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A Rays celebration at St. Pete Beach's TradeWinds Island Resort attracted thousands of people late today.
In addition to music, food and family activities, the event featured a giant sand sculpture featuring the "We Are One" Rays logo. Meredith Corson, (right in photo above) co-owner of Sanding Ovations, said about 50 man hours went into the sculpture, which celebrated the Tampa Bay Rays season.
Although musician Robin Zander of Cheap Trick didn't make it because of a family matter, other scheduled entertainers such as Blue Oyster Cult lead singer Buck Dharma were there.
At 6 p.m., there was still hope that Rays player Jonny Gomes would make an appearance. Also, fireworks are scheduled to go off around 9 p.m.
Deb White and her husband Greg McDonald, both of Tierra Verde, cheer during the beach bash. [CHRIS ZUPPA | Times] Framed by a rainbow that formed because of a light drizzle,Tyler McCann, 14, of Treasure Island, tosses the baseball at the beach bash. McCann grew up watching the Rays' many losses. Now he's enjoying the winning season. "It's awesome man," he said. "I love the Rays." [CHRIS ZUPPA | Times]


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Classic Cookie Recipes the Kids will Love
In a complicated, busy world, it's nice to know that some simple pleasures never change. Fresh-baked cookies are a perfect example. In an afternoon, you can whip up a batch of your favorites, serve them with a tall glass of cold milk, and — voilà! — life suddenly gets a little bit sweeter. Indeed, milk and cookies have an almost magical ability to turn cranky, tired kids, just home from school, into happy little people.
In addition to their uncanny mood-altering powers, homemade cookies are a great way to showcase your creativity. Here are some of our favorite classic recipes, such as oatmeal raisin, chocolate chip, peanut butter, and snickerdoodle, but once you've got the recipe down, you can tweak them to your own preferences.
Do you like walnuts in your chocolate chip cookies? Add 'em! Or how about trying golden raisins in your oatmeal raisin cookies? With a little experimentation, you're on your way to "inventing" your own secret recipe to be passed down to the next generation. But even if you stick closely to the recipe as is, we guarantee that these cookies will become family favorites. If only everything were so easy!
Check out this great recipe for no-bake peanut butter oat cookies!
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text: Personal Growth Fear Is Your Friend: Deconstruct It And Achieve Anything Estimated reading time: 1 minute FinerMinds Team — November 5, 2014 Okay, so if you haven't heard of Tim Ferriss – you should know that this guy is a bit of a champion when it comes to breaking barriers and achieving pretty much anything, and this video should prove that you can, too. In this impressive 16-minute TED Talk, the much acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, explains how he conquered his fear of swimming… at the ripe age of 31. In his talk he also reveals his secret behind mastering close to a dozen languages (despite once believing he was "useless" at them), and even how he become a world champion tango dancer. A bit of an overachiever? Perhaps. But it just goes to show that when you deconstruct your fears, anything is possible. We love Tim's work because of how he applies logic to achieving anything – making his approach an inspiration to anyone looking to conquer a fear, or become a master at a new skill. What are your thoughts on his talk? Tags: achievementappreciationbecoming just awesomecareerconsciousnesseducationgratitudeHappinesshow to be happyinspirationalinspiringmind powermotivatingmotivationalpersonal growthproductivityself-esteemsuccesswealthwealth creation


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Thomas Magnum is employed on the Hawaiian estate of a wealthy absentee owner named Robin Masters. The estate is run by Jonathan Higgins, who mostly tolerates Magnum's presence as head of security on the estate. Magnum is also a private detective whose cases frequently have a humorous overtone and always just enough danger.


text: Jeff Whitaker wrote: > gcc 4.0.1 doesn't like nested functions on MacOS X. There are enough things that gcc 4 doesn't like that I always recommend OS X 10.4 users to use gcc 3.3 when building scipy. Or anything else, really. Use this command to switch: $ sudo gcc_select 3.3 -- Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter


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The Original And Only Horlick's Malted Milk
The front reads, "That's Meat and Drink to Me - Shakespeare." Below the title and Shakespeare quote is an illustration of a pastoral scene with a young woman guiding a cow and holding a container of Horlick's Malted Milk. The back reads, "Horlick's Malted Milk for Infants, Invalids, Convalescents, Travelers, Business and Professional Men, and for General Table Use." The back has illustrations of the Horlick's facilities labeled, "Our Dairies, Laboratories, and Factories as Racine, Wis., U.S.A." The lower left has illustrations of the three sizes available with the price below.View this piece: jpg pdf
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Horlicks Malted Milk
Publisher: Horlick's Malted Milk Co. (Racine, Wis. ; England ; Montreal, Canada)
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Citation: The Original And Only Horlick's Malted Milk. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=1477


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ORLANDO, Fla. (UCFKnights.com) – Jaws continue to drop when viewers catch a glimpse of J.J. Worton's crucial one-handed touchdown catch at Temple Nov. 16. It also caught the eye of The ESPN Sport Science Newton Awards, which has selected Worton as a nominee for "Best Catch."
Worton will travel to Los Angeles Friday-Sunday for the first edition of the awards show, "named in honor of science's first MVP Sir Isaac Newton." It will take place at the ESPN Sport Science set Saturday, premiere on ESPN Feb. 16 at 5 p.m. and air on ABC Feb. 22 as well.
Winners will be judged based on unprecedented scientific analysis of thousands of moments, plays and performances from the world of sports during 2013. The findings of the extensive process will result in custom-made trophies awarded in a broad variety of categories such as "Outstanding Agility" and "Best Projectile Launch."
Hosted by John Brenkus, ESPN Sport Science brings viewers amazing insights into athletic performance from a scientific viewpoint. Currently in its seventh year of production, the innovative approach of ESPN Sport Science has made it one of the company's most decorated properties in recent years, garnering a total of six Emmys. ESPN Sport Science is produced by ESPN and BASE Productions.
With No. 15 UCF trailing Temple, 36-29, and less than two minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Blake Bortles scrambled to his left and found Worton escaping behind the defense. The pass appeared to be overthrown, until the Homestead, Fla., native laid out and brought in the pigskin with his right hand, barely falling in bounds in the process for the 30-yard touchdown catch. It would be Worton's 10th catch of the day as he had 179 yards and three touchdowns vs. the Owls.
Now tied at 36-36, the UCF defense halted Temple's next drive in quick fashion. The Black and Gold got the ball back with 19 seconds left as Bortles connected with Rannell Hall on a 64-yard strike, setting up Shawn Moffitt's game-winning 23-yard field goal as time expired. UCF improved to 8-1 overall and 5-0 in the American Athletic Conference, as it was on its way to winning the league title and the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, while also finishing 2013 ranked No. 10 in the country with a 12-1 record.
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The Top 4 Reasons You Should Be Excited For Dragon's Maze
With the release of the latest Magic: The Gathering set, Dragon's Maze, just around the corner, it seemed the perfect time to get my nerdgasm on. There are a tonne of reasons to get excited for the newest series of Magic: The Gathering trading cards, but here are just a few of the features that have me eager to rip open as many boosters as possible:
All Guilds Are Represented!
As the emphasis of the lore itself is placed on a competition between each of the already established Magic: The Gathering guilds, each and every one is represented. This means that no matter your preference, you're going to be catered for.
A path that treads all 10 guild gates in order to find and activate an energy source of immense power which is enough to subjugate and control all of the guilds. The Izzet propose a challenge in which each guild selects a champion in order to navigate and conquer the maze and subsequently the other guilds, while each Champion will have to traverse the maze they will have to deal with each other guild's attempts to halt their advance.
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Split Cards!
Dragon's Maze sees the release of split cards, which are essentially two cards condensed into one. Yes. split cards have been present in previous releases, but the new mechanic, 'Fuse', allows for the following: you may play one or the other, or both if you so choose, keeping in mind that to take advantage of each ability on a split card is generally quite expensive in terms of mana expenditure.
This is a seemingly small touch that offers a whole lot of new strategy.
This coupled with the fact that Dragon's Maze takes incorporates all the guild-specific mechanics introduced in Return to Ravnica and Gatecrash, means that tactical options are at an impressive high point.
Release Events!
Chances are a game store near you will be hosting pre-release and release events for Dragon's Maze. This is a great opportunity to get in quick and take advantage of the special offers many places will have on offer.
Personally, I will be taking part in a two-headed giant (2v2) tournament at the cost of $40 AUD, which will allow me to choose a guild, and make a 40 card deck out of various booster packs. All cards obtained this way, I will be allowed to keep. Winners of each round will receive 2 booster packs, and any draws payout 1 booster pack.
Cards acquired this way are preferential, based on which guild or colors you choose to go with, removing a lot of the restrictions that would come with say, having a tournament using starter packs.
Events like this shouldn't be hard to find in your area, and are a fantastic way to get a substantial, not to mention quite a personal, head-start.
Open the Gates!
Dragon's Maze boosters will not contain standard land cards, and will instead focus on providing players with Guildgates. There is a strong emphasis on multicolored cards in Dragon's Maze, and this reinforces that fact.
Besides, anyone who already plays Magic: The Gathering will undoubtedly already own more than enough single-color lands, and will welcome this variety to their collection wholeheartedly.
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Allow me to boil a solid decade down to a couple sentences. Around the time of the UK's late '70s and early '80s DIY post-punk movement, where the likes of Josef K, Orange Juice, and Joy Division solidified the underground as a source or relevance and modest commercial success outside of the major labels, the US was forming their own RIAA-raiding Trojan horse. Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, the Misfits, and their cohorts launched the American hardcore movement in the shadow of the Ramones, while the likes of Sonic Youth, the Butthole Surfers, and Big Black kindled "alternative rock" in preparation for Nirvana to forever change the meaning of the term (followed up by a sleight of flimsy, same-sounding Nickelhack bands after Kurt's demise, but pop will eat itself, they say). Like so many innovators, California's Camper Van Beethoven didn't really operate within a scene, per se, but their addition to what would become the modern running definition of "indie rock" cannot be understated. Actually, I suppose it has been understated, hence the tone of this opening paragraph. Upon further investigation, I'm sure you'd agree that such oversight is due for change.
While the '80s Billboard charts were smeared with synth-pop and hair metal, Camper Van Beethoven walked an utterly unique path through the fields of ska, punk, psychedelia, Eastern European folk, and country overlaid with often absurdist lyrics in a Frank Zappa vein. They immediately became college radio mainstays on the back of minor hits like "Good Guys & Bad Girls" and "Take the Skinheads Bowling", a song revived and sent spinning in high rotation after a Teenage Fanclub cover made the soundtrack to Michael Moore's weapons sensibility-themed opinion piece Bowling for Columbine. Especially with their first three self-released records in the mid-'80s, CVB helped deflect underground currents from the new wave towards much older influences without sounding yearningly, anachronistically nostalgic. Laying their influences on out in the open, Camper Van Beethoven's quiet revolution helped pave the way for the likes of Neutral Milk Hotel and Arcade Fire to enjoy their sweeping success.
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Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty
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US: 24 Jun 2008
UK: 23 Jun 2008
In part a celebration of their 25th anniversary, Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty is the first career retrospective enjoyed by the band. It's not really for fans, though. Unlike just about every major label artist for the past decade, this compilation is not padded with a couple of superfluous new songs to screw over completists. That essentially renders the fact that five songs from the band's two Virgin records had to be re-recorded for this release a moot point of possible note. With the original line-up reunited, these re-recordings were undertaken with such painstaking accuracy that they are virtually identical, with slightly glossier production and the more mature voice of power animal David Lowery being your only clues. Plus, when you think about it, retaining the publishing rights for the Virgin material and re-releasing it with Cooking Vinyl reclaims it as born-again indie, while thankfully cutting off Virgin's gravy train. Integrity? They've got some to spare.
"Opie Rides Again/Club Med Sucks" will immediately impress those new to the Camper Van Beethoven experience. Being dragged through a pokey country intro to then land on a dissonant, guitar-heavy post-rock groove, and finally a ripping punk chorus with the line "Club Med sucks / Authority sucks / I hate golf" creates a lasting impression. Underneath the violin of Jonathan Segal, which eventually takes the role of lead vocal, "ZZ Top Goes to Egypt" is a '70s hard rock jam with a faint outro similar to the intro for Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady". Those two are both instant pleasers.
The re-recorded "When I Win the Lottery" still rings true, with a bittersweet Charlie Daniels Band vibe supporting musings of hope from an unsavory character. His dreams are a mix of ego and charity, toeing the line aptly enough to make him likable. Also re-recorded, their cover of Status Quo's "Pictures of Matchstick Men" still counts as one of their finest moments, while clearly betraying their psychedelic infatuation. Unless you listen to them back to back with the Virgin versions, it's doubtful you'd notice or care about any sonic differences.
With selections grabbed from across their early career from 1985-1989, Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty is about the best introduction to these Californians you could ask for. Sweetening the pot, the fact that they've managed to cut out the RIAA altogether asserts their commitment to true independent music in spirit and practice. I'm sure you'll find it as shocking as I do that Camper Van Beethoven never got the respect granted to the likes of Sonic Youth. Most fans will already have the essential Santa Cruz Years box set, and probably the two majors, if not their 2004 return and the 2002 cover album of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. For those beyond mixtapes—and, since The New York Times already marked the passing of the audiocassette, there are many—now is the time to stocking-stuffer these magnificent bastards to the notoriety they deserve. History is what we make of it today.
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Get an overview of this hotel4-star Porto hotel in Bonfim, near Sandeman Cellars
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Popular property highlights
Located in Bonfim, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Almas Chapel and Porto Cathedral. Sandeman Cellars and Museum of Port Wine are also within 2 mi (3 km).
Hotel Features
Along with a restaurant, this hotel has an indoor pool and a health club. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include a bar/lounge, a sauna, and self parking.
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All 292 rooms offer free WiFi, minibars, and LCD TVs with cable channels. Guests will also find room service, hair dryers, and desks.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to an indoor pool, Vila Galé Porto provides a health club and a sauna. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measure 366 square feet (34 square meters). This business-friendly hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and laundry facilities. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
- Indoor pool
- Sauna
- Bar/lounge
- Restaurant
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Meeting rooms 13
- 24-hour front desk
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 292
- Number of floors - 18
- Laundry facilities
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Health club
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Luggage storage
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Conference space size (meters) - 34
- Number of meeting rooms - 13
- Conference space size (feet) - 366
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Steam room
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Minibar
- Hair dryer
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Bidet
- Shower/tub combination
- In-room safe (surcharge)
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Room service (limited hours)
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 10:30 AM.
Vila Galé Porto has a restaurant serving breakfast only.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool, a health club, and a sauna.
Children under 16 years old are not allowed in the fitness facility or spa tub without adult supervision. Guests under 16 years old are not allowed in the fitness facility or spa tub.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! One child 12 years old or younger stays free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EUR 35
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per child: EUR 17.50 (from 4 to 12 years old)
- Christmas Day (25 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EUR 35.00
- Christmas Day (25 December) Gala Dinner per child: EUR 17.50 (from 4 to 12 years old)
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EUR 140
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per child: EUR 70.00 (from 5 to 12 years old)
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 10 for adults and EUR 0.00 for children (approximately)
- Self parking fee: EUR 7.50 per day
- In-room safe fee: EUR 2.50 per night
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- Porto Vila
- Porto Vila Galé
- Vila Gale Hotel Porto
- Vila Galé Hotel Porto
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- Vila Porto
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Power consumption and efficiency
We're trying something a little different with power consumption. Our Extech 380803 power meter has the ability to log data, so we can capture power use over a span of time. The meter reads power use at the wall socket, so it incorporates power use from the entire systemthe CPU, motherboard, memory, video card, hard drives, and anything else plugged into the power supply unit. (We plugged the computer monitor and speakers into a separate outlet, though.) We measured how each of our test systems used power during a roughly one-minute period, during which time we executed Cinebench's multithreaded rendering test. All of the systems had their power management features (such as SpeedStep and Cool'n'Quiet) enabled during these tests.
You'll notice that I've not included the Athlon 64 FX-72 here. That's because our "simulated" FX-72 CPUs are underclocked versions of faster processors, and we've not been able to get Cool'n'Quiet power-saving tech to work when CPU multiplier control is in use. I have included test results for genuine Athlon 64 X2 4400+ and 5600+ chips, as promised in our last CPU roundup.
I have included our simulated Core 2 Duo E6600 and E6700, because SpeedStep works fine on the D975XBX2 motherboard alongside underclocking. The simulated processors' voltage may not be exactly the same as what you'd find on many retail E6600s and E6700s. However, voltage and power use can vary from one chip to the next, since Intel sets voltage individually on each chip at the factory.
Next, we can look at peak power draw by taking an average from the five-second span from 10 to 15 seconds into our test period, during which the processors were rendering.
Another way to gauge power efficiency is to look at total energy use over our time span. This method takes into account power use both during the render and during the idle time. We can express the result in terms of watt-seconds, also known as joules.
We can quantify efficiency even better by considering the amount of energy used to render the scene. Since the different systems completed the render at different speeds, we've isolated the render period for each system. We've chosen to identify the end of the render as the point where power use begins to drop from its steady peak. There seems to be some disk paging going on after that, but we don't want to include that more variable activity in our render period.
We've computed the amount of energy used by each system to render the scene. This method should account for both power use and, to some degree, performance, because shorter render times may lead to less energy consumption.
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|Radeon 17.9.2 drivers put the pedal to the metal for Project Cars 2
|ROG Strix X299-XE Gaming motherboard is rather groovy
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A well-known burglary ploy has landed two teenagers in trouble, police said.
"Knocking on the front door of a residence to see if anyone is home is a well known burglary tactic," said Cmdr. Ray Reyna Jr. "Residents can protect themselves by installing burglar alarms and developing a neighborhood watch program."
The Los Banos Police Department responded to the 500 block of North Santa Venetia Street regarding a residential burglary at 8:14 a.m. Saturday. Officers spoke with a 46-year-old resident who reported hearing his doorbell ring several times shortly after his wife left for work. The victim told police he heard a loud noise downstairs and encountered his neighbor and another teenager, authorities said.
Police said the teens saw the victim, ran from the house and jumped over a fence.
Officers interviewed Nathan Tyler Grimm next door at his residence and found Ray Kerns hiding inside a bedroom, police said. Officers reportedly located stolen property from the victim's residence and prescription drugs that were not prescribed to either suspect, police said.
Grimm and Kerns, both 19, were placed under arrest on suspicion of residential burglary. Grimm is also facing a charge of possession of stolen property. They are being held at the John Latorraca Correctional Facility. Kerns' bail is set at $75,000 and Grimm's bail is $95,000.
Police said the pair were subsequently linked to three other burglaries. The first was a reported on March 29 in the 2100 block of Racquet Club Drive, the second was April 11 in the 2000 block of Berkeley Drive, and the third was reported on May 28, in the 1000 block of Washington Avenue.
"Our patrol officers did an outstanding job catching two men who appear to have been breaking into homes. We are looking into other break-ins to see if these suspects may have been involved," Reyna said.


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Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart really reunited, huh?
While all we had to go on was a dubious report in the U.K.'s Sun, it does indeed seem true that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson have made amends and gotten back together. How do we know this? Because People says so, and we all know you can trust the American media, that's why.
The magazine says Robsten met up the weekend of Sept. 15 (that's last weekend, for those of you who can't recall) and have all but made it official. Their friends all "think they'll be a couple again," according to one such unnamed acquaintance. Another person offers the caveat that this is "easier said than done ... and clearly harder than expected."
What the heck is that supposed to mean? That's the way you'd describe cleaning the entire house before your mother-in-law arrives for a weekend visit, not the way you'd put a relationship back together. If Robsten's friends knew anything at all, they'd describe as "a disaster waiting to happen, and a clear sign that Robert doesn't respect himself or Kristen." We'd then add, "Thank goodness it's all just for the Breaking Dawn Part 2 publicity tour."
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Uncle Seth and podcasts: Putting marketing back into musicians' control
Here's an interesting case study which will appear in my book The New Rules of Marketing and PR.
Music is a classic example of a long tail business. Prior to the Web, bands that didn't have a major label behind them couldn't hope to get national or global attention. The best they could do was establish a local audience in a city or region or perhaps with a definable market such as North Eastern US college students. Enter podcasting. Anybody with some simple and easy-to-use equipment can set themselves up as a radio station and get instant global distribution via iTunes and other distribution services.
"Podcasters are a different breed, they're like you and me," says Jay Moonah, musician and songwriter of the Toronto band Uncle Seth. "With TV and commercial radio and MTV-type people, they work and talk from on high. Podcasting is different. It's neat that we've made fans out of some of these podcasters, such as George Smyth of Eclectic Mix. It's fun when they play our music, and then if I email them it is great to start a conversation." Moonah says that the Indie bands like Uncle Seth that take the lead with podcasting have benefited greatly through wider distribution which generates new fans.
Editorial note to music fans: The new Uncle Seth single, an upbeat cover of Joni Mitchell's classic song Both Sides, Now (available at iTunes) is killer.
Besides working with other podcasters, Moonah and Uncle Seth also host their own podcast. In each episode the band debates, discusses wacky topics, and plays exclusive tracks of their music not available anywhere else. "The interesting thing about the show is that we made a conscious effort not to make it just the music," Moonah says. "We wanted to get some of our personality into it. So we went the direction of doing things like talking for an entire show about the first records we ever bought."
"Within the last year or so, podcasting has become a real part of the social networking thing," Moonah says. "From a technical aspect, you could do podcasting a long time ago. But for us, the social aspect is really neat, bands and other organizations combine the music and the community and mix them together. For example there a community of Canadian Jam bands where we've met a lot of friends. Like other online communities it has a real world community associated with it."
As Moonah has honed his expertise with podcasting and musician web sites, he's developed a side business working with bands labels and other musicians on podcasting strategy. "Especially in Canada it's difficult making a living as a musician," he says. "My thing of combining the businesses into a big circle of music and consulting and podcasting really works well for me."
"I like people to understand that podcasting has so many uses," Moonah says. "It is a legitimate thing, not a toy for kids. So the advice I have for managers and label people is to not jump into your own podcast until you listen to other podcasts. Find podcasts that you like and you think might play you and submit your music to them to get going. Then think about what you want to do if you want to make your own podcast. The people who make it work are those who understand it. As a band you can compete with radio via podcasts because you can get onto several podcasts and then people will hear you several times, just like a radio rotation."
Yes, podcasting works for the music business. But it is also effective for many other industries. How about yours?
Hey David, thanks for this post. It was great to talk you on this topic.
FYI this morning we issued a press release aimed mainly at the local Toronto media about our upcoming appearance at PodCamp (http://podcamp.com/) on Sept. 9 & 10:
Just another great example of how musicians can interact with podcasters and listeners directly. It's going to be great fun!
Thanks again, and REALLY looking forward to the book!
Hey there. I had a chance to check out your blog and was interesting.. You should checkl ouit this band called SOMA. There from Toronto Canada. They are coming out with a new record this mounth you will get all there info at www.somamusic or www.myspace.com/somamusic MAN I saw this band SOMA play live in Toronto and WOW!!!! what a rock show.
We have looked podcasting as a way of turning a our mixtapes into radio type shows and are now partnering up with other podcasters shortly, to make a more fun show whilst promoting our music but also to keep it entertaining.
So check out www.frofarrecords.com, we have a tv channel online called FETV which will be available as a video podcast shortly.
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From Clark Johnsen's Diaries: Dateline Dec.
That John Lennon ceased to play.
Where were you, on that fateful day?
Exiting a limo on 72nd Street? (John and Yoko)
Standing in front of the Dakota? (Mark David Chapman)
Watching a Patriots-Dolphins game? (Many) (The Pats lost 16-13 in overtime.)
Otherwise tending to life? (Most)
And how did you find out?
From Howard Cosell? ("An unspeakable tragedy confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City...") (Monday Night Football, the nation's second-longest-running television show, has just been cancelled.)
From a telephone call?
From the Eleven O'clock News?
Or from the papers the next morning (like myself)?
Already I have written what a fool you are to listen to the news at night. Who needs that aggravation before sleep? If the bad news appears during a football game or a good TV show in a bottom scroll or on a break-into, that's something else. It's not as though you wished it on yourself, as when watching the news. You go to bed content that at least you didn't intend for that crap to disturb you. Aren't the headlines on our doorsteps each morning, sufficient? At least then we have a pot of coffee brewing and the whole day to help us face up. But sleeping on bad news? No, thank you. At the end of the day I'll head beddy-bye. Dream sweet dreams. Wake up to the world situation later: WAR DECLARED! 900 POISONED! PRESIDENT ASSASSINATED! IDIOT REELECTED!
So there was I, in the full flush of founding The Listening Studio ("World's First... Too Many Recording Studios... But No Competition... We Don't Record... And They Don't Listen!"), still constructing it actually, in the environs of eight thousand square feet in a sturdy loft where space had become available. Fourteen-foot ceilings, sixteen-inch floor joists, maple planking. All that remained was to erect the walls, which I was in the middle of doing on December 9th, 1980, as I picked up the papers at the front door.
For December it was a warm day so I stood on the stoop and unrolled my Boston Globe. And there I saw the blaring headline:
Beatle John Lennon slain… Hawaii man, 25, charged
Indoors the coffee was ready. Mechanically I drank it, finished the paper, and continued to absorb the enormity. Later I ventured outdoors and chatted with neighbors, but all construction work was halted for that day.
Only much later did I learn the truth about Lennon's assassination. If you haven't heard yet, let me acquaint you. And you won't find this on Google.
Back in the day
Back in the day of their initial appearance I was not a huge Beatles fan. In fact I was not one at all. Disdain them thoroughly, I did, along with the Beach Boys and all other B-boy Bands without a single listen. As an early rock'n'roller these recent teeny-bopper groups were beneath contempt, and besides, by then I was thoroughly into classical music. So what grabbed my attention? The Sixties, I suppose. That milieu drew one into the vortex of youth culture. Whereas adult activity had forever been the topic of society coverage, suddenly the emphasis shifted to the young and their ways. Why?
Good question! But nonetheless it did, hence, the Beatles, the Stones, the Airplane and others came to my ears' attention and you know what? They weren't so bad! (Although, this confession: the Ronnettes' "Be My Baby" had already fascinated me with its four-part writing and I often played it to musical friends. Still have my original 45. Hey! What's that worth on eBay?)
Thus was I caught up, like so many just slightly older people, in the ascendant youth culture. Only later did I learn that the counterculture was not produced spontaneously by a youth stratum. Reference point: "The British Invasion." I.e., of America, just like the War of 1812 all over again. And that's the key to my argument, of British subject John Lennon's assassination by his own.
Motive, Means, Opportunity
While those comprise the Classic Three of criminal investigation, here I'll take a variant tack: Why would he be killed? Then, who would kill him? Let's be clear on one thing from the start: It was not the mad act of a lone assassin. However much you have been told otherwise, you must dismiss that stock explanation from your mind, as I have done. Or at least set it aside for now.
That trite phrase, "conspiracy theory"...? It's utilized against anyone who suggests that events may have unfolded in a manner unacknowledged by the press. The press, and the TV, provide fully acceptable explanations and if one should question them, well... especially if one should suggest that more than one person was involved in any act where they tell us it was only one person, well... don't most of us laugh outright at anyone who would be so foolish as to claim otherwise?
To which I reply, Good Lord, people! Look at ourselves!
Recently I read in two locations—Reason magazine, normally an oasis of rational thought, and American Heritage—that so-called conspiracy theorists have cooked up unlikely plots to explain straightforward events like 9/11. The bland plausibility of that assertion, at least to media-saturated readers, dodges the ugly fact that the downing of the Twin Towers and a hit on the Pentagon must have been very much a conspiracy. As though all those attacks just happened to happen together? Good grief!
What the deriders of "conspiracy theory" (Why do they never say "conspiracy fact"? Tens of thousands of people are in prison for committing criminal conspiracy.) hope to derail, is a suspicion among the populace that what's called "conspiracy theory" is simply the next level beyond whatever the press cares to reveal.
In this matter of assassins, would-be or otherwise, look at the case of John Hinckley, Jr. (And just to hint at where this is going, both Hinckley and Chapman carried a copy of The Catcher in the Rye along with them. Hey! Doesn't everyone?)
Linda de Hoyos, an expert in the field of intelligence, wrote in Campaigner magazine for July 1981, in an article entitled, "There Are No Lone Assassins":
There we have the basis for a working assumption that clean-cut, baby-faced Mark Chapman did not act alone, if indeed he acted at all: the patsy explanation. Yes, just as with Lee Harvey Oswald. Granted, these men may have had guns on their persons... But ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I shall prove to you the innocence of Mark David Chapman..
Now let's return to that earlier pair of questions: Who would kill Lennon, and Why? They can be treated in either order and with equal interest and abandon. Must I choose already?
First step: Thicken the plot
Few people today know that Andrew Carnegie and Cecil Rhodes inter alia shared this vision: To return the United States to the Queen. Or, King. Prince Regent. Whoever.
Don't abandon me now. Hang on! The final, suppressed chapter of Andrew Carnegie's 1886 tome Triumphant Democracy was entitled, "A Look Ahead". Why has it been suppressed? Wasn't Carnegie a Great Man? Didn't he found libraries in hundreds of American cities and towns that otherwise lacked them? Yes he did. Didn't he fund The Carnegie Endowment? Yes he did. But he also endorsed a full return of the American colonies to Mother England, and wrote thusly:
And this:
Fairly astonishing, yes? Coming from an American "industrialist"??
Then we have that perfervid Englishman himself, Cecil Rhodes, an Empire man through and through, he of Rhodes scholarship fame, rewriting his will several times to perfect his goal. Let's join him in the fashioning:
Prof. Carroll Quigley notes in his The Anglo-American Establishment:
Christopher Hitchins, writing in The Nation, 14 December 1992, further observes:
From a secret society modeled on the Jesuits, over the course of seven wills Rhodes finally hit on the perfect solution: The Rhodes Scholarships. Who would ever suspect? A few more names: Dean Rusk, Daniel J. Boorstin, Nicholas Katzenbach, Stansfield Turner (Director, CIA), John Turner (Canadian PM), Richard Lugar, Paul Sarbanes, Neil Rudenstein (President, Harvard), Joseph Nye (Dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard), Jonathan Kozol (social activist), Lester Thurow, David Souter, James Woolsey (Director, CIA), David E. Kendall (Clinton's lawyer), Strobe Talbott, Ira Magaziner, James Fallows, Russ Feingold, George Stephanopoulos, Naomi Wolf… Oh, the Board has chosen well and wisely indeed, to reach every segment of American public life.
What has all this to do with John Lennon's death, you ask? OK, you deserve to know, having slogged through until now.
John came to realize that he was a mere pawn in an Empire game he thought he had understood. But he had been used and so, as was his wont, he began to reveal these facts to his friends and in various interviews. Word of this activity got out and because he was deemed dangerously believable by the former youth stratum, John was snuffed.
Furthermore, ladies and gentlemen, this move was not accomplished by "the CIA". That was cover-up dis-info provided by the perpetrators and gratefully accepted by a government-suspicious public. How easy we are!
A personal time out
If I may, to maintain some equilibrium in my mind (Hey, I'm the writer here!), I must mention John's ghostly connection to the greatest discovery (rediscovery, actually) I've ever made in audio. This would be Absolute Polarity, the physical phenomenon I call the sine qua non of correct audio practice, however much it be denied by those in charge. The episode is recounted in my 1988 book The Wood Effect:
Starting Over. How... appropo! But John was gone, over two years dead. That the truth of his death has yet to be told, weighs heavily on me.
So here goes.
John, this one's for you, baby.
But first:
Everyone remember this:
No such thing as a lone assassin.
Well maybe sometimes, but mostly, no. Lincoln? Booth did not act alone; indeed, no one at the time thought so and in fact another man was executed as well. McKinley? No. Archduke Franz Ferdinand? One account reads:
Omigosh! Shades of a certain procession in November, 1963.
We are reminded again of Reagan's attacker John Hinckley. This guy shares an astounding biography with the Chapman chap. What's up with that? Plus, that telltale The Catcher in the Rye. And even the physical description, and especially the psychological profile. Could there be — a school for scoundrels?
Now I must confess, while I would greatly enjoy convincing you, this modest diary of mine consists only of my personal observations, library reading and total speculation. I deny any real knowledge, nor do my files at home or in my office contain any evidence whatsoever, no need to break in, please. I have proved nothing! Let me live! I have children! (I don't, actually, but that's what one must say, under these circumstances.)
And now: Presenting Yoko Ono. Jose Padermo. Sean Strub. Jay Hastings. You'll see.
Or, not. I may have no time left.
Running the clock down, here.
People who reveal this stuff have unfortunate histories.
But surely, you ask, not here? Not here the darkness, in this twittering world?
Who? Why?
We keep coming back to that, don't we?
OK. The actual killer was Jose Perdomo, the Dakota doorman. He did it from inside (as it were) because John was about to blab in public.
Happy with that information? You can stop reading now; or, do you want to continue?
A television non-appearance
Invited by my friend Pat McGrath, local performance artist and used-record-store owner, to appear on stage with him for a filming event, I shared that honor with several musical groups, notably and most enjoyably Consolidated Edison, a UFO fantasist, and penny-whistle blower (also zany local cartoonist) Scott Getchell. I came on well into the night, introduced honorably but also (by then) somewhat drunkenly as a "conspiracy theorist".
Man, nothing can destroy your cred faster than that.
So there I was, trying to explain to an audience of two hundred in a nightclub in the People's Republic of Cambridge, on camera, amidst almost immediate jeering, the exact circumstances of John Lennon's death.
They wanted no part of it.
Best of all, a skinny little Brit dropped from the balcony onto the stage to shoot me down. You know how uppity they can be. He took control and, aided by 1:00 A.M. drunken audience energy, proceeded to subdue me. Uninterested in argumentation, or facts, he repeated the conventional thinking (available everywhere) to great applause, wiping out (in the British mode) my opposition with benefit of the microphone. As the clock ticked down on my segment, he sneeringly dominated the final moments and indeed drew them to a close.
Grabbing the mic, I said, "See what you get? From... them...?" The audience booed and hooted.
No respect!
The event was never broadcast.
Sir Joseph Lockwood
Here was a man who knew his business. Aristocratic origins and a stellar career in MI6, plus money, eventually resulted in his appointment as Director of EMI, Electrical and Musical Industries, at that time truly "The Greatest Recording Organisation in the World". Also, as fate would have it, a leading research organization in intelligence technology. Sir Joe, as he was known, had not strayed far from his beginnings. Charged with the re-emergence of Empire and versed in the wiles and ways of the Frankfurt School, he was not slow to see some possibilities in the demo tape played to him by the unctuous Brian Epstein. He proceeded accordingly. From an anonymous website commentary:
From the beginning, E.M.I. created the myth of the Beatles' great popularity. In August of 1963, at their first major television appearance at the London Palladium, thousands of their fans supposedly rioted. The next day every mass-circulation newspaper in Great Britain carried a front page picture and story stating, "Police fought to hold back 1,000 squealing teenagers." Yet, the picture displayed in each newspaper was cropped so closely that only three or four of the "squealing teenagers" could be seen. The story was a fraud. According to a photographer on the scene, "There were no riots. I was there. We saw eight girls, even less than eight." In February 1964, the Beatles myth hit the United States, complete with the orchestrated riots at Kennedy Airport. To launch their first tour, the media created one of the largest mass audiences in history.
Profits from Beatles albums sustained EMI for two decades.
The Frankfurt School?
Before the War a number of specialists and researchers in social psychology were grouped in Frankfurt, Germany. While their work was utilized by the nascent Nazi regime, the latter proved resistant to the Jewish aspect of the enterprise, so the principals were forced to flee. Many ended up in America, most notably Theodore Adorno, whose The Sociology of Music became the text for certain later developments.
Princeton was the locus of the Frankfurters. There they developed the Princeton Radio Project, a research program for mass communications techniques that later morphed into the U.S. Army's Psychological Warfare branch. A young man by the name of William Paley signed on, and after the war Paley, whose family had purchased the historic Columbia Records label at depression prices, was charged with organizing the Columbia Broadcasting System, CBS. Thus was born a radio (later, a television) network incubated in studies of population manipulation.
CBS was especially effective with its "news" department. The name Edward R. Murrow strikes a note of reverence in American hearts even today, especially with a George Clooney movie about him now on theatre screens. What was Morrow's crowning moment? All would agree, the showing-up of Joe McCarthy.
Let's take a closer look at that. McCarthy was your veritable loose cannon, waving around lists of fancied Communists, grandstanding on the Senate floor, imbibing heavily and consorting with known homosexuals. Think about it: Is this not a man ripe for blackmail and machination? And look what happened: Just look! After Murrow's anti-McCarthy campaign the anti-Communist cause nearly collapsed. Became a laughingstock. An object of parody throughout the country.
All we are saying, is... Look... Life… Edward R. Murrow... The Princeton Radio Project... Psyops... George Clooney...
Adorno's book, although purporting to be an academic analysis of how music affects society, serves equally well as a guided tour to providing such effect when read between the lines, as it was fully intended to be. Do you want to invade another country, or society? Why, no better means obtains, than music. Even Plato would agree, music can and often does corrupt. That's why he wisely limited music to the human voice in The Republic. Instrumental accompaniment only leads to debasement.
Say what you may, the man had a point.
And today? "Rock, properly understood, is music warfare waged upon an unsuspecting society by guitar-gunners who are frequently fully aware of what they are about." (David Tame, The Secret Power of Music) Camille Paglia, no less aware of this imperative, has observed that had she been a musician rather than a disruptive writer, she'd have been a rock guitarist. (You go, girl!)
Mick Jagger too once spelled it out with absolute clarity: "We are moving after the minds, and so are most of the new groups." Sir Mick graduated from the London School of Economics, British locus of the former Frankfurt School staff—as did Valerie Plame. (Thanks to Wikipedia for that very special insight.)
American composer and conductor Howard Hanson has signed in as well, regarding pop music trends: "If the mass production of this aural drug is not curtailed, we may find ourselves a nation of neurotics which even the skill of the psychiatrist may be hard pressed to cure." No offense, Dr. Hanson, but the psychiatrist's office may be the last place on earth you'd want to send your children.
Beyond Plato
Here's a concept of mine: the doctrine of successive revelation. Whenever a psyops exercise unfolds, you can rest assured that multiple levels of exposure have been pre-programmed. Ceremonial psychodrama is ever part of the plot. After-the-fact revelations comprise more of the assassination scenario than the murder and its initial cover-up. The killing of the king occurs right in front of a nation's eyes and a scapegoat takes the blame. Stay tuned to CBS for further developments.
The first King John's assassination (he of Camelot) was no less fraught with significance and subsequent revelation. Here was a staged psychodrama with classical precedents: Os-wald and Ruby slippers. An umbrella man. A grassy knoll. George de Mohrenschildt. The two Oswalds. The four vagrants. Mark Lane. David Ferrie. Clay Shaw. Colonel Fletcher Prouty, the original "deep throat".
(CBS News: "George De Mohrenschildt was found dead this afternoon on the very day he was to be heard by a House Subcommittee on Assassinations investigator. He was killed by a bullet in the mouth. The coroner has declared it a suicide. In other news…")
Own the coroner and you own the town, they say.
Two weeks before the attempt on President Reagan's life a new program, The Greatest American Hero, premiered on TV. The hero was named Hinckley and the ad reproduced here, as you can see, mentions "government" and "hired killers", and "He's just learning how to become invisible." Then on Fox an offshoot of The X Files, The Lone Gunmen, entertained viewers in the spring of 2001with a plot wherein a commercial airliner was winging to Manhattan to destroy a World Trade Center tower. All this, again right in front of a nation's eyes. Where do writers come up with this stuff?
Brian Epstein?!
One might as well ask, Andrew Loog Oldham?
And well one might.
One the manager of the Beatles, the other of the Stones—the "nice boys" and the "bad boys". But Brian was gay. Could a homintern level have been functioning here? A level subject to non-disclosure agreements? Or worse, to being operated upon, even against what one might otherwise think of as, one's best interests?
Lennon was not always a darling. Not to his bandmates, nor to his friends, nor to his wives and sons, nor to his handlers: "This is the man, remember, who, in front of a packed dressing room, shouted 'QUEER JEW' in response to Brian Epstein fussing, 'Now what shall I call this autobiography of mine?'" *The Guardian
Jeff Godwin, in Dancing with Demons, observes:
And he was such a handful. Yakking, yakking, yakking. Endlessly running off at the mouth, everyone recognizes the type except that type itself.
But slowly a realization dawned on John: He had been had. And he began to talk about this to anyone who would listen.
Not a diversion! Not just about LSD either, as many imagine. Somewhere back in the Seventies this project was first exposed as a nasty program of "the CIA". Ladies and gentlemen, I have to tell you, whenever you hear someone use that term "the CIA" you are in the presence of a person who is wholly unaware of conflicting multiplicities present within any intelligence organization, or who is a witting agent of disinformation. The former also is likely blind to historic international arrangements.
One such is that between certain departments of the American intelligence apparat and British counterparts. Some of the strongest ties involve Naval Intelligence, because navies frequently call at foreign ports, unlike armies and air forces. The strongest ties however are non-military, among university and institution circles. They are also the most perfidious and corruptible. The worst of these may be the Tavistock Institute, where the MK-Ultra program was hatched. Linda de Hoyos again:
Yes, they engaged Aldous Huxley of Brave New World fame, and The Doors of Perception, to proposition young people with drugs. They may also have employed Albert Hoffman at Sandoz in Switzerland to synthesize the first artificial hallucinogen, LSD, the received version notwithstanding. But there was more, much more.
Tavistock, a total MI6 production, was further charged with the intelligence task of studying nation management, with a view towards taking nations over. What more delicious opportunity could present itself, than regaining the former American colonies as Cecil Rhodes had visualized?
And so they set about their nefarious task, having absorbed the lessons of The Republic, The Sociology of Music, Triumphant Democracy and other scripts, eventually settling upon a long-range plan for undermining the culture with psychedelic drugs and rock music.
The British Invasion!
To whatever extent "the CIA" participated, they were hapless dupes of the Crown. Even Rhodes Scholar Americans are like country cousins to a powerful City financial empire that does not slack from its charge to regain lost ground by whatever means possible.
And there you have it: The central belief among most "conspiracy theorists", well-hidden from everyone by the press, is that not the Jews, nor the Communists, nor the Muslims, nor the Vatican, nor global corporations control the match—rather, the Brits!
Did you know the worldwide price of gold is fixed each morning, and again each afternoon at the Rothschild Bank in London? That's just for starters.
If you find all this hard to swallow, you have only the press to thank. Yes: The majority of "conspiracy theorists" put Great Britain at the top of the evil heap. Think of it this way: The sun once never set on the British Empire. Brittania ruled the waves. The British East India Company ran all the dope, most of the rum and a good portion of the slaves. That's a tough position to quit. So, why should they?
Here's how it worked against John
Everyone tells us that a person cannot be programmed to kill against his will. Although probably true in the vast majority of cases, even the possible exceptions needn't concern us here. Hinckley and Chapman were not programmed to kill, rather to appear on a crime scene looking guilty as hell. If they do kill, so much the better, but not to worry, professional backup is always provided. That's how it worked with Jose Perdomo, reportedly an anti-Castro Cuban exile and member of Brigade 2506 during the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
While there is no question that Perdomo was the doorman at the Dakota that fateful night, interestingly his name seems not to have appeared in print until over six years later. His stated role in events was simply that of "the doorman", even in the detail-minded NY Times. The media did, however, name the fellow who was inside at the desk, one Jay Hastings, who was not an eye witness. Perdomo's identity was voluntarily divulged neither by the press nor by public authorities.
From reports at the time (and later), "the doorman" asked Chapman if he knew what he had done. "I just shot John Lennon" was the murmured reply. When the police arrived it was "the doorman" who told them that Chapman had just killed Lennon. Even at that time doubt existed in some minds. Herewith an excerpt from "The Man Who Shot Lennon" (People Magazine, Feb. 23,1987), by Jim Gaines:
The Patrolman's instincts are vindicated by early, unretouched press reports. In the Boston Globe, Dec. 9:
And Dec. 10:
And in the Boston Herald American, Dec. 10:
Those responses well comport with what a conditioned person would manifest, experts agree.
Then there was Sean Strub, a fellow who happened to be in the vicinity when he heard shots fired. Following a squad car to the Dakota front door, and proving to be something of a camera hog, he granted an interview shortly afterwards to Channel 2.
CBS: Was there any kind of exchange, do you know, between Lennon and the suspect?
Stroud: That's what the doorman said, that there had been some sort of altercation or argument... I heard someone say that the guy had apparently been hanging around all evening, and another person said he'd been there all week and he was just kind of like waiting for him.
And that's the story the media flew with, a rank second-hand account; nor did they endeavor to interview "the doorman", who for all we know was whisked away.
Film footage of the crime scene still exists, close analysis of which, plus the police report, serves to exonerate Chapman of killing Lennon—as documents referenced at the end attest.
To take just one example: The layout of the Dakota entranceway and the whereabouts of the players establish that Chapman stood to the right and rear of Lennon as the latter stepped towards the doorway. Indeed that is the picture most people have in their minds and it is probably correct. Yet the coroner's report says that two shots entered Lennon on his left side, none on his right. Whether or not there had been an altercation (likely not), had Chapman been the shooter the wounds would have appeared in Lennon's right side, or in his front.
Then there's the vexing question of Yoko Ono. She exited the limo before John and reportedly was some thirty to forty feet ahead of him, well within the safety of the inner entranceway, indeed out of sight, when the shots were fired. Was she accustomed to walking that far ahead of her reconciled husband? The question must arise, considering the Ono family background, her antagonistic behavior in general, and her hauteur. Not to mention her keen interest in "new age" pursuits. After his not altogether happy encounter with Transcendental Meditation, she got John interested in Primal Scream, Esalen, Scientology (briefly), astrology and the Tarot.
Yes, the Tarot. For perhaps two years John and Yoko had a "professional reader" on call, one John Green, who wrote a memoir of his time with them: Dakota Days. One wonders to what degree Lennon actually submitted to all this, or whether he may have himself been conditioned to some degree. In fact I met John Green once, on a weekend at the Cape where we were guests of mutual friends. At that time Green was manager of a band called Mande Dahl and the leader, Mande Dahl herself, was present too. While the cottage and most of the crowd were summer informal, Green wore jackets and Mande, she wore heels. High heels. More than just a whiff of darkness surrounded them, especially the egoistic Green, and I recall thinking to myself, "This guy's a Tarot reader?!" Now I'm inclined to say he was… an agent, of something.
So: "Was Mark David Chapman (Lee Harvey Oswald... Sirhan Sirhan... Squeaky Fromme...) the victim of mind control? Did he actually shoot Lennon or was an obsession to shoot Lennon planted in his brain by hypnotic suggestion combined with mind-altering drugs? Once Chapman saw that Lennon had been shot, did he talk himself into believing he was the shooter?"—Salvador Astucia
Was the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate, withheld from the public for over twenty-five years after its initial release, designed as a blueprint for assassination? Has an undercurrent of the hallucinogenic driven population manipulation since the Sixties? Was the videodrome merely an extension of the radiodrome? ("Without radio," Hitler once remarked, "we could never have conquered Germany.") Is there a musicdrome too? Is the blind reverence with which American society accepts the pageant, the ceremonial psychodrama played out before them proof that the Republic has been lost?
Can those questions ever be answered? Don't touch that clicker, stay tuned to CBS.
Model Psychosis
Hints and suggestions. Hints that something's happening here and You don't know what it is, Do you, Mr. Jones? Suggestions that minds can be manipulated to kill kings and carry around copies of The Catcher in the Rye in the pocket. How can that be?
Plainly stated, Mark David Chapman and John Hinckley, Jr. inter alia were victims of an artificially induced model psychosis. At some point in their unfortunate young lives they (and many more) were subjected to drug conditioning along lines developed by the Tavistock Institute. For a complete explanation I send you to this location, which describes everything in lurid and rather depressing detail. Fail not to go there afterwards.
But here's the problem
The process of successive revelation must culminate at some point. Thus can one never count on being taken by the hand all the distance to the truth. One marches alone, unaccompanied.
Consider the above title/site. Excellent and eye-opening as it is, you will see "the FBI" blamed, and "the CIA". You will also find other "culprits": Richard Nixon (of course), the not-yet-President Ronald Reagan and, most astonishingly, Edward Teller. While the two government agencies are indeed culpable, you can be assured they did not act independently either. What's to be gained by fingering only them? Bless me, I don't know! Well, just this guess: By reducing the operational scale to a familiar and lesser unit, minds are comfortably dropped into an accustomed groove, and the shadow shall prevail.
This article dedicated with love to Barry Griglio.
Response to NBC Dateline's program about John Lennon's murder
Is Mark David Chapman a crazed
killer, or a patsy?
Mark David Chapman is completely innocent. Compelling evidence points to Dakota doorman Jose Perdomo as Lennon's true killer.
Jose Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo,
John Lennon's true assassin(?)
Newly discovered information about doorman Jose Perdomo suggests he may have been John Lennon's true assassin and Mark David Chapman was merely a patsy who confessed to the crime while under the spell of relentless mind control techniques such as hypnosis, drug abuse, shock treatment, sleep deprivation, and so on. Perdomo was tasked to provide security for Lennon at the rock star's upscale apartment complex, the Dakota, the night of the murder. Records reveal a "Jose Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo" (aliases: "Joaquin Sanjenis" and "Sam Jenis") was an anti-Castro Cuban exile and member of Brigade 2506 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961, a failed CIA operation to overthrow Fidel Castro.
New evidence further exonerates Chapman
Analysis of film footage, from Dec. 9, 1980, NYC, suggests bullet holes in Dakota's lobby door were likely not caused by Chapman.
Copyright © 2005, all rights reserved, by Clark Johnsen. No reproduction or reposting without express permission.


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The service allows players to partially stream a game and play it, while the rest downloads and installs itself in the background. The company, whose parent is software streaming firm Numecent Inc, claimed rivals OnLive and Gaikai have "fundamental shortcomings."
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Oliver Letwin: Papers thrown in London park bins were not sensitive
David Cameron 's policy adviser was caught on camera disposing of more than 100 papers in park bins over five separate occasions, in a clear breach of security.
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Reports suggest that the papers, which were found by the Daily Mirror, included letters about national security and terrorism, including al-Qaeda links to Pakistan, the Dalai Lama, Libya and Afghanistan.
They date from between July 27th 2010 to September 30th 2011 and prime minister David Cameron, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and chancellor George Osborne are all mentioned in the dumped papers.
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