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:::: December 2011 ::::
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Let the festivities begin!
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If, like me, you are struggling to come up with present ideas for your little ones then help is at hand! We have lots of ideas and a great selection of goodies to make your loved ones smile.
Our magical picture of a very young TIPS Tester gazing with wonder at her twinkly lit Christmas tree will certainly get you in the mood and maybe you have pictures of your own you would like to share with us (remember we're always on the lookout for these!)... meanwhile this newsletter comes with a delightful set of new photos from TIPS Testers.
We have reviewed 2 websites:
We have reviewed 3 books for you - 2 of which would make great stocking fillers:
Still on the subject of growing up too soon, we have reviewed the wonderfully innovative tween doll called Notalie®. Girls as young as 7 often reject conventional dolls and miss out on essential creative play. We are thrilled to be able to offer two little girls the chance to win their very own Notalie® in our e-newsletter competition.
As well as our regular mix of event, forum, video clip, articles, DVD, and featured TIPS® award-winning products, we have a review of the Alternative Families Show (as promised in e-newsletter 23) and Top Tips (including Top Treat and Top Value). We have also included our first reviews of 2 clever card games which will make perfect stocking fillers at this time of year.
Our latest My Story follows a new mother as she struggles to establish breastfeeding after a traumatic delivery and a rare case of breast refusal. This mum's determination to feed her baby is truly inspiring. Her story provides a fascinating insight into the practice of EPing. Last but not least, we know you will enjoy reading part 8 of our Diary of a Student Midwife.
Don't forget to check out our 12 mini-competitions with a total prize value of over £550! Get your entries in to Brigitte and you too could be a winner.
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The Art of Conversation games are available from www.taoc.com.au.
There are 6 Art of Conversation games in total (RRP £9.99): All Ages, Children, Literary, Travel, Christian and Food.
The Art of Conversation All Ages edition is a new game developed by Louise Howland and Keith Lamb. It encourages players of all ages to become better communicators. The game is played using a set of cards with conversation prompting questions. It can be played in nine different modes (including a solo mode), competitively and non-competitively.
The Art of Conversation for Children edition is specifically designed to develop children's conversational skills. It prompts them to be confident speakers, better listeners and great all-round communicators. It is also used for therapy and as an educational resource.
Suitable for players from 5 years to adults, TAOCC helps children put ideas into words, share and develop their ideas and feelings and respect the views of others.
Each game contains 100 cards and each card has 2 conversation building questions. Players are asked to read out the question which then prompts conversation and discussion or can be used as part of a competitive game.
Review by Nicola (TIPS Parent Tester):
The Art of Conversation for Children (TAOC) aims to develop childrens' conversational skills, help them become confident speakers and effective listeners. As children increasingly spend their recreational time watching TV and playing computer games, and communicate using text messages and social media sites like facebook . It's no surprise that the number of children starting school with language delays has also increased. This is why there is now a genuine need for a game like this.
The game consists of 100 cards. Each player takes a turn at being the leader. The leader chooses a question to ask the other players, asks follow up questions, and then the next player becomes the leader. TAOC manners must be adhered to during the game or the player could lose a turn at answering or asking questions, or even have points deducted (if you play the version of the game which involves scoring the answers). The manners are a great way of teaching children how to take turns at speaking and have a conversation instead of talking over the top of each other. There are no right or wrong answers in the game and therefore no winner at the end of the game (unless using the scoring version). This is really good when playing with younger children as there are always tears in our house when one of the children loses!!
When we played the game, it was a bit slow to start until we all got into the swing of it. This is very different from the conventional board games we would normally play with the children. However once we got going we ended up playing for an hour and only stopped because my son had a birthday party to go to! Some questions were better at provoking good conversations, others resulted in silly answers which had us all laughing (for example the question: 'tell us about a pet you would like to have and why?' produced the following answer: 'a pink t-rex'!!). There were also questions on more serious subjects, and I enjoyed hearing my son's answers to these, as they gave me an insight into his thoughts and ideas (for example: ' what makes you embarrassed?'). My only criticism of the game is that I think it should be aimed at children aged 6 or 7 and above and not 5. The reason for this is not many 5 year olds will be able to read the questions. Even my 6 year old son struggled to read a lot of the words. Sometimes, he didn't quite understand what the question meant and we had to explain this to him.
Although children may not find this game as appealing as Kerplunk or Buckaroo, we will definitely be playing this again as it is such a fun way to engage your children in conversation and to learn about their thoughts and feelings. I would not hesitate to recommend TAOC to parents or professionals, for example teachers and speech therapists. The Art of Conversation for Children is a brilliant idea which definitely works!
For a chance to win 1 of 2 packs of TAOC games check out mini-competition 1
Carddies are available online from: www.carddies.com and www.amazon.co.uk
When I saw this game I knew straight away it would be a great hit: it's so simple you wonder why it hasn't been done before! Created for 4 to 10 year olds, Carddies are cute sets of engaging characters made of high quality card that are ready to be coloured in, given names, and played with for hours and hours. The colourful, robust boxes are filled with 12 sturdy double-sided card figures, 12 high quality colouring pencils, and 12 stands. As an added bonus, you also get an outline backdrop to colour in. Carddies are portable and robust enough to survive a mum's handbag or a dad's pocket - perfect for families on the go. There are eight sets of Carddies: ballet, fairies, football, cavemen, school, knights, family 1 and family 2.
Review by Jenny (age 9 ½) and Kirsty (age 6) (TIPS Testers):
Me and Kirsty thought that the Carddies were amazing fun. What I liked about them was that it was imaginative and you could do it however you liked. Kirsty liked colouring them in and making up stories for them. I had an idea that they could make a gymnastics one and you could make a beam and all the apparatus because I love doing my gymnastics and I am sure other children also enjoy gymnastics.
Thank you for letting us play with the Carddies and I am sure I will get my mum to get me them.
Me and Kirsty were quite disappointed because when we came to divide the class into two groups (we had the school set) we realised there was one character missing from our set. Apart from that we thought Carddies were great fun!
STOP PRESS: After reading this review the lovely people at Carddies have kindly offered to send our young reviewers not only a replacement character for their School Set but a spare box of Carddies, so each sister has her own set. Thank you so much for organising this for Jenny and Kirsty. Many congratulations to Carddies for excellent customer care - we did not even have to ask!
For a chance to win 1 of 2 sets of Carddies check out mini-competition 2
Featured product :: TIPS-tested Organic Babies and Organic Monkey productsRetrospective Trials - October 2011
We are delighted to congratulate our latest TIPS Award winning baby skincare products on their well deserved win - you can read the full reviews in the TIPS Awards section of our website.
Organic Monkey
Bumfluff nappy balm (RRP: £10.50 for 50mls; price per ml: 21p)
Hello Mellow organic massage oil (RRP: £12 for 125mls; price per ml: 9.6p)
Supplied and manufactured by www.organicmonkey.co.uk
Organic Babies no scent baby oil (RRP: £9.95 for 100mls; price per ml: 9.95p)
Supplied and manufactured by www.organicbabies.com
For a chance to win 1 of 3 Organic Babies no scent baby oil check out mini-competition 3
Website: www.hysterectomy-association.org.uk
Twitter: www.twitter.com/HysterectomyUK
Facebook: www.facebook.com/HysterectomyUK
Following Pip's 'My Story' (published in our September 2011 e-newsletter) we thought it would be a good idea to feature the excellent work of the Hysterectomy Association (HA). Pip had found the HA forum extremely useful when she faced one of the biggest decisions of her life. Women of all ages might need to get a hysterectomy, including those who suffer from major bleeding after a caesarean section.
The HA is a social enterprise set up by Linda Parkinson-Hardman in 1997. It was created to provide women with reliable, accessible information about hysterectomy at a time when they need it most. Women often feel they are not given enough information to make the right choice about their hysterectomy.
Since its launch, the HA has developed beyond all expectations. The widespread use of the internet has allowed the HA to reach a wider audience meaning they can achieve their goal of helping more women. The free forum where members can chat and support each other is an invaluable resource.
HA income comes solely from online sales so visitors who find the website useful are encouraged to support the organisation by buying products or by making a donation. Annual membership costs only £15 and allows access to HA information, including quarterly magazines, downloads, a copy of the informative book: 101 Handy Hints for a Happy Hysterectomy and many other benefits. One-to-one telephone support sessions can also be arranged with Linda.
The HA is a member of the NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations) and bound by their codes of conduct. Organisations can also arrange to stock or sell HA publications. To find out more about working with the HA, email:
For a chance to win a copy of 101 Handy Hints for a Happy Hysterectomycheck out mini-competition 4
Featured website 1 :: www.iaimbabymassage.co.uk
IAIM Announces NEW Web Baby Massage Web Site for Mums
The International Association of Infant Massage (IAIM) UK Chapter have just launched a new website for mums-to-be and new mums: www.iaimbabymassage.co.uk. It's packed with useful information about baby massage and baby massage professionals.
The IAIM is the largest and longest standing worldwide association solely dedicated to baby massage. Founded in the early 1980s, the IAIM became an internationally established organisation in 1992. Since 1997 around 10,000 professionals have trained through the IAIM UK baby massage programme. Well respected and well researched, this training has been recognised as a high quality parent education programme.
With so much online information available, it can be difficult for Mums to gather all the information they need about baby massage. The new IAIM website provides all this information in one place. It talks about what baby massage is, how it can benefit a mother and baby, how it can be done, and which oils can be used. Parents might also enjoy reading about other parents' experience of baby massage, or relevant articles published on the website. They can also use the Contact us feature to get more information and finding a baby massage class nearby is easy using the website search facility.
For more information go to: www.iaimbabymassage.co.uk
Featured website 2 :: www.multi-mam.co.uk
New name for TIPS Award winning Bio-Fem products
Introduction by Sharon Trotter
We first tested the Bio-Fem Balm and Compress products in 2007. Testers were impressed at how easy it was to use these natural products, how cooling they were and how much they helped to soothe sore nipples. You can read the reviews from the 2011 trial of breast treatments here........ This popular range of products is now called Multi-Mam® . Read on to find out about this and about other changes to the range.
Launch and first sales of new product range for The Urology Company
On 1 September 2011 The Urology Company Limited commenced the exclusive distribution of the Multi-Mam® product ranges in the UK and has started to ship orders to UK retailers.
The Multi-Mam® Compresses and Balm have been available since 2005 in the UK under the Bio-Fem brand name, these products have significant UK retail sales. They are available over the counter from most local pharmacies and other healthcare retailers including Boots the Chemist and Holland & Barrett. You can also buy them online at www.multi-mam.co.uk.
The Multi-Mam® brand is a leading brand in breastfeeding products in over 36 countries around the world.
The Multi-Mam® range provides complete nipple care. It is designed to prevent and treat discomfort before and during breastfeeding. Two products in the Multi-Mam® range are now available to consumers in the UK:
In addition to the Multi-Mam® range, The Urology Company has also taken over the distribution for the Multi-Gyn® product range which was designed to help a number of female health conditions. Six products in the Multi-Gyn® range are now available to consumers in the UK through The Urology Company:
For more information go to: www.multi-mam.co.uk and www.multi-gyn.co.uk or phone 0203 077 5411.
Our friends at The Urology Company kindly offer all TIPS Members and Testers a 15% discount on all Multi-Mam® and Multi-Gyn® products (MG and MM) until the end of December 2011. Just quote the code AYSCY304 when you place your order. Click 'add a coupon' after each product is added to your basket, before finally going to the checkout.
For a chance to win 1 of 2 gift sets including products from the Multi-Mam® and Multi-Gyn® ranges check out mini-competition 5
Where has my little girl gone?
By Tanith Carey
Published by Lion Hudson Plc (20 May 2011)
For more information go to: www.tanithcarey.com
Review by Lorna (TIPS Parent Tester)
Where has my little girl gone? by Tanith Carey is an interesting read for parents of young girls. It poses some thought-provoking questions around the issues we face when bringing up children in our modern society. The book also suggests things we can do to try and safeguard our daughters from the influence of some of what the author calls the 'worst evils' too early on. While this book is informative, easy to read and full of good tips for developing self-confidence and self-esteem in our children, I didn't think that it really broke new ground. I felt that much of the advice offered is what most parents would consider 'good common sense'. Furthermore Tanith Carey seems to paint; I felt, rather a bleak picture of our modern society. She seems to suggest that there is nothing we parents can do to protect our daughters from the evils of sexualisation and peer pressure. Like it or not Tanith, our daughters will not be little girls forever!
However, I'm sure the basic premise of this book will strike a chord with most parents -mothers and fathers alike. It is definitely worth reading, not least as it gives food for thought on the issues of setting appropriate boundaries for our daughters so we can protect them as they grow up and develop.
For a chance to win a copy of Where has my little girl gone check out mini-competition 8
Featured event 1 :: Vukovi EP (part 2) launch – Glasgow
9 January 2012
King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, Glasgow
On this occasion I have to admit I may be slightly biased but this fresh new rock band is well worth a mention - not least because the bass guitarist is my son Jason! I have accepted the job of proxy manager (not sure what I have let myself in for!) so I just had to include news of this gig in our featured events section.
Vukovi (Serbian for Wolves) are a four piece band from Glasgow although Hamish (lead guitar), Janine (vocals an keyboard), Jason (bass) and Martyn (drums) all hail from Ayrshire. Formed in September 2010, Vukovi have really started to make an impression with gigs at the famous Wickerman Festival (in Dumfries and Galloway) and a recent BBC Radio 1 Introducing session with Ally McCrae (already a fan). Tickets to their first EP (part1) party sold out weeks before the launch on 30 September at Glasgow's Nice'N'Sleasy (nicensleazy.com)
Vukovi 's EP (part2) will be unveiled at King Tut's (www.kingtuts.co.uk) on 9 January and this time Vukovi will not be the support band but the main event! To headline at King Tut's is quite an achievement so if you want to see this band before they hit the big time get yourself a ticket and enjoy the show – I promise you will not be disappointed!
Featured event review :: Alternative families (17 September 2011)
We featured this event in e-newsletter 23
An interesting day…
Sperm donation requires a quarantine period of 180 days... That was just one of the facts I learnt last Saturday (17 September 2011) at the Alternative Families Show. The one-day event held in London's Covent Garden was for all lesbians, gay men and single women looking to start a family. Seminars ran concurrently from 10.30 to 4.30 in five separate rooms on subjects ranging from IVF, sperm donation and egg-sharing to surrogacy, fostering and adoption. Leading fertility lawyers discussed key legal issues both in the UK and abroad.
My wife and I are looking to start a family using a known donor. As we wanted to find out more about the practical and legal aspects of this, we attended a seminar lead by Venessa Smith, London Women's Clinic's donor services coordinator. She spoke about their known donor programme and about what you can do to improve your chances of getting pregnant, being healthy and producing a healthy baby. She talked about what may happen if you use a known donor abroad and how important it is to use a reputable clinic, alerting us to potential drawbacks and problems.
As she was explaining the sperm donor journey, her mention of the sperm quarantine period of 180 days or 6 months drew the most gasps. Venessa told us this is because heterosexual couples 'expose themselves to each other's germs', and that a number of additional tests need to be carried out, including testing for hepatitis and HIV. This did lead us to wonder how effective the UK's testing procedures are if they require such a long quarantine. Interestingly, this quarantine period is the same when using a known donor or one from their bank. I would like to think that my friend's sperm wouldn't require such vigorous testing, but I guess you need to be safe and sure.
If you use a known donor, you have to pay for all screening and counselling - around £1000. If you use a bank donor this is free. The reasons for this are obvious, but I felt a little as though people were penalised for knowing their donor and potentially building on a friendship and furnishing a baby's life with even more love... Maybe I'm being too idealistic about it all?
When you use a bank's donor, your child could be the tenth that the donor has 'fathered' and he/she has 9 brothers or sisters out there. The law caps the number of children one donor can 'create' to 10. At the age of 18, your child has the right to get information about their biological father and 9 siblings – the impact of which can never be underestimated!
There is also the issue that if you use a bank donor, you might not be able to have him donate again for a sibling for your child if he's donated his quota – something to bear in mind. So using a known donor – whether a friend or someone you find on the internet –does have many benefits.
The issue of access – and in effect parental rights – has to be considered. So the discussion turned to 'donor agreements'. These aren't legally binding, but they do go some way to providing some clarity for each party.
The full legal picture for single mothers, lesbians and gay dads was the subject of the second seminar we attended. Although much of the discussion focused on gay dads and the issues around surrogacy, my main question was answered: lesbians who are civil partners and do not intend to fall pregnant via sexual intercourse, can both be named as parents on the baby's birth certificate. This came as a huge relief to both of us: it means we won't have to get involved in a lengthy legal process.
Although it was an informative day, with countless fertility, adoption, fostering and gay parenting organisations exhibiting, and several legal firms offering their services, it did feel like the whole day was incredibly money driven. It seemed exhibitors and even the organisers were there to take advantage and cash in on people's need or desire to create an alternative family. There was a charge for entry, a charge for each seminar and even a charge for some organisations' pamphlets. It seems that for some of us becoming a parent will always be a difficult and expensive journey.
Review by Emma (TIPS Tester)
Sharon's featured articles :: December issue of Essentially Midirs Journal
Both published in the December issue of Essentially Midirs Journal
Full references:
Trotter S (2011). Skincare revisited - a festive dilemma for parents. Essentially MIDIRS, December 2011, 2(11):47-49.
Trotter S (2011). Views on the news: A response to advertising used in baby skincare adverts. Essentially Midirs, December 2011, 2(11): 25
You can read the full article on www.sharontrotter.org.uk
Following discussions with Sharon, Bounty have stated that once the current contract for advertisements has expired, all adverts for baby wipes will have references to newborns changed or removed.
Featured DVD ::Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz
Release date: 19 September 2011
Published by: Warner Home Video Classification : U
For more information email:
Review by Fiona (TIPS Tester)
Again a success with both my girls! This surprised me as I thought 9 year old Jenny might find the DVD too young for her. Six year old Kirsty loved it because 'it's just like the Wizard of Oz in colour' – she much preferred the old black and white version.
Jenny enjoyed it because 'most kids love the Wizard of Oz' and the 'cartoon characters were funny and cute'. Both girls' favourite bit was when Tom and Jerry got the wand and made the witches hair go up to the top of the fridge. Kirsty also loved the front cover and the characters on the actual disc.
Jenny reckoned it would suit most children up to 10 years old but found the witches voice scary and wondered if it would be OK for younger children. However, Kirsty (who is only 6!) didn't find it at all scary and to be honest I would go with Kirsty as Jenny is super sensitive (she was scared of the 'egg-timer' bit too!).
On the whole this was a good fun movie which my girls watched four times over!
For a chance to win a Tom and Jerry DVD check out mini-competition 9
Featured video clip :: Apple Dumplings
Apple Dumplings by Virginia Howes - (Breastfeeding Burlesque)
Running time: 8 minutes including bonus out-take footage and lyrics
Featuring Nancy Sorrell and Brian Belo from Big Brother.
Apple Dumplings is the brainchild of independent midwife Virginia Howes. Aimed at young mothers this music video started life as a simple idea to promote breastfeeding. It features real mums dancing and breastfeeding their own babies to a catchy tune (with hilarious lyrics) in a fun atmosphere where breasts are the stars of the show!
Diary of a Student Midwife :: Part 8
In this instalment of 'Diary of a Student Midwife' our student midwife has moved into her third year as a student midwife.
Read more here...
Featured My Story :: EPing: breastfeeding against all the odds
Olga had never given breastfeeding another thought: it was the obvious way to feed her firstborn and absolutely what she was going to do. How wrong could she be! A traumatic induction of labour and delivery changed everything. This combined with lack of support led Olga to lose her confidence while her baby showed severe symptoms of breast refusal. Healthcare professionals' forceful approach to aid attachment, although well intentioned, actually caused Olga's baby daughter to refuse the breast altogether. This distressing condition could have been avoided. Olga's touching story shows how important it is for health professionals who support new mums to be patient and understanding, allowing mother and baby to initiate breastfeeding in a relaxed and supportive environment.
Olga's inspirational story recounts every detail of her struggle to breastfeed, and her determination to provide her baby with the best nutrition, even if this meant exclusively pumping day and night for 13 months! Unable to get the support she needed, Olga looked for information on the internet. This is how she found out about EPing (Exclusive Pumping): expressing enough breast milk to feed Freya. As well as exclusively feeding her baby daughter breast milk, Olga was also able to make generous donations to the local breast milk bank.
Peer support is absolutely vital to all breastfeeding mothers, and support from their partner is essential. I want to personally applaud Olga's amazing husband for providing her with all the support she needed during this long and often challenging journey. Without his unquestioning loyalty Olga would probably not have been so successful.
This poignant 'My Story' shows us that positive mental attitude can overcome anything and I am sure you will find this story as moving as I did. You can read Olga's story here...
TIPS Top Treat and newsletter competition :: Notalie
Notalie – www.notalie.com RRP: £45
Our featured book review: 'Where has my little girl gone?' links perfectly to the latest addition to the doll market: welcome to the innovative world of Notolie™:
The sexualisation of children is very much in the news. A phenomenon known as 'age compression' refers to how girls are growing up too fast. Girls as young as 7, often reject conventional dolls. These are seen as 'babyish' whilst computer games are 'cool'. Unfortunately, this means that girls miss out on essential creative play which enables them to remain children for longer, and to develop at a proper rate.
This is where Notalie™ comes in. She is carefully designed to look like the girls who will play with her. Being very tall, she is immediately embraced as one of the gang. She's feisty and funny. Notalie™ can share jewellery and hair accessories, and generally be part of a girl's life, whatever she happens to be doing. She's a true best friend.
Notalie™ is a new concept in dolls: 'the companion doll'. Standing head and shoulders above other dolls (she is 1 metre tall) she has a unique appearance, with the look of a bored tween. Her long arms and legs have large 'knotty' elbows and knees. She is a soft, plush toy which means she loves to be hugged. She even has her own best friend: Hitch the dog (RRP: £30).
Little girls can check out the Notalie™ blog on her website (www.notalie.com), get recipes and ideas of things to make, and look at the mini dictionary of 'Notalees speak' (her very own tween language).
This all adds up to a more creative play experience that can continue for much longer.
For a chance to win a Notalie™ doll email the word 'Notalie™' to
We will announce the winner in e-newsletter 26
*** latest news***
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has issued guidance that states midwives should not carry out this procedure, as focus should be on a safe, healthy birth. The guidance says that cord blood should only be collected by licensed, skilled technicians and this should be done in a designated area away from the delivery room.
Sue Macdonald (RCM education and research manager) highlighted two risks RCM are concerned about. The first one is that during the birth it is not possible for a midwife to focus on the mother and baby, and collect umbilical cord blood - especially if she is the only midwife there. The second is that if the cord is clamped too soon, the baby could be deprived of blood.
Over the past decade about 11,000 mothers have banked their baby's cord blood. About a dozen private firms in the UK offer this service. It can cost up to £1500 to have cord blood collected and stored - it is kept in a laboratory freezer for up to 25 years and can only be used if the child develops leukaemia or another life-threatening disease. Although firms that provide this service have their own trained staff to extract the blood, they sometimes ask midwives to collect the blood (which contains stem cells) within minutes of the birth. Additionally, about 2000 mothers donate cord blood to the NHS Cord Blood Bank (www.nhsbt.nhs.uk) every year - this service is currently available at five hospitals in England. The RCM and the Royal College of Gynaecologists agree the NHS scheme is safe as highly trained technicians rather than midwives collect the blood.
For more information about cord blood banking you can read Sharon's two articles on our sister website:
Run by Angela Dickson
website: www.angelbabyyoga.com
phone: 07814 487 281
Our TIPS e-newsletter 22 bump has been busy. Not only has she become a mummy to baby Ray (see picture) but she has just launched a new venture called Angel Baby Yoga.
Angela runs new yoga classes for babies aged 8 weeks to 2 years, their parents and carers in Ayrshire. These relaxed, fun classes with gentle movement and song are designed to improve baby's strength and flexibility.
Angela has been practising yoga for 10 years and has recently qualified as a Birthlight Baby Yoga Teacher (www.birthlight.com).
Baby yoga can help promote good sleep patterns and relaxation (for Mums too), improve digestion and improve growth and muscle tone. This is the perfect opportunity for Mum and baby to spend quality time together.
Angela and her 7 month old baby Ray hope to welcome you at the classes soon - Ray will even demonstrate his newly learnt moves in some of the classes!
We need volunteers to test ... the Swimava Swim Ring
We're recruiting participants for the Swimava trial due to take place throughout December 2011 and January 2012. The Swimava Swim Ring was awarded a TIPS Innovation Award when we tested it in 2009 - you can read the reviews here.... and you can find out more on the Swimava website (www.swimava.com)
To take part, your Little One must be:
Testers who wish to volunteer (and haven't done so already) should email
it would be really good if our readers could spread the word with other parents of young babies.
We need volunteers to test ... ViraSoothe Gel: a new product that helps with the itchiness of chickenpox spots
We're are still looking for 6 participants for the ViraSoothe Gel trial. To take part your Little One must:
It is of course impossible to know in advance if or when your Little One may get chickenpox. If you are a TIPS Tester and you wish to take part in this trial if your Little One gets chickenpox, just let us know (email
We would also like to ask our readers to spread the word with others who may be interested in this trial.
:: TIPS top value :: idea for the festive period ::
Want to help your school raise funds? Why not tell them about FunMats - a fun art project that will both raise funds and create wonderful Christmas gifts?
Most schools have a PTA or group of parents that helps raise money for trips and equipment, but coming up with new fundraising ideas that will be popular with parents can be difficult.
Created by a UK company, FunMats is a fundraising art project in which each child draws a picture that is used to produce a choice of gifts, including coasters, shopping bags and glass kitchen boards. It's popular with parents because it creates lasting pieces of their child's artwork and fantastic Christmas gifts at the same time.
The project also goes down well with teachers, because it's suitable for all ages and can be built into many areas of the National Curriculum.
FunMats fundraising is also risk free: the company guarantees that no school can lose money. There is no minimum order or obligation to buy. Schools make a profit from every sale and they collect money from parents for orders before any payment is made to the company – so there are never any unsold items left at the end.
All products are hand-made in the FunMats' factory in Malvern, Worcestershire. The company has been helping schools to raise funds for 15 years and has recently extended its product range to include a handy picture message pad and framed prints.
To raise as much as possible it is suggested that your PTA runs the FunMats project in September/October so that parents can order products as Christmas gifts. We may have left it a little late to bring you news of this project but if you are organised there could still be time to get your order in for Christmas and maybe your could start planning for Easter 2012!
Raising money – how it works
A FunMats mousemat featuring a child's artwork would be sold to parents for £6.50 but only costs the PTA £5.25, so making £1.25 for the school. The amount raised by the school overall will depend on sales, but the FunMats project usually generates a profit of at least £2per participating child.
For more information go to www.funmats.co.uk.
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Banana, oat, and chia seed muffins: could any baking recipe sound healthier from the get go? In spite of this, these muffins are neither dense nor tasteless nor any of the things you might associate with a super healthy muffin (or oat/bran muffins in general). They're light, crumbly, and just the right amount of sweet.
The muffins feature whole wheat flour and rolled oats, as well as freshly mashed banana and chia seeds, so they've got a reasonable amount of fiber and protein. Like most muffins, they'd be pretty light for breakfast, but not if you pair them with some fruit or spread them with almond butter, and certainly not if you have two. They're also a perfect snack, which is how I tend to enjoy muffins most often these days: wrapped up, tucked away into my backpack, waiting to give me a happy surprise between afternoon classes.
The muffins have just the right amount of cinnamon and ginger, so they'll make your entire home smell like fall. And they're easy to customize, too: feel free to swap all-purpose flour for the whole wheat (you can use gluten-free, all purpose, too), or to trade mashed banana for applesauce or pumpkin puree. It'll be a different flavor, of course, but you'll still have a delicious and wholesome treat on your hands!
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- 1 tablespoon ground flax seed
- 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
- ⅔ cup almond or soy milk
- 2 cups spelt or whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon dried ginger
- 3 tablespoons chia seeds
- 1 heaping cup mashed banana (3 large, very ripe bananas, mashed)
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil (such as safflower, grapeseed, or canola)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and lightly oil a 12-muffin baking pan. Whisk the ground flax with 3 tablespoons warm water and set aside. In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the non-dairy milk and apple cider vinegar.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine together the flour, oats, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger and chia seeds.
- Add the mashed banana, sugar, and oil to the milk & vinegar mixture. Stir in the flax mixture. Add these wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Mix until the ingredients are just combined.
- Add ⅓ cup batter to each well in the muffin pan. Sprinkle the tops with extra rolled oats, and bake for about 22-25 minutes (or until muffins are browning and a toothpick comes out mostly clean). Enjoy with fresh fruit, or with a schmear of almond or peanut butter for a healthy snack!
These, like my whole grain plum muffins and zucchini date muffins, are sure to become a staple baked good for me, and I hope they might become a regular treat for you, too. See you back here tomorrow!

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This one wait type is one of the many hundreds which came up new with SQL Server 2008.
As my colleague Denzil Ribeiro found in the code, this one in particular is one that accounts the time SQL Server threads have waited for file system operations to complete. SQL Server workers switch preemptive before calling file system operations, so that if the API doesn't return in a timely fashion it doesn't hang its SQLOS scheduler.
Some of that APIs include CreateFile, DeleteFile, GetVolumePathName, GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint, GetVolumeInformation, lots of file operations for Filestreams, or fulltext related file operations.
As an additional clarifying note from my side, this doesn't mean SQL Server 2005 didn't transfer the thread to preemptive mode for the duration of the call to those APIs. Only that SQLOS didn't provide the means to tell it what specific wait type we wanted to account that duration under. Starting with SQL Server 2008 SQLOS allows that.
And that explains why the number of wait types almost duplicated from 2005 to 2008. Developers from SQL product group had been provided with this new tool to easily obtain aggregated and very accurate measures of the time SQL threads were spending calling different Windows APIs.


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The ECB site doesn't mention even some well known measures, like the currency paper used, microprint, the use of non-cmyk inks, the see-through register print, UV- and IR-light properties, serial number checksum, EURion constellation, magnetic ink, and a barcode (though not a highly visible barcode as the one printed on older Dutch currency). Those are mostly off of wikipedia!]]>
It also has covert features that are not generally known to the public but that banks use to catch counterfeits. I'll not mention these here.
Finally, there are forensic features, highly classified, and known only to the treasury Dept. These are used so that if a bill is suspect, it can be sent to a lab and positive ID can be made.
I have been told, by a person in the business, that there are 20-25 different features in the $20 bill to combat counterfeiting.
It is a big problem in consumer goods. Some counterfeits are so good that the legitimate manufacturer can't prove they are not legit.
John Henry]]>
No need. It was a rumor, and I wrote about it as a rumor. I've had people tell me that it is an untrue rumor, and other people tell me that it will happen in the future.]]>
I have an ID card from Belgium. I am currently getting a new one. I have seen current ID cards being handed out now.
In my opinion this rumor is exactly what it is: a rumor. My current ID card has no spelling mistakes. Neither will the new card have any.
Don't take this wrong, but I am really confused at the image Americans must have from Europe when they receive silly rumors such as this one. We have refridgerators like American citizens do (even better ones as they consume less electricity and are less dangerous to the environment), we sleep in beds and yes, we even have electricity (which doesn't break down at a sudden in wide regions if it starts to snow). Imagine that!
I can almost forgive the average American if he mistakes "Belgium" for the name of a company producing chocolate, but the rumor Bruce published here is absolutely embarrassing.
Bruce, if it comforts you, I'm willing to scan the part of my new ID card that is supposed to be misspelled and mail it to you. I should have the new card in a couple of weeks.
Returning to the original issue - misspellings as a security measure. With so many hi-tech measures that can be used and that are being used to make counterfeiting difficult I would be very surprised if the Belgian Government would turn to a low-tech misspelling in order to combat counterfeit.]]>
UK's Ordnance Survey (the state's cartographic unit) puts "mistakes" into maps to catch copyright thieves. The Autobile Association got caught this way, and had to stump up £20M damages.
Since the "mistakes" are works of fiction, they're protected by copyright, as well as being clear enough evidence of copying.
Of course, as somebody mentioned above this kind of error is easily spotted with image difference analysis. Perhaps the creators of this card expect that counterfiters will spend more time on the much more complex front of the card, than the simple bare lettering on the back.]]>
Arnaud has clearly explained that the rumour is not true, yet kWe has still described that if the false rumour were true, then it would be a bad idea.
Oh well.
Hey that is what I said :)]]>
(1) They discover they've printed up a mess of cards with spelling mistakes.
(2) They make up a lame excuse for said mistakes.]]>
Good question.
I have two answers, although the first is probably more of an excuse.
The excuse: I don't do much consulting anymore. I found consulting to be a wonderful breeding ground for cryptographic ideas, both design and analysis.
The reason: My career has been an endless series of generalizations. While I still enjoy academic cryptography, and still publish the occasional paper, my interests today are more about security policy, economics, and psychology. I have the luxury of being able to do (mostly) do what I want to do, and this is what I (mostly) want to do.
This is not to say that I don't miss cryptography. I just like this stuff more right now. And this is not to say that I won't change the focus of what I'm doing again in the future; that seems likely.]]>
If, however, the mis-spelling is intentional then forgeries with different mis-spellings will be harder to spot. The brain will easily differentiate between "correct spelling" and "wrong spelling", but less easily between "wrong spelling (official)" and "wrong spelling (unofficial)". I read the article just two minutes ago, and I can't say for certain whether the intentional mis-spelling will use "Belguim" or "Begluim" or "Beglium".
It just makes it harder to learn what an authentic card looks like. People will stop short of checking the exact spelling, and just look for a wrongly spelled word.]]>
This would be excellent for presenting his material to PHBs but unfortunately saying things like 'Civil disobedience over airport security' makes him look like a crackpot.
Stop your NSA fanboyism (maybe we're only 2 years behind!!) and publish some crypto research already.]]>
Perhaps the real answer is that the people in charge of getting the names printed actually didn't bother looking the names up in a dictionary to see if they were correct instead assuming they were correct ... later to find in the final process that they were wrong. In a fast and furious brainstorming session to figure out how they could explain this away without looking like blundering idiots came up with the idea that yea.. this is a security countermeasure... yeah that's the ticket and that by purposefully spelling things wrong only the bad guys will spell them right... yeah and then they could patent this form of misspelling things like the usage of the word "loose" and "lose" and make up for any of their misdoings with all the profit generated... thinking even deeper these could be the very same team of people responsible for buying up all the misspelled domain names out there. All has been revealed today! Hurray.
Israel Torres
And if the marking is clearly visible to the eyes, it seems more than stupid. Surely, the counterfeiting person is probable go to examine the artwork more closly than others.]]>
Spelling errors actually could make it harder for the people as a whole to spot counterfeits since it risks introducing hard-to-catch inconsistency in the real thing. As for labs catching counterfeit -- guess what, I think labs have always been able to catch counterfeits. Even to track down exactly which mint a bill was made. It is pointless to conjure up an anti-counterfeiting device that only labs would know about because the real goal should be for people to be able to catch the counterfeit. If it wasn't a problem before, why should we bother now?]]>
Israel Torres]]>
No dice...if you don't do a good deal of the thinking too, you won't learn. Implementing someone else's idea never really works if you don't understand how it works. Start thinking over things yourself.]]>
Yes, Bruce. Instead of getting the rest of us to think about security issues, why don't you just do it all for us. This whole being informed thing is such a burden!]]>
Don, stop surfing the 'net and get back to work!
Dang, I've just given the game away.
Oh well.
Eh, so how will you prevent the tricksters from reproducing these errors?]]>
How about you do some proper cryptanalysis, or find some new (difficult) side-channel attacks for some systems, instead of reporting the results of others and becoming an armchair pundit harping on about 'soft' security issues.
Don't get me wrong. They are important too, but you once had a great pedigree and reputation based on your academic ability.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but why not do some research instead of interviews and radio shows.]]>
Common people wouldn't take notice to these small details the same way most don't take notice to phishing scams out there. Most of the counterfeiting countermeasures out there are so that the authorities can track down a source or at least fingerprint the source of the problem to a label. It is a lot easier to keep track this way and build cases upon these sources for eventual prosecution and further deterrence. Everyone knows we can't stop the problem; we can only evolve with it.
Israel Torres
Fascinating. It's not going to scream "counterfeit" to a merchant, but it's probably an easy check someone can do back at the forgery lab.]]>
The obvious solution is to mispeel something different on every card, e.g. the owners name!
I for one am used to having my name spelled incorectly.]]>
Ihre ausweis bitte...]]>
No, no, no. Only the real ID cards will have misspellings. The fakes will have everything spelled correctly, just like those spam email you get.]]>
Missing any one of the non-disclosed features tells the senior lab tech that this is a known counterfeit. The next step is to assign the bill to a junior lab tech who can find some publicly-known criterion to use to denounce the bill, such as defects due to the printing method.
Hypothetically, of course. But (as with copyright traps) a counterfeiter can never be sure that all of them are found, no matter how few there really are.
And thus, when you print the bi-plane upside-down, you can claim you did it on purpose.]]>


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text: I always think of this song every time we do something "cause it's tradition". Tradition for us, as a new family, has a completely different meaning. I imagine it's the same with all families especially when a new member comes along. In a "nation of two" family though, things can get a little trickier… Whom brings the presents at Xmas? Is it Father Xmas, on Xmas day or St. Vassilis on New Years day? Is it "baba" or "daddy"? Is it "a pinch and a punch for the first of the month" or a Kalo mena (Καλό μήνα in Greek). pft… These are the things I am willing to get to the bottom of, hoping to create a new tradition for the Nation of Two (+one). I do hope you help me with your suggestions and comments especially if you come from or are part of a bilingual or multilingual family. So, HELLO WORLD ! this is our world, and we love it!


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You don't vote for a king
9 comments:
- Adam Ford said...
Brilliant. Damn that Liberache!!!!!
- October 17, 2006
- Sam Nielson said...
Excellently done. The sweaty skin is the perfect touch.
- October 17, 2006
- S.T. Lewis said...
Yeah, I love the glimmery of the skin. And you can see in those eyes that most of his tubby frame is full of drugs. Beautifully done! I am much impressed.
- October 17, 2006
- David Malan said...
obviously someone else missed the ball once again on this assignment. We need more specific guidelines. If it weren't for that it would be a great picture.
- October 17, 2006
- Nathan Lindsay said...
I'm sure my King was a patron of your king more than once during his tragic reign.
- October 17, 2006
- Jeff Bunker said...
Nice job! I like it alot.
- October 17, 2006
- Oliver Chipping said...
This kind of grosses me out, but in the best possible way. I especially like that big lower lip
- October 17, 2006
- Sebastien Gallego said...
WOW! You are making big progress Nathan! I love it!
- October 18, 2006
- Nathan Lindsay said...
Thanks everybodies. I didn't realize how chubby and sweaty I made him until I was all finished...mission accomplished.
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April 30 (Reuters) - Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings said on Monday an investigation into misappropriation of funds by several employees of its Clear Media Limited found that three unauthorized bank accounts were opened in the partly-owned unit's name.
Clear Media earlier this year said certain employees had "illegally misappropriated" about 76 million yuan ($12 million)of the outdoor advertising company's funds.
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Clear Channel said the misappropriation of $10.2 million over several years resulted in discrepancies between actual cash balances and cash amounts included in its accounting records.
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How to quantify effects of Muller's ratchet
Evolution@home has compiled the largest existing database of Muller's ratchet simulation results. This allows quantifications of the threat of extinction and other aspects of Muller's ratchet with unprecedented accuracy. Depending on what you know about your favorite organism, evolution@home results might help to work out what the ratchet does there.
Quantifying the absolute rate of mutation accumulation from Muller's ratchet requires the knowledge of a number of parameters, but not all are of equal importance. Thus it can be perfectly acceptable to have only very rough upper and lower limits for some parameters - depending on other known details of the system this may still be enough to infer something useful about the effects of Muller's ratchet. Please note that valuable estimates can often be obtained from closely related species.
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Population size and life history
1. What is the total number of individuals?
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Mutation rates and effects
5. How large is the neutral (synonymous/silent) point mutation rate /site/generation?
Please do not give long term averages to avoid a 'slowdown' due to multiple hits.
Several estimates from independent methods are welcome.
min= mid= max=
6. How many insertions and deletions occur /site/generation in neutral DNA?
Please do not give long term averages to avoid a 'slowdown' due to multiple hits.
Several estimates from independent methods are welcome.
min= mid= max=
7. How often do transposable elements move /site/generation in neutral DNA?
Please do not give long term averages to avoid a 'slowdown' due to multiple hits.
Several estimates from independent methods are welcome.
min= mid= max=
8. What substitution rates are assumed for molecular clocks in related species?
Such estimates may help to establish the lowest possible mutation rate.
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9. How large is the effective genome size ?
a. all protein coding sequences (exons)
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b. all non-coding functional sequences
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10. Are there close relatives that can be used to infer data for mutational parameters?
(How do differences between the two species affect mutation rate estimates?)
11. Are there estimates about the strength of selection ?
Probably the least is known about this, but that may not matter too much,
as the current method to estimate Muller's ratchet
does not make many assumptions here and
the distribution of mutational effects is probably very wide
in most organisms. Just check, if more details are known from ...
a. Mutation accumulation experiments
b. Population genetic estimates of the distribution of mutational effects
c. Related species that could be used to infer mutational effects?
12. How many copies of a genome are usually present in a cell?
13. How many years did this species presumably live without recombination?
min= mid= max=
14. Asexuality: Is there good evidence for obligate parthenogenesis / vegetative reproduction?
15. How many mitotic recombination events occur /genome/generation?
16. Selfing: Is there regular meiotic recombination between sister chromosomes?
17. How rare is outcrossing? How many years since the last outcrossing event?
Evolutionary history
18. Is the species an ecological specialist or generalist?
Compare it to its sexual sister species?
19. Does this species have a compact or inflated genome?
Have all unnecessary genes probably been removed?
20. Are there known bottlenecks or population expansions in the species' history?


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The UK Pedogate and US Pizzagate Analogues
We believe it-as long as it's the UK version.
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The US "Pizzagate" as it has now become known, has its analogue in the recent pedophile scandal(s), involving the British elite, which included more than one Knighted politician and a former Prime Minister, as well as Jeff Epstein friend, Prince Andrew. The British media historically silenced and attempted to cover up and obfuscate facts, before finally admitting it was true.
New investigations have revealed pedophile rings operating out of multiple UK children's care homes with half-hearted investigations and thwarted prosecutions spanning the last 30 years.
The UK has been plagued with child care home abuse scandals with multiple coverup accusations made against Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, lost evidence, even suspicions that pedophile ring whistleblowers had been murdered. Similarly, some US mainstream media began misreporting and then "debunking" misrepresentations of the allegations uncovered in Wikileaks. Some mainstream responses to the information were focused on how the leaks occurred, rather than dealing with the content inside the materials.
Rise of the Citizen-Researcher
This left a gap in investigative journalism, prompting the rise of "Citizen-Journalists" and "Citizen-Researchers". This independent, crowd-led investigation caught fire after it was revealed by researchers and other sites that Mark Thompson, Chief Executive Officer of the NY Times -which was denying the evidence of an American pedophile scandal- was the same Mark Thompson, Former Director-General of the BBC, accused of lying to cover up the British Pedophile scandal.
Therefore, when the BBC published a contemporary article alleging the American pedophile scandal was fake, researchers saw it as an indication that the allegations were true. People began researching independently and started posting caches of information gleaned from the leaks on the front page of the internet an interesting twist, reddit banned the entire thread of research on the alleged criminal network. Ironically, rather than crush the investigation, it spread the investigation laterally, across multiple platforms. Citizen researchers disseminated the information and added to it, creating more researchers in the wake of the ban.
FBI Anonymous on 4chan
People had already began dialoguing online with "FBI Anon" on 4chan by late 2016. Among other things, the AMAs (Ask Me Anything) predicted a series of pedophile-related arrests taking place after the Presidential Inauguration on January 20, 2017. They described a wave of arrests, first dealing with low level arrests, moving on to mid-level arrests and ending in highest-level arrests.
It would be impossible to prove that this was a dialogue with a real "FBI insider". True or not, this seemed to fuel a new wave of investigation, as researchers turned to older Wikileaks, cross referencing old materials with new leads and publishing even more information online.
Active Suppression
Since the onset of the independent investigations there has been active suppression of research on Reddit, 4Chan, and Twitter via mass post deletions and DDoS attacks, while "skeptical" articles claiming to "debunk" misstated and mischaracterized pizzagate theories begun appearing, pushing search results pertaining to the actual #Pizzagate research further and further down in search results online.
Historically, there has been documentary after documentary and scattered reports about pedophilia and ritual abuse in elite circles. Cory Feldman and Elijah Wood have discussed it in Hollywood. The "Boy's Town" allegations in Nebraska were outlined in the documentary Conspiracy of Silence. Similarly- a Jerry Sandusky victim claimed Sandusky was only part of a much larger pedophile ring, implicating the foster care organization Sandusky founded, The Second Mile Foundation, as well as Penn State University.
Internationally, US soldiers were told to ignore violent pedophilia in the Afghani military ranks even when it occurred on US military bases, as high-level Pentagon staffers were caught buying child porn while the investigation seemed to be swept under the rug. Global-level pedophilia coverups from within the Catholic church is contemporary to the alleged pedophilia ring going all the way to the top of UNICEF, also known as the United Nations Children's Fund.
Six Degrees of Separation
The Madeleine McCann Abduction Investigation receives extended funding with a "new lead" on a suspect. Madeleine McCann's abduction from Praia da Luz, Portugal made worldwide headlines in May of 2007. When the McCann's became persons of interest, their PR Agent stepped down from the case, and Clarence Mitchell, stepped away from his position as Director of the Media Monitoring Unit at the British Government's Central Office of Information, to represent the McCanns. He also signed on to work for Freud Communications, run by Sir Clement Freud's son, Matthew Freud. March 12-June 12
Sir Clement Freud invited the McCann's to dinner in Portugal, 2 months after the abduction. His villa was situated 1/3 of a mile away from where Maddy was abducted. Once Sir Clement Freud was posthumously exposed as a long-time serial child predator who'd also had unusual contact with the McCann's, police turned their attention towards him. When it was determined he was not in the country at the time of the abduction, online researchers began looking at everyone connected to Sir Clement Freud-and began wondering if there was a connection to the information uncovered in Wikileaks.
Sir Clement Freud's son, Matthew Freud, is the great-grandson of "father" of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and is doubly related to the "father" of public relations, Edward Bernays. A former BBC Journalist, Matthew Freud was married to media-mogul Rupert Murdoch's daughter, Elisabeth Murdoch. Both Matthew and his late brother, painter Lucien Freud had close relationships with Jacob Rothschild. Rothschild's 50 year friend and American counterpart, the late David Rockefeller, funds the Partnership for Public Service through his organization, the Rockefeller Brother's Fund. The Partnership for Public Service publishes the Presidential Transition Guide, which instructs the President elect how to act as President.
Freud Communication's wunderkind Sara Latham- who moved on when the McCann's spokesman joined Freud's Communications- was a consultant to the Clinton Foundation, White House Staff to Bill Clinton, a communications advisor for Tony Blair, was appointed to Obama's transition team in 2008 and became Senior Advisor to Hillary Clinton.
Most recently in the 2016 Presidential Election, Sarah Latham was John Podesta's Chief of Staff.
A Small Club
Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts (17) and Ghislaine Maxwell
Virginia Roberts filed suit against Prince Andrew in 2011 and has for years maintained she was prostituted by Ghislaine Maxwell (pictured above) and Jeff Epstein (pictured below) and was raped by Prince Andrew as well as Alan Dershowitz. Though she was not successful in joining the current lawsuit of other women (Jane Does #1-4) against Jeff Epstein, she has nonetheless, been fighting in court for years.
The Daily Mail Prince Andrew, with an unnamed young woman, not his wife.
Prince Andrew and convicted/registered child sex offender, Jeff Epstein The Daily Mail
Jeff Epstein made sensational headlines across NY and Palm Beach when he was arrested and eventually convicted of solicitation of a minor and made to register as a child sex offender. He has faced multiple lawsuits regarding his sexual assault, rape and exploitation of underage girls. He has reportedly settled lawsuits from more than 30 "Jane Doe" victims since 2008; the youngest alleged victim was 12 years old at the time of her abuse.
The Guardian states:
In 2006, the FBI opened an investigation into allegations that Epstein had been paying for sex with underage girls at his Palm Beach mansion for years. By the following year federal prosecutors said they had identified 40 young women who may have been illegally procured by Epstein.
In 2008, however, the federal inquiry was dropped after Epstein negotiated a deal with prosecutors in which he agreed to plead guilty to a relatively minor state charge relating to soliciting paid sex with a minor – a 14-year-old girl. He served 13 months of an 18-month sentence and is now a registered sex offender.
Epstein and The Prince are close enough that Epstein actually paid off debts for Prince Andrew's ex wife, Sarah Ferguson, The Dutchess of York. According to the BBC, "in March 2011 - he [Prince Andrew] came in for a steady stream of criticism over his friendship with US tycoon Jeffrey Epstein, who was jailed for sex offenses. There were even calls for him to step down then."
Jeff Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Schildhorn/McMulllan
Virginia Roberts also sued Ghislaine Maxwell and that case was settled this year under confidential terms.
Ghislaine Maxwell supposedly worked as Epstein's madame. "She said she worked for a very wealthy gentleman called Jeffrey Epstein who was looking for a traveling masseuse and I'd get training and be paid large amounts of money," Roberts told the Mail.
"Jeffrey said he wanted to be my mentor," says Miss Roberts. "I felt that he and Ghislaine really cared for me. We'd do family things, like watch Sex And The City and eat popcorn.
"But it was a sick family. I was a paedophile's top girl, being trained up for a British Prince. He trained me to do whatever a man wanted.
Ghislaine Maxwell at the wedding of Chelsea Clinton Getty Images
Prince Andrew and President Bill Clinton NY Magazine
Bill Clinton is a known womanizer, but has also been accused of rape, sexual assault and unwanted sexual contact by many women, outlined here in The Washington Post's well organized guide to Bill Clinton's womanizing and different instances of him being accused of rape.
The relationship between Clinton, Epstein and Maxwell goes way back. New York Magazine's profile of Jeff Epstein before his incarceration for soliciting a minor, mentions all three in the following excerpt:
Friends of the two [Epstein and Maxwell] say that Maxwell, whose social life has always been higher-octane than Epstein's, lent a little pizzazz to the lower-profile Epstein. Indeed, at a party at Maxwell's house, her friends say, one is just as apt to see Russian ladies of the night as one is to see Prince Andrew. The Oxford-educated Maxwell, described by many as a man-eater (she flies her own helicopter and was recently seen dining with Clinton at Nello's on Madison Avenue)
What's curious here is that the NY Magazine profile of Jeff Epstein seems to oddly corroborate Virginia Robert's claims made during an interview by The Daily Mail, published by Gawker:
Roberts alleges that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew three times, the first during a visit to London. "Andrew was making eye contact with me at every chance and concentrating on my plunging V-neck top," she told the Mail. "He didn't ask me anything about myself. I just sat there with a smile frozen on my lips. Ghislaine had whispered, 'The Prince seems really interested in you.'"
Roberts claims that Epstein paid her about $15,000 for sleeping with the Prince, the Mail reports. Also: "There is no suggestion that the Prince knew that Epstein paid her."
The second time she was coerced into having sex with the prince was at Epstein's Manhattan apartment, Roberts claims; the third alleged time was on Epstein's Caribbean island, where a group of Russian models were flown in for an orgy.
Of course, once his Epstein's allegations went to trial, it was also reveled by Gawker and confirmed in FAA flight logs (page 8) that Bill Clinton was on Jeff Epstein's plane nicknamed the, "Lolita Express" many times-as was Alan Dershowitz.
Federal Aviation Administration Flight Logs, Evidence in Edwards (Virginia Roberts) vs. Epstein
Virginia Roberts claimed Epstein made her have sex with Alan Dershowitz and others, including Britain's Prince Andrew, on multiple occasions. This suit was filed and Dershowitz denied all allegations. A countersuit was brought by Dershowitz against Robert's lawyers which ended in a settlement. The following portion of the joint statement is of particular note:
Brad Edwards, Paul Cassell and Alan Dershowitz have today settled their pending defamation claims in which Edwards and Cassell sued Dershowitz and Dershowitz counterclaimed against Edwards and Cassell. The case was about Dershowitz's public claims that Edwards and Cassell, as the attorneys for Virginia Roberts, had failed to perform the necessary due diligence before filing the allegations of their client, not whether the acts of alleged misconduct in fact occurred.
The federal non-prosecution agreement made at the time of Epstein's "sweetheart deal" organized by Alan Dershowitz-one of Epstein's "Dream Team" lawyers- excludes prosecution of those who allegedly procured minors for Epstein and also any power-brokers who may have molested them. Although Dershowitz wasn't a signatory to the plea agreement, the latest filings in Roberts's case against Epstein accuse Dershowitz of essentially negotiating his own immunity:
Dershowitz would later play a significant role in negotiating the NPA on Epstein's behalf. Indeed, Dershowitz helped negotiate an agreement that provided immunity from federal prosecution in the Southern District of Florida not only to Epstein, but also to "any potential co-conspirators of Epstein". . . . Thus, Dershowitz helped negotiate an agreement with a provision that provided protection for himself against criminal prosecution in Florida for sexually abusing Jane Doe #3.
[Jane Doe #3: Virginia Roberts]
Given this context, does it seem reasonable that some of these cases of "VIP pedophile rings" might be connected?
Given the wealth of historical facts about all of these people, evidentiary court findings leading to convictions and statements and associations, is it really so impossible to think that Bill and Hillary Clinton and financial/political power-brokers John and Tony Podesta would be involved?
Kim Holleman writes about politics, media, and society for Artsci, Newslogue, and on Patreon, and is the American Editor at State Of Globe News Service. Visiting Scholar & Research Affiliate at MIT Media Lab (2013-2017).


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I'm picturing these mother-y little old ladies, down in the back room of a library or somewhere, rolling them back up and re-sealing them into the little re-used foil packets they came in, using household irons, or perhaps curling irons that aren't much other use anymore.
There's something wrong with me. I know that now.
use your old one until it wears out or you pass the expiration date on the box.
"Waste not, want not," I always say.
Um, dude, are you all right?
A Scotsman came to his pharmacist (chemist over there) and flopped a condom on the counter with a big hole in the end of it.
"How much fir a new one?"
"Well, they're 16 p to one pound 50, depending."
"Weel then, how much to patch it?"
"I..ahh…. I dunno, I guess I could get the tyre shop around the corner to do it for a 50 p."
"Thank ye" and the Scotsman leaves.
Next day he's back, tosses the blowout on the counter and announces "The Rrrregiment votes t' patch it!"
Q: What's the definition of cheap?
A: A condom with a laundry number.
I'll be fine. I just need another drink. And perhaps a hit-off-of the old bong there. A noseful of coke 'wouldnint' hurt.
But only the one shot of heroin. I mean, a guy's gotta draw the line somewhere.
I've never tried Ecstacy. Is that shit any good?
Dick @ 4;
That's not cheap, they needn't be new when they're only used as a courtesy to the sheep.
Speakin of sheep, when the fuck did we stop using a sheep gut for a condom? Christ-a-mighty, no body ever tells me nuthin!
We scots never stopped, we're just too lazy to take it out of the sheep first.
Apo, would you be willing to tell us Porch Minkees & Minkettes
just what you were searching for on da intartoobz, when you
stumbled across that critically important BUCA PSA??
Do you visit these sites often or was this an inadvertent detour
in your search for sumpin' else that you may wish to not tell us
about. Inquiring minds would like to know & maybe go there too!
Any youz PM's bemember the old limerick?:
In day's of old when knights were bold
and rubbers weren't invented
They wore their socks upon their cocks
and babies were prevented!
There's actually a newsgroup (alt.binaries.alt5) where some guy just bulk uploads tons of random funny crap from the net. I download it all and save it to filter through on those frequent occasions when my connection is being a shit.
Most of it goes right in the garbage but there's a few gems now and then. And lots of it is extreme sports type stuff shot with HD helmet cams, nothing like living vicariously through people with more money to waste on ER trips than myself.
Hey McCloud, get offa my ewe!
Dammit, Dick beat me to it
Dick beat me to it
heh heh – Showing yer age Firehand. But I won't tell because I'm in the same boat.
I made a little note & tacked a condom 'foil packet' up on the bulletin board.
The note said, "Use this, then you can safely go f**k yourself"!


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Anyone who has ever sung in our home venue, the Victoria Theatre in Halifax, will testify that it is a challenging experience! The acoustics of the venue can make it impossible to hear other voice parts – it demands full concentration from the first note to the last. Our pre-concert rehearsals are often a little fraught when our minds inevitably wonder or our heads sink into the music folders to the eternal despair of MD John Pryce-Jones. However, come concert time, heads magically rise, minds are switched on and off we go.
Physically and emotionally, if I'm being honest, I can feel a little detached from the audience. The concentrated effort of singing, following JPJ and connecting with the rest of the choir leaves little room for a two way communication. However, our Autumn 2016 concert, The Armed Man, was a different experience.
For the 2016/17 season we have been inviting refugees and asylum seekers brought together by an organisation called Together We Grow, based in the Upper Calder Valley. Every month families living in Rochdale are offered the opportunity to engage in a variety of activities from cooking, growing fruit and vegetables, and socialising in a relaxed environment in Blackshaw Head. We all know of the terrible, unimaginable situations some asylum seekers are trying to put behind them, so it was with a little trepidation that we invited twelve of the group to The Armed Man.
Anyone who's ever heard or sung this piece cannot fail to struck by the visceral descriptions of war and suffering – experiences some of the refugees can relate to first hand. However, far from being an oppressive, the whole concert experience was enervating. The refugees are so positive – they seem to take most things in their stride so to sing for them was deeply moving. They enjoyed the spectacle, the music and the occasion and for once I could let my mind drift, a little, to them, in the audience.


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