such. I'm more of a cook. I don't like fiddling. I like good food with a sense of history and that strongly leans on the markets, standing at the hedgerows and seeing what's around."
It's this ethos that's also reflected in his latest project: as co-owner of the Moorland Spirit Company, which produces
Hepple Gin.
ON THE HILLS OF HEPPLE
"Here I am in Northumberland looking around and my heart is happy.
"We had a very strong idea ourselves of the gin that Nick [Strangeway, esteemed bartender and co-founder] and I wanted to drink," explains Valentine.
"We wanted to be about the place we were in. We wanted to make a cold climate gin of extreme clarity. We didn't want to superimpose spices from the four corners of the earth on to the Northumbrian hillside. We had a lot here to work with," adds Valentine, who set up the business with Nick and childhood friend Walter Riddell, who just happened to own the estate in Hepple.
When thinking about the botanicals and distilling methods they would use, Valentine had an idea to use the main component, juniper, a little differently. "All gins use mature juniper, but I had the notion that we should use the unripe juniper as well," he says. "If you're arguing that you've got the adult flavours into the bottle, why aren't the young flavours in there too? So we wanted to give a gin which was the whole life of gin rather than just one end of it, the mature end."
The unique flavour profile of Hepple Gin won it a double gold award at the San Francisco Spirit Awards in 2017, and the Hepple Gin team have been working on developing food pairings with the gin.
"Hepple goes very well with things because it has a delicacy to it and it's incredibly clean. One of the biggest surprises we made was mixing shoyu (Japanese soy sauce) and a little bit of Hepple Gin and putting it with some very fresh plaice, sliced raw in the sashimi style. It was wonderful," says Valentine.
"It's fantastic with raspberries, and with curries, and with celery and crab. It's very versatile because of its delicacy and its cleanliness. So, we've had a lot of fun cooking with it.
"We've also had the Hepple Gin with barbecued lamb. It's great as an accompaniment as much as it is actually in food."
While Valentine and the Hepple team are working on two new product launches in the near future, he's also considering picking up the paintbrush again.
"I'm doing a lot more illustration than I used to. I think I'll probably end up painting again. I just love doing stuff. It's my intention to find myself in a boiler suit covered in paint and a floor full of pencil sharpenings and scissor cuttings."
Read more about how Hepple Gin came to be or click here to try this recipe for the perfect martini with Hepple Gin.
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To meet a long felt need of scientists working in the new emerging discipline of biological chemistry " The Society Of Biological Chemists (India)" was founded in 1930, with its Head Quarters at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. It was registered under the Societies Act in the then Princely State of Mysore and the memorandum of registration was signed by the late Profs V Subramanian, V Pattawardhan and C V Natarajan, leading figures in the Scientific areas at that time. The Society played a crucial role during the Second World War period by advising the Government on the utilization of indigenous biomaterials as food substitutes, drugs and tonics, on the industrial and agricultural waste utilization and on management of water resources. The other areas of vital interest to the Society in the early years were nutrition, proteins, enzymes, applied microbiology, preventive medicines and the development of high quality proteins from indigenous plant sources.


A catechist is called upon to serve through teaching, witness, prayer, service and to help build community by continuing the mission of Jesus Christ.
All teaching materials are provided. The catechist manual presents an in-depth explanation of the chapter material with easy to follow plans, along with background information.
We welcome team-teaching (2 co-catechists or 1 catechist with an assistant who work together weekly). This benefits the students, the catechist and the office staff as it almost always eliminates the need for finding a substitute when occasionally a teacher is not available.
A substitute must have the flexibility to work with all children. Usually a lesson will be assigned or our staff can provide special materials for that day's lesson.
You can request a specific day to be called upon, but please be flexible regarding the grade level in need.
An aide assists the catechist weekly to effectively complete the goals for the lesson presented. They may assist with attendance, crafts, classroom discipline and with younger grades may accompany children to the bathrooms. Occasionally they may be asked to substitute and teach the daily lesson.
Parents will be called upon several times a year when we have special presentations, fieldtrips, fundraising events or social activities. You will be part of the planning, organizing and running of these events along with the students. Your participation is a key ingredient in the success of these special extracurricular functions.
Most specifically for 4th, 5th and 6th grade, we request assistance in coordinating appropriate, off-site and on-site service projects for this age group.
Parents will be asked to assist in activities throughout the two week program which are planned in conjunction with lesson plans and curricula.
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July 28, 2018 March 3, 2019
The Distant Traveler Causing the FBI's Participation in the Framing OJ Simpson
Maddogg Guest Writer, OMIG Investigator, T.H. Johnson
THE FBI ENTERS THE ARENA OF THE SIMPSON TRIAL
A total of 4 FBI agents apparently offered to gain notoriety by volunteering to offer their expertise in the Simpson trial, two were immediately dismissed by Judge Ito when it was revealed that they had a history of slanting evidence in favor of state prosecutors, however, two others who did the same thing got by.
Revelations of a conspiracy to frame Simpson by participants within the LAPD and LADA's office was threatened with going haywire when an anonymous LAPD insider suddenly provided information that reached the prosecution concerning OJ simpson's contaminated blood. Although it came to the attention of several prosecutors in the DA's office in November of 1994, it was brought to the attention of the defense lawyers in August and September of 1994 by someone who has become identified by OMIG (Ocean Medical Investigative Group) staff as the Distant Traveler. Another FBI agent attempts at self aggrandizement would become an utter failure when he attempted to step in and tilt the scale in favor of state prosecutors as well. There is no question in this instance of the contaminated blood that the FBI would decide to become deeply involved in this section of the conspiracy as well. Instead of making a public example of this individual's malfeasance his bosses at the FBI decided to dig their heels in deeper and double down while attempting to secretly conceal his felonious act. His superiors apparently believed that this was the way to proceed in order to allow the agency to maintain its image of credibility while avoiding potential public ridicule.
It started when several agents at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia accused another FBI agent, Roger Martz, of lying and committing perjury on the witness stand during OJ Simpson's trial. Martz allegedly was attempting to help the prosecution by denying that the Simpson blood contained a high concentration of the anti-clotting preservative EDTA. This anonymous insider's allegation indicated that OJ's blood found on the gate at the crime scene came out of a blood collection vial and was planted drop by drop at the crime site by corrupt actors associated with the Los Angeles Police Department.
FBI Special Agent, Roger Martz, (L) Testifying in the Simpson Murder Trial
This was an issue that a deputy DA on loan to the Los Angeles D.A.'s office wanted cleared up completely. He demanded to know that there was no EDTA found at all in the blood of OJ Simpson. He, Rockne Harmon, from Northern California's Alameda County in Oakland, apparently wanted to know if the L.A. DA's office was concealing this fact to implicate Simpson in murder. Harmon was the one who drafted a specific letter to the FBI and ordered the swatch of blood from the back gate of Nicole Brown Simpson's property sent along with material from Simpson's socks to the FBI's Quantico laboratory.
The LADA's expert on DNA, Rockne Harmon, borrowed from the District Attorney's office in Oakland, California. However, Harmon was allegedly kept outside the inner circle under the leadership of Marcia Clark.
The accusations of agent Martz committing perjury during Simpson's 1995 trial was potentially a very serious matter because not only are people in general not entitled to lie under oath, but FBI agents are supposedly held to a higher standard and subject to dismissal and criminal charges pursuant to a Presidential Executive Order if other agents accuse them of lying under oath. If it had become publicly known that the USDOJ Office of the Inspector General had concluded from the complaint filed by other FBI agents that Martz had committed perjury on the witness stand that would have been a potentially devastating blow to the FBI's credibility. This potential embarrassment was looming over the FBI because it knew that what Martz was being charged with in the OIG complaint was similar to other charges of impropriety and perjury in a 1990 death row appeals case in Florida. It was in the case of George Trepal v. The State of Florida, a death row appeal case, in which agent Roger Martz had also testified. He would later be found by the court to have offered bogus research, similar to what he did in the Simpson trial. The findings of the court regarding Martz in the matter of George Trepal vs. the State of Florida was still pending and had not come out yet when Martz testified in the Simpson trial.
Florida Death Row inmate George Trepal (R) and FBI agent Roger Martz (L). Martz was cited by the Florida court for entering bogus investigative research and conclusions in Trepal's trial.
However, Martz's horrendous professional misconduct as an FBI expert witness asserting fraudulent research methods in the Trepal trial was widely known within the agency's laboratory and certainly known to several administrators who should not have allowed him to testify in the Simpson trial. Examine the highlighted statements regarding agent Martz by the Florida court in the Trepal ruling below that came out well after the Simpson trial had ended.
Page 23 of the final circuit court ruling in the death row appeal of the state of Florida vs George Trepal.
Statements by the Florida court and the potential damage he'd done to the FBI's brand in during the Simpson trial would allegedly lead to Martz being demoted from his illustrious position as head of the FBI's chemistry laboratory to I.D. badge checker at the front door of the FBI in Washington, D.C. so he could reach retirement to receive his full pension.
During the latter part of the Simpson trial in 1995 that potential embarrassment to the FBI almost occurred when a group of FBI agents angered by the actions of Roger Martz approached another agent in the laboratory by the name of Frederic Whitehurst who was a Ph.D Chemist, and by most standards considered to be a top explosive's expert at the agency. However, Whitehurst also was already infamously known to FBI management to be a whistleblower regarding on-going malfeasance of inaccurate research performed within the FBI's laboratory to favor state prosecutors. These fraudulent actions over time Whitehurst alleged led unjustly to defendants receiving death sentences. Because he refused to go along and keep his complaints internally inside the agency and chose to go outside directly to the US Department of Justice, pursuant to the Presidential Executive Order, he was exiled to Quantico's paint detection laboratory. It was while standing outside of that department in 1995 that Whitehurst was approached one day by other agents angered by the actions and statements of Martz regarding blood contamination during the Simpson trial. Naturally, after filing several hundred complaints, Whitehurst was seen to be a thorn in the side of the FBI, but he was chosen by the other agents to be the one to file the complaint with the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Justice. They were allegedly afraid to do it because they feared that filing a complaint against another agent could damage their careers within the bureau.
However, Whitehurst was presented to the public with an aura of mystery surrounding him and downplayed particularly by the media and press during the Simpson trial as being simply a "disgruntled agent" as portrayed by CNN. According to that popular electronic press organization he was there in Los Angeles simply "to cast doubt on the prosecution's lab testing".
Former FBI Special Agent, Frederic Whitehurst
OMIG found in their interview with Whitehurst that he was much more than what CNN and others wanted to give him credit for being. Whitehurst was a stalwart character that in spite of bureaucratic attempts to break him for bucking the system he was still standing and quietly respected among several of the scientist within the FBI's Quantico Laboratory. He was a battle tested former US Army Viet Nam vet and recipient of two bronze stars. His proven bravery would come while under fire on multiple occasions in the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam.
The book above became the novel created from the diary of an NVA battlefield doctor that Whitehurst chose not to destroy that was found on the battlefield of Viet Nam, he would return it 35 years later.
There his fortitude of being a man of principle would be further honed and tested. He is a deeply introspective man as a result of his life's experiences and again displayed his sense of noble humanity by refusing to destroy a diary of a member of the enemy forces of North Viet Nam (NVA) found on the battlefield. 35 years later he would return to Viet Nam to give that diary back to the family of the deceased NVA army doctor killed in action. That diary would go on to become a best seller entitled LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF PEACE within the nation of Viet Nam for the posthumously awarded author Dang Thuy Tram. It would be compared to the best selling diary turned novel by the victim of the Holocaust, Anne Frank, selling over 300,000 copies in a short time in the Asian nation.
Images of Whitehurst as a soldier in Viet Nam that others have had to dig up that he says little about unless he's comfortable with the interviewer as the one from OMIG was allowed to probe deeply into his background.
Equally important, he is also considered a hero in the eyes of OMIG officials as well regarding the Simpson trial due to his commitment to the integrity of truth and justice. Whitehurst's major problem was that he appears to be one of those people that believes that an agency such as the FBI must stand for what it's image of integrity portrays. If the integrity of their environment is lacking, to people like him, they are not going to be satisfied with accepting the inadequacy of lies and incompetence. Neither are they simply going to be a witness that remains silent, in order to go along to get along. These people are rare but their plight is often the same in corporate environments, dogged by those above in power because they will not submit to inappropriate conduct.
U.S. Army soldier Frederic Whitehurst and his associate South Viet Namese Army translator when Whitehurst was reassigned to U.S. Army Intelligence at Duc Pho.
Although he would argue the point Whitehurst could legitimately be considered a military hero even before volunteering to go to Viet Nam. As a 17 year old teenage member of the U.S. Naval Reserve on his way to report for his monthly duty he'd wind up jumping into a frigid body of water in Virginia to save one individual from drowning whose car had slid off the highway into deep water, where another passenger unfortunately would drown because he could not get back in time to save them. At the age of 17, Whitehurst would receive the highest Naval award for bravery in a non-battlefield situation.
Unlike some of the other agents who themselves were brave enough to come forth during the celebrated Simpson trial but concerned about filing an OIG complaint on a fellow FBI agent because of the impact it would have on their career, Whitehurst was not afraid. If he was previously concerned, certainly by now he no longer had reservations since he'd already been black balled for filing over a hundred such complaints regarding the errant conduct of scientists favoring state prosecutors with invalid research within the FBI's laboratory at Quantico, Virginia. The complaint that Whitehurst filed with the USDOJ-OIG on this occasion is believed to specifically accuse agent, Roger Martz, of offering bogus research and committing perjury regarding testimony under oath of his alleged phony testing of the contaminant EDTA in Simpson's blood. Martz, who was reluctant to answer questions directly when called as a defense witness would cause them to seek permission to allow him to be treated as a hostile witness in Simpson's trial.
Ethylene/diamine/tetra/acetic acid
Better known by its abbreviation EDTA is a chemical compound that lines a medical collection vial to keep blood from clotting and is identified by a purple cap on top. In essence, a higher concentration of that chemical EDTA found in the FBI labs actual research allegedly indicated that the blood belonging to O.J. Simpson came out of a collection vial and was planted drop by drop. A lesser concentration of the chemical as Martz was attempting to allege implied it was meaningless because many products contained EDTA. I use the word alleged since several requests by OMIG with the USDOJ Office of the Inspector General for a copy of the Whitehurst complaint under two Freedom of Information Act requests have not been granted after 5 months. Nevertheless, OMIG has interviewed Whitehurst in the midst of its Simpson investigation and he stated that the presence of EDTA was not the issue, but the concentration of the EDTA's presence was the crucial issue. The agent Roger Martz was allegedly accused by his peers of attempting to down grade the concentration of that chemical preservative to favor the prosecution's case against Simpson and using his invented junk science to do it. Hence, it is the concentration of the chemical that is significant and a higher concentration as that contained in the vial can be lethal if found in a human being's body.
THE DISTANT TRAVELER IN THE O.J. SIMPSON CASE
Martz testified that blood on the gate at Nicole Brown Simpson's home had not been treated with a preservative. The defense argued the blood on the back gate had been planted at the crime scene. This was the information that came to the attention of the defense from a distant traveler from Denver, Colorado. He had come to Los Angeles, in August of 1994, about a month and a half after the murders had occurred and presented other information before presenting the issue of contaminated blood first to Johnnie Cochran's chief of Staff, Carl Douglas. He'd meet with Douglas and others in a meeting held in the conference room of Robert Shapiro's office in Century City on August 08, 1994. On that occasion the distant traveler told how Detective Mark Fuhrman had carried the infamous glove he claimed to have found on Simpson's Rockingham property after going there a second time earlier during the night and what other items at the time unknown to both the defense and prosecution would be found with the glove. This information like so much other coming into the defense and possibly the prosecution sounded preposterous, however, according to the distant traveler it was coming to them from inside the LAPD.
Attorney Carl Douglas (L) and his boss the famous now deceased attorney, Johnnie Cochran (R).
An unconvinced Douglas subsequently went to the property department of the LAPD to check on the distant traveler's allegations of collected evidence and did find that these items, a piece of blue plastic from a detective's evidence collection bag and a piece of stick used to transfer the glove allegedly broken off of the fence of Nicole Brown Simpson's condo were collected from O.J. Simpson's Rockingham property. They would be later shown to detectives Fuhrman and Lange in police photographs during direct and cross examination 9 to 10 months later during trial. Even though it would be presented it would be done in a subdued and non-dramatic manner escaping the attention of the viewing audience affixed to testimony that was more sensational.
However, in August of 1994, Douglas and Cochran as well as others were mystified as to how this distant traveler from a thousand miles away would know the particulars about the Simpson evidence. To assure themselves that it was not a fluke and simply a lucky guess they would contact the distant traveler in Denver subsequent to visiting the property department and ask for more evidence being given from the anonymous source inside the LAPD. In September of 1994 the distant traveler would return to Los Angeles and this time with more powerful information, now what he came with concerned the planted blood of Simpson. Carrying information from the anonymous LAPD insider the distant traveler would give the defense the exact collection swatch numbers on the samples taken, swatch numbers 47 and 48, and how they should be tested to be certain that they came from a collection vial.
The distant traveler told them they needed to have the blood tested to prove it contained the high concentration of EDTA contamination that lines the inside of the vial. He even provided them with a blood specialist from the Denver Bonfil's Blood Clinic, a Dr. Dan Ambrose, who understood the delicate process of testing for EDTA. The testing for EDTA is something that the FBI agent Martz and others at the FBI laboratory had no prior experience in testing. It was debated by the defense of testing for EDTA; however, subsequently Cochran through Douglas informed the distant traveler that they were not going to test the blood for the preservative EDTA and so they did not. There are subsequent reasons why OMIG investigators believe that Cochran did not want to test the blood for EDTA in 1994, but will reserve our opinion on that for another occasion.
Deputy L.A. District Attorney, Christopher Darden (in front), during Simpson trial and lead prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney, Marcia Clark (behind Darden)
However, by November 01, 1994, the allegation of contaminated blood would no longer be the secret exclusively of the defense, it would reach Chris Darden via the Los Angeles publisher of Dove Books, Michael Viner, who'd entered a verbal agreement with the distant traveler to publish a book about this conspiracy. Viner, who allegedly believed Simpson guilty, supposedly became concerned about his own potential criminal exposure to obstruction of justice charges given what he had in his possession in the distant traveler's manuscript. Thus, he and his lawyer went to the DA's office to meet with Los Angeles County deputy D.A. Chris Darden on that date.
The late Michael Viner, Publisher and Co-Owner of the popular Dove Books Company who published Faye Resnick's book on the Simpson case first in '94
Darden was already uneasy, with all of the neo-Nazi assertions swirling around the office as a result of a complaint lodged by Mark Fuhrman's former West side division partner, Detective Andrew Purdy. He'd accused Fuhrman of planting Nazi swastikas on other officers' lockers that he didn't like for various racist reasons. Fuhrman allegedly placed one in or on Purdy's locker due to his anger with Purdy's engagement to a Jewish woman.
(L) The Nazi Swastika, (C), Iron Cross award for bravery, (R) SS bolts of the original Protection Squadron of the Nazi orgnization in 1929.
This was in addition to allegedly being allowed to parade around the precinct wearing Nazi paraphernalia on the weekends according to Purdy. The complaints officer in the DA's office, Lucianne Coleman, had already cautioned Marcia Clark about an impending internal affairs investigation into the neo-Nazi activity of Fuhrman and the condoning of his activities by others in a higher command position. Fuhrman already had a bad reputation that traveled with him from precinct to precinct, in fact several officers from different precincts had come in to Deputy D.A. Coleman's office after they found out that Fuhrman was a principal player in the Simpson case. So what Coleman was cautioning Clark to do only made good sense to go slow until they completed the investigation. Thus, it is hard to believe that Darden was not aware of the dust up between Clark and Coleman concerning Fuhrman when Clark accused her long term associate of attempting to interfere with her case. It is alleged that Clark even heatedly cursed Coleman out for her interference. Hence, with the arrival of Michael Viner and his attorney in the DA's office providing further allegations of Fuhrman's nefarious and corrupt activity, it finally gave Darden a reason to hand the management assignment of both Fuhrman and Vannatter back to Marcia Clark.
Los Angeles Deputy DA Marcia Clark and Detective Mark Fuhrman
Overseeing the two detectives had been given to him by Clark but Darden did not trust either, detectives Mark Fuhrman or Phil Vannatter. So in her attempt to maintain control over this recklessly swerving case Clark wound up taking control and overseeing both detectives. Eventually, they both would be charged with committing perjury for lying under oath on the witness stand. However, the issue of Fuhrman lying about race became the focus of the media's attention and something the distant traveler had cautioned the defense's Carl Douglas about back in August of 1994 if the defense failed to focus on the malfeasance surrounding the items found with the planted glove and the contaminated blood.
LAPD Lead Detective Phil Vannatter
The allegations of the distant traveler concerning the collected blood containing EDTA made another deputy D.A. on loan from Oakland California, Rockne Harmon, nervously concerned enough to contact the FBI laboratory in Quantico, VA to prove that there was no EDTA whatsoever in the Simpson blood collected by the LAPD's criminalists.
Deputy D.A. Rockne Harmon, the DNA specialist on loan from Northern California became suspicious of the allegations of EDTA found in the blood samples and demanded that they be tested by the FBI.
After becoming aware of the knowledge of publisher Michael Viner's visiting Chris Darden in the DA's office, Harmon sent a letter along with the blood swatches and pieces of the sock found in Simpson's bedroom off to the FBI laboratory at Quantico, Virginia to once and for all prove there was no EDTA whatsoever in the Simpson blood. Harmon stated that he did this in order to disgrace the distant traveler while publicly exposing him as a charlatan and running his presence out of Los Angeles. OMIG believes, however, that Harmon may have had other motives for sending the blood to the FBI. Below is the wording found in the Harmon letter sent off to the Quantico Laboratory.
"This letter is to describe the items we are sending to you in order to detect the presence or absence of EDTA in specific bloodstains which are of significance in this case." It would go on to say, "Similarly, we would like you to test item 117 to refute the possibility that it could have come from Simpson's reference sample, no. 17."
Rock Harmon proclaimed that the distant traveler was a snake oil salesman promoting bogus unthinkable allegations of corruption by the Los Angeles justice apparatus; however, his main concern may have been a growing lack of trust in the leadership of the now Simpson lead prosecutor, Marcia Clark. If it was the latter, I'm sure that Harmon being denied an invitation to counsel with Clark and others from L.A. was a minor insult compared to what now was being alleged with proof. Thus, for Harmon it was one thing to be denied entre into the inner circle but now it had become a sordid game of musical chairs with the potential of obstruction of justice charges falling on the heads of corrupt prosecutors attempting to frame an innocent man, O.J. Simpson. We are certain that Harmon and the other outsider, the deputy D.A. Woody Clark, (no relation to the lead prosecutor) on loan from San Diego, California would want no part of such reckless conduct of Marcia Clark and her Los Angeles peers in the L.A. D.A.'s office if this contaminated blood indicated a framing of O.J. Simpson. Fortunately, this was not a capitol case where the sentence of death was on the line, because the penalty for prosecutors in Los Angeles County engaging in framing a defendant can be extremely severe, calling for the death penalty for the prosecutors who engaged in such conduct.
By all standards of high profile prosecutors it is doubtful that Marcia Clark would have even had a chance of being a lead prosecutor in the Simpson trial. She was connected to the case because of an unorthodox move on the part of Detective Phil Vannatter who called Clark at her personal residence on the morning of June 13, 1994 instead of the emergency hotline monitored by a deputy D.A. on call to assist police at crime sites. Clark rode the case to the end and then retired shortly after the trial ended with an alleged $4.2 million dollar advance on her book deal regarding the Simpson case. Thus, Harmon using the distant traveler as an excuse to have the FBI examine the evidence and determine whether there was a high concentration of EDTA in the blood was worth the effort for him to protect his own behind.
FBI Science Laboratory is located in Quantico, Virginia in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
The research was conducted on the samples of blood by multiple agents in the chemistry laboratory. However, their research was confiscated and taken away from them and allegedly carried downtown to the main FBI headquarters, at the J. Edgar Hoover Building, in Washington, D.C. by Agent Martz. then chief of the FBI's Chemical Laboratory department. These agents were angry because of Martz's aggressive move and probably exacerbated by the fact that Martz was not an academically trained chemist nor did he hold a degree in chemistry. He was appointed to the title of head of the FBI's chemistry lab because he'd previously interned in that department for four years. So the appointment by some agents was considered to come to Martz as department head by playing the company's politics and "brown nosing" his bosses. This was something that Whitehurst apparently would not cooperate in doing. Whatever the case, once Martz absconded with the other scientists EDTA research he created enough resentment for them to decide to seek out Whitehurst's help in filing a complaint with the USDOJ-OIG. Several agency scientists were already aware of his phony testimony in the Trepal trial and now Martz would give them their opportunity with his phony 'testimony created from whole cloth in the Simpson trial.
Martz constructed his own bogus spin on what the Simpson blood contained and by the time of his testimony he pretended not to see any evidence of EDTA. When finally declared a hostile defense witness Simpson defense attorney Robert Blazier made Martz see that his own research indicated the presence of EDTA. Afterward, Martz attempted to reduce the concentration of EDTA found in the Simpson blood in order to assist the prosecution in implicating Simpson in committing murder.
The Office of the Inspector General had an obligation once it received the Whitehurst complaint and thus informed Simpson's defense team that a complaint for perjury had been filed against Roger Martz, a witness in the Simpson criminal trial. It was at that point that Johnnie Cochran and Barry Scheck subpoenaed Frederic Whitehurst compelling him to come to Los Angeles in order to testify to refute that for which Martz had testified. This immediately triggered activity within the FBI since it has a paramount rule that was not secretly hidden or lost on any of its agents which unofficially supersedes the Presidential executive order and that is 'thou shalt not embarrass the FBI. Thus, the FBI appeared to be in a more precarious position of damage control in 1995 concerning a major embarrassment to its brand during the Simpson trial than now during the Trump administration with its Congressional sniping of FBI agent Peter Strzok regarding his integrity and the FBI's credibility recently in 2016 regarding Russia's interference.
In review, it was the state prosecutor Rockne Harmon's attempt to destroy the distant traveler who asked the FBI to test the blood. The result of that test backfired on multiple participants trying to prove the distant traveler wrong. It backfired first on the LADA and Rock Harmon, which found that the distant traveler was not lying about the contaminated blood of Simpson. Then it backfired on the FBI agent, Roger Martz, who attempted to help the prosecution and got caught lying to diminish the significance of the EDTA contamination. In conjunction with other bad testimony it ultimately led to his subsequent demotion allegedly to I.D. badge checker at the front door of the FBI building. By the time of this utter failure and cover up, around September of 1995, three African American lawyers associated with the Simpson case, Douglas, Cochran and Darden knew of the information alleging contaminated blood belonging to Simpson brought to their attention between 9 months to a year earlier by the distant traveler. Any one of them could have chosen to publicize this level of malfeasance but the defense chose to focus on Fuhrman being a racist cop that planted evidence. This was something that allegedly caused a heated and tense exchange between the distant traveler and Carl Douglas.
The distant traveler was concerned as to how failing to focus on the merits of Fuhrman planting evidence and the police planting Simpson's blood would impact racial relations in America, if the defense took the easier road of simply proving Fuhrman a racist. The distant traveler felt that by conducting an examination on the blood to determine if it contained EDTA would be the more influential argument in swaying the jury's decision and the extremely important public opinion. Of course Douglas would argue that the only mind that mattered was that of the jury and the issue regarding planting contaminated blood takes a back seat unfortunately to the sensationalized subjective argument of a racist planting evidence. It appears almost a quarter of a century later that the distant traveler was quite accurate in his assessment since the only lie that became prevalent associated with Mark Fuhrman was his lie of using the N-word within the last ten years after stating under oath he had not. It turned out that he was on tape using it over 100 times in the past few years. Nevertheless, it deflected the focus away from other important lies directly impacting the case that Fuhrman told, in particular, concerning his discovery of the glove at Simpson's Residence; and the timing of when the photograph of the matching glove at the murder site was taken. The glove found at Simpson's Rockingham estate is problematic because the testimony by detective Mark Fuhrman was that there was no blood trail leading to or away from that glove which sat approximately 160 feet or 60 yards in from the Rockingham gate.
Once allegedly over the fence, the culprit was still about 150 feet or 50 yards from where the 8 or 9 alleged blood drops were found in that vicinity starting inside the gate. The mystery still is how one could go the distance of one NFL football field and not drop any blood; or allegedly climb over the fence 160 feet in from the street and double back to the Rockingham gate by-passing the path to Simpson's front entrance to begin dropping blood? It is the minutia regarding evidence that is important and not the broad stroke of tabloid assumptions that the media has tended to embrace in promulgating its theories of how Simpson committed these murders. You would suspect that if Simpson was bleeding as they alleged then there would be blood in the dry leaves around the Rockingham glove and on both sides of the fence leading back to the Bronco but there was not. As a famous criminalist said in the Simpson trial, "something wrong here".
Glove Fuhrman found behind Kato Kaelin's guesthouse well into Simpson's Rockingham property around 6:30 AM on June 13, 1994.
Then there's another major problem with his testimony. Fuhrman testified under oath he was ordered to return to the murder site after finding the glove at Simpson's residence which is the only evidence that ties Simpson to the murders. He alleged that he was further ordered by lead Detective Phillip Vannatter to locate the police photographer, Rolf Rokahr, once he got back there and take a picture of the matching glove at Bundy after 7:00 AM that morning of June 13, 1994. Fuhrman would claim that the photo was taken around 7:10 AM at Nicole's condo on Bundy Drive which was approximately one-and-a-half hours after sunrise. However, after Fuhrman was dismissed for perjuring himself regarding his use of racial slurs the photographer, Rolf Rokahr, took the witness stand and testified that the time the photo was taken with Fuhrman pointing at the matching glove at the murder site was before Fuhrman and Vannatter and others went to Simpson's residence. In fact, Rokahr testified that the photo was taken in complete darkness with a flash bulb around 04: 15 to 04:30 AM or about one-and-a-half hours before sunrise. This raises the possibility that out of envy for being notified that he was being reduced to assisting the Homicide detectives, Fuhrman may have plotted to frame Simpson during that one-and-a-half hour time period the West side officers stood down, from 02:45 to 04:15 AM. According to Fuhrman's testimony they allegedly did nothing but stand in the street awaiting the arrival of the newly assigned lead detectives, Lange and Vannatter, from robbery/homicide's S.I.D. division. Fuhrman's own tell-tale biography paints a picture of a jealous and envious junior detective who considered Vannatter, the lead detective to be an incompetent idiot. Thus, Fuhrman in his book MURDER IN BRENTWOOD implicitly appears offended by the fact that he had been demoted to assisting the senior detectives from Robbery/Homicide when given the notice at 02:45 AM on June 13, 1994. The question is did he do nothing as he stated during trial for the next 90 minutes or did he visit Simpson's Rockingham residence the first time assured that he would find evidence as stated by the Distant Traveler. Fuhrman may have knowingly placed himself into an indispensable position and thus upstaging the lead detectives when he allegedly found the glove on Simpson's property. His failure to remember he took the photo of the matching glove before going to Simpson's residence is indicative of a planned act of framing Simpson by carrying the other glove to Simpson's Rockingham property.
Detective Mark Fuhrman pointing at the glove at the Bundy murder site around 04:15 AM and not 07:10 AM as he lied during testimony. Although it looks like daylight it was actually taken in complete darkness according to the official LAPD photographer approximately 1.5 hours before sunrise. The photographer, Rolf Rokahr, testified that he asked Fuhrman to point at the glove due to the darkness and shot the picture with a flash bulb.
Whitehurst's entry into this circle of deception unbeknownst to him was also related to the Distant Traveler. It was the Distant Traveler that brought the allegations to the defense in August of 1994 that Fuhrman planted the sole piece of evidence that ties Simpson to the murders, the glove found on his property at Rockingham. To prove that the evidence Cochran and Douglas found as stated with the police evidence department was not a fluke the LAPD insider told the Distant Traveler to tell the defense to test the alleged contaminated blood. It was deputy prosecutor Harmon's attempt to destroy the Distant Traveler's credibility and agent Martz attempting to help the prosecution by committing perjury regarding the EDTA contamination associated with that blood. The latter is what ultimately brought Whitehurst to the L.A. Superior court. He would remain in Los Angeles for 8 days until he would be called to testify as to the alleged bogus testimony that Martz had provided. That is when a fourth crucial black man would enter the picture, he was sent to Los Angeles to salvage the integrity of the FBI and protect its credibility from any potential embarrassment should Whitehurst take the witness stand.
Steven C. Robinson, Senior Counsel for the FBI sent to Los Angeles to neutralize the testimony of author of OIG complaint, FBI Agent Frederic Whitehurst subpoenaed to testify in the Simpson trial against agent Roger Martz.
The agent subpoenaed to testify for the defense, Frederic Whitehurst, was deposed and according to him subjected to rigorous examination by the FBI's enforcer, Steven C. Robinson, the African-American senior counsel for the FBI whose duty it was to impeach Whitehurst's testimony. Robinson was a friend to then FBI director, Louis Freeh, both had served in the southern district of New York U.S. District Attorney's Office and when Freeh took the FBI position Robinson went to the FBI with him. Now Freeh did not need any more controversy himself considering the controversial engagements the FBI had experienced during his watch with the 1993 World Trade Center bombings, Ruby Ridge, to the Waco burning of the building and the followers of David Koresh. The FBI was now facing extreme embarrassment with Johnnie Cochran threatening to destroy Martz and the FBI with Whitehurst taking the witness stand. In this widely publicized celebrated Simpson "trial of the century", stopping Whitehurst from testifying had to be prevented at all costs.
FBI Director, Louis Freeh, was at the helm of the Agency in 1995 when the Simpson trial occurred.
Subsequently, Whitehurst sat outside the courtroom waiting to be called into the on-going Simpson trial to testify; however, a secret discussion was being held inside, and an agreement reached by all parties to keep Whitehurst from taking the witness stand. In essence, Whitehurst would not be called to talk about the allegations in the OIG complaint alleging the false testimony of FBI agent Martz regarding the contaminated blood of Simpson. Whatever agent Roger Martz had done in the past would appear less relevant as it related to this highly racially charged trial involving this iconic black sports fingure, O.J. Simpson. Thus, in order for the FBI to duck this extremely damaging bullet, so to speak, some type of deal had to be struck that all could live with.
Whitehurst's personal attorney, D.C. lawyer David Caliapinto, would emerge from the courtroom and tell him that his testimony would not be required. Within a few years of the Simpson trial the FBI figured that it was better to give Whitehurst a settlement with the understanding that he would resign from the FBI. Around 2000 they would agree to pay him over one million dollars through annuity payments until he reached 57 which was the FBI's full retirement age. Whitehurst would accept the settlement and retire to his home state of North Carolina. Darden, Shapiro and Cochran all lawyers associated with the Simpson case would receive multi-million dollar book deal advancements along with Marcia Clark for their involvement in the Simpson trial. Clark and Darden soon after receiving their first paychecks would leave that D.A.'s office and that treadmill in downtown Los Angeles on the 18th floor of the superior courthouse on North Temple Street. It all may have set up in the manner that Johnnie Cochran was seeking well before the Simpson trial got underway and because of it he may have gotten what he needed as leverage in an unrelated case. In the meantime, as I interrogate the distant traveler about the egregious acts of betrayal of the public trust, he just shakes his head and quietly laughs at the depth of the tomfoolery that allows the American public to continuously be bamboozled into believing fraudulent stories offered by their public servants for their selfishly own pecuniary gain.
T.H. Johnson is the author of three books on OMIG's Simpson investigation, Pursuit of Exhibit 35, The People Vs. OJ Simpson, and Conspiracy of Assumptions in the OJ Simpson trial as well as a documentary on the trial entitled SERPENTS RISING: The OJ Simpson Conspiracy.
https://www.amazon.com/Serpents-Rising-Independent-Investigation-J/dp/B0046Z2M9M
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Labels introduce new artists while veterans release another album
Written by DeWayne Hamby
Veteran group Hillsong Live employs talent of many producers as they issue album number 23
About a Mile
Word Records (Word Distribution)
About a Mile is comprised of three brothers—Adam, Levi and Luke Klutinoty—who embraced music early in life. Hailing from Butler, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, the brothers offer a self-titled debut featuring production from Ian Eskelin (Hawk Nelson, Sidewalk Prophets, Francesca Battistelli) and Howard Benson (Skillet, Flyleaf, Daughtry).
Songs on About a Mile include first single "Satisfied," "Who You Say You Are," "Power of the Cross" and "S.O.S. (Hope Won't Let Go)."
Regarding the band's name, singer Adam Klutinoty said: "We learned from a study that Jesus carried His cross about a mile, and that's where our band name comes from. When we felt called to play music for the rest of our life, there was never any doubt that we would do it for His glory and treat our ministry like He did when carrying the cross. He carried a cross that we deserved to be nailed to about a mile so He could die for us. We just want to serve others as best as we can and use all our strength and ability to honor God, carrying our cross as far as we possibly can."
Order through worddistribution.com, or call 800-876-WORD (9673).
BEC Recordings (New Day Christian Distributors)
New BEC Recordings artist David Dunn honed his craft moonlighting as a singer-songwriter while studying at Texas Tech University. After releasing a full-length independent project, more than a year of humanitarian and mission work in Africa and appearing on NBC's The Voice, Dunn releases his debut label EP, Crystal Clear, on July 15. The album features Dunn's distinctive vocals with a backdrop of modern pop.
First single "Today Is Beautiful" released to radio in May. Additional tracks include "Have Everything" and "Waiting for Love."
Order through newdaychristian.com or call 800-251-3633.
No Other Name
(Capitol Christian Distribution)
Hillsong Live will release this month No Other Name, recorded at the Hillsong Convention Center in Sydney, Australia. The project—the 23rd album from the group that aims to resource congregations worldwide with worship music—features 11 original songs, including "No Other Name," "This I Believe (Creed)," "Calvary," "My Story," "Broken Vessels," "Heaven and Earth" and "Thank You Jesus."
No Other Name features the music production team of Joel Houston, Marty Sampson, Ben Fielding, Taya Smith, Reuben Morgan, Simon Kobler, Joel Hingston, Harrison Wood, David Ware, Jad Gillies and Ben Whincop, among others.
The album's cover art shows New York City's Times Square billboards proclaiming "No Other Name."
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Exploring a musical legacy
'Awesome God' singer-songwriter Rich Mullins' life dramatized in new movie 'Ragamuffin'
The music of singer-songwriter Rich Mullins continues to impact the world many years after his untimely death at age 41. Although already profiled in documentaries and books, The spiritual journey of the "Awesome God" songwriter and the Gospel Music Association's Artist of the Year (1998) gets the big-screen treatment in Ragamuffin: The True Story of Rich Mullins (Millennium Entertainment/Capitol Christian Distribution), which also will be available on DVD at Christian retail July 8.
Actor David Leo Schultz, who co-wrote and directed the film, was one of the lives profoundly affected by Mullins' music and philosophy. The idea for a full-length movie came to be in a meeting with Rich's younger brother, David.
"I was merely an audience member to his life," Schultz told Christian Retailing. "With the film, I want to give other people the opportunity for Rich to change their lives. [After I met David,] I started daydreaming about the movie, wondering what it would look like. I started imagining as I was listening to some of his music and old radio interviews."
Schultz appears in a supporting role in the film, alongside Michael Koch as Rich. Schultz's wife, Amy, also appears as singer Amy Grant. Also appearing are: Wolfgang Bodison as Bryan, James Kyson as Matt, Mel Fair as John Mullins (Rich's father), Michelle Keller as Neva Mullins (Rich's mother), Carson Aune as Justin, and Elizabeth Ann Roberts as Jess.
Being "honest" about the singer's struggles with loneliness, alcohol and family issues was important, Schultz said, even though such portrayals may make some viewers uncomfortable.
"There's this kind of thing in our storytelling, especially when it's based on a true story, that says we shouldn't talk about Christian struggles," Schultz said. "But I thought that was the purpose of the testimony. For me, why would I not? Unless I was just trying to sell something to the Christian audience to make it more palatable. I think while it is a product that not only entertains, but challenges their faith, at the same time we had no desire to make something [that was] falsified to please the Christian audience."
To promote the release, screenings of the film were held in churches across the country. Although Schultz was hopeful for positive responses, he said he was "overwhelmed" by the impact the film had on viewers.
"We didn't expect the overwhelming positive response we've had," he said. "There's been a lot of cool God stories in people's lives. We hoped for that, but we weren't expecting that. God doesn't need a movie, but we were really excited that He was using it to work in people's hearts."
To order, call 800-877-4443 or go to capitolchristiandistribution.com.
Modern English Version launches in KJV tradition
Written by Christine D. Johnson
Monday, 09 June 2014 02:22 PM America/New_York
Charisma Media introduces new word-for-word translation to Christian retailers at special launch event
Charisma Media invited more than 20 key independent and chain-based Christian retailers to its Lake Mary, Fla., headquarters May 22-23 for an event launching its new Modern English Version (MEV). Send The Light Distribution, Anchor Distributors and Ingram also were represented at the launch of the most modern translation produced in the King James Version (KJV) tradition in the last 30 years.
Releasing this fall under Charisma House Book Group's Passio imprint, this word-for-word translation maintains the beauty of the KJV language, yet provides fresh clarity for a new generation of Bible readers.
Retailers will have ample opportunity to become acquainted further with the MEV at the June 22-25 International Christian Retail Show in Atlanta. Samplers of selected MEV passages also will be distributed.
Charisma Media plans a significant promotional campaign around the new Bible, including CBA store promotions; trade and consumer advertising in major magazines; product seeding to key pastors and ministry leaders; social media giveaways, blog tours; and drivetime Christian radio and TV spots promoting biblical literacy and engagement. Devotionals also will be delivered via email to more than 200,000 consumers, and an MEV mobile app will be created for users on the go.
Charisma Media also is involved in a strategic partnership with Bible Gateway, which will add the MEV to its online translations. Part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Bible Gateway reaches more than 14 million unique visitors per month.
Several MEV editions are coming out this fall, including the SpiritLed Woman Bible in printed casebound ($44.99) and lavender leatherlike ($64.99), releasing Nov. 4; the MEV Thinline Reference Bible in jacketed hardcover ($19.99), black and cranberry leatherlike ($29.99), releasing Sept. 2; and the KJV-MEV Parallel Bible in jacketed hardcover ($39.99), releasing Oct. 7.
FICTION FILE May 2014
Written by Leslie Santamaria
Wednesday, 14 May 2014 10:33 AM America/New_York
Luke Wordley
LATEST PROJECT: The Fight (9781414389493, $14.99, May).
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers.
What is the premise of your first novel, The Fight?
The story is about a teenage boy called Sam, who suffers a life-shattering family tragedy. As a result, he becomes incredibly angry, fighting everything and everyone around him. One day, a street fight leads him to a boxing club run by a Christian boxing trainer called Jerry, who has dedicated himself to helping kids like Sam. But Jerry quickly realizes that Sam's fighting talent, fueled by his anger, sets him apart as a potential champion boxer, leaving Jerry with a cruel dilemma. He wants to help Sam overcome his anger issues and discover God's peace, yet he knows Sam's anger could propel them both to the stardom and riches that Jerry himself had missed out on. It's a tough, yet inspiring story, and one that I think makes most of us question what we would truly do in the same circumstances.
What types of characters are Sam and Jerry?
Sam is a wounded, angry, yet talented young man—like so many disadvantaged kids in our inner cities. Jerry is a man of God trying to do the right thing, but is deeply flawed, like most of us. I love them both as characters.
What research did you conduct for this story?
I grew up just outside London, so [I] am familiar with where the story is set. I spent my teenage years following boxing, which gave me a background knowledge of the sport. The editor of the main U.K. boxing magazine helped me ensure the final draft was authentic.
How long did it take you to write The Fight, and what was its journey before it was scheduled for release in the U.S.?
The Fight actually took me 10 years to complete! I started in 2002, writing the first half whilst traveling overseas. Then the book was put away for seven years before I got it out and finished it.
Partly inspired by The Shack [by William P. Young] and also wanting to support prison ministry in the U.K., I decided to self-publish The Fight in early 2012. It was critically well-received and reached No. 2 on a U.K. Christian best-seller chart. I was introduced to an agent, Chip MacGregor by the novelist Davis Bunn, who had picked up a copy of The Fight whilst in the U.K. A few months later, I signed a deal with Tyndale House Publishers to help bring The Fight to a wider audience.
What has been the reception of your book in the U.K.?
Incredible. The Christian/inspiration fiction market in the U.K. is tiny compared to the U.S., and sometimes not taken very seriously as a genre—strange considering our spiritual fiction heritage with C.S. Lewis and John Bunyan. But The Fight is very different to most of the available Christian fiction over here and seems to have captured the imagination. It has also been used widely as an evangelistic tool and as a home and men's group resource, which is why I have written some discussion points in the back of this edition. It is exciting and humbling to see God use something I have written to challenge people spiritually.
Since both main characters are male, do you see this as a book for men only?
Although I wrote the book with men and teenage boys in mind and the subject matter is quite masculine, still most of my readers have been women! I've had plenty of feedback starting, "I bought this for my husband and would never normally read a book about boxing, but. … "
I've also loved hearing stories about how sons and husbands who would never normally read a Christian [novel] have been so intrigued to see Mum glued to a book with a boxer on the front cover that they have lined up to read it after her!
I understand that the book has been used as a tool in prison ministry. How did that come about?
When I first finished The Fight, I gave it to a friend involved in prison work. He loved the book and pressed upon me how valuable it could be in prison ministry. So when I self-published, I sold the book on a "Buy One, Give One Free" principle, with the free book going to prison ministry. We've now distributed around 1,000 copies of The Fight to around 80 prisons in the U.K., and I have had some amazing feedback about how prisoners have enjoyed the story and it has helped them on their journey of faith. To date, I have spent all my proceeds from the book, including my advance from Tyndale House Publishers, on giving books and developing this prison book ministry.
I pray this latest launch is just another step in getting appropriate books, including other people's titles, into prisons in the U.K., the U.S. and elsewhere. I hope to be publishing how we are going to do this and how in the future booksellers might participate through my website at lukewordley.com.
What other information might assist Christian retailers in getting the word out to their customers about The Fight?
Although they must receive thousands of books, I hope and pray Christian retailing staff will find the time to read The Fight for themselves. In the U.K., we found that when staff read the book, they immediately began recommending it to men and women (often to buy for their men folk!), and it became one of their best-selling books.
Fiction Releases: June
CHILD OF MINE
David and Beverly Lewis
Bethany House (Baker
Publishing Group)
hardcover, 416 pages, $19.99
Flight instructor Jack Livingston has been raising his 8-year-old adopted niece, Natalie, since the accident that took her parents' lives. When he travels, Natalie is cared for by her Amish nanny, Laura Mast, who loves the little girl as her own.
Eight years ago, Kelly Maines' baby was kidnapped. Determined to find her child, Kelly has tirelessly pursued every lead to its bitter end. And now, with the clock ticking, one last clue from a private investigator ignites a tiny flame of hope: Just a few miles away lives a young girl who matches the profile. Can this be, at long last, Kelly's beloved daughter?
Child of Mine is also released simultaneously in softcover and large print.
Worthy Publishing
Seventeen-year-old Nyah Parks is a genius hacker who makes a living by cracking the firewalls of the world's largest corporations. But when the biggest job of her life goes wrong, she's plunged into a desperate situation with only one way out: one last hack that will either save her or kill her. So begins Hacker, a modern-day parable that examines the seen and the unseen, and reminds the reader that there is far more to who we are than meets the eye.
THE LAST QUEEN OF SHEBA
Jill Francis Hudson
Against all odds, Makeda, daughter of an obscure African chieftain, is chosen as queen of Sheba. Recognizing her inexperience, her cousin Tamrin, a wealthy merchant and narrator of the novel, persuades her to visit Solomon, king of Israel. Solomon falls in love with her and tricks her into sleeping with him. She becomes pregnant and bears a son Later, when he visits his father, Solomon is a broken man, and Israel is no longer the nation of his youth.
Jolina Petersheim
Since the day Rhoda Mummau was baptized into the Old Order Mennonite Church and became the head midwife of Hopen Haus, she's been torn between the needs of the unwed mothers under her care and her desire to conceal the secrets of her past. Contact with the outside world could provide medical advantages, but remaining secluded in the community gives her the anonymity she craves.
Graduate student Beth Winslow is on a path she never would have chosen. Heartbroken after surrendering a baby to adoption, she devotes herself to her studies until she becomes pregnant again—this time as a surrogate. But when early tests indicate possible abnormalities, Beth is unprepared for the parents' decision to end the pregnancy—and for the love she feels for this unborn child. Desperate, she flees the city and seeks refuge at Hopen House.
Past and present collide when a young woman named Amelia arrives to the countryside bearing secrets of her own. As Amelia's due date draws near, Rhoda must face her past and those she thought she had left behind in order for the healing power of love and forgiveness to set them all free.
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Israel's Next Northern War: Operational and Legal Challenges
Real Clear Defense - Saturday, November 3, 2018 by Gen Michael Hostage, USAF (ret.) and LTC Geoffrey S. Corn, USA (ret.) and |
Hezbollah has threatened Israel's northern border for decades. Today, however, the nature of this threat has become dire, and the risks of escalation real, as Iran continues supplying Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon with game-changing weapons to devastate the Israeli homeland.
When the next conflict erupts between Israel and Hezbollah, its scale and intensity will bear little resemblance to those of recent memory. Hezbollah today is highly competent, adaptable and lethal. Its forces have gained invaluable battlefield experience in Syria and amassed more weaponry than 95 percent of the world's conventional militaries, including at least 120,000 rockets and missiles. This is more than all of Europe's NATO members combined, and ten times as many as when it last went to war with Israel in 2006.
Especially troubling is Hezbollah's growing arsenal of powerful long-range precision missiles capable of striking targets throughout Israel. Unlike in recent conflicts, Israel's missile defenses will be incapable of shielding the nation from such a threat. From the outset of conflict, Hezbollah will be able to sustain a launch rate of more than 3,000 missiles per day – as many as Israel faced in the entire 34-day conflict in 2006.
Despite this quantum leap in its capabilities, Hezbollah is under no illusion about its ability to inflict military defeat on Israel. It will not seek victory in the valleys of Lebanon or the skies over Israel, but in the court of public opinion.
To do so, it will use combat operations to lay the groundwork for an information campaign delegitimizing Israel. Two tactics will be central to Hezbollah's efforts: first, deliberately attacking Israeli civilian population centers to compel an aggressive response by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF); second, illegally exploiting the presence of Lebanese civilians to shield itself from IDF attack.
Hezbollah will then manipulate the inevitable casualties by relying on widespread misperceptions about the true nature of combat operations and how international law (the law of armed conflict, or LOAC) regulates such operations. It will use the inevitable images of civilian suffering in Lebanon to portray Israel's lawful operations as immoral and illegal. By weaponizing information and the law, Hezbollah will seek to force Israel to halt its self-defense campaign before the IDF can achieve decisive victory.
This is the increasingly prevalent face of hybrid warfare, where law-abiding militaries confront non-state actors like Hezbollah who blend robust combat capabilities and unlawful tactics with sophisticated information operations. This difficult reality is highlighted in a new report by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America's (JINSA) Hybrid Warfare Task Force, which examines the significant operational and legal challenges Israel will confront when it is compelled to engage Hezbollah and potentially other regional adversaries including Iran.
A key finding is that Hezbollah's intentional emplacement of rockets, missiles and other vital military assets in villages and cities throughout Lebanon will increase risks to innocent civilians. To gain strategic advantage, Hezbollah will exploit the common – but erroneous – assumption that Israel, by virtue of attacking these sites, must be acting unlawfully, even when the unfortunate effects of these attacks are rendered unavoidable by Hezbollah's deliberate and illegal use of human shields.
This dilemma for Israel is further complicated by our expectation that the IDF will be compelled to undertake large-scale, aggressive operations to neutralize as much of Hezbollah's rocket threat as possible before it is ever employed.
This will include ground operations deep into Lebanon. In addition to their sheer scale, the nature of such operations in towns and villages will magnify the likelihood of collateral damage and civilian casualties. This will also make it much more difficult for the IDF to utilize the extensive and often innovative measures to mitigate risks to civilians that have been commonplace during more limited operations – for example, warnings and providing civilians time to evacuate before an attack.
Despite these challenges, our task force found an IDF fully committed to compliance with the LOAC, knowing full well Hezbollah seeks to exploit this very same commitment. We worry, however, that the nature of a major combined arms operation will contribute to the operational and legal misperceptions that are so adeptly exploited by enemies like Hezbollah, resulting in false condemnation of Israel from the international public, media and many states.
How this story plays out for Israel will have reverberating effects for other professional militaries, including our own. Unless the challenges of such operations become more widely understood, with more credible assessments of legality, morality and legitimacy, others will be incentivized to replicate Hezbollah's perverse tactics.
Ultimately, this requires a greater appreciation of the realities of combat against hybrid adversaries. It also requires a greater appreciation for how the LOAC strikes a rational balance between civilian protection and military effectiveness. Nowhere will these considerations be more apparent – and more consequential – than in Israel's next conflict with Hezbollah.
Read in Real Clear Defense


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Greenpeace's Priorities for Upcoming COVID-19 Stimulus Packages
In a letter to Congressional leadership, Greenpeace urges Congress to transform our country in response to the COVID-19 crisis rather than return to an economy dependent on exploitation and extraction.
Washington, DC, April 28, 2020 — Today, Greenpeace sent a letter to Congressional leadership outlining priorities for upcoming stimulus measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic fallout. The letter — signed by Greenpeace USA Executive Director Annie Leonard and addressed to Representative Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer — urges Congress to transform our country in response to the COVID-19 crisis rather than return to an economy dependent on exploitation and extraction.
To that end, Greenpeace has outlined six policy priorities to ensure that COVID-19 relief efforts prioritize those on the frontlines of the crisis and pave the way for a just, equitable recovery:
Provide resources to meet immediate needs and ensure relief is given directly to people, including an Essential Worker Bill of Rights.
Protect democracy by expanding access to the polls and ensuring the security, integrity, and resilience of our electoral system.
Institute safeguards to prohibit corporate attempts to escape oversight and transparency or use taxpayer money for purposes beyond promoting maximum employment.
Oppose all attempts to bail out the fossil fuel industry and establish new restrictive conditions on loans through the CARES Act.
Launch a multi-trillion dollar green infrastructure effort, secure equitable and just investments and protections for communities on the frontlines of pollution and climate disasters, and launch innovative programs to spur job creation beyond fossil fuel extraction.
Pursue a stabilization strategy for the oil industry's inevitable permanent decline.
Read the full letter and policy proposals here: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Greenpeace-Letter-to-Congressional-Leadership-COVID-Response-Recovery-April-2020.pdf
Read a specific briefing on policies to address orphan oil well remediation here: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/research/policy-briefing-remediation-of-orphan-oil-gas-wells-in-covid-19-stimulus/
Read a specific briefing on policies to protect energy workers and communities in COVID-19 recovery here: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/research/policy-briefing-protecting-energy-workers-and-communities-in-a-just-covid-19-recovery/
Contact: Ryan Schleeter, Senior Communications Specialist, Greenpeace USA: [email protected], +1 (415) 342-2386


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Picked up Black Bear this morning. It spent a month on the docks in Melbourne.
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