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Blog compiled from various commentators at the Gatehouse drop-in centre, Oxford. Visit Homeless

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Suicide Man May Be Foreign (from Oxford Mail)


Suicide Man May Be Foreign (from Oxford Mail): "Suicide man may be foreign
Comment

The police efit

DETECTIVES baffled by the identity of the man found dead near an Oxford park and ride are now investigating if he was a foreigner.
Officers were yesterday no closer to learning the man's name four days after he was discovered on wasteland near the Seacourt park and ride off Botley Road. Checks on people missing locally and nationally, tip-offs from the public, investigations with other police forces and fingerprint, dental and DNA records have yet to yield a positive match.
Police, who issued an efit, right, on Thursday, are checking with immigration officials to see if they can discover if he was a recent arrival in Britain.
The man was white, slim and around 5ft 11ins, and was in his early to mid-20s.
His body was discovered at 9.10am on Tuesday, but it emerged last night the man might have been at the spot since Sunday night.
Detectives have been investigating whether the man killed himself in an elaborate suicide involving a length of drainpipe, a knife and rope. A post mortem examination determined he died from a head wound."

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Gatehouse New Words

'nuff blessings

Street alternative to 'yours sincerely' or 'truly'

Saturday, December 09, 2006

Gateway Newsletter - feedback




There's some great material on the blog (eg the latest "from our own correspondent" , which is exactly the sort of thing I've always wanted to see - from the streets).

Here's some of the feedback I've had (mostly from friends, family & colleagues, as of course I haven't been able to talk to guests):
Such good quality!

Such great design!

The format is brilliant. A broadsheet!

I love the way you open it up and it says "Inside the Gatehouse".

Shame it didn't make the most of the photos: too small.

Is it too smart?

(Two people) Specially like the drawing on the front.

The trustees were enthusiastic - wanted to know how it was paid for (and were happy). But...really unhappy about the horoscopes. They feel it may alienate some of our key supporters in the churches, some of whom have strong feelings about it.

When's the next one coming out?

Is there going to be lots of material from guests? (I've explained that we hope that having a brilliant first edition will inspire them to produce stuff - which it seems to be doing!)
Love to everyone. The cast comes off next week.
And then all I've got to do is learn to walk again!

Thursday, December 07, 2006

White Powder Gold : Laurence Gardner

White Powder Gold : Laurence Gardner: "As related in Laurence Gardner's book, Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark, scientific attention has recently been directed towards an exotic form of elemental matter not shown in the Periodic Table of Elements.
Derived from gold, platinum group metals and other transition elements, these impalpable white powder substances have been referred to as 'monatomic' (a single atomic state). As such, they were classified by their research pioneer, David Hudson, in the 1980s as ORMEs (Orbitally Rearranged Monatomic Elements). New understandings in physics suggest, however, that the powders might actually be 'diatomic' or small atomic cluster 'condensates'. It is now generally accepted, therefore, that the materials might be more universally referred to by the generic terms ORMUS or 'M-state' elements. "