The Middletons and British Airways (thinkdrafts)

submitted ago by letsdothis3

Hmm.. Middleton family online business in trouble? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6833005/Party-supplies-company-run-Kate-Middletons-mother-Carole-laid-staff-fears-future.html

Carole and Michael Middleton founded Party Pieces in 1987 and have 40 staff. But they have reportedly laid off three members of staff over anxieties ahead 

Uh huh..let's take a look..

The company's web designer, PR agent and 'search engine optimisation' employee were among the recent firings. ..The firm, whose slogan is 'magical parties for over 30 years', says on its website it has 40 staff 'as well as a dedicated customer service team'.

There's that reference to Magic again...

The company began when the family returned to the UK from Jordan, where Mr Middleton had been managing an international air station for British Airways.

https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/how-kate-middletons-parents-met

According to The Daily Beast, Middleton likely got her penchant for traveling from her parents, Michael and Carole Middleton, who met when he was working as a flight dispatcher and she as a flight attendant with British Airways in the mid-1970s. The pair then dated, and traveled, for a number of years before marrying on June 21,1980 at the Church of St James in Buckinghamshire.

In May of 1984, the Middleton family moved to Amman, Jordan for Michael’s job. There, the Telegraph explained, Carol took her extended maternity leave from British Airways to spend time with her two girls. …

As Town&Country explained, in 1987 Carole left the travel industry behind and founded her company Party Pieces, which started as a small mail order party supply and decoration company. Now that company is estimated to be worth more than $50 million.

That's a whole lot of paper cups and balloons..

Jordan

Prince William visits Jordan ruins where Duchess of Cambridge was pictured as child http://archive.is/Dfm6z#selection-2145.1-2145.84

He was joined by Jordan's Crown Prince Hussein

Prince Hussein is a graduate of Georgetown University.

During William's visit, the site hosted a celebration for young people benefiting from the Makani programme, a nationwide charity that works with those from deprived backgrounds, especially refugee communities.

Makani Unicef https://www.unicef.org/jordan/overview_12172.html

Any relation to this Makani of Royal Dutch Shell and Google X? https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/alphabets-energy-moonshot-startups-makani-dandelion and https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2019/02/13/shell-invests-in-google-kite-flying/

Needs further invesitgation.. Reminds me of the Polaris question

Amman https://voat.co/v/JuiceTown/2406950/11975029

'In January, the Trump administration closed the operations center the CIA ran in Amman, the Jordanian capital, which coordinated aid to rebel organizations in southern Syria. '

Party Pieces website https://www.partypieces.co.uk/about-us

My first big break was after we distributed flyers with Red House Book Club. We grew quickly, and it wasn’t long before we had to find somewhere bigger to move to.

Red House Book Club from the Book People https://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/help_topic?topic=about&storeId=10001&langId=100

The Book People, another multi-million company started out of a garage by an ex-policeman https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/aug/04/society

Behind these great offers lies some controversy: several sectors of the book trade are doubtful about The Book People's working practices. Agents and some authors complain that their deals are too tight. They talk of how the company is 'tolerated' only on the grounds that it is reaching an otherwise untapped market. Orders from The Book People appear on a writer's royalty statement as 'special sales' and are not subject to the standard contractual conditions an agent agrees with a publisher. 

Company information on Red House Book Club – has all the usual Finchley Road addresses – needs further scrutiny : https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03306973/officers

One of the listed officers, for example https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/B0GHP8rkHXwMGOElCSeIWrFbLno/appointments

is affiliated with something aclled the Chicken House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_House

Founded in 2000 by Barry Cunningham and Rachel Hickman as Chicken House Publishing,

The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition was launched in 2008 by Chicken House and The Times newspaper. … 2015 winner 2015: Laurel Remington, The Secret Cooking Club

The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition judging day! (at Savile Club)

Yes, @kestrel9, the membership list of the Savile Club does raise eyebrows. One of those members was WB Yeats, I came across this recently:

The Monster in the Rainbow: Keats and the Science of Life - https://www.jstor.org/stable/823143?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Need to dig out my notes to connect it with the other thread I was working on. Have to dash now .. family duites call..more later...

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letsdothis3 ago

The Monster in the Rainbow: Keats and the Science of Life - https://www.jstor.org/stable/823143?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Topics: Electricity, Blood, Vitalism, Aesthetics, Rainbows, Nymphs, Romantic poetry, Animals

At Benjamin Haydn's "immortal dinner" party of 28th December 1917, Keats agreed with Charles Lamb that "Newton had destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow, by reducing it to the prismatic colours."... The focal point for the dispute between Abernethy and Lawrence over this possibility over a supervenient vital priciple was the work of British physiologist John Hunter..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hunter_(surgeon)

John Hunter FRS (13 February 1728 – 16 October 1793) was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. He was a teacher of, and collaborator with, Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine. He is alleged to have paid for the stolen body of Charles Byrne, and proceeded to study and exhibit it against the deceased's explicit wishes. His wife, Anne Hunter (née Home), was a poet, some of whose poems were set to music by Joseph Haydn.

He learned anatomy by assisting his elder brother William with dissections in William's anatomy school in Central London, starting in 1748, and quickly became an expert in anatomy. He spent some years as an Army surgeon, worked with the dentist James Spence conducting tooth transplants, and in 1764 set up his own anatomy school in London. He built up a collection of living animals whose skeletons and other organs he prepared as anatomical specimens, eventually amassing nearly 14,000 preparations demonstrating the anatomy of humans and other vertebrates, included 3,000+ animals.

When nearly 21 he visited William in London, where his brother had become an admired teacher of anatomy. John started as his assistant in dissections (1748), and was soon running the practical classes on his own.[2] It has recently been alleged that Hunter's brother William, and his brother's former tutor William Smellie, were responsible for the deaths of many women whose corpses were used for their studies on pregnancy.[3][4] John is alleged to have been connected to these deaths, since at the time he was acting as William's assistant.[5] However, persons who have studied life in Georgian London agree that the number of gravid women who died in London during the years of Hunter's and Smellie's work was not particularly high for that locality and time; the prevalence of pre-eclampsia — a common condition affecting 10% of all pregnancies, and one which is easily treated today, but for which no treatment was known in Hunter's time — would more than suffice to explain a mortality rate that seems suspiciously high to 21st-century readers.[6][7] In The Anatomy of the Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures, published in 1774, Hunter provides case histories for at least four of the subjects illustrated.

Hunter heavily researched blood while bloodletting patients with various diseases. This helped him develop his theory that inflammation was a bodily response to disease, and was not itself pathological.

Hunter's death in 1793 was due to a heart attack brought on by an argument at St George's Hospital concerning the admission of students. He was originally buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields, but in 1859 was reburied in the north aisle of the nave in Westminster Abbey, reflecting his importance to the country

(RED) - red.org - has this been examined?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wdpEADY578 ... red is the color, there's no other, red velvet tap your veins red is the color,.. read Keats...