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the daring acts of a smiling bandit
Roy G. Gardner (1884 – 1940) was once America's most infamous prison escapee.
He was the most dangerous inmate in the history of Atlanta Prison and was dubbed by newsmen the "Smiling Bandit", the "Mail Train Bandit", and the "King of the Escape Artists". He was said to be attractive and charming, standing just under six feet tall, with short, curly auburn hair and blue eyes.
red haired David Wenham found here
Gardner began his criminal profession as a gunrunner around the time of the Mexican Revolution. He smuggled and traded arms to the Venustiano Carranza forces until he was captured by soldiers from Huerta's army and was sentenced to death by firing squad, but, on March 29, 1909, he broke out of the Mexico City jail along with three other American prisoners after attacking the guards.
Mexican revolutionaries found here
Eventually, Gardner ended up in San Francisco, where he robbed a jewelry store. He was arrested, and spent some time in San Quentin, but was paroled after saving a prison guard's life during a violent riot. Gardner landed a job as an acetylene welder at the Mare Island Navy Yard, married, fathered a daughter, and began his own welding company.
San Quentin prisoners found here
Gardner then gambled all of his money away on a business trip in Tijuana at the racetracks. On the night of April 16, 1920, Gardner robbed a U. S. Mail truck of about $80,000 in cash and securities. The job went smoothly, but the outlaw was arrested three days later burying his loot. He was sentenced to 25 years at McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary but vowed he would never serve the sentence. As he was transported on a train with Deputy U. S. Marshals Cavanaugh and Haig, Gardner peered out of the window and yelled, "Look at that deer!". The lawmen looked, and Gardner grabbed Marshal Haig's gun from his holster. He then disarmed Marshal Cavanaugh at gunpoint. The outlaw handcuffed the two humiliated lawmen together and stole $200. He jumped off the train, and made his way to Canada.
Muntjac deer found here
He slipped back into the United States the next year, and started robbing banks and mail trains across the country. Gardner tied up the mail clerk to Train No. 10 eastbound from Sacramento and robbed the express car of $187,000 on May 19, 1921. The next morning, Gardner told the mail clerk of Train No. 20 to throw up his hands or he would blow his head off. When the train reached the Overland Limited, the elusive bandit darted down the tracks with an armful of mail.
Gardner was recognized at the Porter House Hotel and a convoy of police arrived in Roseville . Three federal agents captured him while he was playing a game of cards in a pool hall and he was sentenced to another 25 years at McNeil Island for armed robbery.
Trying to reduce his sentence he told Southern Pacific Railroad detectives that he would lead them to the spot where he buried his loot. The officers found nothing, and Gardner announced, "I guess I have forgotten where I buried it". He was heavily shackled, with the addition of an "Oregon Boot", and was once again transported on a train to McNeil Island, this time by U. S. Marshals Mulhall and Rinkell, both fast shooting veterans. During the journey, Gardner asked to use the bathroom, in which an associate had earlier hidden a .32 caliber pistol. Gardner came out of the bathroom, pointed the gun at Mulhall's protruding pouch, and ordered another prisoner to handcuff the two humiliated lawmen to the seat. He relieved the officers of their weapons and cash before hopping onto another moving train.
Oregon boot found here
He arrived in Centralia, Washington, where he plastered his face with bandages to hide his identity, leaving one eye slit. Gardner told the Oxford Hotel staff that he had been severely burned in an industrial accident near Tacoma. Officer Louis Sonney became suspicious of the bandaged man, and when he saw a firearm in Gardner's hotel room, he accused him of being the "Smiling Bandit". Gardner fought back, but was arrested and a doctor removed the bandages to show that he was indeed the notorious train robber. This time Gardner, who was sentenced to another 25 years, was heavily ironed, and finally brought to McNeil Island.
Bandaged Berlusconi found here
After six weeks at the penitentiary, Gardner had convinced two other prisoners, Lawardus Bogart and Everett Impyn, that he had "paid off" the guards in the towers. On Labor Day, 1921, at a prison baseball game, they ran 300 yards to the high barbed wire fence where Gardner cut a hole, and the three men made it to the pasture as bullets whirled about their heads. Gardner was wounded in his left leg, but hid behind a herd of cattle. About the same time, he saw Bogart fall, badly wounded. Impyn was shot dead; his dying words were, "Gardner told us those fellows in the towers couldn't hit the broad side of a barn".
Guards scoured the beaches and confiscated every boat on the shoreline, but no trace of the dangerous outlaw could be found. Gardner lived in the prison barn, getting nutrition from cow's milk, and then swam the choppy waters to Fox Island where he lived off fruit in the orchards. Roy Gardner was now the "Most Wanted" criminal, and committed several crimes in Arizona before he was captured by a mail clerk during a train robbery in Phoenix in 1921. He was sentenced to an additional 25 years, this time at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Headlines screamed, "Gangster Gardner brags, 'Leavenworth will never hold me'".
In 1926, he tried to tunnel under the wall and saw through the bars in the shoe shop. The following year, he led a prison break and attempted an armed escape with two revolvers holding the Captain and two guards hostage, but the escape failed. In 1934 he was transferred to Alcatraz. While at Alcatraz, his wife divorced him. Gardner was paroled and released in 1938 after his appeal for clemency was approved.
On the evening of January 10, 1940, Garder wrote four notes at his hotel room in San Francisco, one of which was attached to the door warning: "Do not open door. Poison gas. Call police." He sealed the door from the inside, then killed himself by dropping cyanide gas into a glass of acid and inhaling the poison fumes.
"Please let me down as light as possible, boys," Gardner wrote in a letter to newsmen. "I have played ball with you all the way, and now you should pitch me a slow one and let me hit it."
inmates antics
on February 11, 2012 at 8:48 am Comments (49)
Tags: criminal, escape, history, robbery
roasted chestnuts and bolting butterflies
Papillon was the supposed autobiography of Henri Charrière. Perhaps he based some of his story on this man's adventures
René Belbenoit (April 4, 1899 – February 26, 1959) was a French prisoner on Devil's Island who successfully escaped to the United States. He later wrote a book, Dry Guillotine, about his exploits.
Belbenoit was born in Paris and abandoned by his mother as an infant. His father was unable to raise young René himself, so the boy was sent to live with his grandparents. When René was 12, his grandparents died and he went to Paris where worked at a popular nightclub, the Café du Rat Mort (the Dead Rat) in the Place Pigalle. During World War I, Belbenoit served with distinction in the French Army from 1916 – 1917.
In 1920, Belbenoit, having stolen some pearls from his employer, the Countess d'Entremeuse, was sentenced to eight years of hard labor in the penal colony of French Guiana, referred to as Devil's Island. The fact that Belbenoit had had a veteran's pension let him avoid the harshest work.
Two weeks after his arrival, Belbenoit tried to escape for the first time with another man. They took a raft to Dutch Guiana but were captured and shipped back to the penal colony. During his incarceration, Belbenoit begun to write his memoirs. He kept them in a bundle of wax cloth. He earned some money by selling roasted chestnuts and capturing butterflies.
Spicebush Swallowtail found here
Next Christmas Belbenoit again attempted escape with nine others who had stolen a log canoe. The canoe capsized and they took to the jungle where three of the men were violently murdered. Eventually local Indians who sheltered them gave them to Dutch authorities who sent them back to the French. In the following years, Belbenoit tried to escape two more times and was transferred from island to island.
Chateau D'If prison found here
In 1931, Belbenoit sent a copy of his writings about the prison conditions to a new governor. Before the governor was transferred back to France, he gave Belbenoit a one year permit to leave the penal colony. Belbenoit spent most of the year working in the Panama Canal Zone as a gardener. However, with the permit soon to expire he decided to go back to France in order to argue his case. He was arrested and sent to the island of Royale where he was put into solitary confinement for almost a year.
Panama Canal found here
On November 3, 1934 Belbenoit was officially released – but that just meant he became a libéré, a free prisoner who was still not allowed to return to France. When a visiting moviemaker gave him $200, Belbenoit decided to try to escape once more. On March 2, 1935 he and five others took to the sea with a boat they had bought. When his companions after three days at sea began to argue, he had to pull a gun to force them to continue. When they reached Trinidad, British authorities decided not to give them back to the French. They continued on but sixteen days later ran aground on a beach in Colombia and natives stole their clothing. They reached Santa Maria, where a local general fed them, but also notified the French consul and took them to the local military prison.
Santa Maria found here
A sympathetic local newspaperman helped him to escape in exchange for writing about prison conditions. Belbenoit traveled slowly north and stole a number of native canoes to continue his journey. In Panama he spent about two months with the Kuna tribe and later sold a large collection of butterflies in Panama City. In 1937 in El Salvador he hid in a ship to Los Angeles
Kuna and Embera tribeswomen found here
In 1938 his account, Dry Guillotine, was published in United States. The book attracted the attention of the U.S. immigration authorities and Belbenoit was arrested. He received a visitor's visa but in 1941 was told to leave the country. Belbenoit traveled to Mexico and a year later tried to slip back into the United States but was again arrested and sentenced to 15 months in prison. After his release, Belbenoit acquired a valid passport and went to Los Angeles to work for Warner Bros. as a technical advisor for the film Passage to Marseille.
on November 9, 2011 at 8:22 pm Comments (53)
Tags: author, butterfly, france, island, prison, three days in a leaky boat
part angel, part demon
After reading Andrew Barrow's heartfelt memoir about the short life of his younger brother I did a little googling to find out more about him. Among other things, he's also the author of this obituary for the poet Philip O'Connor
"As thin as a skeleton, his face already eroded, his smile never calm, he lived off doughnuts and Woodbines, ogled at women and spoke in cryptograms, spoonerisms and jingles, delivering sentences backwards and falling about in drunken exhilaration.
Philip O'Connor's life had been full of folly from the beginning. Born in Leighton Buzzard in 1916, delivered – he claimed – by the King's physician, and encouraged by his mother, a fallen gentlewoman of mixed Asiatic, Dutch and Burmese blood, to consider himself descended through his father from the last King of Ireland, O'Connor had a disorderly childhood. Taken to France as a baby, he was abandoned at the age of four with Madame Tillieux, matronly proprietor of a patisserie in the seaside resort of Wimereux near Boulogne. Two years later, his mother returned to claim him and was met with violent protests. "Non!" screamed young Philip, scurrying to Madame's black skirts. "Ce n'est past Maman, t'es Maman. 'Suis Francais."
Wimereux found here
Back in England a few years later, O'Connor was again adopted, this time by a one-legged bachelor civil servant who wore size 13 boots and owned a small wooden hut on Box Hill near Dorking. In circumstances unthinkable in today's suspicious climate, here the dreamy little lad and his shy misogynist guardian set up house.
NOT this one legged man (found here)
By the time he left school, O'Connor's megalomania or messianism was already pronounced: "The word 'fool' had fastened itself sharply, hissingly on my tongue." Autocratic bad temper, omniscience and almost epileptic exhibitionism had become his trademarks.
O'Connor's extreme outsider status was reinforced in his late teens by a longish period tramping across England – an experience which formed the basis for his book Vagrancy published in 1963. His time on the road was followed by a six-month stay in the Maudsley Hospital, where he was diagnosed as the youngest schizophrenic in the ward. He then bounced, or fell, back into Fitzrovia and into a marriage with the daughter of a Scottish lawyer, whose inheritance he was to squander on pate de foie gras and percussion instruments.
Gene Krupa found here
The marriage ended after five years and O'Connor embarked upon a number of other relationships, fathering an unknown number of attractive and intelligent children, in whose upbringing he was to play little part.
Some of his wives and girlfriends attempted to tame him and at various times O'Connor earned a living by pushing an old man round Salisbury in a bath-chair, wielding the lights at the Bedford Music Hall in Camden Town, and as an operator on the continental telephone exchange. In this last role, he boasted that he had eavesdropped on a private conversation between the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
bath-chairs found here
Along the way he took up with a woman who earned her living taking baths with older men, then improved his lot by marrying a wealthy woman who financed a high-living fling that ended when her money and her sanity ran out. (After she tried to kill him, she was confined to a mental hospital and Philip O'Connor went on to other lovers.)
In material and emotional terms, O'Connor's life was stabilised by his meeting at the age of 51 with the young, beautiful and beguiling American Panna Grady, whose self-effacing generosity to artists and writers in her New York apartment in the Dakota building had been on an epic scale. O'Connor began a love affair which was to last for the rest of his life.
Panna Grady and friends (including Andy Warhol) found here
O'Connor and Grady never married, but they created an atmosphere of strange fastidiousness around them in which O'Connor's hisses and cackles were matched by a neurasthenic fear of the sounds and movements of others. This private world hedged in by Grady's antique screens and Chinese tapestries was rarely penetrated or understood by others, though O'Connor could on occasions be an exhilarating host. Reluctant to shake hands – he was more likely to extend a dangling finger – he had considerable skills as a cook, dabbled interestingly with chickens but was just as likely to offer visitors a glass of boiling rum as a tumbler of the best champagne.
It could be argued that Philip O'Connor never grew up. Most of his life he avoided responsibility for others and himself. He was, said Stephen Spender, "part angel, part demon".
In his own words, he "bathed in life and dried myself on the typewriter".
Lego Vintage Typewriter found here
on June 15, 2011 at 12:11 pm Comments (41)
Tags: disorderly childhood, one legged bachelor, percussion instruments, writer
dante's inferno
Lana Turner's eighth husband led an interesting life….
"Ronald Dante, or Ronald Pellar, or whatever his name really is, is not just any old guy, but a prolific con man with a history that is almost impossible to believe.
In the 1970s, he was convicted of trying to murder a rival hypnotist.
A decade earlier he was actress Lana Turner's eighth husband. She was one of his seven wives.
Lana Turner as a child found here
In the 1990s, he operated one of the greatest diploma-mill scams in U.S. history, although in his opinion it wasn't a scam at all. The government disagreed.
Dr. Dante, a name he made up when he was a young man because he liked the way it sounded, said he was born in 1920. When he was 5, Dante claimed, he and his family were in Kuala Lumpur when Malaysian insurgents attacked. His mother, father and sister were killed, leaving only himself and his 10-year-old brother, who were sent to a Chicago orphanage.
image found here (click to read fine print)
At 11, Dante said, he walked away from the orphanage with his brother and hit the streets. His first "business venture" involved buying gold-plated watches for $2.99, packaging them in cases with a $150 price tag attached, and selling them to businessmen who assumed they were buying stolen merchandise for $25.
erotic watch found here
Dante, who still speaks in the deep baritone that made him a sensation as a hypnotist, said he attended several colleges as a young man, including the University of Wisconsin. It was there he met a hypnotist who taught him stage presence, he said.
In 1969 he met "sweater girl" actress Turner in a Los Angeles discotheque called The Candy Store. He soon would become her eighth and final husband.
"He had a persuasive voice and strange, compelling eyes," she wrote in her 1982 autobiography. "He claimed to have been brought up in Singapore and to have earned a doctorate in psychology there, but the press dug up something to debunk that. Shortly after our wedding he was shot at, or so he said, in an underground garage, by a gunman wearing an Australian bush hat. It got a lot of attention in the papers – maybe that was what he wanted."
Six months after the marriage, she found Dante's motorcycle and all his belongings gone and a note typed on blue stationery. "It's obvious that you have your thing to do, and I have mine, and I have to keep on doing it," the note said.
Dante continued to perform as a hypnotist, and in the early 1970s was working in a Tucson nightclub. In 1974 he was found guilty of attempting to contract for the murder of Michael Dean of San Diego, the widely known hypnotist and entertainer.
After being released from prison, he created a permanent-makeup business in which he taught thousands of people how to tattoo eye liner and lip liner, using felt-tip pens and cantaloupes as demonstration tools. The Federal Trade Commission had problems with the company. For one thing, Dante said, he called his graduates "dermatologists," which angered legitimate dermatologists, who are physicians. The government sued and eventually Dante settled the civil case.
From the mid-1980s until the late 1990s, according to court documents, Senate committee transcripts and official reports, Dante made somewhere between $10 million and $20 million selling advanced degrees to people in one of the great diploma-mill scams in U.S. history.
Dante bristles when "diploma mill" or "scam" is mentioned in the same breath with Columbia State. "They all realized what they were getting," he said. "I mean, come on, who's kidding who? They were getting a Ph.D. in a month."
After an ABC television news show featured him in a story about Columbia State University, he was kidnapped – he says by Mexican federal police – and taken to the United States, where a five-year prison sentence was enforced.
At the time of his kidnapping, Dante said, he had $26 million stashed on the yacht in cash, gold coins, cashier's checks and American Express checks. While he was in prison, all the money disappeared.
These days, Dante makes paper flowers, a skill he said he learned while married to Lana Turner. He also has put together a DVD he hopes to sell about how to make the flowers, as well as a DVD about being a hypnotist.
paper flowers found here
His website correctly says he has been listed in Guinness World Records for almost 20 years as having been paid the highest lecture fee: more than $3 million about hypnotherapy at a two-day course held in 1986 in Chicago.
"That was a good weekend," Dante said.
He proudly produces a copy of "Marquis Who's Who" from 1993, which lists Ronald Pellar as holding a doctorate from Columbia State University and of having been a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Is the Marine Corps reference true?
Dante smiled slightly. "Of course not," he said
on June 7, 2011 at 9:40 pm Comments (45)
Tags: actor, compelling eyes, con man, hypnosis, orphans, scam
worthy of an Oscar
Oscar Levant (1906-1972) was a concert pianist, composer, actor, comedian, radio personality, television host, and bestselling author.
In 1932 Oscar married Barbara Wooddell, a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl. Walter Winchell wrote in his newspaper column, "Barbara, who is lovely and nice, is marrying Oscar Levant, who isn't." Oscar and Barbara were divorced less than nine months after getting married. Oscar said later that, "Besides incompatibility, we hated each other."
In 1939 when Oscar married the movie actress June Gale, Walter Winchell wrote, "Oscar Levant, who knows most of the answers, explained that June Gale married him for his beauty, when everybody knows she married him for his theatre passes."
In 1938, after an article in the New York Post declared Oscar to be "the wag of Broadway", and gossip columnist Dorothy Kilgallen devoted a New York Journal piece to "Town Wit – Oscar Levant", the producers of a new radio show called "Information, Please!" hired Oscar to appear as a guest. The response to Oscar's spontaneous wit during this program that challenged "experts" to answer questions sent in by listeners was so phenomenal that he was immediately hired to be one of the show's four regulars.
In 1940 Oscar began to perform in what were called "concerts with comments", where he preceeded and followed his piano pieces with humorous comments often made at his own expense. In 1947 Oscar was invited to perform for President Harry Truman in the White House. His recital was attended by eight justices of the Supreme Court, various cabinet officers, congressmen, and senators, and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. As the Levants were leaving the White House after the recital Oscar turned to his wife and said, "Now I guess we owe them a dinner."
Harry Truman aged 13 found here
In 1944 Oscar received a draft notice from the army. One of the army's examiners asked him, "Do you think you can kill?" Oscar replied, "I don't know about strangers, but friends, yes." He was sent back to civilian life.
His caustic repartee occasionally got him into hot water: one television offering, Oscar Levant's Words About Music, was yanked off the air in 1956 when he commented on a certain starlet's conversion to Judaism and marriage to a well-known playwright: "Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her."
Among the things that Oscar had a phobia about were any mention of the word "death", or any word associated with death such as "funeral", "coffin", etc.; the numbers 13 and 411 (the hospital room number his mother was in when she died); lemons (which reminded him of the lemon he was awarded in his youth for being the worst dancer at a party); cats (a bad omen); dread of the word "luck" in any connotation, especially when being wished "good luck"; a hatred of the name Sarah (his sister–in–law's name); and blackbirds (which filled him with terror because they were funereal–looking).
In July, 1965, Oscar Levant published a volume of random memories titled "The Memoirs of an Amnesiac". Four weeks after its release it appeared on The New York Times bestseller list. While promoting his book on The Merv Griffin television show, he was asked what he would do if he had his life to live over again. Oscar responded, "I'd talk my parents out of it."
Some of his more well known quips…..
Of Elizabeth Taylor: "Always a bride, never a bridesmaid."
Of Perry Como: "Perry Como's voice actually comes out of his eyelids."
Of Debbie Reynolds: "She's as wistful as an iron foundry."
Of Grace Kelly: "She just married the first prince who asked her."
Of Doris Day: "I knew Doris Day before she became a virgin."
Of Richard Nixon: "He swings a big mouth and carries a little stick."
Of Zsa Zsa Gabor: "Zsa Zsa Gabor has learned the secret of perpetual middle age."
"Someone once asked me where I lived and I said, 'On the periphery '."
"I paid thousands of dollars to psychiatrists to forget my childhood."
"My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'."
"I was thrown out of one mental hospital because I depressed the patients."
"There is a fine line between genius and insanity, and I have erased that line."
on June 3, 2011 at 8:29 am Comments (43)
Tags: actor, author, beauty, Composer, Marilyn is kosher, phobia, quip
patience please for the prince
Evangelist Glenn Wilbur Voliva was a disciple of John Alexander Dowie who, in the late 19th century, set up the township of Zion City on the shores of Lake Michigan. Dowie, who had denounced sex, oysters and life assurance, became the victim of a power struggle with Voliva who took over as Chief Administrator in 1905.
more erotic nature to be found here
He gained nationwide notoriety by his vigorous advocacy of flat earth doctrine. He offered a widely publicized $5000 challenge for anyone to disprove flat earth theory. Voliva also frequently predicted the end of the world: his predictions that the end would come in 1923, 1927, 1930, and 1935 were incorrect.
Still from Encounters at the End of the World found here
Lipstick, scanty clothes, high heels and swimming costumes were all strictly forbidden, as were cigarettes and alcohol. There were no theatres or cinemas and no butcher, chemist or doctor was allowed to practice within the city precincts. Nobody was allowed to whistle or sing or drive a vehicle in excess of 5 mph.
Angie Dickinson in scanty clothes and high heels found here
Transgressors were subject to arrest by Voliva's Praetorian Guard, a regime whose helmets were inscribed with the word 'Patience' and who carried miniature bibles instead of truncheons. Punishment included a one hour lecture on sin.
World's smallest Bible found here
Here in Australia we have our own independent sovereign state ruled by His Majesty Prince Leonard of Hutt.
The Principality of Hutt River was created in 1969 as a province in response to a dispute with the government over what the Casley family considered draconian wheat production quotas.
Prince Leonard found here
In correspondence with the governor-general's office, Casley was inadvertently addressed as the "Administrator of the Hutt River Province" which, under the application of Royal Prerogative, makes this recognition binding on all courts. After the government threatened him with prosecution, Casley styled himself His Majesty Prince Leonard I of Hutt to take advantage of a law that a monarch could not only not be charged, but that anyone who interfered with his duties could be charged with treason.
n 1976, Australia Post refused to handle Hutt River mail, forcing mail to be redirected via Canada. Following repeated demands by the Australian Taxation Office for the payment of taxes, on 2 December 1977 the province officially declared war on Australia. Prince Leonard notified authorities of the cessation of hostilities several days later. The mail service was restored and tax requests ceased.
Canada Mail found here
The Principality of Hutt River is situated 517 km north of Perth. Exports include wildflowers, agricultural produce, stamps and coins. Tourism is also important to its economy with 40,000 tourists visiting the principality every year.
Order your Hutt River stamps here
Although actual residents are very few, the principality claims a world-wide citizenry of 13,000. The Principality has no standing army, but a number of its citizens have been awarded military commissions. Honorary guardsmen attend the prince on formal occasions, and despite being completely landlocked, naval commissions have been conferred on supporters of the principality.
Prince Leonard and Princess Shirley found here
Prince Leonard is married to Her Royal Highness Princess Shirley, by whom he has seven adult children. His son, Crown Prince Ian, who is the Prime Minister of the Principality, has been designated as Prince Leonard's eventual successor as "heir presumptive".
on March 16, 2011 at 7:19 am Comments (46)
Tags: Australia, mail, no whistling here, oysters, patience, Princess Shirley, punishment, religion, royalty, scanty clothing, treason
it started with a bicycle theft
Forrest Silva Tucker is best remembered for one of the most innovative escapes in San Quentin's history. But twenty years later in 1999 he wasn't so lucky…
San Quentin weightlifters found here
A 78-year-old career bank robber, who once tweaked San Quentin guards by escaping with two colleagues in a prison- made kayak named "Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Marin Yacht Club," is in trouble again.
DIY kayak found here
Forrest Silva Tucker, a reputed member of the real "Over The Hill Gang" in Boston, is in custody on suspicion of robbing a Florida bank and leading sheriff's deputies on a car chase.
In trying to avoid arrest Thursday, Tucker allegedly blundered into an enclosed schoolyard and was captured after he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a palm tree.
Deputies said the chase ensued after Tucker, wanted for a bank robbery earlier that day in the town of Jupiter, was spotted visiting his girlfriend in Pompano Beach.
real life girlfriend from "Dog Day Afternoon" found here
"You don't normally think of a 78-year- old man having a girlfriend, but apparently he had quite a way with the ladies," said a spokesman for the Broward County Sheriff's Department.
Back in August 1979, Tucker and fellow inmates William McGirk and John Waller had daringly launched a home made kayak from a partially hidden beach on prison grounds.
Their flimsy craft, made of pieces of plastic sheeting, wood, duct tape and Formica, lasted just long enough for them to paddle several hundred yards to freedom right under the noses of the tower guards.
Toothpick ferris wheel made by San Quentin inmates found here
Within a matter of months, McGirk and Waller were back at San Quentin. They were tried twice for escape, but both times amused jurors refused to convict them. Tucker, meanwhile, remained free.
The next time he surfaced was a few years later in a Boston credit scam. The judge hearing the case freed him on his own recognizance after Marin County prosecutors said they did not want to try him for the San Quentin escape. Lost in the official correspondence between the two states was the fact that Tucker still had years to serve on his original San Quentin sentence. Tucker walked out of the Boston court and never went back.
At the time of his arrest for the Bay Area robberies, Tucker already had a rap sheet going back to a 1936 bicycle theft. There were also two other convictions, including a Florida bust in which he had escaped from a South Dade County hospital by picking the lock on his leg irons.
Shop for your human restraints here
Over the next few years, Tucker was identified by law enforcement agencies as a member of a group of elderly criminals in Massachusetts called the "Over the Hill Gang," which robbed supermarkets in Boston and its suburbs. He was suspected in 17 armed robberies over the years, most recently in southeastern Florida.
Tucker's 20 years as a California fugitive came to an ignominious end against a palm tree last week.
Cell tower disguised as palm tree found here
on March 7, 2011 at 8:15 am Comments (46)
Tags: a way with the ladies, escape, old people having fun, robbery
Yesterday I saw "I Love You Phillip Morris" starring Jim Carrey and Ewen McGregor. I'm not a fan of Carrey's work nor did I like the script but I was intrigued enough to investigate the true story it was based on…..
Nine years into a 144-year jail sentence for assorted charges, including felony escape and embezzlement, Russell is one of the Michael Unit's most notorious and closely guarded inmates. Ask him why he is here, incarcerated and alone, and he will answer without missing a beat that it is because he was a fool for love.
Bryan Ferry was also once a Fool for Love
Steven Jay Russell has many other names. As well as the 14 known aliases he used while fabricating bogus credentials and passing himself off variously as a judge, a doctor, an FBI agent and a bar student, he has been nicknamed "Houdini" and "King Con" for his remarkable ability to escape from prison. From 1992, when he was imprisoned for the relatively minor charge of insurance fraud, Russell managed to escape four times from several different Texan jails over a five-year period.
Houdini image found here
Russell's shenanigans were driven by his obsessive love for a fellow inmate called Phillip Morris whom he met in jail. Russell and Morris, who was serving a sentence for failing to return a rental car, were both released on parole in 1995. Setting up home together in Houston, Russell went in search of money to lavish on his lover. He persuaded a medical insurance company to hire him as their chief financial officer on the basis of a greatly exaggerated CV with all references directed back to him. In five months, he embezzled $800,000 from dormant accounts to fund the couple's glamorous lifestyle of Mercedes-Benz cars, jet-skis and matching Rolex watches. Russell even had his teeth capped and plastic surgery on his eyes.
Steven Russell found here
Eventually, he was found out and sent back to jail, but not before impersonating a judge over the telephone and demanding his own bail money be lowered from $900,000 to $45,000 (he paid with a cheque that later bounced). Despite managing repeatedly to outwit the federal authorities, Russell was always caught because, each time he escaped, he would end up beating a path to Morris's door.
Phillip Morris found here
Russell's escapes were never violent but they were ingenious. Twice, he simply walked through the front gates. In 1993, while languishing in the Harris County Jail in Houston for making a false insurance claim about an injured back, Russell disguised himself as a workman with a walkie-talkie and a pair of women's black trousers stolen from the infirmary. "I tapped on the security gate with my walkie-talkie and the guy let me through," he explains, nonchalantly.
Jim Carrey as Steven Russell found here
Three years later, he stockpiled green felt-tip pens from prison art classes, squeezing the ink from the cartridges into a sink of water and dying his overalls the colour of surgical scrubs. "You have to be very careful because if you wring them out, you get streaks in the material," he says matter-of-factly. Underneath the makeshift medical clothes, Russell taped plastic bags tightly to his body so that police dogs would not be able to follow his scent once he was on the run.
Surgeon's scrubs USB keys found here
He was out but not for long. Within the year, he was back in jail, this time plotting his most daring escape ever. Over a 10-month period in 1998, Russell began to feign the symptoms of Aids. He ate almost nothing and took laxatives in order to look as emaciated as possible. He wrote up fraudulent health records on the prison library typewriter and sent them to the relevant department in the internal mail system for inclusion in his medical file. Astonishingly, Russell was so persuasive that the Texas authorities never ran their own tests and he was transferred to a nursing home. From there, he posed as his own doctor over the telephone and received permission from parole officers to take part in a non-existent treatment programme. A few weeks later, the bogus doctor called the prison to let them know that, sadly, Russell had died.
In reality, Russell was very much alive and on his way, once again, to be with Phillip Morris. "That escape was the most difficult," says Russell. "I had to completely discipline myself to lose the weight and did lots of reading up on the symptoms of Aids. But now he claims that he is resigned to a future behind bars – he says that planning all those escapes was "exhausting"
doctor's antics
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a dash of this and a filip of that
In 1972 some Canadian parapsychologists undertook an experiment.
The Experimenters
The members of the experiment attempted to create, through intense and prolonged concentration, a collective thought-form. The group consisted of Iris Owen, a former nurse and wife of the mathematician A. R. G. Owen; Margaret Sparrrows, former chairperson of an organization of individuals with high IQs; Andy H., housewife; Lorne H., industrial designer and husband of Andy H.; Al P., heating engineer; Bernice M., accountant; Dorothy O' D., housewife and bookkeeper; and Sidney K., sociology student. Dr. A. R. G. Owen or Dr. Joel Whitton, psychologist, attended the group meetings.
The group fabricated the fictitious identity, physical appearance, and personal history of their "Philip Aylesford" who was born in England in 1624. He had an illustrious role in the Civil War, becoming a personal friend of Charles II and working for him as a secret agent. But Philip brought about his own undoing by having an affair with a Gypsy girl. When his wife found out she accused the girl of witchcraft, and she was burned at the stake. In despair Philip committed suicide in 1654 at the age of thirty.
The Owen group began conducting sittings in September 1972 during which they meditated, visualized, and discussed the details of Philip's life. After going for months with no communication, the group attempted table-tilting through psychokinesis.
Some weeks after changing to the séance setting the group established communication with "Philip." He answered questions that were consistent with his fictitious history, but was unable to provide any information beyond that which the group had conceived. However, "Philip" did give other historically accurate information about real events and people. The Owen group theorized that this latter information came from their own collective unconsciousness.
One session was held in front of a live audience of fifty people and was videotaped to be shown on television. In other sessions sounds were heard in various parts of the room and lights blinked on and off. The levitation and movement of a table were recorded on film in 1974. "Philip" seemed to have a special rapport with Iris Owen.
As the group became more comfortable with their encounters with Philip, they began to treat him as just another member of the group. They learned his personality as if he was a good friend. And Philip would play tricks on them. At times, he would move the table around the room, especially to rush up to those arriving late as if to greet them and say "Hi". Other times, the table would trap certain individuals in corners.
During one especially active night, one of the members jokingly admonished Philip by telling him that he could be sent away and replaced. After that, Philip's activity began to decrease until it stopped altogether and the experiment was ceased.
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vito and joey
Hit man Vito Arena was a thief who started out by stealing cars for the Gambino family.
"Just before his 36th birthday Vito fell passionately in love with 17 year old Joey Lee, the son of an Irish chauffeur. After a few months Joey moved into Vito's apartment and before he knew it, found himself keeping watch outside while Vito and his chums carried out a contract murder.
In June 1981, Vito and Joey were pulled over whilst driving a stolen Chevrolet. Officer Friedman found gloves, a knife, an ice pick, 3 bullets and a red photograph album in the car. The album contained photos of Vito and Joey in a variety of sexual embraces.
order your bullet ice cube tray here
"I realised then I'd met my first gay hit man. I didn't even know they existed" said Friedman.
Vito offered to do a deal and bartered information for leniency for Joey. Vito got 18 years, but Joey only got one. The plea baragin also included fixing Joey's overbite.
get your overbite fixed here
By July 1983, Joey had served 13 months. He might have stayed longer had prison authorities not realised they had the first convict on record to stay voluntarily past his term. Vito continued to make demands. He asked for a radio, Bruce Springsteen records and more hot water.
Bruce found here
He insisted on the return of his red photo album and requested a barber's chair for his cell block. He also asked for an operation to have the fat sucked from his face. When asked why, he said "I felt my appearance was awful."
operations I don't want
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The Harmoblog
A blog for the Alexandria, Virginia, Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society.
Looking Back on the Dec. 20th 2020 Virtual Holiday Show
This year's Alexandria Harmonizer holiday show was a huge success. Virtual and co-presented with Northwest Sound from Bellevue, WA, Chapter, the free event was broadcast on the BHS YouTube Channel and watched around the world. Theme for the show was "Christmas Coast to Coast – a celebration of singing and family!"
The Harmonizers themselves had a watch party that started at 6 pm – about a half hour before the show went live at 6:30 pm EST on Dec. 20th 2020.
Director Joe Cerutti was at his home, with his parents Joe Sr. and Janet watching, and took a minute to kick off the watch party to explain how it all came to happen. He also shared how we happen to connect with TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors), a non-profit in VA that provides benefits for the families of service members who were killed in the line of duty. Leaders of that organization joined us during the watch party too including founder Bonnie Carroll (who joined the call from Alaska). The Harmonizers encouraged viewers of the show to donate to TAPS and before the show ended, nearly $5,000 was donated. The Northwest Sound Chapter encouraged donations to Hopelink.
President Stan Quick shared in the show program that the first decision during the collaboration was that the show would be a gift. No group appearing would make any money. Rather, each chapter selected their charity to support.
The show was also sponsored by both the Evergreen and the Mid Atlantic Districts of BHS. Evergreen president (former Harmonizer) John Rettenmayer and MAD president (and current Harmonizer) Bob Eckman both brought greetings during the show.
Much appreciation to those who made the show possible because of technology. Mike Kelly and Joel Golden get top billing for their hard work, long hours and technical expertise as Harmonizers. Director Joe Cerutti, associate director Tony Colosimo, and assistant director Terry Reynolds provided significant musical and administrative leadership to get the chorus ready to do their recordings and to keep the communications flowing. Bruce Roehm, president of AH Inc., and Matt Doniger, chapter communications director, were also on the production team. That team included an equal number of men from Northwest Sound including their director Ken Potter and their president and emcee on the show, Bill Hickman. The BHS staff in Nashville provided major project management as well, including promotion to the family of singers we call barbershop.
Before the show launched on Sunday evening, Bruce dedicated the show to the three Harmonizers who died in the year from Covid as well to those Harmonizer families who have had health issues, job changes, weddings, funerals, and new babies. We yearn for more "Harmonizer Breathless Moments" in 2021.
The two-hour show was truthfully a holiday variety show with lots of great graphics, photos and videos and glimpses into homes and lives of fellow barbershop singers around the globe. There were youth quartets, mixed quartets, family groups, dads and their kids, small break-out groups from both chapters, top ranking quartets from all barbershop harmony organizations, some comedy with Will Cox doing his traditional "Night Before Christmas" routine, and a greeting from BHS CEO Marty Monson and his family on their front porch after a snow there.
Our Alexandria chapter was well represented with several groups on the show in addition to the virtual chorus songs by themselves and with the Northwest Sound chorus. Our own a cappella group, TBD, donned Santa hats, with black masks to film a number outside our chapter meeting place. Great hit on "Here Comes Santa."
RIPTIDE – a rock band, which includes Joe Cerutti Sr., Chris Huber, Kellen Hertz and Joel Golden from the chorus) entertained on the show with "Santa Is Coming to Town." They had some fun scenes too – one when Joe Jr. was given a gift box filled with lumps of coal. The list for Santa to check twice include several Harmonizers as well, such as Sam McFarland who was on the "nice" list.
Always great to hear BETTER TOGETHER sing for us – perfect for a family show with Tony and Elizabeth Colosimo, and Andrew and Heather Havens singing together.
Tony and Andrew also appeared with their relatively new quartet, FIRST TAKE, with Drew Wheaton and Alex Corson.
Our guys in SILVER ALERT modeled the epidemy of ugly Christmas sweaters and sang about it on the show! This Harmo quartet includes Rick Savage, Mike Edison, Will Cox, and Steve Murane.
When word was out that this show was being planned, the task force was inundated with offers of assistance and ultimately there were 22 groups appearing on the show. Some of the groups have been part of the Harmonizer year of Zoom meetings, some been on our shows, some have come to help with our Youth Harmony event, and some welcomed us for shows in their world. No wonder it was called a "Christmas Coast to Coast – a celebration of singing and family!"
For the history, here are the groups that did a song on the show:
ASTEL FAMILY
HALO QUARTET
HEAVEY MEDAL
MITCHELL FAMILY SINGERS
NORTHWEST MIX
PRATT STREET POWER
THE QUINN-TONES
VINTAGE MIX
VON TRAMACK FAMILY SINGERS
WORKMAN FAMILY
Plus the two men's choruses – Northwest Sound and the Alexandria Harmonizers.
Until next time – editorjack!
(This message is prepared for your review if you were there, for your information if you had to miss, and as a historical record for the great things going on each week during the 72nd year of the Alexandria Harmonizer Chapter. - YeEd)
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Q: Android Java: Trouble With ListView Showing All Responses From API Query I'm having trouble with my app that is supposed to take in user text input and search Google Books API. Thus far I am able to successfully take in user input, add it to the query string and start an AsyncTask, start HttpRequest, take the inputStream and build a string from it, create an array of items from the string, and then use a custom adapter to display that book listing on the screen for the user.
The trouble I'm having is that when the code runs (regardless of what the user inputs, be it food, greek, android, whatever) I only get one response showing up on the screen. I can't figure out why it's only showing up one book. The API query string specifies 10 (I've also used 2, 4, & 7) as the max result but I've thus far only gotten 1 list. After checking with the debugger I've narrowed it down to either the Stringbuilder stops after a certain length of input or my arraylist isn't creating other indices for the rest of the JSONObjects.
Below is the Book Activity code:
package com.ovidioreyna.android.googlebooksapiapp;

import android.content.Context;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.ListView;

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import static com.ovidioreyna.android.googlebooksapiapp.MainActivity.LOG_TAG;

public class BooksActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    //Creates blank global string which will be used the search parameters in this class
    public String gglBookSearch = "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=";

    //After the user enters what they want to search for we pass that in from the main activity
    //and add it to our global variable here. We then add some modifiers so that we can control
    //the amount of info being return. This will later be changed to 10 once the app is functioning

    Context context = this;

    String jsonResponse = "";

    ListView booksListView;
    BookAdapter adapter;

    //inflates the book_layout.xml so we can see the book info
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.book_list);

        //passes the user input to this activity
        Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
        if (extras != null) {
            String textSearchUpdate = extras.getString("EDITTEXTUPDATE");
            //takes user input and appends it to the initial Google Books API Query
            updateApiSearch(textSearchUpdate);
        }

        //creates an instance of BooksAsynTask and executes it
        BooksAsyncTask task = new BooksAsyncTask();
        task.execute();
    }

    //Sets the appropriate info to the appropriate textviews
    private void updateUi(ArrayList<Books> books) {

        //creates an instance of the book list
        booksListView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.book_list);

        //creates an instance of the book adapter
        adapter = new BookAdapter(context, new ArrayList<Books>());

        //sets the adapter to the listview.xml
        booksListView.setAdapter(adapter);

        //in case user initiates multiple searches then we need to clear the adapter to start with
        //clean adapter for the new search
        adapter.clear();
        adapter.addAll(books);
        adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
    }

    private class BooksAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<URL, Void, ArrayList<Books>> {
        @Override
        protected ArrayList<Books> doInBackground(URL... urls) {
            //creates a new url object from the @gglBookSearch query
            URL url = createUrl(gglBookSearch);

            try {
                //creates a string that will hold the raw data for the jsonarray
                jsonResponse = makeHttpRequest(url);
                Log.i(LOG_TAG, "JSON Results: " + jsonResponse);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                Log.e(LOG_TAG, "Error with make request", e);
            }

            //takes the raw string data and extracts it into an array
            return extractBooks(jsonResponse);
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(ArrayList<Books> books) {
            //checks to make sure that the arraylist books is not empty
            if (books == null) {
                return;
            }
            //if all goes well and books is populated then it displays that info
            updateUi(books);
        }

        private URL createUrl(String stringUrl) {
            //creates a new url object from the string passed in
            URL url = null;
            try {
                url = new URL(stringUrl);
            } catch (MalformedURLException exception) {
                Log.e(LOG_TAG, "Error with creating URL", exception);
            }

            return url;
        }

        public ArrayList<Books> extractBooks(String jsonResponse) {

            //craetes a new Arraylist that will hold all the json data
            ArrayList<Books> books = new ArrayList<>();

            //checks to see that the string passed in is not empty
            if (TextUtils.isEmpty(jsonResponse)) {
                return null;
            }
            try {
                //creates a jsonObject to hold the data. Then delves into the Array items
                JSONObject baseJsonResponse = new JSONObject(jsonResponse);
                JSONArray itemsArray = baseJsonResponse.getJSONArray("items");
                Log.i(LOG_TAG, "Length of books array: " + itemsArray.length());

                //create empty local variables in case the JSON objects are null
                String bookTitle = "";
                String bookSubtitle = "";
                String author = "";
                String publishedDate = "";

                for (int i = 0; i < itemsArray.length(); i++) {
                    //checks to see that the Array isn't empty
                    if (itemsArray.length() > 0) {
                        JSONObject firstItem = itemsArray.getJSONObject(i);

                        JSONObject volumeInfo = firstItem.getJSONObject("volumeInfo");

                        //checks to see if object is null, if not then executes code
                        if (!volumeInfo.isNull("title")) {
                            bookTitle = volumeInfo.getString("title");
                        }

                        //checks to see if object is null, if not then executes code
                        if (!volumeInfo.isNull("subtitle")) {
                            bookSubtitle = volumeInfo.getString("subtitle");
                        }

                        //creates an jsonArray object from the authors array
                        JSONArray authorArray = volumeInfo.getJSONArray("authors");
                        if (!authorArray.isNull(i)) {
                            if (authorArray.length() == 1) {
                                author = authorArray.getString(i);
                            } else {
                                for (int k = 0; k < authorArray.length(); k++) {
                                    //checks to see if object is null, if not then executes code
                                    if (!authorArray.isNull(k)) {
                                        author = authorArray.getString(k) + ",";
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }

                        //checks to see if object is null, if not then executes code
                        if (!volumeInfo.isNull("publishedDate"))
                            publishedDate = volumeInfo.getString("publishedDate");

                        //create a new instance of the Books class
                        Books book = new Books(bookTitle, bookSubtitle, author, publishedDate);
                        books.add(book);
                    }

                    return books;
                }

            } catch (JSONException e) {
                Log.e(LOG_TAG, "Problem with parsing the books JSON results", e);
            }
            //if there is an error in the code above it returns null
            return null;
        }

        private String makeHttpRequest(URL url) throws IOException {

            //checks to see that the url object passed in is not empty. If empty then returns an
            //empty string
            if (url == null) {
                return jsonResponse = "";
            }
            //creates two empty objects
            HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
            InputStream inputStream = null;

            //this is where we try to establish a connection and if successful take the input info
            //and convert it into a usable form
            try {
                urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
                urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
                urlConnection.setReadTimeout(10000 /* milliseconds */);
                urlConnection.setConnectTimeout(15000 /* milliseconds */);
                urlConnection.connect();

                if (urlConnection.getResponseCode() == 200) {
                    //if we get a success code from the server we proceed to convert the bits and
                    //bytes into a usuable form and ultimately convert it into a usable string.
                    inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();
                    jsonResponse = readFromStream(inputStream);
                } else {
                    //if we don't get a success code from the server we log it.
                    Log.e(LOG_TAG, "Error Response Code: " + urlConnection.getResponseCode());
                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                Log.e(LOG_TAG, "Problem With Connection: ", e);
            } finally {
                //regardless if we are successful gettting an inputstream or not we disconnect and
                //close the inputstream
                if (urlConnection != null) {
                    urlConnection.disconnect();
                }
                if (inputStream != null) {
                    inputStream.close();
                }
            }

            //returns the string @jsonResponse whether it's empty or has information
            return jsonResponse;
        }

        //uses StringBuilder to take the raw bits and make a legible string from it
        private String readFromStream(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException {
            StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder();
            if (inputStream != null) {
                InputStreamReader inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream, Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
                BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(inputStreamReader);
                String line = reader.readLine();
                while (line != null) {
                    output.append(line);
                    line = reader.readLine();
                }
            }

            //once the entire input stream has been built we output it to a string
            return output.toString();
        }
    }

    //takes the input text from the user and concatonates it to the query as well as adding a limit
    //of 10 books at a time
    public void updateApiSearch(String updatedEditText) {
        gglBookSearch += updatedEditText;
        gglBookSearch += "&maxResults=10";
    }
}

Here is the link to the entire repo if anyone would like to have the entire code to mess with:
https://github.com/ovidioreyna/GoogleBooksAPIApp
Thanks in advance for your help
UPDATE:
So I created a log event to show the JSON results after jsonResponse = makeHttpRequest(url); and the logs showed this:
10-09 20:50:36.846 32119-32463/com.ovidioreyna.android.googlebooksapiapp I/MainActivity: JSON Results: { "kind": "books#volumes", "totalItems": 1431, "items": [  {   "kind": "books#volume",   "id": "vdXmDAAAQBAJ",   "etag": "pSHAL8HBKSs",   "selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/vdXmDAAAQBAJ",   "volumeInfo": {    "title": "Molly on the Range",    "subtitle": "Recipes and Stories from an Unlikely Life on a Farm",    "authors": [     "Molly Yeh"    ],    "publisher": "Rodale",    "publishedDate": "2016-10-04",    "description": "In 2013, food blogger and classical musician Molly Yeh left Brooklyn to live on a farm on the North Dakota-Minnesota border, where her fiancé was a fifth-generation Norwegian-American sugar beet farmer. Like her award-winning blog My Name is Yeh, Molly on the Range chronicles her life through photos, more than 120 new recipes, and hilarious stories from life in the city and on the farm. Molly's story begins in the suburbs of Chicago in the 90s, when things like Lunchables and Dunkaroos were the objects of her affection; continues into her New York years, when Sunday mornings meant hangovers and bagels; and ends in her beloved new home, where she's currently trying to master the art of the hotdish. Celebrating Molly's Jewish/Chinese background with recipes for Asian Scotch Eggs and Scallion Pancake Challah Bread and her new hometown Scandinavian recipes for Cardamom Vanilla Cake and Marzipan Mandel Bread, Molly on the Range will delight everyone, from longtime readers to those discovering her glorious writing and recipes for the first time.",    "industryIdentifiers": [     {      "type": "ISBN_13",      "identifier": "9781623366957"     },     {      "type": "ISBN_10",      "identifier": "162336695X"     }    ],    "readingModes": {     "text": false,     "image": false    },    "pageCount": 304,    "printType": "BOOK",    "categories": [     "Cooking"    ],    "maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",    "allowAnonLogging": false,    "contentVersion": "1.1.1.0.preview.0",    "imageLinks": {     "smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vdXmDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api",     "thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vdXmDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api"    },    "language": "en",    "previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=vdXmDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Food&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",    "infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=vdXmDAAAQBAJ&dq=Food&hl=&source=gbs_api",    "canonicalVolumeLink": "http://books.google.com/books/about/Molly_on_the_Range.html?hl=&id=vdXmDAAAQBAJ"   },   "saleInfo": {    "country": "US",    "saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",    "isEbook": false   },   "accessInfo": {    "country": "US",    "viewability": "PARTIAL",    "embeddable": true,    "publicDomain": false,    "textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",    "epub": {     "isAvailable": false    },    "pdf": {     "isAvailable": false    },    "webReaderLink": "http://books.google.com/books/reader?id=vdXmDAAAQBAJ&hl=&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_api",    "accessViewStatus": "SAMPLE",    "quoteSharingAllowed": false   },   "searchInfo": {    "textSnippet": "Celebrating Molly's Jewish/Chinese background with recipes for Asian Scotch Eggs and Scallion Pancake Challah Bread and her new hometown Scandinavian recipes for Cardamom Vanilla Cake and Marzipan Mandel Bread, Molly on the Range will ..."   }  },  {   "kind": "books#volume",   "id": "DY-dBAAAQBAJ",   "etag": "t4JLTMFKOGc",   "selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/DY-dBAAAQBAJ",   "volumeInfo": {    "title": "Real Baby Food",    "subtitle": "Easy, All-Natural Recipes for Your Baby and Toddler",    "authors": [     "Jenna Helwig"    ],    "publisher": "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt",    "publishedDate": "2015-04-28",    "description": "Simple Recipes for a Wholesome Start Nothing compares with making your own baby food: It's fresh and unprocessed, you choose what goes into it, and it is a delicious way to introduce your child to a world of flavors. In Real Baby Foo
10-09 20:50:36.861 32119-32463/com.ovidioreyna.android.googlebooksapiapp I/MainActivity: Length of books array: 10

I've also added a log event to show how long the array is and it shows up as 10. Which is strange since only two instances were written from the HttpRequest method.

A: You've returned the books too early in a for-loop. Check it carefully in BooksActivity line 144-186.
            for (int i = 0; i < itemsArray.length(); i++) {
                //checks to see that the Array isn't empty
                if (itemsArray.length() > 0) {
                    JSONObject firstItem = itemsArray.getJSONObject(i);

                    JSONObject volumeInfo = firstItem.getJSONObject("volumeInfo");

                    //checks to see if object is null, if not then executes code
                    if (!volumeInfo.isNull("title")) {
                        bookTitle = volumeInfo.getString("title");
                    }

                    //checks to see if object is null, if not then executes code
                    if (!volumeInfo.isNull("subtitle")) {
                        bookSubtitle = volumeInfo.getString("subtitle");
                    }

                    //creates an jsonArray object from the authors array
                    JSONArray authorArray = volumeInfo.getJSONArray("authors");
                    if (!authorArray.isNull(i)) {
                        if (authorArray.length() == 1) {
                            author = authorArray.getString(i);
                        } else {
                            for (int k = 0; k < authorArray.length(); k++) {
                                //checks to see if object is null, if not then executes code
                                if (!authorArray.isNull(k)) {
                                    author = authorArray.getString(k) + ",";
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }

                    //checks to see if object is null, if not then executes code
                    if (!volumeInfo.isNull("publishedDate"))
                        publishedDate = volumeInfo.getString("publishedDate");

                    //create a new instance of the Books class
                    Books book = new Books(bookTitle, bookSubtitle, author, publishedDate);
                    books.add(book);
                }
 //See that? You return your books with only one extracted from your itemArray!!!!
                return books;
            }

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You�ve reached the website for Martin�s own A Taste of Morality, a high school band that was started in blah blah blah..
Agh! Derek has got to give me some more things to post about the band xD You have no idea how hard it is to make a good website where there is nothing to write about -cracks a whip- Give me something to work with here!
Please...think of the band. Take a button.


I spent all last weekend having strong arguments about the quality of the track known as Pocono Raceway. Since NASCAR is heading there this weekend, I thought it's a good time: what do the rest of y'all think? Is Pocono a good track? Do you subscribe to the conspiracy theory that it actually has five turns? Give me your spiciest takes, friends. I'm here for 'em.


Post subject: How to create a powerful alliance in battledawn/galaxy ?
Step 1: prepare a alliance before the next era. I say you should be doing this because if you can find people in the era before to join your alliance it is a great start also you can find location or hive of your alliance .
Step 2: have exp players. If you are a newbie and you would like to start a alliance you should get some people that are very exp they can help you with the alliance aswell as carry it.
Step 7: have the same units. each alliance should have the same units for example the chassies are fighters.
Post subject: Re: How to create a powerful alliance in battledawn/galaxy ?
These are good tips to go by. BD can be a very unforgiving game. The slightest mistakes can cost you everything.
As an alliance leader I find it is very important to hear your members suggestions and try to give them a larger role in the direction the alliance goes in. Your members must feel ownership of the alliance so that they are just as responsible for the success of the team as any other member.
Personally I would disagree with 2 and 4. I disagree with step 2 because if you maintain powerful allies you limit the territory you can control since your allies control it or you can simply lock yourself into a losing position if you do not wish to attack your allies. Also if you attack your allies it can be used against you to claim you're not trustworthy. The reason I disagree with step 4 is it can be very beneficial to be spread out in clusters/mini hives in the beginning of rounds to capture territory quickly and even later in the round if you have a strong network it can make it easier to control the map with little risk.
I would have to second Korupt here, a solid gate structure is crucial to winning an era. If you want to win, you need to be able to get territory and transport troops across the map in late game. Without that ability you are waiting to get attacked and play the defense game. Even though defense has it's advantages, it shouldn't be the mode of action for the BEST alliance in a server.


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Monsanto Tribunal's Legal Opinion: Background and related actions
The Monsanto Tribunal's Legal Opinion reinforces movements' struggle for basic human rights
The Hague, 18 April 2017
The process of holding the "Poison Cartel" accountable for its crimes, which led to the Monsanto Tribunal, was the culmination of 30 years of scientific, legal, social, and political work by movements, concerned citizens and scientists.
While courts can investigate crimes of the poison cartel, and this is important for justice, people have the power to change the way we grow our food.
Alongside the Monsanto Tribunal, a People's Assembly was also held in Hague, last October. It was a gathering of leading movements and activists working to defend our ecosystem and food sovereignty, to lay out the effects of industrial agrochemicals on our lives, our soils, our atmosphere and climate, as well as to chart the road to our future based on Seed Freedom and Food Freedom, agroecology and farmers rights, our commons and economies of sharing, rights of nature and earth democracy. In the same days, People's Assemblies have been self-organized by local communities throughout the world to establish a worldwide network in order to create a healthy future of food and of the planet.
Last year, on 16 October 2016, World Food Day, the voices of the soil, of the seeds, of farmers, consumers, and of people from all over world expressed their verdict:
Monsanto and the Poison Cartel are guilty of crimes against our planet and humanity. The poison making industry is destroying life on Earth, our health and our democracies. The People's Assembly resolved to end a century of ecocide and genocide.
As multinationals are closing ranks through mergers to become bigger and more powerful, civil society movements gathered at the People's Assembly have committed to joining forces to reclaim people's rights to healthy food and a healthy and safe environment and to defend human rights and environmental rights and regulations gained through years of social struggle.
In 2016 more than 110 People's Assemblies took place in 28 countries to join forces and collectively defend our Seed Freedom, Food Freedom and Democratic Rights to shape the future of food that protects life on Earth and the well-being of all.
This global mobilization is now continuing and movements across the world are converging in a new unity across diversity to end a century of ecocide and genocide.
As a response to the series of announced mergers of chemical-based giant corporations, the Monsanto/Bayer merger being the latest, Navdanya is organizing multiple actions over the next months.
Over the last months Navdanya has joined the widespread opposition against poisons in our food system and is calling citizens throughout Europe to sign the European Citizens Initiative to #StopGlyphosate and demand the EU to reform its pesticides approval procedures. At the Monsanto Tribunal several testimonies were given by witnesses from Europe, United States and Argentina about how the use of glyphosate based herbicides have affected their health and in many cases led to developing cancer. In Italy, towards the end of May Navdanya International will launch a Report on Poisons in our Plate, together with ASud and CDCA..
In India, Navdanya is challenging the process of corporate mergers by warning the governments on conflicts of interests and the dangers of too much concentration of power. At the same time this April, Navdanya has gathered movements for democracy which are undertaking a Satyagraha Yatra, a pilgrimage for Seed Freedom and Food Freedom.
In Greece, from 20-22 April 2017, Navdanya will join Peliti at the Olympic Seed Freedom Festival along with people and organisations from all over the world.
In Germany, from 25 – 29 April 2017, along with the Coalition against Bayer Dangers eV, IFOAM Organics International, Colabora and many other civil society movements, Navdanya is co-organising a "Stop Bayer / Monsanto" mobilization which will converge in Bonn on April 28th, for a demonstration in front of the World Conference Center where the 2017 Bayer shareholders meeting will be held.
Never before has it been more critical for people to organize to stop the corporate takeover of our food, our health and our planet.
We invite you to join with people and communities around the globe, in this renewed "Call to Action against the Corporate Takeover of our Food and Health" and organize a People's Assembly wherever you are to shape another future of our food and our planet.
Everywhere, we will make commitments to create a healthy future of food and of the planet. From the People's Assemblies we will launch a boycott campaign, to liberate our seeds and soils, our communities and societies, our planet and ourselves, from poisons and the rule of the poison cartel.


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Grimoire Almadel Debuts New Dolly Tights Brand, "Verum"
Today the Grimoire Almadel blog debuted the newest Dolly Kei brand from Grimoire, "Verum". Verum is a selection of tights in antique and vintage inspired prints, and they run in lighter and darker colours.
These are the "Vitrail", a beautiful stained glass print, and definitely my favorite from the collection.
EDIT: translate is now working! According to the Grimoire blog entry, the tights will be available in December and the prices are yet to be announced.
Did you know if can be buyed oversea? I NEED to have the vitrail ones!
Those are the kind of thights I'm always looking for...T.T Too bad they won't fit me! I love the stained glass ones!
Those look amazing..I want to know if you can buy them overzeas..
I practically flipped out when I saw these on Tumbler XD They're completely awesome and I just really, really wish we would have more tight options like this ANYWHERE.
I'd love to get my hands on a pair of these but I imagine they're very over my tight budget and I have enough of a problem with tights never quite being long enough for me.
My translate just started working and according to Grimoire (which now also has an entry on the tights), they will be released in early December and the prices will be announced soon.
I imagine the sizing would be much like Japanese socks and other tights, being "one size fits all". If that's the case they'll probably be on the shorter side.
I REALLY want the Vitrail ones, they beat Celeste Stein tights hands down.


You may have set some lofty goals for yourself this year. Perhaps you want to run a marathon, or land a promotion, or finally put in the hours to complete a passion project that's been patiently waiting to see the light of day for years. Regardless of the resolutions you made (and perhaps already gave up), this will still be your year—that is, if you choose it to be.
Our successes ultimately boil down to our daily choices. You wouldn't be able to run that marathon without dedicating time each day to ramp up your miles, hydrate, stretch, etc. It's the small choices we make, consciously or subconsciously, that build on top of one another and prepare us for success. I know that sounds overwhelming, but if you look at it from a bird's eye view, it can be a little comforting. What do I need to do today to propel me forward, one step closer to [insert your dream or desire here]? You don't need to accomplish your goals in one day; you just need to place one foot in front of the other.
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Andy Childs remembers Richard Boston.
Jeff's discovery of the remarkable Country Bizarre magazine got me thinking about other bygone, rurally-inclined magazines that defied the publishing fashion of the times and chose an idiosyncratic road along which to spread their wisdom and love of the good life. Inevitably my thoughts drifted to the wonderful and still much-missed VOLE magazine. VOLE was founded in 1977 and edited by the late Richard Boston, a journalist, book reviewer, biographer, humourist, anarchist, marathon runner, artist, movie extra, and peacenik of whom it was said, by his first wife Anne, that he was the only man she ever knew to wake himself up laughing. I also think that if Chris Yates and the great Roger Deakin are the patron saints of this web-site then Richard Boston is its holy ghost.
I first discovered the work of Richard Boston in The Guardian for whom he wrote an eccentric, witty and consistently amusing column every Saturday during the mid 70s. Having just played a crucial role in helping the Campaign For Real Ale prevent the major breweries from monopolising pub beer with their gassy, headache-inducing poison, Boston was given a regular column in The Guardian in July 1976 in order, ostensibly, to write about this revolution in beer-drinking. But true to form, he quickly tired of the subject and his column developed into a platform for his many interests and passions and was none the worse for it. Cheese, Edward Lear, the French, the railways, truffles, daft place names, the department of transport – these were just a few of the subjects that occupied his thoughts until a year later fresh from winning the main prize in the Glenfiddich Awards for the "civilized appreciation of food and drink" he started a new column called 'Eating Out' which in turn eventually meandered and digressed in similarly entertaining fashion. Diversity and a certain unpredictability was always a strong feature of Richard Boston's life. He was born on Dec 29th 1938, educated at Stowe, trained as a painter at Regent Street Polytechnic, read English (MA) at King's College Cambridge, and taught in Paris before immersing himself in the poorly-paid literary life. In between working for Peace News (where he had an MI5 file devoted to him), becoming books editor of New Society, and slaving for a pittance as a reviewer for the TLS, he also somehow ran the marathon in Sweden (he was by all accounts a keen athlete), and appeared as an extra in Jacques Tati's film 'Playtime'. His marriage to Anne Boston in 1968 lasted eight years and he seemed destined to remain relatively unknown as a writer until CAMRA and The Guardian exposed his talents to a wider audience and probably gave him the confidence to launch his own magazine in 1977.
way, local history, human welfare, Basil Brush and darts'. In other words it was a magazine that held dear those values that make up a quality of life that rejects the consumer-mad, dumbed-down world of big business and duplicitous government that even today threatens to engulf us all in a vortex of insane debt and misery. It was undoubtedly ahead of its time, especially in its coverage of green issues and the environment generally and like Like Caught By The River it laid out, in a way almost certain to capture the attention of people of a certain age and disposition, a way of life that rigorously extolled the endangered traditions, crafts, skills and pastimes of a less frenetic, more civilized way of life. Vole's contributors included, at various times, a host of Richards besides Boston himself….Richard Mabey, Richard Ingrams, Richard Adams, plus John Arlott, Jonathan Raban, Miles Kington, and Simon Frith, and it appeared monthly from Sept 1977 until I believe June 1981 by which time Richard North had assumed the editor's role and the magazine had become something of an ecologist's version of International Times. Somehow, towards the end, it had lost its sense of fun and become too politicized for my taste. I missed the early irreverence and eclecticism of its first three years and still do.
Richard Boston moved on and started yet another magazine – this time the short-lived literary journal Quarto that was soon to merge with The Literary Review. He also had a number of books published including Beer And Skittles(1976), two collections of his columns – Baldness Be My Friend (1977) and Starkness At Noon (1997) plus a biography of Osbert Lancanster, Osbert. In 1994 Later he also stood for election as a member of the European Parliament as the Boston Tea Party on the slogan "it's a big enough trough and I want to get my nose in it". Someone once said that he was incapable of being serious for very long and, like a good many humourists, prone to bouts of introspection and melancholy. But he was I believe, beneath the light, irreverent façade, a deeply literary man and a serious scholar. Unless I somehow missed it his writing became more infrequent in recent years although he was supposed to be working on a biography of Cezanne and Zola, and when I learned of his death in December of 2006 I was shocked and very sad that we'd lost such a unique voice. He would I am sure have approved wholeheartedly of Caught By The River. It seems to me to be a direct link to the philosophy, sensibility and aesthetic of VOLE and of Richard Boston's anarchic, mischevious and erudite writing. How we could do with a hefty dose of his rebellious wit today!


porzingis is good, but the question is if he is tough enough to play in the NBA. He seems a bit too much on lean side. He should work on getting a bigger frame.
I admire Lebron a great deal. However, I believe his best years are behind him. He cannot continue to play as he has during these finals and remain healthy. It was worrisome to see how exhausted he was. He needs a supporting cast that shows up to play. Am not sure that Irving and Love coming from serious injuries will be able to provide it next season.
Melo needs to just worry about getting back in shape and leave the personnel decisions to the big boys. Who is he to question Jackson? Players these days never cease to amaze me!
Knicks fans should understand, as long a Melo is the center of the Knicks, it doesn't matter who they pick.
I hope the Lakers should go after LaMarcus 1st as he's more of a complete stretch 4. They already have a decent upcoming C with Black and Davis. I don't like the idea with DeMarcus as we have to trade for him.
The kid the Knicks drafted might turn out to be good and better then Melo, these foreign players can ball.. we all know he's in New York because his girl's from New York.
Thank God it sounds like JR Smith won't be back with the Cavs next year! No team will sign him for what he is asking for, he is too inconsistent and unprofessional.
Love should hit the road. He will never shine in lebron's "stand and dribble" offense.
Made it to the finals in the East. I'd love to see Lebron try to play in the West. Stick him in Sacramento and see if he still makes the finals.
Good point. The West is obviously has more talented teams right now. Players love the warm weather all year round!!! LOL. I would doubt that Lebron would seriously entertain going to a team without a legit chance of winning it all. At Least in Cleveland he knows the owner/management and has a tremendous influence on which players the team keeps and/or goes after. Going somewhere else without having the influence he has on management decisions would not be a smart move. Just look at NY where Carmelo Anthony plays. The Nicks just drafted a player that cannot immediately make a major impact. Melo' probably is not too happy about that.
Good point. The West obviously has more talented teams right now. Players love the warm weather all year round!!! LOL. I would doubt that Lebron would seriously entertain going to a team without a legit chance of winning it all. At Least in Cleveland he knows the owner/management and has a tremendous influence on which players the team keeps and/or goes after. Going somewhere else without having the influence he has on management decisions would not be a smart move. Just look at NY where Carmelo Anthony plays. The Nicks just drafted a player that cannot immediately make a major impact. Melo' probably is not too happy about that.
When will the NY Knickebonkers stop falling out of grace? What a project gone bad. Carmello Anthony should of left last year but he wasted the media's time by going on a tour to be courted by LA, Texas and Chicago. Then They hire the Zen Master, still don't see any of his promises come to fruition. The whole team has been dismantled, which is a good thing. But anyone with any sense knows this is a full rebuild. So why is Carmello impatient? He signed up for a rebuild, right? I though I remember Phil Jackson saying last year before Carmello resigned, that Carmello would have to be patient with the Knickerbonkers???
Melo is a joke he knew the moment he signed that contract he wasn't going to win a ring in Ny if winning was what he truly wanted he should have gone to Chicago or Houston now he can't criticize Jackson for picking what he thinks to be the best prospect available.
What would it matter what Melo thinks of the draft choices? He DEMANDED a trade from Denver to NY. So when he demanded the trade, he has to accept the team players and the organization. He is a selfish player and the contract extension proves that. If he regrets resigning with the team, demand another trade! We would rather have unselfish young players who want to win anyway. He is the wrong person to question JAX draft choices. When (if) he wins 11 championship rings like JAX, them maybe, he can voice an opinion. Otherwise, just report for preseason with a new attitude and get ready to be a leader this year. He is 30 years old, and acting like a spoiled brat. New season – new attitude. You would think if he really wants the Knicks to succeed he would help Fisher mentor and inspire the team. I love he Knicks, but I can't stand the EGOS!
Turn the page, and begin anew. Go KNICKS!!!
Carmel. New York has been waiting for years for you to show some leadership.
good luck Cleveland, finding someone to help you win a championship all depends on his royal highness becoming a true team player.
I'm not sure if that was meant as a snarky comment, but… who in their right mind would say Lebron isn't a team player? He's the prime example of a superstar who makes everyone better.
Dude I don't like Lebron at all and will criticize him for anything he does wrong haha but he is a team to player. Rag on him for stuff that he does do like running to go play with Superstars in the weakest confrence in the last 50 years. He is however a team player who makes everyone on his team better.
hope lakers can get DeAndre Jordan!!!!!
Keep dreaming you schmuck flaker fan.
You already got a kid to work for old man Bryant so stick with that.
I'm pretty sure Loves win/loss record was better….
Due to Lebron's do it all abilities he just doesn't have the fitness to do everything at 100% for 100% of the time. I recon only 2 or 3 current players could have done what lebron did in the finals this year's finals and those 2 players play for the Thunder. He just didn't have anything in reserve for the last 5 minutes of every game cos he was spent. He played historically good but fitness/fatigue got the better of him especially due to GSW upping the tempo. I've seen it a few times now by LBJ, for an all time elite player he's often been bad in the clutch and ever since the cramps he suffered in SA in last years finals I'm now thinking he's just been too damn tied from tring to do it all… I'm not hatting on LBJ here, it's just an observation.


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