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This particular client case happened a while ago, but it was a very fascinating and complicated situation that was affecting multiple people plus the animals on the estate and it was the only time I ever allowed an outside Guide to lead the Work.
I was contacted by the client who was referred to me via my shaman client. She explained that the property was over 50 acres and that it was comprised of several homes, ranch land, meadows, and forest areas. The main issue seemed to stem from a localized environment of one of the forest areas.
A variety of incidents had been logged with management that prompted the property manager to contact me.
- People who slept in the house closest to the forest area had nightmares all night long, when they could get to sleep.
- Many of the residents and visitors were experiencing irrational mood swings and anger issues.
- When riders went down the trails near the area, the horses became skittish.
- If a horse was forced down the trail through the area, they would balk and rear.
While these situations were uncomfortable, it was the riding incident with the foreign representative that necessitated the call. He was not going to lodge a lawsuit against the ranch – it was not a question of that – but the property manager was very concerned for the mental and physical health of the residents, visitors, and the animals of the ranch.
She and her family lived on the property and had occupied the house closest to the forest area for a while before she was forced to move out of there. She was able to provide me with detailed information about what she personally experienced as well as the experiences of the others. She was a kind and caring person who not only wanted the business of the ranch to succeed, but she wanted everyone who came into contact with the ranch to love it as much as she did.
After the lengthy phone consult, I did some distance work on the property. I told her that I could take care of so much distantly (as it was over an hour from my home it was not a quick drive), but if she noticed anything still amiss to call me back.
She called me back a few months later. While some things had gotten better, there was still something terribly wrong and she asked me to come out to the property itself so I could assess the situation for myself.
For the uninitiated – this is not uncommon. Many times, I will be asked to do the work distantly as it will keep the costs minimized, and in many cases that is all that is needed for the work to be complete and the area cleansed and sanitized.
But in serious situations an on-site visit truly is necessary. And this was a very serious situation.
I am not much of a horse rider, but with the ranch the size that it was, the horse ride was the best option to get to that part of the property fairly quickly. It truly was a beautiful piece of property and as we rode along the property manager told me about the history of the ranch. It was located out in the country and was flanked by a number of cow farms. She explained that the owner was a near relative who had purchased the original property approximately ten years earlier. Several of the homes on the ranch we rode past were properties he had purchased; this expansion allowed for additional entertainment and hosting opportunities and employee housing.
As we got closer to the area in question, we got off the horses and tied them up. It was best to keep them away from the property so they would stay calm for the ride back. This area was heavily forested and visually it felt as if one was in a nature park – quite beautiful! It was summertime, so it was also oppressively hot and humid but the physical beauty of the location made it all worthwhile.
I could sense the energy dissonance once we had walked maybe 10 yards further into the wooded area. The woods themselves were filled with light but I was quite glad I was not walking through there at night as apart from the riding trail there were no paths or flat areas for easy stepping. After stepping around and over some fallen tree trunks I showed her "ground zero". She was sensitive as well and agreed the area was quite disturbing to her. The interesting part is that it was not right next to the riding trail though it flowed through that part of the woods. I did not realize how sensitive horses were to detrimental energies.
This particular situation was quite complicated and necessitated more than one visit to the property to rectify the situation completely. The first matter was what – what was causing all these troubles? Was it one lone cause or were there multiple factors contributing to the energy dissonance of the property?
We left that area and then, on the return to the ranch, she took me to one other part of the property that had also been known to cause incidents. That particular location was a meadow environment with a pond and creek nearby and coyotes would roam there at night. I was able to confirm at that point that it was not just one contributor but several to the issues taking place.
We returned to the ranch and she showed me a location where I could go into a meditative state and scan the entirety of the property. She provided me with a map of the ranch and a notepad and pencil and left me alone. I increased my personal levels of protection and then went into the meditative state.
Meditative states are extremely helpful when scanning large areas as I go out of body and can travel quicker and identify things much faster than when doing it physically. Within just a few minutes, I was able to identify the different areas on the property that were contributing to the one significant issue.
Please note – these contributing issues were significant in and of themselves, but overall, they were relatively easy to hand and quick to cleanse. The one, however, was quite complex and took two sessions to clear out. It was a relief for the property manager, however, that after the meditation was complete, I was able to clearly communicate all the work that was needed – even if she was disappointed it was not going to be able to be resolved in just one visit.
So, what needed to be done? Well, let's start with the simple stuff. There is a type of naturally occurring energy construct called a Well that exist around the planet. There are thousands and thousands of them and they exist as repositories of negative energy. When the planet had active caretakers – think druids and shamans and wise women, etc. – these Wells would be cleared regularly and not create a problem for anyone.
Between colonization and religious persecution, the individuals whose duty was to care for the energetic/physical state of the planet were annihilated and their numbers decimated to the point that the knowledge needed to teach others was lost. Thus, constructs such as Wells now exist as extremely negative cesspools instead of just repositories waiting to be cleansed. When I locate a Well, I make it a point to clear the Well as it provides a benefit to the entirety of the human plane, not just someone living there.
And before you ask it – yes, they exist everywhere. In cities, in the ocean, Wells are not dependent upon the physical state of the location and they are not living, thinking creatures that might care about the harm they cause. They are strictly a construct, made to facilitate energetic functions on the earth plane. If you have ever walked through neighborhoods or gone into buildings where the energy was particularly devastating, chances are that there is at least one Well in the area that is not functioning as it was designed. Thus, the Wells are infecting those who live around them with negativity instead of pulling the negativity away from them. Best to cleanse them right away.
The meadow area that the coyotes frequented had a very ugly Well situation that needed resolution plus a few other minor areas around the property that needed some work, but the main issue…well, that was quite situation. There was also an area where the ghost of a young woman had been seen by multiple people. Some thought she looked Native American while others could not specify.
North Carolina used to be populated by numerous indigenous tribes, now sequestered onto reservations and called, when being nice, "Native Americans" and when not being nice, "Indians" or "Injuns". Each tribe had its own identity for the tribes were not all one nation. North Carolina was (and still is) particularly vicious to the Native Americans and the only thing kept after exterminating as many tribes as only the White Man could be the regional/location names, names derived from the lands they had lived on for thousands of years.
So, this particular incident is quite old, quite, quite old and for the energies to have lingered and still be as strong is a testament to how pernicious certain types of energy work can be. And this is its story.
There once was a tribe who lived in peace and harmony with the land and the tribes around them. They were not warlike so they did not travel outside their land unless they were visiting friends and family. This tribe had a shaman who had produced a son who he had trained to be Shaman, but that son was unable to produce an heir. After much conversation, it was decided that the younger Shaman would adopt a child and raise that boy to follow in their footsteps and to guide the people and to counsel the tribal leaders as necessary.
And so, they looked amongst the tribe for someone teachable and discovered a young boy who had been orphaned over a year earlier. He was approximately seven years old, so he was not an infant who would require 24/7 care, but instead was one who could begin to learn how to care for his tribe, elders, and himself with time and attention.
Sadly, his parents had been of the warrior class and thus he was the only perspective he had of the Shamans was one of awe and fear and he felt out of place. After his parents died, he had been emotionally neglected and the elder Shamans did not realize the extent of the emotional neglect because physically he behaved as he should for his age. They did not realize that behind his frequent silence was a mind that was churning from pain and anger at his loss and loneliness.
The Shamans loved the child as best as they could and provided him with all that was available to them. They patiently taught him how to be a shaman and tried to help him succeed in all that they assigned him, but they did not realize that by completely removing him from the warrior class duties he had known all his life that now he had nothing to relate to and felt quite isolated. From the outside perspective, this raising of status was viewed as a blessing, but the young boy's pain twisted the change into a detrimental viewpoint, where he decided he must have been too stupid to learn how to fight, to protect the tribe as his parents had, so the warriors abandoned him to these remote strangers.
Even at his young age he was charismatic and quite genial, well-liked by the tribe members who were acquainted with him, but this change in status caused the warrior boys who he used to learn and play with to tease him, as they felt he was no longer one of them. A quiet child, he did not know how to bring up these challenges and issues to his family members, and instead he internalized the pain and emotional issues. The Shamans thought he was content, for he did succeed in his lessons and assignments, and so they looked no further into the situation.
Over time, they noticed that the boy did not have the exact same viewpoint as they did regarding things, but as he did his duty to the tribe as well as they could hope, eventually he was raised up to the status of Shaman. The grandfather was still alive and the father was still alive, and they thought that he would eventually embrace the joy that the position gave when he realized that they saw him as their equal, even if inexperienced. Experience could be gained, experience will provide wisdom, and they knew he would become a great shaman in his time – this they shared with him. In their pride, they did not realize how twisted the boy had become and that in his mind, their idea of experience was something he would reject.
Instead, in secret, he began to experiment on how to become the best Shaman ever, better than grandfather and better than father. He would gain power and wisdom and show them all how much better he was as a Shaman than they ever had been.
He could feel the energy of the land around him. He could also feel the energy of the people in his tribe. He could also feel the yearning for power that raged through his own mind and one day, realized how he might combine all three things. He knew he was and had been deeply unhappy since his parents died and the internal churning never stopped. He thought long and hard on how he could be happy, what it would take for him to be happy.
It began slowly and took many years. He found an area outside of where the tribe lived and began to make it "his". He took small animals to that location and he would slowly kill them, taking their life source energy from them and storing it in the land he had chosen.
Then, when he realized that the animals could not provide the life source energy he desired, he began to use people. Sometimes it was people from visiting tribes, stragglers who did not keep up with the main tribe and could be easily isolated and kidnapped. Sometimes it was wounded tribe members he had been entrusted with caring for and healing. He would take them to his secret site and use their wounds to bleed them dry and steal their life source energy, then he would return them to their families with the explanation that it had been too late to save them.
Again, the elder Shamans noticed something was wrong – but just like any family they did not want to see what was going on under their eyes. The elder Shaman was indeed elderly and knew he would soon pass, and that knowledge occupied a lot of his and his son's attention. Indeed, it was this lack of attention that further emboldened the youngest Shaman's actions. Sadly, when his grandfather passed his behavior did not change and he celebrated the event by killing a young woman from the village who had rejected his advances.
This time, he did not just steal her life source energy, he cursed her and bound her to the earth of his site, and kept her from returning to the spiritual plane. He told himself it was because he loved her and wanted her with him always, but it was never about love – it was about power. He did it because he could do it, simple.
The next few years passed fairly quickly. His father was still alive, so he had to be cautious about his killings. A few people every few years would not raise too many eyebrows, but more than that would throw attention where he did not want it. He was not stupid, even if he was cold, uncaring, heartless, and evil.
One night, he asked his father if he would like to see a project he had been working on. His father agreed and in a short time they walked to the woods the younger shaman had chosen as his. His father noticed the change in the energy very quickly and when he challenged his son on what had been happening, the boy killed him and tried to tie his spirit to the land, but the father was too wily and educated for him to do so. But now, the young man was the only Shaman of the tribe and HE would be able to lead and counsel as HE saw fit.
To say the fate of the tribe was screwed would be an understatement. He soon convinced the leaders that the solution to people dying and the other tribes avoiding them (because of his kidnaps) was sacrifice. Sacrifice of tribal members who were not "producing" enough. Their laziness must be rectified by sacrifice. And so on and so on.
The elders of the tribe were not idiots, though they were slow. They realized that the Shaman was not helping the people or the tribe the way the elder Shamans had and the results he insisted he would produce through sacrifice were not taking place. In the end, they killed him and then they left the area. Their numbers had been heavily impacted by his actions and there were not enough of them left to easily survive on their own, so they joined another tribe located nearby with whom they shared many family members.
The young Shaman had been unaware that he was going to be killed – he had been very focused on his work and his opinion of the others was very low – so the warriors surrounding him and killing him was quite the surprise. He had, however, tied so much of his own personal energy to the land of his site that he too was imprisoned in the location and unable to free himself after death.
All of this information was provided to me in a few few, short minutes as the Guide who came to help with this work was none other than the Eldest Shaman. He came to me because he felt it was important to fix the error of his and his son's raising of this young boy who showed so much promise, but became twisted because they made the mistake of complacency and neglect.
I am not shaman trained – it is not where my gifts lie – so we completed all the work we could in the one session, but would need to come back for the second session as the Shaman Guide outlined what we would need to do to rectify the situation.
The second session required some unusual preparations. Unusual for me, that is. I had to gather some items including a blanket, some feathers, shells, and a red ribbon in addition to sage, a candle, and a rattle. I truthfully really have no idea what we did with those things, for I allowed the Shaman Guide to use my body to perform the work needed, and once it was over and done, I cleansed and sanctified the property in "my way".
As the work was being performed, I watched as the Shaman Guide released all the bound souls – human and animal – and gathered his grandson's energy where it had spread and poisoned the land and foliage. He pulled all these energies to him and then carried them to a Gateway where he handed each one through, facilitating their return to the Creator.
His grandson, however, was different, for he had truly done work that had harmed others. He, the Shaman Guide hugged for a very long time – sharing the love he felt for his grandson that his grandson had rejected time and again. After a short struggle, he finally accepted the gift of his grandfather's unconditional love and he walked through the Gate on his own.
With his work done, the Shaman simply watched me finish the cleansing and sanctifying process, raising the vibration of the land and installing Guardians to watch over and protect this place while it completed its healing process.
All in all, I was told that this second session lasted just about 1.5 hours. One of my master students had watched over me while I was out of body and once I returned he was able to share with me some of what he observed of the Work.
The client was extremely happy and kept in frequent contact with me to keep me updated on the energy situation of the place. That first night was the first she had not had disturbing dreams since moving onto the property and also, she and her family members were able to sleep through the night again. The horses were happy to ride the trails around the ranch without any incident, and all of their visitors had a great time.
So, overall, while this particular situation took quite a bit of time to complete, all shared an extremely positive outcome when it was complete.


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My Country, 'Tis of Thee
~Samuel P. Smith
My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty,
O thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain-side
Let freedom ring.
Our fathers' God, to Thee, Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King.
God of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand
~Daniel C. Roberts
Thy love divine hath led us in the past;
In this free land by Thee our lot is cast;
Be Thou our Ruler, Guardian, Guide and Stay;
Thy word our law, Thy paths our chosen way.
From war's alarms, from deadly pestilence,
Be Thy strong arm our ever-sure defense;
Thy true religion in our hearts increase,
Thy bounteous goodness nourish us in peace.
Refresh Thy people on their toilsome way,
Lead us from night to never-ending day;
Fill all our lives with love and grace divine,
And glory, laud and praise be ever Thine.
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps
His day is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish`d rows of steel,
"As ye deal with my contemnors, so with you my grace shall deal;"
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel
Since God is marching on.
He has sounded from the trumpet that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on!
God bless America
God bless America,Land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home, sweet home.
God bless America,
My home, sweet home.
Oh! Thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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Investigating the Conditions of Possibility for Environmental Health within Health and Physical Education
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Doctor of Philosophy
Faculty of Education
A National Curriculum in Health and Physical Education (HPE) has recently been developed in Australia. This new curriculum reflects, among other educational priorities, both environmental sensitivities and a commitment to the enhancement of young people's health and wellbeing. HPE is one of the key sites in the curriculum where a focused consideration of the relationship between the environment and health is possible. Despite the importance of interactions with natural environments for personal and social well-being, there is only limited evidence of an 'environmental health' presence as an idea or area of study in school education in Australia.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Nicole, Investigating the Conditions of Possibility for Environmental Health within Health and Physical Education, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, 2017. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/91
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.


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Intelligent reading – Comprehension in young children
Reading – we all recognise it as a core skill. By 'intelligent reading', I mean reading with a level of comprehension commensurate with the child's experience of the world they inhabit. Fortunately, reading to children is now encouraged as being supportive of reading literacy and as a sound foundation for future learning.
Not that long ago, children were seen as passive recipients of the eager parent's input via the quality time spent in 'read to me' and 'bedtime story' sessions.
I always felt sure my children were taking in much more than the professional opinion allowed.
Recently, I borrowed a copy of Dr. Virginia Lowe's very excellent book, "Stories, Pictures and Reality: Two children tell" (Routlege 2007) based on the record of her own two children's responses to books from birth to adolescence. Dr. Lowe's book vindicates what I felt all along as a parent! This book should be set reading for students of primary, early childhood and remedial teaching, child and family psychology and for anyone with an interest in literacy or children's literature!
Her children had a smorgasbord of stories proffered continuously, both Dr Lowe and her husband being librarians who were passionate advocates of children's literature. The children's reactions to and responses concerning elements of story and illustrations provide a wonderfully insightful peek into the psyche of the child. Both Lowe children clearly had a blessed and privileged childhood, but being 'read to' is within the reach of most children. Public libraries and school libraries are accessible to most families. Even if parental work commitments make a nightly 'reading' impossible, there are weekends and visits to grandparents when a 'storytelling' session can be included in the agenda.
There are other options.
Storytelling sessions are held regularly in many public libraries and are 'free'.
And online resources such as "Ripple Reader" and "A Story Before Bed" provide a way for even absent grandparents and parents to read to their children. In the USA and Israel, 'bedtime stories' are part of official early education policy. Programmes like "Reach Out and Read" and "Read to Me" do a monumental job in promoting literacy and the power of storytime to be a deeply meaningful and bonding time in families.
Summer Reading Club 2012/13 – Untangled Tales is choc full of holiday awesomeness
The Untangled Tales website is the best of the Summer Reading sites. Going over the site, was like being in one of the famous 'But WAIT, there's more!' advertisements! At every click of the mouse, there was more and all of it FREE! There is something here for children of all ages [preschool, primary, secondary], for their parents, teachers and librarians. The site is gorgeous [literally] to look at, easy to navigate, entertaining in content and layout and engagingly informative!
The Celebrity Corner questions brought out the creative quirkiness of authors and illustrators in a very entertaining way and featured a very diverse group of creatives!
The Untangled Tales game is a blast – great fun! It challenges memory and prods research capabilities and informs about other cultures, their customs and attitudes as reflected in their fairytales and legends.
Check out the side tabs and their drop down menus – there is heaps and heaps of fun activity, fantastic tales, playful poetry and fanciful stories, arty opportunities, creative competitions in writing and art activities and painless learning along the way!!
I'm thrilled to be part of this year's Summer Reading Club. I'm in Celebrity Corner with Kerry Brown, Christian Bocquee [with whom I am collaborating in our own Fractured Fairytales collection], Terry Denton, Lucia Masciullo and numbers of other wonderfully creative folk!


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May 9, 2017
Story by Leanne Rekiel
Improving care for patients with complex health needs is the premise behind a unique new initiative called Patients Collaborating with Teams (PaCT).
The end goal is to put the patient at the centre of a team-based approach, says Rob Skrypnek, Acting Senior Program Officer, AHS Provincial Primary Health Care.
"We want the patient to receive ongoing, timely, appropriate and comprehensive care," adds Skrypnek. "PaCT involves patients in the care planning process by working directly with primary care physicians and their teams to co-design a coordinated approach to care planning."
As a key partner, AHS is uniquely positioned to help Primary Care Networks (PCNs) align their efforts to enhance care across the system," he says.
"PaCT builds on foundational work already underway within PCNs and their member clinics to implement the Patient's Medical Home, while improving access, screening and paneling efforts that support patient-centred care planning in Alberta. The initiative also aims to improve decision supports in primary care, such as clinical guidelines or pathways, to ensure care plans are developed using the most current evidence and to promote smooth transitions of care between primary care teams and other providers."
"Within primary healthcare, the terminology around the Patient's Medical Home relates to the notion that a family practice is the place where patients feel most comfortable discussing their personal and family health issues. Many patients within that home have complex health needs or are at risk of developing chronic conditions. PCNs devote significant resources including team members, to care for these patients. As the demand continues to grow, we need to try new evidence-based ideas to strengthen care planning."
As part of the PaCT initiative, PCNs are being asked to participate in Innovation Hubs. The goal is to have at least five to seven PCNs agree to participate by the time Phase One launches. PCNs have already been sent an Expression of Interest.
The Innovation Hubs are expected to operate until August 2018, when the PaCT initiative will reopen to allow more PCNs to participate.
PaCT is a partnership with the Alberta Medical Association – Toward Optimized Practice and Alberta Health Services (AHS). The initiative is being actively supported by patient representatives, the Health Quality Council of Alberta and the Alberta Cancer Prevention Legacy Fund.


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Research suggests that eating fish rich in Omega-3 can lower a woman's risk of developing heart disease, including; hypertension, stroke and heart disease. A recent study conducted on women of childbearing age found that those who never ate fish had 50% more cardiovascular problems than women who did and a 90% higher risk when compared Read More


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Well, well, readers. You certainly shook up the best bartender category this year! Not a single one of the usual suspects—the Midnight Brothers, Kevin Farney and Pat Carden—made it into the top three. We don't know what to say. And really, for an office full of know-it-alls, we didn't know what to say because we didn't know Mark Allen. So we made a few calls. Turns out Allen does quite a bit of research on alcohol and what mixes well with what. And apparently, he's pretty good at putting that book knowledge into practice because he has two cocktails on Red Feather's drink menu—known for its outstanding selection of eclectic beverages—named after him. The Allen Project is gin, pineapple, lemon juice and fresh ginger; the second is the Markazark made with 12-year-old Elijah Craig bourbon, honey, fresh ginger and lime. Perhaps we've been so wrong about this category in the past—maybe it's really not a popularity contest, but one that reflects the discerning nature of our readers and their capable bartenders.
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Third Place: Jerry Wexler at Balcony
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ATLANTA — Homeownership was out of reach for Tishri Hyman, a single mother of two with a good job but less than stellar credit. But three years ago, she found the next best thing: a brand new house, complete with a fireplace, that she could rent.
"It was just absolutely magnificent to be able to live in a new home," she said. "It gave me a sense of independence. It provided something for me that was probably missing."
Ms. Hyman and her daughters moved into what had been a model home in one of the many boom-time subdivisions around Atlanta that were originally intended for first-time buyers. But now thousands of similar single-family homes are being built for tenants, rather than owners.
Around Atlanta, new five-bedroom, three-bath homes that once might have sold for a little less than $200,000 are now on offer for monthly rents of $1,300 — granite countertops and walk-in pantries included.
Building homes to lease, rather than sell, has begun to make sense to home builders and investors because the pool of qualified first-time home buyers has shrunk even as the price of buying existing homes has risen enough to make new construction worthwhile again.
According to census figures, the percentage of homes built specifically as rentals is still relatively small, at 6.2 percent in 2012. But that represents a record high.
These houses are going up in the same neighborhoods that catered to first-time home buyers before the housing market crashed five years ago. But such buyers are scarcer because of lower wages and higher unemployment, particularly among young adults, who often are forced to live with their parents or share an apartment with roommates. By one estimate, there are 2.4 million fewer new households now than there would have been under more normal conditions.
At the same time, tougher standards for home mortgages have kept other potential buyers out of the market, making rentals of single-family houses look like a better alternative.
Despite the obstacles for some buyers, sales of new homes climbed 25.4 percent in October, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 444,000, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. But people turn to rental homes for a variety of reasons.
In Jacksonville, Fla., Viviana Bowens, a nurse, lived in a spacious custom-built home, every light fixture and paint color carefully selected, until her husband left her and she could no longer cover the payments. Because the home was worth little more than half what the couple paid, she could not sell it and it went into foreclosure. When she looked for a new place for herself and her three children, she was surprised to find a brand new, four-bedroom house built by JWB Real Estate Capital, a local real estate investment firm.
"To have to uproot them I was like, oh my God," she said. "So to get to live in a new place was a relief." Ms. Bowens said she would eventually like to buy again, when her credit history is repaired.
"If I can afford an $1,100 rent, I can definitely afford a home," she said. "So it's just the fact that, who's going to give me a loan with that history?"
JWB is emblematic of the small companies that are at the forefront of the build-to-rent trend.
"We buy a lot of houses, and I had people coming to me with these lots that they were trying to sell for five grand," said Alex Sifakis, the president of JWB, who has since given talks on the subject at industry conferences. "I would keep turning them away, and one day I was like, hey, I wonder what it costs to buy a whole new house?"
His company has since built about 100 homes and plans 125 more.
Bruce McNeilage, the managing partner of Kinloch Partners, a Nashville-based real estate investment company that is active in the Atlanta area, said he initially scooped up model homes like the one he leased to Ms. Hyman.
"A year or two ago, I could buy a brand-new home, never been lived in, and I could buy it for half of what it cost me to build," he said. "The problem is now all those houses are gone."
But new homes still command a premium with renters, especially in places like Atlanta, where long commutes make it preferable for workers to rent so they can move when they change jobs.
"There's no repairs, lower maintenance, it looks great to the tenants, you can get maximum rents, and people are going to stay in them for a while because they're brand-new," Mr. McNeilage said. He now plans to build 20 to 30 houses a year.
Lately, much bigger players like US Invest, which helps foreigners buy and manage American real estate, have joined in. US Invest has built 10 homes and has options on 1,000 lots in Sun Belt cities, said Ryan McFarland, a managing partner. Colony Capital, a hedge fund in California, is also building homes to rent.
About 1,000 of Colony's 15,000 homes are new, and the fund is in the process of finishing large chunks of several Atlanta subdivisions that were left incomplete when the market crashed. While the smaller operators have built mostly on scattered sites, Colony is transforming large blocks of houses in Atlanta into rentals.
A year ago the Ewing Farm subdivision, northeast of Atlanta, had only about two dozen homes on a forklike arrangement of cul-de-sacs that was originally laid out for 80. Late last year, residents were told that the remaining 56 lots had been sold and that new homes would finally be going up. Initially, several residents said, they were told that the homes would be for sale. Many said they were dismayed to learn otherwise last month, when the new houses neared completion and "for rent" signs went up.
Elizabeth Francis, a Ewing Farm resident, responded to the news by putting her house on the market. "I can see three or four or five rentals in this neighborhood, but the whole community?" she said. "I'm worried about my property value."
While there is little evidence that the new rentals will worsen property values that had already fallen sharply as the market collapsed, Ms. Francis said she consulted a lawyer who told her that there was little residents could do to block the rentals because Colony now owns the majority of the subdivision's lots.
Justin Chang, chief of the Colony American Homes unit of Colony Capital, declined to comment.
In a nearby subdivision, Oak Field, Colony plans to build at least 39 houses, and in Rosebud Park, also northeast of Atlanta, the company has 22 new homes for rent. In still another subdivision, only one homeowner is left; 56 new rental homes are coming.
Ramika Archibald, the president of the homeowners' association in Rosebud Park, said she was mainly concerned that the new landlords screen their tenants carefully and tell them the rules. If she sees so much as a garbage can out of place, she said, "They will get a letter."
Landsmith, a San Francisco-based firm that acquires and manages real estate for investors and has built about 1,000 homes in places like Indianapolis, Houston and the Kansas City area, tries to avoid such heavy concentrations of rental housing.
"We never do more than 20 or 25 percent of a subdivision — we like to spread it out as much as possible," said James Breitenstein, the chief executive. "We don't want them to become rental communities."
Of course, today's rentals could be sold to homeowners tomorrow, or whenever the conditions are right. Analysts say it is still an open question whether the thousands of rental homes that some investors are amassing should be viewed more as income-generating investments or assets held until they appreciate.
In some places, the economic sweet spot for build-to-rent has already come and gone. This summer, John Badura, the owner of Invest Arizona, a company that buys and rehabs houses and sells them to investors, was planning to build about 160 new homes in the Phoenix area, with an eye toward renting. But now, prices have gone up and investors have gone elsewhere.
"Because of price appreciation and the market, it'll make more sense to sell these just to home buyers," Mr. Badura said.


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DBS' early adoption of cloud among financial sector players comes amid the digital revolution that is redefining the banking industry. With the increasing threat posed by fintechs, the bank believes it must empower its people with a set of productivity tools that enable them to be more nimble and responsive to customer needs.
Singapore is DBS' testbed for Microsoft's cloud-based productivity tool, with the bank piloting Microsoft Office 365 among about 1,000 staff today. The bank is targeting for its entire workforce to make a shift to cloud over the course of the year, when all 22,000 employees across 18 markets will be equipped with Office 365.
Over the last five years, DBS has made significant investments in strategic technology initiatives to weave banking into the everyday life of its customers so that they can spend more time on people or things that they care about. In April, DBS also launched India's first mobile-only bank that is branchless, paperless and signatureless. Digibank in India combines a set of groundbreaking technology from biometrics to artificial intelligence.
According to Michael Araneta, Associate Vice President for IDC Financial Insights Asia/Pacific, the Asia/Pacific super-regional institutions, like DBS, will set the pace and at least 80% of these FSIs will run on a hybrid cloud architecture by 2018. These large players will clear the way for their peers and will set best practices in the location, control, ownership, and management of data in the cloud.
"In the last few years, we have made good headway in creating a 'fintech-like' workforce that is focused on making the customer experience simpler and more seamless. Inculcating a digital mindset in our people aside, it is also important to give them work tools that break down silos, enhance collaboration, foster greater efficiency and facilitate working on the go. By leading the industry in adopting cloud technologies, our people can in turn deliver more customer value," said David Gledhill, DBS Head of Technology and Operations.
With Office 365, DBS is now able to empower its workforce to work collaboratively from anywhere, across PCs, tablets and smartphones. Across the organisation, meetings can now be conducted through Skype for Business, cutting down on travelling time.
Enterprise social network, Yammer, provides a platform for employees to form closer communities and to collaborate across departments and locations. In addition, to encourage knowledge sharing across DBS' network of employees, every individual will receive an increment of file storage capacity to 1TB per user on OneDrive.
"Microsoft is excited to partner DBS in its digital transformation as it leads the adoption of cloud technologies in the financial services industry here in Singapore. This leap will strengthen DBS' mission to be Asia's Safest and Asia's Best as they build a more productive and collaborative workplace. In addition to discovering increased personal and organisational productivity, empowered employees connect and engage with customers in new ways as they gain new insights that will ultimately help the bank transform its products and services," said Jessica Tan, Managing Director, Microsoft Singapore.


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I watched in horror last night as Anderson Cooper hosted Mike Moore pontificating his socialistic, feel-good agenda without any balanced point of view. He is a film maker that gets people to listen to him by demonizing some stereotypes. Shouldn't AC, as a journalist, be asking Moore some hard questions instead of just giving him a podium so that he can rant?
Fundamental economics has proven that if a business is making a profit, then more competition will spring up and squeeze the profit margins so that everyone benefits. And the key to making that work is when individual people are making choices about what is best for them. By having the insurance companies bypass the individual and work directly with providers, we lose the efficiencies of a working market. And contrary to Mr. Moore's claims, as reported by CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/06/canadian.health.care.system/index.html), government healthcare in Canada is not only incapable of providing a service as good as , people are dying to get service.
When Pres. Obama was campaigning for office, I liked that he espoused a belief that individuals were the solution to our problems, but so far the majority of politicians in DC have completely ignored the individual as a solution, and have been focused on building new institutions that they can control.
Yes, the US healthcare system does need to be changed, but we need more people to take responsibility for taking better care of themselves, and becoming smarter consumers.


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To make all user accounts on a Windows 2000/XP system share the same Favorites, you have to tweak the Registry. Export the Favorites first. Now log on as each user and navigate to the Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders. Locate the value named Favorites and change its data from the default of %USERPROFILE%\Favorites to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Favorites. Then import the saved Favorites into any user account.


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You can detect the mystic specialty of a foe.
Prerequisites: Int 13; ability to cast detect chaos, detect evil, detect good, detect law, or detect magic.
Benefit: When you use any of the spells listed in this feat's prerequisites to detect a creature's alignment or its magic, you have a chance of detecting what spellcasting expertise it has. After you observe a creature with the detect spell for 3 rounds, it must make a Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 your caster level + your Intelligence modifier). If it fails the saving throw, you learn what bloodlines, domains, hexes, schools, or mysteries (if any) the creature possesses. If the creature makes its save, it is immune to the effects of this feat for 24 hours.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Magic. © 2011, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Authors: Jason Bulmahn, Tim Hitchcock, Colin McComb, Rob McCreary, Jason Nelson, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Sean K Reynolds, Owen K.C. Stephens, and Russ Taylor.


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The information in a recent blog pertaining to the dangers of methane is augmented by this still inconclusive but highly troubling report and this article, which also links to this scientific report from Stockholm University.
Again, please read the information from Billy Meier in the 494th Contact, first published on May 11, 2010.
Perhaps sharing this information with any scientists, universities, environmental groups, media contacts, etc., would be timely.
Thanks to Derrick Lee and Chris Lock.


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When I was young; my father said Martin Luther King was a Communist. He and my older brother often said that they thought he was instigating violence behind the scenes while preaching peace in public. I believed it because someone in authority; whose opinion I trusted said it was true.
When I was a child; MLK was leading the Civil Rights Movement. He was marching on Montgomery and Birmingham and he was Marching on Washington DC. Many thousands of people heard him speak and saw him stand up against the ill and unequal treatment that blacks received in our country; speaking to America about his dream.
But I believed he was an upstart. Someone who just wanted to tear this country apart because I was a child; I thought like a child; and I believed what I was told by a man who was forty-one when I was born.
But who knew? Who knew?………………………………………………………………………….
Who knew that the man who had fought on Okinawa and believed he understood what America was all about; would miss the biggest clue in our recent history (of course it could be argued that all American history is recent); and miss his one big chance to truly be an American hero.
Not me; that's for sure. it took me thirty years to begin to see the truth about MLK; to learn the meaning of his dream.
But not just his dream. The dream of a nation of people. A dream we have been dreaming for 235 years.
Well; to be fair; it's two dreams. The befuddled dream state we have all been living in. The one that would have us believe that we already are living the second dream. But that first dream is more of a Propaganda Induced Hallucination.
The real dream; the dream that we were promised and then denyed was alive in this man. It was alive and real in his mind and in his heart.
When Martin Luther King Jr. was so horrifically shot down; he was finally at the conclusion of the fight for Civil Rights; for the equal rights of the Black people in America. he was far from finished his course however.
Because the dream that Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed; was not just for black people. It was for all people of all colors and races.
Martin Luther King Jr. would be disappointed to say the least if he could know that forty-three years after his death; after his ultimate sacrifice; the sacrifice of his life and blood upon the alter of American Freedom; there are still places and people who still, have never understood the dream or it's value and continue to act; though more discreatly than in the past; as though Martin Luther King never came amoung us and never ignited the spark of freedom in the hearts of Americans.
He would no doubt, be proud of the progress we have made in race relations for the most part but would be saddened to see that the wealthy and powerful; rather than accept the intended nature of this nation; have failed to even attempt to change their opinion of poor black people. Have instead shed the pretense of hatred for black people and have finally showed us the truth.
That they have a hatred and a total lack of compassion; empathy; and sympathy for black people; red people white people and all other people unless they are able to amass wealth and wield power equal to their own.
On NPR today; a guest made the comment that although we have come a long way in race relations; we still allow and accept certain types of discrimination; namely in our Higher Education System. Schools still today make admission choices based on race.
I say, "Of course they do" because while the average American has changed what he believes and how he relates to other cultures and races; those who hold the wealth and power never have and never will. They have known all along that there is no qualitative difference between races of people. They really don't care very much what race you are as long as you have the big bucks and big stick.
Of course since most of these people are white; and since they like a small club; it is inherent in their plan to frustrate the attempts of as many people as possible and as they have maintained the illusion of racism among their followers; they naturally find it ever so simple to gain the co-operation of these Universities in discrimination "Just 'lak the old days"
I guess we would have to get the private money out of the Univerities as well as the Political System in order to quell the rampant discrimination and corruption.
A sobering thought. A disturbing thought. But not a new thought.
Martin Luther King knew. He understood that gaining equality for black people and all other people in the proccess was only the beginning.
His dream was for all Americans to be Free and Equal and Cared for. Not cared for as is so often suggested (to their embarrassment) by the Conservatives and Libertarians. Not cared for to the exclusion of work. But cared for in that when they are not able to work; they should still be able to live with dignity and not be made to feel the less for it. Cared for in that they are not cast aside like an obsolete machine part.
When he died he was already in the proccess of beginning a new movement. A Movement of the poor people
of this nation. Judging by his success with Civil Rights; (a relatively harmless movement from the point of view of the wealthy movers and shakers) the thought of him unleashing his dreams and charisma on them must have seemed a frightening concept.
But as always; those who do the most for man are appreciated the least by "The Man".
So we get what we had in 1968; Murder. Bloody Murder of a True American Leader.
Yet; even though he is no longer here to speak to us. Even though he has been dead for forty-three years and his voice has not been heard; his dream and his message to all of us still exists. It exists in the hearts and minds of all people everywhere who yearn for freedom. The message that the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. was trying so hard to make us hear; so hard to help us see; so valiently to help us believe is that there is only us and them. The wealthy power mongers and the rest of us; us of all races. If we allow "them" to set us at each other's throats; we will surely be the losers in this ongoing battle for freedom that is America.
So if this Movement needs a leader; if the 1% ask who represents us; tell them we are followers of Martin Luther King and we come with the authority and power of his dream and demand equality of dignity and self respect for all Americans; not just the fortunate few who wield the money and power.
But who knew? Who knew that forty-three years after his death; we would still not have found another leader to take up his dream.
Still not found a leader to champion the people of America as did Martin Luther King. Perhaps they all fear meeting his end;…………..and who could blame them.


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The keyboard provides multiple complex modes and color indicators. The Globals panel includes settings that affect the MIDI input and output globally.
Sets the output gain for the arpeggiator notes. After changing it, the level is applied as a multiplier to the output velocity for all subsequent notes. Any notes that were already playing still play at the previous set velocity; it can't be changed, because the note-on events were already sent to MIDI. So, to change the output level immediately from your musical instrument, use its own level control, or adjust the output mixer. To save the level with the snapshot, find a default level for the mixers in your other equipment, then adjust the level in Godel for changes across its snapshots.
Sets the number of output voices in the custom voice allocation logic. To stop hung notes in other Reaktor instruments triggered by Godel, you must set this to the same number as the number of voices in your other Reaktor instruments. That may not be necessary when playing other musical instruments across MIDI, depending on your equipment.
Sets the behavior of the on-screen keyboard. If HOLD is off, the behavior is as follows. See the description of HOLD also, below.
- Trigger ~ Pressing a key causes it to be turned on briefly, then turned off again. This is useful, for example, to insert a transient replacement note into a playing arpeggio.
- Toggle ~ Pressing an inactive key activates it. Pressing an active key deactivates it.
- Transpose ~ Sets the single pitch which is applied as a global transposition to all instrument output, after all other transpositions and arpeggios, but before pitch remapping. All transposition is around middle C. If set to middle C (indicated with an arrow below the color keyboard display) there is no global transposition.
When hold is off, notes play normally. When Hold is on, all notes remain on until a new note is played after all previously playing notes were released.
HOLD lets you build up an arpeggio with two fingers from MIDI. To do so, turn HOLD on and play the first note, but don't release it. Now play all the other notes, making sure you still have one note depressed. Then to replace the arpeggio, release all notes, then press a new one.
HOLD also changes the behavior of the on-screen keyboard when it is in TRIGGER mode. If you are playing the on-screen keyboard in TRIGGER mode, and you have HOLD on, then the notes remain on (they have no note-off events) until you press the REPLAY or OFF! buttons.
A special transient button to let you replace all active notes at once.
First there must be some notes on. Now turn REPLAY on. The next time you play a note, no matter how many notes are on previously, all the old notes turn off. REPLAY then turns itself off automatically.
Turns off all active notes, clears all note buffers, and sends global MIDI off messages to all note pitches.
OFF! only affects the notes. The clock, SONGPOS position, and other panel settings do not change.
Turns off all playing notes and restores the notes saved with the snapshot, without changing anything else.
To recall the rest of the snapshot, you can use MIDI program change or Reaktor's built-in snapshot panel. This transient button simply clears the note buffers, issues global MIDI note-off events, and restores the notes saved in the snapshot, in the same order as they were originally played.
The on-screen keyboard displays active notes, arpeggio output, and the transpose key in color: Different colors indicate different states for each note, to help you make interesting arpeggios and snaphots.
This section describes the colors,which are significant. The keyboard behavior itself is set in the GLOBAL panel, described in the next section.
Any input notes which are ON, both from pressing keys on screen with the mouse, and from MIDI, are bright red. All these keys will save in the snapshot too, and recalling the snapshot will restore and play them in the same order as they were originally.
When the arpeggiator is off, then playing any new notes always causes them to be turned on and played immediately. So bright red always indicates a key that is turned on, regardless whether it was input by pressing the color keyboard's keys with the mouse, or whether the instrument received it as a note-on event from MIDI.
A single key is blue, indicating the pitch offset applied to all output from the color keyboard when it is set in TRANSPOSE mode. For more information, see MODE in the description of the GLOBAL panel.
These are simply notes currently being played by the arpeggiator. Some of the keys for the arpeggiator output notes may also be yellow or purple.
When the arpeggiator is running, then yellow highlights all keys which are both turned on, and also, simultaneously being played by the arpeggiator.
If the key is additionally the transpose key too, then it is light yellow.
The brown color simply indicates notes which are turned on, but their output is turned off because the the arpeggiator was stopped.
When you turn on the arpeggiator, then the arpeggio sequence replaces any active output notes After the clock has been running the arpeggiator and the clock is turned off, then the arpeggio notes all turn off after their set duration. Some notes which were previously on (from MIDI on from mouse presses on the on-screen keyboard) may still be active and stored in the snapshot note buffer, but as the arpeggiator was turned off, there is no sound output to be heard from them. To indicate those notes, the color keyboard shades them as brown.
After turning off and restarting the arpeggiator, any brown keys are still in the arpeggio and play again in sequence just as before, and their color again brightens again.
When you save the snapshot, brown keys also store in the snapshot. When you recall the snapshot, they are restored in the same order they were played. When you save a snaphot, youalways save the active notes, even if the arpeggiator is off in the snapshot. Any new notes you put into the arpeggio are added after the restored notes in the note sequence.
After recalling a snapshot in which the arpeggiator was turned off, the brown keys will be restored as they were initially and bright red again, just like any new notes you play before turning the arpeggio clock on.
When turning on the same note as set as the TRANSPOSE key, it displays as purple. The shade darkens after the arpeggiator has been running and is turned off.
The tranpose key is also stored in the snapshot, just as for brown keys, described in more detail above.
When the arpeggiator restarts, then the shade brightens again to light purple.


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(a) A person commits the crime of obstructing justice using a false identity if he or she uses identification documents or identifying information of another person or a fictitious person to avoid summons, arrest, prosecution, or to impede a criminal investigation.
Telegraph In - Beer Graphs Decline Drinking (b) Obstructing justice using a false identity is a Class C felony.(Act 2001-312, p. 399, §5.)
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Sawtry (pop: 5500-6000) found off the A1M, the B1043 (Great North Road) or a more gentle route, along the road from Glatton. The village sign shows a version of the original name, a boat which seems to be full of salt, 2 men carrying full sacks, the initials SJ (Sawtry Judith), a cow grazing, cars, lorries and several heraldic figures and of course the village name.
In 11th century Sawtry or Saltrede as it was known then, was an area for salt making, the salt being brought from the fenland waterways, possibly near Black Horse Drain and was a very valuable commodity allowing people to preserve food. It is thought that Sawtry was divided into three parishes, All Saints, St Andrew and Judith (sometimes referred to as Sawtry Judith). Sawtry Abbey, a Cistercian Abbey of St Mary was built over a 91year period, from the 12th century on the south-east edge of Sawtry, unfortunately this was then totally destroyed in the 16th century. Foundations of a church, gate house with bell tower were later excavated in the 19th century. The Abbey was set well back from Ermine Street but provided rest and food for Royal visitors, travelling from North to South and it is recorded that Queen Katherine, Henry VIII's divorced wife's funeral procession, rested there on the way to her final resting place at Peterborough Cathedral.
Ermine Street (Great North Road) is said to trace a direct line of the B1043. Ermine Street being the main thorofare of the Romans and evidence of settlements have been found near the route of the B1043. St Andrews churchyard, found along this road holds old and new graves, it has fine examples of 'Death Heads' on gravestones. One grave is of a 37year old man from Leicester, believed to have lost his life in a duel on Tort Hill.
Approaching Sawtry from Glatton, you come across a small industrial site on the left and one of the many housing estates on the right, turning left into Church Street, called Back Street on an 1801 map of Sawtry. Church Hall used to house the Feast Supper for 40 years until being sold in the 1990's. Opposite the Church Hall were Prefab housing built after the war, these were demolished in 1986. Moving further along there is a cottage on the right proudly displaying the old Public house sign 'The Oddfellows Arms', this being one of the original 6 Public houses in the Village, also a row of farm cottages owned by the Conington Estate. Turning left at the bottom of the street onto Tort Hill, this road leads to a 17th century Cromwellian gun emplacement, enabling the control of approaching armies along the Great North Road.
All Saints Church sits at the end of Church Causeway, the original church, along with St Andrews Church were demolished in 1879. All Saints church was rebuilt in 1880 using the best of the stones from both churches. It was dedicated on 14th of September 1880 by the Bishop of Ely. To the left as you enter the churchyard is the War Memorial proudly displaying the fallen soldiers of World War I and II. The church is open to all whatever your beliefs, everyone is welcome, on a Saturday afternoon you can go along for a cup of tea, chat and to meet other people.
Moving back to the corner of Church Street and High Street, formerly called Front Street, there was a sweet shop run by Dora Garrett, next door to Mr Gaunt's cobblers shop. On the opposite side of the road along High Street, is the Wellside Doctors Surgery and to the right of that is White House Farm, an imposing 3 storey house believed to be the original farmhouse from the 17th century, sitting alongside a row of pretty old farm cottages. Whether these were White House farm cottages or farm cottages owned by the Heathcote family from Conington it is not clear.
Newton's the Bakers and later a Newsagents once occupied the property which is now Boots the Chemist. Overlooking the green was the cottage owned by Percy Slater the village photographer, who attributed his long life to two long walks a day, which he did on his 90th birthday.
Moving on to The Green, once the centre of village activities, fairs were held on feast days, the fee in 1899 for public hire was 1s 5d for 24 hours, but no selling of goods or entertainment were held after 11pm. Today, events are still held on the green for all to join in. Tinkers Lane was so named after the tinkers that travelled with the fair, they used to park their caravans along this piece of road. To the east of the green sat the Constables house with a Lock-up a Grade 2 listed building (which remains today) a 2 cell building, mainly used at the weekend when local enthusiastic drinkers needed to sober up. The lock-up key was formerly handed over to the Parish Council in 1901.
Also on the East side of The Green was the Fire Engine Shed, the engine was horse-drawn and was operated by hand. The call out fee was £4.00 for up to 10hours, anytime over this was charged at 5s per hour. It was the job of the Boy Scouts to look after the engine and in recognition of a good job they were treated to a new hose by the Parish Council. The original engine is preserved at Yaxley Fire Station.
To the West of The Green is the old Chequers Public House, another popular public house of its time. Burtons Drapers and Grocers (1904) Lamberts Grocers and Post Office (1925) Post Office (1950's) and another Grocers (60/70's) these are names and businesses that occupied the premises to the left of the Chequers, and an Animal Feed shop was in the premises which is now the Pizza house. The Post Office did move to the opposite side of the road, there was once a cart outside, believed to be used for deliveries and picking up post from locals and the Railway Station. Colletts Butcher and Freezer shop was also along this side of the road.
On the corner of Tinkers Lane, hidden behind a wall is a very large house once the Manor House occupied by Squire Ben Irish. He owned a horse called Papyrus which won the Derby in 1923, it is said that when the horse won Ben Irish gave all the householders in Sawtry a box of groceries and a bag of coal. There is also a road named Papyrus Way in one of the local housing estates. While the wall around the Manor House was being rebuilt in the 70's a well was discovered, this can be seen today on the outside of the wall, and another interesting feature is that the wall was built to accommodate the branches of the large tree in the corner.
Along the south side of The Green is Greystones, another public house, which has had a more prolific history than most. It was once called Chesham House owned by the family of Lord Chesham, descendant of the Duke of Devonshire. It is said that the stones to build the property came from the remains of Sawtry Abbey or possibly some of the stones came from the 2 churches when they were demolished.
Here the road splits 3 ways, Fen Lane going South East, Green End Road, going South and Gidding Road running west. Along Gidding Road are the WI Hall and the British Legion Hall, both used for a variety of activities. Opposite to the British Legion was a Dairy at Westfield House owned by Mrs Jackson, apart from the 2 cows that had to be milked by hand, milk was delivered in churns, bottled and cardboard discs inserted on the top before delivery. Behind the British Legion Hall used to be a reservoir for drinking water, other water supplies were obtained from ponds and wells around the village. Also along this road are the remains of a Smock Mill, believed to be so named because of the shape of the dresses worn by the women of the time. Its use was for grounding the corn for bread for local farmers and for locals who obtained corn by gleaning (picking up loose corn left on the fields) the corn was used by the local baker who baked the bread. It is said that on a Sunday locals could for a fee, take their Sunday dinners to the Bakers to be cooked and have their bread baked. Sawtry was well served and self supporting with a millers, bakers, 2 blacksmiths and engineering works, a cobbler, carpenter saddler and a carrier who went to local markets on a Wednesday and Saturday.
Near where Greenways is now was the site of the Cross Keys Public House. Greenways, as we know it now, was built in the early 1970's and has a variety of shops and businesses. The property next to Greenways is the Old Granary where you can still see where the door was situated which was used to haul the grain to the upper floors, a house was built next door to accommodate the owner. Along on the left had side of the road is the Methodist Church and hall, another function hall well used by the villagers. Further along on the right and side of the road is the Fire Station which houses 1 Fire Engine and is staffed by Fire Fighters on a retained duty rota.
One of the oldest houses in the village is a thatched house on the opposite side of the road to the Old School Hall, it is thought to date from the 16th century. The Old School Hall itself dates back to the 19th century. It was originally called 'Junior Department of Sawtry United District Board School' and was opened by J.M. Heathcote from Conington Castle on the 1st May 1876. Pupils were aged between 5 and 12 and along with the 3'R's, the girls were expected to become competent in needlework and learnt to make shirts from calico and the boys were taught basic horticultural skills to stand them in good stead for when they started work. It was closed as a school in 1982 on completion of the new Junior School. The original School Bell is displayed in one of the rooms. The Old School Hall today is used for a variety activities and a busy venue for the villagers. Standing behind the Hall is the Caresco, a fund raising charity for the local area and the publishers of the informative Sawtry Eye, keeping everybody up to date with local news and events.
We find another Public House on the left, this time it is The Bell, one of the remaining Public Houses in the village. Next door to the current Post Office, once stood Lane and Waterman's Drapers Shop, dating from at least 1898, looking at an old photograph of the widow display, it seemed to sell everything from Safety pins to the then Ladies fashion items, including underwear. George Lane born 1834 in Sawtry, a former Platelayer on the railways had a daughter called Lizzie, she met George Westerman, born 1865 in Wakefield Yorks, at Dewsbury in approx 1881, and they were married in 1888. It was later taken over in 1945 by Ed Green and became a Grocers shop, this extended to where the Co Op Funeral Parlour is located. They used to cook the big hams and slice them ready for delivery on the Grocery van and to sell in the shop, they also used to slice the bacon and cheeses, a local gentleman from the village said that after school he would go round to the shop and weigh the sugar and put it in the blue bags also for distribution on the Grocers Van which used to visit the surrounding villages, it also delivered Paraffin, from a tank which was kept under the van. Later the Post Office moved from The Green in 1966. At one time 5 cottages stood in position of the now Co Op Funeral Parlour.
On the opposite side of the road, just past the Bus Stop are some metal gates at the entrance to a piece of land with a big shed, the shed was once the home to 2 Traction Engines, one owner being Mr Jackson from Gidding Road. Memories once again from a local gentleman tell of how he used to watch the engines from his home in Fen Lane, getting up steam ready to plough the fields. One engine would pull the plough one way and the other would pull it back. There was also a water tank to top up the engines when required, apart from ploughing the engines were used for threshing and other activities around the farms.
On the corner of St Judiths Lane, once stood a further Public House called the Durham Ox, but it appears that the locals preferred to call it the Black Bull or The Bull. The road leads to 2 important woodland areas. Aversley Wood one of the largest and oldest woods in Cambridgeshire, with the oldest parts dating back to the Ice Age. It gives us interesting walks and an opportunity to see ancient service trees and wild flowers, such as bluebells, moving through the wood you reach a small bank of earth which is believed to be the medieval boundary where the woods would have ended in Roman times. Walking along Bullock Road, reached by continuing to the edge of Aversley Wood and reaching Coppingford Road walk past Archers Wood Farm and you will find the entrance to Archers Wood a haven for wildlife.
Apart from the wildlife, Archers Wood is very important in the history of Sawtry, it being the site of Sawtry Judith Manor being recognised as such following an excavation by E W Joyce in 1967. Walls, cobbles, and a number of iron objects and 13th-16th century pottery. A further rescue excavation was launched in 1979/1980, it was revealed to be a Monastic Grange of the late 14th to early 16th century research suggested that the site was one of two granges operated by the Cistercian Foundation of Sawtry Abbey, a large quantity of pottery and many small finds were recovered.
Manor Farm, possibly once Grange Farm, along Judiths Lane, produced Meat, Vegetables and Grain for Sawtry Judith Manor. When Judith's grandson gifted land for the purpose of building Sawtry Abbey, Grange Farm was used to supply produce food for the Manor and the Abbey, Monks provided Fish and Ale at the Abbey. Talk of a tunnel between the Abbey and the Manor would have been used to prevent the robbery of valuable foodstuffs. Judith was said to be a very caring lady who looked after the village folk and was well thought of which earned her the name 'Saint' Judith. Matilda (Maud), the daughter of Judith married David of Scotland, who became the Earl of Huntingdon once owned the Manor, Abbey and the surrounding Estates, also Estates in Conington. When David became King of Scotland the land reverted to Simon de St Liz, who was Matilda's son by her first marriage, and as stated previously he gifted the land for the Abbey to be built.
Following Green End Road towards Coppingford, you come across Toll Bar Way, giving us a clue to the whereabouts of the Toll Bar Cottages. These used to be where the Flyover now passes over the A1M towards Wood Walton. The board displaying the Toll charges, the cost of horses, donkeys, anything that passed by the cottages was said to be displayed in 'The Bull".
Turning left at the roundabout on the other side of the flyover takes you back towards Sawtry along the B1043, along this road on the right stands Chapman's Garage and near that a White house that used to house a cafe. The road around this area has changed quite a bit, but opposite where the Galvanising factory now stands once stood the last public house, which was the Royal Oak. On the same side as the factory you can see the outline of Black Horse Farm, a road leads to Greenfields, a sports area and a pleasant walk providing a fishing lake, providing not only fish but the opportunity for canoeing, a variety of wildlife can also be seen. The walk continues round taking in the Earthworks site of the Sawtry Abbey. It is interesting to note that before the Galvanising factory was built, an Archaeology dig was carried out and discovered an ancient settlement which would have one stood on the edge of the Whittlesey Mere, this site remains protected under the factory. Returning to the main road turn left back over the A1M and into Fen Lane, turn right along the Lane and you reach Sawtry Community College. Formerly called Sawtry Village College, it serves many of the surrounding villages and was opened in 1963, over the years extensions have been built to include a sports hall, a Library was built and opened in 1976, a valuable asset to the village.
Sawtry has grown into a large diverse population, catering for young and old with a wide range of activities to suit all, being serviced by a variety of shops and businesses from Hairdressing to Martial Arts, Newspapers to Animal feeds. Local walks take in the old and new scenery including wildlife, flora and fauna, along old paths used by Agricultural workers, and possibly walked along by Roman foot soldiers, such is the History of the area. A local community that likes to get involved with the village and support events put on by Clubs and local Charities, a supporting Bus service is available taking you to Huntingdon, Peterborough and beyond.


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NOTE: After receiving this letter Peter Beattie dismissed it as irrelevant - he is above the law.
The Hon Peter Beattie MLA
Queensland Premier
Executive Building
80 George Street
Dear Premier
We, the undersigned legal practitioners formerly on the Bench, currently at the Bar or in legal practice, seek to re-affirm our sworn duty to uphold the rule of law throughout the Commonwealth of Australia and to indicate our deep concern about its undermining as the unresolved Heiner affair reveals.
We believe that it is the democratic right of every Australian to expect that the criminal law shall be applied consistently, predictably and equally by law-enforcement authorities throughout the Commonwealth of Australia in materially similar circumstances. We believe that any action by Executive Government which may have breached the law ought not be immune from criminal prosecution where and when the evidence satisfies the relevant provision.
To do otherwise, we suggest would undermine the rule of law and confidence in government. It would tend to place Executive Government above the law.
At issue is the order by the Queensland Cabinet of 5 March 1990 to destroy the Heiner Inquiry documents to prevent their use as evidence in an anticipated judicial proceeding, made worse because the Queensland Government knew the evidence concerned abuse of children in a State youth detention centre, including the alleged unresolved pack rape of an indigenous female child by other male inmates.
The affair exposes an unacceptable application of the criminal law by prima facie double standards by Queensland law-enforcement authorities in initiating a successful proceedings against an Australian citizen, namely Mr. Douglas Ensbey, but not against members of the Executive Government and certain civil servants for similar destruction-of-evidence conduct. Compelling evidence suggests that the erroneous interpretation of section 129 of the Criminal Code (Qld) used by those authorities to justify the shredding of the Heiner Inquiry documents may have knowingly advantaged Executive Government and certain civil servants.
This serious inconsistency in the administration of Queenslands Criminal Code touching on the fundamental principle of respect for the administration of justice by proper preservation of evidence concerns us because this principle is found in all jurisdictions within in the Commonwealth as it sustains the rule of law generally.
The Queensland Court of Appeals binding September 2004 interpretation of section 129 in R v Ensbey; ex parte A-G (Qld) [2004] QCA 335 exposed the erroneous interpretation that the (anticipated/imminent) judicial proceeding had to be on foot before section 129 could be triggered.
We are acquainted with the affair* and specifically note, and concur with, (the late) the Right Honourable Sir Harry Gibbs GCMG, AC, KBE, as President of The Samuel Griffith Society, who advised that the reported facts represent, at least, a prima facie offence under section 129 of the Criminal Code (Qld) concerning destruction of evidence.
In respect of the erroneous interpretation of section 129 adopted by Queensland authorities, we also concur with the earlier 2003 opinion of former Queensland Supreme and Appeal Court Justice, the Hon James Thomas AM, that while many laws are indeed arguable, section 129 was never open to that interpretation.
Section 129 of the Criminal Code (Qld) destruction of evidence provides that:
Any person who, knowing that any book, document, or other thing of any kind, is or may be required in evidence in a judicial proceeding, wilfully destroys it or renders it illegible or undecipherable or incapable of identification, with intent thereby to prevent it from being used in evidence, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for three years. (Underlining added).
It concerns us that such an erroneous view of section 129 was persisted with for well over a decade despite the complainant, supported by eminent lawyers, pointing out the gravity of their error consistently since 1990 when knowing its wording and intent were so unambiguous, with authoritative case law available for citing dating back as far as 1891 in R v Vreones.
Evidence adduced also reveals that the Queensland Government and Office of Crown Law knew, at the time, that the records would be discoverable under the Rules of the Supreme Court of Queensland once the expected writ/plaint was filed or served. With this knowledge, the Queensland Government ordered the destruction of these public records before the expected writ/plaint was filed or served to prevent their use as evidence.
Such scandalizing of these disclosure/discovery Rules by the Executive also concerns us. So fundamentally important is respect for these Rules that the Judiciarys independent constitutional functionality depends on it.
Under the circumstances, we suggest that any claim of staleness or lack of public interest which may be mounted now by Queensland authorities not to revisit this matter ought to fail. Neither the facts, the law nor the public interest offer support in that regard. However, should such a claim be mounted, we suggest that it would tend to be self-serving and undermine public confidence in the administration of justice and in government itself knowing that the 2004 Ensbey conviction, taken by the same Queensland Crown, did not occur until some 9 years after the relevant destruction-of-evidence incident.
This affair encompasses all the essential democratic ideals. The right to a fair trial without interference by government and the right to impartial law-enforcement, to say nothing of respecting the rule of law itself rest at its core. Respecting the doctrine of the separation of powers and our constitutional monarchy system of democratic government are involved.
We believe that the issues at stake are too compelling to ignore.
We suggest that if the Heiner affair remains in its current unresolved state, it would give reasonable cause for ordinary citizens, especially Queenslanders, to believe that there is one law for them, and another for Executive Government and civil servants.
We find such a prospect unacceptable.
We urge the Queensland Government to appoint an independent Special Prosecutor as recommended by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in its August 2004 Report (Volume Two - Recommendation 3) following its investigation into the affair as part of its national inquiry into Crime in the community: victims, offenders and fear of crime.
Such an independent transparent process we believe will restore public confidence in the administration of justice throughout the Commonwealth of Australia, more especially in Queensland.
Signed by
The Hon Jack Lee AO QC Retired Chief Judge at Common Law Supreme Court of New South Wales
Dr Frank McGrath Retired Chief Judge Compensation Court of New South Wales
Alastair MacAdam, Senior Lecturer, Law Faculty, QUT Brisbane, and Barrister-at-law
The Hon R P Meagher QC - Retired Justice of the Supreme and Appeal Court of New South Wales
The Hon Barry OKeefe AM QC, Retired Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW, former ICAC Commissioner
Mr Alex Shand QC
The Hon David K Malcolm AC CitWA, former Chief Justice of Western Australia
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The Labor Party prevented Senator Barnaby Joyce from tabling the 3,000 page document attached to this letter from being tabled in the Federal Senate on 19th September 2007. Clearly they knew the impact of this action on the aspirations of their leader Kevin Rudd in the upcoming Federal election. His selfish aspirations are more important than the blatant cover up of acts of paedophilia. But then who should be surprised seeing that the Queensland Labor Party has so many recent convicted paedophiles behind bars including the infamous Deputy Speaker of the House Bill D'Arcy!


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The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday said details of alleged illegal party assets that the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) promised to release are only the "tip of the iceberg," accusing the KMT of insincerity over its holdings.
KMT spokesperson Lin Yi-hua (林奕華) said on Tuesday that the party would finish detailing its party assets by the end of the month.
However, DPP spokesperson Huang Di-ying (黃帝穎) said the KMT is trying to deceive the public.
"According to an Executive Yuan report, the KMT's party assets include 834 plots worth more than NT$31.1 billion [US$992 million] according to land evaluations made in 2006," Huang said. "In addition, it also possesses more than 152 buildings across the country."
"The KMT is only willing to take care of 229 properties, which is less than a quarter of what it has," Huang said. "If this is not an insincere move, what is?"
Huang said the KMT also earns income from the rent or sale of properties.
"What [KMT Chairman] Eric Chu (朱立倫) plans to take care of is only the tip of the iceberg of the KMT's party assets," Huang said.
Huang also accused Premier Mao Chi-kuo (毛治國) of breaking a promise made in March to publicize a list of the KMT's assets.
Huang urged the government and the KMT to stop dodging the assets issue.
"I'm sure that people would look forward to electing a legislature with candidates from the progressive camp, so that legislation on illegal party assets could be adopted and the assets could be returned to the people," Huang said.
The issue involves mostly properties belonging to the former Japanese colonial government in Taiwan, which were supposed to be taken over by the Republic of China government. However, many of the properties fell into KMT hands instead.
In other news, DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) urged President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) to focus more on what he is doing now after the president said during a meeting with former US vice president Dan Quayle on Tuesday that the development of cross-strait relations would become unpredictable if the next government does not continue with established policies.
"I have stated my cross-strait policies clearly: While keeping Taiwan democratic and free, and keeping its constitutional order, we would strive to maintain stable and peaceful relations across the Taiwan Strait," Tsai said. "I've said this several times already and it is supported by most Taiwanese."
"I would urge the president to focus on running the government, especially since he is yet to fulfill his political promises," Tsai said. "He should work hard instead of making comments on a government that is yet to be elected."