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Hank Gannon (as played by Nathan Purdee on One Life To Live)
Useful information about Hank Gannon
* His brother RJ had an affair with his wife Nora.
* Had a very sexy romantic fling with Carlotta Vega.
* Supported his niece Keri since she was a baby.
* Never told his brother that RJ had a daughter.
Who's played Hank Gannon over the years?
Nathan Purdee (1992 - 2003; April 1, 2009 - April 8, 2009)
Current and Past Occupation
Current: College Professor
Past: District Attorney
Past: Law Professor at Llanview University
Past History
Hank Gannon showed up in Llanview as the straight and narrow District Attorney in 1992. Though he had a rough childhood, he excelled in football and went to college - unlike his brother RJ, who turned to a life of crime and always felt as though he lived in his brother's shadow.
Marrying his first love while attending college, Nora and Hank had a daughter, only to divorce when Rachel was a small child. Hank and Nora remained friends, and he even overcame the news that Nora had had an affair with RJ during their marriage - though it took a lot of time.
During Hank's time as District Attorney in Llanview, he prosecuted some of the biggest criminals including Carlo Hesser, Todd Manning, and Dorian Lord, and he even presided as prosecutor during the Marty Saybrooke rape case - opposite his ex-wife Nora! When RJ tried to destroy Hank's career, by setting him up as a witness to a murder, Hank resigned his position - until Bo Buchanan, Hank's best friend, proved that RJ doctored the taped evidence!
During 1995, Hank and his girlfriend, nurse Shelia Price, married, but since Hank didn't want any more children, they divorced after Shelia announced she was pregnant - only to have her miscarry the baby in the end.
In 1998, Hank dealt with the toughest time in his career when proof came that his daughter Rachael had murdered Georgie Phillips. However, after a brief run from the law with Nora, Rachael came forward and confessed and did six months in Statesville.
Hank and Carlotta Vega had a very strange, but charismatic, love affair. Though they had plenty of great sex and appeared to be in love, Carlotta turned down Hank's marriage proposal, leaving him to move on to Detective Lisa West of the Llanview PD, which didn't result in anything more than a fling.
When the secret came out that Hank had hid the fact that RJ had a daughter for years, and had been sending money to Keri's mother to support her, RJ was furious with his brother! Hank reminded RJ of the life of crime he lived, said he didn't want that for Keri, and the two finally were able to move on civilly for the sake of Keri. However, their relationship has always been a tension-filled one.
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Past Marriages
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Flings and Relationships
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1 shallot, finely chopped
1/2 stick butter
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese (optional)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
4oz cheese, grated (optional)
7oz cream cheese, softened (optional)
4 free-range eggs
5oz cooked ham or bacon, diced
chopped fresh parsley to garnish
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Melt the butter in a frying pan and sauté the mushrooms and shallot until tender, over a medium heat. Stir in the Parmesan (if you tolerate dairy) and season to your taste.
Grease a pie dish with butter or coconut oil and pour in the mushrooms and shallots ensuring the bottom of the dish is covered equally. If adding dairy, evenly add the cheese on top of the mushrooms and shallots.
In a bowl beat together the eggs, adding the cream cheese (if adding dairy).
Once thoroughly mixed, stir in the ham or bacon, before carefully pouring the mixture into the dish, over the mushrooms and cheese.
Bake in the oven until set in the middle, about 30 minutes. Once cooked, garnish with parsley and serve warm, or save in the fridge for breakfasts over the next few days.
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February 27, 2008
Steamboat Springs — Last week's arrest of two longtime Routt County residents suspected of embezzling $1.2 million from Alpine Bank customers has shocked our community, and rightly so. It very well could be the largest theft of its kind in the history of Steamboat Springs.
But regardless of the outcome of any potential criminal case against Terri Dawn Moody Fatka and Pamela Jean Williams, who are presumed innocent until proven guilty, the alleged embezzlement of $1.2 million from five account holders at a local bank serves as an important reminder about financial accounting practices for all residents and businesses.
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"It's amazing how many people don't check their statement very carefully," said Steamboat Springs resident Rob Douglas, a former private investigator who now works with the financial services industry to prevent theft inside and out. "There is study after study that shows that those of us who are fanatical about banking online and checking our statements online are the least likely to be victimized, and the most likely to catch it."
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Any mistakes or suspicious activity must be reported to your creditor within 60 days in order to be subject to the Fair Credit Billing Act and Electronic Fund Transfers Act, which establish procedures for resolving mistakes on credit account and bank account statements. The correct reporting procedure includes sending a written statement including your name and account number, a statement that you think the bill contains an error and the amount of money involved, and the reason you believe there is a mistake. More information is available at http://www.fdic.gov.
The embezzlement investigation also raises important reminders relative to business practices and oversight beyond the banking industry. Retail losses accounted for $41.6 billion in 2006, according to the National Retail Security Survey. Almost half of the losses, or $19.5 billion, was the result of employee theft. Administrative error ($5.8 billion) and vendor fraud ($1.7 billion) also were major contributors.
Employee theft and administrative error occurs at businesses small and large. The net effect can be particularly devastating for small businesses, which dominate the landscape in Northwest Colorado. Sound accounting practices and diligent oversight from business owners can go a long way toward preventing such losses.
Not to be overlooked is the increasing rate of identity theft locally and beyond. The Steamboat Springs Police Department handled more cases of identity theft in 2007 than in any previous year. The department investigated an additional 42 cases of fraud, many of which involved credit cards. Social Security numbers, bank account information and credit card numbers provide easy avenues for identity thieves. Steps for decreasing your risk of identity theft include: shredding all documents containing personal and financial information, including credit card solicitations; protecting your Social Security number – never carry your Social Security card in your wallet or purse; refusing to provide personal information via telephone or e-mail; and keeping personal information in a secure place in your home.
The bottom line is this: thieves always will find ways to victimize the innocent, but there are a number of steps each of us can take to prevent our names from being next on the list.


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Temple Bar TradFest is simply one of the highlights of our cultural calendar in Dublin. For about a week in January, it's possible to escape into the inside of a pub or other striking performance venues like Dublin City Hall and the Pepper Canister Church to see high quality Irish traditional music and related styles. We caught a variety of performances this year including Melo-M, a Latvian cello trio that simply brought down the house inside the dramatic Dublin City Hall. Melo-M is famous for their renditions of songs like The Final Countdown and Ghostbusters. I positively loved these guys. They had such amazing energy! Pure joy. They even did a couple numbers with Irish Trad great John Sheahan.
I couldn't resist capturing a few photos of the venue itself.
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Rockville in Montgomery County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Higgins House
Arresting Civilians
George Peter, a secessionist and neighbor of the Higgins, demanded that arrested citizens receive fair treatment. Dora Higgins wrote "had it not been for their endeavors, every Union man would have been taken and every store laid open,... for they said to carry out such an order would be their (Secessionists') entire ruin." Stuart could not afford to antagonize Southern sympathizers, and a captured Union wagon train answered his men's needs.
(Inset, lower right): Matthew Fields, secessionist owner, editor, and publisher of the Montgomery County Sentinel, was arrested twice without formal charges when many civil rights were suspended under martial law. Levin Hoskinson, his apprentice printer who joined the 7th Virginia Infantry, was killed at the First Battle of Manassas on July 21, 1861.
(Caption of pictures in lower left): Merchant John Higgins, Courtesy of the Montgomery County Historical Society. • George Peter became a state senator after the war. Courtesy of the Montgomery County Historical Society.
(Caption of picture in upper right): Oldest photograph of Rockville's main thoroughfare, ca. 1870, with hay scale in the public triangle. The 1840 courthouse is out of the picture to the right. The Female Seminary and John Higgins' store are out of the picture to the lower left. Stuart's prisoners were taken from the courthouse down the road toward Brookeville.
- Courtesy of Peerless Rockville
Erected by Maryland Civil War Trails.
Marker series. This marker is included in the Maryland Civil War Trails marker series.
Location. 39° 5.105′ N, 77° 9.278′ W. Marker is in Rockville, Maryland, in Montgomery County. Marker is at the intersection of West Middle Lane and North Adams Street, on the right when traveling west on West Middle Lane. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Rockville MD 20850, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. North Adams Street and Middle Lane Residential Area Beall-Dawson House and Park (within shouting distance of this marker); Beall-Dawson House (within shouting distance of this marker); Lucy Simpson's Rockville Institute (within shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named Beall-Dawson House (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Stonestreet Medical Museum (about 300 feet away); Jerusalem - Mount Pleasant Church and Parsonage (about 400 feet away); Rockville Methodist Episcopal Church - Jerusalem/Mount Pleasant (about 400 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Rockville.
More about this marker. One of the series of Maryland Civil War Trails markers. This one is on the Gettysburg Campaign.
Categories. • War, US Civil •
Credits. This page was last revised on April 21, 2017. This page originally submitted on January 21, 2006, by Tom Fuchs of Greenbelt, Maryland. This page has been viewed 2,409 times since then and 32 times this year. Last updated on April 15, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. Photos: 1. submitted on January 21, 2006, by Tom Fuchs of Greenbelt, Maryland. 2, 3, 4. submitted on November 7, 2007, by Tom Fuchs of Greenbelt, Maryland. 5. submitted on January 21, 2006, by Tom Fuchs of Greenbelt, Maryland. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. submitted on July 4, 2013, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.


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Chances are you've been using Mail since the day you bought your Mac. Much like Safari it's become a mainstay of many an internet-savvy Mac user's dock, and for good reason. Aside from being painless to set up, and even easier to tweak, like Apple say themselves, "it just works". But what about those times when you get itchy feet? When Mail, in all its regimented Apple UI glory, just doesn't quite cut it? What if you want to try something new? Then read on for our guide to the top five alternatives to Apple's Mail app. Best of all, they're conveniently situated in the Mac App Store!
1. Sparrow (£5.99, Mac App Store, sparrowmailapp.com)
As one of the youngest contenders to offer themselves up against Apple's mighty Mail, Sparrow certainly looks like it was designed with youthfulness in mind. Gone are the rigid UI elements that the business-y types love, and in are the soft edges, light textures, and subtle transitions that tip a hat to Tweetie and, in turn, Twitter for Mac. Much like Mail, set-up is a breeze, and if you've ever used Tweetie or Twitter for Mac before you'll have no trouble in working your way around the interface. Sparrow has some formidable tricks up its sleeve including threaded conversations, a unified inbox, drag & drop attachments, to name but a few. I've tried it with GMail, but it works with all the main players in the webmail business, as well as IMAP too.
2. Postbox (£11.99, Mac App Store, postbox-inc.com)
In comparison to Sparrow, Postbox has been around for a while and it's certainly built up an impressive list of users. It's not hard to see why either – despite looking dangerously similar to Mail, it's jam-packed full of features that must've had Apple kicking themselves when they first took a peek. The ability to group certain inboxes together really caught our eye, especially if you've got a few personal email addresses and a couple of business ones, for example. It's also riding the latest email management trends flaunting vertical thread pane views and threaded conversation views amongst its myriad of features. It's certainly a str0ng contender for the email power users out there.
3. Mailplane (£14.99, Mac App Store, mailplaneapp.com)
Taking on the 'do one thing and do it well' mantra of software development, the Mailplane team have focussed their efforts solely on making GMail a breeze on your Mac. Taking Google's take on email out of the browser and into its own dedicated window may well appeal to many of its users, and features such as Evernote intergration and easy switching between GMail accounts are certainly a bonus, but we can't help but feel that Mailplane is a bit of a one-trick pony. If you've not got GMail chances are you wont be that interested. If you have though, it's certainly worth checking out.
4. Mail Access 2007 (£4.99, Mac App Store, mailaccessapp.com)
In the same vein as Mailplane, Mail Access 2007 takes on the dreaded Outlook Web Access and does, in our opinion, an absolutely stellar job of prettifying it for the Mac. If you've ever used Outlook Web Access you'll probably agree when we say that, at best, it's not exactly easy on the eyes, and at worst, it's just a bit user-friendly, fortunately Mail Access 2007 is the exact opposite. Boasting a beautifully clean interface and an offline mode, it's the perfect antidote to the bad UI you've been forced to stare at for years. Did we mention they also have iPhone and iPad apps too? That one-trick pony caveat might apply again, but there's certainly a huge market for Mail Access 2007 to take a bit of.
5. Thunderbird (Free, mozilla.org/thunderbird)
As the open-source contender against Mail, Thunderbird has a lot of pedigree. Made by Mozilla (the fine folks who bought us Firefox, in case you didn't know), it shares a lot of its features with its web browser brother. Tabbed emails, Smart Folders (haven't we seen them somewhere before?), built-in Phishing protection and easy set-up wizard all make for a great open-source browser. The UI isn't so great here, but if you're looking for a free alternative to Mail, then Thunderbird should be at the top of your list.
So that's our guide to the best alternatives to Mail, we cheated a little on the last one because you can't actually get it in the Mac App Store, but the rest of them are all there. If you like the idea of finding great alternatives to Apple's apps, make sure you pick up the next issue of the magazine, (Issue 97 – on the shelves on 28th July) we've got a great guide to enhancing iLife with alternative programs from the Mac App Store.


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the Summer Season is in Full swing now as were in mid July and I cant believe how quick time flies! I see what all the older generations are on about now when they say it! A visit to Mull from Cain the Hollywell Birder and also more great marine life seen as well as Close up Eagle encounters and a quick trip back home to Glorious Gdale and the Lake District.
WT Eagle!
Another day and another Whale watch on June 30th. My eye was still causing me problems and had my eye patch on but it was doing my swede in so took it off. Also with a stunning new guide called Holly working on the boat today I didn't want to look like a moron! A great trip it was with Whale encounters, Basker Sharks and Common Dolphin Bow riding on the way back! With Holly fast asleep feeling a bit dodgy the shout of Dolphins! soon got a spring in her step and made her feel a lot better!
Lovely Colouration on upper wings....
Friday and short trips day out on the boat. Cain the Hollywell Birder was arriving later in the day for a 2 week work stint for SLS. After the trips we had a Cricket charter involving taking 40 drunken cricketers from Tobermory around to Calgary for an evening of beach Cricket. Jimbo was skippering with Holly, Tash, Abernethy and I on as crew.
We headed off in flat calm conditions around the north west part of Mull. Andy Murray was playing in the semi final of Wimbledon against Nadal and as we lost signal I could not keep upto date with the score! But was nervous for him hoping he did well!
As we landed at Calgary and anchored up we had to take all the Cricketers (if thats what you want to call them) to the beach on the RIB 10 strong at a time. It all went smoothly apart from a couple of people falling overboard! We had a few hours to kill so we landed on the beach and went for a wonder around Calgary. We first checked to see if there was any food going and got lucky with some lovely salmon and trimmings and ate it while enjoying watching all the Sand Martins and a few midgees to go with it! We had a sheep crap fight and had a nice walk around the bay where I got Whinchat and Whitethroat as well as Ravens on the higher ground.
A lovely evening on the boat trip back with the drunken rabble and just as we were loading everyone back on the boat someone told me that Murray lost in 4 sets! gutted, unlucky Andy great effort again! Great sunset as we headed back to Tob and a great game of eye spy on the top deck with Holly having the best answer being Knot! Landed back at the Pontoon at about 1am and as I found out from staying there last year the youth hostel closes its doors at 12 so had to give Holly a boost over an eight feet high wall to get in!
Me and Cainio near Lochdon
Locked! fishing on Loch Na Keal
On the Saturday it was Jimbos birthday and with no trips on we decided an SLS trip to the Cairns of Coll for BBQ and some Shark Swimming action. Cain was here also for his first day on Mull. We headed off at about lunch time and on the way over I picked up a large adult Minke whale heading east towards Ardmore. When we arrived at Coll the first Shark was spotted and we got ready for some more swimming action as a few of us jumped into the RIB and headed towards the huge animal. Just as we were getting sorted another Minke surfaced right off our stern! nuts! Anyway I got my beach body out and jumped in with this particular 4-5 meter Shark and as I looked down underwater I soon watched it head deep and it was defiantly not a player. The Minke surfaced near by again 20 -30 yards from me so you could say I shared the same area of the ocean with a whale as well! amazing.
Onto the Carins of Coll to set up BBQ. Beach wrestling, Frisbie throwing and a bit of Photography was great fun and after supposing to be landing back at Tob at 10pm we were still at it at going on 1am. We eventually headed back enjoying a disco tech on the alf deck and arrived back at the pontoon at 3ish and Holly came back to mine to watch Step brothers after we had been repeating all the film quotes non stop the last few days. "But dad its shark week!"
On the Sunday Cain and I headed down to Berg to do the 10 plus mile fossil tree coastal walk. To be honest I shouldnt of really done it as I was fricking exhausted and hungover from the night before and also a couple of miles in and my feet started killing from running bare foot on all the crushed sea shells on the Carins the day before. It was a good walk non the less but a bit quiet on the wildlife front with Whinchat, Yellowhammer a few Buzzards and Wild feral Goats. The Fossil tree is always impressive at over 60 million years old you can still see the detail in the stem. Holly left to work at knapdale for 2 weeks with the Beavers...Gutted she had gone!
Holly and I looking over Grasmere :-)
Cain on Board for his first whale watch and he also spotted the first whale winning the Mars bar. 5 Swifts out to sea and also a Barnacle Goose at the Cairns. After the trip we were heading out of the car park and Holly and Tash appeared in front of me! There back, wow! They could not be bothered with the Beavers and decided to spend an extra couple of weeks on Mull instead! Class!
Golden Ringed Dragonfly, Kilachronan on higher ground
On the 9th July it was a WW in good conditions and we started off with 3 Peregrine 2 being newly fledged chicks. White tailed Eagle showing well in the trees and a Great Skua to follow. As we arrived to Coll we picked up a small Shark. Had a nice lunch at the Cairns and sat on the Bow with Holly. On the way back it was Dynamite as we got 8 Common Dolphin bow riding and with Holly feeling ill at the time again Dolphins are the best medicine as we watched them on the bow less than a meter from us! BBQ and beach Cricket on the evening with all the SLS crew plus Cat, Paul and Chris.
Me at Fossil tree
A nice close up of a Storm Petrel on our whale watch on the 11th. Also 2 Minke whales and a Great Skua. The last evening for Holly and Tash before they headed south back to Leicester so we went to the Waterfront resteraunt for a meal with the whole SLS crew. Lyida is officially the fastest eater ive ever seen! i thought me and Lee Sturrock were fast but she is at another level!
Afterwards we went to Aros Peir and had ice creams with the highlight Lydia catching Tash with the fish hook when casting out.
in Work mode scanning on the monkey deck
Holly left in the morning as I dropped her off at the bus station :-(. I gave her a collage of wildlife I had taken on Mull this season and hopefully it will remind her of her time on the island. She is off to South Africa for a spell to work with Leopards so as I said before it will be the last time I see her for a while........
Cain and Holly focusing on the wildlife
On the Friday it was an Eagle charter trip with Cain on Loch Na Keal. We arrived at Ulva ferry and went aboard Lady Jayne with Martin skippering. We headed off round into Loch Na Keal and soon picked up 2 Golden Eagle circling on the higher ground. great start! As we moved deeper into the loch we arrived at the potential Eagle feeding area and martin threw out a Mackrel and within minutes the Male WT Eagle moved in to tag the fish. It was a great trip with added historical landmarks and stories provided by Martin. Some people dont agree with the set up of getting involved in nature but in this day and age it is vital that wildlife has its value and I dont see it any different to feeding birds in a garden. Also the pair have raised two chicks this year for the first time and could it be to do with the extra food source available.
Its all about the Mars bar, first person to spot a whale takes the prize....
On Friday evening after seeing Cain off I arranged a last minute dot com trip down to Carlisle to meet Holly half way from Leicester (could not resist!). I got the first ferry down on Saturday morning and arrived back at good old JS just after 1pm with Holly arriving only five minutes later, great timing! We had a walk right around glorious Geltsdale where we seen a good number of Buz and Kes along with Wheatear and Swifts. Geltsdale is such a beautiful place and I was so fortunate to grow up there. Went for a meal on the evening to the duke in the village. Me, Holly and the parents with good food. The only problem was the bar maid working there who served me was out in Carlisle after and told all my mates that she had seen me and as I just came down last minute for a couple of days I didn't tell them I was back home so dont think they were too happy with me!
On the Sunday it was a trip to the lakes with Holly and I decided to head to Grasmere that I know so well. Scattered showers it was and not the best weather really but it would not be the Lake district with out a bit of rain! A lovely walk on the higher ground around Rydal water. On the evening on the way back we popped into Hollywood bowl to see Lee and Scotty for a bit which was great to see them! they rock!
I was on a whale watch the next morning on Mull at half 8!! so we headed home to try and get a couple of hours sleep ready to set off at 2 in the morning in time for a seven hour whale watch trip! A great couple of days with Holly she is Ace! :-)
The journey up went smoothly and I arrived at the pontoon in Tobermory at 8:25am just in time for the trip! I was ready for another whale watch and I have to say I was a little bit tired later on in the trip but it was all great as I hit the hay and had a good 13 hour sleep when I got back to the flat!
Lunch time landing at the Carins of Coll
Thanks for reading everyone. An exciting next few weeks are in store with a couple of special trips with Gordon Buchanan on board. Also 20twenty vision a group of professional photographers are joining SLS for the week to do some environmental filming. I will also be checking up on all the Raptor breeding success for this season on the island.
Another visit to Mull from mum and dad is in store which will be great as well as another of my heroes Gary the Rowlands Gill Birder. It will be great to see him again and we will be wildlifing it up like good old times. cheers :-)
John Miles 'The Solway' book available from Amazon......http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Birdwatching-Sites-John-Miles/dp/0955033934/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311585637&sr=1-1
Also if you love your birds of Prey and care for their future then this web site is unbelievable and will open your eyes to possible scenarios to come effecting Britain's Raptors......http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/


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This is from a combined investigation with Spirit Paranormal, Soup and Tim & Kerri Hogue attending. We were just starting up the equipment when we captured this video. We believe the spirit that has been haunting the home is hiding on Tim Hogue's back watch as he leans forward to check the EMF meter
I'm posting this because it is a very common statement from people that ask us to visit their homes. When they tell people about things are happening in their home no one believes them. We come in to not only document the events but clear the energies responsible. This is Kennys Face Book post: This is a group that I had come to my house to confirm im not crazy and see if they could find out if I truely do have a ghost problem. So far this is what they have seen, watch Tim's back, it happens quickly but it is just what i was hoping they would find. They were very professional and would recomend them to anyone that has a ghost problem. Ill keep posting more stuff as I get it. This video was shot between my family room and living room. This is the message I received after the investigation: Hi tim, this is Kenny. I just wanted to thank you again for everything. Its only been a few days but i can tell a difference. Its quiet and i dont get cold chills like i used to. That video you sent Kerri is crazy! I love it, and i hope you find alot more of it. I will give you high recomendations to anybody i talk to or if anyone has a problem with things like this. I thought you were very professional and knowledgeable with this type of stuff. You can put my name down on anything you do or if you need a refrence to anybody. Once again thank you so much, and my girlfriend thanks you. Keep me posted on anything else you come across and i will post it and brag to my friends and family about you. If you ever need or want to call or text me feel free.
S*P*I*R*I*T takes a multi-faceted approach to investigating a reported haunting. We do this by using both scientific methods and equipment to record activity and also intuitives to receive impressions to better understand the cause of the haunting. This way we can solve the cause of the haunting and help the spirits or energies move on. We guide the family giving them information and strategies to protect themselves, put their minds at ease and to clear the home of negative energies. The goal is to resolve the activity and put the family in charge of their home again. Most paranormal activity is not malevolent. It is merely misunderstood energy and/or entities. We are all intuitive to some degree and can learn to focus on the positive aspects of life rather than attracting negative energy by focusing on what we don't want. Focus on what you do want. Thoughts are things. Use your thoughts for good.
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Falling Arches, Collapsing Certainties
The stone arch in Utah was not supposed to collapse. It had been spanning for hundreds, if not thousands of years. It was a geological certainty. And time and gravity took its toll and it collapsed this weekend. The border between Georgia and Russia collapsed this weekend also. Around us are fixed objects that we often take to be certainties, until they collapse. Then they aren't so certain anymore.
The job of a pastor and the church is to define reality and identify certainties. What we sometimes identify as certainties, in time collapse under the pressure of time and age: musical styles, evangelistic programs, theological education, local church configurations, government entitlements, etc.
A friend who teaches occasionally at Westmont College, Dr. Tito Paredes, who also heads a theological graduate school in Lima Peru says that the Certain Issue is, has been and will be: discipleship. That will not collapse or fade away.


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It's one of science fiction and fantasy's biggest honors, but two groups are turning it into a political war.
We seem to be going through a time of massive cultural backlash. As the world moves towards more progressive and inclusive modes of thought, there are some who find the changing landscape hard to navigate. In gaming, we have the GamerGate movement; under the guise of wanting to police ethics in gaming journalism, it is actually a counter-cultural movement against what it perceives to be a vast conspiracy to change and even corrupt gaming itself. GamerGate sees itself as the hero, and has labelled its enemies Social Justice Warriors, a catch-all, ironically flattering label for anyone who casts a critical eye over their beloved hobby.
Sadly, GamerGate is not an outlier. You can see similar movements in politics, such as the Tea Party in the US, and in the actions of Australia's own right-wing government. But it's also prevalent in other areas of geekdom – and in some cases there's a crossover with GamerGate itself.
Every year at the World Science Fiction Convention, the prestigious Hugo Awards are announced. Alongside the Nebula Awards, winning a Hugo is a pretty big deal. There are many categories, ranging from short stories, to collections, best editors, and more. But it's the Best Novel category that's usually the biggest news, and past winners range from classics such as Robert A Heinlein's Starships Troopers to more modern works from William Gibson, Lois McMaster Bujold, Neil Gaiman, and Ann Leckie.
Like a lot of areas, the Hugo Awards have been edging toward a greater degree of inclusiveness and diversity, with more women and people of colour being presented both in the nomination ballots, and in the winners themselves. More thoughtful works, too, that do what science fiction does best – explore our common humanity in interesting new ways – have been winning. Of course, so have more space operatic or purely fantastic titles. To many, it seems a pretty good mix, rewarding a wide range of styles and topics under the science fiction umbrella.
But, as with GamerGate, there are those who feel that the so-called SJWs are ruining the genre, and that more worthy authors are being ignored. There are those who are conservative, and Christian, who think any exploration of non-straight values in science fiction is something to fight back against. Some of them are even loud voices in the GamerGate movement, and feel that science fiction and fantasy is just as much in danger as gaming is.
They call themselves the Puppies.
Sad and/or Rabid
There are two groups, calling themselves the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies respectively, that are seeking to sway the voting process so as to represent an idea of science fiction more representative of their own views. The process involves a lot of glad-handing between friends, and not a little bit of self-promotion, but it has been highly effective in skewing the 2015 nominations. And these are not the first efforts of these voting blocks to influence the outcome. 2015 is the third year that the Sad Puppies voting slate has operated. It should also be noted that neither group is doing anything illegal, though it has been suggested by more than one observer that what they are doing is most definitely against the spirit, if not the rules, of the awards.
But what are these groups really trying to achieve? In the words of Larry Correia, who started the sad puppies voting slate:
"I believed that the awards were politically biased, and dominated by a few insider cliques. Authors who didn't belong to these groups or failed to appease them politically were shunned. When I said this in public, I was called a liar, and told that the Hugos represented all of fandom and that the awards were strictly about quality."
So he started his first list of suggested nominees in 2013, and despite a backlash from what he then termed 'social justice warriors', he did it again last year. Many of the works put forward on these slates tended to the right of politics, because as Correia says on his blog "SP1 was very politically biased because it was just me. SP2 did have a preponderance of nominees on the right side of the political spectrum, again, because that slate was basically my suggested list of stuff that I personally enjoyed."
For the third year of the Sad Puppies slate, Correia has stepped aside. He's lost patience with the what he perceives as the overly political system of the Hugos, and in response to the excoriation he's dealt with for trying to tackle it head on. In this instance, there's a lot of bile flowing from both sides. Corriea believes the efforts of the Puppies to be the "inevitable result" of what happens when things skew too far in one direction, as he points out while rebutting George RR Martin's take on the Puppies.
It remains to be seen if swinging things back in the other direction is a sensible or constructive response.
But with Correia out of the picture, Brad R. Torgersen stepped in, with the 2015 voting slate. And again, the apparent aims of the Sad Puppies is to give credit to deserving authors. But Torgersen is also bitter about the perceived political bias in the Hugo voting process.
"Gathered here is the best list (we think!) of entirely deserving works, writers, and editors — all of whom would not otherwise find themselves on the Hugo ballot without some extra oomph received from beyond the rarefied, insular halls of 21st century Worldcon 'fandom.'"
The suggested nominees are pretty broad, ranging from Jim Butcher's latest Dresden Files novel Skin Game to The Lego Movie, and even local 'zine Andromeda Spaceways In-Flight Magazine. But there are also some more worrying inclusions. There are many writers from controversial author Vox Day's Castalia House, including John C. Wright's novella One Bright Star to Guide Them, and his essay Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth.
Wright is a troubling figure. In the Amazon blurb for his above essay, it explains that he attempts to "show(s) how the genre's obsession with strong female characters is nothing less than an attack on human nature." But that's small beer. In his reaction to the ending of, of all things, the cartoon show The Legend of Korra, Wright was rather upset at the image of two women walking away holding hands, and he had this response to the show's creators:
"Mr DiMartino and Mr Konietzko: You are disgusting, limp, soulless sacks of filth. You have earned the contempt and hatred of all decent human beings forever, and we will do all we can to smash the filthy phallic idol of sodomy you bow and serve and worship. Contempt, because you struck from behind, cravenly; and hatred, because you serve a cloud of morally-retarded mental smog called Political Correctness, which is another word for hating everything good and bright and decent and sane in life."
Vox Day (that's his pen name, by the way) is another divisive character. He is, by his own ready admission, an eclectic individual, having featured in a band, developed games, and is a prolific novelist. He also vocally supports GamerGate, and is a proponent of what Pick Up Artists call 'game' – one of his blogs focuses on just that. He also pretty much distrusts and dislikes women in a general sense.
While Day was not on the Sad Puppies voting list, he did publish his own slate, under the Rabid Puppies moniker. John C Wright and other Castalia House names show up, as does Brad R. Torgersen, and, again, the reasons behind Day's list are ostensibly to promote quality, but to also thumb his nose at established voting mores.
"We of the science fiction Right do not march in lockstep or agree on everything. We span a fairly wide variety of political perspectives and we have very different opinions concerning the optimal way to deal with the corruption and ideological rot that is rife within the world of modern science fiction and fantasy. My recommendations for the Hugo Awards last year were not precisely the same as Larry Correia's in Sad Puppies 2, nor are they identical to Brad Torgersen's recommendations in Sad Puppies 3. But they are similar because we value excellence in actual science fiction and fantasy, rather than excellence in intersectional equalitarianism, racial and gender inclusion, literary pyrotechnics, or professional rabbitology."
Specific politics aside, Torgersen, Correia, and Day all believe they're only playing fair – they're fighting left-wing fire with right-wing fire, in an effort to bring back something approaching balance in the awards.
But have the Hugo Awards actually been as rigged as they claim?
Hugo, I go, we all go to Worldcon!
Zara Baxter is a name that some of you may remember. She was editor of PC & Tech Authority a few years ago, and is a long-time attender of the World Science Fiction Convention, and also has had access to the inner runnings of the show. She's also been involved with Andromeda Inflight Spaceways Magazine, the zine nominated on the Sad Puppies block. So when we got wind of this, I couldn't resist reaching out to my old colleague about the state of affairs at Worldcon, and if the Puppies' sense of an SJW conspiracy was at all represented in the facts as she has seen them.
"Worldcon isn't really a monolith - "worldcon" is essentially everyone who has joined the convention for that year - but as a group fandom has, since 2007, gradually and noticeably started to call out the lack of women, the lack of people of colour and the lack of alternate voices on the Hugo ballot," she told us. And WorldCon is far from alone, it seems.
"Numerous projects have worked on this in various ways throughout fandom," she said. "Strange Horizons, which is one of the major news sites, has kept logs of how many works by women and minorities appear in ballots, in reviews for major SF magazines, and how many women and people of colour are reviewers for those magazines. Conventions around the globe have started to include more people of colour and GSM guests (women have had a decent run, already). And the world hasn't collapsed: it's instead gotten kudos and more women and minority attendees. So they've kept at it."
In one sense, it seems that the fears of the Puppies groups are not unfounded. There is a concerted effort to change things – but is it also one that is in turn disenfranchising supposedly 'traditional' authors?
"Popular authors, which the SP/RP crew say they want on the ballot, have appeared frequently," Zara pointed out. "Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time - that appeared on the ballot last year. Terry Pratchett turned down a nomination in 2005, or he would have appeared, too. It's hard to say that the awards are broken in the way the SP/RP think they are broken, and there's little evidence of that."
Certainly, looking at previous nominations for books like A Dance With Dragons, Leviathan Wakes, and even Larry Correia's own Warbound, it seems that there is room for authors of all flavours. And while last year's winner, Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, features a very interestingly gendered setting, it also features a lot of thrilling action and big science fiction ideas – exactly what the Sad Puppies are looking for in their fiction. And nor has Zara seen any evidence of the kind of organised voting that the Puppies claim to be fighting against.
"I attend Worldcons probably every four years, on average, and when I do, I also attend the Worldcon business meeting, where the sausage-making of the Hugos occurs (deciding on rule changes, for example)," Zara told us. "There's a report tabled each year that discusses nominating and voting patterns, and not since L Ron Hubbard's supporters attempted to win him a Hugo has there been evidence of bloc nominating or of bloc voting."
But she does understand some of the Puppies' concerns.
"Some of the aims of the Sad Puppies are laudable, such as getting more people into thinking about, nominating for, and voting on the Hugos. The way that they've gone about it is even legal, in terms of Hugo rules, but the way they've gone about it doesn't transform the awards for the common people of fandom; instead it destroys their credibility."
It's also not very easy for some of those being voted for to come to terms with. Some, not wanting to be connected in any way with figures like Wright or Day have asked to be removed from the list, or have, after the fact, refused their nomination. And there's a lot of people who'll be making the final voting decisions, such as John Scalzi, who are contemplating awarding 'no vote' to any category they feel has been unduly manipulated.
For the folks at Andromeda Spaceways, it's been a bewildering few days.
Fly those friendly Spaceways
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, or ASIM, is an Australin zine that's been around for 12 years , and it received a Hugo nod on the back of being included in the Sad Puppies voting slate. However, the zine had no idea of this until after they had accepted their nomination.
"We learnt about our inclusion on the Sad Puppies slate - and it is only the SP slate we're on, not the Rabid Puppies - on Thursday (April 2nd), and this was long after we'd already sent in our acceptance for the Hugo nomination, because we had no idea that we'd got there through the Puppies' involvement," ASIM's Simon Petrie told us. "So by then, yes, it did seem too late to do anything much about it, except to point out, as vigorously and as loudly as possible, that we hadn't asked for the Puppies' 'help'." And understanding what to do next has not been easy.
"We have been trying to make the best of what's a very complicated situation - it really does feel, I guess, like we're playing the part of NPCs in somebody else's campaign, and that's not a comfortable position to be in."
It's a hard position to tolerate because it's difficult to see through the Puppies' motives, and it's not being helped by passionate arguments from by both 'sides'.
"One thing that I find, frankly, concerning, is just how vitriolic some of the commentary on this has got, on both sides of the fence. There's an extraordinary amount of name-calling going on, and we've been caught in the crossfire," Simon told us. "In that context, filtering truth from fiction is a little difficult. But it's tempting to believe, from all that I've read, that the Puppies are more-or-less just out to wreck the Hugos. That's the sense I've built up, from their blogs and comments threads, from the commentary of other people - that I trust, in ways that I wouldn't trust the Puppies - and from the overall reaction to their actions."
As to the Awards themselves, Simon thinks they're moving in a good direction – or had been – but it's not happening fast, and not with the same level of conspiracy that the Puppies assume exists.
"There has been, I think, a gradual move towards greater inclusivity in the awards, more diversity, but I think it has nonetheless been very slow," Simon opined, but he sees the Puppies' reaction as out of proportion. "I do think the issue of politics in SF is something that the Puppies care about significantly more than those they see as their opponents."
So what does this mean for ASIM's inclusion on the ballot?
"To the extent that a small Australian magazine is even on the ballot at all - we should be grateful, and from a fair vote we would be, but the way the Puppies went about what they did is not right."
Right or wrong, it's hard to see how the Hugo Awards can simply ignore the problem, and both Zara and Simon told us that there are a lot of ideas about how to counter this kind of bloc voting, but no real clear direction yet of what to take. As Simon points out "bloc vote slates invite counter-slates from the other side (or from multiple opposing factions), which rapidly gets very unhelpful. 'One fan, one vote' is the ideal, but the slates are the antithesis of that."
And regardless of what does happen, it is becoming ever clearer that the cultural divide that gaming currently faces is merely an extension of wider faultlines in the community. The campaigns of the Puppies existed before GamerGate was a gleam in Adam Baldwin's twitter stream – though Corriea does claim Baldwin a friend, and Vox Day proudly states that he was practically born a GamerGater, and that it is now his life.
I wish there were a pat way to end this, but as I've said before, this is the new normal for some time to come.


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