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County Commissioners will consider adopting the 2013 Master Parks Plan when the board meets on Tuesday.
This will be the first major update of the County's parks and recreation plan since 1988.
The plan lists the $2.3 million dollar Blackwood Farm Park outside of Hillsborough as a top priority, along with River Park and a new $6 million dollar athletic facility on Millhouse Road north of Chapel Hill.
The board will also likely authorize the transfer of ownership of the new Buckhorn-Mebane water and sewer utility infrastructure to the City of Mebane.
The project was completed this fall using $5.1 million in revenue from the county's quarter-cent sales tax to support economic development. It will bring water and sewer service to the Buckhorn-Mebane economic development district, where Japanese candy-maker Morinaga is building its first American factory.
The City of Mebane will provide sewer and water service to the area.
County Commissioners meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center on Homestead Road. You can get the full agenda here.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/commissioners-update-orange-countys-park-plan/
Democrat Mia Burroughs becomes the newest member of the Orange County Board of Commissioners after beating Republican Gary Kahn with 76 percent of the vote.
Burroughs won with 37,184 votes, while Kahn took in 11,694.
Burroughs has served on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board since 2007, but she says now she's ready to dig into countywide issues.
Burroughs will represent District 1, covering Chapel Hill and Carrboro. She'll join Earl McKee and Barry Jacobs who won re-election to the District 2 and At Large seats on the board. They were each running unopposed.
There were no surprises in the majority of the local races on the ballot Tuesday, as most were decided in the May Democratic Primary.
Mark Chilton was elected Register of Deeds with 40,000 votes. After beating incumbent Deborah Brooks in the primary, he was running unopposed in the General Election.
Similarly, Charles Blackwood faced no opposition in the race for Orange County Sherriff. He won a second primary in July against challenger David Caldwell.
Blackwood received 43,900 votes in Tuesday's election. He will replace Lindy Pendergrass, who has served as sheriff since 1982.
Orange County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve a $200 million dollar budget that includes a 2-cent property tax rate increase.
The property tax rate for next year will be 87.8 cents per $100 dollars of assessed value, the first increase in five years.
The additional revenue will go to support education, as both school districts are braced for funding cuts from the state that will likely translate to a reduction in teaching assistants.
The chairs of both the Orange County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City school boards came before Commissioners to thank them for the increase.
Orange County Schools Chair Donna Coffey said the additional local money is not a windfall for the district, merely a patch at best.
"There's still a great bit of uncertainty coming out of Raleigh and the budget hasn't been finalized," said Coffey. "At the very least I think we're going to face more cuts, which will mean a lot less funding from Raleigh."
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chair Jamezetta Bedford agreed.
"We don't know what the state is going to do but it won't be good," said Bedford. "Our TA allotment is also the most critical piece that could be cut, well over 50 positions in the State Senate proposed budget. So this increase in taxes really will help us."
Board of Commissioners Chair Barry Jacobs reminded the audience that the two school districts have seen a combined loss of $42 million in state funding in the past five years.
The 2014-2015 county budget goes in to effect July 1. Legislators are still hashing out the final version of the state budget.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/orange-county-approves-2-cent-property-tax-rate-increase/
Tonight at 7:00, the Orange County Board of Commissioners holds a work session (at the Southern Human Services Center) to continue discussing next year's fiscal budget – including, perhaps most notably, the question of funding for Orange County's two school districts.
The current proposal (with no property tax increase) includes a $2.9 million combined increase in spending for Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools – but the two districts face a combined shortfall of around $7 million. Local officials are also watching the budget debate in Raleigh, where legislators are considering at least one proposal that would eliminate funding for teaching assistants in grades 2 and 3 (among other things).
Many local residents have called on county commissioners to raise the county's property tax rate to fully fund the school districts' budget requests, but county officials have been reluctant to raise a rate that's already relatively high (fifth-highest of North Carolina's 100 counties).
Click here for budget and tax-rate information, from an earlier board meeting agenda.
With all of that (and more) in mind, WCHL's Aaron Keck sat down on Tuesday with County Commissioner Penny Rich, who's also a parent in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro district.
Listen to their conversation.
Local leaders don't yet know what the final state budget will look like, but they all agree- things are likely to get worse, not better.
"It would be a disaster, I think, to cut $6 million dollars from our budget," said Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board member Mike Kelley. "It would just be a completely different community."
Kelley and other officials from Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools came before Orange County Commissioners on Thursday to detail how state cuts could adversely impact education.
The proposed senate spending plan will take a bigger bite out of local budgets, costing Orange County Schools an extra $2 million and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools an extra $3.6 million on top of the district's $2.7 million dollar shortfall.
The plan also calls for increasing teacher pay by cutting teaching assistants. County schools would lose 35 positions, city schools would lose 57.
The state House has not yet released its budget proposal, but with legislators promising to wrap up the short session before school ends next week, county leaders say they're in a position to make last minute changes to the local budget if necessary. Still, they say they can't possibly afford to undo all the damage school officials are bracing for.
"We can fill holes but we can't fill craters," said Board Chair Barry Jacobs. "So I would be surprised if we can address all of the cuts that y'all have just described."
Looking ahead, Commissioners, including Penny Rich, said it might be time to revisit the county goals for school funding.
"We keep saying this year is different than every other year, but I think this year is the beginning of what it's going to be like," said Rich. "So we do need to change the process, because, perhaps we can put a band-aid on it this year, but what happens in year two, three and four?"
County Commissioners will hold two budget work sessions next week before adopting the 2014-2015 budget on June 17.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/schools-county-limbo-awaiting-ncga-budget/
At a budget work session on Wednesday, Chapel Hill Town Council members sounded off about a vote the night before by Orange County Commissioners to fund rural curbside recycling out of reserve funds, while asking the towns to levy a $59 per household fee for the same service.
Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt said the move jeopardizes future collaboration with the county on solid waste and recycling.
"You know, we made a decision two or three months ago that we were all in it together," said Kleinschmidt. "I think we did that with the hope that, by this point, we were actually going to be in lockstep, that we were going to have a county-wide plan to move forward. But we don't."
Council members argued the majority of the money in the solid waste reserve fund was contributed by the towns, making it particularly unfair to subsidize recycling pick-up for county residents while charging urban households.
In light of Tuesday's vote, some Council members said they won't agree to levy the town recycling fee when the budget comes up for approval next week.
Instead, the Council is asking Commissioners to consider funding both rural and urban recycling pick-up for next year from the solid waste reserve fund.
While this would drop the county's $3 million dollar post- closure landfill contingency fund down to $1 million, Town Manager Roger Stancil told the Council that's not their problem.
"At this point it's totally the county's issue," said Stancil. "So they would have to find a way to pay for that liability."
Chapel Hill officials last year investigated the costs of hiring private contractors to handle trash and recycling pick-up, but Council members agreed to try to maintain a fifteen-year partnership with the county in hopes of furthering the community's solid waste reduction goals.
Town and county officials were drafting an interlocal agreement to spell out how that might work, but Stancil told the Council that process ground to a halt recently, as county leaders threw their support behind a task force instead.
Commissioners voted to create that task force on Tuesday, stipulating that a Commissioner would act as chair and inviting Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough and UNC to participate, along with five residents.
Council member Jim Ward has worked with Orange County on solid waste issues in the past, but this time, he called the process flawed.
"This committee that I'm just hearing about, we had no input on that. This is totally unacceptable to me, the process and the outcome," said Ward. "The outcome isn't any surprise because of the process that they're using."
In response to lobbying from town leaders, County Commissioners will reopen the issue at Thursday's work session, and likely vote on a new funding plan.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/chapel-hill-balks-bocc-funding-plan-recycling-pick/
HILLSBOROUGH- After months of debate, Orange County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to approve spending $728,000 from the solid waste reserve fund to pay for rural curbside recycling pick-up for one year.
While board members agreed it was preferable to raising the property tax rate to cover the cost of the program next year, some, including Mark Dorosin, argued it might be time to reconsider the county's reliance on fees.
"I'm happy to support [this] option tonight, but I think it's a very, very, bad, dangerous precedent to start talking about funding services based on who uses them," said Dorosin. "Once you start talking about everything is a fee for services, you really undermine the idea of a community."
The county was forced to find a new funding model after a court ruling called into question the county's ability to levy the fee that supported the program. The board scrapped two alternate funding models in April before opting for Tuesday's stopgap measure.
Town and county officials are moving towards an interlocal agreement on solid waste, but no agreement has yet been reached on how to equitably fund the recycling program, how the governments should share any future facilities like a waste transfer station, or where such a facility might go.
In an effort to tackle those questions, Commissioners voted 5-2 to create a Solid Waste Advisory Group of residents and elected officials to sort out short and long-term goals for cooperation. Commissioner Penny Rich was one of those who favored a wide scope for the task force.
"This is not a group just to find out what we're doing with recycling, this group is to really explore what we're going to do," said Rich. "I mean, we need a solid waste plan, we need to make that we move into the future and not have this discussion every single year."
The board will appoint Commissioners on June 17 and solicit representation from Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough and UNC as well as five members of the public. Commissioners hope to receive a report from the newly-formed task force at next fall's Assembly of Governments. In the meantime, the board will review a draft interlocal agreement on June 17.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/bocc-looks-task-force-solid-waste-recycling-solutions/
"Reserved enthusiastic support" is how Chair Barry Jacobs characterized the Board of County Commissioners' approach to helping Chapel Hill finance the Ephesus-Fordham revitalization plan.
"We're not here to judge the project; the project has been approved," said Jacobs, speaking at a work session on Thursday. "We're going to try to address our concerns and hopefully make this a strong partnership."
The Chapel Hill Town Council approved rezoning for nearly 190 acres last Monday in a bid to spur redevelopment near the Ephesus Church Road and Fordham Boulevard intersection. The Council will likely approve a plan later this spring to spend $10 million to build new roads and improve infrastructure in the region.
The debt will be paid using the increased tax revenue from new growth, but in order to pay down the debt sooner, Chapel Hill officials are asking Commissioners to chip in fifty percent of either the annual debt payment or the incremental tax revenue. Payment would be capped at $400,000 a year, for a total of approximately $7 million.
Chapel Hill's Business Management Director Ken Pennoyer said while the town could finance the project alone, Orange County's participation would put the project on more sound financial footing.
"If the county does not participate it will certainly make our financing weaker in terms of our funds capacity to pay back," said Pennoyer. "If the county does not participate, we will try to move forward with it based on what we have."
While the board expressed interest in the plan, commissioners worried the town had not adequately anticipated the impact new residential growth would have on schools. With 300 to 450 additional students estimated in the area, Jacobs said finding a nearby school site would be key.
"We're going to be essentially generating enough students to at least populate half an elementary school, and the nearest elementary school is one of the older, smaller elementary schools," said Jacobs."So if we're being realistic, however much it is going to cost, we need a site. If there's a site it makes it way more feasible for us."
Commissioners also questioned the affordability of the new housing in the area, as the newly-adopted form-based code prevents the town from mandating developers provide affordable housing options.
Though some on the board sought to debate the merits of the plan, Vice Chair Earl McKee pointed out that as of last Monday's vote, it's a done deal.
"The increased expenses to the county are going to be there, the increased revenue to the county is going to be there, regardless of whether we participate," said McKee. "Whether we participate, for me, will depend on trying to work with our partner towns."
Jacobs told Chapel Hill representatives that the board will need more information about schools, housing and the district's stormwater plan. He said board members likely won't be ready to make a funding commitment after the board's summer recess.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/commissioners-cautiously-interested-ephesus-fordham-financing/
After deciding last month not to decide on a long-term option for funding rural curbside recycling pick-up, Orange County Commissioners on Tuesday wrangled with the question of how to keep the program going in the short term.
"We have to choose from a basket of bad options, and whether we choose the worst bad option or a little bit better bad option, we're going to choose a bad option for this next year," said Vice-Chair Earl McKee.
The board on April 15 did not opt for either a solid waste service district tax or a subscription service to pay for recycling pick-up for 13,700 homes in unincorporated Orange County.
Now, Commissioners are considering how to come up with $630,000 to fund the service for the next year. Possible options include drawing from the solid waste reserve fund, raising the property tax rate, or increasing household fees to cover the full operating costs of the solid waste convenience centers, which would then free up other funding for recycling pick-up.
Although the County Manager recommended using reserve funds, some on the board, including Bernadette Pelissier, worried town residents would be unfairly subsidizing rural services.
"Actually, the towns would be paying three times," said Pelissier. "They're paying from reserves, they're paying from the general fund for the convenience centers, and then they're paying the recycling fee in the town."
But Interim County Manager Michael Talbert said at this point, there are no ideal solutions.
"Just to be clear, we know it is not equitable. None of the options are equitable," said Talbert. "I don't know how to say it any other way, none of them are equitable. They all benefit one portion of the population more than the other."
The board will likely pick from a menu of options at a meeting on June 3. Also on June 3, commissioners will revisit a draft of a preliminary interlocal agreement between the towns and county to govern how solid waste and recycling will be handled in the future.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/bocc-faces-basket-bad-options-fund-rural-curbside-recycling-program/
Orange County Commissioners on Tuesday backed away from a plan to create a solid waste service district tax to pay for rural recycling pick-up.
"It seems clear to me at least, that a one-size-fits-all solution is not ideal," said Commissioner Mark Dorosin.
The board side-stepped a vote on the proposed district tax in favor of what members called a more wholistic approach.
"On the 13th we're going to be discussing a draft inter-local agreement which would bring us back into partnership, after several years, with our municipal partners," said Board Chair Barry Jacobs. "That's the time to start talking about what all of our options are, how they fit together, how they would be funded, to look at new ideas."
The district tax would have replaced a fee the county attorney told the board it no longer has authority to levy. The rural curb-side recycling program currently serves about 13,700 homes, but funding runs out in July.
Residents of suburban areas outside Chapel Hill and Carrboro supported the district plan as a way to continue curb-side pick up. But rural residents protested, saying the service is not suited to areas with long driveways and no curbs.
Despite two crowded public hearings and a slew of emails, board members could not agree on the level of public support for the plan.
"I have to say that most of the emails I received were in favor of the tax," said Penny Rich. "Most of the emails I received are people that wanted to take advantage and continue using the recycling."
"I must be on a different email list, because the emails I received ran two to one against the tax," Earl McKee replied.
Unlike the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, Orange County does not currently host a public email archive online. However, Jacobs proposed posting all emails related to the solid waste service district tax plan on the county website for readers to draw their own conclusions.
Only one member of the public spoke at Tuesday's meeting. Bonnie Hauser, who is challenging Jacobs for his at-large seat on the board, called for the creation of a work group of citizens and elected officials to sort through solid waste issues.
"Please consider finding a simple way to fund rural curbside recycling for the short-term, possibly using reserves or the General Fund," said Hauser. "Second, start a work group with professionals and citizens from the towns and county to work together over the next year or so to explore services, costs and fees for trash and recycling services."
Though no board member called for a vote on either the district tax plan or its alternative, an opt-in subscription service, some, including Bernadette Pelissier, expressed frustration that the matter remains unresolved.
"While I understand that many of my colleagues want to have further conversations, and there may be fruitfulness to it, we are going to have an inequitable situation that's going to be aggravated by not making any decision about some way to do this," said Pelissier.
County leaders must still decide how to fund the program for at least the next year, and whether to move ahead with the purchase of roll carts.
The board will discuss the future of solid waste disposal, potential partnerships with the towns and the question of rural recycling in particular, at meetings scheduled for May 8 and 13.http://chapelboro.com/news/local-government/bocc-bunts-rural-recycling-pick-plan/


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Harry Roberts Gives His Only Ever Interview Again And Again And Again
WHEN police murderer Harry Roberts was released for prison, the Mail on Sunday had an "exclusive":
25 Oct 2014: Kate Kray, of the infamous Kray family, was the women how secured the "only interview" Harry Roberts has ever given.
The story tells readers:
I am the only person ever to have interviewed Harry Roberts.
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Watch a 93-Year-Old Smoke Marijuana For The First Time
When you're 93-year-old, it's time to take a hit from your first joint.
93-year-old "Silver Princess" and her son "Open Sky" has uploaded this view of them smoking weed together. It's her first time. Well, so goes the legend.
The drug is now legal in Washington, so the police will not toss grandma in prison and ruin her life.
Spotter: reddit
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Exaro, The BBC And The People Are Killing Justice For A Paedophile Murder Story
THE fall out from the Mirror's report on alleged peadophiles is that fingers are being pointed with no proof. Compensation-seeking lawyers, police PRs, self-serving politicians and anyone looking for a whistleblower to prove all the conspiracies true are circumventing justice to prove their settled conclusion: peados did abuse and even murder children in 1980s Westminster.
Maybe it is true. But what about the facts?
Barrister Blogger has more:
The scene was set yesterday when the BBC decided to join Exaro News in broadcasting an interview with a man in his 40s known as "Nick" who alleges that he was repeatedly raped by Conservative MPs and other "VIPs" in the 1970s and 80s. Nick, it is said, is grateful to Exaro News and to his counsellor for "allowing" him to tell his story in public, and wants to encourage others to go, as he has now gone, to the police to corroborate his account. According to the BBC he has been "in counselling on and off since he was in his twenties" and has only now "found the strength to come forward." There was no mention in the BBC interview of any murder and Exaro have never previously revealed that Nick witnessed a murder.
Mark Watts the Exaro interviewer suggests "a lot of people will find your account hard to believe," but that does not mean that Nick is lying. Nevertheless Exaro, and now the BBC, have acted extremely unwisely by catapulting him into the public domain.
Both the BBC's interview, and even more so Exaro's, go into considerable detail about the alleged abuse. We are told, for example, how Nick and other children would be driven to Dolpin Square where sex parties were held. They would be made to dance and sing, before being sexually abused by a group including MPs, "an ex-Cabinet Minister," and other "powerful people." Nick says that he was repeatedly raped while his head was held under water in a bath, and on a number of occasions he nearly drowned. Boys were injured, and a doctor, he says, was part of the group to treat these injuries. It was, indeed, a paedophile ring.
The first effect of broadcasting Nick's detailed allegations is that anybody wishing to make a false allegation has now been given not just rumours, which in truth have been flying around on the internet for years, but a detailed and apparently first-hand description of exactly how another witness says the abuse took place. This, of course, flies in the face of good policing practice in which the account of one witness is never given to other potential witnesses precisely because of the danger of contamination. It is true that neither Exaro nor the BBC has actually given the names of the alleged abusers but 5 minutes on the internet would supply a selection of Tory MPs and cabinet ministers about whom rumours have swirled. Most of those who were cabinet ministers in Mrs Thatcher's first administration are now dead, so the tidbit that the Minister in question is still alive narrows the field to about 10 suspects.
In any case involving multiple complainants the defence always strives hard to show that the complainants may have colluded with each other, or at least that later complainants knew of the substance of an earlier complaint, while the prosecution tries to show that such collusion or awareness is unlikely. Well, Exaro and the BBC together have comprehensively ensured that any future complainant will be aware of the detail of Nick's complaint and his evidence will for that reason be devalued. In a nutshell, if a future witness relates similar details to Nick's he will be accused of having learnt them from the BBC and Exaro interviews. It is on such issues that cases turn.
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Christians And Muslims Fight For Right To Murder For Their Beliefs
ARE we outraged that Christians are being persecuted?
Melanie Phillips in the Times:
Barbaric assaults on religious liberty are greeted in the West with an embarrassed silence. Canon Andrew White is one of the bravest people I know. For nine years this former Middle East envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury, who has played a key role in freeing hostages in the region, has been the vicar of St George's church in Baghdad.
As such, he has been the emblem and body-armoured defender of Iraq's Christian community, which has been under murderous assault in the wars that have engulfed Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
A few days ago, at a conference I chaired in Jerusalem, Canon White told me that the Archbishop of Canterbury has now forbidden him to return to his church in its heavily barricaded compound. Given the advance towards Baghdad of Islamic State (Isis) — which has now murdered a fifth hostage, the American Peter Kassig — it is simply too dangerous even for him.
More than 1,200 members of his congregation and several of his staff have been murdered in the past few years. His flock has dwindled from 6,500 to 1,000 today, including the six remaining Jews in Iraq, who have lived under his personal protection.
What is happening is a tragedy of extraordinary, historic proportions. In the place where Abraham was born, most of the 135,000-strong, three millennia-old Jewish community was forced to flee several decades ago. Now it seems that Christianity is about to be wiped out in a land where it has been cradled for more than 2,000 years.
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Oxford University Abortion Debate Cancelled Because Protests And Cowards
THE CENSORS won! An Oxford University debate between Brendan O'Neill and Tim Stanley on 'abortion culture' is cancelled. Ther would be protests. And that was no good. Christ Church JCR Treasurer, Will Neaverson tells Cherwell:
"I'm relieved the Censors have made this decision. It clearly makes the most sense for the safety – both physical and mental – of the students who live and work in Christ Church. I'm glad the views of the GM were well represented and well received."
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Devon Man Guilty Of Possessing 9 Pence Worth Of Cannabis
TO North Devon Magistrates's court, where Christopher Saunders, is answering the charge of being in with possession of nine pence worth of cannabis, roughly 0.09 grams of prohibited drugs.
Tim Hook for the defence, argues:
"If I close one's eyes and try to imagine nine hundredths of a gram it is a very difficult thing to fasten your mind on. I think it is a quantity that is barely capable of measurement… I am staggeringly surprised it couldn't have been dealt with by way of a caution at the police station, when so many things are."
Mr Saunders pleads guilty. He is awarded a conditional discharge.
The war on drugs goes on…
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Cowboy Policeman Takes On Wheelie Riding Biker In The City of London
TWO lines to listen out for in this video of a man on a bike doing a 22mph wheelie in the City of London and the policeman telling him off:
Our favoutite is, "Get out the SQuare Mile and don't come back". John Wayne would be proud.
That narrowly beats, "You can tell your friends about the big telling off you got from a policeman on a horse".
Posted: 18th, November 2014 | In: Anorak TV, Cars, News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Free Speech Abort! Oxford University Students Run Scared Of Abortion Debate
BRENDAN O'Neill and Timothy Stanley are going to debate abortion at Oxford Students for Life's Abortion Culture debate. Or are they? Cherwell, the independent student newspaper of Oxford University, has news:
A controversial debate on abortion planned to be held at Christ Church by Oxford Students for Life (OSFL) has attracted widespread student criticism, with the College's JCR voting to inform college Censors about the mental and physical security issues surrounding the debate.
Mental security? Colleges ought to be beacons of free inquiry. Is the allegation that listening to O'Neill and Stanley will render you unhinged? These melon twisters might make you think, and that would be just awful.
Nick Gillespie cuts in:
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Posted: 17th, November 2014 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Jimmy Savile And The Married Bisexual Monk And Convicted Child Abuser Who Fixed Clocks For Kids
DID you see the convicted child abuser on Jim'll Fix It, the Jimmy Savile BBC show whereon the twice-over knight (papal and regal) made kids' wishes come true? Of course the biggest wish he saved for later when he dropped dead.
The peado wasn't just Jimmy. He's only an alleged one. This other padon was an actual proven nonce. As the Telegraph reports:
A young girl was "set up" to appear on Jim'll Fix It alongside a convicted child abuser, the BBC has reported.
Was she set up because he was a young girl?
Confidential social services reports confirm that Keith Harding, an antiques expert who appeared on the 1980 Christmas edition of the show, was involved with the notorious campaign group, the Paedophile Information Exchange (Pie), according to the Radio 4′s Today programme. It said that Harding was convicted of indecent assault against four children aged eight and nine in the late 1950s and was a "schedule 1″ offender – meaning his convictions remained on his police file for life.
However he was subsequently given the Freedom of the City of London and became a member of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, as well as running a museum regularly visited by children.
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Transfer Balls: Marco Reus Chose Chelsea Over Arsenal And Liverpool In A Spin
TRANSFER Balls: Is Marco Reus heading to Chelsea? The Daily Express has been updating readers with no news whatdsover
The Daily Express, on November 9, and David Wright had news:
Chelsea to beat Man Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal to Marco Reus in Andre Schurrle swap deal…
CHELSEA are hoping to tempt Borussia Dortmund to part ways with Marco Reus in January with Andre Schurrle going the other way.
Posted: 17th, November 2014 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Money Buys Happiness: Lottery Winners Reveal What Happened Next
WHAT happens after you win millions on the lottery?
The Daily Mail says it's mistery and more msiery:
Why so many lottery winners like me end up losers in love: Every week it seems another couple splits after scooping a Lotto jackpot
But it isn't. That just makes the losers feel better. Money does buy happiness:
Dean Allen: 26 when he won £13,861,061:
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Life Imitates Seinfeld: Stop Or My Teenaged Daugther Shoots!
LIFE imitates Seinfeld: (and teenagers, we have you surrounded):
Heavily armed tactical officers surrounded a 12-unit apartment building in Waterloo, southern Ontario, Canada, on Saturday afternoon, after citizens and police reported gunshots.
But about two hours later, Waterloo Regional Police determined it was someone who had repeatedly slammed a door inside one of the apartments in the building. Nobody was hurt. No charges were laid, said Staff Sgt. Deborah McBride. "Apparently there was a heavy door that when it was slammed sounded just like a shotgun," McBride said.
"We don't know who slammed the door, but we don't think there was malicious intent," McBride said.
Run the CCTV fotage:
Slamming door brings big police response to Waterloo neighbourhood
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Free Speech: The FA Wants Malky Mackay Charged With Thought Crimes
EAT your heart out Ched Evans, writing in the Telegraph Jason Burt turns his gaze on Malky Mackay, the former Cardiff City manger whose offensive private emails became a public stick with which to beat him.
It was alleged Mackay shared racist, homophobic and misoynistic texts with former Cardiff colleague Iain Moody, who resigned his position as Crystal Palace sporting director shortly after the messages came to light.
Let's look again at what was found:
"Go on, fat Phil. Nothing like a Jew that sees money slipping through his fingers." On football agent Phil Smith.
"He's a snake, a gay snake. Not to be trusted." Referring to an official at another club.
"Not many white faces amongst that lot but worth considering." Referring to a list of potential signings.
"I bet you'd love a bounce on her falsies"
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Newspaper Asks Its Journalists To Deliver Door To Door
NEWSPAPERS are in peril:
- One of California's largest newspapers has asked reporters and other employees to help deliver papers on Sundays, according to a memo obtained by Reuters, the latest sign of the toll that financial woes are taking on print journalism.
The Santa Ana-based Orange County Register, which recently stopped contracting with rival Los Angeles Times for delivery services, is offering $150 gift cards to staff members if they deliver 500 to 600 papers, according to the memo sent on Thursday, which was confirmed by the paper's top editor.
"The entire company — all departments, including our newsroom — has been asked to help during what has clearly been a difficult situation," editor Rob Curley said in an email to Reuters. "It's strictly voluntary."
Looks like another job for the interns…
Posted: 17th, November 2014 | In: Money, News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Nick The Whistleblower Shows Us The Murderous Westminster Peadophile Gang We Want To Believe In
THE police and media have yet to find what happened to Charlene Downes or Paige Chivers. No-one has come forward to tell the media about what they witnessed happne to those two missing teenagers. The focus is all on alleged crimes against children by a gang of Westminster elites.
The Mirror has news on that:
'I watched Tory MP MURDER a boy during depraved Westminster VIP paedophile party'
Keir Mudie and Mark Conrad report:
The abuse victim's claims are being treated as credible by detectives now investigating THREE murders allegedly linked to a network of VIP perverts.
Do the police dare treat anyone with a claim as incredible after the Rotherham abuse scandal, where the cops an State ignored the victims?
A victim of the Westminster paedophile abuse scandal has claimed he saw a Conservative MP murder a young boy during a depraved sex party.
Surely that 'victim' is an 'alleged victim'. Can the paper say what it likes about the Tories with impugnity?
And the Sunday People can reveal that detectives are investigating THREE murders allegedly linked to a network of VIP perverts.
The horrifying account comes days after Scotland Yard confirmed they have launched a murder probe connected to allegations of sex abuse from the 1970s and 80s.
Today the Sunday People and Exaro investigations agency expose the full extent of shocking events the witness, known as Nick, has described to the Metropolitan Police paedophile unit.
What is Exaro?
Exaro is an online service that investigates issues that are important to business in particular and to the public in general, but which are being inadequately covered – or ignored – by the mainstream media.
Our specialisms are in-depth investigation and analysis. We investigate the decisions and actions of people in power. We root out material to provide insight, often using the increasing volume of data made available by public bodies, information that is rarely scrutinised.
For each investigation, we are committed to:
searching for the facts;
finding out all the relevant information;
regularly updating what we uncover.
Exaro is for people who want to be well informed about public governance, international affairs, and economic and commercial issues.
"Exaro" is a Latin word; it is the first-person singular of the verb, "exarare", which means to plough, to dig up, or to inscribe on a wax tablet. "Exaro" is pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable, just like "excavate".
It's run by New Sparta, which is owned by very wealthy fund manager Jerome Booth, who appears to have donated £10,000 to the Conservative Party and a large amount to the Anglia Ruskin University.
Back to the Mirror:
Nick said: "I watched while that happened. I am not sure how I got out of that. Whether I will ever know why I survived, I am not sure." Eighteen months later, he claims a third boy was killed by two unknown men in front of another MP. Nick told of his terror as he and the strangling victim were driven to an orgy.
He said: "We looked at each other and saw the fear in each other's eyes. We said nothing. I knew we were being taken somewhere to be sexually abused by powerful men. But I had no idea of the true horror of what was about to happen."
In hours of video testimony, he described how he saw the Conservative MP – who was sitting in Parliament at the time – throttle the boy. He said: "The MP was particularly nasty, even among the group of people who sexually abused me and others. I still find it difficult to talk about these incidents after all these years."
A second witness has already corroborated some of the information related to the case, lending weight to Nick's claims and strengthening his credibility in the eyes of the police. Nick has also told detectives about the death of another boy during a depraved sexual assault in the presence of a Conservative minister – a different MP to the one involved in the first killing.
Some of the information? Which bits? We're not told.
Nick said his abusive father supplied him to a group of MPs and other VIPs who held abuse parties at Dolphin Square – an apartment complex in Pimlico, near Parliament – and at other locations in London. He says the minister repeatedly raped him and other boys aged between ten and 14.
The Met's Operation Midland has released a statement:
"Detectives from the child abuse investigation command are working closely with colleagues from homicide and major crime concerning this information."
But facts are thin, no?
Nick went on: "There will be other people who know about the punishment and abuse carried out by this group – drivers of the cars who took the boys to venues, staff at the venues. Perhaps they can now come forward."
But they haven't come forward.
Last week we told how Nick, now in his 40s, had identified a shamed top diplomat and MI6 chief as one of his attackers. He picked out a photo of Sir Peter Hayman – a former deputy director of the secret service. Hayman, for many years a pillar of the establishment, caused a scandal when he was caught with paedophile literature.
Hayman died in 1992. His story is well known. Can we be more circumscpct as to why a man might pick his face from the pile? The Mail give us the background:
His [Hayman's] membership number was '330' and this organisation of similarly minded if not gilded individuals was called the Paedophile Information Exchange… PIE supported and encouraged illegal sexual relationships between adults and children. In other words, child abuse.
Sir Peter lived with his wife of 40 years in a lovely home in South Oxfordshire where, in a parallel existence, he was deputy chairman of the Conservative Association. He acted as a churchwarden's assistant, and opened the local fete.
Everyone there thought he was marvellous. Who was to know otherwise?
That was because his official PIE literature and graphic correspondence with fellow paedophiles was by squalid necessity sent to a flat at 95 Linden Gardens, Notting Hill Gate, London, some 50 miles away.
The ex-diplomat had rented it for that purpose — as well as extra-marital sexual liaisons — under the name of Peter Henderson. The fact that the flat was almost across the road from the Soviet embassy was simply an irony. How the KGB would have loved to have made blackmail use of his peccadillo.
Then Sir Peter made a mistake. He left a packet of paedophile material in an envelope on a London bus. It was addressed to Mr Henderson at Linden Gardens in Notting Hill. A fellow passenger was curious. The package came into the possession of the police.
Soon afterwards, in November 1978, they raided the Linden Gardens flat.
What they found was a huge trove of revolting paedophilia and other extreme pornography. Among it was a library of 45 substantial diaries in which Sir Peter had recorded in detail his sexual experiences and fantasies, the latter including sex with minors.
There was also substantial correspondence with other PIE members — 111 pages in one instance — in which they shared their otherwise secret desires and other graphic paedophile material.
Police later found that two of the dozen or so paedophiles in Sir Peter's epistolary circle had been writing to each other about their interest in the extreme sexual torture and murder of children.
Hideous stuff. And grist to the mill of a paedophile network in Westminster. Hayman, after all, pretty much got away with it.
And then:
The brother of the judge in charge of the Government's inquiry into allegations of an establishment paedophile ring refused to prosecute a paedophile diplomat caught exchanging obscene material.
Sir Michael Havers, the late brother of Baroness Butler-Sloss, was accused of a "white-wash" after he backed a decision not to prosecute Sir Peter Hayman. Baroness Butler-Sloss, a former president of the Family Division of the High Court who led the inquest into the death of Princess Diana, has been appointed by Theresa May to lead an independent inquiry into allegations that child sex abuse was covered up by state bodies, the church, political parties and the BBC. The Home Office said she had "impeccable credentials".
Seven men and two women, including Hayman, were named as possible defendants in a report submitted by the Metropolitan Police to the Director of Public Prosecutions. However, only one of the group was prosecuted after police found they had an "obsession" with sadistic sexual activity involving children.
Three years later, in the House of Commons, Geoffery Dickens, the MP who had campaigned against child abuse, used Parliamentary privilege to name Hayman. He feared an establishment cover-up like that which surrounded the Cambridge spy ring.
He asked Sir Michael Havers – then the Attorney General – if he "will prosecute Sir Peter Hayman.. for sending and receiving pornographic material through the Royal Mail."
In a written answer, Sir Michael said he agreed with the DPP not to prosecute Hayman or the other members of the obscene correspondence ring.
There was "no evidence" that the diplomat had sent or received "extreme" material, Sir Michael said. The obscene correspondence "had been contained in sealed envelopes passing between adult individuals in a non-commercial context", he added.
Sir Michael added: "Although Sir Peter Hayman had subscribed to PIE, that is not an offence and there is no evidence that he was ever involved in the management."
Like Jimmy Savile, Hayman's dead. You also can't ask the dead for their version of events.
Hayman had a revolting passion. But not being able to defend yourself isn't fair, is it.
A statement by Scotland Yard said: "Our inquiries have revealed further information regarding possible homicide. Based on our current knowledge, this is the first time this information has been passed to the Met."
And then this in the Mirror's story:
Investigator Mark Conrad says…
He's not a police invstigators. Mr Conrad's Twitter profile says he is a "freelance investigative journalist and researcher". And he says:
"Nick's account of his decade-long abuse – the trafficking, sexual and physical assaults and murders – and revelations about the status of the men defied belief. Unlike many abuse survivors, Nick has gone on to have a successful life. He is intelligent, articulate and strong-minded.
"His accounts are uncomfortably detailed and consistent… Like Exaro, the police regard Nick as credible."
But they are untested. The investigation is nothing of the sort: it's one man making claims to a willing-to-believe audience.
Child abuse is an abhorrent crime. But this rush to believe the whistleblower is pandering to the conspiracy theories of a powerful network of paedophiles. The journalist is simply receiving the truth that makes the believed-in conspiracy fact. No dirt has been dug. The 'victim' has been heard but not cross-examined. Why did he pick Hayman out and no-one else? Why aren't names being named? Why did he wait so long to tell all?
This unquestioning aproach to whistleblowers goes to the top. Tom Watson MP says:
"The allegations of cruelty, torture and murder are truly shocking and go far beyond the case I raised with the Prime Minister two years ago. The public will be deeply concerned which is why it is vital the police quickly establish the facts. It's such a disturbing allegation that I have no doubt the resources will be found to conduct a thorough investigation.
"If true, this is a vital piece of the jigsaw in the pursuit of organised child abuse.
"We are at the point where the government should consider a national police inquiry made up of specialists from around the country. It is unfair to ask the police in London alone to investigate alleged crimes that took place in many regions of the UK. I am writing to the PM to make this request."
All that from one testimony. And Watson's in the mainstream, where conspiracies now live.
Meanwhile, what about Charlene Downes and Paige Chivers, teenagers who went missing long after Nick's story of alleged depravity in high places is set? In the rush to bury the past, today's news is being overlooked…
Posted: 16th, November 2014 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Jimmy Savile Compensation: Victims Roll Up To The Great Charity Give Away
HOW much does one of Sir Jimmy Savile's victims get? The Sun knows:
OUTRAGED victims of Jimmy Savile have been told to expect payouts of just £7,500.
Surely the victims are more outraged that the BBC and NHS's pet paedo got away with his alleged crimes?
Those targeted by the sex beast are expected to reject the "pitiful" compensation. It is thought people who were raped by the late DJ may get slightly more.
Posted: 16th, November 2014 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Lars Klevberg Teaches Media To Treat Everything From the Middle East As A Fake
DO you believe what you see coming from the Middle East? You should doubt it:
An online video that purported to show the heart-stopping moment when a small boy risked his life to rescue a little girl from gunfire in Syria has been exposed as an elaborate hoax. Lars Klevberg, 34, a Norwegian film director based in Oslo, admitted last night that he was behind the staged clip, which has been viewed more than five million times and prompted international headlines.
Mr Klevberg scripted the scene after watching news coverage of the conflict in Syria…
The 60-second video appears to show a Syrian street raked by gunfire. A boy, who looks no more than ten years old, tries to reach a girl of about the same age as she shelters from gunfire behind a burnt-out car.
Entitled "Syrian hero boy rescues girl in shootout", the video then shows the boy falling dramatically within yards of the car, apparently feigning injury, before leaping forward and pulling the terrified young girl to safety. They then run, hand-in-hand, under heavy fire to shelter.
The children were actors.
Mr Klevberg said, adding that his purpose had been to urge "action on behalf of innocent children".
What a guy:
Klevberg contacted the BBC and admitted that the video was not authentic, revealing that the footage had been filmed in May 2014, not in Syria but in Malta. The Oslo-based filmmaker said his team wanted to draw attention to the plight of children in war-torn Syria:
If I could make a film and pretend it was real, people would share it and react with hope. We shot it in Malta in May this year on a set that was used for other famous movies like Troy and Gladiator. The little boy and girl are professional actors from Malta. The voices in the background are Syrian refugees living in Malta…
By publishing a clip that could appear to be authentic we hoped to take advantage of a tool that's often used in war; make a video that claims to be real. We wanted to see if the film would get attention and spur debate, first and foremost about children and war. We also wanted to see how the media would respond to such a video.
Well, if it confirms their prejudices, they lap it up without question.
The New York Daily News lapped it up:
Metro was iumpressed:
In the incredible clip, which was released by Syrian activist group Shaam News Network, the boy can be seen lying on the floor as bullets whip around him in a rubble-filled courtyard.
(Shaam - the second 'a' is silent.)
Posted: 15th, November 2014 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Police Seek 'Socially Awkward' Asian Male Who Chatted Up Women On Campus
TO the University of Waterloo, where being socially akward is a crime. Cambridge University students look on with fear:
"I'm sure some of them were very concerned about how this guy approached, but we still had to deal with university policies and laws, and we're not seeing he's breached any of those," says Dan Anderson, director of UW Police Services.
Posted: 15th, November 2014 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Women Are Child Abusers: Gwendolynn Lindgren Is Not A Man
IT's not only men who attack children. But if you read the mainstream media, you wouldn't know it.
The Guardian notes:
There is much more we don't know, including how many paedophiles there are: 1-2% of men is a widely accepted figure…
And of women? No data is given. Not even a guess.
An Albuquerque woman photographed herself engaging in sex acts with a 7-year-old boy and told police she couldn't promise to not do it again, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. Gwendolynn Lindgren, 34, was charged with criminal sexual penetration, among other things, after her husband told police he found photographs of her and the boy in emails on her cell phone.
We'll keep track on the women who abuse children. It might makle men feel less like abusers-in-waiting…
Posted: 15th, November 2014 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Septic Willies On Rosetta and Philae : Dr Matt Taylor's Sexist Shirt Sell Out
SO what the European Space Agency landed the Philae spacecraft on that singing comet. It was an awesome thing. Humanity is great. The names Rosetta and Philae are high on the news cycle. Space and the adventures imagained and realised is captivating.
Jonathan Freedland spoke for many:
…the fascination this adventure has stirred. Part of it is simple, a break from the torments down here on earth… For a few merciful days, the news has featured a story remote from the bloodshed of Islamic State and Ukraine, from the pain of child abuse and poverty. Even those who don't dream of escaping this planet can relish the escapism.
But the comet landing has provided more than a diversion: it's been an antidote too. For this has been a story of human cooperation in a world of conflict. The narrow version of this point focuses on this as a European success story. When our daily news sees "Europe" only as the source of unwanted migrants or maddening regulation, Philae has offered an alternative vision; that Germany, Italy, France, Britain and others can achieve far more together than they could ever dream of alone. The geopolitical experts so often speak of the global pivot to Asia, the rise of the Bric nations and the like – but this extraordinary voyage has proved that Europe is not dead yet.
Humanity is wonderful.
Posted: 15th, November 2014 | In: News, Technology | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
New Feminists Want Your Balls Censored: Shaming Men Into Silence On The Internet
THE web hates men because of new feminism. Well, so they say…
Sigh. A new current has developed in the polluted ocean of online videos. If you're a Facebook user, you'll have noticed it: it involves women, and men, and the former being incessantly harassed by the latter.
I'm talking about those hidden-camera clips in which a female actor records the appalling level of harassment that she was subjected to by men in the street.
The best known was made by Shoshana Roberts, who was filmed walking the streets of New York amid catcalls and sexual comments. Thus far, it has attracted a staggering 36 million views, and has been hailed as a much-needed exposure of the plight of a woman in 21st Century society…
Depictions of decent men have now become strikingly absent online. The overall suggestion is that men are guilty until proven innocent; this only reinforces gender stereotyping.
Indeed, we have reached a stage where feminist sites like Jezebel run stories like "How to kick men in the balls: an illustrated guide", confirming the impression that the internet hates men. Misogynist trolling by horrid little men is a huge concern, but the answer is not to alienate the rest of us.
Posted: 14th, November 2014 | In: News | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Operation Fairbank: Murder, Rumour And Burying The Dead In Evil
DO we belive a Westminster paedophile ring operated in the 1960s and 1970s? Do we believe there was murder?
Scotland Yard is looking at claims that an alleged paedophile ring with links to former government figures, could have been involved in a murder
Any facts?
Detectives investigating allegations of organised child sex abuse in the 1970s and 1980s are now examining possible murder links, the Metropolitan Police has said.
Posted: 14th, November 2014 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Serena Bowes: Persecuting The Victim With The European Arrest Warrant
IN "Fashion student Serena Bowes faces extradition to Italy after being accused of making up rape story", the Telegraph reports:
Bowes, who claims she was raped during college trip to Florence, is refusing to return to Italy after being told she could face 12 years in prison for lying
Martin Evans tells the story:
A student who was allegedly raped while on a college trip to Italy, has been told she could be extradited and charged with making the story up. Serena Bowes, 21, was visiting Florence as part of her fashion degree, when she claims she was raped by a man in a nightclub bathroom. She reported the alleged attack to the Italian police and was also examined by a doctor at a hospital in Florence.
But after returning home and attempting to get on with her life, she was astonished to receive a letter from the Italian Police stating that she could be charged falsifying the rape and faces up to 12 years in prison if found guilty.
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Leicester Mercury Says Haymarket Shopping Centre Has NOT Cancelled Christmas
THE Leicester Mercury has news: the Haymarket Shopping Centre has NOT cancelled Christmas:
As you were…
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Free Speech: Lefty Twitter And The Ideas Police
Freddie deBoer on the you-can't-say-that moraliser who police free speech on twitter:
"It may be tempting to embrace the violent power of the state as the solution to ideas and expression you find hateful and ugly… Whether the elites that so credulously embrace the notion of empowering the police state to squash harassment like it or not. And it may be tempting to embrace the coercive power of large corporations to limit speech online. But I promise you: that power will also be used against you by your antagonists, who are opportunistic and learn quickly.
"Lefty Twitter might be obsessed with policing language. But they won't actually get to do the policing themselves. Instead, they will hand that work off to the same broken institutions and corrupt authorities that they themselves have diagnosed as broken and corrupt. And that is one of these fundamental, existential paradoxes within contemporary left-wing orthodoxy today: simultaneously recognizing that we live within structures of intrinsic, intentional inequality and injustice, and yet forever ready to abandon that skepticism towards those structures when it seems convenient to do so."
Free speech. No buts…
Posted: 13th, November 2014 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


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While looking through the church records for Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Buffalo, Erie Co., New York, I came across the following mention of a baptism.
Antoine Louis Tessier b. November 25, 1850, baptized January 12, 1851. Son of Francis Tessier and Suzan Girard.
This came from Microfilm #1292741, Book A, page 13. If anyone is researching this family please let me know as there is another child shown on this film. I need to go back this week so I will get copies of the entries. Sara Burkholder
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April 22, 2011
Charles Buck, Director of Operations has accepted a position outside of Purdue University. We wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors and thank him for all of the contributions he made to the success of the Bindley Bioscience Center. He has made a real difference for the Bindley Bioscience Center and Discovery Park.
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TIRUCHI: Ever wondered why each State has a different way of pronouncing English words? If you are one among those who wistfully imitate the witty exchanges featured in 'Friends' and dream of infusing the western accent without sounding synthetic, the theme on 'Pronunciation' in the Hindu's NIE might be of good help.
In its fifth module 'Clarity of communication,' the theme has packed in ways to improve the accent and pronunciation of each word by introducing the concept of 'stress.' "Stress marks recommended for each word in the dictionary are perfect guide for right intonation," Vidya Murali said, handling this module at Khajamian Higher Secondary School, recently.
She taught them ways to understand and pronounce the words as the stress marks indicate. To help them learn faster, the students were split into groups and provided with newspapers. They picked up hard-to-pronounce words and referred to the dictionary for the stress symbols. Ms. Murali helped them with the articulation with examples. "Words like 'process' and 'develop' have stress marks before the first letters, indicating that the words don't need stress anywhere between. Look for the symbols for each word and pronounce accordingly," she said. Each group competed with each other during the next activity on voicing words the right way. The groups were given a list of words to pronounce, while the other groups, armed with dictionary, ensure that the words are pronounced right. The group that comes out with a maximum of right pronunciation was declared the winner.
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