John McKenna

Personal information
Date of birth	3 January 1855
Place of birth	County Monaghan, Ireland
Date of death	22 March 1936
Teams managed
Years	Team
1892–96	Liverpool (with W. E. Barclay)

John McKenna (3 January 1855 – 22 March 1936), born in County Monaghan, Ireland,^[1] was a self-made businessman and former rugby player, who was the first manager of Liverpool.^[2]

He was a friend of John Houlding and remained with him after Everton left Anfield for Goodison Park. 'Honest' John was one of the greatest driving forces for Liverpool throughout the early years. McKenna used his connections to fish for players in Glasgow, including Duncan McLean, James McBride, Malcolm McVean, Hugh McQueen, Matt McQueen, John McCartney, Bill McOwen and Joe McQue.

It was McKenna, acting as the club's secretary, who telegraphed the Football League asking for Liverpool to be admitted to it. The club was denied entry into the Football League by the F.A. This forced McKenna to guide Liverpool through the ranks of the Lancashire League instead. Liverpool played their first game in the Lancashire League with an 8–0 win at Anfield against Higher Walton. John Smith scored the first competitive goal. After ending their first competitive season as champions, Liverpool were elected into the Football League. They played their first Football League match away to Middlesbrough Ironopolis on 2 September 1893, and won 2–0. After an hour's play, it was Malcolm McVean who broke the deadlock.

References[link]

External links[link]

• John McKenna management career stats at Soccerbase
• Manager profile at LFChistory.net

Budd Hopkins (June 15, 1931 – August 21, 2011 Manhattan)^[1] was an American painter, sculptor, and prominent figure in abduction phenomenon, and related UFO research.^[2]

Life[link]

Born in 1931 and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1953, that same year moving to New York City, where he lived until his death in 2011.^[3]

Hopkins' art is in the permanent collections in the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, and at the Museum of Modern Art; he received grants or endowments from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His articles on art appeared in magazines and journals, and he lectured at many art schools, including Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.

Interest in UFOs[link]

In 1964, Hopkins and two others reported seeing a UFO in daylight for several minutes^[4]. Fascinated, Hopkins joined the now-defunct UFO research group National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) and began reading many UFO books and articles.

In 1975, Hopkins and Ted Bloecher studied a multiple-witness UFO report, the North Hudson Park UFO sightings, which occurred in New Jersey^[5]. In 1976, the Village Voice printed Hopkins' account of the investigation.

Hopkins began receiving regular letters from other UFO witnesses, including a few cases of what would later be called "missing time" — inexplicable gaps in one's memory, associated with UFO encounters.

Alien abduction[link]

With Bloecher and psychologist Aphrodite Clamar, Hopkins began investigating the missing time experiences, and eventually came to conclude that the missing time cases were due to alien abduction.

By the late 1980s, Hopkins was one of the most prominent people in ufology, earning a level of mainstream attention that was nearly unprecedented for the field. He established the non-profit Intruders Foundation 1989 to publicize his research.

Hopkins wrote several popular books about abductees, notably Missing Time, and was the founder of the Intruders Foundation, a non-profit organization created to document and research alien abductions, and to provide support to abductees.

For roughly the first seven years of his investigation of the abduction phenomenon, Hopkins himself conducted no hypnosis sessions. Rather, he secured the aid of licensed professionals. He noted that three of these therapists (Drs. Robert Naiman, Aphrodite Clamar and Girard Franklin) were quite skeptical of the reality of abduction claims, yet all "uncovered" detailed abduction scenarios from their patients. (Hopkins, 218)

The 1992 made-for-television film Intruders was based on Hopkins' research, and portrayed abduction scenes. Additionally, Hopkin's 1996 book, Witnessed, portrays a classic abduction case that was alleged to have occurred in late 1989 near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. This case is unique in that it is one of the first publicized episodes that involved multiple abductees (who did not previously know each other) that come to know each other in the "real" world through a variety of circumstances connected to their abductions. Additionally, this case involved inter-generational abductions within the same family.

Criticism[link]

Controversy was a persistent feature of Hopkins' career in alien abduction and UFO studies. While few seemed to doubt Hopkin's motives or sincerity, critics charged that Hopkins was out of his element when he used hypnosis, thereby aiding his subjects in confabulation — the blending of fact and fantasy. However, Hopkins insisted such criticism is specious. He wrote, "I have often frequently invited interested therapists, journalists and academics to observe hypnosis sessions. Theoretical psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, who has held teaching positions at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and psychiatrist Donald. F. Klein, director of research at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and professor of psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, are but two of those who have observed my work firsthand. None of these visitors ... have reported anything that suggested I was attempting to lead the subjects." (Hopkins, 238-239)

See also[link]

• Abduction phenomenon
• Area 51: The Alien Interview
• Dr. David Jacobs
• Extraterrestrial life
• Extraterrestrial life in popular culture
• Dr. John Edward Mack
• List of alleged UFO-related extraterrestrials
• Grey alien
• Whitley Strieber
• Zeta Reticuli

References[link]

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External links[link]

• IntrudersFoundation: Budd Hopkins' official site
• A PBS Interview with Hopkins
• B. Hopkins biography at M. Bugliaro Goggia's ufopsi.com
• Art biography of Hopkins
• [3] Budd Hopkins at the March 29, 2008 FortFest conference sponsored by the International Fortean Organization

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The Paul McKenna Band
The Paul McKenna Band
Background information
Origin	Glasgow, Scotland
Genres	Folk music
Years active	2006-present
Labels	Greentrax Records
Website	paulmckennaband.com
Members
Paul McKenna David McNee Seán Gray Ewan Baird Mike Vass

The Paul McKenna Band are a five piece folk/traditional Music band from Glasgow, Scotland.

Biography[link]

Combining their love for traditional and folk music as well as original songs and tunes the Paul McKenna Band have been playing to audiences throughout the UK since 2006. Their debut album 'Between Two Worlds' was released on the Greentrax record label in 2009. The album was produced by the band with guidance and assistance from Dick Gaughan and engineered and mixed by Kris Koren and John Weatherby in Moffat, Scotland in late 2008.

In 2009 and 2010 they toured throughout Europe, visiting Germany, Holland, Austria, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Spain and the UK. The band won the award for Best Up and Coming Artist at the Scots Trad Music Awards[1] in November 2009 and subsequently performed a concert at the Arches in Glasgow which was broadcast on BBC Alba.

The band also completed a one month tour in the USA to coincide with the release of Between Two Worlds on Mad River Records in late 2010.

In December 2010 the band recorded their second album Stem The Tide with producer Brian McNeill at Watercolour Studios in Ardgour. The album was released in March 2011.

In 2011 the band toured throughout North America, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom appearing at major folk festivals including Milwaukee Irish Fest, Tønder Festival and Cambridge Folk Festival.

They received a nomination for Folk Band of The Year in the Scots Trad Music Awards[2] and performed at the award ceremony in Perth Concert Hall (Scotland) although the award was won by the Battlefield Band.

Fiddler Mike Vass joined the band at the end of 2011 and performed his first concert with them at Glasgow's Celtic Connections Festival.

Discography[link]

• Between Two Worlds (Album) (2009)
• Stem The Tide (Album) (2011)

Awards[link]

MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards 2009 - Best Up and Coming Artist
Fatea Magazine Single/EP/Mini Album Of The Year 08

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site

Paul McKenna
Born	(1963-11-08) 8 November 1963 (age 48) Hackney Hospital, Hackney, London, England, UK

Paul McKenna (born 8 November 1963, in Enfield, London) is an English hypnotist and writes books about self-improvement.

McKenna has written and produced books and multimedia products, hosted self-improvement television shows and presents seminars in hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming, weight loss, motivation and the Zen meditation Big Mind.

Career[link]

Paul McKenna started off in radio aged 16 at in-store Radio Topshop, and went on to present for stations including Radio Jackie, Radio Caroline, Chiltern Radio, Capital Radio, BBC Radio One and TV channel Music Box as well.

A hypnotist who guested on his show led to a developing interest in the subject, initially for reasons of self-development, although entertainment was later to play a big part. Whilst still working at Capital, he began experimenting with small hypnotic shows, first for the amusement of friends, then for audiences in pubs and clubs. McKenna then started doing regular Sunday night shows at the Duke of York's Theatre, which was owned at the time by Capital. The success of those shows led to his playing other theatres across the UK, Ireland, The Netherlands, the US, Australia and Hong Kong.^[1]

After a brief spell at Radio 1^[2] in the early 1990s, McKenna decided to quit radio, which was not his speciality. In 1993, ITV broadcast The Hypnotic World of Paul McKenna, which featured audience members volunteering to be hypnotised to act in comedic ways, the show subsequently being aired in 42 countries. During this time, McKenna continued to study hypnosis, and neuro-linguistic programming with Richard Bandler, the co-creator of NLP.

Many of McKenna's one-to-one hypnotherapy clients are celebrities^[3] including Ellen DeGeneres^[4] and David Walliams, who used McKenna to help with his swim across the English Channel.^[5]

In the 1990s, McKenna presented a number of TV programmes including The Hypnotic World of Paul McKenna (1993–1995), Paul McKenna's Paranormal World (1997) and Hyp the Streets (1999). In January 2008, the Discovery Channel signed a £23 million deal with McKenna to make a series of self-help programmes. To date, the deal is the largest ever for a British TV personality.^[6] The first of his I Can Make You Thin programmes aired on TLC, The Learning Channel on 16 March 2008.

In October 2009 he was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3.^[7] McKenna hypnotized Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond on series 4, episode 2 of the renowned motor show in 2004.

Education[link]

McKenna attended St Ignatius Secondary School in London. McKenna holds two doctorates; the first from LaSalle University (Louisiana) and the second from the business school International Management Centres Association (IMCA). The IMCA is generally regarded as not an accredited institution. In 1996, after two years of study on a 70,000-word thesis, McKenna was granted a PhD from LaSalle University. This university was properly licenced by the state of Louisiana, but falsely claimed to be an accredited university. After the principal of LaSalle pleaded guilty to fraud, McKenna, along with thousands of other students was awarded compensation from the U.S. government.

In 2004, McKenna completed an APEL (Accreditation for Prior Experiential Learning) and subsequently gained a doctoral degree DPhil from the business school International Management Centres Association (IMCA),^[8] which is accredited by the British Accreditation Council (BAC).^[9] The title of his thesis was "The Effects of Fixed Action Patterns and Neuro-Linguistic Programming in Determining Outcomes in Human Behaviour".

In 2006 McKenna successfully sued the Daily Mirror for libel over claims, made by journalist Victor Lewis-Smith, that he had obtained a "bogus degree" merely for money to deliberately defraud the public (the degree was from LaSalle University (Louisiana)). McKenna won the case but was awarded very minor damages. The court (which was never shown sight of the 70,000 word thesis) stated, "Mr McKenna was not, in my judgment, dishonest and, for that matter, whatever one may think of the academic quality of his work, or of the La Salle degree, it would not be accurate to describe it as 'bogus'." Desmond Browne, QC, for McKenna, said that 'any perceived lack of academic rigour at La Salle' did not prove that his client was dishonest.^{[10][11][12][13]}

Publishing career[link]

McKenna has produced a range of self-help books, CDs and DVDs. In 2006 his book sales alone reached £3.5m.^[14] His guides and manuals have been worth just shy of £17m to UK book retailers in the 21st Century, according to Nielsen BookScan data.

He has also published:

• I Can Make You Confident , Sterling Publishing: 2010. ISBN 1-4027-6922-9
• I Can Make You Sleep , Bantam Press: 2009. ISBN 1-4027-6574-6
• I Can Make You Rich , Bantam Press: 2007. ISBN 0-593-05537-3
• Quit Smoking Today Without Gaining Weight , Bantam Press: 2007. ISBN 0-593-05536-5
• Instant Confidence, Bantam Press: 2006. ISBN 0-593-05535-7
• I Can Make You Thin, Bantam Press: 2005. ISBN 0-593-05054-1
• Change Your Life in Seven Days, 2005 (with Hugh Willbourn) ISBN 0-593-05053-3
• How to Mend Your Broken Heart, Bantam Press: 2003. ISBN 0-593-05055-X
• The Power to Influence, Nightingale-Conant: 1998. ISBN 1-905453-56-6 (audiobook with Michael Breen)
• The Paranormal World of Paul McKenna, Faber and Faber: 1997. ISBN 0-571-19245-9
• Paul McKenna's Hypnotic Secrets , Boxtree: 1995. ISBN 0-7522-0192-1 (with Peter Willis and Clare Staples)
• The Hypnotic World of Paul McKenna, Faber and Faber: 1994. ISBN 0-571-16802-7

McKenna has also released a number of audio recordings including Sleep Like a Log, Eliminate Stress, "Positive Self-Image", "Attracting Wealth", "Inner Happiness", "Supreme Self-Confidence", Stop Smoking for Good. He also wrote the foreword to Nikolic, Seka and Sarah Tay, You Can Heal Yourself: Bio-energy and the Power of Self-healing.^[15]

Professional influences[link]

McKenna learned hypnosis and NLP from Richard Bandler, co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

McKenna uses Thought Field Therapy in many of his television demonstrations and studied under Roger Callahan, the creator of TFT.

McKenna also teaches the Zen meditation 'Big Mind'. He presents the process with its creators, American Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi and Ross Kent, abbot and founder of Kanzeon Zen Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

References[link]

External links[link]

• The Official Paul McKenna website
• Paul McKenna at the Internet Movie Database
• Guardian interview with McKenna