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1988 Mickey Mantle Signed Mantle Restaurant Lithograph
Starting Bid - $500.00, Sold For - $1,057.50
Limited-edition lithograph, created by Burt Silverman, signed by both Mickey Mantle and the artist. Mantle has majestically signed the litho in bold black Sharpie across his image (grading a perfect "10"). The artist has signed and hand-numbered the piece ("164/777") in the lower right. This impressive image is famous as the signature artwork representing Mickey Mantle's Restaurant. This artwork was created specifically to appear on the cover of the menus at Mickey Mantle's Restaurant located on Central Park South. Mantle specially commissioned this artwork from Silverman in 1988 for use at Mantle's. The original painting hung there for many years as well. In addition to using it as the cover image for its menus, the restaurant also controlled the exclusive distribution rights to 777 limited-edition lithographs signed by both Mantle and the artist. This is one of the most attractive and famous images of Mantle ever rendered and it is ideal for display. The litho (25.5 x 37.25 inches) is in Mint condition and has been handsomely matted and framed to total dimensions of 33 x 44 inches. From the Barry Halper Collection. LOA from James Spence/JSA. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000/$1,500. SOLD FOR $1,057.50
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Skip to comments.Give it all to Mary [Catholic Caucus]
Posted on 04/28/2010 5:45:36 PM PDT by mlizzy
Friends, readers of Vultus Christi, and others often write me asking for intercessory prayer for a particular intention, for the resolution of a crisis, or for the healing of an affliction of soul or body. I take these requests seriously. They can, however, become overwhelming at times. I have, however, found a solution. I entrust them all to Our Blessed Lady. She is our Mother of Good Counsel, ever ready to guide us into the best way of interceding, the wisest way of intervening, the purest way of loving. She is also our Mother of Perpetual Help; that means that she is available everywhere and all the time. She is never far from us, never otherwise occupied. The other evening as I was praying for the many intentions recommended to me, this prayer rose in my heart. I' happy to share it with my readers.
O Mother of Good Counsel, Mother of Perpetual Help, I turn with confidence to thy maternal Heart, and I renew my total and irrevocable consecration to thee.
I am all thine, Most Holy Mary, and all that I have is thine. I give thee my past with its burdens. I give thee this present moment with its anxieties and fears. I give thee my future and all that it holds.
There is no part of my life that is not open to thee, no place so secret, or so darkened by sin that thy presence and thy influence are not wholly and ardently desired there.
I want to be completely transparent with thee, utterly simple, guileless, and childlike. Thou knowest, O Mother, all my preoccupations, all my intentions, and all those recommended to my prayer. Take them, I beseech thee, to thy Immaculate Heart and, as my Advocate and all-powerful intercessor and Mediatrix, present them to thy Son. Seeing them presented by thee and held in thy maternal Heart, there is nothing that He will not do to give to each intention the one response worthy of the infinite mercy and love of His Sacred Heart.
Praying in this way, I can be at rest, for thou art my Mother, and all that I entrust to thee will be, I am sure, received, and considered, and cared for with a Mother's love. Amen.
That's a very nice prayer. Like Fr. Kirby, when I want to pray for someone, I usually go to Mary, because I know she'll get it done right.
Such a beautiful prayer. Thank you.
His Excellency, Bishop Edward J. Slattery of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa, Oklahoma has given Father Mark a special mandate to live under the Rule of Saint Benedict in adoration before the Eucharistic Face of Jesus, offering thanksgiving, intercession, and reparation for all his brothers in Holy Orders. In this way, Father is preparing the foundation of the new Diocesan Benedictine Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle. Father Mark is available to the priests and deacons of the Diocese for spiritual and sacramental support in their pursuit of holiness. He is also charged with the spiritual formation of women who desire to dedicate themselves to spiritual motherhood in favour of priests.Such an inspiring priest!
I think I did see that mentioned previously. We used to live in Tulsa, so I keep an eye out for news of the Diocese. Bishop Slattery is my favorite bishop ever. He was very involved with the homeschooling families, completely open and friendly ... very Okie, even if he's not from there.
Yes she will. And she has for me..
The Hail Mary, the Rosary, is the prayer and the infallible touchstone by which I can tell those who are led by the Spirit of God from those who are deceived by the devil --St. Louis De Montfort.Rosary for Peace
I'll look at the site in more depth when I have time. Thanks for the promo!
Thank you, Mary! This evening I just learned that my son was accepted to the seminary! Pray for Christopher -
WOW, on the feast day of St. Louis De Montfort? Really? Incredible!!! Prayers for Christopher.
What exactly is it about "caucus thread" that you don't understand?
Please keep in mind this is a "Catholic Caucus" thread. ONLY Catholics are to respond.
**Bishop Edward J. Slattery of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa, Oklahoma **
The Archbishop who did the "New" Old Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D. C. Stanidng room only, I heard and some were seated in a side chapel.
**Whenever I feel a little dry spiritually, I click into Vultus Christi**
Or click into the Daily Readings thread, because I usually post Father Mark's remarks.
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Thanks Salvation; I just found that out and read the piece. Quite amazing! The linky is either one or two above your comment ...
Oh, wow! Congratulations to your son.
thanks salvation. We are still waiting to hear. Keep us in your prayers......
Congratulations firerose!
I am awaiting that same news for my son Christian. Where is he attending?
Keep us posted on results, plrase.
And prayers for all involved!
Thanks for the wonderful post and the link to the site. It's so nice to be on a Caucus thread! ;-D
My husband and I had the practice of the daily rosary together, many times we watched the hummingbirds around the feeders at sunset, and said our prayers. I will remember those times forever, for the peace, love and beauty...
It's beautiful, wherever it is.
Wow! God bless you! Christopher will be at Mount St. Mary's, for the Diocese of Bridgeport CT. Where is Christian waiting to hear from?
Chris is waiting to hear from St. John Vianney Seminary College in Miami. Diocese of West Palm Beach. God bless you as well! It is nice to know there are others out there. We are not alone :)
I finally had time to go to the link you gave, and the photos are absolutely exquisite. The music must have been a treasure.
With Mother's Day coming, I have a special love in my heart for the Blessed Virgin.
This would be a great thread to post a prayer of consecration to Mary for us. How healing that would be!
ping to #33
It took 19 years to completely wash their erroneous beliefs out of my mind, and during that almost 2 decade struggle, their errors which I had internalized kept me from picking up St. Louis de Montfort.
I finally started reading him last month, and started the 30 day consecration on his feast day, April 28.
I'm finally at peace. The last vestiges of these protestant heresies have finally been exorcised from my intellect, and there are no facets of the True Faith about which I hold any reserves whatsoever.
St. Louis de Montfort's writings are integral to surviving the Last Days with the True Faith intact; True Devotion to Mary is a sign of the elect.
On the other hand...
"An infallible and unmistakable sign by which we can distinguish a heretic, a man of false doctrine, an enemy of God, from one of God's true friends is that the heretic and the hardened sinner show nothing but contempt and indifference for our Lady. He endeavours by word and example, openly or insidiously - sometimes under specious pretexts - to belittle the love and veneration shown to her."
St. Louis de Montfort
Blessed Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us who have recourse to thee!
Holy Mother of God, make my heart one with yours, which was ever one with the Heart of God!
1. The divine maternity is the source of all Mary's privileges. Mary, the Immaculate One, the beloved Daughter of the Father, is also the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, whose power overshadowed her because she had been chosen to be the Mother of the Incarnate Word. All Mary's greatness and glory are explained in the light of her divine maternity; furthermore, her very existence is explained by her predestination to this high office. If God had not decreed that the Incarnation of His Son should take place in the womb of a virgin, we should never have had that masterpiece of grace and loveliness, the Most Blessed Virgin; we should never have had her smile or her maternal caresses. Therefore, we love and honour Mary because she is the Mother of God, the Mother of Jesus; and loving her in her relation to God, our devotion to her only makes our love for God, for Jesus, deeper and more tender. "Mater Dei, Mater Creatoris", Mother of God, Mother of our Creator, we invoke her in the litany. These two titles which seem to be contradictory, actually express a unique synthesis because Mary, although a creature, is really the Mother of her Creator, the Mother of God's Son to whom she has given a human body: the fruit of her flesh and blood is the Son of God in whom and by whom all things were created. Here we understand more than ever how Mary's dignity reaches the threshold of the infinite. "God could make a bigger world or a wider sky, but He could not raise a pure creature higher than Mary, for the dignity of Mother of God is the highest dignity that can be conferred on a creature" (St Bonaventure).
To anyone who wonders why so little is said about Mary in the Gospel, St Thomas of Villanova replies: "What more do you want? Is it not enough for you to know that she is the Mother of God? It would have been sufficient to say, 'De qua natus est Jesus,' Jesus was born of her." In fact, O Mary, all I need to know, in order to love you, is that you are the Mother of my God.
2. Although God, from all eternity, had predestined Mary to be the mother of His Son, He would not have her unaware of this, and so, when the time came for carrying out His plan, he asked the humble Virgin's consent. The Angel's message revealed to Mary the sublime vocation which God had reserved for her: "Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a Son; and thou shalt call His name Jesus" (Luke 1,31). Mary asked and the Angel explained the mystery of the divine maternity which would take place in her, without prejudice to her virginity. What could God have asked that Mary would have refused? It was not the first time that she gave up her own will for God's: from the beginning of her existence, she had lived in the state of perfect union with God, and her chief characteristic was simply this full conformity of her human will with the divine will. That is why Mary gave her consent with all the love of her soul, said her fiat, accepted voluntarily, and voluntarily abandoned herself to God's action. From this moment the mystery was accomplished, and the Virgin Mary bore God present within her, not only spiritually -- like all souls who are in the state of grace -- but also physically. St Peter Damien says that the Word of God was present in her "by identity", since He was one with her, as the child is one with its mother: identity of flesh and blood, and by the life of the body which Mary communicated to her Son; identity of grace by the abundance of supernatural life which the Son communicated to His Mother; identity of affections, desires and sentiments which the Heart of Christ implanted in the Heart of Mary. No one could ever say more truly than Mary: "I live, now not I, but Christ liveth in me" (Galatians 2,20).
Immense, marvellous mystery! And in the depths of this mystery we find the yes of a humble, human creature. God has created man free, and that is why, although He wants to work great things in him, He will not do so without his consent. God wants to transform us by His grace and to sanctify us, but before He does so, He waits for our assent. When this yes is complete and total, as Mary's was, God will accomplish His work in us.
"I give You thanks, O Lord God, from the depths of my heart, because You condescended, for love of us unworthy creatures, to take upon Yourself our human nature. Born of a Virgin, You were nourished by her milk, cradled in her bosom; You were submissive to her, You who preserve and direct everything that exists. And You have deigned to enlighten me, a miserable creature, so that I might know that You have a Mother; You permit me, unworthy as I am, to be able and to dare to address her . Oh! with what devotion should I not give my heart to you, O Virgin Mary! My mouth should be filled with wonderful sweetness when I speak to you, sweet and gentle Lady, and when I bless the fruit of your womb. Oh! when I address you, how is it hat I am not so filled with delight that I forget everything but you and the fruit of your womb? What greeting is more welcome than the one which recognizes you as the Mother of God? You wish men to rejoice in you, so that their love will always reach your divine Son; therefore, you wish to be called and recognized as the Mother of God. Hail, then, O Mary, and truly hail! O wonderful Ave, that drives the demons away, frees sinners, and makes your children rejoice . The Angel congratulates you, O Virgin; the Word took flesh in your womb, and you became the Mother of God. Every creature sings an endless Ave to you! With how great reverence, honour and devotion should we salute you, O Blessed Virgin, because you seek them, you nourish them, and adopt them as your children. Oh! blessed is he who has the joy of having you for Mother, who embraces you lovingly and imitates you in his works! Oh! blessed is he who does all he can to conform himself to you, O Mother of God! Certainly he is one who, despising every creature, attaches himself to God alone, his only love, and, crucified with Christ, sighs for the salvation of souls" (cf. St Bonaventure).
My "prayer card" (phrase I made up when I found I couldn't keep up with all the requests for prayers - "Oh Goodness ME! I do believe my prayer card is full!") is full until June 2.
But I think we should think seriously about an FR Novena of some kind for all those to whom the Rosary does not seem to be a suitable devotion.
Blessed Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us who have recourse to thee!"How Beautiful are the 'feet' of those who bring Good News!" - Isaiah 52:7
Here's today's meditation from Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Liturgical Year By: Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen O.C.D.:
O Mary, since you are really my Mother, make me your true and worthy child.
1. When she consented to become the Mother of the Son of God, Mary bound herself by very close bonds not only to the person of Jesus, but also to His work. She knew that the Saviour was coming into the world to redeem the human race; hence, when she agreed to become His Mother, she also agreed to become the closest collaborator of His mission. In fact, by giving us Jesus, the source of all grace, Mary collaborated most effectively and even directly in the diffusion of grace in our souls. "If Jesus is the Father of our souls," St Alphonsus says, "Mary is their Mother, for, in giving us Jesus, she gave us true life; and later, by offering on Calvary the life of her Son for our salvation, she brought us forth to the life of divine grace."
As one woman, Eve, had co-operated in the losing of grace, so by a harmonious disposition of divine Providence, another woman, Mary, would co-operate in the restoration of grace. It is true that all grace comes from Jesus, who is the only source of grace and the one and only Saviour; but, inasmuch as Mary gave Him to the world, and was intimately associated with His whole life and work, we can truly say that grace also comes from Mary. If Jesus is its source, Mary, according to St Bernard, is its channel, the aqueduct which carries it to us. Since Jesus willed to come to us through Mary, so all grace and all supernatural life come to us through her. "This is the will of Him who decreed that we should have everything through Mary" (St Bernard). All that Jesus merited for us by strictest right, condignly, Mary has merited for us fittingly, congruously. The Blessed Virgin is then truly our Mother. When she brought forth Jesus, she brought us forth at the same time to the life of grace; we can address her in all truth: "Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy; our life, our sweetness and our hope!"
2. "From the moment that the Blessed Virgin Mary became the Mother of the Saviour, she loved us so much, and she devoted herself so completely to obtaining our salvation that", St Bernadine of Siena tells us, "from that moment she carried us in her bosom like a most loving mother." Even as the redemptive mission of Jesus, begun at the moment of His Incarnation, was consummated on Calvary, where His death merited supremely for us, so too, Mary's maternity found its fullest expression at the foot of His Cross. While Jesus was dying in the midst of the most atrocious torments, His loving Heart was preparing a truly exquisite gift for us. On earth, His dearest possession had been His Mother; now He would leave her to us as a most precious inheritance. "Behold thy Mother" (John 19,27), He said to St John, thus giving her to the Apostle who, at that moment, represented the whole human race. These words of Jesus expressed the great truth which had had its beginning at the first moment of His Incarnation in the Virgin's womb and which now was fulfilled at the foot of the Cross: this is the truth of Mary's spiritual motherhood of all mankind. Mary saved our souls together with Jesus, for as He was offering Himself in sacrifice for us, Mary was offering Him, her Son, as the divine Victim for our redemption. As co-redemptrix, she procured the life of grace for us; therefore, she is the woman who in the supernatural order gives us life: she is our Mother.
"God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son for our salvation," says the Evangelist (cf. John 3,16), and similarly, St Bonaventure declares, "it can be said that Mary so loved the world that she gave her only Son, in order that, through Him, all might have eternal life." See at what price Mary had become our Mother and we have become her children. Because it has cost her so much to give us birth, she very rightly desires us to live as her true children, worthy of the life of grace, which flows from the pierced side of her Jesus and from her maternal heart, pierced by the sword of sorrow.
"Oh blessed confidence, O sure refuge, you, the Mother of God, are my Mother! How can I fail to hope, since my salvation and my sanctity are in the hands of Jesus, my Brother, and Mary, my Mother?" (cf. St Anselm).
"O Mary, Mary, bearer of the fire of love, and dispenser of mercy! Mary, co-redemptrix of the human race, when you clothed the Word with your flesh, the world was redeemed. Christ paid its ransom with His Passion, and you paid it with the sorrows of your body and soul" (St Catherine of Siena).
"O Mary, you are that garden enclosed, which contains the Giver of Life; God Himself is within you, with heaven and all creatures. The whole world is saved by the Blood received from you. Without you, O Mary, there would be no paradise for me; without you, there would be no God for me .
"O Mary, how countless are the gifts and graces which you wish to bestow on creatures! And who would not want to receive them? It is perseverance in desiring them which is lacking; you, most loving Mother, do not offer gifts to your children when you see that they would not appreciate them and would throw them away; for you know that the guilt thus incurred would have to be punished later. O Mary, you want to grant me your gifts, but I deprive myself of them, because I want to mingle my gifts with yours. I should like to have your graces, but I want my own will at the same time, and so I cannot have them. I should like to have your good will, but also the love and kindness of creatures. I cannot have both. I want your love and my self-love, but this combination is impossible. I want to live under your mantle, but also under the mantle of my own comfort. Yet, it is not fitting to be delicate members of a thorn-crowned head; neither is it fitting for your children to seek their comfort under your mantle, O sweet Mother, when you had so little regard for your own comfort.
"O Mary, what can I offer and give you that will please you? If I offer you my will, I fear that you will not accept it, because it is not conformed to God's will. If I offer you my intellect, it is not enlightened; if I give you my affection, it is not pure. I offer you the Heart of your only Son! And a greater gift I cannot offer" (St Mary Magdalene dei Pazzi).
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Tiger Woods was looking good before the final round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. After carding a 6-under 66 Saturday in the European Tour event, he was tied for the lead with England's Robert Rock at 11-under 205.
But on Sunday Woods faltered, while Rock soared. For only the ninth time in 61 events in his illustrious career, Woods did not take advantage of a solo or shared 54-hole lead and go on to win the tournament. Woods closed with an even-par 72 and Rock had a 70 to take the title at Abu Dhabi Golf Club.
While seemingly in control of his game throughout the first three rounds, which got incrementally better before Sunday with scores of 70, 69 and 66, Woods went backward when it mattered most, primarily because of a wayward swing that saw him hit only two fairways and six greens in regulation. As a result, he wasn't able to log his first victory in a full-field event since November 2009.
Woods, who received a reported $1.5 million appearance fee for the tournament, admitted that his game wasn't up to snuff in the last round. Here's what he told reporters during a Q&A after he finished in a tie for third two shots behind Rock - and Rory McIlroy in second - with Graeme McDowell and Thomas Bjorn.
Q. You were 2 under par through three holes. What happened?
TIGER WOODS: I misjudged the wind two times and I hit two bad pitches right in a row, two holes back to back. I think the turning point for me was at 10 today, because I had just birdied 9 to cut it and I hit the most beautiful little wedge in there into 10, and I don't know how it did what it did because from our view, it looked pretty good. It looked like it was going to be a kick in. Next thing you know, I'm making bogey. So it was a big turnaround there and I never closed the gap after that.
Q. How do you think your swing held up under Sunday pressure?
TIGER WOODS: I didn't hit the ball as well as I would like to. I putted beautifully the last three days. Didn't putt well the first day. Today I was just a touch off. I was righting the ball through the fairways. I was hitting the ball a little bit further than I thought I would. A couple of my 3 woods were going about 320 which I don't normally do but they were getting out there. A couple of my irons were going further than they are supposed to. So something to look at, and something to try and figure out.
Q. Take the positives of a strong finish, or do you take away the negatives of not getting a victory?
TIGER WOODS: It's both. It has to be both, because obviously the ultimate goal is to win and I didn't win. I played well enough I thought to win the golf tournament; unfortunately I just didn't get it done.
Q. Assess the day.
TIGER WOODS: You know, I just felt I was just a touch off. I was telling Steve over there, I said a couple of the balls were going further than I thought they normally would. A couple of my 3 woods went about 320 and a couple of my iron shots, 8 iron from 180 and numbers I don't normally hit. So got to kind of reassess that and try to figure that out.
Q. You say reassess it; in what respect do you go home now, how many tournaments do you have before the Masters, because it's very much full eye on practice up until the Masters, because the green jacket is the ultimate goal next. How hard do you practice between now and then?
TIGER WOODS: I've got a week off to get ready for Pebble and then we have a couple of big events, a couple of World Golf Championships. So there's plenty of big events to go, but I'm pleased at the progress I've made so far. Basically since Australia, my stroke play events have been pretty good. So I just need to keep building, keep getting more consistent, and today was a day where I putted beautifully. Just didn't give myself enough looks.
Q. What about a word for Robert Rock.
TIGER WOODS: Robert played great today. He was solid, consistent, he didn't do anything wrong today. He was in play, made a couple key up and downs here and there, but overall just kept the ball right in front of him. He did hit a couple of beautiful iron shots down the stretch and made a couple putts.
Q. Immediate thoughts, 72 holes completed here in Abu Dhabi?
TIGER WOODS: Well, I didn't win. I was right there with a chance, and just didn't get it done today.
Q. And your thoughts now with regards to the bigger picture, where you're at, where you're headed and what's coming up for you?
TIGER WOODS: Well, I hit the ball beautifully all week which I'm very pleased about. Today were a couple of surprises out there. As I was telling Steve earlier, I hit a couple 3 woods that went 320 and that's something I don't normally do. So I had to figure out why the ball was going further than it should today. I hit a couple 8 irons I hit 180. So I've got to figure that out, because I was hitting the ball further than I normally do, and even with the adrenaline, the ball was just going further today.
Q. Robert Rock, the ultimate winner, you played alongside him; what did you think of his performance?
TIGER WOODS: He played solid and kept the ball in front of him today. He didn't do anything wrong. He made just one or two mistakes here and there, but hit a couple beautiful iron shots on the back nine and made a couple key putts to extend the lead. He never gave up.
Q. Do you feel like there's a "W" around the corner?
TIGER WOODS: Yeah, the tournament right before this I won, yeah, you guys tend to forget that. (Laughter).
Q. You had a good start today, it seemed a little difficult judging the right distances with the wind swirling around, or were you just trying so hard to shoot a low round?
TIGER WOODS: I hit two bad shots over there on 4 and 5 and then hit two bad pitches and consequently made two bogeys there. But you know, today was a day where I had a chance, and Robert just played real solid all day. As I said earlier, he kept the ball in front of him. He didn't do anything wrong today and he hit a couple key iron shots on the back nine to give himself two good looks and he made them.
Q. You may not have achieved your goal of winning here but the third spot is certainly not a bad tournament result. Does it give you confidence?
TIGER WOODS: I hit the ball good enough to win the golf tournament this week. I didn't put good the first day; figured that out, and putted beautifully the last three days. Today I just didn't give myself enough looks at it. Most of my putts were lag putts. I didn't drive the ball in as many fairways as I should have. Some of the balls were running through. Other balls, I was just missing. It was a day I was just a touch off of the tee and consequently I couldn't get the ball close enough to give myself looks. When I did give myself looks I made them, but there weren't enough.
The transcript for the above interview is courtesy of ASAP Sports.
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Following a two-day hiatus because of the weather, the federal trial against Christopher Latham and Wendy Moore will resume Friday.
All district court proceedings were canceled for Wednesday and Thursday.
The trial against Latham, 51, and Moore, 37, who are accused of involvement in an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting Latham's estranged wife, Nancy, began on Monday in downtown Charleston.
The alleged scheme was discovered in April, just days before Chris and Nancy Latham's scheduled final divorce hearing. The Lathams were going through a contentious divorce and prosecutors allege that Chris Latham had a lot of money at stake. Chris Latham was a bank executive at the time.
Defense attorneys said Chris Latham had no motive and wanted the divorce to be finalized because of his relationship with Moore.
Aaron Wilkinson, 40, of Louisville, Ky., who pleaded guilty last month to aiding and abetting murder-for-hire, revealed the alleged scheme to police after being arrested in Charleston.
He told authorities that he and Samuel Yenawine, 38, of Louisville, who was also charged in this case but committed suicide in jail, were hired to kill Nancy Latham.
Wilkinson took the stand Tuesday and began testifying for the prosecution. He is expected to continue his testimony Friday. The trial was expected to wrap up by the end of next week, but due to the cancellations will likely go a third week.
For updates on the trial, visit postandcourier.com or Twitter.com/ncaula.


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Chapter 2: Denver By The Bay
Updated: 5/22/2008
Please see the related
Washington Post story
by Brian Krebs.
See also
this related Washington Post story
which talks about registrar
Dynamic Dolphin
Radio Days
Apparently, the folks responsible for the early experimental wireless Internet research project that Once Upon A Time was known as
San Francisco Bay Packet Radio
(which was apparently a project run out of the
NASA Ames Research Center
) have decided to take their show on the road, and this time well and truly out-of-town, specifically to the Denver suburb known as Westminster, Colorado. Or did they? Let's take a quick peek at the
official ARIN WHOIS record for the 220.127.116.11/16 IP address block
. Hummm... well now. That certainly is interesting! Headquarters for
SF Bay Packet Radio
up and moved about a thousand miles to the East, for no apparently good reason. Must have been one of those damn Left Coast earthquakes! Well, maybe not.
Could this apparent anomaly be attributable to an easily-explained record keeping snafu, or just some other trivial misunderstanding? Read on and decide for yourself.
The (new?) official contact person for the 184.108.40.206/16 IP address block, as shown in the aforementioned
Official WHOIS registration record
for that IP address block is apparently one Chad Montgomery, whose e-mail address is listed in the WHOIS record for the IP block as firstname.lastname@example.com. The domain
itself was only registered relatively recently, i.e. on June 18th of last year (2007), and was registered to a Limited Liability Company calling itself
SF Bay Packet Radio, LLC
. Now, you'd think that a company with that name might be incorporated somewhere in the general vicinity of the San Francisco Bay Area, or at the very least, someplace in California, but you'd be wrong.
SF Bay Packet Radio, LLC
is apparently a
entity (Westminster, CO, to be precise), as can be seen by looking at its official
corporate registration record
as provided by the
Colorado Secretary of State's Web Site
. (This
version of
SF Bay Packet Radio
was also, apparently, only formed relatively recently, i.e. March 6th, 2007.)
Note that the
184.108.40.206/16 IP address block
itself was originally registered way back on April 12th, 1989, a full 17+ years before the inception of either
or Westminster-based
SF Bay Packet Radio, LLC
. The plot thickens!
Connecting The Dots
So what really goes on here. Is this a case of
IP address block hijacking
, also known as
network identity theft
? That would call for some speculation. All I can do here is to report the facts.
Here's what I
tell you...
The mailing address given in the
WHOIS record
for the 184.108.40.206/16 IP address block is
, right down to the suite number, to the address that's specified in the
public DMCA Copyright Notice
Media Breakaway
, a fairly high-profile mass e-mail marketing company located in Westminster, Colorado.
The mailing address given in the
corporate registration record
for the recently minted
SF Bay Packet Radio, LLC
company is
identical, right down to the suite number, to the address of
Media Breakaway
The contact phone number given in the
WHOIS record
for the 18.104.22.168/16 IP address block appears to be
listed in quite a few places
as one which belongs to either
Media Breakaway
, or to its predecessor company,
OptInRealBig, LLC
, or as one belonging to the company's founder/owner,
Scott Richter
Several of the sub-blocks contained within the 18.104.22.168/16 IP address block are associated with
DNS SOA records
that make reference to one particular domain name that is
registered to
Media Breakaway
Last but not least, a
, named
Trudy DeBell
who is
listed as the official registered agent
(i.e. person who accepts legal papers) for the recently formed
SF Bay Packet Radio, LLC
company also appears to be the
Chief Financial Officer
Media Breakaway
Are these all just amazing coincidences? You be the judge.
Dirt Cheap
Why would anybody ever want to
a pre-existing already-registered IP address block that belongs (or that
, past tense) to somebody else anyway? Well, according to
sources, there are two potential reasons.
First, if you make off with somebody else's pre-existing IP address block, then you don't have to go through all of the hassle to justify (e.g. to
) why you really and truly
a whole big batch of fresh new IP addresses. (That could be difficult to do if you're just a mass e-mailing company that wants say, 65,536 fresh IP addresses if, for example, you wanted to use them to help you to sneak past spam filters.)
Second and perhaps more importantly, if you manage to get control of an IP addresses block that was
grandfathered in
by ARIN... i..e one that was allocated
January, 1997... then unlike newly allocated IP address blocks
you don't have to pay a dime in annual fees
for your shiny new IP address block. You can't get IP addresses at this low low price these days
by stealing... zero dollars and zero cents per IP address!
If An IP Address Block Falls In the Forest, And There's Nobody There to Hear It...
Of course, if a mass e-mail marketer did in fact abscond with an entire /16 IP address block, and if he/she/it didn't use it for anything, then what would be the difference, right? That would be a non-event.
Well, in point of fact, at the present time (Mon Apr 21 14:34:14 PDT 2008) it
appears that the 18.104.22.168/16 IP address block is being used for
as evidenced by all of
these 1,700+ web sites
that are currently being hosted in that block.
Thick As Thieves
you your own /16 IP address block (consisting of 65,536 separate IP addresses) is actually not that hard. It's just a small matter of
social engineering
. You tell them that you are the original owner of the block, and the fine folks at ARIN just believe you, apparently.
The hard part comes when you have to find some legitimate or at least semi-legitimate company that has it's own properly-registered
Autonomous System Number
(ASN) and who is willing and able to
announce routes
to your shiny new IP address block.
Fortunately for the recently minted, Colorado-based
SF Bay Packet Radio, LLC
, and for its apparent Denver area progenitor,
Media Breakaway
, these two companies together apparently had little trouble finding
this willing participant
to help them solve this part of the problem. This was a natural fit, given that this somewhat mysterious San Diego-based (but
) company,
JKS Media
, had already been supplying other Internet routing to most of the IP addresses used by
Media Breakaway
Underground Economy
Not that anybody much will care, of course, but it would appear that the owners of
JKS Media
, the somewhat mysterious San Diego-based but Nevada-registered company that's supplying the essential
for the 126.96.36.199/16 IP address block
never seem to have bothered to properly register their company
with the
California Secretary Of State's Office
as required by law, even though their own web site makes it altogether clear that they are actually located in San Diego. So who cares if they messed up a small bit of bureaucratic paperwork? It's no big deal, right?
By not registering their business in its
home state of California, whoever is behind this mysterious company has almost certainly completely avoided paying any California state taxes on this business, as required by law, probably for
. So they are basically getting a free ride. They enjoy all of the taxpayer-funded benefits of residing and doing business in California... roads, schools, bridges, the protection of California courts and Law Enforcement... but they are
on the backs of other California taxpayers.
A Hole In The Wall... Literally
Evading taxes...
that is indeed what's going on here... is bad enough, but there's yet another reason why
JKS Media
might not have wanted to file
formal papers with the State of California. You see, unlike Nevada, the State of California insists on knowing
businesses in this state are actually being conducted and also
they are actually being conducted by. (You can avoid both of these small annoyances if all you have is a Nevada corporation or LLC. Nevada is way less nosey than most states when it comes to knowing the particulars of the businesses that are operating within Nevada.) As things stand however, this particular business (a) has no corporate registration... except one in Nevada which, under Nevada law is
allowed to have utterly phony baloney information
listed for its location and its ownership... and also (b) interestingly, this business, despite the fact that it provides routing for some major hunks of IP address space, appears to be doing business only out of a rented mailbox located at
this commercial mail receiving facility
in San Diego.
OK, so let's review... We've got a large /16 IP address block with ownership that is, at best, questionable, and it's being provided with routing by a somewhat mysterious company,
JKS Media
, allegedly located in San Diego, that may or may not be evading California State taxes, that apparently has no real or discernible physical location (except for a four inch by four inch rented mailbox, that is to say a literal
hole in the wall
that (as far as anyone on the outside can tell) may or may not be owned by Osama Bin Laden. (We can't know for sure who
owns or runs this company because the State of Nevada allows Nevada corporations and LLCs to list only what Nevada euphemistically calls
nominee officers
... i.e. what the rest of us mere mortals usually call ``front men''... in the official corporate records that must be filed with the state).
I think that about covers everything. Hummm... well... on second thought, no, it doesn't.
Identity Crisis
Even if we ignore the fact that
JKS Media, Inc.
, is providing routing
Media Breakaway
and also for the suspiciously registered IP address block, 184.108.40.206/16, there
appears to be a whole lot of other curious and inexplicable connections between these two supposedly separate business entities, i.e.
JKS Media
Media Breakaway
. For example...
Why is it that
of the routes to
of the IP address space currently being routed by (supposedly San Diego based)
JKS Media
all appear to pass through (and then dead-end near)
routers located in the metropolitan Denver area
, and yet none of them ever seem to go anywhere near the San Diego area?
Why is it that when you establish an SMTP connection to the primary (only?) incoming mail server for
JKS Media
you receive
an SMTP greeting banner
which gives you the domain name of a company called
Wholesale Bandwidth
... a company that various public bankruptcy filings indicate is actually owned by the owner of
Media Breakaway
? (If
JKS Media
is actually an independent and non-trivial provider of Internet services, then why isn't
JKS Media
willing or able to run its own mail server? It is highly unusual for any legitimate and actual Internet service provider to farm out responsibility for its own incoming mail
to one of its own customers
Why is it that a search for all companies that are registered in Nevada and that have
Mark Clements
(i.e. the one and only registered corporate officer of
JKS Media
) as one of their corporate officers turns up a list of
three companies
, and yet when you look at the corporate registration details associated with
the second of these companies
you see that, paradoxically, the one and only registered corporate officer is
shown, not as
Mark Clements
, but rather as
Scott Richter
, owner of
Media Breakaway
? (Yes, the on-line records of the Nevada Secretary of State's office are obviously more than a little quirky, but this particular quirk seems to be revealing of an underlying clear connection.)
Why is it that the
snail-mail address of the mailbox
that is the alleged headquarters of
JKS Media
is further away from the Chula Vista
business address
Mark Clements
, the company's only registered director, than it is close to the downtown San Diego
former law office
of the current President of
Media Breakaway
Steve Richter
Why is it that although
JKS Media
has existed (allegedly in San Diego) since at least 2002, they never sent any representative(s) to any of the past annual or bi-annual
ARIN meetings
(even the nearby one in Los Angeles in October, 2005) yet they
manage to send a representative to the recent (April, 2008)
ARIN XXI Meeting
which was held in Denver?
Why is
Vince Chavez
, who is
listed as one of the official technical contacts
JKS Media
and who registered as a representative of
JKS Media
when he attended the recent
ARIN XXI Meeting
in Denver listed elsewhere (i.e. both
) as actually being an employee (
Chief Technical Officer?
) of
Media Breakaway
? (Actually, in
this document
the gentleman in question is listed as being
an employee of
Media Breakaway
JKS Media
at the same time.)
Last but not least, if
JKS Media
really is located in
San Diego
anyplace in Nevada (where it is registered) then why does
this official record
obtained from the RWHOIS server of Cogent Communications (which provides connectivity to
JKS Media
) show the location of
JKS Media
as a rented P.O. Box located at
the very closest UPS Store
to the Colorado headquarters of
Media Breakaway
(Not that it really matters much to this overall story, but by sheer coincidence it appears that the Broomfield, Colorado based
domain name registrar
Media Breakaway
uses as the registrar for many of its domains,
Dynamic Dolphin
, also happens to do business out of a rented mailbox at that exact same
UPS Store
, just a few doors down.... err... I mean just a few boxes down from the address given in that
RWHOIS record
JKS Media
, i.e. boxes number 233 and 229, respectively. Just another coincidence, I'm sure.)
Yessiree! There do seem to be a number of very interesting, if not to say close connections between
Media Breakaway
JKS Media
. In particular, one cannot help but wonder if
Vince Chavez
is drawing salary checks from both companies at the same time.
Final Jeopardy Question:
Is there what the legal folks would call a
unanimity of interest
Media Breakaway
JKS Media
? You be the judge. I am only reporting report the facts, not opinions. (We can set aside for now the separate question of whether or not that apparently related domain name registrar,
Dynamic Dolphin
, may or may not also have a certain
unanimity of interest
with either
Media Breakaway
JKS Media
or both.)
A Hop, Skip, And A Jump
Independent of the various indicators of a possible
unanimity of interest
Media Breakaway
JKS Media
, there is at least one additional potential connection between the two companies. It doesn't really prove anything, but I mention it anyway, just in case someone else might find this additional clue useful.
As noted above, the current President of
Media Breakaway
is an attorney... and a very astute one, I might add... named
Steven Richter
. Mr. Richter used to practice law from his
office in downtown San Diego
. (He is also the father of
Scott Richter
, the founder and owner of
Media Breakaway
, so I guess one could say that
Media Breakaway
has become a kind of family business for them.)
Anyway, when you practice law, you may sometimes need the help of an outside
Litigation Support Specialist
. As it happens, there appears to be a lady named
Lisa Clements
in nearby Chula Vista... just south of San Diego... who appears to be running an
unregistered business
that happens to specialize in this exact sort of thing. And... umm... oh! I'm sure these are just coincidences too... Ms. Clements last name just happens to be the same as that of
Mark Clements
, i.e. the guy who is the
only publically-identified officer
JKS Media
. Also, Ms. Clements just happens to have her office at the exact same
Chula Vista residential address
Mr. Mark Clements
, the only director of
JKS Media
, has apparently conducted at least one of
prior businesses
Small world. Then again, maybe Ms. Clements and Mr. Clements, both of whom seem to be doing business out of the exact same residential address, are related in some way. Anything's possible.
Going Global, Without Leaving Home
Every time I think that I'm done writing this story, another new angle crops up.
It now appears that ARIN may not have been the only
Regional Internet Registry
to have been duped into assigning an abandoned IP address block to some insubstantial front for either
Media Breakaway
JKS Media
or both. In fact it looks to me like the European Regional Internet Registry,
, may also have handed over control of a /18 netblock, i.e. 16,384 separate IP addresses, under equally questionable circumstances. That's quite a hunk of IP address space!
The IP address block in question is the
IP address block, which is associated with something calling itself the
ZAO Russian Telecommunications Group
but which, for reasons unknown, appears to exist only in New York, and which, also for reasons unknown, appears to have an alter ego name of
Open Access Colo, Inc.
, an alleged ``corporation'' whose only available contact information appears to be a mailing address of 1383 6th Ave, New York, New York 10019... which is nothing more that a UPS Store drop-box... and a contact telephone number of 212-372-7710, which appears to lead to nothing more than a slightly clever answering machine.
Note that I used the term
alleged corporation
above. I use that terminology because, as far as I can tell, this supposed
Open Access Colo
corporation doesn't actually exist... at least not in
county (US). It is not registered with state-level authorities in in the State of New York, nor with the authorities of any other state within these United States as far as I have been able to determine. In short, it is, apparently, a phantom, a ghost, unreal. And even more interestingly, the
former company web site
(which was taken down, mysteriously and shortly after the publication of this story) for this phantom of a company,
Open Access Colo
, gave all appearances of being just a hacked-up (and almost certainly
) copy of an old/prior version (available in
The Wayback Machine
) of
this legitimate web site
belonging to an apparently unrelated legitimate Pennsylvania web hosting company. (So much for copyright laws!)
Also, and by another rather spectacular coincidence, the ethereal not-quite-company calling itself
... which is apparently trying to make itself look like a real Internet services company... also (and remarkably), just like JKS Media,
doesn't seem to even be able to handle running its own inbound mail server
, opting instead to let the previously mentioned
Wholesale Bandwidth
(also owned by the owner of Media Breakaway) process its incoming mail for it. (As a general rule,
do not
tend to farm this kind of stuff out.)
Maybe They're Renovating
OK, so here's where the story starts to get
interesting... Apparently, the guy who wrote the
O'Reilly Spamkings Book
was kind enough to archive
this dump of RIPE membership records
as they existed circa October, 2005. If you search down within that listing for the string
you'll see that back then (Oct. 2005) there was an organization known as the
ZAO Tekcom Project
that was directly associated with the Russian domain name
. Stay with me now! Fast forward to
and look at the
current ripe membership list
. Search again for the same string as before, i.e.
, and you'll find that
it is associated with something called
ZAO Russian Telecommunications Group
(see above) and that for reasons unknown, RIPE has annotated this (former?) RIPE member company as being
OK, so why is any of this at all important? Well, at the very least, it shows us that the current mystery company
ZAO Russian Telecommunications Group
... which is allegedly Russian, but which
only seems to exist within the confines of a rented P.O. Box in New York... had a different name earlier in its lifetime, and that name was
ZAO Tekcom Project
. So it used to have a different name. Big deal! So who cares... right?
Well, a small bit of Googling turns up the fact that
Tekcom Project
, circa 2005,
wasn't exactly a stranger to spam
. In fact,
Tekcom Project
and its former IP range of 184.108.40.206/22 were
alleged to have been rather directly connected
to major-league criminal spammer and soon-to-be guest of the United States federal government
Robert Alan Soloway
From New York, With Love
The important take-away here isn't so much that the notorious criminal spammer Soloway may be involved with the
goings on within the 18.104.22.168/18 IP address block... he almost certainly isn't, since he is languishing in a jail cell awaiting final sentencing at the moment... but rather, that the exact same mystery ``Russian'' folks who are currently
... properly or otherwise... the 188.8.131.52/18 IP address block are apparently also and simultaneously doing business with Media Breakaway and JKS Media. Specifically, the mystery Russians appear to be leasing to Media Breakaway
several substantial hunks of IP address space
, all of which are, conveniently enough, being provided routing by JKS Media, so that, in effect, the mystery Russians appears to sit in the food chain somewhere between Media Breakaway and JKS Media. (
go-between sitting between Media Breakaway and JKS Media... let alone a phantom Russian one... would seem to be unnecessary, since it appears that Media Breakway and JKS Media share at least one employee in common anyway, i.e.
Vince Chavez
There still remains the question of who, if anybody, is the
owner of the 126.96.36.199/18 address block. Apparently, it is a company (
ZAO Russian Telecommunications Group
) that even RIPE itself considers
. So that begs the question... Who the bleep have they (RIPE) given control of the 22.214.171.124/18 block to, exactly?
It appears that even RIPE itself may not be too awfully sure about the answer to this question. It might be
, who RIPE has listed as the contact person for the 22.214.171.124/18 IP address block, but it looks like Olga doesn't have any actual office... preferring to do business out of her New York City P.O. Box... and it also appears that Olga doesn't like to answer her phone much... like maybe not at all. If you ever manage to reach her, or any live human at all at
Olga's New York phone number
, please let me know. Good luck. (I'd like a Unicorn for my birthday too, if you wouldn't mind.)
Ripe Or Rotten?
So is RIPE as easy to snooker out of IP address space as ARIN apparently is? Is there
other plausible explanation for why a good sized chunk of IP address space which is supposedly allocated to a Russian company (which itself appears to do business
out of a rented P.O. Box in New York City) never gets routed anywhere near
New York and instead appears to
dead end somewhere near Denver
And what ever happened to the alleged
impending crisis of the world running out of IP addresses
? If phantom companies, operating out of P.O. boxes, and lacking any real existence whatsoever... except on paper... can get their own /16s and /18s every day of the week, then it's no wonder the world is running out of IP addresses.


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Speed dating with Michelle Williams over 'My Week with Marilyn'
Michelle Williams doesn't have much time. I mean, she really doesn't have much time. The two-time Academy Award nominated actress landed in Los Angeles just a few hours ago and now has only one hour, yes, just one hour to do interviews with a slew of waiting reporters at the always bustling Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. it won't be long before Williams has to walk the red carpet at the premiere of "My Week with Marilyn" at AFI Fest that evening and when her people say she only has an hour they aren't kidding. My specific warning before sitting down with the best actress contender: Just two questions with the always charming Ms. Williams. Eke. I better make them good.
Needless to say, it was a much different story a year ago when I sat down for a much longer and more intimate chat regarding her acclaimed work in "Blue Valentine." But with Williams still busy filming Sam Raimi's "Oz: The Great and Powerful" with James Franco, the luxury of an in-depth conversation about her turn portraying the iconic Marilyn Monroe isn't going to happen (for anyone). When I first sat down across from a beaming Williams, she asked me, "Are you ready to speed date?" I'm not sure if I passed the test, but it was a cheerful 2 1/2 minutes I likely won't forget.
To find out Williams thoughts about playing one of her childhood icons and the agony of "over thinking" a role watch the interview embedded above. Oh, and note for all you Hollywood producers and directors out there who are likely to be blown away by Ms. Williams singing talents in "Marilyn," she'd love to appear in a movie musical. Really.
For more on Williams transformation as Monroe, check out an intriguing look at the actress getting into character on set and during a special photo shoot for photographer Brigitte Lacombe.
"My Week with Marilyn" is now playing in limited release across the country.
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MANY STUDENTS IN THE BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT WERE LATE TO SCHOOL THIS MORNING BECAUSE SCHOOL BUSES WOULDN'T START IN THE COLD. 40/29'S UGOCHI ILOKA WAS IN BENTONVILLE TO TELL US WHAT SCHOOL LEADERS HAD TO DO TO GET THE KIDS TO CLASS. THE BENTONVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT ALERTED PARENTS AND STUDENTS THROUGH TEXT, EMAIL AND EVEN SOCIAL MEDIA THAT THEIR BUSES WERE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET KIDS TO SCHOOL ON TIME. SOT: CHRIS DEWITT DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION. You know it's cold we all have to be smart I don't want to send my kid out to a stop and then just leave them there knowing that temperatures are cold you don't know what could happen the bus could break down. IT WASN'T ICY ROADS, BUT FREEZING TEMPS THAT KEPT THE BUSES FROM STARTING. SOT: This morning was negative six on the windshield and that takes half of your amps a way creates a big problem. THE DIRECTOR OF THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT FOR BENTONVILLE SCHOOLS EXPLAINS WHEN THE AMPS ARE DRAINING THE BATTERY, THE ENGINE DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH POWER TO START. BRIDGE STANDUP UGO: THEIR WERE A TOTAL OF TEN BUSES THAT THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO GET THE ENGINES STARTED UP THIS MORNING, CAUSING THE DEPARTMENT TO ADD ON EXTRA ROUTES TO BUSES THAT WERE ALREADY OUT ON THE ROAD, BECAUSE OF THIS SOME STUDENTS HAD TO WAIT AT LEAST AN HOUR BEFORE THEY WERE PICKED UP TO GO TO SCHOOL. THE DEPARTMENT SAYS THEY SPENT FOUR HOURS TRYING TO WARM UP THE BUSES BUT SOME OF THE ENGINES JUST WOULDN'T GIVE. SOT: It's an enormous behind the scenes effort that people really have no idea what goes on. OTHER THAN GETTING THE KIDS TO SCHOOL SAFELY THE DEPARTMENT IS ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR CLEARING UP THE ICE ON THE GROUND WHERE THE KIDS GET DROPPED OFF AT SCHOOL. REPORTING IN BENTONVILLE UGOCHI ILOKA 40/29 NEWS IN ADDITION TO BUS DELAYS THIS MORNING, THE DEPARTMENT HAD TO DEAL WITH AN ICY HILL OFF J STREET BY BENTONVILLE HIGH
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