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Forget Food Revolution–Let’s have a Water Revolution!

by Maile on September 4, 2010

“Real food” is a great passion of mine, but for many folks in our country, and most people in our world, this pursuit of better, healthier food is a luxury. I get to think twice about what I’m putting in front of my children at every meal, while many a mother out there is wondering if she can put anything at all in front of her children.

Sadly, this lack even extends to the more crucial subject of clean water, something so second-nature in our western world, that we simply can’t imagine not having access to something as elemental as clean water. Well, a group of 30 bloggers in this big ole’ blogosphere have decided to do something about this issue in particular. Today, my husband, Shawn, has been kind enough to guest blog about this project that he is a part of and show you how you can join in and make a difference. Shawn, take it away!

A few weeks ago I got an email from Bryan Allain asking if I wanted to change the world. I said, Of course I want to change the world. He said that Tyler Stanton was trying to get 30 bloggers together to raise $30,000 in 30 days for charity:water. Our goal? To build a well in Africa for people with no access to clean, safe water.

This got me thinking:

I wonder how far away I got today from clean water?

Since I didn’t leave the house, the answer is pretty easy – about 20 steps. Any time I get thirsty I stand up, find a clean glass, and turn on the faucet. Easy peasy. Even when I do leave the house, every building I drive past has clean water, and every gas station would be happy to sell it to me. But not everyone has it this easy.

Did you know one billion people on this planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water?

That’s billion with a B, as in 1,000,000,000.

And, according to charity:water, “Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of diseases and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Children are especially vulnerable, as their bodies aren’t strong enough to fight diarrhea, dysentery and other illnesses.”

This seems ridiculous to me, that I can be no more than 20 steps from drinking water, while 1,000,000,000 on this earth can’t get to it. Don’t you think?

What if I told you that you could go HERE to track our progress and give whatever amount you’d like to help us reach our goal? What if I told you that a $20 would provide one person with clean water for 20 years? It would be ridiculous not to do that. Don’t you think?

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Guess what? There’s a bigger picture.

I bet you have thirty friends or acquaintances you could band together with to change someone’s world. You can do more today for people around the planet than you could ever do before, probably in the history of the world.

Thirty of us, (thanks to Tyler ), are taking 30 days in September and working together, trying to change the world for 1500 people in Africa .

You can join us, or you can find 30 other people and change a different part of the world – so what will you do this month?

Thanks, Shawn, and thanks to you for taking a few moments to read this and get behind a worthwhile movement. If you want to check out more from my talented husband, his writing, and our crazy life together, you can check out his blog here. Have a great Tuesday, everybody!

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trilogies always come in three parts, that is why they're called trilogies. and just like the latest two kraken releases, the new album 'drift' also comes in a minimal designed black and white cardboard cover. which brings us to the conclusion that together with 'amore' and 'chagrin', the kraken trilogy on spectre has been completed. amongst the multiple meanings of the dutch 'drift' there is 'temper' and 'impulse' which are the emotional layers on this cd, but it also reflects to a ship being uncontrolable. as all tracks are related to oceans and oceanlife (amongst them are 'fighting with cachalot', 'whalebones are not umbrella's' and 'sushi is murder') we can see what upsets kraken. and the music fits their anger perfectly; a layering of dark ambience and deep opressive drones, spoken word in various languages and a pinch of noise. three emotions were kraken's guideline while writing the trilogy and 'drift' definitly is the most inhospitable and threatning of them. this third journey through the deepest caverns of their minds revealed a truth, more gross and repulsive than anyone can imagine. it's a small black hole which swallows everything, including hope. let us find it and burn it ...

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Hurdles high for applying anti-influence-peddling law over Amari scandal

The investigation into the graft allegations involving former economic and fiscal policy minister Akira Amari has come to a close, with prosecutors ending up deciding not to indict him and his former secretaries. The case underscored the legal limits in holding a lawmaker criminally responsible for such allegations even after his collusive ties with a construction company and his approach to bureaucrats have come to the surface.

The law prohibiting legislators from profiting by exerting influence came into force in 2001 after a lawmaker-sponsored bill was passed into law to prevent influence-peddling by politicians and their secretaries. The law bars receiving rewards for exercising influence by virtue of one's authority over administrative punishments or contracts. However, as the exercising of such influence is supposed to involve, for instance, threatening to raise questions inconvenient to the government in the legislature, there are no precedents of charges being pressed against lawmakers and their secretaries for violating the law thus far.

Upon a request from Satsuma Kogyo, the construction company behind the money-for-favors scandal, a former secretary to Amari met officials of the government-backed Urban Renaissance Agency (UR) on a total of 11 occasions over a road project dispute with the construction firm between 2015 and 2016. As it turned out, the secretary told UR officials, "It may be better if you sweeten the pie a bit more to let the construction firm move out of the district," and "Would you please save (Amari's) office's face?" The ex-secretary is said to have been treated to lavish wining and dining worth a total of over 10 million yen from the construction company, but the negotiations remained stalled.

One senior prosecutor said, "Even if compensation was received, it cannot be said that there was exercising of influence unless a lawmaker made such strong remarks as 'If you don't comply, I will raise a question in the Diet.'" Because the prerequisites for applying the law prohibiting lawmakers from receiving money through influence-peddling are strict, "the law has become one of the politicians, by the politicians, for the politicians," the prosecutor lamented.

Masako Owaki, a lawyer who was involved in Diet deliberations for the enactment of the law as a then member of the House of Councillors, said, "Influence-peddling for the interests of specific individuals and groups cannot be said to be what political activities are supposed to be about, and leads to public distrust in politics. In-depth discussions are necessary to examine whether there are any problems with the content and application of the law."

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Haiku Classic: Sept. 17, 2017

pregnant again ...

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    Janice Bostok (1942-2011). From "The Haiku Anthology" (revised edition), edited by Cor van den Heuvel, Touchstone 1991.

    The relationship between the two main entities in this haiku (i.e. the pregnant poet and the fluttering moths) is apparent through the movements of the moths and the movements of the baby within her womb. I imagine the baby to already be grown to a size where its movements are visible to someone watching the swollen belly of its mother through the use of the word "against" in the poem, rather than "at." Although haiku usually do not contain outright metaphors, it is common practice to include a metaphor in the poem through the juxtaposition of the two major entities, such as in the above haiku. The fluttering feeling in the mother could alternatively be in the state of mind of finding out that she was pregnant -- a heart flutter for example -- and in this case the inclusion of the word "against" might imply that she was not quite ready for the pregnancy. I prefer the former interpretation. One must always be careful when composing haiku to imagine all possible interpretations of the words one pens on the page. Friends and family are often good sounding boards and it is not rare to discover interpretations that one could never dream about when crafting the words and their order within your poems!

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The Cover Art for Psy High, an interactive Fiction game by Rebecca Slitt

The internet and mobile platforms have given rise to many new kinds of games. At the same time, they’ve also helped older types of games find new life, thanks to the creativity of game designers and the enthusiasm of players. And interactive fiction (IF) is one of those more classical types of games currently going through a renaissance. Like me, you might remember the choose-your-own adventure Goosebumps and Animorphs books from your youth; but I can promise you that just like me, interactive fiction is now all grown up. (Although I don’t think interactive fiction has rent to pay…) Of course, there has actually always been people across age ranges playing interactive fiction games, it’s just that now the digital age has helped these gamers develop a new voice and a new community, appealing to people on desktop, web browser, and mobile platforms across the globe.

So we sat down with Rebecca Slitt to find out more about this intriguing and addicting game genre. Rebecca is an academic-turned-game-designer and longtime tabletop RPG player, who is currently working as a writer and editor for Choice of Games, a publisher of interactive fiction and text-based games. She’s contributed to the forthcoming game TimeWatch as well as Make Big Thing’s forthcoming RPG Noirlandia, and uses her degree in medieval history to make sure that her dragon-vs-dragon combat obeys the rules of chivalry. You can find her game Psy High, an interactive teen supernatural romance novel, here.

Brian: What are text-based and interactive fiction games? And how did you get into them?

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Rebecca: Text-based games, aka interactive fiction, are digital games built around words. Which is a hugely general description, because there’s a huge variety of text-based games out there!

Some are word-based puzzle games, where your goal is to find the right combination of commands to solve a problem. That’s the style of text-based games that’s been around the longest, but there are a lot of other styles out there now. Some are essentially novels where the reader plays the main character, deciding how to react to events and characters and choosing where the story goes next. Some are immersive and impressionistic, where the experience of interacting with words on the screen creates an emotional experience.

I found my way into text-based games through – appropriately enough – several paths. One was through choose-a-path books, which I devoured as a kid. My favorites were the Time Machine series – they fed my love of history as well as my love of immersive stories. I also played in some old-school text-based online RPGs – MUDs, MOOs, that sort of thing. Some were freeform text-based roleplay; others were basically multiplayer versions of the earliest IF games in which you you’d type commands like ‘go north’ and ‘get torch’ to navigate your way through the game.

As for my entry into writing and editing text-based IF professionally, that was a very happy coincidence. Choice of Games was founded by two of my friends from college, Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse. I’d been playing and enjoying their games for years – and then they happened to be looking for a new editor at the same time that I was looking for a new job. That was in the summer of 2013, and I’ve worked for them ever since.

Brian: It seems as if text-based games and interactive fiction have been going through a reemergence. Why is that? Did they ever go away?

Rebecca:They never went away! For a long time, there has been a small but continuous and very dedicated community of people who play, write, and love IF games.

But you’re totally right that the last few years have seen a lot of growth and expansion in the IF community. It’s partly due to the increased ease of communication that social media has brought: it’s now easier than ever before for IF players to find each other, and for IF writers to spread awareness of their work. It’s also partly due to the development of new tools for writing IF, like ChoiceScript and Twine, that are free and very simple to learn. So people who want to make games in general find that the easiest path into that is to write text-based interactive fiction: there’s a relatively low learning curve, and no need to learn (or pay for!) complicated graphics rendering software. People who never had the opportunity to create games before are now able to, and that’s a wonderful thing for everyone concerned.

Plus, there have been a few really prominent IF titles in the last few years – 80 Days probably being the biggest – that have drawn new players and writers into the field.

So now there are more opportunities for people to write games, which means that there are many more kinds of IF being written, which means that there’s a higher chance that any given person can find a game that they’ll love to play.

Mainstream videogames have also recognized that a lot of players like a really strong story to their game, and choices that really matter. The popularity of Telltale’s games, for instance, shows that there’s a hunger for a player-driven narrative.

And, finally, the rise of transmedia and augmented reality games plays into the resurgence of IF as well – games like Lifeline where the player’s text-based communication is the game. It’s all part of the same impulse to put the player at the center of a very complex story.

Brian: On the Choice of Games website, there’s a lot of discussion of interactive fiction in the video game era. Do you also see any similarities between text-based games and tabletop RPGs?

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Rebecca: Absolutely! GMing a tabletop RPG turned out to be my best preparation for writing IF. It got me used to thinking about stories that didn’t necessarily proceed in a linear fashion and could have multiple different endings based on other people’s actions. And what’s more, it taught me that I love telling that kind of story. I love that in both tabletop RPGs and text-based IF (at least, in the kind of text-based IF that I’m writing in ChoiceScript) the full story doesn’t even exist until the author and player cooperate to create it.

It also got me used to thinking about creating a story with only words – the kind of audacity of narrative that you need to create an exciting game. Unlike LARP or theater or conventional video games, in a tabletop RPG and text-based IF, you’re not limited by any technical constraints in what you can depict. Do you want a thousand-person crowd scene, or a giant spaceship battle, or a main character who can shapeshift? You can have it; all you need to do is describe it. It’s wonderfully liberating as a creator to have that kind of flexibility.

Brian: Do you have any advice for people who might be interested in getting into text-based games for the first time?

Rebecca: Play a lot of different kinds of games! As with tabletop RPGs or board games, IF can’t be defined as a single thing anymore – which is wonderful! It’s great for players, makers, and the genre as a whole.

So, play some ChoiceScript, some Twine, some parser, some inkle, some Storynexus. Each format will feel very different from the others, and each format will have a lot of variation within it. If you love puzzles, you’ll find them; if you love games with more atmosphere than plot, you’ll find them; if you love complex stories, you’ll find them. If you only have a few minutes to play you can find short games; if you want to lose yourself in a game for hours on end you can find long complex games. Whatever genre you enjoy reading – sci-fi, fantasy, romance, mystery, horror, literary fiction – you’ll find that in IF too.

Brian: What’s the writing, editing, and playtesting process like for your games?

Rebecca: The production process for Choice of Games is a cross between writing a novel and developing a videogame.

It takes about 12-18 months for a game to go from concept to release. We start with a detailed outline that covers both story and game mechanics: what stats the game will track, how the story proceeds differently depending on different player choices, what all the possible endings can be.

That double vision continues throughout the writing process: we constantly pay attention to both narrative and logistics. First, we have to make sure that each potential path through the story makes sense both logically and emotionally. Do the scenes show up in the right order? Does any important information get skipped if the player chooses Option X instead of Option Y? Does each plot progress in a way that makes sense? What is the logical end point of each potential path that the player can take through the story? Do all of those endings feel satisfying?

At the same time, we have to think about mechanics. A core aspect of Choice of Games’ design philosophy is that there are no “right” or “wrong” options. Rather, all options should be equally interesting, and even if the character fails to achieve their goal, the failure should be just as interesting as the success. So we have to make sure that no path through the story is easier or harder than the others, and that no option gives disproportionate benefits or penalties.

Each author has a different method for keeping track of all of the possibilities and contingencies. Some use spreadsheets to make sure that they’re keeping all of the stats balanced; some make flowcharts to track each potential path through the plot. Some make extensive outlines – Max Gladstone, author of Choice of the Deathless, is also a novelist, and he has a great essay about his outlining process for writing a ChoiceScript game and how it differs from and informs his writing process for linear novels.

Once the first draft of a game is done, we have at least a month of beta and continuity testing. We’ve got a crew of regular testers who have exceptional eyes for detail. Every game has dozens if not hundreds of choices, so every playthrough reveals a different combinations of scenes and choices. We have to make sure that every playthrough makes narrative sense. On top of that, we have to make sure that all the code works: not just that there are no bugs, but that all of the stat tests are calibrated properly so that the game isn’t too easy or too hard. We work really hard to make sure that the story flows properly and the game’s responses feel natural.

But sometimes bugs can creep in. For example, my own game, Psy High, had a lot of complicated teen-romance shenanigans, so the continuity was really difficult to iron out. Just one true/false flag getting set wrong in one place could result in confusion for the rest of the game, and hilariously sad error messages from users during beta testing: “I told Alison I loved her, but then on the way to the prom she said that we were just friends! What did I do wrong?”

A decision you’ll need to make in Psy High

Brian: Where do you see text-based and interactive fiction games going in the next five years?

Rebecca: I think that the transmedia/augmented reality trend will continue to grow in popularity, as new types of technology get developed and incorporated into games, and as game creators find new ways to use existing technology to tell new kinds of stories. There will be more multiplayer and massively multiplayer IF games, both cooperative and competitive, that will likewise take advantage of new devices.

Relatedly, I think that the lines between game genres will blur even more. Some mainstream videogames will incorporate more aspects of text-based IF: they will strengthen their storylines, make their plots more choice-driven, and increase the amount of text and dialogue that the player sees. Conversely, IF will, thanks to the development of new tools, incorporate more non-text elements such as sound and video.

If there’s anything that the past few years have shown, it’s that people are hungry for games that have a strong story. I’m really looking forward to seeing what the next few years will bring to help them find those stories.

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Last week I guest posted on my good friend Maggie’s blog. I feel so strongly about the message of my letter to her that I wanted to share the post on here. Be sure to check out the original post here:

Dear Mags,
Unlike the majority of our ‘internet/real life” friends who have written you letters, my time in high school has been far from perfect. I thought about telling you what you would want to hear, however I’m not sure that would prepare you for the hard times that lie ahead. Starting high school alllll the way back in 2011, I felt pressured to make the next four years the best years of my life. When reality set in, I wasn’t busy every weekend or getting along with my classmates. I felt like I was letting myself down. The truth is, the whole high school thing is way too glorified. Yes, you’ll love parts of it (like getting all dressed up for dances!) but you’re also going to hate parts, and that’s ok. This letter is a way for me to pass down to you the biggest lesson I have learned while in high school. I look forward to watching you blossom into the most beautiful tulip there is (I know you’d rather be a Kate Spade bag but whatevs). Without further ado…
Freshman year!
So Freshman year may be a bit scary, eh? Ok, maybe more than a bit scary. Once you walk through the doors on the first day of school, your mind will probably be filled with a million different emotions. Maybe you are thinking you’re on top of the world and no matter what anyone says, you own this place! If thats you, go girl! More power to ya!
Now, if you are anything like I was as a Freshman, you are probably going to second guess every word you say, every move you make, every class you have decided to take. You are probably wondering if someone is judging you, and they will be. They will judge you if you take the bus to school, they will judge you if you don’t. They will judge you if you do your hair and makeup for school, they will judge you if you don’t. Your peers are going to judge your every move because thats what society has taught us to do: judge.
Heres the secret to move passed the judging: If you quit thinking about what your peers think and focus on what you think, you will run the school! We can either let other’s opinions of us define our personalities and our self-worth, or we can forget about what everyone else thinks and just be ourselves. If you think about it, when the day ends that bully won’t be there to inform you that she thinks you look like a poodle with curly hair. When the day ends, the way your hair looked didn’t really matter. What matters is that you’re living your life in a way that you feel confident about your every decision, and you used that confidence to positively impact someone else’s day.

Sophomore year homecoming!

So heres the truth about high school: you are going to be judge. You may at times feel alone. Ok no, you are going to feel alone, it is bound to happen. I’ll let you in on a little secret: you will never EVER be alone. Sometimes you are going to be scared, sometimes you’ll cry yourself to sleep. Its going to happen at some point over the next four years. You aren’t always going to get the top grade in the class, elected as homecoming queen, that cute boy may not ask you out. Whats the good thing about this truth? It applies to everyone meaning that you and everyone else in your school will live through times of failure, embarrassment, happiness, and success. How cool is that? You’re not the only one going through hard times and good times! Heck, half (ok maybe all) of what I listed has happened to me. It is apart of what makes our high school experiences so high school. The sooner you realize that you are not really that different from the rest of your peers, the better.
The only way to really set yourself apart from the crowd is to come out of a negative situation positively. If someone tries to bring you down, don’t fight back. Bullies bully to increase their self-confidence because they are soooooooo immature. The sooner you realize that the girl who appears confident and the girl who appears insecure are not all that different on the inside, the better off you will be. Absolutely everyone you meet in high school is battling their own war. Try not to take things so personally! Maybe the girl who pushed you in the hallway has a brother in rehab. Maybe the boy who laughed at your shoes has a dad in jail. The truth is, you don’t know what personal battle your peers could be fighting. If you’re oh-so-quick to judge them as the “bully”, then you’re just as bad as they are! Instead, take the time to actually get to know your peers. Don’t just say “hey, how are you?” to the girl sitting next to you to be polite. Instead say “hey, how are you really doing today?” and take a minute out of your day to listen, actually listen. Maybe the girl sitting next to you has an obsession with vintage clothing, maybe she loves blogging. You never really know until you ask.

Sophomore year spring break!

On the first day of the next for years of your life, don’t hide in your shell hoping no one will notice you don’t have the most expense shoes or the latest iPhone. Put yourself out there without fearing you will be judged- because you will be judged anyways! Avoiding get so wrapped up in worrying what everyone else thinks of you that you forget who you really are. Say “Hi” to everyone who looks at you or passes you by. “Hi” is nothing more than a two letter word and a short movement of your mouth. The impact of saying that short word, however, could be monumental in someone’s life.
Moral of this letter: Much about high school is meeting new and different people. Embrace them. Value them. Respect them.
Your attitude is everything when it comes to surviving high school. Stay positive, keep your head held high, and keep things covered up.

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You all know that I love hair. It is a fun way for me to be creative. Usually I am more creative when I am doing hair for weddings, but occasionally it’s fun to play around with my own hair as well!

Recently (and by recently, I mean this past summer), I was sent some of the new hair accessories from Chloe & Isabel. Chloe & Isabel is a jewelry company but they recently collaborated with celebrity hairstyles Jena Atkin to create these fun hair accessories. When Erin reached out and asked if I wanted to try them, I was initially reelected because I hadn’t seen the line yet. I didn’t want to not like it. But when I took a look at all the gorgeous options, I knew I had to try them out!

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As you can see from the small preview, they’re so cute, aren’t they? And what I love is that they are also very practical. It’s not some monster clips that you’d never wear in your hair systems for hair loss. It’s pins and things that will actually add to your hairstyle.

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My favorites from what I got were the big bobby pins because they pin so much and it’s fun to use bobby pins as an accessory sometimes and the pretty hair pins. I have used those in a French twist or at the end of a French braid.

Jena Atkin Bun cuff

This bun cuff is adorable. I would wear it a lot more if my hair was longer. As it is, I have a hard time creating a bun big enough to really utilize this beauty. It can be done, I just think it would look better with thicker hair.

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It holds it’s own up there, but don’t you think it’d be so much prettier if my bun was bigger? Oh but HUGE plus – it doubles as a bracelet! You can put the cuff on your arm and put the pin part in your purse and you’ll have a cute bracelet and a way to wear your hair up in a pinch!

big hair pins

I love these because they can turn a very simple hairstyle into something a little fancier in no time. You don’t even have to do anything special with your hair, just a low messy bun with two pins on the side. It immediately adds something to your look without having to do much at all. They’re also  not just for looks, they can pin back a ton of hair.

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I chose the white ones because I like the way they contrasted with my darker hair. But if you have light hair, they have black or even those gold/rose gold ones would be a great option!

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These little hair pins are so much fun! I love putting one at the end of a braid or using all three in a French twist. I have more often used them in a French twist because I think they add so much to such a simple hairstyle. They are also very sturdy and actually add to the hold of the twist or braid as opposed to always being worried they would fall out. And did I mention I think they’re so pretty?!

pretty hair pins

Those are the three items Erin sent me and as I am writing this I am planning out the other items I would like to purchase because they are all so beautiful! They do have some fabulous jewelry as well, but I naturally gravitate to the hair accessories!

So tell me, which would you choose & how would you wear them?

Check out Erin’s site here!

This was not a paid post, Erin just so kindly sent me a few items, but she did not require that I write about them. I am writing because I actually loved them all!!

7 Responses to Cloe & Isabel Hair Accessories

  1. Trish September 2, 2016 at 10:58 am #

    My hair basically lives in a bun, so that bun clip is making me pretty excited. I think I need one!

  2. Carrie September 5, 2016 at 1:18 pm #

    Hi there, are these hair accessories available in Canada yet? I couldn’t find anything about international sales on the chloe and isabel website.

    • Natalia September 23, 2016 at 5:57 pm #

      I don’t know actually! But if you click her web page there will be a way to contact her and ask!

  3. Katie September 27, 2016 at 7:25 pm #

    So the bun cuff is perfect to make ya feel like you’ve got it together! That’s me! Need the illusion of togetherness 😉

    • Natalia September 28, 2016 at 8:47 am #

      Girl, I feel ya!!

  4. Erin October 3, 2016 at 9:04 pm #

    When you say you use at the end of a braid…how so? I prefer a braid over a bun, so I am always looking for new options. Thanks!!

    • Natalia October 10, 2016 at 7:35 pm #

      Slip the pin section into the braid going down toward the ground and have the pretty part popping out on top. You might need a bobby pin to hold it in the braid, but worth a shot! 🙂

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Tropical Sunrise Smoothie

Let me tell you something that’s just plain crazy. And then I promise I’ll tell you all about this deliciousness in the picture (hellloooo tropical smoothie!).

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I’ve been living with my parents for a year and a half now. Insert monkey-covering-his-eyes emoji here. If I were you, I’d totally be judging me right now.

I left for college when I was 18. And I truthfully never, ever thought I’d move back in. And certainly not in my 30s. If you remember, I was pretty hesitant to move back in with the parentals last year. But it made sense as a temporary solution until Sam finished out his term in Portland and made the move to Hawaii himself. We figured there was no use paying for two separate homes, especially considering how high rent is in Hawaii.

Although we didn’t expect to stay so long, I’m so glad we did. Between Sam struggling to find a job for the first few months he was here, to Kai’s hospital bills from his four (4!) hospital stays, living with my family turned out to be a huge support. In more ways than one. But now that we’re both dutifully employed – and we’re ready for Kai to have his own bedroom – we’re kicking off the next chapter in our lives. Last month we signed a lease on an apartment in Honolulu and moved in.

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We haven’t done a whole ‘lotta cooking since we’ve moved in… unloading boxes with a one year old is harder than it looks. But, we’ve unpacked our blender for our favorite breakfast of champions: a smoothie made with papaya, mango and coconut milk. We call it the Tropical Sunrise Smoothie because it’s a delicious way to start the day. Call it what you want, I highly suggest trying it yourself.

It’s relatively easy to find frozen papaya and mango if you don’t have access to fresh fruit. And it’ll work just as well. So bring on a sunny start to your day with this delicious Tropical Sunrise smoothie!

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2 cups frozen mango
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October 2000 Question 7.

With reference to medium speed engine cylinder liners:

  1. explain the cause and effects of polishing or glazing; (6)

  2. describe, with the aid of sketches, an anti-polishing ring and explain how it is fitted in the liner; (5)

  3. explain the action of an anti-polishing ring during the operation of the engine; (5)

Authors Note: This question appeared for the first time in Oct '99. I may be missing something, but part c of the question seems to be a give away for 5 marks.

When a liner and piston rings have run in, the asperities, or high spots have been worn off the rubbing surfaces, and ideally, what is left is a microscopic corrugated surface which will hold the lubricating oil. Combustion, especially of residual fuels, will produce carbon which tends to build up around the topland of the piston. As the carbon builds up, it will eventually touch the liner surface, removing the lub oil film, and, because the carbon is abrasive, it will polish the liner surface, removing the microscopic corrugations, and giving it a highly glazed surface to which a lub oil film cannot adhere. Carbon build up can be so severe that it jams the top ring in its groove. The dual action of further carbon abrasion, and unlubricated contact between rings and liner leading to microsiezure will accelerate the wear rate of the liner leading to blow by, loss of power, possible seizure and danger of crankcase explosion.

The anti polishing ring has a slightly smaller diameter bore than the liner in which it is located, and is slightly larger than the  top of the piston. When the piston is on top dead centre the bottom of the anti-polishing ring is just above the top surface of the top piston ring.

The anti polishing ring is a clearance fit in a step in the top of the liner, and can be replaced when it wears. On some engines it incorporates a cooling space, and so the anti-polishing ring  (or fireband) is fitted with O rings for sealing.

As the piston reciprocates in the cylinder, any carbon build up forming on the top of the piston will be removed by the anti polishing ring. This ensures a good lubricant film on the liner surface, reducing wear and giving a more consistent lub. oil consumption.

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I recently purchased several S-100 boards from eBay; the prices were good and I figured one of these days I’ll find some documentation for them, or I’ll have the time to chase signals enough to figure out what they do. One looks like an old Winchester MFM or RLL drive board, given the connectors and the number of pins. Another resembles some sort of IDE adapter board. All are by manufacturers with little or no information available. Makes things interesting, I guess. Also have an Alpha Micro AM-919 backplane with lots of slots. Not currently hooked up, still sitting in the shipping box, but should be handy one of these days. Hopefully I’ll come across a set of drawings for it, just to make sure everything is wired the way my smaller AM board is.

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FBI Vendetta Against
Martin Luther Kaiser III

Me during filming of CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MAN, a Frank Terpil story

Initially this page consisted of a compilation of news magazine and newspaper articles.   I was under the impression that since  I  did not write these articles they would withstand the test of time.  I was wrong.  Not too long ago I received a direct threat from a well known U.S. intelligence agency ordering me to remove their three initials from these articles.   Pointing out that asking me to remove their initials was essentially changing history didn't phase them...  somewhere in my argument I mentioned Adolph Hitler.

In the past I have purposely avoided making any personal observations and/or comments about these events and the stories surrounding them.  The time is now right to make those observations and comments.

The enormous damage caused to my family and me cannot be forgiven.   These events are an insult to all my friends and associates...  an insult to the United States of America...  and an insult to the world community.  Read on...

First some comments on format.  All my personal observations are in BLUE while public records and direct quotations are in BLACK.  Names will be mentioned, where harmless, but where mentioning them may cause problems I shall simply put either initials or XX.

Placing the cursor on most photographs reveals a description or my thoughts.

As I look at this story today, 20 January 2005, it struck me that trying to put 70 years of my life into one chapter is too unwieldy.   Seven chapters should do and they are...

Chapter One     The Beginning...
Chapter Two     The U S Recording Scandal...
Chapter Three   Bugging the FBI...
Chapter Four    The Criminal Case...
Chapter Five     The Civil Case...
Chapter Six       Repercussions...
Chapter Seven My personal observations...

Chapter One    The Beginning...

Deciding where to start was the most difficult part of this story.  I decided to start at the beginning.

Born in 1935, the second son of a plumber, my family and I lived in the the hard coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania.  We were surrounded by families from Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary and many other coal miner producing countries.  Having the Kaiser name didn't help me much while these countries were being torn to shreds before and during World War II.  The hatred expressed towards me by neighborhood children was enormous.  As a child I had no idea that their animosity was anything other than the norm.   You will read more about this later.

My childhood was a time of roller skate keys, Radio Flyer wagons, smashing tin cans flat for the war effort, hanging in trees, digging tunnels, Zeppelins, kite flying, watching the big steam locomotives as they passed over my street, smashing a penny or two flat with their huge wheels, building rubber band powered airplanes and spending summers on a lake in the Pocono mountains.

During my pre-teen and early teen years I was fascinated by U control model airplanes and eventually had a large collection of them.  The engines I started with were spark powered complete with points, coil and condenser.  As radio controlled airplanes began to appear I found electronics more interesting.  Shortly after the end of WW2 I received my amateur radio license W3VCG and still hold those call letters today.

I can't say my school years were a shining beacon but at least I got through them.  In prep school XX became my co-dependent good buddy.  He was born without eyes but in spite of this I was able to get him involved in amateur radio too.  I took the glass out of the meters of an old transmitter/receiver and he was able to tune the transmitter by the pressure the pointer exerted on his fingertips.  He showed me how the loss of one sense is compensated for by the others.  We had lots of fun together with this incident being the most humorous.  I had my Mom's hand-me-down 51 Caddy and would drive it to a long riverside park on the other side of the river from Wilkes-Barre.  I would then allow my blind friend to take the wheel and speed up and down the park... usually with his left arm out of the window banging wildly on the side of the car while grinning from ear to ear. We were never caught but you can imagine a police man's expression as he approached the car.

I graduated from prep school in 1954 and made two attempts at college... both of which were not very successful.

While attending Rider College in Lawrenceville, N.J. I married a girl I had met at my summer home in the Pocono's and felt I'd better get a job quick. 60 years later we are still married.

Dr. Klensch, did basic engineering on a variety of projects...  and many other truly brilliant minds.  My job was to be their "hands."  I designed and built much of the circuitry that permitted all of these men to continue with serious development.

We had unlimited use of vacuum chambers, glass working equipment and machine shops. After evaporating virtually every combination of chemicals I settled on Cesium Iodide doped with a bit Thallium as the most efficient evaporated phosphor. While working with these chemicals I conceived a totally new way to do image conversion. I wrote it up (see below), handed it to Dr. Morton who passed it up the line. It came back with a note that it had no commercial value but to be on the safe side they would issue a public technical note to destroy its patent value. I receive a "thanks" of $75.00.

RCA TN N0.:
September 1961

Martin L. Kaiser III

Like most of my ideas, this one was WAY ahead of its time

A video pickup of high resolution capabilities is disclosed for picking up light rays from a remote telescope.

The arrangement shown in Fig. 1 includes a flying spot scanner (FSS) the Concentrated light output from which is focused by means of lens L and angularly disposed mirrors 1 and 2 upon a view plate 3. The light produced in the view plate 3 is focused by lens L' upon a photo multiplier 6. This photo multiplier is provided with dynodes having secondary emission material.

View plate 3 may be a ground glass plate with a suitable phosphor on it or a light transparent layer which supports the phosphor. The phosphor has a nonlinear characteristic as shown in Fig. 2. By way of example, the glass plate may be 1/8 inch thick ground on one side and on which side the phosphor is .deposited. Light from the telescope 4 is focused on the ground side of the plate.

In operation, the flying spot scanner produces a raster on the view plate. The telescope image is also placed on the view plate. The image intensity of the telescope is see below or near the threshold point X on the curve of Fig. 2 where the phosphor will fluoresce. The raster from the flying spot scanner is adjusted to a similar or very slightly higher level. Thus the sum total of the light rays from both the telescope and the flying spot scanner will cause the view plate 3 to produce a light signal to which the photo multiplier 6 responds. This light signal corresponds to point-to-point scanning. The output of the photo multiplier may then be amplified to any desired level.

Figure 3 shows an arrangement for picking up a scene in the UV (ultra violet) range. The arrangement is similar to that of Fig. 1, except that the image converter 7 is positioned between the output of the telescope 4 and the lens L", and the view plate is provided with a UV sensitive nonlinear phosphor. That side of the converter 7 which faces the lens L" is coated with a UV emitting phosphor. The outputs of the image converter and the flying spot scanner are in the UV portion of the frequency spectrum.

It is my understanding that when the Russians sent their first satellite around the back side of the moon they used this system because of its extreme simplicity.

In our group I remember four other technicians,  each with their own expertise.  We worked well together as a team and although I was always sticking my nose (comments) into many,  many projects other than mine it gave me the opportunity to be part of some incredibly interesting projects...  the end results of which became technology and products we take for granted today.

Behind me is a 1,000 watt transmitter I built from scratch.  My hand rests on the 100 watt TV transmitter, synchronizing circuits and TV camera... all of my own design. Obviously,  I turned my amateur radio interests towards amateur television.  I wrote extensively for technical journals, RCA in-house technical publications and radio amateur magazines and had my own ham TV station on the air.  Another amateur television enthusiast,  William Haldane (Bill),  and I became close friends.  He was part of RCA Service Company,  a group that put our ideas into the field for further trials.  At that time, Dr. Klensch and others, including me, were developing several schemes involving VVLF technology...  below 100HZ...  we used to call them "cycles" back then. I spent an enormous amount of time in the library scouring over Russian and German scientific papers and although I do not read or speak either language... show me a schematic and I'll tell you what the words most likely said. One interesting item I uncovered was the Germans use of strobe lights to down our aircraft. They would point the strobe spotlight at our aircraft and adjust the speed of the flash so it appeared to the pilot the bombers engines had stopped. The pilot would then jam the throttle forward not realizing he was already near full power and put the plane into a flat spin causing it to crash. On the ground, the German equipment operators were either losing consciousness or barfing all over the place. They soon realized that the frequency they had chosen, close to 6.8HZ, was the resonant frequency of the human body and it was the infrared component of the light causing the problem. They solved the problem by wearing filter glasses that blocked the infrared component.

At the lab, we stumbled across that problem too and although we were generating tens of kilowatts of audio at the 6.8HZ frequency lab personnel were walking into walls, tripping over chairs and barfing. We decided to stay well away from the critical frequency and conduct our research elsewhere.

Since we were all pretty much playing it "by ear" we had more fun than anyone should have in one lifetime.  Here is a good example.  Several hundred yards behind the main building was a small pond.  A bridge crossed the pond and in the middle of the bridge was a small house for test equipment.  A hydrophone was lowered from the house into the pond.  Two hundred yards away a 10 foot long by four inch diameter rod was driven flush with the ground.  Next to it lay a small loudspeaker connected to a microphone in the pond house.   My job was to drop a 10 pound cannon ball onto the stake when Klensch yelled "go" and he,  in turn,  would measure the shock wave.  So there I was in the middle of a field repeatedly dropping a cannon ball on the ground.   Someone inside the main building noticed me and called authorities. Soon an ambulance was fast approaching across the field.  My explanation caused all concerned side splitting laughter.  After the ambulance left Klensch and I continued with the cannon ball dropping experiment.

One day Bill Haldane approached me and asked if I'd like to go to Trinidad. Neither he nor I knew where that was but it sounded interesting. When I got home I grabbed the Encyclopedia and found out.  After discussing it with with my wife I returned with a firm "YES."  A month or two later Bill again approached me and advised that Trinidad would not accept our presence and wondered if I would like to go to Antiqua.  I didn't know where that was either but again said yes.  A month or two later he told me that Antigua wouldn't accept our presence.  He mentioned RCA had decided to set up the project on Barbados where there was a small U.S. Navy base and they simply would not tell the Barbadian government about the project.  He asked if I would go there and I responded in the affirmative even thought I had no idea what the "Project" was all about.  Finally I was given a briefing about a new high frequency (1 to 30 MHz)  "Over the Horizon Radar" (OHR)  an RCA technician/ham had conceived.  Essentially it was to study the "flutter effect" caused by objects moving through the ionosphere. In those days, thanks to the early design of limiter stages in the receiver, one could readily hear the effect when an airplane flew between an FM transmitter and FM receiver or see the effect when an airplane flew between a TV transmitter and TV receiver.  My job was to see if any useful information could be extracted from the flutter (due to the early design of limiter stages in the receiver).  I later learned that the two islands had turned us down because it was during the Cuban missile crisis and they did not want to antagonize their friend, Cuba.Inside of the Trailer

I was transferred to RCA Service Company and sent to Burlington,  Massachusetts to check out the hardware.  When I got there, to my astonishment,  NOTHING relating to the project was there!  Within three months I appropriated or stole (allocated but not yet delivered...  midnight raids, you know) and assembled all of the equipment needed in two 40 foot trailers.  Finally the two trailers were ready to be put on ships headed towards Barbados and Jamaica.  My wife and I closed up the house and along with our 3 and 5 year old children flew, on probably one of the first 707's to take to the air, to Barbados.

As soon as we got settled I went to the Navy base to announce my presence.  The Captain of the base responded with total surprise.  NO ONE had informed him of our intention to set up on "his" base (north coast)!  It turned out that the four RCA advance men never left Bridgetown (south coast), the capital city of Barbados,  but instead spent their time enjoying the wonderful Barbadian rum and the strikingly beautiful Barbadian women!  I was truly on my own.  After some serious negotiating, the Captain gave me a few hundred square feet of space on which
to set up my project.

Two of these 150 foot long verticle log periodic antennas and 100 foot long horizontal log periodic antennas were assembled side by side on the beach.  You couldn't ask for a better ground plain!

In a few weeks the antennas arrived aboard the same 707 I had arrived on. These consisted of four 50+ foot tower pieces and hundreds of pounds of rope, cable and hardware. It took the pilot, copilot, flight engineer, all the stewardesses, all the ground crew people I could gather and myself to get the pieces out of the airplane. Naturally, rum and beer flowed freely.  They were then loaded on flatbed trucks and taken to my little piece of "land."  My antenna site was to be on the beach 120 feet below but there was a major problem awaiting.  The beach was covered by hundreds of Manchineel trees, a highly poisonous tropical tree that bears a very poisoness apple. One drop of the sap from either the tree or apple raises a blister on the skin within seconds. My son picked up one of the apples and threw it. He then rubbed his eye and wound up with a totally swollen and closed eye that oozed green glop for a month.

The trailer finally arrived by an interisland steamer (shades of the African Queen) and, you guessed it, there was no tractor on the Island with which to pull it. I must have looked like Buster Keaton getting the container off. When they raised the container a few feet it began to swing from side to side and one of those sides was the ocean! Finally on one long swing the Captain on the ship ordered the crane brakes released and with a load BANG! the container was now solidly on Barbadian soil. Several trips to the junk yard solved the tractor problem.  The one I found also had no brake release compressor so I constructed a small gasoline powered compressor to do just that.  The trailer was then towed,  without brakes,  over mountainous terrain to my site at the Navy base.  My caravan consisted of myself in a 1958 VW waving a very large red flag out of the window followed by the tractor/trailer.  As I passed through several small villages many Barbadians ran out to the street clapping their hands and jumping wildly in joy thinking the island had been or was going to be taken over by Communist!

After the trailer was in place I began installing four (two sets of two) HUGE log periodic antennas.  Two were 150 foot long 1 to 30 MHz vertical log periodic curtains and two were huge,  and very heavy,  3 to 30 MHz horizontal log periodic beams mounted on the 100 foot towers that supported the curtain.  They were to be supported by 1/2 inch nylon rope.  Nearly every night Barbadian fishermen would "liberate" some of my beautiful rope.  To solve that problem I made several meaningless medallions that my workmen had to hang around their necks while working at the antenna site otherwise they would become impotent.  When word got out about that, the thefts stopped IMMEDIATELY!  To see more about the antennas and trailers go to my NOSTALGIA  page.

My family and I settled into the wonderful Barbadian life but the peace didn't last long.  One day while working on the antennas I heard the drone of a four engine airplane and looked up to see a Russian bomber at about 1,000 feet with its bomb bay doors wide open and a very large camera sticking out. Others obviously saw the plane too because it wasn't long before the American Ambassador was banging on my door.  Since my wife is the politician of the two of us I let her handle the incident.  Sure enough,  after a few of her special cherry-cheesecake pies we were back on track.  Those pies seemed to be the magical answer to the many other situations that would arrive.  In record breaking time I had the equipment up and running.  All of the equipment worked fine and we were ready for the next step. That phase was up to someone else. Also, we had to wait for the advent of computers.

The Russians tried the system for awhile and theirs became affectionally known as the "woodpecker" to us radio amateurs because of the sound it made as it swept across the radio bands. A couple of years ago my copy of MICROWAVE magazine arrived and lo and behold my system is STILL in operation.  Again see the NOSTALGIA  page for that article. Another version of the system was revealed in a 2002 issue of POPULAR SCIENCE that used the cell telephone and GPS systems for detection of stealth and other aircraft.

On my return to the U.S. I approached RCA Laboratories to change my title from Senior Technician to Associate Engineer in view of the fact that I had, under very difficult conditions and circumstances, acted as international diplomat and single handedly managed, designed, built, refined and operated a major project.  They essentially said that since I did not have an engineering degree I was a "certifiable dummy" and my title could not be changed.  That was the end of my career with RCA.

The Atlas missile command
 receiver I designed and developedFor a brief period I worked at Telerad Manufacturing in Flemmington, New Jersey, a division of the Lionel Corporation (toy trains), where I developed and oversaw the manufacturing of, among other products, the command receiver for the Atlas missile.

Petrovend Corporation asked Telerad (me) to develop possibly the worlds first dollar bill changer. They wanted to put the changer into all of their gas pumps. The unit I designed worked great but by the time it was finished... credit cards made the scene. Petrovend dropped the project in favor of credit cards.

I returned to college to receive my degree in Business Administration.   Most likely with RCA's comment in mind along with being more mature, I totally surprised my wife and myself by spending all remaining semesters on the Deans List.  While at college I took up flying and on graduation looked for a job in the field of avionics. Narco Aviation Products hired me to work at their marine facility in Cockeysville, Maryland. The company, Enac Triton, was essentially a one man show. I eventually thought, if he can do it, so can I! That job lasted about three months.

One day, in 1964, I announced to my wife that I was starting my own company. Naturally, she went into a panic. Not knowing exactly how to start a company, I picked up the telephone book and called the maintenance department of the first industry listed... Armco Steel. They agreed to give me a try and handed me an inoperative Curtis Immerscope.  An Immerscope is a device that ultrasonically looks through a red hot steel ingot to find flaws or air bubbles. I took it home in the trunk of my 57 Chevy, cleaned it up and replaced all the high voltage wiring that had become brittle from extreme heat. The maintenance manager, Fred Vogelgesang, was ecstatic and told me to "sit" while he called his equivalent in other companies to tell them he had finally found the man they had been looking for. Within weeks I had over fifty industrial customers within easy driving distance. Initially, I was uncertain about how much to charge my customers. One day at 2:00 AM I received an emergency call from Armco Steel. Their vacuum degassing furnace had been damaged by some molten steel in the wrong place. This furnace was thirty feet in diameter and forty feet deep. Its load cell system (scale) was accurate to within less than one pound at 100,000 pounds! I climbed down inside the furnace and found the burned wiring. A few quick repairs had it up and running in no time. I billed them $200.00. A few days later the maintenance manager called and asked me to stop by... I did. He told me that Armco would have lost roughly $200,000.00 (1965 $s) if the steel awaiting the degassing furnace had hardened were it not for my timely and prompt repairs. He handed the invoice back to me and told me to add another zero! I WAS ON MY WAY!!! Obviously, I was wrong in charging only an hourly rate for my time when I should be charging for the value of the service from the customers prospective.

My customers included steel mills, copper refineries, bottling companies, plastic companies, ice cream cone manufacturers, plastic and paper cup manufacturers, canning companies, veneer manufacturers, breweries and nearly 100 more. My 57 Chevy was a blue streak Earl Scheib Special (that was a "paint your whole car including the tires for $19.95" company... just kidding about the tires)! When called by my first brewery I learned very quickly that when the "new" beer comes down the pipes very early in the morning it is was mandatory for all employees, including me, to drink as much beer as possible while the machinery cooled down. I was on a first name basis with many famous cockroaches. In a brewery it impossible to get rid of those little critters even with soapy superheated steam. It was after one of those brewery trips that I got lost in downtown Baltimore (I can't imagine why!). I passed a gate that said "U S Army Intelligence, Fort Holabird." Hey, perhaps they too had something to fix. I drove around the property until I found a door that said "Supplies." A simple knock on that door put me into the "intelligence business." After repairing shelf upon shelf of equipment and noticing the allocation tag on each showing the value (price), I approached the powers to be and asked if they would consider my manufacturing for them exactly what they wanted... and at a greatly reduced price. My offer was immediately accepted and I was now in the intelligence equipment manufacturing business starting with the UAA-1 and 1059 miniature audio amplifiers.

Miniature transmitters (eavesdropping/bugging devices) intrigued me and I manufactured a wide variety of them. It didn't take long after I got into the bug building business for me to see the potential danger of those little devices so I decided I'd better get busy and start manufacturing bug detectors or countermeasure equipment to find them. Marketing my products was a snap since I could walk into virtually every intelligence agency in the Baltimore/Washington/Virginia area. I also began teaching courses on bugging and bug detection at Fort Holabird and that gave me access to other good marketplaces.

At this point in time I also began manufacturing bomb detection and disposal equipment.  I have decided to add this story as a side bar so it does not detract from the FBI story. You may view it by clicking on the title Side Bar A - Bomb Story in the chapter indexes.

By the mid-70's I had close to 200 customers (I know this because I put a list of them together for my criminal trial). They included corporations large and small and foreign, federal, state and local governments. I did many high level sweeps that got lots of good press.

My fame spread internationally and in 1974 the Government sent me to Egypt to train various services there. Egypt is a very beautiful country albeit poor. My training was extensive and graciously accepted.

Once firmly established in the intelligence equipment manufacturing business several magazine, news magazine and newspaper articles appeared about my company. It was a VERY satisfying time but it invited many people who were mildly crazy and some who were totally insane. For those I contacted their spouses or relatives suggesting they be hospitalized... and many were. One character turned out to be a professional litigant who was seeking affidavits to incriminate the Baltimore City Police Department. He left by air route. I later learned that the City of Baltimore settled out of court with him for $33,000.00.

One sad fellow was convinced the Martians were following him. I built a Martian Ray Detector for him hoping that might ease his pain and paranoia. He returned to my shop several times... each in a more depressed state. On one occasion he even parked in the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel to try to escape them. Finally, in desperation, he used a pair of ordinary gas pliers to pull out one of his molars thinking that was the homing device the Martians were using. He wrapped it in aluminum foil so the Martians couldn't track it and brought it to my shop. Out of curiosity I had my dentist X-ray the tooth and that revealed only a pin (antenna?). His wife joined him on his next visit and she and I decided on the obvious next step... the hospital.

In the early 70s a disheveled man wearing mismatched jacket and pant and tennis shoes showed up at my door. Thinking he was just another unbalanced person I told him I had some sensitive material on my desk and asked if he would return in an hour. I used that time trying to figure out what to do with him. It was Edwin Duncan (now deceased) owner and President/Chairman of Northwestern Bank head quartered in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. He told me he was having security problems at his bank and was afraid the IRS was bugging him. I agreed to train his security office, Jerry Starr (also now deceased), who in turn purchased a quantity of countermeasure equipment. Jerry eventually called me from the bank's home base in North Wilkesboro and asked if I would come to the bank and go through a sweep with him. He instructed me to go to the Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) airport and a company plane would pick me up and take me to North Carolina. I was impressed. Sure enough a twin engine turboprop showed up and ferried me to North Carolina.

On landing at their home airport in North Wilkesboro I noticed the pilot push a button on the instrument panel and the doors of the very LARGE hanger ahead slid open. Inside the hanger were at least six, and probably more, beautiful white airplanes each with the Northwestern Bank logo on the tail. They ranged in size from a four engine Fairchild turboprop down to a classic Twin Beech. I was very, very impressed but wondered... what is a small North Carolina country bank doing with all these airplanes? Jerry later revealed that one of them had been set aside for North Carolina Senator Sam Irvin of Watergate fame. We performed an extensive sweep of all buildings and did indeed locate a device in the locked office of the Comptroller. I left finding the actual device to Jerry and returned to Baltimore in the same airplane.

As years went by I learned a great deal about Duncan. He turned out to be a super patriot and used the banks enormous resources to fund various special operations conducted in foreign country's (most likely that is why he kept the IRS at bay). For example, in 1972, while visiting a friend with the Dade County (Miami) Bomb Squad I passed through the airport concourse and noticed a banner saying "Fly to the Cayman Islands... $62.00 round trip." Noting that I could get there and back in one day, I grabbed a flight. On landing in Cayman I knew that this is where I wanted to be.The 'Cork' On my return trip I began scuba diving with Bob Soto. In time, I switched to a new company run by one of his dive masters. Several years later I again switched to a new dive operation that had a dive boat more to my liking. The dive master and I became very close friends. One day we got into a conversation about my work and he revealed that when he was a youngster he and several of his friends were snorkeling in a small lake located on the inland side of the main road across from where Laguna del Mar Condominiums now stands and they stumbled upon a huge underwater cache of weapons. He and friends, put a machine gun on each shoulder and marched into town. Word of the incident swiftly reached Jim Bodden, the father of the Cayman Islands, and he knew exactly who to contact to solve the problem, Duncan. Duncan grabbed plans for one of his existing banks, filled in the lake with marle (crushed limestone) and stuck one of his banks on it. SOME CORK! The bank was put up with such speed there was no time to change the design and it wound up with the drive-in-window on the wrong side (they drive on the left in Cayman).

Feeling particularly spry one day I called FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and told him I manufactured products that might be of interest to him. He promptly invited me to visit him at headquarters. Walking into his office I immediately noticed that his desk was on a four inch pedestal and the legs on the sofa in front of the desk had been sawed off. I sat on the arm of the sofa and looked at him eye to eye. I think he liked that. He passed me on to their intelligence support office where I met XX. XX took me to the U.S. Recording Company and explained how to do business with the FBI through that company. Business went along fine until the Omnibus Crime Bill (Title III) was passed in 1968. Upon reading it, I immediately saw that I could not deal with apparent commercial concerns such as U.S. Recording. The FBI gave me a rubber stamp that essentially said "This order complies with the provisions of the Omnibus Crime Bill." Seeing real problems with that arrangement, any equipment ordered through U.S. Recording was delivered DIRECTLY to the FBI with the invoice going to U.S. Recording. During one of my many visits to the FBI technical section I noticed one of my invoices sitting on XX's desk and it was marked up a substantial percentage. I thought that was strange but paid no further attention to it.

In 1972 a company called Audio Intelligence Deices (AID) made its appearance. Their catalog claimed they could make "off the shelf" delivery... an apparent violation of Title III (Omnibus Crime Bill... it is illegal to manufacture, assemble, possess or offer for sale any device primarily designed for surreptitious interception of oral communications UNLESS you are under contract with a federal, state or local government). Having been warned on numerous occasions that I could not manufacture any device unless I had the contract in hand first, I immediately brought this apparent conflict to the attention of one of the very U.S. Attorney Generals' who had warned me.

Built into the Omnibus Crime Bill (Title III) was an automatic five year review period. In early 1975 I was contacted by investigators XX and XX of the U.S. House Select Committee on Intelligence. They asked that I prepare a statement detailing my observations of the effectiveness of the Omnibus Crime Bill. During our conversation I mentioned how I was dealing with the FBI through U.S. Recording, the rubber stamp and the incident about the marked up invoice. I prepared a statement primarily asking why AID was permitted to inventory and market "off the shelf" equipment while I could not. After my statement was prepared I contacted the CIA and FBI to see if there were any problems with my appearing before the Committee. The CIA asked for a days delay (a huge snowstorm saw to that) and then gave me the O.K. The statement was turned over to the investigators and a day was set for my appearance before the Committee.

Upon taking a seat to read my prepared statement, to my astonishment, it had been completely rewritten! The new statement attacked the FBI and made no mention whatsoever of AID. I immediately told XX that I was NOT going to read that statement. He instructed me to go to an ante room and repair it wherever I felt it was needed. Not anticipating this level of deception I had not brought a copy of my original statement. If I had, I most certainly would have read that instead. Given little time to repair a non-repairable statement, I did the best I could. When I read the revised statement all of the Congressmen looked at each other, me and the paper in front of them, wondering what was happening. To this day I do not know which of the three statements was read into the Congressional Record and... quite frankly, I don't give a damn.

On returning to my office I telephoned FBI Director Kelly (he replaced Hoover who had died) and requested a meeting with him. Two other high level FBI officials were present. I later read the internal FBI communications about that meeting. One of the men wanted to seriously deal with the U.S. Recording problem while the other wanted to execute me on the spot!

Shortly afterwards, two FBI agents showed up at my plant and tried to get me to withdraw my testimony. Every half hour one agent would leave the room to go to the "bathroom" i.e. change the tape in his recorder. He didn't even have the common sense to flush the toilet that was on the other side of the wall from my office to cover his activities. They tried to force me to sign their statement. I initially refused but later agreed to sign it with the statement "I have partially prepared the above statement." That got them out the door.

Shortly after that incident a "private detective" called and asked if I would show him how to three wire a telephone. We met in a conference room at a local motel in Towson. He handed me a screwdriver and I handed it right back to him and told him if he wanted to learn the process HE would have to do the work. About that time I noticed the toes of a pair of wing-tipped shoes at the bottom of the curtain that separated the room. Finally that person entered the room and, along with the other, tried to force me to make the modifications. I declined and departed. What a bunch of nonsense.

In a few weeks just about every common criminal in the Baltimore area began showing up at my plant. None got in the door. The FBI must have covertly informed these scum bags they were being wiretapped by the FBI and Kaiser could fix their problems. This type of nonsense went on for years.

In the midst of all the various intelligence agencies efforts to do me in, I received a warning from a credible agency friend that the Government was going to charge me with an unspecified crime.  That warning resulted in this letter to Attorney General Levi.

Countersurveillance . Bomb Detection . Surveillance Electronics

March 23, 1976

Hon. Edward Levi
Attorney General of the United States
Department of Justice
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

It is with great hesitation that I write to you, however, I believe that I am in serious trouble and that you are the only person who will be able to assist me.

For over ten years, Martin L. Kaiser, Inc. has been a major supplier of electronic countermeasure, surveillance and clandestine bomb detection equipment to law enforcement agencies from the federal level downward. Among my customers, and these but a few, were the CIA, Department of Defense, FBI, State Department, Army, Navy and Air Force Intelligence, Coast Guard, etc. In June, 1975, the National Wiretap Commission, operating under a Congressional mandate, received my business records under threat of subpoena. These records were subsequently brought to the attention of the House Select Committee on Intelligence by the National Wiretap Commission. As a result, it became publicly known that the FBI purchased its electronic countermeasure and surveillance equipment through a front known as the U. S. Recording Company. This disclosure has been of extreme embarrassment to the FBI, but I can assure you it is not an embarrassment of my making. I am sure you are well aware of the media's treatment of subsequent events.

Since this fact became known, my business has fallen to virtually zero. No federal agency or, for that matter, local agency will even discuss purchases of equipment with me. I can only assume, but cannot conclusively prove, that the FBI has "passed the word."It is not however, this event and the subsequent economic loss which are of primary concern, for I do engage in other business activities which will carry me through this trying time. Recently, a person of known reliability has pointedly warned me that I am to be made a test case under the criminal wiretap provisions of the 1968 Omnibus Crime Act. Being thoroughly familiar with the complicated and often conflicting provisions of that Act, I am fully aware of the danger existing to anyone who has committed themselves to the manufacture of electronic surveillance equipment.

I have never knowingly violated and have always strictly insisted on compliance with the provisions of the Omnibus Bill. I am firmly convinced that I am not presently violating the Bill, either. However, because of its complexity, my vulnerability, the FBI's pique, the new media's pressure, and the warning relayed to me, quite frankly, I am indeed worried. Although I know full well, based on previous attempts to receive clarification of the Bill, it is not the normal business of the Justice Department to give a "clean bill of health" to a citizen, I indeed wonder if there would be some way for you to advise me whether, under the wildest stretch of imagination, I am contravening any provision of the Omnibus Bill. Although I am reconciled to being driven out of this business, I desperately hope that I will not have to go through a trial in the process.

As mentioned previously, I also manufacture clandestine bomb detection equipment, again, having done this for federal and local agencies. Through a rather lengthy chain of events, the FBI now heads the National Bomb Program. Attempts to contact the FBI immediately after the LaGuardia explosion (which occurred well after my Congressional testimony) resulted in the most callous response I have ever received to one of my offers of assistance. The implications are hideous and further support my desire to resolve the issues as promptly as possible.

As a citizen who has consistently demonstrated his support of the law enforcement community and, therefore, his country, I need your help. Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated.

Martin L. Kaiser

Basically, Levi responded by saying... You do what you think is correct... and if you're wrong, we'll arrest you. Not very comforting.

Within months of my testimony before the House Select Committee on Intelligence my business of manufacturing eavesdropping and countermeasure equipment fell to ZERO! Fortunately, I had the ability to shift into the manufacture of bomb detection and disposal equipment, a marketplace the intelligence community couldn't and wouldn't dare try to control. Heh, heh... was I wrong... again!

Even though it is slightly out of place time wise, I'm putting the Lou Panos Evening Sun article next. Events from roughly 1975 onward attach to the FBI criminal case and I'll pick up there.

The Evening Sun
Baltimore, MD
Monday, October 25, 1976

Witness's Business Suddenly Drops

When the House Select Committee on Intelligence invited Marty L. Kaiser to testify at its hearings on illegal wiretapping by government agencies, he did the statesmen a favor and accepted the invitation.

Now they can return it by helping him answer a question: Why is it that he averaged about $200,000 annual in business from these agencies before he testified just one year ago and has averaged zilch since then?

Here I am on the day of my testimonyThat's what has happened to Martin Kaiser since he went to Washington last October and startled the intelligence community. He offered evidence that prices for equipment he had sold to an FBI front had apparently been marked up by about 30 per cent before delivery from the front to the FBI.

Word later came that Edward H. Levi, Attorney General, ordered an investigation of links between several top echelon FBI officials and the head of the firm serving as the original recipient of the equipment.

Citizen Kaiser is the slightly stout little fellow from Timonium who has been called "the Michelangelo of electronics" because of his uncanny talent for making things out of juiced up wires and finding such things made by others to bug their fellow man. There was a time when his marvelous little devices - all assembled by his nimble brain and nimble fingers in a small block building next to Brooks Robinson's sporting goods shop - were the rage of the FBI, Secret Service, armed forces and private customers in the world of the super-duper snoop and counter-snoop. His developments in electronic eavesdropping for law enforcement and government intelligence had made him one of the most widely publicized and sought after specialists in the field.

His equipment and techniques led to the discovery that bugs had been placed on telephones in the offices of Governor Mandel, at least four other governors, and Milton A. Allen, the Supreme Bench judge who was then state's attorney for Baltimore.

The big, red car in his driveway is known as his "President Sadat Cadillac" because he bought it after a lucrative service performed for the Egyptian chief, training his aides in electronic counterintelligence.

Such foreign work and private assignments like countering industrial espionage, says Marty Kaiser, have enabled his company to survive the withdrawal of government business.

"I'm still busy, but most of my business comes from other sources," he says. "I've tried to find out why I was dropped so suddenly. After all, I didn't ask to talk to the committee. They invited me and made it clear that I'd be subpoenaed if I didn't accept the invitation.

"I even went over and talked to (FBI Director) Clarence Kelley about it for an hour. I was only doing my duty, which is something the FBI certainly ought to understand, and he certainly seemed to understand.

At one point Citizen Kaiser brought suit against officials of several intelligent and military agencies under the Freedom of information Act in an attempt to get an official reason for his freeze-out.

"About the only thing I got out of that was word from the Army that they have no file on me. I told that they must have, became I was in the Army once. I even gave- them my Trial number, but they said my file must have burned up in a fire at the records center.

For Martin Kaiser, who is more at home in the microcosmic world of transistors and printed circuits than the mystical world of Washington politics, there is something familiar about it all.

Shortly before establishing his Timonium business 12 years ago, he helped develop a missile detection system heralded in 1964 by President Johnson using the bending beam principle in a device "seeing" beyond the horizon.

At the time, he says, he was making about $6,300 a year for Radio Corporation of America after starting at $3,900 about six years earlier. For his sterling work, he was rewarded with an assignment as manager of the anti-missile project when it was moved from Burlington, Mass., to Barbados, West Indies. But one day, be recalls, an Air Force officer asked him to compare RCA's efforts with Raytheon in similar work. "After evaluating their work against RCA, I really felt they were doing a better job, really outstanding. I said so, and the and the next thing we knew was that Raytheon had the project.

"I wasn't fired, because that wasn't the way they operate instead, they offered me a promotion - in Australia. "I said it was okay if they'd pay to move my wife and kids, too, but they said no, I'd have to pay. I calculated the costs and they came to roughly $14,000. So I didn't take the promotion."

There is something faintly similar between the Australia to which Martin Kaiser was to be assigned in 1964 for his compulsive candor with an Air Force officer and the Siberia of the intelligence world to which he has been relegated for speaking out before the House Select Committee on Intelligence in 1975.

For a man whose equipment may form the heart of the nation's defense and counterintelligence system, he seems to be getting short shrift.

The least the committee owes him in return for his service is a little help in determining why.

So what if it was yellowSometimes I smile when I think of the comparison to Michelangelo.  In reality, what the United States Government has done is equivalent to giving me a bucket of white paint and a brush and telling me to paint the white line down the middle of the interstate WHILE TRAFFIC IS FLOWING!

Obviously, I did NOT have a huge intelligence organization at my disposal so I did the best I could to uncover those who were liabling and slandering me.  I filed numerous suits under the Freedom of Information Act but, unfortunately, that was a total waste of time and money.  Here is a good example.  Note the date of my request and note the date of the response.

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 20505
14 March 1984

Mr. Martin Luther Kaiser III
115 Bosley Avenue
Cockeysville, MD 21030

Dear Mr. Kaiser:

This is in response to your attorney's letter, dated 29 September 1976 (underline added), in which he appealed on your behalf the decision of this Agency, dated 8 July 1976, regarding your request for all Agency records which may exist concerning you.  While two documents have been released to you, we have informed you that we would not grant further access to any documents, if additional documents did exist, that might be responsive to your request.

Your appeal has been presented to the Central Intelligence Agency Information Review Committee. Pursuant to the authority under paragraph 1900.51(a) of Chapter XIX, Title 32 of the code of Federal Regulations, I, as Deputy Director for Administration have determined that the fact of the existence or nonexistence of any documents which would reveal a confidential or covert connection with or interest in matters relating to those set forth in your request is classified pursuant to the appropriate Executive order.  Further, I have determined that the fact of the existence or nonexistence of such documents would relate directly to information concerning sources and methods which the Director of Central Intelligence has the responsibility to protect from unauthorized disclosure in accordance with subsection 102 (d) (3) of the National Security Act of 1947 and section 6 of the CIA Act of 1949. Accordingly, pursuant to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemptions (b) (1) and (b) {3) respectively, and Privacy Act (PA) exemptions (j) (1) and (k) (1), your appeal is denied to the extent that it concerns any such documents. By this statement we are neither confirming nor denying that such documents exist.

Material withheld under FOIA exemption (b) (1) encompasses matters which are specifically authorized under criteria established by the appropriate Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and which are in fact currently and properly classified. Exemption (b) (3) pertains to information exempt from disclosure by statute. The relevant statutes are subsection 102 (d) (3) of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, 50 U.S.C. 403 (d) (3) which makes the Director of Central Intelligence responsible for protecting intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure, and section 6 of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, as amended, 50 U.S.C. 403g, which exempts from the disclosure requirement information pertaining to the organization, functions, names, official titles, salaries or numbers of personnel employed by the Agency.

Material withheld on the basis of PA exemption (j) (1) concerns intelligence sources and methods encompassed by those portions of systems of records which the Director of Central Intelligence has determined to be exempt from access by individuals pursuant to the authority granted by this sub- section and regulations promulgated thereunder (32 C.F.R. 1901.61). Information withheld on the basis of exemption (k) (1) in this instance encompasses those portions of all systems of records which the Director of Central Intelligence has determined to be exempt from access by individuals pursuant to the authority granted by this subsection and regulations promulgated thereunder (32 C.F.R. 1901.71) because the material is properly classified under the terms of the appropriate Executive order and subject to the provisions of Section 552(b) (1) of the Freedom of Information Act, as amended.

In accordance with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act and the privacy Act you have the right to seek judicial review of the above determinations in a united States district court.

We regret that our response to your letter of appeal has been so long delayed and that we can not be of further assistance to you in this matter.

Harry E. Fitzwater
Information Review Committee

My success was, as you can see, limited and it wasn't until after my criminal trial that I uncovered one of the documents that provided the driving source for the incessant anger against me.  As a Christian I found it difficult to believe that some individuals would continue a vendetta for such a long period of time... yet, it was true.

Side Bar A           Bomb Story
Chapter Two       The U S Recording Scandal...
Chapter Three    Bugging the FBI...
Chapter Four      The Criminal Case...
Chapter Five      The Civil Case...
Chapter Six         Repercussions...
Chapter Seven   My personal observations...


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An out of the ordinary encounter with strange alien ooze mutates four ordinary pet turtles Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello into talking, walking, fighting green machines! Together, these brothers train with the legendary sensei rat, Splinter, to master the art of Ninjitsu.

In this truly turtle-powered tale, the turtles from one dimenson meet the turtles from another dimension when a teleporting mishap occurs. What the shell is going on? Together, the turtles must locate the Technodrome to fix this mess! Meanwhile, Shredder tracks down his counterpart, Ch'rell, who devises a master plan to travel back to the Prime Universe to get rid of the turtles once and for all!

As worlds collide, the turtles come face to face with classic characters like Casey, April, and a slew of enemies including Krang, Hun, the Foot Soldiers, the Purple Dragons, Bebop and Rocksteady!


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