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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, according to the old adage. On a daily basis, professional investors find themselves facing different versions of this crude dilemma.
What's worth more? Banking a fast buck? Or investing in a business for the long-term, against a broader set of considerations – which could, potentially, yield higher returns.
Edelman hosted a panel debate recently to discuss the findings from our Institutional Investor Trust report – based upon a survey of 500 top fund managers globally.
An interesting point of tension emerged among our panellists when the debate turned to the true motivations of professional investors.
Our survey concluded that a business's commitment to Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) considerations is now, overwhelmingly, a key factor in deciding whether or not to invest. Some of our panellists were sceptical as to how deep this feeling runs, however.
Euan Stirling, global head of stewardship at Aberdeen Standard Investments, believes that responsible corporate behaviour is intrinsically linked to long-term profits.
"I don't think there is a distinction between financial performance and ESG features," said Stirling. "They are just looking at different timescales. If you get environmental, social and governance factors wrong then they become financial, they do bite, and it can be very very painful."
Jayne-Anne Gadhia, former chief executive of Virgin Money, stressed that many executives historically have been devoutly, narrowly focussed solely on shareholder value – such as her erstwhile boss, the former RBS chief executive Fred Goodwin.
When RBS was making its first investment in China, Gadhia said, many voices in the business raised concerns about the Chinese position on human rights. Yet Goodwin had no interest in such arguments, according to Gadhia.
"A sustainable business is one that looks after all its stakeholders" she said. "As a consequence, in the end shareholders are better off".
Living by these values can be hard, however. For this is not the means by which success and failure is defined for most investors.
Baroness Wheatcroft – a non-executive director at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and wealth manager St James's Place – took issue with the idea that investors really paid much attention to anything other than cold, hard financial returns. The fund managers Edelman surveyed were simply "telling us what we wanted to hear, rather than the truth", she posited.
"I don't think most investors will accept a lower rate of return in [exchange for] thinking about a broader context," she said. "Most investment organisations are measured by what they produce."
Euan Stirling pointed out that Unilever had suffered a little in this regard. While the business had been rigidly focussed on building a sustainable, long-term business under Paul Polman, this had often been perceived as coming at the expense of short-term shareholder returns.
This broader point of measurement was taken up later by one of the audience members, Edward Bonham-Carter, the Executive Vice Chairman of Jupiter Asset Management. Faced with a large takeover premium, investors would typically sell out, suggested Bonham-Carter – a fact that is clearly a source of frustration for him personally.
Our panellist Leon Kamhi, head of responsibility at Hermes Investment, agreed. "The investor typically picks the 30% to 40% premium," said Kamhi. "Is it the right thing to do? I think they should be looking at a longer-term view of the company. Yet sometimes a deal like that can be beneficial to employees and customers. It does not have to be non-beneficial.
"But we are going to have to change the way mandates work between pension funds and asset managers for people to take a longer-term view."
Euan Stirling endorsed the view that it can be dangerous to assume that all takeovers are destructive or short-term in nature. A cash bid from a foreign bidder is one thing. Yet most bids have at least some shares in the deal, which forces investors to think about longer-term prospects.
He alluded to the battle for control at the engineering giant GKN, which fell to a bid from the industrial turnaround group Melrose. Most UK institutions had shares in both businesses.
"They had to decide, based on a long-term view of who was going to successfully prosecute for the success of the business in the future," said Stirling.
Stirling and his team took the view that Melrose would run the business better, and that this would therefore be in the better interests of employees, and broader stakeholders too. This is in spite of a public perception in some quarters that the Melrose team are financially-driven asset strippers.
Defining the heroes and villains of modern investment is not always simple. With shareholder activism on the rise, this is an increasingly relevant point.
Our panellists were clear that it is dangerous to assume that a company's management is inherently operating with purer motives, or to longer-term objectives, than an outside investor that appears on the share register agitating to sack a chief executive or force a strategic overhaul. A prod from an activist is often welcomed by long-term investors.
Our survey found that 85% of fund managers would be willing to work alongside an activist investor in order to foment boardroom change.
Stirling, who has led multiple campaigns against companies over issues such as excessive executive pay, pointed out that what he engages in is active stewardship of a business. He is more than willing to work with activists, but only good ones.
"Going back a bit, there was an activist investor who had a tilt at HSBC," said Stirling. "They came into present their case to us, and it was appalling. If they had been a sell-side analyst we would have sent them away with a flea in their ear."
Kamhi pointed out that Hermes prefers to use the term "engagement" for its interactions with boards. And "engagement" comes in many forms, he added, with a raised eyebrow that suggested a forceful form of persuasion.
"When an activist comes to us, we will definitely hear them out," said Kamhi. "But they need to have long-term objectives."
Both Baroness Wheatcroft and Dame Jayne Anne Gadhia raised questions about the motivations of Edward Bramson's campaign against Barclays, asking whether his plan was really in the long-term interests of investors.
Yet Lord Myners, the chairman of Edelman UK, raised an interesting point. Not all activists are the same, he said. Cevian, the fund which he chairs, takes sizeable stakes for the long-term.
"I spend a lot of time going to lunches and dinners where company chairmen tell me 'I wish our shareholders would take more of an interest, I wish they would take a large holding, I wish they would hang around for a while'," said Myners. "Well this is what good activists do. Know your activist – that's quite important. Activists are owners of the business. They care about the long-term future."
Cevian, he added, has ten investments – and sits on the board of eight of those companies. Cevian's average holding period for those stocks is measured in years, not quarters. Surely, this is what good governance looks like, Myners posited.
Part of the issue, when it comes to engaging with activists, is that investors do not really trust what CEOs tell them. Our survey found that only 58% of investors consider a chief executive a reliable source of information about a business's prospects. By contrast, 71% of investors consider the senior independent director or a non-executive chairman to be a trustworthy source.
In effect, investors see a CEO as the head of sales for the shares. The NEDs bring a reputation from elsewhere, built in a different career. Therefore, they are seen as likely to filter out any egregiously self-interested claims made by management.
Is there a case for non-executives to be more engaged with investors? Broadly speaking, our panellists concluded this would be helpful – although not without its challenges.
Yet Baroness Wheatcroft suggested an interesting addition to the roles and responsibilities of the non-executive director. "If a non-executive director resigns from a board, they should have to say why. And that would be of use to investors. Instead, they normally sneak out of the back door very quietly, probably having signed an NDA [non-disclosure agreement] en route. Investors should know when a non-exec resigns and why."
Euan Stirling added that the late Richard Cousins, who had been chief executive of catering giant Compass, stood down from two boards in protest at executive decisions. In neither case was the reason disclosed until later – one being his decision to resign from Tesco over the merger with Booker. Nonetheless, the departure of Cousins was enough to alert attention among his long-standing fan club in the City.
When it comes to the challenge of rebuilding trust more broadly in business, Edelman's survey data suggests the answer lies at least in part in treating employees well.
"I think we simply need to treat employees like human beings, and not like commodities – and that's also true of customers," said Leon Kamhi. "If you treat your employees well, you will also treat your customers well."
When thinking about how to boost trust in CEOs more specifically, is there a case for CEOs to be more visible? More engaged on social issues? Two of our panellists certainly thought so.
"Most CEOs have decided to keep their heads down on almost every issue," said Baroness Wheatcroft. "There was a time when there lots of big beasts striding round the field saying interesting things. And now they have just vanished. If I can mention the B word – Brexit – they kept quiet about what was going on, and what the implications were."
Not every CEO is comfortable in the limelight, especially in an era where the slightest mistake can be amplified on social media and ripple around the world. Yet all of Edelman's studies on Trust show that employees increasingly want to work for businesses that take a position on the issues that are increasingly dividing society.
And in full-employment economies like our own, employees have more power to choose to work elsewhere if they disagree with their employer's policies. Some 20,000 Google employees walked out last November in protest at the company's treatment of alleged victims of sexual harassment.
The Edelman Earned Brand study also indicates that consumers are switching their buying patterns to only do business with companies that, in broad terms, "do the right thing".
Gadhia agreed that business needs to find its voice, and that CEOs should take more responsibility for their role in society. She mentioned that Sir Richard Branson had regretted at one stage having been so vocal in supporting the remain campaign during the EU referendum. Now he wishes he had done more, got involved earlier and played an even more prominent role.
"I think business has a huge role to play in society," said Gadhia. "Shame on people who don't see that. We are privileged in every sense – in terms of the money we earn, the influence we have, the control that we have, the way in which we shape our country's future. And it's going to the dogs. And we are the leaders that can make a difference. We should stand up and speak about it.
"I am embarrassed to live in a country where business has been so successful, and people are not proud enough to stand up and make a difference. I think now is the time to do it."


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A pregnant mother, who had suffered repeated miscarriages, has given birth to a baby girl after lying upside down for three months.
A pregnant mother, who had suffered repeated miscarriages, has given birth to a baby girl after lying upside down for three months.
Donna Kelly suffered from a weak cervix and was warned at five months into the pregnancy that she was at high risk of losing another baby. The 29-year-old agreed to spend 24 hours a day on a hospital bed which was tilted skywards to lift her feet above her head and reduce pressure on her cervix.
Under the supervision of Siobhan Quenby, a world-expert on recurrent miscarriages, Kelly ate, read and watched television in the position, only leaving her bed to visit the toilet. She gave birth to Amelia, weighing 4lbs 15ozs, six weeks prematurely by emergency caesarean after her waters broke in late August. The baby spent two weeks in an incubator in intensive care before being allowed home.
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"I was surprised when she told me to lie in bed at a tilt but I was ready to give anything a try," the Telegraph quoted Kelly, a former gynaecological nurse from Coventry as saying. "It made me feel sick and I had a massive head rush at first but after a couple of days my body adjusted and I soon got used to it.
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NEW YORK, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Argentina has suspended a planned sale of dollar-denominated bonds intended to raise at least $2 billion, two investors with direct knowledge of the deal told Thomson Reuters IFR on Thursday.
The suspension, if lengthy, could hamper Argentina's financing of bonds worth over $6 billion that mature later in the year as the government fights to shore up low foreign reserves.
The decision to suspend the sale came after U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa ordered Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase & Co to hand over documents relevant to the Bonar 24 bond sale.
Griesa said late Wednesday, according to a court transcript of an emergency hearing on Wednesday, that the order he signed did not restrain any transaction. "It simply asks for discovery," Griesa said.
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The new debt was to be issued under Argentine law to non-U.S. investors to avoid legal risks in the United States. Argentina is embroiled in a drawn out legal battle with a small group of New York-based hedge funds over unpaid debt held under U.S. law stemming from its 2002 default.
Two sources familiar with the matter said Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan decided to put the bond sale on hold as a precaution while they respond to the court's request.
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The same source said the deal could be back on, depending on the outcome of the legal proceedings.
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- General 90-170 14" Bandsaw
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I've had this bandsaw for about 8 months now, so I thought that it was about time to review it. I started looking at bandsaws about a year ago, mainly because I wanted something that I could cut curves with. I didn't really think much about re-sawing during the decision process, thought it might be something I would do someday, but the real reason for buying a bandsaw would be to cut curves easily.
I have several other General International tools, mostly because they are the main brand that the local woodworking store sells. I have read a lot of good things about the Grizzly bandsaws, but there is something nice about having a store that you can go to and look at what you are going to buy (and real people to talk with if something goes wrong). Gen Int. had just come out with the 90-170 for the 2011 year and it seemed like a good machine: 1 1/2hp motor; 12" resaw capacity (which I figured may come in useful at some point in the future) 2×4" dust ports and a nice looking Excalibur fence. As well, I liked that it had cast iron wheels and a quick release blade tensioner.
Overall, after 6 months, I have used it very little for cutting curves (!) but have found it extremely useful for all sorts of other cuts that I used to do awkwardly on the TS. Recently I put a 3/4" Woodslicer blade on it and cut some nice 1/16" walnut veneer without any appreciable drift.
It's difficult to give a good review of the bandsaw though as it is my first bandsaw and I don't really have anything to compare it with. However, it is accurate, easy to adjust and use and the fit and finish is flawless. It works as I expected it to!
Generally though, I have a couple observations about bandsaws that seem to be common with most different manufacturers.
1) The table is small. For a machine that works so well at rip cuts (and even for resawing) it is strange that most bandsaws have small tables.
2) The throat insert is crap. I realize that this isn't the most important part of the machine (and easily replaced) but it is even worse that the most basic of TS throat plates.
3) Would be nice to have an easy way of adjusting the bearings that doesn't involve using allen wrenches in small, cramped spaces. Am I happy with the bandsaw: yes, and I would probably buy it again. That said, for slightly less $$$ I could have got a 17" Grizzly….
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#1 posted 04-17-2012 02:59 PM
Thank you for the review; and, I'm sure you are much better off with the General 90-170 than a Grizzly. I live in a town that has a Grizzly Distribution Center, and IMHO General is a superior brand—you really do get what you pay for. The cast iron wheels are a real bonus. I have a Delta 14" BB that I bought back in the late 80s (think it may have been made in Canada), and which has served me well but it has what looks like a "pot" metal cast wheel. How is the 3/4" resaw blade working out for you? I've seen some discussion that the 14" wheel was too small in diameter for the 3/4" blade and resulted in excess stress that may cause breakage.
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#2 posted 04-18-2012 03:48 AM
HillbillyShooter you also have Ballew Saw and Tool in your neighborhood, which used to be one of my all time favorite tool stores, so you are not stuck with only looking at Grizzly. I wish Ballew was open on Saturdays so I could visit more often. I also toured the Grizzly outlet in your burb and saw everything they had to offer. I agree with you on the happiness factor with the General over the Grizzly. We used to live in Nixa and Springfield from 1986 until 1992. Is OP Hardwoods still in business in Springfield? I know they were under a lot of DNR scrutiny at their mill near Lake of The Ozarks several years ago.
Manitaro – check out the Carter Products bandsaw accessories – they have an extension table that fits most bandsaws. I saw it in person at one of the Woodworking shows and liked the concept. I also upgraded my guides to the Carter Products for my bandsaw and am happy with the results.
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#3 posted 04-18-2012 07:36 PM
PRGDesigns: Please note I did not say I only shopped at Grizzly, just that we had a distribution center here. In fact the Ballew boys (Steve & Jack) and I are only too well acquainted as I've had the honor and privilege of representing them for twenty years. That may be the connection with my shop being stocked with Powermatic (made in USA during 1990s), Delta, Festool, etc. I agree they are the best local (and national) tool store around and really great guys to do business with, including all their employees. And, yes OP Hardwoods is still in business but has changed hands at least once since you were here. OP is a real jewel for selection on various species of wood, but no longer handles tools like they used to do. As for Grizzly, a final note that the few things I have purchased there (because Ballew doesn't have, handle or can't get) I've usually ended up returning as being a disappointment when I try to use them.
Manitaro—fully concur on Carter Products, also Iturra. I particularly like the Carter blade guide bearings.
-- John C. -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." George Washington
#4 posted 04-18-2012 08:05 PM
John C – Jack and Steve were a pair. Best sharpening guys I ever used. Does Steve's wife still work there? I used to run into them at the KC Woodworking Show after I moved out of Springfield. The only POS I bought from them was a PowerMatic "Artisan" Drill Press. I don't blame Ballew, but it was a big disappointment. I still buy from them online.
-- They call me Mr. Silly
#5 posted 04-20-2012 09:39 PM
Great review! I'm a big fan of General International machines.
#6 posted 08-04-2013 01:00 PM
I noticed you were also from Sault Ste Marie and mentioned there was a local woodworking store that sells General International machines. Could you let me know which store you bought your General International machinery from? I have been eyeing up new machinery, but according to General's website there are no distributers around here. I realize this post if fairly old, and you may have moved here after buying them, but I thought I would ask and maybe your source is closer then the ones I have been looking at buying from.
Thanks, and great reviews!
-- ~Rich
#7 posted 08-04-2013 04:40 PM
Just a small data point to consider…
General and General International are two different brands of machine.
General is (was) a long-lived line of machinery built entirely in Quebec. General International is a line of machinery sold by General, but sourced overseas.
Older General is great stuff. Older General International can be hit and miss, just like a lot of imported tools, but many of the newer tools are excellent, again, just like a lot of other imported tools.
#8 posted 08-04-2013 07:12 PM
Hey Rich, I bought the BS when I lived in Thunder Bay…they have/had Toolswood where I bought the machine from. No dealers in SSM, in fact no tools stores at all in SSM. I've bought several machines while living here from Canadian Woodworker; of course it has to be shipped which is $$ but their prices are good and they are easy to deal with.
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#9 posted 08-04-2013 07:30 PM
Thanks Rob. I was pretty sure there wasn't, but I thought I would make sure so I didn't spend hundreds of dollars on shipping for nothing.
-- ~Rich
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Bruce Arians' Tampa Bay Buccaneers have plenty of personnel decisions to make this offseason, one that could be pivotal for the future of the franchise.
With Jameis Winston headed toward free agency, it starts with the quarterback position. Actually, it doesn't, according to Arians.
"Oh, yeah. To me, it's the whole defense," Arians said Thursday, via ESPN. "You can't get 'em all, but … those young guys grew. We can't let that go. I don't care who's my quarterback. We've gotta have a defense."
Once the shock wears off, take a look at the Buccaneers' depth chart. Yes, quarterback will be a huge area to address, but in terms of sheer volume, Arians isn't wrong.
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The Buccaneers' defensive depth chart from 2019 is filled with key players who will become free agents in March: Jason Pierre-Paul, Ndamukong Suh, Carl Nassib, Rakeem Nunez-Roches and Beau Allen. Most important, though, is retaining the services of Shaquil Barrett.
The 2019 sack king arrived in Tampa via a one-year contract and proved himself worth much more than that, and he's been vocal about staying with the Buccaneers for the long haul. He's undoubtedly at the top of Tampa's list of priorities, but the Buccaneers are also going to need to decide which of the aforementioned defenders they want to keep.
If Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht is going for a youth movement, he'll bid adieu to Suh and Pierre-Paul, unless he could retain the latter at a lower number. He'll sign Barrett and Nassib, keep Nunez-Roches and Allen for depth and use his first pick on an interior defensive lineman in the draft (Javon Kinlaw, perhaps?). And if it sounds like we might think it sounds, he'll evaluate all of his options before considering committing to Winston, on whom his feelings have not changed.
"No, because you don't know who's available," Arians said when asked if he had a better idea of what his team will do at QB. "You're just sitting and waiting to see, is there someone available? And is he a better option? That's the problem. You get about three days to decide — the legal tampering [period]. Is somebody else gonna get let go? What's the trade values? It's really monotonous right now because you don't really have any answers."
That sounds as if there might be a few strategies Tampa could explore: sign a coveted replacement (Ryan Tannehill, Teddy Bridgewater, etc.) and trade Winston, sign a veteran bridge quarterback (Philip Rivers), let Winston walk and draft a successor, or decide it's better to keep Winston and his recently improved eyes for another go-around at a reasonable pay rate.
The Buccaneers will handle that right around the start of the new league year. It's clear Arians is interested in vetting options other than Winston. But first, he wants his key defenders signed before the madness begins.
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Since 2016, Dr. Gary Stamps, owner & veterinarian at Animal Hospital at Auburn Hills, has provided free veterinary care to the Wichita Police Department's K-9 Belgian Malinois, Nash. In 2018 the Wichita Fire Department got its first Search & Rescue dog, Sailor, & we volunteered our care as well.
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Public servants such as Wichita Police Department officer Dustin Nail and Wichita Fire Department Captain Chad Winton, typically would need to pay for veterinary care out of their own pockets. We feel like they give enough to our great city.
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We featured Nash of the WPD and Sailor of the WFD because we provide free veterinary care for them.
This open house gave the community a chance to celebrate them and raise funds for their future care.
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The Courage FUND is managed through the American Veterinary Medical Foundation, a 501c3 tax exempt charitable organization and every dollar raised is used to care for Nash, Sailor, and future COURAGEous dogs we meet.
We are privileged to provide free veterinary care to Belgian Malinois "Nash" of the Wichita Police Department's K-9 Unit and to Search & Rescue Labrador Retriever "Sailor" of the Wichita Fire Department.
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On Monday, January 28, 2019, Atara Rich-Shea, the Director of Operations for the Massachusetts Bail Fund, described current bail practices in Massachusetts to members of the Boston Bar Association's Public Interest Leadership Program and invited engagement with and support for Massachusetts Bail Fund's efforts to eradicate the system of pre-trial incarceration.
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Contracts worth Can$937M (US$730) have now been awarded following the first three months of construction of the Can$40Bn LNG Canada export terminal near Kitimat, British Columbia (BC), Canada.
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LNG Canada has also committed to making the export terminal one of the most environmentally friendly LNG facilities in the world. During a keynote address at the British Columbia Natural Resource Forum, LNG Canada chief executive officer Andy Calitz said, "We designed our facility to have the lowest CO2 emissions of any large-scale LNG export facility operating in the world today. We recognised the concern about climate change and we wanted to be part of the solution."
The BC government has exempted LNG Canada from a Can$15-a-tonne increase to the carbon tax until 2021 if it can keep its promise. The BC Government has a goal to cut its CO2 emissions based on 2007 levels by 40%.
LNG Canada is a joint venture comprised of Royal Dutch Shell, through its affiliate Shell Canada Energy (40%); Petronas, through its wholly-owned entity, North Montney LNG Limited Partnership (25%); PetroChina Company, through its subsidiary PetroChina Canada (15%); Mitsubishi Corporation, through its subsidiary Diamond LNG Canada (15%); and Korea Gas Corporation, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Kogas Canada LNG (5%). It is operated through LNG Canada Development Inc.
While the project has faced opposition from some local indigenous groups, it has also won the support of other First Nations because of the employment opportunities the project is expected to create. It is estimated that 10,000 Canadian workers will be employed during the years of construction of the LNG Canada and the Coastal GasLink pipeline that will transport natural gas from northeastern BC to the LNG export facility for processing.
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1. The Big Nickel located in Sudbury Ontario is the world's largest coin. It is a giant reproduction of a 1951 Canadian nickel, measuring 9 meters (30 feet) in diameter.
2. Flamingos are monogamous birds that lay only a single egg each year. If that egg is lost or damaged, they do not typically lay a replacement.
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Mike Collier
Photograph courtesy of Pete Simkins
Billy Butterfield, Mike Collier and Randy Colville (clarinet) during a recording session with Billy at Worthing on 7 November 1977. The album was issued by Flyright records under the title Watch What Happens. It was later issued in the States by George Buck on the Jazzology label.
Trombone player Mike Collier was born on the 10th June 1929 at Vincent Square, Westminster in central London. Like Mike, his father was a dentist, and sadly Mike lost his mother to multiple sclerosis when he was six. Mike had a sister, Sue, who would later marry jazzman Ronnie Ross.
In his late teens, Mike discovered the jazz of Bix Beiderbecke and the cornet player would become a life-long inspiration – Mike was one of those who wore the 'Bix Lives' T-shirt (along with 'Bird Lives', jazz's answer to rock and roll's 'Elvis Lives') - and yet, Mike did not pick up the cornet or trumpet. In his twenties he started out on saxophone before transferring to trombone where his other idol was Jack Teagarden. Despite Mike following in his father's professional footsteps, his father did not approve of his son's interest in jazz and when Mike went away to public school in Dulwich, took the opportunity to throw out all of Mike's collection of jazz 78s!
On leaving public school, Mike continued to live in London and, despite his father's disapproval, increasingly continued to play gigs in the London area. Not only did he play with many bands on the scene in some of the most popular venues, he was also a natural organiser, forming bands and arranging gigs. When Louis Armstrong paid his historic visit to London, Mike was there to welcome him with the other musicians.
Despite his energy and organisational skills, his second wife Erica remembers that he was not focussed on financial reward: 'Mike was hopeless with money,' she says. 'He was quite happy to play for next to nothing. He was a Gemini of course, so there were two sides to him. He was gentle, understanding, kind and quite shy but at times, perhaps because of his self consciousness, he could be firmly critical and dismissive of people. It was very difficult for him to forgive people who had slighted him.'
Eric Wilson in Australia remembers that during the 1950s: 'There were some fascinating moments during the Mike Collier years including playing in the Blackpool Tower and annoying a lion tamer who was trying to calm his furry friends backstage! We once shared the stage with Humphrey Lyttelton at the Croydon Town Hall, but one of the best stories regards Gerry Salisbury borrowing the guitarist's car. Gerry can tell you this one!'
Gerry says: 'I had forgotten the car incident, apparently Eric and I borrowed the guitar player's car and turning a corner, the driver's door decided to drop off and we managed to screw it back on and kept it between ourselves! I daresay the guitar player has passed on, or is still with us aged about 120, so if he's still alive, sorry Bill.'
After Mike's first marriage ended, he moved from Cuckfield in Sussex to Brighton where he soon became part of the local jazz scene. He played regularly at the Fox and Hounds pub in Haywards Heath and his trombone was heard regularly with many bands in the area. He also began to present jazz programmes for Radio Brighton.
Chris Duff in Canada says: 'Mike Collier? Now there's a name to conjure with! - a phrase Mike used frequently when given a name from the past. The photo attached was taken by the late Chris Worrall, landlord of the Fox and Hounds, Haywards Heath on October 23rd, 1968 on the occasion of the recording of The Good Life, an LP on 77 Records featuring The Fourteen Foot Band. Shown from the left: Danny Moss, Terry Whitney (piano), Derek Middleton (drums), Jack Jacobs, Mike Collier (trombone), Alan Kennington (bass) and Ted Ambrose (trumpet).'
Mike Collier and the Fourteen Foot Band
Photograph © Chris Duff
'The Fox and Hounds was the "headquarters" of the Sussex Jazz Society, a loose organisation of jazz lovers from South Sussex and the Brighton area loosely headed by Mike Collier. Some half-dozen musicians and other interested parties, including Derrick Stewart-Baxter, helped finance the sessions at the Fox and elsewhere and no one made any money! However, the jazz was great most of the time and often superb, especially when Mike invited soloists to help front the Fourteen Foot Band. Sandy Brown was a frequent visitor, as was Danny Moss, Ronnie Ross, Dave Carey, Mick Mulligan, Bruce Turner, Nevil Skrimshire, Alan Cooper, Jimmy Skidmore, Pete King, Kathy Stobart and many others. International stars like Bud Freeman, Bill Coleman, Al Sudhalter, Captain John Handy, Eddie Miller, Albert Nicholas, Peanuts Hucko and Teddy Wilson were guests with Mike and the band, and Alex Welsh would also bring down his band with the latest touring American musician. Halcyon days!'
'I knew Mike during the mid-late 1960s when I took the money at the door at the Fox and Hounds. Mike had asked me to help with promoting the band and the various sessions, which led to me producing a monthly newsletter on my work-place Roneo machine and writing a weekly jazz column in the local Mid-Sussex Times. However, all the promoting in the world couldn't stop falling attendances and after about five years Mike and his friends decided to close down the Fox and Hounds sessions in June 1970.'
'Mike continued to play with many of the local bands in the Brighton area. The Brighton jazz scene was always a vibrant one and became the subject of a book, The Brighton Jazz Line, edited by Keith Samuel and Peter Simkins, with contributions from many other musicians. It was published by Evergreen Graphics (ISBN 1-900192-05-5) in 2002 and records the story of the Sussex Jazz Society and the death of Mike Collier. A memorial seat for Mike was placed in the churchyard of Brighton's St. Nicholas Church, the cost being borne by his many friends who were generous in their contributions. The book has a selective discography compiled by Brian Hills, and shows Mike on a Tribute LP to Les Jowett, with early tracks from Les in the 1940s and later tracks with Les and Mike recorded in 1957'. 'Mike's happiest years were the ones he spent with the Les Jowett band,' Erica says.
Photograph courtesy of Pete Simkins
Mike Collier with the Benny Simkins Band at the King and Queen, Brighton, on a Sunday evening in 1976-1977, during our long Sunday-evening residency at the pub. Roy Bower (trumpet), Mike Collier (trombone), Bernie Godfrey (drums), Alan Kennington (bass), Benny Simkins (my Dad, on tenor sax) and me (Pete Simkins) on piano.
Eric Jackson also remembers those days in Brighton: 'I have a good recording from the Brighton Jazz Festival of George Chisholm dueting with another trombonist who could be Mike Collier. There was a band in Brighton led by Ted Ambrose and I wonder if Mike Collier filled the trombone chair?' Erica says that she is sure that Mike did fill the chair as Ted was really Mike's very best friend: ' ... they loved watching the Ziegfield Follies together. Mike really admired Ted and was heartbroken when Ted died of a brain tumour.'
Busy on the jazz scene, Mike was also carrying on a thriving dental practice and the time eventually came when he was ready to stop doing both. His wife, Erica, had spent many years living and working in France and had dual-nationality. It was decided that Mike would give up his dental work and they would move to France where Mike could continue to play and Erica could teach English, so they moved to Dieppe. Mike still had elderly relatives in England and wanted to be near the Ferry so that he could visit them, and the family soon settled down in their new country.
'Mike never learned to speak French,' says Erica. 'That did not stop him playing – he had never learned to read music either. He was soon playing with local French bands but he was always disappointed that he was never invited to play by the Rover Big Band, a well-known band in France at that time.' (Bryan Woy writes: As far as I know no such big band exists - I imagine someone misread Erica's handwriting and what she meant was the Rouen Big Band (founded by Christian Garros in 1978 and now known as the Christian Garros Big Band).
As the mid-1990s arrived, Mike was in his sixties and although he was now retired, he started to get tired more quickly. He was still walking and playing and following his interests in ley lines, films and aviation, but eventually he was diagnosed with cancer and died on the 1st June 1999, not from the cancer, but from a brain lesion. His sister, Sue, died soon after in December of the same year.
Mike left ten children, a boy and three girls from his first marriage and a boy and five girls from his marriage to Erica. Their musical interests have not followed their father's into jazz, but into a lot of other pop, rock and electronic fields. His son Ben writes for a Paris/Rouen newspaper on Brighton cultural and social events and he has also inherited his father's trombones and magnificent scrap albums.
Erica Collier remembers that: 'Jazz and ley lines were the most important elements of Mike's life and even if he was ill, he would always go to a gig even if he didn't go to work!! He was a very loving father and his philosophy on parenthood was, 'Have 'em, love 'em and let them be!'. His relationship with his wives was not quite so simple!'
Photograph courtesy of Pete Simkins
Mike Collier (right) and Roy Bower (centre) with American trumpet legend Billy Butterfield (left) during our recording session with Billy at Worthing on 7 November 1977. The album was issued by Flyright records under the title Watch What Happens.
It was later issued in the States by George Buck on the Jazzology label.
Pete Simkins sent us three of the pictures on this page and wrote: 'I enjoyed the piece on trombonist Mike Collier. I first met Mike in 1964, when my brother Geoff (then a drummer) and I used to sit in with the Fourteen Foot Band at the Fox and Hounds, Hayward Heath on Sunday evenings. My tenor-sax playing Dad, Benny, and I were two of the 'angels' who contributed financially to the Sussex Jazz Society, helping Mike to present a series of legendary American guests at the pub - including Red Allen, Ed Hall and Teddy Wilson in the 1960s.
Some ten years later, in 1976, Mike replaced Geoff Hoare in my Dad's own outfit, the Benny Simkins Band (in which I played piano), remaining with the band until it folded upon Dad's death in 1982. During this period Mike helped to back another series of outstanding American guests, such as Dick Cary, Buddy Tate, Pee Wee Erwin, Benny Waters and Johnny Mince, and he was on the band's recordings for Bruce Bastin's Flyright label when we backed Billy Butterfield and Yank Lawson'.
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A phenotypic takeaway from the ancient European DNA preprint has been that the hunter-gatherer from Luxembourg was light eyed and darker skinned (and dark haired), while the early farmer from Germany was lighter skinned and darker eyed (and dark haired). In yesterday's post a reader pointed out that I misinterpreted the genotypes of these two individuals at a very important pigmentation locus: I thought that it was homozygous for the lighter skin conferring allele which is at very high frequency in modern Europeans. I was wrong. A SNP at this locus, SLC45A2, correlated with darker complexion and eyes, is present at ~3% in Europeans (as opposed to ~100% in East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa). In a European American sample the genotypes are as follows:
Both the hunter-gather and the farmer are CC. Combined with the hunter-gatherer being GG (which is nearly absent in modern Europeans) at SLC24A5 it does seem that as the authors of the preprint were right, the hunter-gatherer had darker skin. The twist is that the region of the genome, OCA2/HERC2, that seems to explain most of the blue vs. non-blue eye color difference in Europe, is homozygous for the blue variant in the hunter-gatherer. I would say that if I had just the pigmentation loci I would think that the hunter-gatherer in this study was from a population mixed between Europeans and non-Europeans. For example, inhabitants of Cape Verde.
The hunter-gatherer individual sequenced from Loschbour rock shelter may be an anomaly. But you wouldn't find this sort of individual among modern Europeans without recent non-European ancestry, even as an anomaly. So there's something to explain.


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Here's a sermon for you to file for next Fathers' Day (or, if you're a dad, to stop right now and read! It was preached by my wife Rev. Jan Croucher, children's and family pastor at Syndal Baptist Church, Melbourne, Australia.
Shalom! Rowland Croucher
Fathers' Day – great day, the kids brought you presents and may be breakfast in bed, some of you received hand made cards and greetings. Many older fathers will be having family home for lunch or dinner, and you'll (be glad when it's over) – be made to feel it was all worthwhile.
– not the case with everyone here today – some of you have sad memories of a father who mistreated you, even rejected you – some of you dads are hurting because you know there will be no contact today with a child you loved – there may be someone here who has abused a child and the guilt is overwhelming
My own dad was an unhappy man with a violent temper. He whipped his belt off frequently to use on one or all of his 6 children. But I recall in my first year in high school winning the prize for mathematics and having to go up on stage to receive it. As I turned I glanced at my parents and saw on my father's face the most amazing beam of pride. That beam carried me through many of the traumas that lay ahead. Unfortunately, I always felt I had to earn my father's love and I recognise the inevitable transference of that attitude when I came to meet my heavenly Father.
– 'Family' – the centre of our lives – despairing parents, questioning the popular culture where logos on clothes are more valued than the values of the heart. – recognised those who were helping children such as doctors, the police etc but challenged everyone with the responsibility for seeing that our community acts in ways that value faamily. – she emphasised the need for every child to feel special, and challenged the nations leaders to support parents in this job. – change is certain but progress is not – we can't always control the changes that come but we can turn them with effort into progress
Both Matthew and Luke explain the fact that Joseph was not the physical father of Jesus, but that Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born to a virgin. Having God as His real Father must have made a difference, but we know Jesus was also fully human.
When we begin to focus on Joseph it's disappointing to find just how little biographical information is given to us in Scripture. About all we know of him is that he was a descendent of David from the village of Bethlehem and that he was a carpenter. He seems to have migrated north to the town of Nazareth snd there became engaged to the young woman, Mary. The inference is that he may have been older than Mary, and may have died before Jesus commenced his public ministry. We do know that he was alive when Jesus went to Jerusalem at the age of 12, and that is the last mention of him in the gospel record. Years later when Jesus performed his first miracle at the wedding feast at Cana, His mother was there and presumably alone, maybe a widow. These are the meagre facts we have as a framework for Joseph's life.
However there's a rather illuminating sequence of events that enable us to look deeply into his character. It was a time of personal crisis for Joseph. During the time of their engagement Joseph learned that his bride to be was pregnant and he knew that the child could not be his. This must have come as a staggering blow to him, and observing his reaction is a telling indicator of what he was really like. John Claypool suggests that three qualities in Joseph provide clues to the developing character of Jesus:
1. He demonstrated mercy. Assuming Mary had been unfaithful was perfectly natural and so would bursting into a rage have been, because when we humans are hurt, our first reaction is to want to hurt back. But this was not the course he chose to take. After mulling it over in his mind he decided to 'divorce her quietly' v19. Joseph is described as a 'just man', which meant he regulated his life by the Jewish law, and this law called for a woman caught in adultery to be publicly stoned. But Joseph was 'unwilling to put her to shame' which means that not even his own hurt or legal considerations could over rule his compassion for Mary. He was serious enough about what had happened to plan to divorce her, but the fact of human imperfection did not blind him to the fact that here was a human being with feelings. So is it any wonder that years later the Young Man who was nurtured by this kind of father, would say to a fallen woman 'My friend, I don't condemn you. Go and sin no more. I came to be part of the answer for sinful people, not to add to their burden.' In fact the compassion that Joseph shows here can be seen all through Jesus' ministry.
2. As Joseph moved further into his crisis a second characteristic comes to light – an openness to incredible possibilities. As Joseph set about to dissolve their engagement quietly Mary no doubt shared with him what had occurred to her when first the angel and then the Holy Spirit had come and the story must have been very much on his mind. First he had learned that his fiance was pregnant, he'd managed to work through his feelings to the point he was not going to humiliate her and now she tells him that God was in it, things were not as he supposed but full of a mystery beyond imagining. It was almost more than his mind could handle, and Matthew says he 'considered it'. Now what would most men have done – laughed her to scorn I'm sure – ridiculed the very suggestion as preposterous – 'You've got to be kidding'. But Joseph wasn't an ordinary man. He had already shown an extraordinary capacity for compassion, and now he is displaying an amazing acceptance of wonder and mystery. He wasn't one to say 'Because I can't understand it, it is not possible'. What Gabriel had said to Mary, Joseph obviuosly believed – 'with God all things are possible'. He didn't arrogantly throw the word 'impossible' around, neither did he impose limits on God. And lo and behold that night in a dream the angel confirmed all that Mary was saying was in fact true. Only one who has a great sense of openness could have accepted such a possibility. This is the nature of faith – being willing to let God be God and not restrict him to our narrow limits. We tend to decide beforehand what is possible and what is impossible and refuse to look beyond these self-imposed limits. Who are we, as creatures in this vast universe which we didn't make, to define what can and cannot be? Who of us is an absolute authority? Yet we continually assume this role and so drastically reduce the possibilities before us.
But not so with Joseph. I believe he helped Jesus to relate positively to the mystery of life, and Jesus was helped to a right vision of the Father in heaven by the kind of father he had on earth. If we really want to participate with God in our day and age such an openness to the incredible is essential.
3. A willingness to venture out on the basis of his 'hunches'. Let's not think this was easy. There's no way to prove the accuracy of dreams ahead of time. So there was risk involved here but this was the path Joseph decided on – as outlandish as it seemed to common sense. So with nothing more than Mary's word and the testimony of a dream, Joseph took a pregnant woman with a child not his own to be his wife. And once committed there were several adjustments he had to make. We all know that Joseph had to comply with the Roman Census, but it could well have been that Joseph took Mary away from the nagging tongues of Nazareth. He had the good sense not to push the point there because he didn't really expect others to believe the story. All this says to me that Joseph was not just a decisive man but a very sensitive one too. He was willing to trust the type of guidance that more cautious souls would back away from, and this sensitivity paid off again and again as he moved his little family to Egypt to avoid Herod and then back to Nazareth rather than Bethlehem because of the political climate. Joseph was profoundly aware of what was going on around him, and he had the courage to act on his hunches. His courage of course came from his trust – in Mary, in the angel and in his own experience of truth. And we now know that Joseph was not disappointed – look who came into the world – a Son Who was able again and again to recognise when his hour had come and to venture forth with courage and purpose.
So this has given a little insight into the man Joseph. We've seen him around for many years but only in the background of the manger. But I understand why God entrusted his only Son into the care of this man. What better atmosphere could Jesus have known in growing up than an earthly father who was so compassionate of others, so open to God, and so decisive in his own person.
It is a challenge to all fathers to recognise the profound influence thay have on their children. Psychotherapists today are saying that both parents are vitally important to the stable development of their children – the mother's input is invaluable in the formative pre-adolescent years but the father's most important influence is at adolescence. In pre- industrial cultures fathers worked alongside their sons and taught them their trade. The father led the adolescent son into manhood and the book titled 'Absent Fathers Lost Sons' addresses this issue. Adolescent daughters long to hear from their fathers that they are beautiful and loved. In fact a girl's choice of partner and satisfaction in marriage is often directly related to the relationship she had with her father
I've been talking to you who are fathers about the importance of fathering. But there are two other situations I want to look briefly at. Some of you are thinking about your own father and praising God for good modelling. Some of you are sad about a father who dominated or was absent. Remember how God chose Joseph to be Jesus' earthly father. When I came to know my heavenly Father at 15, I was overwhelmed by his love for me. He led me to Paul's words: 'I have learned in whatever state I am to be content' and I began to see my father as God's gift to me – the one chosen to provide for me. And later in life when I had teenagers of my own, who started to show that they had actually developed minds of their own, I wrote to my Dad, who by now had returned to the west and settled in a ghost town north of Kalgoorlie. I apologised for any pain I may have caused him, thus contributing to his frustration. He wrote back and for the first time I could remember he said he had always loved me. And for the first time ever he apologised to me – for stating the night I was to be baptised that if I went through with it I need not return home. This was the beginning of a dialogue with my father that continued by letter, and when he went missing out there in the desert there was grief but not the grief that goes along with unresolved matters. My dad has never been found but as my older brother and sister and I travelled across the Nullarbor two months later for a memorial service I remember saying 'You know, inspite of everything we did love Dad, didn't we?' They each answered affirmatively and we continued on our way singing some of the songs he had taught us in our earlier and happier years.
It's never too late to put things right with your father. It takes courage to start, but much healing will take place if you do. Well, your father has passed away, that is surely too late. I heard someone say not too long ago that he had a deep longing to tell his father he was sorry and that he loved him, but it was too late so in the end he said to the Lord 'You know I can't talk to him any longer, would you tell him I'm sorry'
Now that last category. There may be some father here who has badly abused his daughter or even his son. My husband and I get involved with people who come through our home who have been horrifically abused by their fathers. These people have indescribable pain for their entire lives. One lady, abused from early childhood has had to move interstate and has even changed her name in order to hide from her parents. To this very day she has nightmares every night – she sees her father's face.
How wonderful if this father's day there could be reconciliation as our families meet for Father's Day. What a tremendous responsibility our nations' fathers have. You who know and love the Lord have the resources to be the fathers God wants you to be. In closing I would like you to turn with me to Romans 8:12. Read it.
Only the Spirit of God could cause Joseph to have such compassion, to be so open to God's supernatural power, and to be so decisive in his own person. Verse 14 of Romans 8 goes on to say that if you are led by the Spirit of God you are a child of God, and this entitles you to use that very intimate word 'Abba', used only of your own father never to refer to someone else's – that precious relationship that we as children can have with our heavenly Father.
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text: Papua IntroAsmat Region Map Dolf Versteegh 10 years ago No Comments Facebook Prev Article Next Article Asmat Region MapClick on the map to see a larger image !Asmat InfoTribes' people who live along the Southwest of Irian Jaya (Casuari-Coast, Cannibal-Coast), still untouched by modern civilization. The swampy Asmat area, as big as Belgium, consists only of dense jungle and thousands of rivers. The staple diet of the tribes is sago, mussels, snails and insects. Everyday they have to collect their food along the rivers in vast mangrove, wild sago and bamboo forests. A hard and dangerous job in a crocodile country, where some creatures can grow up to 10 meters. Asmat is one of the most inaccessible regions of Irian Jaya and many tribes have never seen any outsiders until today. The tall and strong Asmat are world-renowned fantastic wood-carvers. Some spectacular pieces of Asmat art are in the Museum of Primitive Art in New York City. The Coastal Asmat are perfect canoe builders. Everybody, even children, are going around on these long and narrow tree-canoes, which can be up to 15 meters long. Some have magnificent boat decorations. The coastal people live together in big villages, where wooden long houses, the Yeus, are still the center of power and spirit. The lives of the Asmat are made from long genuine bones from the giant Cassowary bird and sometimes even from crocodile bones. Their necklaces and other body decorations are made from white kauri-shells, pig and dogteeth, grass and free seeds and Cassowary feathers. To join one of the many different Asmat cult-festivals is an unforgettable highlight, even for very experienced traveler. Far away from the coastline, many of the Asmat tribes build their houses on treetops, up to 15 meters from the ground. These are the Citak, Kuruwai, Kumbai, Korfon and Uwakain as well as the people from Brazza and Kolff-River. Living deep in the vast lowland jungles on the foot of the central mountain range, their lifestyle remains still nomadic. To visit these lost stone-age hunters is one of the last adventures on this planet. Asmat is the most famous cannibalistic tribe on Papua. They would put human skulls under their heads instead of a pillow. They would eat brains of their animals mixed with sago worms straight from their halved skulls. They live on small islands in mangrove vegetation nearby the sea, on the south side of the western part of the New Guinea Island. The Asmat build long houses, where they live together. Every family has its own reserved fireplace. In the long house about six or even ten of the group members live. Besides the fact that the Asmat were head-hunters, they also hunted for names. Every person was named after someone deceased, or after a killed enemy. A child was sometimes given a name only ten years after it was born, and after its village set out to kill a man from an enemy village nearby. They had to learn the name of the man they killed, and then bring his skull to their village. Only in this way could a person get a name. Asmat did not only hunt for skulls, they also worshipped them. The skulls of the deceased were stripped of the brain and the eyes and nasal parts were closed up in order to prevent evil spirits to enter or exit the body. Skulls that were modified and decorated in this way, were displayed by the Asmat in a honorable place in their long homes. Fortunately, the evil reputation of Asmat has become history. The missionaries have done a lot of work in changing this. Thanks to it, we can now go to the Asmats for a visit. The members of the Asmat tribe believe that they arose out of wood. Therefore, wood is sacred for them. Even in ancient times they carved wonderful things from wood. 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Joe Biden Grabs Young Woman At Iowa State Fair
Joe Biden has inserted himself into controversy, once again, after grabbing a young woman by the arm and pulling him towards her as she was turning away from him.
It happened at the Iowa State Fair when an Iowa college student, identified as Katie, attended a campaign where the former vice president was visiting.
She asked him a question,
"Mr. Vice President. I'm a student here and I was wondering how many genders are there."
Biden responded by saying that there are at least three.
Katie then asks Biden if he could name them and he responds with,
"Don't play games with me, kid."
The young woman is then seen on video walking away when Joe Biden grabbed her by her arm and pulled her back to him. He said,
"By the way, the first one to come out for marriage was me."
You can watch the video below:
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Watch former Vice President Biden forcefully grab one of our young field staffers at yesterday's Iowa State Fair after she asked him how many genders there are pic.twitter.com/1qmpJxJlzO
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 9, 2019
When it comes to presidential candidate Joe Biden, there should be one obvious rule that he should be following if he ever hopes to secure the Oval Office:
Most of us are probably aware that this is just a common sense rule, but with Biden's history of borderline creepy and inappropriate touching of women and girls in the past, he should be especially conscious of the personal space of others.
Just take a look at some of the highlights of personal space violations pulled from Biden's past:


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Prior to 1991
Before 1991, the question of do illegitimate children have inheritance rights was answered differently than it is today. In Texas illegitimate children could only inherit from their biological parents if the parents eventually got married or if the father acknowledged the child through some authorized manner.
The Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional those statutes that limit illegitimate children's inheritance rights . However, there are still many problems for illegitimate children to gain their rightful inheritance. I have written about this issue on my web site here.