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David Coleman Headley | |
Born | Daood Sayed Gilani (1960-06-30) June 30, 1960 (age 51) Washington, D.C., USA |
Charge(s) | 1) plotting against employees of a newspaper in Copenhagen; 2) conspiring to bomb targets in Mumbai, India; 3) providing material support to Lashkar-i-Taiba, a militant Pakistani Islamist group; and 4) aiding and abetting the murder of U.S. citizens in the 2008 Mumbai attacks (October 27 & December 8, 2009) |
Conviction(s) | Pleaded guilty (March 18, 2010) |
Parents | Sayed Salim Gilani (father); Serrill Headley (mother) |
Children | none |
David Coleman Headley (born Daood Sayed Gilani; 30 June 1960) is a Chicago-based Pakistani American, with distinctive heterochromic eyes (one brown, one blue), who conspired with Lashkar-e-Taiba[1] [2] [3] and, he claims, Pakistani military officers[3][4][5] to launch the 2008 Mumbai attacks and other terrorist activity.[6][7] He changed his South-Asian name to an English name to hide his Pakistani-Muslim identity[8][9] to make travel to India easier.[10]
Between 2002 and 2005, Headley made several trips to Pakistan for terror training while simultaneously working as an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration.[11] Between 2006 and 2008, he performed five spying missions in Mumbai scouting targets for the 2008 attacks, on behalf of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Pakistani ex-military officers. The attacks killed 168 people. In 2009, Headley traveled to Britain to help plan an attack against the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which had published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. He was arrested in October 2009 at O'Hare International Airport on his way to Pakistan.[11][12]
Since his arrest and guilty plea, Headley has been cooperating with U.S. and Indian authorities, and has yielded much information about his associates.[10][13][14][15]
There is intense interest in India in Headley's story, as it is the latest discovery in the unfolding saga of the Mumbai attacks, known in India as 26/11. U.S. authorities gave Indian investigators direct access to Headley,[16] but there was suspicion in India about why his name was not shared by the United States.[17] At the trial of Tahawwur Hussain Rana Headley provided detailed information about heavy involvement of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in carrying out the Mumbai attacks.[18][19] However, on May 31, 2011, Headley testified that the ISI leadership was not involved in planning the Mumbai attacks.[20]
Daood Gilani was born in Washington, D.C., where his father, Sayed Salim Gilani, worked for the Voice of America. His father was also a diplomat who worked in the Pakistani embassy in Washington D.C. for some time.[21] His Maryland-born American mother, (Alice) Serrill Headley (1939–2008), worked as a secretary at the Pakistani embassy in Washington at the time of his birth and was the daughter of former University of Maryland football star L. Coleman Headley.[22][23] He has a younger sister, Syedah, and half-brother Danyal Gilani, who was formerly the spokesman for the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gillani, and presently serves as Pakistan's press attaché in Beijing.[24]
When his marriage to his American wife broke up in the mid 1960s and he obtained custody of his children, Sayed Gilani returned to Pakistan, along with his son and daughter.[23] There Daood attended the Cadet College Hasan Abdal, a preparatory boys' high school for the military. In 1977, after the Pakistani government was overthrown in a coup, Serrill Headley traveled to Pakistan and brought him to live with her in the United States, where he grew up over the bar she owned in Philadelphia, Khyber Pass Pub.[23][25][26] In 1985 Gilani married a Pennsylvania State University student, but they divorced in 1987 due to cultural conflicts.[27]
Gilani opened two video rental stores in New York City in the late 1980s.[28]
In 1987 he was first arrested on drug charges, and cooperated with the DEA in exchange for a lighter sentence.[29]
In 1997 he was one of two men arrested for smuggling heroin into the country from Pakistan.[25] In exchange for information about his Pakistani drug contacts, he received a considerably lighter sentence than his co-defendant: fifteen months in jail and five years of supervised release. In November 1998, Headley was delivered to the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Dix. However, his supervised release period was never completed. Instead, in November 2001, an assistant U.S. attorney applied to have Headley discharged.[30] Headley traveled to Pakistan multiple times to conduct undercover surveillance operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration.[11][25] In 2002 and three times in 2003, he attended Lashkar-e-Taiba training camps in Pakistan.[27]
Gilani's 1999 trip to Pakistan was for an arranged marriage, but in 2002, he married his girlfriend of 8 years in New York.[31] In August 2005 Gilani was arrested in New York after a fight with his then wife.[31] His wife told federal agents that Gilani was an active member of Lashkar-e-Taiba, had trained extensively in its Pakistani camps, and had shopped for night-vision goggles and other equipment.
Gilani trained five times with Lashkar-e-Taiba at a camp in Pakistan. A 2007 court testimony by a fellow militant Willie Brigitte described the Lashkar training camp, which was guarded and supplied by Pakistan army soldiers.[4]
In October 2010, when it was revealed that Headley's wives had complained in 2005 and in 2007 to U.S. authorities about his terrorist activities to no effect, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, Jr. undertook a review of how Headley had been handled.[12]
In 2006, he changed his name to David Headley so as to make border crossings between the United States and other countries easier. He moved his family to Chicago, where he claimed to work for Tahawwur Hussain Rana's immigration agency. Rana had been in the Cadet College Hasan Abdal with him.[25]
Headley visited his family home in Lahore in 2000. While there, he befriended Lashkar's spiritual leader, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, whose ideology he came to embrace.
Pakistan officially outlawed Lashkar in 2002, but after that and through 2005, Headley did five stints at Lashkar terror camps where officers of the ISI and the Pakistani army helped provide arms, screening and training. Lashkar assigned him to work with a militant chief named Sajid Mir, also known as Sajid Majid, who allegedly became a lead plotter of the Mumbai attacks. Western investigators say that Mir had close ties to the ISI and may be a former military or intelligence officer.[2]
An ISI brigadier general served as handler for Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi, Lashkar's military chief, while the ISI funds Lashkar and shields Saeed, the spiritual leader, from interference, Headley said.
All of Headley's accusations against the ISI have been denied by unnamed Pakistani officials.[2]
In January 2006, an ISI officer named Major Samir Ali interviewed Headley, then referred him to a Major Iqbal, who became his main handler in Lahore. Major Iqbal, described as fat, deep-voiced and in his mid-thirties, introduced Headley to a man identified as Lieutenant Colonel Shah, who promised Headley financial support for terrorist operations against India.
At subsequent meetings in safe houses, Major Iqbal gave Headley secret documents on India. He assigned a non-commissioned officer to give the American standard intelligence training. Headley learned techniques for detecting surveillance, developing sources and other skills, then practiced with the lower-ranking officer on the streets of Lahore. The specialized training lasted several months and continued intermittently afterward as Major Iqbal taught Headley how to use cameras and other devices for missions.
Headley said Major Iqbal gave him $25,000 to set up a front company in Mumbai as a cover while conducting reconnaissance for the attacks. Headley spent months scouting the Taj Mahal hotel and other targets for Mir and Major Iqbal, who also sent him on separate missions to gather intelligence on an atomic research center and military sites around India. Major Iqbal contributed advice about tactical issues to the Mumbai plot: escape routes for the gunmen, setting up a safe house, hijacking an Indian vessel at sea. Headley said the major approved of Mir's decision to attack Western targets such as the Chabad House Jewish center directed by an American rabbi.
David Coleman Headley, 48, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, were accused by U.S. federal authorities in Chicago, in complaints unsealed on October 27, 2009, of plotting against the employees of a newspaper in Copenhagen.[32] Headley is accused of traveling to Denmark to scout the building of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, and a nearby Synagogue, for an attack by terrorists.[33]
On December 8, 2009, the FBI additionally accused Headley of conspiring to bomb targets in Mumbai, India; providing material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant Pakistani Islamist group; and aiding and abetting the murder of U.S. citizens in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.[5]
Headley pleaded guilty to all charges on March 18, 2010.[1][34] He faces life in prison and a three million dollar fine when he is sentenced.[35]
India's new National Investigation Agency (NIA) registered a case against Headley and Rana for allegedly plotting the 2008 Mumbai attacks in India.[36][37] After having interrogated Headley in Chicago for a week, the NIA has requested a Delhi court to issue non-bailable warrants to arrest Headley and others.[15]
Headley's arrest and guilty plea got close media attention in India, with the Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram addressing it in frequent questions from reporters. Chidambaram said the United States authorities have shared "significant information" about the case. U.S. assistant secretary of state Robert O. Blake, Jr. said India would have "full access" to question Headley in the United States, although the possibility of extraditing him to India appears to be precluded by Headley's plea agreement.[38][39] Chidambaram said they would continue to try to get the man extradited.[40]
Headley's admissions, e.g., that he made video recordings of terrorism targets for the LeT, have corroborated other evidence in the ongoing trial of Ajmal Amir Kasab in Mumbai.[41]
A classified Indian report, based on Headley's interrogation by Indian investigators in Chicago, concludes that some of Headley's scouting trips to Mumbai were financed and planned by the ISI.[12] When this report was leaked to U.S. media in October 2010, its conclusions were denied by Pakistani authorities.
Both Headley and Rana are accused in the FBI complaints of reporting to Ilyas Kashmiri, an Islamist militant commander associated with both Al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba.[32] Kashmiri is reported by many sources to be a former Pakistani military commando,[32][42][43] although he denied this in an interview in October 2009.[44] Headley made contact with the al-Qaeda member when he made two trips to North Waziristan, in FATA (a tribal area under limited central government authority).[45]
Another former military officer is suspected as a co-conspirator and identified only by a pseudonym (Individual A) in the first FBI complaint against Headley. He is said to have recently left the Pakistani Army as a Colonel or Brigadier.[32] This second officer, suspected in the complaint as affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba, was arrested in 2009 in Pakistan on unspecified charges and later released.[32] He was identified by the FBI in December 2009 as Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed.[5] Abdur Rehman, also known as "Pasha", is also wanted by the FBI.[46]
An Associated Press story on November 24, 2009 said that five Pakistan army officers, including a retired brigadier and two active lieutenant colonels, had been detained for questioning in Pakistan.[47] They had all been in telephone contact with Headley. But the next day, Pakistan military spokesman Athar Abbas said that "security agencies" had only detained a single former army major in connection with the FBI case.[48][49][50]
Separately, Headley told Indian investigators in June 2010 that his trip to Mumbai in 2006 was sponsored by a Pakistani officer of the ISI. This officer, named Maj. Iqbal, handed Mr. Headley $25,000 to open an office and set up a house in Mumbai to be used as a front during his scouting trips. Maj. Iqbal served as the supervisor of Lashkar's planning, helping to arrange a communications system for the attack, and overseeing a model of the Taj Mahal Hotel, so that gunmen could find their way around.[51]
The FBI investigation into the 2008 Mumbai attacks focuses on Major Iqbal and Sajid Mir, who are both suspected of being Headley's handlers for Pakistani intelligence. They instructed him to use the money to open a front company and begin reconnaissance in Mumbai.[4]
Another individual named in the complaint as "LeT member A", a member of Lashkar-e-Taiba, gave instructions to Headley on which locations to scout for future attacks, including both the Danish newspaper and locations in India,[7] such as the National Defense College in New Delhi. Indian intelligence officials believe that LeT member A is Sajid Mir,[52] Lashkar's head of international operations.[53] Sajid Mir was a ranking member of the Pakistani army until several years ago,[53] and attended the same military high school, with Headley and Rana.[53]
Court documents allege that Headley corresponded with the Lashkar-e-Taiba associates in coded messages about the "Mickey Mouse Project," code for the plot against the Danish newspaper. After his visit to Denmark in 2009, Headley allegedly traveled to Pakistan to meet with the LeT associate. After his arrest in October 2009, Headley told federal agents that he received training from LeT.[54]
Headley traveled five times to India to scout locations for terrorist attacks on behalf of Lashkar-e-Taiba. He revealed that Major Iqbal has given him $25,000 to set up a front company to do reconnaissance for the Mumbai attacks.[55] During his visits to Mumbai, he gathered video footage and GPS coordinates. After each visit, Headley returned to Pakistan and provided Lashkar operatives with videotapes of the potential targets and seaborne landing locations nearby. This information was used to execute the 2008 Mumbai attacks.[52][56]
Headley's visits to India on a business visa were ostensibly to set up an office for First World Services, an immigration agency belonging to Rana. Headley posed as a Jew to scout the Jewish center at Nariman House for attack.[57] Headley made multiple visits to India before and after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, while Rana visited it only once.[58]
A Moroccan woman, Faiza Outalha, believed to be Headley's wife, visited India twice: in 2007 she flew to Mumbai from Karachi and stayed with Headley in the Taj Mahal Hotel and the Oberoi Trident, both of which were targets in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. In 2008 she crossed from Pakistan via the road at Wagah and spent time in Manali.[54][59] They later divorced.
In March 2009, Headley made another trip to India to conduct surveillance of the National Defence College in Delhi, and of Chabad Houses in various cities in India.[38]
Indian investigators were surprised at how easily Headley had obtained a visa to enter India, a process that is extremely difficult for Pakistani nationals. Headley's U.S. passport, his new Western and English sounding name, and the fact that the passport and his visa application made no mention of his prior name or his father's nationality, made it easy for him to obtain an Indian visa from the Indian consulate in Chicago. He also falsely stated on his visa application that his father's name was William Headley and that his own name at birth was "Headley", a claim that was difficult to refute since the U.S. passport, unlike the Indian one, does not provide the father's name, and does not require endorsements on name changes by the passport holder.[60] Indian government officials said that if the name change been noted on his passport, Indian immigration officials would have been alerted during his multiple visits to India.[8]
On his visits to India, Headley befriended several people, including Rahul Bhatt, the son of a famous movie producer Mahesh Bhatt,[61] who said he never suspected Headley of any wrongdoing.[61]
While government officials in India cite full cooperation by U.S. authorities, the opposition parties and others in India have demanded explanations of why Headley was allowed to travel freely for years between India, Pakistan, and the U.S., and why he was working undercover for the DEA. Some Indian analysts have speculated that David Headley was a double agent for the Central Intelligence Agency that had infiltrated LeT,[62] an accusation denied by the CIA.[63] As soon as Headley was arrested in Chicago, the Indian media had a barrage of questions for the government about him, whose answers were slow in coming. Among other questions, Indian investigators wanted the FBI to share its tapes of Headley's communications with his Pakistani handlers to match with the voices taped on cell phones during the 2008 Mumbai attacks.[64]
Following intense coverage and speculation in the Indian press, U.S. ambassador Timothy J. Roemer told reporters in New Delhi that the United States is working at the "highest level" to provide India access to Headley, even as it is passing along answers to questions in "real time".[65]
News reports in October 2010 revealed that U.S. authorities had plenty of advance knowledge about David Headley's terrorist associations and activities. Headley's American and Moroccan wives had contacted American authorities in 2005 and 2007, respectively, complaining about his terrorist activities. The Moroccan wife told reporters that she had even shown the U.S. embassy in Islamabad photographs of their stay at the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, warning them that he was doing something on behalf of Lashkar-e-Taiba.[51]
Since Headley's guilty plea, Home Minister P. Chidambaram was repeatedly asked why the U.S. cannot extradite Headley to India. Analysts in some media outlets have speculated that the United States conspired to have Headley work undercover despite knowledge that he was involved in terrorism.[66][67]
In June 2010, US National Security Adviser James Jones announced that India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been given access to Headley.[68]
The investigation has confirmed that Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists carried out the Mumbai attack under the "guidance" of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence(ISI). He stated that the ISI was engaged with the Lashkar commanders responsible for the Mumbai carnage at each and every stage of the plot.
Further, Headley mentioned that Major Sameer Ali, Major Iqbal and Major Haroon Ashique, who are serving officers of the Pakistan Army, collaborated with the LeT.
Headley has also spoken of how post-26/11, ISI wanted LeT to disown the Mumbai attack in order to prevent global attention to the terror group, which Pakistan considers to be an important strategic asset to be used against India. With Ajmal Kasab as the only terrorist captured, ISI wanted to blame the terrorist act on al-Qaida. It even prepared a list of 4-5 al-Qaida figures who were to be projected as the conspirators. The plan, however, did not work due to resistance from Lashkar leaders, particularly Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi.
Headley also admitted that while he had started off as a Lashkar recruit, he started drifting towards Al Qaida under the influence of Major Abdul Rahman Saeed, who retired in 2002. Headley went high in the retired major's list because of precise inputs Headley provided for the 26/11 attack.
Saeed, with the help of Ilyas Kashmiri, drafted him for the plan to attack Danish newspaper Jylland Posten which published controversial cartoons of Prophet Mohammad. This, when Headley's original handler Sajid Mir wanted him to focus on Lashkar's anti-India mission. [69]
Headley has claimed that Ishrat Jahan, thought to be a case of staged police "encounter killing", was a trained L-e-T suicide bomber.[70]
On May 31, 2011, however Headley testified that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) leadership was not involved in planning the 2008 Mumbai attacks.[20]
In relation to the 2010 Pune blast at the German bakery that injured at least 53 people and killed 15, of whom 4 were foreigners,[71] Indian Home Secretary, G. K. Pillai[72] and the Hindustan Times[73] referred to Headley. The Hindustan Times stated that Headley had visited Pune in July 2008 and March 2009 and referred to him as a Lashkar-e-Taiba member.[73] The Hindustan Times also reported that the CCTV footage which has been accessed by the Investigating agency, can, as per The Hindustan Times, help solve the mystery. The Times of India has also reported similar reports, along with The Telegraph, The Hindu, The Pioneer and also Indian Express.[citation needed]
The United States Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper conducted a review of slip-ups in handling Headley's involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. His report was shared with India's Union Home Ministry.[74]
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Dear Robert, Fiona, Victoria and Eliza,
I am currently up in sunny Brisbane with Grandma and we have just gone through all the photos and messages that you have sent so far. We are both reminiscing about our own trip to the Centre and Darwin only a few years ago. We visited all those wonderful places that you have been to, and it is fantastic to recall the great times we also had there. We can imagine clearly the sounds, sights and vivid images that you will be confronted with daily. It is an experience that you cannot describe, but must live yourself! I was particularly struck by the colours of the 'Red centre' with the neutrals, as well as the purples, reds and oranges.How we hope to be able to share with you soon the impression that you are left with by Palm Valley, Hermannsberg, the gorges, Uluru and Alice Springs. Grandma even got out all her prints that we bought of Namatjira and Henk Guth. The Macdonnell Ranges were certainly one of my favourites!
I am very impressed by your camping skills! I imaqine I would feel rather woozy sleeping in the roof tent, but perhaps it is better that then the sauna of the dome tent! We both found the days' activities ezhausting, and I cannot imagine at the end of that, having to set up the tent and then cook, let alone pack up the next day. I am sure that this gets easier with practice! Have you been bothered by the flies yet? Have you tried kangaroo or snake or crocodile or witchetty grubs (?)yet? I imagine that you will all be keen to live off bush tucker just like the 'bush tucker man'!
Grandma and I have both agreed that we must follow in your footsteps and do the trek from Darwin to Broome. Can you arrange this for us please?
We await your next instalment,
Lots of love,
Susy and Granma.
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Trip Start
Aug 24, 2009
Trip End
Oct 07, 2009
We left Glen Helen resort with the bitumen behind us and the start of our real 4WD adventure heading towards Hermannsburg. The road was quite corrugated and full of red bull dust, with the car shuddering with the bumps. Until we found the right speed (around 85 km/h) , the children were bouncing from side to side padded by our excess luggage.
After a couple of hours we arrived at the historical Hermannsburg mission, which was established by Lutheran pastors in the 1870s. It was also the home of Albert Namatjira, the famous Aboriginal landscape artist. After a quick lunch, it was back on the side road for the trip to Palm Valley. These 21 kms took us the best part of the hour with the last 4 kms deteriorating into rock hopping and sand sliding.
Finally at 3.00 pm we arrived at the heart of Palm Valley. This is famous for 25 m high red cabbage palms and cycads, which are relics from when central Australia was a rain forest. We traversed along the valley floor and then climbed to the sandstone plateau for great views. It was hot, and we returned back to the camping ground to set up for the night. The ground was so hard and the wind was so strong, that we had to secure our tent by boulders.
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Hi from Iain & Family
Really enjoying your updates and your photos - brings back memories of our trip. You are obviously having a great experience, especially putting the tents up and down! You will be able to do it with your eyes closed by the end of the trip! Keep enjoying.
Iain, Joanna, Grace and Ross.


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The Columnists
The Morning Call
February 28, 1984
To the Editor: I have long wondered why The Call and other newspapers carry the fulsome drivel of William F. Buckley and conclude that it is more from inertia than any redeeming value. His posturing ranges from the unctuous to the pompous to the bilious. Born with the proverbial silver-spoon in his mouth, he is one of those who has to assume an air of self-righteousness to others, an inadequacy on his own. He has one recurrent theme - denounce the U.S.S.R. I, for one, do not need to be reminded that Soviet Russia is what it is but I have tried at least to understand the historic reasons for this.
Spring fever compels a columnist to seek a cure in cicada haven
Paul Carpenter
April 9, 2013
It was a bad dose of tempus vernum febriculosa, aggravated by a thermometer that said 76 and windows that revealed unusual stretches of blue up in the sky. The only cure was out in The Morning Call's parking garage, so I grabbed a notebook (for the sake of appearances) and embarked on what was called, in my youth, "playing hooky. " I mounted my trusty steed (a ripsnorting Yamaha Vmax), left the stable and headed west seeking a remedy for my spring fever and hoping to find a journalistic excuse for working on something other than sober-sided commentary on the usual issues of the day. There must be something out there other than smarmy politics and government; the horrors of conflict, savagery and strife; the latest manifestations of unchecked greed posing as progress; a preoccupation with jocks; daily updates on the foibles of entertainment industry oddballs; and our perpetual fixation on war, rumors of war and other forms of death.
Columnists Are Appreciated
The Morning Call
February 22, 1998
To the Editor: I wish to express my appreciation for two Morning Call columnists -- Jim Kelly and Paul Carpenter. Mr. Kelly's recent column about Annie Funk, an ill-fated passenger on the Titanic, was of special interest to me. When I was a child, my mother told me a little about Annie, and my grandparents had known her. One of Mr. Carpenter's fine qualities is his courage to ignore the current "political correctness." His recent eloquent defense of Sen. Arlen Specter was a good example.
Columnist Cal Thomas is stuck in the 1950s on marriage
March 16, 2013
I felt like I woke up in the 1950s after reading Cal Thomas' recent column supporting the Defense of Marriage Act. It's the same old stale argument. I have a high school education and I can figure this out. Surely Mr. Thomas can too. If the law states "two consenting adults," he doesn't have to worry about polygamists or whatever silly analogy he may want to use. As my partner and I prepare to celebrate our 18th (monogamous) year together, I think that with a 50 percent divorce rate and unwed heterosexual mothers celebrated on television, maybe he should tend to his own garden and stop worrying about what's growing in mine.
Syndicated columnists preferred
The Morning Call
April 10, 2001
To the Editor: It is unfathomable that The Morning Call would publish three local columns on the April 1 op-ed page. As interesting as they may be, these do not belong in a Sunday edition; a weekday publication would be the norm. Syndicated columnists are part of every major newspaper, and to eliminate them on a weekend is a disservice to those of us who look forward to these divergent national articles. Martha Damweber Allentown
Likes One Of Three Columnists
The Morning Call
January 5, 1999
To the Editor: From the beginning, Jim Kelly's column in The Morning Call has been a refreshing place of good memories, Pennsylvania Dutch humor and most recently, the tragedy of his son's battle with cancer. His column is always poignant and from the heart. Contrast this with the constant self-promoting and pompous writing of columnist Paul Carpenter, who would have us believe his investigative reporting toppled administrations. It is obvious Mr. Carpenter uses shock value to get what he needs to keep his job. As for the columns by Margie Peterson send her back to journalism class.
Insensitive use of words by columnists
The Morning Call
August 2, 2003
There are days when I wish that I had not purchased The Morning Call and July 26 was one of them. How can we expect respect from the younger generation when Charles D. Snelling refers to the elderly as "old fogey," yet the text of his Another View is important and very pertinent? I, too, was brought up in a household that showed respect. Four-letter words were the sign for the mouth to be washed out with soap. His thoughts are admirable, but why did he have to start with "old fogey"?
Provide Pro-palestinian Columnists
The Morning Call
June 26, 1990
To the Editor: Concerning the Middle East, we are fed a daily diet of Palestinian and Arab state bashing by the columnists Richard Cohen, William Safire and David Broder. This almost daily diatribe of theirs is getting hard to digest. Couldn't we be provided with some columnists who see the Palestinian side of the problem? The aforementioned columnists are very much like the American government which cannot or will not see beyond the Israeli side in the Mideast. A blatant example of the bias of the American Congress is the recent promotion of Sens.
No gap between candidates
The Morning Call
August 15, 2004
This presidential race was close in the beginning, is close now, and will be close 'til the end, regardless of either party's convention. To think otherwise (as syndicated columnists David Broder did on Aug. 4 and Charles Krauthammer did on Aug. 6) is just disappointing. Daniel A. George Allentown .
Raise the bar on news, opinion
The Morning Call
August 5, 2008
While I'm distressed about the loss of my favorite comic, "Get Fuzzy," that pales in comparison to my concern over the loss of the opinion pages columnists. I'll miss Renee A. James, who reminds me of a modern-day Erma Bombeck, and I think we'll all be the poorer for the loss of the other local and national voices. I understand the advertising issues, but perhaps a very prominent "only online" column that highlights these columnists would drive readers to themorningcall.com, where the paper can continue to offer their intelligent and varied voices.
COLUMNIST: WBC not exactly classic baseball
By Mark Purdy, San Jose Mercury News (MCT)
March 5, 2013
Ryan Vogelsong threw three exhibition innings for the San Francisco desert Monday, then left the club to pitch for the United States in the World Baseball Classic over the next few weeks. My question is: To what purpose? We all know the supposed answer. The World Baseball Classic, featuring 16 national teams from around the planet, is a three-week tournament. The champion will be determined March 19 in the title game at AT&T Park. But champion of what? You can't say the champion of all baseball on earth.
COLUMNIST: Dealing Revis Jets only route to rapid rebuild
By Jeff Renolds, The Sports Xchange
February 27, 2013
The Sports Xchange By Jeff Reynolds, The Sports Xchange Dealing Revis Jets only route to rapid rebuild Richard Sherman's opinion aside, Darrelle Revis is an All-Pro, arguably the best at his craft in the NFL. He's also worth more to the Jets on someone else's roster. Relocating Revis Island -- even with the health concerns in tow coming off of an ACL reconstruction -- isn't just first-year GM John Idzik's wicked plan to put his own stamp on a roster wracked by glorified capologist Mike Tannenbaum's run of ineptitude.
Lehigh University student lawsuit can be justified but for columnist's personal reasons
Paul Carpenter
February 14, 2013
Is it too late to take everything back? Has the statute of limitations for lawsuits run out for offenses occurring as early as 1944? In spite of the uncharitable things I have said about Allentown contingency-fee lawyer Rick Orloski over the years, I now see he may be my only way to get rich quick because of all the wrongs I have suffered in my education. I was inspired by his lawsuit against Lehigh University and two faculty members who, it was alleged, gave his client, former Lehigh student Megan Thode, a C-plus instead of the grade she wanted.
COLUMNIST: No one ever loses on signing day
By Kevin Gorman, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
February 7, 2013
The reason college football fans love signing day is that no one ever loses. Sure, your favorite team might miss out on a top target. But until that prospect signed a national letter of intent, he was never really yours. So signing day is a celebration of the future. Recruiting is the lifeblood of any major-college program, and the addition of prospects brings the promise of better days ahead. Perhaps the best predictor of the future for Pitt, Penn State and West Virginia's Class of 2013 is to examine whether they can replicate top classes of their recent past.
COLUMNIST: Cheating may pay, but it shouldn't get you into the Hall of Fame
Gene Collier, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
January 10, 2013
As you may have inferred from the results of baseball's Hall of Fame balloting, they're apparently still leaving everything up to the humans. To many of the game's seriously interested observers, this makes no sense at all. Why expose the fate of statistically self-evident superstars such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, for example, to all the prejudices and imperfections and suspect biorhythms pin-balling around in the human brain, much...
COLUMNIST: Stow your anger and celebrate hockey's return
By Ron Cook, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
January 7, 2013
Can we all agree we're really ticked at the NHL owners and players for the ridiculous greed-driven lockout that deprived us of wonderful hockey for the past three months? Good. Now, let's get over it. Bring on the games. We're lucky in this town. We'll get past the lockout lunacy a lot easier than they will in many NHL cities such as Phoenix, Miami and Dallas. A big part of that is Mario Lemieux. Penguins fans will be quick to forget that he, as one of the team's owners, signed off on the lockout.
Challenge to fight isn't welcome
The Morning Call
December 21, 2008
I really cannot handle the graphic of columnists Bill White, who seems to be a very good man, and Paul Carpenter challenging me to a fight when I open the paper. Why? Letters to the editor have always worked well when someone has a grievance with the paper. Why the animated challenge to violence? Sad. Philip J. Morganello Bethlehem
New Section Debuts In Today's Newspaper
The Morning Call
September 3, 1995
Today The Morning Call debuts a new section. It's called Sunday Magazine. It replaces Accent and may remind you of our weekday A.M. Magazine section. The new Sunday Magazine will contain useful and entertaining stories about trends that touch your life. Sunday Magazine will bring you profiles and news features, calendars and exciting graphics. It also will contain the familiar lineup of advice columnists, weddings and anniversaries you know from Accent, plus a new Home and Garden column.
COLUMNIST: Tagliabue sends Goodell a very public message
By Danny O'Neil, The Seattle Times
December 17, 2012
The NFL's shield should not be a sword. That was the implication of Paul Tagliabue's ruling to vacate the suspensions that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell doled out to four different members of the New Orleans Saints earlier this week. The league called on Goodell's predecessor to try and unwind this mess of a case, and he decided Junior was a little quick on the trigger when it came to his self-appointed role as the NFL's behavior police. This is a significant moment because after years of taking a "Father Knows Best" approach to this league he inherited, Goodell has had his hand slapped in a very public way by the man he used to work for. The shield-Goodell's nickname for the league's logo-had gone after its players in this case in a way that Tagliabue saw as inconsistent with the league's history.
COLUMNIST: Bandwagon for Steelers' Mendenhall now empty
By Ron Cook, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
December 12, 2012
Don't worry, I'll get the light. As the last one off of the Rashard Mendenhall bandwagon, it is my responsibility to turn it off. People have been jumping off since Mendenhall crushed the Steelers in Super Bowl XLV against the Green Bay Packers with a fourth-quarter fumble. I defended him. Fumbles happen. It's not as if Mendenhall had a reputation for them, contrary to what many think. Packers linebacker Clay Matthews made an awesome play. The loss wasn't all Mendenhall's fault. Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger threw two interceptions, including one that was returned for a touchdown.
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Student Profile: Melissa Suey "Learn While You Earn"
Keynote speaker Melissa Suey looked out over her audience and asked a question: How many people had tuition reimbursement available for training? About three-quarters raised their hands.
She asked a second question: How many were currently using the benefit? Three.
Melissa was making a point that represents a hallmark of her 19-year career: "Learn while you earn." Take advantage of educational opportunities, formal or informal, on the job or in the classroom.
"Self-employed folks make it their business to gain up-to-date knowledge and skills. Otherwise, they wouldn't be in business! In my opinion, we should all act like we are self-employed when it comes to our own development, especially in this tough job market." Melissa has done an impressive amount of training, and her high praise for USM's Nancy Ansheles and Peggy Page carries significant value.
Melissa is training and development manager for Delhaize America, the parent organization of Maine's Hannaford Brothers supermarket chain, and is based in Scarborough. She leads a team that trains the people conducting Delhaize supply chain operations - from product sourcing and category management through pricing and getting goods to the stores.
Melissa Suey has had a varied career. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, then worked as a television reporter/anchor, marketing consultant, media relations and marketing trainer, and then honed her entrepreneurial skills consulting with small businesses.
Along the way, her talents and interests led her into advising her clients beyond marketing – in relevant business issues and other areas in their lives. She realized that in order to really help her clients see where they were stuck and move forward, she needed to coach the whole person. It was then that she invested 120 hours in professional coach training from the highly acclaimed Coaches Training Institute and subsequently founded Red Sky Leadership, a coaching and training company.
As she continued to coach and facilitate groups, she felt she needed more. "Most of my education around training was informal, so I felt it was important to get that formal training," she explained. "That's why I so appreciated Nancy and Peggy. They are experts and are DOING it in their current work– practicing what they teach.
"Besides the new knowledge, the courses reinforced what I was doing. That gives you confidence.
"The added value was getting to know my fellow participants. I can't emphasize enough the value of building relationships with your peers in the industry. There were professionals from all over Maine, large and small organizations. We still share best practices and lean on each other for feedback.
"And I send my employees to USM. It is part of their job to come back and share what they've learned."
She now is the mother of two children and, besides her fulltime position with Delhaize, coaches several clients and delivers occasional keynote speeches through Red Sky Leadership. It comes as no surprise to hear she is currently enrolled in a training program to prepare her for the rigorous credentialing process with the International Coach Federation.
With her current responsibilities, as well as her broad career background and extensive training experience, Melissa knows exactly why the USM training is so important.
"There is no such thing as job security," Melissa says. "WE are our job security – it's all in here (indicating herself). It's all about your knowledge, skills, experience, talents, work ethic, reputation... Whether you are working for an organization or self-employed, you take those with you wherever you go."
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# employment - Saturday 11 May, 2013
280 summer jobs up for grabs at 126 sports camps
The camp is accepting applicants from primary, secondary and P.E teachers across the country.
# employment - Thursday 9 May, 2013
Fewer job opportunities in April when compared with last year
Professionals looking for new jobs also increased by 5 per cent in April.
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# employment - Saturday 4 May, 2013
Column: The Bangladesh factory collapse shows us the deadly cost of cheap fashion
Following the tragic accident at a Bangladesh clothing factory, Penneys has said it will give money to people who lost family members in the collapse – but we as consumers have a responsibility too, says Ruth Tanner.
# employment - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
JobBridge: 3 out of 5 interns secure paid employment
However, the report said that there is a need for enhanced support mechanisms to reduce the number of people not completing internships.
100 fewer people on the Live Register last month
Ireland's unemployment rate remains at 14.0 per cent, as a real-terms fall in claimants is undone by statistical adjustment.
# employment - Monday 29 April, 2013
15 productivity tips to help you escape the 9-5 lifestyle
If you're spending 12 hours a day at your job and still not finishing your work, it's time to make a change.
# employment - Thursday 25 April, 2013
Spain's unemployment rate shoots to record 27.16%
More than six million people in Spain are now without work.
# employment - Thursday 18 April, 2013
Column: 'I thought I did everything right – so why have I ended up here?'
Aoife O'Connor has gone to college, got good results, borrowed money to get more qualifications by doing a postgrad, but she still finds herself with no job. Here she asks why she can't catch a break?
# employment - Sunday 7 April, 2013
Careers clinic: Speaking skills for job seekers
Non-profit organisation Toastmasters helps members improve communication skills – and has some tips for those facing an interview.
# employment - Thursday 4 April, 2013
Numbers on Live Register down by 2,200 in March
Unemployment stayed at 14.0 per cent last month with only a minor drop in the numbers signing on.
# employment - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
Unemployed number in Eurozone highest since records here began
There is a total of 19.071 million people unemployed in the eurozone.
# employment - Sunday 31 March, 2013
Column: It can be a crowded nest when you still live at home with your parents
Due to ongoing economic problems the option of leaving the family home to start your own independent life is increasingly being put on the long finger, writes Tony Moore.
# employment - Thursday 28 March, 2013
Column: The cost of childcare is already forcing some parents to give up their jobs
Enda Kenny's attempt to reassure women over the insolvency controversy does not go far enough, writes Irene Gunning, who says without any form of subsidy, supports or tax relief, childcare costs are borne fully by parents, limiting job options.
# employment - Monday 11 March, 2013
Construction activity continues to fall as decline in unemployment eases
The weakest fall in activity was seen on housing projects and commercial and civil engineering each saw a slightly quicker reduction in activity.
# employment - Friday 8 March, 2013
Nearly half of potential emigrants already have full-time jobs: study
UCC research says 46 per cent of people who are thinking of leaving Ireland already have full-time jobs.
# employment - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
Gender discrimination is biggest barrier to work promotions for women
In a survey, both male and female professionals said demanding family commitments was the reason for not taking up the opportunity.
# employment - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
Childcare costs leave parents struggling to pay household bills
A survey has shown that costs are also preventing many parents from taking up employment.
# employment - Sunday 3 March, 2013
How to get sh!t done working from home
Yahoo says that its employees are no longer allowed to work from home – but if you do, these are the benefits and drawback of telecommuting that you need to know…
# employment - Saturday 2 March, 2013
Midlands show largest percentage drop in employment ratio since 2006
Nationally, there has been a 64 per cent decline in the ratio of employed to unemployed people with less than 5 people working for every person out of work.
# employment - Friday 1 March, 2013
New figures on foreign nationals 'debunk migrant welfare myth'
The CSO report said that the decline in employment activity for foreign nationals has not resulted in a corresponding increase in social welfare activity.
Column: 15 tips to help you get a job
Although there has been a drop in the unemployment figures, there are still many people searching for work. To mark National Jobseekers' Day, Robert Mac Giolla Phadrig has some tips to help.
# employment - Thursday 28 February, 2013
Column: I train to stay physically healthy – I should treat my mental health no differently
When I tell people I have a physical trainer, they think I must be stronger and fitter as a result of it – yet there is a stigma attached to attending a counsellor or psychologist, writes Tom Murphy.
# employment - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
Number of people at work rises for first time in over four years
Unemployment stood at 14.2pc at the end of 2012 – down 0.4pc in three months – but emigration played a key role.
# employment - Sunday 24 February, 2013
# employment - Friday 22 February, 2013
Government to pay employers to recruit unemployed people
The Government also wants to increase the number of ICT graduates and get 2,000 more small businesses online
# employment - Thursday 21 February, 2013
30 new hospitality jobs for Dublin
The jobs will be available in late August following a refurbishment at Fire Restaurant and Venue in Dublin.
Quantcast announces 100 jobs for Dublin
The digital advertising company, specialising in audience measurement, will create the jobs over the next two years.
# employment - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
Report: Government should establish a 'youth guarantee' for unemployed
A jobs committee has made a number of recommendations, including introducing a €1 million Youth Entrepreneurship Fund.
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Employment in US companies in Ireland up 15% in five years
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Taoiseach reveals how Action Plan on Jobs is progressing
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Sri Lanka to ban women from working as maids abroad
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Spain unemployment rate shoots to 26 per cent
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New short film to highlight poor working conditions of migrants
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THERE will be a familiar sight for one Colchester photographer in next year's Co-op calendar.
Teenager James Channon's Hilly Field was chosen as the July image for the 2013 East of England Co-operative Society's calendar.
The society holds the competition every year to create the calendar, using images which reflect Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.
James, a Colchester Sixth Form student, 17, said: "I particularly liked this picture because of the golden rays of sunlight shining through the trees."
Pensioner David Coppen's image was also selected for May.
Mr Coppen, 70, from Braintree, took his shot while walking through Thetford Forest.
Photographers were invited to submit their favourite photos, depicting the woodland scenes theme.
Amanda Long, of the East of England Co-operative Society, said: "I'd like to congratulate all of our winners on such creatively captured images and encourage people to pick up a copy of the calendar so they can share in admiring the amazingly beautiful woodland we are lucky to have in this region."
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Kevin Devlin, also known as Shawn Devlin, was last seen between 6:30 and 7 p.m. on Monday in Waipio Valley, where he reportedly was going for a swim.
Next weekend, hula devotees from around the world will flock to Waikiki for the sixth annual International Waikiki Hula Conference .
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Hawaii Island residents are likely to see their property taxes rise more than 10 percent this year, but only seven came out Tuesday evening to voice their opinion at the only public hearing on the issue.
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The first deployment of the Hilo-based UH-72 Lakota helicopters, which arrived on the Big Island in 2012, is part of an airborne search effort being undertaken by Guard units across the country to help the Department of Homeland Security with border drug control and immigration efforts.
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Four Hawaii Island officers killed in the line of duty, as well as two officers injured in a Hilo shooting earlier this year, will be honored by fellow Hawaii Police Department officers and the community during public events this week.
Hawaii County police open negligent homicide investigation in pedestrian death
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A drug and alcohol abuse treatment program is closing its offices in Kealakekua, Waimea and on Oahu, its CEO said Wednesday.
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Despite claiming that nuclear security is its chief concern, the White House is mysteriously scaling back its budget requests for anti-nuclear-terrorism funding.
Fifty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, new scholarship has put a fresh perspective on how alarmingly close the world came to all-out nuclear war and why the lessons of 1962 are so relevant today.
US congressional Republicans just passed legislation that will hamper implementation of New START as well as the administration's ability to make changes to the US nuclear arsenal. But this isn't a lingering Cold War hangover or an ideological battle. It's pure partisanship.
The National Academy of Sciences just released its exhaustive analysis of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, demonstrating that the treaty would increase security, foster safety, and deter illicit weapons.
As the Obama administration prepares to make critical decisions about the future of the US nuclear arsenal, it would do well to ignore calls to develop new low-yield counterforce options, as they would actually increase the probability of nuclear war and undermine US nonproliferation goals.
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Hyatt Hotels & Resorts and InterMountain Management LLC announced the opening of Hyatt Place Seattle/Downtown, the first Hyatt Place hotel in Washington state.
Hyatt Place Seattle/Downtown offers:
160 spacious guestrooms, all of which feature a 42-inch HDTV, the plush Hyatt Grand Bed and an eight-foot sectional sofa-sleeper
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"Seattle is one of the country's most lively, engaging cities, and we believe that the Hyatt Place Seattle/Downtown will exceed guest expectations," said Mark Frentz, regional director, operations, InterMountain Management, LLC. "With great amenities, such as free Wi-Fi to fresh food around the clock, we're confident that Hyatt Place Seattle/Downtown will be the perfect fit for the wide array of travelers that Seattle attracts."
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Compostela Valley is a land of indigenous people with diverse cultures rich in tribal myths, legends, art and music. It is also a land of unique biodiversity, beautiful sceneries from its lakes, rivers, mountains and forests, hot and cold springs and rich deposits of gold and silver.
Compostela Valley celebrates its Bulawan or Gold Festival with Drumline, Drum and Bugle, Neo-Ethnic Dance Competitions, Indigenous People (IP), Muslim and Youth Day and Cookfest.
Comvaleños flocked to the drumline and drum and bugle competitions to cheer for their towns. Each presentation was welcomed with generous yells, chants and claps.
The different dances representing the tribes of Compostela Valley and the costumes worn really awed a lot of the audience and even made them dance along. It was a different way of making people realize and appreciate the beauty of the diverse cultures of each tribe.
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Students who represented their schools in the cookfest also learned how to cook the traditional way without using matchsticks and cooking a native dish in bamboo poles.
For a glimpse of the fine craftsmanship of local artisans, you can look and buy gold and silver jewelry at the province's capitol in Nabunturan.
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It's the biggest event in the TV calendar. The Tube Talk Top 25 albums of the year has arrived! We may be blowing our own trumpets slightly - hey it's Christmas - but after much heated debate, arm wrestling and violent office battle, the Digital Spy TV team have sorted the wheat from the chaff, picked the cream of the crop and picked out the finest US, UK (and Danish) TV drama of 2011.
The countdown starts today with numbers 25-21 and ends on Friday with the big reveal of our number one show of the year. Let us know your verdict on our list and your favorite programs of the year at the bottom of the page.
25. Ringer
Sarah Michelle Gellar's new CW drama lands at the tail-end of this year's countdown for a reason - it's absolutely a guilty pleasure. But we're putting the emphasis firmly on 'pleasure' - at its best, Ringer is a brilliantly fun concoction of absurd scenarios, unlikely plot twists and hammy acting.
Our favorite character is the terribly English Andrew - Ioan Gruffudd's performance puts the 'stiff' in 'stiff upper lip'. If you were looking for Buffy 2.0 then you were always going to be disappointed, but if you were just after some dumb fun, then you couldn't beat Ringer in 2011. [MJ]
24. Downton Abbey
We couldn't ignore Downton Abbey, could we? Admittedly, the second series didn't quite reach the high standard of the first run, but it was still ridiculously enjoyable. We chose to take the show as a wonderful soap with pretty clothes, and after doing that the enjoyment factor just kept coming.
Whether it was Matthew Crawley's tingles, the outbreak of Spanish flu ("I'm not feeling well." "Now I'm not feeling well." "Ooh, you know what? I feel a bit peaky too"), the random introduction of a possible heir who may have had amnesia (for one episode only), elopements, arrests or a war which apparently allowed its soldiers free passage to return to Britain whenever they wanted, you'd have a good case for arguing that this series of Downton was a little bit silly. But whatever - it was rollicking good fun, had enough emotional moments to keep us intrigued (see especially Matthew and Mary), and left us on a stonking cliffhanger. What's more, the Dowager Countess - aka Maggie Smith - might just have the best lines on TV. [CW]
23. New Girl
Everyone's favorite Manic Pixie Dream Girl™ Zooey Deschanel brings her kooky, wide-eyed persona to television. A ratings hit in the US, New Girl suffered a blow early on when it lost loveable Coach (Damon Wayans Jr.) to rival sitcom Happy Endings but it's still head-and-shoulders above most American sitcoms right now.
Zooey's 'adorkable' Jess is the focus of the show, but our favorite character is the grouchy Nick (Jake Johnson), one of her three male room-mates. UK viewers eager to catch up on New Girl can watch the show from early next year - it debuts on Channel 4 on January 6. [MJ]
22. Holy Flying Circus
Another feather in BBC Four's cap, Holy Flying Circus was a surreal re-imagining of the furore around Monty Python's Life of Brian, which more than lived up to its subject's lofty reputation. One half intriguing story-telling, one half Python-esque flights of fancy, it delivered something utterly fresh to the genre.
Stunning performances from Darren Boyd, Steve Punt, Charles Edwards, Rufus Jones, Phil Nichol and Tom Fisher as the comedy legends and a perfectly balanced script - it tread the line between hilariously bizarre and needlessly wacky perfectly - were a fitting tribute to the Python legend. And someone give Darren Boyd a script to do a John Cleese biopic asap please. [AF]
21. Episodes
With a concept that was impossible to sum up in a nutshell, Episodes confused and irked many who dived in unprepared. However, those willing to delve a little further into the US/UK Showtime/BBC production were delivered a rewarding treat that offered serious belly laughs and has had us on the edge of our seat awaiting the arrival of season two (sometime early 2012) all year.
Matt LeBlanc didn't just poke fun at his public image and acting career, he took a sledgehammer to it. Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig didn't have a giggle at the preposterous nature of US TV networks, they blew raspberries and ripped it to shreds. Anyone who has witnessed the world of TV commissioning and production could appreciate the show's near-the-knuckle satire, but this wasn't just naval-gazing for media types. Episodes could do silly (that fight, Matt LeBlanc's sea creature) humor just as well as the subtle and smart stuff. [AF]
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