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Tuesday, April 01, 2014

George Osborne, with Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei. George Osborne

There is a paedophile scandal at UK government minister George Osborne's old school, Colet Court/St Paul's.

The scandal involves Alan Doggett, the former choir master at Colet Court, the junior section of St Paul's school, in Barnes in London.

Conducted by Alan Doggett, 1969.

Doggett was a member of the pedophile Information Exchange (PIE).

Doggett was a close friend of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Doggett resigned from Colet Court in 1968 but went on to teach boys at another London private school before working as a choirmaster with boys from more than 30 London schools.

Doggett was one of six teachers at St Paul’s/Colet Court suspected of sexually abusing boys as young as ten between the 1960s and 1980s.

Dominic Grieve QC, the Attorney General, was a Colet Court pupil.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.

Doggett become the director of the London Boy Singers, founded at the instigation of Benjamin Britten.

Alan Doggett, first conductor of Joseph .

Alan Doggett died in mysterious circumstances in 1978.

Reportedly, Sir Jimmy Savile abused children at Duncroft School (above), run by Barnardos. Martin Narey, after being the boss of the prison service, was the chief executive of Barnardo's.

Care homes once owned by Action for ChildrenBarnardo's and Henshaws Society for Blind People are among those being investigated in connection with the Jimmy Savile child abuse scandal.

The National Children's Society changed its name from NCH to Action for Children in 2008.

Neville Husband "I was told by Husband that you could easily be found hanged at Medomsley, and that that year, six boys had already hanged themselves."

In the UK, a pedophile ring has been uncovered by police investigating the Medomsley detention centre.

The ring reportedly operated in the 1970s and 1980s.

Detective Superintendent Paul Goundry has said: "We always knew this would be a major inquiry but the scale of it, and the sheer number of victims who have come forward, has been a shocking...

"There is growing evidence to suggest there was an organised paedophile ring operating in Medomsley."

Neville Husband and Leslie Johnson who worked at the centre were imprisoned for abusing boys and have since died.

Husband was imprisoned for eight years in 2003 for sexually abusing young male inmates between 1977 and 1984.

Reportedly, Husband was part of a paedophile ring.

Martin Narey. Director General of the Prison Service of England and Wales between 1998 and 2003. Chief Executive Officer of the charity Barnardo's from 2005 to 2011.

Kevin Young was taken into care at age two.

(The Guardian - The abuse of boys.)

In 1977, as a teenager, Kevin was sent to Medomsley detention centre in County Durham in the UK.

Neville Husband, who worked at Medomsley, repeatedly raped Kevin.

Kevin says: "I was raped repeatedly, tied up and ligatured (around the neck). It was the worst of the worst."

"I was told by Husband that you could easily be found hanged at Medomsley, and that that year, six boys had already hanged themselves."

"He was so sure of himself that he was able to take me out of the prison against my will and to his private house just outside the prison gates...

"Three or four others raped me as well...

"A rope was put round my neck and turned till I passed out."

Belgian soldiers

The prison service and the police all knew about Husband's interest in boys.

James Millar Reid was governor at Medomsley at the time when Kevin Young was abused.

In 2000, he was visited by detectives who were investigating Husband.

A few days after the visit, he went missing and his body was found in a wood in Stelling Minnis, near Canterbury.

Martin Narey (above) was the assistant governor at two places where Husband worked.

He went on to become boss of the notorious Barnardo's, the charity for vulnerable children.

More here: The abuse of teenage boys in a detention centre. (Ian Evans brought our attention to "THIS ONE")

Reportedly, many children are murdered in children's homes.

Often, top people are involved, reportedly.

Dylan, who was found hanged at a UK children's home

In October 2009, in the UK, 11-year-old Dylan McDonald was found dead at a children's home.

He was discovered suspended from a large Victorian window.

In December 2009, Cumbria police concluded their investigation into Dylan’s death and confirmed there were no suspicious circumstances.

(Liverpool Echo.co.uk - News - Liverpool Local News - Council ...)

Dylan McDonald was found hanged at the Appletree Centre, in Cumbria in the UK.

Dylan's family were due to apply to regain custody of their son in November 2009.

Uncle Shaun McDonald told how Dylan had been excitedly looking forward to trips back home to see his dad Peter and mum Sharon at Hallowe'en and Christmas.

Gartree (Website for this image)

In the part of the UK known as the Midlands, 127 prison inmates have died since 2006.

Gartree, a prison in the UK, has had a lot of prisoner 'suicides'.

Brad Lane with Reggie Kray at Gartree prison. (Yorkshire Post)

Reggie Kray was a UK gangster and he was sexually attracted to boys.

In 1969, he was jailed for murder.

Reggie Kray's prison file, seen by the Daily Mail, shows he spent hours talking to young offenders and writing to schoolchildren

(The Goodfather: How Reggie Kray spent his later years)

In 1997, it was reported that: 'He can frequently be observed engrossed in deep conversation with young inmates...'

A 1977 report on his progress said: 'Ronald Kray remains an active and predatory homosexual, and cares little who knows it.'

Another report describes how Kray was found in bed with another inmate.

Reportedly, prison officers usually turned a blind eye to Kray's affairs.

Reggie Kray's twin brother was Ronnie Kray, who was also a gangster and lover of boys.

Gangster Ronnie Kray and top politician Lord Boothby in 1963. Lord Boothby was close to all the top people from Churchill to Tom Driberg. Reportedly, Ronnie once said to a boy: "You will go home with Lord Boothby. You will do exactly what Lord Boothby wants. Or I will hurt you" (De Personen Encyclopedie)

The Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, were mafia-style British gangsters.

They had intimate connections to top people in the political world.

They were gay.

They were friends with a young boy called Brad Lane who has since died.

Brad Lane with Reggie Kray at Gartree prison. (Yorkshire Post)

According to this source - Archives - the Krays had links to a paedophile ring.

"What was involved was the systematic abuse of ten-to-twelve-year-old boys, one of whom subsequentlybecame fairly well known as a singer.

"Another, rather less fortunate,wound up in six pieces in two suitcases...

"The paedophile ring in question had links to the Kray twins."

More information is found here -Archives

"The police uncovered a large-scale juvenile pimping operation centred on a house in a Suffolk village (Tattington) owned by Ronnie Kray.

(the twins had huge property interests in EastAnglia).

"Some of the boys were obtained via a close friend of Britten's in London, who named him as one of the beneficiaries of the 'service': other'customers' included Lord Boothby (who frequently shared boys with Ronnie Kray himself) and the record producer Joe Meek.

"At least two other people died in the aftermath of Bernard's murder as the twins sealed up the leaks."

Brad Lane with Buster Edwards (Mail on Sunday...)

In April 2009, The Mail on Sunday and the Yorkshire post told us about Brad Lane:

Revealed: How Reggie Kray 'adopted' pen pal, 10, who was abandoned by his father / Obsessed Kray fan's collection on sale for £50000 - Yorkshire Post

1. Reggie Kray became friends with a boy called Brad Lane.

Reggie came to call Brad his 'adopted son'.

2. Almost every day, Brad wrote letters to Reggie while Reggie was a prisoner at Gartree Prison in Leicestershire.

3. This happened after Brad's father had left home.

4. Brad became Reggie Kray's most frequent visitor.

5. When Reggie was transferred to Lewes prison, in East Sussex, Brad travelled the 600 miles from his home in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, to see him.

6. In 1991, Brad - then aged 12 - changed his name to Kray.

The 57-year-old Kray signed a legal document declaring Brad to be his adopted son.

7. Brad also visited Ronnie Kray, a paranoid schizophrenic, in Broadmoor mental hospital.

8. Brad died some years ago, while still very young.

9. The Krays were jailed for life for murder in 1969.

Ronnie died in 1995 and Reggie died in 2001.

The Kray Twins, Reggie and Ronnie

In 1997, the Independent reported (paedophiles in prison who recruit ...):

Juveniles as young as 15, who are being held in adult jails, may be being recruited into child-sex rings.

"Two boys who were being held on remand at Doncaster prison were allowed into contact with a convicted paedophile called Belcher.

"Since being moved to Wetherby prison, in West Yorkshire, the boys have been receiving letters from Belcher and have been sent money last month by another man described as 'a colleague of the paedophile'."

The Chief Inspector of Prisons, General Sir David Ramsbotham, "has told friends he was recently horrified to discover that a juvenile offender, who had been the victim of a paedophile, was being held in the same unit of Cardiff prison as the man who abused him.

Stephen Shaw, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: "There is a danger that we will begin to see in prisons a mirror image of the corruption and abuse that has been found in care homes."

In March 2008, the BBC Programme 'Panorama' told us more about Jersey: the UK Island of Secrets

According to the BBC programme:

A key abuser - reported by the police to be dead - is alive and living in France.

Jersey's Haute de la Garenne children's home (where children were reported to have been tortured and murdered) was closed in 1986.

The children were transferred to other children's homes.

One such home was Blanche Pierre run by Jane and Alan Maguire.

Panorama spoke to seven former residents of the home.

They all describe abuse, including torture.

Panorama tracked Alan Maguire down to a village in France.

One might wonder if people like Alan Maguire are being protected by some very powerful people?

Anonymous said...

The Mirror (London, England) - September 7, 2009

MORE babies have to be taken into care to stop terrible parents turning them into monsters, the head of Barnardo's warned yesterday. [THAT'S BARNARDO'S JOB!]

Chief executive Martin Narey said it was better to place at-risk infants in good foster homes early. [CLOSER TO THE SATANIC ALTARS IN THE CELLAR] That would prevent the tots becoming damaged and a menace to society.

Mr Narey admitted his comments were "illiberal heresy" as he called for less stress on "fixing families that can't be fixed".

He was speaking in the wake of last week's court case involving a pair of young brothers who viciously attacked two other boys.

Both the accused were under the care of social services at the time. [Nareyland]

Mr Narey said: "It sounds terrible but I think we try too hard with children's birth parents. We can't keep trying to fix families that are completely broken. I have seen children sent back to homes that I certainly would not have sent them back to. I have been extremely surprised at decisions taken.

"If we really cared about the interests of the child, we would take children away as babies and put them into permanent adoptive families where we know they will have the best possible outcome. That view is seen as a heresy among social services, where the thinking is that if someone - a parent - has failed, they deserve another chance.

"My view is that we just need to take more children into care, if we really want to put the interests of the child first."

Mr Narey, the former director general of the Prison Service, added that if social workers intervened in this way quickly, "we would see far fewer problems".

The two brothers in court last week - aged 10 and 11 - admitted causing their victims grievous bodily harm with intent. The pair, from Edlington, South Yorks, will be sentenced in November after reports.

Anonymous said...

Daily Post (Liverpool, England) - May 14, 2002
PM's wife hosts talk at No 10.

PRIME Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie is to host a lecture at No 10 tonight by Prison Service director general Martin Narey, Downing Street announced.

Mr Blair will attend the lecture, along with experts on criminal justice, said the premier's official spokesman.

No other ministers would be present, the spokesman added.

Tonight's event is one of a series of lectures at No 10 chaired by Merseyside-born Mrs Blair.

Critics have claimed her role means she is muddling her role with that of a politicised ``first lady'' such as Hillary Clinton.

Downing Street has insisted that Mrs Blair merely acts as a ``moderator'' in discussions that follow the lectures. Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Norman Baker said: ``Cherie Blair is looking more and more like Britain's answer to Hillary Clinton - a super-minister without portfolio.''

Anonymous said...

The Mirror (London, England) - April 3, 2010
Dangers for missing kids; CHARITY.

A "FRIGHTENING" number of children who go missing end up being sexually exploited, a charity warned yesterday.

Barnardo's said one in six of the 100,000 children in the UK who run away each year had been forced into prostitution and porn. And 55% of those helped by the charity had regularly gone missing.

Charity boss Martin Narey has launched a pounds 1.3million campaign to increase their specialist services. He said: "Children who repeatedly go missing are in grave danger of falling victim to those who prey on them for sexual gain."

Anonymous said...

The Birmingham Post (England) - September 30, 1998
Prisons tighten rules to stop paedophile rings.

Jail rules are being tightened to stop "dangerous paedophile rings" forming among child sex offenders behind bars, the Prison Service said yesterday.

A number of paedophile networks are forming within prisons, where abusers are segregated from other inmates, according to new research commissioned by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

In some cases, jailed paedophiles have managed to establish contact with outside abusers they had known before they were jailed and children have been brought in to visit.

It was suspected that these children were to be abused by the prisoners on their release and that the prison visit was intended to serve as some form of "preview".

In light of the evidence, the Prison Service said it is considering a number of measures designed to reduce the risk of sex offenders pursuing their activities while in prison.

The measures are likely to focus on prison visits, letters and use of the telephone.

The Prison Service will extend its use of SMART phone technology across the prison estate which will only allow prisoners to dial approved phone numbers.

Prison Service director of regimes, Mr Martin Narey, said the service had already taken "comprehensive action" to address the problem after being alerted to the danger of children visiting sex offenders last May.

"We only now allow visits (to paedophiles) from their own children," he said.

He admitted, however, that in the past it could have been possible for children to have been brought in to visit paedophiles who were not their parents.

"It could happen for a number of reasons. If someone comes to visit a prisoner and brings children with them, we would not normally challenge that for ordinary prisoners," he said.

"As soon as we had any indication that this might be happening, we moved very quickly to prevent it happening in future."

In an early preview of sections of the NSPCC report, entitled Grappling With Smoke, due to be officially released in November, the charity said 240 organised child sex abuse rings may be under investigation at any one time.

The report outlines how one of the rings studied in the research had formed in prison.

It said: "This group of abusers went on to commit a catalogue of abusive acts against a large number of children both in the UK and abroad."

While recognising the rights of prisoners to communicate with each other, the NSPCC is calling for the Prison Service to deter the formation of such dangerous groups.

The research conducted by Manchester University academic Mr Bernard Gallagher, an expert in organised child sex abuse, also highlights two cases where abusers in the community wrote to abusers in prison. In one case an abuser, adopting a false name, visited paedophiles in prison.

The report concluded the contacts were designed to fulfil a number of functions.

They helped set up new rings and "promoted" existing ones, and also thwarted police investigations through a number of methods including planning the harassment of witnesses in impending trials.

Later, the NSPCC said local authorities and police forces face the challenge of investigating one case of organised child sex abuse within their respective boundaries every year.

Mr Mike Taylor, NSPCC director of children's services, said: "As a country we have to recognise the scale of the problem and develop means of tackling it head on."

The NSPCC has serious concerns that local authorities and police forces on their own face severe difficulties in dealing effectively with the scale of the problem, Mr Taylor said.

"Investigating organised abuse can place huge demands on agency resources. A single case might, for example, involve scores of victims and several abusers."

Anonymous said...

The People (London, England) - May 26, 2002
PERVERT KING SETS UP PAEDO RING IN PRISON; Sex fiend's sickening plot to smuggle kiddie pictures.

POP pervert Jonathan King has helped set up a vile paedophile ring INSIDE the jail where he is doing time for preying on boys, the Sunday People can reveal.

The shamed music millionaire and three twisted pals hatched a sinister plot to smuggle in pictures of scantily-clad youngsters.

Vigilant prison officers blocked the sickening scheme by King, 58, and his disgusting henchmen - one a former radio DJ like him.

But bosses at Maidstone prison, Kent, are so concerned that they are keeping the men under close watch - and King could be moved to another jail if the gang tries to revive its evil plans.

He and his fellow perverts were caught trying to have catalogues and holiday brochures posted in to them so they could drool over pictures of children modelling underwear and in bathing gear.

A prison officer said last night: "Paedophiles use this seemingly harmless material like pornography. King's friendships and secretive behaviour set off alarm bells.

"We watched the men like hawks and nipped it in the bud before the ring got out of hand.

"Talks have now taken place to discuss King's future at the prison. If the men break the rules they could be split up and even transferred."

King was sentenced to seven years last November for sex attacks on boys aged 13 to 16. Behind bars he hit it off with smooth-talking Roger Pond, who once had a show on BBC Radio Kent.

Pond, 48, got 14 years in 1999 for abusing 14 children aged seven to 16. His first victim was a 15-year-old girl, attacked after a choir trip to Canterbury Cathedral.

Another ring member was Mark Towner, 52, sentenced to eight years for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in Cambodia.He became the first "sex tourist" to be prosecuted under laws allowing charges to be brought in this country for offences abroad.

The fourth member of the disgusting group is Peter Ebbels, 46, who is serving life for rape.

The plot is just the latest of King's jail exploits exposed by the Sunday People. We revealed how he bribed an inmate to be his minder after a fellow lag attacked him.

We also told how he had the nerve to run a Pop Idol-style talent contest behind bars.

A Prison Service spokesman said: "We do not discuss individual prisoners."

Anonymous said...

Sunday Mercury - April 9, 2006

TWO women claim they were victims of a secret Midland paedophile ring involving some of Britain's most notorious sex attackers.

The mothers claim they were drugged and abused when they were children - and have contacted police about their allegations.

The alleged victims alerted cops to their abusive past after Austin Griffiths, 77, was jailed for 11 years for paedophile offences.

The grandad, formerly from Balsall Heath, Birmingham, was found guilty of sexually abusing a young girl and boy at Plymouth Crown Court in December 2004.

Now the women claim he was a member of a Midland paedophile ring which included Birmingham pervert Arthur Birch, millionaire businessman William Goad - dubbed Britain's worst paedophile - and sex beast Eddie Pratt.

But despite contacting Devon and Cornwall police about the alleged ring, the women say detectives have ignored their claims.

They have now made a formal complaint to the Independent Police Complaints Commission about their treatment.

One of the women said: "We just want to expose the awful crimes that Austin Griffiths has committed and to make people aware of his connections with other paedophiles.

"He had been seen out drinking with Arthur Birch on several occasions and was known to keep his company.

"He ran a market stall in Plymouth with William Goad, and a shop in Stoke with him where they sold second-hand videos.

"He also associated with Eddie Pratt, who has been linked to Goad. The connections we have unravelled are alarming.

"It is outrageous that Griffiths was allowed to carry out this child sex abuse for so long without anyone reporting him.

"He might be in jail now but so much hasn't come out about him yet.

"We want police and social services to re-open the files and really bring him to justice.

"There are so many other people that he associated with who should also be investigated. We believe some of these are involved in paedophilia."

The women say Griffiths' conviction convinced them that they may have been among his victims as children.

"We believe we could have been sexually abused by this ring when we were young kids," one said.

"When Griffiths was arrested, we learned more about his connections and realised that we had been caught up in this terrible world.

"Neither of us can remember huge chunks of our younger years and we believe we could have been drugged and abused then."

Griffiths left the Midlands and moved to Plymouth in the 1980s with his second wife Pat. But he regularly returned to the region to visit his family.

He did not hold down regular employment but worked for Midland Counties dairies in the 1960s and was a lorry driver for a while, as well as working with Goad.

Arthur Birch was convicted of seven indecent assaults on children and three serious sexual offences, and was jailed for eight years in 2001.

The former care worker at the Tennal Assessment Centre in Har-borne, Birmingham, was one of five men jailed for a total of 3 7 years for carrying out a campaign of sexual abuse. He died in prison aged 82.

William Goad is currently serving a life sentence for child abuse.

The 61 year-old, from Plymouth, abused 3,500 boys over 40 years and has been named Britain's worst paedophile.

He amassed a fortune through a chain of discount stores and indoor markets and is believed to have a personal fortune worth pounds 2 5 million.

He was described by prosecuting counsel as 'a voracious, predatory and violent homosexual paedophile'.

Suspected child abuser Eddie Pratt was an associate of Goad.

Police planned to question him about his connections to the paedophile but he hanged himself at his bar in France last year.

No-one at Devon and Cornwall Police was available to comment last night.

Anonymous said...

Sandy Hook school custodian linked to Crisis Actors East director

Anonymous said...

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) - November 28, 2006
Medomsley: Years of abuse were suspected

It was meant to give young offenders a short, sharp shock.

Instead, many were left scarred for life, haunted by a brutal catalogue of sex attacks.

The abuse of inmates at the Medomsley Detention Centre, in Consett, County Durham, came to light when former kitchen officer Neville Husband was convicted of molesting a string of young lads in the 1970s and 1980s.

But today, fresh revelations expose the shocking scale of the abuse suffered behind the bars of the now-closed juvenile jail.

Secret papers obtained by the Chronicle state that prison officers suspected married father-of-one Husband was preying on inmates but did nothing.

Documents hidden for nearly 40 years reveal Husband, who went on to become a church minister in Gateshead, had been investigated for importing child pornography a decade before he staged his attacks.

Statements by ex-colleagues tell how the 69-year-old, currently serving a 10-year jail term, had regular shipments of hardcore porn sent to him at Medomsley.

And a second officer was also convicted of indecently assaulting a male prisoner, who had been introduced to him by Husband, of Shotley Bridge.

The pair continued to visit and abuse the same boy after he was released from custody.

Transcripts of police interviews also reveal thousands of indecent pictures of children were found on computers seized from Husband's home and his United Reformed Church office.

Medomsley Detention Centre was built in 1898 but wasn't acquired by the Prison Commission until 1959.

Employing just 11 staff, a 1977 inspection report described Medomsley as 'Dickensian' and read: "The detention centre has never hit the headlines and within the Prison Department has apparently been accepted as a place where nothing of any import ever occurs and one which is unlikely to cause any problems."

Husband, now dubbed the 'Medomsley monster', worked at the jail as a kitchen officer. After 27 years in the prison service, he became a United Reformed Church minister in Gateshead in 1994.

But it was not until 2001 that his perverted past came back to haunt him. Previously silenced by shame, some of his victims spoke out about the ordeal they suffered decades earlier.

Husband was convicted by a Newcastle Crown Court jury of molesting five boys and jailed for eight years. Publicity surrounding the trial encouraged others to come forward and he was jailed for a further two years on additional charges.

But now we can reveal Husband's depraved interest in young boys was apparent years earlier.

A report reveals police probed Husband for importing homosexual pornographic pictures while working at a borstal in Dorset.

The document, signed by the governor of HM Borstal Portland, reads: "The police showed me sample photographs of men in obscene and lewd postures, a signed order form and a signed cheque for 20/- which they allege was sent to an address in Sweden by Officer Husband.

"The police interviewed Officer Husband at Portland police station and he admitted sending for a series of photographs, the sample of the series he ordered pictured two naked men, apparently engaged in homosexual activity. Immediately following the police interview Husband saw me privately and informed me of the statement he had made to the police. He told me ( and the police ( that he was considering writing a book on homosexuality and he had sent for the photos to assist to this end. Officer Husband is a good cook and baker, a married man with one child, buff, hearty and something of a comedian."

Anonymous said...

[Part 2]

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) > November 28, 2006

A second document dated July 1967 reveals no further action was taken by the police and Husband was allowed to continue working with children in the prison service.

The allegations made against him in 1967 were brought up again when he was quizzed regarding sex abuse claims in 2001. We have accessed a transcript of a police interview with Husband, during which he admits the pornography he imported showed images of children.

An officer from Consett police station asks him: "And I understand that while you were in Portland, an investigation took place regarding you importing pornographic pictures of teenage boys, is that correct?"

Husband replies: "There was, yes there was." Seconds later, Husband, who claimed he was writing a book about homosexuality, adds: "The pornography at that time was, it was soft porn, but again I wasn't aware that it was boys because you got sent what you got sent."

The deputy governor at Portland while Husband was investigated, James Millar Reid, went on to become the governor at Medomsley.

Statements given to police by prison officers who worked with Husband suggest suspicions were rife about his cravings for young boys, who he went on to molest in the kitchens he ran.

One by an officer who served at Medomsley in 1978, reads: "I don't know why but all the governors thought very highly of Husband and seemed to look after him.

"For example, on a regular basis on rotation we would thoroughly search various areas within the centre. This was to look for cigarettes and alcohol. All main areas of the prison were searched except for the kitchen area. The prison management would not allow anyone but Husband to have access to the kitchen area."

After Husband left Medomsley, a search of the kitchen quarters discovered sex toys, pornography and rubber underwear in a filing cabinet. Victims' statements, many of which are too distressing for us to print, detail how Husband abused them in the kitchen area.

The officer's statement adds: "There were always very strong rumours that Neville Husband was homosexual and that he was sexually abusing boys who were working with him in the kitchen. This was general knowledge among staff and boys in the centre.

"On a night time Husband would usually keep one boy back with him after the others had been dismissed and we all felt sorry for that boy. Nobody reported their suspicions to anyone because Husband was so close to, and seemed to be supported by the governors and senior management." Another officer told how he had to take time off work because of Husband's "overbearing attitude" and that he was "too scared" to report rumours of him abusing boys.

Our dossier also reveals Husband arranged for pornography to be sent to him. A statement given to police by one of his ex-colleagues reads: "For some time I was employed as a gate officer and was surprised to see Husband was receiving large quantities of post containing homosexual pornography.

"Sometime the envelopes were not sealed and I used to look at the magazines and burn them without telling Husband. One package contained a video. I looked at this and found it was hardcore gay porn, again I burned it."

Anonymous said...

[Part 3]

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) > November 28, 2006

A number of former Medomsley workers have told how Husband's closest friend in the jail was a storeman called Leslie Johnston who has also been convicted of indecent assault on an inmate at the detention centre. He revealed this while being interviewed by police in the run-up to Husband's trial.

It states: "After a while, Neville and I became quite good friends. We had a mutual interest in religion." He adds: "We joined the freemasons at Chopwell and got on quite well together. We sometimes went out together with our wives to social functions."

Johnston's statement went on: "At one stage I think Neville suggested that he had a lad working in the kitchen who he thought would be suitable to assist me in the stores department. Whilst XXXX was working with me in the stores I developed a sexual relationship with him." He adds: "As a result of this I was convicted at court of indecent assault and subsequently left the prison service."

In the same statement, Johnston tells how he knew Husband had abused the same boy and that the pair both visited the victim once he had been released from prison.

Husband was interviewed by police on a number of occasions. The transcript of one quiz, seen by us, tell how explicit videos of children were taken from his house in 1999.

In September 2001, he was arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent photographs of children.

His home PC, disks, zip-disks and a laptop from the United Reformed Church office on Cromer Avenue, Gateshead, had all been seized.

During the interview, Husband is told detectives discovered thousands of indecent images of children, some of which were stored on disks labelled with phoney titles relating to church business.

The Home Office declines to comment on our investigation. No-one at the United Reformed Church was available for comment.

Anonymous said...

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) - October 12, 2001
Minister suspended after sex allegations; CHURCH.

A CHURCH minister has been suspended from his post while police investigate a number of alleged sexual assaults on teenage boys.

The Rev Neville Husband, of Shotley Bridge, Co Durham, was suspended by the United Reformed Church after his arrest.

Mr Husband, who is minister of the Brighton Road and Cromer Avenue URC churches in Gateshead, was working as a prison officer and catering staff member at Medomsley Detention Centre, near Consett, County Durham, at the time of the alleged incidents.

The centre closed in 1987.

Detective Inspector Simon Orton, of Durham Police, said yesterday, "In June of this year, the Reverend Neville Husband, 63, was arrested in connection with an investigation into allegations of assault on teenage boys between 1975 and 1981 at Medomsley Detention Centre in Co Durham.

"The detention centre closed some years ago but in the mid-1970s Mr Husband was a prison officer and a member of the catering staff at Medomsley.

"Mr Husband has since become an ordained minister of the United Reformed Church with responsibility for two churches in Gateshead.

"Police inquiries into the assault allegation are continuing. As part of that investigation, computer and other material were seized from Mr Husband's home in Co Durham.

"In relation to that computer material, investigators have submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service for their consideration."

A URC spokesman said yesterday, "In the rare event that a serious allegation is made in relation to a minister of the United Reformed Church, it is the practice of the church to suspend the minister in question without prejudice until the result of the investigations becomes clear.

"In accordance with that practice, when the church learned that allegations had been made against Neville Husband, a minister of two local churches in the Northern Synod, he was immediately suspended without prejudice from his duties, though it is our understanding that he denies the allegations."

Mr Husband, a minister for seven years, was yesterday unavailable for comment.

His colleague, the Rev Anthony Haws, who has parishes in Blackhill, Consett and Chester-le-Street, said, "I am amazed at this news. I know him as a family man."

Anonymous said...

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) - August 24, 2007
Abuse charges are dropped against pervert preacher; Prosecutors claim no public interest in pursuing allegation.

A PERVERT ex-prison officer will not face fresh sex abuse charges - because it is not in the public interest.

But the decision not to prosecute Neville Husband has been slammed by MPs and victims after it emerged the disgraced churchman could walk free from prison within months.

Husband is serving a 10-year sentence for a horrific campaign of abuse on juvenile inmates at the former Medomsley Detention Centre, in Consett, County Durham, in the 1970s and 1980s.

Now, the Chronicle can reveal he was re-arrested after police received new allegations that he went on to molest a boy nearly a decade later inside a different jail.

But, despite gathering enough evidence to take the case through the courts, prosecutors have withdrawn it, claiming that securing a fresh conviction would "not be in the public interest".

Legal representatives for the alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have branded the decision an "insult", after learning Husband will be eligible for parole in April.

David Greenwood, of York-based solicitors firm Jordan's, said: "I have to question how it can be in the public interest to discontinue a case where it is alleged a serial abuser has abused another young inmate at a different prison to the one where he committed the crimes he is serving his sentence for."

Married father-of-one Husband, now 69, of Shotley Bridge, County Durham, ran the kitchens at Medomsley from 1975 to 1981 and later became a minister of Brighton Road and Cromer Avenue URC churches in Gateshead.

It was during his time at the borstal that the Freemason preyed on inmates.

In 2001, five victims broke their silence and told of their ordeal. He was arrested and more than 5,000 images-mostly depicting teenage gay sex - were found on a computer at his Shotley Bridge home and on a laptop in his church study at Bensham, Gateshead.

In 2003, he was convicted 10 charges of indecent assault and one of a serious sexual assault on inmates aged between 16-19. The publicity surrounding the 10-day trial inspired more victims to come forward and in 2005, he was sentenced to a further two years behind bars after admitting attacks on four more boys.

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Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) - August 24, 2007
Abuse charges are dropped against pervert preacher; Prosecutors claim no public interest in pursuing allegation.

Husband was also investigated for importing gay child pornography into the prison service 10 years before he worked at Medomsley.

The fresh allegation relates to when Husband was seconded as an officer at Deerbolt in Durham on May 1, 1987.

It is understood he left Medomsley and worked at Frankland prison, before being sent to Deerbolt to serve for one month.

Detectives investigated the case and prepared a file for the Crown Prosecution Service. Husband was arrested and charged with indecent assault inside Full Sutton prison and a hearing was scheduled at South Durham Magistrates' Court.

But at that hearing CPS lawyers told the court they wanted to withdraw the case, despite having sufficient evidence to progress.

A CPS spokeswoman said: "While initially a charge of indecent assault was preferred, consideration was given to whether it was in the public interest to pursue this new matter in view of the existing sentence.

"The decision was made that the public interest did not require the continuation of the present case.

"Accordingly, the proceedings have been discontinued and the complainant has been informed of this by the police."

Mr Greenwood added: "We will continue the fight for justice. This man is a sexual predator who has taken full advantage of his position and who is to say he won't do that again when he is released?"

Richard Hall, 44, was one of the victims in Husband's second prosecution and waived his right to anonymity to speak to the Chronicle.

He said: "I am bitterly disappointed with the decision. I feel for the alleged victim in this case and for all the historic victims of Husband."

Mr Hall's MP Nick Brown is backing a call for a public inquiry. North Tyneside MP Stephen Byers has already pushed for the laws on when victims can sue for compensation to be changed.

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Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) - November 19, 2003
Open verdict on teenager found dead in a ditch.

A missing teenager's body was found in thick undergrowth six months after his disappearance sparked a nationwide hunt, an inquest heard.

Craig Foreman, 18, suffering depression at the time, left home with a large amount of medication in October 2002.

His family contacted police, and joined in extensive searches of the area near his home in Dene Crest, Medomsley, near Consett, County Durham

Ex-detective chief inspector Ron Vine, who led the investigation, told the Durham hearing: "In addition, numerous inquiries were conducted locally and nationally, all without a result."

But on March 24, a man walking along the B6310, from Medomsley crossroads to Snow's Green, Shotley Bridge, saw a body lying in a ditch under hawthorn trees, near a row of houses called Daisy Hill.

Mr Vine, now retired, said the badly decomposed body of a clothed man, minus footwear, was covered by bracken.

"There's no doubt in my mind that when trees and plants were in full foliage it would have been impossible to locate," he told the inquest.

Mr Vine said a wristwatch was identified by Craig's mother, Ann Marie, who also confirmed the clothing was what her son was wearing when she last saw him.

Several empty tablet packets were found in the clothing.

Mr Vine added: "Looking at all the evidence in this case I'm sure there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.

"But there was sufficient circumstantial evidence to suggest that the body was that of Craig."

Pathologist Dr James Sunter said while there was some evidence of several medicinal drugs in Craig's system, the post-mortem results were inconclusive, due to the length of time after death.

Recording an open verdict, North Durham Coroner Andrew Tweddle said: "I can't say if he died as a result of these tablets or anything else he might have taken.

"Question marks will remain unanswered between Craig leaving the house and his body being found some months later.

"I'm not suggesting any third party involvement. There clearly wasn't any from the evidence."

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Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) - April 30, 2007
One day I'll prove Kane was murdered.

Grieving mum Christine Thompson has rejected claims her son killed himself, believing he was murdered.

She says injuries on son Kane Martin Davis' body were inconsistent with a fall from the bridge.

Kane's body was found near Hownsgill Viaduct, a former railway bridge known locally as Gill Bridge, on the outskirts of Consett on March 7.

Kane, who lived with his mother and family in North Magdelene, Medomsley, near Consett, was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics who alerted the police.

The former Moorside Comprehensive School pupil was taken to the University Hospital of North Durham in Durham City where a post mortem was carried out and later Durham Police said his death was not being treated as suspicious.

But Ms Thompson, 37, who works in sales, said today: "At his funeral someone told me Kane did not jump or fall. I was in a state and did not take it in. Later those words came back and I started to question things.

"Kane was found at the bottom of a 180ft bridge. He had no broken bones, and he had two marks on his forehead, a bruised nose, a black eye, two bust lips and a bruised right ear.

"He also had no internal injuries. I was told he was found in a shopping trolley. I do not believe he killed himself and never will.

"When I saw his body it looked as though he had been in a fight. I know my son was murdered and one day I will prove it."

Kane, who had three brothers, Joel, 20, Nick, 19, Matthew, 12, and a sister, Lynette, 10, was upset about an email he had from his ex girlfriend the day before his death, said his mum.

She said: "But we talked and he was fine. The day of his death he was going to see about an apprenticeship he had applied for.

"He had no money left so I gave him a few pounds and my last words to him were 'I'm not that bad, am I?' He smiled his cheeky smile and replied 'I've got my keys.'

"He left the house at lunch time. I had to go out and passed him two minutes from his destination, which was the last time I saw my baby alive. When I returned home I had a bad feeling so I tried to phone him. There was no answer so I kept trying. After a while I went looking for him and at 10pm I phoned the police.

"Two officers came to the house and after a while told me they had found the body of a young lad at the bottom of the Gill Bridge.

"They would not let me see him until 2pm the next day. I had to identify his body, his brother Nick was with me. I went in to shock and never questioned things so when they said he had jumped I did not ask why.

"Kane was found at 5pm on a bright day and had been there a couple of hours. How come no-one saw him?

"There were a lot of people at Kane's funeral and I did not know them all. Kane had no reason to jump, he was starting the apprenticeship and wanted to start his own business."

The night before his death, she said, Kane updated his entry on Bebo, a next generation social network site where members keep in touch with college friends and share photos.

She said: "The things he wrote were not the things someone that was suicidal would write."

A Durham Police spokesman said today: "The incident has been thoroughly investigated and there are no suspicious circumstances. We are currently awaiting the results of toxicology tests and once they are completed a full inquest will be arranged. We can fully understand his mother's grief but there are no indications to back such claims."

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McCallan [from Medomsley], who ran a judo club in Consett, Co Durham, was a former special constable.

The Birmingham Post (England) - July 1, 2000
Video shows horror of paedophile's rapes.

A judge yesterday took the unusual step of allowing a harrowing 35-minute video of a paedophile raping and indecently assaulting young girls to be played in open court.

Judge David Hodson allowed the graphic video to be played at Newcastle Crown Court during the sentencing of student teacher Dominic McCallan (27).

The horrific video, which McCallan filmed himself, showed indecent assaults and a rape on three young girls aged around ten during a bogus first aid test.

In one attack the young girl was blindfolded and thought McCallan, from Medomsley, County Durham, was conducting a medical examination when in fact she was being raped and indecently assaulted.

McCallan, who ran a judo club in Consett, Co Durham, was a former special constable.

At a previous hearing he had pleaded guilty to one charge of rape, four charges of indecent assault, three charges of taking indecent photographs and six charges of making indecent photographs.

Sentencing him to 15 years - ten years in custody with a five-year supervision order on his release - the judge said: "You are an exceptionally high risk to young girls."

Prosecutor Ms Beatrice Bolton said the attacks took place between 1995 and 1999.

McCallan was arrested in May 1999 when one of his victims told her parents of the abuse.

Police seized the video he filmed from his house as well as a laptop computer containing 800 indecent pictures of children taken from 209 different pornographic websites.

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Today Matthew C Harrison and I arrived in Columbus, Indiana, for a Lutheran Laymen's League banquet held at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Pastor Bauman was an excellent host at St. Paul's. The church completed a building project in the spring of 2009. The sanctuary is splendid and has wonderful stained glass windows (a few pictures are below). We also met with Gene Wint of the Indiana division of Orphan Grain Train. The partnership between Orphan Grain Train and LCMS World Relief and Human Care has been very valuable and we are thankful for the work of OGT and people like Gene. Finally, you have to watch this short video clip below from Matt Harrison's presentation on Wyneken. This is only a 2 minute clip and it is very funny. Later, I hope to post more of the presentation.

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December 10, 2010 12:35:36 AM PST
The MTA has approved a bus-only lane for a section of Los Angeles' heavily traveled Wilshire Boulevard in an effort to relieve congestion.The plan is projected to cost $31.5 million and was unanimously approved on Thursday by the MTA Board.

Wilshire Boulevard is the most heavily traveled transportation corridor in all of L.A. County.

"It's a really exciting project," said MTA official Brad McAllister. "It's not just a matter of moving cars anymore, it's a matter of moving people, increasing the number of people moving through the corridor."

The plan would take the right-hand lane and turn it into a bus lane during rush-hour traffic. The lane would go from Centinela Avenue on the Westside to South Park View Street just south of downtown.

The bus lane would only be active on weekdays from 7-9 a.m. and 4-7 p.m. During those times, cars can enter the lane only to turn right. During non rush-hour times, cars can use the lane as usual.

But residents on a 1-mile stretch between Comstock Avenue and Selby Avenue have fought the plan, claiming the loss of two lanes of traffic during rush hours would make an already untenable commute even worse.

The route also does not go through Beverly Hills.

The environmental impact report said the plan will reduce run times for buses by about 12 minutes, while increasing drivers commutes by six minutes.

Activists of the bus lane had argued that it would help take passengers between subway stations on the proposed Subway to the Sea, which would extend the Purple Line subway to Santa Monica on a route similar to the 10 Freeway.

There's one final environmental impact report that has to be done before the plan can move forward, but construction is expected to begin in 2012, and the bus lane should be open by 2013.

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The Risks of Failing to Plan for Long-Term Care Costs

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Women have a 50 percent chance of needing nursing home insurance, yet many fail to plan for this expense.

You have planned for a comfortable retirement: where you want to live, how much you want to travel, how you would like to spend your days – and how you’re going to pay for it all. One thing that could derail this plan financially is your health. The related financial problem doesn’t stem from becoming sick and dying, but from becoming sick and living – and needing long-term care.

The financial risk that comes from this is greater for women than for men. Studies examining demographic data for all Americans – men and women – show that 30 to 50 percent of people who reach age 65 will eventually need long-term care in a nursing home. These studies have found that almost 50 percent of all women in the U.S. will need this care.

This means that women are more likely to end up draining their retirement nest eggs – or greatly reducing their estates – to pay for long-term care. Unbeknownst to many people, Medicare generally doesn’t cover this expense. In some parts of the country, long-term care with a private room can cost as much as $100,000 a year.

So you need a plan to pay for long-term care. One smart solution is to buy insurance to cover this cost, but many people fail to arrange this coverage.

This lapse is part of a larger personal financial issue: Research shows that people tend to make insurance decisions that aren’t in their best interests. Decisions about long-term care insurance are a prime example – for both women and men.

It’s important to understand the basic concepts of insurance and how to apply them to their situation, assessing costs versus risk.

Most people have fire insurance on their homes because their mortgages require it. But many of these people retain this coverage after their homes are paid off because they’ve grown accustomed to the peace of mind they get from knowing that, in the unlikely event of a fire, they will be covered against catastrophic financial loss. Yet, although most people are likely to need long-term care, many don’t get it. Many buy expensive extended warranties on their televisions, but they don’t make premium payments to protect their retirement assets from the drain of long-term care.

Insurance decisions hinge on your perception of risk — your risk tolerance — but in the case of long-term care, the odds are so great and the consequences of inaction so dire that this decision should be a foregone conclusion.

As with many types of necessary insurance, the primary goal of long-term coverage is to reduce your financial risk. If you buy more insurance than you need, involving higher costs, you may be defeating your financial purpose.

This concept applies to other types of insurance. If your car insurance policy has a low deductible, you’re paying much higher premiums than you would with a higher deductible. A higher deductible makes financial sense because the cost of a low one greatly increases costs.

Yet most people don’t feel that car insurance is unnecessary. This isn’t just because most states require auto liability insurance by law. People understand that it’s necessary to pay premiums to limit or eliminate their exposure to financial catastrophe from lawsuits stemming from negligence on the road. They grasp the concept that they are paying insurance companies to assume this risk on their behalf.

Yet when it comes to arranging long-term care insurance, many of these same people hesitate, saying, “What if I don’t need it?” Of course, the whole point of this type of coverage, like auto insurance, is that you can’t know this. You buy this insurance to protect yourself from risk, not certainty.

Some people think about long-term care but choose not to purchase it because they believe that alternative arrangements are possible. A common assumption is that their son or daughter would take care of them. But this may not always be possible, especially if the son or daughter has to work to assure their own financial security.

Another fallback strategy is: “I’ll sell my house.” But this shouldn’t be confused with a risk-management strategy. The whole point of long-term care insurance is to protect assets, and your home is a significant financial asset.

For single women in some states, the cost of long-term care insurance is rising far faster than it is for men. In recent years, regulators in those states have approved policies that charge single women premiums as much as 50 percent higher than single men.

The justification for this cost difference is based on women’s greater likelihood of needing long-term care, so these premium differences are expected to surface in other states. Women contemplating this kind of insurance may be able to save money by accelerating their purchase and locking in premiums before they rise in their states.

Here are some points for both women and men to keep in mind when assessing long-term care policies:

* Don’t buy more insurance than you need. Brokers will try to sell you a Rolls-Royce policy that includes no elimination period — the initial period of care that you pay for yourself. This is like an auto policy with no deductible. Instead, assume some of this risk, choosing an elimination period of 90 to 180 days to get a lower premium. You don’t need a policy that will cover costs of $100,000 a year.

Instead, you need one that covers much of your risk; covering all of your risk brings high premiums.

You may not know what part of the country you’ll be living in when you retire, but you may be living in a less-expensive region – another reason to not over-buy. The average long-term care stay is two and one-half to three years, but you may want to insure for more than that. One reason for this is that Alzheimer’s patients typically need care for extended periods.

* Unfortunately, you can’t buy long-term care insurance directly; you must use a broker. You want a broker who represents various insurance companies so they’re not intent on selling you one of the few substandard products that they have in their quiver. A professional broker with a lot of knowledge about this coverage can assist you in arranging appropriate coverage, assuming they’re ethical and don’t oversell.

* Beware of bundling. Bundled products have emerged in response to the irrational belief of many consumers that this kind of insurance is a waste of money if they don’t end up using it. These products combine long-term care insurance with life insurance. This is a strategy to sell you a lot more than you probably need. There are often two problems with this: 1) Depending on your situation, you might not need any more life insurance, and 2) even if you do, you might be able to get life insurance and long-term care insurance at better rates when purchasing them separately. If you’re offered this product, break out the policies and shop them around separately against competitors’ products.

Given the chances that you’ll need long-term care, obtaining coverage can give you peace of mind, especially if you’re a woman. Remember that delaying can cost you money, because the younger you are at the time of purchase, the lower your premiums will be.

Any opinions expressed here are solely those of the author.

Laura Mattia is a partner with Baron Financial Group, and a fee-only financial advisor. She's a Certified Financial Planner professional (CFP®), a Chartered Retirement Plan Specialist (CRPS®) and a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA™) and holds an M.B.A. in accounting/finance. Her Internet radio show is Financially Empowering Women™ with Laura Mattia. A former professor at the Rutgers University Business School, Mattia is completing a Ph.D. in financial planning from Texas Tech University; her dissertation is on how to help women plan for retirement.


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Johnny Carson: Classic 'Tonight Show' Host Turns Modern-Day Internet Star

Attention, Internet: Heeeeeeere's Johnny!

Johnny Carson went off the air long before the age of YouTube and viral video, but now, 18 years after stepping down from "The Tonight Show," he's making a comeback online.

Carson Entertainment Group (CEG), which owns the archive of the late-night host's 30 years on "The Tonight Show," announced today that it has digitized all 3,300 hours of existing footage from Carson's reign and created a searchable online database for media professionals.

While the library is only accessible to those who license clips for professional purposes, CEG plans later this year to put out 50 full-format shows on DVD and post a rotating group of 40 to 50 historic clips for general consumption on

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"I can't believe there's so much interest after all these years, it's wonderful," said Jeff Sotzing, president of CEG, Carson's nephew and a former "Tonight" producer. "The show had such a large audience for such a long time. It was such a big part of people's lives. I don't think you have that anymore because the television viewing audience is so fragmented."

Until 1999, Carson's archive had been stored in a salt mine in Kansas. It was impossible to view as a whole because the show had been recorded in three different media formats. Last year, Sotzig reached out to Deluxe Archive Solutions to transfer the footage to a digital format. Now, producers and researchers can call up Carson clips by plugging a keyword into the online database.

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"We realized that if we could make this footage accessible in a non-linear fashion, more people would be able to experience this material," Sotzig said.

More than 22,000 guests sat down with Carson during his time on "The Tonight Show," many of whom remain household names like Jerry Seinfeld, Joan Rivers, and the late night show hosts that succeeded him, including Jay Leno and David Letterman.

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Some of Carson's celebrity exchanges are the stuff Internet memes are made of. In 1974, Burt Reynolds walked on Carson's set to promote "The Longest Yard" clad in a leather suit, and wielding a can of whipped cream. The fight that ensued left Carson with whipped cream coming out of his shirt and Reynolds with a highly suggestive stain on his pants.

The digitization process also saved some classic Carson footage that was stuck on grainy, black and white kinescope, like Ed McMahon's 1973 Alpo commercial where Carson crawls into position when the dog refuses his bowl.

Sotzing said that Carson, who passed away in 2005 at the age of 79, never imagined media would be as instantly accessible as it is today. But he said his uncle would have been thrilled by having his material make it online.

"At first, he didn't see his stuff as having much more life than what it had on the air, but I was the one that said we need to preserve everything," Stozing said. "We always had discussions about how cool it would be for technology to allow you to watch TV on your computer. So I think he'd love this."


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James DiMaggio's Family Believes He Could Be Father of Hannah and Ethan Anderson

PHOTO: James Lee Dimaggio, left, Ethan Anderson and Hannah Anderson.PlayAP Photo
WATCH Kidnapping Suspect's Family Wants Paternity Tests

James DiMaggio's family wants paternity tests to determine whether the murder and kidnapping suspect, who was shot dead by FBI agents, is the father of Hannah Anderson and her slain 8-year-old brother.

DiMaggio, 40, was such a close friend to the Anderson family that he bypassed his sister and instead named the paternal grandmother of Anderson and her brother, Ethan, as the beneficiary of his life insurance policy.

Andrew Spanswick, a spokesman for DiMaggio's family, said they are not contesting the $112,000 left to Bernice Anderson, however he did tell ABC News' San Diego affiliate KGTV they are hoping to get a DNA sample from Hannah and "anything they can get" from her brother Ethan, whose body was charred beyond recognition in a house fire.

"There are rumors Jim was the children's real father. The parents didn't marry until 2002. We think it's strange he left them so much money with no explanation," Spanswick said.

DiMaggio is suspected of killing Ethan Anderson and his mother, Christina Anderson, 44, at his Boulevard, Calif., home on Aug. 4. Authorities said he used two incendiary devices to set the home and garage on fire and left the bodies to burn as he fled with Hannah Anderson as his captive.

The search for DiMaggio and Anderson sparked a six-day manhunt that crossed state lines and ended dramatically on Aug. 10 in the Idaho wilderness.

As FBI agents raided DiMaggio's camp, he fired at them, prompting authorities to shoot and kill him, San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said.

Anderson was rescued safely. However, it wasn't until after her interview that an FBI forensics interviewer broke the news to her that her mother and brother had been killed, Gore said.

Kidnapped Teen Breaks Her Silence Online

Shortly after Brett Anderson, the teen's father, made a public plea for privacy, Hannah began fielding questions about her ordeal on the social media site ask.fm. She later disabled her account; however, a source briefed on Anderson's case confirmed to ABC News that the posts made on the site were from Anderson but could not confirm any of the information she had shared.

Authorities have said DiMaggio may have had an infatuation with Anderson, and she wrote that she had been uncomfortable around him in the past but had not said anything because he was a family friend.

"He said it was more like a family crush, like he had feelings as in he wanted nothing bad to happen to me," she wrote.

Last Thursday, Anderson stepped out for the first time since her rescue to attend a fundraiser to benefit her recovery and to pay for the funerals of her mother and brother.

A public memorial service for Christina and Ethan Anderson is scheduled for this Saturday at the Guardian Angel Roman Catholic Church in Santee, Calif.


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Friday, May 25, 2012

flower tutorial 15a
It’s here, like I promised!  I have had an enormous amount of traffic to the original post of the fabric flowers and I mentioned that I would eventually give a tutorial on how I do it.  This project was not created by me, nor was it created by the person from which I found it.  Apparently, it’s a craft that’s been done since the 60s or 70s I’ve heard.

What you will need:
  • Fabric  This is a project where you can use up some of those scraps.
  • Glue  I really like using Tacky Glue.  It is much better than regular school glue and it really is… well… tacky.  I also use the glue bottle to form the petals.
  • Floral wire  I use the 18 gauge, white fabric wrapped floral wire.  In my area, it seems that Hobby Lobby is the only place that sells this exact kind but Wal-Mart does carry the wire too.  Just not the 18 gauge.
  • Rounded tool  This could be just about anything as long as it’s smaller than your glue bottle.  I’m partial to my wooden spoon because the handle gives a great shape.  You’ll see why soon.
  • Floral tape  You can find this at the Dollar store, Wal-Mart or any craft store with a floral department.
  • Wire cutters
  • Felt balls  I like to use 18mm in various yellow shades.  I buy mine from Honey Canada on Etsy.

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Start of with wrapping your floral wire around the glue bottle and twisting the ends around each other.  Leave as little or as much as you want for the length of the stem.  I find that using the tip of my wire cutters to flatten the sharp pointed end helps save my fingers.
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Then use your rounded tool (in my case, my wooden spoon) to pull your petal into shape.  Just slip your circle onto the end of your tool and give it a nice tug.
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Add a line of glue onto the petal.  Don’t worry so much about globs and drips.  Tacky glue dries clear and I feel like I have a better hold when the glue is smushed around the wire on the fabric.
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Lay the petal glue side down on the right side of the fabric.  Make sure your wire stems are somewhat straight so that they will lay down and not want to flip up.  The placement of the wires onto the fabric is totally up to you.  You can line them up in a row like shown above, or you can alternate them like in the photo below to save fabric.
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Then sit back and let them dry.
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Once they are dry you can start cutting them out.  Use a pair of nice sharp scissors so you can cut through any glue that has smushed out and dried on the sides of the wire, but I wouldn’t recommend using your beloved fabric scissors.  You want to cut close to the wire around the outside of the petal.
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I like to have five petals in my flowers because this size petal just seems to fit together best that way.  So, once you have five, group them together making sure the tops of the petals are all flush and even.  I try to have them all facing each other with right sides all toward the inside.  It makes it easier to spread them out later.
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Next, take your fabric tape and start winding it around the top just below the petal and work your way down the stem twisting tightly.  This is where you will thank yourself for smashing down those pesky pointed ends earlier when you twisted the petal shape.  Some floral tape sticks to itself nicely but I’ve worked with some that need a little help with a dab of glue.
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Now you can start unfolding your petals back.  If you have any facing the wrong way just twist them into position.  Then bend them back into a nice curve.  I like to use something rounded like a glue stick but you can use your fingers as well.  It’s all about preference.  Drop a felt ball inside with a bit of glue and Voila!  You just made a fabric flower!!
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I love watching these flowers come to life.  I think my favorite so far is using white fabric with a yellow felt ball to make daisy-like flowers.  They’re just so happy!
Have fun with it and I’d love to see some of your flowers if you make any!  Leave a comment and link to me!
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  1. Thanks for sharing, the flowers are lovely.
    I really love your website.
    Keep up the creativeness.

  2. these are awesome! i've never seen them before. thanks for sharing the tutorial!!

  3. Wow!!! Love this technique. I'm thinking it would be a great way to make floral picks for the Christmas tree

  4. What fun these are to make. Endless possibilities. I let one side dry well. Then I coveted the other side. I like the two color tones. Making a bouquet for my Mom who is in a nursing home. Her flowers will never wilt. This was a fantastic tutorial.

  5. as an art instruuctor at a university in the USA i find these to be simplistic
    and yet elegant. my students have done something like this using silk for the shiny polished effect. you are gifted. suggest you may also like using lace fabric then dip in clear resin. keep on inspiring others.
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Saturday, August 9, 2008

A day on the lake....the 5 of us! WE MISS YOU NIC!

Can you see why it is called GREEN LAKE?
It is not because it is dirty and dingy I can tell you that much!
It is a beautiful GREEN color and it matches this boys eyes just perfectly!
This is James UNDER the Pontoon.

Due to the fact I am spending a TON of time at Unity this boy is pretty much attached at the hip to me ALL WEEKEND. I don't mind.

Those two on the left look NOTHING like each other.......NOT! Chris and the boys had some "fun in the sun" together. The water was warm and wonderful!

The infamous HAT! Here is Luke just hanging on the pontoon while the other boys were hanging out in the lake. Eventually he laid on the back of the pontoon soaking up the sun. James had to poke a little fun at him saying: "Luke, you are such a girl". Too funny!

James full of energy!
It took a little convincing, but once the little guy was in the water, there was no getting him out!

My Guy and Me. I love these summer days! Right in my back yard is the best summer vacation EVER! We are so blessed!

Enjoy your day. May the simple things bring you happiness!

Heather said...

OMG I want to move and be your neighbor!! Too much fun!!

Kelly said...

You have such a beautiful family. I love reading your blog along with the Unity blog....your stamps are awesome looking!!

Amber said...

SUCH a cute family! Love these pictures:)

HapEMomE said...

You and your family are just so cute! :) I really enjoy reading this blog and Unity's blog. I love your stamps and will be purchasing my first set towards the end of August! I am so excited! :)

Jennifer Buck said...

Hey you! Just catching up with everything....beautiful pictures. Looks like you are all having such a wonderful summer! Thanks for sharing! Hope you are doing well! :)

Lindsay Spencer said...

I have to say I am very jealous. I love the water, and that looks gorgeous!


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vendredi 1 août 2008

I have learned, not without some emotion, the disappearance two days sooner, on Sunday the 15th june 2008, of Stan WINSTON, one of the shinest names in special effects, suffering since seven years of a form of bones' cancer.

Quiet father of a family, Stan WINSTON was also one of the most talentful and innovative artist. He lernt the makeup art in Disney's studios, and soon created his own shop. After to have worked for television, being able to do the best with a very modest budget ( the MANIMAL's transformations ), he became a great make-up artist in movies area in the same time than Rick BAKER ( AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, GORILLAS IN THE MIST ), and others like Rob BOTTIN ( THE HOWLING, TOTAL RECALL ), a generation of which the veteran of make-up practice Dick SMITH greets the inventivity. Stan WINSTON could be rather generous to demand for his work the lowest part in THE THING's titles, because he wouldn't take away from Rob BOTTIN, the main creator of the special effects of this masterpiece, too busy to achieve the all tricks needed with his crew.

Stan WINSTON could use very simple and ingenious ways to do, like the puppeteer Jim HENSON, MUPPETT SHOW's creator died very precocely ( who worked with some acrobats on a top of four stilts to play the stunning Landstriders in THE DARK CRYSTAL ), in order to hide the human shape : THE THING's hairless dog was a simple hand puppet, the big drones of INVADERS FROM MARS's remake were animated by a dwarf tied in the opposite on a tall man's shoulders, and ALIENS' Queen was moved by a puppeteer hang in the hair, holding sticks with paws on their edge. Nowdays, these very clever tricks are judged as primitive effects by the proselyts of the new technologies, but they are still among the best and most convincing special effects, because human animators did move them and not a computerizing process.

Like the british Christopher TUCKER ( QUEST OF FIRE and THE ELEPHANT MAN makeups ), who dreamed at first to be an opera singer, Stan WINSTON though makeup artwork would be only a first step before to become an actor, which never came. But his taste for characters and acting was a motivation to do his own movie, a little budget called PUMPINKHEAD.

Unlike other great makeup artists as Rob BOTTIN and Chris WALAS ( THE FLY ), who accepted to do more conventional work ( as hurts in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE for the previous one for example ), because special effects became over-helmed by the computer generated pictures – although less realistic – Stan WINSTON followed his way during years without use CGI monsters, but was still interested to take the best of new technical opportunities, with his animatronics : the dominant media say by ideological fascination for computer animation than JURASSIC PARK's Dinosaurs were virtual ones, but the more impressive or terrific beasts were the full-scale animals with complexe mechanics indeed made by the Winston studios ( the ill Triceratops with its painfull breath and the baby Tyrannosaurus rex of the sequel, animated from below the desk, are so realistic than any Reptiles seen in authentic documentaries ). Stan Winston had rather recently produced five B-movies, to propose some films without disappointing CGI effects like video-games' ones and to do tribute to real monsters movies of the fifties, that were able to create dream even with cheap tricks.

Like the great composer Jerry GOLDSMITH, Stan WINSTON declined to do distinction between «respectable» works and commercial ones, because he argued each project could bring interest if some quality included ( and it's a true fact than even the Quattrocento's paintings were often just some orders by important people to have nicest portrait to serve their own glory of their living ). Cinema, a modern art, brings new Michael-Angelo and others RODIN, and even if the elites don't like artworks of imagination, a perfectionnist like Stan WINSTON was a real inheritor of the brightest artists from the past trying to give feeling of life to their creations.

Unlike Jerry GOLDSMITH, too often forgotten, particularly in France when he disappeared ( but now there is many tributes on You tube and even a french site to honour the maestro ), Stan WINSTON had the satisfaction to obtain a great consecration by the professionnal area, with several Oscars received and with his inscription on the Hollywwood boulevard's Hall of fame.

Stan WINSTON made to dream all people wishing to do a creative job, but in the same time, he put so high the standards of technical achievement than someones who hoped to follow his example could have become a bit discouraged by the perpspective to compete with his creations. Even if the artisanal way was lost when success changed his little studio to a real enterprise, the Winston studios gave opportunities to young makeup artists to prove their quality and be hired on big movies, before to do their own creations, like Alec GILLIS and Tom WOODRUFF ( ALIEN IV, TREMORS).

Few years after Jerry GOLDSMITH, who gave a soul to so many movies, another giant of the movies universe left the scene victim of cancer. It's really a kind of cinema that vanishes with them.

How far seem the eighties, now than two of the greatest names of the imagination world of these years are gone. They have probably not changed the world, but they gave to lot of ours the chance to cope with it more easily. People keeping some ability to dream since the childhood know that they owe to them for it and are probably not ready to forgot them.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Alan Roebuck said it! Guess that must settle it?

On Evangelical Realism, I said,

" [Mr.Roebuck said, quote]“…it is absurd and dangerous (not to mention invalid) to reject theistic evidence unless you have very good evidence for naturalism being true.”[end quote]

Not only shifting the burden of proof, sneeringly shifting the burden of proof!
Are we going to hear a couple of ‘nuggets’ which compose this ‘mountain’ of theistic evidence?
I doubt it.",

to which Mr.Roebuck replied,

"Your responses so far have been underwhelming. Perhaps this is just a site where atheists meet to kibbitz and I have committed a faux pas by intruding on a private conversation and asking that you justify your atheism. But you criticized my essay, so I defended myself. I wonder if you can defend yourselves.
My language is harsh, but fair and not insulting. Since I have to interact with you (I have to defend my essay), I might as well try to knock some sense into you."

Okay, I think that Mr. Roebuck is tacitly admitting that this is just a debate(let the best debater win!), and subject to each and every rhetorical trick in the book.

"There is no symmetry between our positions. Your position is defined by the “No!” you say to a vast sum of evidence and arguments. My position is that some of this sum is valid, and you need to justify your rejection of obviously good evidence. If you cannot justify it, you are probably wrong."

Seems to me that Mr. Roebuck hasn't read many atheist blogs if he doesn't know, and he doesn't seem to know that what atheist bloggers do is point out fallacies in anything remotely regarded as 'evidence' by theists. So, apparently we are being invited to step out of reality into Mr. Roebuck's 'world' as per usual when it comes to Christian apologists.

"Are you even aware of your own reasons for rejecting all the evidence?"

" How much of the evidence do you even know?"

Quite a bit more than I need to know to decide my position on this.

" Are you capable of doing more than sneering?"

This is a bit 'to quoque'ish, don't you think. I say that he is 'sneeringly shifting the burden of proof' and would you look at that, didn't even bother to look up a synonym!

"Do you know how one might investigate something that is not physical?"

Sure, you investigate something that isn't physical by it's effects on the physical world.

" There is at least one non-physical thing that you know exists: Your consciousness. Don’t say “Consciousness is caused only by the functioning of brain cells.” Even if that were true, consciousness itself, the thing you experience, is obviously not brain cells, nor is it functioning of brain cells. Your consciousness does not have weight or a chemical makeup, so consciousness does not equal brain cells. And your consciousness cannot be measured in volts and amps, so consciousness does not equal brain cell activity. Your consciousness is an irreducible thing, and non-material.
So at least one non-material thing exists. (Technically, I’m claiming it’s a “substance,” that is, something that exists in and of itself, and not as a property of something else.) Therefore other non-material things may exist.
We don’t have a direct experience of God, as we do of our minds. So how, in general, does one discern whether a non-material thing exists? Not by empirical evidence, because we cannot detect a non-material thing with our senses. Some other line of reasoning must be used.
The basic evidence for God is that the various aspects of reality cannot generate themselves, and therefore need a cause. Here are brief summaries of two lines of argumentation.
The universe (including space and time) did not always exist. Therefore something outside of matter, space and time caused it. Sure, this analysis does not show that the cause is God. But it does shows that the cause is not the matter that you tacitly assume causes everything.
Darwinists only believe that Evolution can account for the origin and development of all life because they assume God did not do it, and therefore matter is all that could have done it. But they are assuming their answer, not proving it. It is more plausible (unless you have an irrational presupposition of naturalism) that an intelligent Being caused life.
Question: If one does not beg the question by assuming that God is impossible, why specifically is a naturalistic explanation of the origins of the cosmos and of life more plausible than a theistic one?
Saying “science has proved Evolution” is an invalid answer. Science assumes the materialism that I am asking you to justify.
Saying “The Bible is full of mistakes” is in invalid answer. Mistakes do not justify naturalism.
Saying “Religious believer say and do many evil and foolish things” is an invalid answer. Mistakes and evil do not justify naturalism.
Can you justify your rejection of all the evidence?"

I haven't even read all of this yet, there's just so much meat here.

So far I've replied thus,

"Mr. Roebuck says, “There is at least one non-physical thing that you know exists: Your consciousness.”
Consciousness is a process or a word, the first word in this sentence. Now we both know we’re not talking about the word ‘consciousness’ here,so an analogy to consciousness would be ‘the flowingness’ of a river. The ‘flowingness’ is not the water itself, much like the consciousness is not the chemical reactions themselves.
Hey, you came here to teach us something, perhaps you might learn something instead, Mr.Roebuck?
I am underwhelmed(to use your word) that you can point out ‘things’ which don’t materially exist. I think you’re just mixing and matching your categories here.
(Please come to my blog and defend yourself there too! )",

but there's more coming!!!

Saturday, June 25, 2011

What is WRONG with everyone?

I noticed that a lot of people, too many people are more than willing to stretch a 4 by 3 picture onto a 9 by 16 screen.

This makes me crazy. These people should have been drowned when they were kittens, in fact this explains the GOP and fucking EVERYTHING!!


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Haswing BASS Electric Major- Hinze Dam 27th April

IMG_4396Bluefin Boats BASS Electric anglers are in for a new challenge with the inaugural Haswing BASS Electric Major set to hit South East Queensland in late April.

Visiting the popular tournament venue of Hinze Dam on Sunday 27th, anglers will experience the super sized BASS Electric treatment courtesy of Bluefin Boats, Haswing, ABT and all the supporting ABT sponsors.

A single-day bass fishing smackdown, anglers will hit the water at 7am before returning to the weigh-in at 1pm for a staged ABT run weigh-in. An increase in entry fee ($100) will see an increase in prizes and rewards with prizes for the top

ten, including, Engel fridge/freezers, Spotters Sunglasses, Bassman Spinnerbaits, Jackall, Austackle, Damiki, Pontoon 21, and Fish  Arrow products making for a lucrative event.

Haswing electric motors and Shimano tackle are still being finalized for the event and if added to the prize pool with make it a true prize bonanza. Add $100 for the Flow-rite Big Bass for the event and free entry into the 2014 BASS Electric Convention for the top three place getters and anglers will be rewarded in a manner befitting the BASS Electric Convention.

The rewards aren’t just on the day with the winner, runner-up and Flow-rite Big Bass winner featuring in the colour write-up that will run in QFM and NSWFM. Ten Grand Final berths, and Austackle Ranking Points the same as a two-day tournament complete the rewards package.

Don’t miss out; get to Hinze on the last Sunday in April to be part of the action.

Event Details

Date-                           Sunday 27th April

Location-                     Western Arm boat ramp (the location of the 2012 BASS Electric Convention)

Entry-                         $100 cash on the morning of the event. Entry from 6am.

Briefing-                      6.50am

Session Times-            7am-1pm

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  • Risk of infection increases as the circulating absolute neutrophil count (ANC) declines below 1.0 and 0.5 × 109/L. The greatest risk of bacteremic infection occurs when the ANC is <0.1 × 109/L.

  • Cytotoxic therapy for remission-induction therapy for acute myeloid leukemia or conditioning therapy for bone marrow transplantation (high-risk patients) is associated with periods when the ANC is <0.1 × 109/L for 14 to 21 days. The time to marrow recovery (ANC >0.5 × 109/L) can vary from 21 to 42 days.

  • Intermittent administration of cytotoxic therapy for solid tissue malignancies or lymphoreticular malignancies (low-risk patients) is often associated with a neutrophil nadir at 10 to 14 days from beginning treatment and with periods of neutropenia (ANC <0.5 × 109/L) of less than 5 to 7 days. This pattern of neutrophil recovery influences the natural history of febrile neutropenic episodes.

  • Febrile episodes during neutropenia are defined by an oral temperature of ≥38.3°C (100°F) in the absence of other noninfectious causes of fever such as administration of blood products or pyrogenic drugs (eg, cytotoxic therapy, amphotericin B), the underlying disease, thromboembolic or thrombophlebitic events, or hemorrhagic events.

  • A single neutropenic episode may be characterized by one or more febrile episodes, of which one or more may represent infections.

  • Body sites most often associated with infection in the neutropenic patient are those associated with integumental surfaces (skin, upper and lower respiratory tract, and upper and lower gastrointestinal tract).

  • Antibacterial prophylaxis with oral fluoroquinolone agents such as ciprofloxacin or levofloxacin can reduce the frequency of febrile episodes and bacteremic events in patients with protracted neutropenia.

  • Patients undergoing remission induction for acute myeloid leukemia or bone marrow transplantation with a history of herpetic stomatitis or who are IgG seropositive for herpes simplex virus (HSV) are at risk for severe herpetic mucositis. Such patients should be considered for oral nucleoside analogue-based antiviral prophylaxis.

  • The recommended initial empirical antibacterial therapy for suspected infection in the febrile neutropenic patient is a broad-spectrum antibacterial regimen of an antipseudomonal penicillin or carbapenem administered as a single agent (monotherapy). Additional initial antibacterial agents such as aminoglycosides, fluoroquinolones, or vancomycin may be indicated for the initial management of severe sepsis/septic shock, pneumonia, or where antimicrobial resistance is suspected.

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The Band Formerly Known As Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head

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Shaun Libman formerly of Natalie Portman's Shaved Head. Currently of Brite Futures.

Breaking news for fans of the band Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head aka NPSH!  The band is changing their name to Brite Futures.  A variety of reasons were given on the band’s new website and my favorite reason is that their “love affair with that band name was just a fling.  That lasted and lasted and lasted.”  I saw the Seattle band in my pre-blog days opening for Lily Allen on the best party day of the year, 4/20, and I had a blazingly good time.  The band sounds like the Scissor Sisters meets the Chemical Brothers with mixtures of indie-pop thrown in for good measure and according2g, that’s a great thing.  I still listen to their debut album “Glistening Pleasure” a lot.  Speaking of that record, check out the track “Me + Yr Daughter.”  I love singing the lyrics “Me + Yr Daughter / Never been hotter /Touching my body” out loud as I walk down the street.  But I digress.  The band is changing its name to Brite Futures and if you click on their new official site (link is above), you can watch a hilarious video that explains the name change as well as getting a free mp3 their new track “Dog-Eared Summer.”  RIP Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head and viva Brite Futures!

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