Podcasts about Red Hill

Army Major Mandy Feindt says Navy jet fuel contamination from the Red Hill water crisis poisoned her family — and when she spoke out, the military came after her.In this episode of Urban Valor, Mandy breaks down what happened after her family moved onto Ford Island in Hawaii, began getting severely sick, and later learned they had been exposed to contaminated water connected to the Red Hill fuel spill.She talks about her son's health issues, more than 800 family medical appointments, confronting Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro, filing for whistleblower protection, and the retaliation she says followed.Mandy also shares what happened years later when her son was mistreated at a military Child Development Center, the fight to obtain video and records, and why she believes military systems too often protect the institution before the family.This is a story about Red Hill, military toxic exposure, whistleblower retaliation, military families, institutional betrayal, and what happens when a career Army officer decides she can't stay quiet.Mandy's message:Take a mess and turn it into a message.If you or your family were impacted by Red Hill, military toxic exposure, or a similar situation while serving, share your story below.Subscribe to Urban Valor for more unfiltered veteran and military stories.Chapters:0:00 Navy Jet Fuel Poisoned Our Family1:29 Meet Army Major Mandy Feindt2:43 Growing Up in a Military Family4:00 How 9/11 Changed Her Life6:17 Becoming an Army Officer8:07 Afghanistan & Casualty Operations12:48 Command, ROTC & Special Operations16:25 Moving to Hawaii18:50 The Dream House on Historic Ford Island20:19 Her Family Suddenly Gets Sick21:20 The Red Hill Fuel Spill24:39 The Navy Said the Water Was Safe27:54 Her Entire Family Ends Up in the Hospital29:23 Fighting for Military Children34:08 Speaking Out as an Active-Duty Officer38:40 From Hospital Bed to Public Advocacy41:06 Walking the Halls of Congress42:45 When the Retaliation Escalated44:55 Confronting the Secretary of the Navy46:52 “Nothing in Life Is Pure”48:31 Investigated After Confronting Navy Leadership49:08 Filing for Whistleblower Protection55:22 The Military's Flushing Operation58:21 More Than 800 Medical Appointments1:00:48 The Psychological Trauma of Contaminated Water1:01:15 “An American Military Asset Poisoning Americans”1:04:47 The Red Hill Lawsuit1:06:51 Why Long-Term Medical Monitoring Matters1:09:39 The VA Finally Recognizes Red Hill1:11:20 “There's the Door”1:12:39 Why She Refused to Stay Silent1:14:46 Native Hawaiians & Military Families Unite1:16:15 How Does This Happen in the U.S. Military?1:20:26 Why Families Weren't Properly Tested1:22:39 Institutional Betrayal1:27:26 Trusting the Military Again1:28:24 Her Son's Daycare Incident1:30:00 Discovering the Abuse1:34:34 The Army Promises to Handle It1:37:08 The Same Teacher Comes Back1:38:01 Fighting to Preserve the Evidence1:41:48 The Military Says It Wasn't Abuse1:44:03 Why the Secretary of the Army Wouldn't Meet Her1:46:24 Parents Barred From the Hearing1:47:16 The Video Evidence Disappears1:49:39 What the Remaining Video Showed1:51:28 Military Daycare Oversight1:53:36 CPS Substantiates Child Abuse1:56:30 The Teachers Returned to Work1:59:02 The FOIA Records2:00:18 “You Poisoned My Kids”2:01:06 The Fight Is Still Ongoing2:03:31 Retaliation Over Protecting Her Son2:06:52 Why Speaking Up Comes With a Cost2:07:12 Her Whistleblower Case Is Substantiated2:09:43 Will Her Children Ever Serve?2:12:36 The Military Recruiting Problem2:14:14 What Military Families Need to Know2:14:51 What's Next for Mandy2:16:13 Turning a Mess Into a Message

Last time we spoke about the battle of Hong Kong. On the night of December 18th, six Japanese battalions crossed Hong Kong harbour under cover of darkness and burning oil tanks. The Rajputs fought stubbornly but were overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Maltby fatally underestimated the assault, holding reserves against a frontal attack that never came. The breakthrough sparked a cascade of disasters. Elderly British businessmen and World War I veterans—the Hughsiliers—heroically held the North Point power station for 18 hours, delaying the entire Japanese advance. Private Geoghan, wounded but undeterred, charged a Japanese officer and killed him, incredibly surviving. The battle's focal point became Wongneichong Gap, where Brigadier Lawson died defending his headquarters. Desperate, piecemeal counter-attacks by Canadians and Scots failed amid chaos and poor coordination. Finally, a single Canadian company under Lieutenant Blackwood held the position for four days against overwhelming odds, killing over 200 enemy soldiers before surrendering. The Japanese suffered 800 casualties but seized the island's strategic heart.   #218 The Battle of Hong Kong Part 3: Black Christmas Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. By dawn on December 20, the Japanese Army had consolidated its position across Hong Kong Island. The 1/229th and 2/228th prepared to sweep southeastward from Taitam and Saiwan toward Stanley. The 2/229th and 3/229th, positioned near Stanley Gap, readied themselves to advance toward Repulse Bay. East of Wongneichong Gap, the 1/228th poised for the push toward Deep Water Bay, while the 3/228th, one of the original reserve battalions, had just arrived on the northern shore. On Jardine's Lookout, two fresh battalions—the 1/230th and 2/230th—prepared to advance westward across the gap. The West Brigade, meanwhile, held a fragile, ill-defined line: Z Company of the 1st Middlesex and Rajput survivors at Leighton Hill in the north, the 2 Royal Scots on the northern slopes of Mount Nicholson, and the Winnipeg Grenadiers, minus D Company, still clinging to pillboxes at Wongneichong Gap. The 228th Regiment moved first, tasked with clearing Postbridge House of its remaining defenders. Simultaneously, the 229th dispatched reconnaissance teams past Violet Hill toward the cliffs overlooking Repulse Bay Hotel—that opulent five-star resort now transformed into an impromptu fortress sheltering evacuees, soldiers, and sailors. What awaited was an epic three-day siege. Despite their gains, the Japanese later confessed that British resistance proved far stiffer than anticipated. They spent much of the 20th consolidating positions and bringing up supplies rather than pressing forward. Maltby, determined not to cede the initiative, dispatched a Royal Rifles company and two HKVDC platoons to the hotel with orders to attack the Gap from the south via Violet Hill. They recaptured the garages and outhouses but lacked the artillery support necessary to advance further. Growing anxious, Maltby sent a desperately weak platoon of the 2/14 Punjab—only 25 men—to reinforce them and push along the southern coast. Colonel Kidd, commanding the Punjab regiment, personally led an assault on Shouson Hill to link up with besieged sailors. He was killed in the attempt, and the mixed force of sailors and Punjabis fell back with severe losses. By the 22nd, after pressing forward from Shouson Hill, the Japanese seized Brick Hill and systematically beheaded all survivors. Yet the Japanese conquest contained stubborn pockets that refused to crumble. The HKSRA gunners held one end of Brick Hill. A ragtag force of HKVDC, naval personnel, Canadians, and Middlesex under Major Dewar maintained Little Hong Kong's ammunition store. HMS Cicala, providing artillery support from Deep Water Bay, was struck from the air and scuttled, eventually sinking in the Lamma Channel. Colonel H. B. Rose, the HKVDC commander, assumed control of the West Brigade following Brigadier Lawson's death. He spent much of the 20th preparing an ambitious counter-attack: the 2 Royal Scots and Winnipeg Grenadiers would drive toward the Gap from the west, supported by B Company of the Grenadiers, brought up from Pokfulam on the island's western coast. The operation commenced poorly. B Company arrived late to find that the Royal Scots had already departed Mount Nicholson's eastern slopes for reasons no one could later explain. The Grenadiers attacked alone through pitch darkness and torrential rain, splitting into two groups that circled Mount Nicholson from opposite directions, meeting above the Gap at dawn. Colonel Doi's tactical instinct struck again. Observing the undefended summit of Mount Nicholson—lost through British inattention—he seized the moment. That afternoon, under cover of heavy rain, he ordered the 1/228th in a three-company formation to take the position without opposition. When B Company blundered into the Japanese, a savage close-quarters battle erupted that cost the Grenadiers all their officers, seven NCOs, and 29 men. Overwhelmed, B Company retreated to Mount Nicholson's western slope as Doi prepared to exploit his success and assault Mount Cameron. At dawn on the 21st, Wallis proposed a new coordinated attack on the Gap. Major T. G. MacAuley of the Royal Rifles led a combined force of Canadian and HKVDC troops from Stanley Mount at 0915 hours. Accurate mortar fire from Red Hill met them immediately. Hand-to-hand combat erupted at Bridge Hill and Notting Hill before the force could push toward the Gap via Violet Hill. By 1700 hours, MacAuley and all HKVDC officers were wounded. Wallis ordered withdrawal. That same morning at 1030 hours, the Japanese launched a second amphibious assault, driving toward Victoria City itself and reaching the east side of what is now Victoria Park. The anti-aircraft gun at Watson's factory in Causeway Bay was silenced. The naval yard suffered devastating mortar bombardment; all its guns fell silent. Major C. R. Templer, assigned to command at Repulse Bay, had successfully repulsed numerous probing attacks. When ordered to assault the Gap with two platoons of Canadian infantry and two HKVDC machine-gun sections, he encountered such overwhelming Japanese force that he abandoned the operation and withdrew beyond Middle Ridge. By dawn on the 22nd, the Japanese finally established heavy artillery on Hong Kong Island. Two battalions of the 229th concentrated on Repulse Bay Hotel. The divisional reserves—1/229th and 1/230th—deployed against the East Brigade as it fell back to its last bastion: Stanley Peninsula. Stanley's defenses were organized in three concentric zones. The forward area, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Home, comprised elements of the 1st Middlesex, Royal Rifles companies, and HKVDC troops, supported by a single 2-pounder gun. Stanley village, under Lieutenant Colonel Wilcox, held the second line with artillery pieces and mixed infantry. A final reserve at Stanley Hill and Fort, under Lieutenant Colonel Shaw, contained the last of the artillery and the 1st and 2nd HKVDC batteries. To the west, British forces barely held their positions. The 2/14 Punjab, 1st Middlesex, 4/7 Rajputs, Royal Scots, and Winnipeg Grenadiers stretched along Mount Cameron and the northern heights—a thin, exhausted line facing Japanese battalions concentrated along a kilometer-long front. At noon on the 22nd, Japanese forces attacked Stanley Mound and Sugarloaf, held by B Company of the Royal Rifles augmented with platoons from HQ and D Companies. Despite multiple repulses, ammunition shortages forced the Canadians to retire to the southern slopes. The situation at Repulse Bay Hotel deteriorated daily, yet Major Templer continued to hold against repeated assaults. As Christmas Eve dawned, all defenders faced grim circumstances. The Royal Rifles of Canada, shattered from bearing the brunt of Japanese attacks, withdrew into Stanley Fort—but not before a heated confrontation between Lieutenant Colonel Home and Brigadier Wallis in which the Canadians bitterly accused their comrades of not "pulling their weight." In the evening of december 21st, Lt Colonel Home, now the senior surviving Canadian officer, spoke to Lt Colonel Sutcliffe, learning about the plight of the Winnipeg grenadiers trying to hold the crest of Mount Cameron. Sutcliffe reported that "his battalion was decimated and yet the high command was ordering his men to make counter attacks. So he asked Home if he could not do something to stop what he considered a useless waste of lives." Home took this to heart and began to inform Brigadier Wallis that he wanted to see the Governor. He said to Wallis "his battalion was exhausted; further resistance would only result in the waste of valuable Canadian lives; as senior Canadian officer he felt a grave responsibility" Wallis persuaded Home to wait until morning. Home the next morning was more than ever convinced of the futility of resistance. Its important to note the relationship between senior Canadians and British officers were all but poisoned in Hong Kong, let alone imagine how the Indian or Chinese volunteer forces felt. The Canadians distrusted the British commanders who for the most part got everything wrong in the whole damn operation. Home was threatening a separate Canadian surrender as they had lost confidence in Brigadier Wallis of the east brigade, Maltby and other British staff officers. It seemed to the Canadians they were being sacrificed to ensure the honor of the garrison. As Royal Rifles Major John H price put it  " There were plenty of Canadian officers who had battle experience in the first war who were competent to judge as to the possibility of a successful outcome of the defence of the island. Consider the facts - The Island had been split in two by vastly superior Japanese forces. On the eastern brigade front, which included the Stanley Peninsula, the Royal Rifles and one company of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Force were the only troops who had fought continuously day and night, without rest, since the landing on the 17th and were still carrying all the fighting. By the 21st they had been greatly reduced in fighting strength and by the 23rd to a strength of around 500 all ranks. (It might be interesting to note that when troops in this sector were marched out of Stanley fort as Prisoners of War, they numbered over 2000). It required no great military genius to predict the outcome of the battle once the Japanese had landed on the island with their control of sea and air and great superiority in weapons and men. He felt, I think rightly, that he would be derelict in his duty to his men and to the Canadian Government if he did not communicate his conclusions to the highest authority. Also neither Home nor his officers had any faith in Brig. Wallis' judgement or in his conduct of operations. And who had better right than he had? He and his men were bearing the brunt of the fighting and knew from first hand knowledge the strength and armament of the forces against them. The Higher Command had consistently shown an inability to grasp realities of the situation and to pursue tactics which might have prolonged the struggle but could not have altered the final result."  Stanley's defenses were reorganized into multiple lines. HKVDC companies held scattered positions at Chung Honkok, near the police station, and throughout the village. The 1st Middlesex manned pillboxes with medium machine guns. The second defensive line crossed Stanley Peninsula near St Stephen's College, defended by British, Chinese, and Indian policemen alongside HKVDC troops under Corporal E. C. Drown—all senior officers and NCOs having fallen. The final reserve stretched across St Stephen's Prep School north of the prison, held by Sergeant Murphy's HKVDC section and Captain F. G. Rees's 1st Battery HKVDC. By this stage, prison staff, wardens, and inmates had been pressed into the HKVDC. Among them was "Crumb" Chattey, a former captain of the 1st Middlesex serving a court-martial sentence for homosexual offences under the law of the time. Chattey assumed command of forty jailers and assorted men, including the colony executioner, who mounted a spirited defense. Japanese forces massed on Taitam Road with obvious intent to crush Stanley's remaining defense. Their first assault failed but destroyed two 18-pounders and two 2-pounder guns. Shortly before 2100 hours, a second attack commenced, this time supported by three tankettes. Two were destroyed by 2-pounders, yet No. 2 HKVDC Company was forced back to Stanley village with most of its men lost. Major H. R. Forsyth, the company commander, was recommended for a Victoria Cross for his stubborn defense against overwhelming odds. After midnight, a pillbox manned by C Company of the 1st Middlesex was overrun; Sergeant Sheehan and most of his crew were killed. The HKVDC line fractured. During all of this chaos, at midnight of the the Japanese made it to the field hospital at St Stephens College and this is where our story is going to take one of its darkest turns. In the early hours of Christmas day, the Japanese approached St Stephen's hospital which held approximately 96 wounded soldiers. Doctors and nurses stepped forward to surrender. Two doctors in charge, Lt Dr Colonel Black and his second in command Captain Dr Witney Barred the front door and Black called out 'You can't come in here' 'this is a hospital'. With deliberate aim, one of the Japanese soldiers raised his rifle and shot the doctor through the head.The Japanese mob then surged into the hospital ward, the body of Dr Black was repeatedly bayoneted as he lay at the door. The Japanese proceeded to enter the building and a massacre of unprecedented ferocity took place. The Japanese ripped the bandages off the wounded patients and plunged their bayonets into the amputated arms and legs before finishing them off with a bullet. In half an hour fifty-six wounded soldiers had been massacred while the nursing staff looked on helplessly.  They cut off ears, gouged out eyes, beat and raped the nurses. I want to read to you some testimony made by Sister Miss Amelia Fleming Gordon who witnessed what we now call the St Stephens College Massacre, something probably unknown to many outside Canada or Hong Kong. "Just before dawn there was a terrific howl and shortly afterwards Japanese arrived in large numbers at the front entrance. Captain Scotcher was pulled out and shortly afterwards he instructed me to come out and put my hands above my head. They took my steel helmet and cracked me over the head with it, searched my pockets, took off my red cross band and removed my watch that I had. They shouted for everyone to come out and everyone did except Sgt Parkin, who attempted to run past but was shot dead. We were marched single file into one of the adjacent classrooms, the patients also being brought in. Here we remained for about an hour or two, crowded and huddled together with no room to lie or sit down. Several of our patients between 50 to 60 I imagine were killed during the day. After 2 hours we were marched in single file upstairs and saw dead bodies and blood covering the stairs. We were then put into different classrooms, I went into a small room with four VADS (Mrs smith, Mrs Begg, Mrs Buxton and Mrs Simmons) where there were 5 chinese women. At 4:30m some Japanese soldiers came in and removed Mrs Smith, Begg and Buxton, I never saw them again. One of the Chinese girls told Mrs Simmons they had taken out the 3 women to kill them and would return for us. We were later ordered to bandage wounded Japanese soldiers. They took us to another room overlooking the tennis court, where there were five dead bodies of Red Cross personnel. We were made to sit on these dead bodies. I and Mrs Fideo were taken to other rooms. In my room there were two dead bodies, and I was made to take off all my clothes whilst they removed theirs. Before touching me they apparently became afraid someone was coming and made me put my clothes on again and I was returned to the room where Mrs Simmons and Mrs Andrews-Levinge still were. Mrs Fideo joined us almost immediately in a weeping state and told us she had been raped. We were left in peace for a short time only, 3 soldiers came in and took me in a small adjacent bathroom, knocked me down and all raped me one after the other, and then let me return. Mrs Fideo was then taken and underwent a similar experience. Both Mrs Fideo and I were then taken out a second time and raped as before Mrs Simmons and Mrs Andrews-levigne remained untouched. We were all now desperate and discovering there was a Yale lock on the door we pulled it locking ourselves in. They returned several times during the night but did not force an entrance."   Rifle man Sydney Skelton of "D" company of the Royal Rifles had this to say. ""The Japs stormed the hospital throwing grenades and bayoneting the wounded. I had rolled under a bed and lay as still as I could. A Jap turned me over, kicked me in the face, and tore off my bandages. I didn't move, or make a sound. The guy must have thought I was dead and took off. I heard screams coming from outside, terrible screams I can still hear in my head twenty years later. I saw a Jap coming into the hospital and take men outside at random. One of the wounded they dragged from his bed, cut off his ears, and ripped out his tongue. Then they took him outside and shot him. There was a lull in the din and he heard a British officer shout: "If you can walk or crawl to the door you may be allowed to live."  At this point Skelton tried to crawl to the door: "I was really confused from the anesthetic and I started to crawl, dragging my blanket, towards the door. A guy just ahead of me, a Hong Kong Volunteer, with a clasp knife in his belt, but his hands raised, was bayoneted as soon as he went out the door. The Padre grabbed me and slapped me to my senses. I'm alive today, thanks to him." A Japanese officer entered the hospital, saw Skelton with his wounds bleeding. He tore off Skelton's watch, hit him with the flat side of his sword and ordered him to go upstairs. Though badly wounded, Skelton crawled up the stairs and into a room that would be his prison for the next two days. Skelton spent nearly four years as a captive, first in Hong Kong and later in Japan where he worked as a slave labourer in a coal mine. Somehow, he made it home, where he lived in Scarsboro, Ontario. In a 1961 interview, he said: "Twenty years have passed, but I can never forget Christmas, 1941." On Christmas morning, Brigadier Wallis ordered C Company of the Royal Rifles of Canada to lead a counter-attack retaking the bungalows on Stanley village's ridge. Lieutenant Colonel Home refused. Wallis deployed D Company of the Winnipeg Grenadiers under Major Parker instead. At 1300 hours, the attack went in without artillery support. The 18th Platoon under Sergeant McDonnell penetrated to Stanley village, inflicting heavy casualties in savage hand-to-hand combat, but was eventually driven back to the fort. Of 148 men who attacked, only 44 answered roll call at day's end. Urban defense collapsed in stages. Using mines and a Bofors 40-millimeter gun in an anti-personnel role, the 230th Regiment pushed into Wanchai, held up briefly at the China Fleet Club. At Wanchai Market, an 18-pounder was destroyed. Japanese forces reached the Naval Dockyard's western boundary. The Rajputs fell back west of the racecourse. Mount Parish fell, opening the final approach to Victoria City. Back on December 21st, General Maltby sent a communique to the war office indicated that resistance was almost at an end. According to Sir John Kennedy, the director of Military operations in London "We had to decide whether to order the troops to fight it out or give the Governor permission to surrender as he wished to do... the psychological aspect was of overriding importance, particularly with an Oriental enemy. If we fought to the last round and the last man at Hong Kong, we should gain an indirect military advantage, in that the Japanese would judge our powers of resistance elsewhere by the same standard. Therefore my opinion was that, although it was an unpleasant decision, the garrison should be told to fight it out.". When Prime Minister Churchill was informed he sent a typical churchillian message "there must be no thought of surrender..the enemy must be compelled to expend the utmost life and equipment. There must be vigorous fighting in the inner defenses, and, if need be, from house to house. Every day that you are able to maintain your resistance will help the allied cause". Both the Governor and General had little choice but to agree, on Christmas the governors message was "fight on. Hold fast for king and empire".  By the afternoon it was clear further resistance was futile. At 1530 hours on December 25, Governor Young officially surrendered. A white flag rose over the colony. Young and Major General Maltby crossed Victoria Harbour from Queen's Pier to meet General Sakai at the Peninsula Hotel, renamed "Toa" by its new occupants. It was the first occasion on which a British Crown Colony had surrendered to an invading force. The garrison had held out for 17 days, the day is known in Hong Kong as "black christmas". Lieutenant Colonel R. G. Lamb and Lieutenant J. T. Prior descended from Fortress Headquarters to Stanley to order Brigadier Wallis to lay down arms. Wallis refused without written confirmation. When Major Harland arrived with official orders, Wallis finally capitulated. At 0230 hours on December 26, 1941, he and 2,000 men crossed the lines in surrender. Two days later, on the 28th, the Japanese staged a 2,000-man victory parade led by Lieutenant General Sano on a white horse. While the general paraded, his troops—officially granted three days of "rest and recreation"—embarked on systematic rape and pillage across the fallen colony. Rear-Admiral Chan Chak arrived in Hong Kong in 1938 as an unlikely businessman—General Manager of a stockbroker's firm—but his true role was far more consequential. The one-legged Chinese admiral commanded the Military Mission tasked with coordinating China's war effort with British operations. Working seamlessly with the police special branch and intelligence services, Chan orchestrated a shadow campaign against Japanese sympathizers and traitors, drawing on a network of Nationalist agents, many of whom carried Triad connections. His inner circle included Col. Yee Shiu Kee of Chinese intelligence (posing as an insurance salesman), Lt. Cdr. Henry Hsu as aide-de-camp, and Coxswain Yeung Chuen as bodyguard. As Governor Young prepared to sign the unconditional surrender on Christmas afternoon 1941, Chan received permission to lead an escape attempt. The 2nd MTB Flotilla—vessels MTBs 7, 9, 10, 11 and 27—waited in hiding near Aberdeen Island, but Chan's perilous journey through Victoria's ruins delayed his arrival. Finding the MTBs absent, he boarded HMS Cornflower II instead, only to come under withering machine-gun fire as the launch attempted to reach open water. Abandon ship was called. Chan removed his wooden leg and surrendered his lifebuoy to his non-swimming bodyguard, diving into the chaos with Lt. Cdr. Hsu. Almost immediately, a Japanese bullet tore through Chan's wrist—a crippling wound for a one-armed, one-legged swimmer fighting through hostile fire. The Japanese, sensing they had their quarry, ignited the hillside grass with tracer rounds to drive the men back into the sea. Col. Yee remained aboard the bullet-riddled vessel and was last seen attempting to hide; he would eventually make his way to unoccupied China after several harrowing days. The other escapees scattered across Aberdeen Island in desperation. Hearing the gunfire from their concealment on the far side of the island, the MTBs approached cautiously, rescuing survivors as they went. By 2130 hours on Christmas Day, sixty-eight survivors were racing toward Mirs Bay to rendezvous with Communist guerrillas. There the MTBs were scuttled after valuables were salvaged, and the escape party was welcomed as heroes and guided safely to Huizhou in unoccupied China. This dramatic flight marked the first of many escapes and signaled the beginning of Allied cooperation with the Chinese Communist forces. As British forces withdrew from Kowloon, a new force emerged from the shadows. The Guangdong People's Anti-Japanese Guerrillas East River Column (ERC)—a battle-hardened Communist organization founded in 1938—took up the struggle against the Japanese invaders. The ERC had consolidated various local anti-Japanese forces that sprang up after Guangzhou fell to Japan, anchoring itself on two formidable core units: Zeng Sheng's Baoan People's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Main Force and Wang Zuorao's East Baoan regiment. By the eve of Hong Kong's invasion, the Third and Fifth Column fielded fifteen hundred fighters—seasoned veterans who had waged three years of resistance across Guangdong Province. Even as the British capitulated, Chinese Hongkongers—farmers and fishermen mostly—took up arms alongside their Communist allies. By year's end, over one hundred ERC members operated clandestinely in Hong Kong. In February 1942, to better organize this growing force, the HKKIB was formally established under Cai Guoliang's command, with Political Commissar Chen Daming answering to Zeng Sheng as overall commander of the ERC. The ERC's first mission was audacious in scope: rescue prominent Chinese and foreign VIPs trapped in Hong Kong. While China burned, the colony had remained a haven for industrialists, politicians, authors and dignitaries fleeing the war—now all vulnerable to Japanese occupation. Between December 1941 and June 1942, the ERC spirited over eight hundred key figures past Japanese lines to safety, while simultaneously escorting more than two thousand overseas Chinese volunteers eager to join the anti-Japanese war effort. The guerrillas also became architects of POW liberation. In March 1942, when British prisoners were forced to labor at Kai Tak Airport, the ERC deployed English-speaking operatives disguised as street vendors to infiltrate the airfield and extract Captain Thompson and four comrades through the rainwater culvert system. Among notable rescues were Lt. Col. Ride of the HKVDC (who would establish the British Army Aid Group), naval officers including Lt. J. W. Hurston of the Royal Navy, artillery officer Lt. G. D. Clagne, Indian soldiers such as Lashkar Singh and Mehnga Singh, and key civilians: the HSBC banker T. J. J. Fenwick, Police Superintendent W. P. Thompson, and foreign nationals—Russians, Danes, Norwegians—who found sanctuary in the unoccupied interior. Most were escorted to safety in China, but two Royal Scots soldiers—Joseph Gallaher and Daniel Hodges—remained with the ERC for six weeks, training guerrilla fighters in the use of British weapons and medium machine guns. These two Scottish soldiers became among the few Westerners to fight alongside Chinese Communist forces, a testament to the bonds forged in shared struggle against the Japanese occupier.   The casualty figures for Hong Kong remain contested. General Maltby's immediate post-war reports claimed 2,123 defenders dead or missing with 1,332 wounded, but these were later deemed inflated. The Chief Signal Officer, imprisoned after the surrender, compiled a more credible tally: 2,721 dead and missing. Modern estimates place military casualties around 1,600, including medical personnel from St John Ambulance. Civilian losses proved far grimmer—estimates suggest approximately 7,000 killed. Japanese records tell a different story. The Defence Agency historical section documented 1,720 Japanese deaths, while the Japanese occupation authority's own newspaper, Hong Kong News, reported 1,966 dead and 6,000 wounded on 29 December 1941. On 20 February 1942, Major-General Isogai Rensuke took office as Governor, commanding occupation forces under Brigadier Okada Umekichi. Three independent infantry regiments and supporting artillery maintained control of the colony. The occupiers' brutality would not escape Allied judgment. Major-General Ito, commander of the division's infantry, faced war crimes convictions. More prominently, Lieutenant-General Sakai, the 38th Army's commander and temporary governor, was tried, convicted, and executed by firing squad in 1946. Major-General Isogai received life imprisonment for war crimes but was released in 1967. Lieutenant-General Tanaka, final Japanese Governor and commander of the 23rd Army, was executed in 1947. Of the senior commanders, only Vice-Admiral Niimi survived the war, living to age 106.  General Maltby endured captivity throughout the East, moving from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Taiwan, finally reaching a camp near the Chinese-Mongolian border before repatriation from Shenyang (Mukden). His tenure received no official recognition despite the stubborn defense he had mounted. Lieutenant-Colonel White of the 2 Royal Scots survived internment but died shortly after returning to Britain, his health shattered by cancer. Governor Young resumed office in late 1946, attributing the colony's rapid loss to insufficient Chinese support for the British war effort. His attempts to introduce representative government alarmed London, which promptly replaced him with Sir Robert Black. Young retired in 1947. Maltby, too, retired from the Army soon afterward, also without honor. Not all were forgotten. Rear-Admiral Chan received an honorary KBE from British Ambassador Sir Horace Seymour. Colonel Yee was granted an honorary CBE, and Lieutenant-Commander Henry Hsu an honorary OBE. Hsu, a gifted athlete, became a member of the International Olympic Committee representing Chinese Taipei. Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart of 1 Middlesex died from illness in 1942. Three HKRNVR men—Petty Officer J. W. Fallace, W. C. Johnstone, and civilian Arthur Evans—escaped from the Lisbon Maru and reached Chongqing (Chunking). Of 1,834 POWs aboard that transport, only 716 returned home. Lieutenant Walda, responsible for brutal treatment of prisoners, died before sentencing; Captain Koyda, the Lisbon Maru's commander, received seven years' imprisonment. The British authorities formally acknowledged the East River Column's role—without its aid, no escapee would have survived the treacherous journey to freedom. When future Prime Minister James Callaghan raised questions in Parliament, the government responded with generous monetary awards, free medical care, and employment opportunities for survivors and their families. Many settled in the United Kingdom; others remained to serve in public and private sectors until Hong Kong's return to China in 1997, when the ERC liaison office became the local branch of the New China News Agency. Zeng Sheng, the ERC commander, rose to become Deputy Chief of Staff of the South China Military Region, then Deputy Provincial Governor and Mayor of Guangzhou. Purged during the Cultural Revolution, he was rehabilitated and became Minister of Communication in 1979. He died in Guangzhou in November 1995. One hundred twenty-eight HKVDC members, forty-nine soldiers of the British Army, and fifty personnel from transport and civil defense units escaped to Free China. The RAF transported them to Assam, then Calcutta, via the British Army Aid Group. The first groups joined the 9th Battalion of the Border Regiment at Fort William; the third and fourth joined the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. Initially relegated to non-combatant roles, their fortunes changed when Brigadier Michael Calvert—who had served in pre-war Hong Kong commanding the Chinese Sappers—called for volunteers to fight the Japanese in Burma. All stepped forward. After months of intensive training, they were formally enrolled on 14 February 1943 as the Hong Kong Volunteer Company, integrated into Wingate's legendary Chindits, where they would see action deep behind Japanese lines in the jungles of Burma. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me.   During Hong Kong's 1941 Christmas invasion, Japanese forces committed atrocities against wounded soldiers and nurses. After seventeen days of brutal resistance, Governor Young surrendered on December 25th. Rear-Admiral Chan Chak escaped through machine-gun fire, while the East River Column guerrillas conducted daring rescues, extracting over 800 VIPs and 2,000 volunteers to safety in unoccupied China.          

http://www.copperplatemailorder.com                                COPPERPLATE TIME 548                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com  1. BOTHY BAND: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill. After Hours 2. O'BRIEN/KELLY/SPROULE:   Moving Cloud/Paddy Kelly's.   Shanachie 340143. DES O'HALLORAN & SHARON SHANNON:  Say You Love Me.  The Pound Road 4. GATEHOUSE:    Monasteraden Set.   Heather Down the Moor5. LIAM FARRELL & RAYMOND ROLAND: McGlinchey's/Cooley's HP.  Trad Music from Galway & Clare 6. BRENDAN McGLINCHEY:  Splendid Isolation/Mra Lawrie's.   Private Recording 7. OISIN MacDIARMADA: The Rainy Day/Trip to Durrow.  Ar an bhFidil 8. NIOCLÁS TÓIBÍN:   Sliabh Geal gCua.    Amhráin Aneas 9. PATSY MOLONEY:  Glen Castle/David's Dream.  Temple in the Glen 10. PADDY CRONIN & FRANK NEYLON: Connemara Stocking/Woman of the House.  Copley 78 11. MARANNA McCLOSKEY:  At Last. At Last 12. PADRAIG O'KEEFFE/DENIS MURPHY./JULIA CLIFFORD:              The Top of the Maol/Humours of Ballydesmond.   Kerry Fiddles   13. MIKE SCOTT/THE WATERBOYS: The Stolen Child.  Fisherman's Blues 14. MOVING CLOUD:   Iniseer.   Download 15. ELAINE REILLY & DAITHI GORMLEY:                Charlie Mulvihill's/Tommy Maguire's/Larry Redigan's.  Reilly & Gormley 16. ALIAS RON KAVANA:   Galway to Graceland    Alias Ron Kavana 17. O'BRIEN/KELLY/SPROULE:   The Monaghan Twig/Sean sa Cheo.  Shanachie 34014 18. LONDON LASSES:  The Woods of Caolrua/Dancing Eyes/The Crock of Gold/The White Fairy               LL25 Anniversary 19. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.  After Hours

The home-and-away season is reaching its climax.....Division 2 finals are here, and the battle for the MPFNL Division 1 Top 5 is going right down to the wire! Join Adam Kelly, Neil Craig, Leigh McQuillen and Peter Susovich for the review last weekend and preview one of the biggest rounds of the season. TONIGHT’S BIG TALKING POINTS - DEVON MEADOWS – CAN THE PANTHERS COMPLETE THE JOB, THE DIVISION 1 FINAL FIVE IS STILL NOT SET! Mt Eliza, Dromana, Frankston YCW and Devon Meadows are all locked on 36 points, while Edithvale-Aspendale remain alive on 32. PINES FNC are DIVISION 2 BOUND, Relegation is confirmed. We look at where the season went wrong and what Pines need to do to rebuild for 2027. DIVISION 2 - FINALS ARE HERE! Frankston FNC made it......The Bombers produced when it mattered, defeating Pearcedale by 28 points and grabbing fifth position on percentage. DIVISION 2 - QUALIFYING FINAL – SOMERVILLE v RED HILL. Somerville enter finals after a huge 44-point victory over minor premiers Chelsea. Red Hill finished third and now gets its chance to attack September.The winner moves one step closer to the Grand Final. ELIMINATION FINAL – SEAFORD v FRANKSTON BOMBERS. There are no second chances.Seaford finished fourth, while the Bombers stormed into fifth after winning eight of their final ten matches. One side advances. SUS’S PALLETS RETURNS - The Chief takes another light-hearted look at the world of local football a few laughs, a few home truths and plenty of the things that make community footy great. Proudly supported by - Frankston, Mornington & Rosebud Toyota, LC Construction, Inna Protein, Impact Glass & Glazing, Little Court Co and Hurricane Ladders.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Talk Local to Me, hosts Heather and Mike from the Central Virginia Business Coalition discuss upcoming local events, including Coffee Talk meetups, Bedford CenterFest, and Christmas parade applications. They interview Susan and Courtney from La Quinta Inn, Ridgeview Event Center, and Appomattox Inn and Suites, highlighting their accommodations and event spaces. The episode also features Michelle, Community Engagement Coordinator at Patrick Henry's Red Hill, who shares the site's history, artifacts, and upcoming Quarter Place Tribute event honoring the African American community connected to the historic plantation.

http://www.copperplatemailorder.com                                    Copperplate Time 546                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com  1. BOTHY BAND:   Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours 2. LONDON LASSES:   Martin Wynne's No 4/The Curlew/Nana Jo's.  LL25 3. OPEN THE DOOR FOR 3: The Drunken Gauger.  A Prosperous Gale 4. LEN GRAHAM/SKYLARK:   Green Grow The Rushes O.   Raining Bicycles5. GARY HASTINGS: P. Flanagan's/The Gosoon Who Beat His Father.   Slan Lough Erne 6. MICK O'CONNOR:  Old Hag, You Have Killed Me/Fraher's.   Shanachie 34017 7. MICK O'BRIEN & CAOIMHIN O'RAGHALLAIGH:                 The Sporting Pitchfork/The Rambling Pitchfork.  Kitty Lie Over 8. TOMMY & LOUISE McCARTHY:  Richie Dwyer's/McFadden's Handsome Daughter.  Grace Bay 9. RITA GALLAGHER:  Ashling Ghael.  Private Download 10. DAVE SHERIDAN:   The Whinny Hills of Leitrim/Boys of Portaferry.   Drivin' Leitrim Timbre 11. TOMMY PEOPLES:  Jackson's/The Oak Tree. CCE Album 12. ROGER SHERLOCK:   The Dairymaid/The Old Blackthorn/O'Keefe's Plough/Callaghan's.                    CCE Tour Album   13. CON Ó DRISCEOIL:   The Spoons Murder.   It's No Secret 14. ANGELINA CARBERRY:   Paddy Kelly's/The Log Cabin/Mayor Harrison's Fedora.   An Traidisiun Beo 15. SEÁN 'ac DHONNCHA:  The Bogs of Shanakeever.   Bring My Love to Connemara 16. CHRISTY O'LEARY & BERT DEIVERT:  Miller of Drohan/Ormond Sound.   Song's Sweet Caress 17. PAUL BRADY: The Lake of Pontatrain.  The Liberty Tapes 18. TERRY CLARKE:  Did He Sing Danny Boy?   Lucky 19. FAIRPORT CONVENTION: Now Be Thankful.  What We Did On Our Saturday 20. RICHARD THOMPSON: From Galway to Graceland.  The Best & the Guests 21. BOTHY BAND:   Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours

Pat Carrigan is a very busy man and could only pre-record the chat we had with him today before jetting off to training at Red Hill. Listen for the full, unedited and exclusive interview - including some cheeky banter with Luttsy. "I feel sorry for the Cowboys" - Pat Carrigan Listen live on the Nova Player. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram & TikTokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's message of our Summer at Bethlehem series, Pastor Chris Bell from 3Circle Church in Fairhope, Alabama explores the critical concept of spiritual hydration through the lens of John 7:37–38. Physical dehydration leads to fatigue, vulnerability, and sickness—but soul dehydration carries far more dangerous, eternal consequences.   Set against the historical backdrop of the Feast of the Tabernacles (Festival of Booths), Pastor Chris reveals the profound significance of Jesus interrupting the most sacred day of the Jewish festival. While the priests poured out water to commemorate God's provision in the wilderness, Jesus stood up and declared that He Himself is the fulfillment of that promise—the source of eternal, living water.  

http://www.copperplatemailorder.com                                   Copperplate Time 542                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com                                   My Miltown Adventures 1. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.  After Hours 2. WILLIE CLANCY:   Rakish Paddy.  Ceol Agus Foinn3. BAKERSWELL:   The East Clare/The Pullet/Union Reel.   Bakerswell4. KEVIN ROWSOME:   Tom Rowsome's/Crabs in the Skillet/Paddy's Green Island.                       The Musical Pulse of the Pipes5. JOHN & JACINTA McEVOY:   The Coalminer/The Jolly 7/Heather Breeze.   The Boyne Mist 6. VINCENT DOHERTY:  Craigie Hill.  The High Walls of Derry 7. GERRY HANLEY:  A Roll of the Dice/ Ride A Mile.  In The Middle of It 8. EAMON McGIVNEY:  The Hairy Chested Frog/Sean Reid's.  Eamon McGivney 9. SEÁN 'ac DONNCHA:   The Green Linnet.  Bring My Love to Connemara 10. KIERAN O'HARE:The Southwest Wind/Kitty Come Down to Limerick. Kieran O'Hare    11. CIARÁN O' GEALBHÁIN & LIAM CLANCY:   Easy & Free. All Things Considered 12. LAR GAVIN:  The Wicked Gander.   Two Miles From Tulla13. TIM DENNEHY:   Farewell to Miltown Malbay.   Farewell to Miltown Malbay 14. BOBBY & SEAN CASEY: Farewell to Miltown/The Star of Munster. The Spirit of West Clare 15. JOHNNY Og CONOLLY: The Blackthorn Stick/Humours of Glendart/Paidin Ó Raifeartaigh.                    Fear Inis Bearachain 16. HUGHIE GILLESPIE & FRANK KELLY:  Lord Gordon's.   The  Sparkling Dawn 17. BRIAN HUGHES:  O'Sullivan's March/Coolarne/Jackson's Morning Breeze. The Beat of the Breath 18. MICK MULVEY & SHANE MEEHAN: The Missing Guest/Humours of Toomagh/Lad O'Beirne's.                    The Missing Guest 19. ELAINE KELLY & DAITHI  GORMLEY:The Ballroom Fave/Jamsie Gannon's/My ;Love  is Fair & Handsome. Elaine Kelly & Daithi Gormley 20. THE ROCHES:  Hammond Song.  Collected Works 21. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.  After Hours

The gifted artist Julianne Ankley joins me for a second visit on the podcast, this time with the generous help of Ryan Anderson from Sound Space Detroit for which I am very grateful for. Julianne is really hitting a creative stride in her career. After being in a band (Redhill) that garnered national attention and putting out some solo material since 2009, things really seem to be going in the right direction. Her latest single, Polar Train, reached far and wide and the new single performed in this session sounds poised for further success.It was a pleasure to have the chance to chat with her again. Enjoy!Songs written by Julianne AnkleyWhat Makes You DancePolar TrainCheap ThrillsMore about Julianne: https://www.julianneankley.com/and her beautiful art: https://www.julianneankleyart.com/Find over a hundred other episodes of Acoustic Alternatives: https://johnmbommarito.wixsite.com/johnbommarito/acoustic-alternativesNone of this would have ever happened without Grove Studios getting the ball rolling: https://grovestudios.space/

HPR speaks with attorney Kevin O'Grady about the recent Supreme Court decision striking public property gun restrictions; attorney Kristina Baehr shares updates on the court settlements from the Red Hill fuel spill lawsuit.

The search continues for a father and son missing near Hanauma Bay. The federal government approves $17 million in Red Hill water crisis settlements. Plus, OHA revives a controversial proposal to explore buying a Hawaii TV station.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The latest on day two of the search near Hanauma Bay for a missing father and son visiting from Korea. The Justice Department has paid about $17 million so far in Red Hill fuel-spill settlements. Plus, a Hawaii man faces federal charges for allegedly trying to lure a 15-year-old into sex on the Big Island.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lawmakers are being asked to come clean if they have any ties to Hawaiʻi's bribery and corruption probe. After years of legal wrangling, the U-S Department of Justice is finally issuing some settlement payments to Red Hill plaintiffs. How much they got and why so many claims are still unresolved. And the Office of Hawaiian Affairs moves forward into the entertainment industry. How close is it to buying a Hawaii TV station?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

More than 10 million women are impacted by heavy periods each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Some signs that your period is too heavy include:  ·         Doubling up on period products (using a pad and tampon) ·         Ongoing fatigue·         Quarter-sized or larger blood clots ·         A flow that stops you from living your everyday life ·         Bleeding that lasts for more than seven days Whether your “time of the month” has been affecting your regular routine for a while or you recently noticed a change with your cycle, you'll want to listen to the latest episode of The Healthiest You podcast. In Part Two of our podcast series, we talk about how to manage heavy periods with OB-GYN Cori Shollenberger, MD, with Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), part of Jefferson Health. What treatment options can help women feel better and allow them to start experiencing a cycle that is manageable? Are there any lifestyle changes that can help? How can heavy periods impact your overall health? What are some tips for managing a heavy cycle? We answer these questions and more on The Healthiest You podcast this month. Chapters:0:01 - Intro0:25 - Heavy periods and testing2:53 - Treatment options4:47 - Lifestyle changes 5:33 - Surgery 7:01 - Periods and genetics 7:27 - How your period impacts your overall health 9:21 - Tips for managing a heavy cycle 

Crews continue to search for a father and son who went missing while hiking near Hanauma Bay. Payments have gone out to 629 people who filed claims in a lawsuit over the 2021 Red Hill fuel spill. A man accused of sexually assaulting another passenger on an overnight flight from Kona will face charges in Seattle.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

http://www.copperplatemailorder.com    Copperplate Time 541                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com  1. BOTHY BAND: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.After Hours 2. DANU:   The Coachman's Whip.   When All is Said & Done3. BROCK MAGUIRE BAND:   The Bluebell Polka.  Green Grass, Blue Grass4. MACALLA:   Aililiú na Gamhna.   Women of Ireland5. TEADA:   Nora Criona.   Inné Amárach 6. TOMMY GUIHEN: The Navvy on the Shore/PegMcGrath's/McFadden's.  The Torn Jacket  7. JIMMY CROWLEY:   Jimmy Mo Mhíle Stór.  Jimmy mo Mhile Stór 8. DANNY O'MAHONY:  Lord Gordon's Reel.  Private   Recording 9. NOTIFY:  Sean Nancy's Reel. Private Recording  10. DAOIRI FARRELL:A Pint of Plain. A Lifetime of Happiness    11. LIAM FARRELL & RAYMOND ROLAND:               McGlinchey's HP/Cooley's HP Snuff. Trad Music From Galway & Clare 12. JOE COOLEY & JOE LEARY:  Queen of the Fair/The Carraroe Jig.   Cooley13. COLUM SANDS:   Fresh Bread.  Look Where I've Ended Up Now 14. JOHN McEVOY & JOHN WYNNE: The Last Train From Loughrea/Ned Coleman's. The Dancer at the Fair 15. SEAMUS ENNIS: Ask My Father/Pat Ward's Jig.  The Best Of Irish Piping 16. LIAM O'FLYNN:  Johnny McGreevey's/Sweeping the Cobwebs Out of the Sky.   The  Fine Art of Piping 17. LOUISE &MULCAHY FAMILY:  Planxty Davis/The Queen of May/Johnny Henry's Fave. The Reel Note 18. SEAMUS ENNIS: Football Crazy.  Private Recording 19. DICK GAUGHAN:The Father's Song. A Different Kind of Love Song 20. JUDY COLLINS: My Father. Who Knows Where the Time Goes 21. BOTHY BAND: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours

Interview with Kyle Floyd, CEO of Vox Royalty Corp.Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/from-one-asset-to-eight-how-vox-royalty-tsxvoxr-is-building-a-cash-generating-royalty-powerhouse-7187Recording date: 10th June 2026Vox Royalty Corp reported a record-setting first quarter in 2026, underscoring a period of accelerating growth driven by both strategic acquisitions and a strong gold price environment. The company generated $16 million in royalty receipts, alongside record operating cash flow and earnings per share exceeding $0.30. Management attributed this performance largely to a $60 million portfolio acquisition completed in September 2025, which added high-quality royalty assets that have since benefited from operational improvements and rising commodity prices.Building on this momentum, Vox introduced its first long-term financial outlook, projecting annual royalty receipts of approximately $66 million by 2030—nearly double its current guidance range of $32–$37 million. Notably, this forecast is based բացառively on existing assets, excluding potential upside from future acquisitions or the resolution of ongoing litigation related to the Red Hill royalty.A central element of Vox's investment case is its perceived valuation gap. The company currently trades at roughly $300 per gold equivalent ounce (GEO), significantly below peers such as Triple Flag and Franco-Nevada, which trade closer to $1,200 and $1,800 per GEO, respectively. Management argues this discount is difficult to justify given Vox's reported 28% return on invested capital and growing production base.Financially, the company remains well positioned, with no debt, available credit of up to $75 million, and a disciplined acquisition strategy focused on under-the-radar, pre-production royalties. Near-term catalysts include potential mine life extensions, ongoing drilling activity across its portfolio, and the possible unlocking of the Los Filos stream—acquired for a nominal cost but potentially worth up to $50 million.Overall, Vox Royalty presents a growth profile anchored in existing assets, with management emphasizing both operational execution and valuation re-rating potential.View Vox Royalty's company profile: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/vox-royaltySign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com

http://www.copperplatemailorder.com                                   Copperplate Time 540                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com  1. BOTHY BAND: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.After Hours 2. GATEHOUSE:   Jimmy Philbeam's/The Gneevguilla Reel/The Casagh Reel.   Tus Nua3. BRIAN CONWAY: John McGrath's/Dave Collin's/Larry Redican's.   Consider The Source4. SEAN TYRRELL, KEVIN GLACKIN & RONAN BROWNE:  An Phis Fluich.   And So The Story Goes5. SEAN TYRRELL:   Dan O'Hara.   And So The Story Goes 6. McCARTHY FAMILY:   An Buachaill Dreoite/Kitty Got A Clinking.  The Family Album  7. TOMMY McCARTHY & LOUISE COSTELLO:                  Richie Dwyer's/McFadden's Handsome Daughter. Grace Bay 8. PATSY MOLONEY:  The Callan Lasses/ Paddy Doohry's.  The Temple in the Glen  9. ROSIE STEWART:  The King's Shilling. 19th Jimmy McHugh Concert.  10. BOTHY BAND:The Strayaway Child. Out of The Wind, Into The Sun 11. PADRAIG RYNNE:  Mulhaires/Pinch of Snuff/Molloy's. Bye A While 12. DEZI DONNELLY:   Fisherman's Island/Lads of Laois.   Familiar Footsteps13. LISA KNAPP:   Bonnie At Morn.   Diversions 14. JACK E McAULEY: The Auld Triangle.   Shadowboxing 15. RALPH McTELL:   Daddy's Here.   Spiral Staircase 16. BERT JANSCH:  Poor Mouth.   Compilation 17. BOB DYLAN & JOHNNY CASH: The Girl From The North Country. Compilation 18. TIM O'BRIEN: Everything's Broken.  Red On Blonde 19. GOITSE: Tall Tales. Tall Tales & Misadventures 20. THE VOICE SQUAD: The Parting Glass. Irishtown 21. BOTHY BAND:   Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.  After Hours

Having heavy, painful periods or menstrual cycles is often normalized because so many women experience this reality monthly. Coping with a heavy period and feeling unwell are not normal though – they are signs to take a closer look at what is going on inside.  If you feel like you're planning your life around your period, you'll want to listen to the latest episode of The Healthiest You podcast, where we talk about heavy periods and their connection to iron deficiency and bleeding disorders with Nathan Hagstrom, MD, pediatric hematologist oncologist, and Emily Jacobson, PA-C, hematology oncology physician assistant, both with Lehigh Valley Reilly Children's Hospital, part of Jefferson Health.   How do you know if your period is too heavy? What other symptoms may women experience because of heavy periods? What causes heavy periods? Which bleeding disorders are linked to heavy menstrual cycles? How can you heal your menstrual cycle? We answer these questions and more on The Healthiest You podcast this month. Chapters:0:01 - Intro1:11 - Heavy periods 3:08 - Other symptoms related to heavy periods 3:47 - Iron deficiency 4:47 - Ferritin 6:53 - Causes of heavy periods 7:39 - Bleeding disorders linked to heavy periods 11:08 - Getting a diagnosis and starting to heal

                                   Copperplate Time 539                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com  1. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours 2. MICK CONNNEELY & DAVID MUNNELLY:                The Jolly Tinker/The Yellow Tinker/The Longford Tinker.  'Tis What It Is3. PAUL BRENNAN:  I Am Waiting For You/Callan Lasses/Coming Over the Hills/Boil the Breakfast Early.                       Airs & Graces 4. ANDY IRVINE & PAUL BRADY: The Plains of Kildare.  Irvine & Brady5. LIZ CARROLL:  The Giant's Cave/Go Ahead, Back Up.  On The Off Beat 6. McCARTHY FAMILY:   The Tempest/The Steampacket.  The Family Album  7. MUIREANN Nic AMHLAOIBH & DANU:  Follow On.  When All is Said & Done. 8. MICK O'BRIEN & CAOIMHIN O'RAGHALLAIGH:              Na Ceannabháin Bhana/Mairseáil Alasdrium/Munster Buttermilk.   Kitty Lie Over 9. JOHN BOWE & MARY CONROY:     Repeal of the Union/The West Clare Reel. John Bowe & Mary Conroy10. ROSIE STEWART:  The Grand Parade.  19th Jimmy McHugh Concert.  11. MAURICE LENNON:  The Road to Garrison/The Blackberry Blossom.   The Little Ones12. JOHN CARTY & MIKE McGOLDRICK: The Groves HP.  At Our Leisure13 CATHERINE McEVOY:  Richie Dwyer's/Paddy Kelly's.  Down the Crushen Road 14. BOBBY CASEY: Pol Ha'penny's/Scully Casey's.  The Spirit of West Clare15. SEAMUS BEGLEY:   Sliabh gHeal Ghu.   Ragairne 16. ANGELINA CARBERRY & DAN BROUDER:              Curlew's in the Bog/Tommy Peoples/The Monsignor's Blessing.  A Waltz for Joy 17. KAREN RYAN & PETE QUINN:  Plains of Boyle/Brendan McGlinchey's/Walsh's HP. The Coast Road 18. PJ & MARCUS HERNON: Ballintra Lasses/Colonel McBain/Johnny Watt Henry's/The Sandmount.                           Celebrating 50 Years 19. GARADICE:   Robin Kelleher/Tom McElvogue's/Gusty Frolics.  Sanctuary 20. EILIS KENNEDY:  The Parting Song.  One Sweet Kiss 21. BOTHY BAND: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.  After Hours

A $45M market-cap powerhouse with $14M in cash and $20M in equities launches its largest-ever Montana drill campaign. Watch this interview as we speak with Warwick Smith, CEO of American Pacific Mining, who explains why your EV, phone, and home all depend on a metal heading toward crisis—and how his fully-funded junior is drilling to help solve it. To learn more, please visit: https://americanpacificmining.com/ This video is sponsored by American Pacific Mining. For further mining related business inquiries and sponsorship opportunities with the Inside Mining with Daniela Cambone segment on the ITM Trading youtube channel, please contact: Advertising@GalicianConsulting.com

                                   Copperplate Time 538                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com                               HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB DYLAN  1. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours 2. BROCK MAGUIRE BAND:   The Moving Cloud.    Green Grass, Blue Grass3. TIM O'BRIEN & THE O BOYS:  Senor   Red on Blonde 4. DESI WILKINSON/CRAN:  Leon's Low/Paddy Mills/The Ivy Leaf.    Irish Folk Festival5. EILIS KENNEDY:  Boots of Spanish Leather.  One Sweet Kiss 6. PADDY CARTY:   The Groves Hornpipe. Private Recording 7. CHRISTY MOORE: I Pity the Poor Immigrant.  Words & Music8. MICHAEL MULVEY & SHANE MEEHAN:  Sword in Hand/The Wheels of the World/Mullin's Fancy.                     The Missing Guest 9. MUIREANN Nic AMHLAOIBH & DANU: Farewell Angelina.    When All is Said & Done. 10. MICK O'BRIEN:  Statia Donnelly's/I Will If I Can/Patsy Geary's.   May Morning Dew 11. RALPH McTELL:  To Ramona.   Gates of Eden12. JOHN & CATHERINE McEVOY:  The Glentaun/The Templehill Reel/Captain Kelly's.                  John McEvoy & Friends13 THE GPs/RICHARD THOMPSON:  Going, Going, Gone.  Saturday Night Rolling Around 14. THE BAND: When I Paint My Masterpiece. Cahoots 15. BOB DYLAN:  Tangled Up In Blue.  Blood on the Tracks 16. FAIRPORT CONVENTION/SANDY DENNY:  Percy's Song.   What We Did On Our Holidays 17. BOB DYLAN:  Forever Young. The Real Bob Dylan

Charlotte is growing fast, and a lot of that growth is being shaped by people who don't just build projects, they build communities. One of those leaders is Todd Collins, CEO and founder of Red Hill Ventures, a Charlotte-based real estate firm and investment platform focused on innovative, community-centered development. Under Todd's leadership, Red Hill Ventures has invested in and revitalized key properties across the region—from industrial parks to commercial spaces—while keeping an eye on long-term value, economic mobility, and the future of how people live and work. He's also deeply involved in Charlotte's civic and philanthropic circles, championing opportunity, diversity, and education alongside his wife, Janelle, and partners like Atrium Health. Today we're talking with Todd about how thoughtful real estate can shape a city, what he's seeing in Charlotte's market right now, and why purpose and profit don't have to be mutually exclusive. Todd, welcome to this episode of the award-winning BrandBuilders Podcast.

http://www.copperplatemailorder.com                                   Copperplate Time 536                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com    1. BOTHY BAND:   Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours 2. NOEL HILL/TONY LINNANE/MATT MOLLOY:  Andersons/Carty's/Sweeney's Dream. Rock.  Noel Hill & Tony Linnane3. OPEN THE DOOR FOR THREE:  Church Hill.   The Joyful Hour 4. RITA GALLAGHER: The May Morning.    The May Morning Dew 5. MICK O'BRIEN:   May Morning Dew.   May Morning Dew6. JOHN MARTYN:   May You Never.  Compilation 7. MICK MULVEY & SHANE MEEHAN:   Lough Key/Fire Away Ya Devil/Whinny Hills of Leitrim.   The Missing Guest8. TONY MacMAHON:   The Morning Dew/Cooley's.    Tony MacMahon 9. PAUL BRENNAN:   The Banks of the Bann. Airs & Graces 10. JOHN & JACINTA McEVOY:  Promenade/Mick Gorman's.   The Boyne Mist 11. PADDY CARTY & MICK O'CONNOR:   Paddy Kelly's/Mullingar Lea.   Paddy Carty12. MAGGIE BARRY & MICK GORMAN:   Farewell to My Own Dear Native Land.   Songs of Exile & Emigration13. ALY BAIN & PHIL CUNNINGHAM:  Charlie Hunter's Jig/Mouse in the Cupboard/Rosewood.    Another Gem 14. DICK GAUGHAN:  Erin Go Bragh.  Handful of Earth 15. NIAMH Nic CHARRA & MANUS MAGUIRE:  The Iron Man/The 1st Century Reel. Happy Out 16. BERT JANSCH.   Rosemary Lane.   Rosemary Lane 17. JOHN McEVOY & JOHN WYNNE:  The Dancer at the Fair/Smash the Wiindows. The Dancer at the Fair 18. SEAMUS BEGLEY: The Mountains of Pomeroy. Eri go La19. DAVE SHERIDAN:  Fisher's HP/Johnny Gorman's/PJ McNamara's.   Drivin' Leitrin Timber 20. SEAN KEANE: The Oak Tree.  Seoda Ceoil 21. BÉAL TUINNE:   Fearaibh na bhFeoibh.   Live at St James, Dingle 22. THE BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours

Small steps started today can lead to significant changes that “future you” will be proud of. The Jefferson Lifestyle Program helps you create healthy habits so you can manage stress, sleep better, eat well, exercise regularly and get connected in your community. If you want to hear more about this program, you'll want to listen to the latest episode of The Healthiest You podcast. In Part Two of our podcast series, you'll hear from Medical Director of the Jefferson Lifestyle Program Courtney Pinkham, MD, with Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), part of Jefferson Health. How does the Jefferson Lifestyle Program help reframe your thoughts around diet and boost your confidence in the kitchen? How will lifestyle medicine experts help you on your fitness journey? What are some ways sleep problems are addressed in the program? What kinds of stress management strategies will be covered? How do relationships impact our physical and mental health? We answer these questions and more on The Healthiest You podcast this month.Chapters:0:01 - Intro0:26 - How to boost your confidence in the kitchen2:12 - Fitness that fits your lifestyle5:11 - Addressing sleep problems10:56 - Stress management 13:00 - Mindfulness exercises15:41 - The power of community17:39 - Words of encouragement 

About this episode: A 2021 leak of jet fuel into the drinking water supply on O'ahu has caused neurological, gastrointestinal, and respiratory conditions and prompted outrage from community members. In this episode: the story of an in-depth investigation into the disaster, which covered how to measure exposure and support the individuals and families compromised by this crisis. Guest: Natalie Exum, PhD, MS, is an assistant professor of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an affiliate of the Johns Hopkins University Water Institute. Andrew Whelton, PhD, MS, is a professor of civil and construction engineering at Purdue University. Host: Dr. Josh Sharfstein is distinguished professor of the practice in Health Policy and Management, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. Show links and related content: Clinical Follow-up and Care for Those Impacted by the JP-5 Releases at Red Hill—National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine About the Fuel Releases at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility—United States Environmental Protection Agency How to Investigate a Cancer Cluster—Public Health On Call (December 2025) Transcript information: Looking for episode transcripts? Open our podcast on the Apple Podcasts app (desktop or mobile) or the Spotify mobile app to access an auto-generated transcript of any episode. Closed captioning is also available for every episode on our YouTube channel. Contact us: Have a question about something you heard? Looking for a transcript? Want to suggest a topic or guest? Contact us via email or visit our website. Follow us: @‌PublicHealthPod on Bluesky @‌PublicHealthPod on Instagram @‌JohnsHopkinsSPH on Facebook @‌PublicHealthOnCall on YouTube Here's our RSS feed Note: These podcasts are a conversation between the participants, and do not represent the position of Johns Hopkins University.

http://www.copperplatemailorder.com                                    Copperplate Time 535                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com    1. BOTHY BAND: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.After Hours 2. MOVING CLOUD:  Col McBain/Grogan's Fave/Sailor on the Rock. Moving Cloud 13. LIZ & YVONNE KANE:  The Starry Lane to Monaghan/Star of Ireland/Sean sa Cheo.  Side by Side 4. ELAINE KELLY & DAITHI GORMLEY: Jig of Port Fleadh/Pride of Sliabh Aughty/Tapping Toes.    Epiphany 5. JACKIE McAULEY:   St Georges Day.   Shadowboxing6. MANUS MAGUIRE:  Molly Bawn/The Enchanted Lady/Martin Wynne's/The Pinch of Snuf Fiddlewings 7. JOHN REGAN & PADDY GLACKIN:  The Golden Keyboard/Bellharbour.  Let Down the Blade8. PADDY CRONIN:   In Memory of Coleman.    Tunes of Ed Reavy 9. CLANNAD:   Suil A Ruin.   Dulaman 10. NIAMH Ní CHARRA:  Waltz for Rosie/Old Lark in the Morning/Cooper& Keegan's.   Donnelly's Arm 11. KEVIN ROWSOME:  The Dougarry Boys/Swaggering Jig/Yellow Stockings Blanket.                    The Musical Pulse of the Pipes12. MICK MULVEY & SHANE MEEHAN:                  The Missing Guest/Humours of Toomagh/Lad O'Beirne's.   The Missing Guest13. SEAMUS BEGLEY & STEVE COONEY:  Bruach na Carraige Báine.   Meitheal 14. PAUL BRADY:  Lakes of Pontcharatrain.  The Missing Liberty Tapes 15. TERRY CLARKE:   Did He Sing Danny Boy?. Lucky 16. LUKA BLOOM:   I Need Love.   Compilation 17. BERT JANSCH:   Poor Mouth.   Compilation 18. THE BOTHY BAND: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.  After Hours  

                                                        Copperplate Time 534                                     Copperplate Time 534                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com    1. BOTHY BAND: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.After Hours 2. LONDON LASSES:  Dandy Dilly Cronin/Moving in Old                       Decency/Ballintore Fancy/Over the Bridge to Peggy.   LL 253. CLANNAD:  Coinleach Ghlas an Fhómair. Clannad 2 4. KEVIN CRAWFORD: The Banks of the Suir/Mama's Pet.  In Good Company 5. SEAMUS BEGLEY & STEVE COONEY: Carracastle Lasses/Tailor's Thimble/Sheahan's.  Meitheal6. HUGH GILLESPIE & FRANK KELLY:  Lord McDonald's/Balinasloe Fair.    Sparkling Dawn 7. SHARON NEWTON CREASEY:  Morning Early/The Bonny Boys of Ballintra/Gregg's Pipes.  Auchensail8. MICK O'BRIEN & CAOIMHIN O'RAGHALLAIGH:  Na Ceannabhian Bhána/Mairshall Alistrum/Munster Buttermilk.     Kitty Lie Over 9. LIZ & YVONNE KANE:   Farewell to Eyrecourt/The Stone in the Field/Paddy Fahey's.  Side by Side 10. SEAN KEANE:  Taglione.   Compilation 11. JOHN WYNNE:  The Orphan/The Cow That Ate the Blanket/Winnie Hayes.   Like The Wind12. PATRICK STREET:  The King of Ballyhooley.   Compilation 13. FRANK HARTE:  The Mickey Dam. There's Gangs of Them Digging14. JOHN & JACINTA McEVOY:   John J Kimmel's/Bill Black's HP.  The Boyne Mist 15. MARY McPARTLAN:   Wild Mountain Side. Petticoat Loose 16. MICHELLE MULCAHY:   The Drunken Sailor.   Lady on the Island 17. LUKA BLOOM:  You Couldn't Have come at a Better Time.   Bringing It All Back Home 18. BOBBY CASEY:   College Groves/Toss the Feathers.   Casey in the Cowhouse 19. SEAN KEANE & MATT MOLLOY & ARTIE McGLYNN:                Golden Keyboard/Mayor Harrison's Fedora.   Contentment is Wealth 20. LE CHEILE: The Brook Reel/The Offaly Reel/Castle Kelly/The Maids of Castlebar.   Out of the West 21. THE BOTHY BAND: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours

Http://www.copperplatemailorder.com                                     Copperplate Time 533                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com    1. BOTHY BAND: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.After Hours 2. LONDON LASSES:  Dandy Dilly Cronin/Moving in Old Decency/Ballintore Fancy/Over the Bridge to Peggy.               LL 253. PADDY GLACKIN:  Julia Delaney/Mothers Delight. Ceol ar an bhFidil 4. FRANK HART: The Maid from Cabra West.  Compilation 5. PADDY TUTTY & CAOIMHIN O'FEARGHAILL:   McGettrick's.  Flute & Fiddle6. DANU:  Tuamgraney Castle/The Broken Pledge/The Braes of Busby.   Buan 7. NOEL HILL: The Ladies Pantalettes/Ravelled Hank of Yarn/Sean Reid's/The Silver Spear. Live in New York8. DANNY O'MAHONY & MICHEAL O'RAGHALLAIGH:              Humours of Ballyloughlin/Boys of Tanderagee.   As It Happened 9. TERRENCE O'FLAHERTY:   Return to Camden Town.  Download 10. KAREN RYAN:  Sliabh Geal gCua.   The Coast Road 11. ANDY MARTYN:  The Blackthorn.   Will We Give It A Go?12. SEAN KEANE:  The Man from Connemara.   Compilation 13. LIZ& YVONNE KANE:  The Bee's Wing/In Memory of Coleman.  The Well Tempered Bow14. EILIS KENNEDY:  Who Knows Where the Time Goes.  Time to Sail 15. JOHN McKENNA & JAMES MORRISON:        The Tailor's Thimble/Red Haired Lass. The Buck from The Mountain 16. MICK O'BRIEN:   Statia Donnelly's/I Will if I Can/Patsy Geary's.    May Morning Dew 17. TERRY CLARKE:  Sea Song.  The Shelley River 18. THE WATERBOYS:   Fisherman's Blues.  Fisherman's Blues 19. TERRY CLARKE:  The Irish Rockabilly Blues.   The Shelley River

Which areas of your health are you ready to change this year? From better sleep to regular exercise to eating nourishing meals, anything is possible when you know your “why.” If you want to hear about a program that can help you on your journey to become a healthier you, you'll want to listen to the latest episode of The Healthiest You podcast. In Part One of our podcast series, you'll hear from Medical Director of the Jefferson Lifestyle Program Courtney Pinkham, MD, with Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), part of Jefferson Health. What are some barriers to forming habits? How can lifestyle medicine improve your health? What are practical ways to build better habits? Which chronic diseases can be addressed with lifestyle changes? What is the Jefferson Lifestyle Program? We answer these questions and more on The Healthiest You podcast this month.Chapters:0:01 - Intro1:00 - All about habits4:45 - Barriers to forming habits7:43 - Making changes without feeling overwhelmed 13:59 - About lifestyle medicine15:02 - Reverse chronic disease19:54 - The Jefferson Lifestyle Program23:33 - What to expect at a group session27:42 - How to join the program 

htttp://www.copperplatemailorder.com                                  Copperplate Time 532                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com    1. BOTHY BAND: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.After Hours 2. SIMON & GARFUNKEL:  April Come She Will.   Old Friends3. DANU:  The Highest Hill in Sligo Set & Farewell Angelina.  When All is Said & Done 4. BRENDAN McAULEY: The Pheaton Carraige.  The McCartneys of Pennyburn.  Under the Diamond6. RICHIE DWYER:  Cailroe Ramblers/Lake Dance.  In A Creative Mood 7. BERT JANSCH:  Tell Me What is True Love.  Rosemary Lane8. MICHAEL HYNES & KIRSTEN ALLSTAFF:  Air for Tommy Peoples/The Mermaids of Mullaghmore.                  An tUrlár Leice 9. GERRY DIVER:   The Bath Set.  Diversions 10. SEAMUS BEGLEY & STEVE COONEY:   Bruach na Carraige Báine.   Meitheal 11. COLM O'DONNELL:  The Bodrhan Song.   Farewell to Evening Dances12. MAGGIE BOYLE:  Donal Óg.   Won't You Come Away 13. CHRISTY MOORE:  Easter Snow.   Compilation14. RALPH McTELL:   Jesus Wept.   Sand in Your Shoes 15. LIAM O'FLYNN& CATHERINE ENNIS:   Easter Snow.   Bringing It All Back Home 16. THE WATERBOYS:  September 1913.   An Appointment With Mr Yeats 17. DYLAN CARLOS, CEIN SWEENEY & JOHN McCARTIN:              The Rolling Wave/The Lark on the Strand/The Banks of Lough Gowna.  The One After It 18. DEZI DONNELLY:  Paddy Ryan's Dream/Dowd's Fave/Phelim's Frolics.  Familiar Footsteps 19. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.  After Hours

                                    Copperplate Time 531                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com    1. BOTHY BAND: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.After Hours 2. CRAWFORD/FARRELL/DOOCEY: Mouse in the Mug.Music & Mischief3. GARADICE: 2 Mile Gate/Brigid McRory/Woods of Caol Ruadh.  Sanctuary 4. DELORES KEANE:  Galway Bay.  Best of 5. MICHELLE MULCAHY:  Taabhair Dom Do Lámh.  Lady on the Island6. JOHN & JACINTA McEVOY:   The Secret Well/Whispering Water. The Boyne Mist 7. PADDY KEENAN:  The Steampacket/Miss McLeod's.  Paddy Keenan8. KAREN RYAN:  Dr O'Neill's/Saddle the Pony.  The Coast Road 9. STEVE TILSTON:   Slip Jigs & Reels.  Distant Days 10. JOHNNY CONNOLLY: Na Ceannabhain Bhána/Paidin O'Raifereartagh.   Drioball na Fáineoige 11.  The Given Note/Port na bPúcaí.     The Poet & The Piper12. MICHAEL HYNES: Boys of the Lough/The Limerick Tinker/Buckley's Fancy.  Waits & Strays 13. BRIAN LENNON: The Laurel Tree/Flowers of Red Hill.   Within A Mile of Kilty 214. RALPH McTELL:  The Girl from the Hiring Fair. Silver Celebration 15. STEVE TILSTON:   Skinjuju.   Distant Days 16. JOHNNY O'g CONNOLLY:  Ceilaúr na Spideoige/Ben's Arrival.  Fear Inis Bearachain 17. DAVE SHERIDAN:  A Smile for Sheila/McKenna's/The Leitrim Quickstep.  Drivin' Leitrim Timber 18. MACALLA:  Blackberry Blosom/Lord McDonnell/Vincent Broderick's.   Women of Ireland 19. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.                    After Hours

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                                   Copperplate Time 530                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com    1. BOTHY BAND: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.After Hours 2.PJ & MARCUS HERNON:  Reel of Bogiie/Austin Tierney's/Road to Ballymack/St Ruth's Bush.                  Celebrating 50 years3. DAVE SHERIDAN:  The Whinney Hills of Leitrim/Boys of Portaferry.   Drivin' Leitrim Timber 4. NIAMH PARSONS:  Sweet Daffodil Mulligan.  Kind Providence 5. LEO ROWSOME:   St Patrick's Day.   Classics of Irish Piping6. CHRISTY MOORE:   St Patrick Was A Gentleman.  The Iron Behind the Velvet 7. KEVIN BURKE & MATT MOLLOY: The Bloom of Youth/Molloy's Fave/The Cabin Hunter.  Compilation 8. MICK O'BRIEN & CAOIMHIN O'RAGHALLAIGH:  Teampall an Ghleantaín/Hickey's. Kitty Lie Over 9. PADDY CRONIN:The Bunch of Keys/The Steampacket.  Rakish Paddy Cronin 10. BILLY CLIFFORD:   The Blue Ribbon Polkas 2 + 1.  Echoes of Sliabh Luachra 11. SARAH & RITA KEANE:   A Stóir mo Chroí.   Bringing It All Back Home12. THE BAILEYS:  Danny Boy.  A Song for Ireland 13. BRENDAN & MARTIN McHUGH: Marion Kelly's/Carey's Cottage.   2nd Jimmy McHugh Memorial Concert14. McDONAGH BROTHERS & TOMMY FLYNN:                  McFadden's/The Blackberry Blossom. The McDonagh's of Ballinafad 15. MAGGIE BOYLE: Gweebarra Shore  Gweebarra 16. KEVIN BOYLE:   No 1 Sardine.  Bon Cabbage 17. JOHN DOHERTY: The Lancers Jig/Gusty's Frolics.The Floating Bow 18. GATEHOUSE:  Kitty Got A Clinking.  Heather Down the Moor. 19 CAOIMHIN O'FEARGHAILL: Mary McMahon/Reel of Mullinavat.  Uilleann Piping from Co Waterford 20. EAMON McGIVNEY: The Hairy Chested Frog/Sean Reid's.  Eamon McGivney 21. JOHN REGAN & PATSY MOLONEY:  McGettrick's No 2/Mist on the Mountain.  Over the Bog Road 22. THE WATERBOYS:  With A Bang On The Ear.  Fisherman's Blues 23. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours

In June 2016, Dawn Rhodes was killed at the family home in Redhill, Surrey. Her husband, carpenter Robert Rhodes, who cut Dawn's throat and claimed self-defence, told the police that she had attacked him. In 2017, a jury at the Old Bailey believed him. He walked free. But in 2021, one of the couple's children disclosed the truth to a therapist…*** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna FittonNarration, additional audio editing and mixing, and script editing by Benjamin Fitton.To get early ad-free access, including Season 1, sign up for They Walk Among PLUS, available from Patreon or Apple Podcasts.More information and episode references can be found on our website https://theywalkamonguspodcast.comSOCIAL MEDIA: https://linktr.ee/TheyWalkAmongUsSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/theywalkamongus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

                                   Copperplate Time 529                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com    1. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours 2. LUNASA:  Within A Mile Set.  Cas3. DAITHI FARRELL & LUNASA: Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore. Cas 4. BUTTONS & BOWS:  The Return of Spring/The Mountain Pathway.                    The Return of Spring 5. NIAMH Nic CHARRA:   The Curlew Hills/Tripping to the Well/Two Part Pour.                          Donnelly's Arm6. PADDY GLACKIN:  Top It Off/The Sunny Bank.  Ceol ar an bhFidil 7. NOEL HILL:  An Phis Fluich/The Fisherman's Jg.  Live in New York 8. JOHN BOWE & MARY CONROY:                          The Sailor's Cravat/The Reel of Bogy. Bowe & Conroy 9. ROGER SHERLOCK:The Queen of May/Mama's Pet.   Memories of Sligo 10. KEVIN BURKE:   London Town.   The Pound Ridge Sessions 11. DONAL LUNNY & SULT BAND:   Sult Set.  Spirit of the Music12. AOIFE & MICK O'BRIEN & EMER MAYOCK:             The Traveller/The Top of the Cliff/The Bride's to Bed.                  Tunes from the Goodman Manuscripts 113. ELAINE REILLY & DAITHI GORMLEY:               The Jig of Port Fleadh/The Pride of Sliabh Aughty/Tapping Toes. Epiphany 14. DELORES KEANE & MICK HANLEY:                    My Love is in America.   Bringing It All Back Home 15. GATEHOUSE:  The Monasteravon Set.  Heather Down the Moor 16. HUGHIE GILLESPIE & FRANK KELLY:   Colonel Fraser. The Sparkling Dawn 17. ANGELINA CARBERRY & MARTIN QUINN:              Poll Hal'penny/Sean O'Duibhir an Ghleanna.  An Traidisiún Beo 18. MARY McNAMARA & P JOE HAYES:           The Humours of Glenfinn/The Glen of Aherlow/The Killarney Boys of Pleasure.               Trad Music from East Clare 19. SORCHA COSTELLO: John Naughton's Ryan's Rant.  The Primrose Lass 20. JOHN McEVOY & JOHN WYNNE: The Masters Return/The Dog Among the Bushes. The Dancer at the Fair 21. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours

President Trump announced today that Kristi Noem's time as homeland security secretary will be over at the end of the month. On Maui, a judge has ruled in the case of a Hawaii musician's alleged use of illegal fireworks on New Year's Eve. And the U.S. government now claims that toxic exposure for military members during the 2021 Red Hill fuel leak disaster was connected to their military service, but service members who are suing the government say that's not true.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The government is alleging new toxic exposure in the years-long battle over the Red Hill fuel leak. Mayor Rick Blangiardi signs Bill 60, clearing a path for Skyline to reach UH Manoa. Top Pentagon officials say America's fight in the Middle East is far from over, and the White House has not set an end date.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A demotion amongst the upper ranks of HPD. What a 37-year veteran of the force is accusing. Military service members are battling the government over illnesses after the Red Hill fuel leaks, latest on the saga. What is the State of Maui County? Mayor Biseen will deliver his annual address to the public tonight.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

http://copperplatemailorder.com                                   Copperplate Time 528                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com    1. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours 2. WE BANJO 3: Bunch of Green Rushes/Salt Creek.  Gather The Good3. DAVE SHERIDAN: Lough Allen/The Singing Kettle/John Blessing's.                        Drivin' Leitrim Timber 4. DERMOT BRYNE:  McInerney's HP/The Japanese HP. Dermot Byrne 5. CHRISTY MOORE:   Boy in the World.   A Terrible Beauty6. DEZI DONNELLY & MIKE McGOLDRICK:              Walls of Liscarroll/Rooney's Fave/Connaught Man's Ramble.                        Dog in the Fog 7. MICK O'BRIEN & CAOIMHIN O'RAGHALLAIGH:        An Buialteoir Aerach/Enchanted Lady/The Holy Land.  Deadly Buzz8. GRÁINNE HOLLAND:  Donal na Gráine.  Compilation 9. SEAN RYAN:Paddy Kellys/ Pigeon on the Gate/Glen of Aherlow.  Seán Ryan 10. JOE BURKE:   The Dawn/The Moving Cloud.   Seoltai Séidte 11. IRLA ÓLIONÁIRD:   Aisling Gheal.   Music of Dreams 12. NEIL  MULLIGAN: The Blackbird/Miss Galvin.  An Tobar Glé 13. JOHN & JACINTA McEVOY:         Balrath Woods/Nóra na bportach/The Highwayman.   The Boyne Mist14. EILIS KENNEDY: The Hills of Isle au Haut.   Westward 15. CIARA McElHOLM:  Norwegian Breeze.  Amergin Fire 16. OPEN THE DOOR FOR THREE:   The Boy in the Tree.   The Joyful Hour 17. BERT JANSCH:  Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning.  LA Turnaround. 18. PLANXTY:  The Aconry Lasses/ Old Wheels of the World/Spike Island Lasses.    Compliation 19. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.                    After Hours

The Navy is no longer required to meet with community members regarding the 2021 Red Hill fuel spill that contaminated drinking water for more than 90,000 Oahu residents, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Plus, a bill honoring a 16-year-old girl killed at the hands of a reckless, unlicensed driver now has another name to it: Koali Denning-Ring.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The EPA re-writes the rules on the Navy's Red Hill response to eliminate community meetings. New concerns were voiced last night about the impact of the Hawaii Pacific Health and HMSA partnership on healthcare for Native Hawaiians. UH economists explain why Hawaii now falls in the category of a "left behind" region. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

http://copperplatemailorder.com                                    Copperplate Time 527                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com    1. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours 2. DONAL LUNNY BAND: Sult Reels.   Sult3. BROCK MAGIURE BAND: The Moving Cloud.   Compilation 4. EILIS KENNEDY:  The Elk River Dam.   Westward 5. CILLIAN VALLELY & DAVID DOOCEY:                 Elk River Dan/Ryan's.  The Yew & The Orchard6. MARY COSTELLO & PJOE HAYES:  McGreevey's Favourite/Miss McGuinness/The Sweetheart Reel.  Trad Music from East Clare 7. KEVIN BURKE:        The Humours of Castlefinn/The Ewe Reel/McFadden's.  Sligo Made8. PJ & MARCUS HERNON:          Redican's Mother/Taim in Arrears/Hardiman's. Celebrating 50 years 9. EAMONN & GERALDINE COTTER:Aisling Gheal.The Knotted Chord 10. IRLA O'LEONARD:   The Heart of the World.   Invisible Fields 11. TOMMY PEOPLES:   The Green Fields of Glentown.   CCE Album 12. MICK SANDS & CLIVE CARROLL:                         Autobiography.  The Ominous & the Luminous 13. LIAM O'LYNN:   The Dark Slender Boy.   Planxty Live 200414. ELEANOR SHANLEY/GARADICE: Sanctuary. Sanctuary. 15. LUKE KELLY/DUBLINERS:  Black Velvet Band.  Compilation 16. DOC WATSON:   The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band.                  The Vanguard Years 17. MARTIN CARTHY:  Lovely Joan.   Transform Me into A Fish. 18. THE WATERSONS:  Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joy.                          Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joy 19. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.                    After Hours

http://copperplatemailorder.com                                     Copperplate Time 526                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com    1. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours 2. BUTTONS & BOWS: The Return of Spring/The Mountain Pathway.                  The Return of Spring3. CARLOS/SWEENEY/McCARTIN:            The Rolling Wave/The Lark on the Strand/Banks of Lough Gowna.                   The One After It 4. TIM DENNEHY: I Know What I'm Missing.  Old Boots & Flying Sandals 5. JOHN McEVOY & JOHN WYNNE:                 McPaddin's Fave/A Visit to Ireland.  Dancer at the Fair6. ELAINE REILLY:  The Fergus Reel/The Girl Who Broke My Heart.                Epiphany 7. JAMES KEANE, MATT MOLLOY & KEVIN CONNEFF:             The Musical The Hunter's Purse/The Flowing Bowl/Tilly Finn's.                     With Friends Like These 8. KEVIN CRAWFORD & CILLIAN VALLELY:                 Days Around Lahinch/The Man from Moyasta.                    On Common Ground 9. MICHAEL McGOLDRICK & JOHN CARTY:                Whistler O're The Lave O't/Kilkenny for Mr/Come to the Fair.                   At Out Leisure 10. THE BAILEYS:   A Song for Ireland.   A Song for Ireland 11. CAOIMHIN O'FEARGHAILL & PADDY TUTTY:                Palm Sunday/Mulqueeney's.   Flute & Fiddle 12. GATEHOUSE:  The Cocks are Crowing.  Heather Down the Moor13. JOHN JOE GORDON: The Primrose Polka/The Bluebell Polka.                    Within A Mile of Kilty 214. GERRY HANLEY: A Roll of the Dice/Ride A Mile. In The Middle of It. 15. MICK MULVEY & SHANE MEEHAN:              Sword in the Hand/Wheels of the World/Mullin's Fancy.                 The Missing Guest 16. ANDREW MURRAY:  Jock O' Hazeldene.   Hell or High Water 17. NIAMH NÍ CHARRA:  The Curlew Hills/Tripping Up the Stairs/Two Part Pour.                   Donnelly's Arm 18. PADDY KILLORAN:  The Old Dudeen/The Road to Lurgan.                          Taisce Luacmhar 19. DANU:  The Poor Man's Fortune/The Long Strand/Gan Ainm.  10,000 Miles 20. LEONARD BARRY:  The Limerick Lasses/Johnny McGoohan's/The Laurel Tree.   New Road 21. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.After Hours

                                   Copperplate Time 525                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com    1. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill. After Hours 2. GARADICE: The Ballintra Lasses/The Rock Reel/Silver Linings/The Border Collie.    Sanctuary3. DANU: Murphy's HP/Lord Gordon's Reel.  Seanchas 4. RALPH McTELL:  From Clare to Here.    Silver Celebration 5. MICK O'BRIEN & TERRY CREHAN:              Farewell to Miltown/West Clare Railway/Sporting Molly.  May Morning Dew6. ANDY MARTYN:  The Caha Mountains/McKenna's CountrWill We Give It A Go? 7. TERENCE O'FLAHERTY: Return to Camden Town.  Single8. PADDY TAYLOR:  Lord Mayo.  Boy in the Gap 9. PADDY KEENAN:  Colonel Fraser/My Love is in America.  Paddy Keenan 10. EAMONN COTTER:  Brauach na Carraige Baíne. Trad Music From Clare 11. SEAMUS BEGLEY & STEVE COONEY:                     Brauach na Carraige Baíne.   Meitheal 12. FRANK KELLY:  Paddy Ryan's Dream/Mama's Pet/Miss McLeod's.                               Memories of Hughie Gillespie.13. RITA GALLAGHER: Sweet Iniscarra. The May Morning Dew 14. ROGER SHERLOCK:   Sherlock's/Mama's Pet/ The Dairymaid/O'Keeffe's Plough/Galtee Ranger. Private Recordings 15. SEAN Ó SE & CEOLTOIRI CHUALANN:                    An Buachaill Caol Dubh. O'Riada sa Gaiety 16. DEZI DONNELLY & MIKE McGOLDRICK:                  An Buachaill Dreoite.Lark in the Morning. Dog in the fog 17. DICK GAUGHAN & JOHNNY CUNNINGHAM:                 The Freedom Come All Ye.  The Harvard Tapes 18. DAVE SHERIDAN:  Big John's/The Stoney Steps/John Kelly's Concertina.                         Drivin' Leitrim Timber 19. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.  After Hours

What's the beef with tallow? Depending on your skin type, beef tallow (cow fat) skin care can either leave you hydrated or clog your pores.  If you want to hear which skin care trends you should try or skip, you'll want to listen to the latest episode of The Healthiest You podcast. In Part Two of our podcast series, you'll hear from medical esthetician Karissa Wolf, with Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), part of Jefferson Health. What are the pros and cons of using beef tallow skin care? Does face tape work for smoothing fine lines and wrinkles? Which at-home face mask recipes work? Are at-home red-light therapy masks worth it? Should you use an ice roller to depuff your face? We answer these questions and more on The Healthiest You podcast this month.Chapters:0:01 - Intro0:21 - Beef tallow skin care0:53 - Face tape for anti-aging 2:05 - DIY face masks 3:22 - Red-light therapy masks 4:41 - Ice baths and ice rollers5:31 - Self-tanner or sunless tanning6:21 - Building a strong skin barrier7:08 - Skin care trends we've tried8:14 - The secret to healthy skin 

                                   Copperplate Time 524                                presented by Alan O'Leary                             www.copperplatemailorder.com                                          My Glasgow Visit 1. BOTHY BAND:  Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill. After Hours 2. JIMMY McHUGH: Pidgeon on the Gate.  2nd Jimmy McHugh Memorial Concert3. BRENDAN & MARTIN McHUGH:       MarionKelly's/Carey's Cottage.  2nd Jimmy McHugh Memorial Concert 4. BRIDGE CEILI BAND: Lord McDonald's/The Holly Bush/Finbarr Dwyer's.                          Sparks on Flags 5. PAUL McGLINCHEY & MACDARA O'RAGHALLAIGH:                 Lord Ramsey's/The Jolly Tinker/The Rainbows End.  Unearthed6. CHRISTY MOORE:  By Clyde's Bonnie Banks. Live in Dublin 7. KEVIN ROWSOME: The Musical Pulse  of the Blaskets.                     The Musical Pulse of the Pipes8. MICK MULVEY:  The Brook//The Killukin Ghost/Salute to Sherlock.              The Missing Guest 9. MICHAEL ROONEY & JUNE McCORMACK:           Colonel McBain's/Paddy Kiloran's.  Lands End 10. EILEEN O'BRIEN & LAR GAVIN:      The Poppy Leat/McIntyre's HP.   2nd Jimmy McHugh Memorial Concert 11. SEÁN ÓSÉ:  Do Bhí Bean Uasal.   O'Riada sa Gaiety 12. PJ CROTTY & JAMES CULLINANE:                    Sheep in the Boat/Hurry the Jug. Happy to Meet13. ANGELINA CARBERRY & DAN BRUDER:               Curlews in the Bog/Tommy People's/The Monsignor's Blessing.                    A Waltz for Joy 14. EILIS KENNEDY:   Ciumhais Charrig Aonair. So Ends This Day 15. PADDY CARTY & CONOR TULLY:                    Dowd's/In Memory of Coleman. Trad Music of Ireland 16. DERMOT BYRNE, JOHN DOYLE & EAMONN COYNE:                  Highland & Reels.  Liag 17. PJ & MARCUS HERNON:  Gallagher's Frolics/Tae ar an bPortach/An Buachaillin Bán.  Celebrating 50 Years 18. MICHAEL BANAHAN:  Winter in the City.   Broken Heart 19. CILLIAN VALLELY & DAVID DOOCEY:                    The Peacock's Feather.  The Yew & The Orchard 20. KEVIN BURKE & JOHN BRENNAN:                    London Town.   The Piound Ridge Sessions 21. BOTHY BAND: Green Groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill.   After Hours                                                 http://copperplatemailorder.com

In a sea of skin care options, knowing which products and treatments are worth it will save you time, money and breakouts. Now is the time to say goodbye to those half-used products collecting dust and find out what works best for you.  If you need recommendations or want to learn more about getting a personalized skin care regimen, you'll want to listen to the latest episode of The Healthiest You podcast. In Part One of our podcast series, you'll hear from medical esthetician Karissa Wolf, with Lehigh Valley Health Network, part of Jefferson Health. What are the differences between professional dermaplaning and at-home dermaplaning? Which in-office procedures are most effective for smoothing fine lines and wrinkles? Which ingredients should you avoid in skin care products? When can you save money and get drugstore products? What custom facials are offered? We answer these questions and more on The Healthiest You podcast this month.Chapters:0:01 - Intro0:53 - Skin care basics1:16 - To wash your face or not1:43 - Products you should avoid using at the same time2:31 - UV sensitivity 3:09 - Drugstore products vs. high-end options4:12 - Ingredients to look for5:36 - Ingredients to avoid6:17 - Seeing a medical esthetician 7:08 - Custom facials7:44 - Dermaplaning 8:50 - Anti-aging options9:16 - Chemical peels10:17 - The No. 1 skin care question Karissa gets asked

Send us a textGary hosts another hour of top notch piping from a the airts.EYP 126 PlaylistBeolach with The Cape Breton Slip Set – An Drochaid Chliuiteach,  Scottsville Reel, Foxhunter and Walking the Floor from Beolach Iain MacDonald and Iain MacFarlane with Miss Elspeth Campbell, Danced with Me the Beautiful Maiden and the Rejected Suitor from First Harvest. Gordon Mooney with Souters O Selkirk, Seeking the Galloway and Jock O the Side from O'er the BorderJim MacGillivray with The Laird of Drumblair, Dalnahassaig, Stumpie, Frolics of Youth, O'er The Moorlands, Christie MacLeod, Struy Lodge, Willie MacKenzie's Reel, Walter Sammon's Grandmother, The Humours of Tulla, The Flowers of Red Hill from the World's Greatest Pipers Volume 10 Paddy Keenan with The Steam Packet and MacLeod's Reel from Paddy Keenan Bagad Kemper with Amzer Nevez from Live au Cornouaille  Craig Muirhead and Roddy MacLeod with the Desperate Battle of the Birds from a private recording Colin Melville with The Broom o the Cowdenknowes from 3 Smallpipes, Private Recording. Daimh with Lock and Load from Diversions  Support the show