The XY Crew meetings on photography and videography (Sunday, 18:00 – 19:30GMT) usually have some interesting content on astrophotography, at which Tom Caulfield (who hosts the meetings) is an internationally renowned expert. Gerry is considering buying a “smart telescope” (costing in the region of £500) and sent us this (video, 18:05). The content of the video is interesting and the presenter is very good, but I can’t find anywhere the identity of the man who wrote her script, possibly the same man who set up her equipment?.

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Today’s file is here (27:46).

Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

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Our thanks to Jeff for this. Extracts:

“A woman has been found guilty of keeping another woman with learning difficulties captive for 25 years and using her as a slave.

Mother-of-10 Mandy Wixon made the vulnerable woman clean her squalid and overcrowded home in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and forced her to live off scraps.

Washing-up liquid would be squirted down the victim’s throat, bleach splashed on her face, and she had her head repeatedly shaved against her will…

Now in her 40s, K was found by police on 15 March 2021 after one of Wixon’s sons raised concerns for her welfare.

The court heard K was regularly beaten and also hit with a broom handle, knocking out her teeth…

Wixon was released on conditional bail and will be sentenced on 12 March.

As she left court she was asked what she had to say to her victim and replied: “Not a lot.”

Asked if she was sorry, she said: “No. I never done it.”

Reporters asked if she was a “monster”, as she stopped to light a cigarette, and she replied: “Say what you think.”

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Our thanks to Andy for this. An extract:

“In mitigation, Neil Sands [J4MB: Presumably her defence lawyer.] asked why a woman of “adult years” had succumbed to an inmate.

“It is clear in this case there was an infatuation,” he said, adding her previous relationships had left her “extremely vulnerable”.”

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Our thanks to Jeff for this. Extracts:

“A former prison officer has been jailed for having romantic relationships with two inmates and plotting to smuggle drug-soaked envelopes into prison.

Isabelle Dale swore her “undying love” to prisoners Shahid Sharif and Connor Money while working at HMP Coldingley in Surrey, said a judge.

The 23-year-old had sex with convicted robber Sharif in the prison’s chapel area, her trial heard…

Sentencing the three on Tuesday at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Christopher Hehir called Dale a “thoroughly devious and untruthful and manipulative young woman”.

He said he accepted she had “some vulnerabilities”, but she had tried to use them as a “shield and an excuse” for her actions.

The judge added that he suspected she had “joined the prison service with a view to becoming involved in criminal activities with prisoners”.

“She wanted to do it,” he said. “She’s attention seeking.”… [J4MB: At last, a judge with common sense. He probably won’t be allowed to judge similar cases in future.]

Dale – who was found to have Sharif’s street name tattooed on her neck – resigned as a prison officer before she was arrested on her sixth visit.

The court heard Dale also conveyed sensitive information to Money, with whom she also had an intimate relationship.”

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Today’s video is here (8:58).

Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

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I’ve greatly enjoyed this video (1:04:50), a discussion with Janice Fiamengo on top form (her only form?) and the British psychologist and psychotherapist Laura How. Laura’s YouTube channel is here, her online therapy website here. Two other therapists are available to book through that website, one being Zac Fine, who provided a video for ICMI20, Living With The Trauma of Losing Child Access (50:34).

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Our thanks to Eli for this (video, 5:59).

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