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this feels a little like coming back to an old friend – one that is always there, one I can meet up with and it feels like nothing has changed. this corner of the internet has held me and sustained me and believed in me.
it feels appropriate that I'd return today: my 23rd birthday. I know and have known for months that I have words to say. words about making myself more of an extrovert. words about struggling to believe that "life is a gift, and the Giver is good." words about some weeks of being so low that I confused a little depression for things like mono or the flu. words about what it feels like to finally breathe after holding my breath for ten months. those are to come.
this morning, I woke up and hugged my dog. I held him so close to my face that his drool soaked my cheek. a year ago, that would've disgusted me. now, he loves me and I can hug him and he holds eye contact for minutes, big brown eyes that somehow get it, and I think I needed a love, a dependency, a loyalty like that. Baxter, you have no clue just how great you are.
we wandered to the patio, to the birds chirping and the sun rising. isn't it funny how in all the little moments, nothing changes, and then someday you wake up and you're 23 and life has happened?
today, today we'll talk about a birthday. about 23 whole years. about how at 12, I could never see passed 18. about how now, I dream of 30 and 35 and 43.
today, we'll celebrate how the Lord is overwhelmingly kind, a brand of kindness that moves me to tears. we'll celebrate His goodness. how though it doesn't always look like kindness, I can stand and run to that goodness. how it is very truly the anchor of my soul when I feel untethered from all the things that I thought would last.
let's have a little cheers to the last 23 and a big yes and amen to the next 60. let's cheers to all that He has done, what 23 years have taught. God, you've moved some mountains, don't let me forget:
- that happiness is fading and fleeing, but joy, even when it is clothed like everything else, lasts. you can bargain on joy, sister.
- that the older you get, the better life gets. man, it gets good, hold your breath on that.
- that being truly rooted, coming from the vine, looks like a hope, no matter the season. I used to confuse contentment or happiness for life being good. no, life is good because I have the hope of Christ, even when that hope aches.
- that friends are truly one of my best blessings. I could not say thank you enough.
- and speaking of friends, that they will walk through the fire alongside me. that's a weepy thought. but again, eternally thankful.
- that family changes and needs room to change, like a wine that gets sweeter with time.
- that gratefulness is a state of mind.
- that in the daily, I can find holy ground.
- that depression needs her name. and that when you don't call her by her name, she becomes a million times harder to figure out.
- that even the worst of worsts can be redeemed.
- that if He will clothe all the flowers of the field, the ones here today and gone tomorrow, surely He will continue to clothe me.
- that I can call life to dead things. that the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives in me – oh my goodness. goodness. that is some real goodness.
- that it is truly a privilege to step in the gap for my brothers and sisters, to appeal to the Father when they feel no appeal. to hold their arms up.
- that the Church is even less of a location than I've ever thought. that ministry matters when her tears, not my tears, are streaming. that theology carries weight when I have no words for him, but I've been given all the words I could ever need by the One that spoke truth and life. that I don't need to know more about the Lord because, truly, I have all that I need.
- that fear does not come from the Father.
- that I can worship through the venti vanilla iced coffee with cream, no classic. somehow, the way that it is mine and something to hold and a helper when I need it is sacred. coffee lovers, tell me you get that.
- that I have to give myself grace on the worst and best days. because if I don't, it's hard to let Him. and if I can't let Him, my best days are the best and my worst days are the worst. don't lose the anchor.
- that natural light can cure anything. joy comes in the morning, babes.
- that you are never too old or too settled for a new friend.
- that doing things with God beats trying to do things for God a million times over. walking with the Lord is a new kind of song.
- that the things I am passionate about will be my callings, and I am thrilled about that.
- that He has already given me freedom and I don't have to live like a slave to my past or my present or to all the future. freedom is mine for the taking.
- that I could never be enough, no matter how much I think I need to measure up. praise be to God, the Father.
23, I'm ready and expectant and believing. life is a gift, and the Giver is good.


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New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick sat down for an interview that aired Thursday with CNBC's Suzy Welch and finally shared his thoughts on "Deflate-gate" in a game of word association.
Welch asked Belichick for the word he associates with "Deflate-gate," and the coach responded "ridiculous."
The NFL suspended Belichick's long-time quarterback Tom Brady for four games in 2016 over the suspicion of deflated footballs from the 2015 AFC Championship Game against the Indianapolis Colts.
Welch also asked Belichick for his thoughts on winning.
"The goal," he replied. "There's no medals for trying. This isn't like eighth grade where everybody gets a trophy. We're in a professional sport and it's competitive to win. That's what we do."
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The Natasha Denona brand recently launched at Sephora. This brand is probably most known for their infamous $239 eyeshadow palette. I don't know if I would pay that much for an eyeshadow palette but I was curious about other items in this line including the Natasha Denona All Over Glow Face & Body Shimmer in Powder.
This highlighter caught my eye because it is available in light, medium and dark which is a little unusual since dark skin tones are usually an afterthought (if thought of at all) by many makeup brands. Highlighters specifically designed for dark skin are usually hard to come by so I was definitely eager to test out this highlighter.
Natasha Denona All Over Glow Face & Body Shimmer in Powder Review
It comes in reflective gold tin packaging with a mirror on the inside.
Specially formulated for a long lasting finish, All Over Face & Body Shimmer in Powder glides across the skin for a gentle and natural-looking radiance. Perfect for creating a Hollywood glow, it's easy to apply, light and comfortable, and long-lasting to ensure that skin is left with a gentle shimmer and glowing finish for hours.
This Natasha Denona All Over Glow Face & Body Shimmer in Powder looks really pretty when swatched as you can see above and I love how close to my skin tone it was. Though I appreciate that there is a dark version of this highlighter, I didn't care too much for it because when applied to my skin, it looked slightly ashy.
It does not contain any glitter and seems designed to give a subtle "glow from within" effect but because it looked slightly ashy on my skin, it did not look like it came from within. The highlighted areas stood out against my skin.
As far as the actual highlight, I was not very impressed. I'm more of a subtle highlight type of person and have no desire to shine bright like a diamond but I felt that this Natasha Denona All Over Glow Face & Body Shimmer in Powder was just too subtle which meant that I had to dip my brush in the highlight several times to get the highlight that I wanted which almost never happens when I use any of my highlighters. With my other highlighters, I usually dip my brush into the product very lightly once or twice but with this, I had to go in over and over.
It does give a nice sheen once you get the amount you need but it's nothing special. In addition, if you have textured skin like me, this highlighter will highlight the texture in your skin which no one likes.
There is also a scent to this highlight for all those who are sensitive to fragrance. I personally don't hate the scent.
I love that this Natasha Denona All Over Glow Face & Body Shimmer in Powder came in a shade for dark skin but that's all I like about this highlighter. It does give a nice sheen but it comes off ashy on my dark skin and I didn't like that I had to keep dipping my brush in the product many times to get the coverage I wanted.
Even if it didn't come off ashy, I probably would not recommend this highlighter because I didn't think there was anything special about this highlighter to warrant the $38 price tag. My new favorite $7 Makeup Revolution Vivid Shimmer Brick In Rose Gold blows this out of the park and looks amazing on my dark skin.
It's not terrible though and may even work as a bronzer for those with lighter skin. I was just not wowed by it at all.
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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman today announced the launch of a financial consumer education web app called AGScamHelp. The site lets consumers look up housing counselors and legal services providers in a database to see if they've been approved by the federal or state government.
The database contains information about all the mortgage assistance relief services providers in the New York State Attorney General's Homeowner Protection Program.
"While my office is committed to cracking down on scam operations that target struggling New Yorkers, the most powerful tool against these frauds is to ensure that consumers are informed and aware of the free services that are available to them through our Homeowner Protection Program," Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement.
A recent report by the Center for New York City Neighborhoods and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law found that more than 2,700 foreclosure scam claims were filed between March 2010 and September 2014.


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Something that comes by now and again is planning. And with this I don´t mean the planning sessions within Scrum or planning work through the day. I´m talking about the planning that occurs in boardrooms and amongst managers. Often I am asked to provide a long term planning. How many sprints something would take and …
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Sep 16 2016
Preview: Build Intelligent Apps with the Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs
Crystal Bedell
The rise of machine learning has produced an explosion of APIs to make your applications more intelligent. Come see them in action! On Tuesday, Sept. 20, machine learning expert Jennifer Marsman will introduce Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs. You'll learn about the more than 20 Cognitive Services APIs that provide object recognition, face detec …Read more
Sep 13 2016
Preview: This One Weird Trick Can Save a Failing Project
Crystal Bedell
It's no secret that project failure is an albatross around IT's neck. CIO reports that 50% of businesses had an IT project fail in the prior 12 months. With applications being key to business transformation, organizations can't afford the risk of project failure. But how do you save a failing project? This Thursday RightBrain CTO […] …Read more
May 24 2016
AWS Lambda Tutorial: Playing Math Games with Lambda
Crystal Bedell
One of the things our software engineers like about building applications in the cloud is that there's always something new to learn. Unfortunately, there's always something new to learn, and (let's face it) tutorials can get downright boring when you have a job to do. With that in mind, RightBrain Senior Software Engineer David Barnett [&hel …Read more


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Hello Hello Everyone!
Ah, it is finals week and I am so happy that I only have one more final! I took my Computer Applications/HTML Coding exam today and passed with 100% however I am less thrilled about my business exam on Thursday…there's a long story with that. But I kind of wanted to do a post on things that make me happy. I have been so frustrated with college recently and with all the anxiety from that and other things, I'm stressing myself out to the point of stress-eating. Do you all feel like you get too overwhelmed with college? I always feel like I'm the only one because all of my friends are so motivated and driven, but I have no idea what I want to do or major in or anything. I feel like I'm going where everyone is telling me to go. So, I feel like reminding myself of the things that make me happy and try to get myself through the rest of this week without going crazy. So, let's start~!Actually, this picture makes me smile. It was taken in my hometown of Charleston, South Carolina (also the hometown of Stephen Colbert, yes I am proud.) at the Charleston Aquarium and thanks to Anthony's awesome photography skills, he even captured the Cooper River Bridge. I love going to Charleston because it's a city that embodies who I am; A beautiful city with Victorian architecture and a vintage feel. Maybe that's why I cherish vintage things so much?
So, if you haven't noticed already, I love to capture moments. Whether it be in writing or pictures, I have to capture the details in some form. I have been wanting to create a photo journal lately; like buying a polaroid camera, some cute washi (tape), and taping the photos in the journal and writing down my thoughts and why I took the picture in the first place. Like keeping a journal but with pics, right? Looking back at those moment and reading my thoughts is something I treasure and always brings a smile to my face.I used to have a cat a few years ago. It seemed to strange to own one when I had such a severe allergy to cat dander and what not, but for some reason my cat never gave me too much trouble allergy wise. I couldn't pick him up a lot and I remember his claw marks left terrible swelling in their wake, but he would always come by and make me pet him and give him a kiss. Unfortunately, during a trip to Charleston, he got out of the house and we haven't seen him since. So, whenever I see anything with a cat print and what not, I can't help but smile. I can't own a cat now because my allergies have worsen, but cat prints and pictures are comforting enough for me I guess. Everything with a cat reminds me of him and the memories and wierd yet loving a cat he was.So, as you all know…I enjoy blogging. It is possibly one of my greater passions in life. I put blogging and reading together because I love to read other people's blogs as well! My favorite is actually Jenny who is a blogger from DC as well! Her blog is Sushi-Cat.Net and she blogs about pretty much everything I love…and her Tumblr is also quite brilliant I must say. Along with reading, I love to read book from Howl's Moving Castle to 下妻物語 to Jaycee Dugard's chilling memoir to the Bible. My preference varies, I suppose. But being in my room, with a window open for fresh air, relaxing instrumental music, and nice book or my laptop with me blogging makes me smile so big! Maybe that's why I began a blog in the first place?
Yes, I must admit…he is one of the reasons I smile the most. Spending time with Anthony is truly a blessing. We may argue every once in a while and things will not always go the way we expected, but being able to be near him or next to him…I can't help but smile. He always makes sure that I am ok and comfortable and happy. His smile makes me smile. His laugh makes me laugh. And so on. I sound so sappy, but alas it is true. He makes me smile in general, what can I say? Anthony, if you read this…YOU MAKE ME SMILE LIKE A BIG DORK. 🙂
Alrighty, that is it for today everyone! Just a head's up, my next post will be a "Get Ready with Me" post since Saturday I am going to a friend's wedding! I am so excited and my mom will be doing my makeup since my hands have been too shaky recently for weird reasons. So be on the look out! I may include a video as well! AHHHH.
Well, SUMMER VACATION IS HERE. I hope you all have an amazing weekend and remember to stay safe, have fun as well as Live. Laugh. Smile 🙂
Thanks for reading~! ❤
With love,
Taylor Rae
PS: PASSED MY BUSINESS EXAM WITH AN A! THEREFORE 3 OUT OF 4 EXAMS WERE ACED! Huzzah everyone! A successful semester.


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Montana Lt. Gov. Angela McLean and former University of Montana football coach Mick Delaney will be featured at this year's University of Montana Western commencement.
The University of Montana Western's annual rodeo banquet shattered previous fundraising records, Roxanne Engellant, UMW foundation director, announced this week.
The University of Montana Western's Career Services is collaborating with the AAUW-Montana (American Association of University of Women), the Dillon Women's Resource Center, and the Dillon Job Service, to bring two salary negotiation workshops to campus on March 17 and 18.
University of Montana Western film students debuted their short films Wednesday, March 4, at the first Montana Western film festival.
The University of Montana Western welcomes Missoula novelist Kim Zupan to campus Feb. 19 as part of the Dances with Words visiting author series.
"Romeo and Juliet," William Shakespeare's story of two star-crossed teenagers, is brought to life by students of the University of Montana Western.
The Montana Pro Rodeo Hall and Wall of Fame recognized the University of Montana Western at its annual awards banquet Jan. 31 in Billings, Mont.
The University of Montana Western will host Montana State professor Susan Kollin on Thursday, Jan. 29.
The Montana Youth Challenge Academy (MYCA) graduated 76 students Dec. 20 at the University of Montana Western campus.
The University of Montana Western business department will host Helix Business Solutions vice president Travis Cottom on Dec. 4.


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How do we unlearn physical behaviors detrimental to our comfort and well-being that have become deeply ingrained in our daily lives? For many, one successful means of unlearning starts with the Alexander Technique. When Learning in Action—An Introduction to the Alexander Technique instructor Stacy Gehman first discovered the process in the late 1970s, he found a study that spoke to him on a level akin to his interests in Tai Chi and Zazen. However, he didn't foresee it being the answer to some of his own discomfort. "I was having very unpleasant backaches," says Gehman. "I tried various therapies, but without much relief, then a friend gave me a book on the Alexander Technique. I found it very exciting. Somehow the idea that what I needed was not somebody to fix some defect in me. It was fascinating that I might be able to learn what it was I was doing that caused my problem."
Inspired to further study, Gehman found classes to be surprisingly scarce. "There were no Alexander teachers in the DC area, but one had just moved to Baltimore. So, I started lessons, which I found fascinating, and they filled me with wonder. With only gentle guidance, my way of moving changed radically. As a physicist, I could not understand how I could stand up without using my usual amount of force and effort. Yet, there it was, and I wasn't inclined to believe in miracles."
In 1978 Gehman sought the instruction of Marjorie Barstow, the first teacher certified by FM Alexander. "She was not happy with students merely having lovely experiences," Gehman recalls. "She wanted all of us to use our eyes to see what was happening in each other, to think about it, to describe what we saw, and understand how it might apply to us. She frequently said she did not want us to believe anything she said, but to think about it and to try it out for ourselves. At 79 years old, she moved more fluidly, and had more energy than anyone else in the room, and most of the students were in college or young adults."
Creator of the Alexander Technique F Matthias Alexander (FM) was an aspiring actor who found himself losing his voice with a shocking degree of regularity. Doctors were of no help. Following a series of treatments, FM was advised by his physicians to rest his voice for two weeks. During this period of recuperation, he noticed that when he used his voice normally, there were no problems, but as soon as he began to recite his lines a detrimental tension took effect. "He would begin to develop hoarseness," says Gehman. "He reasoned that he must be doing something different when reciting, and since no one could tell him what that might be, he would have to discover it for himself."
"He began using mirrors," says Gehman, "and in what I think was a stroke of genius, he did not start by watching himself recite, but by watching himself speak normally, which seemed reasonable to him because he did not know what to look for."
"I like to point out at this point in the story a few remarkable points, which are key for learning the Alexander Technique for oneself," says Gehman. "First, FM had to intuit that he could be doing something and not know it, in fact not even feel it, and if that is the case, he might be able to see what it was in the mirror. Then he chose to look for a difference between one activity, which gave him no trouble, and another that did. Gregory Bateson, an early cyberneticist defined 'information' as 'a difference that makes a difference,' precisely the task FM set for himself."
According to Gehman, in developing his technique FM took a long look back on human history and our evolving physicality. "(His) idea was that until our existence as hunter-gatherers, we had evolved slowly and instinctively. But when we began to make tools, and to modify our environment, the changes to our daily activities proceeded too fast for evolution to keep up, which led to misuse of our bodies at an ever-accelerating pace. He saw his work as a way to take the evolution of the human being from an instinctive process to a conscious one."
The Alexander Technique asks one to look deeply at the interconnection of their physical and emotional lives. "The word 'emotion' taken literally (ex + movere) means 'from movement' in Latin. What we feel is the result of a movement, however subtle," says Gehman. "And if we want to change habitual feelings that are a nuisance to us, it can be done. But the Alexander Teacher is not going to do that for you, or tell you what change to make. If you learn the process, you can apply it to whatever you choose, and leave everything else alone."
At first glance, the Alexander Technique appears simply a regimen for good posture, but to the initiated it is a great deal more. Gehman illustrates the benefits of the technique with a personal anecdote, "My younger daughter was taking gymnastics classes, and when she was around six I observed something odd as she was on the balance beam. I could not understand why she was so tight, and constantly losing her balance. When we got home I mentioned to (her) that she seemed to be having trouble on the beam. She said 'Yes, my teacher said that I was to keep my butt really tight and tucked under, and make my legs really straight.' I helped her understand what her teacher had seen the class doing, and why she had given those instructions. But I also helped her re-think what she could do to get the results the teacher wanted without all the excess effort that destroyed her balance."
Gehman says students looking forward to studying the Alexander Technique can take as little or as much of it as they want. "The Technique is unique in that it does not tell you how you should conduct your life, but it can tell you how to make changes in your life that you choose. Learning how to stand-up and sit-down more easily, or improve your golf swing, stop hurting at your desk, etc. are all perfectly good reasons for studying the Technique. Others see that if they can learn to change habits of movement that have existed for their lifetimes by becoming more conscious of what they are doing, then maybe that might be useful in altering other habits of thought that cause them problems."
Learn more about Learning in Action—An Introduction to the Alexander Technique.
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I direct the Child Language Lab @ NYU (website under construction). We investigate child language using corpus-based and experimental methods, focusing on toddlers and preschool age children (approximately 2-6 years old). Our research primarily addresses morphosyntactic and semantic development from a learnability perspective. Visit the website for more information & cute pictures.
For general information about me and my work, here is an interview I did about my new position and the CLL for my alma mater, University of Toronto. And here is a mildly vintage (Nov. 2015) interview I did about First Language Acquisition for the Canadian Language Museum, in French (top) and English (scroll down).


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Speak to skilled locksmith Fairview professionals to find the answer to your key and lock situation. Get in touch to enrich yourself with a better and more full view of your security situation. If you do, you'll never regret it. You'll both feel safer and be safer all with one easy to reach service in your pocket. Lock and key specialists.
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Intro to Ski Racing
Our Introduction to Ski Racing is an 8-week program for children ages 6-12 who wish to explore the competitive side of ski racing. It meets for 3 hours on Saturday mornings in January & February. This program focuses on developing racing skills, technical skills and improving overall ski techniques.
Young athletes must be at ease skiing all of our trails and be able to load, ride and unload the chairlift independently. Training takes place on Thunderbolt trail. During the 8-week program the student will be introduced to the fundamentals of ski racing and gate training. They will also be entered into the nationwide NASTAR system and will compete in two NASTAR races during the program.
This program focuses on racing instruction and is perfect for children who are thinking about joining our race team but cannot make the full commitment or are not sure if they are ready.
At the end of the program, the students will receive certificates of completion and the coaches will provide them with an assessment of readiness to transition to the Mount Southington Race Team. Parents will also be given the opportunity to meet with coaches and parents of the race team to ask questions and get feedback on any concerns they may have.
TRAINING DATES AND TIMES - all Intro Programs
January 6, 13, 20, 27
February 3, 10, 17, & 24
9:00am – 12:00pm
The cost of the program is $695.00 and includes coaching by our certified coaching staff and a lift ticket valid until 5pm each Saturday the program takes place.
Note: Helmets are required but racing suits and racing skis are NOT required.


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I woke up early today. Will be visiting my husband's sisters for Christmas but we have to get back home on Christmas Day. I already pack our clothes last night and our presents are ready. We're planning to leave in the afternoon because my husband have practice this morning. I hope we have a nice weather when we travel as it is a very long trip. Anyways, I need to prepare our breakfast while Charles is asleep so when he gets up the food is ready. Merry Christmas everyone!
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Strategic Decision Making for Crisis Response Operations Course - (NATO SELECTED; NATO ETOC Code: ETE-CM-41879)Date: (26-11-2018)
City: Sofia
Duration: 5 days
The Crisis Management and Disaster Response Centre of Excellence (CMDR COE) will conduct Strategic Decision Making for Crisis Response Operations Course from 26 to 30 November 2018. The course will be held in English and the venue will be Shipka Hotel, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Acquisition of extensive knowledge related to NATO Crisis Management and the Alliance contribution to a Comprehensive Approach.
Training Audience:
Military officers (OF-3 and higher) and/or civil equivalent assigned to NATO HQs and Agencies, NATO and Partner nations′ Ministry of Defence and subordinated HQs, Ministry of Interior, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs which are involved in the NATO crisis management planning and decision making.
Learning Objectives:
- identify emerging crises at strategic level, including natural and man-made disasters, to support the development of a strategic assessment within the context of NATO′s contribution to a Comprehensive Approach (CA);
- assess key issues, factors, and actors influencing the crisis; possible resolution with the relevant international stakeholders within the engagement space, in order to advise decision makers during strategic assessment in accordance with NATO Crisis Response Planning;
- assist in SACEUR′s strategic military advice development, through drafting of strategic assessment, while applying the Comprehensive Operations Planning Directive (COPD).
NATO Crisis Management Fundamentals
This 5-day course comprises of lectures, practical teamwork and student presentations, intended to prepare students to contribute in complex crisis response planning and assist decision making issues in a given scenario. Improvement in the knowledge of the attendees will be defined by an open-book test.
NATO Unclassified Releasable to Partners
English (high level of proficiency required).
The English level of the participants should meet the criteria stated in STANAG 6001-3232.
Registration forms are welcomed no later than 12 October 2018, and preferably before then. The course will not take place with less than 10 participants. The maximum number of participants is 30. Applicants are advised to apply early in order to avoid disappointment.
The applicant will be notified no later than 18 October 2018 whether or not is admitted to the course. If admitted to the course, the student will receive a pre-course info indicating further details of the course.
Course Fee:
100 euros (for all participants, excluding speakers, and those participants from CMDR COE sponsoring nations).
Other costs (travel, accommodation, meals) are at the expense of the attendees.
Cancellations will be accepted only until 4 weeks before the course begins. After this date we have to charge the course fee.
- COL Dimitar Dimitrov, firstname.lastname@example.com, +359 2 92 24 738
- Mrs. Stanislava Kraynova, firstname.lastname@example.com, +359 2 92 24 715
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More press workers have died in Iraq than in any other conflict, and the Committee to Protect Journalists estimates three journalists a month are being murdered in the world's hot spots. So how do we go about trying to ensure the safety of our press at flash points across the world?
In April, students from the new MA course in international journalism at University College Falmouth had a taste of what life might be like as globe trotting reporters, when they took part in a unique Hostile Environment course at Penhale Military camp in Cornwall. It's thought to be the first time that such a course has been offered as part of the curriculum at a British University.
The three-day course is run by former Royal Marines and includes basic military safety and survival techniques, conflict resolution, checkpoint and hostage negotiating and first aid.
Hostile environments come in many forms, from football crowds to some inner-city housing estates, and all the way up to war zones. For journalists, they're also where the action is, and so when others are fleeing we tend to be heading straight for them. These are my personal top five tips for staying safe:
- If you hear gunfire – find shelter. When safe, think long and hard, and then think long and hard again before going anywhere near. No story is worth dying for.
- If in unfamiliar surroundings in the UK or abroad, try to team up with local journalists and follow their advice.
- In riot situations (not involving guns) try to keep behind the security forces – watch out for bricks and bottles meant for them but heading for you.
- If going by car to a potentially dangerous event, get someone who knows the area to drive. You don't want to end up trapped in a dead end when the action starts.
- Trust your instincts – if you feel in danger retreat/cross the road/run away. Don't try to be macho.


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YSR Congress chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy is planning to start a new Yatra , not the patented Odarpu Yatra, but a kind of Self Odarpu Yatra.
According to reports from Lotus Pond, Jagan is planning a Yatra to tour all the 175 constituencies in the 13 districts of Andhra Pradhesh , in protest against the defections of his MLAs.
Recently over 10+ YSRCP MLAs have shifted their loyalties towards ruling TDP, to safeguard the reaming, Jagan wants to go into Public, taking inspiration from TDP founder former Chief Minister N T Rama Rao, who went into public when his government was suspended and Congress leader Nadella Bhaskar Rao took over CM seat in 1984.
Jagan also wants his Yatra to be like his father's late YS Rajasekhara Reddy's Yatra in 2003 before elections, which gave immense popularity to YSR.
Jagan will have a meeting with his party senior leaders before giving a final announcement of his new Yatra. He is going to organise public meeting in those constituencies where the MLAs have shifted their loyalties and also demand their resignations.


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After studying abroad in Europe and visiting over 15 different countries, I had no idea what to do with all the souvenirs, ticket stubs, and other memorable items that I had collected on the way. My older sister was gracious enough to get me a SMASH Book for Christmas, which is sort of like a beginners scrapbook. I loved the process of going through my pictures and memories and putting them together in a way that allowed me to tell the story of my travel experiences.
What You'll Need:
- Souvenirs, ticket stubs, photos, and anything else you want to include about your travels
- Glue
- Stickers (I loved the variety of international-themed stickers from Michaels)
- Scissors
The Process:
I had fun with the travel album by pairing similar-themed items together on the like my Paris map, stickers, and postcards. I also used other SMASH Book items like the "Travel Nightmare" and "Away we Go" sheets to write in memorable moments and dates about my travels.
Read more: The Ultimate Guide to Paris, France
One thing I love about this SMASH Book is every page is already pre-printed with different themes and colors! For example, one page had the Eiffel Tour pre-printed while another other was London-themed, which was perfect for my Europe travel album!
I chose to group the pages of the SMASH Book together by the different cities I visited. I love my Vienna page because I cut out pieces of the actual map I used to get around the city. The crumpled map on the second page adds an authentic feel to my album because it reminds me of the slightly rainy days I spent the beautiful city that got my map wet in the first place.
Read more: The Ultimate Guide to Vienna, Austria
I loved including old receipts from some of my favorite places to eat out in Prague while I lived there. I also included ticket stubs such as my ticket from visiting the Colosseum in Rome shown in the second picture. It is so easy to collect the little things into a ziplock bag while you travel to get creative with them when you get back!
The best part about a travel album is making it your own! I picked stickers and pictures that reflected my personality and the way I felt about my trip. Now I love using it as a coffee table book for inspiration for my latest travels.
I hope this gives you some inspiration for your own travel album, scrapbook, or SMASH Book. There's something about flipping through pages of amazing memories that looking back through your own Instagram photos doesn't have.
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With Corbin's birthday this happening this last week it had me in the mood to do some cupcake baking before the new little one arrived and the party. I knew I wouldn't be up for actually putting together a cake this year (if I was even home from the hospital yet) so I did plenty of practicing and experimenting before hand. These cupcakes for kids were a hit! They are colorful, a tiny bit of sour to get your taste buds going and a very kid friendly design.
Like I said, the kids loved these and so did the adults. I think it can get rather boring eating the same thing over and over again at parties, which is why I was so happy to make these. Not to mention, these make a new mama happy! I need lots of yummy calories to help make this milk, so I was happy to try one or two of these.
The recipe itself is also fairly simple and it's not something you will be slaving over the stove for. My personal favorite of this recipe is how light and fluffy the icing is. I'm not a huge fan of heavy icing and this hits the spot. My boys could eat icing all day long, no matter what kind it is, so it was nice to have something sweet that everyone loved!
Sour Octopus Cupcakes For Kids
- 1/2 C unsalted butter room temp
- 2 egg whites
- 2 eggs
- 2 C flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 baking soda
- 3/4 C buttermilk
- 1 1/2 C sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 C soft unsalted butter
- 4 + C powder sugar
- 4 TBSP heavy whipping cream
- Blue gel food coloring
- Citric Acid
- One package of sour octopus candy
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Line the cupcake tins with paper liners.
Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda together in a bowl.
Beat butter on high for 30 seconds.
Add sugar and vanilla extract to the butter beating until well combined.
Add egg whites, and then eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Alternate adding the flour mixture and buttermilk to the butter mixture; add 1/3 C flour mixture to the wet mixture followed by adding 1/3 C of the buttermilk; add 1/3 C flour mixture again then add 1/3 C buttermilk mix on low speed, add 1/3 C of flour and add the rest of 1/3 C of buttermilk mix in low speed until thoroughly blended.
Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until an inserted cupcake comes out
Allow to cool in the cupcake tin for 10 minutes.
Remove the cupcakes from the cupcake tin and completely cool on a wire rack.
Cream the butter and powder sugar until it looks light and creamy.
If it doesn't cream add several more drops of the heavy whipping cream.
Test to see if the frosting can form and hold a stiff peak. If not add more powder sugar 1/2 C at a time.
Add 1 TBSP citric acid. Mix well.
Test to make sure that the frosting can make and hold a stiff peak.
Divide the frosting equally into two bowls
The first bowl remains white.
Add several drops of blue gel food coloring to the second bowl and mix well.
Assemble a pastry bag with a 13 inch round frosting tip.
Scoop the blue frosting into a pastry bag staying on one side of the pastry bag. Then add the white frosting to the other side of the pastry bag.
Twist the open end of the pastry bag to push the frosting to the tip.
Test to make sure that the combination of blue and white frosting comes to the tip at the same time.
Frost cupcakes from the outside edge to the center of the cupcake.
Place the sour octopus on the top of the frosted cupcake.
If necessary you can use a small dollop of the white frosting as the "glue" for the octopus.
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Would the Buddha watch the news?
These are testy times for the spiritually minded. Domestically, we have the presidential campaign. Internationally, we have masses of refugees drowning in rickety boats while the world looks on – in 2016!
It all starts to look like a spiritual train wreck; a daily assault on human kindness; fertilizer for our savage impulses. Violence begets violence, rage begets rage, and ugliness in your face, 24/7, is sure to bring out the worst in a person. I've heard more venom spewed from the mouths of "spiritual" folks I know this year than ever before. It's hard to point this out, of course: "Are you aware that you sound like Mussolini if he were voting for Jill Stein?" you'd like to ask, but you don't.
It happened again the other night. I was watching CNN with a Buddhist friend when a couple of pundits started sharing some not-so-brilliant ideas. As they spoke, I watched my friend's hands turn into firsts, her face into a snarling war mask. She looked like she was ready to slam her kale chip bag into the TV screen. Finally, she started screaming. "I hate their mother &&$%# guts! Why do we listen to these people? They should all be locked up! Throw away the goddamn key!"
I looked at her. She looked at me. We both knew that this was a teaching moment. She'd been sucked into a death spiral of attack, disgust, and dehumanization despite decades of loving kindness practice. It was like the beginning of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," when the main character looks at his neighbor and sees the same face – only dead. There was no use reminding my friend of the Buddha's warning about hatred (never ceasing by hatred). You don't stop a raging bull by wagging your finger, "Now, now." So I said something inoffensive about the election and how happy I'll be when the whole thing is over.
After she'd regained her composure, my friend and I had a good talk about spiritual hypocrisy, and the value of faith and practice if they can't stop us from becoming as despicable as the people whose policies we despise. I've practiced meditation for 25 years, read hundreds of books about spirituality, learned from enlightened masters, yet my gut response to abhorrent ideas shoots from neutral to homicidal in two seconds flat, my heart shut down by self-righteousness. Recently, this zealous aggression followed me home for the first time ever. A month before the TV meltdown, my partner and I, who've never had a real fight, found ourselves yelling at each other at 7 a.m. over who deserved the nomination. We were actually raising our voices over the morning paper. We caught ourselves, but that's not the point. The gloves were off, the blood pressure was rising, and it wasn't inconceivable that had he been closer, I might have popped him one.
Never – but you get the point. You've seen the enemy and he is you. You've met your own face in the bathroom mirror and seen a fundamentalist jerk. It doesn't matter if you're a left-winger or a right-winger, you're still a fundamentalist. You don't favor bombs or beheadings, of course; still your reflexive belligerence towards perceived opponents can hardly be mistaken for spiritual wisdom. That's because emotions are rarely wise, and moral outrage is all emotion. We know from evolutionary psychology that the human brain is equipped with a moral organ that takes its orders from feelings, not thoughts. This moral organ has five main keys – harm and care, justice and fairness, in-group loyalty, respect for authority, and purity (or sacredness) – all of which are triggered by emotions, not reason.
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done studies proving that conservatives and liberals respond to different moral keys, for wildly divergent reasons. Conservatives tend to focus on issues of loyalty, respect, and purity ("community ethics") for example, while liberals emphasize issues related to fairness, harm, and care ("individual ethics"). For a liberal, if something doesn't hurt anyone else, you should be allowed to do it. For a conservative, if tradition or "purity" forbids it, that's enough reason to button it up.
Emotions are running the show. It's why my Buddhist friend who prays at strangers' deathbeds and gives selflessly to public service, can react like a garden-variety bigot when outrage hijacks her mindfulness. Logically, she knew she was behaving in a crazy way but her riled-up feelings didn't care. Haidt uses a circus analogy to illustrate this disconnect. He compares the emotions to an untrained elephant and our reasoning capacity to a little man sitting on its back. No matter how much the little man kicks and steers, the elephant goes it own way. If you've ever tried to talk yourself out of a feeling, you know that this is true. Next to the primitive emotional brain, the prefrontal cortex, where reasoning happens, is a fairly new instrument in our evolution, and it is much less powerful. Hence, our current debacles.
As seekers, we do our best to go high when they go low. We struggle to raise ourselves out of cesspool of greed, delusion, and outright cruelty. We're confused when we find ourselves sinking again to levels we think are way below us and wonder why we can't stop ourselves. The clue is to look to the elephant – or the donkey, depending on your team – and stop believing what you think. Righteousness does not come from reason. Hatred is not the price of justice. Our ancient wiring has got us fooled. That's why everything's such a circus.
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BATON ROUGE (AP) — Suspended LSU receiver Russell Shepard will be eligible to return for the second-ranked Tigers' fourth game of the season at West Virginia, according to a person familiar with the situation.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity on Thursday because the NCAA has not announced its decision to cap Shepard's punishment at three games.
Shepard, a starter, was suspended indefinitely before LSU's season opener against Oregon for breaking an NCAA rule that bars discussing ongoing investigations with teammates.
The probe concerns the relationship scouting service provider and purported street agent Willie Lyles has had with LSU and a number of other schools. Shepard had been interviewed as part of the probe, then spoke about the interview with a teammate who was scheduled to meet with investigators on the same matter.
LSU applied for Shepard's reinstatement soon after he was suspended, but it was not clear how many games he would have to miss until the NCAA decided this week on the length of his absence, which was first reported by Tiger Sports Digest.
LSU plays Saturday against Northwestern State and next week at Mississippi State before traveling to play the Mountaineer on Sept. 24.
Shepard had been allowed to practice during the suspension, and Les Miles has mentioned that Shepard was one of LSU's top performing receivers in preseason scrimmages.
Shepard started nine games last season. Despite inconsistent production, he demonstrated the speed and ability to be a big-play threat as a runner or receiver.
He finished 2010 with 226 yards and two touchdowns rushing and 254 yards and one touchdown receiving. His scoring plays included a 50-yard run against North Carolina and a 30-yarder against Vanderbilt.
Shepard arrived at LSU hoping to play quarterback, but switched to receiver his sophomore season. He was effective on end-around runs and his background as a high school quarterback gave LSU the threat of switching to the wildcat formation.
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We were graced with stunning weather (though I hear it POURED up there the day before!), with a crisp blue sky with fluffy playful clouds. More playfulness! These two could stare at each and love up on one another all day long! They definitely made my job easy! The moment where Kristen is walking up to Mia with her hands over her mouth because she can barely contain her excitement just makes me tickled with joy to do what I do and call it a living. And Mia's reaction once she turned around… picture perfect!
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18th Feb 2017
SOURCE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4237078/Paedophile-ex-policeman-wins-huge-compensation-payout.html https://archive.is/mDOeC
Met cop broke rules in bid to convict men of axe murder
17 Feb 2017
- Daniel Morgan murder: Ex-detective wins damages from Met
- Paedophile ex-policeman wins six-figure compensation payout Daily Mail
- MPS wins court battle over Daniel Morgan murder Police Professional
- Man arrested in connection with Daniel Morgan murder awarded
- Daniel Morgan murder: three men lose case against 'malicious' Guardian
Jan 2017
- Three who faced charges of axe-murder of Cwmbran man claim SWales Argus-18 Jan
- High Court damages bid for three men who spent two years in jail Get Surrey.17 Jan
- Daniel Morgan murder suspects named in court 30 years after killing Guardian-17 Jan
- Three who faced Daniel Morgan axe-murder charges begin WalesOnline–17 Jan
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Daniel Morgan murder: Unsolved 1987 crime puts the Met Police in the dock
Who was out to get private detective Daniel Morgan? As his brother pursues his quest for justice by launching a podcast detailing the 30-year-old case, one of the murkiest chapters in recent criminal history is reopened. David Connett reports
As it is today, the car park behind the Golden Lion in Sydenham where Daniel Morgan was discovered with an axe in his head Richard Mildenhall
The Golden Lion is under new management now. The old-style banquettes have gone, and the décor is fresher, less brown. But since long before gastropubs were a glint in a developer's eye, and long after those hostelries which wouldn't or couldn't move with the times were closed and converted into flats, the Golden Lion remains an unashamed community boozer with cheap beer, live bands, and the occasional coach outing to the races.
A former Victorian music-hall palace of varieties, its presence on the main road that runs through Sydenham in south-east London is firmly rooted in the coming of the railway and of the suburbs that created a better life for tens of thousands of city dwellers.
But while the pub's exterior and interior may have enjoyed a facelift, its car park, to the rear, is still a gloomy spot. The trees that once fringed it are gone.
It was here, on Tuesday 10 March, 1987 in this car park, that the Golden Lion's association with one of London's most notorious murders was established – and with it an association with one of the most scandalous instances of British police corruption ever. It was here that a private detective called Daniel Morgan was brutally killed.
Across the decades, it is Morgan's brother Alastair who has led the fight for justice, a campaign that is about to branch out into a whole new direction – a podcast about the case that he hopes will refocus attention on it and grip the imagination in the way that Serial did.
Morgan's attacker struck him from behind with an axe as he stood next to his car. Three more blows were delivered in rapid succession, the last as he lay on his back on the car park tarmac. The attack was so ferocious that the murder weapon was left embedded in his face. When it was removed, during the post-mortem, it was noted that the axe handle had been carefully wound with sticking plaster to ensure that the assailant's hand did not slip.
Morgan, who was 37, had been in the pub with his business partner, Jonathan Rees. Rees said he left the pub at 8.45pm. His last sight of Morgan alive he said was of him sitting at a bar table writing something on a piece of paper.
When Morgan's body was found, his Rolex watch was gone. Curiously, one of his trouser pockets had been torn open. Another, containing credit cards and £1,000 in cash, was left untouched. No written notes were ever found.
Alastair Morgan has been back many times to the spot he first visited the morning after his brother's murder. He had been telephoned with the news and had driven from his Hampshire home to comfort his brother's widow and their two children. When he arrived at the pub he was surprised to see no police cordon, or any attempt to preserve evidence. It wouldn't be the last time the police's handling of the case surprised him.
Alastair and Daniel Morgan were both born in Singapore, where their father, originally from the Welsh valleys, was an officer in the British army. Mr Morgan died aged 41 from emphysema, and their mother Isobel remarried. Her new husband introduced Daniel to the twilight world of private investigations when he arranged for Daniel to learn the ropes at Madigans, a south London firm.
By 1983, when he was in his early thirties, he left there and set up his own business. DJM Investigations operated out of Morgan's home. The work was heavily focused on bailiffing on behalf of law firms and banks. DJM soon transformed itself into Southern Investigations, and Morgan and Rees became partners.
It was Rees who went to the mortuary to identify the body in order to spare Morgan's relatives the trauma of doing so. But the fact that he was one of the last men to see Morgan alive, as well as having a business relationship with him, made Rees an automatic suspect. Despite this, the police treatment of him in the hours after the murder was extraordinary by any standards. Rees was interviewed by Det Sgt Sid Fillery. Fillery was a friend of Rees, and the two of them, together with Morgan, had been drinking in the Golden Lion the night prior to the murder, along with other officers from Catford police station. After the interview, Fillery allowed Rees to leave the station without securing his clothes or car for forensic examination. Fillery said he could bring them back later.
In their book Untouchables, one of the best examinations of corruption in the Metropolitan Police, authors Michael Gillard and Laurie Flynn put it succinctly: "[Rees] was a man to be carefully and neutrally interviewed until he could be ruled in or out … Someone other than his best friend in the local police force should have been deployed to investigate and preserve all available evidence. Remarkably none of this was done."
The treatment of Rees also meant that he was free to visit the Southern Investigations office the morning after the murder, where he removed a series of files in a black bin liner. One of the client files removed was that of Belmont Car Auctions. Rees had taken on the job of protecting the firm's cash in transit. Some months before his murder, Daniel had confided in Alastair that Rees had been robbed of more than £18,000 of Belmont's cash. He said he was concerned that Southern faced ruin because they carried no insurance for carrying cash. He also said he was suspicious of the circumstances of the robbery.
Rees, together with his two brothers-in-law – Glen and Garry Vian, who were riding shotgun – had collected the cash to deposit it in a bank night safe. But the night safe had been super-glued shut so Rees said he dropped off the other two men and took the cash home for safekeeping. He said he had been forced to park some distance from his home and as he walked back he was attacked by two unidentified men who squirted ammonia in his face and robbed him.
At Daniel Morgan's inquest, Fillery said he voluntarily came off the murder investigation four days into the inquiry when he realised that there was a conflict of interest. The officer in overall charge, though, said he removed Fillery. Less than a month later, Fillery was arrested by the inquiry team, along with Rees, Glen and Garry Vian, and two other police officers stationed at Catford. All were released without charge.
Almost a year later, Fillery left the Metropolitan Police on a full medical pension. He said he had been suffering from depression. Astonishingly, at the inquest into Daniel Morgan's death, it was revealed that after leaving the force Fillery went to work for Rees at Southern Investigations.
Still more extraordinary was the claim made at the inquest by Kevin Lennon, Southern's bookkeeper. He told the inquest that Rees had confided in him that he wanted to get Morgan out of the business and had conspired with police officers he knew to initially have him arrested for drink-driving. When that plan did not come off, he said Rees asked him if he knew anyone who would kill Daniel Morgan. "I formed the opinion that Rees was determined to either kill Daniel Morgan or to have him killed," he told the inquest. When Jonathan Rees gave evidence he categorically denied any involvement in the murder.
The officer in charge of the investigation, Det Supt Douglas Campbell, admitted that Fillery's initial involvement in the case might have sabotaged the chances of making charges against any suspect stick. Privately, he was less cautious. Fillery had "ripped the guts out of the case", he told friends. He also revealed that before his death Morgan had been talking about exposing police corruption in south-east London. Det Supt Douglas said police had also checked a claim that he had been reportedly offered £250,000 for a story by an unnamed national newspaper, but they were unable to substantiate it.
At the conclusion of the inquest, a verdict of unlawful killing was recorded. It went nowhere to satisfying the Morgan family. Even before the inquest, they had begun lobbying politicians to take an interest in the case and were expressing their grave concerns about police complicity in the murder. Getting people to listen was much harder.
Alastair Morgan says that initially he made a miscalculation that the media would help expose the scandal. "I had been failed by the system, the system had let me down on every level," he says. "What was there left? I thought the media, the press, would help. In my mind I remembered The Times exposing corruption in the [Scotland Yard] porn squad. There was The Sunday Times and thalidomide. I had this idea in my head of the press fearlessly probing into areas where people did not want them to look."
The lack of engagement initially perplexed and frustrated him. Only years later, when the Hackgate scandal erupted, did other explanations emerge that shed light on some newspapers' lack of appetite for the story.
Southern Investigations worked closely with some national newspapers. They worked with News of the World journalists Alex Marunchak and Mazher Mahmood, in particular. Rees and Fillery were tasked with a whole series of assignments ranging from exposing the extramarital affairs of Cabinet minister David Mellor and the Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown, to TV celebrity drugs stings and persuading gullible royals to sing for their suppers.
Rees acted as a middle man for many of his contacts in the police to sell confidential information to the tabloids. Scotland Yard were long aware of the links, and undercover officers had often observed meetings in favoured south London pubs between journalists, PIs and police. In their bid to solve Daniel Morgan's murder they even went as far as bugging Southern's offices. It is unclear whether the bugging picked up useable evidence, but officers clearly knew the extent that the NoW was involved in obtaining police information.
In 2000, the listening probe did pick up Rees planning to plant drugs on an innocent mother in order to discredit her in a child custody battle. Rees was sentenced to seven years in prison for perverting the course of justice together with a police officer, Austin Warnes, who was also jailed for involvement with the conspiracy.
- Podcast exploring unsolved murder aims to be Britain's Serial
- Teresa May appoints Baroness Nuala O'Loan to head up inquiry into
- More evidence of police corruption relating to notorious unsolved
- Brother of murdered private investigator condemns police
- The murder of Daniel Morgan: A crime the police wouldn't solve
- Daniel Morgan: A shameful case, but this time the family won't be
- The deadly secrets that Daniel Morgan took to his grave: Sir Stanley
Such was the NoW's estimation of Rees's value to them that when he came out of jail, then editor Andy Coulson rehired him on a salary of £150,000. Some years later, it was decisions such as this by Coulson that made many question Prime Minister David Cameron's judgement in subsequently hiring him as Downing Street's Director of Communications, and helped ensure that when the News International scandal erupted in 2011 it also took on a political dimension.
The NoW's involvement with Southern took a sinister turn when it emerged that the paper later targeted the detective heading a fresh investigation into the case, because he had allegedly been having an affair with a BBC Crimewatch presenter. In fact it was well known that the couple were married.
The plot deepened further when it emerged that Brian Madagan, a former colleague of both Rees and Morgan, had told police that he believed it was the NoW that Morgan had first approached to reveal details of police corruption before he was killed.
Such was Alastair Morgan's frustration with the media that in his early forties he studied for and gained a degree in journalism, to better understand and further his cause. "There are some in the media who have done a good job on this but I still believe it hasn't had anything like the attention it deserves."
The podcast about the murder that he has made in tandem with journalist Peter Jukes is expected to be launched next month, to coincide with the 29th anniversary of Daniel's murder.
One of the episodes pointedly features the relationship between Rupert Murdoch's newspapers and the case. "One of the big questions that remains now after 29 years is what exactly was the role of the Murdoch press in this case," Alastair Morgan says. "How far does it go? How deep does it go and when I look at it I think, 'Oh my God, this does not look good'."
Daniel Morgan's murder has now been the subject of five separate investigations that are known about. None has resulted in a single successfully prosecuted case. The most recent effort saw the case against five men, including Rees and Fillery, collapse at the Old Bailey in 2011 before the trial could even begin. All five denied involvement. The trial collapsed after it was determined that the prosecution had failed to disclose key evidence to the defendants, and because of failings in the way that the supergrasses whose evidence was crucial to the case were handled by police.
Afterwards, Scotland Yard finally admitted that the very first inquiry was tainted by police corruption, and that they were responsible for repeated failures to confront the corruption in the following decades.
Alastair Morgan doesn't believe it is a coincidence that the scandalous failure to confront police corruption in south-east London after his brother's murder in 1987 was echoed again in 1993 with the murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence in nearby Eltham.
The Morgan family, who believe criminality in the police extends to the highest ranks in the Yard, pressed for an independent judicial inquiry after the Crown Prosecution Service acknowledged that there was no realistic possibility of there ever being a criminal prosecution for the murder.
Podcast exploring unsolved murder aims to be Britain's Serial
To her credit, Home Secretary Theresa May agreed to one, and the inquiry panel led by Sir Stanley Burnton set to work. Its efforts to find a path to justice have not been untroubled. Last year Burnton resigned from the panel, citing personal reasons. A dispute had broken out among panel members about how to respond to the Metropolitan Police objections to handing over hundreds of thousands of internal files they had.
Following Burnton's resignation, the Home Secretary appointed Baroness O'Loan, Northern Ireland's first police ombudsman, to lead the panel. Her experience of issues thrown up by the murky waters of policing Ulster's troubles was widely thought to be positive. It is not clear how successful the panel will be in obtaining meaningful documentation from Murdoch's News International, now rebranded as News UK.
Alastair Morgan is now in his sixties but his determination to carry on the fight is undimmed. "I'm sitting here nearly 29 years after Daniel's murder and the questions that are left are just as disturbing and upsetting to me now – and even more so – than they were then. It really feels as if I'm getting closer. There are a lot of people who don't want me to poke around and dig deeper but there's now a panel of inquiry going on into it and slowly but surely public awareness about the case is growing."


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I'm in the home stretch of the graphic novel for Arcana and I'll have a whole mess of news and announcements in the upcoming month so come on back in the next few weeks to see what's cookin' next!!
Project updates 6/6
I very quickly just wanted to let y'all know what's going on as I probably won't have another chance to post for a few weeks.
First up I will be finishing all the artwork this month for my upcoming graphic novel with Arcana Comics. It's the culmination of nearly 4 months of work and it will feel great when it's completed! Below are a few phone pics (I apologize in advance for the poor quality) of pages in progress:
Once the book is done I will be moving on to complete the first volume of Benjamin and the Fish from 215 Ink which we hope to have out later this year. Then it will be time to complete my sketch cards to be included in the Alterna Originals Trading card set due to be released this Fall. At that time I'll also be working on a mini-series with I'm A Geek entertainment and hopefully a few pitches I'm very excited about with some industry pals.
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For the last few weeks, my kiddo has been asking" Is it Spring yet" much in the same tone as the ever reliable "Are we there yet?" which she utters as we are ten minutes out of the house on the way to Dundee.
For me, the start of Spring is marked by the Hindu festival of Holi which I have always know as a super fun Festival of Colours. It's gorgeous - in Indian people throw colours over eachother and have lots of fun.
This year the festival was on Friday 6th March.
Recently, I read a blog post that said that had another origin story for Holi - the story of Prince Prahlad and his Aunt Holika. Phahlad was a devotee of the god Vishnu. But his father the King wanted everyone to worship him and was angered by his son's devotion. So after many unsuccessful attempts at trying to do away with his son, he asked his sister Holika to help. Holika had a special boon that prevented her from being burnt. So she let the young Prince sit in her lap in the middle of a bonfire. Vishnu seeing this was angered, removed the special power so the Aunt burnt and Prahlad was saved. I don't know what happened to the King.
What a grim story however, like many Hindu festivals, it celebrates good overcoming evil.
How can someone hurt a child like that and when will we see good overcome evil in real life? Today is International Women's Day. Usually around this time of year, the media has reports of the crimes committed against women all over world. For e.g. the India's Daughter documentary about the horrific rape on a bus in India and the chilling statement by one of the rapists that this case has made things even more dangerous for women now - as criminals will now make sure they will kill their victims. I think the way that rape happened, those animals must have believed that the poor girl was dead when she was thrown off the bus. The documentary showed how her parents had given up everything for her to become a doctor. The animals didn't know that but they resented that she was out late at night with an unrelated man. Just evil. But the most shocking part of the film was the defence lawyers who were adamant that what happened to the girl was right and that she deserved it for being out late at night (it was around 7.30pm in the evening) - educated men my arse....scum in reality. And disgusting that the Indian govt stopped the broadcast of the film. Luckily I managed to watch it on Wednesday when the Beeb did show it. Or you can find it on iplayer.
Another story that I have been following was the final days of the trial of Ayesha Ali's murderers. Her evil mother and mother's girlfriend were sentenced to prison on Friday - the mother got 13 years, the girlfriend got 18. Not enough. Good did not overcome Evil. That poor child suffered so much.
My daughter is too young to be told these stories and for now, Holi will just be the Festival of Colours. She is currently obsessed with superheroes. I dread the day when I need to tell her that there are no real superheroes and that Good does not always overcome Evil. However, I hope that when I do, I do not instill a fear in her but instead a desire to make things change so that one day she can be her own Superhero and the only reason to celebrate Holi will be that yes, we are there and yes, it is Spring and the Festival of Colours.


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BMW 735Li Computer Driven Cars Have Arrived
By Jepan Mihai
Just a few minutes behind the wheel of Munich's two tonne behemoth confirms that the age of computer-driven cars has well and truly arrived.
A virtual supercomputer on 19-inch wheels, BMW's luxury four-door flagship allows fingertip control of elementary functions like the handbrake, boot-lid and rear-window sun blind, voice control of the sat-nav and mobile phone, and little control during the operation of cutting-edge safety features like 'active' cruise control.
Other ground-breaking innovations like 'Dynamic Drive', the electronic chassis control system designed to eliminate body roll, means the 7 Series handles far better than a car that's over two tonnes and five metres long should be capable of.
And inside the roomy, leather-lined cabin up to five passengers are cossetted in the style and comfort that only a luxury car can deliver.
The long wheelbase version of the 7 Series, which arrived in July, takes the mobile boardroom concept to yet another level. At 5169cm from bumper to bumper, the 7 Series limo provides 14cm more legroom for rear seat passengers, with corresponding larger rear doors for easier entry.
Which means that lucky backseat passengers can literally stretch out on the leather, cushioned seats, supported by reclining backrests and individual footrests located behind the front seats. With creature comforts like ventilated and heated seats and separate air-con, two people (there's provision for three, but a middleman will block entry to the optional fridge behind the middle seat) can enjoy first-class luxury.
Apart from the extra legroom, the stretch sedans offer a similar hi-tech story to the rest of the 7 Series range, with power provided by either a muscular 4.4-litre V8 or 3.6-litre V8 in the 735Li, which we tested here.
Put the silky smooth six-speed, column-shift auto, in 'normal' driving mode, dab the throttle, and it slides into second gear for a getaway so smooth the VIP's in the back will hardly notice they're moving.
Or for some spirited driving, pop it in 'Sport', bury the pedal and with faster kick downs and a civilized V8 roar the big Beemer rockets towards the horizon in a manner that belies its bulk. BMW claims the 735Li takes care of the 100km/h sprint in an effortless 7.6 secs, the 745Li an even quicker 6.5 secs.
Passengers waft along on the pillow-like, all-independent suspension, shielded from all but the harshest bumps. While features like electronic damper control and Dynamic Drive – both options on the 735Li – do a great job of ironing out body roll, and keep the big sedan on a tight and controllable line in the bends.
The sheer weight and size of the car, however, never makes it feel completely at home on curling mountain passes. And for those who like a bit more feedback, the light steering, braking and electro- safety aids, although unobtrusive, often leave the driver feeling a bit removed from the action.
Computer boffins will love the 7 Series in-cabin techno-tricks. Once you learn,the push button starter procedure, driving from A to B is as easy as any other modern cars. Trying to master all the secondary features, including the iDrive system – which provides centralized, finger-tip control of sat nav, television, audio and CD player, etc – will require a few hours spent with the weighty manual.
Some of the 7 Series innovations, like the optional Active Seat, seem to pander to the laziness of the super-rich. Other features, like reverse-activated dipping mirrors and parking sensors, are a godsend on a car this expensive and imposing when trying to park in tight spots.
The 7 Series' controversial exterior has certainly generated debate, but it's undeniably muscular and backed up by substantial 19-inch wheels. Extra exterior chrome helps distinguish the long-wheelbase versions from the 'base' models.
The release of the extra long 7 Series, together with the arrival of the V12-powered 760Li next year, will extend BMW's flagship range to five models. But unless you're transporting heads of state, the limo version makes little sense.
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