The Candidate need to fill all the relevant details in the attached application form along with all necessary documents listed below.
Reporting time is 8.30 am on 08.02.2019 at SUDA Bhavan, Nr. Aagam Arcade, Vesu-Abhwa Road, Surat. No application shall be accepted after 09.30 am.
The candidates screened on the basis of academic qualification and experience will be allowed to appear in the walk in interview.
Educational Qualification, Experience and Personal Interview will be counted for final selection.
The candidate should have dynamic perspective with excellent communication skills in both English and Gujarati languages and a very good knowledge of computer and IT application.
Appointment of the Candidate will be on contract basis and no other benefits will be provided apart from remuneration. Remuneration mentioned above shall be fixed depending on the qualification, experience and performance in the interview of the candidate.
The Following documents are required to be attached with Application form.
Posted in ભરતી, લેટેસ્ટ ન્યુઝ on February 3, 2019 by SUDA.
The Candidate need to send their application in the prescribed format, by post or in person and must send hard copies of detailed resume, contact information, photograph, and all necessary documents to Company Secretary, Urban Ring Development Corporation Limited" from 19.06.2018 to 30.06.2018 between 10.30. am to 6.00 pm at "SUDA Bhavan, Nanpura, Nr. Bahumali Building, Surat". The envelope should be superscribed with the name of the post applied. Application received after 30/06/2018 will not be considered.
The candidates screened on the basis of academic qualification and experience will be called for personal interview.
The total marks of Educational Qualification, Experience and Personal Interview will be counted for final selection.
Posted in ભરતી, લેટેસ્ટ ન્યુઝ on June 18, 2018 by SUDA.
Development Plan 2035 is now open for general public for inviting suggestions or objections to be submitted before 10th July, 2016 in 3 copies at SUDA office during working hours.
Posted in લેટેસ્ટ ન્યુઝ, સમાચાર on June 1, 2016 by SUDA.


TO MAKE SALAD: Combine walnuts, sugar and water in 1-quart saucepan. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until sugar melts and coats walnuts. Spread walnuts on waxed paper lightly sprayed with cooking spray; cool.
Combine greens, cheese, sweetened dried cranberries and walnuts in large bowl.
TO MAKE DRESSING: Whisk together all Dressing ingredients except oil in small bowl. Gradually whisk in oil until slightly thickened. Pour dressing over salad; toss to coat.
I just used the craisins in this salad because that's what I had on hand. The overall combo of crunch and flavors blend well on your taste palate. I would definitely make this one again!
How is the blueberry juice used in this recipe. The directions don't explain that. Thanks.


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In January 2015, the Museum embarked on the dismantling of a late 18th century barn and early 19th century stables at May Day Farm, Pembury Road, Tonbridge. The buildings were in the path of a road widening scheme on the Tonbridge-Pembury section of the A21 in Kent. The work was led by Museum Carpenter-in-Residence, Joe Thompson, and the project has been funded through Balfour Beatty, the contractors for the road scheme. After careful dismantling, the timbers were conserved and stored at the Museum, before re-erection in early 2018.
Two very different organisations had to find a meeting of ways to enable the dismantling of the buildings to take place, explains Joe Thompson. On the one hand was the Weald & Downland Living Museum (a designated centre of excellence in historic buildings) and on the other was Balfour Beatty (the UK's largest construction company).
"The good news is that both parties wanted the same thing – a safe, well documented and careful dismantling. My initial building report preceded the dismantling work, and this interprets the standing buildings based on the stylistic and documentary evidence.
As the dismantling proceeds and further information is uncovered the initial interpretation is either developed or revised.
The three-bay, oak, threshing barn I interpreted as dating from 1780 to 1830, the significant features being the ridge board and the stud framing utilising a significant amount of re-used timbers and re-sawn slabwood.
The two-bay, oak, stables I thought was either contemporary or probably slightly later, say 1800 to 1838 (the latter date based on map evidence), again with ridge board and re-used and re-sawn timbers.
Drawings of the buildings 'as found' were made and I labelled the components. Next, Steve Turner, John Russell and Hamish Glover-Wilson assisted me in carefully dismantling and stacking the timbers. As the stables were dismantled, Richard confirmed the position on the front wall of the original doorway, but also discovered a second contemporary doorway, that had at first appeared to be a later alteration. Otherwise the stables conformed with and confirmed the initial interpretation.
In contrast, the barn had more phases than first seen. The evidence points to it being hipped originally, before being altered to the current gabled form, probably in the late 19th century. The original wall frames that survived had a legible numbering system and a significant number of reused timbers.
The last elements of the barn to be removed from the site – stone footings to the side of the threshing floor – were recovered in June 2015, following the below ground investigations by Oxford Archaeology. It was fascinating to compare notes on site with the 'dirt' archaeologists, as there was very good confirmation from them of all the features we had noted from the standing buildings.
The building materials were repaired and conserved in the Museum's Gridshell conservation workshop during 2017, prior to being re-erected at the Museum for spring 2018. The buildings will be sited near to the Museum's Hay Barn from Ockley and will form part of a 19th century farmstead.


The council is piloting a new approach called Family Safeguarding, which offers a whole family approach, enabling families to address their difficulties and keep their children safe.
Launched earlier this year, the approach has seen a reduction in the number of children on child protection plans from 280 in August 2017 to 230 in May 2018.
A three week Ofsted inspection described the new service as 'good' and said it had 'improved significantly' since the last inspection three years ago.
The Family Safeguarding approach brings practitioners who are expert in working with adults who have emotional or mental health difficulties, substance abuse problems or who are in domestically abusive relationships together with children's social work teams.
In a letter sent at the end of July, the Ofsted inspectors said there was 'a stable and effective senior leadership team which has driven improvement at pace,' with a 'strong learning culture'.
Council-run children's services, schools, health services, police and community services work well together, according to Ofsted, which helps to support children and families and prevent difficulties from becoming more serious.
'Children and families benefit from a good early help offer, which is helping to prevent the need for statutory interventions,' the inspectors noted.
'Children's circumstances are improving through timely, intensive support provided for parents whose capacity for change is carefully tracked through multi-professional supervision,' the letter continued.
The inspectors also praised the council's decision to work with the children's charity, TACT, which operates fostering and adoption services.
Ofsted recommended a number of areas for improvement including the use of chronologies to underpin children's assessments, the quality of information given to care leavers about their rights and entitlements, and consistency of management oversight.
Wendi Ogle-Welbourn, executive director for people and communities at Peterborough City Council, said: 'Over the last three years there have been rapid changes and sustained improvements made within the department and we are pleased these have been recognised by Ofsted inspectors.
Cllr Sam Smith, cabinet member for children's services, said: 'I'm delighted that the overall effectiveness of children's services has been rated as good by Ofsted.


You'll know from our Canopy and Stars post a couple of weeks ago that we're big fans of camping. The latest items to make our holiday lust-list are these beautiful handmade sleeping bags.
The handiwork of Etsy seller Good Intent (geddit?), we have a whole lot of love for their lush fabric combos and wriggle-friendly shape. We might have missed the camping-appropriate weather window for this year, but these unzip into a lightweight quilt, which makes them perfect for visitors during the colder months.


These real-life "Rosies" became the inspiration for my novel, A Woman's Place. I interviewed dozens of them to find out what it was like to trade in their aprons for coveralls, and leave their kitchens to work a grueling, eight-hour shift in an armament factory. One of my characters, Jean, is based on a spunky woman from Texas, now in her nineties, who went on to realize her dream after the war, of earning a college education and becoming a pharmacist. She did it with her own earnings too, since Rosie didn't enjoy the benefits of the G.I. Bill.
The statistics that America's "Rosie the Riveters" accumulated during those war years don't come close to describing the heroism of these women. By the war's end they'd built nearly 300,000 airplanes, more than 100,000 tanks and guns, nearly 400,000 artillery pieces, 47 million tons of artillery ammunition, nearly 90,000 warships, and 44 billion rounds of small arms ammunition. There were casualties, too—thousands of women died or were injured in work-related accidents. They suffered from ridicule, discrimination, sexual harassment, and unequal pay. But they did what they had to do.
The most amazing thing to me is that they left home and went to work in an era where people honestly didn't believe that women were capable of doing "men's" work, physically or emotionally. Rosie proved them wrong. The August 1943 issue of Newsweek magazine reported: "They are in the shipyards, lumber mills, steel mills, foundries. They are welders, electricians, mechanics, and even boilermakers. They operate streetcars, buses, cranes and tractors."* Women became police officers, taxicab drivers, farmers, and Civil Defense volunteers, watching the sky for enemy airplanes.
Many worked the midnight to 6:00 am shift then went home to take care of their children and households. There were no microwave ovens or pre-packaged dinners or fast-food take-outs back then. Meals had to be cooked from scratch. Laundry was an all-day task, with clotheslines instead of dryers and ironing boards instead of permanent-press. Norman Rockwell painted this portrait of a multi-tasking Rosie for the cover of Saturday Evening Post in September, 1943.
Rosie served out of patriotism. And when the war ended, she handed in her hard hat, collected her severance pay and went home so that the returning soldiers could have "their" jobs back. By then she had forever shattered all of the stereotypes about women's work. Rosie proved that "We can do it" and left a lasting legacy. When I toured a modern-day shipyard to research A Woman's Place, half of the workforce was made up of women.
So, thank you Rosie the Riveter. You did much more that help build an arsenal and win a war. You opened the door for your daughters and granddaughters and great-granddaughters to pursue any career they could possibly dream of.
*from: Rosie the Riveter; Working Women on the Home Front in World War II by Penny Colman.
My book group is currently reading "A Woman's Place" and we are thoroughly enjoying it. This is our Lynn Austin read and it won't be our last. We all enjoy the ease with which you draw us into the lives of the characters you create. Thank you!


Coss Marte is the founder of ConBody, a gym headquartered in NYC.ConBody is located on the same New York street corner where he once ran a drug business.
While he was in prison, he lost 70 lbs. through exercise. Soon he was teaching other inmates how to get into shape. As a legal entrepreneur, he plans to disrupt the fitness industry and eventually the criminal justice system.


Arizona has stopped writing checks to families who get federal nutritional and education aid under the Women, Infants, and Children Program known as WIC.
The Department of Health Services announced Tuesday that it completed a year long effort to convert the payments to a debit-card system. The new system makes it easier and more secure for families to shop for formula, milk, cheese and other foods that are considered vital for young children and mothers.
Jennifer Chancay with the Pima County Health Deaprtment says staff went to markets in town and scanned labels that would be allowed for purchase with the WIC program.
If a client were to choose a wrong item - it would get rejected.
Chancay says the new system is confidential and efficient.
"It's a win-win for everyone. It's less time at the store, less time for the cashier, much better for clients and the person who is waiting in line behind the WIC clients."
WIC serves nearly 140,000 Arizona women, infants and children under age 6 and distributed nearly $117 million in food aid last year.


Yesterday, you promised yourself that you're going to do it today, but here we are, and you haven't! So what happened? What went wrong?
Well, the coffee breaks, the hours you spent checking your social media, that little stroll you took down the street with your buddies, the excessive preparation – that's how you lost your focus.
Procrastination is a vice most of us have struggled with at some point in our lives. Research tells us that it all begins when you start viewing a task as unpleasant, boring, tough, or even painful. But the reason why procrastination is so bad is that you become less productive. The good thing is there are several steps you can take to overcome this vice – and boost your productivity.
The first step is to acknowledge – deep within – that you're putting things off indefinitely. Some call it switching focus, but that's only true when the task is really important such that it can't be delayed. Once you've acknowledged that you're procrastinating, think of the things you stand to lose out on if you don't get it done in time.
Does the task appear enormous? Can you break it down into smaller chunks? If yes, just do it!
Short bursts of focused activity – even the ones that take just a minute of your time – can do wonders for your productivity. It's through such bursts that you gain confidence and realize the task isn't insurmountable after all.
Self-reward and punishments have been known to build good behavior. You can even tailor the reward to match the importance of the task at hand. The reward itself should be something you love. Something that gives you pleasure. Something you can't wait to get your hands on.
A bad mood can make the task appear bigger and more daunting than it actually is. And that's because procrastination starts in the mind. To improve your mood, you can take short breaks and do something you love. But here's the thing: keep it short! Otherwise, you'll end up procrastinating again.
Having a tool that helps you schedule tasks in order of importance can help you overcome chronic procrastination. And that's exactly what the BubblesPlanner app does.


What if you could get in front of millions of prospects with the avid endorsement of famous influencers–without spending a dime?
It's happening right in front of you every day. Guest experts on TV, radio, podcasts, blogs, and live streaming are getting local and national exposure for their business and brand that they could never have afforded to reach with ads.
For a decade, Areva Martin has used the media to build a huge platform that expanded the influence and power of her brand exponentially. Media appearances on Dr. Phil, Anderson Cooper 360, The Doctors, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and more have virtually eliminated the need of a marketing budget for her thriving law firm and non-profit organization, while securing her place as one of America's most sought after thought leaders.
In Make It Rain! Areva breaks the silence to reveal what insiders know about the power of media appearances to revolutionize a business and brand and get your core message out to the people who need it most.
Whether you are the executive of a corporation, the author of an upcoming book, the owner of a rapidly growing small business, or the public face of a local nonprofit or association, if you have a business to build or people you want to help, nothing beats using the media to create the visibility, influence, and power you need.
Are you ready to Make It Rain!?


To sum up then our conversations about living daily in reality, what is reality? Reality is that you are actually part of our Creator's only son – the man known as Jesus of Nazareth who lived on the earth for more than thirty years in the first century of this present era. One of his followers has written "you are the body of Christ and individually limbs of it" and he himself said to his father, our Creator, "I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one".
Sin is not just some moral failure like stealing or adultery – sin is "missing the mark" – missing the whole point of life – living as if there's no God – as if you are not part of his only son ! Living in this unreality is trying to get the sense of significance and security and happiness from people and things and circumstances instead of your dear Father who knows you personally as part of his only Son. When you do this, your whole personality becomes warped and corrupt so that you can't do what you want: you try to feel how important you are to your Maker, but all the celebrity the world can give you isn't enough. You try to feel safe and secure, but you can never get enough money or possessions – and circumstances never give you the happiness that only reality provides!
So your life works outside in rather than inside out. This inbred sin or dependence on the world has made it impossible for your maker's son to live the unique life in you that he has planned, so you're left with the unsatisfactory existence you have – you don't believe there's anyone inside you except your own thoughts, so you have no idea what your Maker's son wants to do through you, so you use your mind to manipulate things and people and circumstances for your own security, significance and happiness. This results in hundreds of short-circuits that develop between your eyes (looking for peer approval) and your mind and between your feelings (looking for peace and exhilaration) and your circumstances. When you try to fix these internal malfunctions through self-help and the power of positive thinking you find you can't – your whole human-nature has become carnal nature that will not do what it was made to do. It was made to express the part of God's Son that only you can express – so only God can put it right.
That's what our creator expressed in Jesus Christ's historical crucifixion in 29 A.D. and it's what he did in eternity before the world was made – when he foresaw that we could have the free will to love him only if we had the opportunity to do the opposite. He knew he would have to bear that, and he did – and has – every day of our lives – and will – until we stop killing him inside ourselves ! He has replaced your old self – that outside-in nature in his only Son – and replaced it with a new creation – an inside-out nature. Only his Son's spirit in you can realize this reorientation of your whole personality – only his spirit can reveal to you the next psychological or spiritual short-circuit that he has replaced in you within Himself. Only our maker knows exactly how each of us is missing the life he has for us.
Only he can sort us out – and that's the secret to your life here - to let our maker's Son within you remake your very nature so that your life can be fulfilled in him. Your nature is broken – let Christ replace it with his so that your life becomes an expression of His. Let's look at the sense this exchanged life can make of the problems and difficulties we face each day.


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"Indian operators of mayhem and terror such as commander Jadav caught red-handed in Pakistan while spreading sabotage, terrorism and espionage can never fulfill Indian dreams, which will remain just that dreams", Pakistan said.
The Pakistani prime minister on Thursday accused New Delhi's military of having committed 600 ceasefire violations with small-arms fire, shelling, and mortar attacks since January 2017. He also urged the United Nations to appoint a special envoy to Kashmir where according to him the struggle of the people was being "brutally suppressed" by India.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi says 27,000 Pakistanis have been killed since the launch of the U.S. "war on terror", and that it is "galling for Pakistan to be blamed for the military or political stalemate in Afghanistan".
None of the 112 other countries that have spoken so far in the annual high-level General Assembly debate has even mentioned the Kashmir issue, and past year none other than Pakistan did during the entire session.
"The global community must act decisively to prevent the situation from a risky escalation", he said.
Federal officials said that in most of the 21 states, the targeting was preparatory activity such as scanning computer systems. The government did not say who was behind the hacking attempts or provide details about what had been sought.
"To this end, the United Nations secretary general should appoint a special envoy on Kashmir".
In its right of reply in response to the statement made by Pakistan on behalf of OIC, India said Jammu and Kashmir is its integral and inseparable part.
At the UNGA, Afghanistan accused Pakistan of a deliberate attempt to divert the attention of the worldwide community from its longstanding failure to take effective action against various terrorist groups and sanctuaries.
Abbasi will be addressing the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly in NY tonight, in what will be his debut into the highest worldwide diplomacy after having taken over the office last month.
Lu said Kashmir is an issue left from history and both India and Pakistan should handle it properly to safeguard regional peace and stability.
He said that though the Indian occupation forces could physically blind the Kashmiri people by their pellet guns, they could not block their vision for the realization of their right to self-determination. Mr Abbasi wants us to believe that Pakistan's nuclear programme goes back to the 1960s.
He asked the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to designate a special envoy on Kashmir in order to resolve the long-delayed issue, adding that Pakistan is ready to hold dialogue with India on all issues, especially Kashmir.
Calling Pakistan "terroristan", India launched a scathing attack on the neighbouring country at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) accusing it of being a "safe haven" for militants and "protecting them with political careers".
India refuses to implement the unanimous resolutions of the UN Security Council, which mandate a UN supervised plebiscite to enable the people of Jammu and Kashmir to freely decide their destiny.
While the device will be dust- and water-resistant (IP68), it will also support QuickCharge 3.0 18-Watt Rechargeable Battery. HTC U11 has a lovely design but somehow is traditional means we have seen this type of construction on other devices as well.
Apple earlier this year introduced its ARKit to help software developers design apps that take advantage of AR features in iOS 11. The dock normally shows your most recently used apps, but you can customize it so that certain apps will always be there.
North Korea's Embassy in Kuwait City has served as the only diplomatic station in the Gulf region for North Korea . Prodded by Washington, the United Nations has responded with the toughest economic sanctions on North Korea yet.
Apple's second-generation iPad Pro models, the 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch, are also able to watch Netflix content in HDR . The Apple TV remote received a subtle but useful redesign that added a textured ring to the menu button.
His idea was to ensure that the family did not file a police complaint, get the ransom amount, and distribute it among themselves. Initial reports claim that the young boy was kidnapped by one of his relatives whose name is Vishal who is also arrested.
At least one person was shot during a shooting at Mattoon High School in east central IL on Wednesday. The Mattoon Journal-Gazette reports that police were clearing the high school room by room.
They have liberated some 60 square kilometers [some 23 sq. miles] on the eastern bank but have encountered obstacles, he said. Russian Federation ignored the request of the United States to refrain from attacks near the Syrian democratic forces.


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Hands and Feet initiative puts faith into action
Presbyterians encouraged to engage with ministry prior to and during 2018 General Assembly
For the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, seeing large numbers of homeless people in one city was eye-opening.
The genesis of the Hands and Feet initiative came from Nelson, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), after his experience at the 222nd General Assembly (2016) in Portland. He had never seen so many homeless people in one place.
"It was baffling to me," he said. "I really got a chance to understand the depths of homelessness through a different set of eyes."
Nelson began to wonder if the church didn't have a responsibility to do something toward transforming communities in the cities in which General Assemblies meet. In preparing for the 2017 Big Tent gathering and next summer's 223rd General Assembly (2018) in St. Louis, it was clear to him the church needed to see how that could be done.
"When J. Herbert came up with the idea of Hands and Feet, it was an opportunity for us to put mission and faith into action," said the Rev. Dr. Craig M. Howard, transitional presbytery leader at Giddings-Lovejoy Presbytery. "We already had congregations here that were doing work around poverty and racial justice that could be highlighted, that others could learn about and take back home into their own communities."
One of those congregations, Oak Hill Presbyterian Church, began holding "Sacred Conversations on Race" immediately after black teenager Michael Brown was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on Aug. 9, 2014.
Since the events in Ferguson, Oak Hill has also implemented what they've learned about race and poverty into their ministry called AMEN, which stands for A Ministry Embracing the Neighborhood. They've become key partners in the Hands and Feet initiative, hosting church groups at their AMEN House for a week of doing mission and ministry in their neighborhood and city.
One of the first groups to stay at the AMEN House was a group of students from Ladue Chapel Presbyterian Church in St. Louis. Their first Urban Plunge went so well that they kept coming back.
"Hands and Feet" participants work on a landscaping project as part of their week of service and learning in St. Louis. (Photo by Jerry Van Marter)
"We worked at a community garden this year close to Ferguson," said the Rev. Melanie Smith, Ladue Chapel's pastor for youth and young adults.
On the way back, Smith chose to drive down King's Highway, which runs north to south and crosses over the Delmar Divide in St. Louis. There's a place on Delmar where the setting changes from blighted houses, run-down factories and abandoned buildings to beautiful stone churches.
When they got back to the AMEN House, Smith asked her group, "What did you see?" They said, "It switched. It switched like really, super fast." Then Smith asked, "Why? Why do you think?"
Smith says students are willing to have conversations and ask hard questions that adults are sometimes scared to venture into. She said, "If we're going to have racial reconciliation, it will come through the work of our youth."
Oak Hill's AMEN St. Louis ministry and St. Louis Urban Missions, a ministry of First Presbyterian Church of Ferguson, have agreed to help facilitate service-learning experiences for groups interested in participating in the Hands and Feet initiative.
Additionally, First Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood has offered to host Presbyterian groups who want to participate in Hands and Feet activities during General Assembly. Presbyterian Disaster Assistance has partnered with Hands and Feet to work with interested groups and the church to confirm lodging.
Paul Seebeck, Mission Communications Strategist, Video and Digital Asset Management, Presbyterian Mission Agency
Today's Focus: Hands and Feet initiative
Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy Staff
Rev. Dr. Craig Howard, Transitional Presbytery Leader
Rev. Vanessa Hawkins, Designated Associate Presbytery Leader
Rev. Joy Myers, Acting Stated Clerk
Leigh Porter, Office Manager
Janice McMillen, Communications Associate
Angie Andriot, PMA
Jeffrey Arnold, APCU
Let us pray:
Merciful God, thank you for the shelter you provide us in your grace and the comfort and the place you have for each of us in your house. We pray that you would use us, in advocacy and ministry, to provide homes for those seeking shelter in our communities and around the world. Amen.
Morning Psalms 102; 148
First Reading Haggai 1:1-15
Second Reading Revelation 2:18-29
Gospel Reading Matthew 23:27-39
Evening Psalms 130; 16

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Princess Anne in NI
The Princess Royal has today visited the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, County Antrim, to meet staff and students at the occupational therapy training centre.
HRH was received by Mrs Joan Christie OBE, Lord-Lieutenant of County Antrim; the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Richard Barnett, and Professor Alastair Adair, Provost of the Jordanstown campus.
While on campus, The Princess Royal, who was joined by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the Rt Hon Theresa Villiers MP, toured a workshop and exhibition showcasing the work of the University in the fields of occupational therapy, research innovation and knowledge transfer.
HRH met University staff and students as well as senior representatives from the College of Occupational Therapists, charities, voluntary and community groups and companies whose work has benefited from the knowledge, expertise and innovation of University researchers.
Her Royal Highness, Patron, the Royal College of Midwives, this afternoon visited the Maternity Unit at Lagan Valley Hospital, 39 Hillsborough Road, Lisburn, County Antrim.
The Princess Royal later opened Bangor Aurora Aquatics and Leisure Complex, 3 Valentine Road, Bangor, County Down, and was received by Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of County Down (Mr. David Lindsay).
Her Royal Highness afterwards opened the new Gymnastics Centre, Rathgael Gymnastics and Tumbling Club, Unit One, Saba Park, 14 Balloo Avenue, Bangor.
Labels: Royalty
I hope the streets were thronging with well-wishers, to mark this great day. She is one of the most magnificent Royal Personages, and I hope she was both happy, and glorious, on this momentous day.
Sheer Decadence
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Food-Bank
Stuart Hall Billets
Right Hon Michael
Acapulco Restaurant
Lord High Commissioner
Another Crown
Shoulder of Lamb
Whalley's Scone
Bubba!
The Bargain
Blackberry Pudding
Down Lieutenancy
Old Gas-Works
3rd Viscount Brookeborough
Alcohol Substitute
Castle Ward Visit
The Blueberry Muffin
Ballyquintin Revisited
Korean State Visit
Bird Nest Removal
Supermarket Deception


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un·sheathe | \ ˌən-ˈshēt͟h \
unsheathed; unsheathing; unsheathes
Definition of unsheathe
transitive verb
: to draw from or as if from a sheath or scabbard unsheathed his sword
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So Jake Vordun is a wonderful wonderful person, and asked me to be in the prism events blogger group like with Salem. Tannenbaum was another event he does, so I wanted to make sure to cover it and show you all the prettiness. Thank you Jake for such a kind gesture. You're a wonderful Man.
Tannenbaum opens tomorrow, November 17th, so this was just the blogger preview. There's 3 parts. The gachas, the sponsors, and the outter ring. I hope you enjoy watching these videos!
Will add links and slurls tomorrow, since I'm offline for the night.


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Keith Raniere Releases Podcast Part 1: The Devil, Hitler, and Lady Justice
Keith Alan Raniere has released a podcast – via his followers – and it is available on Apple podcast and Spotify.
But you don't need to go there, you can hear it right here.
Along with something you can't get elsewhere — a transcript of the entire episode.
Raniere Speaks · 1. The Devil, Hitler and Lady Justice
Listen to the teaser of the podcast on anchor
Automated Prison Message
You have a prepaid call, you will not be charged for this call, this call is from Keith Raniere, an inmate at a federal prison. This call is being recorded and is subject to monitoring. Hang up to decline the call or to accept, dial five now. This call is from a federal prison.
Suneel Chakravorty
Hey Keith…
Good morning. Did I wake you?
Uh no…I was up already.
Oh, good. Again, I'm just going to freewheel a little to see how this goes, to express a few things. And I think it'll be initially pretty short and more of a monologue. But, you know, one of the things for people who may listen to this, you know, there'll be a whole range of people…there are going to be a lot of people who think I'm horrible and there's going to be some people who are…They don't know what this is.
And then there's going to be, probably, a very small group of people that think I'm good or like me. I'm looking to get everyone to listen rationally, if possible, or as many people as possible because what's going on here is a much bigger issue. You know, one of the things with this, I guess if I were to say a little quote, it would be in our country: "Hitler doesn't stand a chance of surviving a false robbery charge".
In this case, and, you know, there are people who dislike me for all sorts of reasons and probably a lot of them valid, most of the ones I've seen are not valid. But there's certainly a lot of reasons someone could not like someone like me. But as much as I might be disliked, when something is not valid under the law, that is something that is far more atrocious than whatever people might think of me. You know, in my case, not only do I believe I'm innocent and all the people that I've had analyze the case, believe I'm innocent.
But the procedures done have been very bad. For me, in my life, I've always tried to do good things. And I always felt I rose to a sort of a low level of doing good things, nothing medium or very high. You know, you have the the people, the Gandhis, the Martin Luther Kings, all those great people of the world. And, you know, I'm nowhere, nowhere near that in what I've been able to achieve yet in this particular case, I'm given a spotlight that is far greater than my personhood.
And the question is, what do you do? I mean, in this particular case, it's a grave injustice and there's…I'm given this big spotlight, and what we need to do is show the injustice no matter what a person thinks of me. And my hope is, you know, probably at the end of these podcasts or things along those lines, there'll be people who really liked me before the podcast and maybe won't like me after. And then there'll be some people who really didn't like me before the podcast that maybe like me more. But, what I do hope is there will be someone who really doesn't like me but will stand with me in this injustice because this injustice affects far more than me. And it affects even far more than the the hundreds of thousands of people that are in prison or have been in prison. It affects every person. And before I got into this situation, I had no idea. I was so backward and ignorant. And now I know a little more.
You know, there's a quote from a book and it's very interesting. It's between Thomas Moore and Will Roper. The book's called "The Man for All Seasons" by Robert Bolt or the literary piece, I should say. And Thomas Moore says: "And go as he should, if he were the devil himself, until he broke the law." And Will Roper says: "So now you would give the devil the benefit of the law?" And Thomas Moore says: "Yes, what would you do?
Cut a road through the law to get after the devil? That means, just break down the laws and go after the devil?" And Roper says: "Yes, I would cut down every law in England to do that." And Thomas says: "Oh, and when the last law was down and the devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper? All the laws being flat. This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast, man's laws, not God's.
And if you cut them down… (interrupted)
This call is from a federal prison.
(continued) …And you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I would give the devil the benefit of the law for my own safety's sake." And in this country right now, the devil doesn't have the benefit of the law and in many ways I seem to be the devil. For this particular series of podcasts, I want to divide it into two sections:
One, we'll have discussions about me being the devil, all the bad things people think and what I would say about them. And the other side is discussing the law and how it affects me and my conduct and what I have allegedly done. And in that case, we're actually putting out a contest and we're going to take $25,000 dollars and we're going to go through charge by charge. And, the first person, if you will, who can show that my charge meets the elements of the charge wins the $25,000 dollars. And then for people who can write essays on why my conduct doesn't fit the charge, we have $10,000 of prizes for the top… I believe it's three essays. So we're actually paying more than double for someone to find that somehow I meet the elements of these charges. And I would invite anyone out there, including lawyers, prosecutors, jurors, you know, the judge, my prosecutors.
And if people need their name held anonymously or anonymous or if indeed the court has ordered that we will hold the names anonymous to protect people, but have them look at the charges. This just happens to be a situation where out there in the media, really, there's no voice that says I'm good, that says I'm nice, that likes me, or that analyzes things from a different perspective other than one of what I will call hate. All of us, I think, have caught a real infection of hate.
My hope is, you know, if you analyze what my lawyers have always said and the way we presented information, we try to do it honorably and without hate. But that's been what's been done on the other side. And we need to look at this. The lady justice is supposed to be blind. She's supposed to have a blindfold on and and not have people like politicians and media whispering in her ears. Lady justice being blind is the most important thing.
And we have to treat people that we love and we want to exonerate from charges the exact same way we treat people who we hate and we want to indict and we want to convict. So those that we want to convict get the same benefits as those that we would would never convict but they've been charged. And we want to show what's going on in the justice system. You know, a statistic that I heard that amazed me… There are people on death row.
These are people that are waiting to be executed and one out of nine of them is supposedly innocent. Can you imagine that? In this country, one out of nine. And if for such a serious charge where people go and they analyze the charge because someone's life is on the line, if one out of nine times we're wrong, imagine lesser charges. Imagine more politically motivated things. My charges come at a time where the climate is really not good, you know? You have Epsteins, you have Weinsteins, you have the #Metoo movement, you have all of these different things going on and a lot of it's legitimate.
Women have been treated terribly in this country and in the world, but in particular in this country by people of power, by people like me. But that doesn't mean that I did those things, and it certainly doesn't mean that I'm guilty of these charges. So, I think this might be sort of an intro, a quick little podcast, and then, you know, we can do more. Let's see how this just goes, how it processes, how it plays.
I think it's great. It really opens the door to a dialogue.
Well, well, do it and we can always add an addendum on it or whatever but I need to get off in like 25 seconds. So, write me what you think. Write me what Marianna and other people think, and I'll speak to you maybe in the next few days or at least we'll write.
Yeah, that sounds good.
Great. Thank you, so much.
Ivy Nevares Wants Raniere's Podcast Banned - but Is This What Raniere Is Talking About - His Right of Free Speech? - Frank Report | Investigative Journalism From Frank Parlato says:
[…] Raniere has released a podcast – and the point of the podcast is that even he – a man akin to the devil in most people's […]
Tracy Reed says:
Compares himself to the Hitler and the devil… he already knows what he is.
I really trust he would keep all names anonymous, even the prosecutions.
Sounds like a prison virgin might get branded.
Good grief what a load of meaningless waffle. Completely lost the plot.
The only way I could stomach listening to this and watching The Vow and Seduced, is the knowledge that he is serving 120 years in jail!!! What a despicable and misogynistic creature. Just watching him insult all those lovely women time and time again made me feel sad for all of them. I applaud the judge that sentenced him. I have always been fascinated with cults. He is by far the worst and a true sociopath. The sickening things he said and did. But hey…he is innocent;)
Presentmomentpeace says:
Blah blah blah, prison, blah.
Justice is served. May your words and memory disappear into the wind.
foxibot says:
Well, if he can give me "collateral" that if I write an essay on why he should be imprisoned, I will write a great paper on why he is where he should be. I wrote my ex-boyfriend's constitutional law papers, and he passed because of me! He is a lawyer now. I need the 25 grand. And I wrote for lawyers too!
Burn It Down says:
Anyone who has read even one iota of the evidence that was presented at trial knows the man is guilty. His "podcast" is literally a phone call from prison where he uses other people's names and ideas to try to make a point. The point he made is that he is trying to take the attention off of the details by focusing on the process. The details of the witness testimony and the mountain of evidence, not to mention all of Frank's reporting on this for the past many years, show the actual truth if anyone is actually interested in knowing it.
And now that he isn't allowed to have contact with his cult members, this will be his first and only "podcast". Lock him up in the Supermax and deprive him of the attention his sociopathic condition requires. Let him rot in a prison cell and forget he exists. That would truly be penance.
No mames K.R
Lady Law says:
Lady Justice is supposed to be blind to people's status in life, color, gender, age, etc. Not blind to the facts. His conduct met every element of the crimes.
He appears to get his jollies from manipulating people. That's all this is. A way to continue what was/is his true joy.
I appreciate the irony in that he says politicians aren't supposed to whisper in the ear of Lady Justice, but if I recall correctly didn't he and the Bronfmans use politicians to whisper into Lady Justice's ear to harass people who left?
I took a look at the Dossier project. Sick, sad people. Know how to be a bad ass woman? Tell those who ask you to fetch their things, change your body to what they want, and sleep with those you don't want to sleep with, to bugger off. That's the fast track to bad assery.
There is no consent with blackmail or with minors. Their silence about those crimes is tantamount to ratification.
Finally, Nicki Clyne apparently designed DOS and should be prosecuted too. You can't dump a liter of gloss on blackmail and change it to consent, much less claim it shows independent women. FFS.
Nice Guy says:
There are many excellent new commentators. I took the time to read man tonight. It's great to see.
Moonshadow says:
WOW! An exercise in condescendingly distancing yourself from your Crimes. I wonder if he still has that shit-eating grin.
mx lady says:
he's pretty good. I had not heard him speak. I need to practice my public speaking. he is confident, clear.
Such a family man talking about mariana too <3
Glad Day says:
I think he is a very average, tedious speaker, No wonder Nancy spent half her life nodding off in front of him!
I find his tone creepy and, of course, entirely insincere. I hear no confidence, but plenty of wheedling arrogance.
He has nothing to say to me, as my brain is not available for cult ideology,
His whining just sort of sounds out, like random car alarms in the middle of the night, all one can think is when will this ever f*cking STOP.
Ammo Alamo says:
I refuse to listen or read any drivel from a sociopath and malignant narcissist like Raniere. The guy is trying to create an altered version of reality in which he comes out as the clean-cut, lovable victim of an evil justice system. He asks us to pretend he did not have a hundred-million-dollar war chest donated to him absolutely free and without strings, all for him and his co-defendants to use to hire the best lawyers in the world. Yet still he and several others were convicted. Today he sits in jail, with nothing better to do than to imagine how to re-imagine history to show that he was a victim instead of a victimizer.
He is a little baby who has been supported for decades by a semi-incestuous relationship with pseudo-mommies. He managed to waste nearly a hundred million dollars gifted to him. Today he owns nothing, not even his prison jumpsuit. His main money supply came from profits of the legal drug trade, which trickled down the family lines and into the hands of an insecure heiress with delusions of someday rising to become average. He has been a parasite living off society for decades, and was finally found guilty of the illegal behavior he practiced for so long, and to the detriment of so many. Now he is paying the price, and whining like a spoiled brat who threw his sandwich on the ground, and now thinks it's unfair that his lunch has dirt on it.
The podcast question is not about free speech. It is a question of whether or not the government must allow an incarcerated felon a public platform from which he may once again attempt to harm others, in particular those he already victimized. Would Manson have got his day of podcasts to coax more women to violence? How about some to the others, like Ted Bundy or the Green River Killer? Would they be allowed to use a prison phone to get a message to the parents of a raped and murdered woman, and describe how she had 'asked for it'? Leaving the realm of murderers, would a simple rapist be given time in court to address victims or their families, attempting to rationalize his way out of his guilt? No, they would never be allowed such "free speech," and it would be right for the government to deny it.
Liars lie, and sociopaths lie exponentially better than an average teller of tall tales. Their lies can be that much more hurtful, too. Certainly once he is released from incarceration and out of government oversight he might be able to speak more freely. But he also would be subject to civil or criminal action, or remand to prison, should he go beyond certain limits.
Raniere is serving a serious punishment for serious illegal behavior. He is not out on bond, or on home detention, or awaiting a new trial. He's in solitary or something very close to it, as punishment for crimes of which he has been convicted. He is not sitting in a hotel room, with concierge service, organizing evening volleyball games, free to do as he pleases, all expenses covered by Clare – yet he acts as if he is a free man.
His status as a convict makes a difference, I think, as to whether or not he has the freedom to take advantage of Facebook, Twitter, podcasts, email, telephony, or any other modern form of communication. It's not about free speech; it's about protecting the victims from the further harm he is capable of causing.
Ammo Alamo for the win!! Thank you for so eloquently stating what should be obvious to otherwise intelligent human beings.
Thanks Alamo says:
There was a time when this would have been posted for editorial straight away! These days space on the Frank is occupied with revisionist crap from the remainders, the broken biscuits at the bottom of the barrel, what I call SBAY when encountered in weekly piles of essays to be marked. It stands for Straight back at ya, in other words, too incoherent, too irrelevant to mark.
Thank you for this gratifying read.
Raynne says:
I just had to comment to thank you for putting into words what we are all thinking. I hope Keith rots in prison for the rest of his life.. .
Nancy Durkin says:
Best ever description of KAR.
SultanOfSix says:
Vanguard, to do justice is to put things in their proper place. This presupposes teleology, which implies a system of being that is necessarily ordered when things are where they are supposed to be. The point of self-discipline is to do justice to the self, i.e., to put the body and mind in a balanced state which does not exceed the limits. Because when the latter happens, disorder and chaos is the result, both to the self (spiritually, physically, psychologically, emotionally, mentally, etc.) and externally in relationships with other people and other beings. In terminology you may be familiar with, you become destructive—to the body, mind, environment, values, social groups, etc. Apparently, you don't seem to understand this, and that is why you are now where you are supposed to be: in jail and headed to prison away from so society so that you can no longer bring destruction upon others. In your control of others, you could not control yourself, and so you will forced to be in your proper place of your own making because you could not do justice to yourself and others, and so justice will be served.
Nicest Guy says:
Well said, Sultan. No one can ever say you are not intelligent. You should have stuck in a timely metaphor to your writing; and I would have added eloquent to my praise of you. 😉
You say teleology and I say evolutionary psychology. 😉
Take care and heed your own words, my noble *paladin.
—Because when the latter happens, disorder and chaos is the result, both to the self (spiritually, physically, psychologically, emotionally, mentally, etc.) and externally in relationships with other people and other beings.
* In my youth, I played D&D. Paladins were my favorite PCs. Don't even try to tell me you don't like RPGs. 😉
Teleology as a concept is more general than evolutionary psychology. Teleology explains the existence of both animate and inanimate beings in terms of ends that are intrinsic to natural substances. For example, a watch's purpose to tell time is extrinsic as it is imposed onto the natural substances that make up the watch by a human agent. However, the natural substances themselves have intrinsic purposes/goals/ends of which, i.e., final causes, encapsulated in attributes, properties, capacities, powers, etc., that allows them to be used in the creation of a new form of being (the watch) that serves a "non-natural" purpose.
Evolution is a theory that purports to explain the development of various different life forms on our planet using natural selection and random mutation. Using it as an adjective in juxtaposition with psychology further restricts its domain. Evolution does not try to explain why natural substances have intrinsic ends nor can it explain why such micro orders of beings could even be successfully combined to form such macro orders of beings. It doesn't even try to explain why combining something as simple as two hydrogen atoms with an oxygen atom forms the natural substance of water every time, which is the source of all sentient life that it tries to explain.
Sultan-
Teleology, we discussed before if my memory serves me correctly.
Recently I read the book Sapiens. It's a good book, but not great. The reviews are a little too generous. Much of the book's thesis and thoughts, I am sure have already occurred to you, they certainly occurred to me.
The following quote sums up the book:
"This Asserting that there is no capital-R "Reason" why humans found themselves where we are — no Big Historical, Divine or Teleological Reason explaining or predetermining our triumph — is not the same as saying there are no reasons. There certainly are, by Harari's reckoning. Indeed, it is the historian's job to root them out, and Harari roots out one big one. Human success rests on our imagination. "
This last year I have come to the conclusion that free will does not exist. Or at least not the way most people view free will. In addition. Man made constructs are man made constructs that we have to recognize even though they are illusions of are mind. Teleology, in my view, being man made construct is no different than fiction.
Do you disagree? A one word yes or no answer will suffice. I don't want to take your time on my musings.
Thank you for taking the time to respond to me. I do not have anyone in my sphere or orbit to discuss such subject matter.
Take care and good luck. 63 days left in 2020. I am not superstitious but enjoy pretending to be.
To accept that their are "reasons" but not a capital "Reason" is simply sophistry. In fact, it is special pleading because it allows for reasons in every other case except for the initial case without ironically providing a reason for it. It's like detectives saying "Yeah, we'll investigate why this dead body was found in a back alley with a knife in his back, but there really is no Reason for it."
Teleology is an assertion that natural substances have intrinsic ends that reflect powers, capabilities, potentials, capacities, etc., "built" into them, which allows them to be "named". In other words, it is an assertion about ontology.
I don't even know what you mean by constructs being "illusions of the mind" because they're not. They may not reflect an actual ontology which is the claim of nominalism as it asserts that universals don't actually exist (only particulars), but then it is ultimately incoherent because it begs the question as to how these particulars can actually be grouped into categories if they don't actually share in something intrinsic. It seems like nominalists are themselves creating illusions of the mind.
You have sincerely given me an argument/perspective to contemplate. I will respond on this thread. Hopefully it will get posted. I'm not a fan of [some] metaphysical ideas to be honest as you can see.
Ironically, I once accused another commentator of being a sophist. His name was Actaeon. I do not believe you are him.
No one has ever labeled me a sophist before. It's right up there with calling someone a pseudo-intellectual. Nothing insulting about that. (sarcasm).
I will be of course responding with a retort or in agreement.
There's a big difference between calling something in particular sophistry and labeling someone a sophist.
By the way, you can't escape metaphysics. Just like you can't escape God, i.e., Existence as such, the only (beyond) being whose essence is to exist. Even the scientific method presupposes certain metaphysical principles. Metaphysics is the foundation for all rational discussion.
One of the first principles of metaphysics and the "three laws of thought" is the Law of Noncontradiction. If this isn't accepted first and foremost then all rational discussion becomes pointless. Because if you can concomitantly contradict yourself anything and everything is "possible and true".
buwygfib says:
Thank you Frank for making this accessible to everyone. I'm deaf and there's rarely transcribed materials available. Many thanks!!!
SparkPug says:
Word Salad ,is it he just likes to hear himself talk .I did skip over to " The Dossier Project " just to take a peek wow those women have all aged out .
Keith likes the young ones all those girls we're near 40 or way past 40. Makes me wonder if all these people we're Keith's go to peeps 3 years ago, I bet not so why now if they weren't good enough then, what makes them think they're good enough now, they're all that's left all the smart people left … Keith's name is tied to scandal he will forever be tied to scandal, by virtue of being associated with Keith your names will be linked to scandal to and that's very sad you all could have had bright futures but you threw it away with both hands. I have read that a lot of you blame the Frank Report for the condition of your lives (i.e. no jobs, no money, no respect) but your all grown adults who should have jumped ship when everyone else did , you have no one to blame but yourselves .
Thanks for posting Keith's side.
So where, oh where is the proof he has been framed? ??????
Waiting….Waiting….Waiting…..Waiting.
Ever watch that notorious episode of Geraldo Rivera when he goes into Al Capone's fault?
The vault was empty all along.
Keith has no proof is my point.
Having insomnia/sick can't sleep and just listened to podcast.
Raniere and friends make lots of promises of what is too come much like Geraldo.
At the very least Frank will be getting some interviews. I'm looking forward to the interviews.
I thought vanturd espoused there are no victims so now he is trying to be the penultimate victim..disgusting
Snorlax says:
I've not been this riveted since Geraldo busted open Al Capone's vault.
I cannot wait until the judge bangs that gavel down and this miscreant gets whats coming to him…byebye felicia
Any communication from him needs to begin with, "I am fully cognizant of the damage I have done to a number of individuals." That needs to at the start; not the middle or the end.
He is where he is, in the situation he is in, precisely because he has done that damage. Liking or not liking has nothing to do with his situation. Juries pass their verdict based on whether a person is guilty of the charges brought, not on whether they likeable or even virtuous.
He considers himself to be a person of high moral character, but even if he was, it would make differences.
Crimes under law apply whether the accused is a Saint or a sinner.
He seems much preoccupied with being liked, when it is utterly irrelevant.
If 99% of the US population liked him, he would still be guilty.
That is all that matters.
Due process has been done.
Completely failed to address any of the conviction counts. Could not read the entire transcript, too much carrying on about nothing in particular. Off to ADX Florence, scum!
—Completely failed to address any of the conviction counts.
Don't knit pick my persnickety friend. 😉
" snakes (and other reptiles) continue to move after being bisected….the body will reflexively writhe for a time after being cut off (from)the brain – but the head itself can remain "alive", and likely on the defensive because of the pain of being chopped. It will attempt to bite whatever it can – even its own wriggling body." – from sciencealert,com
He's a snake; he's always been a snake; he'll always be a snake. Supermax sounds inhumane, but I hope that is where he goes because he is, after all, a snake.
Oh my, Keith Raniere is a deontologist now. What else is this guy gonna come up with? There's no way he doesn't understand he's going away for life. Poor little narcissist, so desperate for attention. Is he trying to recruit new followers from prison? Good luck with that, buddy. No one except for a dozen of loonies who can't face the reality of being brainwashed will buy into it now.
Anonymous 1000? says:
The minute you consider yourself to be a "like Hitler" or the devil, means something is not right with your actions, and that your "innocence" is kind of questionable.
Also in terms of ESP (aka Keith's teachings) when you are in a uncomfortable situation, you shouldn't complain, you should see what actions you took to lead you there.
There are no victims. If you are there, you cause it. Cause and effect. Fair and simple. Asking for justice means that you are a victim of injustice, so isn't this what Keith hated so much? People playing the victims? I really don't get why last minute he starts to run for his life and seek for "justice".
He's being there for 2 years now. He didn't gave any statement, at his trial. He thinks that the charges will simply drop. What did he do in all these 2 years in prison? Was the reason of this rumble around that Clare was sentence? Is he really so shallow, and naive to thinks that the charges will simply drop? So justice for him means injustice for others which simply he doesn't care, as long as he is free.
I really don't get this selfish self centered person.
And what about "write me what Mariana and other people think" Wtf??? He will be forgotten hopefully sooner than later… I really hope.
What a insecure dude.
What about Ghandi and Martin Luther King? AARGH!
Heidi Hutchinson says:
Nearly 17 hours, or 1022 minutes to go before that life sentence is handed down.
…The last poison word salad you'll ever have to swallow.
EM Tech says:
Thanks for transcribing this, Frank. What makes this so difficult for all of us, whether we are supporters, enemies, or taking a humanist philosophical approach to evaluating the situation, what makes it so difficult is that Keith is factually a liar. Clear evidence in the trial indicates Keith has a lot of difficulty telling the truth. Keith also struggles to connect to the lives he has destroyed with his lies and his control of the Bronfman money to legally assassinate people who left the organization. I predict that nowhere in this new podcast will Keith acknowledge the lives he has ruined and the "very bad things" he himself has done and plans to repair.
Girl Scout Cookies says:
Exactly! If Keith wants an audience, he should also be made to explain what happened to Kristin and Gina.
I love it when he's babbling on and the automated voice chimes in… "This call is from a federal prison."
Just a little reminder from the theater of the absurd, "this is where you are, oh Ramrear."
Hi. Hiya! Helllloooooo. Herreeee's KEITH!
Well, holy moley!
Thank you, dear Ed McMahon. Thank you very much. That guy is still awaiting sentencing until Tuesday, right, Ed?
"You know, in my case, not only do I believe I'm innocent and all the people that I've had analyze the case, believe I'm innocent."
Of course you would think you're innocent, and of course those who you had analyze the case for you who are either 1) your followers, or 2) those paid by your followers, would think you're innocent too.
Unfortunately for you and them, a jury of your peers did not think that you are innocent because they convicted you in a minimal time of approximately four hours, and none of your many victims (some of whom testified against you) think you are innocent either.
If I had a dollar for every criminal who entered a plea of not guilty feigning innocence (but was actually guilty), I'd likely be a multimillionaire.
Raniere
The minute I read that you were branding women like cattle and collecting blackmail material I knew you were as guilty as sin.
Just sayin' says:
You're giving him free publicity now as opposed to shedding light on his conduct.
Like winning World War 2 but giving Hitler a pulpit and microphone.
Not good.
I agree. Don't sully your website with this drivel
Oh dear. They are really busy. Another pop up Twitter/website. How many is that now?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ranierepodcast
Looks like they have been taking tips from Amanda Knox on how to rebrand from the devil incarnate to victim.
Thanks for posting the link!
I had you in mind after being scolded for laziness in the other 😉
Mauricio Ricardo Urtaza Reyes says:
You cant keep the dévil out of you mouth? Right?
Or the kids or some woman suffering for that matter. You know i think that you are pathetic. Just a Broken child that never want to grow, that thinks that because he had a horrible Life everyone has to suffer the same. and enjoys It. Because of fear you don't see clearly:-( and you probably never Will, you probably Will die in the hsdows of your own mind, never taking the Evolution path, because you are far from that by choice.
Samantha Lebaron , that's going to affect you you know? The Lebaron marcha for a invation to México , and they still support you right? The luciferian part of Nxivm Is something that people never Talk about. And that is a true Justice fucked Up shit. Ayn rand have inspire.satanic, luciferian a neoliberalist for a century ,bit hey your resistance to facing consequences makes It easier for people to see how.dangerous are you actually. So everytime you wine more.people.undesrtand what really happend, only stupid damage goods believe you,.only peopoe.full of.hate or fear do. So thank Raniere beacuse un these Circus you bring lor attention to.you horrible conections to the demócrats or your mind control techinques that are used to torture kids in other cults for example.
I think thta Justice have to be elastic. We have to undesrtand that punishment only makes us Monsters , like raniere, for.example . That is just the byproduct of our own suffering, and that does no good, that we need.to find how to cure sociopaths that thats the only answer thats going to last.how to rehabilitate these Broken childs , maybe before they become Raniere , or Salinas or.bronfman, or clyne etc not after. Meybe in schools whatever. But the law isntead of rules , It has to be a system that sees obejctibly.all the time, every case, and judge the needs of the specific cases. But that would fuck you more "guru" you fuck that Word by the way, so much that could be the teens.that you rape that.bring you.so.much Joy . Why?.beacsue the law has flaws, that dont allow to see what you did, really , and put everyone in a comfy White Room , thta participate in your intent to rule the world with woman torture and a "new" religión . I mean you are not even Creative, you just stole.mk ultra, ayn rand etc but lack of ca Creative mind is a syntoms of sociopaths right?
Raniere and his psycho-babble. I'm a bit surprised that he didn't quote Charles Manson, too. After being sentenced tomorrow, he's going to have a long time to contemplate his podcast topics. Every time that he "speaks", all I can think about are all the people victimized by him or at his direction. Yet, I don't think he's expressed remorse for his actions to any of these people. Lots of time for him to build some innovative remorse modules, soon… him being a genius, a scientist, and all.
Does this rascal really thinks he can convince anybody that he is innocent?
What a poor mind
Michael Hatchette says:
Keith is so desperate. I LOL'd my way through all of it. What a bunch of rambling nonsense! He just knows that he is finally getting his day and can't stand it! Get over it! Your days are over. You deserve everything and more!
He is yesterday's man. The fading image of a failed microcult leader. The fact that he thinks there is any weight in his words, illustrates his lack of contact with reality. The general population is largely unaware of him, even after recent media exposure. Desperate. A desperate reach for relevance.
Yawn. More ramblings from a conman lunatic. I truly hope this podcast tanks. Nobody except his cult members cares at this point. Stop insulting the victims who suffered from this man and his horrible abuse. And for God's sake, someone needs to plug the hole in Clare's trust fund that keeps paying for this garbage.
This is weird. I thought they would edit it and have some title sequences. Yeah, it's just prison phonecall ramblings of a convict maintaining his innocence. And he really went with the prize. It's all quite embarrassing. He doesn't seem to realize we are not all like Alison Mack, nodding and weeping at words we think are profound. He just comes across as an idiot. This is not a good idea.
Natashka-
How dare you!!!!
I have tears flowing down my cheeks like twin water falls from heaven.
I'm hoping it's from laughter NG!
Keith Raniere on his own has no good ideas. He has to copy them from others.
I think VanGrifter is going to have plenty of time to contemplate & write his MANIFESTO in SuperMax.
I'm sure Ted 'Unabomber' Kaczynski would be more than happy to offer up pointers. Ted has an excuse though. He was actually abused and brainwashed by CIA operatives who were testing LSD on young college students.
Queef Raniere. Not so much. Sing for your supper! Toss a Coin to your Witcher, yada yada yada
Publishing Raniere's Last Words and the Desperate Efforts of His Followers Is Not 'Selling Out'
Raniere Sentencing Moved From 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tomorrow


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Unearthed relics tell you the extravagant life of rulers
China Daily.com 27 ~November 2014
These button-shaped golden ornaments with a ram's horn pattern unearthed from the tomb of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty on Mount Dayunshan. Emperor Jing of Han in 154 BC defeated principalities in the war later known as the Rebellion of the Seven States. He rewarded his son, Liu Fei, for his bravery in the war and gave him the title Jiangdu Wang (the king of the Jiangdu district, now in Jiangsu province). Jiangdu district became increasingly rich, capitalizing on its geographic location and natural condition. Liu enjoyed a lavish life and exotic treasures. The relics unearthed in Liu Fei's tomb on Mount Dayunshan reflect the extravagant court life of his time. [Photo/dili360.com]
These relics once formed part of a jade belt. The belt's leather decayed, leaving a set of shell-shaped jade andtwo pieces of jade tablets edged with bronze.
These gilt, deer-shaped lamps are 45 centimeters high.
This small solid object was used on the corner of a mat to keep the mat from curling. Mats were placed on theground to be used as seats, as there were no chairs during the Han Dynasty, people just sat on the ground. Themats have a tendency to move easily when people sit down or stand up. So four mat-weights named Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, respectively, when placed on the top of the corners of a mat, will prevent the mat from moving.
The handle of an umbrella is lavishly decorated.
Lecture a.o. with Valerie Hansen about how the world looked around the year 1.000
In the Company of Scholars Lecture Series: "Circa 1000″
Lecture by Valerie Hansen, Mary Miller, and Anders Winroth
Given at Yale University on November 18, 2014
The first In the Company of Scholars lecture of the academic year will feature three faculty members discussing "Circa 1000," a graduate course that looks at happenings worldwide at the turn of the 10th century.
Members of the Yale community are invited to attend the talk, which will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 4 p.m. in Rm. 119 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. A reception will follow.
The lecture will also be livestreamed on Yale YouTube.
Valerie Hansen, Mary Miller, and Anders Winroth are team teaching "Circa 1000." Hansen, professor of history, is an expert on China; Miller, Sterling Professor of the History of Art, specializes in the art of the ancient New World; and Winroth, the Forst Family Professor of History, studies the history of medieval Europe.
The course description for "Circa 1000" reads:
Anders Winroth, Mary Miller, and Valerie Hansen
"The world in the year 1000, when the different regions of the world participated in complex networks. Archaeological excavations reveal that the Vikings reached L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, at roughly the same time that the Kitan people defeated China's Song dynasty and established a powerful empire stretching across the grasslands of Eurasia. Viking chieftains donned Chinese silks while Chinese princesses treasured Baltic amber among their jewelry. In what is now the American Southwest, the people of Chaco Canyon feasted on tropical chocolate, while the lords of Chichen Itza wore New Mexican turquoise—yet never knew the Huari lords of the central Andes. Islamic armies conquered territory in western China (modern Xinjiang). "
Chinese ink paintings line the walls of ancient tomb
More news about the tomb of Han Xiu, a scholar and premie minister during the Tang Dynasty.
See also an earlier article, named " Precious fresco found in Tang tomb "
BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Legendary Chinese artist Han Huang is best known for the "The Painting of Five cows", one of ten most significant scroll paintings in Chinese history.
The tomb of Han's father, who was a scholar and prime minister during the Tang dynasty, was recently discovered in the suburbs of Xi'an. Inside it was a vast collection of exquisitely painted murals that is shedding new light on the life of someone who was often left in the shadow of his legendary son.
The tomb, belonged to Han Xiu, a writer and prime minister during the eighth century. Filled with a vast treasure trove of exquisite art, the works enclosed in the tomb fit the title of someone as powerful as Han Xiu. Archaeologists say one of the landscape murals marks the rise of Tang dynasty ink paintings.
"On the mural, there's rivers, mountains, a pavilion and the sun," said Liu Daiyun,scholar from Shanxi Institute of Archaeology. "Seen from the layout and the strokes, we can say landscape painting had achieved maturity during Tang dynasty. "
It was previously believed that Chinese ink painting didn't achieve maturity until the Northern Song dynasty some two hundred years later.
But this discovery has shown that the art form had reached maturity two centuries earlier than previously thought. Another mural inside the tomb, depicting singing and dancing scenes, also presents a vivid image of China's ancient art world.
"Normally, we found murals inside a tomb with only one band performing or one person dancing," Liu said. "But this time we've found two bands depicted on one mural, one female and one male band. And there's two people dancing opposite of each other. "
The beautifully arranged mural depicts a musical band comprised of different ethnic groups, including Han musicians and people from the western regions.
The scene symbolizes the rich exchanges between east and west, made possible by the Ancient Silk Road.
Archaeologists will be working hard to preserve the site and bring parts of it to museums, where it can be enjoyed by future generations.
(Source: CNTV.cn)
In 'Saving Mes Aynak,' a real-life Indiana Jones fights to protect Afghanistan's Buddhist heritage
PBS.org BY FRANK CARLSON November 19, 2014
Brent Huffman, the director behind the new documentary "Saving Mes Aynak," tells the story of one of Afghanistan's archaeological treasures and discusses the threats it faces from a Chinese mining company.
In the dusty mountains about an hour outside of Kabul, Afghanistan, is a place that's long been prized for what's buried beneath: copper.
The site is called Mes Aynak, which means "little source of copper," and contains an estimated $100 billion in deposits. But Mes Aynak is also home to the remains of a 2,000-year-old Buddhist city, as well as statues, paintings, figurines and other artifacts from the previous civilizations dating back some 5,000 years.
That rich archaeological heritage is now in jeopardy as a Chinese state-run mining company, which paid $3 billion for rights to mine the site in 2007, moves forward with plans to turn the site into an open pit mine next year. And that threat is the subject of a new documentary, "Saving Mes Aynak."
"Basically, they will blow up the entire mountain range and they'll have to destroy local villages, all of the archaeological remains, including this Bronze Age material," says director Brent Huffman, who is spearheading a campaign to stop the mine from demolishing the site.
The story is told through of lens of Qadir Temori, the head of the Afghan archaeological department in Kabul. For Huffman, Temori is "this extremely passionate, almost like Hollywood-casting good looking, Indiana Jones type character, who's really braving all of this risk and being very courageous, going against the Taliban, going against this Chinese mining company, going against the bureaucracy in the country to try to save essentially the cultural heritage of Afghanistan."
"The heart of the film is really this story of Afghan archaeologists risking their lives." Huffman said.
"Saving Mes Aynak" debuts this weekend in Amsterdam at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam.
Han Purple: A 2,800-year-old artificial pigment that quantum physicists are trying to understand
Ancient Origins .net
23 NOVEMBER, 2014 - 01:03 APRILHOLLOWAY
Han purple is an artificial pigment created by the Chinese over 2,500 years ago, which was used in wall paintings and to decorate the famous terracotta warriors, as well as ceramics, metal ware, and jewelry. The pigment is a technological wonder, made through a complex process of grinding up raw materials in precise proportions and heating to incredible temperatures. So intricate was the process, that it was not reconstructed again until 1992, when chemists were finally able to identify its composition. But this was just the beginning. According to a news report on io9.com, research since then has discovered amazing properties of Han purple, including the ability to emit powerful rays of light in the near-infrared range, as well as being able to collapse three dimensions down to two under the right conditions.
The production of Han purple, otherwise known as Chinese purple, dates back as far as 800 BC, however it appears that it was not used in art until the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BC – 220 AD), when it was applied to the world famous terracotta warriors, as well as ceramics and other items.
"Prior to the nineteenth century, when modern production methods made synthetic pigments common, there were only hugely expensive purple dyes, a couple of uncommon purplish minerals, and mixtures of red and blue, but no true purple pigment – except during a few hundred years in ancient China," writes Samir S. Patel in 'Purple Reign: How ancient Chinese chemists added color to the Emperor's army'.
For an unknown reason, Han purple disappeared entirely from use after 220 AD, and was never seen again until its rediscovery by modern chemists in the 1990s.
Traces of Han purple can still be seen on many of the terracotta warriors (realhistoryww.com)
The Synthesis of Han Purple
Unlike natural dyes, such as Tyrian purple (from c. 1500 BC), which are organic compounds and typically made from plants or animals, like the murex snail, Han purple was a synthetic pigment made from inorganic materials.
Only two other man-made blue or purple pigments are known to have existed in the ancient world – Maya blue (from c. 800 AD), made from a heated mixture of indigo and white clay, and Egyptian blue, which was used throughout the Mediterranean and the Near and Middle East from 3,600 BC to the end of the Roman Empire. [Read similar: Egyptian Blue – The Oldest Known Artificial Pigment].
Scientist Elisabeth FitzHugh, a conservator at the Smithsonian, was the first to identify the complex synthetic compound that makes up Han purple – barium copper silicate, a compound that differs from Egyptian blue only through its use of barium instead of calcium.
"Egyptian blue" tripodic beaker (Wikimedia). The composition of Han purple differs from Egyptian blue only in the use of barium instead of calcium.
The similarities between Han purple and Egyptian blue led some early researchers to conclude that the Chinese may have learned to make the pigment from the Egyptians. However, this theory has been largely discounted as Egyptian blue was not found further East than Persia.
"There is no clear reason why the Chinese, if they had learned the Egyptian formula, would have replaced calcium with barium, which necessitates increasing the firing temperature by 100 degrees or more," writes Patel.
So how exactly did the Chinese stumble upon the intricate formula to make Han purple, which involved combining silica (sand) with copper and barium in precise proportions and heating to about 850-1000 °C? A team of Stanford physicists published a paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science (summary here), which proposes that Han purple was a by-product of the glass-making process, as both glass and the purple pigment contain silica and barium. Io9.com writes that barium makes glass shinier and cloudy, which means this pigment could be the work of early alchemists trying to synthesize white jade.
Fluorescent properties
Since its composition was first discovered, scientists have continued to investigate this unique pigment. Researchers at the British Museum discovered that, when exposed to a simple LED flashlight, Han purple emits powerful rays of light in the near-infrared range. According to their study, published in the journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, the Han purple pigments show up with startling clarity under the right conditions, meaning that even faint traces of the color, which are invisible to the naked eye, can be seen with infrared sensors.
A Western Han ceramic bowl from Hebei or Hanan province (Avery Brundage Collection, asianart.org), which contains traces of Han purple. The purple pigment becomes strongly fluorescent under infrared sensors (right).
Han Purple and the collapsing of dimensions
The fluorescent properties of Han purple were not the only surprise. Quantum physicists from Stanford, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Institute for Solid State Physics (University of Tokyo) reported that when Han purple is exposed to extreme cold and a high magnetic field, the chemical structure of the pigment enters a new state called the quantum critical point, in which three-dimension material 'loses' a dimension.
"We have shown, for the first time, that the collective behavior in a bulk three-dimensional material can actually occur in just two dimensions," Ian Fisher, an assistant professor of applied physics at Stanford said in the Stanford Report. "Low dimensionality is a key ingredient in many exotic theories that purport to account for various poorly understood phenomena, including high-temperature superconductivity, but until now there were no clear examples of 'dimensional reduction' in real materials."
The scientists have proposed that this effect is due to the fact that the components of barium copper silicate are arranged like layers of tiles, so they don't stack up neatly. Each layers' tiles are slightly out of sync with the layer below them. This may frustrate the wave and force it to go two dimensional.
The researchers have said the discovery may help understand the required properties of new materials, including more exotic superconductors.
The strange collapsing of dimensions may be due to the mismatched layers of its components. (John D. Griffin, Michael W. Davidson, Sara Vetteth and Suchitra E. Sebastian, Stanford)
Fisher said, "Han Purple was first synthesized over 2500 years ago, but we have only recently discovered how exotic its magnetic behavior is. It makes you wonder what other materials are out there that we haven't yet even begun to explore."
Featured image: Detail of a mural from an Eastern Han tomb (25 – 220 AD) at Zhucun, Luoyang, Henan province. The painting utilizes Han purple and Han blue pigment (Wikipedia).
By April Holloway
China finds oldest gelatine adhesive in the Xiaohe Cemetery
Xinhuanet.com
URUMQI, Nov. 28 (Xinjiang) -- Scientists have identified China's oldest adhesive, in the form of gelatine, from a 3,500-year-old ritual staff in a tomb complex known for its well-preserved mummies in Xinjiang, northwest China.
The translucent yellow adhesive was found on a wooden staff inlaid with bone sculpture in the Xiaohe Cemetery in Taklamakan Desert, said Yang Yimin, associate professor with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Scientific analysis later identified the adhesive as gelatine made from cattle. It was also the earliest known evidence of gelatine use in China, Yang said.
Gelatine can be manufactured by cooking animal bones, skins and tendons and has been commonly used as glue. Prior to the discovery, its use in China dates back to the Han Dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD).
Experts said China's ancient glue is prone to decomposition, posing difficulties for conducting analysis, but the dry climate in Xiaohe Cemetery has helped preserve the substance.
The Xiaohe cemetery, 175 km west of the ancient city of Loulan, was first explored by Folke Bergman, a Swedish archaeologist in 1934. The massive burial site, with over 300 graves, is best known for its many mummies preserved in ship-shaped coffins.
Cosmopolitanism in the Tang Dynasty: A Chinese Ceramic Figure of a Sogdian Wine- Merchant
by Suzanne G. Valenstein
This monograph investigates a Tang-dynasty (618–907) fifteen-inch-high, white porcelaneous figure of a Sogdian wine-merchant that is one of the most remarkable examples of Chinese mortuary sculpture to come to light in recent years. Only six Tang porcelaneous figures have been located during this investigation, and no documented analogous tomb figures appear to have been published to date. However, this figure—which is in the collection of Alexandra Munroe and Robert Rosenkranz—clearly belongs to a small, cohesive group of Chinese ceramic figures depicting foreign wine-merchants that can be attributed to the early Tang period.
The study shows that the figure's relationship to a very small group of analogous tomb figures substantiates the attribution of "early Tang dynasty, ca. 625–75" assigned to this piece. It also considers hu ren, a term that by the Tang dynasty had come to refer specifically to those non-Chinese people with origins in the "Western Regions," especially the Sogdians. These hu ren, or non-Han Westerners, are portrayed in the art of the Tang dynasty as having curly hair, heavy beards, a prominent nose, and deep-set eyes. Recent archaeological findings have verified the identification of the Rosenkranz, Croës, and Cernuschi ceramic figures, as well as the Duan Boyang head, as ethnic Sogdians, an Eastern Iranian people whose home, Sogdiana, lay in a region that encompasses today's Uzbekistan and part of Tajikistan.
The book also delves into the construction of the figures and the head, taking into consideration the fact that the nature of China's clays dictated the development of both its high-fired porcelaneous wares and low-fired earthenwares. The history of both ceramic types is helpfully summarized.
The history of Chinese mortuary furnishings, known as mingqi, is also discussed; these were manufactured for the afterlife. This study traces the evolution from the human sacrificial victims that were placed in Chinese tombs to meet the needs of the dead during the Shang dynasty (ca. 1600–ca. 1046 BC) to surrogate Tang-dynasty mingqi porcelaneous figures of Western wine-merchants.
The study then examines the various decorative motifs on the Rosenkranz figure and its analogous examples—tasseled streamers issuing from an ornamental disk, the makara, pearled roundel, monster-mask, five-petaled palmette, and the dragon set in a pearled roundel. These are traced both chronologically and geographically to their origins. Most of these ornamental motifs can be found in the West. They were passed along a large and complex system of cultural interaction and exchange that can be traced from ancient Egypt and Greece until they eventually reached China. At the same time, most of these ornamental elements can be directly or indirectly associated with the Buddhist religion, which originated in India and came to northern China from India by way of Central Asia.
The most remarkable feature of this Rosenkranz figure is its porcelaneous body. As opposed to the literally thousands of known Tang-dynasty earthenware tomb sculptures, only six Tang porcelaneous figures have come to light during this study. This paucity of porcelaneous tomb figures is not surprising, which makes this study all the more unqiue.
Cosmopolitanism in the Tang Dynasty will be valuable to art historians, particularly specialists in the history of Chinese ceramics; to scholars investigating Chinese mortuary practices; to medieval historians; as well as to others whose interests lie in China and the West, and in the Silk-Road trade that connected these two different worlds.
Rayy: from its Origins to the Mongol Invasion
An Archaeological and Historiographical Study
Rocco Rante, Aix Marseille Université and Musée du Louvre.In Collaboration with Ghadir Afround
This book offers a new history of the ancient city of Rayy. Based on the results of the latest excavations on the Citadel and the Shahrestan (the political and administrative nucleus of the city in all periods), the study of historical and geographical texts and on surveys carried out between 2005 and 2007 by the author and the Iranian archaeologist, Ghadir Afround, the complete occupation sequence of the city, from its foundation in the Iron Age and the Parthian reconstructions (2nd to 1st centuries BC), up to the Mongol invasions and rapid depopulation in the 13th century CE, comes to light.
Rocco Rante
Middle East and Islamic Studies›Archaeology, Art & Architecture
Middle East and Islamic Studies›Iran & Persian Studies
Art History›General
Art History›Archaeology
Middle East and Islamic Studies›History & Culture
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Central FC Head Coach Stern John has lamented the "professionalism" and "mutual respect" of his former teammates that will now be under his management as the club unveiled its 2018 squad.
The likes of Cornell Glen, Carlyle Mitchell and Densill Theobald are all in the squad as John mixed experience with youth at the Couva Sharks.
Speaking to the media after the team's unveiling, John said, "We had to build a new team to go into the club championship. We have a lot of experienced players. We have Cornell Glen, we have Mitchell... We have a lot of youngsters as well too, but what we're trying to do, we're trying to breed the youngsters with the senior players."
"Like I said before, especially in Trinidad, we don't have the luxary to get rid of our senior players and just have them there, not doing anything. I think we need to get them involved in the football still so we can bring the youngsters through with the senior players as well..." John stated.
You can watch Stern John's full interview with the media here.


Traveler Review for Private Tour in Hue, Vietnam by Tour Guide Quan P.
Thoroughly enjoyed our day with Quan, who constantly posed little questions as the day progressed. The Imperial City, very interesting Pagoda, boat trip and finally the 12th King's tomb (having had a lovely lunch) was just the right amount of sightseeing. Quan's youthfulness belies his exceptionally good guiding skills and we will definitely be using him again when we return to visit Da Nang some time in the future.