to his knees, he saw the stones out of the corner of his eye—dark rock outlined in blue-white fire. His hair lifted, standing on end.Instinctively, he turned away from the circle, closing his eyes and throwing one arm up to shield his face. A second later, the earth shook and a light flashed blindingly bright, even through Simon’s closed eyelids. He had the momentary sense of some Power passing over him, of something great enough to terrify any mortal man.Then the light was gone, leaving only a faint blue afterimage and the rapid hammering of Simon’s heart. He opened his eyes.There was a girl in the circle.She was almost Simon’s height and slat-thin, with lightly tanned skin and darkish hair that hung down her back in a lankbraid. The leather trousers and vest she wore did little in the service of modesty, but moral outrage was not the first thing that came to mind upon seeing her. Caution was.The woman had a knife strapped to each wrist, another at her waist, and an angular silver pistol holstered beside the knife. She might have had more weapons yet in the large pack on her back. Simon wouldn’t have been at all surprised.As he began getting to his feet, she heard and snapped her head around. Her eyes were narrow, her body tense. She reminded Simon of a wild animal poised to run or fight.She’d clearly been doing the latter already. Looking more closely at her in that moment of stillness, Simon saw that the upper part


of her right boot and the leg of her trousers above it hung in shreds. He glimpsed red beneath the tatters and more on her vest near her collarbone.“You’re bleeding,” he said.She relaxed, at the shock in his voice more than anything else, and felt at her face before looking down the length of her body. “Not mine,” she finally said. Her accent was strange—not quite American but close to it—and her voice was low. “Not mostly. Some scratches on the leg.”“You should have them seen to,” Simon said. “I’d—”He stopped himself for a second, wondering if he really meant to take this half-wild creature back to the house. But she was a woman alone, however well armed, and wounded, with both night and rain coming on.Simon sighed.She’s mad. I’m going to die here.There were three short, high-pitched noises. Three bursts of silvery light flew overhead. Then there were screams.They weren’t human screams. No human throat could make those noises. They had a shrillness and a buzzing quality around the edges that put Simon in mind of angry bees, only many times larger.“Fuck,” Joan snarled, and fired again.Another scream stopped midway through, cut off by a quieter, much wetter noise. Then silence.Joan was lying atop him, most of her body pressed firmly against his. Simon had imagined the general situation in his youth; it was not nearly as pleasurable in fact.For one thing, he was getting quite tired of being knocked to the ground, especially now that he had a large rock pressing into his


less horrible than the twisted, eyeless flesh of the other and its gaping, razor-lined mouth.Simon turned away toward Joan, and that was almost worse. She was looking thoughtfully at the bodies, the silver gun in one hand. Clear tubes ran out of the gun and into her arm just below her elbow, pulsing slowly. Simon could see her blood moving through them.No oath could have expressed his shock, and none came close to encompassing his disgust. He made an inarticulate sound in his throat.Joan looked up and absently tapped the top of the gun with her free hand. The tubes detached from her arm and began recoiling. Their ends were covered with tiny teeth. Simon watched them, hypnotized by his revulsion.“You’re in a hell of a lot ofNikki, so the least she could do was allow the woman to watch the cooking network.

And Ellen--how could she not pay the woman who’d become her best friend? The woman who singlehandedly dragged Nikki out of the done-wrong slumps kicking and screaming.

Nikki stepped out of her car. The heat radiating from the pavement assaulted her. She could almost feel her hair frizz. Humidity thickened the air, making it hard to breathe. Or maybe that was just the anxiety of seeing Jack, of making a decision to reenter the holy union—a union that turned out not to be so holy for him.

Passing the dumpster, she wrinkled her nose and walked faster. The ring of her cell brought her to a stop. She grabbed the phone from her purse, checked


put on sexy underwear. Her gaze shot back to his gumbo.

Screw Jack’s apparel approval and his no-share policy. She reached for the bowl and, suddenly feeling lowbrow and proud of it, dunked her roll in the roux and brought the soupy mess to her lips.

Heaven.

Spotting a floating shrimp in the cup, and not lowbrow enough to use her fingers, she went for Jack’s spoon.

He slapped his hand on top of hers and frowned—a disapproving, judgmental frown that pulled at his brown eyes.

Big mistake on his part.

Slipping her hand from under his, she fished out the shrimp with two fingers and ate it. Even made a show of licking her fingers. Jack’s mouth fell open at her lack of manners. Not that she cared. Considering the way things wereshe accepted the inevitable. Jack wasn’t coming back. The waiter returned with the check and eyed her suspiciously as if to say any woman who would stick her finger in her date’s soup was thoroughly capable of the eat-and-run offence.

Glancing at the check, she muttered, “I’m going to kill him!”

“Kill who?” the waiter asked.

“Who do you think?” She peeked at the bill and moaned. A hundred and eighty without tip, then there was the fee the bank would charge her for overdrawing her checking account.

Her stomach roiled again, this time in a bad way. Snatching up her purse, she found her debit card. Thankfully, she had overdraft insurance. With anger making her shake, she handed the card to the waiter. Her stomach cramped. She considered complaining that something


next door washed over her and the full wave of nausea hit. A woman with two kids dancing around her came right at Nikki. Not wanting to upchuck on an innocent child, she swung around in the opposite direction, opened her bag and heaved as quietly as she could inside it.

Realizing she’d just puked on her medicine, she lost her backbone, and tears filled her eyes. Only the weak cry. The words filled her head, but damn it, right now she was weak.

She rushed to her car, wanting only to get home. Tying a knot in the bag, she grabbed her keys, hit the clicker to unlock the doors and then popped open the trunk.

Tears rolled down her cheeks. Her stomach cramped so hard her breath caught.

She gotto her bumper, was just about to drop the contaminated bag into the trunk when she saw . . . She blinked the tears from her eyes as if that alone would make the image go away.

It didn’t.

There, stuffed in the back of her car, was a body.

She recognized the Armani suit first. Then she saw his face. His eyes were wide open, but something was missing.

Life.

Jack was dead.

Jack was dead in the trunk of her car.

Her vision started to swirl.

She tried to scream. Nausea hit harder. Unable to stop herself, she lost the rest of her two hundred dollar meal all over her dead ex-husband’s three thousand dollar suit.

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DEADLY LITTLE LIES Jeanne Adams

EXCERPT #1 – Just after the kidnap….

“We could die here,” Carrie muttered and he heard


puzzling through what she meant, she shifted closer, whispering, “Don’t wait anymore. Kiss me now, just in case. I need to know how it feels, I need,” she trailed off, quieting in order to bring her lips to his.

The connection was instant and powerful. Every thought of the plane, of their situation sank out of his mind, replaced by the magnificent roar of triumph in his heart. No pain could compare to the sweetness, the fire of her mouth moving on his. All hesitancy fled as she pressed into him, wriggling closer, heating his body. Nothing mattered but Carrie. Nothing was real or present but her mouth.

The pain in his hands and shoulders throbbed a counter point to his body’s needs. He ignored the pain and focused onthe pleasure.

He might never get another chance.

“Dav, oh, Dav, I…I…” she stumbled over the words, pressing kisses to his face, her bound hands cradling his jaw.

Whatever else she might have said was lost when the plane banked hard again. Now she fell into him, slamming her head into his chin as the altitude dropped.

He knew it wasn’t the time or the place, and that Carrie was reacting to the drugs, but the confirmation that she was interested, attracted, gave him hope despite their dire state of affairs.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

June 2011

CARPE BEAD 'EMTonya Kappes

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Orphaned at a young age, Hallie Mediate was raised by her (slightly) crazy Great Aunt Grace on the wrong side of the tracks in Cincinnati. Hallie dreamed of escaping her hometown and never looking


back. After putting herself through college, landing her dream job in Chicago, and starting a romance with her handsome running partner Bo Pompillio, life is finally exactly as she wants it.That is, until she’s transferred back to the hometown. Not wanting her past to cross paths with her future, Hallie puts her relationship with Bo on hold.When she arrives in town, Hallie finds crazy Aunt Grace rummaging through a dumpster looking for the “perfect” welcome home gift for her niece. That’s just the beginning. After that, Aunt Grace stays busy by dying her stolen poodle’s hair pink and leaving the dog on her apartment roof to pee, throwing bricks out the window at passing neighbors, and climbing every flag pole to kiss the ornamental eagle.Hallie finds some sanitysexy heat. It made him think of making wild love in a garden under the full moon. Crazy, he told himself as he stepped fully into the room and let the door swing shut behind him. Then his brain sputtered. He stared. His heart raced like he’d just taken a long, deadly dive off a high cliff. His body tightened, his senses on full-alert. It took Jason’s body a few extra seconds to filter the rush of energy flying through his system. Lust mixed with shock. Memories cascaded like a waterfall, pouring over forgotten hopes and hurts. Sonofabitch.Thickly lashed brown eyes, tilted like a startled cat’s at the corners, stared back at him. He recognized the horror in her gaze, just like he recognized the flash of hot


cape more tightly around him and studied the frozen ground. The warriors’ feet had hewn a dark swath through the frost that glittered in the gaudy orange halo. His gaze followed their trail to the burning village. The Dawnland People had called it Bog Willow village. Yesterday it had contained over one hundred houses.

He hadn’t expected the village to be this bad.

As he walked toward it ash fell around him like fine flakes of obsidian, coating his cape and long hair, turning them gray. The forty hand tall palisade that surrounded the village had burned through in too many places. That had been their doom. They must have watched in horror as the enemy streamed through those gaps and raced across the village, killing everything in their path.

Heturned back around to stare at the victory camp. Hundreds of celebrating warriors danced to the sound of drums and flutes. Most were from the Flint or Mountain Peoples, but the war party had contained a few Hills People warriors, too. He knew them from their distinctive tattoos, and the designs painted on their bows and capes. On the far side of the camp, near the river, captive women and children huddled together, shivering, watching their captors with wide stunned eyes. Before dawn came all would be sold and marched away to enemy villages. The lucky ones would be adopted into families and spend the rest of their lives trying to forget this night. The others wouldn’t have to worry about it.

Sonon took a breath and let it


out slowly.

There were still times when he woke to the sound of screams that existed only inside him. For many summers he’d thought they were the cries of his twin sister and he’d been ravaged by guilt. When he’d finally realized the voice was his own, the pain had eased a little. The day they were sold into slavery, he’d seen only eight summers. He wasn’t a warrior. There was nothing he could have done to save her--or himself.

He clenched his fists so hard his nails bit into his palms. He had to go down there, into the village. No man wished to admit he was afraid, but…

He forced his legs to walk. At first, only a few bodies lay alongside the trail, but as he neared thepalisade the number increased. Desperate villagers must have fought to get outside and run headlong into a line of waiting archers. Bodies, bristling with arrows, had piled up around each gap in the defensive wall. The last few to make it outside probably had to shove their way through a mound of dead.

Sonon carefully stepped around the carnage and ducked through the charred hole in the palisade. The heat struck him first. He threw up an arm and squinted against the glare to see what remained of Bog Willow village. In less than twenty heartbeats he was sweating, struggling for air. The smoke was so thick it was almost impossible to breathe.

Five paces away an old woman sat on the ground with her face in her hands, rocking


the boy out here in the open would make it easier for his relatives to find him.

Sonon wiped his soot-coated face with the back of his hand and looked out across the river to the opposite, willow-choked, bank. Beyond it, towering black spruces caught the reflections in the water and seemed made of translucent amber wings. The river itself, coated with ash, had an opaque leaden sheen.

He stood up and turned back to the village. For ten heartbeats, he just breathed and studied the palisade. People from distant places did not understand that each log was a Standing Warrior. Among their peoples, the angry souls of dead warriors were excluded from the Land of the Dead, so they moved into trees. They remained in the wood for centuries,until the tree disintegrated, and their souls were forced to seek new homes. It was these trees that the People cut down to make their palisades. That meant that every log was a warrior still keeping guard, still protecting his or her people.

He wondered what the Standing Warriors must be feeling? Not so long ago, they’d watched this little boy racing happily across the plaza, seen him playing ball and dish games with his friends, heard his laughter ringing through the village on quiet summer afternoons. Their grief must be unbearable.

Sonon whispered, “No one could have held off such an assault. It wasn’t your fault. You did the best you...”

Voices drifted from the river. He turned.

A birch bark canoe quietly slipped through the smoke, parting the river like


an arrow, heading south. An old woman rode in the bow. She was dressed like a man and wore a long black wig, but a few greasy twists of gray hair stuck out around the edges, framing her deeply wrinkled face. Even if she hadn’t been in disguise, he would have known her. A thousand summers from now, as he walked the earth alone, he would hear her footsteps in his nightmares.

Two girls lay roped together in her canoe, crying. Three warriors with paddles swiftly drove them forward. Close on the heels of the first, another canoe pierced the darkness--with four more captive children.

As the canoes passed, waves rippled outward and washed up on the shore near the dead boy, leaving delicate ribbons of firelit foam at hisfeet.

Everything about tonight felt strange and surreal. As though Sonon was locked in a trance and could not wake, his heart thumped a dull staccato against his chest.

At least a few of the children had escaped. Earlier in the evening, he’d helped them...as much as he could.

When the canoes vanished into the darkness, he looked at the western mountains. He couldn’t see the pass through the smoke and falling ash. The trail the escaped children had taken was the fastest way back to the lands of the People of the Standing Stone. But there would be many others on that trail: survivors of the village slaughter, orphaned children, and a few wary men who’d left the victory camp early, trying to beat the onslaught of warriors who would


of time ago.

Hope vies with the flashes of hideous memory. I squeeze the terror into a black place hidden deep inside me and blink at the camp.

Our tiny fire glimmers in the depths of a narrow valley that cuts through a rocky mountain ridge. Clumps of trees surround the small meadow. The staghorn sumacs--scrub trees--grow four or five times the height of a man and have dark smooth bark that reflects the dancing shadows cast by the flames. Beyond the sumacs, a thicket of thorny plums spreads fifty paces in every direction. Frost covers the fallen fruit and makes the forest floor seem as though it’s paved with round white rocks.

Frigid silence reigns in the night, punctured only by my companions’ breathing and the occasional popping of thewouldn’t lie to us.”

But I’m not sure that’s true.

My gaze drifts to where Mother stands. Most people know her as War Chief Koracoo from Yellowtail Village of the Standing Stone People. My Father, Gonda, is her deputy. Women war chiefs are rare, and being honored with the title requires unusual courage, intelligence, and skill. Mother is a powerful and respected leader. She’s a tall woman, muscular and long-legged. Her war club--the legendary weapon known as CorpseEye—is propped on her shoulder.

Just seeing her calms my fears. But I miss her long black hair. After the attack that destroyed our village, she cropped it short with a chert knife. Among our people it is a sign of mourning. The short jagged locks fall around her ears as though sculpted. Her


more aroused by one gender, usually by men.

But women, some researchers say, are fundamentally different. A University of Utah researcher, Lisa M. Diamond, published a study in January in the journal Developmental Psychology that followed the love lives of 79 nonheterosexual women who variously labeled themselves lesbian, bisexual or none-of-the-above. Over 10 years, Dr. Diamond found, the women continued to be attracted to both sexes.

Women’s response to images of coupling extends even to other species, Dr. Chivers found. In a 2004 experiment, and again in the recent study, published in the December 2007 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Dr. Chivers and her colleagues found women slightly but significantly aroused by footage of bonobo chimps mating. Men showed no such response.

And when Dr. Chivers asked her subjects toGlobal food prices jumped 10% in July from the month before, driven up by the severe Midwest drought which has pushed the price of grains to record levels, the World Bank reported Thursday.

The price of maize and wheat rose by 25% from June to July, and soybeans rose by 17%, according to the Washington-based organization. Overall, the World Bank's Food Price Index, which tracks the price of traded food commodities, was 6% higher than July of last year.

The sharp price jumps are attributed to the Midwest drought, which has destroyed more than half of the country's corn crop. The drought, the worst in decades, has pushed the price of corn to record prices. Corn futures have jumped about 60% since the drought started in late June. They are


now trading above $8 a bushel. The U.S. is the world's largest exporter of corn and soybeans.

And that rise in grain prices was starkly higher in Africa, the organization reported. In Mozambique, maize rose 113%. In South Sudan sorghum rose 220% and 180% in Sudan.

"We cannot allow these historic price hikes to turn into a lifetime of perils as families take their children out of school and eat less nutritious food to compensate for the high prices," said World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. "Countries must strengthen their targeted programs to ease the pressure on the most vulnerable population and implement the right policies."

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Understand Theand not believing their cover story, they pull out their pistols. The special ops leader, Azizi (Donnie Keshawarz), says the codeword "good night", which signals the soldiers to kill the policemen. Seeing the violence, Brody becomes scared and flees, but Azizi makes him calm down.

The operation is being watched over at the White House by Dar Adal and Mike Higgins, the White House Chief of Staff. Higgins is upset by the police officers being murdered and orders that two people, Senator Lockhart and JSOC Commander Bill Pfister (Peter Bradbury), be sent to the operations room as advisers.

Azizi drives Brody to the border while the other special ops soldiers stay back. Before they get there, the truck runs over a land mine, likely one left over from the Iran-Iraq


Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll

Photography by Alfred Wertheimer

In early 1956, an RCA Victor publicist asked Alfred Wertheimer to photograph an up-and-coming crooner from Memphis. Little did Wertheimer know that this would be the job of his life: just 21 years old, Elvis Presley was—as we now know—about to become a legend. Trailing him like a shadow, Wertheimer was given unlimited scope to get up close and personal.

Wertheimer’s Elvis project immortalized a young man in the process of making history. Wertheimer took nearly 3,000 photographs of Presley that year, creating a portrait of a man poised on the brink of superstardom. Though many of Wertheimer’s photos of Elvis are among the best known, nearly half of the photographs in this book have never been published before.

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March 31, 2011: NSC registration open

March 31, 2011: Bulletin published

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February 19, 2011: CNSC and WSC qualification

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The Hokianga Big Game and Sport Fishing Club came into existence in April 1993.

A public meeting was held on 6th April 1993 at the Omapere Tourist Hotel attended by 40 people.

Whetu Naera and Bulla Paniora opened the meeting with a prayer.

The meeting was welcomed by Max Lloydd who gave an introduction to the reason for the meeting.

The meeting unanimously agreed to form a Sports Fishing Club and further agreed to affiliate itself with the Bay of Islands Swordfish Club.

Harry Irwin was the first Chairman and Shane Lloydd the first Club Captain.

The Club became an Incorporated Society towards the end of 1997.

In March 1997 the club moved that any members crossing the bar without wearing a life jacket would be liable for a $10 fine payable to the club- at the April meeting 5 members were fined - Alby Ambler, Roger Graham, Max Lloydd, Wayne Billings and Garth Walker.

The club became a member of the New Zealand Big Game Fishing Council in December 1997 and has played an active part ever since .


TOMS RIVER, NJ — A Toms River high school guidance counselor has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the Toms River Regional Board of Education and Superintendent David M. Healy, alleging Healy made repeated inappropriate comments about her legs and accusing the board of failing to properly address her complaint.

Ann M. Millard, a guidance counselor at Toms River High School East, filed the lawsuit April 10, according to documents obtained from the Ocean County Courthouse. The lawsuit follows up on an affirmative action complaint Millard filed last June alleging Healy had on four occasions made inappropriate comments about her legs.

Millard's lawsuit says the board failed to adequately investigate her complaint and never revealed what actions the board took to address the issue with Healy or to punish him,beyond a letter she received that said Healy "regrets that his comments concerning her physical fitness caused Ms. Millard discomfort and embarrasment in her work environment."

Millard says the comments made her extremely uncomfortable and caused anxiety attacks — issues that worsened when copies of her affirmative action complaint were distributed anonymously to the news media and subsequently published. The publication of her detailed complaint sparked outrage and repeated public debate at Toms River school board meetings from July through November, as residents demanded answers on the district's response.

Brenda Liss, of the firm Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland and Perretti, said by email late Tuesday that Healy denies the allegations in the complaint, "and he denies engaging in any inappropriate conduct." She also declined to comment further and said Healy


would not be commenting on pending litigation.

Steven R. Cohen, the attorney for the Toms River Education Association who filed the original affirmative action complaint with the district last June, declined to comment when reached by phone Monday.

Millard's original complaint was filed June 22, and Leone asked retired Superior Court Judge Vincent J. Grasso to investigate the allegations. Leone said Grasso, who is a member of Leone's firm, was asked to investigate because it involved the superintendent and the district felt it should be an impartial, outside investigation. Millard's lawsuit says the investigation was neither impartial nor outside because of the fact that Grasso works for Leone's firm.

Millard's name was redacted from copies of the complaint sent to the news media, including Patch, but the details it contained weresufficient to identify Millard to anyone who knew her, the lawsuit said. The Asbury Park Press published the complaint letter in its entirety, the lawsuit notes, and she says she received multiple emails, phone calls and text messages after its publication as a result.

Grasso's investigation was completed July 28 and the report presented to the school board Aug. 7; by that time, Millard's complaint had become public in news reports following the leak.

Meanwhile, angry residents and former school district employees excoriated the board repeatedly, demanding to know what was being done to Healy. They were further angered by the hiring of private investigator James Dierking of DAR Associates of Beachwood, to look into the source of that leak. Leone said the leak of the complaint was just one


of several issues, and he said the leaks compromised the integrity of the board and were potentially a significant ethical violation. Critics said the board should have been less concerned with the leaks and more concerned with the allegations about Healy's behavior.

Then-Board President Ben Giovine said the board was satisfied with the outcome of Grasso's investigation into Millard's allegations and had full confidence in Healy.

The source of the leak has never been clear. The number of people who had access to Millard's initial complaint was limited to Cohen's office; Toms River Schools Business Administrator William Doering; the members of the school board, which at that time included Giovine, Loreen Torrone, Robert Onofrietti, Janet Bell, Gigi Esparza, Daniel Leonard, Christopher Raimann, Joe Nardini and Russ Corby, who is nowthe school board president; and Kathy Egan, who was president of the Toms River Education Association at the time, and Mary Novotny, a New Jersey Education Association representative. The anonymous packages were mailed the weekend before the July 19 school board meeting, with reports appearing that Tuesday, July 18.

The reasons for the leak of the original complaint, along with information that the board was renegotiating Healy's contract, seeemed to point to a concerted effort to undermine him. A retired teacher, Mary Coghlan, spoke at the November board meeting and unleashed a number of harsh comments, saying morale was low and accusing the district of being misleading in its statements on improvements in abstenteeism and dropout rates. The board approved the new five-year contract 6-1 with two abstentions, with


both abstentions due to board members who have family members employed by the district.

The district has seen improvements in test scores, on the SAT in particular, and in other areas of its academic standing. It also has received more than $2 million in grants and funding from various outside sources, including a $637,000 sponsorship of the arena at Toms River North and a recent $763,000 grant from the U.S. Navy for an academic program, critical funding at a time where state funding has been threatened.

Millard says the continuous publicity that resulted from the leak caused her "additional pain, humiliation, suffering, embarassment and indignity." But neither she nor her attorney ever received a copy of the report, the lawsuit says; they are demanding an unredacted final copy of it.

Dierking'sfinal report was never released even to the full school board, however. At the November 2017 school board meeting, Giovine refused, saying doing so would cause hard feelings among board members.

"We all sat down with the investigator, we all said certain things and I think if that was read by every board member, we would be hard pressed to (not) have ill will," Giovine said.

Healy was hired by the district in 2014, when it was still recovering from the shock and fallout of the 2010 arrest of Michael J. Ritacco. Ritacco later pleaded guilty to bribery charges after he accepted more than $2.3 million in kickbacks to direct the district's insurance contracts to a specific carrier. Ritacco retired on the day of his arrest, and has been in


prison since September 2012, serving an 11-year sentence. Then-assistant Superintendent Frank Roselli took over but retired in June 2013 following a heart attack. Thomas Gialanella, the retired superintendent of the Jackson Township School District, served as interim superintendent until Healy was hired.

Millard, who is seeking unspecified monetary damages, wants the district to ensure Healy is not in attendance at programs where Millard is required to be present "unless a truly compelling reason exists for him to do so."

The lawsuit also demands that her complaint and the investigation reports be forwarded to the state Department of Education "and such and other further actions necessary to ensure that he will not be assigned to a supervisory position in the future."

Toms River Regional Schools administrative offices, via Google Mapsrare. There is much endemic wildlife, especially birds, but the reserve is also home to over 50% of Sri Lanka's endemic species of mammals and butterflies, as well as many kinds of insects, reptiles and rare amphibians.

Sinharaja Rain Forest is one of the few virgin forests left in the world. Streams, springs, rivers, waterfalls, elephants, leopard, monkeys, butterflies and moths, rare trees, valuable shrubs and medicinal herbs are all found within its green canopy. A trek along prescribed paths would provide nature lovers with a never to be forgotten experience of sights and sounds. However, because of the dense vegetation, wildlife is not as easily seen as at dry-zone national parks such as Yala. There are elephants and leopards in the Sinharaja Rain Forest but rarely seen. The


Heritage site in 1988.

Nuwara Eliya is at the heart of the southern hill country, Sri Lanka’s highest town and a favourite hill station during British colonial period. Nuwara Eliya is renowned for its perennial spring-like climate, carpets of lush green tea, 18 hole golf course, Little England, Victoria Park and more.

Sinharaja Rain Forest’s biodiversity makes it one of Sri Lanka’s seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Sinharaja Rain Forest is a great location for general wildlife enthusiasts and a must for bird watchers.

Horton Plains is one of the most popular and a unique natural attraction in Sri Lanka. It is located 2000m high plateau 28km south of Nuwara Eliya and its known for its beautiful landscapes, rare plants, animal life and World’s End where the plains comes suddenly toan end.

The 2,243 m (7,360-ft) high summit is situated in the middle of a wildlife sanctuary called Peak Wilderness. According to Buddhist history the footprint at the summit of the mountain is of Lord Buddha, left during his third visit to Sri Lanka.

Peradeniya Botanical Gardens is the foremost of its kind in Sri Lanka in both size and splendour. It was created by the Kandyan King for the enjoyment of the aristocracy. Today the gardens have an orchid house, spice garden, Japanese garden, picturesque lake filled with water lilies and more.

The spectacular 25m-high Rawana Ella waterfall cascades from an oval-shaped concave rock outcrop is known to be one of the widest waterfalls in Sri Lanka. Its main drop is 30 feet in height and the grandest aspect of


the Rawana Ella waterfall is its wild look amidst the wilderness.

Wilpattu is one of the oldest National Parks in Sri Lanka, spanning from the northwest coast inland towards the ancient capital of Anuradhapura. The park consists of willus (Natural lakes), dry-lowland forests, scrublands, open grasslands and the coastal belt.

The Knuckles Mountain Range is located towards the North East of the City of Kandy and offers one of the most breathtaking climbs among the Sri Lankan hill country. The region is a paradise for all outdoor mountainous activities.

Belilena cave situated in the forests of Kitulgala is a very large cave, in which the 12,000 year old skeletal remains of the prehistoric man have been found. Trek through the forests in order to reach the cave.

Arguably there is no betterway to experience Sri Lanka’s incredible hill country than to take to Sri Lanka’s iconic rail network that dates back to the period of British colonial rule that is still as charming as it was then.

The Colombo to Kandy train ride is a deservedly popular Sri Lanka train journey to take to get an up-close feel for Sri Lanka’s dramatic, scenic landscape, and, in just three hours, takes you from sweltering coastal lowlands to cool inland hills.

The Sri Lanka train tour from Kandy to Ella is one of the finest in Asia and maybe even one of the world’s great rail journeys. The scenic beauty you will experience on the Kandy to Ella train route via Nuwara Eliya is something you will never forget. Talk to Travel Sri


Lanka about including this excursion in your holiday.

Of all the things to see in Sri Lanka Ella Gap offers one of the most spectacular panorama vistas in the south of the country through a narrow cleft in the hills down to the plains below. The whole route to Ella is amazing but most stunning of all is Ella Gap itself.Elite Holiday Homes in the Gold Coast Bulletin

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We wrote a pitch exclusively for the Gold Coast Bulletin informing them of Elite’s upcoming appearance on Dream Home Ideas and the exposure the Gold Coast would receive on national TV. The story was pitched to a specific journalist along with several images of the homes and picked up immediately.

The Results

A news article in the front pages


Voices interviews, with Peter Francis Cheek, took place in June 2016 (see below), and further interviews as part of this Series will appear in the coming months. BADA Voices interviews will have the BADA logo associated with them (see below).

Harry Apter
of Apter-Fredericks, London, established 1946.

A conversation between Harry Apter and project research fellow Lizzy Jamieson.

Harry told us about the beginnings of Apter-Fredericks, literally a marriage between two dealer families, the Apter’s and the Fredericks’s. Harry began working in the family business at the age of 18, and had some very interesting reflections on the changes to the antique trade in more recent times, as well as observations on the structure of the trade. During the interview Harry also told us about his experiences as a member of vettingcommittees for several of the major international antique fairs, and the relationships between the antique trade and public museums.

A conversation between Philip Astley-Jones and project research fellow Lizzy Jamieson.

Philip gave us some absolutely fascinating memories of his time with Roger Warner in his shop in Burford, Oxfordshire. Philip started with Roger Warner in 1965, and he gave us amazingly vivid descriptions of the day-to-day life in the shop, and Roger’s buying activities.

Photograph, Antique Dealer project, University of Leeds 2014.

Gary Baxter
of H.C. Baxter & Sons, London, established 1927.

A conversation between Gary Baxter and project lead Mark Westgarth.

Gary John Baxter is the grandson of Horace, Claude, Montague, Victor, John, Baxter, who established the famous antique furniture dealers H.C. Baxter & Sons in London in 1927. The business was initially a


partnership between Horace’s sister, Maude (Mrs Maude Chalmers as she became) and Horace, trading as ‘Chalmers & Baxter’ at 193 Fulham Road. The business was continued by Gary’s father, Terence Baxter, and his uncle, Roy Baxter, before Gary joined the business aged 17 in 1978.

In an extraordinarily detailed interview (Gary should have been an historian!) Gary tells us about the early history of H.C. Baxter & Sons – how his grandfather used to gather old furniture on a cart around Clapham in South London, from their first shop in Northcote Road, Clapham, to H. C. Baxter & Sons becoming one of the most important trade suppliers of antique furniture in Britain.

Photograph, Antique Dealer project, University of Leeds, 2015.

Bill Beaton
of Walter Beaton Antiques, Dundee, established 1930.

A conversation between BillBeaton and project lead Mark Westgarth.

Bill Beaton is in his 80s and retired from antique dealing about 25 years ago. He started his antique dealing activities with his father, Walter Beaton, in about 1946 just after WWII, at his father’s shop at 37 Albert Square, Dundee. Walter had opened his shop in c.1930, following 10 years working for an antique dealer in Dundee named Norries, and Bill continued the business in Dundee until his father retired in 1963, when Bill took over and subsequently moved the shop to Perth in 1970.

Martin Beazor is the third generation of his family to run the antique business, which was established in Great Yarmouth in 1875. The Beazor family are one of a small number of dealers still trading that were established


in the 19th century. Martin’s grandfather, John Beazor moved the business to their current location in Regent Street, Cambridge in 1940 – taking with them, so Martin recalls, a very smart 18th century grand entrance door salvaged from a merchant’s house in Great Yarmouth.

Martin had very fond memories of working with his father, Keith Beazor, during the 1970s and 1980s – Martin joined the firm in 1973, when he was in his early 20s – including a fascinating anecdote about how his father managed to acquire an important ‘Hepplewhite’ partner’s desk from another dealer, which was eventually sold by Keith Beazor to Asprey in London.

A conversation between Daniel Bexfield and project volunteer Chris Coles.

Daniel’s father, Arthur Bexfield, opened an antique shop in Hitchin, Hertfordshire in 1962, and Danieltold us about his own early beginnings as a dealer in antique silver trading in the famous antique markets at Bermondsey and Portobello Road in London.

In a detailed discussion Daniel also reflected on the practices of dealing in the antique markets in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as how he established his first ‘permanent’ antique shop in the Bond Street Silver Galleries. He also told us how he came to lease a shop in the famous Burlington Arcade, London in the late 1990s. As well as describing how the antique silver market operates, Daniel had fascinating reflections on some famous members of the antique silver trade and memories of the some well known collectors of antique silver.

Photograph courtesy of Daniel Bexfield Antique Silver Limited, 2014.

John Bly
of John


Bly Antiques, Tring & London, established 1891.

A conversation between John Bly and project lead Mark Westgarth. This interview is the third interview in an extension to the Oral Histories project, called ‘BADA Voices’, and which is supported by the British Antique Dealers’ Association.

John’s great-grandfather, William Bly, started the business in the 19th century, before his grandfather moved to trading in second-hand and modern furniture in 1891. The business was continued by Frank Bly, John’s father, before John joined the firm in 1960.

In a series of fascinating and infectiously enthusiastic reflections on more than 50 years in the antique business, John tells us about when he started working with his father at the age of 21, following a short spell at Sotheby’s, and his memories of key characters inthe trade. John also gives us insight into his experiences of antiques in the media, starting with a T.V. programme in 1970 called ‘Looking at Antiques…’ through his work on a programme called ‘Heirlooms’ in the mid 1970s, to his appearances on the popular BBC T.V. programme ‘Antiques Roadshow’, which he joined in 1980.

A conversation between Andrew Burne and project volunteer Chris Coles.

Andrew Burne told us about the early history of W.G.T. Burne – his father initially worked for the well-known specialist glass dealer, and author, Arthur Churchill, before setting up on his own in 1936. Andrew also shared his memories of other specialist glass dealers, including Delomosne and Maureen Thompson.

There were also fascinating stories about buying trips taken with his father, and the early morning starts to


buy in the antique markets at Bermondsey and Portobello in London, as well as an occasion when the actor and singer Dean Martin came into the shop. W.G.T. Burne sold many things to major collectors and museums, and also sold chandeliers to The White House and Buckingham Palace.

Photograph, Antique Dealer project, University of Leeds, 2014.

Robin Butler
of Robin Butler Antiques, Honiton, established 1963.

A conversation between Robin Butler and project lead Mark Westgarth.

Robin was born into the antiques trade, the son of another well-known dealer G. Noel Butler, who began trading in Honiton, Devon in 1936. Robin and his brother Roderick, also an antique dealer, opened their own shops in Devon in the early 1960s, before Robin moved his business to Bristol in 1981.

Robin developed a specialism, selling wine-related antiques,which he cultivated in the late 1970s with an exhibition of wine-related antiques at his shop in Honiton as part of the British Antique Dealers’ Association 60th anniversary celebrations. Our interview with Robin also includes reflections on dealing in the 1960s and 1970s, Robin’s memories of some of the major Country House auction sales in the same period, including the famous Mentmore sale of 1978. Robin is also a successful author, with books on English Furniture and a major catalogue of a private collection of silver.

Photograph, Antique dealer project, 2013.

Lennox Cato
of Lennox Cato Antiques, Edenbridge, established 1978.

A conversation between Lennox Cato and Project Lead Mark Westgarth.

Lennox was born in Grenada and came to the UK with his natural parents in the early 1960s. He was adopted at a


very early age by the well-known Brighton antiques dealer ‘Dicky’ Compton. Lennox opened his first antique shop in The Lanes, Brighton, in 1978, before expanding the business throughout the 1980s, moving to Lewes, before settling in Edenbridge in 1997. Lennox is well-known for his appearances as one of the furniture experts on BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.

In this highly engaging interview Lennox told us about his early beginnings in Brighton, his memories of his father and the antique businesses in Brighton in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as personal reflections on his own history in the ‘trade’.

A conversation between Christopher Claxton Stevens and project research fellow Lizzy Jamieson.

Christopher joined Norman Adams Antiques in 1981, after beginning his career at Christie’s – and joined Stewart Whittington in running the business,which was then, unusually, a trust, following the death of Norman Adams in 1979.

Norman Adams was well known for his ‘eye’ for colour and the patina of antique furniture, and this concentration on the aesthetic, over the privileging of provenance or history of antique furniture, placed Norman Adams in a particular tradition of dealers – and it was pleasing to hear that this particular tradition was continued by Christopher and Stewart.

Photograph courtesy of Christopher Claxton Stevens

Tim Corfield
of Corfield of Lymington, established 1966.

A conversation between Tim Corfield and project lead Mark Westgarth.

Tim joined the family antique business of Corfield of Lymington, Hampshire, in 1984, which had been established by his parents in 1966.

Tim tells us about his salesman father setting up the business following a career in the army,


after working for Bibby’s, the agricultural food company and then as a leading salesman for an American company in the UK. In this very detailed interview, Tim reflects on his own route into the antique trade, the history of Corfield of Lymington, and the antique trade post World War II, as well as the changes in the trade that led to the establishment of Corfield Morris Limited, Tim’s new venture as an art and antiques agent.

Photograph courtesy of Tim Corfield

Peter Francis Cheek
of Peter Francis, established 1949.

A conversation between Peter Cheek and project lead Mark Westgarth. This interview is the first of an extension to the Oral Histories project, called ‘BADA Voices’, and which is supported by the British Antique Dealers’ Association.

Peter began his career working for his father’ssecond-hand and antiques business in North London in 1947, before opening his first shop in Bowes Park, London in 1949.

In this fascinating interview, Peter tells us about how he started in the antiques business, and describes his various shops in London, at Beauchamp Place in London, and at Museum Street (occupying the former shop of the well-known dealers ‘Cameo Corner’). Peter reflects on his experiences on the vetting committees at the Grosvenor Antiques Fair (from 1983), and as an expert vetting panel member for the BADA on the export panel from 1972 until 2000. Peter retired from dealing in 1999.

We are very sad to announce that Peter sadly passed away on the 17th February 2017. Our thoughts are with Peter’s family and friends.

Photograph, Antique Dealer project, University of


Leeds, 2016.

Mark Dodgson
of The British Antique Dealers’ Association London, established 1918.

A conversation between Mark Dodgson and project lead Mark Westgarth. This interview is the fourth interview in an extension to the Oral Histories project, called ‘BADA Voices’, and which is supported by the British Antique Dealers’ Association.

Mark Dodgson is Secretary General of the British Antique Dealers’ Association and in this fascinating interview Mark tells us about the history of the BADA and some of the key events in the history of the art trade and the role that the BADA played in those events. Mark joined the BADA in 1989 as assistant to then Secretary General, Elaine Dean, before taking over as Secretary General in 2008.

During the interview mark tells us about the history of the BADA, andhis other role as member of the Art Trade Liaison Committee (later known as the British Art Market Federation). Mark outlines the wide range of activities that BADA have been involved with over the years, from the negotiations that surrounded the debates on the introduction of VAT in 1974, to the support work that the BADA were engaged with following the contentious introduction of the auction ‘buyers premium’ in the late 1970s and beyond.

Mark also tells us of the day-to-day business of the Association, running workshops, working with HM Customs on Export certificates, lobbying Central Government Departments on issues such as the recent discussions on the restrictions on the trade in elephant ivory, as well as the BADA support of the educational programmes at West Dean College.

Photograph courtesy


of Mark Dodgson and The BADA 2016.

Georgina Gough
of R.A. Lee, London, established 1949.

A conversation between Georgina Gough and project lead Mark Westgarth. This interview is the fifth interview in an extension to the Oral Histories project, called ‘BADA Voices’, and which is supported by the British Antique Dealers’ Association.

Georgina Gough is the daugther of the well-known antique dealer and former BADA member Ronald A Lee, and started working for her father in 1976. Ronald Lee was the son of the antique dealer Henry Morton Lee, who established an antique dealing business in the 1920s, trading as H.M. Lee & Sons in Kingston-on-Thames, before Ronald Lee began trading on his own in 1949; Ronald was later joined by his brother Charles Lee in the late 1960s.

During this fascinating interviewGeorgina tells us about the history of the Lee family of antique dealing businesses, how her grandfather, Henry Morton Lee, began as a hairdresser to King Edward VII in c.1904, before starting his antique dealing business with his brother Morton Henry Lee. Georgina’s father, Roland Lee, was one of the most influential antique dealers of his generation, as well as being one of the leading experts on the Knibb family of clockmakers.

Georgina calls on her wealth of experience of working in the antique trade, having worked for several high-profile dealers such as Brand Inglis and Stair & Company during the 1990s and early 2000s, recalling her memories of major members of the trade and of working with her father and brother during the 1970s and 1980s.

Photograph courtesy of


Georgina Gough, 2016.

John Hill
of Jeremy Limited , London, established 1946.

A conversation between John Hill and project lead volunteer Chris Coles. This interview is the seventh interview in an extension to the Oral Histories project, called ‘BADA Voices’, and which is supported by the British Antique Dealers’ Association.

John Hill, together with his brother Michael Hill, ran the well-known antique furniture dealer ‘Jeremy Limited’ at 255 King’s Road in London, which had been established by their father Geoffrey Hill in 1946.

In this absorbing interview John recalls the history of the firm ‘Jeremy Limited’, with fascinating detail, including how the firm got it’s name; his father, Geoffrey, was always known as ‘Jerry’, hence the eponymous name of the dealership. Geoffrey Hill was incarcerated in the famous Colditz Castle during the SecondWorld War and began his career in the antiques trade in partnership with another dealer called Tug Wilson before opening his shop in the King’s Road in 1946.

John tells us of his father’s buying trips to New York in the 1950s, and of his own memories of a wide range of other antique dealers such as John Partridge, Pelham Galleries, Horace Baxter and Blairman & Sons. As well reflections on key characters from the trade such as Francis Egerton at Mallet & Son, John also recalls the famous Mentmore auction sale of 1977 and memories of working with his father and his brother Michael – shown in the photograph (right), John, Geoffrey and Michael Hill.

Photograph courtesy of John Hill, copyright Jeremy Limited.

Dominic Jellinek
of Bluett & Son, London, established


1884.

A conversation between Dominic Jellinek and project lead Mark Westgarth.

Dominic joined the world famous Chinese Works of Art Dealers Bluett & Sons in 1978, and stayed with the firm until it closed in the mid 1990s.

In this wonderfully detailed interview Dominic tells us the history of Bluett & Sons, from their beginnings in Oxford Street, London, in the late 19th century to their shop in Davies Street, London.

Drawing from his extensive knowledge of the Bluett archive (part of which is pictured here, right, with Dominic), Dominic reflects on the role of major collectors and dealers of Chinese Works of Art in the 20th century, including the key role Captain Collins in the importation of Chinese ceramics into Britain in the early 20th century.

Photograph, Antique Dealer project, University ofLeeds, 2015.

Jonathan Harris
of Phillips & Harris, London, established 1967.

A conversation between Jonathan Harris and project lead Mark Westgarth.

Jonathan started as a dealer in antiques in the mid 1960s, before forming a partnership with Henry Phillips, in a shop in Kensington Church Street in 1967.

In this thoughtful and reflective interview Jonathan tells us about his life as a dealer, and his passion for collecting. Jonathan talks about what the antique trade was like in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, as well as his views on the trade today and it’s future.

Phillips & Harris were well known for buying spectacular objects from a very wide range of periods and places, in a form of antique dealing that harked back to older, romantic antiquarian traditions. Phillips & Harris supplied major museums


all over the world – as Jonathan said, he liked to buy the very best of anything that was available.

Photograph, Antique Dealer project, University of Leeds, 2016.

Andrew Jenkins
of Avon Antiques, Bradford-on-Avon, established 1963.

A conversation between Andrew Jenkins and project lead, Mark Westgarth.

Andrew began his career in antiques working for the dealer David Tron, in the Kings Road, London in 1962, where he was ‘tested’ regularly on the history of the objects that Tron sold – and also supplemented his learning with visits to the furniture galleries at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Andrew opened his own antique dealing business in Bradford-on-Avon in 1963 and remained there for almost 50 years.

In this fascinating interview, Andrew tells us about the structure of the antique trade in the 1960s and 1970s,as well as his dealings with the San Francisco antique dealer Williams Sonoma in the late 1960s – who later went on to found the famous ‘kitchen ware’ business throughout North America. We also hear about Andrew’s role in the establishment of the West of England Antiques Fair, held in the Assembly Rooms, Bath from 1976.

Photograph of Andrew and Vibeke Jenkins,courtesy of Andrew Jenkins

Christian Jussel
of Vernay & Jussel, London & New York, established 1906.

A conversation between Chris Jussel and project lead Mark Westgarth.

As well as being one of the most prominent antique dealers in America, Chris was also formerly the presenter on the USA version of ‘Antiques Roadshow’, as well as Vice President of Sotheby’s Trust and Estates Division (1999-2003) and Vice President of Samuel T. Freeman &


Co auctioneers between 2007-2009. He is currently a private art and antiques consultant

Chris told us about the early beginnings of Arthur Vernay, who opened his antique gallery in New York in c.1906; by 1925 Vernay had a 5 storey building filled with antiques and was one of the most important dealers in New York in the period. Vernay was actually born in England, in Weymouth we believe, so the links to the British trade here are important.

Photograph, Antique Dealer project, University of Leeds, 2014.

Robin Kern
of Hotspur, London, established 1924.

A conversation between Robin Kern and project lead volunteer Chris Coles. This interview is the sixth interview in an extension to the Oral Histories project, called ‘BADA Voices’, and which is supported by the British Antique Dealers’ Association.

Robin Kern, whotogether with his brother Brian Kern are the sons of Rob Kern, who established the well-known Antique English Furniture dealers, Hotspur Limited in 1924 – Robin and Brian are pictured here right in 1999 at their former business premises in Lowndes Street, London, together with the famous black lacquer secretaire, formerly at Harewood House, and made by Thomas Chippendale (now at Temple Newsam House, Leeds).

During this illuminating interview Robin tells us about the history of Hotspur, which began in Richmond, South West of London in the early 1920s, before moving to Lowndes Street, London in the early 1950s. Robin joined his father in 1957, aged just 17, and after a short spell in the army on National Service, remained with the firm for the next 50 years.

Robin’s earliest


memories are of driving the famous antique oak furniture specialist Sam Wolsey, together with his father Rob, to their respective shops in the West End of London, with the regular stops at Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction sales. Robin also recalled memories of some of the major antique collectors that Hotspur sold to, including Judge Untermeyer and John Bryan in the USA, and Noel Terry in York, as well as memories of many of the high profile antique dealer businesses in the period, such as Mallet, Partridge, Pelham Galleries and Jeremy. Robin also reflects on the significance of the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair and the importance of the transatlantic trade in antiques.

Photograph courtesy of Robin Kern, (1999).

Martin Levy
of H. Blairman & Sons, London, established 1884.

A conversation between Martin Levyand project lead Mark Westgarth.

H. Blairman & Sons were originally established in Llandudno, North Wales, in c.1884, before opening galleries in various locations in London, Harrogate and New York. Martin joined the family business in the 1970s and in this engaging, and fascinating interview, Martin outlines the history of this famous firm of dealers, and his own family history – connections in the antique trade that go back into the early nineteenth century. The interview also contains Martin’s thoughtful reflections on the changing taste for antique furniture during the last 50 years or more. Martin also speaks about his own interests in designed objects, his passion for knowledge about little studied, and little understood objects, and his life as an antique dealer and author.

During the interview Tony recalled


the history of the firm of Charles Lumb & Sons, from the early beginnings of his grandfather, Charles Lumb, who established the business in Harrogate in 1907, to when his father (Frank Lumb) and his uncle (Reg Lumb) joined the business before WWII, and when Tony first joined the business in 1956, aged just 20.

We learnt that Tony’s grandfather trained as a cabinetmaker in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, and started a furniture making and restoration business in Harrogate in 1907, in a workshop in what is now Montpellier Mews, before opening an antique shop at 34 Montpellier Parade in 1947. The firm expanded into further premises in Montpellier Parade in the 1960s and remained in Harrogate until it closed in 2012.

A conversation between Felicity Marno & Antonia Agnew and projectLead Mark Westgarth.

Felicity and Antonia began trading in antique ceramics in the early 1980s, before establishing Stockspring Antiques in Kensington Church Street in 1987. In this engaging interview, packed with fascinating detail about the world of antique ceramics, Felicity and Antonia reflect on a wide range of topics from the expansion of the USA Decorator market in the 1980s and its decline c.2000, to the psychology of collecting. From their respective beginnings in the trade – Felicity at Gray Antiques Centre in London, and Antonia at Portobello Road – they developed one of the most significant antique porcelain dealerships in Britain, settling in Kensington Church Street in the 1980s – as Antonia recalled, the location had so many high profile antique ceramic dealerships that it came to be


known in the trade as ‘Crocky Alley’.

Frank Partridge
of Frank Partridge & Sons, London, established c.1905

A conversation between Frank Partridge and project lead Mark Westgarth.

Frank comes from one of the most important and influential antique dealing firms of the 20th century, Frank Partridge & Sons, which eventually closed in 2006 after over 100 years of trading. The interview captures Frank’s memories working in the family business, which he joined in the early 1980s. Frank has fascinating observations on the history of Partridge & Sons, as well as insightful reflections on the wide range of social changes in the late 20th century and their impact on the British antique trade.

A conversation between Christopher Payne and project research fellow Lizzy Jamieson.

Christopher Payne, who has been a regular presenter on the BBCAntiques Roadshow since 1985.

In an absolutely fascinating interview, Christopher told us about his grandfather’s Antiques and Modern furniture business, which began in the 19th century, and by the 1960s was employing 100 people. The business was continued by Christopher’s father, Tony Payne, who in 1968, decided to close the furniture-making and retail business and concentrate on the antiques side of the business, focused at ‘Wylton Antiques’ in Melton Mowbray.

Photograph, Antique Dealer project, University of Leeds, 2014.

Jerome Phillips
of Phillips of Hitchin, Hitchin, established 1884.

A conversation between Jerome Phillips and project lead Mark Westgarth.

We interviewed Jerome Phillips of the well-known dealers ‘Phillips of Hitchin’, established in the 1880s, and still trading from the same address at the Manor House in Hitchin.

The firm of Phillips of Hitchin was begun by Jerome’s


grandfather, F.W. Phillips in c.1884, and Jerome told us about the history of the business, and his experiences since he joined the firm in the early 1960s.

Leon Sassoon
of C. John, London, established 1933.

A conversation between Leon Sassoon and project volunteer Chris Coles.

Leon Sassoon, of the specialist textiles and antique carpets and rugs dealer C. John are now trading in South Audley Street, Mayfair, London.

In an absolutely fascinating interview Leon told us about the beginnings of the firm of C. John, which was started by Leon’s uncle in Oxford in 1933. Their shop in Oxford was eventually closed in 1976, to allow concentration on their shop in London.

Leon reflected on the changing landscape of the antique trade, and on his relationships with some major collectors of carpets, and withmuseums, over the last 50 years. The interview is a fascinating insight into a very specialist area of the antique trade.

Photograph courtesy of Leon Sassoon.

Kathleen Skin
of Portobello Road, London, established c.1950.

A conversation between Kathleen Skin and project lead Mark Westgarth.

Kathleen Skin talked about her time at Portobello Road antiques market during the 1950s and 1960s, and her time at Grays Antiques market in the 1980s. Kathleen is 93 years old, and has absolutely fascinating memories about buying and selling a whole range of things.

Kathleen told us about life on Portobello Road, antique dealing for ‘fun’, and some extraordinary things she bought – including a silver belt with Wedgwood ‘Jasperware’ plaques and a rare 18th century doll (which she sold to the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood now the


V&A Museum of Childhood). Kathleen began to specialize in buttons, (she still loves buttons!), and continued her trading at Grays Antiques Market in the 1980s, as ‘Kath’s Button Box’.

A conversation between Peta Smyth and Kate Thurlow and project advisory board member Emma Slocombe.

This is a fascinating triangular conversation between Emma, a senior curator at The National Trust, and the dealers Peta Smyth and Kate Thurlow. Peta started trading from a stall in the famous Portobello Road market, before sharing a shop in Kensington Church Street in London, and then opening her shop in the 1980s. Peta developed a specialist interest in antique textiles and recalls memories of other leading specialist textile dealers such as Cora Ginsberg, of New York. We also hear her memories of Roger Warner’s shopin Burford (see also interview with Philip Astley-Jones). Kate Thurlow began her business in the late 1980s; her interests were initially in Chinese porcelain before she moved to selling early furniture. During the interview Kate has some interesting reflections on the relationships between dealers and collectors.

Photograph courtesy of Kate Thurlow.

Nicholas Somers
of Moss Harris & Sons, London, established 1868, and Somers at the Sign of the Chair, Worcester, established 1971.

A conversation between Nicholas Somers and project Lead, Mark Westgarth. This interview is the second interview in an extension to the Oral Histories project, called ‘BADA Voices’, and which is supported by the British Antique Dealers’ Association.

Before establishing his antique business in Worcester in 1971, Nicholas Somers began his career in the antique trade working for some high-profile antique dealers;


starting with the well-known dealer Paul Smith, in Ludlow in 1965, then working for Richard Grose in London, before Nicholas eventually worked at the world-renowned English Furniture dealers Moss Harris & Sons, from 1967. In this interview Nicholas recalls his memories of Robert Harris and the firm of M.Harris & Sons, and on his extraordinarily rich and varied life in the antique trade from the 1960s to the present day. As the interview reveals, as well as being a succesful antique dealer, Nicholas also worked in the auction world, and was part of the management buy-out team that acquired the auctioneers Bearnes, Torquay, from the firm of Sotheby’s during the 1980s. Nicholas also operated as an antiques agent, and more recently as a ‘Forensic Appraiser’ and Expert Witnessfor art and antiques legal cases in the Law Courts. This is a fascinating interview with someone with an astonishingly varied career in the world of antiques.

Photograph Antique Dealer project, University of Leeds, 2016.

Lanto Synge
of Mallett & Sons, London, established 1865.

A conversation between Lanto Synge and Project Lead Volunteer Chris Coles. This interview is the eighth interview in an extension to the Oral Histories project, called ‘BADA Voices’, and which is supported by the British Antique Dealers’ Association.

Lanto joined the world-renowned English Furniture dealers Mallett & Sons in 1969, staying at the firm for almost 40 years and eventually rising through the ranks to become Chief Executive of the firm in 1997. In this fascinating interview Lanto outlines the history of Mallett & Sons and his reflections on


the changes in the antiques business since the 1960s. Lanto recalls memories of the various individuals associated with the firm, as well as some memories of key members of the antique trade. Lanto is well-known as a leading expert and author on the subject of antique textiles and tapestries and the interview reveals this deep interest and enthusiasm. Lanto also reflects on the recent changes in the antique trade and offers some thoughts on the future development of the trade. This is another of our fascinating interviews with one of the key individuals in the history of the antique trade in Britain.

A conversation between Simon Spero and project volunteer Chris Coles.

An intriguing interview with the leading specialist ceramics dealer/scholar/collector Simon Spero, who began his dealing career in theearly 1960s. Simon tells us about his early memories of collecting, and his recollections of other leading antique ceramic specialist dealers, such as Reg Andrade, Arthur Filkins and Robert Williams, as well as his dealings with leading collectors in both the UK and USA. Simon also tells us about some of the auctions of significant collections over the years, including those of the ceramics scholar and collector Bernard Watney, sold in 1999 and 2000, and has reflections on some earlier auctions, such as that of Frank Arnold, sold in 1964 and 1965. There are also Simon’s observations on curatorship and museums, as well as his own work as a dealer-scholar and his publications on 18th century English ceramic factories.


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Rajinder Singh, an anti-Islam activist in his late seventies who blames Muslims for the death of his father during the Partition of India in 1947, has been sympathetic towards Britain's far-right party for much of the past decade even though he currently remains barred from becoming a member because of the colour of his skin.

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Mainstream Sikh groups said they were appalled. Dr Indarjit Singh, directorNovember 6, NASAA elected several new members to its board of directors for fiscal year 2010. NASAA's new president is Suzette Surkamer, former executive director of the South Carolina Arts Commission. See the full FY2010 NASAA board.

At a White House ceremony on November 4, 19 community arts and humanities programs for youth received the Coming Up Taller Award. The award is an initiative of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. NASAA manages the awards program and offers a Leadership Enhancement Conference for awardees on how they can leverage the award for enhanced exposure in their communities. See the 2009 Coming Up Taller


Receive National Service Medal

Five museums and five libraries from California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee will receive the 2009 National Medal for Museum and Library Service from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The $10,000 award honors museums and libraries that make extraordinary civic, educational, economic, environmental and social contributions. For a complete list, to learn more, or to nominate a museum or library for the 2010 award, refer to the press release.

Laura Scanlan Appointed NEA Director, State & Regional Partnerships

Former Delaware Division of the Arts Executive Director Laura Scanlan has been appointed director of state and regional partnerships at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Scanlan's primary responsibility will be to oversee NEA funding and assistance to the 56 state and jurisdictionalarts agencies. Her recent experience includes founding Creative Cultural Strategies, an advisory firm for cultural organizations, and serving as senior vice president for fund development and marketing for the Delaware Community Foundation. Scanlan led the Delaware Division of the Arts from 2001-2006 and has served on the board of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. She will join the NEA in late November. For more, see the press release.

Carol Ann Herbert Honored for Theatre Support

Former chair and current board member of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Carol Ann Herbert has received the New Jersey Theatre Alliance's Award of Appreciation for her work to support the state's theatre community. "Carol's tireless efforts as chairwoman of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts played an instrumental role


in effectively positioning the impact of the state's theatre and arts community in our state's quality of life, and ensuring that they continue to be a priority in challenging financial times," said John McEwen, executive director of the Theatre Alliance. "Her availability to the cultural organizations around the state enabled her to gain a deep understanding of the impressive achievements of the field and our challenges, which made her an effective leader and ambassador." Herbert serves on NASAA's board of directors.

NASAA Publication of the Month: Design for Accessibility

Design for Accessibility: A Cultural Administrator's Handbook is a how-to reference and resource guide for integrating older adults and people with disabilities into all aspects of an arts organization, from planning and design to marketing and technical assistance. Design for Accessibilitybreakage.
Concerning the manufacture of cable ties, one-piece molded theremoplastic cable ties typically include an elongate toothed strap and a locking head joined thereto with one surface of the strap and the head's strap entry face being generally coplanar and with the body of the locking head extending as a cantilever far past the other strap surface. The cavity used for molding the tie is typically formed by a pair of cavity blocks which meet at approximately the longitudinal center line of the strap. When, after completion of molding, the cavity blocks are separated, the tie remains in the block which is in engagement with the head's strap exit face since the head cavity of that block is significantly deeper and has more surface area from which to strip


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According to the sources, the first container of Food Union, which has a quantity of around 10 tons of ice cream, has finally been shipped. The mentioned container will be getting shipped from Riga to Hamburg, and then later from there it will be shipped to Shanghai. In the Chinese city of Shanghai, the ice cream willThe Syrian National Council has announced that it will not attend the Geneva II conference, which may take place in November, and will withdraw from the National Coalition if the coalition participates in the conference. As the largest group within the coalition, the council may have effectively undermined Geneva even before it occurs.

Not that Geneva is a particularly promising forum. When the idea of holding a conference on Syria was first broached between the US secretary of state, John Kerry, and the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, earlier this year, it seemed more an act of desperation than the consequence of a well-thought-out peace strategy – a way for two rivals, the United States and Russia, to find common ground over a conflict that had hopelessly divided them.

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Are You Spiritually Dehydrated?

As physical dehydration begins to take a serious toll on a person, several symptoms appear. Lethargy sets in as the body attempts to conserve the limited resources it has available. Vision tunnels to just that which is right before the individual. Judgment is skewed as a person is not able to mentally process everything that is taking place.

When this occurs, a person is in serious danger. While the symptoms can be overcome with proper hydration, the lack of energy, vision, and judgment creates a difficult climate for the person to help themselves.

As a pastor, I regularly see these three symptoms spiritually–lethargy, tunnel vision, and skewed judgment. People are lethargic toward spiritual things–eternity, family, and the nourishment of their own souls. They get tunnel vision, becomingand his father Paul (Rainn Wilson) when he takes up residence in the garage uninvited. Grief stricken by the loss of TJÃ¢â¬â¢s mother, Paul canÃ¢â¬â¢t muster the strength to evict the strange squatter and soon the long-haired, tattooed Hesher becomes a fixture in the household. Like a force of nature, HesherÃ¢â¬â¢s anarchy shakes the family out of their grief and helps them embrace life once more.

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Take a linear narrative, throw in a dash of chaos, and you end up with Hesher, a film that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 but didn't see an official theatrical release until 2011. Playing with the person-helps-grieving-family storyline we've seen countless times, this is one of those indie dramas that assembles a cast of well-known actors and


get wet."

Rarely in a film do I find a quote within it that perfectly describes the lessons it's trying to portray. In "Hesher", directed by Spencer Susser, this quote resonated with me. It was not until I heard that line that I fully understood what this movie was about. "Hesher" is a great film. One with a lot of heart and some brilliant writing. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the outrageous Hesher perfectly and is by far (aside from "Mysterious Skin") his best work to date.

"Hesher" plays out like a weird dream. T.J., impressively played by Devin Brochu, is a young boy struggling with the loss of his mother. He lives with his father Paul and his grandmother. Paul, played by Rain Wilson, has fallen into a deep depression lettingnamed Hesher (Gordon-Levitt) who walks into the home of a depressed widower (Wilson), his 12 year old son (Devin Brochu) and his mother (Laurie) and takes over. The first time I see this guy, I'm calling 911 but this family lets him move in.

The film centers on the accidental death of the wife/mother who was killed a couple months earlier in a car accident. TJ (Brochu) wants the car back after it was sold for junk, but must deal with the salvage operator's teen-age son who is the school bully. In several scenes Hesher could prevent TJ's thumpings but doesn't. You just know, he's trying to toughen up the kid by allowing him to be force fed urinal cake. Or maybe turn him in to a psychotic serial


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"It's imperfect, but it's imperfect for everyone in the league," Vogel said. "And to be honest, it's imperfect less for us than it is for most teams."

Vogel said the Pacers had a fairly smooth first practice. The players are in decent shape despite having to wait more than two months for the start of training camp because of the lockout.

Vogel wants to keep a balance between getting his players into game shape and not overdoing it. They'll have one practice today before starting to alternate with two-a-days Sunday.

Vogel doesn't plan to overwhelm his players with changes to the system. He wants to keep it as simple as possible.

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The Oculus Quest arrived on the scene on May 21st, 2019. Ever since then, the standalone VR platform has been kicking butt and taking names. The launch lineup was incredibly strong for a brand new platform, but Oculus hasn't taken their foot off the accelerator. New games continue to bombard the platform on a nearly daily basis. In fact, the platform has just passed it's 1st birthday, and there's over 100 solid games available. This ranking concentrates on the 100 Best Quest games currently available.In China, positive media depictions of LGBT characters are against the law, which means a film like Brokeback Mountain — the story of a clandestine romance between two men in the American West — would never be screened legally in the world’s most populous country. The government has a complex security apparatus designed to censor any content that could be considered subversive, a term that applies to LGBT people, their leaders, and their movement for equality.

For a new generation of activists like Fan Popo who are savvy in social media and word-of-mouth rallying, the solution is to go underground. Defying ongoing censorship and other obstacles from police and government officials, activists are beginning to form a network reminiscent of the U.S. pre-Stonewall era that has succeeded in moving


the needle toward acceptance within the past few years. Film and its positive depictions of LGBT characters may be at the heart of this movement.

“Film can change people’s minds,” says the 20-something filmmaker, who learned the art of moviemaking at the Beijing Film Academy and is also the author of Happy Together: Complete Record of 100 Queer Films, which has drawn comparisons to Vito Russo's LGBT cinema manifesto, The Celluloid Closet. To date, Fan has created several documentaries that have advocated for LGBT rights in China, including The Chinese Closet, which tells young people's stories of coming out to their parents, and Only Love, which examines the lives of transgender people in southern China.

In addition to being a filmmaker, Fan is the director of the Beijing Queer FilmFestival. The festival, established in 2001, is the longest-running in China. In the last 13 years it has evolved through six editions, held screenings in countless locations, and been handled by many organizers. It has been subject to police raids, arrests, warnings, and government spies, with many attempts to permanently end this display of LGBT pride. Its venues have ranged from gay bars to foreign embassies to an ally’s basement, where a white sheet served as a screen.

The festival was originally conceived by students at Peking University, who christened it the Tongzhi Film Festival. In Chinese, “tongzhi” translates to “comrade” in the Communist sense, which is how the students gained approval from the university to host the event. However, “tongzhi” is also a slang word for people who


identify as LGBT, which served as an insider advertisement for its intended audience. The festival went on largely as planned but was shut down during its last day, when school officials discovered the ruse.

For several years, the festival remained dormant, due to the students' fear of more serious repercussions. After a second attempt to stage the festival at Peking University failed, organizers moved the location to 798 Art Zone, an artistic community in the Chaoyang District of Beijing that is populated with former military factories — large buildings perfect for art galleries and, with the right equipment, movie screenings.

The festival survived at 798 for two years, at which point Fan, who was first an audience member, volunteered to become an organizer. He made an impact immediately. After policeregarding LGBT issues. One of Fan’s many duties is fundraising, and he uses part of these funds to host an annual lottery that will pay for transportation and lodging for 25 lucky winners from more rural areas of China who will then be able to travel to Beijing and experience LGBT films — many for the first time.

And for many, the festival is about more than just film. Fan recalls meeting one former audience member who fell in love with her partner during the festival. Afterward, she was inspired to pursue a degree in gender studies at the University of Hong Kong, where she examines a cultural practice called “form” marriage, a common practice in China in which a gay man and a lesbian will marry each other


Welcome to Gokhale Memorial Girls' School

Gokhale Memorial Girls' School was founded on the 20 th of April 1920 by Smt. Sarala Ray. She worked out a scheme to prove that "Education meant development of thought and culture- that education brought in wider outlook of life."

Our goal is to form women alive to the needs of our world, with the knowledge which gives them power to act, and motivated by the love which gives them power to act, and motivated by the love which gives them purpose and wisdom in their action. The education of girls from every social background has to be undertaken so that there can be produced not only women of refined talents but also those great souled persons who are so desperately needed by ourJustice League composer Danny Elfman was honored at this year’s “Hollywood in Vienna” film music gala. Elfman was interviewed on stage by music journalist Melinda Newman, and he spoke a little bit about Justice League.

According to John Rokesmith, who was in the audience and shared his experience on Film Score Monthly, Elfman said that he recorded his score for Justice League last week in London. He explained that he wasn’t happy with a piece he worked on for a particularly moving scene, so he persuaded the Justice League producers to hire a string orchestra to make it better.

Elfman replaced the original Justice League composer, Junkie XL, over the summer. It’s unclear if any of Junkie XL’s work will remain in the movie, though they’re still using his “Come


alkaline waste water but still requires about six to eight hours of soaking time. Briefly, the MAPA tortilla process requires soaking of whole kernel corn in tap water to rehydrate the corn. The soaked corn is then transferred to a first single screw extruder for procesing with the original soak water. Excess water is returned to the soak tank and remixed with new water for soaking of the next batch. The corn is transferred to another extruder and eventually ground, cooked and sheeted. A substantially similar process is disclosed in U.S. Pat No. 4,778,690 of the Oct. 18, 1988 to MAPAM, INC., which appears to be a MAPA related company.
U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,834,996 of May 30, 1989 to Fazzolare et al and 4,645,679 of Feb. 24, 1987 toThis Italian Wine Region is Now a UNESCO Site

Pop the cork on the bubbles! If you're a fan of sparkling wine, you are likely already familiar – and in love with – Italy's signature rival to French champagne.

Finally, Italian prosecco is getting some recognition - you might agree it's long overdue. After a 10-year wait, Italy's Prosecco hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene have been designated the country's 55th UNESCO World Heritage Site. It's a recognition and commitment to preserve the unique 'Cultural Landscape' of the area near Venice that produces one of the world's favorite wines.

The UNESCO designation of the prosecco hills – as in the case of other wine regions – celebrates the heritage of generations of individual winegrowers who recognized the precious gifts of the terroir


and toiled to establish the vines and a community based on a valued wine. And of course, the incredible beauty of the region of vineyards.

In the case of the prosecco wine hills, the beauty is unique. The area of area of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene is characterized by steep hills, which you do associate with other wine regions and which contribute to the particular and complex flavors in the region's sparkling wine.

But here, the challenges of cultivating the terrain was overcome in the 17th century by the creation terraced small plots of vines that resemble a patchwork or checkerboard pattern, surrounded by local forests and farmland, dotted with small iconically-Italian villages.

Traditionally, winegrowers in the prosecco wine hills also trained their vines in a distinctive, rhomboid grid pattern. Called the'bellussera' technique, it provided prosecco grapes with exposure to the sun and protection from diseases, and also added to the one-of-a-kind aesthetic and appeal of the landscape.

You rarely find – admittedly expensive, expert labor-intensive - 'bellussera' trained vines these days. But it's hoped that the UNESCO designation, as well as a trend in viniculture as well as other heritage food production to recover traditional techniques, will inspire a return to prosecco's 'roots'.

It also codifies a commitment to sustainability for the region – both in its cultivation and production of these highest quality designated prosecco wines – and also in welcoming visitors to discover the riches of the area.

The prosecco hills, that stretch 30 km (nearly 20 miles) through this picturesque part of northeastern Italy, have been cultivating wines


Tibetan Lama Faces Scrutiny and Suspicion in India

Feb 7, 2011

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DHARAMSALA, India — His daring escape from Tibet seemed out of a movie. Then only 14, Ogyen Trinley Dorje was one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most revered incarnate lamas, and his journey through the icy passes of the Himalayas was viewed as a major embarrassment for China. The youth arrived in India in early 2000 to a euphoric greeting from Tibetan exiles.

India, though, was less certain about what to do with him. Intelligence agencies, suspicious of his loyalties and skeptical of his miraculous escape, interrogated him and tightly restricted his travel. He remains mostly confined to the mountainside monastery of a Tibetan sect different from his own. And that spurred an idea: He wanted his ownmonastery. Eventually, his aides struck a deal to buy land.

Now, the 17th Karmapa, as he is known, has seen his quest for a monastery unexpectedly set off a national furor, fanned by Indian media that have tapped into growing public anxiety about Chinese intentions on their disputed border.

The Indian police are investigating the Karmapa after discovering about $1 million in foreign currency at his residence, including more than $166,000 in Chinese currency. Flimsily sourced media accounts have questioned whether he is a Chinese spy plotting a monastic empire along the border.

“Monk or Chinese Plant?” asked an editorial in The Tribune, a national English-language newspaper.

Many Tibetans scoff at the spying allegations. But the episode starkly exposes the precarious position of the Dalai Lama and the exiled movement of Tibetan


broke out between the high lamas charged with identifying his successor: at least two other people now claim to be the Karmapa, though a majority of Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, recognize Ogyen Trinley Dorje.

But this dispute has complicated efforts by the Karmapa to claim the monastery built by his predecessor in the Indian border region of Sikkim. Indian officials have blocked him from taking ownership until claims from rival Tibetan factions are resolved — which is why, given the uncertainty over the duration of the legal fight, the Karmapa sought land for a new monastery, his aides say.

The land deal led to the current controversy. On Jan. 26, India’s Republic Day, police officers apprehended two men at a highway checkpoint after discovering about $219,000 in Indian rupeesfrom Tibetans or other Chinese who have made a pilgrimage to Dharamsala.

Mr. Mathur said the Karmapa’s aides were unable to deposit the money because they were awaiting a decision on their application — made several years ago — for government approval to accept foreign currency. In the interim, they say, the money is stored where the officers found it — in boxes kept in a dorm room shared by monks.

Mr. Mathur also denied any suggestion that the land deal was secretive or illegal, and he said that it was the seller who demanded cash.

On Friday, the Karmapa offered blessings to devotees who lined up to meet him in his fourth-floor reception room. Among them was a group of Chinese followers from the manufacturing hub of Shenzhen. Aides say


Davis observed a pill bottle containing morphine.  Later that day, Davis was arrested by Owensboro police detectives Ronald Long and Charles Newton for possession of a controlled substance.  Following her arrest, Davis provided statements to the officers corroborating previously existing evidence of a sodomy offense involving John Reneer.  Davis further informed detectives Long, Newton, and Frank Wall that John Reneer had morphine in his house.  Acting on these disclosures by Davis, the Owensboro detectives immediately sought and obtained a warrant for the arrest of John Reneer on the charge of second degree sodomy.  After consultation with Daviess County, Kentucky, commonwealth attorney Tom Castlen and assistant prosecutor James Werthington, the officers also sought and obtained a warrant to search the residence at 1430 HaynesAvenue for evidence of illicit drugs.

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Officers Long, Newton, and Wall, accompanied by Kentucky state police detective Jerald Nickens and Owensboro police officers Keith Haire and Jerry Epison, executed the warrants by kicking in the door at Reneer's house and arresting him at gunpoint.  The officers executing the warrants, who were fully aware that John Reneer had a series of prior convictions for violent crimes and a reputation for being well-armed,1 entered the house carrying flashlights and brandishing firearms.  The officers initially discovered Reneer's nephew, James, sleeping on a couch in the living room.  They proceeded immediately to the master bedroom where they encountered John Reneer and Elaine Rafferty.  The officers handcuffed Reneer, instructed him to go to the living room couch, and read the


warrants to him.  Meanwhile, Rafferty, who was naked, was instructed to get out of bed and get dressed.  Once she was dressed, she was escorted to her children.

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In the process of executing the search warrant, the officers discovered marijuana, the pill bottle containing morphine, other drug paraphernalia, and several loaded firearms in the bedroom where Reneer and Rafferty had been sleeping.  The plaintiffs candidly admitted that the search proceeded without any threats or violence, and was quickly completed.  Within one hour of the officers' entry, John Reneer was in custody at the Daviess County Detention Center.

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John Reneer subsequently was charged with sodomy and drug possession, and ultimately convicted on both charges.  During the course of the prosecutions, Reneer unsuccessfully moved to suppress theevidence discovered during the October 8, 1988, search of his house.  Reneer, joined by Rafferty, her children, and James Reneer, then filed this section 1983 action alleging that various officials violated their constitutional rights in obtaining and then executing the search and arrest warrants.

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Prompted by the defendants' motions to dismiss, the magistrate began an evidentiary hearing on October 18, 1988.  Following one day of testimony, the magistrate adjourned the proceedings for more than one week.  On October 20, 1988, plaintiffs Rafferty and James Reneer filed a motion to have counsel appointed for them before the hearing reconvened, but the magistrate denied their motion.  With all of the plaintiffs participating pro se, the evidentiary hearing was resumed and completed on October 31, 1988.  The