 orchestration here because I want to have this haiku really mean something you know who this is you know who's coming up all right so again ictus right in the middle right we're all gonna clap together now watch the thing let's try one together here we go nice here we go magic beard of truth eyebrows raised perplexed yet sure what else amazing ladies and gentlemen James ready to arrange this program having to follow Dan is no fun so I have another announcement to make this will probably be a disappointment to most of the audience and I regret having to make this announcement but I will I will not be doing my naked dance on fire tonight I know how disappointing that is but it's matter of fact I discovered that there's not as much call for it in the recent 20 years I was reminded that in recent times I had not delivered a formal address to this giddy audience I stand before you're prepared to make up for that lack of communication now this keynote address will be somewhat different what follows a series of comments confessions and revelations I'll try to explain to you the source of my assumed scientific expertise I'll offer a few appeals to your kindness and some regrets that I have which may help to explain various inconsistencies in my behavior that you may agree is quite a significant task I'll begin by telling you that the very special pleasure I get being here at a time gathering is that I really sincerely believe that I am standing before a substantial audience of very good friends I trust that you look upon me as your friend as well I've been very edifying edified pardon me exchanging opinions ideas and even arguments there's so many of you folks I hope that we have all grown somewhat as a result of that interaction folks as one of my requests for the future I'm gonna ask you all to refrain from trying to add me onto systems that require a password some sort of secret handshake or yet another combination of digits and letters that I have to add to a huge list that is currently stuck to the side of my computer though there is a Facebook presence for me on the air that that is tended to by people who are adept at doing that sort of thing I'm just never in that I don't Twitter flutter or dither if I were to subscribe to any of these services 24 hours would hardly be a sufficient period for me to fulfill a day's duties I have a hard time enough responding to the nutmail somehow manages to get through the built-in filters designed to spare me such involvement my personal medical condition has elicited a certain amount of interest in recent years and to quickly bring you up to date I'll really give you a well I'll say that in a few days after we close down this happy gathering I'm due to be operated on I have great confidence in the skill of the surgeons who will be probing this ancient frame and if I appear to be rather stubborn about staying with you just consider all of the medical procedures that I've undergone in recent years it's true I've had to give up limbo limbo dancing and pole vaulting but I can still wash the dishes and perform simple tasks around the house which reminds me of one of my claims to fame I'm serious I just might be one of the best and dishwashers in the world really now I know that this statement requires evidence and here it comes and why I mentioned it as a youth on my own as I was from a very early age I answered an advertisement looking for someone to work in a laboratory to wash chemical class where it sounds like a very humble occupation but I got the job I listened to instructions I was given and I did such a good job that I was soon promoted you see I was at the banking and best Institute at the University of Toronto or as we say from Toronto Toronto I know a couple of folks here from Toronto and they edified me by saying they were from Toronto the city in which I lived at that time the lab's job was to test batches of insulin at that time extracted from cattle glands and we used live rabbits to do so those animals live very pampered and long lies being selected only about once a week to have carefully measured doses of insulin injected under their skin followed by determinations of how much their blood sugar had been thus decreased I'll get into further descriptions of that procedure which was very humane and met my standards very easily there was a typo there that would make it out yes I graduated from dishwasher to lab technician actually performing the titrations and white writing up my reports but Mr. Arshan bull a wonderful name in my past he was our lab director he periodically did something which in my present position as a skeptic and one who interferes with the procedures of incompetent scientists whenever I can he easily earned my admiration and served as an example for me Mr. Arshan bull this year Arshan bull he would periodically change a few figures on the lab charts that we had filled out thereby produce results that could be puzzling to the rest of us but we've been directed to record the results that we found not the results that we might expect to have found quite seriously ladies and gentlemen I wish that such a standard were in place in labs all around the world so that reality might find a place in scientific work once more I have been to so many of these labs even recently and I find that they'll round off a figure here that no it shouldn't be that high that is not science ladies and gentlemen it doesn't even apply to washing laboratory class with this digression of mine was designed so that you might begin to see that my pretensions to scientific expertise though learn the hard way to at least be respected by those who denigrate them the late Jacques Benvenise who I rather like he fell head over heels for this furious idea known as homeopathy he often referred to me as a former test tube washer he thought that would don't know together you know though I never resented it because I knew that I was a damn good test tube washer so there I'll also mention here that our constant denunciation of the dangerous quackery known as homeopathy has proved to be one of the JRF's major expose and has served us and the skeptical community very well I urge you to see the lengthy account that will appear in my 11th book a magician in the laboratory soon to appear will all buy a copy won't I recently heard a comment to the effect that scientists are as easily fooled as others wrong I say that they can be more easily fooled I mean that you see scientists think in a straight line A to B from cause to effect and those who would deceive them the so-called psychics think in curves and no scientist would ever think for example that some small bug on a microscope slide or an asteroid in outer space would or could purposely set out to deceive him or her just doesn't happen in nature but it does happen in the seance room or when small children find that they can be fuddle adults very easily by bending spoons when not observed I am a great fan of a man in Spike Lee I hope you're all familiar with Spike Lee his motto is do the right thing and our theme this year is fighting the fakers folks that's doing the right thing and every one of us should be guided by that fine idea I am constantly reminded of the brief damage and sorrow that is visited upon the innocent victims of the fakers now I sat with family members who desperately tell me of how some elder of the family perhaps has squandered away the assets that supported them and I've been helpless to advise them they can't pay the mortgage and the loans they can't handle the expense incurred because some faith healer quack has taken them to the cleaners as they say on another level we learn of such persons as Sonal at a Marco who spoke to us already about his government in India that literally drove him out of his home because he exposed one the Catholic Church's fraud of a weeping statue that was poisoning people by delivering sewage water to them a killer that made them rich that's very shameful incidenting so now I are you in the audience to now okay you've mentioned something about a bed of nails I've got to tell you when I was well when I had left home and I was a young teenager I joined a carnival and there was a lady there it's called the lady with the iron feet now she didn't have iron feet folks I'm lying to you if I would say that to you but she did walk on a bed of nails and she would lay down on the bed of nails and I got interviewed by one of the local newspapers I've prepared a bit of nails for myself it took me two days to put in something like 1200 nails bang bang really I have a huge bicep in this arm as a result of that it lasted that long but they were about half an inch apart and I could easily lay down on that but no trouble at all it was rather was uncomfortable I didn't like it much but they were this close to one another and one of the newspaper reporters said well they seem a little close but how would you suggest we test this lying on a bed of nails phenomena but all the fuckers and the carnival people are claiming is supernatural I said well and I think you'll approve of this this is the beginning of my skeptical career perhaps I said let's start with one nail and they if they can do that to then three and four yes and I think that the result would be very obvious ladies and gentlemen this man Sinal is one of my personal heroes and we're looking into what can be done to influence the government of India to write this wall and I hope that's done right in Plantation Florida where I presently make my home there is a very expensive private school called the American Heritage School and on one occasion some years back I I was asked if I would do one of my lectures there and it was a public service I was prepared to do it without any fee though believe me they had the money to pay if I asked for it and I went on the appointed morning and to the office of the Dean of the school and he greeted me although somewhat strangely seemed a bit uneasy greeting me and he ushered me into a room there was a group of four parents parents all these students at the school and they seemed quite concerned and one lady spoke up and she said we would like to ask you and Mr. Andy during your lecture that you won't mention religion that didn't go down very well with me and I said I don't use it as part of my talk but if during the question-answer period if I'm asked I will certainly answer quite honestly and they fidgeted about they didn't care for that very much I ended up not doing that lecture I had to walk out because I was not going to be limited on answering a question about God or angels or whatever I will not be limited that way and thank you I'm so badly doing it but I've had to do it on a couple of other occasions too I'll spare you those accounts do you want to take you just a sort of spectacular friends I have oh I'm so fortunate in this respect I've walked in the shadow of Richard Dawkins for some time now and stayed at his home in Oxford wow that meant if there were a God I'd say it's Richard Dawkins I must tell you about a chap who's been a great supporter of the JRF I won't name him because he's a very shy gentleman he is very rich let's put it plainly very rich and he heard about a book that had been discovered in a monastery near Grenoble in France this was a monastery one of these strange places where you had to get into it on a sort of a cage box with a donkey pulling the other end of the rope and it would haul you up and you get off at the other end hopefully alive and it had been known by scholars for quite some time it was a hymn book hymn book about so big like that and about something and there's quite a recorded history of this and you should look it up that hymn book was a poem zest how many here let's see show of hands how many you know what a poem says to is be not very me it's a thing you get on your neck right here no I know a poem says is a reused book now I have to explain that when books were done handwritten before the invention of printing parchment was the most common substance on which these pages were written and parchment is very expensive of course it's either gold or or cow skin or whatever depending on the grade you need and a poem says is a document which has been scrubbed with brushes and such and water and washed clean from the former writing that was on there and this hymn book that was in there beautifully illustrated or as they say in the trade illuminated with gold foil and beautiful miniature figures and such various biblical heroes and some people had noticed that in the gutter of the book when you open the book that stripped down the center there for the pages come together it's called the gutter and they had noticed that there were some handwriting or not handwriting by me writing instead of going this way across the pages was going this way it was very faint it was washed out essentially but it was very faintly visible and some of those scholars over the past hundred years or so because it was known for quite some time studied that writing and made a translation it turned out to be Greek and they studied it so carefully that when they put together various sections of it it occurred to somebody wow this is Greek and different kinds of Greek in different states or provinces of Greece at that time it was quite different the writing and the even the use of the words was somewhat different like each little city state had their own way of doing it and they determined they knew were originated and so they were able to produce and translations of it turned out these scholars surprised that this seemed to be scraps of something written by Archimedes the very famous Greek philosopher now it had been rumored that Archimedes had turned out a book called mechanics and it had never been found no one had ever had a copy of turned out that this was a copy erased my juke of the book mechanics well my wealthy friend heard about this and he made a bid on it he ended up I believe paying something like 1.6 million dollars to obtain it and he brought it into the United States he gave it to the Waters Museum in Baltimore and they specialized in restoring palimpsests particularly the problem was that there was not much ink there you know it was soaked into the into the parchment but there wasn't much there but then they discovered a wonderful fact those who were technically minded might cheer along with me when I announced this discovery it turns out that the hymn book was written with lamp black ink that is lamp black mixed with come Arabic and it's very jet black and it's cheap and easy to make but that hadn't been discovered when this is written now that the writing was not from Archimedes hand himself no it was a copy of the Greek version of his book mechanics and carbon black is very dense very intense though and so is gold leaf and a few things like that they were part of the book but the ink in which the original image had been written of the Archimedes text was made with oak gauze oak gauze this is all technical stuff that just go over your head don't bother about it's not just personal their little parasites little balls that grow in oak trees they don't hurt the oak tree at all and they produce however their only natural source no one I believe of tannic acid an organic acid which has a peculiar quality that if you dissolve it in water and you mix it with a soluble iron salt it turns jet black makes excellent ink and that has been used for a long time but the one quality about this ink is that is the lost image in the poem says it had iron in it and so my wealthy friend came up with a wonderful idea of making an MRI machine not my size no just this size just big enough to hold a page of the book at a time and when they put those pages in there and they scan them for the iron all the other writing vanished machine couldn't see that stuff at all but the entire old writing that was embedded in the parchment was perfectly visible they recovered everything but two pages of Archimedes wonderful book that had been lost for all those years what a victory of technology now the interesting thing that for those of you a mathematically minded I won't probably with all this stuff but for example one of the things they found out about Archimedes he was much more of a genius than anyone had ever suspected this got into time magazine and was on the NBC news one night several years ago Archimedes actually knew about four different degrees of alph now briefly there are four different degrees known of infinity infinity that's all the way hey can't be two infinities oh yes I can try this on for an intellectual person alif one is the number of possible dots which have no dimension just position see dots on an infinite plane that goes out to infinity in all directions that's a big number that's an awful lot of dots more dots than you'll ever use or even conceive okay that's an infinite number of dots that's alif one but think about this and I let it roll around your head and you'll see that this is a larger degree of infinity the number of possible straight lines that can be drawn on that same infinite plane going in all directions and it of course they can vary in length they can vary the direction so you've got so another order of infinity and the third order of infinity I should like to find this out for yourself but I won't take mercy on you so number of curved lines that can be made on the same plane alif for you don't want to know about believing but this is a wonderful discovery it was thought that it was only discovered back in the 1920s and actually codified that alif one two three and four existed our comedies knew about it and the discovery of this palimpsest is therefore a major discovery in science and I celebrate the fact that this gentleman gave this to the museum the water museum and had them sketch it scan it do the whole thing and I have in my library at home two books literally this size and that thing one is off the other it's the whole reproduction of every page in that palimpsest wonderful work what a scientific achievement leaves a lot of people totally cold but by the way it excites me because I'm curious that way so that's the accomplishment of the palimpsest I thought I'd share that with you now another thing happened to the same gentleman this is a sad and a happy story at the same time you remember sue sue was the the most complete t-rex tyrannosaurus rags skeleton ever found and she was found someplace out in the wild place some place and brought in to the United States and went up on auction my friend wealthy friend he decided to bid for it for a reason that he had in mind and he sent his agent to England to the gallery there and they started to option it off and he listened in by phone and he told them they could go I think his limit was 1.2 million or something and he said stop at that point give it up well some people offered $500 and a few things like that and it soon all came down to two bidders he and an unknown bidder him the unknown bidder him and the price went up and up and up into the millions he had given up and I said I think it won and it stopped the next person that got it person or organization they've got it obzizi had a great find on their hands then he found out for next day this is the sad part of the story the people who actually got it where they field museum in Chicago he was intending to buy it to give it to them well they they had a few laughs over that on the telephone I think he had tears in his eyes while he was laughing but that's the kind of guys I knew I mean the people that I have gotten to know I'm so fortunate fortunate to know them and to have them think highly of me in many cases now earlier I enjoyed a talk by Barbara dresser concerning the men's organization I'd like to address that subject for a moment if I may back in the 60s I did a radio program on WOR radio AM and FM in New York and that covered all the United States and part of Canada and even got down to Mexico hundred thousand watt transmitter on AM wow and I got the attention of the men's people I had a few of them in as guess they went from midnight to five in the morning and the men's people were always entertaining and they were smart oh yeah sure they were smart and we had good discussions and but they kept on saying come and join men's I come and join men's I said no I didn't get that time for this sort of thing and yeah yeah yeah come so they finally talked me into it and one Saturday after I went in to take the test and that was pretty funny because they sat us in a schoolroom and we had a piece of paper it was all filled out and printed turn your papers over it started answering questions and some of the questions that were on there well the thing was written in the UK and two of the questions involved pounds children and pence other people in the room knew nothing about that what I had lived in England for quite some time by then and I could convert the currency very easily and I just walked through that in a breeze easy and when I finally got to hand the paper and I said to the examiner I said well this question shouldn't have been on there oh we feel we should have crossed that off but so many other people had wasted their time on doing that in any case I was accepted into men's and I was invited to give them a talk I did give them a talk and a crowded auditorium a week or so after that and I brought up the subject of astrology as what how did I define it now oh yes bullshit and I immediately had a bad reaction from their audience because they had things that's studying interest groups or something like that I forgot what it stood for and I got a lengthy argument from a gentleman who waved his fist at me we know astrology works it's an ancient art and it's been practiced for millions of years or whatever and he gave me an argument I simply know the the pin of a men's eye is a yellow map pin with a new receiver on the back but I had it in my lapel proudly and as I sit at the podium there and I heard him talk I just simply took the pin out and stuck it into the podium and walk off stage what satisfaction that gave now I must mention something here folks that you're a friend of mine in the audience here in Bob when he's a professional nurse and very skilled in the art of nursing and his wife is too I seem to recall so it's a nursing family and Bob Gleckman asked me to make a mention to this and I certainly will the biggest nursing association in this country and around the world has declared that a thing called therapeutic touch which isn't therapeutic and it doesn't involve touching so it's badly named I would suspect actually works and that their members can do it it means you wave your hands over the human body and you can feel their aura what was the word again oh both yes I keep forgetting now we challenged Bob and the JRF we challenged the the people to come here to Cham and be tested for this and they would also be eligible for the JRF billion dollar prize and they hummed and hard they carried on for quite some time and finally they just refused to answer us and Bob was very disappointed but Bob wants me to announce that it will be done next year and what we will do at that point is probably announce maybe the cessation of the nursing association all together but certainly a therapeutic touch that won't exist as something that's that's evidently to them something is genuine can you imagine what a crazy claim now I must briefly introduce you to just a few old friends and associates are with us today just a very few there are so many first I want you to meet a young chap where I met some months ago in India I was lecturing there and my very first visit to the continent he made a very long trip from his home to where I was attending the think conference the HINK an event which I believe is offering serious competition to the famous Ted meetings that have been receiving such merit attention and at which I was a guest a couple of years ago this young man's name is AJ Apadam now you're there AJ where are you he's gotta be here someplace right there all right stand up and wave at the people okay I must tell you this young man I was on one side of India he simply showed up suddenly in the lobby of the hotel where I would stay from the other side of India after a tortuous trip across the continent and just to share some of his thoughts with me we headed off immediately he decided to attend his first TAM meeting ladies and gentlemen you've met AJ now he'll be seen pushing me around in a wheelchair and I hope you'll take the opportunity please I'm saying hello to him and shake his hand with thank you a gentleman use a gentleman you've seen at every TAM usually scurrying about to perform one of the numerous requests we make of him is Scott Romanoski he's a good friend of mine he just visited my home he's visited to my home in times and I really don't think that a TAM can take place without Scott he's a valued friend and colleague so please stop him and express your thanks to me to someone one of the tables out there you'll be identified by his badge please say hello to Scott and tell him that you appreciate his work and Chip Denman is one of our executive board members is it's chip in the audience maybe maybe not but you know there you go all right so a round of applause for Chip Denman he's done a wonderful job Barbara Mervine is on the audience that's Kitty Mervin and she has recently written a children's book that explains and some things about mythology and mistakes that adults have made and the kids probably love that idea I suspect Barbara you out there oh she's here ladies and gentlemen and he better be here the one and only Jamie Ian Swiss fearless presto-digitator are you with us this evening and I'm very honored to say that the perennial Tamer Richard Saunders has arrived from Australia to share news with us and you've heard from him and I hope that you appreciate his efforts he's been a great supporter finally a small number that I can mention of my of our good friends J ref good friends of course is the one and only Michael Sherman thank you Michael and of course all you folks know our J ref president DJ growth and his partner Thomas Donnelly Thomas have been aboard the J ref for years now and has quietly contributed to our success let's hear a good round of applause for that as I say these are only a few of our all-time stars at the J ref and this particular meeting has been a grand grand success and I thank you all for coming but I must tell you a bit of a an anecdote here on the wall of my office in Fort Lauderdale I have a photograph of that gracious first lady Betty Ford assisting me at a 1975 Christmas party at the White House I was invited to perform there is very honored to do so of course I've been invited there to entertain the children of the diplomats I must tell you funny I think funny episode that happened at that time I entered the blue room where I was to perform and I was setting up my props today and I saw Betty Ford come in accompanied by a couple of Secret Service agents as you might suspect and seeing her I immediately boldly made my way over to the first lady and addressed her and Secret Service man stepped in between me and the first lady and she sort of just pushed him aside a bit and she said sir can I do something for her and I said yes ma'am my name is James Ranny I'm amazing Ranny I'm entertaining the children I was dressed as a magician you see and she rather suspected that anyway I'm sure and she said what can I do for you and I reached in my pocket I took out a small red silk handkerchief I had and I said ma'am I I have to ask someone in the audience that they have a small handkerchief would you be kind enough to carry this for me and when I asked her handkerchief would you give it to me and the Secret Service man led up and he said the first lady does not participate in shows she put her arm in front of him I remember his name was Lloyd poor chap and she said Lloyd I'll take this took the handkerchief from me stuck it in her belt she looked Lloyd straight in the eye and she said Mr. Randy I'll be proud to wear your colors and at that same White House visit I ran into a fellow named Robert Orvin you wouldn't know who Robert Orvin is but any magicians in the audience will certainly know who Robert Orvin is yes there you go thank you sir whoever you are Robert Orvin was an actor and a magician is still so well I in fact he's one year older than I am can you believe that that's a magic trick in itself see an actor a magician and a writer of gag lines he used to write for various comedians and he wrote several little booklets for magicians with funny stories in them he was working at the Ford White House so I couldn't help asking I said Jerry Ford use many of your jokes and he said well yes he tries but I wrote him one for example take my wife please that's an old line but Jerry Ford decided only use part of it he said take my wife that was it and so it didn't go over very well there weren't too many hazzas in the crowd now I even remember a guy get into it I even remember a routine that that I took from one of Robert Orvin's what yes I used to say to my audience oh this is awful and corny I was born at a very early age in the log cabin I helped my father build we were a very poor family couldn't afford to have kids so the people next door had me I left home at a very early age because of something my father said to me he said get out I won't go any further that's it but it was a longer routine than that it was just as bad all the way through I could assure as a great artist Frank Sinatra so often sang regrets I've had a few but then again to a few dimension well I'll list a few of mine though I had an occasional opportunity to do so I never personally witnessed a live performance by Luciano Pavarotti what a regret that is I visited South Africa twice too and I tried hard to get to meet Nelson Mandela but I never managed that either I rather hope that things will improve in the nation of Egypt so that I may someday stand before the great pyramid what a wonderful thing I can't wait to have that opportunity now you've heard from DJ growthy of course several times you're at this time our esteemed president with details on the state of the J ref DJ tries so dally to keep me on the straight and narrow but I often stray I'll just say read the origin of the J ref that I was one of the three founders of the committee for scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal known as psychop I undertook the meet with Martin Gardner and Ray Hyman to for a few to discuss the possibility of launching such an organization some 37 years ago wow well psychop flurry if gender dr. Paul Kurtz as we all know and one point I was this was quite a shock to me I was specifically ordered by the executive of psychop to avoid ever mentioning very yellow again because psychop feared him though I didn't I knew that he was at that time our most important target he no longer is we don't hear him at all now interesting enough however Geller was forced to pay a huge sum of money to psychop when he grandly law lost the case the legal case that resulted I didn't get any of that but psychop got something like I think it was $240,000 from from gallery so that was a loser for him the J ref came out against Reverend Peter Popoff as you all know I'm sure and what they help with the Johnny Carson show we won that fight decisively we fought Sylvia Brown effectively we battled with psychic John Edward we've opposed quack medicine and I assure you that my 11th book remember that title magician in the laboratory I will expose even more of Brown's chicanery with details I assure you so it was 25 years ago when I first came up with the idea that eventually resulted in the J ref it was launched to continue the skeptical fight no holds part at that time I had no idea that I would ever be standing before such an audience of skeptical friends and colleagues I'm justly proud of what we've done I'm mindful of the contributions that you've all made towards perpetuating our work and it's quite evident that this organization ladies and gentlemen is now the leader in the field of rational skepticism worldwide no other agency has achieved what we have in a time of serious economic difficulties we have survived and flourished we've attracted followers of all ages many nationalities and ethnic sources a wide range of professions and every sort of philosophy folks if a guy can bust from pride I'd have done by now I must tell you of the event that beautifully illustrates how skepticism has been an integral part of my long life I've never been able to discount what it first seems to be a fanciful story ever since my paternal grandfather who was very close to me told me how his own father learned to respect such tales as an only child at age 12 Gramps George's wingy with his name moved with his family from Austria to Copenhagen Denmark and they became Danish citizens they took up residence on a street that bordered the large park that still holds the royal palace of Denmark and George's dad worked at the royal shipyards that industry being a major activity in the country as it still is now the family arose at a very early hour every weekday so that my great-granddad I trust you're following the family relationship could get off work off to work for me by dawn with his lunch without pretty without his lunch which his wife would lovingly prepare and give to young George who was commissioned to deliver it to the shipyard on his way to school thus his morning routine led him first to the shipyards and then to school for which he was never late but perhaps from being an only child or due to his shy nature or the rather limited acquaintances he had as a recent immigrant struggling with a new language little George seemed to have developed an imaginary companion about whom he would constantly regale the family every evening he would tell him of mr christian a huge man with a black mustache riding a huge black horse surrounded by men drawing a bearing drawn swords and monstrous dogs that were larger than George himself but very friendly mr christian he said would regularly ask him about his family even offering hints on how to treat colds and other minor afflictions from which his mother suffered having been proudly told by George that his father worked as a shipwright mr christian he told them even suggested that mr's only might want to ask to be transferred to a new area of the expanding factory now that last suggestion from a ghost that this young boy was imagining his mind that last suggestion for the ghost was too much for george's dad who sat him down and read him the new rules though they'd been tolerant of tall stories before there was to be no more mention of mr christian giant dogs black horses nor men with buried swords this imaginary situation was officially forbidden to come up again and despite the the boy's urgent explanations the subject was permanently closed well a year or so later as mr swingy opened his evening newspaper young george's eyes widened as he saw the front page father that's mr christian he explained he pointed to a full front page birthday portrait of his majesty by god's grace king christian the ninth of den work with his russian wolfhounds and his personal bodyguards astride his huge black horse during his usual early morning ride around the palace the very modern with whom george swingy had been exchanging presentry presentries as he made his way through the royal quartered shortcut every morning on his way to the shipyards how joyously my granddad loved to tell that story of vindication of how his father's attitude about children's stories had rather changed many years later on one of my many visits to culp not with my friend claus larson he kindly walked me through the very same path that my grants had taken some 120 years before thank you claus in the interest of time and if you're a patience i'll close this by simply saying that i am enormously flattered i mean this folks right from the bottom of my heart by your attendance here at tam and my staff and colleagues i know share my feelings in this respect next only to the well-being of my partner in life there is nothing more important to me than the continuance of the j-wrap ladies and gentlemen newcomers or old friends thank you for being here and i hope that we can satisfy your needs for a further knowledge related to what we believe is our very important work bringing a better understanding of reality to the pocket of this beautiful blue planet simply by being here ladies and gentlemen you have aided us hugely in achieving that goal