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Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day!
The Regulator this Saturday will be joining with more than 400 other independent bookstores across the country to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day. We'll be selling special books and literary-themed accoutrements* that will only be available that day in participating indie bookstores.
And the day will be filled with special events:
--10:00 - 12:00: Face painting for kids of all ages
--10:00 - 11:30: Children's story time led by local elementary school teachers
--11:30 - 12:00: Students from the John Hope Franklin Scholars will from their book, "Running for Hope."
--12:00 - 3:00: Open mic for anyone to read favorite poems or from books they love
--3:00 - 5:00: Readings from banned books by local authors and publishers
--5:00 - 6:00: Literary Trivia game with prizes
--7:00 - 10:00: A Literary Soiree with our fabulous customers, local literati, music from the bluegrass band Blue Star Travelers, and beer, wine, chips and salsa from our neighbors at Blue Corn Cafe.
(What could be better than a party with all the wonderful, fascinating folks that make up The Regulator community?)
And every hour, from 10 to 6, customers can enter drawings for free prizes from The Regulator and from our friends at Vaguely Reminiscent.
Come join in the celebration of Independent Bookstore day with your friends and neighbors!
* (including things like signed posters, a kid's book called "Funny Ha Ha: Jokes and Riddles From Our Best-Loved Illustrators," "sweet" and "salty" literary tea towels, Roz Chast Regulator logo tote bags, signed "Captain Underpants" prints, and a book entitled "Days Like This: Good Writers on Bad Luck, Bum Deals and Other Torments.")
Our Upcoming Author Events
ANN HEDREEN
Thursday, April 30, 7:00 p.m.
Her Beautiful Brain is Ann Hedreen's story of what it was like to become a mom just as her beautiful, brainy mother began to lose her mind to an unforgiving disease. Arlene was a copper miner's daughter who was divorced twice, widowed once, raised six kids singlehandedly, survived the turbulent '60s, and got her B.A. and M.A. at 40 so she could support her family as a Seattle schoolteacher-only to start showing signs of Alzheimer's disease in her late fifties, taking Ann and her siblings on a long descent they never could have anticipated or imagined. For two decades-as Ann married, had a daughter and a son, navigated career changes and marital crises and built a life making documentary films with her husband-she watched her once-invincible mom disappear. From Seattle to Haiti to the mine-gouged Finntown neighborhood in Butte, Montana where she was born and grew up; from Arlene's favorite tennis club to a locked geropsychiatric ward, Her Beautiful Brain tells the heartbreaking story of a daughter's love for a mother who is lost in the wilderness of an unpredictable and harrowing illness. Hedreen will be in the store for a discussion and book signing.
CINDY MCMAHON
Friday, May 1, 7:00 p.m.
Cindy Henry McMahon's family history is a slide show of the turbulent South: a thwarted lynch mob on a Georgia preacher's front porch; the integration of Mercer University and Macon, Georgia's Vineville Baptist Church; Birmingham, 1963; Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march in Selma; Koinonia Farm and the germination of Habitat for Humanity; inner-city activism and counter-culture communities in the woods. After a lifetime of hearing these stories but never fully understanding them, McMahon set out with a map and tape recorder to learn three things: (1) how the Civil Rights Movement and its aftermath shaped-or misshaped-her father; (2) how growing up in a family with this embittered, violent, and then absent father shaped her; and (3) how she survived it all remarkably intact. The result is her memoir, Fresh Water from Old Wells. It weaves together the regional and national events of the volatile 1960s and 70s, her family's tumultuous Southern saga, and the stories of her own quest. McMahon will be in the store to read and sign books.
SEAMUS MCGRAW
Sunday, May 3 4:00 p.m.
Climate change has become one of the most polarizing issues of our time. Extremists on the left regularly issue hyperbolic jeremiads about the impending destruction of the environment, while extremists on the right counter with crass, tortured denials. But out in the vast middle are ordinary people dealing with stronger storms and more intense droughts than they've ever known. This middle ground is the focus of Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change, a lively, thought-provoking book that lays out the whole story of climate change-the science, the math, and most importantly, the human stories of people fighting both the climate and their own deeply held beliefs to find creative solutions to a host of environmental challenges. Author Seamus McGraw will be in the store for a discussion and signing.
AN EVENING WITH AT LENGTH LITERARY MAGAZINE
Monday, May 4, 7:00 p.m.
A various and talented group of editors and contributors to At Length will be in the store to read and discuss their latest work. At Length is a Durham and NYC-based literary magazine focusing on long-form poetry and prose. http://atlengthmag.com/
In attendance for this evening of all-things-literary will be:
Elaine Bleakney, the author of For Another Writing Back , which Publishers Weekly called "meditative and searching....an evocative consideration of a life." Her writing has appeared in jubilat, The Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, At Length, and others. She is an editor at large for At Length's art section.
Meaghan Mulholland's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in At Length, Five Chapters, Playboy, Post Road, and storySouth, among other publications. She is past recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and currently working on a collection of linked stories and a novel set in Sicily.
Trace Ramsey has written the zine Quitter since 2004. In 2008, he finished their first book, an anthology of the first five issues of Quitter. In 2014, this anthology (Quitter: Good Luck Not Dying) was re-released by Pioneers Press and includes issue number six. Quitter #9 was finished in February of 2015. Trace is currently writing a memoir titled Carrying Capacity. In December 2014, he received a Certificate in Documentary Arts from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. He is a recipient of the 2015 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Award in Literature.
After the readings, At Length editors Belle Boggs and Jonathan Farmer will lead a spirited and thoughtful discussion.
EILEEN FLANAGAN
Tuesday, May 5 7:00 p.m.
At age forty-nine, Eileen Flanagan had an aching feeling that she wasn't living up to her potential-or her youthful ideals. A former Peace Corps volunteer who'd once loved the simplicity of living in a mud hut in Botswana, she now had too many e-mails in her inbox and a basement full of stuff she didn't need. Increasingly worried about her children's future on a warming planet, she felt unable to make a difference-until she joined a band of singing Quaker activists who helped her find her voice and her power. Renewable: One Woman's Search for Simplicity, Faithfulness, and Hope is the story of a spiritual writer and mother of two who, while trying to change the world, unexpectedly finds the courage to change her life. With wit and wisdom, Eileen Flanagan shares the engaging journey that brings her from midlife spiritual crisis to fulfillment and hope-and, briefly, to jail.
RUPERT NACOSTE
Wednesday, May 6, 7:00 p.m.
In this enlightening book, Taking on Diversity: How We Can Move from Anxiety to Respect, a campus "diversity doctor" relates stories that individuals have shared with him about their anxieties in situations involving people who are in some way different than themselves. Dr. Rupert W. Nacoste regularly counsels students at North Carolina State University about their problems dealing with diversity of all kinds, including of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual-orientation. Here, he shares his most effective techniques for handling the unavoidable realities of being in a neo-diverse community, whether that means in college or America as a nation. The author's proven "safe space" strategy can be applied to the campus, community groups, churches, and workplaces as a means to facilitate positive dialogue about diversity. Dr. Nacoste will be in the store for a discussion and signing.
ERIC WILSON
Thursday, May 7, 7:00 p.m.
Shoot straight from the hip. Tell it like it is. Keep it real. We love these commands, especially in America, because they invoke what we love to believe: that there is an authentic self to which we can be true. But while we mock Tricky Dick and Slick Willie, we are inventing identities on Facebook, paying thousands for plastic surgeries, tuning into news that simply verifies our opinions. This is frontier forthrightness gone dreamy: reality bites, after all, and faith-based initiatives trump reality-based ones, and becoming disillusioned is a downer. In his new book, part memoir, part cultural analysis, Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life, Eric G. Wilson clarifies this confusion. He draws on neuroscience, psychology, sociology, philosophy, art, film, literature, and his own life to explore the possibility that there's no such thing as unwavering reality. Whether our left brains are shaping the raw data of our right into fabulous stories, or we are so saturated by society's conventions that we're always acting out prefab scripts, we can't help but be phony. But are some fakes more real than others? Are certain lies true? In lively prose--honest, provocative, erudite, witty, wide-ranging (as likely to riff on Bill Murray as to contemplate Plato)--Keep It Fake answers these questions, uncovering bracing truths about what it means to be human and helping us turn our necessary lying into artful living.
JASON BIVINS
Much writing about jazz tends toward glorified discographies or impressionistic descriptions of the actual sounds. Rather than providing a history, or series of biographical entries, Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion takes to heart a central characteristic of jazz itself and improvises, generating a collection of themes, pursuits, re-occurring foci, and interpretations. Author Jason Bivins riffs on interviews, liner notes, journals, audience reception, and critical commentary, producing a work that argues for the centrality of religious experiences to any legitimate understanding of jazz, while also suggesting that jazz opens up new interpretations of American religious history. Bivins examines themes such as musical creativity as related to specific religious traditions, jazz as a form of ritual and healing, and jazz cosmologies and metaphysics. Spirits Rejoice! connects Religious Studies to Jazz Studies through thematic portraits, and a vast number of interviews to propose a new, improvisationally fluid archive for thinking about religion, race, and sound in the United States. Bivins, an accomplished jazz guitarist and N.C. State professor, will be in the store to play music and discuss his book.
NEIL SPECTOR
Monday, May 11, 7:00 p.m.
Dr. Neil Spector, one of the nation's top oncologists, led a charmed life. He was educated at prestigious universities, trained at top medical centers, and had married the woman of his dreams. It seemed too perfect. And it was. In 1994, it all came crashing down. He and his wife lost two unborn children. And a mysterious illness brought him to the brink of death. In his compelling memoir, Gone in a Heartbeat: A Physician's Search for True Meaning, Dr. Spector describes in great detail how he was misdiagnosed and, despite being a medical insider, was often discounted by his fellow physicians.
As he recounts his own unorthodox approach to medicine and physician/patient relationships, Dr. Spector encourages readers to never surrender their power to a third party. He tells of courageous patients who served as role models, he concedes that doctors do a disservice to patients when "we treat them like statistics," and he advocates for educated patients who can make informed decisions collaboratively and not simply follow instructions. In Dr. Spector's words: "To recognize that we are in control of our own bodies and destinies can be a powerful step toward true healing." Dr. Spector will be in the store for a discussion and signing.
Learn more about these and all of our upcoming events by visiting the events calendar on our web site.
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Coming Soon--Independent Bookstore Day!
Saturday May 2 is Independent Bookstore Day!
Mark your calendars! Saturday May 2nd The Regulator will be joining with more than 400 other independent bookstores across the country to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day. We'll be selling way-cool books and literary-themed accoutrements* that will only be available that day in participating indie bookstores. And the day will be filled with special events:
--In the morning we'll have children's book readings and face-painting.
--The afternoon will see a literary trivia contest and readings from banned books by local authors and publishing folks.
--Throughout the day there will be free food and a raffle every hour for items donated from Vaguely Reminiscent and from The Regulator.
--A big party will wrap things up from 7 to 10 in the evening, featuring music from the local bluegrass band Blue Star Travelers and beer, wine, chips and salsa from our wonderful neighbors at Blue Corn Café.
What could be better than a party with all the wonderful, fascinating folks that make The Regulator a successful community bookstore?
More details to come.
* (including things like "sweet" and "salty" literary tea towels, Roz Chast Regulator logo tote bags, signed "Captain Underpants" prints, and a book entitled "Days Like This: Good Writers on Bad Luck, Bum Deals and Other Torments.")
Before and after Independent Bookstore Day we are hosting lots of other events designed to lure you into our lair! Such as the following upcoming author events:
BRUCE B. LAWRENCE
Monday, April 27, 7:00 p.m.
Who is Allah? offers a vivid introduction to the heart of Islam and a unique approach to understanding Allah, the central focus of Muslim religious expression. Drawing on history, culture, theology, politics, and the media, Bruce B. Lawrence identifies key religious practices by which Allah is revered and remembered, illuminating how the very name of Allah is interwoven into the everyday experience of millions of Muslims. Lawrence, a leading scholar of Islam, is the author or editor of many books, including The Qur'an: A Biography and Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden. He is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Islamic Studies Emeritus at Duke University.
Update on our Upcoming Events
Here's a quick update on the events at the Regulator for the next week.
It's spring! When a young/middle age/older man's fancy turns to....planting tomatoes! Tomorrow night we host the author of the best book on growing 'maters I've ever seen. And he's bringing seedlings that you can buy as well.
If your spring fancies turn toward other subjects, you'll definitely want to come to Courtney Maum's event next Tuesday, and see her interview Monti founder Jeff Polish and Chapel Hill writer Daniel Wallace about the love lessons they have learned over the years!
CRAIG LEHOULLIER
With the help of Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time savor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier, tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange, offers everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes - from sowing seeds and planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season. He also offers a comprehensive guide to the various pests and diseases of tomatoes and explains how best to avoid them. No other book offers such a detailed look at the specifics of growing tomatoes, with beautiful photographs and helpful tomato profiles throughout. Craig will be in the store in the for a discussion, and he will bring seedlings!
LORI HORVITZ
Friday, April 17, 7:00 p.m.
Lori Horvitz grew up ashamed of her Eastern European Jewish roots, confused about her sexuality, and idolizing the "shiksa in her living room," a blonde all-American girl whose photo came in a double frame and was displayed next to a family photo from a bar mitzvah. Unable to join the "happy blonde families," she becomes a "hippie chick" who travels the world in search of ... something. The Girls of Usually chronicles each trip, each romance, each experiment in reinventing herself that draws her closer to discovering the secret door through which she can escape from deep-rooted patterns and accept her own cultural, ethnic, and sexual identity. The author will be in the store to read and sign books.
YA BOOK CLUB
Friday, April 17, 5 p.m.
Come one, come all to the greatest book club of all! Do you love YA? Are you interested in discussing or starting to read YA? The we'd love to have you! This is a book club for all ages, the only requirement is that you are interested in the young adult genre. (This is to discuss the book alone, not a writer's group). Hosted by Isabel of Tween 2 Teen Book Reviews. Snacks will be provided. This month we'll be reading Legend by Marie Lu.
COURTNEY MAUM
Tuesday, April 21, 7:00 p.m
I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You: A Novel tells the story of thirty-four-year-old British artist Richard Haddon who is too busy mourning the loss of his American mistress to a famous cutlery designer to appreciate his fortune. But after Richard discovers that a painting he originally made for his wife, Anne-when they were first married and deeply in love-has sold, it shocks him back to reality and he resolves to reinvest wholeheartedly in his family life...just in time for his wife to learn the extent of his affair. Rudderless and remorseful, Richard embarks on a series of misguided attempts to win Anne back while focusing his creative energy on a provocative art piece to prove that he's still the man she once loved. Courtney Maum will be in the store to read and sign books.
Inspired by a memorable passage in her book-in which the protagonist films his parents as they answer questions about their marriage of 40 years-Courtney is enlisting volunteers to be interviewed live at her events about love lessons (the good, the bad, the ugly) learned over the years. The two people she'll be interviewing at The Regulator are author Daniel Wallace and The Monti founder, Jeff Polish.Throughout her book tour, she will share images, impressions, and more-tagged #lovenotes on social media.
EARTH DAY READING OF "A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC"
Wednesday, April 22, 7:00 p.m.
Celebrate Earth Day with us! Join us to hear Aldo Leopold's famous book, A Sand County Almanac, read by WUNC radio host Frank Stasio, Duke Forest Director Sara Burns, poet Ken Rumble, students and faculty of the North carolina School of Science and Mathematics, members of the environmental community and local political leaders. This event is co-sponsored by the Forest History Society and the Durham County Library.
Eight Great NC Writers at One Event!

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She won the  Australian National Championship women's singles, in 2018 and 2019.

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It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.


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Shell Active Chess final leg in Tuguegarao
Shell Active Chess will hold its final leg at the University of St. Louis in Tuguegarao, September 13-14.
The 22nd Shell National Youth Active Chess Championships winds up its six-leg nationwide circuit on September 13 and 14 with the staging of the Northern Luzon leg at the University of St. Louis in Tuguegarao.
Registration is ongoing with organizers expected the maximum field of 300 to be filled up early. For inquiries and for listup on a first-come, first-served basis, contact Robert Bitamor at (0926) 255-5499 or Alex Dinoy at (0922) 828-8510.
The top two players and the top female player from kiddies and juniors divisions, will advance to the grand finals set at SM Megamall on October 11 and 12. A total of 36 qualifiers will compete in the championships, including the earlier sets of winners from the previous elims.
The Tuguegarao leg used to be the second stop of the annual circuit featuring the leading and rising players in the 20-and-under and 14-and-under ranks, including out-of-school youths, but now serves as the final leg of the event after the NCR, Southern Luzon (Batangas), Visayas (Cebu) and the two Mindanao stages (Cagayan de Oro and Davao).
The final leg is expected to lure not only players based in the north but also those who had failed to break through in the first five elims of the circuit. This year's staging of the Shell Active Chess also coincides with the energy and gas technology's centennial anniversary in the country. The program is one of Shell's enduring social investment initiatives for youth development, alongside other programs focusing on education, road safety, community development and health, enterprise development, and biodiversity and environmental conservation.
The Shell Active Chess is backed by Shell FuelSave Unleaded and Diesel, Shell Fuel Oils, Shell V Power Nitro and Shell Rimula, as well as by Unilever and SM Supermalls and sanctioned by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines


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Reviewing David Childress's "Technology of the Gods" (Pt. 1): Plagiarism of the Gods
This week, I'm going to take on a challenge. I'm going to review David (née Hatcher) Childress's most famous book, and the one that he uses as his credential for appearing on Ancient Aliens: Technology of the Gods (2000), the book in which Childress claims to present evidence for high technology in ancient times.
Before we begin, let me remind any readers who aren't familiar with my history with Childress that the alternative author attacked me in print in 2006 for calling him an ancient astronaut theorist during the period between his book Extraterrestrial Archaeology (1999) and his stint on Ancient Aliens (2009) when Childress claimed he did not believe in aliens. As I outlined here, it is hard to keep track of his constantly-vacillating position on what exactly he does believe.
So, onward to the book.
First off, I'm not going to be going through Childress's claims one by one; at more than 350 pages that would be impossible. Instead, I'm going to discuss the types of evidence he uses and the way he constructs his arguments.
Things don't start well when Childress begins by trying to establish whether Egypt received its civilization from an ancient, more advanced earlier civilization. Few alternative writers support this hypothesis now (even Childress jumped on the alien bandwagon), but in the wake of Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods (1995), it was all the rage around the time Childress wrote this book. Childress's evidence includes the long-debunked ancient astronaut standbys, the Denderah "light bulb" (actually an image of a lotus flower) and the Colombian "airplanes" (fewer than a half-dozen stylized pieces of jewelry cherry-picked from hundreds of examples to because they vaguely resembled airplanes). Worse, Childress states upfront that he plans to "recap" information he's already delivered in innumerable other collections that in turn reported on other alternative theorists' earlier plagiarisms and crackpot ideas. Ah, originality!
To "prove" an ancient civilization pre-dated Egypt, Childress uses John Anthony West's 1993 NBC-TV documentary The Mystery of the Sphinx, narrated by Charlton Heston. This program prevented Robert Schoch's re-dating of the Sphinx, which Childress only vaguely understands, relying on the TV show to tell him everything he knows about the controversy before complaining via a quote from James Joyce's wife that scholars write stuff normal folk can't read.
Childress sprinkles his text with phrases like "highly rated," "popular," "famous," etc. to provide an argumentum ad populum that associates his ideas with the borrowed acclaim of others. He describes the destruction of ancient libraries, deems this "suppression" of ancient knowledge (by evil secularists, scientists, and "Moslems"), and speculates that the lost books contained technological secrets about plumbing.
Yes, plumbing. We next have to suffer through a length discussion of the "Bathrooms of the Gods." I am not kidding.
Relying largely on sources from the 1940s-1960s as well as mass-market books, Childress outlines the history of irrigation and plumbing in the ancient world, studded with lengthy (and presumably not paid for) excerpts from his source books. He describes various forms of toilets and how the ancient disposed of fecal waste. He relies on the work of J. Rendel Harris, the early-twentieth-century scholar, without acknowledging Harris' own "alternative" ideas, including his belief that all ancient myths were descended from one story of cosmic twins, remnants of a great seafaring empire of which no evidence exists. Childress then discusses the inventions of the Chinese, drawing on Robert Temple (yes, the ancient astronaut theorist) and his book The Genius of China. Within reasonable tolerance, all of this is standard historical material, free from controversy. But then we start to go off the rails when Childress quotes (and, man, does he ever quote and paraphrase endlessly) other alternative writers to wonder why the Chinese invented so much. Could it have been Atlantis or Lemuria or Mu behind it all?
Somehow leaving behind plumbing and its derivatives, Childress introduces the apocryphal "crystal skull" mystery. As skeptics well know, these skulls are of modern manufacture and are not an ancient mystery. There is no reason to discuss them more except to note that Childress include an image of a skull taken from a Mayan relief carving and identifies it as a "crystal" skull despite the complete lack of any reason to do so. It's a skull: you know, the bony kind, like the thick one that prevents facts from entering Childress's brain.
Childress was smart to start his book with more or less uncontroversial material. Copied from sources more or less known to the reader, it builds up a base of borrowed credibility from which Childress can launch into the crazy, beginning with the megalithic stone builders of Chapter 2.
Childress asserts that worldwide cyclopean architecture is "Atlantean" and derived from an ancient, lost civilization. Thus, everything from Mycenae to Sacsayhuaman to Easter Island is part and parcel of a single culture. It couldn't be that fitting together rocks by banging their edges together until they stuck was easier than creating perfect right angles in the ancient past. No, that can't be it. It has to be Atlantis.
Or maybe it was the "Osirian civilization," a coeval Atlantis alternative attributed only to "esoteric tradition." Well, actually, it's a word-for-word plagiarism of his earlier Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean (1996), plagiarizing his still earlier Lost Cities & Ancient Mysteries of Africa and Arabia (1989). Pages 37 and 38 of Technology of the Gods are word-for-word plagiarism of page 27 of Lost Cities of Atlantis. Pages 39-41 of Technology of the Gods differ from pages 28-29 of Lost Cities of Atlantis only in the substitution of "technology" for "Atlantis", and from pages 128-129 of Africa and Arabia in substituting "technology" for "lost cities and vanished civilizations" in the cut-and-paste plagiarism. Here's an example:
The story of Osiris himself, as related by the Greek historian Plutarch, is revealing in our search for lost cities and vanished civilizations. Osiris was born of the Earth and Sky, was the king of Egypt and the instrument of its civilization. ...
Lost Cities & Ancient Mysteries of Africa and Arabia (1989)
The story of Osiris himself, as related by the Greek historian Plutarch, is revealing in our search for Atlantis and other ancient civilizations. According to Egyptian mythology, Osiris was born of the Earth and Sky, was the first king of Egypt and the instrument of its civilization. ...
Lost Cities of Atlantis, etc. (1996)
The story of Osiris himself, as related by the Greek historian Plutarch, is revealing in technology. According to Egyptian mythology, Osiris was born of the Earth and Sky, was the first king of Egypt and the instrument of its civilization. ...
Technology of the Gods (2000)
Eventually, after four pages of self-plagiarism, we veer off into original (I think) material. Childress never cites his source for "Osirian" civilization, and so far as I can tell, it derives from a mistaken nineteenth century attempt to link "Osirian" and "Assyrian" on the grounds that they sort of sound alike.
Childress relays the "mysteries" of ancient stone blocks, relying on (and this must be a joke) "Sumerian scholar" Zecharia Sitchin (he was not; he was an ancient astronaut theorist), Charles Berlitz, and sundry other alternative writers who, to their credit, did more than just copy other people's work and pass it off as their own. That doesn't make them right, of course, just less copy-happy. Childress also relies on Theosophical literature, itself an intellectual fraud, for ascribing megalithic ruins to Atlantis and renaming Atlantis as "Poseid." (The latter appears to be from Frederick Spenser Oliver's psychically-channeled novel Dweller on Two Planets [1905], a book well known to Childress and frequently cited by him, though only in the Lemurian Fellowship version.)
I could go on, but really, what's the point? The rest of the chapter is the same as this. Childress spews out some lightly rewritten summaries of other people's work on Carnac, or Cuzco, or Stonehenge and then relates it to his true passion, his fantasy of a pre-Ice-Age world of Lemurian, Muvian, Atlantean, Osirian, and sundry other imaginary civilizations. All of the research is secondhand, outdated, and inaccurate. Worse, he imagines every ancient civilization was coeval, derived from a fantastic original. Conventional dating, chronology, and science mean nothing compared to the esoteric revelation "channeled" from the Theosophical dwellers on other planets.
He concludes with a photo barrage of stone structures and one image, apparently a Mayan relief (though I can't find evidence of it outside alternative books), showing an erupting volcano, that he identifies as the "destruction of Atlantis" based on no evidence whatsoever. Like there aren't volcanoes in Mexico.
What a lazy piece of crap this book is. There's not an original thought—and precious little original writing—in the whole of the first two chapters.
C Knapp
Of all the loons on Ancient Aliens, Childress has always struck me as the biggest hack of them all. I'm pleased to see I wasn't wrong. This guy is Exhibit A for the case against the self-cannibalizing culture AA has spawned. I do not envy you the job of slogging through the rest of his book.
I wish I were a millionaire, or had my own TV network so I could give you your own show to be aired right after AA each week.
That would be awesome.
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You noted a lot of copy-pasting for the alleged Osirian culture, but I think I know of an older antecedent. There's an episode of Doctor Who, "Pyramids of Mars" from 1975 (with Tom Baker) that had the Orisians as an alien culture whose battle with Set (called Sutekh) gave rise to Egyptian myths. Add this to the thesis of ancient astronauts get their ideas from fiction and fantasy!
That would be a great connection, except that Childress cribbed the Osirian culture from the Lemurian Fellowship, which has been in business since 1936. I don't know the exact date they first proposed the "Osirians," but I'm pretty sure it was independent of Doctor Who.
Now Stargate on the other hand... I wouldn't put a Doctor Who connection past them.
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hi, I saw Mr.childress tv show ancient aliens.some logics of this guys are very nice but I think they are also impose to believe us that what they says is only the right thing.as a persons of science it is not acceptable for me.sorry for that but I cant even sit and believe what you all says. like they find landing spots every where. please try to come out and look at our history with out any prejudice ,I m sure you will get much more from it. like the making of gold.I know and the process of making gold is not hidden it is open in front of our eyes but we don't know the decode system,I m trying for that.
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I cannot believe there are so many millions of simpletons that believe this loon and the other clown georgio tsoukoloonie
bro, I hear you... many people rip on cats like childress and harramein for being kooks... but yo, out of curiosity, who or what do you think built these ancient megalithic structures? I mean, hey, I get that you have an axe to grind and that but do you yourself offer any idea's about the nazca lines, the sphinx, easter isnald heads (and bodies), crop circles, the flower of life under the foo dogs paw outside the forbidden city AND etched into ancient structures all over the world, the sun gate, the GIANT stones at the temple of jupiter, the way the ancient south american temple city mirrors certain planets in their alignments, why there are no heiroglyphs depicting HOW or WHY the pyramids were even built in the first place, why so many ancient sites line up in a straight line (albeit a non euclidian straight line being that our planet is a globe) and what are your thoughts on the way nassim harramein "solved" or at least developed the 8 trees of life into a 64 tetrahedron grid and showed it's diect correlation with the i-ching and it's broken and unbroken sticks being the exact parts of a star tetrahedron themselves. what about the electric universe theory? I ask not to annoy you or whatever, I'm just intrigued if you do more than just cut others down...maybe they deserve it maybe they don't.. either way, what do you offer on these subjects beyond the cutting down of the people who make claims to have an understanding of them? I personally believe nothing for conviction is as dangerous an enemy to truth as a lie (neitzche said that- I just agree). for there are definitely some serious mysteries out there and although the people who involve themselves with them are often total weirdo's...who often do themseves diservice by exagerrating their credentials (harramein) or by not offering up a definitive posture on their respective subject matter (childress) I can't help but wonder what your input is beyond shooting fish in a barrel. sincerely yours, ben jackson. (apologies for spelling or syntax errors)
What exactly do fringe historians offer? They offer no solutions, only rhetorical questions that they reverse at will. "Is it possible that (aliens, Atlanteans, trans-dimension ghosts, giants, etc.) built these sites?" This is not the same as the real work archaeologists do to excavate and understand. Don't confuse rhetoric for evidence.
It is not the burden of the critic to offer alternatives; there is much value in showing why a bad idea is wrong so we can avoid wasting time continuously re-examining faulty ideas.
riiiiight, so you don't seem to have anything going for you beyond being a critic of other people... I get it, the whole 'picking apart stuff'...and when dealing with ;fringe dwellers' that's an easy task.....but again, do you have ANYthing to offer? you seem like a smart guy, what about the stuff I mentioned in my first post? what are your thoughts on the ancient megalithic sites and associated phenomenon? BESIDES that Childress is a fraud or this guy is a quack etc etc etc... I'm intrigued that you've got a blog and expend energy on it but it hasn't got any content...I mean, being a quack or kook is one thing, but basing your efforts ON them, that seems like an easy out, for someone with nothing to actually contribute. do you have anything positive to contribute or is the deconstruction of fringe dwellers all you do? again, I sincerely am not trying to work you up, I'm not trolling... I'm just extremely interested in ancient megalithic sites and am genuinely curious about other people's thoughts and idea's.....what are yours? cheers :) ben (again apologies for spelling and/or syntax errors)
I have a whole range of books and articles, which you can find in the tabs above. My newest book is a detailed study of Greek mythology, due out this summer.
way to avoid the question ;) I've studied ancient greeks myself, in highschool and university, read neitzche's works on the tragedies and feel it's all a bit 'done to death'.. now, about my questions? what are your thoughts, aside from on the failings of other people. eg the building of the walls in cuzco...
Are you referring to Saksaywaman? Diego de Trujillo visited the Inca workshops and saw the ropes used to haul the stones, and Cieza de Leon heard firsthand testimony from the Inca about how their parents and grandparents had transported and built the walls and similar structures. The site was probably built around 1400 CE. Don't underestimate the ingenuity and power of a group of people working together.
so your opinion is "don't underestimate the power of a group of people"? as in, cutting hundred tonne blocks, hauling them out of a quarry, up a mountain side, down again and back up another, building incredibly intricate walls and buildings with them....performing feats we would have great difficulty achieving today, yet they pulled it off with ropes and stuff because they were in a group? and they built temples that mirrored the exact positions of some of the planets in our solar system, INCLUDING one that wasn't even discovered by western europeans in all their technical glory yet? because.... they were an ingenious group? really? that's your opinion on these incredible mystery's? wow what about the fact that there is not a single heiroglyph depicting the building of the great pyramids nor anything displaying a reason for doing it? I get you're a smart guy, who has written books and being a skeptic is your trade.... but HONESTLY, you seem like a shill. how can you expect me to think otherwise when you offer zero, merely deconstruct other's opinions and then tell me tat "the ingenuity of a group" was behind these ancient megalithic structures? I mean, even just saying "I have NO IDEA how or why these things were constructed" would at least make you seem honest.... but you really are coming across in a pretty negative light to me. good luck selling your skepticism though, we all gotta make a living I guess, I hope that maybe eventually you'll offer me, and everyone else, an actual idea of your own regarding the hows and whys of these places and structures were built being that you seem so hell bent on deconstructing the opinions of others. I hope I haven't come across as a troll or anything, I am not out to get a rise, I'm just a regular guy with an interest in these amazing places and structures. cheers! ben
Which site do you feel was laid out like planets? Are you referring to Teotihuacan? I have explored that claim and debunked it. It rests on selecting just nine out of dozens of pyramids, and even then it fails to be mathematically precise.
Teotihuacán so if it's failure to be mathematically precise is your 'debunking' of the claim that there is any celestial correlation at all, can you offer anything further? for example, The Great Pyramid in Giza is located in the centre of the land mass of the earth, at both longest longitude and longest latitude. It is orientated at almost exact north, south, east and west, only removed a mere three minutes from true north... mathematically perfect enough for you to at least entertain the possibility that there's "more going on" than a group of ingenious people?
I'm not going to detail all my research in these comments. Here's the link to the Teotihuacan article: http://www.jasoncolavito.com/1/post/2012/03/the-teotihuacan-solar-system-revisited.html
The Great Pyramid is not at the center of the earth's land mass:
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/1/post/2012/11/is-the-great-pyramid-the-continents-center-of-gravity.html
You need to be careful of your sources. They make things up.
right, ok cool. I guess all the ancient megalithic structures across the globe are just man made? last question before I leave you in peace, can you offer any explanation a to the symmetry of the face of the statue of Ramses II? I see it's carved of granite - in the bronze age... which makes me wonder how anyone carved granite with bronze... let alone with the perfect symmetry demonstrated. what do you think of this? NOT what do you think is wrong with whomever's explanation... appreciation and thanks in advance. ben heres a link to the question - please note, I just grabbed the first page that I saw, apologies that its from a stupid webpage! http://www.thedailysaucer.com/ancient-aliens-s3e6-ancient-engineers/
I'm not sure I see the problem. Mt. Rushmore is also made of granite, and much of the work done on it was done by hand. Michelangelo carved David from marble without the help of a computer. What makes you think that ancient people could not carve statues evenly? They did the same thing modern sculptors do: draw guidelines on the rock and use them to guide the carving.
could you at least try to answer? it's perfectly symmetrical... nothing like david or mt rushmore and waaaaay older. you really think they just drew guidelines on and carved away at it? I have to say that's a weak explanation. I mean hey, I'M not saying aliens did it etc etc nor am I claiming that anyone elses opinions are junk... I'm just curious as to what you think. take a closer look into it, there's some great pictures on this page.. :) incredible precision (and I mean that literaly - incredible)
http://www.gizapower.com/LoTeAnArticle.htm
I'm sorry, but I don't see what you are seeing. Perfect symmetry is key to the Egyptian aesthetic, and their artists worked very hard to create perfect symmetry in nearly all statues of kings, not just that one. Multiple Egyptian statues feature the same level of symmetry. Just as artists produce it today, they did back then through careful and repeated measurement at each stage of carving.
100% PERECT symmetry, with bronze tools, carving granite with the golden ratio embedded throughout - I'm sorry did you even look at that link I sent? man, HONESTLY if you think it's all just people being ingenious and carefully measuring, you're nuts. there are so many engineers measuring these works who are totally baffled at the absolute, repeat absolute, symmetry.. and perfection of the end result, not including the encoded information like phi and the golden ratio... if "its all just normal, everyday stuff" can you explain how nothing like this has been done since without digital input, computer engineering and how is that even with the largest crane on the face of the earth, it's still not capable of moving some of the megalithic blocks like at the temple of jupiter? actually, no..don't worry... I think I have received everything you have to offer on the subjects.. and look, thanks for the dialogue and that but let me be honest ok? like, totally honest... I think you're either living in a very small headspace or you're trying to keep people from looking closer at these accomplishments. why would you do either? anyway man, take care, happy travels and that. and may one day you let a little of the mysterious unknown enter your world, I'm sure it would be nicer to live with the fact that 'we don't know everything' than to live under false assumptions of certainty. peace on ben
Who's stopping you from looking closer? The question is whether you are willing to look at the scholarly and academic literature on this material or only fringe claims. Archaeologists have studied many of these problems in detail, though the answers are to be found in scholarly journals, many of which are not readily available outside of research libraries.
no one is topping anyone, I'm just saying you're coming across like a shill... discouraging and skeptical. that's all. and that anyone who follows your blog would be under the impression that you know who built these things and why... when in my opinion, the jury is out. remember! conviction is as dangerous an enemy to truth, as a lie. I certainly don't claim to know the truth, I just seek it - and you seem to be more interested in deconstructing. which I believe to be a negative approach, with negative and as I said, discouraging undertones. but if you're happy, I'm happy. I bear you no ill will, I just feel a sympathy for you and anyone else carrying the yoke of belief. that's al I have to say so whatever your reply is - and I'm sure it'll be clever and dismissive, I wont be re-engaging, enjoy the last word nonetheless. peace
Claims about "negativity" are part of the feel-good ethos of modern society, where feelings are supposed to count for more than facts.
Have you ever read archaeological site reports from the sites you want to claim are cloaked in mystery? Archaeologists don't just make up the prehistory of sites. In most cases, we have the remains of the food the people ate, the pottery they used, the tools they worked with, and the trash they threw out. In many cases we also have artifacts and organic remains from beneath the stone buildings, letting us put a date on the sites. This is how archaeologists construct a picture of the culture of Tiwanaku or Teotihuacan or anywhere else. It's not magic, and the evidence is all there in the scholarly journals for anyone to read.
within the past several years the largest single stone weighing approximately 340 tons, making it the heaviest weight to be moved in modern history was moved from a quarry in Riverside, CA to a museum in Los Angeles, The move required the two largest cranes on earth to lift the stone, it was placed on a trailer 295 feet long (the length of two football fields), the had over 40 axles, more than 150 tires, , one heavy duty diesel truck pulling and two diesel trucks pushing, at a maximum speed of 8 MPH and took over 11 days to complete the move. Some of the single megalithic stone works used around the world weighed in excess of 1000 tons. Much of the stone work used weighed several hundred tons. So....a large group, of individuals got together, with ropes, some wooden rollers (where did the trees come from in areas that the structures were erected at sites where no trees existed). chiseled out these enormous stone works, fit them with such precision that a credit card can't be fitted into the joints, and no mortar was necessary, with stone age tools (?) Yeah! Right! There's over a million blocks in the great pyramid, but placed there using ropes and slave labor. I am not a proponent of little green men from space using ray guns to do the work, but who or what built these enormously fantastic structures possessed a level of knowledge and skill far beyond what we are capable of at the present. And the academic and scientific communities have an agenda, and that's predicated on gaining and maintaining grants and funds to continue their lifestyles, salaries, and tenure. Archaeology is one of the most corrupted fields, dominated by status quo.
Jason why work so hard when a SINGLE link, speaks louder than all your words?
Maybe you made a mistake in your response, did you mean to say ALL instead of MANY?... one link, one link please
"Archaeologists have studied many of these problems in detail, though the answers are to be found in scholarly journals, MANY of which are not readily available outside of research libraries. "
It's hard to believe anyone that says "it's found in scholarly "secret" journals that are not on the internet"?... I mean seriously?
It's seriously disheartening to see these replies in favor of this AA BS. Why can't people believe that primitive cultures could move stones and build all these structures with enough time, manpower and the tools and intelligence they had, they believe "humans dumb, aliens and/or gods are smart and help humans make things."
ALL of these wackadoodle "theories" have been debunked for years, decades even.
Amazing, it's 2018:and people still believe in woo.
Our ancestors were not idiots.Anyone can use measurement to achieve symmetry in Art. Before I posted this..I drew a face...and using the measurement of inches drew a perfectly symmetrical drawing...same on both sides when folded over.
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What the government said in September 'was outrageous and offensive': Stefan Jacoby, 34, a criminal lawyer, has replaced his former employers as Volkswagen chairman
For the 29 previous years, the managing director of Bugatti, the world's No1 car brand, has also been the chairman of Volkswagen.
However Stefan Jacoby, a German lawyer, will now take over as the head of Germany's biggest company, Volkswagen Group, which boasts a successful and lucrative range of brands.
With an impressive resume, Jacoby is a good fit for the role. He started his career in the defence sector, first as an official in the German navy and then as legal adviser in the internal affairs department of the German Bundeswehr, or army.
But like many German youth, he had his eye on the limelight. At 24, he became a stockbroker and then moved into private practice. During his legal career, he has worked in the defense sector and real estate.
In 2009 he was named the managing director of the Volkswagen Group subsidiary, and, this year, took over from Ferdinand Piech, the 75-year-old octogenarian who guided Volkswagen from being a beetle maker to its dominant position.
When asked about Jacoby's alleged connection to the demise of Audi, the luxury division of VW, Jacoby said he didn't think the rumours had been fed by "dirty politics".
Last year Porsche, the sports car maker that is also part of Volkswagen, said Jacoby had deliberately leaked information about the boardroom reshuffle to the press. Jacoby said the accusations were baseless.
At a high profile 60th birthday party at the swanky hotel Palais des Festivals in Paris in 2011, Jacoby wore a pink tie and no tie, suggesting he would make the perfect chairman of VW Group.
But Jacoby's transition to Volkswagen's executive ranks happened at a bad time for the company. Apart from the scandal caused by emissions tests cheating by VW and Audi, a raft of high-profile scandals have beset VW in recent years, including accounting scandals, union rivalry and a toxic scandal over diesel cars with carbon emissions that exceed legal limits.
"What's even more outrageous and offensive is that he does not have enough knowledge about environmental policy to be such a crucial role," said Helmut Jürgenson, a partner at law firm Clifford Chance, speaking of Jacoby's elevation to the top VW job.
"VW have to contend with and continue to face numerous threats on the legal, regulatory and legislative fronts, including investigations by various authorities, political hearings and a high-profile class action suit," Jürgenson said.
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The widely reported decision of the Supreme Court that limits the ability of plaintiffs (often 'patent trolls') to sue outside of the defendant's incorporated jurisdiction, appears to have strategic implications for IP private investigators in uncovering the truth.
Briefly, 'patent trolls' make bogus claims against smaller companies alleging infringement, which compels the companies to then pay royalties (even when the defendant knows it's an illegitimate claim) because they do not have the resources to investigate the 'troll." Many legal experts agree it's an abuse of the patent law system.
So, IP investigators would simply expose that the plaintiff essentially set-up a 'shell' front to give that Bonafide appearance (i.e., business address is only a mailbox; studio apartment was recently rented.) And, in fact, the investigation would also reveal that the plaintiff does indeed have Bona fide roots, except, nowhere near East Texas.
Now, since 'patent trolls' can only file suit in the defendant's state of incorporation, (which is long overdue) IP private investigators are left to find other ways to offer litigation support. One way to be of service is for the IP investigator to uncover the 'patent trolls' bogus history of claims.


I hope you all had a fantastic holiday season and are ready for the new year to start. I wasn't in the holiday mood, but I have been all about the new year resolutions. My to-do list ranges from small changes to a whole slew of article ideas.
Last summer, The Yuppie Hobo (aka Andrew) went on a road trip to see some of the unsung parts of America then wrote about it on his blog. His trip was fun to follow, and I recommend reading all about it.
In December, he submitted a blurb about his trip to Atlas Obscura and got selected to be in the article: We Asked, You Answered: Wondrous Things That Happened in 2017.
I recommend checking out both the blog and the article to add some happy things to your 2018.
Only twenty-eight short weeks ago, I started the GET REC'D List Challenge to find new ways to recommend movies, TV shows, and books to readers. Only two weeks are remaining until the challenge comes to an end. I will have a week recapping each section so you can have an overview of each all in one place.
The Questing Geek Blog has accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Besides links to these articles, there are fun and funny posts there on a daily basis.
Check it out and recommend it to friends that might enjoy!
The Problogger website that I mentioned in last month's recap will be launching a free course for new bloggers starting this month. Even though I have been blogging for a year now, I'm looking forward to their tips and tricks.
In the meantime, I'm trying to find new images and new ways to promote the blog. For example, the picture for this post was created on Canva.com.
Thanks for the love! I'm totally going to pay it back and hopefully we'll get some reader cross-pollination. You checking out my blog is good for my rep, people will see a well read geek promoting my page and think I'm more sophisticated than I am.


TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - May 27, 2009) - Mega Silver Inc. (TSX VENTURE:MSR) ("Mega") and Skybridge Development Corp. ("Skybridge") are pleased to announce that their business combination closed today. Skybridge is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mega and its shares have ceased trading and will be de-listed from the TSX Venture Exchange.
Under the terms of the combination, former shareholders of Skybridge are entitled to receive one common share of Mega in exchange for every two and one-half common shares of Skybridge held (subject to rounding for fractional interests). Based upon the number of Skybridge common shares outstanding as at May 26, 2009, an aggregate of approximately 8,105,588 common shares of Mega will be issued to former shareholders in exchange for their Skybridge common shares, representing approximately 23% of the outstanding shares of Mega after giving effect to the transaction. It is expected that certificates evidencing the common shares of Mega to which the former registered shareholders of Skybridge are entitled will be mailed by Computershare Investor Services Inc. commencing on or about June 1, 2009.
Outstanding Skybridge stock options and warrants have been assumed by Mega and, upon the exercise of the securities in accordance with their terms, the holders thereof will receive common shares of Mega in lieu of Skybridge common shares, on the basis of one Mega common share for every two and one-half common shares of Skybridge holders would have otherwise been entitled to receive.
In connection with the business combination, Jim Rogers has been appointed as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mega, replacing Kenneth Carter, and Steven Filipovic as Mega's Chief Financial Officer, replacing Robert Evans. Mr. Rogers was most recently regional exploration manager for Goldcorp Inc. at Red Lake. His background in the Red Lake gold camp will be a tremendous asset to Mega as it executes a mandate to explore and develop promising gold assets in the Red Lake camp.
Additionally, Ewan Downie and Abraham Drost have been appointed to Mega's board of directors, joining current directors, Michael Sweatman and Richard Patricio. Ken Carter has also retired from the board.
Mega would like to thank Ken Carter and Bob Evans for their contributions to the company and wishes them the best in their future endeavours.
Skybridge is a Canadian-based mineral exploration and development company that recently completed a Phase 1 3600m drill program at its high grade copper Blue Caribou Project in Nunavut Territory, Canada. The Company recently announced its entry into the Red Lake gold camp and a strategy to consolidate other mineral assets Skybridge has an experienced management team to advance its business objective of building shareholder value through exploration and development of mineable mineral resources. www.skybridgedevelopment.com.
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Malinga, named GOAT among IPL bowlers
Mumbai Indians lethal strike weapon Lasith Malinga was declared the Greatest of All Time (G.O.A.T) among bowlers in the storied history of the IPL by an esteemed jury of Star Sports on their flagship show 'Cricket Connected.'
The Sri Lankan veteran, part of an elite 10-bowler nominee list, pipped the likes of Dale Steyn, Ashish Nehra, Sunil Narine and Jasprit Bumrah for the award.
The highest wicket-taker in the tournament with 170 wickets in 122 matches, 'Slinga Malinga' has been one of those legends who changed the perception of T20 cricket and became one of the early heroes in a batsman-dominated format.
Despite overcoming a string of fitness issues, Malinga has been able to deliver pinpoint toe-crushers coupled with skillful variations over the last 12 years of the IPL that made him one of the most threatening bowlers to face at any stage of the game, and the unanimous choice for the GOAT bowler. In fact, it was Malinga's last over that gave Mumbai Indians their fourth title with a one-run, last-ball win in 2019.
Former England captain Kevin Pietersen, part of the jury, backed his decision to choose Malinga for the coveted award and said on Cricket Connected,"I'm going with Lasith. You look at the numbers he has served up and the way he has consistently used that yorker, that makes everyone talk about it. Malinga is my guy. I would go with Narine, but he has bowled on wickets which helped turn. Also, he has been questioned on a few occasions for this suspect bowling action, so I am afraid to say that I am going with Malinga."
In addition, Malinga, the first Sri Lankan to claim four wickets in four deliveries, went past Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Ravichandran Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Imran Tahir and Yuzvendra Chahal, who were also part of the nominee list.
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The 2018 edition of the oh-so-awesome Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas gave many Israeli startups a chance to shine on the world stage, and boy did they!
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They can be purchase from online stores or rented from party service providers like Tickle Tickle. Rental prices varies from $100 -$400 for 4 hours depending on the type and size of the inflatables. Toy rental companies like Rent a Toy have playhouse and slides for rental. Or simply prepare a kids tent, tunnel, cushions or ball pool for hours of fun.
Bring out the blades and get the kids to bring their own. The boys and some girls will entertain themselves with these innovative tops, especially if there is a few Beyblade Stadium to go with it.
Hide a few toys and gold coins chocolate and get the kids to play treasure hunt. They will love their loot.
Get baked and cool cupcakes, and supply the guest with gummy bears, sprinkles, mini marshmallows and plastic syringes with colored frosting.
These bricks are wonderful for getting kids to play together. Bring out the Legos and show the kids how to play together.
Get some tattoo stickers and show the kids how to put it on.
Or try a combination of the above. We recently attended a party where the host set up a little kitchenet, Lego corner, Bey Blade Stadium, Tattoo and nail painting stations for a group of 5 year old boys and girls and it was a hit. The adults get to chat and enjoy as the kids are mostly engross with playing with each other.
What a great list of activities for a party! I love the fact that there's something for everything, from the really inexpensive, do-it-yourself type of game to the blowout party bounce houses or balloon clowns.
Kids really know how to have fun, and great adults know how to bring it out!
Activities like this also teach cooperation, teamwork, competition, forgiveness, and relaxation. All good things for them to "get" before they grow up.
Love your ideas! The balloon animals are adorable, although I wouldn't try doing my own as am terrified of them popping. I remember a fun kids party where we simply played old fashioned games like Simon Says, Red Light Green Light, and Freeze Tag. These were a novelty, since most of the kids had never heard of them before, and they had a blast. No matter what you do, keep it organized. It's too easy for wound up kids to get out of control in this setting and have things fall apart. Great post. thanks!


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We were warned that our time had come again but the brigade had been allowed to celebrate St Patrick's Day out of the line. I was MC at the Brigade Mass. The celebrant was Father Dan Kelleher, a former amateur boxer who had sponsored boxing in the brigade. He and I became firm friends. Brigadier Scott was present, as were all the officers of the Irish Fusiliers, the Catholic Skins and London Irish officers. That evening we had a party in the sergeants' mess marquee and the officers were invited. As usual, it developed into rugger scrums and a brawl. Shades of Didlington, I thought, as I went off to bed.
We were in the line once more, on the banks of the Rapido (Gari), where we relieved the New Zealanders. To our right was the monastery and, towering above, the mighty massif of Monte Cairo. Before the start of the second battle for Cassino, General Freyberg had decided that the Germans were using the ancient building as an observation post. He had called down saturation bombing on 15 February, during our stay at Santa Maria. I had watched vast armadas of flying fortress bombers on route to drop their loads on Monte Cassino and many hill towns that resembled it. The result was the creation of a strongpoint which was now almost impregnable.
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Abstract: A message from the President of the United States, transmitting the Administration's 2016 National Drug Control Strategy, pursuant to 21 U.S.C. 1705(a); Public Law 105–277, section 706(a) (as amended by Public Law 109–469, section 201(a)); (120 Stat. 3513); (H. Doc. No. 115–5); Message and accompanying papers referred jointly to the Committees on the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Foreign Affairs, Education and the Workforce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Armed Services, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Financial Services, Homeland Security, and Intelligence (Permanent Select) and ordered to be printed.
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NATURE: National drug control strategy.
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Weekend report: Free agency winners and losers
The NHL's annual free agent frenzy opened on Friday at noon. Within hours, most of the big names were gone. By the end of the first day, only a handful of major names were left. And by the end of days two and three... well, actually, pretty much nothing happened on days two and three. Seriously, the weekend was weird. I think everyone already went on vacation. Am I the only one left? Because I don't know how to work the coffee machine.
Anyway, the slow weekend was bad news for a handful of decent players who are still available, most notably Kris Russell, Shane Doan, Matt Cullen and James Wisniewski (a latecomer to the part after being bought out the day before bidding opened). History tells us that those guys better hope they find a home soon, because as the summer wears on and cap dollars become scarce, the market dries up quickly. Maybe it already has.
Let's skip the preamble and get right to what you came for: Instantaneous declarations of winners and losers, most of which will be proven wrong by midway through training camp. Here are the five best and five worst from a busy start to the NHL's new year, along with one signing that fits both categories.
The biggest winners of the market's early days.
5. Montreal signs Alexander Radulov—What does the art of comedy have in common with infuriating the Montreal Canadiens fan base? As GM Marc Bergevin could tell you after this week, the secret is in the timing.
At any other time, signing recent KHL star and former NHL castoff Alexander Radulov to a one-year, $5.75 million deal would seem like a reasonable move, albeit a risky one. Radulov has tons of talent; he also has a history of immaturity, most famously when he was benched for a playoff game after missing curfew with the Predators in 2012. He hasn't been seen in the NHL since, heading to the KHL where he put up four solid seasons. Now he's back, and the Habs hope he's smartened up.
And maybe he has. But again, there's that issue of timing. The signing came just two days after the Canadiens shocked everyone by trading P.K. Subban, taking back an inferior, older player with a worse contract in the process. The reason, the whispers went, was character. And then the team goes out and signs the poster boy for lack of it? It's all very confusing, and Bergevin didn't do much to explain himself on Friday. You could forgive Habs fans for throwing their hands in the air and concluding that this franchise doesn't have the first clue what it actually wants.
When you search your own name on Twitter after trading PK Subban. Photo by Eric Bolte-USA TODAY Sports
But all of that overshadows an important point: This is a great deal for Montreal. Radulov is a wild card, and even if he has his head on straight, we really have no idea what he'll be in the NHL after four years away. He might not work out. But he could also be a star, the sort of first-line talent that's virtually impossible to add during an NHL offseason. And Montreal got him on a very reasonable one-year deal.
Best case, he's a monster and the Canadiens have a massive bargain to help lead them back to the playoffs. Worst case, he's a bust and you can write him off as a failed experiment that you cut your losses with without any future exposure. That looks a lot like the sort of medium-risk, high-reward deal that any team should jump on. Bergevin deserves credit, even if his timing was awful.
4. The David Backes fake out—The Bruins signed David Backes to a five-year, $30 million deal that wasn't especially remarkable. It was a little too much money and way too much term for a 32-year-old coming off his worst season in years, but it addressed a need and looked like a good fit between player and team. For a July 1 signing, it was fine.
But for a moment, it seemed like it was much more than that. When the signing first broke, it was widely but incorrectly reported as a one-year deal. Both Canadian networks covering the day's news—why yes, just like trade deadline day, NHL free agency gets covered by two full networks up here, thanks for asking—ran with the bad info, with both panels praising the Bruins for their restraint and common sense in not overcommitting to an aging player. Finally, they all agreed, some sanity. Don Sweeney is figuring this stuff out. Hey, at least it wasn't five years, right?
And then, minutes later, we found out that it was five years, and everyone just kind of looked at each other sheepishly and then changed the subject. And I laughed for about eight solid minutes.
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