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The Spanish Princess Continues to Confuse
By Kendra on November 30, 2018 in Sixteenth Century, Upcoming Movie News
Catherine of Aragon. Henry VIII. Philippa Fucking Gregory. So there I am, innocently firing up Starz.com to watch the current season of Outlander, when this happens:
We've posted already about the tiny glimpse of The Spanish Princess' (2019) costumes — Catherine's wedding dress — and we were kind. Maybe too kind. Well, now we've got a few more glimpses of the costumes in this video, along with one still, and we appear to be back in WTFrock land!
This is an adaptation of yet another Philippa Fucking Gregory book — author of The Other Boleyn Girl, and, as Starz is pleased to inform you, their productions of The White Queen and The White Princess. As we all know, Philippa Fucking Gregory, despite being somehow perceived as an expert in her subjects, LOVES to play fast and loose with the real characters and motivations in history. Sure, she hits the major plot points, but most of her characters seem to be written VERY differently from what we know of them historically. See this book (The Constant Princess), in which Catherine of Aragon and her first husband, Arthur, Prince of Wales, are deeply in love and deeply shagadelic before he suddenly dies (sorry, no spoilers in history). When pretty much ALL historians agree that they barely knew each other and never shagged (Catherine, deeply religious, swore to her dying day that they never had sex).
Now, Catherine of Aragon is a fascinating character, and YES, her early years are riveting and usually skipped in favor of portraying her as the dried-up-old-husk about-to-be-put-aside aging wife of Henry VIII. So I'm not complaining that someone is telling the story of her early years! Just, as we frequently complain, THE REAL HISTORY IS INTERESTING ENOUGH ON ITS OWN. Ya don't NEED to make shit up. Catherine was a princess of Spain! Sent to marry the English heir! Who dies early and suddenly! Then she's left to fend for herself for years while her father (Ferdinand of Aragon) and father-in-law (Henry VII) are idiots! Then Henry VIII comes to the throne and marries her! They're in love! She's badass and fills in for him as England goes to war with Scotland, while Henry is in France! YA DON'T NEED TO MAKE THIS SHIT UP, PEOPLE.
On to the sneak peek of the costumes. According to Drama Quarterly, Phoebe de Gaye, who designed the costumes for The White Princess, returns as costume designer for The Spanish Princess. Oh dear.
First, the first official still of actress Charlotte Hope as Catherine. Yay, auburn hair! One of our biggest complaints is the fact that Catherine is usually portrayed as dark haired and sallow, to fit the stereotypical "Spanish!" image, instead of what she actually looked like. However:
Clearly hairpin rationing continues. More importantly… Okay, the fabric is good for the era, and I like the cut of the sleeves. But the skirt is pleated weirdly, and I'm totally confused by the Indian embroidery panel used as a bodice.
Now, on to the teaser trailer:
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS OH MY GOD. Laced-on sleeves, with puffs at the elbow – okay. But why is the "gown" only tunic-length, and WHY does it open up like that in back???
Also, clunky back lacing.
NOT BETTER FROM THE FRONT. Apparently there was a sale on upholstery trim at Joann's, and what's with the drunken/saucy angle on the crown? There's that red/pink dress that's actually a decent copy from a contemporary portrait.
Um, did Catherine have a badass superhero period back in Spain that has so far gone undocumented? The dress is fine and the hair is up, thank you. The scimitar, not so much.
Ah yes, we must have her be a badass swordswoman. This was a woman of steel, but her strength came from moral character, not weaponry. I do like the netted/beaded cap, although PUT YER FRICKIN' HAIR UP MISSY. For practical reasons (you're sword-fighting!) if not for historical accuracy.
Can't see enough of the dress to comment. Is that Arthur? What happened to the fabulous bowl cut??
Hair's up, yay! No idea what's up with the padded crown. Is that the royal princess version of a pudding cap?
Riding astride in the 16th century, yea or nay?
The Spanish Princess – WHY?
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Susan Pola Staples November 30th, 2018
Another Philippa Gregory travesty to miss.
You know there's a lot more faithful historical novel on COA by Alison Weir and it's on point regarding Catherine's religiosity and virginity. Why didn't they make this one?
Trystan L. Bass November 30th, 2018
Why doesn't some cable channel make miniseries of Alison Weir's bios? Her books are so good! She has some speculation about the juicy 'behind closed doors' stuff, but she's not inventing nonsense, & it would be totally amazing.
I agree, but The patriarchy gives us crap and travesty of Philippa Gregory.
Kendra November 30th, 2018
This is why we can't have nice things!!
Excluding The Wings of the Dove costumes by Her Holiness Sandy Powell
Lynne Connolly November 30th, 2018
I wouldn't be complacent about Weir. As a Tudor apologist, she makes hay with reality when it suits her.
Gina Hawley November 30th, 2018
Yeah. She has a great biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine, and it deserves to be made into a tv show.
scarlett45 December 18th, 2018
I too love her biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine AND the historical novel she wrote as well.
Picasso November 30th, 2018
Philippa fucking Gregory who I distinctly heard saying in one of my favorite History podcast (brace yourself): "It's nice to research the history, but, as a writer, learn to put it aside not to interfere with THE STORY." Heavily implying her drivel was MUCH more interesting than what actually happened. I remember that distinctly because I was ironing and almost ironed my own hand in shock.
I heard that one too. GAH. She is so irritating!!!
Maybe a SNARK week on authors/characters to feed to Drogon or the White Walkers of GOT?
I've been thinking about that! Or at least a rant about PFG. Except I refuse to go back and reread her books.
Do you really need to? Maybe you can read bits and throw it across the room? :-)
myladyswardrobe December 1st, 2018
When I picked up her first book in a bookshop thinking "yay! new Tudor fiction", it nearly ended up being thrown across the store. I had to resist the urge to sweep my arm across the display of her books and knock them all across the floor.
M.E. Lawrence November 30th, 2018
I LIKE that idea! More opportunity to bitch and moan and cast aspersions. (Could it include "The Tudors"?)
Especially John Rhys Meyers. Natalie Dormer was a good choice for Anne Boleyn (she and Ms Bujold are my favourite Anne Boleyns).
Oh, I agree.
Sam Marchiony November 30th, 2018
I would fully wear that blue dress or put it on my main character in my fantasy NaNoWriMo project, but the key word there is FANTASY. I started out trying to make it historically derivative, but then I was like "never mind," because I wanted to add people of color and not just copy-paste Europe.
I bet not-bowl-cut dude is either a) Henry, suggesting he and Catherine had some frisson that she would not indulge in because she was constant and true to Arthur, or b) some rando fictional Spanish lordling who's going to be all "Catherine, run away with me," and she'll be all "nooooo, mah duteh!"
Susan D November 30th, 2018
I'm with you on the Henry frisson theory, @Sam. And I'm with everyone on PFG. The snark abides!
Richard November 30th, 2018
I'm sorry, but don't refer to anyone that isn't white as "people of color". That's actually quite offensive since it's basiclaly the word "colored".
Saraquill November 30th, 2018
Depends on the region. In the US, it's considered the polite term.
Like Sara said, I'm American, that's the term I've been taught is the most acceptable, as well as being faster than listing off various ethnicities and skin tones. I find it especially applicable for fantasy, which so often is based on ideas of white, European cultures that it's kind of the default.
Avi December 1st, 2018
In the US, "Colored" was an unwanted epithet of the mid-20th century, and many find it quite offensive. "Person of color" is the term my friends and acquaintances prefer. So you should ask before using "colored", and abide by what people want to be called, no matter what you have previously learned.
Kendra December 2nd, 2018
Only Richard has used the term "colored" here, and even then in quotes as an example of an offensive term…
Author Jennifer Quail November 30th, 2018
When it comes to riding aside versus astride, it's not actually all that straightforward. Here's a good blog that includes historical sources: https://susannaforrest.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/a-not-so-short-history-of-women-riding-astride/
It largely depended on who you were and what you were doing (though I like the quote that points out if you're thrown, do you want to be wearing breeches so no one can see your business or skirts so everyone can?) And it actually became much more common after the 1830s because the design we're familiar with (the double-pommel) wasn't invented until then. The leaping horn gives you more security, and means it's safe (a lot of people who ride aside argue safer and steadier) to do things like jump while aside. It's not really as easy as it looks and it requires if anything being a bit more conscious of your seat since it's easy to kind of slouch onto your left hip instead of sit evenly-ideally while in a 'modern' (ie post-early-19th-century) side saddle your 'seat bones' are in basically the same position as they are when astride. Saddle fit is really important and one thing that makes it harder to learn nowdays is not only finding a sidesaddle but finding a fitter who makes sure it's right for your horse's back!
I would think that astride, if she's riding for pleasure rather than on progress (where it's more about being seen) would be fine and not especially remarkable here.
Cool, thanks for all that info!
Roxana November 30th, 2018
Pretty much everything I was going to say. Catherine had a reputation as an enthusiastic hunter and doing so in the chair like side saddles of the day seems both dangerous and unlikely
Karen O. November 30th, 2018
True about side saddle. However, she seems to be riding forward seat which wasn't created by Caprilli until the late 1800s. Before that people rode with long stirrups and sat back in the saddle.
Tracy J Hayes April 8th, 2019
Thank you, Jennifer! I knew some of this, but not all of it. I appreciate the link, too.
i thought in this period and part of the world, hair was the tool of the devil and had to be covered?
Brandy Loutherback November 30th, 2018
rubs hands Evily
Elizabeth Kerri Mahon November 30th, 2018
I once heard Philippa Gregory at a writer's conference and all she did was bitch about Hilary Mantel and why was she more respected because they wrote in the same period, and did the same amount of research yada, yada, yada.
Peacoclaur November 30th, 2018
Ooh…jealous much, PFG?
(Although to be fair, Mantel has issues with her approach to HF as well)
Oh, did she indeed? One may not always agree with Mantel's interpretations, but that's pretty delusional of Gregory.
("The Constant Princess" was the last PFG I could bear to read, apart from abandoning the one about Anne Neville after 40 pages because it was so boring. I especially dislike her habit of mistaking titles and status for character development: "But I was a Princess of Spain…" "As an Infanta of Spain, I could never…" "A Spanish Princess does not…" Really! The great Isabella's daughter had to keep reminding herself of the fact?)
And if Mantel doesn't get that damned third Cromwell novel out next year, I'll do something desperate.
Yup, The Constant Princess was my last attempt. What kills me is how she constantly has her characters use some contraction, can't remember exactly, but something like "y'know." KEEELED ME.
Oh goodness. I think I would such an arrogant character who kept saying that. I can't believe the real Catherine of Aragon would say it unless she really HAD to. She knew precisely who she was and would never have been so utterly boorish, arrogant and rude as to keep saying it. Why can't someone create a series/film which shows these people truthfully (and costumes, environment etc). Its such bad storytelling.
Charity November 30th, 2018
Hilary Mantel hates her back, so it gives me some comfort to know two Tudor novelists I don't like (PG for obvious reasons, HM for being so damn stuck on herself / pretentious) are engaged in a rather public cat-fight.
Peacoclaur December 1st, 2018
HM has a lot of issues around her vendetta against the Catholic Church, which PFG also shares along with what I've always considered to be english nationalist euroskeptic agenda running through both works. Both frequently get praised as "feminist" but given how poorly women are portrayed in both their works, sorry don't see it.
Charity December 1st, 2018
I honestly don't like either one of them. HM brags about how historically accurate her works are, when her portrayal of Sir Thomas More was little more than a hit piece. (In fairness, I suspect there's a huge anti-Catholic sentiment in English writers in general, because they almost universally in Tudor novels and films depict all the Catholics horribly, in favor of glamorizing Anne Boleyn — although HM didn't make "that mistake" and made her awful too. Anne Boleyn was no saint, but she was not near as bitchy as the one in HM's books.) And yes, how anyone can call PG a feminist writer when her heroines are all stabbing each other in the back and there's not a single strong female friendship in any of her novels is beyond me!!
Emily December 2nd, 2018
Yeah, but PFG can write characters that are Catholic and sympathetic; see "The Last Tudor." (Yes, I've read the books. What can I say….) Whereas HM CANNOT and is just all insane with rage and it makes her characters just crappy.
Linda Davies December 4th, 2018
I just snorted my tea. Gregory had the temerity to compare herself to Mantel and wonder why Mantel is more respected??? snerfle
Nzie November 30th, 2018
I wonder if this author has google alerts on her own name. There must be a lot of historians and historical costumers with beefs with her work.
Jen November 30th, 2018
I snorted at the pudding cap comment. Burn! Thank goodness I'm home alone.But yeah, another one to skip.
Oh, and what's with the weird pre-1700 split in terms of costume accuracy? Whack-a-doo stuff is all over the place in earlier times, but put it Victorian or Georgian times and most the time it is closer to accurate than anything else, if it's "history."
Lillian January 28th, 2019
Probably because things that are more recent in the public consciousness are easier to get right, and we have more surviving evidence from more recent times.
Susan Eiffert November 30th, 2018
Love your rant! Yes! The actual historical truth is effin fascinating on its own, so don't effin tinker with it! I get so ticked off when authors play fast and loose. And the costumes…Upholstery trim is the first thing I noticed on that horrible dress. Do keep up the snark…
Would like to make two points:
1) Having out of what can only be described as self loathing and an uncontrollable masochistic urge, I have in the past made an effort to read Philipa Fucking Gregory's (hencewith refered to as PFG) books. From a historical POV they are bad. Really bad. BUT, from a pure fiction perspective the PFG formula 'works' for what it is meant to be i.e. romantic escapist fluff. The pacing is consultant and characters work within. The context of the genre. If PFG stuck to purely fictional characters like Georgette Heyer for example than I would not find her so offensive. But it is the fact she claims to be making some historiographical point about real people and real events is where i draw the line.
2) As for the PFG vs Hillary Mantel thang – aside from the fact that in most regards Mantel is the superior author and PFG is commercial to the point of embarrassment – the fact that the PFG books are so unashamedly female focused and based around relationships is part of what makes them count for less by critical standards. Mantel, by contrast, has mostly male protaginsits, and her main interest is power (political and social) along with ideas. Without wanting to give PFG anymore ammunition or making her look better than she should, she may have a point about critical priorities and perceptions of subject matter and approach.
Kristine November 30th, 2018
I think these are two excellent points. Romantic fiction in general is always dismissed by literary folks. In PFG's case, I think the dismissal may be warranted but certainly not always. I like how you framed this here.
I really struggle with historical fiction that centres on real people. Creating characters and putting them into historical timelines is fine but if I am going to read about actual people who once lived and breathed on this planet I prefer non-fiction. And even that has its limitations and interpretations.
Exactly: these are real people, not fictional characters… we should show some respect.
Can I just comment here and say that this critique only works for SOME of her books? I will agree that it's definitely the case for The Other Boleyn Girl. Putting aside my contempt for the whole incest / 'Anne being a horrible person and all the lies about her are true' plot angle, I thought that was a great book. Fast paced. Engaging. It moved me emotionally. It made me almost forget my indignation.
But I did not find this formula carried over into her later books, especially the ones about Lady Pole and Margaret Beaufort, where her limited POV meant we spent chapters and chapters away from all the action, shut up in castles with nothing to do except count coins. When PG is good, she's very good; but when she's stuck inside a boring narrative, she's mediocre.
Agree – she doesn't have the skill as an author to carry off interior scenes, which it needs be remarked, are pretty hard to pull off. For what's its worth PFG is really just Jean Plaidy with worse dialogue and her attempts to be "psychological" don't work.
Trystan L. Bass December 1st, 2018
"When PG is good, she's very good; but when she's stuck inside a boring narrative, she's mediocre." — exactly. She has the makings of an excellent historical romance / fiction writer, but she needs a MUCH stronger editor to reign her in & help her focus.
Tho there are still entire books of hers I've tried to read & just thrown straight in the trash. (Wildacre? DO NOT ATTEMPT)
So, you noticed PFG's incest fixation too? God, it's creepy. She's also got the same Yaoi obsession Diana Galbadon has as well and its frankly exploitative and disturbing – objectification is never cool.
Ha, ha. I've heard of that one. Mostly on Goodreads where there was a lot of WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK???? responses. Enough for me to stay away. Far far away.
Oh my gosh Wideacre. YES. So terrible. Her books are EXTREMELY hit or miss.
Angela/Anna November 30th, 2018
Philippa Fucking Gregory is a millionaire or some shit, and when I write a shitty book, I get sad trombones. What am I missing? Sex? Zippers? A blowjob given to a STARZ producer?
I hate PFG and her novels with the rage of a thousand burning suns, but Starz actually made me Give a Damn with The White Queen. And although I was irritated by the depiction of the almighty badass Margaret Beaufort as a freaking headcase, she also gave a standout, unforgettable neurotic performance. I just don't understand how The White Queen was actually decent, when the sequel was god-awful (after loathing it the first time, I decided to give it another watch once my anger cooled and find out if I was wrong — and nope, it's still badly acted, badly-written, badly-costumed crap) and this looks just as bad?
My feelings were torn on this, because honestly, I'd die for a proper KoA on screen. Young. Beautiful. Desirable. Tiny (since she WAS short). Redheaded. I banged my head on various walls hearing it had to be THAT WOMAN'S novel that brought her to the screen. But then I thought — hey, maybe it will not insult and piss me off as much as the book did, because Starz has a habit of Changing Things. Maybe it will be better than TWP. Maybe… and then I saw the trailer and deflated, right after screaming, "WHY?"
As for the infamous bowl cut missing, five bucks says she's sparring with Prince Henry. And that is part of them falling in lurve after Arthur dies. Though if she spends 4 hours moping like she did for, what, 500 pages of the novel, I may just grind my teeth.
Did you also notice who they cast as Queen Isabella? GUESS WHAT. SHE IS DARK-HAIRED. So you got a redheaded KoA but gave her a traditional dark Spaniard mother?!? (Still, it in no way can be worse than her 4 minute scene in TWP. I was honestly offended and I'm not even Spanish. What a load of stereotypical rubbish.)
Rant over. Thanks for the opportunity to publicly bitch. Much appreciated. Also, all the rage in this comment section gives me life. ;)
White queen was a BBC series that STARZ got the rights for in the US. TWQ tanked in the UK but did well enough in the USA to warrant a sequel series STARZ did themselves. That mostly explains the difference in production values
That makes sense. The BBC has better writers and actors. :P
Liz Myrick December 7th, 2018
I have a personal grudge against them for making me look dumb in front of my dad. He and I are both Wars of the Roses/Tudors buffs. I also enjoyed the White Queen in spite of its inaccuracies (and uncle sex). So I decided to put on The White Princess and it was really damned embarrassing.
Charity December 8th, 2018
It was truly god-awful. Did you make it as far as Henry 7 losing his chill and dragging his mother, Margaret Beaufort, through the halls BY HER ANKLES? That's when I wanted to really punch someone. :P
I think the lady with the scimitar isn't meant to be Catherine, it's more likely to be her mother Isabel as it looks like a different actress and the hair is up, possibly during the conquest of Grenada around when Catherine was born.
Kendra December 3rd, 2018
Ohhhhhh! Okay then, props for casting two actresses that looks a lot like each other. Although, I still doubt Isabella of Castile wielded any scimitars.
Peacoclaur December 3rd, 2018
Agree. Very unlikely. Isabel would have wielded a good Christian broadsword or somthing to that effect.
Clara December 4th, 2018
No, that is definitely Catherine, because this is the actress they casted for Isabella: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0097304/mediaviewer/rm1788282880 (who, btw, played the mother of Boabdil, the last King of Granada, in Spanish TV series Isabel) I'd wager that she is the one who is wearing the golden armour and passes behind Catherine for a split second on that scene.
Kiyoung April 30th, 2019
You mean they couldn't be bothered to get Michelle Jenner?
Stella van Ginkel December 2nd, 2018
It always bums me out when productions that insist on leaving the actresses' hair loose and uncovered just pin the front sections back and call it a day – at least go for a mad Botticelli fever dream, add in some accessories, something! So, I guess the beaded cap is a plus in that regard? I'm betting the curly haired guy is Henry, btw, so I'm curious to see what that's all about..
That blue dress is a travesty upon travesty. It looks like that Swiss Miss Heidi sort of fabric. GAHHHHH.
Destinee December 5th, 2018
I have nothing to add aside from what. The. Actual. FUCK. did I just watch?
notanothercostumingblog January 19th, 2019
I'm wondering if the padded crown thing is their interpretation of a rollo? You do see that in late 15th C Spain, although it uh. Doesn't really look like that, and I'm probably giving them waaaay too much credit. Same thing with the blue contraption trying (at least from the back, ughhhh that trim) as a gonete, which is VERY Hispano-Flemish
The show is also very creatively named. So we have a princess… from Spain…. I know! Let's call it "The Spanish Princess!" Very original…
Connybryce February 2nd, 2019
The cast for this one does not seem to include an Anne Boleyn…yet it does have Catherine's funeral. I get this is not a movie about Anne but how is she NOT in it?? I am (the one and only?) non-fan of Catherine of A…so I will likely skip this one. I see her as letting her personal pride prevent from giving in later on when people were being burned over the divorce…she let others be martyrs for her cause. If she had gone into a convent (which she wanted to do during her widowhood) Mary would have kept her place in succession. So to me it was all about her being called Queen. She schemed all thru her marriage wit Spain, according to many sources. She lied to her father about miscarriages etc…I think the first marriage was consumated…have an heir was their only function in life at that time! Arthur had that drilled into his head since he could hear. I think Catherine would bave happliy burne heretics in Spain if she had stayed…her parents were fanatics as was she. Henry was well rid of her, monster that he was.
LaTalullah May 3rd, 2019
So relieved to see this post. Anyone read the Garret Manningly Catherine of Aragon ? It's a fantastically interesting historical chronology of her story, starting with Isabella and Ferdinand and carrying on through Catherine's death. Just a note to your 'badass' sword wielding comment, according to Manningly, Catherine actually was trained in military combat, etc. I don't imagine Isabella rode side-saddle in the battles she participated in , either.
How are they showing so much hair on females? I thought Catherine was really modest when it came to keeping her hair covered. She wouldn't adopt the French style of showing lots of hair as she found it immodest.
Heather June 2nd, 2019
I'm sorry, I know this is going to get a ton of hate from the PC crowd….but a Muslim servant? SERIOUSLY? So while Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon conquered Granada and booted the Muslims out (for the most part), they decided to hire one as a servant and NOT insist on his conversion. YEAH RIGHT. I can stomach some of the other things as being pure fiction, but this just goes too far. And yes, Isabella of Spain was also light skinned and auburn haired. She was a fierce, warrior queen, but never rode into battle with armor. She was known to ride into towns and force them to swear allegiance, but she didn't actually pick up a sword. That was Ferdinand's job.
It also drives me crazy that Margaret Beaufort is made into this cartoon characteresque figure. So one dimensional, as was Elizabeth of York before she died in childbirth. And don't get me started on Arthur's haircut.
Shelby January 28th, 2020
Catherine of Aragon is more historically accurate than Constant Princess/Spanish Princess. COA captured more of Catherine's personality than CP. Also, would it kill them to make the outfits historically accurate?


Little Kaylee | J&A + fun!
Another mom in our ward has two girls who are the same distance apart as Emmy and Kaylee so she lent us these matching Christmas dresses that her girls used to wear! They were so cute and I was worried they wouldn't get a chance to wear them to church (since Kaylee was born so close to Christmas). So I had Annah and Christina do a photo shoot with them. We did end up making it to church the week after Christmas so they did get to wear them for all to see!!
Emmy and Kaylee learning how to be sisters from two professional sisters! Aunt Annah and Aunt Christina!
"Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and "Frosty the Snowman" are her two favorite Christmas songs. During the week Kaylee was born she made my mom and Christian watch Frosty about 50 times and would look out the window and call "Frosty, where are you??" And on occasion she still makes us sing the "Santa Claus to Town" song for her at bedtime!
This was the first year Emmy understood what happened Christmas morning so it was really fun! She could barely get to sleep at night so she was kind of tired the next morning. We were supposed to be at the Bakers' by 9:00 so we finally had to wake Emmy up. She jumped right up and started saying SANTA CLAUS, SANTA CLAUS!! A couple of Emmy's presents were pretty big so Santa left them at our house instead of the Bakers'. Emmy got a brand new big girl bed and a crib and high chair set for her dolls. She was really excited and we captured it all on video…but forgot to take pictures! But we did snap some shots of her bed once it was all set up! I'll post those later.
After we opened the couple presents here at home we went to the Baker's where Santa had brought the rest of our Christmas! It was fun to see all of the kids so excited! And the big kids (like Alex and I) were pretty excited too!!
Emmy trying to carry a bunch of her presents at once! We had to convince her to set down every toy after she opened it so that she could open the next one. She just wanted to hold them all in her arms!
Kaylee and I relaxing in the big comfy chair!
Emmy opening Wall-E. She had been asking for this ever since she saw it in the theater. Her cousins are also very big Wall-E fans and they got it for Christmas too!
Emmy, Logan and Joshua thanking Grandma and Grandpa for all their new toys!!
Kaylee enjoying her Christmas morning pacifier while the rest of us enjoyed yummy waffles that Kath made.
Joshua and Emmy checking out Emmy's present from Uncle Ray!
"It's just what I wanted!!" Logan was so excited when he opened this toy that he had to play with it right away! That Santa is so good at knowing just what a little boy would want!
Emmy quickly set up all her toys in a giant circle around her! The Dora chair was also a Christmas present…so she was surrounded!
"I feel pretty…oh so pretty" Her ponies came with a mirror, combs, and bunch of barrettes that can also be used for people! She loves to play beauty shop which is probably why Santa picked this particular box of ponies! The barrettes even clip into Daddy's hair which was so exciting!
When I was little my Aunt made us a puppet stage like this one. Last year Kath got all her grandchildren sesame street puppets so I thought it would be fun to make a stage for my girls and Beth's boys. This one is Kaylee's and Emmy's and they all had fun playing with it. They are really easy and affordable to make so if anyone wants to know how to do it let me know.
Josh and Emmy playing Sesame Street!
We went over and had dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Baker's house for Christmas Eve. Here's Joshua meeting his brand new cousin!
I looked high and low for pajamas that would span between newborn and 2T. I finally found some really cute ones at The Children's place online. They actually had matching adult pajamas too but Alex drew the line there. Maybe next year!
Here they are, straight from Bethlehem!! Mary, Joseph and Donkey!
And what nativity would be complete without a shepherd! I think he was also the innkeeper and all three wise men. Joshua's next gig will be a one man show on Broadway!


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In Punjab, a state notorious for marriage fraud by NRIs, a passport officer is making the law look good.
Sarabjit Kaur, a 28-year-old postgraduate government school teacher in Amritsar married Gurpreet, 30, a Jalandhar-based college lecturer in 2002. It was a late marriage by Punjabi standards. Kaur's parents were worried, the groom's parents were desperate, and hence the marriage happened in 15 days, without the due diligence.
Soon after, Sarabjit started facing harassment and demands for money from her in-laws. Since August 2003, when she gave birth to her daughter, she has been in and out of her marital home. (Gurpreet abandoned her and left for the UK). Her married life has been put on hold, or restored, depending on payment of cash. Like thousands of women deserted by their NRI husbands, Kaur found herself fighting alone for justice, until she found her messiah in 2010, in the most unlikely of places — a busy passport office at Jalandhar.
Parneet Singh, the 36-year-old passport officer, who had heard of the infamous 'holiday' marriages that plagued the region, saw it as a chance to put erring husbands in the dock. "Rather than blaming the system or delve into why earlier no action had been taken regarding complaints, I considered it my responsibility to make it all work," he said. His 105-member team took a while to shake off their bureaucracy; Singh led by example by keeping longer hours, started a grievance cell that held hearings on Saturdays, even Sundays, if needed.
Before joining the new assignment, Singh had studied the Passport Act, especially the provision of impounding passports in case an FIR is registered. He turned the law into a credible weapon. In what was perhaps a first-of-its-kind initiative, he started impounding the passports of NRI husbands under Section 10 (3) of the Passport Act, after serving them a show-cause notice based on their wives' complaints. So far, he has impounded 68 passports out of the over 400 cases of NRI marriages lodged since he assumed office (207 such complaints were lodged just last year).
Singh, however, is no softie to be swayed by sob stories. He does due diligence before impounding a passport. "I gauge the seriousness of a complaint by first checking whether a lady has lodged an FIR," he said. He then gives the husband 15 days before issuing a show-cause notice and also demands certain affidavits from the wife before impounding her husband's passport.
As marriage frauds are common in the Doaba region of which Jalandhar is a part, the beneficiaries of Singh's initiative feel his measures have given them a fair shot at justice. Sarabjit, for instance, approached Singh with a fresh complaint against Gurpreet when her earlier application was ignored.
"To my surprise, he informed me that Gurpreet's passport had already been impounded on the basis of my three-year-old complaint", she said. Unless he settles his divorce case, the passport will not be renewed, Singh said. Gurpreet or his family could not be reached for comments.
Singh considers his efforts as "simply being responsible to my seat. If I've been entrusted with something, I must do justice to it." His interventions have been an important link in creating deterrents for errant husbands.
Another victim of marriage fraud, Nandini Sharma, who now stays in the US, says she got her husband, Vishal Sharma, a green-card holder, booked for demanding dowry and torture when they were married in India. "Vishal's passport was impounded recently based on my complaint. Now, he cannot travel back to India on the Indian passport." The passport officer impounded Sharma's passport since a dowry case was pending before the court.
Parneet's efforts, however, need state intervention and police support, especially in cases in which an NRI manages to acquire foreign citizenship, despite complaints for dowry harassment or other offences being lodged back home. Parneet has, in fact, followed up his initiative proactively.
"We are in touch with the foreign regional registration office at Amritsar International Airport to ensure all NRIs get their spouse's name added before leaving the country," he said, adding that this can check the practice of many NRIs disowning their marriage at a later stage. It's all in a day's work but Parneet Singh has clearly gone beyond his call of duty.


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Smriti Mandhana Grabs Records In Women's Super League
Smriti Mandhana is the top run-scorer in the Women's Super League and leads in almost all other fields too.
Written by Joy Tirkey
Smriti Mandhana scored a fine half-century for Western Storm against Yorkshire Diamonds. © Twitter
Smriti Mandhana is the first Indian to play in the Women's Super League and she is giving enough reason to extend her stay in the tournament. Western Storm acquired the services of Mandhana for the year 2018 and her signing certainly is bearing fruit for them. Playing a key role for the sixth match in a row for Western Storm, Mandhana not only helped her team beat Yorkshire Diamonds by seven wickets but also became the highest run scorer of the league with 338 runs under her belt.
The 22-year-old cricketer has registered the scores of 48, 37, 52*, 43*, 102 and 56 in her first six innings of the tournament, making her a force to reckon with and shine alongside Heather Knight, Stafanie Taylor and Rachel Priest.
Apart from being the highest run-getter in the tournament, Mandhana has also achieved the following milestones.
Highest individual score of Women's Super League in 2018 (102), highest batting average of the league in 2018 (85), fastest strike rate in 2018 (184), most boundaries (34) and sixes (19) in the league in 2018.
Highest run scorer KSL 2018: Mandhana
Highest individual score KSL 2018: Mandhana
Highest batting average KSL 2018: Mandhana
Fastest strike rate KSL 2018: Mandhana
Most sixes KSL 2018: Mandhana
Most sixes KSL history: Mandhana#StormTroopers @BCCIWomen pic.twitter.com/jWxCTItiRR
— Western Storm (@WesternStormKSL) August 5, 2018
Mandhana, who is ranked 4th in the ICC Women's ODI rankings for batters and ranked 13th in the ICC Women's T20I rankings for batters, had also scored the fastest fifty of the tournament off 18 balls.
Talking about Mandhana's fine form, Heather Knight said, "The team is full of confidence at the moment. The way we're going about our cricket is really pleasing. The top of the order is obviously going very well, Smriti in particular."
"Smriti's just effortless. She's so pleasing on the eye, keeps it simple and hits it straight. Everything is going her way at the moment, even those ones that fall into gaps," Heather Knight further added.
Western Storm, the 2016 runners-up and 2017 champions, are joint table-toppers at the moment with Loughborough Lightning, who have also won five of their six games - like Western Storm - and in line to make the knockouts.
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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1970s → 1975 → January 1975 → 24 January 1975 → Commons Sitting → ORDERS OF THE DAY
MR. PATRICK COLIN MURPHY
HC Deb 24 January 1975 vol 884 cc2212-24 2212
§ Mr. Patrick Jenkin (Wanstead and Woodford)
I am grateful to have the chance of raising the case of my constituent Patrick Colin Murphy. I very much appreciate the presence of the Minister of State, Home Office, who has had a hard night, having replied, I believe, to no fewer than three Consolidated Fund Bill debates.
Patrick Murphy is at present serving a 12-year term in prison following his 2213 conviction in June 1970 for armed robbery of a post office at Newington Green and for grevious bodily harm to the postmaster, this robbery having taken place on 20th May 1969.
My purpose in raising the case is to try to persuade the Home Secretary to exercise his power under Section 17 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 to refer the case to the Court of Appeal so that the court can consider whether these convictions should stand.
I fear that the case is a little complex. As the burden of my argument turns primarily upon the chronology and precise sequence of events, I am justified perhaps in spending a couple of minutes setting out briefly the history of the matter.
I have already referred to the raid on the Newington Green post office. There were in fact three post office raids involved in this case. The first was that on 20th May 1969 at Newington Green. The second was a raid on a post office in Middleton Road, Wood Green, also in North London, on 7th July 1969. The third, in September 1969, was a raid on a sub-post office in Luton when the sub-postmaster was murdered.
Patrick Murphy was first charged with the last of those three crimes—the Luton murder—and in March 1970, six months after the date of the murder, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to prison for life with the recommendation that he should serve at least 20 years. Throughout he protested his innocence of the charges in connection with the Luton murder and, as I think is now well known, following a good deal of publicity, his case was later referred by my right hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton (Mr. Carr) when he was Home Secretary to the Court of Appeal. In December 1973, after Mr. Murphy had served over four years, his conviction was quashed and he left that court freed of the offence.
However, the pardon was by then no use to him because he was in the meantime in prison having been charged in connection both with the Middleton Road and the Newington Green raids. Evidence against him in respect of the Middleton Road raid was that one defendant, Edwards, who pleaded guilty, was driving a car lent to him by Mr. Murphy. In the event the case against Mr. Murphy 2214 was dismissed at a preliminary stage so that he did not stand trial for that offence. He stood trial, however, for the Newington Green raid and the case was heard in June 1970—three months after he had been sentenced for the Luton offence. Moreover, since two of the defendants in the Middleton Road charges were also charged with the Newington Green raid, the cases involving the two raids were heard together. It may be questionable whether that was right. Mr. Murphy was charged on only one of them. However, the Court of Appeal did not support as a ground for appeal the argument that the judge should not have allowed the two cases to be tried together, so I do not base my case on that today.
The upshot was that Patrick Murphy, already convicted of murder three months earlier, was brought to trial on a charge in connection with the Newington Green raid in the company of the other defendants one of whom pleaded guilty to another raid with which Murphy was being implicated though he was not charged with any offence.
At the outset of that trial, the jury were, of course, quite unaware of the Luton conviction. But—this is the central ground of my case today—they came to know of it during the course of the trial. Afterwards, when they went to the jury room they knew, or some of them knew, that Murphy had already been convicted of another post office raid and had presumably come to the court from his prison cell not as a prisoner on remand but as a convicted criminal.
It came out like this. During the trial his fiancée, Miss Marlene Baker, was called upon to give evidence on behalf of a co-defendant of Mr. Murphy's, a Mr. Fenwick. It was put to her in cross-examination that at an earlier trial—of course it was not disclosed which trial, but it was the Luton trial—she had given evidence of an alibi and she had not been believed. She admitted this. Counsel for each of the other defendants proceeded to ask her whether it was their client who had been involved in the earlier trial to which reference had been made, and in each case she answered "No". Naturally, the only counsel who did not question her on that occasion was counsel for Murphy, because she would have been bound to answer "Yes".
2215 But at least one juror drew the deduction—the inevitable inference—from what transpired that it was Murphy who had been the defendant at that earlier trial and that presumably he had been convicted. One juror has subsequently made a sworn statement to the effect that he could see—I quote from the affidavit it was obvious that Murphy had been in another raid before". One might have thought that that would have been sufficient by itself to have required a new trial, but not so. Mr. Murphy was granted leave to appeal in October 1971, but when it came to the Court of Appeal in December 1971 his appeal was dismissed.
There were several grounds, but while counsel was arguing the ground that it would be unsafe to let the conviction stand because the jury might have been influenced by the knowledge that Murphy had been previously convicted the court cut short counsel's argument with what must be by any standards a remarkable judicial observation. It was said: This was unfortunate and a bit of bad luck which follows if you have committed a crime before. At the time we are talking about, December 1971, Mr. Murphy was still in prison serving a life sentence for the Luton murder. It was not until two years later, in December 1973, after a good deal of publicity and a good deal of pressure, much of which was exerted by the former Member for Ilford, North, Mr. Tom Iremonger, that the conviction was referred by my right hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton back to the Court of Appeal, which quashed the conviction.
I find it impossible to believe that, if the Luton conviction had been quashed before the Newington Green appeal, any court, any judge, let alone the Court of Appeal, could possibly have uttered those words. I would regard it as scarcely credible that the Court of Appeal would not have felt bound to allow the appeal on the ground that the Newington Green conviction could not possibly be allowed to stand.
That a defendant should be prejudiced by a previous conviction becoming known is bad enough. But that he should be prejudiced by a conviction that later turns out to have been erroneously arrived at and subsequently quashed is intoler 2216 able. It is not, in the words of the Court of Appeal, a bit of bad luck"; it is an affront to justice. It is an affront which I am asking the Minister of State, who is to reply to the debate, to put right.
That is the principal ground on which I ask that the Home Secretary should exercise his discretion under Section 17 to refer the case back to the Court of Appeal. I must, however, add that it is not my only ground. There are at least three other reasons why it is unsafe to allow the conviction of Patrick Murphy for the Newington Green raid to stand.
The first reason is that the only witness who was able to identify Patrick Murphy as being involved in the raid was a short-sighted lady who claimed that she had seen a man with a helmet standing in the post office at the time of the raid. She later claimed to identify Patrick Murphy as the man with the helmet.
No one else said that there was more than one man with a helmet, whereas there was evidence before the court that one of the customers at the post office at the time of the raid was a building worker who was buying stamps. He was wearing his helmet as a mark of his trade. He was the only man with a helmet. Therefore, there must at any rate be a question mark about the lady's identification.
Secondly, Patrick Murphy's father could have given evidence at his trial and reinforced the alibi which Patrick Murphy sought to establish before the court, namely, that he was elsewhere at the time of the raid, engaged in the transaction of buying and selling a car with his uncle, a Mr. Collins.
Patrick Murphy's father, Mr. Stephen Murphy, was, in the event, not called because counsel decided—I certainly do not criticise this decision in the light of the situation with which he has faced—that in view of the cross-examination of Marlene Baker, which had tended to throw doubt upon her evidence when she gave it in support of Mr. Fenwick, the same thing might happen if Mr. Stephen Murphy went into the witness box on behalf of his son. Therefore counsel decided that, rather than reinforce what might then be in the jury's 2217 mind—the knowledge that Patrick Murphy had stood trial for another offence and had gone to prison—he would not call Stephen Murphy. That is a second ground on which perhaps it would be unsafe to let a conviction stand.
The third is perhaps a point of more general interest in view of the statement made by the Home Secretary last year about identification parades. Between his arrest and trial for the Newington Green raid, Patrick Murphy was put on no fewer than 27 separate identity parades in connection with several raids which had taken place at about the same time. Out of the 27 separate identity parades Patrick Murphy was identified only once, and that was by the short-sighted lady who thought that he was the man in the helmet, who was a customer at the Newington Green raid.
Section 17 of the 1968 Act does not constrain the Home Secretary's power in any way. The case may be referred to the Court of Appeal if the Secretary of State "thinks fit".
This young man served four years of the sentence for a conviction which was eventually quashed. He has now been in gaol for over five years. It is doubtful, to say the least, whether he ought to have been there for five minutes.
This is surely a case in which, in the interests of British justice and of the liberty of the subject, and indeed of the integrity of our legal system, the courts should be given another chance to put the matter right.
§ The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Alexander W. Lyon)
The right hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford (Mr. Jenkin) has argued with conviction for the exercise of the Home Secretary's powers to refer back to the Court of Appeal the case of Patrick Murphy. He has read out to the House the appropriate words of the section which give wide discretion to the Home Secretary to act in this way. The way in which that power is used has been constrained over the years by the constitutional position in relation to the courts and to the Home Secretary's powers, not only under Section 17 but under the exercise of the Prerogative powers.
2218 Recently we discussed the exercise of the Prerogative powers in relation to the Shrewsbury pickets. Somewhat similar considerations arise in relation to the exercise of my right hon. Friend's powers under Section 17, which is that the courts must in the end be the arbiters of the factors which are brought before them in relation to any criminal trial, both in relation to conviction and in relation to sentence. If the Home Secretary of this country ever took upon himself the powers of deciding either guilt or appropriate sentence, the independence of the courts would be undermined. Therefore, in the exercise of these powers it has always been the position that the Home Secretary should not act unless there was some factor which came into the case after the courts had considered the matter, which, had they already considered it, might have led to a different conclusion. Where that factor obviously points in the direction of innocence the Home Secretary can act of his own volition in taking a view that the man was probably innocent, and he could exercise his prerogative power of saying that the conviction should be quashed or that the sentence should be remitted. However, if there appears only to be doubt about the matter, and the factor may have been one which would have, and perhaps should have, influenced the court, he ought to use the powers which are contained under the Act to refer the matter back to the court.
Even the right hon. Gentleman does not argue that the factors which he has relied upon today are such as to entitle the Home Secretary to change the verdict. It is simply that those factors give rise to the kind of arrangement that should be argued out again before the Court of Appeal. What the right hon. Gentleman must show is that these factors are so different from anything that has occurred before the Court of Appeal or before a lower court that they ought now to be referred to the court again. There is little in what the right hon. Gentleman said that falls into that category.
The three factors that the right hon. Gentleman raised—the question of identification, the question whether Mr. Murphy should have been called at the trial, and the nature of the identification parade—were all matters raised at the trial, or could have been. The question 2219 of the short-sightedness of the lady was before the jury. They knew about it, it had been argued before them and, in the end, they decided against the defendant. Members of the jury knew about the criticism of the identification parade, but none the less decided that it was a proper parade, and they seemed to have been persuaded that the evidence was cogent enough to convict.
In relation to Mr. Murphy, senior, they did not hear that gentleman but his evidence was available. However, counsel of his own decision decided not to call him. It has long been the rule of the Court of Appeal that it will not interfere where evidence was available to a defendant's legal advisers but where those advisers, on their own decision, decided not to call it. If that is the rule, it would be useless to refer back to the Court of Appeal because in those circumstances the court would decide not to hear Murphy.
§ Mr. Patrick Jenkin
The Minister will recall that Miss Baker was cross-examined on the basis that she had been disbelieved in the earlier trial. In the end Patrick Murphy was found to be innocent of the Luton murder—and, on Miss Baker's alibi; her evidence turned out to be true. So it may have been that if Stephen Murphy had been called by counsel and had been cross-examined what he said might have turned out to be true, and he would have been able to substantiate his son's alibi. It seems to me that if the Minister is right there is a considerable block to the achievement of justice in the kind of case which I have put before the Minister.
§ Mr. Lyon
I shall come to Miss Baker's evidence in a moment. The decision about calling Mr. Murphy, senior, turned on the way he was cross-examined. I accept that there are similar considerations in respect of both those witnesses. This is the existing rule in the Court of Appeal and, unless it is changed by legislation, it is the kind of attitude which the Court of Appeal will apply to this witness. Therefore, unless the rule were changed, it would be valueless to send the case back to the Court of Appeal simply on the issue whether Mr. Murphy should have been called.
I now come to the question of Miss Baker. The right hon. Gentleman did less than justice to the Court of Appeal. I 2220 see some force in his argument, but it was a matter argued before the Court of Appeal that this was a method whereby the previous conviction could have been brought before the jury. Indeed, it was argued that it had been brought before a particular juryman to the effect of persuading him that Mr. Murphy had a previous conviction. The Court of Appeal, again in accordance with the long-standing rule, has said that it could not investigate the motives whereby a jury came to a particular conclusion, and it would not allow a situation in which a juryman was allowed to disclose what went on in the jury room. Therefore, again one is bound by the rules which have bound the Court of Appeal in its application of the law to this kind of case.
In questioning Miss Baker, the Treasury counsel who was presenting the case on behalf of the prosecution—a very experienced counsel—in a line of questioning which I am bound to say has never appealed to me but is not unacceptable under the rules of evidence and was not stopped by the judge or criticised on appeal, asked her: Would you answer this question 'Yes' or 'No'. Have you given somebody an alibi in a previous trial? Miss Baker answered, "Yes." The following exchange then occurred: Were you disbelieved? A. I do not know. Do you not? The alibi failed, did it not? A. It was true. It failed in fact. A. It was true. But the jury did not believe it, did they? A. I do not know. They convicted the person concerned; just answer 'Yes' or 'No'. A. Yes. There is nothing in that to indicate in any way that Mr. Murphy was the one for whom she gave the alibi. There was nothing in the subsequent questioning by other counsel in the case which again could lead irresistibly to that conclusion.
Each of the counsel for the other accused in the case got on his feet in cross-examination and said "It was not my client on behalf of whom you gave evidence in the earlier trial, was it?" Miss Baker answered "No". Mr. Murphy's counsel did not ask that question. By a process of elimination it was possible to argue that it was Mr. Murphy on behalf of whom she had given earlier evidence, but it was not the irresistible conclusion.
2221 I come now to what is really the high point of the right hon. Gentleman's case. It is the case that afterwards one of the jurymen was heard to say that he had assumed that Mr. Murphy did have a previous conviction, and he gave a statement to the solicitors for Mr. Murphy to that effect. It is noteworthy that he never said how he voted in the course of that statement. There was a divided jury which returned a majority verdict by 11 votes to 1.
But even if that consideration was not valid in the consideration of this case, the question arises how the Court of Appeal would look upon that point when it was argued before it. The right hon. Gentleman referred to an expression of opinion that was given in the course of argument by one of the Appeal Court judges. It does not appear in the transcript of the Court of Appeal. What appears in the transcript is this judgment of the point that was argued: The other contention was that the jury should have been discharged because Miss Baker, called to prove an alibi for Murphy, was cross-examined on having been disbelieved when she gave evidence of an alibi in connection with an earlier Post Office robbery. It was suggested that the jury must have been aware that that earlier alibi was offered for Murphy and therefore that he had been convicted previously of a Post Office robbery. There was no evidence that the man then concerned was Murphy—it might have been anybody. What is said is that the jury must have realised that it was Murphy because each of the other counsel elicited from Miss Baker that his client was not the man in question whereas Murphy's counsel remained silent. In our view the fact that a jury may draw a certain inference from the fact that a question is not asked cannot be a ground for discharging the jury. On that basis it refused to intervene when at that stage the earlier conviction for murder stood.
What the right hon. Gentleman argues is this. As the earlier conviction had been quashed because other evidence came to light about it, and since it is arguable therefore that Miss Baker was telling the truth in the earlier case when she gave evidence in relation to an alibi, the questioning of the prosecuting counsel in the later case was fallacious, and indeed it could have been argued that since she had given truthful evidence in the earlier case she gave truthful evidence in this case.
But the right hon. Gentleman would have to carry the Court of Appeal a long 2222 way in achieving success on that argument. It took the view that the jury could not have been influenced in relation to its verdict in the second case by what was said in the course of the cross-examination of Miss Baker. If it took the view, it follows that the later quashing of the earlier case would not, in the Court of Appeal's view, have affected the jury's mind. This is the crucial point in determining whether we should refer the matter back to the Court of Appeal. It would not, in our view, be likely to change its view about the evidence of Miss Baker, and, therefore, it seems impossible for us to refer the matter back.
I will deal as quickly as possible with the substantive case against Murphy, but I shall come to that later.
I am not sure how appropriate that would be in seeking to deal with the question whether the case should be referred back. The hon. Gentleman must do what he thinks right.
However, on the question of the Court of Appeal and its attitude to the matter, does the hon. Gentleman really believe that any court which knew that the earlier conviction had been quashed—supposing it had been quashed before the Newington Green appeal—and that Murphy stood innocent of any convictions could possibly have taken the view which it did? The crucial fact is that, although juries do not know about previous convictions, judges do, and the Court of Appeal judges did. Therefore, they were dealing with a man who, so far as they were aware, was validly serving life imprisonment for a very serious crime. Is it impossible to believe—I use the hon. Gentleman's own words—that that did not affect their minds?
The right hon. Gentleman is being a little too devious. He knows full well that if the Court of Appeal did not place any weight on the effect of the cross-examination of Miss Baker in the earlier case and did not think it relevant to the way in which the jury arrived at its decision, the fact that the earlier conviction for murder was quashed would not affect its judgment about that matter in any subsequent rehearing.
I have no reason to believe that the Court of Appeal would take any different view in this case. There was substantial 2223 evidence against Murphy on the count on which he was charged and convicted. He was identified. The identification was contested. None the less, the jury accepted it. There were circumstances about the way in which he was arrested in a car containing the other men and the kind of things he and Miss Baker said in relation to the police which together make up a formidable case against him, quite apart from the question whether the cross-examination of Miss Baker prejudiced the jury's mind in any way. It is conceivable 2224 on the evidence that the jury could have come to the conclusion which it did and which the Court of Appeal later decided was unappealable.
In those circumstances, although I do not have the time to go into the evidence against Murphy in detail, we cannot on balance find any good reason for returning the case to the Court of Appeal.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Adjourned accordingly at one minute to Four o'clock.
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Home Accreditation Comprehensive Review Process Commission Action
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The Commission on Accreditation meets semi-annually in June and November to review application materials, all supporting documentation, Visitors' Reports, and Optional Responses. The Commission on Community College Accreditation meets annually in November to accomplish the same purposes.
Following the meetings, a written hard-copy letter describing Commission action based on the application materials — 1) the institution's Self-Study, 2) the Visitors' Report and, if applicable, 3) the institution's Optional Response — is transmitted to the music executive (NASM Institutional Representative) and to the chief executive officer of the applicant institution within thirty (30) days of a Commission meeting. The letter of transmittal, known as the Commission Action Report, will contain a clear statement of the accreditation action. The Commission Action Report may also contain recommendations, however, the text of this communication distinguishes between accreditation actions and other matters, such as recommendations and commendations.
Following the completion of an accreditation Commission meeting, the Association also publishes a summary of actions of the Commission in the Report of the Commission(s). Listings of NASM members are published on the NASM website, including specific information about each accredited institution, under Directory Lists. The listing in the Report of the Commission(s) contains only the actions of the Commission and only the institutions by name approved for Associate Membership, Membership, renewal of Membership, placed on probation, revoked, and those that have resigned from membership. The Directory Lists provide additional information including name and address; membership status; dates for 1) first year of Associate Membership/Membership, 2) last visit, and 3) next visit; statement of institutional characteristics; name of administrator(s); email and telephone and/or facsimile numbers; and NASM approved degrees and programs.
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Bespoke HTML5 TV Show Games
Most audiences, especially the young and imaginative ones, may not be completely satisfied with just watching their favorite shows on TV.
If they made a connection with the characters, audiences will want to join them on epic adventures. And that is where bespoke HTML5 TV show games come in.
These games are effective marketing tools because fans can play and interact with the show on a whole new level. After watching an episode, they can play with their favorite characters on their smartphone, tablet, or computer.
They can play wherever they go, so the show will be easily remembered. Most games also have intuitive sharing features.
Players can take a screenshot of their high score, or invite their friends to play the game. This will make it easier for you to market your show without relying on expensive, traditional advertising methods.
Here are some examples of fun bespoke games that are based on TV shows.
Phineas and Ferb Backyard Defense
Backyard Defense is a tower defense game for promoting Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb. The goal is to construct different towers and prevent Dr. Doofenschmirtz's evil minions from invading their home.
In the show, Phineas and Ferb are two intelligent brothers who have a knack for inventing things. The game was faithful to the show because it featured zany inventions that the brothers might actually create. It also encourages players to be creative and smart.
Randy Cunningham Saves Norrisville High
This is another game that market's a Disney show. The series is about Randy Cunningham, a 9th grader who uses a superpowered ninja suit to save the day.
In this game, several robots have invaded his school and he needs to find their weakness to destroy them. It is action-packed and fun, just like the cartoon series.
Teen Titans Go! Food Fight
If you've watched Teens Titans Go!, you know how these teenage superheroes love to eat, especially pizza. Now, fans can dine with the Teen Titans in a crazy picnic by playing this game.
Food Fight was made in collaboration with Warner Bros. and DC Comics. You'll be playing Robin, and your goal is to avoid the flying pizza slices thrown by your teammates.
At the same time, you can also knock them down by throwing a variety of junk food. As an HTML5 game, Food Fight is compatible with any devices. You can also play it directly on the website URL without downloading any apps.
Justice League Action Orbital Chase
Orbital Chase is a game for Justice League Action – the new hit cartoon series from Warner Bros and DC. Together with five superheroes from the show, you need to defeat several villains like Joker and Darkseid.
Each hero has a unique attack. You can activate them by connecting at least three, identical hexagonal tiles on the screen. Connecting more tiles produces more power.
Got a TV series that you want to turn into a fun game? Learn more about bespoke games here.
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Yes, there's an app for that: today, Peoria County Circuit Clerk Robert Spears announced the release of a new smartphone application for his department. The free app is intended to serve as a new way for the public office to provide information quickly and efficiently to anyone with a smartphone, including jury duty information, court dockets, electronic form filing, and even ways to pay fines.
"We are putting our office and resources at the public's finger tips," Spears commented. "Users will be able to access a daily court docket, e-file material, search court cases, as well as obtain other useful Circuit Clerk and court information."
The app was created by OCV, a company that specializes in creating apps for governmental entities and public safety organizations. For the Peoria County Circuit Clerk's Office, the creation offers users quick and easy access to items of public interest.
The Peoria County Circuit Clerk app is available for download for free in the App Store and Google Play. Scan the attached QR code, search "Peoria County Circuit Clerk IL," or visit apps.myocv.com/share/a83761602 to download.
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Q: svn: OPTIONS of 'REPO URL: authorization failed: I am using two commands 1)svn ls with username and password 2)svn mkdir with username and password. svn ls works without any problem but svn mkdir fails with the following error message: "svn: OPTIONS of 'REPO URL: authorization failed:
Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge"
Can someone please help me with this? I have googled this many times. People have reported similar problems but not exactly the same.

A: is your repo url https?
in that case please add following switch before the command.
svn --non-interactive --trust-server-cert --username urname --password ******** <command>

A: If you have Tortoise SVN installed. Go to the settings and clear the cache. It should be under "saved data". Open the repo browser, accept the certificate and save the password.
that's it !

A: I got this just with empty (forgotten) password, while using --password option.

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BTC Trading Inc Review: Elon Musk Opens Up About Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency is revolutionizing the way that people see money and currencies. Blockchain has made faster transactions and more sophisticated computations possible. Many people consider Bitcoin to be one of the most influential coins around, so much so that all the other crypto coins are merely altcoins or alternative currencies because they're just alternatives to Bitcoin. In this BTC Trading Inc review, Elon Musk talks about Bitcoin and what he thinks of the cryptocurrency space.
Bitcoin Forecast in 2020
Bitcoin can go up to $10,000 by early February, according to the forecast. Tim Draper, an expert investor, advises millennials to invest in Bitcoin. According to him, salaries don't allow millennials to pay a debt, so they are renters than buyers.
That's why he advised them to invest in retirement and invest in Bitcoins, with recommendations from BTC Trading Inc Review.
First Trillionaire
Elon Musk, Tesla's CEO, could become the first trillionaire of the world. He's trying to revolutionize the future. Currently, he owns 30 percent of Tesla shares. Manipulation can happen if the market cap is low. However, Tesla is a trillion-dollar company that is hard to manipulate by crypto investors alone.
This TESLA's big boss is neutral about Bitcoin and its future. He's a tech businessman who knows the impacts of Bitcoin soon, given his experience and skills. And why not, he Elon founded X.com in 1999, an online bank that later merged and became PayPal. He, of all people, knows the value of currencies.
Elon Musk Stand About Bitcoin
Elon Musk refers to the white paper of Satoshi as pretty clever in a podcast interview. Also, he set an expectation that his stance on crypto that will likely get people angry. Crypto comes as an illegal-to-legal bridge, which allows the occurrence of illegal transactions or transactions not bounded by the law.
Even if his statement brings the negative connotation of cryptocurrencies used for illegal purposes, the Tesla CEO emphasized that he is not judgmental about crypto because the governments tend to overreach in some aspects on how to perceive and create laws for what is legal from illegal.
Crypto's Future
Tesla is building gigantic infrastructures and products. This tech company is not losing a company because the stock is going up and increased user growth. It is similar to Bitcoin users, and many are now using this cryptocurrency, as evidenced by growing IP addresses, which means more users. Bitcoin behaves like a tech company that will be soaring high in the future.
While you can use paper bills legally and illegally, Elon Musk's stance on Bitcoin is a true businessman's perception of the real value of currencies. Whether it's US dollar currency and any other foreign currencies, or Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the governments play a crucial role in their demand and value.
In this BTC Trading Inc review, Elon Musk gives a practical stance on the current digital coins. Indeed, government regulation will ultimately determine the value and longevity of Bitcoin and its peers. As a true patron of science, he's willing to keep his mind open to the future.
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Ви́ктор Васи́льевич Авде́ев (8 ноября 1935, Апраксино (Самарская область), Кошкинский район Куйбышевской области — 23 января 2001, Тольятти) — советский электромонтажник, Герой Социалистического Труда.

Биография
В 1953 году в Куйбышеве окончил школу ФЗО.

По окончании работал на строительстве Волжской ГЭС им. Ленина, где принимал участие в монтаже электрооборудования портальных кранов.

Более 40 лет проработал в Тольятти, где возглавил бригаду электромонтажников первого Тольяттинского монтажного управления треста «Волгоэлектромонтаж». Работал на строительстве завода химического волокна в Энгельсе, прокатного стана Орско-Халиловского комбината в Новотроицке, с бригадой принимал участие в строительства «КАМАЗа».

После выхода на пенсию проживал в Тольятти.

Награды
 Герой Социалистического Труда (22.12.1973) — «за выдающиеся успехи, достигнутые при сооружении и освоении проектных мощностей Волжского автомобильного завода им. 50-летия СССР и смежных с ним предприятий»;
 Орден Ленина;
 Орден Трудового Красного Знамени.

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Did the chicken come before the egg? This question has been asked forever so I have a better twist on it...Did the farm come before the fiber? In my case, yes! Before I purchased my first Alpaca in 2008, the only Fiber Arts activity I attempted was crochet, sewing and cross-stitch of which I was awful at the first two. My dear grandmother tried to teach me as a teenager but I never had the motivation and when you have an amazing quilter and seamstress as a grandmother you can have pretty much whatever you want sewn for you done without having to learn at least that is how I saw it. Same with crochet, to this day I have a plethora of afghans around my house that either my grandmother or sister made for me. If they didn't have time to make what I wanted, then I'd visit a craft show and buy it.
The day I met Kaboom, a Suri Alpaca, my life changed. I fell in love with his face, his personality and his fiber. I wanted something made out of him. I didn't know what but I knew I wanted it. I bought him and my first few Alpacas in late Autumn so I would have a few months before my first shearing season. It was about then that I met some local knitters and had a pair of knitting needles and a ball of yarn thrust at me. "You are now a knitter!" By golly, I was. Of course, I didn't see them for a few weeks so I didn't become a "purler" right away. During the next few months I learned the basics of knitting then one day I saw a beautiful drop spindle made by a local artist and I won it at a fundraiser. "Guess what! You are now a spinner!" By golly, I became one.
After shearing I had all of my fiber sent to a mill for processing. I was told by the mill that I should practice on wool before I started to spin with my Alpaca because I wouldn't want to waste my Alpaca with beginning spinning. Whatever! I grabbed that first bump of roving, created from Kaboom, and started to spin. Yes, I can look at that yarn now and know that my spinning wasn't the best and I had over-spun the yarn so it felt a bit like rope but I spun it from MY Alpaca. I then knitted a staggered-ribbed scarf out of that yarn and made a scarf long enough for a men's dress coat which I would give to my dad. I had taken that fleece from Pasture to Product. I was a real fiber producing farm.
I look back on what I learned in that first year of my farm and what I have learned since then. Fiber Arts is a true addiction and owning the fiber producing animals just feeds the habit. Would I have learned to knit, spin, weave, felt, dye and even crochet (yes, I have actually learned) without that herd of Alpacas? Maybe but most likely not. This egg needed the chicken to get the yarn ball rolling.
Want to see the quirky side of Fiber Arts?
Wow Thank you ever so much Andrea!
I would love my own Alpaca.
Please check out Andrea's sites!
They are well worth following!
Thanks for sharing Andrea's story. I love her blog and get such a kick out of seeing what crazy antics her Alpaca's are up to!
Makes me want to have goats again! And I'd toss in a few alpacas for the joy of the fibre! I miss my goats.
You are more than welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.


McLain Ward, hailing from Brewster, NY, thrilled a hometown crowd with a flawless triumph in the $382,800 Longines Grand Prix of New York during the final day of the highly-anticipated Longines Masters of New York on Sunday, April 29.
Making its long-awaited debut in the heart of the Empire State as the American Grand Slam, the Masters celebrated its 25th competition with an event on American soil as part of Season III of the Longines Masters Series after events in Paris and Hong Kong earlier in the season.
In front of an exhilarated crowd at NYCB LIVE, Home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the 2017 Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping champion and three-time U.S. Olympic medalist led a victory gallop that represented the world's greatest show jumping talent. Ward and Clinta, an 11-year-old Oldenburg mare (Clinton x Lord Pezi) were the pair to beat in a star-studded jump-off over courses conceived by Dutch course designer Louis Konickx.
Canada's Erynn Ballard was poised to become only the second woman to ever win a Masters Grand Prix along with Pénélope Leprévost of France, who earned a Paris title in 2011, when she went clear from the first position in the order. Setting the pace again in the jump-off, Ballard sat in the lead on a time of 35.89 seconds riding Fantast, a 13-year-old Belgian Warmblood gelding by Toulon x Rubens du Ri d'Asse owned by Sagamore Farms.
Two-time Olympic silver medalist Peder Fredricson of Sweden was hungry for a win and gave a lesson in speed with Hansson WL, the 10-year-old Swedish Warmblood gelding by Indra WL x Iowa owned by Måsel AB. He stopped the clock at 35.43 seconds to claim second and bump Ballard to third, but was no match for Ward.


Brevard, NC (December 1, 2014) – Connestee Falls Property Owners Association (CFPOA) announced the winners of its Fall 2014 resident photo contest. The winning photos include scenes from around the 3,800-acre property showing the drama and beauty of nature.
The CFPOA runs quarterly resident photography contests where residents can enter pictures taken from around the community. The Fall 2014 competition had over 50 photographs and video entries. The entries included photographs of residents enjoying the fall weather, wildlife and scenery around the gated master planned community.
The winners included Walking Connestee Falls by Jody Lee, Dotsi Drive Revelation by James Rice, Fall Paddle Atagahi by Greer Gunby, View From The Overlook by Jan Newsome, and Carson Creek Lower Loop by Tucker Garrison. A video submitted by Timothy Barrett, 40th Annual Fall Leaf Parade, also received an honorable mention and has been added to the Connestee YouTube Channel.
According to Lorah, several additional honorable mention photos from this contest have also being added to the Connestee Photo Album on the website. He said all of the photographs used on the community website are taken by Connestee Falls residents.
Connestee Falls is a gated master planned community with approximately 3,800 acre where half the land is set aside in conservation and nature areas with amenities including four lakes, championship golf, a clubhouse, parks and hiking trails. The community's Welcome Center is located at 5500 Greenville Highway, Brevard, NC 28712.
Connestee Falls resident Jan Newsome's photograph entitled View From The Overlook was one of five winning entries in the community's Fall 2014 resident photo contest.


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Wat Khanikaphon () is a Thai private temple in the Maha Nikaya tradition of Buddhism, It is at Phlapphla Chai, Khwaeng Pom Prap, Pom Prap Sattru Phai District, Bangkok, in front of the Phlapphla Chai police station.

During the reign of King Nang Klao, a rich old woman named Faeng (แฟง)—Madam Faeng to the public—was a faithful Buddhist, despite being the owner of a brothel, called "Madam Faeng's Station", on Yaowarat Road. She raised funds from the prostitutes in her brothel to build the temple in 1833.

To celebrate the temple's opening, Madam Faeng invited Father To, a monk who later obtained the ecclesiastical title of Somdet Phra Phutthachan (To Phrommarangsi), to deliver a sermon, hoping that the monk would praise her contribution. Father To's address noted that the merits made for displaying one's own virtue, however great, would result in low goodness. The monk said that the monies gained from prostitution spent in building the temple were considered the "sinful money", and that, for one pound of contribution, Madam Faeng would gain only one shilling of merit.

Originally, there was no official name for the temple. The public called it "Madam Faeng's Temple" (วัดใหม่ยายแฟง, literally 'New Temple by Madam Faeng'). As from its establishment, the temple has been opened to the public and a site of public religious activities. When King Chulalongkorn ascended to the throne, Madam Faeng's descendants renovated the temple and petitioned the king for an official name. King Chulalongkorn named the temple Khanikaphon, from Pāḷi, Gaṇikābala, meaning 'the temple which was the result of the prostitutes' contributions'.

The temple retains many items existing since its establishment, including the presiding Buddha image, the central hall, the image halls, a small pagoda, the cloisters, the masonic bell tower, and the ancient file cabinet. There is a model of Father To in front of the temple, and a half figure of Madam Faeng covered with gold leaves placed inside the wall. On the base of the Madam Faeng figure, there is an inscription: "This Wat Khanikaphon was established in 1833 by Madam Faeng, ascendant of the Paorohit Family".

The temple runs a primary school called "Wat Khanikaphon School" under the auspices of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.

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Khanikaphon
Pom Prap Sattru Phai district


At some point in time we've all turned down an invitation to a get together or event because our spouse, children or parents complain that we don't spend enough "quality time" with our family. What do they mean by quality time?
We take it to mean the time set aside to spend with (and pay our undivided attention to) our loved ones which is in some way important, special and productive. The level of importance, intensity and value attached to the concept is what makes it count.
What actually defines quality time can vary from family to family. For some, planning a weekend trip to a popular entertainment or cultural destination can be seen as quality time. For others, having dinner together or spending an hour together every evening counts. The point of the exercise would be to spend that quality time learning how to relate with other family members, how their day/week was, what are their current likes/dislikes (with children this changes on a bi-weekly basis, so it's best to keep up) and vice versa.
Schedule a date and time, in advance, to do something that everybody in the family enjoys. Mark it on the common calendar and in your personal diary.
Try to have breakfast and dinner as a family. If you work shifts, perhaps lunch? Sometimes with late hours of work it's not possible to do so. That's why it's so important on the days that you are home to take time to sit down with your family and really get some quality talking time in. If you've got teenagers this is probably the one place you are going to have a chance to ask them about their day without feeling really threatened because they have a plate full of food in front of them. Take some time and ask them what's going on at school, with friends, or with an extracurricular activity. It may not seem like much, but it lets them know that you're still thinking about them even though you have a crazy work schedule and that you want to hear about their life.
Given some offices work on Saturday, commit yourself to the family on Sunday. This means a STRICT no to taking work home on weekends. What's the point of being physically present but mentally at work?
Family vacations. This will obviously take more than just five minutes of your day but if it is well planned and thought out it can really give you the quality time you have lost and need with your family members. Nobody can work every day of the year and with all that working you must have accrued at least a weekend to get away, so take some time and plan things out. Sit down with family members and talk about doing something fun for the weekend. Ask them for their input and see what comes out of the hat. If you enjoy camping then try that. Or maybe you just want to take a quick trip to see some relatives and spend time together there. Family vacations are all about spending some quality time together so don't hesitate to take one. After all those extra hours at work you (and your family) deserve it.
Simple activities like a family cricket/football match, going to the park or the beach, going for a movie together, spending the day at the amusement park.... can make a world of a difference!
You don't have to feel guilty about working long hours if you can come home and spend some quality time with family members. There are hundreds of ways to do it; you just have to be motivated. Pick a favorite activity, get together, and just learn more about each other.
And there is no right time to start. So start today!


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Q: How to access session variable in Mako template and Pyramid? I have this Pyramid view:
def ClientView(request):
    session = request.session
    session['selectedclientid'] = 'test' #selectedclient.id
    session.save()
    return dict(
        logged_in=authenticated_userid(request)
    )

And then in my template I'm just trying something like this:
% if session['selectedclientid'] != None:
                The session has something
            % endif

And this gives me a template error:
    % if session['selectedclientid'] != None:
TypeError: 'Undefined' object has no attribute '__getitem__'

Am I setting the session variable wrong? Am I querying it wrong?  Do I even need to make a copy of the request.session object and .save() it in the first place?  Couldn't I just do request.session['myvariable'] = 'foo' and set it that way?  That still doesn't help me in pulling it back in the template.

A: request.session is the variable in your template. Not session. This is why you are getting the Undefined exception.

A: I think I got it.  I can still set it like so:
request.session['selectedclientid'] = 'test'

But reading it back worked like this:
% if 'selectedclientid' in request.session:
                The session has something ${request.session['selectedclientid']}
            % endif


Our Littlest Ones are Digging our Homemade Baby Food.
Here at Little Dreamers Big Believers, we spend a lot of time thinking about good nutrition and the effect it has on our students. For the past several years, we've been putting a tremendous amount of effort into making healthy lunches and baked goods for our older kids, and we finally realized we should let our "Sweet Peas" (Infants ages 6 weeks to 12 months) in on all the goodness.
We start by finding wholesome, in-season fruits and vegetables and pureeing them into gorgeously colored, insanely nutritious baby foods that our little ones (and their parents) are absolutely loving. What goes into these amazing meals? All of the first foods we know babies love, and some surprising ingredients that give them a first taste of something different and help expand their palates. To date, we've whipped up golden beets, carrots, apples, pears and bananas, as well as more adventurous turnips, rutabagas, celery root, and persimmons.
Although, to date, we've only been serving this scrumptious stuff at our Centers, lots of parents have told us this is exactly the kind of food they'd want to serve at home...if they only had the time. So we're starting to sell six-packs to parents on Fridays. Each pack contains 3 fruits and 3 vegetables in individual 4-oz containers, and will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis for $8.
If you're interested, please let us know when you drop off your baby on Friday morning, and we'll put you on the list.


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