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Epic chef will champion Welsh beef and lamb at Llangollen Food Festival
A larger than life TV chef will be championing Welsh beef and lamb with an outdoor cookery demonstration at a top food festival.
Chris "Foodgasm" Roberts, who has his own television series on S4C, will also have a starring role at the popular Llangollen Food Festival on Saturday and Sunday, October 19 and 20.
He went from being a man who cooked on an old-fashioned spit roasting fire with his friends, without anyone watching, to overnight fame as a Facebook foodie with thousands of fans.
The first TV series, Bwyd Epic Chris, produced by Caernarfon-based Cwmni Da, was a big hit on S4C and the second series will be going on air in November.
Chris, who lives in Caernarfon, is looking forward to his first visit to the festival.
The event has now established itself as one of the highlights in the culinary calendar and has been named as one of the Top 10 food festivals in the UK.
According to Chris, the inspiration for his cooking style has come from Patagonia, the Welsh colony in Argentina.
He said: "My dad went to Patagonia and told me how they cooked. I never really thought about it at first but a couple of years ago I thought I'd give it a try and cook the Gaucho way. Gauchos are basically cowboys.
"It just took off really and people just seemed to like what I was doing. I was asked to do a TV series for S4C and we are just filming the second series.
Chris added: "There is always variation when cooking on an open-fire, instinct needs to be used when adapting to the climate outdoors.
"You must feel the food, the heat, test the temperature and be patient. When the food's ready, it's ready. I'm not just putting food in the oven and waiting for three hours, I work with the elements and the experience is always different.
"I want to show that we have amazing local produce, to showcase and celebrate the local food. Food is the best way of bringing people together, it makes life worth living and makes everyone feel good."
"I'll almost certainly cook up some Tomahawk Welsh Black steaks in Llangollen as well as some lamb. We have the best meat in the world in Wales. It comes from animals that have had a good life. A happy lamb is a tasty lamb in my humble opinion.
"Welsh lamb that has been out on the hillsides eating succulent grass, berries and herbs and that comes through in the flavour of the meat. It's the same with grass fed Welsh beef.
"And if you buy Welsh meat that has the PGI mark – Protected Geographic Indicator – then it's fully traceable right down to the farm and the animal it originated from. That's important."
"I'm looking forward to Llangollen and showing people what an amazing product we have in Welsh meat and how to cook it Gaucho-style. I can assure meat lovers they won't taste anything better!"
Llangollen Food Festival committee member Phil Davies says the festival is the perfect platform for Chris Roberts to demonstrate his love of Gaucho-style cooking.
He said: "The idea of the food festival is to inspire people to try new products, and see what we have to offer here in Wales.
"Chris' Facebook videos have been viewed an incredible number of times and his first TV series was so popular we thought he'd be the perfect fit for the Llangollen Food Festival.
"We are delighted he's agreed to come along and demonstrate his amazing cooking. There is no doubt that Welsh meat, be it lamb or beef, is a really high quality product and deserves to be championed.
"Cooking meat the way people of Welsh heritage learned to cook when they arrived in Patagonia just makes it extra special." For more information about the Llangollen International Food Festival please visit www.llangollenfoodfestival.com
Tags Chefs, Chris Roberts, Food Festival, Gwyl Fwyd, Welsh Beef, Welsh Lamb
Scientist on mission to create perfect gin with new solar-powered distillery
Llangollen Food Festival; gin producer pHure Liquors an eco-friendly distillery run by Kevin Flower; Pictured a bottle of Kevins Gin . Picture Mandy Jones
A scientist is on a mission to create the perfect gin after setting up his new solar-powered distillery in time for a top food festival this autumn
Former university lecturer Kevin Flower will be unveiling the special edition gin at the popular Llangollen Food Festival on Saturday and Sunday, October 19 and 20.
Kevin, 53, who taught chemistry at the University of Manchester, has developed an eco-friendly distillery in the garage at his home in Conwy.
Three years ago he threw caution to the wind, alongside university pals Andy Whiting and Euan Noble, to develop a unique brand of gin based on decades of combined scientific expertise.
Their company, PHure Liquors, continues to go from strength to strength with a growing list of stockists including pubs, delicatessens and off licences across North Wales.
It will be their second visit to the Llangollen Food Festival which has been named as one of the Top 10 food festivals in the UK.
This time they will be launching the new Autumn gin flavoured with seasonal fruits and berries.
"We came to Llangollen for the first time last year and it seems like the perfect place to celebrate our "50th batch" with a special edition gin using our new solar energy distillery," explained Kevin who formerly worked as a university research fellow in Auckland, New Zealand.
"The recent addition of solar power has been really important, enabling us to generate more electricity than we need during the distillation process. In this way, we make a small contribution to reducing our carbon footprint.
"You only have to look at what's going on in the news and the impact human activities are having on the environment to realise every little helps. Everything we make now uses green energy generated by ourselves."
Solar power is not the only environmentally-friendly benefit from Kevin's method of making gin.
"We also distil at a lower temperature and lower pressure than other commercial producers," he said.
"By reducing the pressure, you reduce the temperature at which the liquid boils which is the reason why water boils at 71 degrees on the top of Everest.
"Our distillation temperature is around 35 degrees lower than in a normal copper still distillation so uses less energy. The pressure we distil at is equivalent to about 46,000 feet up.
"As custodians of the planet we have a duty of care. If you can reuse and recycle everything then we create as little rubbish as possible."
Kevin, who is originally from Sussex and completed his degree and masters in chemistry at Bangor University, was teaching at a local college when he decided it was time for something different.
"Like many in the teaching profession, I'd had enough," he said.
"It wasn't the teaching it was everything that goes with it, so I was looking for other outlets."
The scientists set themselves a friendly challenge to create a unique gin based on their knowledge of science.
"We took the classic academic approach, looking at various scientific literatures about distillation processes and we used that as a basis for how we were going to start, basically turning it into a scientific experiment," explained Kevin, who has also lectured at the University of Sussex and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).
Kevin borrowed an approach commonly used in medicinal drug discovery to find the perfect combination of flavours.
"It's called "combinational" strategy," explained Kevin, who divides his time between his business and private tutoring.
"In a sense, instead of deciding to put this much with that and doing it in a linear fashion you do it in a parallel fashion. We produced each of the botanicals individually. We then took out a fixed volume of each botanical and varied how much we added. We did the same with the second botanical and so on.
"We discovered that just by varying the amount you can achieve a very wide flavour range in a short space of time. It enables you to discover flavours very quickly or eliminate them far more easily, instead of throwing them all in at once and not liking what you find.
"The strategy, although new to gin making, has been around for donkeys' years and is the way they search for active leads in chemistry."
The result was the creation of its flagship pHure Gin, made from 96% organic wheat grain alcohol. It remains the company's biggest selling gin thanks to its velvety smooth flavour and is the base for all its other gin products.
"One of my business partners runs a pub in Yorkshire and for nearly a year we trialled a small amount to see whether we could sell it," said Kevin.
"Once we worked out people were buying it and coming back for more it was worth expanding and making more of it."
The company produces occasional batches of Honey Gin and most recently launched strawberry and rhubarb flavours.
Euan, who lives in Yorkshire, is commercial director and looks after compliance/licensing issues while Andy, from Durham, is technical director and delivers presentations on gin production.
"Sales are growing year on year. As we do more and go out more to food festivals we get more people interested in buying it," explained Kevin, who is production director.
For now, Kevin is keeping tight-lipped about the special edition gin but says he's looking forward to returning to the festival which has played a part in building the company's reputation.
"Food festivals work very well for brand awareness," he said.
"It's basically good advertising and gives you the opportunity to go out and meet people who could become potential customers. Last year, we acquired a new delicatessen from just being at the festival. They're really a great marketing and advertising exercise."
Llangollen Food Festival committee member Phil Davies was delighted PHure Liquors had chosen the event to launch their special edition gin.
He said: "A major part of our role is enable our growing army of indigenous food and drink producers to have a higher profile by providing them with a shop window.
"I am looking forward to sampling the new, solar-powered gin at the festival and I wish them every success.
"Their eco-friendly approach is right on trend and I'm sure the taste will also hit the spot."
For more information about Llangollen Food Festival go to www.llangollenfoodfestival.com
Tags Anglesey, Beaumaris, Food Festival, Gwyl Fwyd, Menai Bridge, North Wales, Welsh Gin
Drink Food Festivals
Hoppy homage to Welsh roots of Guinness is black and white issue
Anglesey Food Festival Anglesey Brewing Company Brewing special beer for the festival Tom Adamson
New dark ale being launched at Anglesey Food Festival
The reputed Welsh origins of the iconic Irish brew Guinness have inspired a new dark ale that's being launched by the Anglesey Brewing Company.
Head brewer Tom Adamson will be unveiling the porter-style beer at the inaugural Anglesey Food Festival that's being held on the Anglesey Showground from Thursday, May 30, to Saturday, June 1.
Tom, who's based in Carmel, near Llannerch-y-Medd, has called it Gwin y Gwan which was the slogan used by Guinness in a series of Welsh language adverts in the 1950s which which was translated as Guinness for Strength in English.
According to Tom, a keen student of brewing history, Arthur Guinness developed his taste for the dark beer when he stopped off at a coaching inn in Llanfairfechan, near Bangor, on the last leg of his journeys back to Ireland following business trips to London.
The establishment where he stayed was called Gwyn Du which, allowing for some misspelling or corruption, translates into Black Wine.
Tom said: "When Arthur Guinness was staying over at the inn, the owner of it had been brewing this dark beer and apparently after a few years of travelling back and forth he actually asked for the recipe from the owner.
"The owner gladly gave it to him which led to the creation of the Guinness we know and love – and the rest is now brewing history as they say.
"With Gwin y Gwan, I'm paying homage to a brewing legend and its Welsh roots.
"It's made from hops, barley and its secret ingredient – a special yeast – and the taste is earthy and chocolatey and at 4.8% it's not too strong.
"I chose to call it Gwin y Gwan because that's the affectionate name Welsh speaking people have for Guinness ever since those famous adverts because of its fortifying qualities.
"It even inspired a popular Welsh rock band, Eliffant, to use Gwin y Gwan as the title of their album that was released in 1980."
The news that Guinness was invented by the Welsh is enough to drive the Irish to drink, especially on St Patrick's Day on Sunday, March 17.
Appropriately, they'll be raising a toast to their patron saint who was also said to be Welsh.
Patrick, or Padrig in Welsh, was born around 387 AD and was known as Maewyn (Welsh for devoted friend) Succat (a Pagan term for warlike).
He is believed to have come from Bannavem Taburniae, which could be Banwen in Neath Port Talbot, where every year a service is held in his honour.
Food festival organiser Davina Carey-Evans, managing director of Beaumaris-based Sbarc Event Management, said: "I wanted to give local and other Welsh producers an opportunity to show off the incredible foods, drinks and produce to a wider audience as possible.
"I believe there's a real appetite for an Anglesey Food Festival and the public are going to have the opportunity to get a real taste of the very best of North Wales and Anglesey.
"It is the perfect location for a food festival because Anglesey is also known as M n, Mam Cymru, or Anglesey, the Mother of Wales, because its fertile land, provided sufficient food for the whole of Wales.
"Appropriately, the festival will be taking place at the Anglesey Showground, the home of the island's agriculture.
"We will be bringing together local fishermen, farmers, producers, restaurants and hotels to display the amazing variety of food and other produce source from the area.
"There will also be a range of cookery demonstrations with art and craft, music and children's activities.
"The level of interest has already been huge so we're looking forward to a great event."
Tags Anglesey, Beaumaris, Food Festival, Gwyl Fwyd, Llangefni, Menai Bridge


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World in focus - best photos for May 16, 2019
Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours
A pedestrian walks during the rainy day in Dresden, Germany. EPA
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Performers hold light bulbs at the Asian Culture Carnival at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. EPA
A light show is on display at the Eiffel tower in Paris, France. The Eiffel tower celebrates its 130th anniversary. EPA
A woman watches plants grown using personal computers monitors during a press view of 'Food: Bigger than the Plate' at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Britain. EPA
Ajax players celebrate their Dutch Eredivisie football league title after the match after beating De Graafschap in Doetinchem. Netherlands. AFP
U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One after a day of travelling around New Orleans, Louisiana. Reuters
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Books | Interview
Kavita Puri: Breaking the Silence
Kavita Puri chronicles the lives of migrants caught in double displacement
Shikha Kumar | 13 Sep, 2019
Partition Voices: Untold British Stories Kavita Puri
320 pages | Rs 499
BASHIR MAAN'S HOME was in the Punjab province of British India—a village called Maan where his forefathers had lived for generations. In the weeks after Partition, Hindus and Sikhs started to flee the village, packing up their belongings into small bundles, leaving behind homes, as they were lived in. Bashir and his friends tried their best to salvage the remnants—utensils, beds, sheets—from looters and transported them to a storeroom in a nearby gurudwara.
These would help Muslim refugees trickling in from India start a new life. 'People who could not share the same land would be sharing something even more intimate: the bed and bed sheets of the other,' writes Kavita Puri in Partition Voices: Untold British Stories (Bloomsbury; 320 pages; Rs 499).
Today, 91-year-old Maan lives in Glasgow with his family—from a pedlar selling clothes from a suitcase after arriving in Glasgow in 1953, he went on to become a member of the Scottish Labour Party. On the wall of his study hangs an Order of the British Empire, from the queen, for his work in public life in Glasgow. Maan's story is one of the many that Puri has chronicled in her seminal book based on South Asians who migrated to Britain after Partition.
The book is an extension of her BBC Radio 4 series—Partition Voices—in 2017 that documented these stories around the 70th anniversary of Independence. The BBC journalist embarked on the project after hearing her late father's account of what he had witnessed as a 12-year-old, as his family fled Lahore for Moga in Punjab. He immigrated to England in 1959, but didn't speak about his experiences
until a few years ago.
"Many people like him kept their silence, it was a survival mechanism of sorts. Life was pretty hard here in the '50s and '60s—their generation was fighting to be accepted in this country, for equal pay and against racism. Some of them may have been doing jobs that were slightly beneath them, so they also had to fight for promotions. If you thought about what you had left behind, how were you going to progress? There wasn't time to dwell on the past," says Puri, speaking on the phone
from London.
The wider institutional silence about the Partition and the Empire in Britain—it's not even taught in schools, Puri adds—meant there was no platform for them to air their stories. With the 70th anniversary though, the narrative began to tilt. The generation that had survived the catastrophic events was now elderly and wanted to talk about it, have their stories recorded. Their children and grandchildren too wanted to know their history—being second and third generation immigrants, their understanding of identity (in Britain) was complex.
The book is structured in three parts—End of Empire, Partition, and Legacy. End of Empire also includes British colonial accounts like those of Pamela Dowley-Wise and Kenneth Miln, both of whom were born during the reign of the East India Company. Puri says that though their experiences were vastly different, she wanted to showcase how the histories of the British and the Indian subcontinent were intertwined. "Because I was doing it from a British perspective, it was important to me that the wider public in Britain today realise what it was like… many young people don't know that the British ran India."
"This is a British national story. If you don't understand Empire and how it ended, you can't understand migration to Britain, why it looks the way it does today and why there are so many South Asians in this country"
In the introduction to Partition Voices, explaining how the division was broadly across religious lines, Puri delves into how the border was imagined throwing aside practical, physical realities. 'The new border crossed agricultural land, cut off communities from their sacred pilgrimage sites, paid no heed to railway lines, and separated industrial plants from the agricultural lands where raw materials such as jute were grown,' she writes.
"It was so ill-thought through and rushed. How can you divide a nation in 10 weeks? And the Partition line was announced two days later, on August 17. People remember literally sitting around the one wireless the village had, or waiting for a newspaper to get delivered or word-of-mouth on whether their village was in India or Pakistan. They had suitcases ready in the eventuality that they would have to leave," she says, adding, "It was the same for my dad in Moga. They had packed a bag and were ready to leave, but didn't have to. It's impossible to conceive that kind of situation."
In addition, people who were forced to cross the border didn't realise that the move would be permanent. Khurshid Sultana, one of the interviewees, recounts how her maternal grandmother buried all their jewellery in the ground thinking she would be back. "They thought they would be back in a few weeks so they didn't take that much stuff with them. Many handed their keys to their neighbours. What's heart-breaking is you speak to these elderly people and they say 'I never got to say goodbye to my best friend, and we could never get in touch. I want to go back, I want to see if he's still alive.' It's so sad, and these things never leave you, even when you're 85 years old."
Puri writes that the numbers killed in Partition violence will never be known, ranging between two lakh and two million, depending on the source. Gurbakhsh Garcha, an interviewee, remembers weeding in the fields near the railway lines and how the groundnut crop grew lush in random patches. It had been fertilised by the bodies of those who had died on the journey. The collateral damage, says Puri, was staggering. "It was the largest migration outside war and famine. The numbers are so huge, the events so cataclysmic that you can be blinded by that. But only when you drill down on the stories, all epic in their own way, that you realise how utterly life-changing it was."
Puri references Urvashi Butalia's The Other Side of Silence in the book while delving into the violence meted out to women during the period. When she was looking for interviewees, an overwhelming majority who volunteered were men. With women's bodies becoming the battlegrounds for settling religious scores, many of the voices were consequently lost, shrouded in shame and loss of honour.
"We never spoke to anyone who had been raped or abducted. I think these stories will never emerge in Britain now. The women we did speak to told of their visceral fear of sexual violence and of rape committed against friends. A female interviewee spoke about how her grandmother stood up to the males and refused to allow the women to be killed in the name of honour. To me, this was an unexpected story of empowerment," she says.
Khurshid Sultana, born in 1932, Gurdaspur, and came to Britain in 1961
The stories of the women do emerge in accounts of the male interviewees, many gave eye-witness testimony of abductions and bodily mutilations. Iftkahr Ahmed, who's retelling is particularly distressing, recounts how young women were picked up by Hindu men, and he had no option but to walk on by as to protest meant certain death. "To this day he still remembers the cries of the parents. People felt impotent to act," says Puri.
The hardest stories to tell were of the ones who had witnessed the violence first-hand, or were inadvertently party to it. Fifteen-year-old Swaran Singh, as the eldest son in the family, was chosen for a revenge attack by elderly Sikh members. While he didn't harm anyone, he had to hand over his sword to an adult, and watch a Muslim man being killed. The sword was then wiped and handed back to him—the day of killing has never left him. Puri adds that Khurshid's fear as a woman travelling by herself in the train's ladies' compartment is still palpable today.
"None of these people had any kind of post-traumatic counselling. The incidents affected them all in very different ways, and just like WWI soldiers, they had to deal with it all on their own. And often in their heads as they weren't talking to even family members about it."
PURI SAYS BEING sensitive to the interviewees was a prime concern. She met them in their homes, with family members around so they felt safe. It was Karam Singh Hamdard's story that left her feeling the most unsettled. The octogenarian was attacked with a poisoned spear in his arm—the scar is a permanent reminder of the day.
"In my village we were like a big family, whether they are Hindu, Sikh… And then suddenly they become like animals. It is something very, very unusual. You can't think of these things," says Khurshid Sultana
While his father was killed by a Muslim mob, his sister was saved by their Muslim neighbours. "He still can't reconcile those two things today. No one thought it would descend into this bloodbath," she says, adding that she still thinks about him for how upset he was while narrating the story. "Often I would say in the middle of the interview, 'let's stop now' but he would say no. He wanted to it to be heard and recorded. They'd never seen their story in that kind of big way before, and only later did they realise they'd lived through a monumental period in history."
During the Partition, refugees left with the bare minimum—even if they did take something to remind them of home, it was lost on the way. Some of the interviewees have visited their homeland in the years since and picked up little mementos. Mohindra Dhall got a brick from his childhood home in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad), and it now sits in a glass case in his Edinburgh living room. Another interviewee, Raj Daswani, has stones from Karachi in his study—he kisses them and says they make him feel like he's still connected to his soil. "These mementos represent so much and it's touching to see them talk about it, a reminder that the land was theirs too."
Puri believes that it's impossible to grasp the make-up of contemporary Britain without understanding its colonial past. She writes that the double displacement South Asians went through has been passed down the generations—the obsession with owning property, getting the best marks at school, becoming a doctor, can be traced back to that feeling of insecurity.
"When you realise that things can turn so quickly, like it did for my father's generation, it makes you more mindful, and not complacent about your place. This is a British national story, even if it's not been framed that way. If you don't understand Empire and how it ended, you can't understand migration to Britain, why it looks the way it does today and why there are so many South Asians in this country," says Puri.
Most importantly, the refugees' memories and stories of living in undivided India are a way to ensure that future generations can't deny that different religious groups had been living peacefully together for centuries. "Their generation is the last people that can say 'I was a Hindu living in Lahore', or 'I was a Muslim living in Amritsar.' That is now pretty much relegated to the history books. When Gurbakhsh's uncle's mother, a Sikh, died prematurely, her Muslim best friend breastfed his uncle. What can be more intimate than that? That is another side of history that needs to be told," she says, adding, "And that's what left me hopeful at the end. They don't want just the stories of violence to get passed down. In Britain, in India, in Pakistan, we must listen to these testimonies. They are telling us something important and powerful."
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Errol Flynn & The Law – Books, Magazines, Press Photos!
Check out this amazing Errol Flynn Auction on eBay!
This auction contains a collection of books, magazines, and press photos that pertain to Errol Flynn and his many dealings with the law. All items are originals in great condition. WILL SHIP WORLDWIDE. Domestic shipping cost is listed, all other costs will be determined by destination after auction ends. PAYPAL preferred. E-mail me if you have any questions or would like to see a clearer/larger photo of any of the items.
Included in this collection are:
1 – THE JERRY GIESLER STORY by Jerry Giesler
2 – MELVIN BELLI – MY LIFE ON TRIAL by Melvin Belli
3 – BELLI LOOKS AT LIFE AND LAW IN JAPAN by Melvin Belli (with foreword by ERROL FLYNN)
4 – WILLS: A DEAD GIVEAWAY by Millie Considine & Ruth Pool
3 Magazines & 1 Newspaper
November 3, 1942 The Daily Mirror Newspaper from Sydney, Australia
ERROL FLYNN FACES ACCUSER
October 1955 On The Q.T. Magazine
WHEN TEEN-AGERS CHARGED ERROL FLYNN WITH RAPE
September 1956 The Lowdown Magazine
WHY ERROL FLYNN'S FAVORITE SONG IS I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU!
September 1966 Modern Man Magazine
THE SEX SCANDALS OF HOLLYWOOD – FLYNN'S FLING!
7 B/W Press Photos (with reporter notes attached)
1 – Errol Flynn with lawyers Jerry Giesler & Robert Ford
2 – Errol Flynn & Jerry Giesler
3 – Deputy DA Thomas Cochrane questioning Betty Hansen
4 – Jerry Giesler questioning Peggy Satterlee
5 – Errol Flynn leaving police station after arrest
6 – Maura Fitzgibbon
7 – Errol's girlfriend Beverly Aadland with lawyer Melvin Belli
** See below for more information on individual items**
(book descriptions, article excerpts, press photo notes)
THE JERRY GIESLER STORY (1960) – hard cover
by Jerry Giesler as told to Pete Martin
The famous trial lawyer's most fascinating cases over the past fifty years, in which he defended such celebrated clients as Clarence Darrow, Charles Chaplin, ERROL FLYNN, Benny (Bugsy) Siegel, Kid McCoy, Lili St. Cyr, Edward G. Robinson Jr., Robert Mitchum, Busby Berkeley, The Little Fellow In The Attic
MELVIN BELLI: MY LIFE ON TRIAL (1976) – hard cover
By Melvin M. Belli with Robert Blair Kaiser
For years, members of the press have enjoyed making Melvin Belli into one of the most celebrated lawyers of the twentieth century. What the press likes about Mel are his colorful ways and his colorful clients and the shows he directs in and out of court. He had a bruising battle in Dallas defending Jack Ruby for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. He had a string of bitter encounters almost everywhere defending himself against the onslaughts of establishment lawyers who didn't like his quick tongue—or maybe the flamboyant red lining of the suits he wore in court. But Mel Belli didn't keep making the public print because of his famous clients or his attire. He did so because he was a darn good lawyer with heart and wit and originality, a man who developed demonstrative evidence in non-criminal cases, persuaded juries across the land to start giving adequate awards to those who had suffered injustice, and helped make new law that forced the powerful few to become accountable to the many who had been weak and helpless. Now it's Mel Belli's turn to tell the whole story of his life, all the serious lawyering as well as all the rollicking good times. He does so here with warmth and fun and passion. He narrates his prank-filled school days, his journeys as a seaman, his first job—as a hobo—his gritty legal apprenticeship during the Depression (one day he lost his entire practice when two clients were hanged at San Quentin), his billowing career, HIS CAROUSING WITH THE LIKES OF AN ERROL FLYNN, and his eventual enthronement as the King of Torts. You will be charmed and moved and delighted. Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that a man must share the passion and the action of his times—or run the risk of not having lived. Mel Belli has shared, he has lived, and he expects to keep on doing so for some time to come. He is a true original, and so is the story of his life.
BELLI LOOKS AT LIFE AND LAW IN JAPAN (1960) – hard cover
By Melvin M. Belli & Danny R. Jones, foreword by ERROL FLYNN
ERROL FLYNN, shortly before his death, sent on for this book a characteristically ebullient Foreword as a toast to his good friend Melvin Belli.
The tourist planning a holiday abroad rarely asks himself how much he knows of the laws of the country he is about to visit. Nor does it occur to him—until he gets into trouble—how little he understands of legal systems unlike our own. We tend to forget that three fourths of the civilized world has legal systems based on, or paying homage to, laws completely foreign to the American system. (Japan, for example, has no jury trials.) The law of any country evolves "according to the nature of things"—de rerum natura. Law, in brief, is a complex, often baffling reflection of the political, economic and social backgrounds which engender it. The late Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt once pointed out: "The significance of a system of law cannot be grasped apart from the environment in which it functions." Belli Looks at Life and Law in Japan sets out to tell the story of what it is like to live under the customs and laws of a foreign culture. Belli and Jones present Japan as it is today in a fascinating combination of fact and anecdote. They visit and describe Japanese courts and prisons, department stores and temples, dens and palaces; they interview American and Japanese lawyers practicing in Tokyo. They report on a number of sensational trials—that of William Girard, the American soldier accused of murder and tried in a Japanese court under Japanese law, with the consent of our Supreme Court; the trial of the Rat Boy, a Japanese Robin Hood; the trial of surely the most audacious criminal on record, who represented himself in the early days of the Occupation as "MacArthur's sanitation expert" and forced employees of a Tokyo bank to drink strychnine as "stomach medicine." And the trial of Tokyo Rose, accused of treason in the United States. The intention of Belli and Jones is always to make clear how the forces of history, ethnology, religion, customs and folklore shape the development of the Japanese legal system. Any factor which has influence upon Japanese legal practices is a matter for discussion and comment: the so-called MacArthur Constitution, the sayings of Confucius, medieval scholasticism, nineteenth-century continental law, Anglo-American export and import, and the past and present roles of the Japanese emperor, the courts, the lawyers and judges… J. E. de Becker, of the Swiss legation in Tokyo, a member of the Society of Comparative Legislation, has written most aptly: "…many cases of discord and contention would be eliminated, not only between individuals but between nations, were people mutually better acquainted with the motives of their varying legal systems." Belli and Jones write for the lawyer and the layman, the tourist and the armchair traveler. Belli Looks at Life and Law in Japan is an introduction to the changing laws of a modern nation, to a colorful world where white is the color of mourning and the noodle a symbol of longevity. Toshiro Irie, Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan, has contributed a succinct, enthusiastic preface.
WILLS: A DEAD GIVEAWAY (1974) – hard cover
By Millie Considine & Ruth Pool
An entertaining book about the amazing, amusing and interesting wills of: Marilyn Monroe, Adolf Hitler, W.C. Fields, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Ruark, William Shakespeare, Mother Cabrini, Joseph Valachi, The Woolworths, Mary Baker Eddy, Houdini, George Washington, Maurice Chevalier, John Barrymore and 200 others. Where there's a will there's a way to write one — sometimes funny, sometimes sad, often outrageous, always entertaining — as evidenced by this array of wills of some of the world's most famous (and infamous) testators. Here are the last wishes of everyone from Mother Cabrini and Mary Baker Eddy to Marilyn Monroe and ERROL FLYNN — from show business people like Billy Rose and John Shubert to two farmers, one of whom buried his millions in milk cans and the other who willed his properties to John D. Rockefeller. We learn the intriguing story behind a will that unwittingly corrupted a town and divided a nation, and of another that enriched Boston and Philadelphia by millions of dollars. We follow the sagas of the Woolworth dynasty and the unlucky Hope diamond. In some wills there are the outlandish provisions that testators have made for their own funerals or the disposal of their remains. We learn that John Barrymore and the Marquis de Sade shared the fear of being buried alive, and made provisions to prevent that. In this amusing and fascinating book we see people expressing everything from love and gratitude to vengeance and a graveyard humor, as they call the shots for the last time.
THE DAILY MIRROR Newspaper, Sydney, Australia
ERROL FLYNN FACES ACCUSER: Women Crowd Into Courtroom: 17-YEAR-OLD GIRL'S STORY
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HOLLYWOOD, Tuesday. — Grim-faced, Australian film star Errol Flynn sat in court here today and listened intently to evidence by sullen-eyed blonde Betty Hansen, 17-year-old girl, whom he is alleged to have raped during a party at the home of Fred McEvoy, wealthy British sportsman. She described how, after a little "petting," Flynn took her to an upstairs bedroom where she submitted to his advances. "The door was locked. I don't know exactly what was said but I submitted," she said….
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THE eminent Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey has stated that each man's sexual norms are distinctive to himself, and to himself alone. There is no denying the distinctive pattern of millionaire movie actor Errol Flynn's norms, or "kicks" as they are known in the vernacular of Broadway. Through the years, the handsome Irishman's teen-age lovemaking has cost him plenty of money because he has been forced to defend himself—albeit always successfully—against charges of rape brought by bobby-soxers. The first time trouble developed was when Peggy Satterlee, a gorgeous showgirl, accused Flynn of man-handling her twice on his yacht when she was a demure lass of fifteen. Errol jumped into legal entanglements a second time when a bosomy 17-year-old waitress named Betty Hansen sat on his lap and kissed him at a cocktail party—a touching scene that had a courtroom finale with Betty giving the jury a play-by-play description of Flynn's alleged bedroom technique….
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WHY ERROL FLYNN'S FAVORITE SONG IS I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU! Aging Errol's Just a Fun-Loving Broth of a Lad at Heart. The Cop He Booted Around Didn't Think So — And So Here's What Happened!
By JOHN PRENTICE
THESE tired old eyes have often dimmed over with melancholy at the sight of a skinny, lean-jawed lad, who weighs in the featherweight class, taking over two burly thugs and beating them to a pulp. It is only in Hollywood, the land of enchantment, that an emaciated clothespin like Errol Flynn can let fly with a left, then a right, then a left and then a smasheroo in the midriff and K.O. the forces of evil. In the umpty-seven films he has made (he is now getting on in years), always but always he wins fair maiden with those two hefty fists that look like pink powder puffs. But in the dreamland that is Hollywood, anything can happen. In real life, it's quite another matter. It is therefore quite a joy to report that Errol got his comeuppance one dark night at the tender hands of a New York cop. This cop, who might have been afraid of Flynn had he seen his films, handled the beautiful man as though The Great Flynn was a mischievous stripling with adolescent pimples….
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MODERN MAN Magazine – September 1966
By I. G. EDMONDS
EDITOR'S NOTE: With this issue, MM begins a spectacular series of articles describing the most notorious scandals involving famous Hollywood celebrities. Appropriately, this series begins with the famous sex trials of Errol Flynn. Told with eye-opening frankness, the article digs into the sizzling courtroom testimony that made headline news.
A DETECTIVE, on the witness stand in Los Angeles County Superior court, testified that he and a companion went to the home of actor Errol Flynn on Mulholland Drive in Beverly Hills. Alexander, the valet, admitted them and called his master. Flynn came down at once and seemed surprised to learn his visitors were police officers. But he was a perfect host. He invited them to join him in a drink. When they refused, Flynn poured one of his own. "Just what do you want?" he asked. "We are investigating a very serious charge," the officer said in an authoritative voice. "And what is it?" Flynn asked. Without waiting for an answer he took a deep swig from the glass. "Statutory rape!" the officer said. The actor choked on the liquor. When he stopped coughing, he burst out: "My God!"….
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plus many color & B/W nude spreads
11/6/42 – LOS ANGELES: Errol Flynn and his attorneys Jerry Giesler (L) and Robert E. Ford (R) pause outside the L.A. courtroom before today's preliminary hearing. Giesler cross-examined Peggy Satterle's witness, Peter Stackpole, Life and Time photographer, who offered as evidence a photo allegedly taken of the dancer and Flynn on Flynn's yacht.
1-12-43 – LOS ANGELES: Errol with his attorney Jerry Giesler as they appeared in L.A. court yesterday, the first day of Flynn's trial on 3 counts of statutory rape. Today's session was devoted almost entirely to choosing the jury which will hear the case.
1-14-43 – LOS ANGELES: 17-yr.-old "movie-struck" waitress, Betty Hansen describes to Deputy D.A. Thomas W. Cochrane the arrangement of the rooms in the Bel-Air mansion where she claims Errol Flynn attacked her. She told in intimate detail all about the famous bedroom scene, but Flynn's attorney, in cross-examination, indicated that the little blonde from Lincoln, Neb. had just dreamed the whole thing.
1-21-43 – LOS ANGELES: At this moment in L.A. court, caught by an alert photographer, pretty Peggy Satterlee is being shown a photo of herself as she appeared during the preliminary hearing of the case against Flynn, when she wore a girlish dress and pigtails. As defense attorney Jerry Giesler shows her the photo, she laughingly averts her face.
10/20/57 – HOLLYWOOD: Actor Errol Flynn (right), arrested on a drunk charge, leaves the police station here, October 20th, after being released on bail. Flynn and actress Maura Fitzgibbon, 21, were arrested at a ball given by Hollywood press agents and publicists when the actor allegedly took a badge from an off-duty policeman and refused to return it.
10/20/57 – HOLLYWOOD: This is a photo from files of British actress Maura Fitzgibbon, 21, who was arrested, October 19th, with actor Errol Flynn at a ball given by Hollywood press agents and publicists. The arrest took place after Flynn allegedly took the badge of an off-duty police officer and refused to return it.
10/19/59 – SAN FRANCISCO: Beverly rested here 10/19 as funeral services for Errol Flynn were conducted in Hollywood. She is shown with her attorney, Melvin Belli. Belli said that Miss Aadland has received several offers for stories of her relationship with Flynn.
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It's been another year, and we're back at it again with the Techstars Summer 2014 class in Chicago. This is fifth year running the accelerator and second season as Techstars. Each year it gets better and better and I could not be more proud to present the ten companies that will be joining us this summer.
The incoming class features a unique makeup. More than half of the companies are Chicago-based, which doubles the amount of local representation we had last year and is a testament to the power Techstars has to further establish a city like Chicago as a destination for tech startups. Of the 10 companies, six hail from Chicago, with international startups representing Israel and India. Two other U.S. startups, based in Miami and Nashville, round out the list.
I know that I speak for the entire Techstars staff when I express how excited we are to see what these 10 companies will bring to the table. We hit the ground running on May 27th and it will be a three month sprint to Demo Day from there!
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Renton Hollonds, 4, can't understand why the magic wand keeps collapsing. Families were able to ring in the New Year with Poppy's Comedy Magic Show featuring Paul Borrillo, who performed juggling, plate spinning and magic, at the Broomfield Auditorium. For more photos, go to http://www.broomfieldenterprise.com.
Twins Gavin and Liam Wessel, 3 of Broomfield, compare shaven heads as part of the St. Baldrick's Day effort to raise money to support childhood cancer research at the Exchange Tavern in Westminster on Saturday. The two watched their dad and grandfather get shaved and decided they wanted to join in.
The crowd cheers at the pyrotechnic display during the USAF F-16 Viper demonstration during the Rocky Mountain Airshow 2015 at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport on Saturday.
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Rev. Scott McAnally, of Lutheran Church of Hope, sings hymns and waves his palm branch with his congregation. Lutheran Church of Hope, in Broomfield, held the Palm Sunday worship celebration on March 29th with a combined Procession of the Palms with Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter. For more photos, and videos, go to http://www.dailycamera.com.
The Lutheran Church of Hope congregation march down 10th Ave. Sunday morning. Lutheran Church of Hope, in Broomfield, held the Palm Sunday worship celebration on March 29th with a combined Procession of the Palms with Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter. For more photos, and videos, go to http://www.dailycamera.com.
Shelly DeFoe and her daughter, Ryane Montoya ride the tubes during a hot day at The Bay in Broomfield.
Paul Borrillo shows his juggling skills to a full house on Thursday. Families were able to ring in the New Year with Poppy's Comedy Magic Show featuring Paul Borrillo, who performed juggling, plate spinning and magic, at the Broomfield Auditorium. For more photos, go to http://www.broomfieldenterprise.com.
Shaurya Sing, left, joins his mother, Pooja, and father, Yasn, celebrate the New Year on Thursday. Families were able to ring in the New Year with Poppy's Comedy Magic Show featuring Paul Borrillo, who performed juggling, plate spinning and magic, at the Broomfield Auditorium. For more photos, go to http://www.broomfieldenterprise.com.


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Updated 25 September, 2020 - 00:51 Ed Whelan
The Triumphal Arch of Orange in France - Symbol of the Roman Empire
The Romans left behind remarkable monuments and their influence on architecture cannot be overstated. Many of their public monuments commemorated a military victory and sought to legitimize their rule. A particularly distinctive, and immediately recognizable design is the triumphal arch, which has been used through the centuries to modern times by various nations. One of the finest examples of a Roman triumphal arch is the example in Orange, in the southeast of France.
History of the Triumphal Arch of Orange: Symbol of Victory and War
After Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 50 BC, the town fell into decline. However, it became prosperous under the reign of Augustus (27 BC-14 AD), as Orange had been settled by ex-legionnaires who had served in the Gallic Wars.
The triumphal arch was built to honor the veterans of Caesar's conquest of Gaul and to serve as everlasting propaganda immortalized in stone. Augustus also built other public works, such as the nearby theatre, to develop the region and more importantly to proclaim the might of Rome .
Naval battle depicted on the Triumphal Arch of Orange, one of the largest and the oldest Triumphal Arch of Roman Gaul, France ( dbrnjhrj / Adobe Stock)
Tiberius, the successor of Augustus, rebuilt the original arch to commemorate the victories of Germanicus in Germany, which avenged their disastrous defeat in 9 AD at Teutoberg Forest. Interestingly it is believed that the Romans so liked the arch that they began to model other arches on it, including ones built in the Eternal City , as Rome was called by the Roman poet Tibullus in the 1st century BC.
Orange prospered for many centuries because of its rich hinterland and distance from the borders and barbarian raiders. However, in the 5 th century AD, the Visigoths sacked Orange during the twilight years of the Western Roman Empire. The arch was not damaged but at some point some of its reliefs were damaged and lost.
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Detail of a sculpted panel on the Triumphal Arch of Orange. ( CC BY-SA 4.0 )
During the Middle Ages , the citizens of Orange integrated the arch into the walls of the city. It was the northern entrance to the city, and this may have spared it from demolition. In the 18 th century, it inspired many French architects interested in classical architecture. The arch was first studied in 1850, and later became a national monument. In 1983 the arch was awarded the prestigious status of a UNESCO World Heritage site and has been restored many times down the years.
Description of Triumphal Arch, Orange, France
The monument consists of three rounded archways framed by four Corinthian columns . The central arch is larger than the ones on either side. The rectangular entablature, with its high cornice and architrave, tops the free-standing structure. It occupies a ¼ of a hectare and today is set in a green space and is 65 feet high (20m), 65 feet (20m) long and 26 feet wide (8m).
The triumphal arch was built to impress and the facades were adorned with reliefs depicting scenes from wars such as mighty naval battles, Romans battling barbarians, and a portrait of a stalwart Roman soldier holding a shield. The detailed artwork stands as a testament to the skills of the sculptors.
Originally constructed using blocks of limestone that were placed on each other without mortar, later restoration works have caused the stonework to lose some of its authenticity. There are several holes on the structure, reputedly the result of the arch being used as a target by medieval crossbowmen.
Visiting the Triumphal Arch and Orange in France
The triumphal arch is located in the old town of Orange. There is no charge to view the monument and it is possible to walk around it and witness its remarkable carving, although some of the reliefs are too high to be seen clearly. It is a great site for photographs and people enjoy taking photographs at night when the arch is lit up. Because of the lights, many of the reliefs are easier to see after dark.
Ancient Roman Theatre of Orange, France. ( dbrnjhrj / Adobe Stock)
The arch is situated not far from other wonderful medieval monuments or the famous Roman-era theatre, which is still used as a venue for concerts and theatrical performances.
Top image: Roman triumphal arch in Orange, France Source: lic0001 / Adobe Stock
By Ed Whelan
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Abducted youth in Ragama left blindfolded in Dambulla
[TamilNet, Monday, 17 September 2007, 10:41 GMT]
Kanthasamy Kamaladas, 29, abducted by unidentified persons on Wednesday morning at Ragama railway station appeared at the Ragama police station Monday morning, sources in Colombo said. Kamaladas said he was dropped by the abductors in a jungle area in Dambulla in Kandy district on Sunday night blind-folded, but managed to obtain help from a lorry driver to travel back to Ragama.
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Waiting periods on firearms don't work, period. They are not associated with a decrease in homicide rates, and they expose vulnerable individuals—such as abused women and residents of neighborhoods plagued by gang violence—to unjustifiable risk. Laws enforcing waiting periods are largely relics of the past, illustrations of that saying that insanity consists of doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Fortunately, the state of Wisconsin has seen the light. Last week the state legislature approved Senate Bill 35, which will eliminate the 48-hour "cooling off" period required for the purchase of a handgun. The waiting period originated primarily as an attempt to leave sufficient time for a background check before a firearm made its way into the hands of its owner. No one would be able to argue that this justification holds water today, as instant background checks have been the norm for years.Contrary to what SB 35's strident opponents would have you believe, there is no substantive scientific debate at this juncture: Waiting periods for firearms simply do not prevent homicides.
Opponents of the bill raised alarms about the risks of abolishing waiting periods—the only piece of gun legislation that actually worked to reduce crime, they said! While we can appreciate the implied verdict on other gun-control measures, it is bizarre in 2015 to claim with a straight face that waiting periods are effective. For all of the anti-gunner hand-wringing about the supposed gag on firearm policy research—meaning only a lack of federal funding for the biased studies produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—this subject has been thoroughly researched in the past 20 years.
Republican state Sen. Van Wanggaard, SB 35's primary sponsor in the Wisconsin Senate, countered that there is no statistical proof of waiting periods driving down homicide or violent crime rates, and a piece from fact-checking service Politifact confirmed—perhaps a bit grudgingly?—that he was correct. The studies cited in this verdict range from a 2000 examination of the 1994 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1994, all the way to a sweeping meta-analysis of gun-control policy from 2012. Even the CDC couldn't claim that waiting periods provided any check on violent crime!
Contrary to what SB 35's strident opponents would have you believe, there is no substantive scientific debate at this juncture: Waiting periods for firearms simply do not prevent homicides. What they do is to make it inconvenient to buy a gun—where anti-gun politicians can't outright disarm you, they try to throw up as many obstacles as possible in the hopes that you'll eventually run out of time, money or commitment. By doing away with this outdated and pointless law, Wisconsin legislators have done their constituents a great, if overdue, service.
SB 35 was approved by the Wisconsin Senate on a vote of 22-11 and by the Assembly in a voice vote without debate. It will soon be on the desk of Gov. Scott Walker, who is expected to sign it into law. Many thanks to the bill's sponsors, Sen. Van Wanggaard and Rep. Romaine Quinn, and the legislature as a whole for freeing Wisconsin residents from this unreasonable restriction.
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The topcoat used for Lexus leathers supplied by GST are polyurethane in nature. We do supply a set of cleaner and conditioners which are distributed through the Lexus dealers with the Lexus brand. Other then mild soap and water to clean the seats the leather should remain in good condition for a long time as is for a long time. For those who want to take extra care the Lexus products we provide work very well.
Obviously what should be avoided is any harsh cleaners especially those containing solvents.
It is true that the uncoated leathers in general require more care but right now Lexus does not use uncoated leathers. There is talk in the future of using semi-aniline (very lightly finished) or aniline (uncoated) in special models but this is speculative.
So, as stated by Robert, all Lexus leathers are coated, albiet with a polyurethane clearcoat.
This should help you all decide your plan of caring for it. The use of Connolly Hide Food etc. and other conditioners designed strictly for UN-coated leathers is up to you. I have no info stating they will do any harm, and many here report softer leather using them, but clearly they are going on COATED Lexus leathers. I say, if it's working for you, keep doing it.
It may well be that those type of conditioners are also beneficial to polyurethane in general, and will also soften it. Just avoid anything harsh or abrasive for *general* care, and no solvents. Cheers.
Last edited by Guitarman; 04-01-04 at 09:01 PM.
In the quoted, is "aniline" equal to "anilin"?
The topcoat used for Lexus leathers supplied by GST are polyurethane in nature. ... It is true that the uncoated leathers in general require more care but right now Lexus does not use uncoated leathers. There is talk in the future of using semi-aniline (very lightly finished) or aniline (uncoated) in special models but this is speculative.
AFAIK all US LS-430's with the Ultra Lux trim include a leather upgrade package which includes semi-analin or analin leather. For example, a window sticker entry on my 2001 LS-430 states: "Interior Pkg w/Semi Anilin Leather Trim". Is Lexus' use of the term "anilin" the same term as "aniline" in the quotation? If so, that above quote would appear to be wrong at least with respect to US LS-430's with Ultra Lux trim. Can someone who knows more about leathers further elaborate?
I had read about the LS430s and the use of semi-aniline leather too, on this board. I think the guy that wrote that, Robert, may not be aware of that change, but rather was falling back on info he knew of a few years ago.
There is talk in the future of using semi-aniline ...etc.
...he may just be a bit behind the current state of affairs with Lexus leathers. Just a guess on my part though.
As far as the spelling goes, I have seen both spellings ( aniline, anilin) referring to the same type of leather, so I don't know if both are correct, or not.
No, he doesn't mean Woolite. A solvent is a petroleum based product, i.e. mineral spirits, WD40, brake cleaner, lacquer thinner etc.
Woolite is absolutely safe for your leather.
So considering we're cleaning "sealed" leather, what's the best method to clean the leather??
Wow, great info Dan, thanks!
Blanco, since the leather has a polyurethane coating, you can still clean it with any leather cleaner, or the Woolite. You still have to use gentle cleaners, so as not to break down (or dull) the clear coating.
Ostensibly, anything that cleans vinyl or polyvinyl will work, but some of those type cleaners ( Simple Green , Castrol etc.) are much harsher than I would recommend, unless extreme dirt is the issue, and only use them then by first testing in an inconspicuous area.
Stick with Lexol cleaner (or equivalent) , diluted Woolite and you'll be fine.
Last edited by Guitarman; 07-19-04 at 05:49 PM.
i use some aloe cleaner product is that safe?
I think we're gonna need a little more to go on in order to say for sure. What is the products called, and who makes it?
Do you know how the Zaino leather treatment and cleaners compare with Lexol's?
I've used Zaino's "Leather In A Bottle" ( Z 10) but not the cleaner. The Z10 conditioner dries to a non-shiny patina, looks natural and smells nice. I would rate it as effective as the Lexol conditioner, which I was never crazy about because it felt greasier unless you really buffed off the residue well.
I give the Zaino Z10 an 8 and the Lexol a 7. Both work. That's just my perspective and experience on the 2 products, others may disagree.
Last edited by Guitarman; 07-19-04 at 05:51 PM.
share ideas and knowledge instead of ridicules.
most efficient for the leather?
Also, my car has a mixture of leather and alcantara (suede-like).
products to use to protect both the leather and the alcantara.
enthusiasts will be greatly appreciated.
Jonathan, welcome to CL, congrats on the IS!
You can mix Woolite 6:1 (6 parts water, 1 part Woolite) for general cleaning, and you can go 3:1 for stains and serious dirt if necessary.
and you should protect it with something like 303 High Tech Fabric Guard, which will be the equivalent of the dealer's "Magna Shield" product.
A good suede brush should also be on your short list to keep it looking good. I use a Woolite dampened white cloth on it when I come across it. You just want to avoid wetting it down completely. Hope this helps, Cheers Jonathan.


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