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Scott Day Freeman
//www.linkedin.com/in/scottdayfreeman
Scott has wide-ranging experience representing a diverse group of national and international clients in connection with complex commercial and products liability litigation. He also represents individual and commercial clients on a broad range of topics, including aviation issues, commercial leasing disputes, contract disputes, insurance coverage and bad faith matters, construction defect liability, premises liability, and asbestos exposure.
In addition, Scott has extensive experience as an advocate for manufacturers of a variety of products, including passenger and light truck tires, after-market alternators and starter motors, automotive batteries, plumbing and bathroom fixtures, glass and glazing products, boilers, pesticides, mining and other heavy equipment, and recreational vehicle components. A private pilot who has a degree in Aerospace Engineering, Scott was selected as a Graduate College Fellow to assist with the development of the University of Arizona's Heat Transfer Laboratory.
Scott has appeared in numerous state and federal trial and appellate courts as well as arbitration proceedings.
In 2011, the Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives appointed Scott as the first of five commissioners to the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, where he serves as Vice-Chair.
J.D., Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
B.S., cum laude, Aerospace Engineering, University of Arizona
Graduate College Fellow (Heat Transfer and Wind Tunnel Design), The University of Arizona College of Engineering, 1989-1991
Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honorary
Executive Managing Editor, Arizona State Law Journal, 1993-1994
Legal Writing Instructor, 1992-1993
Editor, Jurimetrics Journal, 1993
Aviation, Aerospace and Autonomous Systems
Business and Personal Injury Torts
One-week jury trial (lead counsel) representing plaintiff in commercial dispute arising from product withdrawals. Obtained favorable jury verdicts on all counts, including an alter ego claim. $1.2 million judgment entered. Executed upon pre-judgment writs of attachments on real property and equipment of defendants. (Maricopa County Superior Court, Arizona).
Seven-day trial-styled arbitration hearing in dispute concerning the interpretation of a multi-million dollar commercial ground lease (American Arbitration Association, Los Angeles).
One-week jury trial (lead counsel) regarding injuries sustained in a fall through a warehouse skylight, with successful jury finding of significant liability by non-parties at fault (U.S. District Court, Arizona).
Court-designated lead Arizona counsel for an overseas manufacturer in consolidated proceedings involving product defect claims related to passenger tire and vehicle design (Maricopa County Superior Court, Arizona).
Successful resolution of wrongful death and personal injury (quadriplegia) claims against a vehicle manufacturer and national distributor involving complex issues of roof, window, and occupant space design (U.S. District Court, Arizona).
Trial team member defending motorhome tire manufacturer in a products liability action, with lawsuit settling favorably on the first day of trial (U.S. District Court, Arizona).
Team member in commercial dispute between national aerospace defense contractor and component supplier, with successful ruling in client's favor (American Arbitration Association, Tucson).
Defense team member in mesothelioma and asbestos-related personal injury and wrongful death claims against automotive component part manufacturers and material suppliers.
Defended general aviation aircraft manufacturers and lessors, as well as fixed-base operators, in litigation involving wrongful death, personal injury, and property damage claims, leveraging for advantageous settlements (Maricopa County Superior Court, Arizona).
Successful dismissal of mass-tort action involving contamination claims related to the operations of a large, international mining company, raising novel venue arguments (Pima County Superior Court, Arizona).
Favorable dispositive ruling in favor of passenger tire manufacturer, advancing arguments related to personal jurisdiction and failure to join indispensable parties (Tait v. Bridgestone/Firestone, Dist. Ariz., Case No. 2:02-cv-01193-RCB).
Team leader in complex commercial litigation regarding satellite television broadcast rights (CBS Broadcasting, Inc. v. Echostar Communications Corp., 276 F. Supp.2d 1237 (2003)).
Successful dismissal of RICO claims against a nutritional supplement supplier (U.S. District Court, Central District of California).
Represented designer and manufacturer of noise cancelling headphones in patent infringement action (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York).
Represented commercial lessors in tenant disputes at the Las Vegas Forum Shops at Caesars and the Tower Shops at the Stratosphere Casino, Hotel & Casino (Clark County District Court, Nevada).
Represented Las Vegas hotel-casinos in premises liability actions involving falls, assaults, and other tort claims (Clark County District Court, Nevada).
Represented project manager in construction defect litigation involving the collapse of what had been the world's tallest free-standing sign, with case turning on unique insurance and contract interpretation issues (Clark County District Court, Nevada).
Contract compliance review for national waste management company.
Risk management and litigation-avoidance advice to general counsel of heavy equipment supplier.
Best Lawyers in America®, Commercial Litigation, 2018-2019
Southwest Super Lawyers®, Business Litigation, 2018-2019
Southwest Super Lawyers®, Personal Injury Defense: Products, 2012-2017
Author, "Either Way, Politics At Play in Drawing Districts," AZ Central, June 29, 2015
Contributing Editor, "e-Common Defense," Arizona Association of Defense Counsel
Contributing Editor, "Tort Law Desk Reference: A Fifty-State Compendium"
Member, State Bar of Nevada
Vice Chair, Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission
Member, Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Defense and Aerospace Committee
Immediate Past President, Executive Board Member, and Co-Chair of the Legislative Committee, Arizona Association of Defense Counsel
State Representative (Arizona) and SLDO Representative, Defense Research Institute
Co-Founder and former Officer of the Las Vegas Chapter, The Federalist Society
Member, Arizona Republican Lawyers Association
Former Chancellor of the Barry M. Goldwater Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution
Former Member of the Board of Directors, Rosie's House-A Music Academy for Children
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona
U.S. District Court, District of Nevada


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Fairy Tales Tour
Miss Trout
Paper Planes and Daisy Chains
Children's Theatre and Workshops
Category: Productions
Get Moving showed at the first ever Apollo Festival in York 2013. Introducing mad scientists Cyril and Percy, who have invented the Illusive youth potion. Watch as they age back and forth infront of your very eyes. Get moving is a sports based show, which encourages children and adults alike the importance of staying fit and healthy. Expect an energetic and very silly show. Written By Stuart Freestone and Chris Wilkinson
Journey Of Lights
How do you start to tell a story that's older than you are? On a cold winter's day, a storyteller arrives with pockets full of junk and a head full of tales, ready to take those who'll listen on a Journey of Lights. As he tells of lights to remember, lights to celebrate, and lights to guide, the show explores festivals of different faiths in an all inclusive way, through colourful stories, music and play. Engaging and enchanting, this brand […]
Developed in partnership with Yorkshire's Cultural Olympiad programme imove, Paper Planes present Keep Up! a unique promenade performance that aims to open up a magical Mad-Hatter-esque world of sport a-whirling with heady storytelling for primary school children aged 7-11. Keep Up! offers fun and frolics for all the family that matches games, challenges, races and all things Olympic with the theatrical and creative, thrashing through oft-supposed divide between sport and the arts.Jammed with vibrant colours, dizzyingly exciting tales and a generous heaping […]
Herlock and Swatson in the Mystery of the Royal Goose
That's right, Paper Planes and Daisy Chains are at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Their first one EVER! Join the illustrious, world renowned detective duo on an epic mystery adventure for all the family. The Royal Goose is loose and there's not a single clue! Or is there? Word has it that mischief is afoot within the Palace walls, so it's time to investigate! Start your day with a fun filled, interactive children's show tailored for family fun, bursting with wit, nonsense […]

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Hey friend! I've got a SUPER easy grilled corn method with a sweet n' spicy drizzle that will be your next rock star side dish for your summer cookouts!
I hope you're gearing up for a great 4th of July holiday! Do you have cool, photogenic sunglasses and an awesome inflatable pool accessory (swan, avocado, donut, etc.)? Most likely. :) What about your red, white, & blue-themed menu for the 4th? I can help with this! There are lots of red & blue recipes floating around, but unless you're planning on having potato salad or marshmallows, the "white" part of this color scheme can be a tough one. My grilled corn with sweet n' spicy drizzle uses sweet yellow or white corn and a cream-colored tahini sauce with cayenne pepper, which makes a nice white & red color to add to the party!
I think grilled corn screams summertime. In fact, I never really eat corn any other time of year. I just think grilled corn is perfect to serve at summertime events like BBQ's, low-country boils, and picnics.
While grilled corn with salt, pepper, and butter is fine, I was ready to jazz up the standard recipe. When your friends & family have a taste of this recipe, they'll be asking you to bring it to ALL the future outdoor cooking events!
If you couldn't tell from my other recipes, I'm all about saving time & ingredients but still making an incredibly tasty recipe. I love to find tricks & ways to save time and energy. This corn grilling method falls right into that time-saving category.
Once you get down to the strings of silk, take a wash cloth and quickly rub them off into the trash. You don't worry about getting off all the silk, because the remaining strings will burn off over the grill.
Make sure your hot grill is oiled.
Grill directly over the gas or coals and rotate every 5-8 minutes. Depending on your desired level of char, cook for a total of 15-20 minutes.
When you pull them off the grill, give them a healthy spray of olive oil before adding the tahini drizzle.
The thing about tahini sauces are, they'll change your life. Seriously, you could be eating anything and think "You know what would be amazing on here? Some tahini sauce."
Start by measuring 1/4 cup tahini*, 1 tbsp sticky sweetener of choice (I love agave), + 1 lemon juiced (about 3 tbsp) into a bowl. Mix well then add 1 tsp olive oil, and a pinch of cayenne pepper. I also usually end up adding a pinch of sea salt & pepper as well as about 1/4 cup of water to thin out the sauce. Whisk all ingredient again until well combines and ready for drizzling onto the hot grilled corn.
That's it, my friend! I usually mix up my tahini drizzle and take it out to the grill. As soon as the grilled corn are done, I take a large spoon and drizzle all over the bunch. If you have serious spicy food fans, you can add an extra shake of cayenne on top the drizzled corn.
I hope you enjoy this recipe and have a blast this weekend with a yummy ear of corn in your hand!
Here's to freedom, family, and grilled corn... Cheers!
*You can find tahini in the "ethnic foods" or nut putter isle of your local grocery store. I've found tahini in ALL kinds of grocery stores. Not exclusive to fine foods grocers.


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Q: what kind of algorithm do I need to solve the wood blocks jigsaw game? I'm writing a computer program to solve the wood blocks jigsaw game. Do you guys know which computer algorithm do I need? In this game: blocks with different shapes has to fit with each other in 2D window - without leaving paces below.

A: Depends on the exact rules of the game. If you know all the pieces in advance and you can choose their order as well, then you can implement a custom algorithm, which would first plan matching the pieces and then match the matches until the whole plan is figured out.
If you know what the pieces and you know their order, but you cannot control their order, then you can do some backtracking calculation for the future events.
If you do know what the pieces are, but you do not know their order, then you can backtrack all the separate cases in a similar fashion as above.
If you do not know what the pieces are, nor their order, then you will need to define a heuristic, which would be a probabilistic value that you will be able to correctly place the next item and compute possible variations in a very similar fashion as the alpha-beta pruning known in chess computation.
By the way, if you do a backtracking approach, then you can still use a heuristic and pruning.

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What Car Should Be Made Forever?
We got some awfully depressing news this week when Ford announced its acclaimed Boss 302 Mustang won't be making a comeback for 2014. Ford says they only ever planned to make the Boss 302 for two years all along, just like they did with the original in the 1960s.
But that doesn't make us any less sad. After all, the Boss 302 is one of the best muscle cars of all time, a 444-horsepower beast loaded down with performance goodies that made more than one publication label it an "M3 killer." It's sad we're losing something so potent.
So if I were king of the world, I would enact a law that says the Boss 302 Mustang will be built in its current state forever. Forget the logistical impossibilities behind my decision, or its impact on the value of the car — I'm the king and I can do what I want!
That brings me to my question of the weekend: What car would you want to be built, unchanged and in its current state, forever? It can be something old, something current, or something that has been long gone for a while.
Come on, name a car that deserves to be around for the long haul. Some things are too great to die.


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var usarSolucaoFuncional = true;

var capitulo3 = require("./capitulo3.js")(usarSolucaoFuncional);

/** === Mínimo ===
 *
 * O capítulo anterior introduziu a função Math.min que retorna o seu menor argumento.
 * Nós podemos reproduzir essa funcionalidade agora. Escreva uma função min que recebe
 * dois argumentos e retorna o menor deles.
 *
 * // Your code here.
 *
 * console.log(min(0, 10));
 * // → 0
 * console.log(min(0, -10));
 * // → -10
 *
 * Dica: Se estiver tendo problemas para colocar as chaves e os parênteses nos seus
 * lugares corretos, para ter uma definição de uma função válida, comece copiando
 * um dos exemplos desse capítulo e modificando-o. Uma função pode conter várias
 * declarações de retorno (return).
 *
 */

describe("Obter mínimo", function() {

	it("define a função", function () {
		expect(capitulo3.min).toBeDefined();
	});

	it("retornar o valor mínimo", function () {
		let nr1 = 0, nr2 = 10;
		expect(capitulo3.min(nr1, nr2)).toBe(0);
		nr1 = 0;
		nr2 = -10;
		expect(capitulo3.min(nr1, nr2)).toBe(-10);
	});

	it("Lança exceção se a função for chamada com nenhum número", function () {
		const funcaoSemArgumentos = capitulo3.min.bind(null);

		expect(funcaoSemArgumentos).toThrow();
	});

	it("Lança exceção se a função for chamada com apenas um número", function () {
		const funcaoComApenas1Argumento = capitulo3.min.bind(null, 1);

		expect(funcaoComApenas1Argumento).toThrow();
	});

	it("Lança exceção se algum dos valores não for um número", function () {
		let nr = 12, letra = 'a', objeto = {};

		const primeiroNumeroInvalido = capitulo3.min.bind(null, letra, nr);
		const segundoNumeroInvalido  = capitulo3.min.bind(null, nr, objeto);

		expect(primeiroNumeroInvalido).toThrow();
		expect(segundoNumeroInvalido).toThrow();
	});

	it("Não lança exceção se algum dos valores for Infinity", function () {
		let nr = 12, infinityPositivo = Infinity, infinityNegativo = -Infinity;

		const funcaoComArgumentoInfinityPositivo = capitulo3.min.bind(null, infinityPositivo, nr);
		const funcaoComArgumentoInfinityNegativo = capitulo3.min.bind(null, nr, infinityNegativo);

		expect(funcaoComArgumentoInfinityPositivo).not.toThrow();
		expect(funcaoComArgumentoInfinityNegativo).not.toThrow();
	});
});

/** === Recursão ===
 *
 * Nós vimos que o % (operador resto) pode ser usado para testar se um número
 * é par ou ímpar, usando % 2 para verificar se ele é divisível por dois.
 * Abaixo, está uma outra maneira de definir se um número inteiro positivo é par ou ímpar:
 *
 * Zero é par.
 * Um é ímpar.
 * Para todo outro número N, sua paridade é a mesma de N - 2.
 * Defina uma função recursiva isEven que satisfaça as condições descritas acima. A função
 * deve aceitar um número como parâmetro e retornar um valor Booleano.
 *
 * Teste-a com os valores 50 e 75. Observe como ela se comporta com o valor -1. Por quê?
 * Você consegue pensar em uma maneira de arrumar isso?
 *
 * // Your code here.
 *
 * console.log(isEven(50));
 * // → true
 * console.log(isEven(75));
 * // → false
 * console.log(isEven(-1));
 * // → ??
 * Dica: Sua função será semelhante à função interna find do exemplo recursivo findSolution
 * neste capítulo, com uma cadeia de declarações if/else if/else que testam qual dos três
 * casos se aplica. O else final, correspondente ao terceiro caso, é responsável por fazer
 * a chamada recursiva. Cada uma das ramificações deverá conter uma declaração de retorno
 * ou retornar um valor específico.
 *
 * Quando o argumento recebido for um número negativo, a função será chamada recursivamente
 * várias vezes, passando para si mesma um número cada vez mais negativo, afastando-se
 * cada vez mais de retornar um resultado. Ela, eventualmente, consumirá todo o espaço
 * em memória da pilha de chamadas e abortar.
 *
 */

describe("É par ou impar?", function() {

	it("define a função", function () {
		expect(capitulo3.isEven).toBeDefined();
	});

	it("retorna \"true\" ao receber valores pares", function () {

		let numeros = [2,4,22,36,50,1000];

		for(let numero of numeros) {
			expect(capitulo3.isEven(numero)).toBe(true);
		}
	});

	it("retorna \"false\" ao receber valores ímpares", function () {

		let numeros = [1,3,13,35,51,1001];

		for(let numero of numeros) {
			expect(capitulo3.isEven(numero)).toBe(false);
		}
	});

	it("lança stackoverflow ao receber um valor negativo", function () {

		let numero = -1;

		const vaiExplodir = capitulo3.isEven.bind(null, numero);

		expect(vaiExplodir).toThrowError(RangeError);
	});

});

/** === Contando feijões ===
 *
 * Você pode acessar o N-ésimo caractere, ou letra, de uma string escrevendo "string".charAt(N),
 * similar a como você acessa seu tamanho com "s".length. O valor retornado será uma string
 * contendo somente um caractere (por exemplo, "b"). O primeiro caractere está na posição zero,
 * o que faz com que o último seja encontrado na posição string.length -1. Em outras palavras,
 * uma string com dois caracteres possui tamanho (length) dois, e suas respectivas posições são 0 e 1.
 *
 * Escreva uma função countBs que receba uma string como único argumento e retorna o número
 * que indica quantos caracteres "B", em maiúsculo, estão presentes na string.
 *
 * Em seguida, escreva uma função chamada countChar que se comporta de forma parecida com countBs,
 * exceto que ela recebe um segundo argumento que indica o caractere que será contado
 * (ao invés de contar somente o caractere "B" em maiúsculo). Reescreva countBs para fazer
 * essa nova funcionalidade.
 *
 * // Your code here.
 *
 * console.log(countBs("BBC"));
 * // → 2
 * console.log(countChar("kakkerlak", "k"));
 * // → 4
 *
 */
describe("Contando feijões", function() {

	it("define a função countBs", function () {
		expect(capitulo3.countBs).toBeDefined();
	});

	it("lança exceção se receber um argumento que não seja uma string (countBs)", function () {

		const argumentosInvalidos = [1,2, {}, null, function () {}];

		for(let arg of argumentosInvalidos) {
			let lancaExcecao = capitulo3.countBs.bind(null, arg);
			expect(lancaExcecao).toThrow('Argumento inválido! Use uma string!');
		}
	});

	it("conta quantidade de \"B\" na string (countBs)", function () {

		const strings = ['BBC', 'BBbBC', 'ABC', 'CCCCCCB', 'bbCCbb'];
		const results = [2,3,1,1,0];

		for(let i in strings) {
			expect(capitulo3.countBs(strings[i])).toBe(results[i]);
		}
	});

	it("define a função countChar", function () {
		expect(capitulo3.countChar).toBeDefined();
	});

	it("lança exceção se receber menos que dois argumentos (countChar)", function () {

		let lancaExcecao = capitulo3.countChar.bind(null, 'asd');
		expect(lancaExcecao).toThrow('São necessários dois argumentos!');
	});

	it("lança exceção se receber argumentos que não seja strings (countChar)", function () {

		const argumentosInvalidos = [1,2, {}, null, function () {}];

		for(let arg of argumentosInvalidos) {
			let lancaExcecao = capitulo3.countChar.bind(null, arg);
			expect(lancaExcecao).toThrow('Argumento inválido! Use uma string!');
		}
	});

	it("conta quantidade de um certo caracter na string", function () {

		const strings = [['kakkerlak', 'k'], ['matheus','h'], ['abacate', 'a'], ['there is no chupits', 'i'], ['functional programming rules', 'm']];
		const results = [4,1,3,2,2];

		for(let i in strings) {
			expect(capitulo3.countChar(strings[i][0], strings[i][1])).toBe(results[i]);
		}
	});
});

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February 2014 — In Honor of Jim Moseley
In Honor of Jim Moseley
James W. Moseley, Remembered
Jim on the Paracast
Saucer Newspapers
Jim's Greatest Hits
George Adamski, R.E. Straith and the Seven Letters of Mischief
February 10, 2014 Curtis Collins 2 Comments
Click documents for larger, readable versions.
George Adamski became a major flying saucer celebrity after the release of his 1953 book, Flying Saucers Have Landed, where he told the story of encountering and communicating with Orthon, the pilot of a landed extraterrestrial spaceship. He later produced movies and still photographs and continued to have contact and adventures with the visitors from space. His success seemed to inspire a group of similar claimants, who became known as the Contactees.
Saucer News Oct. 1957, the George Adamski exposé issue.
Not everyone swallowed the stories. Upstart flying saucer magazine publisher James W. Moseley had interviewed Adamski in 1953, and had not been convinced. In his Saucer News magazine, he published articles critically examining Adamski's stories and photographs, and in October 1957 published a special "Adamski exposé" issue of Saucer News.
George Adamski continued his celebrity status and following. Just as word of his fakery was spreading, a letter of support from an unlikely source entered the picture.
My Dear Professor…
In December1957, Adamski received a letter from R.E. Straith of the" Cultural Exchange Committee," that stated that the US Government could not officially endorse him, but privately offered their support. Straith and his agency could not be located for verification, but Adamski and his followers proudly displayed the letter was evidence of his credibility.
The letter was controversial, and its origin was a mystery, but the puzzle was compounded even further by the fact that there were other mysterious letters sent to UFO researchers…
Jim and Coral Lorenzen of APRO
THE A. P. R. O. BULLETIN July, 1958 ()
THE STRAITH LETTER- And Then There Were Three
For about six months now, there has been a minor controversy in UAO circles centering around two letters mailed in Washington, D. C. during December, 1957.
We think it might help clear the muddy waters at this time to is close that there is a third letter involved. The first is the so-called "Straith" letter post-marked December 6th. It is addressed to one
G. Adamski and purports to be an unofficial endorsement of his particular "space-visitors" dogma from official circles.
The second, post-marked December 16, was directed to C. S. I. New York and was a clear attempt to cause dissension among its major officers through inference of collusion and conspiracy on the
part of one of them.
The third, post-marked December 16, was addressed to C. E. Lorenzen, of APRO. It pleaded with our director to suspend operations for about three months because "the department is going to crack down on major UFO publications and yours is on the list." Although not specifically stated, the inference was that the postal department was "the department" concerned.
From C. S. I., we learned that their letter and G. A.'s were typed on the same typewriter. We borrowed a photostat of C. S. I.'s letter and through microscopic comparison learned that again the same
typewriter was involved. Consulting our handwriting expert, we find that the signatures on the G. A. and C. S. I. letters were drawn rather than written (APRO's was not signed).
The idea that this is part of some official plan to cripple or discredit UAO investigators and saucer cultists can be dismissed quite readily since it is obviously the work of an amateur. At first glance, however, the motivations of this amateur seem rather nebulous. He might
be an Adamski disciple intent on crippling opposition to his new-found faith while bolstering it with quasi-official endorsement. It seems more likely, however, that the writer intended for G. A.'s
letter to eventually be publicly discredited.
There are several devices included which make discrediting easy-for
instance, the full name and identification of its purported author are included.
So it appears that the writer was out to get George indirectly, taking advantage of his extreme gullibility where support of any phase of his archetypal "wise old man" possession is concerned.
His claims that (1) there is a cultural exchange committee (it's now called cultural exchange program) and (2) that government seals are carefully guarded are pure naivette. Ask anyone who's worked in a civil service office about the latter claim. Also-a cultural exchange committee would have its own letterhead.
Or the other hand, it seems to us that C. S. I. and APRO are prototypes of the few groups who have approached the UAO problem with non-sensational objectivity- and he seems to be "out to get us" as well.
What sort of individual could benefit from publicly embarrassing G. A. and sabotaging the activities of serious investigators simultaneously? We can think of only one answer-a competitor!
Any further attention given this tempest in a teapot only serves to detract from our real work.
At this point we can only draw two conclusions: (1) Whatever the anonymous writer may have been attempting, he failed. (2) That boy is sick!
It turned out that there were even more letters than the three APRO knew about:
To Lex Mebane/Ted Bloecher of CSI
Laura Mundo, with George Adamski
To Laura Mundo, director of the Planetary Center (an Adamski supporter)
The Cat Leaves the Bag
Older and wiser: the perps in 1967
For over a quarter of a century, the controversy caused much speculation on who created these letters and why. On Dec. 6, 1984, Gray Barker, one of the chief suspects died. The next month, his friend, Jim Moseley revealed the truth in Saucer Smear January 10, 1985:
"Just a few months before Gray Barker's untimely death, your editor told him (again) that we intended to confess to the 'R.E. Straith' hoax if he were to die ahead of us." Jim went on to say, that he used to visit Gray Barker at his home in "…Clarksburg West Virginia for a weekend every few months – i.e., whenever it fitted in with our mutual schedules. On one particular occasion in I957, a young friend of Barker's… provided a packet of genuine official stationary from various Government agencies. …Barker and I wrote not one but seven (count them!) naughty letters that evening emboldened by the the evil of alcohol and fully enjoying the hilarity of this chance to throw long-term confusion into the UFO field."
(For the full text of this article, see Robert Sheaffer's correspondence with Gray Barker (1925-1984) )
Did it work? According to UFO historian Jerome Clark:
All over the world Adamski's followers were claiming vindication. South African UFO enthusiast Edgar Sievers declared the letter to be a "decisive document on imminent developments on this planet." Wilbert B. Smith, a Canadian radio engineer who earlier had been involved in an official UFO project, told [Donald E.] Keyhoe, after the latter expressed skepticism about the document, that he "knew" the Straith letter to be authentic, because someone of his acquaintance knew the man personally. Straith was working in a "supersecret agency partly under State Department control." C. A. Honey stated flatly that through his and Adamski's efforts, "Straith was located." More than two decades later, looking back on the controversy, [Lou] Zinsstag and [Timothy] Good concluded that while "much of the evidence is circumstantial … on balance there is more in favor of the letter['s] being genuine."
(UFO Updates: Adamski And The Straith Letter – Clark)
In Jim Moseley's memoirs, Shockingly Close to the Truth, he explained more about the seven letters and their seven targets:
"One of these, on U.S. Information Agency stationery, went to Laura Mundo, a longtime fan and booster of George Adamski. Another, on a different organization's letterhead, went to APRO's Coral Lorenzen. Still another, signed by 'A. G. Matthews, Chief, Liaison, Internal Affiairs' (of what agency I don't recall and the surviving carbon doesn't reveal), went to Manon Darlaine, the Hollywood saucer enthusiast whom I had met in 1953. It thanked Darlaine for her 'generous cooperation and employment of . . . [her] valuable time when Mr. Mosley [sic] visited you during his recent assignment to your region.' The fourth went to someone in the inner circle of Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York —probably Isabel Davis, Ted Bloecher, or Lex Mebane. One more was addressed to a semi-leading light in The Field whom I no longer recall. The sixth on National War College letterhead, was addressed to my father, a retired U.S. Army general. It objected to his having indulged in extreme right-wing political activities while on a military pension, strongly implying he might lose the latter if he did not refrain from the former. The seventh was the Straith letter… "
Prank of Hoax?
The FBI even got involved trying to track down the origin of the bogus letters, nevertheless, Adamski kept claiming the letter was genuine. When asked about how the impact and how story changed over the years, Moseley replied:
"It didn't really evolve. It was just etched in stone. It was hilarious. People would write or telephone the State Department and ask for R. E. Straith. And the State Dept. fed into the legend, stupidly, without realizing it. They always gave a different answer. 'R.E. Straith was not available' or 'he was on a different assignment' or 'he didn't exist.' If they sent something by mail, it was sent back 'refused – person not known' or not sent back at all. There was no consistency in how they handled it and that fed the fire and kept it going." (Shavertron, 2009)
The letters were a drunken prank by Moseley and Barker, and they don't appear to have fooled anyone for long, even George Adamski. But, in Adamski's hands, he was able to use the letter as a prop to bolster his tales of being an ambassador to Venus. It was this use that elevates the "Straith Letter" to the status of a hoax!
"…fully enjoying the hilarity…"
The Last Letter Surfaces
There was one letter though, that was never published, the un-mailed one to General Moseley. It was thrown away…but there was a carbon copy… So as epilogue:
From out of the treasures of THE GRAY BARKER UFO COLLECTION, the world premiere of the 7th "Straith Letter:"
To General George Van Horn Moseley
A special thanks to David Houchin of The Gray Barker UFO Collection located at the Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library in Clarksburg, West Virginia for locating the Gen. Moseley letter.
More on George Adamski
GAF: the George Adamski Foundation
PROFILES IN PSEUDOSCIENCE: GEORGE ADAMSKI!
Jim Moseley: The Devil's Advocate Interview, 1995 by Tim Brigham
February 7, 2014 Curtis Collins Leave a comment
Back when he was a lad, Tim Brigham became friends with Jim Moseley, going on to publish a zine, the Devil's Advocate where he interviewed the Supreme Commander in 1995.
Jim and Tim
Defying all odds, Tim went on to become, valuable member of society, Timothy Brigham, Ph.D. , Cognitive- Experimental Psychologist, and Assistant Professor of Psychology!
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Interview: James Moseley, 1994 by Greg Bishop
Interview: James Moseley Saucer Smear "Commander" and Publisher
(Excerpts from Wake Up Down There! The Excluded Middle Collection )
copyright Gregory Bishop 1994
Jim Moseley don't take no guff. That is, he won't take it if it's not interesting or at the very least, entertaining. The publisher of Saucer Smear has been in the UFO field (by his own admission) since 1948. Although he would be embarassd to admit it, this makes him one of the few "grand gentlemen" of Ufology (or You-fool-ogy as he might call it.)
Saucer Smear is mailed out gratis on an irregular basis to a couple hundred of the ufological hard-core, and comprises the only record of the evolving personality of the saucer-smitten. Within its eight typewritten pages, researchers lash out at each other in vitriolic rants full of personal insults and very often, four letter expletives, some directed at the editor. Presiding over this fray with a bemused eye, Moseley praises friends, points a good-natured but sharp and sarcastic pen at attackers, and referees intense insider squabbles with alacrity and an eye for raking the muck when needed.
Q: What first interested you in the UFO field?
A: It was in the early '50s. The first thing I paid any attention to was the Mantell case in 1948-a military fellow who allegedly got blown out of the sky by a UFO. It was a popular subject suddenly, and became an emerging field of research. I had this intellectual curiosity about something which seemed to be real and interesting. I met a writer who wrote for True and Argosy and he said that if I would take the time and travel across the country and interview these people who had had UFO experiences, then I would get a co-author credit. And I was young and eager, so in late 1953, I took my car and drove from New York out to the southwest and California and interviewed maybe a hundred people. And I talked to everybody; the contactees, the scientists etc., but the book was never made. The notes I had for that book were later fictionalized by Gray Barker and eventually turned into the horrible book Crash Secrets At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. I had found out by then that there was actually a UFO field, and I met Gray Barker and others who were in it at the time.
So the next thing I did was to start my own zine, which was called Nexus, which was a stupid name, it means "a connecting link," but nobody knows that. Two other guys started that with me who were also living in New York at the time; Dominic Luchesi and August Roberts. August died last month, and Luchesi died several years ago. We started this and kept it going for a year, and then they dropped out and I changed the name to Saucer News and it stayed on a very small scale until 1954 when the "marsh gas" thing happened.
That marsh gas thing did more for me than anything else–(J. Allen)Hynek's marsh gas–he went to Michigan where there had been a few sightings of things. The most prominent ones were by some college co-eds. One thing was seen diving at a police car, and another was seen floating over some woods near a college dormitory. There were no marshes in that whole area. There was a premature press conference and Hynek was forced to do it. He didn't have an answer and didn't claim to have and answer. The Air Force put him on the spot rather unfairly. I ended up being very friendly with Hynek, and I liked him. So he was pushed to the wall and said that it might or could have been marsh gas. And then there were the T-shirts and cartoons, etc. just ridiculing him.
The whole country was excited about it then, and then Michagan Representative Gerald Ford got on it and promised a congresional investigation, which of course never happened, but it was a hot time for the topic. It was the biggest "flap" of its sort as far as public interest was concerned, and because of that, my circulation shot up literally overnight. I had this little one-room office in downtown New York where I worked all by myself hacking out this magazine, and was listed in the Manhattan phone book under "Saucer News." So when they wanted to talk to a local "authority", they called me, and I didn't know any more about the subject than the day before. But I was hot. I was on every news program in New York, since there were not a lot of other rivals around like there is now.
Q: What year was all this?
A: 1964. At this time there was a man in Boston with a radio and T.V. show named Bob Kennedy (not THE Bob Kennedy of course.) I appeared on his show a few times, and they were also working with speaker's bureau who booked Donald Keyhoe to speak about the saucer stuff. They also booked the college lecture circuit and Keyhoe was starting to charge too much. This is where I really stepped in some shit. Bob Kennedy gave my name to this bureau and since I hated Keyhoe anyway, this was the best luck of all. He was charging too much, so I started getting his gigs. I would have gone for free just to knock Keyhoe off the lecture circuit. (Stanton) Friedman hadn't come along yet, and he didn't push me off the circuit 'till years later. I did over a hundred colleges and got well paid for it for the time. Saucer News circulation shot up to about 10,000 for awhile, and I got on all kinds of shows, etc. I finally had to hire a staff to keep up, including Tim Beckley, who worked there for a couple of years. This was all because of the marsh gas! Then in the early '70s, Friedman came along and did to me what I had done to Keyhoe. Actually, he was vicious about it. He would find out which colleges I was lecturing at and call them up and try to get them to knock me off and book him. He had the degree and the beard and I didn't. The colleges kept calling me to inform me what he had been doing–sometimes more than once to the same places.
Q: What are some differences between the UFO scene now and how it was in the "early days?"
A: Well, in the '50s you had your classic contactees who met creatures who looked almost like us, if not better, and who were giving messages of sweetness and light, and save the environment and ban the bomb, and all this good stuff. But nobody sees anyone like that anymore in the last 20 years or so. Another thing was that they used to see little men getting out of the saucers, smaller than us, but sort of normal-looking. They were not described in the same way that these "greys" are–the height is the same, but the face is different. So, how come nobody sees these classic "little men" anymore?
Q: You perpetrated one of the most famous hoaxes in UFO history at the expense of George Adamski. How did that come about?
A: Gray Barker had a friend who's still alive now and begged me never to reveal his name, but at the time was a kid of 18 or 20, who's father was rather high in the State Department. He wandered into his father's office and stole some official State Department stationery, about six or seven different kinds. So, one night Barker and I got together at his place in Clarksburg, West Virginia and wrote six or seven different letters to people in the field. And the Straith letter was so-called because it was signed by R.E. Straith of the "Cultural Affairs Committee" of the State Department, and we deliberately made that part up because it didn't exist. There was a committee with a similar name, but Straith did not exist. We opened the letter "Dear Professor Adamski," which was flattering him because he wasn't a professor at all, he just made that up. And it said was in essence that "there are some of us here that know of your contacts and we are behind you all the way, but we cannot come out publicly to support you at this time. But rest assured that we are behind you in spirit" etc. That was the gist of the letter, and whether Adamski thought it was a hoax or not didn't really matter, since it was just what he wanted to hear. So he publicized it and after a few months the FBI came to him and told him to stop it. They told him it was a hoax and to stop saying that it was genuine. This was just what he needed, and he started crowing that the FBI had harassed him, and so that meant it had to be genuine. There were then two investigations by the FBI and the State Department. They went down and talked to Barker, since someone noticed that the typing on this letter was just like the ones he sent to all kinds of people. Barker got very paranoid after this and took the typewriter and broke it into many little pieces. Then he found where they were building a wall somewhere in Clarksburg, and dumped the pieces in. So, to this day that typewriter is buried in a wall somewhere in that town. Then Barker died in 1984, and I had warned him that if I outlasted him, I was going to confess, so I wouldn't embarass him anymore. So, after he died I put it in the next issue of Saucer Smear.
Q: Could you talk about your friendship with Gray Barker?
A: I think he was probably my best friend and used me as a sort of psychiatrist really. What's not generally known was that he was gay and died of AIDS. But in 1984 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, they didn't know that much about it, and they didn't cover it up, they just didn't recognize the symptoms. I've lived in Key West for ten years and I know a number of people who have died of AIDS and so I suspected at the time that's what he had died of.
He had wonderful sense of humor, and a sense of wonderment (which is a good word for him) about the UFO subject. He stopped being a "believer" very early on, but kept the sense of wonderment. What he got out of it was entertainment for himself, and the audience he wrote for. He thought of himself as an entertainer, not as a scientist or a person dealing in facts. There were "New Age" types long before there was a UFO field, and he knew this audience and what they wanted to hear, so he wrote books and published them as a book business. He also had a theater that he owned and operated, and he started out as a booking agent for films at theaters in the area. So, he was always in the entertainment field and thought of himself as an entertainer. He thought I was too serious, because I believed some of it, and still do, but he didn't believe any of it.
He wrote a poem that I have here with me, which is entitled "UFO Is A Bucket Of Shit," and I think that really summed up his feeling about the whole thing. He also wrote serious poetry. I would go down there a few times a year from New York, and we'd drink and bullshit and do hoaxes or whatever. He drank quite a lot, and didn't like to travel, because he would get very disoriented. I went to the Giant Rock convention in 1970 with him and a girlfriend of mine. There were a lot of psychedelic drugs floating around the Rock that year…
Here's "UFO Is A Bucket Of Shit":
UFO is a bucket of shit
Its followers: perverts, monomaniacs, dipsomaniacs
Artists of the fast buck
True believers, objective believers, new age believers
Keyhoe believers
Shushed by the three men
Or masturbated by space men
The A.F. investigated UFOs
And issued a report
Couched in polite language
Which translated, means:
Meade Layne is a bucket of shit
Lex Mebane is a bucket of shit
James W. Moseley is a bucket of shit
Richard Ogden is a bucket of shit
Ray Palmer is a bucket of shit
And I sit here writing
While the shit drips down my face
In great rivulets
Yes, they don't write poems like that anymore, do they? Thank God! So there you have it, a little sample of Gray Barker's poetry.
Q: You're obviously more interested in the people surrounding the UFO phenomenon, than in the UFOs themselves. Can you explain why?
A: There's no hope of solving the question. There's endless confusion and contradictory theories, so certainly the UFO field is real, whether the saucers are or not, and the people are real, and some of them are very interesting. I have more fun with the people, so I talk about personalities in my magazine. I don't print sightings, because everybody else does, or could, and you can find that anywhere. I just try to do something more interesting and more to my own personal taste.
Q: How much does the government pay you to keep all the UFO nuts fighting with each other?
A: They pay me exactly as much as they pay Phil Klass.
Q: Have you ever actually seen anything that you would qualify as unidentified?
A: In the course of 40 years I have seen a few things that I could not identify. The last one was in Gulf Breeze, in 1992. It was a light in the sky that was there for about four minutes. It might have been a flare, but I'm still not sure. Yeah, I've seen stuff that I couldn't identify, but so what? (laughs)
Q: How have your views of the UFO phenomenon changed over the years?
A: I went off on different tangents: first the secret weapon theory, then little men, then I got hung up on Mars for awhile–it seemed reasonable–what got me was the lines on the surface of the planet. But the camera can see what the eye can see, and it doesn't make it any more real. When you get enough resolution of course, that stuff disappears. Then Vallee and Keel came along, as well as J. Allen Hynek, and put forward the 4-D idea, and that's where I'm generally at now. The interplanetary idea is the least likely. If there is something going on along those lines, it's beyond our present understanding. I'm not totally agnostic, I do think there's something going on, but it defies scientific examination. You have to be able to repeat results experimentally, and how the hell do we investigate something that changes continuously? When we can summon a demon or poltergeist or spaceman at will, then we'll be much further along. We can't expect to solve everything overnight. People need answers right away, and if we don't have answers, they're invented. MUFON has invented the interplanetary theory, and that satisfies them.
Q: Will you keep Saucer Smear going for as long as you can?
A: As long as I'm alive and reasonably healthy, sure. My business takes hardly any of my time, and I really enjoy it.
The complete interview can be found in:
Wake Up Down There! The Excluded Middle Collection edited by Greg Bishop
Thanks, Greg for allowing the interview to be reprinted here, it's one of the very best.
Check out more of Greg Bishop's work at:
Greg Bishop at Radio Misterioso
The Excluded Middle website
Saucer News NYC Convention Memories
February 3, 2014 Curtis Collins 2 Comments
by Karl Machtanz
I'm sorry to hear about Jim Moseley's passing. I'd only met the gentleman for a few times. It was Mr Beckley who I first met and he saw my models and introduced me to Mr Moseley, who gave me permission to have my little set of aliens on display in the entrance hall to the convention room. He was extremely interested to hear how I came to build the miniature figures and telling him I just drew what the witnesses said they saw, and after hours of drawing and re-drawing what I thought would be the most realistic looking likenesses, then I began sculpting the figures from balsa wood.
Overall alien diorama display: dresser drawer as showcase, with fluorescent light inside case.
My dad at the convention model display with some visitors.
The only camera I had at the time was a Polaroid land camera and my dad was taking photos while I was staying with my diorama giving the people attending the convention the how's and why's I created the figures, There were many people taking photos of my exhibit as well as the other items on display along the entrance area but most did not have anyone to explain what they had on display.
I was extremely fortunate to have Roy Thinnes visit my display and had a very interesting conversation with him on Flying Saucers as well as my rendition of the aliens and of course his Invaders show which I was a big fan of and still am.
Group closeup shot of the Zamora aliens and other alien species seen by witnesses.
Kelly- Hopkinsville Kentucky 1955 silver colored alien caused panic in rural farmhouse when several of this type described alien seemed to attack the family at night, description of similar aliens described from separate sighting in different case, photo of typical UFO.
Two of the type aliens seen by police officer Lonnie Zamora Socorro, New Mexico April 24, 1964. One alien was digging in the ground and putting some dirt into a bucket type object, while the other alien was standing by with some kind of device in his hand. The other creature is the Mothman, a creature that has been seen by numerous residents of Point Pleasant area of West Virginia from Nov 15, 66 to Dec 1967, glowing red eyes and large wings was most the most noticed features.
Closeup of alien, with different outfit.
Unfortunately the only photos I have of the convention are the ones of my figures, as the other photos got lost between all the moves we made from Brooklyn to Long Island and finally to Oregon. One would think photos are readily available of such a first time event in New York City, I'm surprised there are so few.
Thank you for contacting me about Mr Moseley as he was a fine gentleman whom I wish I would have known better, I lost track of Mr Beckley as well, another fine gentleman.
Karl Machtanz
The Supreme Commander and Those Crazy Nazca Lines
By Ray X 02/02/14
Reprinted below are two posts from 2011 from my blog, Ray's X-Blog, dealing with the mysterious Nazca Lines in Peru, South America, and how Jim Moseley was apparently the first one to suggest the markings had an ET link. The first post is written by the Supreme Commander himself while the second one follows up on an interesting angle to the discussion.
NOTE: For those readers who have stumbled upon this page by itself and are unaware of the life and works of Jim Moseley, the Saucer Smear editor died in November 2012. The contact info mentioned below is invalid.
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GUEST BLOGGER JIM MOSELEY: THE NAZCA LINES
Jim Moseley has been around since the early days when UFOs were usually called "flying saucers." Besides being the author (with Karl Pflock) of the book, Shockingly Close to the Truth! Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, he is also the slightly opinionated writer-editor of the world's longest-running UFO newsletter, Saucer Smear. (Longest running in the sense his newsletter has existed under various names such as Saucer News.) Jim can be reached via snail mail at PO Box 1709, Key West, FL 33041. A donation of two dollars (cash) will get you a copy of his gritty zine. You can (indirectly) contact him via email: saucer_smear@yahoo.com. Please mention Ray X sent you. He enjoys name-droppers.
THE SOMEWHAT MYSTERIOUS NAZCA LINES OF PERU
by James W. Moseley
My friend "Ray X" has asked me to write a brief article about my personal experiences with these famous mystery lines on the coastal desert of Peru.
These incredibly straight lines, sometimes over a mile long, cover an area of a couple of hundred square miles. There are at least two man-made mounds where several lines converge, giving the impression that treasure might be buried there. There are also large animal figures laid out on the desert, among the lines.
The Nazca civilization, running from about 100 B.C. to 800 A.D., preceded the Inca empire. As a shameless treasure hunter, I have dug up many Nazca tombs containing beautiful pottery, wooden figures, and sometimes gold. It is known that the lines were made by this same ancient tribe.
The myth is that the Nazca lines were some sort of landing field for spaceships from other planets. Superficially they look a bit like a modern airport. The pattern can only be seen from the air, but after all these many years the lines are so faint that all the aerial photos I have seen are enhanced artificially to make the lines more visible.
There is no mystery whatever as to how the lines were made. The Nazca desert consists of a very shallow layer of small reddish rocks containing iron ore, and other similar rocks not much bigger than gravel. By going down less than half an inch you come upon pure white sand. You can take a wide broom and easily make a line for yourself, as incredible as this must sound. Your line, like the others, can last almost forever, because there is almost no wind or rain whatever in this area.
In the 1950s I spent a lot of time treasure hunting in Peru, and was quite successful. At that time there was a German archaeologist named Maria Reiche who studied the lines in infinite detail for many years. She wrote an uncopyrighted pamphlet available in English that was on sale in Peru. I edited it to suit myself, and published it under my name in America's FATE Magazine in 1955. Much later, along came Erich von Daniken and many other sensationalists who jazzed up the story for fun and profit, according to their own fantasies.
In 1956 or 1957 I, amazingly, obtained written permission from the local museum to dig for two weeks in the Nazca valley, including the nearby lines. I went with a small group of diggers to one of the above-mentioned mounds at the Intersections. I know of no one else who has ever done this. Unfortunately, we found absolutely nothing. The Nazca tombs are available elsewhere, as we knew.
It is clear that there is no mystery at all as to who made the lines, how they did it, and when they did it. The only question is in regards to why. Attempts to correlate the lines with bright stars and planets have proven unsuccessful for several reasons. The interplanetary theory is out. Recent archaeologists relate the lines to the eternal search for water on the desert, but this theory seems complicated and incomplete, from what I have read. Maria Reiche, for all her years of tirelessly mapping the lines, never found out why they were made. She died quite recently.
Now I'll tell you something of archaeological importance that I have never written about till now for various reasons. Before I had ever actually seen the lines myself, I was driving one day near Lima with two friends, on a dirt road across a desert very similar to the desert a couple of hundred miles away at Nazca.
There, running for perhaps a hundred yards through a tiny valley next to the road, was a line identical in appearance to the ones at Nazca. There may well have been others nearby that we didn't see. No Nazca pottery, etc., has ever been discovered near Lima, so the conclusion seems to be that other ancient tribes made lines like this for the same reason that the Nazca people did – whatever that reason may be.
You may wonder why I didn't publicize this discovery. Unfortunately, the line was in a little valley almost exactly like hundreds of others, and would be very hard to find again. By now, it is probably under a condo, as the city of Lima has grown tremendously in recent years.
My opinion is that there are plenty of genuine mysteries on this planet without the necessity of distorting a minor mystery like the Nazca lines. Immediately comes to mind a huge pre-Inca fortress near Cusco, the old Inca capital in the heart of the Peruvian Andes. It is called Sacsayhuaman, and is right next to the main road leading to Cusco. I have had my picture taken there, as have thousands of other tourists over the years.
The problem here is that Sacsayhuaman consists of huge boulders as heavy as one hundred tons each, piled on top of each other to make walls. Stone can't be carbon-dated, as far as I know; so no one is able to tell us who built this fortress, when, and how. Even the most modern machinery could not move stones as large as this!
Was Sacsayhuaman built by aliens who landed long ago at Nazca? Probably not…
Posted by Ray Palm (Ray X) at 1:38 AM
MOSELEY, NAZCA LINES AND THE COSMIC BALANCE
Was Jim Moseley the first to make the connection?
A while ago I was talking telephonically (not telepathically) with Jim, editor of Saucer Smear, about an article he wrote for my blog dealing with the Nazca lines in Peru. Back in the 1950s he visited that area and formulated the theory that the lines were evidence of mankind's contact with beings beyond this world, a theory he shared in Fate magazine.
I asked him if he was the one who originated the idea, years before Erich Von Daniken came on the scene. Jim, who at times can be humble, declined to make that statement.
At some point I was going to dig into the matter via Google but I never got around to it.
Recently Jim sent me a copy of a snail mail letter from an online reader, a Curt Collins of Jackson, MS, who did the research, proving that Jim is indeed the first to publicly propose the theory. Collins cites an entry from the Skeptic's Dictionary site that James W. Moseley originated the idea in his article in the October 1955 issue of Fate magazine. Collins mentions that other online citations can be found.
Jim is amused by this because he no longer believes the Nazca lines are patterns on a ET landing area.
As these things work out, Von Daniken took Jim's idea, ran with it, and made a good chunk of change with books like Chariots of the Gods. But Jim plugs away in relatively obscurity, no bestseller books footing his bills, putting out his UFO zine, Saucer Smear, a labor of love, not money. If you want to compensate for this gross cosmic imbalance, send two dollars (US bills) to James Moseley, PO Box 1709, Key West, FL 33041 for a sample copy of Smear. After all, Jim makes more sense than Von Daniken with 90 per cent less BS.
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KINGSTON, R.I. – September 20, 2017 – The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Rhode Island a $19 million grant to establish a statewide research consortium to study the effects of climate variability on coastal ecosystems. The funding builds on more than $30 million of previous NSF funding through its Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which aims to strengthen the state's research competitiveness and fund workforce development initiatives.
To accomplish the goals of the consortium, it will create a state-of-the-art Bay Observatory, including high-tech instrumentation and wireless data transmission, to collect real-time information at high resolution about the changing environmental conditions in Narragansett Bay. That data and imagery will be accessible to scientists and the public.
Co-principal investigators on the grant are Breea Govenar, associate professor of biology at Rhode Island College; Jeffrey Morgan, professor of medicine and engineering at Brown University and co-director of its Biotechnology Graduate Program; Neal Overstrom, director of the Nature Lab at Rhode Island School of Design; and Lewis Rothstein, professor of oceanography at URI.
The research funded through the grant will include studies to assess the ecological complexity of the coastal environment and how organisms interact with each other; the development of sensors to detect the nutrient pollution that contributes to harmful algae blooms; the creation of models that combine the biology, chemistry and physics of the coastal environment to predict environmental changes; and efforts to combine natural scientific data and models with socioeconomic models to inform decision making.
Another emphasis of the project will be the commercialization of the research outcomes through the formation of an academic-industry partnership enabling the scientists to learn about the challenges facing the marine and defense industries, for instance, and share with them some of the research discoveries and technologies. It will also be a way to connect students with potential employment opportunities.
Additional workforce development elements of the grant include the expansion of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program into a year-round initiative, the funding of 40 to 50 graduate fellowships, and the hiring of additional junior faculty and post-doctoral researchers.
EPSCoR is designed to assist those states that have historically received less than 0.75 percent of NSF research funding annually. In 2006, URI received an initial grant that established shared research facilities for genomics, proteomics and marine life sciences. A second grant in 2010 capitalized on that infrastructure, enabling researchers to study how marine organisms are adapting to climate change.


Citation: Fiscus, Jonathan G., et al. 1997 HUB4 Broadcast News Evaluation Non-English Test Material LDC2001S91. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2001.
1997 HUB4 Broadcast News Evaulation Non-English Test Material was developled by the Linguistic Data Consortium. It contains the evaluation test material used in the 1997 DARPA/NIST Continuous Speech Recognition Broadcast News HUB4 Non-English Benchmark Test administered by the NIST Spoken Natural Language Processing Group.
The test material is contained in two SPHERE-formatted waveform files. The file h4ne97sp.sph (set1) contains one hour of Spanish broadcast news excerpts from 1997. The file h4ne97ma.sph (set2) contains one hour of Mandarin broadcast news excerpts from 1997. Each file should be separately recognized per the HUB4 Non English Evaluation Specification.
Note: 1997 HUB4 English evaluation material is contained in 1997 HUB4 English Evaluation Speech and Transcripts LDC2002S11.


The idea intrigued him, and he decided to concentrate on that instead of fabric scraps. From this change of direction was born the beer bottle jeans and t-shirts made of food trays and recycled water bottles. More are to come, Heron promises.
Next on Heron's list of materials to use are soda bottles and scrap denim. "We will eventually have different lines of jeans made from green soda bottles, blue water bottles and my original idea of using fabric scraps collected at the manufacturing mills," he tells The Journal in an interview.
The chips are then grounded down to smaller pieces until it becomes particle-sized. The result is a particle which is also present in polyester. It is then melted and then inserted into what Heron calls a "high-pressured nozzle". Once cooled, the particle becomes a sliver, which then becomes a yarn.
Heron has been soliciting design ideas from the teams behind brands like Marc Jacobs and Ralph Lauren. However, the company has yet to take off. Using the online funding platform Kickstarter, Heron has created a reward system in exchange for pledges. A 145-dollar pledge, for instance, will gain you a pair of indigo I AM NOT A VIRGIN and a t-shirt as rewards.
I Am Not A Virgin's Kickstarter page shows Heron's prototype designs as well as the concept behind this unique clothing line. Heron's Kickstarter project has 22 more days to reach its $100,000 goal.


How to start training for self-defense?
We all want that we are ready to face the challenges of the world so that there is nothing left to chance in our lives. We will certainly ensure that we have the best defenses against the untoward incidents so that we don't have to face any kind of negative scenarios. Being prepared for any type of situation is the first lesson of the martial art and you are in luck that there are so many classes that are emerging in this zone that promise to ignite the zeal among all and sundry towards self-awareness & self-defense.
You need to seek the self-defense classes that are age-appropriate so that you don't have to feel any hesitation while you are learning.
You also need to be motivated and feel inspired in seeking the right training, it is of no use to quit in between especially when you are seeking Jiu Jitsu Sydney.
It is really important that you are giving consideration to your coach then only you can make sure that you remainconsistent in your training.
Be consistent in your training always.
Pay attention to the right technique of the martial arts and in this "practice is going to make your perfect" for sure! Hence, keep practicing more and more!
You can explore different types of martial arts like kick boxing, Karate Sydney etc.
You need to keep in mind that the choice of seeking martial arts for the self-defense training is surely going to change your life. You are going to experience lot of challenges in the way but in the end you will emerge as more confident and strong person. Hence, you need to take your training seriously and make sure that you train well.
Fitness must be personalized for one to reap its true benefits. If you are clueless about where to start on your fitness journey, here are some practical tips that you may consider to get started.
Seek help from a trained professional. Don't ask your neighbours, parents or friends for advice on this subject unless they are trained in this area. Otherwise, you may end up hurting yourself or delaying your own success.
Going to the gym is a popular activity that many people do to get fit. If you are new to the gym, it's important for you to sign up for a free trial session to familiarize yourself on how to use the equipment properly from a trainer. This will ensure that you get maximum results from your fitness routines.
For a highly effective workout that can be performed at home, you can refer to this write-up, HTTP://WWW.fitAdvisor.Blogspot.COM/2016/03/Bowflex-MAX-Trainer-M7.html. This award-winning compact home gym can deliver a solid full body workout without any special equipment in just 7 minutes. Therefore, it is a powerful addition to your fitness routine if you have the budget for it.
By employing these practical tips in your fitness routine, you should have an easy time reaching your fitness goals with less hiccups along the way.


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In alliance with Payroc, Park Place Payments enhances its capabilities
by Alex McCandless on Sep 02 News, ISO
Los Angeles, September 2, 2021 - Women-founded and -run payment processor Park Place Payments amplifies its technological capabilities, announcing today an alliance as an independent sales organization with Payroc, the eighth largest non-bank merchants services processor in the United States.
Since its establishment, Park Place Payments has made a firm commitment to businesses in three areas: fair pricing, proactive customer service, and modern technology. Powered by Payroc, Park Place strengthens its promise, offering a wider range of sophisticated yet simple-to-use payment solutions, including point-of-sale systems from Clover™, mobile terminals from Swipe Simple, a suite of e-commerce and software integrations, and the most trusted countertop terminals.
Payroc also enables Park Place to further minimize the cost of accepting payments for its clients through surcharging and cash discounting pricing platforms that are aimed at minimizing merchants' processing fees and integrate with most popular payment solutions.
"The industry is changing constantly," said Samantha Ettus, founder and CEO of Park Place Payments. "With Payroc, we are excited to have a partner who is at the forefront of technology while sharing our customer-first service vision."
Adam Oberman, President of Payroc, stated "We have watched the rise of Samantha Ettus and the team at Park Place Payments and their unique business model. They fit and complement our growth strategy perfectly and will reinforce Payroc's own commitment to diversity and inclusion in the payments industry. Park Place Payments' differentiating Payment Checkup™, in-house service team, and their dedication to excellence makes them a perfect sales partner for Payroc. We are looking forward to once again winning with the team at Park Place Payments."
Park Place's greatest asset is its sales force of nearly 1,000 Account Executives around the country, coupled with an in-house, U.S. based customer service team who together bring a friendlier, consultative approach to merchant services. As the payments landscape quickly evolves, the partnership with Payroc ensures that every merchant touched is also offered a smart and seamless high-tech yet easy to use business solution.
About Park Place Payments
Park Place is a women-owned company fundamentally changing the experience businesses have with their payment processor. In an industry first, Park Place has a single-minded commitment to service, from the Payment Checkup™ analysis through the life of each account. With a professional sales force and an award-winning, in-house service team, Park Place is a payment processor merchants can rely on.
About Payroc
Payroc is a high-growth merchant acquirer, processor and payment facilitation powerhouse processing $33 billion in annual charge volume in over 40 countries, for more than 100,000 merchants. The company offers best-in-class sales enablement and payment processing technology on a global basis, delivering proprietary, innovative and full-service merchant acquiring solutions together with key card brand network payment sponsorship registrations.
Payroc, and certain of its other affiliate companies under Payroc WorldAccess LLC, are registered Visa third party processors, Mastercard third party servicers, registered independent sales organizations and merchant services providers (ISO/MSP), payment facilitators and/or encryption support organization for Fifth Third Bank, National Association ("Fifth Third"), among others, and in Canada is registered with Peoples Trust Company, Vancouver, Canada. To learn more, visit http://www.payroc.com.
alex.mccandless@payroc.com


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Q: Does fill structures from pointers make the acess to that struct undefined after free? Let's say that we have the following case:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

struct test {
    int a;
    int b;
};

int main()
{
    struct test *ptest = malloc(sizeof(struct test));
    struct test jtest;
    ptest->a = 3;
    ptest->b = 2;

    jtest = *ptest;
    free(ptest);

    printf("a: %d\nb: %d\n", jtest.a, jtest.b);
    return 0;
}

As I've freed the pointer to ptest, and consequently the memory area that it refers to, my access to jtest is compromised after the free of ptest? Or when a make a dereference to assign the values of jtest it's made a copy of the values present on the address of ptest?

A: In C, if you're not using pointers, a copy is always made. So, when ptest is freed, jtest still has its own copy of the memory.


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namespace ash {

// A SmoothedThrobber with tooltip.
class SystemTrayThrobber : public views::SmoothedThrobber {
 public:
  SystemTrayThrobber();
  ~SystemTrayThrobber() override;

  void SetTooltipText(const base::string16& tooltip_text);

  // Overriden from views::View.
  bool GetTooltipText(const gfx::Point& p,
                      base::string16* tooltip) const override;

 private:
  // The current tooltip text.
  base::string16 tooltip_text_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(SystemTrayThrobber);
};

// A View containing a SystemTrayThrobber with animation for starting/stopping.
class ThrobberView : public views::View {
 public:
  ThrobberView();
  ~ThrobberView() override;

  void Start();
  void Stop();
  void SetTooltipText(const base::string16& tooltip_text);

  // Overriden from views::View.
  gfx::Size GetPreferredSize() const override;
  void Layout() override;
  bool GetTooltipText(const gfx::Point& p,
                      base::string16* tooltip) const override;

 private:
  // Schedules animation for starting/stopping throbber.
  void ScheduleAnimation(bool start_throbber);

  SystemTrayThrobber* throbber_;

  // The current tooltip text.
  base::string16 tooltip_text_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ThrobberView);
};

}  // namespace ash

#endif  // ASH_SYSTEM_TRAY_THROBBER_VIEW_H_


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Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling team for Netflix action film from Avengers: Endgame directors
By Nick Romano | July 17, 2020
CREDIT: STEPHANE CARDINALE - CORBIS/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES; JON KOPALOFF/GETTY IMAGES
Netflix's next action movie is too hot to handle. Captain America actor Chris Evans is re-teaming with Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo for a new thriller, and they're bringing in Ryan Gosling to join the fray.
Titled The Gray Man, the movie is based on author Mark Greaney's book series that began with the novel of the same name. Gosling will star as Court Gentry, a legendary killer known as the Gray Man who's hunted around the world by Lloyd Hansen (Evans), one of Gentry's former cohorts from his days at the CIA.
Deadline was the first to report the news, and Anthony told the outlet in a statement, "The movie is a real mano a mano between those two great actors, who represent two different versions of the CIA, in what it can be, and what it can do. For those who were fans of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this is us moving into that territory in more of a real-world setting. That's what this movie really means for us."
The Gray Man marks the first movie the Russo Brothers will have directed after helming Endgame, which became the highest-grossing movie of all time. They also previously directed Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, and Avengers: Infinity War for Disney's Marvel Studios. Through their AGBO production banner, the Russos also produced the Chris Hemsworth-led action-er Extraction for Netflix and are returning to develop the sequel.
"The intention is for [The Gray Man] to be competitive with any theatrical and the ability to do with with Gosling and Evans is a dream for us," Joe remarked of their latest venture. "The idea is to create a franchise and build out a whole universe, with Ryan at the center of it. We have all committed to the first movie and that's got to be great to get us to the second movie. These are master assassins and Gosling's characters gets burned by the CIA and Evans' character has to hunt him down. We have a great working relationship with Netflix, and we go back almost 20 years with Scott Stuber. We formed AGBO to be an agnostic storytelling company, where we figure out the best platform. We think Netflix is the perfect place for this film."
Joe added that they are hoping to start production on The Gray Man by "late fall or early spring, COVID dependent."
Plans to adapt the book were initially announced in 2016, with director Christopher McQuarrie once attached to the production.
Netflix revealed during an earnings call this week that the service added 10.1 million subscribers in their second quarter as people hunkered down at home during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The company also listed the top 10 most popular movies on the platform with Extraction, Spenser Confidential, 6 Underground, and Triple Frontier—all action movies—within the top six.
The streamer has been bulking up its offerings of high-scale action movies, including the most recent original release, The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne.


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Q: selectAll not selecting any nodes on D3 I am trying to select 4 divs using a d3 selectAll function, but nothing is getting selected.  The height in this code never changes:

var popop = d3.select("#chart")
    .selectAll(".bar");

popop.style("height", "40px");
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="utf-8">

The select('#chart') works when it is used by itself.  When I look at the code in the Code Inspector it popop has one element.  When I add .selectAll(".bar") only one element is given.
When I run this in the browser here on Stack Overflow I get the same as my local code.  Just four small horizontal lines.  Their height is 0 when you hover over them.
When I run Aagam Jain's code on Stack Overflow it works!!!  When I copy Aagam's code locally, it doesn't work. The includes downloading d3.v3 from the website.
Tried in Firefox and Chrome and get the same.

A: The question was in d3.v3. Below snippet works for me.

d3.select('#chart').selectAll('.bar').style('height', '40px')
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="utf-8">

A: It was a timing issue.  If I defer the scripts (so they run after everything has loaded and then runs them in order) like mentioned in the comments on my question, everything works:


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Stenstötning var en idrottsgren som idkades fram till början av 1900-talet, om än sparsamt.

Historik
Stenstötning är näst stenkast sannolikt den äldsta form av kast som förekommit i (primitiv) tävlingsform.

Stenar (stenblock) användes under forn- och medeltiden som kastvapen i krig, och skicklighet i att kasta eller stöta tunga stenar skattades högt. Tävlingar i stenstötning arrangerades också vid antikens OS samt omtalas även i t. ex. Nibelungensagan. Uppgifterna om stenarnas vikt varierar så starkt, att en förväxling av stenstötning och primitiv tyngdlyftning säkerligen ofta föreligger. Många uppgifter är otroliga. Så har man t. ex. i Olympia funnit ett sandstensblock på 150 kg från 600-talet f. Kr. med inskription, att Bybon med en hand skulle ha kastat stenen över huvudet.

På 1400- och 1500-talen tävlades flitigt i stenstötning i Sydtyskland och Schweiz, i vilket senare land utövades denna idrott ännu ca 1940. Se även Schwingen. Sålunda nådde segraren vid en hjortfest 1808 med en 84 kg kalksten 3 m. Vid turnfesterna på 1860-talet i Tyskland återupptogs samma tävlingsform, som beskrivs i Nibelungensagan: den tävlande gjorde en stöt med en 17 kg sten och därefter ett längdhopp, varvid bästa sammanlagda resultatet räknades. Senare fastställdes stenens vikt till 15 kg.

Stenstötning i modern idrott
Stenstötning har sparsamt förekommit i modern idrott, men ingår sedan 1855 i schweiziska turnförbundets tävlingsfester. Stöten skedde med en hand, och tekniken liknade den som användes vid kulstötning (som senare helt har utträngt stenstötning från programmet).

Vid OS 1906 arrangerades en tävling med 6,35 kg sten och med samma ansatslinje som i spjutkastning. Resultatet blev:
N. Georgantas, Grekland, 19,925 cm
M. Sheridan, USA, 19,035
N. Dorizas, Grekland, 18,585
E. Lemming, Sverige

Under 1920- och 1930-talen upptogs stenstötning med 15 kg sten vid arbetarsporttävlingar i Centraleuropa, varvid stöten skedde från en halvcirkel med 3,5 m diameter.

Detta är en bearbetad artikel från Nordisk Familjeboks Sportlexikon (1938).

Se även
Kulstötning

Referenser

Källor

Friidrottsgrenar

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There is a Yoruba adage that says, "if you don't travel far, you will think your father has the largest farm". Yeah, I know about business plan. I know that people make money writing business plan. I've heard people charged N50,000.00, N100,000.00 and even N150,000.00 to write a piece of document referred to as business plan.
But sincerely, (don't blame my ignorance), I don't know that anyone can charge even one million naira to present that document to another person. I would have even considered it an "expensive service" if someone is charging any thing near N500,000.00.
But thank goodness that Prof. Adeyemo is willing to reveal that same secret he has been using since 1978 to load his pocket and bank account with cool cash with his business plan writing skill.
If you miss this training, you will miss a lot.
After talking to him and with a little bit of persuasion, we are able to convince him to come on MeritChoice's platform to show us this aged secret he has been using. He will be coming all the way from Abeokuta to teach us this great money making idea.
It wasn't an easy decision for him to leave his base but he told me that he is willing to release the knowledge he has to younger generation as age is no longer on his side and because of his health's conditions.
See, the training is nothing but transfer of knowledge and wealth. Every wise person will not allow this to elude him or her. If you are thinking this training may come up another time, I may not be able to ascertain that because it is an unsual privilege for us to have him in Lagos.
The training is scheduled for two days – Thursday, 28th March, 2019 and Friday, 29th March, 2019. On the first day, he will release every thing he knows about writing million-naira worth of business plan. The second day, he will engage the participants to write their own business plan too.
You would have thought that this is going to be highly expensive training considering that you will be learning under a professor that charges in million, but thank God, it is his own selfless contribution to other people's lives.
The training fee is just N10,000.00 for the two days. I want you to click the link below now and register as fast as possible to secure your seat.
Sam Nebo no doubt delivered excellently this last Saturday, 23rd March, 2019 as he showed attendees how he was able to make N4.5m in January, 2019 and N11. 4 m in February, 2019. He even showed what he is currently making this month of March and the amount is still in 7-figures.
It was exciting moment for the attendees. Everybody that attended the training was ready to take action. But as you know, theory is different from practical. Do you want to see similar figure on Sam Nebo's screenshot in your bank account by the end of April, 2019?
Then, Sam Nebo practical training on how to create your Business Empire on Facebook is what you need. Therefore, this coming Saturday, 30th March, 2019, Sam will practical give you what you need to make your own million by April 2019.
The training fee is just N30,000.00 (Thirty thousand naira). Please, note that the next class may be N50,000.00 if you eventually miss this one. You should plan to be part of the training this coming weekend.
Another idea we have been working with is the #90DaysToMillions plan. If you want to know about this idea, make sure you attend the FREE Seminar this Wednesday, 27th March, 2019. We will also accommodate new set of people that need the loan of N50,000.00 to N100,000.00.


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A Shift in Power
After the most recent election, power in the House o Representatives has shifted to the Democrats.
Christina Huang, Campus Editor|December 7, 2018
Tribune News Service/John Sleezer
Senator Josh Hawley won the Missouri Senate race against Incumbent Claire McCaskill by 0.6 percent of the vote.
On Nov. 6th, voters in Missouri headed to the ballots to decide on their future Congress representatives, as well as issues such as the medicinal use of marijuana, raising the minimum wage and bingo. According to time.com, the election on Nov. 6 had the highest voter participation rate for midterms in at least the past 50 years.
"When we prepare to vote, hopefully, we become more knowledgeable about the issues facing the country so it's a moment that causes us to engage as citizens," foreign policy teacher Andrew LeFors said.
Missouri ultimately passed four of the seven proposed amendments and propositions on the ballot. A revision to state redistricting, legalization of medical marijuana with a four percent tax, raising the minimum wage in yearly increments to $12 and removing the ban on groups advertising bingo games were all voted in favor of. On a national scale, Democrats won control of the House of Representatives, while Republicans maintained their hold on the Senate.
"The Democrats will have the opportunity to be a "check" on the President," LeFors said. "[Democrats] have the subpoena power in the House now. We could see more bipartisanship."
Impact in our Surroundings
Garden of Food
Improving O'Fallon
Serving Celebrities
Striking for Change


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Sharon Bird
Constituency Statement - Cunningham Electorate - Schools
Ms BIRD (Cunningham) (16:25): I want to report to the House about a visit to my electorate on 13 May, a couple of weeks ago now, by Minister Garrett to two local schools. It was an opportunity to talk more broadly in the local area about the very important education initiatives that were in the budget. I have addressed those in the budget debate so I will not go directly to those. I want to take this opportunity to thank the schools that welcomed us into their facilities and showed us some of the work that their students were doing.
We, firstly, went to Mount Ousley Public School and we were welcomed by Principal Peter Holmes and the school captains Layne Ireland and Joshua Brown. Peter is a local principal who has had a great commitment to introducing technology into the classrooms. I first met him when he was at Otford Public School in my electorate and he was running a program where the parents and fundraising in the school provided laptops for all the students. He had introduced the same thing at Mount Ousley Public School so we visited their year 6 class to see their one-to-one laptop program.
The teacher, the Assistant Principal, Mae Johnson, showed us the work the students were doing, and the students were very pleased to demonstrate to us how they were using web search tools and presentation programs. They were creating visual and video presentations on their research topics. It was far removed from the old days when I would send Mum to get the big bit of cardboard from the newsagent so that we could proceed with crayons and textas and make a nice display. These kids are producing tremendous visual and video presentations. We visited the school's new COLA and covered walkway, which was built with $2 million under the BER program, and they expressed their great pleasure in that facility.
I would refer members to the video release today on the National Broadband Network website as a conjunction to Minister Conroy's release of the Digital Economy Strategy, which shows a home of the very near future under the NBN with a student sitting learning Indonesian in a virtual classroom in the home.
It is quite exciting to see what these young people's future will be.
We then went to St Brigid's Primary School and were welcomed by Principal Jennie Werasko and met the staff. Then we visited a student group who were participating in their local leadership program, called ilead, which is a great program where the school embeds its values of leadership responsibility and gets leaders from the community to talk to the class. I was with my colleague Stephen Jones, the member for Throsby, who is a former student of the school, and he had previously addressed this program.
I just wanted to put on the record my own and, I am sure, the minister's great appreciation for the schools and for their hospitality and reflect our great admiration for the staff and the students of both schools and the achievements that they are making.