Charles Alfred Anglin (born in 29 January 1971 in London) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the London Borough of Lambeth. He was (until defeated in May 2006) a councillor for Prince's ward in Kennington (along with Keith Fitchett and Dinti Wakefield).
Anglin was educated at Addey and Stanhope School, Deptford and Queen Mary, University of London where he gained a degree in History and Politics. Whilst a student he was involved in the Queen Mary Students' Union and the National Union of Students where he was the Liberal Democrat candidate for President of NUS.
2005 general election
In the 1997 general election he stood in the Leyton and Wanstead constituency and in the 2005 general election in the Vauxhall constituency. In both cases he was unsuccessful but increased the Liberal Democrats' share of the vote.
In an interview for the Today Programme after the 2005 election, Anglin blamed the defeat partly on the policy of local income tax which he said allowed the party to be "caricatured as a left-wing tax and spend party". Until its closure in 2005 Anglin was a member of modernising thinktank Liberal Future.
2006 Lambeth Borough Council elections
Anglin lost his Council seat in May 2006 after suffering a highly negative campaign, which led to claims that he had been the victim of an ‘anti-gay’ smears.
This followed claims in the South London Press, a local tabloid newspaper, over Anglin’s private life.
The South London Press article on Friday 31 March 2006 led with revelations about Councillor Anglin claiming that he has "posed naked on a website, handling his private parts and revealing his sexual fantasies". The article went on to say that "he has boasted of his sexual prowess on the website and revealed he gets an erotic kick wrestling other men." - they were referring to Anglin's profile on the Gaydar website. The paper, known for its sensationalist journalism, stressed that the day after they had viewed the profile many of the images had been removed and the descriptions toned down.
Gay groups condemned the reporting, with well known campaigner Peter Tatchell of Outrage defending Anglin telling Pink News "This story is gratuitous titillation, there is not even a public interest grounds for revealing these details. He is not being hypocritical or homophobic." Tatchell praised the councillor's work in areas of lesbian gay transgender and bisexual rights, "He doesn’t deserve to be sensationalised in this puerile way."
Anglin himself commented "I don't see this is an issue. I am a gay man and I've always been open about my sexuality."
Election result
Charles Anglin was defeated in the Lambeth Borough Council elections held on 4 May 2006. All three Liberal Democrat councillors standing in Princes ward were defeated in the Labour landslide, which saw the Lib Dems lose 10 seats across the Borough. The larger than average swing against the Lib Dems in Princes ward was widely seen as the result of an unusually high evangelical Christian vote, motivated in part by the negative campaign against Anglin.
Anglin was educated at Addey and Stanhope School, Deptford and Queen Mary, University of London where he gained a degree in History and Politics. Whilst a student he was involved in the Queen Mary Students' Union and the National Union of Students where he was the Liberal Democrat candidate for President of NUS.
2005 general election
In the 1997 general election he stood in the Leyton and Wanstead constituency and in the 2005 general election in the Vauxhall constituency. In both cases he was unsuccessful but increased the Liberal Democrats' share of the vote.
In an interview for the Today Programme after the 2005 election, Anglin blamed the defeat partly on the policy of local income tax which he said allowed the party to be "caricatured as a left-wing tax and spend party". Until its closure in 2005 Anglin was a member of modernising thinktank Liberal Future.
2006 Lambeth Borough Council elections
Anglin lost his Council seat in May 2006 after suffering a highly negative campaign, which led to claims that he had been the victim of an ‘anti-gay’ smears.
This followed claims in the South London Press, a local tabloid newspaper, over Anglin’s private life.
The South London Press article on Friday 31 March 2006 led with revelations about Councillor Anglin claiming that he has "posed naked on a website, handling his private parts and revealing his sexual fantasies". The article went on to say that "he has boasted of his sexual prowess on the website and revealed he gets an erotic kick wrestling other men." - they were referring to Anglin's profile on the Gaydar website. The paper, known for its sensationalist journalism, stressed that the day after they had viewed the profile many of the images had been removed and the descriptions toned down.
Gay groups condemned the reporting, with well known campaigner Peter Tatchell of Outrage defending Anglin telling Pink News "This story is gratuitous titillation, there is not even a public interest grounds for revealing these details. He is not being hypocritical or homophobic." Tatchell praised the councillor's work in areas of lesbian gay transgender and bisexual rights, "He doesn’t deserve to be sensationalised in this puerile way."
Anglin himself commented "I don't see this is an issue. I am a gay man and I've always been open about my sexuality."
Election result
Charles Anglin was defeated in the Lambeth Borough Council elections held on 4 May 2006. All three Liberal Democrat councillors standing in Princes ward were defeated in the Labour landslide, which saw the Lib Dems lose 10 seats across the Borough. The larger than average swing against the Lib Dems in Princes ward was widely seen as the result of an unusually high evangelical Christian vote, motivated in part by the negative campaign against Anglin.
Henry Bottomley (born April 28, 1963, a son of James and Barbara Bottomley) is a statistician for the United Kingdom government.
In 1979, he was a member of the British team in the International Mathematical Olympiad. He is an associate editor and contributor to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences and has also written on map projections.
Brother of Conservative MP Peter Bottomley and uncle of Labour MP Kitty Ussher, he was a Labour Party candidate in the European Parliament election, 1984; he was a councillor in the London Borough of Lambeth from 1986 to 1990.
In 1979, he was a member of the British team in the International Mathematical Olympiad. He is an associate editor and contributor to the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences and has also written on map projections.
Brother of Conservative MP Peter Bottomley and uncle of Labour MP Kitty Ussher, he was a Labour Party candidate in the European Parliament election, 1984; he was a councillor in the London Borough of Lambeth from 1986 to 1990.
WoW Stat Hack and related products are scams (fraud) often sold through internet bots from within the World of Warcraft gaming environment. Other sales techniques involve YouTube videos, and Google ads.
New users are targeted and offered a means for quickly achieving very high player stats or experience points with little effort. The product they buy does nothing to help them.
The hacks are downloadable products that claim to make the player invincible. The downloaded products frequently do nothing at all, or create a false appearance of increased player strength. Documentation provided with these products is designed to confuse users and delay any attempts at a refund.
In cases where users are able to make apparent changes to their characters' capabilities, these changes are local only to their client and have no real bearing on character performance at the game server. In effect, the software provides the user with the illusion of new strength. Characters operating in this mode are killed as easily as if the illusion were not present.
Stat hacks are big money fraud that feeds on the popularity of online games and on naive users of such games. Products have low prices in the hopes that most buyers will not seek a refund or other remedial action once they discover that the purchased product has no real value.
The following exchange touches on key aspects of the fraud, including observations on technical limitations of the "hack" products.
"this program is all client side i know i have personally posted on this subject at least 5 times" tomaine.
New users are targeted and offered a means for quickly achieving very high player stats or experience points with little effort. The product they buy does nothing to help them.
The hacks are downloadable products that claim to make the player invincible. The downloaded products frequently do nothing at all, or create a false appearance of increased player strength. Documentation provided with these products is designed to confuse users and delay any attempts at a refund.
In cases where users are able to make apparent changes to their characters' capabilities, these changes are local only to their client and have no real bearing on character performance at the game server. In effect, the software provides the user with the illusion of new strength. Characters operating in this mode are killed as easily as if the illusion were not present.
Stat hacks are big money fraud that feeds on the popularity of online games and on naive users of such games. Products have low prices in the hopes that most buyers will not seek a refund or other remedial action once they discover that the purchased product has no real value.
The following exchange touches on key aspects of the fraud, including observations on technical limitations of the "hack" products.
"this program is all client side i know i have personally posted on this subject at least 5 times" tomaine.
Dorfball is a played by 4 dorfers using conventional table tennis bats, balls and table tennis tables.
The purpose of the game is to be the first team to score 9 points. Each player on the team stands along the side of the table, unlike table tennis where players stand at either end.
The rules of play are fairly simple. Following a player's serve, and serves are passed clockwise around the table, the two players on one team may each hit the ball, but once only, before the ball must be hit back to the other team's side of the table. When hitting the ball, the ball must always travel upwards off the bat, meaning that downward and sideways shots are banned. Thus dorfers tend to hold the bats horizontally. On the serve the only regulation is that the ball goes upwards and over the net - there are no lets in dorfball.
If the ball bounces on one side of the table then the other team wins the point. Each team can win points irrespective of who served.
If both teams reach 8 points then the serve alternates diagonally between the two sides, instead of passing round both dorfers within the team, until one team leads by a two point margin.
The dorfer must not lean over to the other side of the table (infringement), or interfere with the net. An adjudicator is often necessary to establish the upwards trajectory of the ball and to rule on cases of infringment.
The founding fathers of this game were four innovative and original table tennis players who decided they wanted to play a game with a modern and quirky twist - Alex Brunicki, Kamran Adle, William Berk and Alex Bexworth, of Christ Church - a college of the University of Oxford.
Current paired rankings within Oxford are as follows (note - girls pairs do not, as yet, qualify for ranking):
1)Alex Brunicki / Kamran Adle
2)Marco Meola / Tristan Jon Wood
3)David James / Javid Lakha
4)Andy Sprague / Richard Bath
6)William Berk / Alex Bexworth
The purpose of the game is to be the first team to score 9 points. Each player on the team stands along the side of the table, unlike table tennis where players stand at either end.
The rules of play are fairly simple. Following a player's serve, and serves are passed clockwise around the table, the two players on one team may each hit the ball, but once only, before the ball must be hit back to the other team's side of the table. When hitting the ball, the ball must always travel upwards off the bat, meaning that downward and sideways shots are banned. Thus dorfers tend to hold the bats horizontally. On the serve the only regulation is that the ball goes upwards and over the net - there are no lets in dorfball.
If the ball bounces on one side of the table then the other team wins the point. Each team can win points irrespective of who served.
If both teams reach 8 points then the serve alternates diagonally between the two sides, instead of passing round both dorfers within the team, until one team leads by a two point margin.
The dorfer must not lean over to the other side of the table (infringement), or interfere with the net. An adjudicator is often necessary to establish the upwards trajectory of the ball and to rule on cases of infringment.
The founding fathers of this game were four innovative and original table tennis players who decided they wanted to play a game with a modern and quirky twist - Alex Brunicki, Kamran Adle, William Berk and Alex Bexworth, of Christ Church - a college of the University of Oxford.
Current paired rankings within Oxford are as follows (note - girls pairs do not, as yet, qualify for ranking):
1)Alex Brunicki / Kamran Adle
2)Marco Meola / Tristan Jon Wood
3)David James / Javid Lakha
4)Andy Sprague / Richard Bath
6)William Berk / Alex Bexworth