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Christine Lu has 20 years of China experience that began in the early 90s when her family's manufacturing and retail business entered the market. During the mid-90s she spent summer breaks during college years in Shanghai studying Mandarin and interning for The American Chamber of Commerce. Upon graduation from Boston University in 1998, Christine moved to Shanghai and had a brief stint with her family's manufacturing and retailing business. During her time there, she design and launched two clothing lines in China's first tier cities of Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen. She also began working on an internet portal and e-commerce site for women in China until the dotcom bubble burst and luckily landed her a job at a multinational retail company based in Shanghai.
From 1999-2004, Christine served 5 years as head of Marketing for TV Shopping Network (TVSN), a joint venture funded by DFS Group (Duty Free Shoppers) founder Robert Miller's private equity firm The Search Investment Group, Prudential Assets Management Asia, and IAC's HSN (Home Shopping Network). Christine oversaw the company's business development and incubated its e-commerce and direct marketing businesses in China. In 2002, she launched the company's mail order catalog division as an additional revenue channel and way of clearing excess inventory during the early stages of the TV Shopping Network's growth in China. Within 2 years it accounted for 51% of gross sales from a monthly circulation of 700,000+ to its higher net worth shoppers in the company's database. During these years, Christine was also an active member of The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai's Marketing Committee.
Upon returning to the U.S., Christine produced a podcast show for Entrepreneur Magazine in 2007 called "The China Business Show" which led to her founding of The China Business Network. In 2009 she sold her interests in the company and remained active in cross border China initiatives that included co-organizing the first GeeksOnAPlane Silicon Valley tech influencer tours with 500Startups' Dave McClure. She also brought one of the first TEDx events to China as the first curator of TEDxShanghai. She has served as an advisor to Tudou pre-IPO, the private club M1NT Shanghai and GMIC Silicon Valley.
In recent years, Christine became known as a cross border connector at the intersection of travel and luxury as the co-founder and CEO of Affinity China - a lifestyle platform for affluent Chinese travelers. Her new company, 8X8 is a cross border platform focused on investments at the intersection of China going global.
Christine was recently named to Foreign Policy's inaugural "Pacific Power Index" which recognizes 50 individuals shaping the future of U.S. and China ties. She is a co-founder of America Innovates, an initiative focused on high value job creation via investment into innovation districts in cities across the United States.
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Working farm in Le Marche
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Situated near Ripatransone in the southern region of Le Marche Italy. The farm grows a variety of crops organically in rotation.
The farm has accommodation on the ground floor comprising of 3 bed rooms (2 doubles and 1 twin), lounge, dinning room, kitchen and 2 bathrooms covering a total floor space of 90sq mtrs. Outside there are 2 garden area, one with guest terrace, a barn/workshop and an enclosed pool area.
There is a vegetable garden for guests to use bikes, BBQ, trampoline, table tennis and art and painting stuff if required.
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The Rev. Franklin Lowe shows off a birthday cake presented to him by the United Methodist Women's Circle at Mathiston Methodist Church. The cake was presented at the January monthly meeting of UMW at the church fellowship hall. Roger Miller, … Read more
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Interactive and comprehensive, this unique "tool kit" for Reiki--an energetic healing art from Japan--includes a DVD containing step-by-step instruction on Reiki energy techniques, twenty reference cards of key hand positions used in Reiki healing, guided meditations for spiritual protection, an illustrated workbook, and much more.
- Genre: Body + Mind + Spirit
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According to scientists, Homo sapiens use 5 percent of their brain potential. This explains the existence of religion. It is ironic that we medicate and institutionalize people who hear voices, yet believing in fairy tales out of the Bible is fine.
I believe hundreds of years from now the brain will advance to a level that will deem religion as a useless and dangerous mental disorder.
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Any time is a good time for a B&B getaway! Here are our holiday reminders for your planning, along with a selection of events you might attend while staying at Heaven Scent. We can get tickets for you or make reservation as needed.
Homegrown and homemade items, flower arrangements, produce, baked goods; special section
for local artists. Till 1 pm.
A family day at Historic Christ Church, Irvington, with ice cream, colonial games and crafts, storytelling and tours. Till 2 pm.
Enjoy 12 craft beers, delicious BBQ from Savannah Joe's, music from James Justin & Co., Bill & Pam Gurley & Fiddlesticks. Till 8 PM at Historic Christ Church.
Musical guests Salty Dawgs with Faith, till 9 pm. Free. Bring your own chair or blanket. Come early and have a picnic.
Local produce and crafts, from alpaca wool knits to woodwork, and artworks from local talents. Till 1 pm. Billz Bistro offers breakfast from 8 am and lunch.
Steve Bassett and Robbin Thompson - together again! - at Holly Point Nature Park.
Amy Henderson opens at 5. Bring a picnic and chairs or towels and enjoy the early evening on the Maritime Museum's waterfront grounds. Till 8 pm.
This month's First Friday Reception features the art of June and Dick Higgins. Open to the public. Free. Until 7 pm.
Date needs confirmation. All-you-can-eat steamed crabs, BBQ, and live music will make Irvington Commons a lively spot. Tickets $25 in advance, $30 at the door.
Musical guests TBA. Till 9 pm. Free. Bring your own chair or blanket. Come early and have a picnic.
Enjoy the Rappahannock Art League's weeklong show at RWC. The opening reception
is free and open to the public. Until 7 pm.
The Josh Walker Quartet performs at the Labor Day concert. Crooner and jazz standards. Wayne Ruotolo opens. Bring your own chairs or blankets, cooler and picnic for an evening under the stars. In case of rain, the Pavilion will be used. Until 8 pm. $10.
The Photography Show is on exhibit this month at the Rappahannock Art League. The First Friday Reception
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3 weekends in Oct & Nov. Christopher Durang's play, directed by Robin Blake. Evening performances October 30-31, November 5-6-7, 12-13-14, matinees November 1 & 8. Social hour before performances.
Virginia's official oyster festival takes place Friday 9 am to midnight with the Firemen's Parade and street dance,
Saturday 9 am to 6 pm with Oyster Shucking Contest and Festival Parade. Parking Friday $10, Saturday $20.
'Consider the Oyster' is the theme of this month's exhibit. The First Friday Reception is open to the public as well as members. Until 7 pm. Free.
Great gifts, from alpaca wool knits to woodwork and glass works, all from local talents. Till 1 pm. Billz Bistro offers breakfast from 8 am and lunch.
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The only waves you'll catch on the way to work are waves of BO on public transport. The only sun you'll see in the office is the annoying glare on your computer screen. And the most you'll see of Mexico at home is the map you'll find in the atlas. It's time to break free from city life and experience an overseas adventure!
Get the family together or grab your mates for a holiday in Todos Santos, Mexico! For just $379 you and three others can spend five nights in a beautiful 2 bedroom Private Villa OR you and one other can spend six nights in a gorgeous one bedroom Private Villa at Cerritos Surf Colony. Make sure you take a dip in the one hundred foot pool with 18 person swim-up bar while you're there! Internet access is included, and there are no blackout dates, so you can travel whenever you like.
Right in your own backyard, you'll find the only swimmable and surfing beach on the Pacific Ocean of Baja Sur. The beach is world famous with a reputation frequently noted in Surfer Magazine for champion surfing. The area is often visited by celebrities like Kelly Slater and other pro surfers. The Cerritos Beach Club and Surf offers Surf Lessons, Massage, and Ecotours right on the beach.
The two bedroom Private Villa offers a fantastic beachfront ocean view from private the upstairs master bedroom. It contains a spacious two and a half baths, laundry and full kitchen, all decorated with hand painted Mexican tiles and rustic Mexican old world décor. Each bedroom has a king size bed (extra bedding and cribs may be available, please contact Resort directly) and the family room is warm and inviting. For upgrade options and prices please make an enquiry directly with resort.
Cerritos Surf Colony is located on a world famous beach in Todos Santos, neighbouring the majestic cliff top mansion of Hacienda Cerritos Boutique Hotel. This beach front resort is Mayan inspired with free standing, one two and four bedroom villas with thatch top roofs, with solar energy assisted power.
Todos Santos is known for its art galleries, world class cuisine, its historic mission, its regional museum, boutiques and bookstores. Anything you could possibly want is down the road in Cabo where there is a great nightlife, discos, fine dining and shopping malls. There's even a Starbucks, Costco and Walmart.
Just pack for the perfect summer day! Make sure you bring sunscreen, your bathing suit, sunglasses, a hat, sandals, shorts and t-shirts, camera, a good book and maybe your laptop. For girls summer dresses work better. For the cooler evenings, a sweater is a great idea; even the nicer restaurants are always semi casual.
There's plenty to do in Todos Santos including:
Tip: During December until April, you may just get the opportunity to see the Grey Whales frolicking just off the shore with their newborn babies!
The most convenient way to get to Cerritos Surf Colony are the 1-stop flights on Qantas or V Australia to Los Angeles, with connecting flights to San Jose Del Cabo on American Airlines, Delta or United. After your flight, it's just a 1 hour drive from the Airport to Cerritos Surf Colony. Car Rental is highly recommended for this, which can be arranged at the airport. Along the way you will see the most exquisite, pristine beaches you have seen in your life!
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Celebrities got into the Halloween spirit as they hit up Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood. The annual scare fest features mazes, rides and thrilling shows.
She's ready for the summer!
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Mariah Carey, her boobs and her new beau James Packer, aka the fourth richest man in Australia, took their love to Ibiza, Spain where they gallivanted on a yacht with her kids.
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For optimum results, a course of 6 treatments is recommended along with the use of the Faith Lift creams at home as this will greatly enhance results. In order to achieve prolonged results, you should aim to have 2 treatments for the first week followed by weekly treatments for a month, and then a follow up treatment monthly. Please contact me to book a course of treatments.
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Forget A Federal Marriage Amendment and Go For Religious Freedom Acts In All 50 States
Forget A Federal Marriage Amendment and Go For Religious
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"I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes, but if
they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments,
employers, and schools. By imposing its own views on the entire country, the majority facilitates the marginalization of
the many Americans who have traditional ideas." – Justice Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court decision that forced
gay marriage on the country
The dilemma Christians and conservatives face after the Supreme Court's made-up-from-whole-cloth-instead-of-the-
Constitution ruling on gay marriage is one that Machiavelli described over 500 years ago.
"And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult
to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been treated or recognized at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose
but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are
spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to a prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when they are not
recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure."
Too many conservatives have refused to stand up on social issues and have thus allowed liberals to make their case
in a vacuum. Too many churches have decided they'd rather keep their heads down than stand up for Christian
beliefs. Too many Republicans have played by Marquis of Queensbury rules when it comes to Supreme Court
justices while Democrats have played to win. You'll note that liberal judges always, always, always vote liberally on
key issues, regardless of the law, while some "conservative" justices like John Roberts and Anthony "Captain Coin
Flip" Kennedy move to the left, even if they have to defy the Constitution to do it.
Of course, all of that is water under the bridge and the majority of states in the country, which didn't vote for gay
marriage, have had it thrust upon them unwillingly by tyrants in black robes.
As a response to this, some Republicans have called for term limits for the Supreme Court. Ted Cruz has called for
justices to have to face the voters every 8 years. Scott Walker has called for a constitutional amendment to roll back
the Supreme Court's decision.
Love of Country v. Love of government…is there a difference?
The odd thinking, conclusions and worldview of Democrats has always amazed and mystified me. Once in a while, I receive a revelation and an understanding about them. Yesterday I received one of those revelations while talking to a very nice, loving and authentic human being (who also somehow was a Democrat) in the course of my business.
We were having difficulty with some government regulations regarding a business transaction that only retarded the goal of what we were mutually trying to accomplish.
When my friend said something about this government induced difficulty we were experiencing, they said, "As much as I love my Government, this is ridiculous". Then it hit me. Then it stopped me in my tracks. Then I had a revelation instant.
When a Democrat says, "I love my Country" and when they say "I love my Government", those two separate concepts mean exactly the same thing to them and are used interchangeably in every sense of expression and thought.
As a conservative and patriot; I see nothing but difference between my Country and my Government. I learned in school that we had government way before we had a "Country". It seemed clear to me the British had implemented a government here on the East coast of our continent that came in the standard packaging of taxation and "security" of a requisite military. We were governed and could enjoy the relatively free society, pick our trade of choice, own land, operate a business and a farm.
We were birds of a feather more than we wanted to admit. We felt that in this new world and on this new continent that we were our own "Country" and we often referred to others around us as "Our Fellow Countrymen" People left Britain in droves to come here not because they no longer loved their Country. It was because they no longer loved their government. Nearly everyone would say they love their Country, but today- only a Democrat would say, "I love my government".
It is this very basic cognitive distortion that causes Democrats to have blind faith and allegiance in government. If it was not for a very healthy distrust of government, our founders would not have rallied to form their new and own, "Country". Our declaration of Independence and our Constitution both are chock full of distrust of government. When our new "Country "was born, we needed a new kind of "Government" and gave it a different kind of structure, one that exalted Liberty and Justice for all men.
President Ronald Reagan taught us that Government and Liberty are sworn enemies. Even our founders who implemented our new Government were aware of this. When did they start to worry that our new system could be manipulated into a monstrous tool that could be used to squash Liberty? – About 15 minutes after the ink dried on the Constitution document. Many statesmen on the committees that considered what and should not be included in that document and the Bill of Rights; both foresaw and voiced their concerns about loopholes they could see even in the checks and balances that were embedded by design and purpose.
No longer were we then "subjects" of an all powerful and impersonal government of force. Instead our new form of government was installed to assure our collective and individual Liberty, assure our collective and individual Freedom and assure that our rights given to us by God would never ever again be thwarted by a ruling class of elitists. We knew as both freemen and men who had pushed out from under the thumb of oppressive, big government- that we must be ever vigilant and honor the checks and balances that our new system of government to insure that it never becomes a tool to use against us in our constant pursuit of Liberty of happiness assured because we now owned and controlled the government and not the other way around.
As a conservative, I love my Country but, I do not like what my "Government" has become. Today the rights given to us by God are being thwarted and perverted by a ruling class of elitists who thirst for and esteem big government power over individual liberty and freedom. That is a very bad thing and something that people who love our "Country" must fight. The term, "take our country back" should perhaps more appropriately be called, "take our Government back". The chief difficulty in that endeavor is the substantially large number of our fellow countrymen who have been incorrectly taught that our Country and our Government is one in the very same thing.
Ken Hunter
Redlands, CA
June 24, 2015
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Let's pin #Grifter on #HillaryClinton and #FirstGrifters Bill and Hillary.
More global warming propaganda in the RDF
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." John Adams
John Adams never met the global warmers.
Human caused global warming is a clear and obvious hoax to anyone willing to spend a modicum of time and willing to honestly look at the facts.
I could and have written lengthy comments summarizing some of the evidence of the global warming hoax. For today, I offer the following.
FIRST, for 18+ years, there has been no global warming despite increasing CO2 levels refuting the global warmers "theory."
From ~1940 to ~1978, the climate cooled despite increasing CO2 levels causing the same crowd who now warn of global warming (unless we adopt the leftist political agenda) to warn of a new ice age (unless we adopt the leftist political agenda).
SECOND, this reporter and newspaper again, as they always do, print the latest pronouncements and predictions of the global warmers without question or presenting any contrary information, e.g. no global warming for 18+ years. [Is that what a reporter and a newspaper should do?]
The MSM never looks back at whether the global warmers' previous predications came to pass.
Here is just one example, in 2008, ABC predicted New York would be under water by 2015.
THIRD, CO2 is not "dirty" nor "pollution." It is harmless to animals and beneficial to plants.
We have done a great job reducing real pollution. The article confusingly (intentionally?) equates CO2 and global warming with real pollution.
The article also include typical "climate p*#n" pictures like a big, ugly coalmine, which proves nothing.
FOURTH, the article does not explain that "alternative energy" or "renewable energy" or "clean energy" is much more expensive energy.
More expensive energy means a lower standard of living for Americans and keeping poor people poor.
In California, thanks to the global warming law and mandates for expensive alterative energy, Californians pay the highest gas tax in the country including the "cap and trade" tax for global warming.
"California residential electricity costs an average of 35.4% more per kWh than the national average. CA commercial rates are 60.3% higher. For industrial use, CA electricity is 85.4% higher than the national average (July, 2014)"
While the global warmers do their best to hide the cost, how much are you willing to pay for global warming?
FIFTH, global warming is brought to you by the same people who brought you "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."
"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."
#GobalWarming #ClimateChange #GlobalWarmingHoax
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The Pope and the cost of more expensive energy in money and lives
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@SenatorSessions says Slow Fast-Track Now, Before It's Too Late
No #ObamaTrade #StopFastTrack
@TedCruz and @MarcoRubio supported #ObamaTrade the first time. They have a chance to redeem themselves. If they do not, that should be a deal breaker for their presidential campaigns.
So they do not have do 180 degree flip flops, they should say they will not support #FastTrack until all three draft #ObamaTrade agreements are made public.
Taxpayers hold onto your wallets and purses the legislature is in session
Taxpayers hold onto your wallets and purses the legislature is in session
The sole focus of the Dems and CA "Fwd" is extracting more money from the taxpayers.
CA has the highest gas taxes in the country counting the #CapandTrade tax.
There no mention of making government more effective or efficient.
There is no mention of canceling the boondoggle #HSR.
There is no mention of $25 BILLION CA taxpayers spend every year on #IllegalImmigrants
There is no mention that CA has 12% of the nation's population and 33% of the welfare recipients.
There is no mention of the excessive and unaffordable pensions and lifetime healthcare benefits for government employees that take money from things like repairing roads.
There is no mention of how the Dems divert money that should go to transportation to other spending like the $25 Billion for #IllegalImmigrants.
There is no mention of how the government squanders money all over the state like the Redlands "Crazy Train" >$300,000 per estimated rider to build and $10,000 per estimated rider to operate.
RECALL any nominal Rep that votes for a tax increase. Having > 1/3 Reps in the Legislature makes the Dems and GEUs ask the voters to raise taxes unless some of the Reps cave. If the Reps cave on tax increases, what is the point of having any Reps in Sacramento?
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iPodminibattery.com offers replacement batteries for iPods
Mark Edmonson emailed us to inform our readers that his new online store iPodminibattery.com is offering replacement batteries for all iPod models, including iPod mini. The 1st and 2nd generation battery sells for $49 (US/Canada) and 3G iPod model also sells for $49 (US/Canada)
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link is broken
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on January 23, 2004 at 8:50 PM (CST)
Seems that linking to their website has overwhelmed their server.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on January 24, 2004 at 12:57 AM (CST)
Sorry, wasn't quite expecting that sort of traffic, I have increased the bandwidth limit now.
Apologies :)
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on January 24, 2004 at 4:07 AM (CST)
Is there a huge market for these batteries (especially the 3G model?) After all, I expect only power users are beginning to see failure on their 1G and 2G models and I'd be VERY surprised if people were already cracking out their 3g batteries for replacement.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on January 25, 2004 at 4:51 AM (CST)
The only problem with this is how and who do u get to put it in your iPod. If you take it apart, your warranty is no fucked.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on January 26, 2004 at 10:56 AM (CST)
Typical, tell the UK consumer to pay dollars-for-pounds.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on January 27, 2004 at 5:35 AM (CST)
Dave - Unfortunately it costs quite a lot to import these things to the UK.
$49 + shipping to UK + customs != $49
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on January 27, 2004 at 7:38 AM (CST)
well, it's even more expensive for me to import it to Germany so don't you worry :P
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on January 31, 2004 at 7:36 AM (CST)
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For years, babies have learned to walk. Nearly all of them do it of their own accord, and there's a variety of techniques – cruising along the furniture, staggering from one fixed point to another, holding an adult's finger – but largely, they don't need the intervention of gadgets to help them walk. Until now! In gender-stereotyped pink and blue shades, the walking wings act like a little harness to help guide the baby while they walk. No longer will you need to "tug at little arms" as you drag them along, or suffer from backache as you bend down for all those hours of baby-walking you do. And none of that pesky baby-led navigation that sees you circling the same room several times. No, put them in some kind of contraption and take the power back! Sitting down with a gin and tonic while they figure it all out for themselves is obviously not an option any more….
One baby product that you might find useful is a little mesh bag for bath toys – it hangs them up and drains them when not in use. But would you also fancy sticking some fruit in the mesh and giving it to your baby to munch on? No, me neither. But clearly the makers of the Nuby thought they were onto a winner with their little mesh feeder, where you put food in and the baby sucks on it through the mesh "without the risk of choking". Unfortunately, you also lose the risk of the baby enjoying their food or learning to handle it for themselves. Choking is a hazard, that's true, and especially with frozen fruit, which seems to be a favorite recommendation of Nuby users. But why does any baby need to eat frozen fruit? Surely a slice of fresh mango is much nicer and doesn't taste of mesh? So a useless product and a nightmare to clean too, by all accounts.
For those that agree with the uselessness of slings, there's always a problem when it comes to restrooms. You can't fit a stroller into a cubicle, so what do you do? Hang them from the door like you hang your coat! The BabyKeeper does just that – clipping over the edge of the toilet door so that your baby can dangle there and watch you pee. It doesn't look particularly comfy, but the baby in the adverts looks happy – he must love being strung up like a handbag. Not one for forgetful mothers cause, let's face it, how easy would it be to just leave them there?
Now, this one caused huge amount of controversy when it launched and was withdrawn a few days later, after a vigorous campaign by parents on Facebook. The aim was to help mothers breastfeed, by checking their supply, but the method was deeply flawed. It relied on mothers being able to pump as much as they produced but anyone who has ever tangled with a breast pump will tell you that they're aren't the easiest or most natural of contraptions. Consequently, it's rare that a woman will be able to pump out every last drop of milk that she's produced. Babies are much more efficient at extracting milk than pumps are! Breastfeeding mothers were concerned that the product only fuelled paranoia about milk supply and would do more harm than good, The company eventually agreed, and recalled it from sale.
Now these are a pretty addition to any nursery – fabric diaper holders, in a variety of fabrics to co-ordinate with your decor. But there's quite a big flaw. When you have a baby, it's a 24-hour job. There are 8 feeds a day, 8 changes a day and a lot of burping, pacing and rocking in between. When you get that precious 5 minutes away from the baby, what are you going to do? Shower? Pee? Make a cup of coffee? Or arrange a fresh supply of diapers neatly in the fabric hanger thing? Basically, they're the kind of thing pregnant people buy and the kind of thing that only a pregnant person would be bothered to fill. Once the baby is here, you soon find that life is too short.
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Stepping in after William Henry Harrison's death, John Tyler became the 10th President of the United States for 3 years, 11 months and 1 day. As the 9th President had been the first to die in office, there was some confusion over what happened next. Tyler, as Vice-President, assumed control but this move was never fully approved of by his Cabinet, with some members referring to him as "His Accidency". Still, this set a precedent for Vice-Presidents taking over upon the death of an incumbent, which was eventually made law in 1967 with the 25th Amendment. He was never that popular and fell out with the party that elected him, the Whigs, as well as his own party, the Democrats. Towards the end of his presidency, he attempted to form a new party – the Democratic-Republicans – but that didn't increase his popularity, and he dropped out of the race in favor of his eventual successor James K. Polk.
You might think that assassination is a sure-fire way to appear on the shortest-lived list. Not necessarily – Lincoln was assassinated but he managed a full term and then some (1 month, 11 days to be exact) before being killed. But stepping into the role to complete the term of someone else who's been assassinated seems to pretty much guarantee you won't be there long enough to redecorate the Oval Office. Maybe it's that a nation who are still mourning an assassinated president find it hard to warm to his successor. That was the fate of Andrew Johnson, who took over after Lincoln's death in 1865 and lasted 3 years, 10 months and 21 days. He had only been sworn in as Vice-President a month before, in a ceremony that had descended into shambles, thanks to Johnson turning up hungover.
Alcohol was to be his saviour though – he was meant to die the same night as Lincoln, as part of the same plot, but his would-be assassin George Atzerodt got drunk and didn't even try to kill him. But, although he survived the assassination plot and an impeachment he couldn't survive to a second term and was replaced with Ulysses S. Grant on March 4th 1869. Johnson disliked his successor so much that he refused to go to the inauguration.
Another president that took over a dead man's role. After James A. Garfield was shot in July 1881, Vice-President Arthur prepared to be sworn in following the tradition of Johnson and Tyler. However, Garfield didn't actually die until September 19th so for the summer America remained effectively President-less. By the end of Garfield's term – 3 years, 5 months and 14 days – Arthur was suffering with Brights' Disease and his health was failing, so he didn't seek re-election. However, he had succeeded in changing popular opinion about himself. One journalist put it like this: "No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted as Chester Alan Arthur, and no one ever retired … more generally respected, alike by political friend and foe". He died the year after leaving office.
Of course, the most famous assassination of all time did also lead to one of the shortest presidencies of all time. In November 1963, the young president was popular and expected to have a long run in office. As the world knows, those expectations were destroyed by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22nd. Kennedy was just 2 years, 10 months and 5 days into his first term and was only 46 at the time of his death. Although allegations have since emerged about his private life, he remains a popular president – in 2009, a C-SPAN survey of historians placed him as 6th best president of all time, with several from our list being deemed among the worst of all time. An impressive legacy for less than three years in office.
And here's one that was voted 37th out of 42 by C-SPAN, and who consistently comes close to the bottom in opinion polls. After Harrison's death in office threw Congress into chaos, it suddenly became more common to die in office than to not. 11th President Polk survived just 3 months after leaving office, then his successor Zachary Taylor died suddenly in 1850 (there would be two more deaths in office before the 19th century was out, as well as Arthur's death shortly after leaving, as discussed above). So it fell to Vice-President Fillmore to step in, and the entire cabinet instantly offered their resignations, thanks to Fillmore's controversial support of the Compromise Bill. The Bill was passed, in five parts, including making California a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act, which decreed that all runaway slaves be returned to their masters. This act made Fillmore unpopular with the Whigs, and he failed to receive a nomination in the 1852 election, bringing his presidency to a close after just 2 years, 7 months and 24 days.
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A recent one to start with, from September 2011. The protest was anti-consumerist and calling for politics to be free from the corrupting influences of big business. It started when around 200 people set up camp in Zuccotti Park, Manhattan and didn't leave until they were evicted on November 15. As part of the movement, there was a protest march involving around 15,000 people bearing the slogan "we are the 99%", which refers to the fact the the wealth in America is disproportionately spread, with most going to the top 1% of the population. The movement has been criticised for not having clear aims, and being full of "professional protesters" who will jump on any bandwagon, but it was certainly an effective way of getting attention, with worldwide coverage of the occupation and offshoots in other major cities, like London.
8 years before Occupy, there was another huge protest that gained worldwide publicity. It was co-ordinated between 600 cities around the world and the cause was the impending Iraq War. On February 15th 2003, 3 million people marched in Rome, in the biggest anti-war rally ever seen, another million marched in London and 1.5 million in Madrid. The message was clear – the ordinary men, women and children who marched (as opposed to professional protesters) didn't want war. They didn't trust the claims the government were making about Iraq's military capacity (this would later prove to be justified) and they suspected that the war was all about the oil in the region (this too may have been justified). The protests were huge but the war went ahead anyway, and the repercussions are still being felt.
Of course, the Iraq War Protests were influenced by an older generation of protesters, who took to the streets to make a stand against the war in Vietnam, and the draft that saw young American men being forced to fight and die for a cause they didn't even understand. The protests started in December 1964, folk singer Joan Baez leading a demonstration of 600 people. The next year saw students organizing rallies on campuses and it spiralled from there. The movement coincided with the growth of peace-loving hippie culture and "flower power" and so it captured the imagination of both the young people and the press. Musicians such as John Lennon sympathized and got involved, with his "bed-in for peace". The protests went on as long as the war did, both tailing off in the 70s. They may not have stopped thousands of Americans dying, but they did create a generation of activists.
Talking of futile protests, here's a heart-breaking example from 1980s Britain. Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was taking radical action to shake the country out of recession, and part of her action was to start closing coal mines. Miners who had done this job their entire lives now faced redundancy and poverty and so called a strike to protest against the closures. They held out for a year, from March 1984 to March 1985 but the notoriously hard leader was not going to back down and eventually they were forced to return to work. It was merciless. The strike was also characterized by the brutal treatment of the miners by the police during the blockade, with 51 miners injured at Rotherham in June 1984. An ugly episode in the history of industrial relations.
When your country is being oppressed in so many different ways by the British Raj, how do you choose what to protest against? Non-violent protester Mahatma Gandhi chose salt. The British in India had forbade the Indians from collecting or making salt themselves, and subsequently they all had to buy it from the British, at a premium price. With such a hot climate, salt was a necessity to replace the salts lost in sweat and Gandhi knew that it would be a cause every Indian could identify with. He protested by marching 240 miles to the coast and producing his own salt, in defiance of the British rules. It was a breakthrough in the struggle for independence and showed the population (still in shock over the bloody end to a previous protest) that it was possible to defy the British in a peaceful manner. A landmark protest.
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(For accuracy's sake, I should point out that some of these events were perpetrated by the British as a whole, some by the English against other bits of Britain and the U.K….but the English tend to feature in them all. As Hollywood knows, villains always have a British accent)
Also known as "The Kenya Emergency", this conflict took place between 1952 and 1960 and there were numerous atrocities on both sides. Kenya was under British rule at the time and the Mau Mau were a group of anti-colonial rebels, who expressed their hatred of the regime in the most vicious way possible, attacking Africans as well as British forces. The rebels may have been vicious, but they were matched by the actions of the British, who killed around 20,000 of them in combat and dispensed capital punishment to a further 1,090 Mau Mau suspects. When the Mau Mau killed 74 men, women and children at Lari the British retaliated by killing 150 of their people. Even more disturbing was the Chuka massacre, where British-led troops killed 20 African citizens, and the subsequent torture of suspected rebels. A blood-stained and shameful chapter of British history.
English imperialism didn't just happen miles away from Britain's shore. It also happened closer to home, with the actions of Elizabeth I's army in Ireland. Known as one of the greatest monarchs of all time for the cultural leaps that occurred during her reign, Elizabeth was feared and hated in Ireland, or "that rude and barbarous nation", as she referred to it. Fearful of the Irish making a pact with her enemies, and giving them a base close to England, she sent troops in to quell the more rebellious elements, scorch the earth and kill anyone who tried to resist them. Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, was particularly known for his ruthlessness, putting down the Desmond rebellions with brutal force and lining the path to his tent with the heads of his enemies. Ireland has never forgiven England for these actions, and there is still tension today.
It's often said that the British invented the concentration camp. It's not true, but they were pioneers of them. The first use of the term was by the Spanish, as they used "reconcentrados" in Cuba during the Ten Years' War (1868-1878) and the British didn't use them until the Second Boer War, which started in 1899. But it's an undeniable fact that the British had their enemies in detention camps long before the Nazis did, with 45 camps built for Boer prisoners and 64 for Black African prisoners. And that included women and children, 26,000 of whom died in the camps thanks to the poor hygiene, lack of food and prevalence of infectious diseases. They didn't invent them, but they certainly weren't afraid to use them.
The British pride themselves on a sense of fair play and this applies even in times of war – if you capture an enemy, you imprison rather than kill them. So it was shocking news when the German submarine U-27 was sunk by HMS Baralong and all the survivors were shot without mercy. The incident happened on August 19th 1915, in the middle of the First World War, 100 miles south of Ireland. The German U-Boats had sunk a passenger ship earlier that same day and so tempers were already raised. There are varying accounts of what happened, but some say that U-27′s commander Bernard Wegener was shot while he had his hands up in surrender. Definitely not the British way, is it?
There were many British atrocities committed while India was under their rule, but most notorious was the Massacre of Amritsar. On April 13th, 1919 Indians had gathered to protest peacefully against the Rowlatt Acts, laws which allowed the British to detain prisoners indefinitely and to sentence them without trial. Around 10,000 protesters were gathered in a park called Jallianwalla Bagh, which only had one way of getting in or out. Unarmed and with nowhere to go, the protestors were helpless as the British opened fire on them, killing 379 and injuring around 1,200. This sparked Mahatma Gandhi's political movement, which continued the peaceful method of protest against British imperialism in India.
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Avian flu is one of those diseases that has popped up a couple of times in recent history. The first concerned the H5N1 strain, which has proved to be both infectious and deadly to humans. Since it broke out, there have been 633 cases reported and 377 deaths, mainly in Indonesia, Vietnam and Egypt. So when another strain emerged in 2013 – H7N9 – there was panic and reports from China that 43 people had died. However, with one exception, it does not seem to have spread outside of China and there was a distinct drop-off in the number of cases reported after April 2013, suggesting that it's either a seasonal virus or that the Chinese have taken effective precautions against it (i.e. by banning live bird markets). That doesn't stop the media still predicting that it might be the next Spanish Influenza though..
Another agriculture-themed one now, and it's the UK Foot and Mouth outbreak of 2001, which saw 6 million cows being culled, leading to devastation and bankruptcy for farmers. The outbreak was first detected on a pig farm in Essex and was thought to have been caused by the pigs eating illegally imported, infected meat. In 2007, there was another outbreak with the EU banning British beef imports immediately and the Prime Minister returning from holidays to take immediate action, including ordering protective cordons around infected areas. Thankfully, that outbreak was contained before it led to the destruction of 2001, but there was intense interest from the media, hoping to capitalize on the sense of panic. That's why the only people to break the cordon were photographers, who were later fined and sentenced to community service. That's what happens when you try and create a public health scare…
Of course, not all public health scandals are internet-era. Before the world wide web, the newspapers did a fine job of spreading the panic. And that's what happened in the UK in 1988, when then-Health Minister Edwina Currie declared that eggs may contain the deadly bacteria salmonella. Her statement was as follows: "most of the egg production in this country, sadly, is now affected with salmonella" and it caused both panic and outcry. The minister was famous for her controversial statements, such as saying that Christians don't get AIDS, and this seemed as unfounded as the rest of them. The affair died down eventually, but Currie was forced to resign and her reputation never recovered.
This is a controversy which is still rumbling on. HFCS is a cheap sweetener added to a scarily wide range of foods, including savory staples like bread. Some people are passionately opposed to HFCS, saying it is fuelling the obesity crisis and that the amount of HFCS found in an average soda is equivalent to a dose of poison. The scare started in 2004, when a research paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that consumption of HFCS went up 1000% between 1970 and 1990. However, later studies in 2012 suggested that the effects of HFCS have been overstated, with the Journal of Obesity suggesting that fructose is no worse than sucrose, also known as sucrose. So is HFCS to blame for the rise in obesity and diabetes? I think the answer is that no-one knows yet…
Now, this particular scare came from a respected source – the President's Cancer Panel. In 2010, they released a report on the danger of carciogens (i.e. toxins that increase the risk of cancer) and said that the danger had been "grossly underestimated". Suddenly, carciogens were all around us – in household products, in barbecued food and even in a colorant in Pepsi. But the hysteria caused by the 2010 report may have been a bit of an overreaction – the American Cancer Society have published stats showing that the cause of cancer is only rarely to do with environmental carciogens, and that the President's Cancer Panel report "does not represent scientific consensus." So, another thing we don't need to worry about? Again, one that might just run and run…
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The Pi Alpha Kappa fraternity of Tulane University (known as "PIKE") had something of a bad reputation for a long time, with claims by several girls that they had been drugged at a frat party there. But the fraternity's lowest point came in 2009, when allegations about their "Hell Night" ritual led to the fraternity being shut down, and several members being arrested (no charges were brought – prosecutors are often ex-Frat boys themselves). The ritual involved pouring boiling water onto Pledges, which sounds bad enough until you hear that it was mixed with wasabi, crab boil and vinegar. Two Pledges were hospitalized with severe burns and the university stepped in to shut it down. It doesn't seem to be missed much – a message on one forum said "This frat was notorious for starting fights, causing major trouble with the university in regards to damages and graffitti, and gave bad people everywhere a clique to expand with. I will shed no tears at its disappearance."
Now, this is a tragic story of a hazing gone wrong. In 1978, Chuck Stenzel was a young athlete just starting out at Alfred University, Western New York. But one night, he was kidnapped from his dorm in the middle of the night, stashed in a car trunk with the other Pledges and lot of alcohol and forced to drink it all. Suffering from exposure to the cold and alcohol poisoning, Chuck was left on a mattress by his "brothers" and died overnight. His mother, Eileen Stevens, made it her life's mission to campaign against hazing, and has set up C.H.U.C.K. (Committee to Halt Useless College Killings) which allowed her to tour colleges and speak to students about the dangers of hazing. Alfred University continued to allow fraternities until another death in 2002 shut them down for good.
What could be more innocent than a kiddie pool? A lovely toy for children to splash around in…but not if it's filled with rotting food and bodily fluids. That's the charming welcome ritual performed by Sigma Alpha Epsilon, one of many fraternities held sacred at Dartmouth University. The practice was exposed by Andrew Lohse, a frat member who detailed his Pledge experience in the student paper "The Dartmouth", where he concluded "One of the things I've learned at Dartmouth – one thing that sets a psychological precedent for many Dartmouth men – is that good people can do awful things to one another for absolutely no reason". Other hazing rituals at SAE included making Pledges chug down vinegar, causing one to cough up blood, and the cooking up of vomit omelettes.
Naturally, Lohse's accusations didn't go down well with the fraternities of Dartmouth, which make up 66% of the student body. Some called him a liar, others compared him with a person who'd made up false allegations. But at least one of his frat brothers confirmed most of it was true – but the kiddy pool was actually just full of rotten food, made to look like bodily fluids. That's OK then.
Paddling is among the most well-known and parodied of fraternity rituals. In common with another secret society – the Freemasons – fraternities have a reputation for hitting new recruits with a paddle until they leave a mark. But even this most traditional pursuit is getting frat boys into trouble – last year, alone two separate fraternities at the University of Florida were charged with hazing offences related to paddling. One of those was Kappa Alpha Psi, a traditionally black fraternity, who faced 13 misdemeanor sworn complaints. It came to light because another black fraternity - Alpha Phi Alpha – was also being investigated, although the university insists that they are not specifically targeting the black student community, just the act of hitting other students with paddles.
Now, this will almost certainly make you wince, so prepare yourself – A student at the University of Tennessee was hospitalized with a near-fatal level of alcohol in his blood. So far, not too unusual. But when doctors queried just how how managed to consume so much (0.448 per cent, six times the drink-driving level), the answer took them aback. It was a creative solution involving a length of rubber tubing, inserted in entirely the wrong end for drinking. The practice, known as "butt chugging" is quite widespread and extremely dangerous. As a result, the university suspended the fraternity until 2015 and 12 people were cited for underage drinking. Whether or not it was the conventional drinking method is unclear.
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1994′s "Interview With the Vampire" was a visual treat, with its sumptuously-clothed crowds of 18th Century extras. So, naturally it required a few good looking leads too. Chief among these was Lestat, played by Tom Cruise, – an arrogant vampire who turns a little girl into a vicious killing machine. He had little regard for others, unless he saw them as a potential snack, and ended up being killed by his protege. Writer Anne Rice protested when Cruise was cast, saying that the star of "Top Gun" was far too mainstream and All-American to play her ruthless Lestat. However, once she saw his performance she agreed that he was perfect for the role.
Many vampires like to do a bit of brooding but Angel must is the broodiest of the lot. The main love interest in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" before going on to have his own series, Angel was a vampire with a soul – a feared killer called Angelus cursed by gypsies to hang around feeling miserable for eternity. Played by David Boreanaz, he was a mid-90s teenage pin-up, although by the end of "Buffy" in 2003 he was looking distinctly haggard – a problem for the producers, given that vampires don't age. Still, his character had been to Hell and back in those years (literally) and so you can't blame him for looking a little careworn. Oh, and he was a fashion innovator too – he totally pioneered the long black coat look that all these modern vampires seem to sport.
Somewhere out there, there is a group of teenage girls cursing my name and making voodoo dolls of me for only putting Edward "Twilight" Cullen at number 8 (and a group of 30-somethings will be cursing me for putting him above Angel. You can't win). But RobPattz, as I believe he's known, is only really attractive to some people – namely the very young. It's the big lips, the heavy eyebrows and the fluffy hair – he just looks so teenage. And Edward's personality is hardly attractive either, being a soppy, "vegetarian" kind of vampire who mopes around, abandons his girlfriends for large portions of the film and gets all jealous over a werewolf. And the silliest thing about the entire "Twilight" saga? When Edward goes out into sunlight, he doesn't spontaneously combust like a good vampire should. Oh no – he sparkles. But still, you can't have a list of handsome vampires without him, can you? The teenage girls really would go mad…
As one of the main characters of "The Vampire Diaries", Damon Salvatore has been a vampire since 1864 and now spends his time in a small town called Mystic Falls, fighting over girls with his brother Stefan. He's a self-declared bad boy, whose eternity philosophy goes something like this: "If you're gonna be bad, be bad with a purpose. Otherwise, you're just not worth forgiving." He's played by Ian Somerhalder, who shot to fame as Boone in "Lost". He got killed off in the first series, but that never posed a problem for the show – he just kept turning up in flashbacks and people's visions. As Damon, he's another teenage pin-up of a vampire.
Another Buffy hottie, this one came with bleached blond hair, a very fake English accent and a whole load of attitude. He was sired by Drusilla, who in turn was sired by Angel, so he was kind of Angel's vampire-grandson and, like most families, they had their differences. Even when Angel turned bad again, Spike couldn't stand him and so went and teamed up with Buffy to try and send him to Hell (it worked). Spike is loosely based on Sid Vicious, with girlfriend Drusilla as his Nancy and liked a bit of punk music while driving around in his blacked-out car. What a pity that the writers eventually turned him soppy – first by putting a chip in his head so that he couldn't kill anymore (although he could still kill with sarcasm) and later by giving him a soul. And don't get me started on his ghost phase in "Angel"…
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Located 5,610m above sea level on the Continental Divide in Montana, this is one of the warmer places on the list, but the average temperature in January still fluctuates between 14 and 33F, so never going far above freezing. It's like that for the whole winter, with lows at freezing point or below from October till April. But on the bright side, the summer months are fairly hot, with a high of 82 in July. So, overall the average mean temperature for the year is 43.5F, which is relatively high. But that would be little comfort if you happened to visit in December and you knew it wasn't going to warm up till Easter. It's also the place where the lowest ever temperature was recorded in the contiguous United States – a bone-chilling minus 70F on January 20 1954.
This Idaho city has a population of just 63 – little wonder as the winters are pretty unforgiving. The record low is -54F in December, and the average lows every January hit the -1F level, only getting up to 18F on a warm day. But again, the summers are warmer with highs of up to 78.5F in July. There was even a record high of 98F, but most Julys there are 10 frosty nights in the month. So, it's a city of extremes, which makes the average..fairly average at 35F. But given that's just above freezing, it's probably not the place to head to if you're after sea and sun. But it does have a museum, a mayor and even its own chamber of commerce – not bad for just 63 people!
This settlement is currently uninhabited, but it was once home to several thousand construction workers who were building the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline System between 1974 and 1977. The camp was taken down after the pipeline was finished and now there's no-one to enjoy the daily mean temperatures of -14.9F in January. The lowest temperature ever in the US was recorded there, beating Rogers Pass by 10 degrees with a -80F recorded in January 1971. Like many of these places, it warms up during the summer, thoroughly confusing the bears and bald eagles that do live there, and raising the overall annual average to 24.4. Still, I'm not applying for planning permission to build my next home there, especially as it snows constantly from October to April, with up to 24 inches in February and March!
We've had the record for the lowest temperature in the contiguous USA, the lowest temperature in the whole of the USA…now, how about the lowest in continental North America? That honor goes to the village of Snag in Canada, where a temperature of -81F was recorded on February 3rd 1947. That broke the long-standing record of 80F set in Snag…on February 2nd 1947. When that was recorded, there were between 8 and 10 people living in Snag and they were a mixture of natives and fur traders. It also had its own airstrip, with a staff of 15-20, but that closed in 1968. While in Snag, researchers also noticed a strange acoustic effect – voices could be heard clearly over a distance of several miles. This has never quite been explained.
The average annual temperature in Snag nowadays is a high of 34.3F and a low of 10.3F, making a mean average of 22.3F. January regularly goes down as far as -27F, so again there is quite some difference between the hottest and the coldest months. Snag is currently uninhabited.
When it comes to cold, Russia is just in another league. Oymyakon has a record low of -90F, which is the lowest recorded temperature for any permanently inhabited location on Earth, and it was recorded on February 6th 1933 (the first week of February seems to be a good week for these kind of records). Of course, the daily temperatures don't ever go quite that low, but the average lows for December, January and February are all in the minus fifties. Even the average for January is still a terrifying -51.5F, although in July it climbs all the way up to an average of 58.8F. With a population of 472, the town is quite big compared to some on the list and its far north location means that it enjoys a 21-hour day in June, although the December day only lasts 3 hours. Fancy booking a holiday there yet?
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Let's start at the milder end of things, with a highwayman that was notorious for his theft, yet refused to deploy violence against his victims. Claude Duval was French-born but plied his trade on the roads going into London, especially around Holloway and Islington, areas that are now just north of London's centre. His gallantry was famous – he even inspired a painting (entitled "Claude Duval") when he asked the wife of a victim to dance a coranto with him by the side of the road. His flair and pacifist nature did nothing to spare him the gallows, however and he was hanged in 1670. The inscription on his memorial reads: Here lies DuVall: Reder, if male thou art, Look to thy purse; if female, to thy heart"
But don't worry, it's not going to stay pleasant for very long. Next up is gangster "Mad" Frankie Fraser, who was known as a nasty piece of work. His resume includes things like torture, electrocution and murder, although he emphatically denies any connection with the Great Train Robbery (and had to bribe a policeman to avoid arrest for it). Now 89, he got into trouble at his retirement home for chasing a fellow resident down the corridor in a row over a favorite armchair. He was given an Anti-Social Behavior Order, usually reserved for misbehaving teenagers, which was probably somewhat of a comedown for the man who'd served 42 years in prison and even faced the death sentence at one point.
Another highwayman now, and one whose story may have been exaggerated a little for the purpose of spinning a yarn. He lived in various places around London – operating in what is now the borough of Waltham Forest before moving to Whitechapel and then Millbank. He committed a series of robberies in and around the capital but after killing a man, he fled to Yorkshire and it was there that he was eventually captured and executed in 1739. Fictionalized versions of his life started appearing in the 19th century, such as "Black Bess or Knight of the Road" (1866), and he has moved into folklore as a heroic and romantic criminal whereas in reality, he was probably just a criminal and an unpleasant one at that.
A close associate of Frankie Fraser, who acted as his bodyguard, Hill was the godfather of London's gangster culture, with the Kray brothers citing him as a mentor. He committed his first stabbing aged 14, and moved swiftly into looting after that, running a profitable black market during the Second World War. His trademark was to draw "V"s on his victims' faces, although this was intended to maim rather than kill them. As he explained: "I was always careful to draw my knife down on the face, never across or upwards. Always down. So that if the knife slips you don't cut an artery. After all, chivving is chivving, but cutting an artery is usually murder. Only mugs do murder" And when you have the likes of Frankie Fraser working for you, there is certainly no need to do your own murders. In fact, he rarely did his own violence at all, preferring to concentrate on organizing large-scale robberies like the Eastcastle St robbery, which netted around £6m in today's money. He later retired from crime and died of natural causes in 1984.
6. Vladmir Lenin
Now, the next one might be slightly debatable, as not everyone would consider Lenin to be a figure of notoriety. To some he's a hero. But he did pave the way for the terrors of the Stalin regime, as well as instigating his own "Red Terror" when he came to power. He claimed to have had a "bloodless revolution" but you'd be hard pressed to explain that to the Tsar and his young family, who were brutally killed at Lenin's command. Lenin was, more surprisingly, also a Londoner, living here at the beginning of the 20th century, and lodging with an Irish family. During that time, he tried to stir up at the masses at Speaker's Corner, but his poor English, with an Irish tinge, would have been incomprehensible to anyone listening.
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But not all parents feel this way. Some choose to give their children names that they know will embarrass and confuse them for their entire life, so that's where the authorities step in and tell them to think again. Marvel at all the mad monikers that were almost inflicted on some poor babies in our Top 10 Banned Baby Names.
It's a Native American tradition that babies are named after the things the parents see around them when they give birth. So, if your baby is born in a certain way it could inspire the name you give it - like Sara Leisten of Gothenburg, whose baby was born with one arm in the air, in the manner of superman. So that was settled - baby Leisten would be "Staalman", Swedish for "Man of Steel". But sadly, the Swedish authorities are very strict on baby-naming (and there might be more on that later) and Staalman was rejected. In the more liberally-minded UK, "Superman" is perfectly acceptable and there have been two babies with the name since 1984. And there's now one in New Zealand, but again…we'll come back to him.
Now, this one seems a bit harsh – after all, Mona and Lisa are both legitimate names. But in Portugal, which has a few strict regulations on this sort of thing, the name is banned. Maybe because cruel classmates may associate it with the painting above. But maybe also because Portuguese authorities are very keen on regulation, and banning anything which doesn't have a distinctly Portuguese flavor. In fact there is quite a list of outlawed names, most of them foreign but also some which have a connection to famous people – so Maradona is banned, as is Hendrix. There is some flexibility on the foreign names if the parents are foreign as well, but basically anyone giving birth in Portugal ha a fairly shallow pool of names to choose from. Ever wondered why there are so many Marias in Portugal? Now you know!
Damon's a relatively normal name – famous Damons may be thin on the ground, but there's the lead singer of blur and there's a character from "The Vampire Diaries", pictured above. Which is where the trouble started for one French couple, Lionel and Blandine Defontaine, when they decided to name their child after that character, only adding an extra "e" after the "a" to make it sound more French. However, the authorities decided that rather than sounding French, it sounded demonic and ordered them to change it. The case went to court, where the Defontaines insisted it had no Satanic overtones, and eventually they were allowed to keep the name. Hope little Daemon appreciates the trouble they went to.
Now, you can see the problems inherent in this one. Imagine trying to ever come up with a work e-mail address -it would cause the servers to melt down in frustration. But that didn't bother one Chinese couple, who thought the Chinese symbol looked like "love him" and decided that was cute enough to saddle the poor child with these kind of worries his entire life. Naturally, the Chinese authorities banned it, as if there's anything the Chinese authorities like it's a good banning. They're also keen on keeping Chinese affairs within China, which sadly means that we have little information of what other names might have been banned in the country. Maybe there's a Baby # out there, to match the Baby Hashtag, born in San Francisco last year.
We're back in Sweden, land of the lax attitude towards nudity but harsh attitude towards baby-naming, for this one. It's perfectly legitimate to name a baby after a favorite movie star or character, but is it going too far if you try and name your baby after the band itself? The Swedish courts clearly thought so in 2007 when a couple chose "Metallica" as their name of choice, and appealed for their right to use it. Ironic that they chose that particular band, who had made their position on people using their name and material very clear in 2000 when they took Napster to court for copyright infringement. Metallica won their battle, and Baby Metallica won its own battle when the courts let the appeal stand. That's sticking it to the man, tiny metal-head baby!
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Tastes like custard, but starts to stink like a rotten skunk carcass stuffed with fish. See also Asian.
I can't tell if it's a pizza that's pie flavored or pie shaped like a pizza.
The lesser-known, off-brand version of Cocoa Pebbles. See also Breakfast.
See also German.
Also known as Cheerios. See also Breakfast.
Yoo-hoooo! Be a doll and add a funny food.
A kind of Chinese-American food consisting of a platter of a little bit of everything. See also Sophomoric.
Whether chicken, turkey, or ice cream.
Caribbean dish of meat, vegetables, and rice.
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Trevor Tanner is a British musician and composer, best known as the singer and guitarist of post-punk/gothic rock band The Bolshoi during the 1980s. He is currently a member of American celtic rock band Rathkeltaír and also has a solo career.
Post-Bolshoi career[edit]
Trevor Tanner, working closely with Emperor Penguin Recordings' (EPR) Creative Director, David Paul Wyatt Perko, has been slowly releasing solo recordings. Tanner's first release on Emperor Penguin Recordings was an elaborate 3-CD boxed-set (the three volumes are also available individually) entitled: Bullish, Bellyache & Belch, which was released in 2004. The set consists of 41 songs in total, which were hand-picked by Perko out of a pool of well over a hundred Tanner works-in-progress. The 3-CD boxed-set (as well as the three individual CDs) is available at Amazon.com as well as from the label directly. Digital downloads are available via iTunes.
Tanner's fourth release on Emperor Penguin Recordings, a 16 track work entitled Eaten By The Sea, became available for digital download at iTunes on 11 March 2008. The CD was released on 20 May 2008.
Trevor Tanner, via Emperor Penguin Recordings, released an iTunes Digital 45, entitled The Ballad Of Edgar Allan Poe on 13 July 2011.
On 31 August 2011, Tanner's fifth solo album, Musical Charlatan became available. "Musical Charlatan" was a grassroots, self-release and not associated with Emperor Penguin Recordings. Tanner's next musical endeavor is currently underway, which will be an official release via Emperor Penguin Recordings[citation needed].
- Bullish, Bellyache & Belch (3-CD boxed set) (2004)
- Eaten By The Sea (CD) (2008)
- The Ballad Of Edgar Allan Poe (iTunes, Digital 45) (2011)
- Musical Charlatan (Double-CD) (2011)
External links[edit]
- Trevor Tanner's official site
- Trevor Tanner's Facebook page
- Emperor Penguin Recordings
- Rathkeltaír official site


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