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by Jim Fetzer
"It ain't what we don't know that hurts us; it's what we think we know that ain't so"–Will Rogers
Sandy Hook has become a celebrities' cause
The Sandy Hook experience has divided Americans, most of whom have been convinced by media coverage that it was a real event, where a young man massacred 20 children and six adults before killing himself.
Another substantial segment of the US population has taken a closer look at the evidence and drawn the conclusion it was a hoax, where no children really died: it was an elaborate psy-op to promote gun control.
Americans are hard pressed to sort these things out, because they are hit with a blizzard of reports that appear to confirm the official account, leaving them in the predicament of not being able to tell if it was real or fake.
It matters even more today because gun control has become one of the defining issues of politics in America, where leading Democrats (Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton) are using their authority as President (in the first instance) to issue Executive Orders constraining our 2nd Amendment rights and (in the second) threatening to impose liability laws upon their manufacturers for their use by those who buy them. Ben Carson, on the Republican side, has observed that Jews would have been better able to fend off The Third Reich had they not been disarmed; and Matt Drudge has challenged the President to demonstrate his sincerity by giving up his (heavily armed) Secret Service protection.
The appeals to Sandy Hook (shooting 20 children), the Charleston shooting (of nine blacks) and the Oregon shooting (where college students were asked their religion and those responding "Christian" were shot in the head) have struck some observers as appearing to be calculated to instill fear into specific targeted subpopulations of the American community: parents, blacks and Christians, for example, where it's as though we were experiencing a series of psy-ops to convince the public that we ought to give up our guns. That troubles many, because disarming populations has all-too-often occurred to set the stage for tyranny in world history past. What if Sandy Hook was only an illusion?
Probabilities vs. Certainties
Knowledge of historical events (based upon documents and records, photos and videos and witness testimony, for example) can never be "definitive and certain". You only know your own origin in life (where and when you were born and the parents who brought you into this world) on the basis of information that could have been faked. Even DNA comparisons can be invalid or mistaken on purpose or by accident. Your belief about today's day/month/year is something else of which you have no direct and certain knowledge but rather have a host of sources of information, such as newspapers and television reports, which collectively confirm your belief but could be fabricated or faked, but which are almost always accurate and true.
The occurrence of an elaborate hoax intended to fool the people does not occur often, but there can be no doubt that it does sometimes occur. The Warren Report (1964), for example, provides an indictment of Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone assassin of JFK, where the evidence for that conclusion was carefully selected and, in some cases, completely fabricated. The backyard photographs were faked, for example, and the home movies of the assassination were edited. That he had been captured in a famous photo taken during the shooting was suppressed. (Check out The Great Zapruder Film Hoax (2003) or many articles about JFK at jamesfetzer.blogspot.com for abundant proof, if you like.) These things can and sometimes do happen. And one of them happened here.
If you only read the government's account, you might very well be convinced that JFK had been killed by Lee Oswald. And if you only paid attention to the mass media, you would probably believe that 20 children died at Sandy Hook. Once you acknowledge that some of the evidence has been fabricated or faked, however, the case begins to assume a completely different character. This does not mean we cannot know what happened in this instance, but it should not have been necessary to frame a guilty man. New evidence or alternative hypotheses may thus require us to revised our position by rejecting hypotheses we previously accepted, accepting hypotheses we previously rejected and leaving others in suspense. We now know more about Sandy Hook.
Inference to the best explanation
The principle known as "inference to the best explanation", has the potential to turn every American into a critical thinker in comparing alternative hypotheses. In relation to Sandy Hook, there are two alternatives, which have consequences that would also be true (or probably true) if they were true and others that would be false (or probably false) if they were not (setting the alleged suicide by Adam Lanza to the side):
(h1) Sandy Hook was a real event, where 20 children and 6 adults were killed at a school;
(h2) Sandy Hook was an elaborate hoax, where a drill was conducted and no children died.
But the key to understanding is making an appraisal of which of these hypotheses is better supported by the evidence. We can think of the evidence as effects of one or another hypothesis as their cause. When one hypothesis makes the effects more probable than the other, it is more likely to be true and the alternative false. For the shooting to have been real, the school had to have been operational in 2012; yet we have indication after indication that it had been abandoned by 2008 (which you will discover in Chapters 2 and 3), including not only its deplorable physical condition (both inside and out), but also that it was not in compliance with both federal and state laws required in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act:
Analogously, we know from past experience that the names, ages and sex of victims of crimes are almost invariably printed in newspaper accounts of crimes. In this case, however, the final reports coming from the Connecticut authorities did not include them. That is a very odd aspect of this event, but an attempt has been made to explain it away on the ground of preserving the privacy of the families of the victims. But if there were victims, their families already know they are dead. There is no evident benefit to the families, if it was real, but a major element of the cover up, if it was not.
From the date of the event, we have a photograph taken from a CT State Police chopper at 9:15 AM/ET, which is 20 minutes before the first 911 call came in; there was no surge of EMTs into the building to rush those little bodies off to hospitals, where doctors could pronounce them dead or alive; virtually all of the emergency vehicles were kept at the Firehouse, which became the center of activity as opposed to the school; the parents were not even allowed to identify their children, which was done using photos. As a parent myself, I can emphasize that there is no way I could have been kept from viewing the body of a child of mine, where the conduct of the "parents" in this case is unlike that of any parents I have ever known, where these many oddities are confirmed by Chapter 5.
Other circumstantial anomalies
If the school had been abandoned, then the shooting has to be an illusion, since there would have been no students present for Adam Lanza to shoot. And if that were the case, then we might not be surprised if any number of measures were taken at the time by authorities to suppress relevant information (and thereby making it unavailable) or by otherwise circumventing what would have been the ordinary and normal procedures of investigation and administration by local and state authorities. But the measures that were taken were rather extraordinary, including these examples:
- the Attorney General of Connecticut argued against releasing the 911 calls, where the court ruled against him;
- the Clerk of Newtown entered into secret negotiations with the state legislature to avoid issuing death certificates;
- a special panel of the state legislature recommended that any state employee who released information about Sandy Hook other than via Freedom of Information Act request be prosecuted as an E-felony with a five year sentence; and,
- those who were hired to participate in the demolition of the school building were required to sign life-time gag orders that prohibit them from talking about what they saw or did not see during its destruction.
Each of these qualifies as a "fact" insofar as its truth can be confirmed by research you can conduct yourself. Admittedly, if all the information accessible via the internet about Sandy Hook were fabricated or faked, that would not be the case. But I know of no one who seriously contests any of these points. So ask yourself, what is the probability that these five claims (if we also include the missing names, ages and sex from the final report) would be true if Sandy Hook had been a real event? And by comparison, what is the probability these five claims would be true if Sandy Hook had been a hoax? Which hypothesis is more likely to be true?
The day of the shooting, Governor Dan Malloy and his Lt. Governor held a press conference, during which he observed that they had been "spoken to" that something like this might happen. That got me thinking about, "something like this"? What could that mean. There are only two alternatives:
(a) that he had been told there would be a shooting in a school in his state, in which case he, as governor, should have warned school districts to be on high alert and make sure it did not happen, which he did not do; or,
(b) that he had been told they would be taking an abandoned school and using it as a prop for a drill, which would be presented to the public as real to promote an aggressive gun-control agenda, which is the case here.
And when I looked into recent visits with the Governor to determine by whom he might have been "spoken to", I discovered that Attorney General Eric Holder had met with him on 27 November 2012 to discuss "Operation Longevity", a special interest of the Attorney General and the President of the United Staes for promoting gun control. Mark my words. The evidence presented here demonstrates that the school was closed by 2008; that there were no students to evacuate; that Adam Lanza appears to have been a work of fiction; and that the teachers, the parents, the Newtown School Board, the State Police, the Medical Examiner and the Governor–and by extension the Attorney General and the President–were all complicit in the deception.
We have the FEMA manual
Our collaborative research, you will find for yourself, is extensive, through and detailed–and leaves this matter resolved beyond any reasonable doubt. We have 50 photos that show the preparation of the Lanza home as a prop and another 50 documenting the refurbishing of the school as a stage (in Chapters 7 and 8). Doubt in this case would be reasonable were there a reasonable alternative explanation. But, as you are about to discover, there is none here.
And I am not just talking about the sign, "Everyone must check in", the Port-a-Potties, the boxes of bottled water and pizza cartons at the Firehouse, the name tags on lanyards and parents bringing their children to (what was supposed to be) a child shooting massacre! WE HAVE THE FEMA MANUAL. It stipulates that everyone must register and that refreshments and restrooms will be provided. Some participants did not realize that the official event was not until the 14th: We now know why some of the donation pages went up a day early and why Adam Lanza was recorded as having died on the 13th! Don't take my word for it, because you can read it for yourself. I included it here as Appendix A.
The Requirement of Total Evidence
Indeed, scientific reasoning specifically and rational inquiries generally must satisfy the requirement of total evidence: in the search for truth, reasoning must be based upon all of the available relevant evidence, where evidence is relevant when its presence or absence (or truth or falsity) makes a difference to the outcome, typically on the basis of considerations of probability. According to the official report on Sandy Hook by Danbury States Attorney Stephen Sedensky (to which we refer as "The Sedensky Report"), there were 489 children present that day. Minus 20 murdered, there ought to have been 469 to evacuate (as well as around 70 more teachers, administrators and staff). But we have no pictures of their evacuation. What we have instead this "iconic" photograph:
It has sometimes been said that "You can't prove a falsehood true!" But that assertion overlooks the role of false clams and fabricated evidence. We have here a photograph purporting to show a string of children being led away from the school to safety by a policewoman on the scene. This photo was published on the front page of virtually every newspaper in the world–and shown endless times on television. It was undoubtedly the single most important form of proof in convincing the public around the world that Sandy Hook was real. But there is a catch: the photograph was staged! And we know that not on the basis of the weaker evidence that there are too many leaves on the trees and no frost for this to be a 28 degree day in December but because Shannon Hicks took a second photograph!
Rearranging the kids to get a better shot
It's bad enough that we have a series of parents looking on, some with their arms cross or their hands in their pockets–which is certainly not what we would expect in an emergency situation. It gets much worse when you realize that the police woman has stopped the children to rearrange them to get "a better shot"! Here's a comparison that shows what was going on and demonstrates–as conclusively as anyone could have the right to expect–that the first photograph was staged to create the false impression that there was an emergency and that these kids needed to be removed from a threat at the earliest possible opportunity–which would not leave time to stop and rearrange them as follows:
We not only know that Shannon Hicks was "in on the game" by taking these photos (as early as in October) in preparation for this elaborate charade but we also know that there was no evacuation. The claim is sometimes made that "You can't prove a negative!" But that turns out to be false. When evidence that ought to be present if an hypothesis were true is not present, then the absence of evidence qualifies as evidence of absence. Suppose you were told there is an elephant in your living room. If you go there and find no indications of the presence of an elephant, you are completely justified in inferring that there is no elephant in your living room.
If 469 kids should have been there, if the event was real, but they are not there, you are completely justified in inferring it was not real. An evacuation would have looked something like this, with strings of children led by other police officers or teachers performing their duty under stress. But we have DashCam footage at the locations in the parking lot where, according to official police records, the evacuation was taking place–and there is nothing there! Just as the absence of signs of the presence of an elephant in your living room is proof of the absence of an elephant, the absence of signs of the presence of children undergoing evacuation is proof that no evacuation was taking place.
More parking lot anomalies–and a stunner!
Inspection of the vehicles in the parking lot in front of the school shows that they are parked in the wrong direction (which should have been nose-in), given the arrangement for driving into the lot. The image itself suggests of a group of drivers methodically filling up the lot with used or abandoned cars, driving straight into the designated parking places without regard for how they should have been arranged. Once again we ask, "What is the probability that the lot would be filled with cars parked in the wrong direction, if this had been a real event? What if this had been a drill?" Truly stunning, however, is the discovery of a series of photographs that display setting the stage early in the morning for the events that would transpire this day, including this one from Chapter 8:
Notice that the windows of Classroom 10 are not shot out and the flag is up. Wayne Carver can be seen behind the man in the blue evidence suit. This photograph is taken from one of the elevated cameras we have discovered that were mounted around the parking lot to record the drill. The mortuary tent is not there yet, which makes this early morning. Could we have more decisive proof?
When an hypothesis has been confirmed by abundant evidence and no alternative explanation is reasonable, it has been established "beyond a reasonable doubt". Hypothesis (h1), that Sandy Hook was real, has been falsified and (h2), that this was an elaborate hoax, has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt.
Benefits to the Participants
The benefits to those who participated in the Sandy Hook hoax have been substantial. The donation sites created by "families of the victims" have hauled in over $27,000,000 or in excess of $1,000,000 per family. Other substantial grants have been given to alleviate the pain and suffering of those who responded to the event. On Friday, 12 December 2014, for example, Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Representative Elizabeth Esty (CT-5) announced a $775,914 grant from the Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crimes and their families, first responders and members of Newtown community in the wake of the shooting to "help fund continued mental health services and other support services", which sounds like a lot for participating in a charade.
Other pay-offs, bribes and hush-money–and under the circumstances, is there something more appropriate to call it?–are documented in Chapter 5. When debate was taking place over the choice between refurbishing the old school or constructing a new one, The Newtown Bee published about the presence of asbestos, lead and PCBs in the building, which had no doubt factored in the earlier decision to abandon the school in 2008. Newtown received $50,000,000 to build a brand new K-4 elementary school. I surveyed the cost of comparable cost for K-4 schools across the nation and discovered they average $7,000,000, which reflects the generous benefits that a community might accrue from cooperating covertly with the federal government in the pursuit of its political agenda.
The Gun-Control Agenda
We are told that fewer guns means less crime. But when you look into serious studies of crime rates in relation to gun laws, that is not what you discover. Appendix D, for example, "Comparing Murder and Homicide Rates before and after Gun Bans", suggests something closer to the opposite is the case; and Appendix E, "Comparing Death Rates from Mass Public Shootings in the US and Europe", demonstrates we are not the nation with the highest rates of mass public shootings, contrary to our president's claims. Barack Obama himself praised the sweeping gun confiscation that took place in Australia in the late 1990s and said:
"Couple of decades ago, Australia had a mass shooting, similar to Columbine or Newtown," Obama said. "And Australia just said, well, that's it, we're not doing, we're not seeing that again, and basically imposed very severe, tough gun laws, and they haven't had a mass shooting since."
And while they haven't seen a mass shooting since, local officials say that gun violence on the continent is much worse than it was before the tougher gun policies went into effect.
Meanwhile, the one thing that the President failed to recognize is that gun crime in the U.S. is on the decline. According to a PEW research study, gun crime is down 49% since 1993. Another study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics showed that non-fatal gun crime is actually down 70% since the same time. Even the President's own study performed by the Center for Disease Control reached a similar conclusion: "Firearm-related death rates for youth ages 15 to 19 declined from 1994 to 2009," the report states. "The number of public mass shootings of the type that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School accounted for a very small fraction of all firearm-related deaths." What these studies show is there's a clear agenda being carried out by the Mainstream Media to make it seem like mass shootings are the norm. As soon as a mass shooting happens, it reverberates through all the major news networks for weeks, much like an echo after the initial shot. Because of this, much of the nation seems to believe that gun violence, particularly school shootings, is on the rise even with evidence that points to the contrary.
The reasons behind this aggressive behavior by the administration, even when gun violence has been falling in the United States, involves deep questions about the role of DHS in our society and why America has been devolving into a totalitarian state. I was born a year-and-a-day before Pearl Harbor, as my father used to put it; and I would never have imagined in my wildest dreams that the United States of American could descend into a bottomless pit of lies, deceit and deception.
Faking a school shooting to instill fear into a population is an act of terrorism, where it has become clear that this instance was brought to us by officials at every level of the Connecticut government from the teachers and reporters to the State Police and the Newtown School board to the Governor and the Attorney General and the President himself. And this is the ugly legacy of Barack Hussein Obama.
NOTE: This is the republication of my blog for 24 October 2015 as we approach the fourth observance of an elaborate scam. The book was banned by amazon.com less than four months after having been placed on sale and having sold over 500 copies between 22 October and 19 November 2015. We now have a new publisher and the book can be obtained again at moonrockbooks.com in both black-and-white and color editions.


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Friday Morning
by phil - July 14th, 2006 6:15 am
Did I miss anything?
I was off having a nice time this week and mostly when I bothered to tune in to the news or CNBC I was only thinking, gee I'm glad I'm missing this!
When I left we were worried about Kim Jong Il but I've been passing by TV's tuned to giant fire balls that have nothing to do with him and the fear factor (now somewhat justified) is driving oil to record levels, likely to be followed by gold and other metals.
Asia continues to plunge, dropping another point or two today while Europe looks weak. We are back in the sort of situation we had back in mid-June where we would rather see a huge drop to a real bottom than another weak recovery. This time the global situation is obviously far worse and we are still way above Jun 14 lows: Dow 10,698, S&P 1,219, NYSE 7,708.
The Nasdaq beat its June low of 2,065 yesterday and should give us the first turn signal (if it does at all) but the SOX continue on an uninterrupted road to hell that has as much chance of accelerating down as it does of turning up.
Putting additional topspin on the Nasdaq is news that the California District Attorney (overseeing Silicon Valley) is launching a task force to investigate options backdating. This is starting to look like something almost everyone was doing, with over 50 companies now under investigation so get ready for more headlines there. Also bad for tech is a price-fixing probe aimed at chip makers.
The key for watching this market is going to be how middling earnings are received. GE was pretty exactly in line so we will see how they get treated today. Builders will take yet another hit (props to the Prof) as DHI lowers guidance yet again, taking a 10% hit overnight.
I am baffled by the spotty performance of the oil patch, especially the drillers as oil prices continue to climb. Apparently traders think this spike is temporary and, of course, $4 gas may finally lead to demand destruction but I want to see how oil handles $80 before I bet against that sector. Since the first $75 oil spike on 4/24 most of the oil patch has traded down with drillers like PTEN down 20%. APC has been hammered even though their purchase of KMG…


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Also contains detailed information on the certain state agencies and boards as well as salary information for certain public officials.
2014 Edition - contains the following:
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Click HERE to see my post for My Creative Scrapbook Birthday Bash Blog Hop.
If you missed yesterday's post about the My Creative Scrapbook kits reveal,
I strongly encourage you to check it out. (link above)
There are major PRIZES involved!
Along with the Echo Park and Carta Bella papers included in the October Main kit
is a beautiful orange design from Jillibean Soup
is a beautiful orange design from Jillibean Soup
and, as soon s I saw it, first thought that came to my mine was... pumpkin!
So I created this layout using that paper to make a large pumpkin as my focal point.
I popped up each section of the pumpkin using 3D foam dots and added some handmade stitches to the edges, giving it more of a country harvest look.
Also from Jillibean Soup is a sheet of kraft placemats. Love them!
Next, here are a few cards also created with the Main kit,
all with a Fall theme, quite obviously :)
To see more of my MCS DT work, join me again tomorrow!


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A recent trial conducted at 15 different medical centers in Korea indicates that a physician must perform at least 150 colonoscopies to be considered competent at the procedure. Details of the study were recently published in the journal Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
Colonoscopy is a procedure in which a colonoscope is passed through the rectum, into the colon, and into the lower end of the small intestine. The procedure is performed to examine the lower portion of the gastrointestinal tract for early signs of cancer, ulcers, inflamed tissue, or bleeding. Pictures and biopsies and may be taken for further evaluation by the physician. One vital part of colonoscopy is called cecal intubation, defined as the colonoscope reaching the cecum (the point where the large intestine and small intestine converge). Although this area can be difficult to examine, doing so is important in the prevention of cancer as a substantial number of colorectal cancers are found in this in this area. Various medical training programs recommend that trainees perform at least 100–200 colonoscopies in order to be considered competent in screening and diagnostic colonoscopy.
In the current study, researchers sought to further define the adequate training level for technical competence in performing colonoscopy. During an eight-month period, 24 first-year gastroenterologist trainees (fellows) in 15 medical centers were evaluated. A total of 4,351 colonoscopies were performed and evaluated during this time period. Particular interest was paid to the cecal intubation portion of the colonoscopy. The goal of the study was to evaluate the success rate for completing the colonoscopy and performing the cecal intubation in less than 20 minutes.
Researchers concluded that competent screening and diagnostic colonoscopy generally requires that physicians have performed at least 150 cases. Patients planning to undergo colonoscopy may wish to inquire about their physician's level of experience.
Reference: Lee, S., Chung, I., Kim, S., et al. An adequate level of training for technical competence in screening and diagnostic colonoscopy: a prospective multicenter evaluation of the learning curve. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 2008; 67(4) 683-689.
Copyright Colon Cancer Information Center on CancerConsultants.com
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Sexy, 73 and Vegetarian (Mimi Kirk Interview)
Mimi Kirk eats a plant-based diet, including raw foods and has written a book titled Live Raw: Raw Food Recipes for Good Health and Timeless Beauty. She was also selected as one of PETA's Sexiest Vegetarians – at the age of 70! Now she is 73 years old. What follows is an interview with her.
What caused you to stop eating animals at about the age of 32?
One day while eating a slice of deli roast beef, I thought I took a bite out of the back of my hand.
I looked down at my hand, and it was the first time I made the connection to flesh. Animal flesh. I think I was more sensitive to this after I started meditating at 30. I went home and told my children we were not eating animals anymore. They were happy to go along with it. I didn't cut out cheese or dairy at the time because I didn't understand how horrible animals were treated then. But anyone who stops eating animals really must include cheese and dairy along with wearing fur or leather.
In your YouTube video, you mentioned getting B12 and Vitamin D levels checked, how often do you do that?
I get a check up once a year and that is when I have my levels checked
What are some of your favorite foods?
Greens for sure. Parsley or kale salads, I love juicing and smoothies, but I also enjoy more light gourmet raw foods. The great thing is that I love to prepare raw food and have always loved international dishes, so I just taught myself to use the right spices and duplicate most cooked international foods into raw dishes. I love to eat and and enjoy sharing meals with others, so I have lots of favorites as long as it's not processed, organic, raw and straight from the earth I'm enjoying it.
Do you like to try new vegan or vegetarian restaurants?
I really love to eat at new raw, vegan or vegetarian restaurants. It's such a pleasure because I prepare food at home most of the time, so to eat other chef's foods is a treat. I also enjoy the ambiance in these places. I run into so many friends when I eat at raw food restaurants. I don't eat soy products, so I still have to be careful if the restaurant is not all raw. One of the pleasures of these restaurants is that I believe a lot of care goes into a meal. From where the food is purchased, how it's prepared to how it is plated for service. I just think the food has a lot of love going into it.
What are your common protein sources?
I get a lot of protein from greens, hemp seeds, chia seeds, and sprouting. These all seem to work for me, I'm not protein deficient in any way.
What are your typical iron sources?
I adore parsley, kale, dandelion greens, dried apricots, avocado, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, tahini, flax seeds and hemp seeds just to name a few.
Do you exercise daily, and what kind of exercise do you prefer?
I'm working on this all the time to get better and more consistent. Today I found a local yoga studio and joined, so I'm quite happy about that. Aside from yoga, I love qigong, kettlebells, walking and some TRX work. I'm planning on adding some more strength training. I just love to stretch.
How much of your plant-based diet choice is based on concern for animals and what is happening to the planet such as climate change?
I feel the animals come first and have always felt that way, the health aspect came way after my compassion for animals.
I've been concerned about planet change for many years, before it was so popular. In 1989 I created, published and edited an environmental newspaper in Los Angeles called "The City Planet".
It was a free paper and 40k were printed monthly. The paper was very popular and they were gone off the stands immediately each month. It was supported by environmentally concerned advertisers. I closed the company to simplify my life and moved to Taos New Mexico. So, I am, and have been for many years, concerned about the state of the world and climate change. More is being done now than in all the years past, so I have a more positive feeling than I did years ago, but I'm still very concerned. I believe the only power we have is to make personal changes. Stop eating animals, grow a garden, recycle, compost, drive a fuel efficient car, and support environmental organizations.
Do you meditate or do yoga or Tai chi?
As I mentioned, I started meditating at 32. I've been lucky in my life to have had two living gurus.
Swami Prabhavananda, of Vedanta, and swami muktananda, of siddah foundation, whom I studied with in the states and in India. I mediated for many years and for many hours a day. Currently I meditate on and off, but it is always with me and I feel it continues to better my life and connect me with my true self. I just signed up for yoga classes and found out my local library has tai chi classes weekly, so I will be doing adding that to my life. I actually love qigong, but will be happy to have a tai chi class close by.
What sources of information do you use for learning about health and plant-based diets?
Years ago, before computers and Google, I could only find some info in books, but now I can search the world for information. I love reading everything, but listen to what feels right for me. There is a lot of contradictory info, so it takes lots of research, and experimenting and learning what works personally. I feel I know a lot with all the reading I do and have done for many years.
Do you have many vegetarian or vegan friends?
Yes, most I've met are from my Facebook pages. My boyfriend is vegetarian and raw vegan most of the time. My two daughters eat this way also most of the time, and I think I've convinced
many people in my circle of friends to give up eating animals or at least cut back.
What are some of your favorite fruits or vegetables?
I've mentioned my love for all dark greens, and as for fruit, I love cherimoya, crazy for berries of all kinds, banana, mango, papaya, watermelon, pomegranate, apricots, and actually its hard to narrow it down as I love summer when we have an abundance of peaches, and nectarines. I guess I've never met a fruit I didn't like. I feel lucky to be in California where we have so many beautiful organic fruits. I love to shop at farmers markets and find growers who care about the soil and the quality of organic produce.
What kind of grains do you like?
I sprout grains and my favorite is wild rice. But I like quinoa or buckwheat also. Here is my trick for wild rice, which I use for raw burgers, tabouli. Stuffing for grape leaves and sweet red pepper. Ok, so here is the trick. 1 cup wild rice poured into a tall mason jar. Fill with pure water. Put the lid on, place in the bottom of dehydrator, turn on to 105-110 leave it in throughout the night, and in the morning, its sprouted and ready for rinsing. It's quite amazing and so delicious.
What kind of work have you done over the years, and are you working now or retired?
Movie and TV extra for various productions including the original Star Trek. Designed clothes for movie and TV productions. Raised money for charitable organizations. Started an environmental newspaper. Started a cowgirls board game and products company that is still running today. Author of Live Raw: Raw Food Recipes for Good Health and Timeless Beauty. Lectures and coaches a few private clients.
Image Credit: Mimi Kirk
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[See the full post at: May 2019 Patch Tuesday arrives]
Wow. If they released a patch for Windows XP, then this vulnerability must be really bad.
According to the info, having Remote Desktop off prevents this from being exploited anyway, and I gather so does blocking port 3389, or for that matter inbound connections entirely, via firewall, right?
— Cavalary
I am running Windows 10 1803 on my home computer. I noticed there is an unusual patch (Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 4.8; KB4495616) this month.
Should I treat this like a normal monthly cumulative update (i.e. wait for the all clear before installing it)? Or should it be installed sooner? I guess I'm not sure what it is for.
best to wait until woody & susan give the all clear to install any net .NET patches
I have not patched .net on my Laptops since Sept of 2016. So most of my patching involves the Windows 7 OS security only patches and the IE11 cumulative security updates. I have patched for some other required patches to the Windows updating/patchng subsystem and such that are required to be able to install the other patches but that's about it.
Is there some kind of .net cumulative/roll-up sort of patch that can get me caught up, one that does not have any spyware/telemetry gathering baked in.
MicrofixDa Boss
KB 4494441 [that's the Win10 1809 patch] had to be installed twice so be sure to run Windows Update twice. I was not amused.
Unlike Krebs, I only had to install once from WU on steady old Win8.1 x64 😛
KB4499151 May 2019 SMQR: error code 0x0
KB4497932 May 2019 Abode Flash Player: error code 0x0
no errors in event viewer post reboot.
Confidence is high: I removed replaced WinSxS assemblies and
WinSxS temp files, oops, no going back!! 😉
********** Peng/Wins x86/x64 **********
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In his post, Woody wrote that…
Big news is the "wormable" security hole in RDP, CVE-2019-0708. From Simon Pope on the MSRC Technet blog
It's odd that XP and Windows 7 would be affected by this vuln, but not Vista which came out in-between those two.
Could this be an oversight on their part?
Server 2008 is affected. So Vista has to be affected too as they share the same codebase.
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"Giving the patches time to stew for a bit" as Woody has said, looks to me as the best approach right now. These vulnerabilities probably have been around for a while already and nothing bad has happened, at least that has made any loud noises we have heard. Chances are that now has become known these vulnerabilities exist and measures are being taken to deal with them will deter those who want to exploit them from doing so right away. In the meantime, people will find out what problems, if any, the patches against those vulnerabilities may themselves cause, and give the word, when that is fixed, that is OK to patch.
Group B Windows 7 Pro, SP1 x64 & macOS+Linux Mint.
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wonder what the Google-DEFCON is then
Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) attacks affects ALL modern Intel CPUs. My Intel i7-8850H looks like Swiss cheese.
Both Microsoft (Intel) and Canonical issued micro-code updates).
You can download MDS tool for Windows, Linux.
https://mdsattacks.com/ (scroll down for the tool)
W7 Starter 32 & W7 64. Updated. OK !
If you're Group B and download (1) KB4499175 (Security Only for Win 7) and then (2) then download in same download folder the 'pciclearstalecache', are you saying that after you click on and install the KB4499175 it will then automatically install the pciclearstalecache patch (that you've downloaded but not clicked on to install)? Thanks in advance for clarifying.
The instructions for the installation are here. Follow those instructions. They explain what is needed.
Thanks, PK. I just installed the May Security only patch (KB4499175</span>) and the IE security patch KB4498206, but I still see that 'pciclearstalecache' file in my download folder and when running windows update it shows both KB4499175 and IE KB4498206 patches installed but nothing about the pci patch listed under installed updates in windows update history.
How do we confirm (check?) if that pciclearstalecache file was installed during installation of KB4499175? Thanks in advance for clarifying.
1) Download the pciclearstalecache file and store it in the same location as the Security-only Update (on the desktop, in a folder, etc).
2) Do not execute the file directly.
3) When you install the Security-only Update, it should execute the pciclearstalecache automatically in the process.
OK, I have to comment on this after spending the entire evening going over these steps carefully and following them exactly in this order.
As another person stated, upon restart I did not see any flash of a command prompt and I sat at my computer for the entire process so as not to miss anything should it pop up.
I have been in Group B for years patching both my own Win 7 desktop (and my three Win 8.1 laptops and desktop) as well as my elderly parents two Win 7 computers.
On this page https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0708, it offers KB4499164 and KB4499175. Do we need to install both?
On W7 PC that checks the updates directly to Microsoft, it offered KB4499164 only. After installed KB4499164, every time I checked, never offered KB4499175 (but I could download from Catalog and installed manually).
However, in my WSUS, both KB shows as "Needed" for W7 PC.
Thoughts, experts? Thank you!
Many thanks PKCano for your reply.
Looked in the same location as KB4499175 and there is no pciclearstalecache in any of the folders.
Do you think I should download it again and put it in the same location as KB4499175 c:\Windows\SoftwardDistribution\Download or leave it as it won't execute?
It looks like MS released new updates on May 19 & 20 to deal with the uk.gov sites not working correctly (affects nearly all versions of Windows); unusual for MS to be releasing them on the weekend
And Microsoft has released even NEWER updates but only for the 1803 & 1809 versions of Windows 10 this Tuesday May 21.
KB4497934 for 1809 (build 17763.529):
KB4499183 for 1803 (build 17134.799):
Important quotes from those articles about these new updates:
Starting with update KB4497934, we are introducing functionality that allows you to decide when to install a feature update. You control when you get a feature update while simultaneously keeping your devices up to date. Feature updates that are available for eligible devices will appear in a separate module on the Windows Update page (Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update). If you would like to get an available update right away, select Download and install now.
Starting with update KB4499183, we are introducing functionality that allows you to decide when to install a feature update. You control when you get a feature update while simultaneously keeping your devices up to date. Feature updates that are available for eligible devices will appear in a separate module on the Windows Update page (Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update). If you would like to get an available update right away, select Download and install now.
Win 10 Pro x64. Upgraded from 1709 to 1803 from media offline, then reconnected and enabled WU service, applied SSU KB4497398 and May cumulative KB4499167 updates for 1803. Disabled Update Orchestrator scheduled tasks that were re-installed by 1803 upgrade. The 1803 upgrade also reinstalls Flash player as part of Edge package, removed Flash player via registry and DISM procedure. Ran WUSH utility, blocked KB4023057, then ran Check for Updates. KB4505064 HSTS fix was queued up although not presented by WUSH, acceptable. The 1809 upgrade was queued up even though it had not been presented by WUSH, apparently a forced upgrade installation — blocked it by turning off WU service and changing settings, restarted and then re-ran Check for Updates to get May's Office updates.
1803 feels somewhat more sluggish than 1709. Machine stable for 3 days on 1803.
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Followup: 1803 performance such as app loading seems improved, possibly because Prefetch has completed?
With 1803, HomeGroup is removed, and now Network (ex-"Network Neighborhood") again displays computers/shares on local net, a convenience for users. SMB was previously removed, so WS-Discovery and UPnP in 1803 (vs 1709 and earlier) are now functioning correctly to create the network browse list.
Many privacy setting need to be checked and reset in 1803.
Not wrong. But I prefer to see what kinds of problems kick up before somebody releases an attack into the wild.
UPDATE: Remember that MS17-010, the WannaCry patch, appeared six weeks before there was a credible WannaCry threat. I don't doubt that this will be exploited. But at this point I'm concerned that there may be gotchas, including the Krebbs report of having to install the patch twice.
Extended support POS-Ready XP just received it's last update in April 2019.
I don't know what it does but it also comes with the stand alone package for kb4499175 from the update catalog, so I don't think you actually have to download it separately.
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PK, I am a bit confused, this happens a lot to me :). I am in Group B and the last security only update I installed was the April 2019: KB 409310. I see the May Security only update in AKB2000003 but I don't see anything for the pciclearstalecache file. What am I missing? What should I do when I decide to install the May update? Could you kindly break this down a bit more? Thanks.
Wait, it hadn't to be run manually?
The instructions for it were always changing..
I executed it before and after installing the patch (I think it was 4099950).
Did I screw up something? O_o
(why isn't this simply included in the package btw?)
same here. i remember march 2018, me rolling back to december 2017 because of these problems in january through to march 2018 patches. i'm not gonna repeat that. so despite defcon 3 for windows 7, i stay put. i wait until there is malware exploiting this hole. btw. is my computer at risk in case of this new security hole, if i don't use remote desktop at all? remote desktop services startup type is set to manual, so it isn't even running…
PC: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64bit, Group B
Notebook: Windows 8.1, 64bit, Group B
I downloaded the Security Only patch for Win 7 yesterday from the MS Update Catalog, and the folder that landed on my desktop did indeed have the patch file AND the pciclearstalecache file in it.
I didn't check the Rollup patch to see if the pci… file is included with that download.
The bundling is taken care of by WU when you update the Rollup using it.
The instructions for installing it manually are above.
Ok. Must admit I'm bit confused and appreciate all your great insights and knowledge. If I understand this right, you can't confirm it (e.g. if that new pci file is installed) but as long as you download and install the May Win 7 Security only patch KB4499175 that patch will include this pci patch (inside the Win7 security only patch), so in reality you don't need to download the pci patch too? Thanks, PK. Apologies for the confusion.
Sorry, PK. Thanks for the patience. To better clarify, I had already downloaded those three files from your AKB2000003 webpage (which I have had bookmarked going back past few years- thanks to your great efforts), but only installed today both May's Win 7 security only and IE. Thus step 3 would be to install the PCI file that I've already downloaded?….this seems obvious, but appreciate you confirming this? Thanks very much. 🙂
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Please quote for me here what is says about the pciclearstalecache file in these instructions.
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Gosh.. fingers crossed. For now all looks normal.
Btw why couldn't we just run pciclearstalecache.exe manually?
That's what the patch does at the start, no?
(also, why doesn't it simply stop, if it cannot find the file?)
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Some interesting reading I've done today about the ZombieLoad/RIDL/Fallout/MDS situation — or maybe it's FUD temporarily? 😉
Some links in this post I made:
Win7 Pro x64 (Group B), Win10 Pro x64 1809, Linux Mint + a cat with 'tortitude'.
Windows 8.0, 8.1 & 10 not affected
Set the quality deferral to 0 if you want KB4494441 – it's only been 2 days and you're deferring it to 21.
weren't you the one who said a few weeks ago your X-FI card did not work with the KB4495667 update for v1809?
and now it works with the newest update like KB4494441?
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What's shown as "workaround" there is the cause, not a cure.
It's now listed as a known issue in May updates for Windows 7/8.1/10 (all versions).
Bleeping Computer seems to have the best summary, along with examples of a few county/town sites affected: Some GOV.UK Sites Unreachable Due to HSTS Changes in Windows Updates
(Includes a link to "not recommended" registry fixes for Windows 7 and 8.1, but not Windows 10.)
The issue only affects Internet Explorer and Edge (original) though, not other browsers including Edge (Chromium).
Knuckle dragger Cannon fodder Chump Daft glutton Idiot Sucker More intrepid Crazy/ignorant Toxic drinker Saluted blockhead"Unwashed mass" (Group ASAP) Win10 v.1903
Worst is the way that it forces HSTS on internal sites in the RFC1918 address ranges.
Nobody should have the right to dictate that https be used on all internal websites like this.
This caused us grief at work today. Fixing Linux boxes to support https is easy, but sorting out monsters like scarepoint is a nightmare.
Yes, if it is checked, install KB4499406 NET Framework update.
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Thank you for confirming that there is a change, and what others may look for, specifically, when the updating is successfully completed.
I remembered being able to look for a similar change, last year, but had difficulty bringing up the specific reference.
Those that do not see a change may not have downloaded both files and placed them in the same folder, thus not installing correctly.
The 'pci.sys' file is something that Everything search will find much quicker than the Windows Search, or trying to navigate to it, with Windows Explorer, from my experience.
I do wish that some others could confirm this date change, as well.
Win 7 Home, 64 bit, Group B
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In Los Angeles on February 23rd.
Event is will be held at the
Maravilla Handball Court 501 Mednik Ave Los Angeles, CA 90022
**There will also be a photo exhibit from the Purepecha Struggle for Autonomy and Self-Defense of their territories through out the region of Michoacan by Purepecha photographer Juan Jose Estrada Serafin.**
"Weapons Drugs and Slavery: Crime and Corruption in the US Political Economy"
"Weapons Drugs and Slavery: Crime and Corruption in the US Political Economy" is a new investigation into the US political economy, corporate globalization, illegal banking practices, and US militarism. Sedillo's presentation will facilitate a participatory discussion about crime and corruption in the US political economy and the effects of this on poor people everywhere. This presentation will identify the way in which several institutions and industries perpetrate society's worst crimes while systematically oppressing and criminalizing communities of color, indigenous communities, and poor people in general. The presentation will also discuss indigenous strategies for community liberation and will propose a three point plan for "Hood Liberation".
This presentation will be followed by a screening of the film:
"Guarda Bosques" (Forest Keepers) 45 min.
On April 15th 2011, when organized crime thugs teamed up with the logging industry and different government agencies to pillage precious and sacred forests at gun-point, the indigenous Purepecha community of Cheran, Michoacan, Mexico rose up with sticks, rocks, and bottle rockets against what can only be described as their local narco-government. Since then, they have taken the authorities offices, weapons, and pick-up trucks, ousted all political parties and all local and state police, and have re-established a traditional form of self-governance that includes its own council of elders, a community "police", known as a "ronda", and its own forest defense team, or forest keepers, known as the "Guarda Bosques."
Info on Simon Sedillo


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Waking Life is an endlessly fascinating film that rarely receives its due credit for exploring a new dimension in animation. Intellectual overload combined with trippy rotoscope animation made for an overwhelming theater experience that twice left me in a daze. Unlike I'm about to do, the Boston Globe's Jay Carr nailed it in a sentence: "Often surreal, Waking Life transcends boundaries of technology, imagination."
Totally. I saw it in the month of October (it was released in 10/19/01), but it's the perfect movie to get lost in on a hot summer night on a huge screen in the dark of your living room. Watch it late and see where your dreams end up taking you.
Written and directed by Richard Linklater (Slacker, Fast Food Nation), Waking Life was filmed in less than a month during July of 1999 in and around Austin, TX (talk about Texan pride, Linklater seems to film or set as many of his movies as he can there). If you're from Austin you'll probably recognize many of the faces and places in Waking Life, but the rest of us are likely only familiar with Wiley Wiggins, who made his film debut in Linklater's Dazed and Confused, and Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, both of whom also starred in Linklater's Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. Got all that?
Well it's nothing compared to the radical theories and concepts thrown at you over the course of the 99 minutes of Waking Life. The "story" is simple enough: In a series of lucid dreams (the idea of which is amazing to me), our nameless main character (Wiggins) meets a diverse group of people who spend their time pondering, among other things, the very meaning of life. Those of you with advanced degrees in theoretical physics or philosophy may find it laughably elementary. Fortunately for the rest of us, our main character mostly acts as you would expect, politely nodding his head with a puzzled face, trying his best to understand ideas that are way beyond the average person's grasp.
And this is where the main criticism of the film is targeted. Said Mike Clark in USA Today, "It's like being in a college bar and listening to your companion blathering on about the secrets of the world." Others described it as "boring," "endless," "pretentious," "bogged down," "pedantic," "psycho-babbly hooey", and maybe most interestingly, "little more than isolated--and not terribly fulfilling--masturbation."
Clearly, most of the critical critics don't have those advanced degrees I mentioned. Nor do I, of course, but as much as I couldn't immediately process half of what was being said, I actually found Waking Life more fascinating than frustrating - as if I was allowed to just think about how a Rubik's Cube is put together without actually having to solve it. Plus, who can't enjoy a good old rant (one of my favorite scenes) in between all of the philosophizing?
Despite accusations that it celebrates intellectual snobbery, I would argue that appreciating the content in Waking Life is less about intelligence and more about personality type. The "analyticals" who enjoyed those late night college conversations will dig it; the more "emotionals" looking for a fun story or character will despise it. In either case, there's another aspect of Waking Life that we can all enjoy: rotoscope animation.
If you haven't seen it, you've surely seen its byproduct: those idiotic Charles Schwab commercials. You know where your Schwab investment money is going? To pay for some clowns to unnecessarily rotoscope those people whining about their riches. Anyway, the method simply involves animating over frames of live action. This means, of course, that the entire film is shot on video before animators take over for a few months and draw over everything. The result is a third dimension where the physical laws of the universe are tossed out the window: your skin moves separately from your body and the whole world seems wobbly. Probably not recommended viewing for those with motion sickness.
While I was wowed enough by the visuals to keep watching (and the creative use of animation often illustrated the monologues), some critics were still unsatisfied. TV Guide's Frank Lovece found himself bored by "talking heads that no amount of colorfully animated, lava-lamp-like undulations can make less static." Come on, Frank, appreciate the art! Oh well, enough other people did, and Linklater would go on to film 2006's A Scanner Darkly in rotoscope as well, making it and Waking Life the only feature-length rotoscoped films ever made.
Waking Life went on to gross just $2 million at the box office before evidently disappearing from cinematic discourse. No doubt thanks to Roger Ebert's praise, the film was nominated in 2002 for no less than Best Picture by the Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA). Meanwhile, the Oscar nominees for the first ever Best Animated Feature film? Shrek (the winner), Monster's Inc., and, of course, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Where did I miss this snub in my list of the worst ever?
Speaking of snubs, Mulholland Drive (ironically, the CFCA's Best Picture winner) was coincidentally released in the U.S. on the exact same day as Waking Life. The latter could be almost be viewed as an animated version of the former, and the movies remain as two of the most mindblowing experiences I've ever had in a theater.
I can't guarantee you'll have the same experience watching Waking Life at home, but at the very least it should satisfy your summer craving for something more substantive than Disaster Movie.


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History of Marbury Hall and Parkland
Marbury Hall was demolished at the end of 1968.
This History of Marbury Hall and Parkland has been compiled by FoAM members Frances Findlay and Alan Redley. Information about the history of the Hall and the surrounding Parkland is frequently requested by visitors, so we have made more of our collected research material accessible here.
Frances Findlay, Chris Moseley, Nathan Rathbone and Alan Redley carried out the research, with help from local historian Geoff Buchan (who kindly agreed to use of material from his book 'BELMONT The House That Jack Built, 1996)'. FoAM member Clive Brookes has contributed research about the Second World War Years and Mary Jeeves has researched the gardens and arboretum at Marbury. Also, letters and articles in the Northwich Guardian have resulted in new information coming to light from its readers. Thank you to all those who have supplied information or helped in other ways.
Frances Findlay and Alan Redley.
The research material has been organised into sections:
Section 1 Families Associated with Marbury Hall
Section 2 Houses on the Marbury Hall Site
Section 3 Collections of Books, Art and Marbles Housed in Marbury Hall
Section 4 Marbury Hall Country Club
Section 5 Second World War Years
Section 6 ICI Ownership of Marbury Hall and Park
Section 7 Legends Associated with Marbury Hall and its Families
Section 8 Marbury Estate, Parkland and Arboretum
Section 9 Marbury Country Park
(Section 5 updated – June 2014)
(Sections 1 and 3 updated – August 2014)
(Section 2 updated – July 2015)
(New Section 8 added and Marbury Country Park renumbered Section 8 to Section 9 – July 2015)
(Section 8 updated August 2015)
32 Responses to "History of Marbury Hall and Parkland"
Hi my name is Denis Fletcher. I lived at no 124 East Park, Marbury from 1950 until 1964. My mothers name was Tess and my dad's name was George. My mum was very friendly with Mrs Campbell and I remember her daughter Pauline.
I have a lot of fond memories of living there and friends I used to play with were Brian McKee, Ivy Bennett, Elaine Templeman and Sidney Lightburn.
We had many happy times in the swimming pool.
My mum and dad moved to Liverpool in 1964 and I now live in Widnes.
hi just doing a bit of research my mother and father lived on the east park site number 167 just wondered if you could tell me if you can trace anything about them .ps think my father worked at ici i have a sister called margaret My dads name was James Michael landers and my mother was called Lilian .Thanks regards steve
I now live in Wilmslow but was brought up in Hartford.
My Dad worked for ICI and I well remember him taking my brother John and I
to swim in the outdoor pool at Marbury. We would pester to go there and
when we got there I would dither on the side, reluctant to get into the cold
I visited Marbury Country Park last Sunday and was saddened to learn that
the Hall had been demolished. How sad.
I remember well the legend of the Marbury Lady.
Your site is wonderful. I enjoyed reading the comments from people who had
lived in the huts.
I simply want to thank you for your excellent and detailed historical research, that allowed me to complete my work on Mattei family and their art collection in Rome. I found in the article of H. Hautecoer, "Le vente de la collection Mattei et les origines du Musée Pio-Clémentin, 1910 that Smith Barry (without any further specification of the name of the nobleman) purchased in 1776 some Marbles statues from Giuseppe Mattei, a XVIII century member of the noble Roman family and legal heir of Ciriaco Mattei, the founder of the collection of Villa Mattei-Celimontana in Rome. Thanks to your study I could improve my knowledge on Barry collection and on the important personage. Thanks again. Yours faithfully.
Giuseppe Biamonte
Hi my grandparents John and Ada Brookes lived on the estatmy grandfather was an ICI employee. I have very fond memories of running around the woodlands and estate. I wasn't allowed too close to the mere however I enjoyed the benefits of the outdoor pool and fountain. It would have been early to late 60's. I now live on the other side of the world in Australia but Marburg estate is always a place I visit when I return. And certainly in my "happy place" of memories. Thank you to the FOAM for providing this webpage and helping to keep my happy memories alive. Carron
Hi trying to get hold off a copy of this book,please can you help,thankyou Shaun
Very interesting. I was born in 1951 and my mum and dad lived in the hutments for a few years until we moved to Barnton in 1954 or 55. Don't know the address though but it was interesting to see the pictures of the hutments, hall and surrounding area. I wonder if I am one of the children in the Christmas photo?
I enjoyed the Sandbach History Society talk on Marbury Park.I lived at 111, East Park Marbury from November 1949 till I Maried Ken in Great Budworth Church in June 1964.I enjoyed the entertainment at the hall and my family were members of Marbury Swimming Club and enjoyed our visit this year.
Hi you Marbury hall lovers
My family were very lucky to have Marbury woods et hall
In our back garden as wwe lived close by in forest place at the end of,
Old Warrington rd.
We used to play in the woods which were numbered by us 1, 2,et 3.
And as children we were always on the lookout for the phantom Marbury
I still miss the long walks with our Nan Ethel Barton who would say to us
Do you fancy a walk round Marbury?
After walking from old Warrington rd through Marbury onto Comberbach then through Marston onto new Warrington rd. Phew!
It was always nice to stop halfway at Budworth pump for refreshments ie water!
However those were the good old days no video games, no TV et defiantly no computers, but I must admit that the PC does come in handy to recall quite easily otain information et pictures, pity we haven't as many pics of Marbury hall etc.
Hi, I've been reading your website recently, I was wondering if any of your members have any photo's of the isolation hospital at marbury off old Warrington rd,
It ws situated on winnington side of Heydons pool
Regards Joe
The road through to Northwich was called The Old Hole and the ice-cream was made by an Italian family called Bacegalupo, always shortened to Bacchys. The dancing school was run by Kitty OAKES
My great grandfather John Harrison worked on the estate in the 1930s when it was a country club. He was head groom. The gentry would visit for weekends etc enjoying riding, fishing, shooting and general relaxing. John made sure all the horses were ready and managed the stable lads that worked there. He would often sleep over the stalls in the hay ready for early starts. He told his son Vincent that he saw the Marbury Lady ! Quite a famous ghost in those parts and he was deadly serious. He was also a horse judge of hackney horses and hunters, very well respected too.
Does anyone know where I can view a catalogue of the books in the Marbury Hall collection please. I understand there was a catalogue made around 1819?
I lived in Northwich as a child and my mum taught dancing at Kitty Lakes dancing school where she taught some polish children that lived in Marbury hall.I remember mum taking me so see them and can remember how huge and the height of the rooms.It was (how I remember) a fabulous place.I also remember biking from Church Road with my boyfriend(now husband) to visit friends that lived in one of the huts and thinking how lovely they were inside.Many happy days spent in and around Marbury..it was our haunt as kids.I live on the isle of Anglesey,but when we visit friends it is lovely to look round all the old places……..happy days!
Memories…. I lived in Marbury Road, Anderton at the top of Marbury Hollows. I went to Winnington Park School and caught the bus with all the Marbury Park kids. I had friends who lived in both East and West Park, names that come to mind are Suzanne Lamb and Susan Bradley. Dad worked for ICI and every Summer I went to Marbury Baths. I was taught to swim there by a lady who taught swimming there for years (I can see her but can't remember her name). There after I would ride my bike to the baths after school in Summer. I remember the phone box. We didn't have a phone and I remember biking with my Dad to the phone box to make calls to his old army mates in Preston (when I was little, sitting on the cross bar of his bike). When he was on the phone I would play on the steps that in grander times would have led to the mere. I too remember the garden beds and the fountain near the baths. What a shame the hall was allowed to fall into disrepair. I left Anderton and Northwich when I was 18 and never lived there again. The past 30 odd years I have lived in Sydney, Australia bringing up two Aussie children who despite the distance appreciate their Cheshire roots. Years ago when I was in my 20's I was interviewed for a job by a guy who it turned out who had been a prisioner of war at Marbury, one of a number of interesting 6 degrees of separation moments I have had with Cheshire since being in Australia.
This has brought back so many memories for me and my family wish more people would print more memories.
We lived in number 8! Oooops! I've gone senile in me old age! Since the last note I've remembered other things about Marbury:
1. The bus service was rubbish – about 3 buses a day is all we got!
2. The huge conker tree in the field directly opposite Woodcock's farm entrance. I can't remember how much time we spent chucking sticks up that tree to knock the conkers off the branches!
3. Marbury Hall snooker room! We used to sneak in through the open windows in the summer – but we hadn't a clue how to make the snooker table lights come on…..we played snooker in the dark for about years!
4. I was the BEST paper boy in all of Comberbach and Marbury from 1965 to 1968! I got up to collect the papers from Wyatt's paper shop in Comberbach at 6am every morning, including Sundays. I got 15 shillings a week wages!I went to school after I'd completed my morning paper round.
5. "Three Trees"! Pete will remember – we played football nearly all the time on a patch of ground directly between the telephone box and Marbury Hall. We called it "Three Trees" – it was always better than playing on the football pitch over at East Park.
6. "The Old Dole" – is how me mam used to call the road that went from Marbury, through to Barber's Garage at the top end of Witton Street in Northwich. (Why it's called the 'Old Dole' I don't know – maybe I've got the spelling wrong, but I'm sure that's what me mam always named it) I biked up and down that road for 2 years going to Sir John Deane's Grammar School.
5. Bill Gardener! Bill was an ICI employee, and actually also the gardener who tended all the lawns and gardens around Marbury Hall. He made a beautiful job of it always. I loved the smell of new-mown grass when Bill had been round with his lawn-mowers.
6. The Marbury Shop: We got fed up of going for stuff and finding they had sold out or were waiting for delivery of something.
7. Batchey's the Ice Cream Man! Not very good by modern-day standards, but his 'Dragon's Blood' on an ice-cream cornet was me favourite!
Ayup Steve,
Typical , you old bugger – we lived at number 8 , the Fletcher's lived at number 7 ! 😉
No mention of scrumping in the orchard – we had a few visits from the local bobby about that!
Thanks again team – fine effort.
Hi. Thanks for the info – really great to see the pictures and info from all those years ago. We grew up in Marbury – we lived in No7 West Park. Next door to the Perkins family. My brother Pete and I travelled to Winnington Park Primary school each day, until we left Marbury in 1966, and relocated to Weaverham.
Another highlight for us was every Thursday night for the 1st Marbury Cubs and Scouts – which Tom Holland and David Ikin ran for many years.
It has also to be said that Bonfire night at Marbury was THE event of the year for us kids! We kept a bonfire burning for 4 days after November the 5th!
The water temperature of Marbury Pool on May 1st was, typically, 52 degrees! Bloody freezing! I think the warmest we ever experienced it was 74 degrees one summer! But…great great days…and a very happy childhood. We had nowt compared to kids these days – but we REALLY enjoyed what we had! Thanks again for the website!
This takes me back !! I was brought up in Marbury (born 1954) and we were one of the last families to leave in 1966. Many happy days there and THE perfect place for kids to grow up – simply wonderful. All the rest of the family still live in close proximity to Marbury , but alas, I now live in Cape Town , South Africa. I was on holiday in Cheshire last year and spent a lovely day in Marbury Country Park – so many memories.
Thanks for a wonderful website – I'm sure there are many others out there who enjoyed visiting it as much as I did.
Thanks again,
Pete Roberts
I have followed a trail back to the Park and 66 West Park where my grandparents Edward and Kathleen Sharp + family Nora and Joan.
I anyone has more on this family or knew them. It would be great to find out more.
Clifford Brian Sharp
Wonderful, I was born at 107 East Park in Marbury and I have spotted a picture with me in it. Love a copy it that were possible.
Thank you for your efforts brought a lot of joy.
Wonderful to see all the things i remember, from the gate house by the canal with its lovely rhodedendrons, the hall, the huts and the pool. We used the pool a lot when i was young, there was a sweet shop in one of the huts that we went to before riding our bikes home. I am so so pleased to see the statue in the courtyard, i thought everyone had forgotted about him! In 1968 i was inside the hall with a group of school friends, it must have been in the summer just before it was demolished the caretaker took us around, the stair case was magnificant to a youngster. I wish it had not been demolised it is such a shame.
I was 16 when I went to live at 107 East park……May I say that your photo's and print are exceptional most enjoyable to see face that I remember….plus My Mother, My auntie, My father-in-law and my baby sister JEAN SAVAGE, I have a few snaps if you would like them an E'Mail would help
Very interesting and informative, good work.
wonderful to see all the pictures takes me back .
Great piece of work, well done to everyone involved.
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This probably would have happened if I hadn't run into an interesting guy one day at a local St. John watering hole known as Woody's. It was here that I met Joe, and ended up riding the ferry back to St. Thomas with him and ending the night on a friendly handshake (Joe played it cool). We fell in love pretty quickly, got a dog, got hitched and started two business's with one of them being this charter company.
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2019 Grant Awarded by the Minnesota State Arts Board
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Minnesota will work with artist Laurie Phillips and Suicide Survivor's Club to offer art narrative workshops for people who've lost a loved one to suicide.
We're honored to team up with NAMI Minnesota for this grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. We'll let you know how the workshops are going throughout the year.
–Rebecca Anderson and Laurie Phillips
A family healing from suicide — told by a mother and her three children with fresh, poignant art
– Rebecca Anderson and Laurie Phillips
Rebecca and Laurie are available to speak to your group about using art and storytelling to heal from grief surrounding the suicide of a loved one. Please contact Rebecca for information about scheduling a presentation or ordering book sets in volume.
"These beautiful books are small pieces of art with narrative that express the different experiences and relationships to the same tragic event. They validate the feelings of loss survivors of all ages and also show how art can help heal. As a loss survivor myself, I thank you for thoughtfully and courageously telling your stories in ways that will be enlightening for those who have not had the experience, and bring comfort to those who have."
- Donna Fox, Director of Adult Programs and Suicide Prevention, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) MN
Suicide Survivors' Club book set was awarded a 2016 Midwest Book Award (first place) in the Autobiography/Memoir category. Books were submitted from the 12-state region. Awards were presented by the Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA) at their 27th annual awards gala on May 12, 2017. (left to right) Will Anderson, Laurie Phillips, Rebecca Anderson, Louise Woehrle, Shannon Cogbill, Aidan Anderson, and Jon Spayde.
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Randy steps forward with a solution to fix the desperate financial state everyone finds themselves in. The town gets behind him and everyone starts to live a life that no longer depends on any economy at all. Meanwhile, an unlikely savior makes the ultimate sacrifice to solve everyone's problems.
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Excerpts of selected speeches, interviews and debates delivered by the last president (but one) not to speak from note cards or in sound bites; packaged with an audio CD.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, avow presidential historian Dallek (Flawed Giant, 1998) and New York Observer columnist Golway (Washington's General, 2005), "spoke in literate paragraphs, and his speeches were filled with references to history and literature that have all but disappeared from American political discourse." Indeed, Ronald Reagan borrowed the "city on a hill" trope, unacknowledged, from Kennedy, who took it from the early American Protestant religious dissenter John Winthrop; it always sounded a little foreign on Reagan's lips, but Kennedy—though, famously, the first and only Catholic president—naturally took to the rhetoric of Boston's Brahmins. Dallek and Golway, for their part, acknowledge that Kennedy had speechwriters aplenty, notably the brilliant Theodore Sorensen, who wrote much of Kennedy's Profiles in Courage; regrettably, they do not go on to distinguish which of his aides concocted which New Frontier theme. The help notwithstanding, Kennedy did his homework, was smart and hardworking and gave a resounding speech. As Dallek and Golway remark on the best of his public utterances, they offer illuminations and remember little-known episodes. The third presidential debate with Richard Nixon featured Nixon tsk-tsking Harry Truman for using words like "hell" and "damn," saying that he'd never allow such language in his White House. (The irony, the irony.) The debates were followed by the narrowest election in history, they note, but not so narrow as Nixon protested; even if Nixon had won the supposedly rigged Illinois vote, Kennedy would have carried the Electoral College. And Kennedy berated himself over the Bay of Pigs disaster, which only seemed to increase the esteem his compatriots felt: "It's like Eisenhower," he said. "The worse I do, the more popular I get."
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All Star Benefit For Boston Marathon Bombing Victims
Boston musicians and a few special guests came together Thursday night in the city's TD Garden arena for Boston Strong, a benefit concert for One Fund Boston, the fund established to benefit the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.
Boston's own Boston kicked off the night with "Rock & Roll Band" followed by "Smokin'," "More Than a Feeling" and "Foreplay / Long Time." Singer Tommy DeCarlo told the sold-out crowd, "Tonight, we are all Boston."
Among those who followed them were The J. Geils Band, Dropkick Murphys, New Kids on the Block with special guest Boys II Men; country singer Jason Aldean; and comedians Steven Wright and Dane Cook.
Also performing was James Taylor with Carole King, who did an eight-song set that included "You've Got a Friend," which was followed by Jimmy Buffett joining Taylor on "Mexico" before he did a set of his own.
Aerosmith closed out the five-hour-plus show with a seven-song set that included "Train Kept A-Rollin'," "Sweet Emotion," The Beatles' "Come Together" and Boston's unofficial anthem, a cover of The Standells' "Dirty Water." Tyler said, "Boston got its heart broken a couple months ago, something real bad, but if they think they can keep us down, they can dream on"


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As real estate prices skyrocket and renting out a house in the city gets increasingly difficult, many tenants are opting for illegal structures that are comparatively cheaper. Monday's incident at Teynampet, where a three-storey residential building on Bhaktavachalam Street tilted, once again exposed the risk of illegal buildings in the city. Taking no chances, Corporation of Chennai has decided to demolish the structure.
"We started the demolition on Monday night and will finish by Tuesday night," said an engineer. "The building is precariously resting on another structure. To ensure that there is no chain reaction, we are going very slowly ." The engineer said the adjoining building could also be demolished. "We are assessing the threat the neighbouring building poses. It looks it will be taken down too," he said.
As the demolition process went on, the authorities did not allow the building's occupants to retrieve their personal belongings. "We have things worth some 5 lakh inside the house including TV , fridge, washing machines and cash. We were not allowed to go inside and get them," said V Priya, the resident and wife the ill-fated building's owner. "We don't know what is next. But we are expecting some compensation.
We spent "35 lakh to build the house," she said. However, corporation officials ruled out any such possibility . "If the house got damaged in a natural calamity then the tahsildar would have given some relief from the chief minister's fund.But this is man-made," said an official. When asked if there will be a fresh audit of illegal buildings in the city , he said, "We do it on a routine basis. Senior officials will have to decide if there is going to be a special drive."
It is believed that Chennai has thousands of illegal buildings where owners have deviated from approved plans and added floors or increased the built-up space thereby compromising the building's structural integrity and safety.Ideally, junior engineers in each ward have to report such violations and issue notices to the owners. But sources say most of the field staff rarely check violations because of additional responsibilities and political interference.
Some assistant engineers say their workload is too heavy . "I have to accompany the councillor everywhere and follow his orders. We also have to attend to civic complaints and follow-up on petitions received through the complaint cell. Some of us also carry out duties of other wards because of staff shortage," said an engineer.


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While I was home resting my ailing wrist (see previous post) I saw that Barefoot Contessa was on the Food Network.
I don't know about you, but I love her- her recipes always incorporate basic foods and are pretty simple, yet delicious and chic!
Plus, I love her Hampton's home and kitchen!
Today she was making tomato and goat cheese tarts. I love tomatoes and drool over goat cheese, so I instantly hooked. And believe it or not, the recipe was totally easy! I plan on making these very soon!
Don't they look amazingly delicious!? You can find the recipe here at her website.