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DECEPTION IN GILMER COUNTY! The Power Elite and the BOG at GSC Say, "Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice to Deceive!!
Please review this article from eight years ago, for maybe this history lesson will put things in perspective for you if you have moved to Gilmer County, WV in the last couple of years — Hear the truth about GLENVILLE!
By Freebird/Central WV SS-Reporter/Rina McCoy-Editor/Cosmos Communicator/Editor Edison -Editor CCC
If a lie is repeated often enough it becomes the truth!
That's the way things are done up on the hill in the Ville!
Take a couple of lawyers, toss in a gas & oil baron and his family, maybe a "reliable" friend or two and mix with the President of the institution…
Now there is one hell of a recipe for scandalous and unethical behavior!
In exchange for bought and paid for "loyalty", boards and organizations are created with great titles and noble purpose. Unfortunately, the purpose is soon forgotten after a 501c3 not for profit status is obtained from the Federal and State Government.
These so called leaders of the community just forget about EDUCATION. They just forget that they receive a substantial portion of support from other governmental units, and the general public in the form of tax payer dollars!!
GSC Alumni Association 501c3 Provides scholarships and funding for general education purposes: Executive Director Dr. Peter Barr in 2007. Revenue 2008 $2,610,304 Expenses Over 2 million. Total assets over 10 million. Director, D. (I owned McDonalds) Pounds, annual salary of $37,754 paid in 2008 per 990 filing. Hey, isn't he also the Vice President for College Advancement? Wonder what that pays! President Timothy B Butcher. Members of the board include College Director Sue Morris and Doug per 990. Mr. Pounds retains the books per the filing!
GSC Research Corporation 501c3 Provides support to the college alone. 3 voting members comprise the board. Dr Peter Barr, Robert Hardman and Dr. Butler, these are appointed positions but could not verify by whom. Possibly the Board of Governors. Assets $287,913 in 2008. Had $250,000 of notes and loans receivable. Books managed by Robert Hardman Purpose to facilitate grants and research. Gee, is this where the county's $30,000 went to? Was that income declared by anyone?
GSC Housing Corporation 501c3 Purpose to provide residential housing to GSC faculty and staff. Dr Peter Barr and Robert Hardman as officers, Thomas Ratliff (head of maintenance GSC) and others as trustees. Other salaries and wages paid over $70,000 with $16,000 + in benefits but not ID'd to whom. Over $599,000 in revenue, public support reported at 98.79%. Books managed by Robert Hardman.
Morris Foundation 501c3 a non operating foundation whose purpose is additional construction and operation of the sports park in 2008. Who is managing that park in 2010? A certain County Commissioner related to the Butchers?
This Bullshit is never ending in Crooked County!
Pretty nice salary I hear since quitting the college. But you never really quit do you?
The books are retained by IL's secretary Sandy Pettit!
This story sounds very familiar doesn't it?
They all do it the Crooked County way!
GSC Board of Governors- at the time of the action in question R Terry Butcher was a member of the board of governors and, if I am not mistaken, Timothy B Butcher was President of the GSC Housing Corporation.
With the "new" restructuring the wife of IL MORRIS – Sue Morris is current board director!
This is starting to read like a WHO'S WHO of "Fuck you!"
"We are gonna do what we want to …and make some fat stax of cash too!"
GILMER HOUSING PARTNERS LLC: a FOR PROFIT ENTITY Manager and Organizer Dr. Peter Barr per the State of West Virginia and various recordings at the court house.
According to Dr. Barr and multiple news reports this is handled by Mr. Ratliff, the full time head of Maintenance for GSC and if you will note a trustee of the GSC Housing Corporation as well.
How many pay checks for him and others?
Dr. Barr managed it so well he let the Butchers prepare a $30,000 promissory note by New Horizon (Jack Jones President) to Gilmer Housing Partners on the first sale of the new housing development which originated from Ex- Mayor Putnum to IL Morris, to the Alumni Association, to the GSC Housing Corporation to Gilmer Housing Partners all tied to the Board of Governors with a resulting suit in federal court tied to the County Clerk's Office.
Now you can at least follow how the wicked web of deceit is wickedly woven on the hill in the Ville !! You got it now!
I hope you can clearly see how attorneys whose membership spans at least three non-profit organizations within the college can participate in the for profit step child of that same body.
What was their bill?
Who are the investors and how much did they put up for seed money? How are they to be paid back? How much money have they made or lost? Where does it go?
It's all a CROOKED COUNTY MYSTERY!! Fuck yeah!!
Don't forget the Crooked President of the college is in it all the same, same. He knows how the wicked deals are woven, and who runs these organizations at all times, to him it is all a game, game!
Dude tells the BOG what he wants!
Have another drink Peter Barr and don't forget the BARR code next time you park your car at the bar!!
Don't lay on your back unless he is black = Barr Code
Those who have a good business sense will know why the President of GSC is placed to interconnect with every back room deal and parcel out the money in the Ville !
Is this mess ethical? HELL NO!!
I seriously doubt the IRS would find it legal!
Keep that picture in your head. It is all public information for those with the desire for the truth. Read the latest from Federal Court.
Those Butchers got their asses kicked in federal court!!
Don't forget that the next time decisions need to be made about what is good for Gilmer County.
But, the Power Elite only think about what is good for putting money in their pocket and to hell with Gilmer County and it's citizens!
Those Butchers and their Gilmer County Housing Partners in crime can sure weave one wicked web to deceive!!
Here is the US District Court Document that orders the Bullshit company formed by the Butchers to PAY UP BITCHES!!
federal court opinion county clerk
(click the green link for PDF of court document)
If you can not access document via link contact your local Gilmer County Secret Seven Member at:
Category: "Glenville State College Football team – RAPE "
Lets go back eight years in history, and review, what was CROOKED down in CROOKED COUNTY, could it be the CROOKS?
The Gilmer Free Press: We like to emphasize and state it clearly that the Gilmer Free Press platform is available to anyone that would like to prove this information wrong. The documents presented in this series are actual facts. None of the elected public officials involved want to comment on these documents! They only refer to the court decisions which did not include these documents to say the least. One official has referred to this case as a simple mistake! (Seems to be the SIMPLE EXCUSE for all wrong-doings recently.) We asked everyone to look at the process and wrong doings of public elected officials rather than parties involved. We ask our public elected officials to explain to Gilmer County tax payers why this has happened and how they are going to remedy these so called 'Simple Mistakes'. Parties involved regardless of who they are have paid a big price for these 'Simple Mistakes'. How many more are there? We cannot just move on with these clouds over our county. As always The Gilmer Free Press takes a neutral position, and presents the documents from all sides to you to decide. Simply Click on the Highlighted links to see.
The MISSING ONE SIXTH 2007 TITLE OPINION!
Along with 2009-2010 TAX billing to original Owner!
All made public.
Who would have ever considered that at the beginning of 2011 Gilmer County would find itself under serious Criminal and Civil allegations resulting in accusations pointing in the direction of Beverly Marks ( former county clerk) for wrongdoing involving Public Records fraud, Voter Fraud, Title Fraud, serious federal civil law action, and Election Fraud along with other accusations of wrongful policy!
Don't forget unreasonable notice and false billing of taxes on a piece of property that was WANTED and missing and a matter of important evidence in a high profile Gilmer County Criminal Court Case that climbed as high as the United States Supreme Court in Washington DC!
The MYSTERY 1/6th to the "Travesty of Justice-Junk Farm Equipment" case that was in the WV court system for years is found and the original owner billed for back taxes. Here is the proof!
Ticket number 13959, 13960, 13961 (these three tax ticket numbers represent the missing 1/6th! (Click on Tickets to View)
It was the same 1/6th piece of property missing from the majority opinion authored by Justice Davis, and the same missing one sixth recently found because the original owners were billed for back taxes just last October, 2010 and billed five long years after the property was legally sold by court order to Cecil Leon Ramsey of Glenville, WV!
PROOF of WRONGDOING in GILMER COUNTY is HEREBY PRESENTED BY EVIDENCE of TITLE OPINION!
You cannot make these up if you try! This title opinion brought to us by a contributor to the Gilmer Free Press proves that ownership belongs to Cecil Leon Ramsey and he IS the title holder and should not be responsible to pay back taxes on the missing 1/6th hidden by The Gilmer County Prosecutor and The Previous Gilmer County Clerk!!
This same property, as represented by Title opinion was sold on the court house steps November 18, 2010 as mentioned in the article entitled: 'Title Fraud and Premeditated Criminal Actions in Gilmer County'. This title opinion also represents 1/6th F in A-F explanation of division of property mentioned in the felony court case.
Why is no one arrested and why are public officials not held accountable for theft and wrong doings??
Please follow the link and read the Title Fraud article so that you will understand this latest addition to the Title Fraud evidence, as the Gilmer County Concerned Citizens reveal another crime has been committed by the office of the Gilmer County Clerk. When you finish reading that article, please read this one: 'WV STATE POLICE PROTECT GILMER COUNTY PROSECUTOR – QUOTE ONLY CODE IN WV WITH STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS'.
Also, feel free to review the latest article and please listen to the tape. If you cannot access the audio file please e-mail a request and we can e-mail it to you to listen to. Please review this recent presentation with pictures and audio at: 'SECRET AUDIO a Proof of Criminal Conspiracy in Gilmer County, WV's Legal System'.
During trial, Ms. Marilyn Matheny, a partner of Lemon's Farm Equipment,
valued the equipment to be approximately $1,200. On December 14, 2005, the jury found the appellant guilty of petit larceny in violation of W.Va. Code § 61-3-13(b), the lesser- included offense of grand larceny, a violation of W.Va. Code § 61-3-13(a).1 The circuit court then sentenced the appellant to one year in the state penitentiary.
Notice how Justice Davis says that the defendant that was convicted of a misdemeanor for the RUSTED FARM EQUIPMENT was sent to prison and served the exact same time as Everette Campbell did for murder! One Year!
If you read that article and listen to the tape you will find that by the time the farm equipment case made it to the WV Supreme Court Justice Davis had come up with a figure never before on the court record. The rusted junk with a worth of less than 400 now had climbed in value to $1,200 thanks to an evil and dishonest Supreme Court Justice.
The matter would be officially decided at a felony level even if it was for a crime that never actually happened, but that is how they do it in Gilmer County., and that is how they do it in Charleston at the West Virginia Supreme Court.
And further, this missing one sixth proved by Title opinion to exist and be in the ownership of Cecil Leon Ramsey happened during the same month the majority opinion was being authored at the Supreme Court by Justice Davis, making her account of the distribution of property in error in the highest court in the state. This is what Justice Davis said:
The appellants mother owns two-sixths of the property through one-sixth heirship and a purchase of one-sixth of the property from Mr. Tommy Ross Gainer, the grandson of Ramona Bingman's aunt, Dora Gainer. The appellant's uncle, Roger Rafferty, owns three-sixths of the property, acquiring two-sixths by heirship and purchasing one-sixth from his cousin, Richard Woofter.
On his property near his home, Roger Rafferty owned and kept various items of farming equipment including a five-foot-tiller, a four-foot brush hog, a potato plow, a four-row-cultivator, and a boom pole.
As you can hear by evidence of the SECRET AUDIO the Farm Equipment was rusted used junk purchased in 1980 and the tape was made in September of 2004 -24 years later!
Can anyone explain how Gilmer County can get a lie like that of those in the Gilmer County Court saying old used , rusted equipment was worth new retail prices all the way past the WV Supreme Court?!
If you add up Chief Justice Davis' account in her majority opinion you can see that she made the opinion without consideration of who paid the taxes on the one sixth that was missing and then mentioned each piece of equipment we all heard given a value of much less than what Chief Justice Davis told the court and the other justices. It was never the home of Roger Rafferty. The home was equally owned. Gerald B Hough had the title pulled to cover his lie to the circuit court and then the matter was never explained in Supreme Court. The defendant spent two years complaining to counsel about non truthful facts being brought forward to Supreme Court.
These documents are proof the complaints were true and honest. Also countless complaints were made in writing that Davis specifically mentioned facts that were never part of the circuit court record by making the majority decision based upon the false fact that the defendant removed farm equipment from property not owned by his family, which was never mentioned in the court record, and not true or mentioned in previous court appearances. Clearly the defendant never moved or ever even touched the equipment and that was a matter of record. Davis lied.
Please regard these documents as proof that a crime has been committed by Previous Gilmer County Clerk for pulling the title to the missing one sixth to hide the ownership involving the Travesty of Justice case. By pulling the title to the missing 1/6th this act covered for a lie told to a Felony Jury by the Gilmer County Prosecutor and prevented the WV Supreme Court from recognizing equal ownership in a close 3 to 2 decision.
~~ By Editor Edison Gilmer County Concerned Citizens ~~
On 11-11-11 we the people that make up the Council of Concerned Citizens for CENTRAL WV were hitting on all cylinders and published a great article ALL ABOUT those turbulent times in Gilmer County, commonly NOW KNOWN as Crooked County and this is how it went seven years ago…
By Free Bird – RGW Reporter for the Central WV Secret Seven Coalition/Hurricane Rina McCoy – Cosmos Communicator Editor/ Editor Edison – CalPatty Press Editor
"Democracy depends on the free flow of information and ideas!"
Opinions must be shared in "A free and open encounter" because it is the competition between ideas that produces the truth and allows its concepts to be shared. Difference of opinion stimulates debate and the thought process, out of this comes truth.
The best policy decisions result from robust and uninhibited debate. For this reason, politicians have a privilege denied to the rest of us, aside from fat pensions and health insurance. They cannot be prosecuted for what they say, including hate speech. Why should we accept free political speech for politicians but not for ourselves? We elected them, why are we any less entitled?
"Gilmer County is dealing with a relatively authoritarian government operating as a democracy in name only"
… a member of the Secret Seven Coalition recently stated.
The current leadership in Gilmer County, West Virginia home to Glenville State College is certainly subversive on their best day with implied threats and cheap shots, yet obviously overt in their crass attitude of superiority and control over the less fortunate through use of the power of their elected office or bank account.
There is no level to which the POWER ELITE leaders will not sink to enforce government censorship and maintain control of the elections, business, the schools and our tax dollars.
"Those dumb bitches of the POWER ELITE are only satisfied with total submission to the entitlement of their authority!"
This is a very backwards way of thinking!
It shows an obvious lack of thought, lack of ethics and lack of respect for their fellow man.
Why would people of influence sink so low as to pay an agency located outside of the USA to attempt an attack on one of our local businesses such as the Gilmer Free Press?
Why do the Elite of Glenville seek to invade the privacy of the citizenry though they fail miserably over and over. The answer is because the self absorbed so called leaders of the county government fear a group of organized, knowledgeable citizens, communicating via the internet, initiating what (in their dumb ass minds) amounts to disobedience to the wishes of the ruling powers while attempting to remain anonymous while doing so.
"The Power Elite of Glenville fear the term anonymous most of all!"
They fear the words of intelligent people in an environment where the actual identities are not known, where their threats fall on deaf ears and no one hushes and lets everything just be OK like every good old boy should.
They fear a domain where sharing information is encouraged as it can lead to the creation of a truly informed electorate. To put it simply….
"The POWER ELITE fear for the the safety of their pocket books!"
Enough is enough, let's see to it they have reason to and walk in fear no more.
Casey Smith, a local teacher in Gilmer County teacher has been arrested surrounding allegations that he gave alcohol to a minor and major penis to a minor too, from what we hear. Casey is also known as Nasia Butchers personal lap dog. Smith is a teacher at Gilmer High School and spends most of his time with Nasia in her office and walking her to her car carrying her pocket book and even gives her a little pat on the ass as he is putting her in her car.
Did Casey learn all those good manners from his HOTTY mother, who by the way is a real good roll in the hay if I remember from the day.
The Criminal complaint says that Casey Smith (Nasia Lap Dog and Cock sucking personal pet of the all great and wonderful wife to elite leader R Terry Butcher of the Bitcher and Butcher law firm) provided one of his queer boy buddies who is also a student in the high school he teaches at, with about a quarter of a cup of an alcoholic beverage, while they were staying at a hotel in Parkersburg.
It was quite the honeymoon for the young couple down in Wood County, but younger of the two is being referred to as a victim, and he says he drank an additional cup of that beverage, after Smith fell asleep. In a statement to police Smith apparently claimed that he did not provide any such beverage to the victim, but that it's possible that he might have given it to him because of the sleeping pills he takes. It was just another case of HOMO takes BROMO and wakes up feeling one of the high school boys from Gilmer County High School. But, when you are a pet to a member of the elite you can get away with just about anything, and he will.
Citizens in Gilmer County however, are outraged, and have made numerous comments on the GILMER FREE PRESS and the GFP was taking thousands of hits in an hour and once again was the top rated website in the state of WV last week for daily hits. Comments made on the GFP can be found in the comment section of the article just below this one in your latest edition of Revenge of the Ghost Wolf.
A sexual predator is often used to refer to a person who habitually seeks out sexual situations that are deemed exploitative. Alcohol and drugs are often used as an introduction and a means to a desired end.
This time evil ran right down that Crooked County panty line!
"The definition of 1st degree sexual assault is forced penetration, causing
serious bodily injury, or use of a deadly weapon, but then I guess a big black hard dick could be considered a weapon and the preferred weapon used by students at the HOME of Rape and Murder in CROOKED COUNTY – Glenville State College!"
Gabriel Phrophet (Gabe Phrophet), 22, was arraigned by Gilmer County Magistrate Robert Minigh on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 and is facing two felonies charges involving sexual assaults of 1st and 2nd degree.
"Phrophet is just one of many football players for GSC to be accused of rape, but there have been no convictions!"
Phrophet was booked at Central regional Jail June 23, five months ago, but there has been no preliminary hearing scheduled and Gerald B Hough is purposely not moving this case forward to protect the image of the college at the cost of the public's safety!
|Imprisonment Status: Pre-Trial Felon
|Full Name:
|Phrophet, Gabriel
|6′ 2″
|170 lbs.
|Birth Date:
|Booking Date:
|Central Regional Jail
|Imprisonment Status:
|Pre-Trial Felon
Offender Court Order Information
|Court Info Number
|Issuing Agency Location
|GILMER COUNTY – Bail Amount: $25,000.00
If your looking to rape a hot white chick at a local college you never have to look further than Glenville State College high on the hill overlooking Crooked County down by that Crooked River!
The victim who had the holy bejesus fucked out of her alleges that she was raped, and then sought treatment at Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital after the pounding by the QB of the GSC Football team from Washington DC. The criminal complaint stated that the victim "Feared for her life," during the entire terrifying sexual attack!!
Sexual abuse is the product of sick people in a sick society. It robs children of their childhood and creates a loss of trust, feelings of guilt and self-abusive behavior. It can lead to antisocial behavior, depression, identity confusion, loss of self-esteem and other serious emotional problems. It can also lead to difficulty with intimate relationships later in life.
The very idea that adults might be sexually attracted to children is so offensive that most parents prefer not to think about it but they should. By conservative estimates, one out of 10 children is sexually abused each year, often by a trusted authority figure — a teacher, camp counselor, priest or relative — or by the parents themselves.
Sexual child abuse cuts across all social, economic and racial strata of our society. In every respect, children are particularly vulnerable victims.
They can be easily persuaded to cooperate with molesters as they really don't know what is going on, they trust the perpetrator. Later, they may be too afraid or ashamed to talk about it with their parents. They don't know if they'll believe them over an adult. Only the lucky ones tell a true friend who knows the right thing to do which is, tell someone, tell anyone, but tell.
Sadly enough, though, up to two-thirds of all child molestation cases never come to light,
Only 10 percent of the child sexual abusers report that they molest a child who is a stranger.
They molest children close to them, mainly children in their family or children in their social circle.
Most child molesters, 90 percent, report that they know their child victims very well.
Parents are also in shock about what to believe an adult is capable of. They may feel they have failed because they knew the perpetrator, they "trusted" them. They said they didn't do anything. Then the thought, what will the neighbors and my friends say? Will they blame me for letting this happen? Maybe it's just best to let it go, kids forget in time… Know this, kids never forget.
Any logical person would agree that if you break a rule or a law, you have to be held accountable for the wrong-doing. If you break a law, you suffer the consequences and questionable actions should be questioned. In that process, trust is broken in Gilmer County. Right now, there are teachers and other community leaders who are breaking laws and rules of common decency totally visible to all. Right out in the open, they laugh about sexual misconduct, illegal drinking and drug use by teenagers.
They deny drug and alcohol use in our elementary and high schools although statistics show we would have one of the only systems in the nation where that was true.
These people will tell you it's certainly an acceptable part of college life and if the little kids pick up on it, oh well, they're just getting ready. Heaven knows they will blame a child for telling on one of their friends and disrupting their social life.
"They seem to think it is just OK!"
Some believe it is so very OK they will even try to suppress public awareness.
"The Trust in the local county government in Gilmer County is GONE"
Well, we have had two women in locally in Gilmer County who were accused of using an electrically charged tool to discipline the children, Emerson caught on Main Street fondling a small boy, and then there is Nasia Butcher's apparent penchant for teachers who tend to be perceived as living or desiring an alternate sexual lifestyle with their actions tending toward the pedophilic with drug and alcohol problems.
There is so much child abuse and domestic violence in our community that the Crooked County Courts can't keep up with it and some police and court officials think that sex with young girls is an acceptable way of life.
While you're are at it, add in the no prosecution of rape, breaking and entering and drug abuse if your parents contribute to GSC or if you play sports and a definite good old boy attitude toward what the sentence should be for murder, what the legal methods of the election process and taxation of the citizenry are and how to implement and enforce them, or any other question involving morals, ethics and honesty in this County. Houston, we have a problem.
"When trust fails chaos follows!"
The very core of civilization relies on faith in others. Where trust exists, we walk out of our homes, go to the store and let the kids play outside, knowing that we are safe, knowing that danger is unlikely. Where trust is destroyed, we stay indoors, the government seethes with corruption, and danger is the norm.
"Life without trust is a fearful existence!"
We need trust in order to know that we can live as an ordered society. Sadly, the sacred trust placed in our community leaders is dead. It has become so obvious by the downfall and destruction at all levels of our educational system, back room control of the business environment and inaction of law enforcement, that the citizens of Gilmer County can no longer trust the people they have relied upon over the years to act for anything but their own short-term interests.
No economic growth, no safety, no community empowerment serves as its own self fulfilling prophecy. The most tragic loss is the ability to entrust the Gilmer County Elite with the care of the children. Another major consequence is the destruction of the ethical and moral treatment of many community members through political coercion and greed.
Any leader who condones cheating at any level deserves quick disciplinary action. No beating around the bush: there is flat out no way to justify cheating, never was before and never now. In the absence of any logical reasoning or moral justification it encourages poor work ethics and "I don't care" attitudes developed by people of low moral values trying to wriggle their way out of guilt and consequences for inappropriate actions with the express purpose of personal and/or financial gain.
Those in charge today continue to insist they are not at fault when it comes down to their own dirty work. They have done what they were told and have no responsibility if it hasn't worked out. Some have the nerve to blame it on lack of money completely ignoring the fact that you can't buy consideration for their fellow man and honest efforts to improve their condition. (Yet they always have enough for a paycheck.)
In an ideal world we wouldn't have to worry about them. A dedicated, right thinking majority would have oversight and authority to make corrections.
But "times have been a changing", and with academic, social and economic pressures on the rise, the number of people who are more than willing to cheat to transform themselves from underachievers to overachievers, desperate to push their "grade" over the next letter is increasing by the day. Ask them, they'll tell you out loud that they will do anything for a vote.
"What is whispered is the Power Elite in Glenville will also do anything for a dollar!"
In fact the whole fabric of local education and government must be based on trust. No one can learn, teach or govern for the betterment of the community and not the few, where the network of trust is not iron-clad.
If trust is missing, when thievery, lying and greed are just OK, what you have is a dying system. What we have is a slowly decaying county and the only thing the people in charge can say is "NO CPR" but save me a job.
All children need teachers who are trustworthy, who can help parents prepare them to be fully functioning and contributing members of society. All citizens deserve strong defenders of our laws and Constitution. These needs will not be met by choosing a leadership willing to continuously break the law as a personal favor to constituents and supporters thereby breaking that sacred trust we have given to them.
"This Gilmer County totalitarian society controlled by the few over the many needs to end!"
The citizens of Gilmer County have obviously become very been upset by the episode with Casey Smith the Gilmer High School teacher caught in a Wood County motel room taking drugs and giving alcohol to a student. They don't call it Wood County for nothing!
The obvious NEWS BLACK OUT that included the local print press media source the very disappointing Glenville Democrat has been more than disconcerting to most of the locals, but then this attitude and situation of a controlled press that includes black outs and censorship just reaffirms the public's confidence in the Gilmer Free Press and the ever so faithful Secret Seven Coalition websites that seldom pull punches and always tell the truth no matter how horrid or how awful the details. We have had our own PENN STATE debacle several times in Glenville, and one of them involved that raucous party up Hwy 33 at the home of Shelly Morris DeMarino where a Lady Titan was involved in actual coitus with the basketball coach according to witnesses, and one other team member was raped by a black GCHS Football player and later became pregnant.
I talked to a person today that was helping reach out to the right lawyers for our cause and it was suggested that we tell our own story to MSNBC !! I say we need to have our representative pitch the Glenville Hell story to a national news service!
"Heck Penn State ain't nothing compared to the awful sexual misconduct that goes on down in Crooked County where those Crooked County Crooks live down by that Crooked River!"
It's time we banned together! So tell all of your friends that we must break on through to the other side of EVIL and LIVE !!
Well JULY is here and we want to have some fun up the hollar and get in on some smoked ribs and flying some rockets and such, so we are looking for Ellie May, and looking to have a good day, you do the same and celebrate a HAPPY and SAFE 4th of JULY — Here is a lesson in HISTORY from a few years back and in this article you can see how the Council of Concerned Citizens for Central WV and the Secret Seven Coalition TOOK DOWN and DESTROYED a CROOKED JUDGE by exposing dude on National News, a TEAM EFFORT!
By Free Bird – Revenge of the Ghost Wolf Reporter for the Secret Seven Coalition/Hurricane Rina McCoy – Crooked County Crooks Editor for the Concerned Citizens Free Press /Editor Edison – CalPatty Press Editor
"There is no peace in West Virginia, because there is no justice in West Virginia."
Mother Jones
Out of the 7 Billion People on the planet there are about NINE MILLION People in prison. 25% of those NINE MILLION are in the United States.The US has 4.3 % of the world's population, yet 25 % of all the people in prison are in the United States.
So out of all the people in the world in prison 25 % are in the United States and the US only represents 4.3% of the world's population. WOW the capital of the PRISON PLANET is the United States, and West Virginia leads the US in people per capita that are incarcerated, according to latest figures 6.8 people per 100.
WV leads the US, and the US leads the world for people in prison or in jail. This has never happened before, except for in Stalinist Russia, or Hitler's Germany.
Leading experts agree, that any state or any country that has over 3% incarcerated indicates something terribly wrong with that society. Well the US leads the world and West Virginia leads the United States in people incarcerated, therefore something is terribly wrong with West Virginia, and it is county's like Gilmer that make for the bad result.
"Justice" is supposed to be a concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, but the Gilmer County Circuit Court is fucking clueless as to that denotation!
"Flat out Power Elite BITCHES like JUDGE FACEMIRE and the prosecuting attorney for Gilmer County Gerry Hough don't even know the meaning of the word JUSTICE!"
Those raised by the Word JUSTICE were taught that the righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked regard not to know it; or, "Does not understand knowledge" of the poor man's cause and case; and there being no money to be had, he does not care to consider it, and look into it, and get knowledge of it, and do him justice; he will not take his cause in hand, or plead it.
"Those words describe exactly the state of justice in West Virginia and specifically Gilmer County!"
There is no justice for those without money or at least enough education to know their rights and stand willing to fight long and hard for them. It is a sad fact that those are skills not easily found around here and to our shame, not encouraged and seldom appreciated.
"There is West Virginia Law and then there is the law for the rest of the 49 states!"
This was a quote from a prosecutor from out of state that was made privy to the misconduct by JUDGE Richard A Facemire and Gerald B Hough, given to her by law enforcement representatives investigating the criminal actions of public officials from Gilmer County involving an illegal extradition, and Beverly Marks ignoring a court order and hiding a DEED to property needed in the longest running court case in Gilmer County history.
When Gilmer County officers of the court knowingly break the law to bring forth a wrongful prosecution it is easily explained by highly educated professionals as WEST VIRGINIA JUSTICE!!
In GILMER COUNTY, West Virginia they, "Make their own rules!"
FOX NEWS finally got coverage of WEST VIRGINA CORRUPTION and laughed their asses off at Judge Watkins and his version of WV Justice, listen below as Megan Kelly expresses that entire WV court system is insane and this Judge should be removed! WHO will be the next judge made fun of in front of millions of viewers at home across America JUDGE FACEMIRE ? YES, it very well could be — and the long rant that he denied making during the Travesty of Justice trial — in which GERRY HOUGH paid witnesses to lie and was caught, but the JIC said the matter was time barred, (meaning the defendant waited too long to file a complaint)but Rachael Cipoletti – Chief Counsel of the ODC – lied, because a complaint was filed officially in December of 2007 in which the ODC did not recognize the evidence that now proves a malicious prosecution took place, but since then even more recent evidence not previously known before was discovered pertaining to the Travesty of Justice case, and should re-set the two year statute.
Law enforcement officers of the court in Ohio said, that NO CHARGES should have been filed against the defendant in the Travesty of Justice case, let alone an arrest made, and a life and a career ruined was ruined with malice. Gilmer County will have to pay for the compensatory damages, and the punitive damages awarded in federal court. If the civil action is won, the award could be in the millions. FACEMIRE and Hough could be held personally liable for their actions and could possibly find themselves held in contempt by the WV Supreme Court and the JIC once all the facts are revealed, since they knowingly brought a malicious prosecution, and both knowingly LIED to both the ODC and the JIC in Charleston WV which happen to share the same office.
In this video below the judge accuses the Rev. Arthur D. Hage, of threatening his family, when all he did was talk to reporter Lawrence Smith. This judge lies as bad as Judge Facemire and says his house was vandalized, but his house was not vandalized, it is all a lie, and we believe that Watkins could be through now for his actions, and he had a whole nation laughing at him — And let's hope we can get the same treatment for Facemire and Hough. Putnam LIVE.com first published these videos, thereby breaking the stories involving Watkins with both the youtube video, and the threatening phone call to Lawrence Smith of the West Virginia Record.
Today the people witness the most widespread suppression of views this county has ever known. The suppression in Gilmer County comes not only from fear of being jailed or physically harmed but even more so from fear of being dismissed or restricted from employment, banned from radio or television work, having thoughts and facts wiped clean from the internet thus changing history, being disqualified for teaching, or found unacceptable for the lecture platform and even public works.
Those sanctions mentioned in the above paragraph are effective and powerful. They often carry more sting than a fine or a jail sentence!
We watch as the persistent efforts of those given control attempt to restrict or suppress information for almost any reason (self assigned moral guardianship with no foundation in ethics, or for political purpose and personal gain) and stand in absolute opposition to the principles of freedom. This is censorship and it flourishes when no one safeguards intellectual freedom. It can be defined as any change in the access status of material, based on the content of the work and made by a governing authority or its collaborators. Worse than that, our criminal justice system is part and parcel to such acts and there is no justice for the oppressed.
Rape after Rape has occurred at Glenville State College, a small and dastardly liberal arts college tucked away far into the Northern part of the middle of the state of West Virginia, the place that is OPEN for BUSINESS and of course GSC lives up to their other slogan of Wild, but not so Wonderful.
"The picture of the judges house in the video below is what started the entire courtroom debacle!"
"The judge, William M. "Chip" Watkins III, was accusing Rev. Arthur D. Hage of talking to the media after a previous hearing. That conversation, he believed, led to an article about the judge and his wife that apparently included a picture of his house and information about his residence. So when Hage showed up for another hearing, Judge Watkins was irate. And he let loose, threatening to incarcerate Hage for life, which was the same type of action taken by Judge Richard A Facemire against the defendant in the Gilmer County Circuit Court during the Travesty of Justice case"
Judge WATKINS threatens LAWRENCE SMITH of the West Virginia Record
White collar crime runs rampant with local attorneys and the most famous attorneys for stealing from estates is the Butcher and Butcher law firm, and anybody that has researched the AJ Woofter estate, will be informed of facts that the executrix of the estate was Rosa Belle Gainer – Cunningham, who was employed as a secretary of the Butcher and Butcher law firm. The fact that Gainer was employed by the Butcher and Butcher law firm while also serving an executrix of the AJ Woofter estate is a violation of state law, but, Gilmer County makes their own rules which has been proven over and over and over again!
The White collar crime in which the County Commission Clerk as well as a FOR PROFIT non – profit entity entitled the GILMER HOUSING PARTNERS was involved in was exposed by the Secret Seven Coalition first, and then the Gilmer Free Press wrote a fabulous article describing the wrong doing and published documents about the matter that the county flat denied, and then the worthy news story of small town corruption was reported by the West Virginia Record in Charleston, or there would have been NO PRINT PRESS at all on the wrong doing and criminal action in which Gilmer County was sued for by Summit bank and LOST!! The people of Gilmer County lost too, because the county had to pay multiple thousands of dollars for the amount of the judgment by the court and they also had to pay the insurance company 50, 000 bucks for a deductible.
The normal citizen has been kept from actually knowing all the facts, because the local paper never reports any exacting news if it doesn't have a positive spin to it because the newspaper staff are all uneducated dolts with no sense of responsibility to the public. The local paper is the Glenville Democrat and Pathfinder, which is really a pathetic weekly paper put out by Dave Corcoran who is a no talented yes man that even immediate members of the community are tired of. Corcoran was shown direct disrespect at the Glenville Folk Festival held every year, when many walked out on one of his long winded nonsense speeches about how wonderful everything is. Even the common person off the street could sense his insincerity.
The most colorful character to work for the local paper has been Cassandra Huff, who was fired for working on Gerry Hough's hate site on newspaper computers and being paid by Corcoran to do so. Just the fact that Hough would be involved in a hate site that does not argue the issues, but instead spends all of its time attacking the messenger lends one to believe all the awful things ever said about the man.
While an employee of the Glenville Democrat, Huff would many times show up HIGH on drugs to a school board meetings, or some other function smelling of marijuana, and was an avid popper of pills having prescription medication from the doctor's office for her many mental and physical ailments.
Sadly, all of these public officials and local attorneys mentioned, along with the Lord of the Church of IKE himself believe with all their hearts and soul that the good ole boy network can and will protect them, and then NOBODY can touch them. Everyone feels that Senator Joe Manchin will save them, and just before election we hope to confront Big Joe as to why he protects these criminals that call Gilmer County, West Virginia their home.
It's a damn shame the local public officials are part of the crime game in Gilmer County. The crime game players includes Gerry Hough who is accused of breaking the law and subornation of perjury pertaining to the "Travesty of Justice" case – Tim Butcher, R Terry Butcher of the Butcher and Butcher law firm, Beverly Marks, former County Commission Clerk along with the current County Commission Clerk Jean Butcher.
Sheriff Mickey Metz was caught submitting a FAKE document as genuine to run for magistrate as his minimum education requirement, and Waco Oil employee's have been caught with COCAINE and narcotics in a pill form that were in a prescription bottle with the name IKE MORRIS on the label.
Thanks to local leadership's very loose interpretation of the law to their own benefit and monetary advantage and full support of the courts…ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH HAVE BECOME BOTH AN OXYMORON AND A PARADOX IN GILMER COUNTY WITH NO JUSTICE TO BE FOUND FOR THE COMMON MAN.
Oxymoron: a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms
Paradox: a statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which (if true) defies logic or reason and is similar to circular reasoning
Small businesses should be the backbone of our economy, and the reason why is that only small business creates new jobs. Yes, the government and tax funded agencies can create jobs but when they are paid for through taxes or levies, growth is only by appearance and comes right back out of the existing economy. It is a never ending circle.
The CHURCH of IKE which includes all the power elite in Glenville who have proved themselves dishonest and all the local politicians like Boggs and Walker who are as deep in the pocket of Ike Morris and Waco Oil and ASS as Senator Joe Manchin, who has proven himself to be about as worthless to Gilmer County as Governor Earl Ray Tomblin.
When a small business is started an individual gives up their personal wealth (not grant funds or government contracts) and creates jobs with it. When people spend their own money, then that is real money, earned dollars, saved dollars, going back into the economy. This is how real, sustainable, long term economic growth happens. At a time when there have been many small business closures in Gilmer County, what have the County Commission, the Economic Development Association and Glenville State College done to promote a development model that allows and encourages small business growth? Nothing… Which side has our courts stood on when it comes to freedom of speech, election fairness and safeguarding all small business?…Not on the side of the everyday citizen, not on the side of the majority and not on the side of free enterprise within legal constraints.
For example, consider the Small Business Authority on Main Street? The premise was sound in theory. In fact it has done little but pay toward the salaries for three GSC employees!!
The benefit is all to GSC and none to the community directly and gives further profit to a multi-million if not billion dollar nationwide corporation, Aramark, their own vendor. The students at GSC are not even permitted to use their meal cards at any business not affiliated with the college. How does that promote economic development and small business in Gilmer County? Why someone who has been working hard at a small food service such as Carl Duvall, a graduate of GSC, or a local person was not placed there, assisted with finance and promoted we do not know. That would have fulfilled the true purpose of that state and federal funding. It would have exhibited growth but not for GSC who is supposedly developing huge grants dollars for Gilmer at such a pace that few local persons know about or will ever be a recipient of that "generosity". The obvious purchase or taking by eminent domain of multiple tracts of land and its removal from the tax rolls plus administrative hiding of multiple rapes and drug deals with no prosecution through control of Gilmer County's justice system is GSC's most notable achievement, that plus the laundering and steady distribution of cash to the "worthy" few.
Why would all three entities join together and use tax dollars for a website designed to take advertising from Gilmer County's only written newspaper when the developer is using it for promoting their own site, using their own advertisers? Oddly enough it happened just after the local paper showed some support for the Gilmer County Schools Coalition and if you check who those advertisers are you'll see CUBE plus church of Ike members and find they've always advertised out of town. Get the picture? It is made even more astounding when we are told the Commission's Administrator is supposedly an Internet Technology specialist who gets a regular government paycheck and should be able to do such a simple task! Is that economic development and small business encouragement (for Braxton County) or is it another example of the Chapman/Kight and Hess team with Kennedy in tow now helping a manipulated supporter who sacrificed old friends to get a foothold for personal profit, shifted their business out of town and is ready for another payoff ? Last time wasn't the last time and for sure wasn't enough. This time won't be either. Something else is in that woodpile besides wood and people who really believe in Gilmer County know it.
The appropriate attitude of helping the entire community of Gilmer County would go far to meet the needs of small business in not only the county but could act as a much needed model for small, rural communities throughout the state. Small towns offer high quality of life and a strong sense of the worth of every resident in the community, but a place with a small population has a hard time supporting a broad range of goods and services. Economic challenges are magnified in a small town, where even a small number of home repossessions and business failures affect nearly everyone. The key to success in building a healthy business community in a small town is to create an economic development plan that maximizes the community's strengths and minimizes its weaknesses. It is vital that the bulk of the population is included in planning and in the execution of that plan. It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. If the people continue to let GCEDA, GSC, IL Morris, the Butchers, and their flunkies which included the Gilmer County Commission, continue to run Gilmer County into the ground for personal gain and personal legacies the end of this county is nearer than you think.
"Take a moment and honestly examine the failed for profit realty business established with tax dollars spent in the name of education and called Riversview!"
The President of GSC was placed as the head of that corporation. It is true that his wife Elizabeth has the education degree, not Peter Barr, and his history with the Chamber of Commerce and economic development in South Carolina which surely would have been more profitable than in little Gilmer County but he leaves there and comes here as a yes man in control of higher education to continue his failing legacy while getting mega salary increases and a music program for his son approved by the Board of Governors. What he has done to this county and its college has had no positive impact and the failing statistics prove it time and again. The fact that its biggest benefactor does nothing about it makes one wonder if he wants GSC to fail so it can be privatized as Morris College. The facts continue to back that theory up. Is dissolving Gilmer County the price Ike's willing to see paid to get that vanity plate? Is that justice? So it would seem as that group seems more impressed about how many Senators are in the pocket after redistricting than how many kids get a quality education or even live in the county these days.
Now, Gilmer County Elementary School children are to be relocated in Lewis County which in and of itself has the potential to close two Elementary Schools as the state is forcing consolidation of the remainder. They say we are too "small" but move to make us smaller with a decreasing population, Yet the very people in charge of economic development; Larry Chapman, Sandy Pettit in Ike Morris's name, Dave Millard, John Kasuba, Tashua Allman, Tom Ratliff, Greg Smith, John Bennett, their flunkies along with the"employers in name only" Brian Kennedy, Dave Hess and Darrell Ramsey sat silent as we watched further decline with the closing of UPAK grocery store, Appcon Hardware, Babcock Lumber and McPherson's Town and County Realty Company who could not sell their business before retiring as other relatives of government officials continue to thrive.
We watch as elected officials and close friends get water, sewer and DSL lines ran past their properties while Cedarville sits with no water and Rosedale only partial service. Don't take that Chapman promise of a new fire department too serious Rosedale, you'll get it the same way you got anything else, when you figure out how to do it and not before. It won't be your current county tax dollars that pay for it.
Can you call that justice?
We see the college go from hosting the W.V. Belles as a courtesy to running the folk festival and being told you have to ask Dave Millard if you can set up a display. When did GSC become the controllers of the W.V. State Folk Festival instead of the people it's supposed to represent and when did they take over EDA with Larry Porter? While we trusted our Gilmer County leaders to watch out for us they were and still are giving us away doing anything they are told for a paycheck. Where's all this community cooperation GSC says they want as they run the show without asking the people and the EDA Director Chapman can't even see it gets advertised in state publications for free? The turnout suffered. Where's the justice?
The Commissioners tell us what we want to hear. Oh yes, 911, we'll bring it back, sorry we gave it away but the undertones say only if paid for with yet another levy placed on the backs of tax payers while businesses go away and all Chapman can say is it's the economy!
President of the Gilmer County Commission Kennedy, who is a direct relative of Tim and R Terry Butcher of the Butcher and Butcher law firm brags, we'll support a study for education now that the state took over the schools but nothing in writing and no checks in the mail. The tax money has been so mismanaged that millions of dollars each year go for employees to take the money in and watch as selective, so called, "justice" and eminent domain is meted out in favor of the power mongers and no eminent domain for their property. Ask Mary Heckert and Hands of Pride.
"Ask Ron Blankenship State Super Pooper for Gilmer County why he wouldn't take any Garrett property? No, no, anything but that, anything but Justice!"
Where is the justice, where is the right, where is the equity for Gilmer County Tax Payers who have been kept in the dark and forced to swallow whatever these self serving "leaders" have fed them? How has any of their actions stimulated growth? Glenville and Gilmer County as a whole is a great area with enormous potential. So much more could have been done to help the growth of this town and surrounding communities but all that gets done is put a paycheck in the pocket of small minded, self serving, greedy yes men and yes women. Small business could have provided new jobs and a better local economy. If local leaders understood this the people would be so much better off. All they seem to understand is that to keep their jobs, no one in business here wants any competitive salary payers around.
"What have our courts done but work to support their influential, vote block holding friends and to suppress the small business that does not encourage their reelection or appointment? What have they done but show their support for pedophiles, adulterers, liars, thieves, murderers and their associates?"
Go down the list of elected and appointed and apply the correct adjective.
You know it, you see it, and you live it and yet use the excuse of being in too much fear to do anything about it. Such lack of action has condemned the majority of citizens here to endure a living death or leave and they are leaving in droves. The word commends the just man's compassion to his cattle and thus commends his sympathy with those who are often treated as cattle, and worse even than cattle but we see no evidence of this sympathy come from our courts, our dispensers of so called justice. No evidence of such compassion from our political leaders or their minions. In fact, just the opposite is more commonly the result of legal action in this state and in this county.
"The poor or those considered "politically out of line" go to jail or incur large legal fees and fines to defend insane and unfounded charges!"
The financially able go home and make a campaign contribution as instructed. Those determined and strong enough to stand their ground must fight to get to a higher court to even begin to experience what justice might be like.
West Virginia's Supreme Court has been reminded more than once that "the only check upon their own exercise of power is their own sense of self-restraint. For the removal of unwise laws from the statute books, appeal lies not to the courts, but to the ballot and to the processes of democratic government" but it seems local judges do not hear and to paraphrase the words of Gilmer Circuit Court Judge Facemire to Lawrence Smith when he asked to legally record the proceedings against him as he has done in circuit courts throughout this state, "that may be how it's done in other courts but THIS IS MY COURT AND YOU WILL NOT RECORD THIS PROCEEDING!" What of his permitting Tara Kennedy, an officer of the court seen in an attempt to run down four members of a local family with her car, to express her personal desire to see a successful Gilmer County business shut down because it did not agree with her husband's political aspirations. Judge Facemire has a probation officer in the court room when no one is on probation or likely to be. When there is no sentencing in progress and though she has an office available to her, because of political ties she can make whatever moronic statement she likes, influence the decision of a bought and paid for judge at a whim and laugh while she seeks to inflict pain on those daring to stand in her way as the Morris family provides protection for a yes man's wife.
"In other words, if you get in a Gilmer or Braxton County Court before Judge Facemire and his crew you'll receive their collective idea of justice as they have been told to dispense it, not the liberty and justice for all provided under the constitution of the State of West Virginia and the United States of America!"
You can't even call that crap they deal out country justice because it has no roots in common sense. Justice here is selectively applied and loosely defined. Morality and ethics have no place within the ranks of our leadership. Justice died here when greed took over and money became God.
As one of the core values of a democratic society, intellectual freedom is the right to seek, receive, hold, and disseminate information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause, or movement may be explored.
There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought in order to preserve this county and its people. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies. No judge must subvert justice for political profit, personal vendetta or gain.
"We need all the ingenuity we possess to avert failure and economic collapse. We need leadership in Gilmer County that values every opinion, every idea and every citizen as much as they value themselves and we do not have it!"
"When will we join together as those who are tired of being slaves to these self assigned masters and find the backbone to make it happen?"
It better be sooner than later or last one here can turn out the lights, put out the cat, inscribe the last name on that poor farm tombstone which needs to be erected in the new park and hopefully they can survive on the royalties from their new book …
"Who Killed Gilmer County WV?"
You've just read a lot of the names to be found in that best seller, because at Revenge of the Ghost Wolf we are the true teller!
In Glenville Justice Is Lost
At GSC Justice Is Raped
In Crooked County Justice Is Gone
Pulling Your Strings
In Gilmer County Justice Is Done
Seeking No Truth
Winning Is All
Find it So Grim
So True
So Real
Power Wolves Beset Your Door
Hear Them Stalking
Soon You'll Please Their Appetite
They Devour
Hammer of Justice Crushes You
Say your prayers little one
Don't forget my son
To include everyone
I tuck you in
Warm within
Keep you free from sin
'Til the sandman he comes
Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Because the REVENGE of the Ghost WOLF will be coming for YOU in the DARKNESS of the NIGHT!


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Notes From A Punk Rock Crash Pad
Sunday, Nov 11, 7:00pm at Skinny's Lounge, 4923 Lankershim, North Hollywood, California.
Stories from Pleasant Gehman, Iris Berry, A. Razor, Sean Wheeler, Joey Altruda, Chris Bailey and special guest Cherry Vanilla. Music with The Legendary Duo.
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Your salad can be a beautiful, colorful centerpiece on your table with this easy trick.
We learned this trick from food stylist Renee Muller. As she was styling this Red Cabbage Salad at the photoshoot, we watched and snapped so we could fill you in on the secret too. You can use this trick for styling a salad with enough colorful ingredients. Sub lettuce for the red cabbage if it's a lettuce-based salad.
You'll need:
*All your prepped ingredients
*Clean, white strips of paper
Fill the bottom of the bowl with red cabbage. Add more red cabbage on the top, on one side only. Place a strip of paper on the side. Hold it there while you add the next ingredient.
Continue adding each ingredient in a row, adding a strip of paper between each one.
Remove the papers and add to your buffet.
Add dressing and toss right before serving.
For the Red Cabbage Salad recipe, click here.


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So my prompt for this challenge is to talk about my favorite, or most anticipated LGBTQIA+ YA books. Unfortunately, I haven't read too many YA books where the main character doesn't identify as cis and het. SO, this post ventures a bit beyond my usual realm and shall dive into important books in queer history (aka not YA) and my anticipated YA reads that are available to us because of the books that opened the door before them!
1890A Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. What would this list be without the most famous closeted, subtext-riddled book? Dorian, can be interpreted as bisexual, and the affectionate painter as gay. It's a pretty tragic story of corruption and untimely deaths, but we would be amiss to not include Oscar Wilde on our list!
1936Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. Honestly this book isn't just about queers, it embodies queerness. The novel is a disorientation from reality, centered around Robin Vote who is also bisexual and is mostly seen with female lovers. This book is seriously a piece of work and tough to tackle, I don't think I'll ever fully understand this novel. It's been called "a masterpiece of modernism" by the Washington Post Book World, and a "lesbian classic" by Dorothy Allison.
1973Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown. Honestly this is my favorite book on this list. This book is about growing up a lesbian in America. It's pretty humorous, and tackles being human and her sexuality in a less serious tone than the rest of this list. Now you may be questioning this book's artistic merit- fair point. It's not quite the prose of Nightwood, however, it contains radical ideas. It shows that society values women as a necessary component to male sexuality. Women are objects for the male libido. Having value as an individual, outside of men is so important.
1982Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde. Audre Lorde is a technical and emotional master with a pen. Feminist and Civil Rights Activist, this book is an biomythography about herself. In my personal opinion, this is the most powerful book in this list. Audre Lorde gives us a look into her poor, lesbian, POC life in (primarily) New York. This is so multifaceted, facing a wide range of issues starting early in her childhood.
2008A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee. A gay, illegal immigrant in London, and an English woman in India during Partition are intertwined in this novel. Partition is not talked about much in the world, and this book contains so many important elements. They both go through a lot with culture shock and working towards self-discovery.
2015Hanayome wa Motodanshi (The Bride Was a Boy) by chii. This is in manga form and will be one of the cutest things you ever read. This is about a trans women and the experiences that led her to her present situation. Written by chii, about her life, this was so powerful to read. chii describes meeting her husband, many of the tricky laws in Japan regarding sexuality and gender, and her experience navigating everything.
Anticipated Reads!
A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee. Bisexuals in 18th century Europe. (June 27th 2017)
Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan. Genderfluid child of Loki. (October 3rd 2017)
Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann. Asexual Biromantic librarian. (January 23rd 2018)
What are your most anticipated LGBTQIA+ books?
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Reviewed by Robin Schwartzkopf
We don't get down to the Science Museum of Virginia very often, but To the Arctic – an iMAX film that transports you to the top of the world – reminded me of why we should. An inspiring story of motherly love and courage and the breathtaking scenery gave me a chance to truly appreciate and learn more about one of the earth's most spectacular natural sites.
Narrated by the charming Oscar winner Meryl Streep and directed by Academy Award nominee Greg MacGillivray, To the Arctic takes viewers on a snowy journey complete with determined caribou, a dedicated mother polar bear and her two cubs, and the occasional walrus. It also delves into the environmentally touchy matter of global warming, pointing out the direct consequences the phenomena has every day on native animals.
Parents and older kids with good taste in music will appreciate that To the Arctic also has a fabulous soundtrack featuring one of music's legends, Paul McCartney. His soothing voice, accompanied by Steve Wood's musical score, was yet another reason audiences savored this iMAX experience. That, combined with the majestic landscape, spectacular shots of wildlife, and a view of what is happening to the earth because of humans' actions, made this movie informative and heart-touching at the same time. At 40 minutes, the film is just the right length and perfect, I think, for ages five and up. (Rated G)
Now showing at The Science Museum of Virginia. ($9 general admission; $5 members.)


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UK - Two former senior executives of Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) have set up a company to manage £100m (€145m) assets of three Oxford University colleges.
Karl Sternberg, former chief investment officer and Paul Berriman, former UK chief executive, have set up Oxford Investment Management (OXIM), a Scottish limited partnership, administered by State Street.
OXIM will manage the pooled assets of Balliol, Christ Church and St Catherine's, which together will own 60% of the new business. The OXIM management team will own the other 40%.
Sternberg, who was the fund manager of the St Catherine's College portfolio between 1994 and 2004, when Morgan Grenfell (later DeAM) managed the assets, said OXIM's aim was to deliver real returns in excess of 5% over five year rolling periods, with less volatility than equities.
He said OXIM would achieve this by choosing top-performing managers, including long-short funds. "The rarest commodity is manager skill - there isn't much of it around. We are focusing on getting manager skill wherever we find it."
Investment consultants Watson Wyatt will help OXIM choose managers through its Advanced Investment Solutions, which draws on a research database of 1,200 managers and 5,000 products.
Craig Baker, head of Watson Wyatt's manager research team in Europe and Alasdair MacDonald, senior investment consultant, will be part of the OXIM management team.
Gavyn Davies, a former chief economist at Goldman Sachs, and now chairman of Fulcrum Asset management, will be special investment adviser.
Berriman said pooling resources would enable the fund to achieve greater diversification of assets, economies of scale and lower charges.
"We wanted to rediscover the benefits of diversification, not just take equity risk. We wanted to explore the premium that comes from being in illiquid assets – property, private finance initiative and private equity."
Berriman said OXIM would look for business outside Oxford. "There are plenty of charities and endowments out there who couldn't replicate what we'd done because they don't have the time or resources."


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For exactly 10 years the names of the members of the Open 4x200m Relay Club Record have displayed "unknown".
Which given that the time of 1:30.60 was only run in February 2008 got me to thinking about the ways to see if we could determine the relay team members and the order in which they ran.
In seeking to collate a list of club premierships and significant wins, research lead to the AV Shield Final of 2008 where our Under 18 team was able to repeat their efforts of the previous season and win the Shield Final back-to-back. Whilst the names of the 4, didn't drop out easily, the line of enquiry was centred around the 3 lads who ran the 100m that day (Shaun Hargreaves, Zach Nelson and Phil Edgar) as surely they would have doubled into the 4x200m relay? However, questions remained, who was the 4th member of that team, and in what order did they run?
Enter Zach Nelson.
The record would also be recognised as a SKAAC Under 19 & 20 record, but as is required to validate underage records, a date-of-birth is needed to validated that all members are "under" the specific age, "on the day". Of the 3, I was pretty sure that would have run that day, I needed info for Zach.
One simple text later, and the team and the order are solved. Phil Edgar to Zach Nelson, Dan Bailey third handing to Shaun Hargreaves to bring it home.
Mystery solved!!


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Indian teenager Manu Bhaker claimed the first gold of shooting competition at the 2018 Commonwealth Games after a dominant performance in the women's 10 metre air pistol final.
The 16-year-old showed little sign of nerves, topping the qualification standings to head to the final as the athlete to beat.
She ended the opening stage of the competition with a near three point lead over Australia's Elena Galiabovitch at the shooting centre, which also hosted action at the 1982 Commonwealth Games.
Bhaker continued to stretch her advantage with accurate shooting, as the elimination stage of the competition began.
Defending champion Teo Shun Xie of Singapore was among those to falter, being eliminated in seventh place.
India's Heena Sindu narrowly escaped an early exit and used the reprieve to good effect, putting pressure on the medal positions.
With Bhaker over six points clear at the top of the standings, Sindu battled for the silver medal with Galiabovitch.
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During a Hawaiian family vacation, Candace finds a cool lava rock necklace and is plagued with bad luck, so a native tells her she must take it to the top of a volcano, which spoils the cool, calm vibe she learned from a Hawaiian yoga instructor.
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THE kettle in the center of the table anchors an elaborate Welsh tea service at the Ty Gwyn teahouse. An assortment of Celtic fruitcakes, tortes, spiced breads, fruit jams, and scones are spread on the table covered with a blue and white gingham cloth. In the corner of the room, a choir of a dozen people is softly singing the Welsh hymn "Awn Ymlaen Dan Ganu." You might almost forget that you are a whole hemisphere away from Wales until a hostess, carrying a fresh tray of pastries, smiles and asks, "Les gustaría más pasteles?" ("Would you like more pastries?")
Argentine Patagonia is home to awe-inspiring glaciers, condors, rugged wilderness -- and a community of Welsh immigrants who have preserved the culture and language of their homeland. The center of all things Welsh is a hamlet of many gardens but no stoplights called Gaimán, where both Spanish and Welsh are likely to be heard on the street. Gaimán (population 4,000 or so), lies in central Patagonia near the Atlantic in Chubut Province, where the cultures and languages have mingled for more than 100 years but remain distinct.
Charged with planning a trip to Argentina in January for my girlfriend, Nita, and me, I seized upon the possibilities of adventure travel in Patagonia's southernmost corner. Although sleeping on a glacier sounded like great fun to me, I knew Nita would prefer something a bit cozier.
When I discovered Gaimán and its picture-of-quaintness tea services, I decided taking a three-day side trip here would make an excellent bargaining chip for heading farther south and exploring the wilderness later on. After flying into the nearby town of Trelew, we spent a night in the Hotel Touring Club, an outpost of bygone grandeur and local hospitality where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid once stayed while casing the bank across the street and then deciding not to rob it.
A taxi took us through fierce dust-blowing winds to a small railroad station that Gaimán has converted into a municipal museum, called Amgueddfa Hanesyddol. On exhibit are colonial artifacts, photographs and documents. When we arrived, Zoe Gauci, a native of Wales who had been jaunting around Latin America for the preceding nine months, turned with digital video camera in hand to the wizened museum curator.
"My grandmother speaks Welsh and no one else in my family does," Ms. Gauci said. "Would you send her a message?" The curator, Tegai Roberts, whose own ancestors were among the colony's earliest settlers, happily obliged. The half-dozen visitors listened to her speak in a strange musical language.
The efforts of British officials to restrict the use of Welsh in public stimulated interest in the 19th century in finding a new home in such places as the United States, New Zealand and Palestine. In the museum we learned that when Michael D. Jones, an ardent Welsh nationalist, realized that Welsh immigrants to North America had assimilated even more than the people who remained in the homeland, he looked for refuge to a nearly uninhabited place on the southern tip of the world.
In 1865, a clipper ship called the Mimosa, flying an Argentine flag with a red dragon, a Welsh national symbol, superimposed on it, sailed from Liverpool with 153 Welsh men and women. When it landed in Puerto Madryn, about 50 miles northeast of Gaimán, the passengers found a land nothing like the green hills they left. Only yellow shrub rose on the expanse of clay that an undying wind had swept dry as bone.
The first crops planted by the settlers failed because they didn't understand that the growing seasons are reversed in the Southern Hemisphere. Each night they huddled in fear of attacks by what they thought would be fierce aboriginal people. Yet it was the aboriginal Tehuelche who ultimately taught the Welsh when to plant crops and how to hunt the guanaco, or wild llama, and the ostrich-like ñandú. Despite periods of drought and famine, the community survived and dispersed throughout the region.
During our visit at the museum in Gaimán, Mrs. Roberts told us that the Welsh also brought the first irrigation system to Patagonia. Thus, the valley of the Río Chubut, which surrounds Gaimán, is an oasis of poplar trees and violet flowers in the desolate plateau. Active farming and a healthy tourism trade in Gaimán have caused it to thrive in recent years.
Before going to the museum, we took a taxi to the Moriah Chapel just outside of Trelew. Built in 1880, it is one of the oldest on a 40-mile trail of 17 Welsh chapels that wends through the Río Chubut Valley. At each stop visitors can see where colonists gave thanks for their new home. At Moriah, a cemetery has some black slate headstones, imported from Wales and engraved with the names of many founders of the colony.
Over the years since the initial settlement, Mr. Jones's dream of a Welsh-speaking realm has seen mixed results. While Welsh is widely spoken around Gaimán, it is usually a second language. Intermarriage with Spanish speakers became common, and many Welsh speakers have Spanish names. Recently, use of Welsh in local schools has led to a Welsh revival.
Each October, Trelew also is home to the Eisteddfod Welsh cultural festival featuring a two-day contest of bards, both Welsh and Spanish, that attracts more than 1,000 people from throughout Argentina and abroad.
But the most visible expression of Welshness in the area is the teahouses in Gaimán, which keep alive a tradition from the old country that starts at about 3 p.m. every day.
Mrs. Roberts's sister, Luned González, a retired headmistress of Gaimán's secondary school, said that Welsh women in Gaimán would celebrate nearly every occasion with steaming kettles.
"Every Sunday when I was a girl," she said, "the church pastors used to go from house to house having tea."
A LOCAL delicacy has helped Welsh tradition survive in Gaimán. For many years, the Welsh fruitcake, called torta negra, brought people from all over Argentina to sample its spicy sweetness. The first teahouse was a gathering place for local farmers in the 1940's, and more casas de té soon began opening. This meant that, before heading home, visitors could enjoy tea in what Argentines now call "Welsh tea service" a mix of Celtic custom and local touches.
The service includes a pot of potent black tea prepared alongside traditional Welsh desserts and Argentine favorites such as the sticky, caramel-like spread called dulce du leche. Some teahouses also offer light finger sandwiches and miniature quiches. The service costs on average $5.25 to $6.30 a person, at 2.98 Argentine pesos to the dollar. In Argentina, Welsh cuisine is mostly limited to the sugary staples of these teahouses. Other restaurants in the area serve Argentine dishes like juicy Patagonian lamb that has been charred over a fire.
During the temperate months from September to May, Gaimán's handful of teahouses provide quiet respite for adventurers on their way to glacier trekking or whale-watching sites. Punta Tombo, a colony of a half million Magellanic penguins, is only a morning's rumble away down a rock-paved road.
Among those who have dropped by Gaimán for a hot cup was Diana, Princess of Wales. Two months before her fatal accident, Diana visited a local teahouse, Ty Te Caerdydd. Now portraits of her surround the guests, who can inspect a cup that has been left unwashed since she used it. However attractive the enormous teahouse's carefully manicured gardens and souvenir-filled gift shop may be, they combine to give the grounds an unfortunate commercial flavor. For a more homestyle setting we headed to Ty Nain in the center of town. Housed in an 1890 Welsh-style brick building marked by an ivy-covered facade and door flanked by two evenly spaced sash windows, this teahouse is cluttered with old-time trinkets and remnants from frontier life, such as a puma head and skin that adorn a back wall. The confections are as rustic as the décor, with their edges miscut and powdered sugar tumbling off the side. The sign outside advertises that this is the teahouse "para una atención mas personalizada" and the owners refuse to cater to large parties.
Ty Gwyn provides a comforting blend of warmth and elegance. The oldest active teahouse in the area, it has expanded to include a second dining room to accommodate the crews of cruise ships that sometimes visit. Yet it remains a charming place, with cheerful service and touches of Welsh culture like the occasional serenade by a Welsh choir. Perfect torta negra and other specialty sweets that the owner, Maria Elena Naso de Sanchez, and her daughter, Sonia Irene Sanchez, prepare are some of the tastiest in town.
For our final night, Nita and I stayed at Ty Gwyn, one of the few teahouses that offer bed-and-breakfast accommodations upstairs, in one of four clean and spacious blond wood-trimmed rooms with balconies. Drifting into sleep that night with freshly kneaded pastries baking in the oven one floor below, we inhaled the sweetly toasted air and pondered whether we should start the next day with apricot squares or bite-sized custard pies. I seemed to recall that one is a traditional Welsh favorite and the other Argentine. Luckily, they go together quite nicely on the same plate.
In mid-March, fares for round-trip flights from New York to Ministro Pistarini International Airport near Buenos Aires in April ranged from $795 to $868. Domestic flights leave from Jorge Newberry Airport, a 45-minute cab ride from Ministro Pistarini that costs about $10.50 at 2.98 Argentine pesos to the United States dollar. Bus fare between the airports is $7.
Aerolíneas Argentinas is the only airline that flies from Buenos Aires to Trelew. Travelers flying into the country on Aerolíneas Argentina may be able to buy domestic tickets for the local price, which would reduce the round-trip fare to Trelew from $540 to $383. City buses (about 90 cents) and cabs (about $8) are available from the Trelew Airport to Gaimán.
There is a tourism information counter, (54-2965) 420-139, and tour and car rental agencies at the airport.
These teahouses are open from midafternoon to evening.
At Ty Nain, Hipólito Yrigoyen 283, (54-2965) 491-126, on the Web at www.cpatagonia.com/gaiman/ty-nain, descendants of the original Welsh settlers serve guests sweets such as torta negra and custard pie, in an 1890 ivy-covered building. Tea service with pastry is about $6.65.
Ty Te Caerdydd, Finca 202, (54-2965) 491-510, , is a large teahouse surrounded by gardens and fields that was once visited by Diana, Princess of Wales. Tea service with pastry is $6.30.
Ty Gwyn, 9 de Julio 111, (54-2965) 491-009, on the Web at www.cpatagonia.com/gaiman/ty-gwyn, offers a refined tea service that features savory snacks alongside traditional pastries. It is also a bed-and-breakfast inn with four rooms that cost $31.50 a person with breakfast. Tea service is $6.30.
In Trelew, the Hotel Touring Club, Avenida Fontana 240, (54-2965) 433-998, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com, is an interesting place to kick off dust from the local roads. It looks as if it has not seen a remodeling or a repainting since it was Patagonia's most luxurious hotel 100 years ago. A room with breakfast is $14 for a single, $22.75 for a double.
Hotel Galicia, 9 de Julio 214, (54-2965) 433-802, centrally located in Trelew, is notable for its stately foyer. The clean and basic rooms are $17.50 for a single and $21 for a double, including breakfast. LUKE JEROD KUMMER


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