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Redeployment Policy
Scope and Purpose
1. UCL is committed to avoiding making staff redundant wherever possible. Where it is necessary to make posts redundant, UCL will seek to redeploy staff into suitable alternative vacancies elsewhere in the university. Successfully redeploying staff whose posts are to be made redundant allows UCL to retain valuable skills, knowledge and experience, reduces the cost and time required to fill vacancies and reduces the time needed for induction and training of staff new to UCL.
2. Whilst UCL is committed to seeking to redeploy staff at risk of redundancy it is acknowledged that this will not always be possible.
Identifying redeployees
3. There are a number of reasons staff may enter the redeployment process. This may be where an employee is identified as 'at risk' of redundancy as a result of organisational change, end of funding, from a recommendation for medical redeployment, as an outcome from a harassment and bullying complaint, or other reasons, as agreed with your HR Consultant. The same principles and process will apply in consideration for redeployment, although different outcomes and timescales may apply.
4. The process starts with a formal meeting. The employee will be called to a meeting, either in line with the processes outlined in UCL's procedures on Termination, Organisational_change, Sickness_absence and Harassment_and_bullying, or an ad hoc meeting if for other reasons. They will be informed they are a redeployee and subject to the redeployment policy. They will be given an overview of the redeployee's rights and responsibilities outlined in this policy. If redeployment to a suitable alternative post is identified at this stage (initially within their faculty or division), this will also be discussed.
5. The meeting should normally take place at least 3 months before the employee's termination date (if applicable). Redeployees should have access to the redeployment register for 3 months, although they may be given access for up to 4 months in some cases to ensure they have the maximum opportunities to seek redeployment. If contractual notice is for less than 3 months the individual may remain on the redeployment register for a period of time after their termination date to give 3 months access in total.
6.The discussion will also inform the redeployee of additional support available during the redeployment period, including career coaching and guidance and support through the employee assistance programme, including some free financial advice. Staff are also entitled to reasonable time off for retraining from their current post.
Registering a redeployee's profile
7. The redeployee will complete their details on the Redeployment_Register,. The redeployee will require a UCL ID and Password to access this service (i) and will be given a unique reference number (see para 10).
8. Assistance in completing the profile is available on request from your departmental contact in the Human Resources Consultancy Team who can also complete the register on behalf of staff who do not have direct access to a computer in the course of their job. The Register also asks the redeployee to confirm the type of job and grade(s) of post that s/he would be prepared to consider. Redeployment will be constrained to either posts at the same or a lower grade. This procedure is not a route to career progression as this would give redeployees unfair access to vacancies before they are advertised. Part time staff are entitled to apply for full time posts and vice versa.
9.The redeployee is also encouraged to register themselves on the online Redeployment Site (Rome) to receive alerts for all posts at the same or lower grade. The Redeployment Site will advertise vacancies for 5 working days for redeployees to register an interest. Posts may not be externally advertised, until consideration has been given to redeployees. Once registered, alerts will be sent automatically immediately a vacancy is posted.
Consideration for suitable posts
10. Redeployees wishing to be given priority consideration for a vacant post should respond through the Redeployment site stating their reference number on the Redeployment Register (see para 7). They should submit a brief supporting statement outlining how they meet the essential criteria on the person specification. Please read this guidance on Completing Your Application form for Redeployment.
11. HR Consultancy will also scan all vacancies and the redeployment database to identify any potential suitable alternative employment opportunities, liaising with redeployees and recruiting managers where they think a suitable match may be made.
12. Recruiting managers are required to consider all redeployees that are identified as a potential suitable match, against the person specification for the vacancy, in order to decide who to interview. The same requirements of fairness and due process listed in the Recruitment_and_Selection_policy apply to internal and external interviews. Redeployees will be assessed for their appointability against the essential criteria for a role in the person specification. Only if multiple redeployees are in contention for the post may desirable criteria be considered. Recruiting managers will consider transferable skills along with any other documentation requested in order to assess the redeployee's ability to carry out the role. Exceptionally, there may be skills that the redeployee does not possess but could be reasonably attained in the trial period and this must be taken into account when considering selection. Recruiting managers must provide written feedback to all redeployee applicants not invited for interview. The redeployee may query, via HR Consultancy, any posts they are not invited to be interviewed, stating why they believe they do meet the essential criteria.
13. If one or more redeployee matches the person specification of the post (i.e. they are deemed to be potentially appointable), the recruiting manager shall call them for a panel interview. If, following the interview, a redeployee is deemed suitable for the post, a reference will be sought from the redeployee's current line manager. Any concerns or issues that arise as a consequence of the reference must be discussed with the departmental contact in the Human Resources Consultancy Team before an appointment decision is made. If the redeployee is not considered to meet the essential criteria for an appointment, the redeployee will be given written feedback. A redeployee may also query this decision with HR Consultancy if they believe that the interview process was unfair.
14. If a redeployee is offered suitable alternative employment and does not wish to accept the post they must outline in writing the reasons why they do not consider the post to be suitable. These reasons will be reviewed by HR Consultancy. Where it is agreed that the post is not suitable the redeployee will return to the redeployment pool. If the post is still considered suitable the redeployee will be considered to have resigned and will forfeit their right to a redundancy payment. This decision may be appealed by writing to the Director of HR within 5 working days of receiving written notification of the decision.
Trial periods
15.The post will initially be offered on a trial period to enable both the redeployee and the department to assess whether the redeployee is, in practice, suitable for the post. This trial period will normally last 8 weeks. In some circumstances it can be agreed to last only 4 weeks where there is a very close match or a decision can be made in a shorter time period. The employee's notice period will be placed on hold (up to a maximum of 8 weeks) during the trial period. In exceptional circumstances the trial period can be extended to a maximum of 12 weeks by mutual agreement.
16. The manager should meet with the redeployee at the beginning of the trial period to outline expectations, what is being assessed and how it will be assessed. The redeployee should also discuss any concerns they may have. They should continue to meet on at least a weekly basis in the trial period to review and discuss progress. This will help both parties to assess whether the redeployee is suitable for the post.
17. If after the trial period the redeployment is considered unsuccessful, the redeployee will be entitled to re-activate their profile on the Register and re-enter the redeployment process. The notice period will be reactivated, taking into account any notice served prior to the trial period or during the extended trial period. Feedback will be given as to the reasons why the trial period was unsuccessful.
Alternative Employment
18. The aim of this procedure is to offer staff suitable alternative employment, but in some situations such vacancies may not be available. Employees are entitled to accept alternative employment at a lower salary / grade point, including reducing their hours of work. In such situations their salary will reduce at the end of their notice period. Where a redeployee is deployed into a post of a lower grade they will normally be paid at the maximum point of the grade of the new post (excluding contribution points). Any changes in terms and conditions of the new post will then apply.
If redeployment is unsuccessful
19. Where notice has been given, if the redeployee has not been successfully redeployed by the end of their period of notice the redeployee will be dismissed under the terms of their notice.
Monitoring and equal opportunities
20. The implementation of this policy will be monitored for discrimination (whether direct or indirect) by race, disability, age, and gender.
21. This procedure has been agreed in partnership with UCL's recognised trade unions, UCU, UNISON and Unite. This procedure will be monitored and kept under review by all parties.
A flowchart summary of the Redeployment Procedure as applies to redeployees, managers and recruiting managers is available.
The UCL Redeployment Register provides information about the redeployee to potential managers within UCL. CVs and other personal information supplied by the redeployee will be placed on the Register. This makes up the profile. The redeployee's CV and generic skill set (but not other personal information) will be made available to potential managers within UCL for the purpose of redeployment. The Register will be accessible on the Internet.


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The world's most unexpected triathlon is underway. An international field of surfers, skaters, and snowboarders descended on California's Mammoth Mountain on Saturday, battling the elements, each other and a three-jump, three-rail slopestyle course in the first stage of Ultimate Boarder 2011.
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The Columbia City Council decided Monday to continue its taxi stand pilot project until December, when it will be evaluated next. The project originally started May 1 and was due for evaluation as of July 31.
Taxi stands are enforced 9 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. Thursday nights through Sunday mornings. Non-taxis can be ticketed or towed during these hours.
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The project created zones along streets in the downtown area where taxis are allowed to pick up or drop off passengers and others where they are not allowed to do the same. Enforcement occurs between 9 p.m. and 2:30 a.m. Thursday nights through Sunday mornings.
It was initiated following a recommendation by the Downtown Safety Summit in June 2010 and modeled after a similar program that is running in Boise, Id., said Columbia Police Department Lieutenant Chris Kelley.
Large crowds in front of bars have a tendency to back up sidewalks and streets as they try to hail transportation. Additionally, there is the risk of pedestrians being hit as they move out into traffic, Kelley said.
"This is about crowd management," he said. "If you move them, they will disperse."
Along with the four taxi stands, the project includes five "no drop off (or) pick up" zones, where taxis are prohibited from stopping.
Some taxi drivers have noticed the program has caused an increase in altercations at taxi stands when dealing with bar crowds late at night.
"Sometimes when you pull up, it's all out war," Terry Nickerson, owner of Taxi Terry's, said. "People are under the influence, and everybody has called for a taxi."
Nickerson reported that an irate person kicked and damaged one of his taxis because he thought his taxi had been taken by somebody else.
In contrast, Kelley said that police reports don't reflect this problem.
"We have not seen it empirically," he said.
A report from the city manager's office to the council states that there has been no observed "increase in assaults or disturbance in (or) around the taxi stand areas," and that police have noticed a quicker clearing of bar crowds late at night, due to the stands.
As for the future of the program, Nickerson — who originally was against it — supports the continuation of the taxi stands but would like to see a few changes in enforcement.
His concerns include:
- Whether the same regulations for "no pick up (or) drop off" zones will remain in effect during inclement weather.
- Whether exceptions will be made for "no pick up (or) drop off" zones when placed in front of residential buildings. Currently, people who live in these buildings cannot be dropped off at home even if toting laundry or groceries.
- Whether there are more relaxed regulations of "no pick up (or) drop off" zones for the elderly or people requiring assisted mobility. At this time, people may have to travel several blocks to reach a taxi stand, which may be difficult for some.
Taxis that service people with disabilities in regulated zones and during the enforcement period would not be cited, Kelley said.
"In the spirit of the law, an officer will use good judgment and let the cab get to them," he said.
During the first three months of the project, 174 citations were issued to illegally parked vehicles at taxi stands; 72 vehicles were towed from taxi stands, and five citations were issued to taxis for loading or unloading in a prohibited zone.
Of the 174 citations issued, the majority, 67, were given at the taxi stand on Tenth St. and Cherry.
Nickerson said the project will work long-term only if enforcement stays strict.
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Avgerou, Chrisanthi and Walsham, Geoff (2000) Information technology in context: Studies from the perspective of developing countries. University of North London voices in development management . Ashgate, London, UK. ISBN 9780754614807
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A discussion of information technology (IT) in developing countries. It demonstrates that IT and communication technologies have significant potential to aid economic growth, but such potential is not released by simply transferring technologies and processes from advanced economies.
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Police in South Burlington say the driver of a Gulliver's Doggie Daycare bus risked his life trying to free two dogs after the vehicle burst into flames Tuesday afternoon. He managed to rescue one before suffering burns and succumbing to smoke. / RYAN MERCER/FREE PRESS
John Thamann, a bus driver for Gulliver�s Doggie Daycare, was making his afternoon rounds in South Burlington on New Year�s Day when he smelled smoke.
It was a light day for the 365-day-per-year service, which picks up dogs at people�s homes, provides them a day of exercise with other dogs and returns them home at day�s end. It being a holiday, there were only two dogs on the small bus mid-afternoon Tuesday; normally, there might be as many as 13.
Thamann, who lives in the Jericho area, has been a driver with the Williston-based business for more than three years. �He knows all the dogs,� general manager Amanda Poquette said.
Alarmed at the odor, he turned the bus into a parking lot at the intersection of Hinesburg and Williston roads and got on the phone with the doggie daycare company, little knowing he was about to show courage in the face of sudden tragedy.
�He smelled smoke, he pulled over and there were flames,� Poquette said. �It was that quick.�
The dramatic New Year�s Day scene played out at one of the region�s busiest intersections.
Braving the fast-spreading conflagration, Thamann was able to free a frightened Rufus, a 3-year-old Labrador retriever boxer owned by Beth Kelly of South Burlington. �He actually saved Rufus� life,� Kelly would say later. The dog initially went into the road and ran into a van before being corralled by a passerby.
Thamann, meanwhile, attempted to save the second dog. Like Rufus, the agitated animal resisted the rescue attempt as the flames spread, police said. The driver�s hands would suffer burns. The skin on his back and head was damaged by the intense heat. He inhaled smoke. But Thamann was loath to give up.
A South Burlington police officer and some good Samaritans also assisted, with the officer and one other person requiring medical evaluation for smoke inhalation later as well. Ultimately, their efforts were in vain. Thamann started to black out and was forced to cease his rescue efforts. The dog would die.
�He tried really hard to get the dog out of the bus,� Poquette said.
The owner of the animal is out of town. While Poquette broke the sad news, she did not want to release information about the dog until she�s had further talks with the owner.
Later, she went to Fletcher Allen Health Care, where the bus driver was treated and would be released by late afternoon with medication to take. Poquette drove Thamann home to be with his wife.
As such stories often do, news of the incident touched many. On Twitter, Burlington-area residents retweeted initial accounts of the tragedy with thoughts such as �A real hero.�
�Crying,� tweeted someone else.
The short-term impact on Gulliver�s Doggie Daycare, in business since 1994, is significant. The bus was purchased about nine years ago and is the company�s mode of transport for picking up and dropping off clients� dogs.
�Until further notice, we won�t have a bus service,� general manager Poquette said.
Members of the South Burlington Fire and Police departments responded to the call at 1333 Williston Road, not knowing whether people or animals were trapped inside the bus.
South Burlington Police Officer Dan Boyer was the first to arrive and used his cruiser�s fire extinguisher to attempt to quell the blaze, a police news release stated. Boyer sought to get on the bus through the rear door, but he could not open it.
�Boyer suffered lung irritation due to smoke inhalation, and was treated and released from Fletcher Allen Health Care,� the news release stated.
The fire department put out the blaze, which appears to have been caused by mechanical failure, police said.
Kelly said Rufus, the rescued dog, was at an emergency veterinary center receiving oxygen and other treatment. She hoped to be able to bring him home Wednesday.
The South Burlington woman thought of what might have happened if Tuesday had not been New Year�s Day and a full complement of dogs had been on the bus. �It could have been a lot worse,� Kelly said. As soon as she can, she plans to visit Thamann with the purpose of thanking him.


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Three Cities Thorntree River Lodge features an outdoor pool and a fitness center. The lodge offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink.
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The Convent Hotel is in a great location near to Amsterdam Central Station and just around the corner to Dam Square. It is an aging hotel but still in good order. the reception staff have advised, however, that refurbishments are planned for next year.
The front desk staff have been very helpful and friendly. Only comments are that the rooms need better lighting as the ambient lighting is very dark, the rooms need safes installed, and the cost of the breakfasts (23 Euro pp)are well over the top when you can get a full English breakfast next door for 6.50 Euro.
Despite that, we would stay here again.
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The Convent Hotel McGallery is a boutique hotel - it is small but comfortable. Our room is like a sauna with the air con on. Thankfully we are on the 3rd floor and can sleep with our windows open.
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Nice decor but with some problems
We have just returned from a weekend at the Sofitel. The situation is good and our executive rooms were well decorated and spacious. The shower was quite exceptional in one of them, unfortunately the toilet was built for children and was tiny! The bed was not very comfortable either. The situation is excellent and we weren't at all disturbed by the noise that we had seen in other reviews. We got an excellent deal throught LastMinute but I am not sure I would want to pay the full price.
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I highly recommend this little and cozy hotel, located in the city center, close to all attractions and transportation. The rooms are a bit small but beautifully decorated and very charming.
Just what we needed!
Have just returnd from weekend break in Amsterdam & staying 1 night at the Sofitel The hotel was a real find, close to Central Station - so not far to drag a case!) and although in a fairly main road, very quiet. We were given a double room, in a corner, at the back of the hotel and it had everything we could want. Lovely toiletries, large clean fluffy towels,comfortable large beds, tea-making facilities - which many European hotels and definitely US ones, don't provide.
We arrived at 10am, having caught a 06:25 flight from Heathrow; we knew our room wouldn't be ready till 2pm, but the staff said we could leave our luggage and come back after 12 when they would have a room for us. We had a stroll around the centre of the city, a leisurely lunch - there are lots of restaurants and bars nearby and came back at 1pm to be allocated our room.
I couldn't fault anything at the Sofitel - the buffet breakfast - included in the rate was tremendous, fresh & dried fruit, bacon, scrambled eggs, baked beans, has browns, sausages, several kinds of bread, muffins, fresh croissants, butter, jams, honey, cold meats, salad & cheeses!!! I indulged myself - well the weekend away was my birthday treat! My husband and I would definitely recommend the Sofitel and would stay here again with no qualms.
Not good
Hotel well located and bar and restaurant staff very good however reception staff where at times down right rude. Dirty room on 1st night which when complained about was treated with an air of disbelief and a questioning of our honesty. On return home we had been charged twice for our stay. At this hotels prices that doesn't make it cheap. Over a week later they have yet to help solve the problem. Would NOT stay here again.
Excellent hotel
In June 2004 my husband and I found this Hotel very comfortable, well located and staffed by friendly and helpful people who quickly supplied assistance when travel problems arose. The room was quiet, which is a plus in Amsterdam, and had tea-making facilities - a great boon for travellers who are still in another time zone. An iron was available on request. This hotel would be our first choice for any return visit.
Ideal Location, excellent staff
The hotel was within easy walking distance of Central Station, provided your luggage has wheels, 10 mins. Dam square is close by and we walked to all the major attractions. The staff at the hotel could not have been more helpful and the rooms were spotlessly clean, if a little dark. I would advise the use of ear plugs if you are on the lower levels, our room looked into a side alleyway and it was possible to hear people walking home late at night. Other than that, it was very comfortable and the breakfast was excellent. Our friends found a very good offer for our stay and the rate we paid was good value for money.
We would be happy to return to the hotel.
Great stay at the sofitel
Excellent location, well appointed and spotless bedrooms. Super buffet breakfast to set you up for the day. A very welcoming hotel and would recommend it to anyone.
Sofitel Amsterdam on short list of Amsterdam's best hotels
Fashioned from three historic row buildings within walking distance from Dam Square and Centraal Station, the Sofitel Amsterdam is well-maintained, professionally staffed and well-appointed. The rooms are decently sized by European standards and taken care of well by the housekeeping staff. Views are sparse because of the location between a busy street out front and what is little more than an alleyway to the rear of the building. The breakfast buffet is very good and you shouldn't miss it if it is part of your room rate, which it often is.
There is also a lounge within the hotel. Rack rates are very much on the high side but we've had good luck finding value rates that have made this fine property into a good value for our visits.
Clean and fairly central
This is a central hotel not far from Dam Square and about 10 minutes walk from Central Station. The staff are extremeley warm and friendly and went out of their way to explain the local tourist attractions.
The room overlooked the main road and eventhough it was triple glazed there was a fair bit of traffic noise. It was very clean, spacious and the bed was very comfortable.
We paid about 390 Euros for two of us for three nights that included a breakfast.
The buffet breakfast was substantial in a nicely decorated room with attentive staff.
All in all very good value for money in a central location.
Decent, reliable, unspectacular, but sometimes overpriced
A reliable hotel, but often poor value given the relatively expensive rates. Rooms are unremarkable but invariably spotless. They can, however, be a little cramped. The location is central, but uninspiring.
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At an effortlessly chic Hamptons retreat decorated by Carrier and Co., lively regional artifacts, artwork, and furnishings take pride of place
For all the fascination with its celebrity residents, the Village of Southampton, New York, boasts a rich history that is deeply prized by the local community. Established in 1640, the village, which lies within the much larger township of Southampton, is one of the state's oldest permanent English settlements, and it has been a genteel East End escape since the late 1800s. Gilded Age estates designed by the likes of Stanford White and Grosvenor Atterbury stand sentry along privet-hedged lanes. The patrician tennis and beach clubs founded by the area's original summer vacationers continue to dominate the enclave's social landscape. And the legacy of plein air painters such as William Merritt Chase and Fairfield Porter still looms large in the cultural imagination.
Respect for that fabled past guided Susan and Gary Garrabrant's plans for the retreat they built next to a small pond on one of the town's tree-lined streets, a stone's throw from the ocean. The stately cedar-shingled dwelling, devised by Southampton-based architect John David Rose, is informed by the handsome proportions of a nearby residence, a 1920s classic by John Russell Pope, architect of the Jefferson Memorial. And the new home's decor, by the Manhattan firm Carrier and Co. Interiors, is highlighted by art and antiques with a local provenance, much of it selected by the Garrabrants. "Capturing the history of the East End was very important to us," says Susan, who was raised on Long Island and whose ties to Southampton go back a few decades. "We wanted art and furniture that were made here. We also wanted the house to look like it had been here forever." Gary, a native Midwesterner and head of the private-equity firm Jaguar Growth Partners, agrees, adding, "The art is our way of creating a strong sense of place."
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Empress Petunia (OP) User ID: 350482 United States 01/06/2008 12:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What on earth leads you to believe that BS is Monarch programmed? This is a real question, BTW. Quoting: Dumas 337683Because she is showing the classic symptoms of one who has been through that kind of trauma. Also her parents pimped her out to Disney when she was very young. |
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Empress Petunia (OP) User ID: 350482 United States 01/06/2008 12:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | PROFILE OF MONARCH VICTIMS * Monarch victims have structured MPD. Their MPD may be detected through a whole range of clues. It is not within the scope of this paper to give all the many clues and indications of MPD, but the following might be tip-offs: o the person changes tastes and behavior and is self-contradictory in what they say they like. o the person believes that aliens are talking inside their heads. o the person is not able to comfortably watch certain films such as the Wizard of Oz, or Alice in Wonderland or some other particular non-horror movie. The list of clues could go on for a long ways on how to detect structured MPD. * Older ones may have tattoos with a Monarch butterfly. (This applies to CIA and Government Models especially.) Since the 1970s most Monarch victims have no longer been tattooed but wear butterfly barrettes, large butterfly ear rings, pins, necklaces, bracelets, or embroidered insignias. Illuminati Monarch slaves often do not have any tattoos because their bodies have to be blemish free to be qualified for the higher ranks within the Illuminati. * Victims will have scars of various kinds on their bodies, including multiple electric prod scars or the resultant moles on their bodies. The type of scarring that these victims have is a long subject just in itself. * When the victims get memory most if not all victims have participated in weird sex and pornography. * Monarch victims suffer all types of problems, including confusion, fears, headaches, program-induced medical problems, hurting feet, dizziness, seeing black and white spots, etc., etc. Men who are active in the programming will often have multiple marriages and will most often then marry a woman of striking appearance and who is much younger - but with little show of emotional attachment. [link to nesara.insights2.org] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 351035 United States 01/06/2008 12:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Okay. Pardon me for being thick, but what are the classic symptoms, if you don't mind enlightening me? Quoting: Dumas 337683Pardon me for thickheadedness, too ... but: Spears doesn't need black ops to be a mess. She's a classic case of "parent using kid to be star-by-proxy," with all the resulting excess, overindulgence and screwups, plus multi-substance abuse. Since she's an adult, only she can (legally) make choices re her life. And she makes lousy ones, since she was raised in "oh, whatever" style. Seriously -- you can't blame EVERYTHING on sinister conspiracies. |
Dumas User ID: 337683 United States 01/06/2008 12:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thank you very much, Empress Petunia. I was long under the impression that only children of Military Intelligence Officers and CIA men were taken in for Monarch programming - to ensure control over the entire childhood and home environment, and that the "stolen" kids were just sex slaves. |
Empress Petunia (OP) User ID: 350482 United States 01/06/2008 12:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good info on Disney: [link to www.whale.to] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 351035 United States 01/06/2008 01:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | PROFILE OF MONARCH VICTIMS Quoting: Empress Petunia 350482* Monarch victims have structured MPD. Their MPD may be detected through a whole range of clues. The symptoms on this list could apply to tons of people who've never been "Monarched." So the list is useful if a clinician is trying to determine what a group of KNOWN Monarch survivors have in common. But because the symptoms are so nonspecific, it doesn't work in reverse: You can't draw generalizations from them to determine if someone HAS been Monarched, with no other evidence. After all: -- The MPD symptoms could apply to anyone w/MPD, and Monarch doesn't create all MPD. -- The remaining symptoms are common in psychotics, depressives, everyday neurotics, child-abuse/other abuse/rape survivors .... even in the relatively normal. - Contradictory behavior, scars, "confusion, fears, headaches," "hurting feet, dizziness, seeing black and white spots" are NOT rarities. Nor are butterfly tattoos, or multi-married men with trophy wives. Porn/sex flashbacks are pretty common among people w/recovered memory (which in itself is pretty controversial). Bad-reasoning examples: -- Years ago, one pop-psych bunch insisted that all eating disorders were symptomatic of sexual abuse -- because sex-abuse survivors sometimes had eating disorders. -- Before that, 'experts' said that "detached" or "cold" moms caused autism ... based on observations that (by the time they sought help), these moms appeared numb, resigned, wiped out, etc. Both of these erroneous conclusions really put some people through the wringer -- until they were proven false. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 326428 United States 01/06/2008 02:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Disneyesque fantasies are probably good indicators to psychologically profile children, for example one little girl might be drawn to the character of Sleeping Beauty, another little girl might be drawn to the character of Tinker Bell, a little boy might be fascinated by the character of Captain Nemo. The character a child is drawn to tells us a lot about their psychological make-up, about their hopes, fears, family background, mental, sexual, and social development. |
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Empress Petunia User ID: 351886 United States 01/07/2008 11:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Watch "Dr." Phil, the mind-controlled slave handler, give the satanic hand sign at 00:25. [link to www.youtube.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 357394 United States 01/18/2008 01:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Greenbaum Speech The lecture by D.C.Hammond, originally entitled "Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse," but now usually known as the "Greenbaum Speech," delivered at the Fourth Annual Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality, Thursday June 25, 1992, at the Radisson Plaza Hotel, Mark Center, Alexandria, Virginia. Sponsored by the Center for Abuse Recovery & Empowerment, The Psychiatric Institute of Washington, D.C. Both a tape and a transcript were at one time available from Audio Transcripts of Alexandria, Virginia (800-338-2111). Tapes and transcripts of other sessions from the conference are still being sold but -- understandably -- not this one. The transcript below was made from a privately made tape of the original lecture. The single most remarklable thing about this speech is how little one has heard of it in the two years since its original delivery. It is recommended that one reads far enough at least until one finds why it's called "the Greenbaum speech." |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 357394 United States 01/18/2008 01:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | continued from above In Chicago at the first international congress where ritual abuse was talked about I can remember thinking, "How strange and interesting." I can recall many people listening to an example given that somebody thought was so idiosyncratic and rare, and all the people coming up after saying, "Gee, you're treating one, too? You're in Seattle"...Well, I'm in Toronto...Well, I'm in Florida...Well, I'm in Cincinnati." I didn't know what to think at that point. It wasn't too long after that I found my first ritual-abuse patient in somebody I was already treating and we hadn't gotten that deep yet. Things in that case made me very curious about the use of mind-control techniques and hypnosis and other brainwashing techniques. So I started studying brainwashing and some of the literature in that area and became acquainted with, in fact, one of the people who'd written one of the better books in that area. Then I decided to do a survey, and from the ISSMP&D [International Society for the Study of Mulptiple Personality and Dissociation] folks I picked out about a dozen and a half therapists that I though were seeing more of that than probably anyone else around and I started surveying them. The interview protocol, that I had. got the same reaction almost without exception. Those therapists said, "You're asking questions I don't know the answers to. You're asking more specific questions than I've ever asked my patients." Many of those same therapists said, "Let me ask those questions and I'll get back to you with the answer." Many of them not only got back with answers, but said, "You've got to talk to this patient or these two patients." I ended up doing hundred of dollars worth of telephone interviewing. What I came out of that was a grasp of a variety of brainwashing methods being used all over the country. I started to hear some similarities. Whereas I hadn't known, to begin with, how widespread things were, I was now getting a feeling that there were a lot of people reporting some similar things and that there must be some degree of communication here. Then approximately two and a half years ago I had some material drop in my lap. My source was saying a lot of things that I knew were accurate about some of the brainwashing, but it was telling me new material I had no idea about. At this point I took and decided to check it out in three ritual-abuse patients I was seeing at the time. Two of the three had what they were describing, in careful inquiry without leading or contaminating. The fascinating thing was that as I did a telephone-consult with a therapist that I'd been consulting for quite a number of months on an MPD case in another state, I told her to inquire about certain things. She said, "Well, what are those things?" I said, "I'm not going to tell you, because I don't want there to be any possibility of contamination. Just come back to me and tell me what the patient says." She called me back two hours later, said, "I just had a double session with this patient and there was a part of him that said, 'Oh, we're so excited. If you know about this stuff, you know how the Cult Programmers get on the inside and our therapy is going to go so much faster.'" Many other patients since have had a reaction of wanting to pee their pants out of anxiety and fear rather than thinking it was wonderful thing. But the interesting thing was that she then asked, "What are these things?" They were word perfect -- same answers my source had given me. I've since repeated that in many parts of the country. I've consulted in eleven states and one foreign country, in some cases over the telephone, in some cases in person, in some cases giving the therapist information ahead of time and saying, "Be very careful how you phrase this. Phrase it in these ways so you don't contaminate." In other cases not even giving the therapist information ahead of time so they couldn't. When you start to find the same highly esoteric information in different states and different countries, from Florida to California, you start to get an idea that there's something going on that is very large, very well coordinated, with a great deal of communication and sytematicness to what's happening. So I have gone from someone kind of neutral and not knowing what to think about it all to someone who clearly believes ritual abuse is real and that the people who say it isn't are either naive like people who didn't want to believe the Holocaust or -- they're dirty. [Applause] Now for a long time I would tell a select group of therapists that I knew and trusted, information and say, "Spread it out. Don't spread my name. Don't say where it came from. But here's some information. Share it with other therapists if you find it's on target, and I'd appreciate your feedback." People would question -- in talks -- and say, you know, they were hungry for information. Myself, as well as a few others that I've shared it with, were hedging out of concern and out of personal threats and out of death threats. I finally decided to hell with them. If they're going to kill me, they're going to kill me. It's time to share more information with therapists. Part of that comes because we proceeded so cautiously and slowly, checking things in many different locations and find the same thing. So I'm going to give you the way in with ritual-abuse programming. I certainly can't tell you everything that you want to know in forty-five or fifty minutes, but I'm going to give you the essentials to get inside and start working at a new level. I don't know what proportion, honestly, of patients have this. I would guess that maybe somewhere around at least fifty percent, maybe as high as three-quarters, I would guess maybe two-thirds of your ritual-abuse patients may have this. What do I think the distinguishing characteristic is? If they were raised from birth in a mainstream cult or if they were an non-bloodline person, meaning neither parent was in the Cult, but Cult people had a lot of access to them in early childhood, they may also have it. I have seen more than one ritual-abuse patient who clearly had all the kind of ritual things you hear about. They seemed very genuine. They talked about all the typical things that you hear in this population, but had none of this programming with prolonged extensive checking. So I believe in one case I was personally treating that she was a kind of schizmatic break-off that had kind of gone off and done their own thing and were no longer hooked into a mainstream group. [Pause] Here's where it appears to have come from. At the end of World War II, before it even ended, Allen Dulles and people from our Intelligence Community were already in Switzerland making contact to get out Nazi scientists. As World War II ends, they not only get out rocket scientists, but they also get out some Nazi doctors who have been doing mind-control research in the camps. They brought them to the United States. Along with them was a young boy, a teenager, who had been raised in a Hasidic Jewish tradition and a background of Cabalistic mysticism that probably appealed to people in the Cult because at least by the turn of the century Aleister Crowley had been introducing Cabalism into Satanic stuff, if not earlier. I suspect it may have formed some bond between them. But he saved his skin by collaborating and being an assistant to them in the death-camp experiments. They brought him with them. They started doing mind-control research for Military Intelligence in military hospitals in the United States. The people that came, the Nazi doctors, were Satanists. Subsequently, the boy changed his name, Americanized it some, obtained an M.D. degree, became a physician and continued this work that appears to be at the center of Cult Programming today. His name is known to patients throughout the country. [Pause] What they basically do is they will get a child and they will start this, in basic forms, it appears, by about two and a half after the child's already been made dissociative. They'll make him dissociative not only through abuse, like sexual abuse, but also things like putting a mousetrap on their fingers and teaching the parents, "You do not go in until the child stops crying. Only then do you go in and remove it." They start in rudimentary forms at about two and a half and kick into high gear, it appears, around six or six and a half, continue through adolescence with periodic reinforcements in adulthood. Basically in the programming the child will be put typically on a gurney. They will have an IV in one hand or arm. They'll be strapped down, typically naked. There'll be wires attached to their head to monitor electroencephalograph patterns. They will see a pulsing light, most often described as red, occasionally white or blue. They'll be given, most commonly I believe, Demerol. Sometimes it'll be other drugs as well depending on the kind of programming. They have it, I think, down to a science where they've learned you give so much every twenty- five minutes until the programming is done. They then will describe a pain on one ear, their right ear generally, where it appears a needle has been placed, and they will hear weird, disorienting sounds in that ear while they see photic stimulation to drive the brain into a brainwave pattern with a pulsing light at a certain frequency not unlike the goggles that are now available through Sharper Image and some of those kinds of stores. Then, after a suitable period when they're in a certain brainwave state, they will begin programming, programming oriented to self-destruction and debasement of the person. In a patient at this point in time about eight years old who has gone through a great deal early programming took place on a military installation. That's not uncommon. I've treated and been involved with cases who are part of this original mind-control project as well as having their programming on military reservations in many cases. We find a lot of connections with the CIA. This patient now was in a Cult school, a private Cult school where several of these sessions occurred a week. She would go into a room, get all hooked up. They would do all of these sorts of things. When she was in the proper altered state, now they were no longer having to monitor it with electroencephalographs, she also had already had placed on her electrodes, one in the vagina, for example, four on the head. Sometimes they'll be on other parts of the body. They will then begin and they would say to her, "You are angry with someone in the group." She'd say, "No, I'm not" and they'd violently shock her. They would say the same thing until she complied and didn't make any negative response. Then they would continue. "And because you are angry with someone in the group," or "When you are angry with someone in the group, you will hurt yourself. Do you understand?" She said, "No" and they shocked her. They repeated again, "Do you understand?" "Well, yes, but I don't want to." Shock her again untill they get compliance. Then they keep adding to it. "And you will hurt yourself by cutting yourself. Do you understand?" Maybe she'd say yes, but they might say, "We don't believe you" and shock her anyway. "Go back and go over it again." They would continue in this sort of fashion. She said typically it seemed as though they'd go about thirty minutes, take a break for a smoke or something, come back. They may review what they'd done and stopped or they might review what they'd done and go on to new material. She said the sessions might go half an hour, they might go three hours. She estimated three times a week. Programming under the influence of drugs in a certain brainwave state and with these noises in one ear and them speaking in the other ear, usually the left ear, associated with right hemisphere non-dominant brain functioning, and with them talking, therefore, and requiring intense concentration, intense focusing. Because often they'll have to memorize and say certain things back, word-perfect, to avoid punishment, shock, and other kinds of things that are occurring. This is basically how a lot of programming goes on. Some of it'll also use other typical brainwashing kinds of techniques. There will be very standardized types of hypnotic things done at times. There'll be sensory deprivation which we know increases suggestibility in anyone. Total sensory deprivation, suggestibility has significantly increased, from the research. It's not uncommon for them to use a great deal of that, including formal sensory- deprivation chambers before they do certain of these things. [Pause] Now let me give you, because we don't have a lot of time, as much practical information as I can. The way that I would inquire as to whether or not some of this might be there would be with ideomotor finger-signals. After you've set them up I would say, "I want the central inner core of you to take control of the finger-signals." Don't ask the unconscious mind. The case where you're inquiring about ritual abuse, that's for the central inner core. The core is a Cult-created part. "And I want that central inner core of you to take control of this hand of these finger-signals and what it has for the yes-finger to float up. I want to ask the inner core of you is there any part of you, any part of Mary," that's the host's name, "who knows anything about Alpha, Beta, Delta, or Theta." If you get a Yes, it should raise a red flag that you might have someone with formal intensive brainwashing and programming in place. I would then ask and say, "I want a part inside who knows something about Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Theta to come up to a level where you can speak to me and when you're here say, 'I'm here.'" I would not ask if a part was willing to. No one's going to particularly want to talk about this. I would just say, "I want some part who can tell me about this to come out." Without leading them ask them what these things are. I've had consults where I've come in. Sometimes I've gotten a Yes to that, but as I've done exploration it appeared to be some kind of compliance response or somebody wanting, in two or three cases, to appear maybe that they were ritual abuse and maybe they were in some way, but with careful inquiry and looking it was obvious that they did not have what we were looking for. Let me tell you what these are. Let's suppose that this whole front row here are multiples and that she has an alter named Helen and she has one named Mary, she has one named Gertrude, she has one named Elizabeth, and she has one named Monica. Every one of those alters may have put on it a program, perhaps designated alpha-zero-zero-nine a Cult person could say, "Alpha-zero-zero-nine" or make some kind of hand gesture to indicate this and get the same part out in any one of them even though they had different names that they may be known by to you. Alphas appear to represent general programming, the first kind of things put in. Betas appear to be sexual programs. For example, how to perform oral sex in a certain way, how to perform sex in rituals, having to do with producing child pornography, directing child pornography, prostitution. Deltas are killers trained in how to kill in ceremonies. There'll also be some self- harm stuff mixed in with that, assassination and killing. Thetas are called psychic killers. You know, I had never in my life heard those two terms paired together. I'd never heard the words "psychic killers" put together, but when you have people in different states, including therapists inquiring and asking, "What is Theta," and patients say to them, "Psychic killers," it tends to make one a believer that certain things are very systematic and very widespread. This comes from their belief in psychic sorts of abilities and powers, including their ability to psychically communicate with "mother'" including their ability to psychically cause somebody to develop a brain aneurysm and die. It also is a more future-oriented kind of programming. Then there's Omega. I usually don't include that word when I say my first question about this or any part inside that knows about Alpha, Beta, Delta, Theta because Omega will shake them even more. Omega has to do with self-destruct programming. Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. This can include self-mutilation as well as killing- themselves programming. Gamma appears to be system-protection and deception programming which will provide misinformation to you, try to misdirect you, tell you half-truths, protect different things inside. There can also be other Greek letters. I'd recommend that you go and get your entire Greek alphabet and if you have verified that some of this stuff is present and they have given you some of the right answers about what some of this material is, and I can't underline enough: DO NOT LEAD THEM. Do not say, "Is this killers?" Get the answer from them, please. When you've done this and it appears to be present, I would take your entire Greek alphabet and, with ideomotor signals, go through the alphabet and say, "Is there any programming inside associated with epsilon, omicron," and go on through. There may be some sytematicness to some of the other letter, but I'm not aware of it. I've found, for example, in one case that Zeta had to do with the production of snuff films that this person was involved with. With another person, Omicron had to do with their linkage and associations with drug smuggling and with the Mafia and with big business and government leaders. So there's going to be some individualism, I think, in some of those. Some of those are come-home programs, "come back to the Cult", "return to the Cult" program. Here's the flaw in the system. They have built in shut-down and erasure codes so if they got into trouble they could shut something down and they could also erase something. These codes will sometimes be idiosyncratic phrases, or ditties. Sometimes they will be numbers maybe followed by a word. There's some real individuality to that. At first I had hoped if we can get some of these maybe they'll work with different people. No such luck. It's very unlikely unless they were programmed at about the same point in time as part of the same little group. Stuff that I've seen suggests that they carry laptop computers, the programmers, which still include everything that they did twenty, thirty years ago in them in terms of the names of alters, the programs, the codes, and so on. Now what you can do is get erasure codes, and I always ask, "If I say this code, what will happen?' Doublecheck. "Is there any part inside who has different information?" Watch your ideomotor signals and what I've found is you can erase programs by giving the appropriate codes, but then you must abreact the feelings. So if you erase Omega, which is often where I've started because it's the most high risk. Afterwards I will get all the Omega, what were formerly Omega alters, together so that we will abreact and give back to the host the memories associated with all the programming that was done with Omega and anything any Omega part ever had to do in a fractionated abreaction. They use the metaphor -- and it is their metaphor -- of robots. and it is like a robot shell comes down over the child alter to make them act in robotic fashion. Once in a while internally you'll confront robots. What I found from earlier work, and so I speed the process up now because I confirmed it enough times, is that you can say to the core, "Core, I want you to look -- there's this robot blocking the way in some way, blocking the progress. Go around and look at the back of the head and tell me what you notice on the back of the head or the neck." I just ask it very non-leading like that and what's commonly said to me is that there were wires or a switch. So I'll tell them, "Hold the wires or flip the switch and it will immobilize the robot and give me a yes- signal when you've done it." Pretty soon you get a yes- signal. "Great. Now that the robot is immobilized, I want you to look inside the robot and tell me what you see." It's generally one or several children. I have them remove the children. I do a little hypnotic magic and ask the core to use a laser and vaporize the robot so nothing is left. They're usually quite amazed that this works, as have been a number of therapists. [Pause] Now there are many different layers of this stuff is the problem. Let me come over to the overhead and give some ideas about them. What we have up here are innumerable alters. I'll tell you one of the fascinating things I've seen. I remember a little over a year ago coming in to see some cases, some of the tough cases at a dissociative-disorders unit of a couple of the finest of the MPD therapists in this country, who are always part of all the international meetings, have lectured internationally. We worked and I look at some of their patients. They were amazed at certain things because they had not been aware of this before. As we worked with some of the patients and confirmed it, I remember one woman who'd been inpatient for three years, still was inpatient. Another who had one intensive year of inpatient work with all the finest MPD therapy you can imagine -- abreactions, integrations, facilitating cooperation, art therapy, on and on and on, journaling, intensively for one inpatient year followed by an intensive year of outpatient therapy two, three hours a week. In both patients we found out that all of this great work had done nothing but deal with the alters up here and had not touched the mind-control programming. In fact it was not only intact, but we found that the one who was outpatient was having her therapy monitored every session by her mother, out-of-state, over the telephone, and that she still had intact suggestions that had been give to her at a certain future time to kill her therapist. Now one of the things that I would very carefully check is, I would suggest that you ask the core, not just the unconscious mind, ask the core, "Is there any part inside that continues to have contact with people associated with the Cult? Is there any part inside who goes to Cult rituals or meetings? Is there a recording device inside of Mary," if that's the host's name, "a recording device inside so that someone can find out the things that are said in sessions?" This doesn't mean they're monitored. Many of them just simply have it. "Is there someone who debriefs some part inside for what happens in our therapy sessions?" I have the very uncomfortable feeling from some past experience that when you look at this you will find the large proportion of ritual-abuse victims in this country are having their ongoing therapy monitored. I remember a woman who came in about twenty-four years old, claimed her father was a Satanist. Her parents divorced when she was six. After that it would only when her father had visitation and he would take her to rituals sometimes up until age fifteen. She said, "I haven't gone to anything since I was fifteen." Her therapist believed this at face value. We sat in my office. We did a two-hour inquiry using hypnosis. We found the programming present. In addition to that we found that every therapy session was debriefed and in fact they had told her to get sick and not come to the appointment with me. Another one had been told that I was Cult and that if she came I would know that she'd been told not to come and I would punish her. If anything meaningful comes out in a patient who's being monitored like that -- from what I've learned thus far, they're tortured with electric shocks -- my belief is if they're in that situation you can't do meaningful therapy other than being supportive and caring and letting them know you care a lot and you'll be there to support them. But I wouldn't try to work with any kind of deep material or deprogramming with them because I think it can do nothing but get them tortured and hurt unless they can get into a safe, secure inpatient unit for an extended period of time to do some of the work required. I have a feeling that when you make inquiries you're going to find that probably greater than fifty percent of these patients, if they're bloodline, meaning mother or dad or both involved, will be monitored on some ongoing basis. [Pause] Now when you come below the alters, you then have Alpha, Beta, Delta, Theta, so and so forth, the Greek-letter programming and they will then have backup programs. There will typically be an erasure code for the backups. There may be one code that combines all the backups into one and then an erasure code for them, simply one code that erases all the backups. So I will get the code for, let's say, Omega and for all the Omega backups at the same time. After I've asked "What will happen if I give this," I will give the code and then I will say, "What are you experiencing?" They often describe computer whirring, things erasing, explosions inside, all sorts of interesting things. I've had some therapists come back and say, "My Lord, I had never said anything about robots she said something about robots vaporizing." I remember one therapist who'd been with me in several hypnosis workshops and consulted with me about a crisis MPD situation. I told her to inquire about Alpha, Beta, Delta, Theta. She did. She got back to me saying, "Yeah, I got an indication it's there. What is it?" I said, "I'm not going to tell you. Go back and inquire about some of this." We set an appointment for a week or so hence. She got back with me and said, "I asked what Theta was and she said, 'psychic killers.' I asked her what Delta was and she said 'killers.'" Okay. So I told her about some of this stuff for a two-hour consult. She called back and she said, "This seemed too fantastic. I heard this and I thought, 'Has Cory been working too hard?'" she said, I'm embarrassed to admit it, but she said, "I held you in high professional regard, but this just sounded so off in the twilight zone that I really thought, 'Is he having a nervous breakdown or something?'" She said, "But I respected you enough to ask about this." She said, "I asked another MPD patient and she didn't have any of this." So in this patient she started describing things and how she worked, for example, with an erasure and she was describing things like robots vaporizing and kinds of things. She said, "I hadn't told her about any of these things." Well, here's the problem. There are different layers and I think some of them are designed to keep us going in circles forever. They figured we probably, in most cases, wouldn't get below the alters which they purposefully created. The way you create Manchurian Candidates is you divide the mind. It's part of what the Intelligence Community wanted to look at. If you're going to get an assassin, you're going to get somebody to go do something, you divide the mind. It fascinates me about cases like the assassination of Robert Kennedy, where Bernard Diamond, on examining Sirhan Sirhan found that he had total amnesia of the killing of Robert Kennedy, but under hypnosis could remember it. But despite suggestions he would be able to consciously remember, could not remember a thing after was out of hypnosis. I'd love to examine Sirhan Sirhan. It appears that below this we've got some other layers. One is called "Green Programming" it appears. Isn't it interesting that the doctor's name is Dr. Green? One of the questions in a way that does not contaminate is after I've identified some of this stuff is there and they've given me a few right answers about what some of it is, "If there were a doctor associated with this programming and his name were a color, you know, like Dr. Chartreuse or something, if his name were a color, what color would the color be?" Now once in a while I've had some other colors mentioned in about three or four patients that I felt were trying to dissimulate in some way and I don't really believe had this. In one case I got another color and I found out later it was a doctor whose name was a color who was being trained by Dr. Green almost thirty years ago and he supervised part of the programming of this woman under this doctor. I remember one woman couldn't come up with anything. No alter would speak up with anything. I said, "Okay," and we went on to some other material. About two minutes later she said, "Green. Do you mean Dr. Green?" We found this all over. There appears to be some Green Programming below that and I suspect that you get down to fewer and more central programs the deeper you go. Well, all Green Programming is Ultra-Green and the Green Tree. Cabalistic mysticism is mixed all into this. If you're going to work with this you need to pick up a couple of books on the Cabala. One is by a man named Dion Fortune called "Qabala" with a "q," Dion Fortune. Another is by Ann Huffer-Heller and it's called "The Kabbalah." I knew nothing about the Cabala. It was interesting. A patient had sat in my waiting area, got there considerably early and drew a detailed multicolored Cabalistic Tree over two years ago. It took me two months to figure out what it was. Finally, showing it to somebody else who said, "You know? That looks an awful lot like the Cabala Tree" and that rang a bell with some esoteric in an old book and I dug it out. That was the background of Dr. Green. Now the interesting thing about the Green Tree is his original name was Greenbaum. What does "greenbaum" mean in German? Green Tree, Ultra-Tree and the Green Tree. I've also had patients who didn't appear to know that his original name was Greenbaum, volunteered that there were parts inside named Mr. Greenbaum. Now let me give you some information about parts inside that may be helpful to you if you're going to inquire about these things, because my experience is one part will give you some information and either run dry or get defensive or scared and stop. and so you punt and you make an end run and you come around the other direction, you find another part. I'll tell you several parts to ask for and ask if there's a part by this name. And, by the way, when I'm screening patients and fiddling around with this, I throw in a bunch of spurious ones and ask, "Is there a part inside by this name and by that name" as a check on whether or not it appears genuine. For example. "In addition to the core," I ask, "is there a part inside named Wisdom?" Wisdom is a part of the Cabalistic Tree. Wisdom, I've often found, will be helpful and give you a lot of information. "Is there a part inside named Diana?" I mean I may throw in all sorts of things. "Is there a part inside named Zelda?" I've never encountered one yet! Just to see what kind of answers we get. I try to do this carefully. Diana is a part that, in the Cabalistic system, is associated with a part called the Foundation. You will be fascinated to know that. Remember the Process Church? Roman Polanski's wife, Sharon Tate, was killed by the Manson Family who were associated with the Process Church? A lot of prominent people in Hollywood were associated and then they went underground, the books say, in about seventy-eight and vanished? Well, they're alive and well in southern Utah. We have a thick file in the Utah Department of Public Safety documenting that they moved to southern Utah, north of Monument Valley, bought a movie ranch in the desert, renovated it, expanded it, built a bunch of buildings there, carefully monitored so that very few people go out of there and no one can get in and changed their name. A key word in their name is "Foundation." The Foundation. There are some other words. The Foundation is part of the Tree. So you can ask, "Is there something inside known as The Foundation?" I might ask other things to throw people off. "Is there something known as the Sub-Basement?" Well, maybe they'll conceive of something. Or "Is there something known as the Walls?" There are a variety of questions you can come up with, to sort of screen some things. I've also found that there will often be a part called "Black Master," a part called "Master Programmer," and that there will be computer operators inside. How many of you have come into computer things in patients? There will typically be computer operators: Computer Operator Black, Computer Operator Green, Computer Operator Purple. Sometimes they'll have numbers instead, sometimes they'll be called Systems Information Directors. You can find out the head one of those. There'll be a source of some information for you. I will ask inside, "Is there a part inside named Dr. Green?" You'll find that there are, if they have this kind of programming, in my experience. Usually with a little work and reframing, you can turn them and help them to realize that they were really a child-part who's playing a role and they had no choice then, but they do now. You know, they played their role very, very well, but they don't have to continue to play it with you because they're safe here and in fact, "If the Cult simply found out that you talked to me, that they you had shared information with me, you tell me what would they do to you?" Emphasize that the only way out is through me and that they need to cooperate and share information and help me and that I'll help them. So all these parts can give you various information. Now they have tried to protect this very carefully. Let me give you an example with Ultra-Green. I discovered this -- by the way I used to think this programming was only in bloodline people. I've discovered it in non-bloodline people, but it's a bit different. They don't want it to be just the same. I don't think you'll find deep things like Ultra-Green and probably not even Green Programming with non-bloodline people. But let me tell you something that I discovered first in a non-bloodline and then in a bloodline. We were going along and a patient was close to getting well, approaching final integration in a non-bloodline and she suddenly started hallucinating and her fingers were becoming hammers and other things like that. So I used an affect-bridge and we went back and we found that what happened was that they gave suggestions, that if she ever got well to a certain point she would go crazy. The way they did this was they strapped her down and they gave her LSD when she was eight years old. When she began hallucinating they inquired about the nature of the hallucinations so they could utilize them in good Ericsonian fashion and build on them and then combine the drug-effect with powerful suggestions. "If you ever get to this point you will go crazy. If you ever get fully integrated and get well you will go crazy like this and will be locked up in an institution for the rest of your life. They gave those suggestions vigorously and repetitively. Finally they introduced other suggestions that, "Rather than have this happen, it would be easier to just kill yourself." In a bloodline patient then, as I began inquiring about deep material, the patient started to experience similar symptoms. We went back and we found the identical things were done to her. This was called the "Green Bomb." B-O-M-B. Lots of interesting internal consistencies like that play on words with Dr. Greenbaum, his original name. Now in this case it was done to her at age nine for the first time and then only hers was different. Hers was a suggestion for amnesia. "If you ever remember anything about Ultra-Green and the Green Tree you will go crazy. You will become a vegetable and be locked up forever." Then finally the suggestions added, "And it'll be easier to just kill yourself than have that happen to you, if you ever remember it." At age twelve then, three years later, they used what sounds like an Amytol interview to try to breach the amnesia and find out if they could. They couldn't. So then they strapped her down again, took and gave her something to kind of paralyze her body, gave her LSD, an even bigger dose and reinforced all the suggestions. Did a similar thing at the age of sixteen. So these are some of the kind of booby traps you run into. There are a number of cases where they combined powerful drug effects like this with suggestions to keep us from discovering some of this deeper level stuff. What's the bottom? Your guess is as good as mine but I can tell you that I've had a lot of therapists who were stymied with these cases who were going nowhere. In fact someone here that I told some basic information about this to in Ohio a couple of months ago said it opened all sorts of things up in a patient who'd been going nowhere. That's an often common thing. I think that we can move down to deeper levels and if we deal with some of the deeper level stuff it may destroy all the stuff above it. But we don't even know that yet. In some of the patients I'm working with we have pretty much dealt with a lot of the top-level stuff. I'll tell you how we've done some of that. We'll take and erase one system like Omega. 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nickatnoon User ID: 29288679 Canada 12/07/2012 03:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thank you very much, Empress Petunia. I was long under the impression that only children of Military Intelligence Officers and CIA men were taken in for Monarch programming - to ensure control over the entire childhood and home environment, and that the "stolen" kids were just sex slaves. Quoting: Dumas 337683 |
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Review of Epson Stylus Photo R3000
Aug 15, 2011
I have an analog heritage and a slight preference for BW.
Previously I worked with a HP 8450, which is an A4 Dye printer. This printer had 3 blacks (2 x grey, 1 x black) and was - most of the times - very capable in printing BW.
The downside was that you need to use swellable paper in order to protect the dyes. This rules nearly all fine art and matt papers out.
In practice I used HP paper only.
This, the limitation to A4 and the difficulty to reproduce results (some BW's just looked great, others did not work at all) made me look around for something different.
I finally settled at the R 3000 and I am not at all disapointed. It works extremely well, getting stunning BW is a breeze and I really love it.
I also love the color output.
Do note that all my experience so far is on Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk
Well, I think that the straight paper feed is not really good, It is not straight and also the handling ist not straight forward. It works, but I can see it could be better...
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Envision Group in Denver has developed a new medium for branded messages.
Reveal'd makes it possible to conceal your message or graphic on any glass or mirrored surface, and then reveal it with the application of steam–introduced naturally from shower steam or through artificial means in areas where natural steam does not occur.
In general, I'd say the last thing we need is another place for ads to creep. But in this case, I can see where the reveal might surprise and delight a viewer.
In The Age Of Transparency, A Little Mystery
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