It's been great, this year in particular has been really exciting it feels like everything's been starting. I've been doing it for quite a while now but this has been the first year that things have been kicking off, like I've been played on the radio and starting to get recognised, so the little things like that which have been happening are all really, really positive.
What has it been like touring?
Awesome! And festivals, are you doing any this year?
At the moment I've got a few confirmed but nothing major, just a few underground ones like Dot to Dot in Bristol and the Great Escape in Brighton which I'm really looking forward to because it's just such a great festival, so yeah, just little things like that and hopefully I'll get booked into other ones as well as the summer goes on.
What do you prefer, touring or festivals?
I imagine it's exhausting though isn't it?
Yeah that's a point, how do you keep your vocals up to scratch, must be pretty straining?
Hmm the myth of manuka, does that actually work?!
You should promo it for them! So what do you do in the day when you're touring, how does it all work?
So you're just driving all the time! Pretty close proximity with everyone all the time?!
Yep. It really is. But we have a DVD in the van so that's ok, we've been watching Band of Brothers recently which is really good, quite bleak, but really fun… then we just get to the venue at like 3 or 4 where we've got to load in and sound check, so by the time you've done all that, it's pretty much time to get onstage and then you've got to leave again!
You must just be on an adrenaline high the whole time to keep going!
Yeah, it's important to make sure you've had enough sleep, but it's so wonderful, I love it so much I don't mind!
Bet you never thought that you'd be playing there one day!
No not at all, so yeah, it was a pretty big deal!
Ok next question, are you a barefoot performer?
Hmmmm interesting. I think if I was a performer I'd go barefoot… foot jail man, what about at a festival, then it's edgey right?!
Haha at a festival?! That's even more reason to wear shoes!
True! So I have to ask, because your hair is fabulous, how do you keep it in shape? Manuka honey perhaps??
Literally, I do nothing, just wash it and then leave it, we have similar hair, that's the done thing right?
Absolutely! And if anyone come's near you with a hairbrush fight them off haha… what about your family and friends back home then? Do you ever get to see them? It must be hard to maintain that being on the road all the time?
Yeah it is quite tough, I guess I don't really see my parents as much as I'd like to but I do see them a lot because they're massive fans, not just of me, of Bombay and everyone which is good and they've kind of got to know everyone quite well now. They've already been to like 4 of the gigs on this tour and they're going to come to more of them!!
Ahh that's really nice, and how about your friends back home, get to see them much or are you kind of just making more friends on the road, I suppose there's no real time to keep that well in contact with everyone at home, especially because you started out so young, 17 you said?
Do you ever sort of make music with them, like, do you ever talk over your songs and come up with stuff? (yeah definitely) or does it all come from you?
Well I guess it's a bit of both actually, I mean, I've always been very sure about what I wanna do, and I kind of know that myself but it's so nice to have people like Jack and to be able to bounce ideas off and say 'what do you think of this' and 'what do you advise me to do?' and that's what's so nice about having people around that know!
So do you ever jam?
Haha don't say that about yourself, you're great don't worry!
Jam's where it's all at man! So onto the writing of your music, what's your method, lyrics or melody first?
It's always melody first with me, it's always about the music first. And I guess the more that I'm on the road, the lyrics kind of come to me so it's changing, it's gradually changing, but yeah, usually it is the music first and the lyrics come later because the words are the hardest part and they've gotta be right, they've gotta fit.
Haha yes, very true! Are you writing anything at the moment or coming up with stuff?
I'm still writing yeah, I'm trying to write all the time but it is hard when you're moving around a lot but my album is finished now and is coming out just after the summer so I guess I'm kind of still writing for that as well as writing for the next thing!
Phwoar so it's all go, never a dull moment! Ok, a bit out of the blue but we've got a feature on our show called 'what bothers me' so what we'd like to know is what bothers you?
What bothers me? Like anything?
Yeah, it can be as trivial as you like, for example, my most recent 'what bothers me' is how I noticed the other day that I grit my teeth when I stroke dogs, out of love I guess haha, which apparently is very weird, I thought it was normal so I was bothered by the fact that not everyone does it… do you, please say yes!!
Yeah, yeah I know haha so what about you then?
I've tried, I really have! Nothing helps!
Haha that's too bad, no cold drinks for you then! Have you had any cringe moments when performing or anything, any major faux pas?
Yeah it's a pretty rockstar thing to do, well done! So you went to the Brit Awards recently, how was that? Was it very surreal?
Don't worry, I'm sure everyone feels like that! So is this whole experience and lifestyle still very surreal for you or are you kind of getting used to it now?
Are you turning into a diva then? Do you have any weird demands or anything?
I really hope not! Uhh no not really, very into health stuff like we were talking about before, I need my manuka honey, so yeah, that's my one luxurious thing.
I think we can allow you that! Well I think that's everything I need, and it's been really lovely talking to you so thank you, I really appreciate it and I'm a big fan! Good luck with everything and thanks on behalf of Insanity Radio, it's been great!


After spending an entire day out in the garden; weeding, cultivating, transplanting, getting some sun and some exercise, I came inside and looked around and missed all the flowers. So after looking around the house, I decided the spot where I display my milk glass vases and some artwork needed some life. So I headed back out to the garden to gather some flowers.
Once in the garden, I headed right to the Lily of the Valley and started snipping away. I wanted to enjoy their pretty little flowers inside before they were completely finished blooming. And from the look of them if I did not pick them right away then I would have to wait until next year.
I added them to the three milk glass vases and the area was transformed.
I love how fresh flowers can complete an interior!
That is beautiful. I missed the Lily of the Valley blossom this spring.
Hi, thanks for popping by my blog and leaving a comment. You have a beautiful blog, I love Lily of the Valley it's such a sweet and pretty flower.


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Can pre-packs be stitch-ups?
So called 'pre-pack' administrations have hit headlines in recent months with a number of high-profile businesses being sold and the government dropping plans for reform. Annabelle Dickson finds out why pre-packs are so contentious and whether they really are good for the economy.
Recent weeks have seen stormy times for a host of businesses battling for survival including clothing chains La Senza, Blacks Leisure and Bonmarche, while closer to home Beccles-based furniture brand Mark Elliot announced plans to close seven of its stores. Uniting all of these, besides the economic downturn, is the fact that all – at some point – have entered into what is known as pre-pack administration – an insolvency process which can see the agreed sale of a company, before it publicly goes into administration. Supporters argue that pre-pack deals help to save jobs when a company flounders, but critics question whether it can be used as a means to leave some creditors out of pocket. It is a subject which has been looked into by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills which has been running a consultation on reforms. And with the economy shrinking by 0.2pc in the final quarter of last year, we may see an increase in firms going under or resorting to pre-packs to survive.
Last April, business minister Ed Davey suggested the introduction of a minimum three-day notice period before any pre-pack deal could take effect, so giving other interested parties a chance to intervene. The Association of British Insurers (ABI) – which represents most of the major fund management bodies – also raised concerns about the pre-pack process in its submission to the BIS Select Committee.
"We think that the heart of the problem lies in the serious conflict of interest inherent in an insolvency practitioner devising a pre-pack sale in secret in conjunction with the directors and secured lenders of a failing company, and then immediately implementing that transaction as administrator with a duty to act in the best interests of all creditors," the ABI said.
"Despite the professional and legal rules designed to prevent abuse, it is inevitable that a large proportion of pre-pack transactions will be structured to favour the owners of the business and their secured finance providers, who initially engage the insolvency practitioner and are privy to the design of the scheme, at the expense of unsecured creditors."
But the government last week shelved the reforms as it is unconvinced that any benefit from further controls would outweigh the burden it imposed.
Chris Williams, a partner at Norwich-based insolvency specialists McTear Williams and Wood, who is a member of R3 – the insolvency profession's trade body – and has been sitting on a policy group advising the government on the issue, said the system had both pros and cons.
"The pros are that the business can be sold very quickly without having to trade on in a formal insolvency procedure and thus the business can be sold intact with customers, goodwill and key staff not disrupted by the procedure," Mr Williams said.
"This way the purchaser should be willing to pay more for the business and assets and so there should be more money to distribute to creditors." He said that creditors often disliked pre-packs, especially when the business and assets were sold back to the former owners or managers because they saw the business carrying on as normal but without all its liabilities.
"Like many things in life there are good and bad pre-packs. My profession needs to work to ensure that there are very few bad pre-packs. A pre-pack business and assets sale at a fair price with the proper premium being paid for goodwill can undoubtedly be the best deal for creditors but sometimes the price achieved can appear to fall short of this and creditors are left nursing big losses and possibly getting into financial difficulty themselves.
"I think it is positive that the government has continued to allow pre-pack administrations without putting up unnecessary barriers. It is now the responsibility of the insolvency profession to use this power wisely and explain why the deal was the best available," he added.
Richard Fleming, UK head of restructuring at KPMG, which orchestrated pre-pack deals for Blacks, Bonmarche and La Senza, also spoke of the benefits.
"Without the pre-pack mechanism, it is likely that more stores would have had to close and more staff would have lost their jobs. Importantly, the use of a pre-pack, rather than selling the businesses out of a trading administration, minimised the disruption to operations." He said that at a time when many more businesses faced collapse, the government decision on implementing the reforms was an important acknowledgement of the role pre-packs had to play in the country's corporate recovery.
North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb said he had taken up the issue with the government after being made aware of concerns with the current system. "The concern is that this often can just become a stitch-up and it ends up as a fait accompli," Mr Lamb said. "You do not have a choice for a proper sale and the creditors can lose out.
"The challenge is how we clamp down on the potential abuse of it. It is recognising that they can sometimes be of value and recognising that also the mechanism can be abused.
"We have got to monitor this closely and any idea that people have about how we can cut out abuse would be very welcome."
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I really need help on how to post SCPs mostly but also tales and incidents. Please help.
Okay. So I am finally a member of the SCP Foundation. Yay! Unfortunately I don't know how to post stories. Any help would be appreciated. Also I HAVE read the How to write an SCP and Guide for Newbies but me being a Newbie is probably the worst. I want to post an SCP on the site but I don't know how. I want to make it in the style of the other SCP files.
I was in the same boat yesterday as I was just accepted into the foundation also.
It's quite easy, as all you have to do is find a SCP number not currently in use, and click on it. Then it'll say that this SCP does not exist, and it'll also give you an option to make a page.
I believe this is how you do it, as I have not actually posted an SCP yet.
If I am wrong, I am truly sorry.
If you've read How to Write an SCP, can I ask what's unclear about the process? It basically tells you what to do step by step.
Moved to General Advice since it's a question about the site's writing process.
but me being a Newbie is probably the worst.
Everyone was a newbie at some point.
I want to post an SCP on the site but I don't know how.
"Posting" tab of the How to Write an SCP Guide.
I want to make it in the style of the other SCP files.
"Templates" tab of the How to Write an SCP Guide.
I want to post an SCP on the site but I don't know how. I want to make it in the style of the other SCP files.
Also I HAVE read the How to write an SCP and Guide for Newbies but me being a Newbie is probably the worst.
It's not that I don't trust you (I'm an auditor, so I trust nobody) but the guide you mentioned has the 9 required steps to post an SCP article and the templates to make it "in the style of the other SCP files". Perhaps it would be a good idea if you read that guide again.


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I have a set of 10 clickable images and every time someone clicks on one of the images the sending function is being called in order to get the src of the image which needs to be stored in an array for further use.
The problem is that I cannot store the value of the String variabe img.src in the array image and alert(image[i]) is printing undefined.
Using alert(img.src) gives me the correct value.
Can anyone explain?

A: Probably this should work :
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Muhammad Ali was deathly afraid of flying. Louisville just named its airport after him.
21 Jan, 2019 12:00pm
Muhammad Ali was famously afraid of flying, but now an airport has been named after him in Louisville, Kentucky. Photo / Getty Images
By: Timothy Bella
On an hour-long flight from Louisville to Chicago in the late '50s, Cassius Clay prayed he wasn't going to die.
The teenage Clay, then a dominant amateur boxer, hadn't developed his phobia of flying, one also held by his father, until that fateful flight on a twin-engine jet. "Many times I've searched my mind to find where the fear originated," he said in his 1975 autobiography. Clay recalled how the plane on the flight to Chicago experienced so much turbulence during a storm that "some of the seats were torn from their bolts on the floor."
"I really thought it was our last ride," remembered Joe Martin, Clay's coach, according to Jonathan Eig's Ali: A Life. "And I mean Cassius was praying and hollering! Oh, man, he was scared to death."
That fear stayed with Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, for most of his transcendent career. So what would Ali, who died in 2016 at 74, say to Wednesday's news that Louisville is naming its airport after a man who famously hated air travel? "I'm not afraid of the fight," he told reporters before a 1961 bout. "I'm afraid of the flight."
As the Louisville Courier-Journal reported, Mayor Greg Fischer said in a news conference that Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport would serve as a reminder that while the boxer belonged to the world, the Kentucky city was his home.
"Muhammad became one of the most well-known people to ever walk the earth and has left a legacy of humanitarianism and athleticism that has inspired billions of people," Fischer said. "It is important that we, as a city, further champion the champ's legacy. And the airport renaming is a wonderful next step."
For years as a young fighter, Ali was able to avoid jets and take trains and Martin's station wagon to his fights, according to David Remnick's "King of the World." But that would all change in 1960.
In May of that year, Clay had to get to San Francisco to qualify for that year's U.S. Olympic boxing team. If the 18-year-old ever wanted to accomplish his goal of being one of the youngest heavyweight champions in the history of boxing, he had to immediately overcome an opponent not named Floyd Patterson or Sonny Liston - one that the man who called himself "the greatest" couldn't outbox or trash talk.
"You're going to have to fly, son, if you want to be a fighter, fly to places all over the world," said his trainer, Dick Sadler, according to Ali's autobiography, "The Greatest: My Own Story." "It's a strange fear. But to you it's real. You've got to either overcome it or give up boxing."
Local media called Clay's decision to fly to San Francisco "a big one," adding that if he didn't take to the air for that fight, then "he might have to ride a lot of buses before he gets anywhere in professional boxing."
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Eig wrote that even though Martin persuaded Clay to fly, the flight hit turbulence over Indiana, causing the charismatic fighter to bend over and again pray for his life. "He went to an army supply store and bought a parachute and actually wore it on the plane," said Martin's son, Joe Martin Jr.
While Clay's supernatural confidence in the ring showed during the Olympic qualifiers in San Francisco, it was nowhere to be found when it came to flying back to Louisville. Instead of flying home with Martin, Clay pawned a gold watch, one of his prizes, to get train fare back to Louisville.
For years as a young fighter, Ali was able to avoid jets and take trains and Martin's station wagon to his fights. Photo / Getty Images
But Clay and his team had an even larger problem than San Francisco: the 1960 Olympics were in Rome.
"When the team was ready to go to Rome, I told Martin I wouldn't fly," Ali said in his autobiography. "I'd be willing to take a boat, but the thought of flying over the ocean sent chills up and down my spine."
Seeing that his fighter was serious, Martin, a police officer who had first offered to teach Clay how to box when he was a boy after he reported his bike had been stolen, took him to Central Park in Louisville for hours in hope of talking him out of throwing away his chance at gold.
"I calmed him down and convinced him if he wanted to be heavyweight champion of the world, then he had to go to Rome and win the Olympics," Martin told HBO, according to the Guardian.
He did just that, winning the gold medal as a light heavyweight. Clay pointed to another reason for his sudden courage.
"What I was afraid of most was the plane crashing, and nothing would satisfy me until I called the Air Force and asked them to give me a record of plane flights between Rome and America," he said in his autobiography. "They said they couldn't even remember the last time one had crashed. That calmed me down enough to take the flight to Rome."
The fighter's aviophobia would come up again. At 21, about a year before he became heavyweight champion for the first time, Clay was scheduled to fly back to Louisville from New York after defeating Doug Jones in March 1963. Ali suddenly grew concerned about his afternoon flight at Newark International Airport, according to Eig.
Muhammad Ali talks to the crowd from a bus while changing planes at Logan International Airport in Boston in 1974. Photo / Getty Images
"When was the last crash?" Clay asked loudly, waiting to board the plane. "When was the last crash?" He had to be hushed by one of this traveling partners, worried that they would get tossed off the flight.
Ali's colorful personality allowed for him to openly joke about his fear of flying in a 1970 interview with historian Jim Jacobs archived by the Boxing Hall of Fame. The interview was conducted in the lead-up to his fight with Jerry Quarry, Ali's return to the ring after he was barred for more than three years for refusing to serve in the military during the Vietnam War. To Ali, a turbulent plane scared him much more than Quarry or Joe Frazier, the rival he'd fight for the first time months later.
"The only thing [that] scares me is when I'm on a jet and the lady says, 'Ladies and gentlemen, we've just been informed by the pilot that we are coming into a thunderstorm. We tried to get around it, but we can't. It might get a little choppy, so please fasten your safety belts, and we will resume serving dinner in five minutes,'" Ali said, shaking his right hand as if it were a rocky airplane. "And when they get scared and tell you to fasten safety belts - and then I'll see the stewardesses' eyes big and I see the lightning and the dark cloud. And all of a sudden - Bam! Plane started shaking, the wings flopping, and I think about the plane splitting and the long fall, and I say, 'Why did I have to rush? I could have took a bus. Oh Lord, if you just let me off of here, I'll take a train the next time.'
"Boom! The plane's shaking and falling," he continued. "And I say, 'If I get off this plane, I'll whoop any man in the world.'"
By the '80s, Ali had finally conquered his fear of flying, writing that the activity had become "automatic." He'd later talk about how much he enjoyed sitting in the cockpit with the pilots, saying how he wanted to buy his own plane and helicopter. Ali got so comfortable that his safety had almost become secondary.
"Once, when a flight attendant instructed him to buckle up, Ali replied, 'Superman don't need no seat belt,'" Eig wrote. "To which the flight attendant answered, 'Superman don't need no plane!'"
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No one has found an answer to that question. Firewalking actually precedes written history. There are accounts of firewalking among the Hawaiian Kahuna, who walked across lava flows. The Vikings are reported to have walked on red-hot steel chains. Native Americans and Fijians firewalked, and a number of Christian saints were said to have firewalked. It seems to be a part of many diverse cultures on a number of continents.
Why is Tolly Burkan called the founding father of the firewalking movement?
Up until the time that Tolly first firewalked in 1977, the ritual had never been used as a personal growth technique, nor taught as a self-improvement class for the public. Over the next seven years, Tolly was the only person in the world teaching firewalking classes. During that time, by making many mistakes, he learned how NOT to walk on fire and how NOT to build the coal bed. In 1984, when others who learned from Tolly started teaching firewalking themselves, they all benefited from his mistakes and his many years of experience. It took tremendous courage to be the first person promoting firewalking to the public. Tolly literally created a new paradigm, and later instructors merely had to follow in his footsteps. Also, virtually everyone used, and still uses, Tolly's format of employing the firewalk as a personal growth technique.
What is the best book on firewalking?
A number of books discuss firewalking history and other relevant topics. However, Tolly Burkan's book, Extreme Spirituality: Radical Approaches to Awakening, is the only book that explains how firewalking is used today in current times. Michael Sky's book, Dancing with the Fire, explores the implications of firewalking. It is out of print, but pre-owned copies are easy to locate. Jonathan Sternfield's book, Firewalk, gives a broad overview of the phenomenon and addresses the psychology of physical immunity.
How long is the coal bed at a typical firewalk?
Firewalking classes open to the public usually have coal beds between 8 and 12 feet long. The official world record is currently 328′. However, a number of people have walked a 40-foot coal bed, back and forth, without leaving the coals, 13 times: accomplishing a 520-foot firewalk.
What kinds of wood are used for firewalking?
Incense cedar or white birch produce the best coal beds. Some other woods either reduce themselves to ash too quickly, produce sharp-edges on the coals, or exude sap and gum that can stick to a person's foot
Are children permitted to attend firewalking classes?
Individual instructors each have their own policy regarding the issue of children attending the class. Participants have ranged in age from 4 years old to 89 years old. Some instructors will allow children to attend, but will not allow them to actually walk. Just being present, and witnessing others walk, can be a life-changing experience.
Is Anthony Robbins associated with the Firewalking Institute?
Tolly Burkan taught Tony Robbins how to firewalk in 1983 and Tony launched his firewalking career using Tolly's seminar format. As with any other instructors who purchase the rights to the seminar format, once they are on their own, they are independent contractors with no further connection to the Firewalking Institute of Research and Education. It is similar to medical doctors who obtain an education, but do not represent the medical school from which they graduate.
Why have there been recent news stories about people being burned during
Contrary to the view of many skeptics, there is definitely an inherent risk when firewalking. For this reason, people are advised to only participate in firewalking classes conducted by F.I.R.E. Certified instructors. Before attending a firewalking event, contact the Firewalking Institute for confirmation that the instructor is qualified.
The Firewalking Institute of Research and Education is THE SOURCE of the firewalking movement.
We would be glad to assist you with your questions. Contact us at info@firewalking.com or 214-393-1790 | 800-218-0055 FREE.


Mobotap's Dolphin Browser on Monday launched an app for the Apple iPad, bringing its tabbed browsing and gestures to the most popular tablet in the world.
Two weeks ago, Dolphin made its debut on the iPhone. It originally cut its teeth as an early alternative to the pre-installed browser on Google Android smartphones, and for a while it was faster and better-featured than the stock browser. While it may not be much faster now than the stock browsers on iOS and Android, the Dolphin Browser still has many great features and an innovative approach that helps it stand apart.
Like the iPhone version, the iPad app is built on top of Safari, using it to render and display content. But the Dolphin Browser adds features to the mix that mobile Safari doesn't have, the most notable of which is tabbed browsing (see photo above). One of the most annoying things on the iPad is not having proper tabs, and this helps bring it to life.
Other cool features include custom gestures for navigation, a webzine feature that makes it easier to read content from your most visited sites, a sidebar for accessing bookmarks, a desktop mode option for switching between desktop and mobile site views, and a smart address bar that better predicts your URL.
For funding, MoboTap recently raised $10 million in a first round from Sequoia Capital with participation from Matrix Partners.
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Flatulent security cop goes viral -- then gets fired.
Paul Flart, former hospital cop and current Instagram sensation.
Doug, stage name "Paul Flart," made himself a star by recording himself passing gas while at work as a hospital security guard. But Mr. Flart apparently made the mistake of including some shots of the hospital in his videos, and he got fired, and video recorded his termination. The supervisor managed to keep his cool. (Give that man a raise!)
Would you hire this man?
If you're a security company who is currently hiring, you may want to do a thorough social media check on your applicants before you make any decisions you'll regret.
However, you probably have nothing to worry about. Mr. Flart has bigger fish to fry. He reportedly now plans to make a fortune on music videos and merchandise. "My goal is to be the first person to make a living off farting after getting fired from my job in a public manner," he is quoted as saying.
If he succeeds, then we'll know for sure that there is no hope for this world.
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The Safer Living Foundation's Apollo Project works primarily with young people living in Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire (including city centres) however we will consider referrals from outside of these areas. Young people of any gender can be referred to our young people's projects provided they are aged between 10 and 18 and have shown sexually harmful behaviour, whether or not this has resulted in a caution or conviction.
Young people engaged with the Apollo Project will received individual therapeutically-informed coaching from a team of three volunteers supervised by the Coordinator. It is anticipated that each young person will spend around 12 months engaged with the project including an introductory period, an intense intervention period and a consolidation period.
The basis for the Apollo intervention is DNA-V, a model based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy designed to be used by parents, teachers and anyone else working with young people from the age of 6 years onwards. You can learn more about DNA-V on the Thriving Adolescent website.
Similar to the other SLF projects, monitoring and evaluation activities will be embedded in the Apollo Project. These are conducted by researchers from the Sexual Offences Crime and Misconduct Research Unit (SOCAMRU) at Nottingham Trent University.
The SLF is currently seeking ethical approval to conduct a mixed-methods design evaluation of the project. The quantitative strand involves an evaluation of the effectiveness of the intervention by assessing impact on measures of risk factors associated with (re)offending including attitudes towards crime, mental health, self esteem and social integration. These outcomes are measured by the project coordinator before, during and after a young person's time on the project if informed consent is provided.
The qualitative strand consists of interviews being conducted with individuals involved with the project designed to explore their experiences of the intervention and its' benefits/pitfalls. This research is aimed at informing a process evaluation. These interviews will be conducted with the young people, parents/guardians and volunteers if informed consent is given.
This page will be updated as progress on the project is made.
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Archaeologists Have Uncovered an Astounding Ancient Burial Site in Norway. Here's What It Tells Us About the Prehistoric One Percent
At the center of the discovery is a boating vessel in which the dead were placed to guide them safely to the afterworld.
Brian Boucher, November 12, 2020
An overview of the site where the find was made, courtesy of NIKU, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research.
An extraordinary ancient burial scene discovered on the shores of the fjord near Oslo, Norway, has given archaeologists a deeper understanding of the wealthiest members of Northern European society in the first millennium AD.
The burial, initially uncovered by a local resident who applied for permission to build drainage ditches, has since been investigated by a team of six researchers led by Lars Gustavsen of the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research. Their findings have now been published in a paper in the journal Antiquity.
At the center of the discovery at the Jell Mound, as it is known, is a boating vessel of some 70 feet, in which the dead were placed to guide them safely to the afterworld.
According to the Antiquity paper, a ship burial was "the ultimate expression of status, wealth, and connection in Iron Age Scandinavia," making the site a glimpse into the lives of one-percenters from the era spanning around 500 BC–AD 1050.
The burial ship that emerged at the site measures some 70 feet long. Photo courtesy of NIKU, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research.
The site includes remains of an exceptionally large hall more than 120 feet long, where feasts and religious and political gatherings likely took place.
The structure, which would have been visible from some distance, likely represents an attempt by a community to establish dominance during a period when control of territory went back and forth between dynastic families.
The cream of Scandinavian society conducted "ostentatious burial rituals" there, as indicated by a burial mound about 30 feet high and nearly 100 by nearly 80 yards, which was created between the fifth and sixth centuries AD.
Earlier, yet-unstudied finds from the same site include copper alloy brooches and rings, along with coins and fragments of precious metals, including a gold berloque, a pendant typically linked with the burial of high-status women.
Evidence of later intrusion into the burial site suggests the desecration and removal of monuments to bygone figures.
There's evidence that Vikings may have broken into the burial site at Jell Mound as part of well-organized intrusions, which suggest that the desecrations were intended as a political statement, rather than simple grave robbery.
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A national arts project exploring our relationships to place.
A book with writers and poets responding to specific locations across the UK.
Grant Gee's multi-layered film on WG Sebald, the East Anglian landscape, life and loss.
An extended walk in the Yorkshire Dales with live performance, created by Louise Ann Wilson.
Steve Dilworth's monumental 'deep time' sculpture on the Isle of Harris.
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Q: Trying to display id of table 1 as it relates to table 3 I have three tables: exfillocation, phishkit, snapshot. We need to be able to query exfillocation.filename and print the related snapshot.id, which requires traversing the phishkit table.
exfillocation.phishkit_id is related to phishkit.id as a foreign key.
Table exfillocation schema:
id  exfil_location    phishkit_id
==  =========         ============
1   ['open.txt']       7442
2   ['bot.txt']        9931

phishkit.snapshot_id is related to snapshot.id as a foreign key.
Phishkit schema:
id     snapshot_id     md5
===    ============   =====
7442      1492          f4a3954e39b90c02f4a3954e39b90c02
9931      1661          e048f240ad0845b50abe8df9124ce3fb

Snapshot schema:
id     asn           url
===    ======        =============
1661    123          badwebsite.malicious.com
1492    31           haxx0rs.hacking.com

I've tried reading postgresql's four different JOIN methods as well as the UNION method, but I don't seem to get the snapshot_id column returned.
I tried something awkward this this:
SELECT exfil_location, found_in_file, phishkit_id
    FROM public.lookup_exfillocation
    FULL OUTER JOIN public.lookup_phishkit
    ON public.lookup_exfillocation.phishkit_id = public.lookup_phishkit.id
    FULL OUTER JOIN public.lookup_snapshot
    ON public.lookup_phishkit.snapshot_id = public.lookup_snapshot.id WHERE exfil_location::text NOT LIKE ('__script.txt__') ORDER BY phishkit_id;

I expected to see the related lookup_snapshot.id and the related lookup_phishkit.id, which neither showed.

A: I accidentally found the solution. It came down to what columns I was SELECTing. Using a * showed all columns in the JOIN statements. Then I picked from the columns needed. The query looks like:
    FROM public.lookup_exfillocation
    FULL OUTER JOIN public.lookup_phishkit
    ON public.lookup_exfillocation.phishkit_id = public.lookup_phishkit.id
    FULL OUTER JOIN public.lookup_snapshot
    ON public.lookup_phishkit.snapshot_id = public.lookup_snapshot.id WHERE exfil_location::text NOT LIKE ('__script.txt__') ORDER BY phishkit_id;```


"I love to watch the ants march one-by-one right into my kitchen!" said no one ever. Ants are frustrating little pests that work their way into homes whenever outdoor conditions are not ideal. Even if the weather outside is perfect, these tiny critters seem to have a knack for finding equally tiny food particles in places you had no idea food could go.
Of course, you can handle an infestation once it has happened. There is plenty of information on the internet that will tell you just how to do it. They even give natural options. For those of you who would like to prevent an infestation before it ever happens, here are some tips.
First and foremost, the ant army won't come if the scouts can't find food. If you keep your floors clean and your dishes washed, you are less likely to ever deal with this problem.
If you have small children or pets, it can feel impossible to keep a spotless home. Ants like runaway doggie food bits just as much as they enjoy cheerio crumbs. To keep the ants away, check your home – inside and out – for the cracks and holes they can be entering through. Fill the cracks with caulk and block their paths with salt, cayenne pepper, cinnamon, lemon or vinegar to keep the ants out.
If you do have pets, put their bowls inside of a larger, shallow bowl with soapy water in it. It'll keep them from feasting on the goods inside.
If there are trees that are so close to the walls of your home that the branches touch, it may be a good idea to prune those branches back. Ants can live in trees and use the branches as a bridge right into your home.
Another very effective way to prevent ants is to find the ant army's base. The colony won't always look like a mound of dirt so look carefully for small holes in the ground. If the ants are in your home, there's a good chance a colony or two is close by. Find them and pour boiling water into the entrance. Take this extra time to win the war.
Sometimes, even with all these preventative tips, the ants breach the perimeter. In the event that happens, there are many resources out there about how to get rid of ants. There are natural remedies and options for chemical warfare. Do your research and choose the solution that will be best for you and your family.
If that feels like too much work, just call the Las Vegas Pest Control. We know how important it is to attack an ant infestation at the root of the problem to keep them from coming back. For more information about a great deals call 702 369 BUGS.


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BIG IDEA: It's Important To Acknowledge Our Privilege
Privilege can be a tricky topic to tackle. The concept is often misunderstood. When many of us think of someone who is privileged, we conjure up an image of a super-rich person who's never had any problems. But that's not what we're talking about here.
Privilege in the context of social justice refers to the unearned advantages granted to some groups of people, relative to other groups.
Dr. Christena Cleveland describes privilege as the way(s) some groups are accommodated, while others are alienated.
In some ways privilege is the flip side of discrimination or oppression. If discrimination describes the negative effects of bias on some groups, privilege highlights the positive advantages given to another group as a result of that same bias.
Privilege can also be tricky because it touches on core aspects of our identity, most of which we have little to no control over. It's difficult to accept the idea that we may be part of a group who has unfairly received advantages over others.
Some of the categories of privilege commonly examined in the U.S. are race (white people/people of color), gender (male/female/non-binary), class (upper/middle/lower), sexual orientation (straight/LGBTQ), disability (able/disabled), language acqusition (English speakers/non-English speakers), height (tall/short), weight (thin/heavy), age (young/old), and education level (highly educated/poorly educated).
On this website, we'll mostly be discussing white privilege.
African American sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois first wrote about the concept of white privilege in his 1910 essay, The Souls of White Folks. He used the term "wages of whiteness" to describe the advantages white people had in areas like education, criminal justice, and society in general.
ESSAY: White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
FEATURED VIDEO: Why Does Privilege Make People So Angry?
ONLINE ASSESSMENT: How Privileged Are You?
(Note: I get it. This is a Buzzfeed quiz. It's educational value is limited. It was designed to be quick and introductory, not to fully inform us on the nuances of privilege. But I still think it can be helpful for those of us just getting started.)
R+JE POST: Some Thoughts On Inventorying Our Privilege
ARTICLE: What My Bike Has Taught Me About White Privilege by Jeremy Dowsett
ARTICLE: Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is by John Scalzi
ARTICLE: When You're Accustomed To Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression
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Curbed Inside
Touring the Restored 1929 Wilshire Boulevard Temple
By Adrian Glick Kudler Aug 30, 2013, 2:56pm PDT
[Photos by Elizabeth Daniels]
The gorgeous, ornate Wilshire Boulevard Temple--known for its long connection to the entertainment industry--has been getting a much-publicized freshening; it's been closed for nearly two years and is set to reopen for High Holy Day services next week. Architect Brenda Levin, a member of the congregation, oversaw the work, which included a complete and thorough restoration of the incredible sanctuary dome and its oculus, as well as the murals depicting Jewish history (originally funded by the Warner Brothers and painted by set designer Hugo Ballin), the 24-foot-diameter stained glass window at the back of the sanctuary, the 30-foot-long spicebox chandeliers, and the enormous organ (which has been called "the most important organ in the West by people who know about organs). The mechanical systems were all upgraded and the altar was lowered and made more accessible.
This is just phase one for the synagogue plan. A new courtyard is already in the works and money's been raised for some serious art installations--there'll be benches by Jenny Holzer and a piece by Marina Abramovic. Then the WBT will restore its 1929 and 1962 school buildings, and add a six-story building along Sixth Street with parking, social services for the surrounding community, and rooftop recreation.
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Anne Singleton (khodabandeh): Sham report exposes Mojahedin Khaq (MEK, MKO)'s isolation in Washington (Januray 2013)
Post Delisting, What Are the Mojahedin-e Khalq Up to Now? (aka; MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) Massoud KhodabandehDirector, Middle East Strategy Consultants, Huffington Post (Blog), November 09 2012
Protestors say Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) paid them to go to demo September 20 2012
The Life of Camp Ashraf - Mojahedin-e Khalq – Victims of Many Masters, By Anne Singleton and Massoud Khodabandeh, First published September 2011 by IRAN-INTERLINK,The book is now available through bookshops and ...
MEPs warned against terrorist Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) lobby in EUP - Who are Alejo Vidal-Quadras and Struan Stevenson? (May 2011)
Anne Singleton visits camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) of Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) - Mojahedin-e Khalq Terrorists Interfering in Democratisation of Iraq (Iran interlink April 2011)
Iran s internal opposition succumbs to a dose of poisoned soup - Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) kills the Green Movement (Massoud Khodabandeh, MESConsultants, March 03, 2011)
Investigate the human rights abuses inside Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) camp Ashraf (Report from Camp Ashraf – March 2011)
Wondering at those Americans who stand under the flag of Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) only to LOBBY for the murderers of their servicemen (Iran Interlink, January 03, 2011)
Iranian families participating in a gathering in Baghdad (Exposing Mojahedin Khalq. aka: MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult)Sahar Family Foundation, Baghdad, September 27, 2010
Iraqi court seeks arrest of Massoud Rajavi, Maryam Rajavi, Mojahedin Khalq leaders wanted for crimes against humanity (Reuters, July 2010: Rajavi cult leaders wanted for cirmes against humanity)
Allawi tarred with Mojahedin Khalq ( MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) and Saddamist brush (Who are Struan Stevenson and Aljo Vidal-Quadras?) - March 2010
Second Report on Camp Ashraf and Mojahedin-e Khalq cult led by Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi in Iraq (Reuters, Sep 2009: Iran Interlink report carried out by Massoud Khodabandeh describing events since Jan 1, 2009)
New document on Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult) released by RAND - The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq, A Policy Conundrum - study examined the evolution of this controversial decision, which has left the United States open to charges of hypocrisy in the war on
Wahsington backed terrorists used to discredit Iranian demands for justice (Professor Paul Sheldon Foote, June 20, 2009 on Jafarzadeh, Fox news and Washington Backed terrorists)
Maryam Rajavi s cult representative in European Parliament (Spanish MEP Alejo Vidal-Quadras has already scurriously attacked 'a faction' of the Iraqi government in the European Parliament alleging them ready to commit a second Srebrenica in Iraq)
Iraq s National Security Advisor Dr. Mowaffak al Rubaie on Camp Ashraf- Massoud Rajavi and Detoxifying MEK Members (Reuters, April 06, 2009)
Europe vs. MKO(Mojahedin Khalq, Rajavi cult): West controversial act in war on terror (March 11 2009 )
Zebari: Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) expulsion from Iraq will be strictly monitored by a special committee(Feb 16, 2009)
President Talebani: God willing, with the new EU attitude, they will take Mojahedin Khalq back to Europe (Al-Arabiya TV, Dubai, in Arabic, February 01, 2009)
Nejat Society Asks UK to Support Iraqi Government Plans for Camp Ashraf Victims (Iran Interlink, London, December 2008)
MEP lines up with remains of Saddam (Rajavi cult, Mojahedin, MKO, MEK) against Iraqi government - Open Letter to Mr. Alejo Vidal-Quadras (Massoud Khodabandeh, November 2008)
Half-measures by European Union failing real victims of Mojahedin Khalq( MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) terrorism in Camp Ashraf (Anne Singleton, October 2008)
West should take responsibility for helping former terrorists Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult) -Massoud Khodabandeh, May 2008
The Masters of Terror - Robin Corbetts beloved Mojahedin Khalq Terrorists, The Beaten Bargaining Chip ( May 2008)
The List of Designated Terrorist Organizations Was Released - Rajavi cult failed again in its lobbying efforts (April 2008)
U.S.- Protected Iranian Exiles in Limbo in Iraq (NPR News: Anne Garrels reporting from Baghdad. April 2008)
Getting to know Mojahedin Khalq hooligan Leila Jazayeri
Report on the situation of Mojahedin Khalq in Camp Ashraf (Iran interlink. Massoud Khodabandeh, February 2008)
Member of Parliament for Hire - The good old Lord Corbett!- (Middle East Online March 2008)
Wahsington backed terrorists used to discredit Iranian demands for justice
Fox News Channel: Communist Terrorist Television for Dupes
Professor Paul Sheldon Foote, USA, June 20, 2009
http://360.yahoo.com/paulsheldonfoote
On October 1, 2007, I posted "Fox News Channel: Communist Terrorist Television for Dupes".
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-iongVIwherPSJekBajGbbDj1yv4Tfku0?p=193
(Massoud Rajavi and his pay master Saddam Hussein)
On June 20, 2009, the Fox News Channel devoted the entire day of live programming to coverage of the unrest in Iran. For supporters of the Iranian communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists, there was no need to watch their Sima Azadi television channel via satellite. Throughout the day, the Fox News Channel provided favorable coverage for the communist terrorists. Some examples were:
During the 11:00 – 11:30 AM (PST) segment, Fox News Channel showed MEK supporters in front of the White House waving their communist flags. The panelists for this segment, Charles Krauthammer and Courtney Kealy, failed to identify or to condemn the supporters of the communist terrorists. These terrorists have murdered American military officers, Rockwell International employees, and large numbers of Iranian and Iraqi civilians. In September 2002, former President George W. Bush's White House published a background paper for Bush's remarks at the United Nations listing the MEK as a pretext for the Iraq War. In 2003, American and coalition forces attacked and killed some of the MEK terrorists at Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
In a later segment, Congressman Darryl Issa (Republican—California) commented that empowerment of people has changed Communist China for the better!
During Shepard Smith's segment, Smith showed a video of the MEK rally in Paris, France and identified them as the PMOI. The only negative reference to the MEK occurred when Amy Kellogg speculated that the MEK might be responsible for a possible suicide bombing at Ayatollah Khomeini's shrine in Tehran. Shepard Smith neither responded nor indicated that PMOI and MEK are two names for the same communist terrorist organization.
During Geraldo Rivera's segment, former Senator Rick Santorum, who was a strong supporter of the MEK in the United States Senate, noted that former Senator (and now Vice President) Biden had originally opposed the Iran Freedom Support Act.
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Then, Geraldo Rivera showed video of Maryam Rajavi's MEK rally in Paris, France and interviewed Fox News Channel Foreign Affairs Analyst, who headed the NCRI office in Washington, DC until the Federal Government closed the office.
In 2007, Fox News Channel viewers could claim to have been duped by relying upon the Fox News Channel for news. Now, Fox News Channel viewers have no excuses. Those who rely upon the Fox News Channel as a source of accurate news are traitors to all Americans who fought or died fighting communists. Americans do not need to look to Iran or to the Middle East in search for America's worst enemies. America's worst enemies are in America.
(Mehdi Abrishamchi and Massoud Rajavi taking orders from Saddam's head of secret services)
(Maryam Rajavi directly ordered the massacre of Kurdish people)
(A cult session in Ashraf Camp Iraq - under the protection of Saddam)
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=6534
Iran - Democracy in Action Leaves Regime Change Rajavi in the Cold
By Massoud Khodabandeh, June 18, 2009
For five days Iran has been the scene of demonstration and counter demonstration in favour and against two clearly different candidates. Both, of course, are proven believers in and supporters of the fundamentals of the Islamic Republic (IRI).
The peaceful demonstrations and debates and insistence on achieving demands is clearly on going and while no one doubts that this political struggle will continue even after the Friday prayers led by Ayatollah Khamenei, it is now clear that the advocates of violence and so called revolution or 'regime change' have been left out in the cold. The more that time passes the more it becomes clear that this is no "regime change" or for that matter a pro-west or pro-east velvet revolution.
I have always believed that the theory of 'democracy without democrats' would emerge as the major factor in the Middle Eastern path to democracy. I believe that democracy will not emerge through democrats lecturing those in power to accept the benefits of democracy. Rather it is the people who are in power who will fight each other to the point that they clearly see that their insistence on the policy of 'winner takes all' will not only fail to deliver them 'everything', rather it is going to leave both sides with 'nothing'. I believe this is the point that both sides come to understand that compromise and sharing in order to have something is a better option than losing everything.
At this point of course indigenous democrats can have a role as guides and experts to analyse and explain the ways forward, even though they themselves are probably still experimenting and maturing in this transitional period. There are a few historical examples to back this theory. For example, certain periods in Algerian, Turkish and even Sudan's history where treaties have been achieved to give 'something' to each side instead of the ongoing bloodshed and power struggles over 'everything. Treaties and power sharing of course by no means derive from a belief in democracy; rather they are the starting point toward understanding the benefits of democracy for all parties.
I have been watching with interest as the tone of media reports have changed from describing a 'coup d'etat' and the expectation of violence, to describing the gatherings of demonstrators as "pro-government" and "opposition". Yesterday the BBC, Aljazeera and many other outlets consciously or unconsciously referred to Ahmadi Nejad as "the president" and Mirhossein Mousavi as "the head of the opposition".
That reminded of my history books and the long ago days that Tories and Liberals in Britain were representing the very different interests of very different sectors of British society. From there emerged the left side and the right side of Parliament with political parties sitting on each side. The unwritten constitution of the British establishment accepted the voting system, the way the government was to be elected and the way the opposition and the government would "struggle" to represent the interests of their constituents.
Looking at the current prominent political figures in Iran on each side I can't help envisaging the emergence of political parties in Iran (there are no actual political parties at this moment of time in Iran even though some groups may call themselves 'parties').
I also believe that even if Mirhossein Mosavi would have been the name coming out of the ballot boxes (I neither endorse nor reject the possibility of vote rigging but I certainly believe that both sides have enough support and constituencies to be heard), the recent demonstrations and political struggles in Tehran and other Iranian cities would have been inevitable. It is no longer about "who takes everything". This time it is about "rejection of the theory of winner takes all". I have heard this too many times that the political struggle in western countries is over representative seats in parliament but the same struggle in the Middle East is over the necks and heads of candidates. I see clearly that Iran is emerging one step (and a very big step) closer towards a more pluralistic political system in which various politicians will be fighting over seats rather than each others' necks. More importantly, the winners and the losers of every period will have to accept the rights of their opponents not because they are lover of democracy but rather because they have matured to see they have no other choice.
Irrelevant of the short term results of the power struggle during the next few weeks, there is no doubt about the big leap the Iranian nation has taken in her journey toward a real democracy. A big leap for the people of Iran and an irreversible huge falling backwards for the advocates of 'regime change' by foreign interventionist forces and supporters of terrorist groups like Mojahedin Khalq Organistion (aka: Rajavi cult; which lost it's backer Saddam Hussein in 2003), Jondollah (the group affiliated to mass murderer Abdolmalek Rigi who is based in Pakistan) and Pejak (the Turkish PKK paid to relocate to the Iranian border for carrying out sabotage).
This weekend the Mojahedin Khalq cancelled its planned event in Paris. Instead, the cult is recruiting people through false associations and groups in order to take advantage of the current unrest in Iran. The idea is to bring Maryam Rajavi to Brussels to jump on the bandwagon of unrest. Anyone who knows anything about Iran will recognise this as an attempt by advocates of regime change to destroy the progress of democracy in Iran. These people will deploy terrorists to undermine the real opposition and democracy movement inside Iran.
http://iran-interlink.org/index.php?mod=view&id=6346
US has not changed its regime change policy
By Massoud Khodabandeh, May 7, 2009
Following the AIPAC meeting, Senator John Kerry, a Democrat, said that Washington is not in a 'regime change mode'.
"Our efforts must be reciprocated by the other side: Just as we abandon calls for regime change in Tehran and recognize a legitimate Iranian role in the region, Iran's leaders must moderate their behavior and that of their proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas," said Kerry, who currently chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Irrelevant to any position taken, observers are aware that this is a government which has been happy to host the head of Jondolla terrorist group on a "Voice of America" programme in which Jondolla was presented as a democratic alternative to the Iranian government.
This is a government whose CIA is holding regular meetings in Soleimaniyeh to create and develop FTOs to target Iranian people.
This is a government which has established offices in London, Dubai and Frankfurt under the Patriot Act in order to recruit people who travel to Iran to meddle in the internal affairs of the country.
This is a government with a long and continuing history of support for Saddamists in Iraq in the hope that they can be paid to foment and maintain hostilities against Iran.
By far the most blatant example of this is that from 2003 until now the US has desperately tried to keep together what is left of the Mojahedin-e Khalq at Ashraf terrorist camp (the MKO is on the US's own list of terrorist entities) against the wishes of the Government and people of Iraq and against the human rights of the people inside the camp. The US has shown clear resistance in front of the Government of Iraq and the families of victims of this terrorist cult to the process of dismantling and disbanding it. The US has 25 soldiers stationed at the camp, plus five US citizens inside it. They have prevented families from freely visiting their relatives at the camp, they have interfered in the Iraqi process of dealing with individuals and imposing law and order in the camp and have interfered in the process of human rights organisations getting in and helping people individually.
Once the US stops these activities then it can claim it is not in 'regime change mode'. If Senator Kerry or Nicholas Burns or any other 'we have changed now it's your turn' pundits in the US have any doubt about the veracity of these activities or if they believe they are not perceived – particularly by Iraqis – as a continuation of 'regime change policy', then please feel free to contact me and I can appraise them further to this information.
Employee's True Face
Background of a Fox News Analyst
Iran Interlink, February 2004
Jafarzadeh on Fox News
Jafarzadeh representing terrorist organisation NCRI
(Picture form MKO/ NCRI clandestine television)
Ali Reza Jafarzadeh, front man for the MKO and the NCRI in the United States, is still being introduced by the Fox News Network as their independent Iran analyst. Fox News' insistence on using this individual has prompted ridicule by many in the media and in political circles. Fox News has clearly decided that using this notorious man is more important for their pay masters than maintaining their reputation as a serious broadcaster. Or it could be that the Network has no other choice in its decision making except to consent to this scandal. Whatever the reason, Fox News has refused to answer any questions about it.
For those who have still any doubts about the issue, below is a brief biography of the notorious terrorist whom Fox News introduces as its analyst.
Jafarzadeh and Mohaddessin representing MKO
(picture from Mojahedin/NCRI clandestine newspaper)
Alireza Jafarzadeh was born in Mashad (Iran) and moved to the USA before the 1979 revolution in Iran. He began there as a student of Civil Engineering. But he soon became engaged with the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) in the US. The MKO is designated by the US, UK, EU and many other countries as a terrorist entity in part because of the MKO's affiliation with the regime of Saddam Hussein. MKO activities include the massacre of Iraqi Kurds and Marsh Arabs in March 1991 after Gulf War I, and co-operation with Iraqi Intelligence in hiding WMDs from UN weapons inspectors. Jafarzadeh worked for the MKO in several countries including Iraq. He was promoted to the position of spokesman for the MKO in the US which then gave him a position as member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the MKO's political wing, which is also designated in the US as a terrorist entity.
Jafarzadeh quickly became a devoted member of the MKO and on the order of the organization's Ideological (or cult) Leader, Massoud Rajavi, married Robabeh Sadeghi of Babol, Iran, after she fled her country in 1986. In 1990, Massoud Rajavi ordered all MKO members to divorce for ideological reasons. Jafarzadeh and Sadeghi, were divorced on his command.
Jafarzadeh was such a committed member that he repeatedly volunteered for suicide operations. In the MKO publication No. 127, he is quoted as saying that he is ready to burn himself in front of the UN's New York office whenever it is needed for the MKO's cause.
In 1988, together with 15 other MKO members in the US, Jafarzadeh left for Iraq to participate in the Eternal Light military operation. He served in Hossein Abrishamchi's military unit in Iraq and undertook terrorist training in an Iraqi camp called Zaboli Camp. After the MKO's disastrous defeat in this operation, he was sent back to the US.
In a press conference on 24 March 1991, Jafarzadeh explained the details of one particular MKO operation in Iraqi Kurdistan (Operation Morvarid). This was soon exposed, by Human Rights Watch among others, as the deliberate massacre of Kurdish civilians by the MKO on the direct orders of Saddam Hussein.
Some months later, MKO radio announced Jafarzadeh had been made a Deputy Executive member of the MKO. His name along with his paramilitary rank was also published in MKO newspapers.
In 1992, with the help of Saddam Hussein's Intelligence Service, Jafarzadeh traveled to Pakistan to negotiate and establish new relations between the MKO and one of the war lords of Baluchestan (on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border). The relation was established in order to facilitate sending terrorist teams into Iran for paramilitary terrorist operations. Jafarzadeh was the broker for this deal and in person paid some of the tribal chiefs on behalf of Iraqi Intelligence.
From 1998 Jafarzadeh has been introduced as a member of the NCRI (MKO) Foreign Affairs Committee. In 1992 he took part in interviews (including an interview with Voice of America Radio) as the NCRI representative.
Jafarzadeh also attended a meeting in Washington in 2001. The meeting was organized by the MKO to protest inclusion of their name in the US administration's list of terrorist organizations. Jafarzadeh was the MKO's speaker at this meeting to explain their position.
Fox News now introduces Jafarzadeh as either their employee or as the head of a consultancy company. But as recently as 2002 the same man was interviewed by Fox News as the MKO's representative in the US Congress.
There are serious allegations that Jafarzadeh has been involved in illegal deals in the USA, including deals involving chemicals which can be used to produce WMDs. There are also allegations that the MKO, with him as its representative, have been involved in serious money laundering and drug trafficking in the USA. These allegations, as well as his and Fox News' dodgy connections in Washington, are currently under investigation.
Liberals Against Terrorism exposes Aliraza Jafarzadeh:
http://www.iran-interlink.org/files/News3/Mar05/liberalsagainstterrorism180305.htm
In August 2002, an exile group known as the National Council of Resistance of Iran summoned reporters to Washington's Willard Hotel for a morning briefing. The group's spokesman, Alireza Jafarzadeh, charged that Iran was building two new secret nuclear facilities: a heavy-water plant near the town of Arak and a large plant to fabricate uranium fuel in the desert near the town of Natanz.
Mr. Jafarzadeh was comfortable in Washington's power corridors, much like Ahmed Chalabi, the exiled Iraqi who provided much of the now-discredited information on Iraq's weapons program. He was educated at the University of Michigan and the University of Texas and for years he kept a small office at the National Press Club. He has since parlayed his expertise into a slot as a paid analyst for Fox News. But the council's military wing was on the State Department's terrorism list for a history of political killings and ties to Saddam Hussein.
Mr. Jafarzadeh's information tracked closely with what U.S. officials already knew. But in the summer of 2002 they had their hands full with Iraq and North Korea. When asked about the information that afternoon, a State Department spokesman offered generic criticism of Tehran's activities, noted the council's ties to a terrorist organization and brushed off suggestions that the dangers were comparable to those posed by Iraq.
(the rest of the article, which you should read if you subsribe to the WSJ, is a great overview of the state of play regarding Iran's nuclear program)
... btw, it's really hard to take Ileana Ros-Lehtinen seriously:
"This group loves the United States. They're assisting us in the war on terrorism; they're pro-U.S.," said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) in an interview with The Hill.
Or Jafarzadeh himself:
Middle East scholars widely dispute the assessment that the MEK is a legitimate democratic alternative to the Iranian regime. "That's patently nonsense," said Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute.
"I know about support on Capitol Hill for this group, and I think it's atrocious," said Dan Brumberg of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "I think it's due to total ignorance and political manipulation."
He added: "There's not much debate [about the MEK] in the academic circles of those who know Iran and Iraq."
Elahe Hicks of Human Rights Watch said that "many, many Iranians resent" the MEK. "Because this group is so extremely resented inside Iran, the Iranian government actually benefits from having an opposition group like this," she said. James Phillips of the Heritage Foundation agreed. "When they sided with Iraq against Iran in the [1980-88] war, that was the kiss of death for their political future. Even Iranians who might have sympathized with them were enraged that they became the junior partner of their longstanding rival," he said.
"Some of their representatives are very articulate," Phillips continued, "but they are a terrorist group. They have a longstanding alliance with Saddam Hussein, and they have gone after some of the Kurds at the behest of Saddam Hussein."
Ros-Lehtinen dismissed U.S. intelligence reports of the group's involvement in Hussein campaigns against Kurds and Shiites as "hogwash" and "part of the Khatami propaganda machine."
Washington representatives for the MEK's political arm, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, disputed news reports that the MEK is aligned with Saddam Hussein. "The relationship has been independent, whether politically, militarily, financially or ideologically," said Alireza Jafarzadeh. "We have never interfered in the internal affairs of Iraq."
Emphasis mine. Note Michael Ledeen being on the record against these folks.
http://www.liberalsagainstterrorism.com/drupal/?q=node/626
And Alireza Jafarzadeh asks permission from the head of the cult (Rajavi) to carry out self immolation and suicide operations anywhere in the world. His letter has been published proudly by the Mojahedin official newspaper.
Mojahedin Khalq Organisation is currently on the list of terrorist organizations in US, UK, European union, Canada and many other countries. The head of the cult has been on the run after the fall of his benefactor Saddam Hussein and his wife Maryam Rajavi is currently under investigation (house arrest) on terrorism related charges in France.
see Mojahedin paper number 127 page 11!!
Iran: The Nuclear Threat
Fox News Channel War Lies
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/nucthreat.html
On Sunday, April 24, 2005, the Fox News Channel showed "Iran: The Nuclear Threat". As the neoconservative (neo-Trotskyite) television news channel, this was an opportunity to count the number of intentional errors and omissions. With Chris Wallace as the host and the background music you would expect for war movies, the neoconservatives (neo-Trotskyites) did not disappoint viewers looking for the MEK (MKO or Rajavi cult) line. The producers even went to Paris, France to interview an MEK spokesperson.
The Fox News Channel has a history of interviewing MEK members and supporters, but not identifying them as MEK members. Instead, viewers hear National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) or terms suggesting that the MEK is pro-democracy. After President Bush's administration closed the MEK's NCRI office in Washington, D.C., the Fox News Channel employed its Alireza Jafarzadeh as an analyst.
The Fox News Channel showed scenes of large numbers of Iranians in the streets chanting "Death to America." Fox failed to mention that from 1979 to 1981 those large crowds included a large percentage of MEK (Marxist terrorist) supporters. The truth is that most Iranians wanted an end to foreign manipulation and interference in their country. Both the supporters of the MEK and of Ayatollah Khomeini were chanting "Death to America". In 1981, the MEK was capable of bringing 500,000 supporters to the streets of Tehran to demonstrate because of its reputation for being anti-imperialist. By anti-imperialist, the MEK meant anti-American.
American Hostages
Fox showed some of the American hostages taken at the American Embassy and held for 444 days. Again, the hostage takers consisted of both of MEK and of Khomeini supporters.
Killing Women
Fox showed a scene of Iranians stoning a woman for adultery. Fox failed to show MEK women burning themselves to death in front of cameras in Paris and elsewhere during June 2003 protests over the French arrest of Maryam Rajavi. Fox failed to show any scenes of women and men being brainwashed, humiliated, and threatened by leaders of the Rajavi cult.
Fortunately, the truth is coming out. As more MEK cult members escape or defect, they are telling their stories. You may read complete books on the Marxist cult indoctrination process, such as:
Anne Singleton's Saddam's Private Army
You may order Anne's book from: http://www.iran-interlink.org
Masoud Banisadr's Masoud
Masoud's book is available from many sources online, including http://www.amazon.com
For news of other MEK members who have escaped or have defected, check these Web sites:
http://www.iran-interlink.org
http://www.irandidban.com
Iran Didban posts information in four languages: English, Persian (Farsi), Arabic, and French.
Killing Americans
Fox showed scenes in Beirut, Saudi Arabia, and at an American naval vessel where many Americans died. Fox blamed terrorist organizations financed by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Even if this is correct, Fox failed to mention that a major reason for its large number of followers in the 1970's was the fact that the MEK was the organization killing Americans in Iran. The MEK built its anti-imperialist credibility in Iran by murdering American military officers and Rockwell International employees. The Fox News Channel producers were in the Paris headquarters of the Marxist terrorists who gained large numbers by murdering Americans. While the supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini were only claiming to be anti-imperialist, the MEK were murdering Americans. Today, Iranians know better. No one can accuse the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran with being cozy with the American government. By contrast, the MEK contributed to the political campaigns of many American Congress members and have maintained a political headquarters in France and military camps in Iraq.
Iranian Pro-Democracy Groups
The Fox News Channel mentioned the possibility of helping an Iranian pro-democracy group come to power. They showed a scene of Iranians with a large poster of Maryam Rajavi, of the MEK. Fox failed to mention that the MEK has been on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations since the administration of President Bill Clinton. Fox failed to mention that this is a Marxist totalitarian cult. While the neoconservatives (neo-Trotskyites) appear in large numbers on the Fox News Channel claiming to promote democracy around the world, the fact is that the neoconservatives (neo-Trotskyites) support a Marxist terrorist cult. The Fox News Channel failed to mention which groups in Saddam Hussein's Iraq were responsible for filling the mass graves with Shiites and Kurds. The Fox News Channel failed to mention that the indoctrination techniques of the MEK are reminiscent of those of Pol Pot. Pol Pot was able to murder only 25% of the population of Cambodia before another Communist government, Vietnam, stopped him. Which Communist government will come to the rescue of Iran if the neoconservatives (neo-Trotskyites) impose the Rajavi cult on Iran?
Nuclear Power Plants in Iran
Fox mentioned that Germany was responsible for building the Bushehr nuclear reactor. Fox failed to mention that American companies have been active in Iran and elsewhere proposing that countries use American companies to build nuclear power plants. Fox failed to mention that the construction of the Bushehr nuclear reactor started when the Shah of Iran was in power. Even though the work was 85% finished on the Bushehr power plant, Aytollah Khomeini halted work on the project because Khomeini considered nuclear power plants to be "anti-Islamic".
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/bushehr-reactor.htm
Fox failed to show a map of the world showing how many other countries have nuclear power plants already. For example, how many nuclear power plants are in Saudi Arabia today? What will oil-rich countries do for energy sources when the oil is gone?
Fox stressed in the program that the Islamic Republic of Iran was lying about its intentions to build nuclear weapons. While that might be true, the leaders in Iran must try much harder to match these liars: the MEK (MKO or Rajavi cult), neoconservatives, and the "fair and balanced" Fox News Channel.
Professor Paul Sheldon Foote
pfoote@fullerton.edu
Fox News Employs NCR/MKO member
Liberals Against Terrorism
Submitted by praktike on March 18, 2005 - 2:15pm.
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