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Abby lived next door to James. That's how they'd becomefriends. Otherwise they 浪小辉老师享受直男技师的深度按摩和狂插-前列腺液流不停 would have never known eachother. They came from different worlds. Abby was 36,from the south, an accomplished woman who'd beenthrough a bad divorce. She'd been in political lifebefore the divorce had depressed her enough to make herquit.Now she worked at a Barnes and Noble bookstore. But itwas just temporary, and everyone knew. Abby was one ofthe smartest, most capable people James had ever known.She'd be back in the political life eventually. Shemight even become the first woman president.James, on the other hand, had always just barely madeit in life. He was only 22, fresh from the university.He'd 【77】蓝水小主作品之狗奴的晚餐 chinese slave 7 dfgay gotten through college on scholarship, which hevery nearly lost several times after bouts with poorgrades. James hated school but he knew he needed adegree if he ever wanted to get anywhere in life.After college, he left as quickly as he could for thebig city. He got himself an apartment and a job at thelocal mall. At night he would work on stories.Eventually he had enough to make a novel. But heworried that they were not good, certainly not up tothe standards that a sophisticated reader like Abbywould have.He was shocked when she called him and told him she wascoming over to talk about the novel after only havingit in her possession for two days. He feared the worst,that she'd Melayu read only two pages and then decided totrash the whole thing.She was over in a flash, letting herself in as usual.He hadn't even had time to straighten up. He'd barelyhad time COGEN porn to put pants on. He was still shirtless."James, your novel is wonderful!" she said immediately,hugging James and then collapsing with him onto thecouch. "The characters were so vibrant. I stayed uphalf the night reading your book. Where'd a young guylike you learn to write stuff like that?""Um…" said James.Truth is, he didn't know what to say. He wasspeechless. Probably because everything was happeningso quickly, and because he hadn't been expecting Abbyto say such nice things. Probably also because of howstunning Abby looked. He'd always thought she wasbeautiful, but First time today she looked especially sexy.She wore a black, form fitting shirt and a long, green,cotton skirt with a slit running up the left side. Herbrown, wavy hair was up. She'd slipped her feet out ofher black pumps when she'd folded her legs underherself to sit down. Her lips were full and glisteningfrom the chap-stick she'd just applied. She was such aknock-out. He couldn't believe any man had ever wantedto leave her."James?" Abby said. "Are you still with me, honey?"There was just the faintest hint of her old Virginiaaccent when she said the word "honey." It made Jamesfeel warm and tingly all over."Yes, sorry," said James. "I was just distracted for asecond. But I'm listening to you. I'm really surprisedyou liked the book so much.""I do," said Hindi Indian Web Series Abby smiling. "I think that you'd have noproblem publishing it. There's only one minor detailthat I think you need to spend some time correcting."Here it comes, thought James. Here's where she saysthat I'm all washed up."It's the sex scenes, James," she said. "You've got todo something about the sex scenes."James was shocked again. His mouth went dry. "What doyou mean?" he said.Abby took his hand. Her fingers were warm against hiscold and clammy skin."You haven't had much experience, have you?" she said.James looked down, embarrassed. "Is it really thatobvious?" he said."Afraid so," she said. "The main MMF porn character seems likesuch a take charge kind of guy. But when he gets in thebedroom, everything Indonesia is bland. He doesn't show the samefire he's got inside him the rest of the time.""I just write so much from my experience," James said."I didn't know how to write about stuff I've neverdone.""You mean you've never had sex?" she said.He nodded. "I've fooled around with girls, but…"Abby threw her hands up in the air. "Well, that's justunacceptable!" she said.James sank lower into his seat. He'd failed her. Heknew it."If you're going to be a great author like I know youcan be," she said, "you're going to have to learn toget into the minds of your characters." As she said ither hand slid up James's thigh until it landed on thebulge in his pants.James was startled. "Oh shit!" he said."It's ok, hon," she said. "Just relax. Today I'm 網路瘋傳的極品E奶淫蕩少婦戶外露出 與小鮮肉深喉口爆拳交顏射 goingto teach you a few things about taking charge in thebedroom and being creative.""But…" James started to protest.It was too late though. Abby had slid down onto herknees. She unzipped his pants, pulled out his warm,firm cock and began to suck on it, letting her salivarun down over his balls as she took the full lengthinto her mouth. Instantly he went from being slightlyturned on to being hard as a rock."You like that?" she said between mouthfuls of dick.James nodded."Then tell me what you want to do," she said."I don't know… I…""Don't do that," she said, taking her mouth away andstaring up at him. "Don't be the nice guy. Be the guyfrom your book. Be the hero. You don't have to be mean.Just direct. If he were you, what would he say?"James paused for a second, thinking about it. He lookeddown at his throbbing cock, aching to be touched somemore. Then he looked at Abby, cuter then ever as shesat there on her knees. He wanted to fuck her so bad hecould barely think straight."I want to take you doggie-style, right now, with yourskirt still on," James said. He could hardly believe itwhen the words left his mouth. He Big ass flinched a bit, halfexpecting her to yell at him and tell him how offendedshe was.Instead a huge grin came across her face. "Now you'regetting the picture," she said. "But don't just say it.Act on it."She stood up and held her arms out, waiting for Jamesto make the next move. He was reluctant still, butstarting to relax. He liked this new role that Abby wasinviting him to take on. He stood, turned her around,guided her so that she was bent over the couch, andhiked up her skirt to reveal her gorgeous, pantilessass.James wasn't exactly sure what to do at first, havingnever had sex before. He'd seen plenty of porn, but themechanics of the real thing seemed a bit harder then heexpected. It took him a minute to figure out how to getpositioned just right. But "轻点 你真变态"骗大奶美女蒙眼,拍艹她,超淫荡对白多 once he had his cock insideof her tight, wet pussy, it was heaven. He began tothrust in and out, smacking her ass occasionally as LADYBOY porn hewent.Abby moaned loudly as James fucked her from behind. Hermoans made him fuck her harder, faster. You could'veheard the sound of his hips crashing into her if you'dbeen in the next room."Come on, James," she said. "This isn't it. This isn'tyour fantasy.""You're right," he said, almost out of breath but stillpumping away inside of her. "It's not.""Let it out, James," she said. "Do what you really wantto do."James was emboldened now. Half an hour ago he neverwould have dreamed of doing this in real life, thisthing he'd been fantasizing about ever since he firstmet Abby six months ago. It would ruin her. It would bethe silver bullet on her career in politics. But nowthat this was happening, now that she was practicallybegging him to do something wild, he couldn't help butwant to oblige, no matter the costs."Are you sure?" James said, giving her one last chanceto back out."Yes," Abby said. "Do what you really want to do, whatyou've always thought about doing."That was all the motivation James needed. He pulled Awek melayu outof her, helped her to her feet, then guided her out thefront door with him, his cock still dangling out of hispants.Abby got a confused look on her face. "I wasn'texpecting a field trip," she said. "Where are wegoing?""You'll see," James said smirking.They took the elevator down to the first floor, thenheaded out into the well lit courtyard in the middle ofthe apartment buildings."Strip," said James.Abby was now the one who looked reluctant. "James, I'mnot so sure that's such a good idea…""Strip!" he said louder. It was not a threateninggesture. She could still say no. But it was clear thatthis was what he wanted, and that to say no now wouldbe for her to step away from James for good. She didn'twant that. She'd been waiting too long to be with himfor this."Alright," she said. "What the hell."She pulled her clothes off and stood before him naked,the light shining down upon her exquisite body. Abbycould have been 19 from the way her body looked. If youdidn't look very closely at her face to see the smalllines under her eyes you'd never know she was a womanalmost twice that old."Now what?" she said, half figuring he'd be satisfiedjust with this and they'd both go back upstairs.James WIFE porn pulled down his pants so that he was as naked asshe was. He lay down on his back and demanded that Abbyget on top of him and ride him. Her nervousness wasrising, but so was her sense of excitement. Withabandon she straddled him, her legs folded down on thesides of him, his cock once again filling her.She rode him hard, so that she was panting. But she bither lip, trying to muffle any noises she might make. Itwas late. If she didn't make a sound perhaps no onewould be looking out their windows and no one would seewhat was happening in the YOUNG CHICK_URINATING courtyard.But James wouldn't let her get away so easily. "Moanfor me, baby," he kept saying. "Moan nice and loud likeyou did inside. Don't be afraid. Let everyone know whata good girl you are. Moan for me."She tried to hold back, but it felt so good, having himinside of her, bouncing on top of him, and the way hewas talking to her, telling her what to do, clearingher mind of her own thoughts and filling her head withnothing but animalistic desire instead. She moaned,just a little at first. Then louder. Then at a roaringpitch that was sure to wake up the neighborhood.Lights started to come on in apartment buildings.People were looking out the window or coming out ontotheir decks. Men in robes started to filter out ontothe walkway beside the courtyards, staring at the sexgoing on just a few feet from them.Abby found herself surprisingly and overwhelminglyturned on by all the attention. "Yes!" she screamed."Yes, fuck me!"But James wasn't finished yet. This wasn't his fullfantasy."If any of you guys want to join in," he shouted to thecollection of men on the sidewalk, "Feel free."The words washed slowly over Abby, who was so into thesex now that very little was phasing her. She didn'tentirely comprehend what James had INTERRACIAL porn done, until shelooked up and saw one of the men in front of her naked,his cock close to her face."Suck ME CHAMARAM PRA UMA FESTINHA NA ASA NORTE E ACABEI LEVANDO ROLA DO MEU AMIGO on it, baby," said James. "You know that you wantto."Abby wanted to say no. She knew this had gotten toofar. Things had gotten out of control, out of herhands. But it was too late to change that now. And shewas too wildly turned on to say no to even theslightest of requests from James. She opened her mouthobediently and allowed the man to slide his cock in.It didn't take long for other men to come forward, menof various ages, fathers and brothers and husbands,single men and married, working class men and tradesmen.She was startled when the first cock entered her ass,her pussy still tightly gripping James's cock as shecontinued to ride him. It wasn't her first time havinganal sex, but it was certainly her first time beingpenetrated in both holes at once. It made her cumquickly, much to her surprise.As one man would cum inside her ass, another would beright behind him to take his place. After a while herass was so full of cum that the men started to pull outand cum across her back. Around the other end, men REALITY porn werecoming forward with equal regularity and allowing herto suck them off.Occasionally she'd take more than one cock into hermouth at once. They came in her mouth, on her face, inher hair, across her chest, even sometimes in her hand.The whole time James remained underneath her, his cockhard as ever inside of her as she grinded her hips intohim in rhythm with whoever was in her ass at the time.The surroundings were becoming a blur. Some wives hadcome down and berated their husbands. Others stood withtheir husbands, watching from the sidewalk. The eventshad been going on for maybe 45 minutes when two policeofficers finally showed up."Break it up!" said the younger cop. "Nothing more tosee here."The older cop stood behind him, one hand on his gunholster, staring unashamedly at what was going on.When no one seemed to be complying with the young cop'srequest he came forward. "Didn't you hear me, folks? Isaid cease and desist!""Actually you said 'break it up,'" said James. "But youdon't want us to do that either.""Oh no?" said the cop. "Tell me then, tough guy, whatdo I want?""You want to take off your pants and start fucking thisgirl in the ass, just like your partner is doing.""Huh?" said the bewildered young cop. Then he looked tohis right, where his older partner was just beginningto penetrate Abby's cum soaked, swollen asshole."Shit, what are you doing?" the young officer cried."Protecting and REALITY porn serving," said the older man as hebegan to make long, slow thrusts. "Protecting andserving."The young officer turned away for a second, disgustedand frightened. He was a by-the-book kind of guy, buthe also relied on his older partner for guidance. Nowhe wasn't sure what he should do."Why don't you come over here, officer," Abby said in avoice that was hoarse from moaning, "So I can suck yourdick."The officer looked around for a minute. He opened hismouth as if to object. Then he just turned and walkedoff, past the squad car in the parking lot and down theside of the highway. James, Abby, and the older officerhad a good laugh. After the older officer came, hepulled out, tipped his hat to Abby, and left in thesquad car.The passionate fucking continued until finally Jamessaid "Alright, guys, last call. Get your last minutefun in before I finish her off."It was another fifteen minutes before the last of theguys had cum. Abby was dizzy and her knees were locked.She couldn't even begin to count how many guys hadfucked her, though James said later he'd lost count atabout forty. They both figured it was somewhere in theneighborhood of 65 or 70, most lasting less then aminute but some lasting upwards of ten.When Abby finally got up off of the ground and off ofJames, she MI_EX REGRESA CANSADA DE ESTUDIAR PERO LE OBLIGO A could barely stand. James however seemed fitas a fiddle, despite having had her full weight on himfor almost three hours. He picked her up off of hershaky knees, then carried her cum drenched body up thestairs, into the elevator, and then back into hisapartment where he placed her, face down flat on thebed.James spread her legs tenderly, then moved himself ontop of her, tight against her body. He pushed his cockback into her pussy and moved in and out slowly. Abbywas too tired to moan, but she let out a soft coo,especially when James grabbed her ass cheeks and pushedthem together as he thrust.When he finally came, it was a long release. She shotfor over 30 seconds. He was the only man that night tocum inside her pussy. When he finished, he collapsednext to her on the bed."Hell of a first time," he said."Yeah," said Abby, too tired and stunned to move. "Foryou and me both."


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Kurt Frowein (* 18. März 1914 in Wuppertal; † 27. Januar 1964 ebenda) war ein deutscher Redakteur, der zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus als Kriegsberichterstatter und persönlicher Referent des Propagandaministers Joseph Goebbels im Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (RMVP) sowie von 1943 bis 1945 als letzter Reichsfilmdramaturg tätig war.

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Kurt Frowein, Sohn eines Bandwirkers, absolvierte die Reichspresseschule. Ab 1936 war er für kurze Zeit Redakteur bei der NS-Zeitung Der Angriff, verließ diesen aber wieder, nachdem er Wolf Meyer-Christian vorgeworfen hatte, im Juni 1936 von ihm sexuell belästigt worden zu sein. In der Folge musste Meyer-Christian u. a. aus der Partei austreten. Frowein ging anschließend als Pressereferent in die Industrie und wurde danach Redakteur beziehungsweise Schriftleiter bei der Niedersächsischen Tageszeitung.

Mit Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges war Frowein mit dem Überfall auf Polen dort als Kriegsberichterstatter bei der Propagandakompanie 689 eingesetzt. Mit Wilfred von Oven verfasste Frowein 1939 die NS-Propagandaschrift "Schluß mit Polen", eine antipolnische, antisemitische und kriegstreiberische Hetzschrift, nahm wie von Oven als Kriegsberichterstatter am Westfeldzug teil und beschrieb dabei schwarze französische Soldaten als "Bestien" und "Urwaldneger". 1940 verfasste er das Buch "Festung Frankreich fiel". Seine NS-Propagandaschriften fielen dem NS-Propagandaminister Goebbels auf, der Frowein im Juli 1940 als Pressereferenten und persönlichen Referenten in sein Ministerbüro berief.

Im Juni 1943 wurde Frowein Reichsfilmdramaturg und blieb in dieser Funktion bis Kriegsende.

Seine Mutter Hedwig gründete 1948 die spätere Kurt Frowein GmbH & Co KG. Daraus entstand gemeinsam mit seiner Ehefrau Charlotte (* 1919) ein Textil- und Gummihandel (rutschfeste Badematten) in Wuppertal. Die Firma Kurt Frowein existiert heute noch (Stand: 2020).

Literatur
 Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5.
 Hans-Christoph Blumenberg: Das Leben geht weiter – Der letzte Film des Dritten Reichs. Berlin : Rowohlt, 1993, ISBN 3-87134-062-6

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 Hans-Christoph Blumenberg: Hier spricht der deutsche Mensch: "Das Leben geht weiter" – Der letzte Durchhaltefilm der Ufa 1944/45 (I). In: Der Spiegel. 48/1992, S. 156–169.

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"I'll be back before the sun rises…"
<The Great Battle> was the third and last historical drama that I watched during the month of September 2018. Other than this, there were two others: <Monstrum> and <Feng Shui>. Amongst the three, <The Great Battle> was my favorite, as it had incredible action/battle sequences, suprisingly good CGI, a great storyline, and a good linup of marvelous actors.
Based on a real legendary battle that took place in the ancient East Asian city of "Ansisung," <The Great Battle> takes place during the Goguryeo era, in 645 AD. I won't go too in depth into the history of the event, since this isn't a history channel, but just to give a brief background, the Korean peninsula during this time was divided into three parts: Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje; and the Tang dynasty of China was raiding its surrounding neighbors to expand their territory. Goguryeo was to their east, and a critical place they needed to invade and conquer. I'll leave the historical lesson there, and if you watch the film, you can get a deeper understanding of the events that took place.
<The Great Battle> was not only a great action/war film, but it depicts an important time in the Korean history. One can learn a great sum of what shaped the nation of Korea. The film was directed by Kim Kwang-Sik, and features the likes of Jo In-Sung, Nam Joo-Hyuk, Park Sung-Woong, Bae Sung-Woo, Um Tae-Goo, and Seolhyun of AOA.
The synopsis is as follows:
With the aim of conquering and expanding his kingdom, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty gathers thousands of soldiers to invade the Goguryeo frontier city of "Ansisung." With over 200,000 warriors under Taizong's control, the army of Ansisung must fight off the raiders with just 5,000 fighters. Although the Lord of Ansisung, Yang Man Chun, had to fight an army that's 40 times larger than his, he bravely determines that it's worth the fight.
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If I had to describe the overall feel of the movie in a phrase, I'd say that it's "the Asian version of <The Lord of the Rings>." If you liked the <The Lord of the Rings> trilogy, then you probably would enjoy this film as well. It had a very similar tone, with similar battle segments, humor points, and characters. It had an upgraded CGI/special effects than <The Lord of the Rings>, which makes sense because that trilogy came out over 15 years ago, with the last film <The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King> being released in 2003.
Adding onto the visual effects, they apparently had over 6,000 extras for the film; so, it's hard to tell how much of it was CGI and how much of it was actual filming that took place. Either way, it felt very "real." Also, the cinematography changes quite a bit, mainly during the battle sequences. It felt like scenes from a really well-produced video game gameplay, with its slow motions and effects. Albeit, there were a couple over-the-top CGI scenes.
The film contained tremendous amount of action. Some may even say it had too much. However, for me personally, it had me entertained throughout its entirety. Even during the non-fighting scenes, there was a sense of tense-mood in the film. The thrill it provides isn't the same as Korean thrillers, but the rush of adrenaline you feel from the action is quite intense.
The acting of the cast was overall decent. I'll get to some of the disappointing parts later, but the performances by the actors wasn't anything to bash on. It wasn't their best acting, but not their worst either. A lot of people are comparing the acting of Seolhyun to that of Hyeri in <Monstrum>, as both are historical drama films that came out a week apart from each other, and both actresses got their fame by not acting, but through being a girl-group, idol singer. Of the two, I must say that Seolhyun was the clear winner. I mentioned in the <Monstrum> review that Hyeri's acting wasn't that bad, but was cringe at times. With Seolhyun, I think she fit the role of lady-warrior much better than Hyeri did.
While watching the film, I couldn't help by think the casting could've been done better. It was questionable if Jo In-Sung was the right choice for the "Lord of Ansisung" role. Not saying he's not a good actor, but the image and energy he radiates didn't really seem appropriate to the role. His voice is relatively high-toned, and, in my opinion, didn't really fit the character.
I've heard other people mention that the Chinese used in the movie wasn't good. As for me, I thought that it was a little off, especially for Park Sung-Woong, but that's understandable, as he's full Korean. But then again, I always mention that when English is used in Korean films, it's almost always horrible. In this sense, I suppose they could've tried harder to enhance the Chinese used. However, since I speak basically zero Chinese, I really can't be a judge of whether it really was good or bad. If you see the film and are fluent in Chinese, please let me know what you thought in the comments.
This isn't necessarily a negative, but the movie was very gory. It could be compared to the likes of <300> and <The Lord of the Rings> trilogy; not something to watch with kids. It's rated 12+, which translates to about PG 13 in the US, which I don't understand how they got that rating. There isn't any sexual content, drug use, or pervasive language, but as mentioned, the level of gore is quite high in this. But then again <The Lord of the Rings> was also PG 13, so it makes sense in a way. If you are of a mature age and like bloody scenes, then it's a good film to watch. But definitely not a family-friendly movie.
Expanding on the above, I can't say that everyone would enjoy this film. One should have some interest in the history of Korea, or East Asia in general, and be fond of war movies. I expect the audience of <The Great Battle> to be divided amongst those criteria, and since the film came out during the "Chuseok" week (Korean Thanksgiving), the people who watched most likely had those interests. A good targeted timing, indeed.
Eon's Ratings
Acting: 7.5/10
Casting: 7.5/10
Plot: 8.5/10
Visual/Special Effects: 8/10
Cinematography: 8.5/10
If you enjoy war-films and learning about Korean history, then I highly recommend this film. Also, it isn't like typical historical dramas that come out of Korea, which are mostly based in the Joseon era. <The Great Battle> takes place in the Goguryeo times, which isn't very common to see in films. Although it does have some higher level of gore and violence, as long as you don't watch it with young children, I think you'd enjoy it, especially if you liked movies as the likes of <The Lord of the Rings> trilogy or <300>.
Ticket Price Value: $11
(Ticket Price Value is the price I would pay to watch the film again for the first time)
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Snepal says:
The lead role was first given to Lee Byung-Hun but he had to turn down because of scheduling conflicts as he was preparing (or was already acting) for the role of Eugene Choi (also Yu Jin Choi) in One of the Best Korean drama of 2018, 'Mr. Sunshine'.
He was the one and only choice for that drama because of his Great Acting and his ability to speak Good English in very good tone. He delivered the performance Greatly.
Well, as for the movie The Great Battle, it seems like Koreans want equal plot and action, not too much action, that is why it hasn't reached 10 millions admission yet, and also depends upon the acting as well, whereas another Historical movie 'Masquerade' surpassed over 10 million admissons, all because of acting and tense of the movie without much action.
I did not know about the lead role being originally given to Lee Byung-Hun! That's interesting, thanks for sharing 🙂
And yes, The Great Battle definitely had more action sequences than plot development. Not saying that's good or bad, but I can see some being unhappy with the balance between the two. Thanks for your comment! Always good to hear from the readers 🙂
This was a really great movie!!
Yes, indeed! I agree 🙂
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Nearly after 4 months of a reported bogus forex brokering firm's closure of operation approximately 20 depositors are still being unpaid their deposits in Sri Lanka. "Still the money is there in the bank and it has to liquidated to be paid for our investors" said company's former accountant who is now unemployed in the grounds of anonymity to Asian Tribune.
Two Hong Kong based Chinese individuals named Sam Shing T.P. (General Manager) and Mr. Lee (Finance Director) had said to be operating a Retail Forex Trading Broker firm in the name of Jackel Burnham Pacific (Pvt) Ltd. incorporated since 9th October 2009 in the heart of Sri Lanka's Financial Capital Colombo at Level 12, Unit 01-03, West Tower, World Trade Centre, Echelon Square, Colombo 01, Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka is a country which has put limits to forex trading and operations of retail forex trading brokers due to foreign exchange losses that could arise as a consequence of being exposed to higher risk involved in retail forex trading. Although, some licensed commercial banks are allowed by the regulators to provide retail forex trading for some high net worth individuals.
Forex Trading is the world's biggest financial and capital market with an average daily turnover recorded to be US $ 3.2 trillion.
However according to sources the 12th floor of West Tower of the Colombo's World Trade Centre is still inaccessible to visitors as the Jackel Burnham Office is sealed by the local police. The Chinese individuals said to have paid one year rental advance amounting to Rs.6 million to the office premises of Colombo's West Twin Tower's management at the inception of Jackel Burnham.
Later on 18th June 2010 both Hong Kong based individuals has disappeared from office taking Rs.30 million along with initial investment of the company out of the country. According to sources still a part of money is available in the company's bank accounts which were maintained in two premier commercial banks in Colombo.
"They successfully ran the business accepting deposits amounting to US $ 3,000, US $ 6,000 and US $ 10,000 based on money market exchange rate with a counterfeited forex trading platform" said a former employee adding that the company was guaranteeing 60% return on investment (interest for deposits) for six months initially which later came down to 40% on May 2010.
"It is hard to believe how they were able to run the operations amidst being unnoticed by financial market regulators where the office of Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka is also located and even close to Criminal Investigations Department. Apart this company's local team was headed by a 20 years old individual whose mother is working as the Human Resources Director of a reputed state owned subsidiary bank" said one victimized depositor of the forex scandal adding that the local police or neither criminal investigators has not been successful to trace the two Chinese men before who were resided at Capital Residencies at Dharmapala Mawatha in Colombo 07.
According to information available of the company profile Jackel Burnham Pacific (Pvt.) Limited was called to be a subsidiary of Jackel Brnham Northern Europe Groups Limited (founded in 1955 by Russel Davis, as Jackel Burnham (Copenhagen) Enterprise Ltd.) in Denmark that was authorised and regulated by the International Securities and Exchange Commission of the World.
The company was said to have 30 branches in United States, Peru, Brazil, Denmark, Switzerland, France, Greece, Germany apart from Sri Lanka which were later found out to be nonexistent. The company had been running a website titled http://www.jackelburnham.com, which is now stalled while the head office is said to be at Esthersroj 22C, 2.m.f., 2900 Hellerup, Denmark, 40464532, quoting a telephone number 004569960381 which later found out to be a bogus address although the telephone number had been working till 18th June.
Meanwhile in internet reports it says the on 12th September registration of the company's official website www.jackelburnham .com registration service was provided by a company called SCICUBE LIMITED (Contact Number 00852.81143699,http://www.scicube.com)whilst the web administrator's address of Jackel Burnham is said to be located at P.O. Box 97,Moergestel, null,5066 ZH, NL having the contact number 004536946676.
"Well, local authorities need to find out these kind of international fraudsters by at least digging them to their past records from cyberspace as these scammers are mostly involved in internet based enterprises" said another depositor adding that similar kind of financial scams that has happened in the country's recent past has created a name to Sri Lanka as a land that any fraudster can runaway after committing any financial scam due to its local population's enthusiasm on investing in higher interest earning financial products.
For many and the common laymen the published foreign currency exchange rates in most of the national news broadcasts, national newspapers, commercial banks, authorised money changers are only important at the event they are travelling abroad to exchange local rupees to a desired foreign currency. Else an expatriate or a Sri Lankans working abroad at their return might be interested on foreign exchange rates to convert his earnings to local Rupees at the best rate offered in order get the best value for his money. There are also exporters and importers who are interested to get the best foreign exchange rate for a particular currency to maximise their revenues. However not even the poorest man in the world or even perhaps the richest entrepreneur in Sri Lanka or perhaps even the most professional banker or bank manager in a financial hub like in Colombo or the people categorised under the emerging middle class don't know that foreign exchange rates are the most crucial information to create capital in an economic system. Only a small group of people among the world's population know that there is a market called 'FOREX' and it is a key market place where you could create money to your portfolio in order to increase your earning potential and diversify your investments.
Have you ever thought of how commercial banks and largest financial corporations in our country and in the world offer us an interest rate to make us grow little by little in terms of financial strength? Can banks make such huge profits and investments from our public deposits and recoveries from borrowings? Well there is another unknown market place which is beyond our common laymen's understanding where these banks and financial houses around the globe are making money while we are sleeping and while we are working hard to survive in an uncertain future.
That is the Market which is the 'Biggest' among all capital and financial markets and it is open usually 24 hours everyday except worldwide weekends operating round the clock in the globe. It is none other than the 'Forex market' where you get the news as it happen even before first and the fastest news service provider in our country-wide media broadcast news for us. 'Forex Market' completely operates based on financial, business, economic and disastrous news around the world and is very sensitive to know what is happening in this whole universe. Traders in Forex Market are news savvy and if they miss a news item it could make them lose thousands of money in small scale and millions and billions of money at large.
The foreign exchange market — most often called the Forex market, or simply the FX market — is the most traded financial market in the world. Forex Market is a worldwide decentralised over-the-counter financial market for the trading of currencies. The primary purpose of the foreign exchange market is to assist international trade and investment, by allowing businesses to convert one currency to another currency. The Forex market is the crossroads for international capital, the intersection through which global commercial and investment flows have to move. International trade flows, such as when a Swiss electronics company purchases Japanese-made components, were the original basis for the development of the Forex markets.
Thanks to the Internet, tens of thousands of individual traders and investors all over the world are discovering the excitement and challenges of online trading in the Forex market. Yet in contrast to the stock market, the Forex market somehow remains more elusive and seemingly complicated to newcomers. Trading foreign currencies is a challenging and potentially profitable opportunity for educated and experienced investors. However, before deciding to participate in the Forex market, you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite. Most important, don't invest money you can't afford to lose.
The Forex market is open and active 24 hours a day from the start of business hours on Monday morning in the Asia-Pacific time zone straight through to the Friday close of business hours in New York. At any given moment, depending on the time zone, dozens of global financial centres — such as Sydney, Tokyo, or London — are open, and currency trading desks in those financial centres are active in the market. Currency trading doesn't even stop for holidays when other financial markets, like stocks or futures exchanges, may be closed. Even though it's a holiday in Japan, for example, Sydney, Singapore, and Hong Kong may still be open. It might be the Fourth of July in the United States, but if it's a business day, Tokyo, London, Toronto, and other financial centres will still be trading currencies. About the only holiday in common around the world is New Year's Day, and even that depends on what day of the week it falls on.
As such, it has been referred to as the market closest to the ideal of perfect competition, notwithstanding market manipulation by central banks. According to the Bank for International Settlements average daily turnover in global foreign exchange markets is estimated at USD3.98 trillion, as of April 2007. USD3.21 trillion is accounted for in the world's main financial markets.
In Sri Lanka, apart from a few of the Licensed Commercial Banks and Multinational Banks there are only 10-15 large scale Individual Forex traders who are trading currency on 24/6 days in millions as per our sources. Then there are individual Forex traders who have opened currency trading accounts with Licensed Commercial Banks which is an exclusive product for exclusive clients, and such banks do the trading behalf of those individuals.
However, with their little knowledge on Forex market there is also a relatively small community of people who have lost thousands of money in rupees while they have also made profits amounting to perhaps millions through trading online from Licensed Retail Forex brokers abroad via internet.
"I entered to this Forex market when I was 16 years old from the money I earned developing software and web sites for international companies. All I knew was internet and Information Technology. But when I came to know about Forex trading on internet it inspired me to make money by investing all the moneys I earned" said one of the smallest and youngest Forex traders in Sri Lanka, Vinesh Gurusinghe.
He went on to say that he started with Rs.200,000 and almost lost about Rs.600,000 in the beginning with little knowledge on world economics. "Somehow I made money from Forex and then I found out the best way to minimise my risk after trading in world's highest riskier market. It was none other than Colombo Stock Exchange. Now I am twenty years and I am living happily and surviving after diversifying from Forex trading to Sri Lanka's equity investments at the beginning of this year. Finally I invested all my profit from Forex in Colombo Stock Exchange at a time when Colombo bourse was booming. I am living on Colombo Stock Exchange and diversifying my capital gains in other businesses such as exports and distribution of fast moving consumer goods." Added Gurusinghe highlighting that he has brought in international capital worth of Rs.3 million indirectly (via Forex trading) to Colombo bourse and is happy to say that he is an investor of Sri Lanka's Capital Markets. 'Now I am no more into Forex' he concluded.
Forex market is not favourable for everyone; if one wins there is also a trader who loses. "I was a banker and I invested my savings after leaving my position in a multinational bank and I was extremely happy since I doubled my money within one day when I entered to Forex trading." said Johan Fernando. "As humans we are sometimes greedy to earn money fast. So after two days I lost all my money when Euro fell due to Greek debt crisis in early March 2010. I had three positions with Euro in currency pairs and I lost as I missed the chance to log in to my trading platform when one of my relations were hospitalised as I was staying at hospital where there was no access to internet. I still remember one thing; Funny thing was that while I was walking down the street I found a 10 Rupee note lying on the ground while I was losing 443 Pips overnight in my Forex trading platform's account. It was like a shock to me but I didn't get a heart attack like some people who invested in unregistered financial institutes did face when they lost money due to mismanagement of such companies. Because I lost money with doing trade on my own risk." said Johan sharing his sentiments on trading at Forex market adding that a person cannot sleep during first five days of the week if he is Forex trading on his own.
However, The Bottom Line was unable to get the views of a Sri Lankan large scale Forex traders as such people in this country are cautious on popularising their trade secrets and tax policies in this country.
But on the other hand, we came across a stock brokering professional, Eranda Ranasinghe who is running a website to promote an offshore Forex trading platform titled 'eToro' in Sri Lanka and he has advertised from Forex profits that he is opening a new fixed deposit in Sri Lankan banks on every month in his web site before; titled www.antharjalaya.com which is now parked free for domain sale at www.godaddy.com. "I have been trading Forex for over a year now. I have written few articles about this in my blog and many Sri Lankans were able to make use of those information. Sri Lankans easily fall in to scams like Sakvithi, Gold Quest, Seagull because they are not aware of legitimate money making opportunities. This is an attempt to introduce you to the real international money making world. You can verify the legitimacy of Forex trading with any authority before start trading." Says Eranda in the website www.startforextrading.org where he is earning commissions from 'eToro' when others come and click those advertisements in his website.
Currently there is a Sri Lanka Forex Association where there are four types of memberships offered only to the people who are currently engaged in foreign exchange and money market activities in banks. The association is run by dealers and chief dealers of treasury departments of Sri Lanka's licensed commercial banks and is also a member Association Cambiste Internationale (ACI) which is now The Financial Markets Association, the worldwide association of wholesale financial market professionals, contributing to market development and market practice.
The main motivation why people go for Forex market is that because it could bring you higher capital gains by a single large trade volume. Although there are lots of registered Retail Forex Brokers around the world due to the strict financial and monetary policies in Sri Lanka there is no single regulated Retail Forex Broker in the country.
By law, according to the Controller of Exchange in Sri Lanka, the country has only allowed to a limited number of parties to enroll with foreign exchange activities.
The Exchange Control Act regulates dealings in gold, foreign currency and securities in Sri Lanka. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), as the agent of the Government, is responsible for carrying out the provisions of the Act. The powers, duties or functions conferred on the Central Bank are exercised or performed by the Controller of Exchange, subject to the direction and control of the Governor of the Central Bank. Thus, according to the Exchange Control Act there are authorised dealers, money changers and other persons to accept foreign currency in the country.
They are the licensed commercial banks authorised by the Minister of Finance in terms of section 4 of the Exchange Control Act shall act as an authorised dealer in relation to gold or any foreign currency, authorised dealers to approve certain transactions on behalf of the Controller under the Exchange Control Act subject to conditions imposed by him. However, before approving any transactions, authorised dealers are required to satisfy themselves about the bona fides of the applicant and the genuineness of the transaction by verifying the necessary documents.
The Central Bank has also appointed money changers who are authorised to purchase foreign currency notes and exchange them for any other currency.But they are not authorised to sell foreign exchange for Sri Lankan Rupees. Further the Central Bank has permitted: hoteliers, travel agents, duty free shops, hospitals, agency post offices which are approved by the Post Master General, harbour traders approved by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority, persons engaged in the gem and jewellery trade which are approved by the National Gem and Jewellery Authority, other persons engaged in or connected with the tourist industry, to accept foreign currency for services rendered and goods supplied to tourists subject to the conditions in the permit.
By rules an authorised dealer in Sri Lanka could open and maintain in its domestic banking unit the following accounts in foreign currency as a service for people and corporate entities: Non Resident Foreign Currency accounts (NRFC), Resident Foreign Currency accounts (RFC), Resident Non Nationals' Foreign Currency accounts (RNNFC), Exporters Foreign Currency Accounts (EFCA), Foreign Currency Accounts for hoteliers (HFCA) and Resident Guest Foreign Currency Accounts (RGFC).
Apart from a few individuals who trade via online through Retail Forex Brokers around the world mostly paying by credit cards; In general, Sri Lanka operates more an offline Forex Market giving access to many who once in a while drop in at an authorised money changing jewellery shop or an authorise money changer to change their foreign currency notes to a higher rate of exchange or to exchange their Rupees at a lesser rate of exchange to another foreign currency or vice versa. Such people make profits on a relatively small or large amounts based on the volume of currencies they are exchanging.
Speaking on the grounds of allowing Retail Forex Brokers in Sri Lanka, Controller of Exchange, P.H.O. Chandrawansa said that so far the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and its Exchange Control Department has not allowed any Retail Forex Trading Broker to operate and carry out business in the country. "Foreign Exchange is a resource for the country, we cannot allow Retail Forex Trading Brokers to operate, because it is like gambling and it is the most risky business." said Chandrawansa. When questioned about whether there is any possibility to a Retail Forex Broker to start operations with the approval of the Central Bank he said that it is unlikely to happen as there is a long procedure to start up such an operation according to the financial regulation practices in the country. "They could write to us about a proposal, but it has to be passed by the Board of Directors in order to consider" added Chandrawansa.
However, as a developing country which needs international capital and foreign funds, some say that Sri Lanka needs to form rules and regulations to bring up Retail Forex Brokers to enable Retail Forex Trading which in turn could indirectly create entrepreneurship opportunities and capital to develop the economy of the country and there could be also a higher risk factor as Forex and other leveraged trading involves significant risk of loss. It is not suitable for all investors and you should make sure you understand the risks involved, seeking multiple independent advice if necessary.
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Do you have any idea what forex Trading is? or do you know anything apart for calling CRAP, if not get some Idea before putting up your silly narrow mind into the world, go through wikipedia link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market you will get some ******* I hope you understand, if not just call us we will explain you.


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Albert Terkel
(Feb 1873 - 2 Dec 1926)
Birth 7 Jan 1873 Austria
Birth Feb 1873 Chorostków, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Arrival 1887 New York, New York, United States
Alt name Albert Turkel
Residence 1900 StreetAddress: Bennett Street; Age: 27; Occupation: Clothing Dealer; AbleToSpeakEnglish: Yes; CanRead: Yes; CanWrite: Yes; CityWard: 1; EnumerationDistrict: 0170; MonthsUnEmployedPastYear: 0; NaturalizationStatus: Alien; YearsInUS: 13; MaritalStatus: Single; RelationToHead: Son - Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Marriage 25 Dec 1901 Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States - Lena Novogrodsky
Residence 1910 Ward 1 - Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Residence (family) 1915 Providence, Rhode Island, United States - Lena Novogrodsky
Alt name 1915 Albert Tirkel
Residence 1920 59 Plannet Ave., Bristol, Rhode Island, United States
Death 2 Dec 1926 1622 50 St, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States
CauseOfDeath 2 Dec 1926 Bronchopneumonia, Myocarditis
Burial 3 Dec 1926 Memorial ID # 126046794 - Washington Cemetery - 5820 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States
Spouse Lena Novogrodsky (1883 - )
Child Anna Ruth Turkel (1902 - 1979)
Child Esther M Turkel (1904 - )
Child Herbert Turkel (1907 - )
Child Irving S Turkel (1907 - 1993)
Child Florence Paula Turkel (1910 - 1983)
Child Reeven Joseph Turkel (1912 - 1992)
Child Sonia R Turkel
Child Hope T Turkel (1922 - 2000)
Father Joseph Mendel "Jossl Mendl" Türkel (1850 - 1920)
Mother Miriam "Mary / Marriane" Steinbuck (1843 - 1928)
Sibling Minna Terkel (1867 - 1940)
Sibling Feige Türkel (1869 - )
Sibling Abraham Türkel (1871 - )
Sibling Pauline Terkel (1876 - 1908)
Sibling Chaim Eisek Türkel (1878 - )
Sibling Bessie Terkel (1878 - )
Sibling Golde Türkel (1880 - )
Sibling Hersch Türkel (1882 - )
Sibling Herman Terkel - Turkel (1882 - 1939)
Sibling Juda Chaskel Türkel (1885 - )
Death certificate #23674
Years In US: 40 Years; Marital Status: Married; Occupation: Dealer
3. Ancestry.com, New York, New York, Death Index, 1862-1948 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).
4. Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Year: 1920; Census Place: Woonsocket Ward 1, Providence, Rhode Island; Roll: T625_1676; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 323.
5. Ancestry.com, Rhode Island, State Censuses, 1865-1935 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013).
6. Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006), Year: 1910; Census Place: Woonsocket Ward 1, Providence, Rhode Island; Roll: T624_1440; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0279; FHL microfilm: 1375453.
7. Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004), Year: 1900; Census Place: Woonsocket Ward 1, Providence, Rhode Island; Page: 13; Enumeration District: 0170; FHL microfilm: 1241512.
10. Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006), Year: 1910; Census Place: Woonsocket Ward 1, Providence, Rhode Island; Roll: T624_1440; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0279; FHL microfilm: 1375453.
11. Census 1920.
12. Ancestry.com, New York, New York, Death Index, 1862-1948 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).
13. William Charles Turkel aka Bill, correspondence, , ; ; privately held by.
14. Ancestry.com, New York, New York, Index to Death Certificates, 1862-1948 (Lehi, UT: n.p., 2020), New York City Department of Records & Information Services; New York City, New York; New York City Death Certificates; Borough: Brooklyn; Year: 1926.


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Rolling with Emilio Pucci
Rolling with Emilio Pucci by Edward Housden
This five-minute short is the brand's first fashion film since Massimo Giorgetti's appointment as creative director in March earlier this year, and showcases the designer's debut collection for the label. Without a single word of dialogue, the film follows model and some-time skater Martha-Rose Redding as she pits her boarding skills against two teenage boys. Shot in a seemingly abandoned skate park, surrounded by rich, lush forest, the film's engrossing narrative is suggestive and mysterious. The real stars of the video, however, are the ornately decorated skateboards, that were created as part of the brand's collaboration with ÉCAL (École cantonale d'arte de Lausanne in Switzerland) and done up in Pucci's signature prints.
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We all want to feel comfortable in our homes, but there are times when we can feel violated. I'm not talking about another person coming in, I'm talking about little critters, such as mice and spiders. If you have those unwelcome visitors, fixing it is as easy as using a bag of tea. The type of tea you would use is Peppermint.
The method for making this work is easier than you could possibly imagine. Simply brew a cup of peppermint tea and then leave the bag in the room where spiders and mice have been a problem. You even get to enjoy the cup of tea! Put the tea bag in a corner, so it is best if you use 4 tea bags, one in each corner.
If you aren't one to brew some tea, you can get the same results with essential oil. Put 10 – 15 drops of peppermint oil in a spray bottle full of water and spray it around the baseboards. Not only does it help to keep spiders and mice away, your home is going to smell fantastic! For spiders, you can also use cinnamon and lemon oil.
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Bigfoot vs. Werewolf: Who will win the war of the monsters?
by JGordon | 11 comments
in Scientific World View, Human Organism, and History and Nature of Science
The titans close on each other: Look at how much bigger they are than that house! But how do we know that's a werewolf and not just a normal giant wolf?Courtesy JGordonJK. The war has already been fought, Bigfoot totally won, you missed it, and remarkably little blood was spilled. Go figure.
A professor of the history of science at Kean University in New Jersey is arguing that Bigfoot, in fact, killed the werewolf. Not for really real, but in the collective mind of our society. However, Bigfoot had a secret weapon: Charles Darwin. (I'm assuming it was a silver-tipped Charles Darwin, at least.)
See, everybody has to be afraid of something, pretty much. And for a long time we were all, "I have to be afraid of something, huh? Well… I'm already sort of afraid of wolves, so why don't we throw in this unnatural wolf/man mix thingy. I'll be afraid of that." And because we were too dumb to know about stuff like flesh eating disease and giant crocodiles and cancer, we were pretty satisfied being afraid of werewolves.
But then, says New Jersey science historian Brian Regal, then along comes ol' Charles Darwin (and his silver tongue?), and begins to popularize evolution with On the Origin of Species. People start thinking, "Hey… wolf-man? Why did I ever think that was scary? That's old, magicky nonsense. No, what makes sense is an ape-man. I'll be afraid of that now."
Science gave the supernatural a little boost of legitimacy, in a roundabout way. And at the cost of poor, dear wolf-man.
Or so says Brian Regal. Take it for what it's worth; he's an assistant professor, after all. I don't trust assistant anythings. Especially not dental assistants. Regal will be presenting his theory to the British Society for the History of Science in Leicester, UK in July. He's going to show how period artwork also reflects this werewolf to Bigfoot transition, which sounds pretty neat. So if you can make it to Leicester and into the British Society for the History of Science sometime in the next month, maybe you should check it out.
A brutal win!: Look—the wolf has pants. Case closed. Oh, right... this drawing isn't appropriate for more delicate viewers.Courtesy JGordonI'm more than a little disappointed in the lack of an epic, bloody monster-on-monster battle here, though. So I'll be drawing one for y'all just now, on the back of some paper I pulled out of my trash.
Tags : anthropology, Bigfoot, cryptozoology, evolution, werewolf
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In Russia, yeti hunts for you!
by JGordon | 3 comments
in Diversity of Organisms, Interdependence of Life, Life Science, and Human Organism
I've spent years building this search program: Hopefully I'll have a color version someday.Courtesy JGordonHere at Science Buzz, we deal in facts. Cold, hard, frosty, refreshing facts.
We scoop up questions, opinions, and casual observations in big, greasy shovels, and we boil them over the white hot heat of science, processing and reducing them until we're left with they crystalline residue of pure fact. (And if that fact gets cut and diluted down to street grade fact once it leaves the website, well, that's lamentable, but it's beyond our control.)
Before we send anything out to you, the Buzzketeer, we subject it to rigorous testing. Like, hey, here's a cool idea for a post. Is it unequivocal, objective fact? No? Then we throw it out.
That's just the way we operate here. You deserve it.
So, hey, check this out: there might be yetis in Siberia.
Yes sir, the search is on for yetis in Siberia, in a region where yeti sightings have skyrocketed in the last few weeks. While folks in the area claim to have been seeing upright, hairy creatures for years, 10 sightings in the past few weeks have got people concerned. Concerned and excited.
Local officials have launched a yeti-finding expedition, which has so far found approximately zero yetis, but has discovered an intriguing footprint in a nearby cave. (Images of the footprint can be found at the link to Cryptomundo above).
Despite my dedication to cryptozoology and the cryptocouch, I'm not sure that departmental petty cash is going to get me to Siberia to verify anything for y'all. So I must remain here, on the cryptocouch, doing what I can with what I've got. And that's not much.
Still, reports have the creatures at about six-feet-tall, with red and black fur. I ran this description through my visual yeti database (see associated image), and I can conclusively say that we're dealing with a heretofore-undocumented variety of yeti. This might not seem like a very significant thing, but it's important in science to understand what you aren't dealing with. Then you can move on to what you might be dealing with. And that's where we're at now.
Tags : Bigfoot, cryptozoology, Yeti
Buy bite-guards for your thighs: the South American crab-walking gnome is back
Which is the real gnome?: I'm not sure, but I'll tell you how to find out: hit each one with an aluminum baseball bat. Or drop them in an above ground pool. Or both.Courtesy B TalDo you guys remember the South American crab-walking gnome? Of course you do. I posted about it this spring, after all. But a refresher may be in order—the Argentinean city of General Guemes was in some sort of panic earlier this year, because a shadowy, knee-high creature had been seen sidling around the town late at night. It may or may not have worn a pointy hat. Some local teens even caught the little creeper on video one night (much screaming was heard, but very few fine details could be made out on the crab-walker). While General Gueme's citizens weren't certain exactly what was stalking their streets, they knew one thing: they didn't like it.
And now it's back (on video, again). See for yourself.
This footage leaves me with two questions, neither of which are directly related to gnomes. Question 1: Is this even appropriate for a science blog? Isn't this kind of pushing it?
The answer, to both parts of question one, is "yes." Of course it's appropriate, because I said so. And it is indeed pushing things. But, if we didn't push the boundaries of what we think is ridiculous now and again, think of all the stuff we'd miss. Crab walking gnomes would be out of the question altogether.
And question 2: Why are Argentinean, trouble-making, teenage boys spending their nights waltzing with each other in the middle of the streets? Shouldn't they be stealing things somewhere? Or practicing their vandalism? If they had to do some street waltzing, you wouldn't think they'd want it on tape. This is the most questionable part of the video, as far as I'm concerned.
So what do y'all think? Hijinks and shenanigans? Scary little gnome-sidler? And, if none of the above, what manner of person or creature is this? Must we turn the conversation to dwarfism? Or does anybody have a more creative suggestion?
Now, in my last gnome-related post, I received some flak for my suggestion to use net-guns on the gnome. With that in mind, I am now revising my gnome-defense suggestions: cover General Guemes in glue traps. Then, when the craw-walker is captured, it will be easy to verify whether we're dealing with a true gnome, or a run of the mill little person in a pointy hat. In the latter case, the person should be congratulated on their craftiness, and sent on their way. If it does turn out to be a gnome, however, or possibly a large crab in a pointy hat, then I say that citizens should have free reign with their, net guns, tazers, non-lethal deterrent sprays, etc. Whatever you can find around the house, really. The gnome, of course, won't be going anywhere.
Tags : Argentina, cryptozoology, gnome, self-defense
The Yeti is in town again. Not our town, though.
by JGordon | 1 comment
in Diversity of Organisms, Scientific Inquiry, Interdependence of Life, and Life Science
These are what snowy footprints look like: Just a visual reference for you.Courtesy EJP PhotoThere's snow on the cryptocouch, y'all. How did it get there? I thought the cryptocouch was in a basement somewhere. (That's what you say.) And that's what I thought too.
We were wrong. The cryptocouch, it seems, is very much a mobile entity. Sure, it lives in a basement, and that's where we all (w'all) most often sit on it, but the cryptocouch also travels. It's like that bed from the Nintendo Entertainment System's Little Nemo: The Dream Master (Nemo! Help your cat, little man!)—the sucker flies. It flies.
It has to fly, because how else could we explain the snow? See, the cryptocouch has just recently returned from the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, where it was following a group of Japanese researchers on a mountaintop nearly five miles high.
This particular peak, Dhaulagiri IV, happens to be where the Japanese team claims to have found traces of the legendary yeti. That's right, y'all, yeti is in the house again already. He's just not in your house. The primary goal of this expedition was to catch a yeti on film.
And that didn't happen. But they did find something almost as good: yeti footprints in the snow. (Oh, that's where all that snow came from, cryptocouch.)
Photographs of the prints can be found at the link above, or at the team's own site here. Don't get all sassy if that link doesn't work, though—you aren't the only one who wants to see yeti footprints.
If you can't see the photos, or refuse to do anything that you're told to do (I'm with you there, brother), here's the deal: the footprints (or footprint, I'm not totally certain) were found in crusty snow on the mountain, and measure about 8 inches long. The leader of the team insists that they don't belong to any of the other local animals, saying that his team has been coming to the region for years, and knows what bear, deer, wolf, and snow leopard prints look like; these prints look different.
On a previous expedition, a team member thinks he caught a glimpse of the silhouette of a possible yeti. It was about 200 meters away, but he estimated its height at about 1.5 meters (slightly less than 5 feet). So this particular yeti doesn't have all that imposing of a figure.
Short yeti or no, we aren't here to judge, are we? Well, we sort of are, but we aren't handing out value judgments. We're here to evaluate the evidence, and to decide if it's likely that there's a diminutive hairy man roaming the slopes of the Himalayas. The footprint isn't quite doing it for me, but the couch saw fit to make the trip, so we'll be sticking with the yeti for now.
Tags : cryptozoology, footprints, Himalayas, nepal, Yeti
Not so much "ape-man" as "goat-man." And not so much "goat-man" as "goat."
in Diversity of Organisms, Interdependence of Life, and Life Science
A goral goat: Nice trick, goat, but we saw through it. Feeling a little sheepish now, huh?Courtesy OpencageDo y'all remember that exhilarating and frightening moment in late July when some fresh "Yeti" hair was found? Oh, come on—you remember. Think back. You probably had some bowel spasms. I posted about it.
If you're not into checking out links, the basic story was this: a man in a heavily forested region of northeast India had collected some strange hairs from an area where there had been several sightings in the last few days of a large, Bigfoot-like creature. The hairs couldn't immediately be identified, but they looked a little like the "yeti hair" collected by Sir Edmund Hilary on his famous yeti hunt (I'm using quotation marks there because the "yeti" hair came from a "deer" and Hilary probably knew it). So the hairs were sent to a lab for DNA testing.
And the results are in.
It was a goat. Not a huge, hairy man-beast. Not a jovial, crook-legged goat-boy. A Himalayan Gray Goral (goat).
This might be a disappointment for the Bigfoot enthusiasts of India's Garo Hills region (although they insist that the creature is still out there, even if it isn't leaving its own hair around), but, in its own way, it's an interesting discovery. The goral was never thought to roam that far south in India—it was believed to only live in the Himalayas, at elevations above 1,000 meters.
So, while we haven't uncovered indisputable genetic evidence of a South Asian ape-man, our time on the cryptocouch hasn't been a total waste—we've come out with a more practical (if less spectacular) discovery about a mundane animal.
Tags : cryptozoology, DNA, genetics, goats, India
Mutant, man-eating catfish: everything is A-okay
This catfish is a small one: And it still wants to eat you.Courtesy AndyrobThe title of this post might be more accurate if it were something like "Mutant, man-eating catfish: probably not real," but that one doesn't thrill me so much. A lot of stuff has been spilled, leaked, excreted, and written on the Science Buzz's cryptocouch of cryptozoology, but none of it looks like "probably not."
So get a load of this: goonch catfish in the Kali River, which separates India and Nepal, are rumored to have developed a taste for human flesh and some locals think that they are now targeting human swimmers as prey! Whoa!
Bagarius yarrelli, or the goonch catfish, will commonly grow to a length of around 6 feet, and may weigh over 150 pounds. The story has it, however, that a particular goonch (or goonches) have grown exceptionally large off of a rich diet of partially burned human corpses thrown into the Kali River with the remains of funeral pyres. Not content with the charred leftovers of this nutritious delicacy, the goonch (or goonches) has been seeking out fresh meat.
Over the last twenty years, there have been a multitude of cases of bathers being pulled beneath the surface of the Kali, never to reappear. The most recent reported case involved an 18-year-old Nepali being dragged down into the river by something looking like "an elongated pig." (Shut up! Shut up shut up shut up! Catfish can look like "elongated pigs," okay?)
Isn't that awesome? Mutant, man-eating catfish? Pretty sweet, especially if you don't live by the Kali River.
Heck, I'd say you could stop reading now, if you want. I'm just going to go over a couple other points, which I think are more or less incidental. Not. Worth. Considering. Everything is so cool as it is, why would you want any more?
So. The mighty, carnivorous goonch… Mighty indeed is the goonch—the current world record holder comes in at 6 feet and 161 pounds, and this site claims that goonch weighing between 300 and 400 pounds can be observed in areas where fishing is not allowed (and, presumably, these are un-mutated specimens). "Carnivorous" is accurate too, although, well… generally B. yarrelli is thought to feed on aquatic insects, smaller fish, and prawns.
To describe the huge catfish as "mutants" might be a little sensationalistic too. Technically, to be a mutant something has to have a new genetic characteristic. To the best of my knowledge, eating people shouldn't actually cause your genes to change. Unless those people were radioactive, or something, but in that case you'd probably just get cancer, not grow really big.
And there's one other thing, one tiny little thing. I noticed that many of the websites for Kali River resorts and lodges (Bip, Boop, Bip) mention that large crocodiles can frequently be spotted in the water. But, you know, just because there are crocodiles around, and crocodiles have been known, on occasion, to pull people into the water and eat them, and people in this particular river have been pulled into the water and probably eaten… that doesn't necessarily mean that crocodiles are responsible. Really, it could be anything.
Like, maybe, mutant, man-eating catfish.
Tags : catfish, cryptozoology, fish, goonch, man eaters
The Cuero chupacabra bites back. Time to discuss, people.
in Diversity of Organisms, Scientific Inquiry, and Life Science
The Cuero Chupacabra: A photograph of the mystery animal itself. Gorgeous.Courtesy Phylis B. CanionThe Cuero Chupacabra lives!
Well, not "lives" literally. It was, in fact, hit by a car, decapitated, and frozen, which makes living difficult for most things. But the tenacious crypto-beast refuses to be silent, even in death, and so I invite you all to have a seat on the cryptocouch, and kick up your feet on the ottoman of open-mindedness. Do so now.
A quick refresher: Last year a Texas woman found several strange looking animals on a road near her ranch—all had apparently been struck by cars. The creatures were about 40 pounds each, grayish, largely hairless, fanged, and dog-like. It was suggested that these animals might have been responsible for the deaths by exsanguination (removal of blood) of dozens of chickens in the area over the last several years, and so they were associated with the legendary Latin American bloodsucking monster the chupacabra. These kinds of claims are made all the time, but this lady actually had the foresight to keep the bodies—or at least their heads—in her freezer for tests.
Refresher #2: A couple months later, the creature's DNA results came back, and it was declared that the "chupacabras" were nothing more than coyotes with skin problems. Science Buzz had a post on this story too, and here's the link for Texas State University's take on the DNA results they came up with. And that's about where coverage on the Cuero chupacabra dropped off (except for a sighting this summer).
Are coyotes the culprits?: Or are the Cuero creatures something different entirely?Courtesy matt knoth
But the story's not quite over! The woman who shot the creatures claims that the results of the DNA tests were not accurately represented by the media, and that the story was dismissed without sufficient investigation. Phylis, the Cuero rancher herself, recently sent Science Buzz a letter regarding some of the problems she has with the sick coyote theory:
You state the Cuero Chupacabra is a sick coyote. Based on what evidence?
I have the beast, I have the DNA, and I have talked to multitudes of scientist and biologist and not ONE person has stated that this animal is a sick coyote.
It DID NOT have mange
It is a cross between two animals that do not breed
It has blue eyes
I will continue to research this beast as I stated I would when I first began observing it two years ago!!
I hope this info helps-
Phylis
And so today the cryptocouch is no longer a place of simple relaxation, it is a nexus of discussion! What do you all think? If it's not a mythological creature, and it's not exactly a coyote, what is it?
Leave your comments and questions here. Hopefully Phylis will be joining the discussion herself—do you have any questions for her?
**Here's a link to a photo of Phylis with the creature's head. As soon as I find a postable image, I'll put it up with the story.
Tags : chupacabra, coyote, cryptozoology, DNA, Whhhhhhhhhy
Buckle up for big Bigfoot news! Whoa! Whooaa!
in Diversity of Organisms, Life Science, and Human Organism
The illustrated Bigfoot: Quit screwing around with this drawing, and look at the article!Courtesy Jean-noHoly moly, Buzzketeers! I've barely gotten all the crumbs and stank off of the cryptocouch from yesterday, and yet I ask, no, I insist that y'all have a seat once again. Don't mind the crumbs—they're yours.
Some folks in Georgia claim to have a Bigfoot body in their darn freezer! A bold claim, my southern friends, a bold claim, but they will supposedly be flying to California on Friday to hold a press conference with "Searching for Bigfoot Inc."
Word on the street says that these folks are lining up DNA tests, and that a molecular biologist, an anthropologist, a paleontologist and assorted other scientists will be examining the body over the next few months at "an undisclosed location," and carefully documenting their findings before public release.
I'd normally recommend Loren Coleman's Cryptomundo.com for this sort of thing (he's usually the guy to turn to for reasonable responses to kind of crazy claims), but the site has been all crazy itself today. Maybe because people are so into Bigfoot. So click on the "Word on the street" link above. There might still be a goofy looking photo.
Here are some details that have been released so far:
"*The creature is seven feet seven inches tall.
*It weighs over five hundred pounds.
*The creature looks like it is part human and part ape-like.
*It is male.
*It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes.
*It has two arms and two legs, and five fingers on each hand and
five toes on each foot.
*The feet are flat and similar to human feet.
*Its footprint is sixteen and three-quarters inches long and five and three-quarters inches wide at the heel.
*From the palm of the hand to the tip of the middle finger, its hands are
eleven and three-quarters inches long and six and one-quarter inches wide.
*The creatures walk upright. (Several of them were sighted on the same day that the body was found.)
*The teeth are more human-like than ape-like.
*DNA tests are currently being done and the current DNA and photo evidence will be presented at the press conference on Friday, August 15th."
I'm inclined to think this is fake, but, hey, if nothing else, it's a delightfully elaborate prank, and I'm all about that.
Tags : Bigfoot, cryptozoology, new species
Chupacabra on the run!
by JGordon on Aug. 12th, 2008
Just a road in Texas: No chupacabras, or ill coyotes, so just chill out. Watch the video, huh?Courtesy mtsrsA county sheriff's deputy-in-training in Texas got some footage of a strange, poochy animal, as she chased the creature down a rural road. Where in Texas? Cuero, naturally, where there was a stir-up last year about the one and only Chupacabra!
Sit down, y'all, and check it out.
Until I have footage of this guy draining the blood from a goat, I'm saying it's part of a population of creepy coyote hybrids (which I also like).
Tags : chupacabra and cryptozoology
Science is making my Yeti magic stronger.
A yeti: preparing a powerful spell.Courtesy teotwawkiIt's time again, Buzzketeers—get on the cryptocouch. Go on and sit down. Just as you are is fine. I understand that some of you may be a little crusty and gross, and that's fine; you were probably just planning on getting a little internet on by yourself this morning, and maybe you let your crust build up, your funk get funkier, and didn't expect to have to set yourself down on a cryptocouch with other Buzzketeers.
Don't sweat it. The cryptocouch is big enough for all of us, with room to spare for buffer zones, and it's upholstered such that I can just hose it off later. And that may be necessary, if your orifices aren't up for some serious cryptozoology this early in the day.
And now you're on the cryptocouch, despite your reservations. How did I ever convince you to do that? Hey, it's only to be expected—my Yeti magic is particularly strong today. Usually my Yeti magic is fueled by groundless faith, but today, oh today, my Yeti magic is burning the high-octane gas of scientific uncertainty.
Uncertainty may not sound very good to some of y'all, but when science gets up in your grill as often as it does with cryptozoology, you take what you can get. And today, instead of scientists thrusting and grinding statements like "That's bear hair," or "That's a sick coyote" in our faces, it says, "hello, this is different." That is, so-called Yeti hair collected in India has recently been identified as "inconclusive."
Let's slow down and use our words.
Scientists at Oxford Brookes University, lead by "ape expert" Ian Redmond, have recently spent some time examining a couple of mysterious hairs from the Garo Hills of northeast India. The hairs were collected after a local forester reported seeing the region's Yeti/Bigfoot thinger (specifically, the "Mande Barung") in the area three days in a row.
The hairs have been compared to samples collected by Sir Edmund Hilary, a mountaineer and explorer, who did some Yeti-searching in Nepal in the 60's. And that's cool, except Sir Edmund's specimens have generally been agreed to be from a kind of antelope, something that Hilary himself was probably aware of.
The Oxford Brookes researchers, then, began examining the new hairs "fully expecting them to come from a known animal." The hairs, each less than two inches long, however, now appear to have come from an unknown animal. The scientists say that, under a microscope, the hairs look slightly human, slightly like an orangutan, and slightly like Hilary's samples (so, slightly like antelope hair). But they don't look exactly like hair from a known animal, especially none that are known to live in the Garo Hills. So, even if the hairs don't come from a Yeti (or whatever)m they may be evidence of a slightly more mundane new species. Which is pretty neat.
The next step that will be taken with the hairs is their submission to that colossal buzz-kill we call genetic testing. The hairs, which still have follicle attached, will be sent to two separate laboratories in Oxford and Cardiff for DNA analysis. Even if the results don't identify the hairs as belonging to a specific species, they should at least show what their original owner was related to (like a primate, or, say, a type of antelope).
How about that? Powerful stuff, huh? So cast your Yeti spells while the news is still hot, because who knows what the DNA tests will bring us.
Now get off the couch. I have to sleep there, and you're making it all grimy.
Tags : Bigfoot, cryptozoology, hair, Yeti
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