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Next instalment to my Pictorial Autobiography.
In 1978 I moved from Blackmill and we bought a house in Pencoed. One of the main reasons was I wanted to be a Detective and as long as I lived in a Police Station I would not have that opportunity.
In the 1970's (not like today) it was something very special to get a permanent place on the CID.
This image is the Bridgend Police Station and in those days the top floor was the CID Office. I there made some very good friends some of which I am still in contact with. There are many many episodes that went on within those walls some of which I shall relate to in the coming days. Being accepted onto the CID was a very proud day more important in those days than being promoted.
We worked hard and played hard.
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Part of the autobiography my mother (Maria "Re" Daddino) created in 1958, when she was nearly seventeen years old. (It turns out that spread 21 is missing from the book, possibly ripped out by my grandmother for reasons unknown.)
Me: Frank Ryan was Irish, I'm guessing.
Mom: Yes.
Me: Did Nanny like that?
Mom: Yeah...well, yes. Sort of. I didn't mention poor Mike Smith in this book! Do you want to know Mike Smith story?
Me: Of course!
Mom: He had to be before Frank Ryan. Well, Nanny did not like Mike Smith because he was Irish. Do you want to put that in?
Me: Yeah, of course!
Mom: Well, she gave me a real hard time over him. But I liked him. He would call me, we went out on a few dates, and he gave me his school sweater, which was a very big deal at the time. He went to St. John's Prep, I believe. All of a sudden he stopped calling me, and I was very sad and cried and got very upset. Nanny was very unsympathetic, blaming it on his nationality. She said he came back for his sweater. And one day after school he was waiting for me at St. Saviour's. He wanted an explanation as to why I broke up with him and wouldn't speak to him and wouldn't call him. He told me that he came by my house to see me. It turned out Nanny told him I never wanted to see him again, and she threw his sweater down a flight of stairs at him.
Me: So how did he react?
Mom: He was very upset—not at me, at the circumstances. And I was so upset at Nanny. He wanted me to meet him secretly. And I couldn't do that. I just knew that it would be such an uphill battle, and it wouldn't have been worth it for either for us.
02, Mitchell, Mrs Charles – of Lakeside who died 1897 at 93 [heard 1st sermon by TBB] Pg.2
03, Bowers, Francis – settled lot 16/5 in 1820 Pg.3
03, Cameron, Robert – settled 1822 lot 5/9 [father of present Woodstock jailer] pg.3
03, Farley, John – father of late Turner Farley settled lot 7/2 in 1821 Pg.3
03, Uren, John – settled lot 28/4 1820 Pg.3
03, Burgess, Clawson – first actual settler in vicinity of Cherry Grove, 1819 Pg.3
03, Farley, Miss [Jane] – married John Scatcherd; her sister married Thos. Scatcherd Pg.30
03, McGuffin family – near Thorndale, one of the earliest settlers Pg.3
03, Smith, William, Robert and Peter – sons of Nicholas Smith, UEL, 1820 Pg.3
03, Scatcherd, John and Thomas – who were wealthy and took lots 9,10,11,12/con.1 Pg.3
03, OBrien, William – first actual settler, lot 7, concession 8 Pg.3
03, Smith, Nicholas – UEL who fought in Revolutionary War and 1812 War Pg.3
03, Burgess, Nancy – born Dec. 1819, first white child born in the township Pg.3
03, Burgess, Nancy – daughter of Clawson, born Dec 1819, widow of Cornelius Near Pg.3
03, Davis family – settled 1820 at lot 21, sixth concession Pg.3
Part of the autobiography my mother (Maria "Re" Daddino) created in 1958, when she was nearly seventeen years old.
Me: You went to another prom a week later? You were really popular!
Mom: If I met Andy...hmm...I must've broken up with after Senior prom. No, I couldn't have. So I went if steady with him...I guess I didn't. I'm not sure. Hmm. Maybe I broke up with him after his prom. I must have. Because football season is September to November...
Me: That would've been the start of your relationship.
Mom: Yeah. I must've broken up with Andy before the second prom. But...
Me: Well, you were able to get a new date, just like that.
Mom: The second date was with Frank Fallon. But it wasn't really like that. I wasn't dating everyone.
Me: It's still impressive.
Mom: Well, I was pretty. Anyway, I would never have cheated on anybody, so it's really bothering me—why did I break up with Andy?
Me: So Frank! I mean the other Frank—Frank Ryan! He's the only boy in this book whose last name you provide.
Mom: Probably because I was dating him when I wrote this.
Me: Barbara, Tim, Anita, and Ted.
Mom: I have no idea who they were.
Me: A "moonlight wiener roast"?
Mom: [laughs hysterically]
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Picture: Franz Marc: Gazelle.
How would I begin to count the hours I spent staring at this painting? A print of it hung on the wall above my bed from my earliest years until I left home for university. My eyes traced the lines ten thousand times: that strong diagonal that scores off the bottom quarter of the picture; the echoes and reflections of triangles; the perfect curve; the suggestions of light split by a prism – and the uncomplicated eye staring back at me, just right of centre, rendered in strokes so deft that it seemed perpetually on the verge of blinking. Since then, I have scoured paintings for similar eyes, and found them only in Marc, Chagall and the occasional Russian icon: eyes which suck you into the heart of innocence and compassion; great, welling, bovine eyes; eyes which know nothing – and everything – of wars.
Yet as a child still learning what art could be, I did not see the gazelle for years: just the eye, and the way the lines radiated out from it – until one day, in a rush of discovery, I realised that those twin prongs were horns, the spindle-forelegs outstretched, the muzzle folded in upon the haunches. It was a moment of triumph, and the gazelle was young and spry and carefree for many a year.
Now, when I look at you, gazelle, I must restrain the thing in me which sees you as a scapegoat: the great squared swathes behind you the citadel which has cast you out; your eye imploring. You are not exhausted; you have not staggered over crag and fell until the strength within you waned. You have not lain down to die. Your eye is not set to close and never open.
Where are you going next, my blue gazelle, my tri-toned prayer in form and line?
36, Allen, Nathan P – became a Methodist, joined the Townline Class [Whiting’s] Pg.36
36, Allen, Nathan P – held Twp offices of assessor and School Superintendent Pg.36
36, Allen, son – [Lucius] killed by saw-log roll, father hoped for the ministry for him
36, Allen’s mother – “Beware of the Methodists”, by mistake sent a Methodist book Pg.36
36, Allen, Nathan P – from NY State, brought up Presbyterian Pg.36
36, Allen, Nathan P – taught 1st public school in his neighbourhood [Lot 17/14] Pg.36
36, Allen, Nathan P – died leaving widow, 2 sons & 5 dau: farms to sons, $1000 to dau 36
37, Allen, Horatio – sold homestead, now a banker in NW of Ontario Pg.37
37, Bains, James - to California gold with A. McDonald, took sick, died, buried there
37, McDonald parents – died few yrs after family arrived, buried lot 11/14, [Jn & Jane] Pg.37
37, McDonald, Alex – to California for gold, sick, headed home, never heard of again Pg.37
37, McDonald, Catherine – married Willard Eastwood of Ingersoll, merchant/foundry Pg.37
37, McDonald, Jeanette – marred Mr. Brown of Woodstock, wealthy man Pg.37
37, McDonald, John, Catherine – and others in debt for land, stick together Pg.37
37, McDonald, John – Magistrate and Mayor of Ingersoll Pg.37
37, McDonald, John – sold the farm and moved to Ingersoll Pg.37
37, McDonald, Margaret – married Mr. Stimpson of Ingersoll Pg.37
37, Allen, Prescott – 2nd son sold share to brother, settled in Iowa Pg.37
37, McDonald – 2 boys and 3 girls embraced religion, joined ME Townline Class Pg.37
George Digby - Goose Feathers
Collins White Circle Pocket Edition 111, 1945
Cover Artist: Margaret Paull
"Lively adventures in the South Seas!"
Helen Keller - The Story of My Life
Dell Books F111, 1961
Cover Photo of Helen Keller by New York Times Studio
Back cover photo uncredited
“He didn’t know who he was. And then he found his wife, his employer, his servants were banded in a plot that gave him a huge income, a fine home, a fine business!” [Prologue]
Born in a small Russian Mennonite community in Canada, A.E. Van Vogt (1912-2000) was one of the most popular and influential science fiction authors during the mid-twentieth century, often referred to as the genre’s Golden Age. He claimed that many ideas came from dreams, so he arranged to be awakened every 1 and a half hours to jot down his imaginings. He had a habit of combining short stories he had written into composite tales, novels, or novel series, which he called “fix-ups,” and he organized his writing into scenes of 800 words.
In 1995, the Science Fiction Writers of America named Van Vogt their 14th Grand Master, a prestigious recognition of his contributions to the genre. Novels such as “Slan,” “The Voyage of the Space Beagle,” and the “Null-A” series remain a testament to the enduring power of imaginative storytelling. [Sources: Wikipedia and his autobiography “Reflections of A.E. Van Vogt”]
Inside the autobiography my mother (Maria "Re" Daddino) created in 1958, when she was nearly seventeen years old—those brown rectangles are where masking tape eventually stained the paper.
Mom: 95. Well, that was my grade from my English teacher.
Me: Do you remember who it was?
Mom: Um...no. Well, it might pop in my head.
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WOOHOO! After almost 3 years, we finally have review 100.
The Story so Far.
Nick Hornby
31 Songs
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100th review foreword:
Reading & Reviewing has been such a great challenge for me. It was (and still is) all about the reading experience and expanding that by being more aware of the pages I flipped, the printed words I soaked up in my brain. For the 100th review, I have selected the book 31 Songs by Nick Hornby, because it signifies what Reading & Reviewing has meant to me so far: making the most of a reading experience.
31 Songs is author Nick Hornby's very personal account of what music means to him; 31 Songs is a collection of essays, each concerning one song (or at times, two songs), followed by a few essays on several albums Hornby has appreciated over the years.
So how does one review a book about music? Why, by listening to each song as you read, of course. I feel that you can't understand a book about specific songs unless you introduce yourself to these songs. So I had an iPhone playlist. It contained 31 Songs. I listened to them on a picknick blanket, outside on the grass in my backyard, sun shining down, not a care in the world.
And this is why 31 Songs gets to be review 100: for this one I was not only inclined to review a book, but to really experience so much more than just the words. Oh, that experience.
(Note: I also read the CD essays, but for me this was really mostly about the songs.)
Even though I listened to the songs Hornby writes about, I was well aware that this wasn't supposed to be about me liking or not liking HIS songs, but to think about my own experiences with music, and to feel inspired to attach more meaning to music.
A few examples to clarify:
- Pop music, Hornby concludes in his 3rd essay, can be moving (progressing), too. For me, Lady Gaga is an example of progressive pop music. She has a unique look on music and fashion and isn't afraid to shock (meat suit, hello?). Pop music represents, in a way, the future – there's always that next great song waiting to come out. I love this about modern music: anticipation for that next great song. You don't know what it is yet. It will knock you off your feet when you hear it.
- I liked Hornby's idea of making a mixtape (or in this day and age, an iPod playlist) regularly of songs that speak to him at that time; newly discovered songs he loves at the moment.
- Hornby feels God (or: a higher being, something spiritual) is in music sometimes. For me, a non-believer, this is also the case: music makes me feel connected in some way to something not-human-but-not-quite-God. It brings comfort, hope, understanding and relief where for others, religion does that. (The photo accompanying this review, I was listening to some music that always gets to me. That makes me feel, so much.)
- Though I tried looking at this book through my own musical… ears, I did find that one song in particular enchanted me, and I'm glad I discovered it via 31 Songs. I'm talking about Ani DiFranco's "You Had Time", which is a fantastic, moving and deeply precious break-up song. I wish I'd known about it in those days when break-ups (and even endings of friendships) sucked up all of my mental and physical energy. I could have used this gentle, accepting song. Break-ups would have felt more beautiful, then.
As I got through about a third of 31 Songs, I realized I wasn't reviewing as much as I was responding; in my notes I felt like I was preparing a reply to Hornby, a dialogue. I could imagine us two sitting in a pub discussing music together. Brilliant, really.
We would talk about:
- How he was right, I should have listened to his advice and NOT play Suicide's "Frankie Teardrop" while wearing headphones. The song is a depressing mess, with the leadsinger screaming (!) bloody murder into your ears when you least expect it. Cheerful songs (Vampire Weekend being a prime and recent example in my case) is sometimes just better.
- "About a boy". We would talk about "About a boy" and how the 'About' was not a good idea to begin a title with, granted. But I would tell him, who cares? We love the book anyway.
- His son, an autist. I would listen to Hornby talk with so much love about his boy. I would brush away, quickly and hoping he didn't see it… I would brush away a little tear which didn't signify that I felt pity, but that I understood, having grown up with a brother with (albeit it a significantly lighter form of) autism. I'm glad Hornby has a way to connect with his son: music.Sometimes music is communication. Language. It can say so much.
- How he feels you shouldn't have to agree with his tastes in music; rather he just wants you to come up with your own songs. He'd be challenging me to think about this long and hard.
So what are my songs, I started to wonder? I tentatively made this list of songs so important, they don't have just the one memory attached to them – rather, they lasted with me for years throughout many different memories. What are MY songs?
Tori Amos's "Winter" – it feels like snow, comfort, childhood (growing up) and cinnamon candles, molasses cookies, Christmas trees about to be put up. Thirteen Senses with "Into the Fire" is passionate. Boston's "More Than a Feeling" feels like freedom, like I can do anything. Sia's "Breathe Me" never fails to stir within me the deepest emotions I can feel. If I need to feel, to connect to what I'm trying to repress, I listen to that song. It is catharsis. Regina Spektor's "Us" is a musical miracle and I am more fascinated by it the more I hear it. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's "Somewhere over the rainbow" is my salute to a dearly departed loved one who has always shown tremendous faith in my abilities to do anything. That song, listening to it, is my way of thanking him. U2's "With or Without You" was my first foray into good music, as opposed to going with the crowd and listening to the Backstreet Boys because it was the cool thing to do. Springsteen's newer "Queen of the Supermarket" to me is synonymous with timelessness. How I love that song. Kansas' "Dust in the Wind" is melancholy, and one of the songs I love to sing most, with the most feeling.
I can think of a few more, but not too many. Because I still have some years ahead of me to discover for myself which songs have impacted me. I'm experienced in some areas in life, but such a noob regarding others. For those areas, I have yet to find my soundtrack.
(What are your songs? Think about it.)
I honestly don't know what I loved more: the reading experience itself, combined with listening to music and analyzing it all in good time – or the lessons I have learned for myself from reading this book.
All I know is that I am so glad I read this book, and how I did it. I see it as an experience I wouldn't have want to miss in the world. Has my life changed? In a way, it has. Music, as I explained earlier, is to me like religion is to a lot of people. Contemplating that what brings you closer to accepting certain things and finding joy and hope, well, that's a worthy cause. I do feel a better appreciation for music simply by reading one guy's sweet and honest love letter to his music.
31 Songs, I'm not there yet. But I'm on the look out. I'm thinking, and one day I'll have a complete list, too. I'm excited about this. Music means the world to me (as much as books do). Thank you, Nick Hornby, for reminding me of this.
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Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, by Anna Sewell. Illustrated by Edwin John Prittie, with color illustrations by Edward F. Cortese.
Holt, Rhinehart & Winston, Junior Classics Editions, New York, circa mid-1960s.
The Range Rover Autobiography Ultimate Edition in Otago Stone with an exterior design package. The new Range Rover Autobiography Ultimate Edition, a hand-finished exclusive edition, will make its debut at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show.
THE
SHOE
CHRONICLES.
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a retrospective autobiography through shoes.
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my shoes have always been a big deal for me.
through good pairs and the bad ones, i've always had some issue or a story behind it.
now, i've decided i would immortalize the memories of my shoes in the form of 20 postcards, each one representing a year of my life and the most significant shoe from that time.
in a way, these postcards are like a photo album, they bring up memories from way back, happy memories and also the not-so-happy ones.
this is my life. these are my shoe chronicles.
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Part of the autobiography my mother (Maria "Re" Daddino) created in 1958, when she was nearly seventeen years old.
Mom: I did leave out a memory. In the first grade, there was boy named Stewart. He threatened to beat me up every day.
Me: Do you remember his last name?
Mom: No.
Me: Because we can shame him publicly, you know.
Mom: I wish I could. Nanny took me out of public school mid-year because she learned they were teaching me about Hanukkah. She was so mad she stormed in and took me out and put me in a Catholic school, Saint Rita's. She did so without a thought to the fact that at that grade, in public school you printed, whereas in Catholic school, you wrote in script. These days you'd be sent to a remedial class or they'd give you extra help, but back then I had to sit there and draw the script writing on the blackboard without understanding it.
Me: For how long were you in this state of ignorance?
Mom: Maybe a month, two months? I learned quick.
Me: So what is this about a French doll?
Mom: Oh I had to play a doll for a Christmas play one year. I was in a box. With a bow on it. A box my size.
Me: Doing what?
Mom: I had to sing "Frère Jacques."
Me: What was the story?
Mom: There wasn't a story. It was like everybody was somebody from a different country.
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Part of the autobiography my mother (Maria "Re" Daddino) created in 1958, when she was nearly seventeen years old.
Me: "You were such a happy baby!"
Mom: Grandpa always said that. Nanny probably added the baby diseases: bronchitis, whooping cough...pneumonia. I guess that was the beginning of the asthma nobody knew about.
Me: "Whenever I saw anything that resembled a male, I screamed and cried."
Mom: Oh, OK. I don't remember that. I suspect Nanny made that up. Though...I do suspect I do exaggerate some things. I mean, I can't really imagine Nanny saying that. A bit of artistic license.
Part of the autobiography my mother (Maria "Re" Daddino) created in 1958, when she was nearly seventeen years old.
Me: "This is my red sheath!"
Mom: Did I make that dress? I might have made it.
Me: You cry again. You seem to cry a lot in this book.
Mom: Well, I cried a lot then. Young girls cry a lot because they're sensitive.
Me: So what is this "A.A. party"?
Mom: I don't know what it means. Probably "Athletic Association." I assume. But why would I go to one of them? Oh, I made this dress on my Singer sewing machine. I got an award for it—a set of scissors. A good set. I still have them. I had to get rid of the case after the basement flooded, but I still have the scissors.
Part of the autobiography my mother (Maria "Re" Daddino) created in 1958, when she was nearly seventeen years old.
Me: And here they are.
Mom: Oh my. My prom. Oh wait—Brooklyn Prep's prom.
Me: He is cute.
Mom: Oh, these guys were very tall, I do remember that.
Me: You don't remember their last names?
Mom: No. They were his friends. Because if it was his proms, they were his friends.
Me: It says you two would see movies. Which movies? Like...Westerns?
Mom: Yeah, like Westerns. He was a macho sort of guy. Action-type movies.
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Baba Rampuri takes you inside of mystic India, into an ancient oral tradition of knowledge of the Naga Sadhus. In Hindu India, this tradition is at the very foundation of Yoga, which Baba Rampuri describes in great detail. The story is about an 18 year old boy who leaves his home in Beverly Hills to travel to India where he becomes the disciple of an enlightened yogi.
The cover the book I publish, Charles Ponzi's autobiography. The cover design is by Aaron Lee, Florida graphics designer. This is the story of the world's most famous swindler as told in his own words. Over 50 years out of print, and scarce, Ponzi's autobiography is now available for your reading pleasure. www.amazon.com/Rise-Mr-Ponzi-Charles/dp/0963192442/ref=sr...
A quote from the book by Charles Ponzi about the legitimacy of his postal coupon scheme.
“People must have thought I had discovered the buried treasure of the Incas. Or Alladin’s lamp. If they gave a thought at all to the coupons, they must have got dizzy figuring how many of them I needed to justify what I was doing. In fact, my visible resources were then in excess of $5,000,000. Assuming I earned two cents on each coupon, I should have had to handle over 250,000,000 of them! It was absurd. There were not that many in the whole world. There had never been that many. And, it would have taken months to print them!
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TIPS ON AVOIDING PONZI SCHEMES....
Because of the $50 billion Bernie Madoff investment scandal, Ponzi schemes are receiving lots of news
coverage. However, Ponzi schemes aren’t new; they have been around since the 1800s. With Ponzi frauds regularly surfacing, it is worth your while to know how to recognize one. I’ll also explain the differences and similarities between Ponzi schemes and pyramid schemes.
Ponzi schemes are named after Charles Ponzi, a 1920’s Boston businessman who lured in investors with promises of a 50% return in 45 days if you bought one of his corporate promissory notes. Ponzi told Bostonians he would invest their money in international postal reply coupons, when in fact he didn’t have a real business operation and never intended to invest their money in a legitimate business.
His real plan was to “rob Peter to pay Paul.” He would simply pay investors their monthly interest with money he received from other investors.
With Ponzi schemes, as the number of new investors grow the supply of new investors available to solicit diminishes. Eventually the Ponzi bubble must burst under the pressure of meeting the promised interest payments to its ever-increasing investor base. While some early investors do receive interest payments, the newer investors lose all or most of their money when the scam is exposed. Again, that’s because there is no real business venture to generate legitimate income.
Unfortunately, Ponzi schemes can go on for years without detection. As long as investors receive their monthly interest payments they are happy and they don’t question the legitimacy of the alleged business operation.
Pyramid schemes are not typically investment schemes. They involve multi-level marketing opportunities. An illegal pyramid scheme relies on an organizational structure whereby compensation is derived primarily from recruiting others into the organization, rather than from the sale of goods or services. What differentiates a legal, multi-level marketing program from an illegal one is that a legal one generates profits mainly from the sale of merchandise.
Many illegal pyramids attempt to establish their legitimacy by purporting to sell a product. However, the merchandise or service to be sold is largely ignored. The pyramid scheme functions like a chain letter, and eventually collapses as participants try to recover their initial investment by recruiting more and more new investors from the ever decreasing number of prospects.
Finally, here are red flags of Ponzi and pyramid schemes with tips on how to avoid becoming a victim:
• You are provided with ‘insider’ or ‘secret’ information.
• The investment has an unusually high rate of return.
• You are pressured to invest.
• You are told the investment has no risk.
• You are unable to get regular reports on the status of your investment.
• It sounds too good to be true.
• Be leery of multi-level marketing opportunities that require large start-up costs.
• With multi-level marketing offers, be sure there is an actual product to sell.
• If there is a product, be certain there is a consumer market for the product.
• With multi-level marketing opportunities, be sure the sale of the product is the main focus of the marketing plan, not just bringing in new members.
copyright - Mark Mathosian, retired economic frauds investigator