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Over 1000 young performers from Bexley take to the stage in the Bird College Festival of Music 2017. The concert features performances from the many, varied ensembles provided by the Bird College Music Service as the lead organisation of the Bexley Music Education Hub.
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We got Jack about 3 weeks ago. He was born on April 20 2014. He is an awesome pup who is about 95% house trained already. He can sit and responds to "come". We really couldn't have asked for a better dog. He will be around 50-55 pounds full grown. He weighs 16lbs now. He has been treated at our vet and given a clean bill of health and he has also been to the groomer. He does good in the car-just lays down in the seat. We have a 1, 2, 4, 8, and 11 year old kids and he does great with them (an ...
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8 weeks old and ready to go now adorable all black labradoodle puppy last one left !!! great for baths, nails clipped, car rides, great with kids and other animals started wee wee pad training already and doing very well.
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Adorable 14wk old male Labradoodle puppy, he is chocolate with hazel eyes. He is crate trained, and well on his way to being house trained. He will come with his crate, toys, Nutro large breed puppy food, and next months heart guard. He is up to date on his shots, and he is good with other dogs. Vet referrals are a must. Please contact me for more information and photos.
Dr Pepper is a brindle boy. I think he is going to be a larger boy when he is fully grown. You can see his stripes on him. He was born May 29 and will be ready to go next week. Kokomodoodles takes pride when breeding these puppies. We only get one brindle a litter. This pattern is unique and very striking.
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I have standard sized F1B non shed black labradoodles.Some curly some wavy. They will be CKC registered. They will have wormer every three weeks.Go to the vet at 6 weeks and released at 8 weeks.They are social and healthy. You may call 270-836-2185.Please do not ask for a price reduction.I can airfreight of auto deliver.A fee is involved with delivery.Enjoy the pictures
Bailey is a gorgeous, 6 week old Labradoodle puppy. Her parents are both beautiful registered dogs. Bailey will come to you up to date on shots and de-wormed. She will have had her first vet visit and will have her registration papers.
With her sweet and playful personality, Bailey would make a wonderful addition to your family. She will be available for adoption on July 25, 2014. You can reach me at (864) 328-5284. Ask for Ginny.
Labradoodle puppies born on June 14th, 2014 available in a light blonde, or soft brown.
The mother is a light blonde labrador at 50lbs, and the father is an apricot Moyen Poodle weighing 30lbs.
They're available in both colors for both sexes. Both parents are registered with the AKC. call or text for pictures of a specific puppy you're looking for or for questions.
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Lilly and Bro, our personal pets, are the proud parents of nine (9) beautiful puppies! Born on June 20th 2014 - take home ready after August 15th, 2014.
They entered this world as chocolates, apricots, English Creams, and blacks -- Mickey, Halo, Tux, Casper, Dublin, Choco, Jolie, Coco, and Fate (Lafayette).
Lilly (the mom) is a sweet apricot Labradoodle...Bro (the dad) is a handsome black Goldendoodle - so the puppies are DoubleDoodles (A.K.A. North American Retrievers) - a perfect combination of ...
Absolutely beautiful black f1B labradoodle puppy! He is calm and sweet and loves to play. He has a gorgeous wavy non-shedding coat. He is hypo-allergenic and very friendly. Great with kids. Intelligent and easily trained!
I have just reduced the price by 1/2, I'm more interested in a good home than the money, if you want an affectionate, sweet temped dog, this is her!
This is Karma, our very sweet 1 1/2 year old Champagne Labradoodle that we will sell to a good home.
This picture was taken this past April when she was very pregnant and I was loving her up, she is very affectionate and gentle.
She has a light blonde colored, pretty, low maintenance coat that does NOT need to be cut regularly like some Labradoodles.
We have a litter of 4 cream-apricot F1 mini Labradoodles born June 23 that will be ready for new homes on Aug18. The mother is a white English Labrador Retriever and the father is a white toy Poodle. Adult weight will be 20-40 pounds. Dew claws have been removed. Puppies go with first shots, dewormings, and a written one year genetic health guarantee. A $200.00 deposit is required to hold a puppy. We welcome visits and inquiries any day but Sunday. There are 3 males and one female.
CKC multi-generation labradoodle puppies-currently 7 weeks old. DOB 6-3-14, will be ready to go to her new homes at the end of the month! 6 black boys available.Multi-generation is the least likely to shed and the most hypo-allergenic. Their coats are soft, curly and wavy. We own the parents and they are onsite. Mom is a CKC multi-generation labradoodle (lines started from an AKC standard poodle with champion bloodlines dad and a CKC labradoodle mom) and she weighs approx.. 75lbs. Dad is an AKC ...
I have 7 beautiful labradoodle babies 4 wks old, 4 males 3 females. 6 black and one chocolate. Raised inside our home and will be very social and playful when ready for new homes. Both parents on site Mom is a standard parti poodle and dad is a AKC champion Labrador retriever. They will come up to date on deworming and puppy vaccinations. We are asking 700$ for black and 800$ for our chocolate female. For more info please feel free to call or text :) 864-963-4500 (A 250$ non-refundable deposit is ...
F1b Labradoodles, Male (2) Female (8), Cream Color, Born July 01, 2014 and ready for their forever home on August 23, 2014.
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Puppies due in fall/winter taking deposits, most will be choc in color.
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This is a great looking Antique Arts & Crafts Gustav Stickley Two Door Bookcase from the early 1900’s.
This bookcase is in great condition with the original finish and the original hardware.
There is a small minor stain on the top as you can see in the pictures.
We can remove this stain if you would like for no extra cost. The cabinet is pinned all around and the inside has a clean finish. Each door has 12 individual panes of glass which makes this a very attractive design. This bookcase is sturdy and strong and it is ready to be used in your home or business.
We do have several furniture items listed and will combine shipping if you need more than one item to save you money. Also, we will give a discount if you buy multiple pieces of furniture at a time. We have several different styles and prices of furniture, so look around our site because there is something for everyone either listed or at our shop waiting to be listed.

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Corporal Works of Mercy - Clothe the Naked and give Shelter to the Homeless
During term 5 our focus was on clothing the naked and sheltering the homeless. We decided to support CALAID, a charity that supports refugees in camps in Calais. We collected a huge amount of clothing, toiletries, blankets and tents. These items have been taken to Calais and will make a significant difference to the lives of many.
Coronavirus Update20th November 2020 Dear Parents and Carers of St Bernadette Pupils, The past few weeks have seen an increase in Coronavirus cases across the country and particularly in Bristol, which in the past week recorded 471 cases per 100,000 people, which is over double the national average of 216. Sadl...Read full story
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Proof Research Ruger Precision Rifle Carbon Fiber Barrel
The carbon fiber barrel from PROOF Research features an internal barrel constructed with 416R stainless-steel that features match-grade qualities. The company then surrounds the barrel with its patented carbon-fiber-based matrix, which provides a number of incredible features.
- Barrels are 64 percent lighter than standard options
- Accuracy is guaranteed with match-grade components
- Barrel life is improved through enhanced heat dissipation
- Barrel harmonics are improved, as well as reduced POI shift during fire.
The PROOF Research carbon fiber barrel for the Ruger Precision Rifle also features a threaded muzzle with 5/8×24 TPI thread pitch, making it easy to add a number of aftermarket accessories to the gun’s muzzle.
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Dr. Rosen is a Board Certified Psychiatrist who works with individual children, adolescents, adults & families and provides treatment using a variety of evidence based non-medication and medication interventions.
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Payment for service is collected at the time of your appointment. If you are on a PPO plan, we are considered “out of network.”Dr. Rosen does not accept insurance directly as payment, but will assist you in obtaining reimbursement from your insurance.
If you wish to be reimbursed for your sessions, you will need to consult your insurance company to determine their policies regarding mental health benefits for out-of network providers. Dr. Rosen can provide a paper bill to submit to your insurance company for reimbursement. Many patients with out of network benefits collect partial or full reimbursement.

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Send a message of hope to refugees
Forced out by war, poverty and persecution, millions of people live uncertain lives as migrants and refugees. But each of us, moved by faith, can act in welcome, respect and love.
We invite you to use this short film as inspiration to add your own message below. These will be shared with refugees in the UK or around the world.


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A Lion In the House
Time Out says
Tue Jul 25 2006Here’s one of the many insights and complexities and sadnesses at the heart of ‘A Lion in the House’, a remarkable and immersive new documentary about five children living and dying with cancer in Cincinnati that runs to almost four hours and took over six years to make. Shortly after being diagnosed with Hodgkins lumphoma and experiencing the unusual fuss of family, friends, doctors and nurses, teenager Tim tells the camera, with brutal honesty and laghter, ‘I love the attention.’ A year or so later, and around two hours further into the film (to be presented at the ICA with an interval), we witness a different Tim, a shadow of his earlier self, positioned upright in a stark hospital chair, almost motionless, quiet, an oxygen mask covering his face and breathing with great difficulty. Now, the attention is all ours, and it’s only because of the careful work of husband-and-wife team Stephen Bognar and Julia Reichert that what we are witnessing – a slow death – feels neither invasive nor unnecessary but rather an important, indeed essential, element of a serious and careful attempt to illustrate what it means to be a child diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness and, in some cases, to die.
The inspiration for the film initially came from the medical establishment; Dr Robert Arceci, the chief oncologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center invited Bognar and Reichert to make a film about the hospital’s work. This explains the unprecedented access the pair gained to hospital wards, private meetings, the operating room, sensitive discussions among doctors and even, in one case, the washing of the body after death. But this is not just an intimate view from the hospital ward. The filmmakers closely follow the families of their five subjects – Tim, Justin, Alex, Jen and Al – and not only in the context of medicine and doctors. We are also party to the families’ reactions to diagnosis, treatment, possible death and, in three of the five cases, death itself.
The camera never flinches. We witness spinal taps, brain surgery, cancer camp and bedside prayers. We attend funerals. We carry flowers to the grave. Voiceover is limited, and the filmmakers reject an entirely linear approach, not bothering with possibly confusing titles to explain exact dates and times. A prologue notes the hospital’s original invitation to the filmmakers and that Reichert’s own daughter had recently survived cancer, helping to establish the filmmakers’ purpose and, along with sensitive editing, defy charges of exploitation or voyeurism.
‘A Lion in the House’ presents the unthinkable and the unforeseen plainly, uncensored and sensitively thanks to an enormous investment of time and intelligence. That much is clear. But what also emerges is a snapshot of America now; these different children – black and white, rich and poor – and their disease together act as mirrors on racial divisions, economic rifts, personal ambitions, collective hopes, deep-rooted fears and the routines of normal life made obvious by abnormal circumstances. What arises too is the deeply moving and upsetting – but also comforting – fact that when threatened with the loss of someone so close to you as a child, nothing matters but love.
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This deal has ended.
Right now at UrbanOutfitters.com, more than 15 dresses in the sale section are marked down to $9.99. The pictured Sparkle & Fade Metal O-Ring Bodycon Dress, for example, drops from $59 to $9.99 and this BDG Ribbed V-Back Cami Dress falls from $49 to $9.99. Shipping is a flat rate of $10 or free if you spend $50 or more. Sales tax is charged in most states.

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Katniss Everdeen fans rejoice! A prequel film to ‘The Hunger Games’ has officially been confirmed.
Prequel film The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes will be adapted straight from Suzanne Collins’ book, set to be published 19 May 2020.
With Collins herself taking the role of executive producer, the film adaption will be directed by Francis Lawrence, director of Catching Fire and Mockingjay parts one and two.
The Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes is set 64 years prior to the Hunger Games trilogy, following Coriolanus Snow as an 18-year-old boy.
According to an excerpt from the upcoming novel, published by Entertainment Weekly, we see ‘Snow as our new protagonist, a teenager born to privilege but searching for something more, a far cry from the man we know he will become. Here, he’s friendly. He’s charming. And, for now anyway, he’s a hero.’
In a statement about the upcoming addition to The Hunger Games film franchise, Suzanne Collins said ‘Lionsgate has always been the cinematic home of ‘The Hunger Games,’ and I’m delighted to be returning to them with this new book.’
‘From the beginning, they have treated the source material with great respect, honoring the thematic and narrative elements of the story, and assembling an incredible team both in front of and behind the camera.’
‘It’s such a pleasure to be reuniting with [producer] Nina [Jacobson], [director] Francis [Lawrence] and [screenwriter] Michael [Arndt] to adapt the novel to the screen, and having them share their remarkable talents, once again, with the world of Panem.’
The Hunger Games film franchise, compiling of four films so far has been a resounding success, grossing $2.97 billion worldwide.


Our previous low-light camera comparison between the Samsung Galaxy Note9 and two other Android smartphones was so popular, we decided to pit it against the best smartphone Apple could produce – the iPhone X.
Check out our low-light shootout between the Samsung Galaxy Note9 and the Apple iPhone X!
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Jul 19, 2013, 11:43 AM EDT
This afternoon, tickets for Sunday’s Gold Cup quarterfinal double-header in Baltimore are close to selling out.
Quite a remarkable show of support from the people of Maryland.
But don’t expect fans of the U.S. national team to have it all their own way when Sunday rolls around.
Fans of El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica are said to be snapping up tickets for the two games as the Central American nations have plenty of supporters in and around the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.
So will the American Outlaws and other USMNT supporters groups have their work cut out to make plenty of noise?
You’d think the large majority of the crowd in Baltimore would be supporting Jurgen Klinsmann’s side. But on Tuesday tickets sales were approaching 25,000… now it’s almost sold out. Stunning. Does that mean MLS has a future in Baltimore? That’s an entirely different issue, but with past talks of D.C. United relocating there, maybe….
Anyway, there will be a good indicator as to the level of support for the U.S. after their game at 4pm ET, as you’ll see how many fans stay behind for the Honduras vs. Costa Rica quarterfinal at 7pm ET. But with crowds of just over 25,000 in Hartford and less than that in Utah, has the USA’s attendance levels in the Gold Cup been a disappointment? Consider MLS is still going on, no.
Soccer fans will have made special plans to follow the USA but after the recent World Cup qualifiers, many won’t be traveling too far in order to support Klinsmann’s men in the Gold Cup.
As for Klinsmann, he’s slightly worried that it will be more like an away game at the home of the Baltimore Ravens.
arrived in Baltimore! Beautiful city!! We all hope for a PRO AMERICAN sell-out 1/4 final crowd vs El Salvador !!!—
Jürgen Klinsmann (@J_Klinsmann) July 18, 2013
However pro-American the crowd are during the Gold Cup quarterfinal on Sunday, it’s sure to be an incredible atmosphere. After the USA’s opener in Portland amongst much fanfare, the Gold Cup tournament will come back to life in Baltimore this weekend.
A crowd of over 70,000 will make themselves heard. But have a listen out for which supporters are the loudest, my gut feeling tells me the U.S. fans may have to take a back seat in their own nation.
Jul 23, 2014, 11:27 PM EDT
Surely one of these clubs enjoyed the sweeter side of this deal and here we set out to see who it was.
Jul 23, 2014, 10:40 PM EDT
Despite starting only 12 Premier League matches last year, James Milner has decided to remain at Manchester City and fight for his place.
Jul 23, 2014, 10:00 PM EDT
Catch the San Jose Earthquakes and Chicago Fire live on NBCSN and online via Live Extra tonight at 10:30pm ET.
Jul 23, 2014, 9:43 PM EDT
In a relaxed match featuring over forty players, the difference came in the 89th minute as Marco Borriello knocked home a corner.
Jul 23, 2014, 8:50 PM EDT
Rijeka have come forward to say they “clearly and unequivocally reject” City’s allegation of racism.
Jul 23, 2014, 8:21 PM EDT
Beasley signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with the Dynamo and becomes the club’s third Designated Player.
Jul 23, 2014, 6:48 PM EDT
Catch Liverpool and AS Roma live on NBCSN and online via Live Extra tonight at 7:00pm ET.
Jul 23, 2014, 5:49 PM EDT
Jurgen Klinsmann has long coveted Zelalem and the 17-year old looks to be next in line to don the Stars & Stripes.
Jul 23, 2014, 5:01 PM EDT
According to Fuchs, Germany and France would be happy to take over if needed.
Jul 23, 2014, 4:21 PM EDT
Sigurdsson, who scored seven goals during a loan spell with Swansea in 2011/12, returns at the Liberty after two seasons at Spurs.
Jul 23, 2014, 2:40 PM EDT
Can the Spanish international be a success at Chelsea? You bet.
Jul 23, 2014, 1:46 PM EDT
Is there anything Balotelli can’t do?
Jul 23, 2014, 1:16 PM EDT
Will Lampard be suiting up at Yankee Stadium for NYC FC next season? We find out Thursday…
Jul 23, 2014, 12:26 PM EDT
What would your school look like as a professional soccer team?
Jul 23, 2014, 11:40 AM EDT
The show will go on, but not in eastern Ukraine as fighting between pro-Russian rebels and the military continues.
Jul 23, 2014, 10:52 AM EDT
German boss reveals he will stay on as manager until at least 2016. Can you smell a dynasty?
Jul 23, 2014, 10:18 AM EDT
Substance over style: Barca sign towering defender from La Liga rivals Valencia.
Jul 23, 2014, 9:29 AM EDT
Will the Mexican international be moving on this summer?
Jul 23, 2014, 8:46 AM EDT
Aspas to Spanish radio: “They are treating Luis like a murderer and not like a footballer.”
Jul 23, 2014, 8:07 AM EDT
Cole: “People were killing me about possibly playing in the USA, saying it’s for the money and easy lifestyle, I choose to play in a more demanding place and team.”
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- Liverpool 0-1 AS Roma: Marco Borriello winner gives Italians victory at Fenway 0
- Houston Dynamo land USMNT legend DaMarcus Beasley 1
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Click here to rate your favorite Super Bowl commercials on Ad Meter.
GoDaddy’s Super Bowl LI ad is made for the Internet age. The 30-second commercial, which will air during the first quarter, is chock full of references to online culture, funny memes, and viral video sensations. To fully soak in everything hiding in the spot, you really need to watch the whole thing a few times.
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Violinist Alina Ming Kobialka has been praised as a remarkable young soloist due to her beautiful tone, effortless precision, and musical maturity beyond her years. After her first guest solo appearance with orchestra at the age of ten, she has toured and performed with many ensembles, both nationally and internationally. The San Francisco Classical Voice described her as a “jaw-droppingly assured” soloist, who “made present and future converge.” The Las Vegas Review Journal wrote, “Watch for her name. She appears to be bound for greatness.”
At the age of 13, Alina won the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra’s Concerto Competition and performed the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the orchestra. The following summer, she toured with them throughout Europe, performing in some of the continent’s most prestigious halls and festivals, including the Berlin Philharmonie and Rheingau Musik Festival.
A year later, Ms. Kobialka made her solo debut with the San Francisco Symphony at their 100th Anniversary Reunion Concert in Davies Symphony Hall, where she has since returned twice as a soloist. She was also featured live on the nationally acclaimed radio show NPR’s From the Top.
In 2014, Alina made her debut with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and was featured on the morning show “Vegas Morning Blend” on ABC. Later that year, she performed with renowned violinist Laurent Korcia and the Colburn Academy Virtuosi Orchestra at the Colburn School. She also toured with the Kagawa International Intercultural Youth Orchestra in Japan.
Ms. Kobialka began 2015 in Asia, where she performed with the Macau Youth Symphony for their New Years’ Concert, and was featured on the Macau Morning Show. She also made her debut with the California Symphony, and returned as a guest soloist with Symphony Parnassus for their 25th Anniversary Concert.
Alina was awarded second prize at the 2017 inaugural Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition as the youngest competitor. Other accolades include grand prize at the 2012 Mondavi Center National Young Artists Competition, finalist in the 2012 Menuhin International Violin Competition, winner of the Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation Scholarship of the 2018 Musician’s Club of Women Music Scholarship Auditions, the Evanston Music Club Competition, and a recipient of the 2018 Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund.
Notable concerts include making her debut in the Shanghai International Arts Festival Gala Concert, the San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox Concert Series, and with Vadim Gluzman and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra. This summer, she is making her debut with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, and returning as an artist at the Marlboro Music Festival.
Upcoming concert engagements include performing with world-renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, a guest artist recital at Southwestern University in Texas, Brahms Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with the California Symphony, and three Marlboro National Tours.
Alina is a Colburn Music Academy alumna. Her past teachers include Robert Lipsett, Danielle Belen, Wei He, and Li Lin, and she currently studies with Ilya Kaler at the Cleveland Institute of Music.


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• Review: "[Pim & Francie]'s spine calls its contents 'artifacts and bone fragments,' as if they're what's left for a forensic scientist to identify after a brutal murderer has had his way with them; Columbia obsessively returns to images of 'bloody bloody killers.' ... Many of the pieces are just one or two drawings, as if they've been reduced to the moment when an idyllic piece of entertainment goes hideously awry. But they're also showcases for Columbia's self-frustrating mastery: his absolute command of the idiom of lush, old-fashioned cartooning, and the unshakable eeriness of his visions of horror." – Publishers Weekly
• Review: "With [Pim & Francie], Al Columbia has created not only one of the more unsettling works of horror in the medium of comics, but it also happens to be one of the greatest myth-making objects... Whether Columbia planned more complete stories for any of the efforts collected here is an interesting question, but for my money he has instead come up with dozens of nightmarish scenarios that have a greater cumulative effect by skipping set-ups or endings. The ending, one suspects, is always going to be a variation of horrific death and dismemberment." – Christopher Allen, Comic Book Galaxy
I knew I was getting off too easy! Nick Gazin is trying to kill me. There are also some negative reviews of our books at the links below, but I won't say any more about those:
• Review: "Fantagraphics has come to my foreign comic book rescue and published hardcovered English translations of West Coast Blues, which was good, and [You Are There], which is great. ... Tardi has nice skinny lines and large fields of black. His architecture and cars and landscapes are amazing. Just the idea of Arthur There running up and down the walls and living in this skinny little house are neat ideas. This book talks a lot about what it’s like when you spend your life alone and how nuts a slutty crazy girl can make you. ... Summing up: If you hate everything that isn’t old timey and French and love sluts who are nuts then get this book fast." – Nick Gazin, Vice
• Review: "[Portable Grindhouse] presents the most beautiful and lurid VHS boxes ever produced. ... Someone was inevitably going to make this book and Jacques Boyreau made something special that a lot of people are going to love owning. The design is beautiful, the art is reproduced perfectly, and the paper stock feels especially good. It even comes packed in a slipcase that looks like a VHS sleeve spattered in blood. A well-designed book showing off these funny and beautiful examples of a dead medium would be enough, but the introductary essay is a revelatory piece on the importance of VHS and the role it played in cinematic history." – Nick Gazin, Vice (same link as above)
• Review: "[Strange Suspense: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 1] is chock-full of intense faces and monsters and colors. Strong blacks, horror comics, mean revenge, strange surgery, and stuff. It’s all horror comics from before Frederic Wertham illegalized good-time comic books. The cover is really thick and the hardcover is hard as hell." – Nick Gazin, Vice (same link as above)
• Review: "This series is awesome, perfect, and essential. I’ll die with my collection of [The Complete Crumb Comics] on my shelf unless there’s a fire or America slips into a Mad Max-style society. ... These should sit on your shelf next to the complete Shakespeare, your Bible, and the complete Sherlock Holmes." – Nick Gazin, Vice (same link as above)
• Review: "...[The Troublemakers] is a sweet little book in which a bunch of grifters try to trick each other out of money. It seems to be about love and trust and whether anybody is dependable or if they’re all trying to survive. It’s pretty great." – Nick Gazin, Vice (same link as above)
• Review: "[Prison Pit Book 1] is great and an essential read since so few new good comics get made. ... If you love or hate Johnny R. you gotta get this shit. It is important. Buy buy buy." – Nick Gazin, Vice (new link!)
• Review: "Every issue of Love and Rockets is a winner and I am never bored by anything the Hernandez Brothers do. The comics have been so consistently good since the first one came out in 1981 that there's almost no point in reviewing [New Stories #2] other than to say, 'Hey, it came out so go to the store and you can buy it now.'" – Nick Gazin, Vice (same link as above)
• Review: "Tardi is a legend of European comics and it's wonderful to have hardbound English translations of his work. [West Coast Blues] is full of beautiful drawings of Paris, people, cars, fights, and rural life. The story deals with the human condition and what it means to be a man and civilization versus nature while the main character hides from hit men in the mountains. This book feels... like an updated Tintin..." – Nick Gazin, Vice (same link as above)
• Review: "Back in the Golden Age of comics there were few comic auteurs but Fletcher Hanks was one of the few. ... The stories [in You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation!] are weird and grim. The art is unprofessional and beautiful." – Nick Gazin, Vice (same link as above)
• Review: "Peanuts was an amazing comic. Charles Schulz was an amazing artist. Fantagraphics' Complete Peanuts series are great and [1973-1974] is the best one yet. The humor is unparalleled and the stories are great. ... Charles Schulz was a sad and funny guy and this book features him at his saddest and funniest. If you bought some of the earlier volumes in this series and then forgot about it, then it's time to catch up." – Nick Gazin, Vice (same link as above)
Online Commentary & Diversions, now with more Tonya Harding than ever:
• Review: "Occasionally, there are works of art or literature that defy simple classification. The brain breaks upon them like waves and they give up different secrets with each tide but never all the secrets and never all at once. These creations challenge as much as they entertain and ask for obsession as toll on the road to understanding. The Squirrel Machine by Hans Rickheit is just such an enigma. ... Surreal, gorgeous, and both satisfying and confounding, The Squirrel Machine is a hypnotic, occasionally repulsive, always entertaining, and wildly creative graphic novel. It does not invite rereading so much as demands it, and each encounter reveals new and different details and interpretations. This book is a wonderful mystery, a basket of questions, a wealth of enigmas, and it looks utterly arresting every step of the way." – Christian Zabriskie, Graphic Novel Reporter
• Opinion: At Comics Comics, Dash Shaw has an interesting proposal for colleges that teach comics: "Instead of hiring teachers based on their achievements (and many of the current teachers are geniuses, no doubt about it), hire people who previously worked for many years in a now-defunct house style. Someone who drew Archie for years and is now selling their originals at Comic Con? Hire them."
• Review: "It’s probably not fair to expect Hernandez to issue another creative virtuoso like Palomar, but in the pages of Luba, he comes closer than might be expected. ... Although Luba doesn’t hit as hard as Palomar, it remains a compelling portrait of family in all its messy glory. Alternately sexy and vulgar, beautiful and mean, optimistic and intolerant, Luba and her family encompass all the ugliness and amazement that comes with being part of the human entity." – Michael C. Lorah, Newsarama
• Profile: "Cartoonist Bill Mauldin was a genius at bringing the experiences of World War II home to the moms and dads, kids, wives or girlfriends of the GIs on the front lines in a very human way. ... To my knowledge, none of our wars since has produced a chronicler anywhere near the greatness of Mauldin." – Wesley G. Hughes, San Bernadino County Sun (via Newsarama)
• Video: A massive Peanuts ice sculpture depicting A Charlie Brown Christmas is being constructed in Nashville; The Daily Cartoonist has the PR and a promo video featuring members of the Schulz family
• Industry: Our own Eric Reynolds takes part in a roundtable on the topic of "Comics in the Age of Digital Piracy" at Graphic Novel Reporter
Holy smokes, there's no shortage of Online Commentary & Diversions today:
• Review: "...Prison Pit... is nothing less than a continuous, no-holds barred, violent assault on the eyes. It is literally one god damned, bloody fight scene after another... The book's genius lies in Ryan's sheer nerve and imagination in setting up these battles; he constantly ups the ante in the most bizarre and inventive ways possible. ... Ryan's love of body functions goes into full gonzo mode here. ...you've got a book where body horror extends far beyond the repulsive into the truly sublime and inspired. ... Despite the gore, or perhaps, because of it, Prison Pit is a fantastic, accomplished work." – Chris Mautner, Robot 6
• Review: "Page after page [of The Squirrel Machine] features one of the brothers traversing through some odd, off-kilter landscape, either out in the woods, or, more often, in their home. Between the floorboards and walls seem to exist an endless array of paths and rooms, each cluttered with an endless array of junk, machines and the occasional disturbing, inexplicable oddity. The end result resembles more of an old-style adventure video game than a comic. It's Myst, directed by David Cronenberg." – Chris Mautner, Robot 6 (same link as above)
• Review: "Perhaps what makes West Coast Blues so captivating is how well it highlights the similarities between film and comics, while simultaneously showcasing its own unique ability as a graphic novel to capture the noir aesthetic through word and image. ... Not unlike many noir films, West Coast Blues is replete with car chases, hit-men, drinking, guns, and the occasional salacious scene. All of this is set in Tardi’s straightforward drawing style which is a good fit for the almost matter-of-fact, unsentimental manner in which violence, sex, and life in general are met with during the course of the book." – Sara Cole, PopMatters
• Review: "Most comic strips today, especially those that are humor strips, often avoid topical subjects. Schulz embraced the topics of the era. They may date the strip, but it never leaves them outdated. ... Schulz was also not afraid to carry on-going storylines for several days or in some cases, even a couple of weeks. ... [The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974 ] also features all the favorite subjects like Linus’ annual wait for the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown’s trip to Summer camp, and Sally’s letters to Santa Claus. This is why Peanuts is the greatest strip ever!" – Tim Janson, Newsarama
• Review: "Jason seems to delight in building firm plots, only to swiftly tug them out of sync. The resulting offbeat dynamic is punctuated with deadpan verbal, narrative and graphic punch lines, which pin the stories down at the same time that they suggest grander meanings. 'Where am I?' asks a prisoner. 'I think I'll do some gardening,' says a murdered man. 'Which way?' a son asks his father in 'You Are Here' — the heartrending emotional core of the collection [Low Moon] — as they search for his mother on a barren planet. Each line and frame could mean nothing or could mean everything in this quiet, gripping book." – Becky Ferreira, The L Magazine
• Interview: Jason speaks frankly about Low Moon with Becky Ferreira of The L Magazine (different link than above): "Low Moon, the story, wasn't long enough for a book of its own, so I had to include some other stories to fill it out. They were just ideas for shorter stories I had lying around. There wasn't meant to be any thematic unity. Death, I guess, is a repeating theme. People die a lot."
• Interview: Tommy Hill of the Columbia Daily Spectator talks to The Comics Journal assistant editor Kristy Valenti about comics criticism and The Importance of Comics: "I teach my interns that nobody cares about them and their feelings and their dog when they were 8; while their experience and perspective is valuable, it’s just a jumping off point to get at bigger things."
• Plug: "You Are There...: More beautiful Jacques Tardi, a seminal work in comics for adults in the French-language market and a first-paragraph mention work for both Tardi and writer Jean-Claude Forest." – Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter
• Plug: "[You Are There] is a strange, wordy, spicy satire, seeing a man struggle to live on the walls surrounding land stolen from him; maybe it's best to see for yourself." - Joe McCulloch, Jog - The Blog (read the rest of his blurb for some interesting background info on the book)
In a testament to the strip's artistic durability and lasting influence, The Complete Peanuts continued its domination of the Best Domestic Reprint Project category at the Harvey Awards, with the 1967-1968 and 1969-1970 volumes taking home the series's 4th award in 5 years this past weekend at the ceremony at Baltimore Comic-Con. It is our continuing honor to be able to bring these books to you. The Beat has the full list of winners.
Late nite link blogging for your Online Commentary & Diversions:
• Review: "You wanna talk about a gateway comic? How 'bout handing this sucker [Ganges #3] to anyone who's ever had trouble falling asleep? The whole thing is dedicated to nothing more or less than reproducing the mental and physical sensations of insomnia. Ironically it's Huizenga's most action-driven comic this side of Fight or Run or the video-game bits in Ganges #2. ... Combine it with one of the most effective uses yet of the Ignatz series' two-tone color palette--here a cool small-hours blue--and the experience is almost tactile, as though you're physically tunneling through the mysteries of your own mind." – Sean T. Collins [ed. note: I swear I'll have the issue up for presale on the website next week]
• Review: "No one is safe in Al Columbia’s world. Not the kittens (they get decapitated) nor the children (they get baked into pies) nor the bunnies (they carry scythes). Correspondingly, no one is innocent. Grandmothers are evil, grandfathers are greedy, and trees grow baby heads instead of apples and oranges. What a wonderful world it is. That’s not an entirely ironic evaluation of Pim & Francie, a collection of sketches, strips, stills and other valuable ephemera from the mind of Columbia (creator of the 1990s cult classic Biologic Show). The twisted narratives and characters are presented so deftly — with such humor and visual panache — that their wrongness becomes right; and thus is the singular charm of Al Columbia." – Molly Young, We Love You So
• Review/Profile: "Earlier this year, Fantagraphics gave readers the opportunity to encounter [Harvey] Kurtzman’s creative energy in complete form by reissuing a boxed collection of Humbug, his short-lived but monumental periodical that began publication in summer of 1957. It’s Humbug that functions as the spiritual father for magazines such as National Lampoon, Spy and The Onion, among many others, but there’s something invigorating about it because of its vantage point in the supposedly stodgy and bland 1950s. Coming out of that decade, Humbug really did break new ground." – John Mitchell, North Adams Transcript
• Review: "Even though Woodstock casts a large shadow on the cover of Fantagraphics’ The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974, it’s Peppermint Patty who should get star billing. Not to take anything away from Snoopy’s yellow-feathered avian sidekick – who does make several appearances through the hardcover tome – it’s just that Patty eventually gets the brunt of character development attention, while Woodstock exists as the perfect foil for Snoopy. ... Also of note is Schulz’s repeated use of standard gags (Lucy pulling the football from Charlie) along with a few new ones, including the consoling 'Poor, sweet baby.' Because of his tendency to keep running gags contained within a year’s span, it makes a trade collection work better than with most comic strips." – Christopher Irving, Graphic NYC
• Review: "What quickly becomes clear is that the graphic novel is a particularly apt form for inhabiting unconventional characters, and very few do this as well as The Squirrel Machine. Wielded skilfully, images are as expressive as words, and occasionally more so. Rickheit's drawings convey the boys' tortured feelings of persecution, elation and curiosity — as well as their uncouth creative urges — in a succinct and often gruesome way. Rickheit's frames vary from the cluttered to the stark, and his ability to pack detail into four square inches is rivalled only by his ingenious use of white space. ...The Squirrel Machine convinces anew that a picture is worth a thousand words." – Molly Young, Intelligent Life
• Interview: For Marvel.com, Sean T. Collins talks to Strange Tales contributor Tony Millionaire: "Just as you called, I was reading an old collection of THOR... It's funny: 'I say thee nay'? I didn't realize that was such a popular phrase."
• Review: "The graphic novel, it turns out, is a form especially well-suited to the noir genre. Maybe this isn’t surprising — comics have always run the gamut of moods from goofy to autobiographical to just plain smutty. But it still gives a shiver of pleasure to stumble upon a graphic novel that captures the hardboiled tone of classic noir as perfectly as West Coast Blues, Jacques Tardi’s adaptation of a 1976 crime novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette. ... The plot includes bursts of bruality, dark realizations, alluring women and grizzled observations from its antihero — all the best conventions of noir, in other words, preserved and reborn in a fresh new medium. File it next to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler." – Molly Young, We Love You So
• Review: "I had a significant crush on The Death Of Speedy Ortiz the summer I was 20 years old, reading and re-reading the serialized story with a passion I had never brought to a single comic story before then. ... I thought it was wonderful that summer I read it 10,000 times, and I remain convinced it's a special story every time I've picked it up since." – Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter
• Review: "One of the many, many things I like about Kevin Huizenga's work is that a lot of his comics are about things that are not likely candidates for visual representation, and he manages to make them fascinating to look at anyway. Most of [Ganges #3] is about the process of perceiving one's own consciousness--the sort of hyperconsciousness of your own mind that happens when you're trying to get to sleep and can't--which is potentially the least interesting thing anybody could draw. And it looks fantastic..." – Douglas Wolk, The Savage Critics
• Review: "[Prince Valiant Vol. 1: 1937-1938] is gorgeous. ... [Hal] Foster is frequently cited as an influence on other great cartoonists, and part of it is his precise line and the way he builds a convincing world from authentic architecture, clothing and armaments. That's part of the appeal, but Foster also excels at staging. ... Unlike daily strip collections, the full, weekly Prince Valiant page ends up a brisk, headlong read... Prince Valiant is something I picked up expecting to admire. I had no idea I would love it. – Christopher Allen, Comic Book Galaxy
• Review: "Although far from all the artists represented in the new anthology From Wonderland with Love are so experimental with form and content that you must ask yourself if this can really still be termed comics, it is truly the cream of the crop who are assembled here. This collection offers a great perspective on how broad and versatile the talent pool is in Denmark." – Torben Rølmer Bille, Kulturkapellet (translated from Danish)
• Interview: At Largehearted Boy, author Jami Attenberg talks to Ellen Forney, saying "This mixture of openness and strength makes her work... extremely powerful and relatable, and probably very necessary for your bookshelf." From Ellen: "Sometimes I have to reflect and remind myself that I do have many more skills and more experience in my repertoire at this point, and to appreciate that the challenges don't freak me out so much. Still, some challenges are exhilarating and some are a pain in the ass."
• Commentary: At Comics Comics, Dash Shaw comments on and posts a transcript of a panel he was on at TCAF earlier this year

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Casey Marie Anthony Murder Case
Lies to Freedom
By Monica Ray
I understand how so many people can feel for Cindy and George Anthony’s pain for losing Caylee, but I can’t ignore how much they know and that Cindy feels somewhat responsible for Caylee’s death. Why would her son, Lee, make up the story that she shared with him that she had a big fight about money, and that she threatened to take custody of Caylee from Casey the night before Caylee was sacrificed? That fight included a physical attack by Cindy upon Casey. Yet, when asked by Casey’s attorney, Jose Baez, about it when she was under oath on the witness stand, she denied or, more appropriately, lied that a fight ever occurred. I took particular note of how she answered Jose Baez’s question put to her about knowing about a time when Lee entered Casey’s bedroom when she was a teenager. She said, “No.” What she did after saying that was telling. She immediately glued her lips together and threw off a look that I read to say, so how do you like that answer? It wasn’t bad enough that she denied and lied about her daughter’s pregnancy, but she made the unsolicited comment on the witness stand, when she talked about changing the date of the baby shower, that Caylee was a “preemie”. Originally, claiming she was a preemie was to hide that Jesse Grund couldn’t be the father, but his DNA test proved otherwise. Even young Jesse saw that Caylee was full-term. That’s what made him get a DNA test. The point of making this lying statement at this point is what? Is there any question about where her daughter learned to lie? It must be in their DNA. People inherit all sorts of traits, not just features, hair, eye and skin color.
Armed with the knowledge that a defense attorney is not supposed to perpetrate a fraud upon the court, I had to assume that everything Jose Baez claimed in his opening statement, true or not, came from his client. The problem about the child molestation claim is, unless the child molester admits to being guilty of child molestation, how can it be proved? It can’t. Even if Casey took the stand, it would have been testimony based on he said she said and would ultimately prove nothing. What are the chances a child molester is going to simply admit to committing a crime that could put him behind bars? George Anthony came across as a liar, too, when he couldn’t bring himself to admit to having an affair with River Cruz. I questioned how he knew so much about her personal life, that he was so quick to share, if their relationship was innocent. It exposed him as being just as dishonest as his wife and daughter. I’m not even going to take the time to elaborately comment about his unexplainable inability to take ownership of duct tape or having clear knowledge of how their pets were dressed before being laid to rest.
Just before Casey was released from jail on July 17, 2011, it was said that George said she wasn’t welcome to come home. Then, the day of her release, it was reported that was not so. A family of liars inures to them being able to stay close. None of them is any more or less of a liar than the other, so there is no need to point fingers at anyone, so why would Casey stay away from her lying family for nearly three years, and after her release? I believe it’s because she knows that they know she killed Caylee. Why would they want to see her? Maybe because they need to hear from her own lips admit that she killed Caylee, as if that’s ever going to happen. Do they really need her to confirm what they already know? Getting threats and being “fed up”, can you truly believe she’s welcome to go home? They didn’t even want to act as a decoy when she was being released from jail, so how does that fit in with them still welcoming her to come home?
After the trial, the “babysitter” Leonard Padilla put in the Anthony home to keep track of Casey after she was bailed out of jail in 2008 said on the Dr. Drew show that Casey said, in front of Lee, George, Cindy and herself, that “I’m the only one who knows what happened.” Does this not fly in the lying face of her attorney’s claim in his opening statement, and continuous allegations during the trial, that George knows what happened and had a hand in how Caylee was disposed? How can Casey point a criminal finger at George when she admitted to her family’s face that she is the only one who knows what happened? How unconscionable can a person get? Before Caylee’s bones were found, she pointed the finger at Jesse Grund. She claimed she believed he drowned her because he was infatuated with Caylee. How many people could she not be the least bit concerned about losing their reputation or freedom to spare her own? I’m not even going to get into how she threw Zenaida Gonzalez under the bus.
It was disturbing to hear the investigators claim in their post-trial press conference that, until December 11, 2008, they believed they were always looking for a live child. If they believed that, they should go into another line of work and, yes, I would say this to their face. They had a car that smelled of death; a certified liar taking them on wild goose chases who was eventually seen on camera to be movie shopping on the night of Caylee’s death; she unconscionably went shopping with her friend’s funds within days; never showed a single sign of mourning her child’s disappearance (death), and they believed they were searching for a live child the whole time. (Ahem. They forgot Casey was indicted for murder eight weeks before Caylee's remains were found in mid-October.)
What angered me most was that the State prosecutors filed this case as a capital murder case. I was immediately incensed about this for an array of reasons, even before I came to see their case was circumstantial and they didn’t have a cause of death, admission of guilt or witness. (I have wondered what brought about the rumors early on by neighbors that Caylee drowned. Did someone know she was in the pool at some point that afternoon? Did someone see or hear something?) There are a lot of heinous murders that are not charged as capital murder cases, so I was troubled by why these prosecutors were so hungry and happy to put a person as young as Casey to death. It seemed like an overkill when life in prison would be a better punishment for someone so young, and certainly a whole lot less expensive for the State since the State would be footing the now very expensive bill for the State to prosecute and her attorneys to put on a defense. It was even more outrageous when I saw how they couldn’t prove a cause of death. With a capital murder case where the known defense is accidental drowning they had some big problems. Even Jeffrey Ashton in post-trial interviews admits he couldn’t put on what he believed the motive was for Casey killing Caylee - that Caylee got all the attention that Casey once enjoyed. (Ahem.) I believe it was all about a seriously volatile mother-daughter relationship and Caylee’s existence prohibited Casey from escaping her parents’ clutches. Imagine being choked by your mother amidst a heated threat to take custody of your child and maybe prosecute you for grand theft of your grandfather’s funds. Her parents admitted Casey lived life on the edge. Here she went as far as jumping off a cliff and still managed to survive her diabolical ways.
If the State can’t prove motive, and motive has to be proven when you make the decision to bring a capital murder charge, then lower your charge. When a jury is put in the position to have to weigh if it was an accidental drowning versus some convoluted non-provable chloroform and duct tape theory, they’re in a quandary where convicting on first degree capital murder is concerned. If they don’t have enough evidence to prove first degree murder, where is the evidence to convict on second degree murder or even aggravated manslaughter? At best, given the defendant’s accidental drowning claim, they could only convict on gross negligence that resulted in Caylee’s death, and criminal disposition of her remains, but they weren’t given the option to come to that decision. If they were, Casey would still be behind bars. I was shocked when, during his closing argument, Jeff Ashton said to the jurors, after he gave his opinion of what happened to Caylee, if the jurors come up with some way of their own, that’s okay. It was even more disturbing when he said, “We can only hope chloroform was used before the duct tape was applied.” OMG!!!!! Try putting duct tape on a nearly three year old who is awake. Using the word “hope” confirmed their theory was mere speculation. You don’t leave it on the jury’s back to come up with how the victim was murdered.
Quite frankly, it’s the State’s duty to hand the jury the case on a silver platter when they’re asked to consider the ultimate penalty of death. This just angered me more that they filed this as a capital murder case. Even they knew they didn’t have evidence to prove murder beyond a reasonable doubt. There was evidence that may have satisfied that charge, but they couldn’t or didn’t want to bring it on, and the witnesses that would have helped to secure that charge would rather lie under oath than to secure justice for Caylee. True, Casey’s lying and post death conduct was outrageous, but no more outrageous as her pre-death conduct. How can one expect a pathological liar to suddenly tell the truth, even about an accidental drowning? Her first thought is going to be how was she going to lie her way out of that one? She wasn’t going to all of a sudden conduct herself in an honest fashion. This is where her life-long lies inured to her favor. Besides, at age 22, with a confrontational and domineering mother like Cindy, it isn’t so outlandish that she would freak out if it was an accident (not that I think it was accidental, its just that this is a different kind of defendant). I thought it was rather unintelligent for both of the prosecutors to say, “Why would anyone make an accident look like a murder?” Casey didn’t make it look like a murder. No doubt, she never expected Caylee’s remains to ever be found. It didn’t help the State’s case for them to make so many unintelligent statements like they did.
The one thing I don’t think Cindy intentionally lied about is what everyone thinks she did lie about - the chloroform searches. I just think she was a year off in her calculations, before her dogs died which was before Caylee died. I’ll get to the dying dogs in a minute. I wrote a novel titled The Last Page. My weapon of choice was chloroform. I searched it on the internet and recall that neck breaking came up. I also recall that the word shovel came up, too. I do believe, however, that the searches done at the time in question were done by Casey; however, don’t forget the fact that the 84 searches was dispelled by the defense. The State talked about the searches occurring over a two day period. Who would make 84 searches in two days? At the investigators press conference, while they said there was nothing they would do differently (ahem), the admitted not so experienced forensic computer expert said she learned a lot from this case and is getting better at her job. (lol) This was in reference to the 84 searches being a mistake. About the Anthonys’ dying dogs, it’s common knowledge among professionals who work with abused children that they often abuse and kill animals. (Hmm.)
I don’t even know where to begin when assessing psychologists and psychiatrists who can’t bring themselves to say Casey has clinical mental problems short of declaring that chronically confabulating lies, cheating, criminally stealing, and killing as if its no big deal in no way constitutes having mental problems. I do wonder why Judge Belvin would court appoint Harry Koft to assess Casey when years earlier, while a prosecutor, Judge Belvin wiped the floor up with him in one of the cases he prosecuted. Until this case, that was the only time they professionally crossed paths.
What could the prosecutors have done? They could have brought an intentional drowning case to take the wind out of the defense’s claim that it was an accidental drowning. That would have brought a cohesive case to the jury and make better sense of all of the post death conduct by Casey. There theory of what happened was just that, a theory. They couldn’t prove any of it, so why not go with what the defense was going to use? It was no less a theory than the one they put on, and was very likely true – not that it was an accident, but that she drowned. There was no way to prove otherwise. This wouldn’t be the first notorious case where mothers drowned their children. (Susan Smith and Andrea Yates, to name a couple.) I don’t recall any evidence or testimony stating Caylee’s death could not have been a drowning. If they could prove that with dry bones, then testimony proving it was impossible for Caylee to have drowned would have been put on, and it wasn’t. Based on the defense’s claim it was an accidental drowning, and the interview Detective Edwards had with Jesse Grund on September 8, 2008, wherein Jesse said Casey was saying she believed he drowned Caylee, I happen to believe Caylee drowned – at her mother’s hand. It’s the prosecutor’s job to out smart, out wit, and out play the criminal. Here, they let an immature lying ass 22 year old get over on them at the cost of millions of dollars. What a damn shame.
Some of the questions I would ask Casey were I to interview her are:
1. Your defense was that Caylee drown. Describe exactly what happened from 1:00 p.m., and until you arrived at your boyfriend’s house around 4:00 p.m., on June 16, 2008.
2. Why didn’t you report her drowning immediately?
3. Why did you hold on to Caylee’s remains for so long?
4. What made you decide to put her remains where you did?
5. Who is the most important person in your life?
6. What makes [name of person] the most important person in your life?
7. In one of the letters you wrote in jail you said you wanted to adopt a child. You probably will want to have another child of your own some day. What about having a child and being a mother would make you happy?
8. During all of those months you pretended to go to work and left Caylee in the hands of someone else to care for her, where did you go and what did you do all that time?
9. What was going through your mind during that first month after Caylee died about how you were going to have to eventually explain what happened to Caylee?
10. According to your friends, you had nightmares after Caylee died. Is that true ? If yes, describe the nightmares you were having.
11. How were you able to go about your life as if nothing happened after your daughter died?
12. Why did you point the finger at Jesse Grund, Zeniada Gonzalez, and your own father for being involved when you admittedly said to your family that you are the “only one who knows what happened” to Caylee?
13. If you could live your life over again starting at age twelve, what would you change?
14. During one of your parents’ visits with you when you were in jail, you screamed “I will lie! I will steal!” Do you believe you can live the rest of your life without ever lying and stealing?
15. It’s been said you would like to become a paralegal. Redeeming qualities an attorney employer must rely on are integrity and confidentiality. How would you convince an attorney of your ability to be honest and trustworthy?

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Believe updating software on electronic devices does not do anything to increase the productivity of the machine? Think again. Those annoying, constant reminders that plague welcome screens everywhere can serve a multitude of purposes. Examples include bug fixes, providing critical upgrades to the device, preventing the device from crashing, and much more.
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Without music, concerts wouldn't exist and funk would just be the smell emanating from an old sock filled with corn. Lend an ear to this GrouponLive deal.
- General admission with coffee and dessert
- When: Friday through Sunday nights through December 29
- Where: The Velvet Note
- Ticket values include all fees
- $34 for a concert package for two (up to a $68 value)
- $68 for a concert package for four (up to a $136 value)
Each package includes:
- One music-lounge ticket per person to a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday night concert at 9 p.m. or 9:30 p.m. (up to a $22 value each)
- One dessert per person (up to an $8 value each)
- One coffee or other non-alcoholic beverage per person (a $4 value each)
- See the full menu
Justin Varnes's B-Sides (Friday, October 4)
Performances led by drummer and Georgia State University professor Justin Varnes delight aficionados and help neophytes ease into appreciation. Together with his ever-rotating collaborators, Varnes tickles ears with nimble improvisations and welcomes questions from the audience.
Kate McGarry (Saturday, October 5 and Sunday, October 6)
Grammy-nominated vocalist Kate McGarry blends aspects of jazz and folk to create a sound the Wall Street Journal has called "austere and elegant." At the Velvet Note, she will perform with acclaimed guitarist Keith Ganz, who has appeared on TV shows from The View to David Letterman and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
The Velvet Note
No strangers to the stage themselves, the board of directors at The Velvet Note built the intimate venue as a musician’s dream of exquisite natural acoustics. On its carefully crafted soundstage sits a 1924 Baldwin Model M baby grand piano, which serves an endless lineup of locally and nationally renowned acts. In between applause and using their index fingers as maestro batons, visitors can occupy their hands with food from The Velvet Note’s menu, featuring lobster cobb salad, black mussels in garlic butter, and all manner of classic southern desserts. Run by musicians for musicians, the club creates an up-close-and-personal environment where performers and fans can actually mingle.
93% of 127 customers
“Great Music, Great Food, Great Time”
“The food is just OK and you may end up spending quite a bit on drinks but it is a very nice intimate space for listening to live music and the staff is very pleasant...”
“The food is just OK and you may end up spending quite a bit on drinks but it is a very nice intimate space for listening to live music and the staff is very pleasant and efficient.”
“The Groupon for a crab dinner and music was an excellent value, and we enjoyed the evening of jazz at the Velvet Note. ”
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TOLEDO, Ohio -- Ontario Sneed capped a 68-yard drive with a one-yard touchdown run and Andrew Aguila kicked the extra point as Central Michigan edged Toledo 24-23 Saturday at Toledo.
Alex Steigerwald brought Toledo (2-6, 1-3 MAC West) within a point in the third quarter with a 35-yard field goal, followed by a Nick Moore touchdown following a 35-yard pass from quarterback Aaron Opelt that put Toledo ahead 23-17. Alex Steigerwald kicked the extra point.
Toledo jumped out to a 6-0 first quarter lead with two field goals by Steigerwald. But Central Michigan (6-2, 5-0 MAC) took the lead 7-6 on a 21 yard touchdown pass from quarterback Dan LeFevour to Bryan Anderson. Aguila kicked the extra point.
LeFevour was 24-of-31 for 242 yards and two touchdowns. Opelt was 16-of-20 for 216 yards and one touchdown
Missouri starts the Barry Odom era on the road against a strong West Virginia offense.
Freshman RB Kiante Enis, who opted to stay in-state rather than accept an offer from Michigan, is a playmaker who could get on the field in 2016.
An early three-game stretch against Pitt, Baylor and Texas will set the tone for Oklahoma State's season.
James Conner is cancer-free, but the running back will take with him the lessons he learned about himself during treatment in his return to the field.
The up-and-coming Huskies need to start things off on the right foot when they open their nonconference schedule against Rutgers.
Week 11 in the Big Ten features a matchup between last year's West Division champs (Iowa) and arguably this year's East Division favorites (Michigan).

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Shimla: With the city having far fewer book stores than what were around two decades ago, National Book Trust (NBT) is organizing a week look book fair, starting May 12, to imbibe the habit of reading among younger generations.
Talking to reporters MA Sikinder, director NBT said, “more than 50 publishers would be showcasing their books at the Shimla Book Fair.”
“Book lovers and children can avail discounts ranging from 10 to 20 percent. Chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal will inaugurate the book fair,” he added.
He disclosed that NBT completes 55 years of its foundation, this year and on the
occasion an e-book website would be launched.
Sikinder disclosed that India after US and UK has the world’s third largest English readership.


Mildura Weekly : Friday July 11 Vol 8 No 36
www.milduraweekly.com.au 24 Mildura Weekly – 11/07/14 Deakin Avenue Service Centre 76 Deakin Avenue, Mildura Madden Avenue Service Centre 108 Madden Avenue, Mildura Ouyen Service Centre 79 Oke Street, Ouyen www.mildura.vic.gov.au Phone: (03) 5018 8100 PO Box 105, Mildura Vic 3502 Around your municipality with Mildura Rural City Council CouncilMatters 100720141210 These notices are authorised by Garry Healy, Acting Chief Executive Officer ROAD WORKS UPDATE The following road and drainage works will be undertaken subject to weather conditions. Traffic control and detour signage will be in place at each site. No parking will be permitted within the work zones. For more information about the following works contact Michael Vaughan on (03) 5018 8483 or 0419 154 769. Benetook Avenue and Sixteenth Street intersection, Mildura South Roundabout construction – Black Spot upgrade Intersection closed / detours apply Start: 7am Monday 5 May 2014 Finish: 5pm Friday 15 August 2014 Etiwanda Avenue between Fourteenth Street and Fifteenth Street, Mildura Road stabilisation / reconstruction Road closed / detours apply Start: 7am Monday 19 May 2014 Finish: 5pm Friday 18 July 2014 For more information about the following works contact John McCrann on (03) 5018 8446 or 0425 821 499. Old Mail Road between Meridian Road and Lindsay Point Road reconstruction The following sections of Old Mail Road are estimated to be closed until 5pm Wednesday 16 July 2014, detours are in place. - Lock 10 Road to Keera Road - Lock 9 Road to Lock 8 track - SA Water Construction entrance to Berribee Homestead Track Road users are encouraged to avoid the area where possible. The remaining sections of Old Mail Road are open. Boonoonar Road, Carwarp Road reconstruction Intermittent road closure and detours in place until 5pm Friday 18 July 2014. Koorlong Avenue and Calder Highway intersection (through to Wilkie Drive Park via McGowen Lane, Hassell Street and Elms Street), Irymple Drainage Works Traffic management – Intermittent road closure, detours in place, works anticipated for mid July 2014 start. PUBLIC NOTICES Ordinary Council Meeting All residents and ratepayers are welcome to attend. 5pm Thursday 24 July 2014 Committee and Council Room Deakin Avenue Service Centre Proposed planning changes to Mildura Older Irrigated Areas Following changes to the Farming Zone introduced by the Minister for Planning in September 2013 and directions developed by the Mildura Housing and Settlement Strategy, Council is proposing changes to the Mildura Planning Scheme which would affect the Mildura Older Irrigated Areas of Mildura, Red Cliffs and Merbein. Residents are invited to consider the proposed changes, outlined in a discussion paper which is available to view online at www.mildura.vic. gov.au/haveyoursay, at Council’s Madden and Deakin Avenue Service Centres or at the Mildura, Merbein, Red Cliffs and Irymple Libraries. A drop in session for residents to find out more about the proposed changes and speak to Council staff will be held at: The Benetook Room, The Alfred Deakin Centre Corner Deakin Avenue and Twelfth Street, Mildura 8am – 8pm Thursday 17 July 2014 Any person/s wishing to comment or provide feedback on this matter must lodge a written submission with Council. Feedback/comments supplying a contact name and address will receive a written response. In providing your personal information you are permitting Council to add your name to its mailing list in order to notify you in conjunction with these projects only. Written feedback/comments provided are considered public documents and issues or matters raised therein (including authorship) may be reported to Council in an open Council meeting Agenda. Enquiries regarding confidential feedback may be directed to the Coordinator Strategic Planning on (03) 5018 8419. Written feedback on the proposed changes is invited and should be sent to: Peter Douglas Coordinator Strategic Planning Mildura Rural City Council PO Box 105 MILDURA VIC 3502 or emailed to planning. firstname.lastname@example.org Comments must be received by Council no later than 5pm Friday 15 August 2014. SITUATIONS VACANT Visit our website to view full position descriptions or call (03) 5018 8197. Applications, addressing the selection criteria, should be mailed to the Chief Executive Officer or emailed to email@example.com All emailed applications will be acknowledged. Mildura Rural City Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Maternal and Child Health Nurse Community Care Services Branch Casual Position Job Number: R1316 Salary: As per the Nurses (ANF Victorian Local Government) Award 2002 Closes: 4pm Thursday 24 July 2014 Child Care Assistant Educator Community Care Services Branch Part Time Position Job Number: R1315 Salary: Band 3 commencing at $24.3721 per hour Closes: 4pm Thursday 17 July 2014 Murrayville Landfill Operator Building and Environmental Services Branch Part Time Position Job Number: R1314 Salary: Band 3 commencing at $24.3721per hour Closes: 4pm Thursday 17 July 2014 Tax Help appointments available Tax Help is a network of community volunteers who provide a free and confidential service to help people on low incomes complete their tax returns at tax time. Tax Help appointments are available in Mildura at Council’s Deakin Avenue Service Centre on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, commencing Monday 28 July 2014. To book a 45 minute appointment, contact Council on (03) 5018 8100. To find out if you’re eligible for Tax Help or to see if you are required to lodge a Tax Return contact the ATO on 13 28 61 or visit www.ato.gov.au Like us on facebook! facebook.com/milduracouncil Recently moved or changed postal address? To make sure you receive all Council correspondence, please advise us if your contact details have changed. Simply phone (03) 5018 8100.
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This is a 36-month full time post to work within the recently awarded NIHR funded Manchester Biomedical Research Centre Mental Health theme.
The National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) funds Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs) as experimental medicine centres of excellence via competitive application every five years. Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has recently been renewed over five years to provide experimental medicine infrastructure funding across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and South Cumbria.
Contracted by the NIHR, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) host the BRC in partnership with the University of Manchester and also with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Manchester BRC drives forward experimental medicine across a range of research themes which are grouped into four clusters: Inflammation, Cancer, High Burden Under Researched Conditions and Disease Complexity as areas where the region has demonstrable strength and which will work collaboratively to improve patient outcomes and embed, build and accelerate personalised health and care for all.
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I know one thing: I am glad I’m not made of gluten, since I very well could be public enemy No. 1. These days, gluten has been topping the food world’s bad-guy list. Whenever dieticians and experts start harping on gluten, I think to myself in despair, First I had to count calories, then fat, then carbs. Now, everyone is talking about this gluten. Soon, we’ll be down to tree bark, and someone will still tell us to count the rings in the tree it came from before we eat it!
But this gluten stuff is not something you count and try to eat less of. You avoid it, completely. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley, rye and other grains; it’s a thickening agent and basic ingredient in breads, baked goods, salad dressings, soups and a lot of other yummy things. The problem is that in some people, this protein can trigger an autoimmune response.
For people who have Celiac disease, consuming gluten can have devastating consequences. Avoiding it is not optional for these unfortunates, it is serious business. But Celiac has been a known problem for a long time. The reason for gluten’s recent harpooning is because of something called ‘gluten intolerance.”’This is where the waters get murky. Gluten intolerance can lead to a range of symptoms, from digestive issues to depression, anxiety, joint pain and fatigue. However, only about ten percent of the population actually suffers from true gluten intolerance, so how did gluten move to the front of the diet hit parade? Well, fear runs rampant – just about as rampant as the presence of gluten in high-carbohydrate foods, actually.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard that cutting carbs helps some people lose weight. Some people who cut gluten out of their diets also lose weight. Hey, I thought, I suffer from anxiety, joint pain, fatigue – and an extra ten pounds, I thought. Why not try it? “It can’t hurt,” said my doctor, signing off on my latest endeavor to make myself miserable.
The difference between cutting out gluten and cutting out carbs is that our bodies and brains need carbohydrates to function, whereas we do not need gluten. Doing away with it does not damage our bodies.
Marjie Andrejciw, owner of Marjie’s Gluten- & Dairy-Free Pantry in Fenton, says ditching gluten could help a lot of us, even if we aren’t officially categorized as intolerant. “Gluten isn’t something we are supposed to eat,” she said, “It’s actually hard for our bodies to break down.”
Giving up gluten just to lose weight is not the best strategy. First of all, gluten is difficult to avoid because it’s in everything. Seriously, start looking at labels at the grocery store: it is crazy how many things are made with gluten! There are gluten-free varieties of baked goods, pasta, cookies, etc. but the trouble is, eating too much of those foods will make you gain weight, too.
I lost about ten pounds post-gluten, but it was a lot of work. I found myself eating mostly fruits, rice, vegetables, quinoa, nuts and lean protein: things that have only one to three ingredients because I am too lazy to scrutinize labels. Of course, if you eat like that and control your portions, you’ll probably lose weight, too.
After months on a gluten-free diet, I felt incredible. My skin looked great, I had no fatigue and less joint pain. Naturally, I didn’t stick with it. Ah, human nature. I gained the weight back and started feeling cruddy again, which makes me think I may be gluten intolerant, although I’ve not been tested. Recently, I’ve gone off the stuff again – mostly.
Should you try gluten-free? Ask your doctor, and prepare to make reading labels your passion.
Why do I suddenly want to eat cake?
Leslie Toldo has reported on healthcare and medical issues on Michigan TV sets for nearly 20 years. She grew up in Baton Rouge, LA and graduated from the University of Wyoming with a Communications degree in 1990. An avid runner, Leslie is also a member of the Board of Directors at the Humane Society of Genesee County. She lives in Linden with her husband and three big dogs: Daisy, Bear and Gus.


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We've all been there:
You're out for someone's birthday and the cake comes out...
You know what happens next...
Typically a cacophony as the group bursts into the "Happy Birthday" song. Everyone starts on different notes, it takes a few seconds for them to sync up the words (if they get there at all), and everyone in the restaurant grits their teeth and waits for it to be over...
If you dread this experience, this mini course is for you! Taken from the comprehensive course Discover Your Voice, this mini-course teaches you how to sing the Happy Birthday song and actually sound good!
Aren't these parties to celebrate our friends, coworkers, or children?
One evening in a restaurant, I witnessed the saddest birthday song ever: a table of maybe 6 people started singing quietly, totally off key, afraid they were interrupting things, with no gusto at all! Everyone was avoiding eye contact and barely whispering the song. Meanwhile the birthday boy looked like he wanted to die.
It was awful.
Compare that to when singers go out... it's a riot! It sounds amazing, there are harmonies and operatic moments, lots of laughter and lots of fun! Typically the restaurant bursts into applause and people come up to the table afterwards to offer their congratulations to the birthday person.
Which experience would you prefer?
What you'll get:
When you sign up for this course, you'll get access to the following awesome content from the Discover Your Voice course:
- Full vocal warmup
- Downloadable and printable lyrics sheet for taking notes
- Easy to follow, comprehensive vocal coaching on how to sing the song
Who am I?
I am a performer, teacher, speaker, and anthropologist. After conquering my own misguided beliefs about what makes a “successful” musical career and finding my perfect musical journey, I specialize in working with adults who want to make music by removing the stigma that music is an “inclination.”
Dipping into my anthropological training to understand the cultural forces that create music and shapes our relationship with it, I founded the Zeitgeist Academy to educate and support people at all stages of their musical journeys to understand that all music is relevant, and everyone can make it.
Do you have a party coming up?
Take a stand and commit to having everyone sound great when they sing the birthday song at your party! Send this mini-course to your friends and have them take it before the Big Day so they sound awesome and everyone has a good time!


The Home button on my iPhone 4 is broken — it's stopped working, anyway. You have to press the Home button three or four times, very hard, to get it to respond at all. Any advice, or a fix you can recommend?
iPhone (and iPad) Home buttons do go wrong from time to time, often (frustratingly) a year or so after the warranty runs out. Apple may be able to repair the hardware (for a price), but there's a neat workaround built into iOS that you may not be aware of.
First of all, the full repair option. Check out ouriPhone warranty guideMake an appointment with Appleand find out if you're covered, or how much the repair is likely to cost if it's not.
Can you repair the device yourself? You can give it a try, but unless you're a confident tech hobbyist we wouldn't recommend it — since for one thing it's likely to invalidate your warranty, and may worsen the problem instead of fixing it. And as we will see shortly, there is a workaround that means a dodgy Home button needn't kill your iPhone experience.
The software solution
iOS has a neat feature that helps when hardware buttons stop working. Go to Settings, General and then scroll down to Accessibility. Under Physical & Motor, click AssistiveTouch, and then slide AssistiveTouch into the ON position.
A small circle inside a square will appear on your screen; this can be dragged around the screen to wherever you find it least disruptive. It will become opaque when pressed, then turn transparent a short while later.
If you press this circle it will offer you Voice Control, Home and Favourites options (Favourites allows you to save specific gestures and commands). You can also select Device, which takes you through to further options such as volume controls.
The 'dot' on your screen can be a little irritating, granted, but it may well be preferable to either shelling out for a costly repair or coping without a fully functional Home button. And if you're using an iPhone 4, it's possible you'll be upgrading to something newer in a few months.
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Cesarean wound infections occur when bacteria enter the incision. In this article, we look at the causes, types, and treatments for post-cesarean wound infections.
People who give birth by cesarean delivery, or C-section, may have an infection during the healing process. Signs of infection include fatigue and chills. Prevention involves washing the wound with soap and water and keeping it covered for as long as a doctor advises. Learn more about C-section wound infections here.
A pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP) rash appears as itchy red hives and swelling inside stretch marks. There are many natural treatments, including cold compresses and oatmeal. Learn more about these and other remedies, as well as risk factors and tips for prevention here.
Bellybutton or navel pain is a common occurrence during pregnancy and has a variety of potential causes. Possible reasons for experiencing bellybutton pain include skin stretching, pressure from the growing uterus, and umbilical hernias. In this article, learn how to get relief and when to see a doctor.
Acne often develops during pregnancy, and many commercially available treatments contain salicylic acid. Is this acid safe to use during pregnancy? Are there any skin care products to avoid? We provide answers. Also, learn why some pregnant people develop acne, and what tips can help with managing it.
Milk blisters or milk blebs are common and can occur during breast-feeding. They are caused by the way the baby latches onto the breast, which results in a blockage of the nipple pores. There are a range of treatments for milk blebs, many of which can be tried at home. Learn more about remedies for milk blisters here.
Many women experience eczema for the first time during pregnancy, while those who already have eczema may experience an increase or reduction in symptoms. We look at how a woman can safely treat pregnancy eczema and what home remedies may help. We also look at postpartum eczema and how to treat it while breast-feeding.
In this article, learn about the risks of getting a tattoo while pregnant or breast-feeding. How can you identify and prevent an infection?
A new study suggests around 30-50 percent of women who use the acne drug isotretinoin do not adhere to current pregnancy prevention guidelines.
Learn about the common skin conditions that can affect women during pregnancy, including hyperpigmentation, stretch marks and skin tags.

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The Scottish Labour party has defended itself after viewers noticed a promotional video was partially filmed in Wales.
Featuring Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard, the video posted on Wednesday lays out the party’s “vision for Scotland” and includes shots of Scottish families and picturesque scenery.
Soon, however, Twitter users noticed that mountains featured in the clip are actually in Snowdonia.
— Scottish Labour (@scottishlabour) January 16, 2019
Twitter users said one of the mountains depicted is Tryfan Mountain from Snowdonia National Park.
While the mountain is on screen, Mr Leonard can be heard saying: “Labour’s vision for Scotland, our vision for the UK, is one where we support each other instead of a race to the bottom.”
Labour's Scottish Branch Office doing a *wonderful* job of showcasing Scotland's fabulous landscape in their latest PPB.
Oh, wait…that's actually Snowdonia.
In Wales. pic.twitter.com/Tq1GoTrwTB
— Sarah Mackie (@lumi_1984) January 17, 2019
Twitter user Sarah Mackie, said: “Labour’s Scottish Branch Office doing a *wonderful* job of showcasing Scotland’s fabulous landscape in their latest PPB.
“Oh, wait…that’s actually Snowdonia. In Wales.”
The party has defended the video, stating it was shot on locations across the UK, including in Edinburgh and Glasgow, to reflect the fact that Labour is a UK-wide party.
A spokesperson for Scottish Labour said: “As Richard states in the film, this is our vision for Scotland and for the whole of the UK, because the urgent need to get rid of the Tories and elect a Labour government that will end austerity doesn’t stop at the border with England.”
In the video, Mr Leonard says: “In the face of austerity the people of Scotland are being let down by the Tories and the Scottish government too… We can change our country for the better.
“Labour will rebuild Scotland, we will rebuild Britain for the many not the few.”
Looks like you're not so much "changing our country for the better" as changing it for Wales. 🤔
— Slimshady (@Slimshady1961) January 17, 2019
Labour – smoke and mirrors as usual! Let’s just pretend this is a film of Scotland……no-one will notice its actually Wales……..🤦♀
— Linda McGregor🏴 (@Lindamc706) January 17, 2019
Twitter user @Slimshady1961 responded: “Looks like you’re not so much ‘changing our country for the better’ as changing it for Wales.”


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