"He's the toughest street fighter alive." Freddie Foreman Picture a man, he's tall, not excessively so, yet as wide as he is high. This man is a spitting and growling street brawler; a tank full of ready to blow, muscle-fuelled aggression. Imagine, if you will, the comic book style Bulldog of Great British stamp. Well, there you have him! The prototypical face taken from the terraces of an '80s football fan's rolled-up newspaper cosh; a poster-boy of malevolence left over from Thatcher's post-punk Britain. Stormin' Norman's his name and when this storm is erupting, he's like a force-nine gale fused with a hurricane. In his heyday, Norman saw off a plethora of gangland minders, and with his own style of hands-on education, taught Glasgow's prolific hitman, Billy McPhee, the laws of the Guv'nor's land. He's the Godfather of Aylesbury, former British Bare-Knuckle Champion, and undefeated European Boxing Federation 'Guv'nor'. The loveable lunatic with the heart of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Yes, this my accidental friends, is the new Guv'nor. He is the man who rebuked many a heathen, but was also everyone's friend, and for all the right reasons. So, settle in with your favourite tipple, and let us regale you with a lifetime of fronting the doors, serving at Her Majesty's pleasure, righting wrongs, and brutal bare-knuckle tear-ups.

Lenny McLean - an infamous name, but forever a legend. He is arguably one of the most notorious and feared prize-fighters England has ever produced. Not only was he a mountain of a man and a true fighter, feared on the streets of gangland London and outside the clubs whose doors he manned in the heart of the capital, he was also an old-school East Ender, who took pride in operating on a gentleman's code despite the often-dangerous world he lived in. His life was cut all-too-short, just as it was taking a new, previously unimaginable direction after his role in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels but he remains loved by those who knew him. The Guv'nor Revealed uncovers parts of Lenny McLean's life not previously explored, with shared memories from his close friends, family and various other acquaintances who crossed his path one way or another during his lifetime. Lenny McLean was one of a kind; infamous for his brute strength but also loved for his protective heart. Collated from years of interviews, Lee Wortley and Anthony Thomas bring you an array of thrilling, and often touching and amusing, testimonies from those closest to him and a new insight into the life of The Guv'nor.

In Participatory Democracy: The Case of Parish Development Committees in Jamaica, Marc Anthony Thomas expands the existing knowledge on participatory democracy. Parish development committees were established as a means for Jamaicans to inform government policy, and Thomas explores the extent to which supportive institutional, infrastructural and superstructural conditions allow for robust implementation of this democratization initiative. His analysis is bolstered by an appreciation of the emancipatory politics employed by the country's general population since slavery not only to survive oppression, but also to influence the nation's political agenda. Riots during slavery and in the present day, for example, have offered citizens an avenue towards self-determination. The democratization initiative symbolized by parish development committees promotes inclusiveness yet is led predominantly by older, educated middle-class individuals with talents and capacities garnered from several years of experience in various fields. Thomas argues that the opportunity cost of a more inclusive order explains this fact, in that Jamaica's finite resources mean there is limited space for a learning curve and the cash-strapped committees have only been able to survive when their members could help to defray the cost of their operations. By observing more than one hundred hours of parish development committee activities and interviewing sixty key informants and four focus groups, Thomas finds that the emergence, survival and thriving of parish development committees in Jamaica is determined largely by the extent to which emancipatory political tactics are successfully applied by committee stakeholders to combat a number of continuing challenges. His analysis provides a micro-scale view of the interaction of factors that have shaped the power and possibility of Jamaica's democratization initiative.

There is something sad in death, without any doubt: it is sad that our near and dear leave this world. But contemporary culture, the culture of radical secularization has reduced this issue to a marginal problem, i.e. a problem which should be ignored, for one reason or another. Our attitude toward death is wrong: yes, we should be sad in such situations, we should respect the deceased ones, it is true. Notwithstanding, what is much sadder is a wasted life, a life deprived of love, faith and care of others. Not that death is terrible in itself, as we already stated; terrible is a life which has not fulfilled itself. It is a disaster to live one's whole life in darkness, thinking that life is deprived of any meaning; or, giving oneself to material pleasures and fornication, to condemn oneself to eternal torment in Hell. We need to reflect on our life, on the meaning of life, on our acts and moral conduct. Atheism has disastrous ramifications not only because it rejects God, but also because it deceives the human beings whose way of thinking is influenced by its principles. Atheism makes us look at the phenomenon of death as a natural process, as an event which proves that man is part of nature. And the truth is the opposite: death shows that man is different; only man has an idea of what is death, and only man can really be afraid of death. Finally, there is a singularity in death. Singularity means a phenomenon which is unique, which is not common nor general. One cannot describe what happens when there is singularity. This notion comes from Physics where special types of events are signified. Singular are such events and processes whose properties, or course, or direction, cannot be predicted nor defined. Singularity is present in the so-called black holes, hypothetical material entities where the density of matter is negative, and gravitation- inimaginable. It is claimed that singularity cannot be even reflected upon- if a given person found him/herself in a black hole, he/she will never understand it, will never be able to think about it. Death is a singular event in such a sense- there is no way to communicate any information about it, information which will pass beyond the borderline between life and death. And in this singularity our conviction that there is another reality beyond death is rooted- we know that death is not exactly a natural process, we know that there is something more in it, and we intuitively know that there is another reality beyond it. It is evident that death is a transition, and there must be another reality where the process of transition takes us; but no one could return from there and tell us how it is like in Hereafter. Science will never be able to describe this transiiton completely, for it lacks again this information which exists only in a state of singularity. Death remains a mystery and its experience is the only certain source of real knowledge. The rest is a matter of faith!

"Young Francis" Logline: A privileged young man in medieval Italy turns his back on a life of revelry and riches to dedicate his life to helping the most needy. Summary In the medieval town of Assisi, the wife of a wealthy cloth merchant is experiencing long, painful labour. A mysterious BEGGAR advises her to go to a stable to give birth, and while others think him mad, PICA di BERNARDONE, the woman with child, agrees. The baby is born soon after. The Beggar asks to hold the child and presses a cross on the child's shoulder telling the mother her son will do great things. When PIETRO di BERNARDONE returns from a selling trip to France, he is filled with joy at the sight of his son. He vows to give the child everything he could ask for, promising a life of riches and indulgences. In honor of his many business dealings in France and his wife's origins, he nicknames the child FRANCESCO.

On the one hand, the percentage of infertility among young couples is increasing; on the other hand, there are many ways to "produce" children in an artificial, "technological" way. The latter option seems tempting. Technologies today are seen as substitutes for many human activities; they take the role of human beings with the aim to "improve" our well-being. Methods such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) demonstrate that people today rely too much on technologies to solve their problems. Of course, there are couples honestly believing that in vitro procedures are safe and do not violate any principle of morality. This lack of knowledge is thus part of the problem: we are surrounded by an ocean of information, this "ocean" being full of every type of idea, theory, conception, and so forth. But the information regarding in vitro fertilization is "filtered." It is often subjected to censorship, or is distorted in such a way as to show that in vitro procedures are completely "safe" and that this procedure only yields positive effects for the couples and the society as a whole. The present book will show that things are not that simple: artificial methods employed for reproduction are often harmful and are always immoral.

We are living in uncertain times. People are striving for freedom, and at the same time prefer to exist in subordination. They aspire to look "different," to be "themselves," to maintain their "personality" and "authenticity." Freedom is such a concept that seems unnecessary today. Everyone is free, we tend to think, and even if sometimes it happens that a person declare him/herself not free, we believe that it is merely an exception. People should think more about the progress, about their common future, and not to dispute such "irrelevant" issues. If we are not free, why then can we express our opinion (in the majority of cases) so easily and without any troubles? The current book turns upon the Parable of the Grand Inquisitor, told by the Russian writer Dostoyevsky. After so many disasters that occurred in the 20th century, it is time to recall this legend and to ask together with the writer, "Do people have the disposition to withdraw from their freedom in order to gain more material goods, or pleasures, or security?" Why choose freedom over security? Having in mind the emergence, and even the (relative) success of totalitarian political movements and regimes, such as National-socialism, Communism and Fascism, we must admit that the scientific and technological progress, the variety of democratic constitutions, and all charters of human rights that we have now in the world, do not secure the presence of freedom.

INTRODUCTION Based on a child's account of her bizarre discovery of a blue container in a small room under the spiral stairs at her home, with her sister's birth date and a file number writer on it. Her sister Toni that she hasn't seen, heard from or heard much about in over four years. The door leading to the space was dubbed "The 5th door" because of the label left on it by the builder of her home. It was left on the door for days as they unpacked, cleaned and organized their new home. The strange thing was, they tried figuring out why it was labelled the 5th door just for fun, and it made no sense at all to them. It didn't matter what logical order the doors were counted in, this door just didn't fall in that position. It may have been labelled for another home but the mysterious number encouraged the naming of the door that became an inside family joke, and over the years they actually referred to it as the fifth door. The contents of the room guarded by the fifth door were out of sight and out of mind to everyone until curious twelve year old Danielle became lethargic half way through her dad's request to pack away her suitcases in the storage room in the basement. She instead went to the small space that served as refuge for several plastic storage containers the size of laundry baskets, but covered and without the vertical slots that allows the dirty laundry to breath. A total of eight containers, each filled with documents, all sorts of documents, CD's, diaries, binders and tons of photos were among the items. This little discovery peaked her interest and fuelled her desire to dig deep into the meaning behind especially the blue container with those numbers; to her it was not just another storage container. She was convinced it had answers to questions buried deep down inside of her, questions that will someday transform into voices yearning for answers.

It's a book with 'Occupational Health & Safety' in mind. It's a philosophy using drawings and/ or words to teach people about staying safe, no matter what their age or educational background. You don't have to be a poet or writer to write safety messags; same as you don't need to be an artist of world renown to draw the pictures; you don't even need to be politically correct in what you say, although saying that, if you carry something too far then it goes into the category of discrimination. None of these three things save peoples lives, but people do and that is why it is so important to educate people of all ages about staying safe. It's a philosophy that can be tailor made for young or old. It's an easy concept, yet it has not been done quite like this before. Having spoken to health professionals about this project, they have been amazed and over whelmed by this project and the simplicity of it and even one health professional asked, "Why he had never thought of it before and then he wished that he had thought of this concept." So browse the pages, get some ideas and start being safe, because the life that you save may not be your own, but rather of someone in your family, friend or workmate. Lessen the odds...Reduce the risk...Be safe.

Master - A short essay where a boy contemplates his situation, waiting to surrender his body for the first time, and to a man he hardly knows. Big Sarge - The story of a boy very much into heavy, dirty, use and abuse, but only as a part-time occupation. Always searching for another high he finds himself in what could be a dangerous situation only to be rescued by one of his tormenters and carried off, happily, to a life of service. Karl's Boy - This is another story of a boy seeking heavy use who, like his author, could not submit 24/7. He is aware that occasionally such use will enable him to fly but never quite attains real fulfilment. I've only been lucky enough on a few occasions to enter that state of mind through pain and use where you want to laugh and cry with joy while writhing with pain, that merely being an adjunct to your condition. Out of the blue, while being thoroughly misused, our boy meets Karl, a supposedly heterosexual young man just seeking a quick release on

Paul Thomas, a 30 year veteran of private equity and value investing, recounts several of his hard learned lessons in this easy read. Having been mentored by a 50 year veteran of the venture capital and private investing world, Mr. Thomas' experiences cover a wide variety of topics including: Motivation, Proper Capitalization, The Right Attitude, Hedging and A Workable Exit. Text includes seven pitfalls to avoid in private investing.