[Philip Boyd, Saving Grace actor, rips the business that is Scientology], [Our review of Inside Scientology] | [An interview with Janet Reitman] | [A report from Reitmans first book tour appearance] | [At the Half-King: Reitman not afraid] Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. In Germany with Ursula Caberta: [Announcing plans] | [Press conference] | [Making news about Tom Cruise, Bill Clinton, and Tony Blair] | [Post-trip interview] He lasted about, I dont know, only a few weeks and the guy just couldnt tolerate Rinder being around so he got fired. They attacked HIM. Just tell it like it is and was. The St. Petersburg Times stops by Safe Ice to see how Safe Ice Health Care inventor and CEO, Robert Almblad, hopes to bring a safer ice alternative to the masses. at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC. Investors were issued a letter dated December 3, 2010, in which Almblad told his investors that he had made the painful decision to terminate and shut down Laser Key.. I would return to my business career to flourish and prosper by creating new products to improve the world. I joined the Sea Org at Celebrity Center in LA in 1971 when I was 23 and began my SO career in Scientology working for LRH on the Apollo in 1972. One side effect of Carls WWII experiences was a love for travel. Scientology has absolutely nothing with which to link either Rinder or Remini to any crime whatsoever. I had to physically throw them out of the room and call the cops. Over Christmas, someone sawed down all four mature oak trees that were in front of our offices. Naturally, A&E never vetted Almblad before letting Remini feature him on her show. Robert Almblad currently lives in Tarpon Springs, FL; in the past Robert has also lived in Mundelein IL, Clearwater FL and Clearwater Beach FL. Management companies are not made for handling this kind of thing at all.. Lubow and some cameramen would follow me everywhere. TV Shows. Hall wrote: It was a perfect storm alright. Robert Almblad 2021001524 (P.T.A.B. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Stefani A. Hutchison and Azhlynnes Blog with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. In Illinois, he hit it big in the 1990s by devising a more efficient and accurate way to duplicate keys. Robert employed Rinder on what could have been one of the most beneficial inventions to the public since antibiotics. Shortly after selling his interest in Axxess, Almblad in 1991 started a competitor to Axxess, Laser Key II. In 1974 I was on staff at the Advanced Organization in Denmark and my wife, also on staff, was pregnant. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Also for the record Rinder did contact Cathy via a letter in which he asked her to join him and build a new life together. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. Immediately upon graduation he began work at the Chicago Planning-Commission, followed by 35 years in Detroit with his beloved and visionary planning director, Charlie Blessing, one of his heroes. I got an urgent call in 1981: LRH is missing, the Missions have been smashed and MSH needs help. It was a call to arms and so I temporarily left my businesses and tried to help. They have me under such close scrutiny, they know about the technology Im working on. Ive been sec checked. At the first of the year, an empty office building across the street from his own laboratory was suddenly occupied, but not before a bizarre occurrence. There comes a time when silence is betrayal. - Martin Luther King Jr. Communication is the universal solvent - L Ron Hubbard, When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. Thomas Paine, "Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. He says it in a matter-of-fact way. But a year later Almblad was expelled from the Church again, this time for more serious charges that he was intending to bug offices of senior Church members as part of a hair-brained scheme to take control of the Church. | [Scientology wants your money: Meet Dede!] Part two of Ortegas article can be found on the Web Archive here. 5. While the industry keeps trying to figure out ways to clean contaminated ice machines, Almblad chose a different route: Never let the machine get dirty in the first place. Name: Robert E. Almblad. It was Dave Lubow, Almblad says. #24: David Touretzky (and other academics) I would trust them further than the guy you mentioned. Tony Ortega describes this ultimate fair game attack here and it is a link worth clicking. William Faulkner, "The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis." Hi, my name is Robert Almblad and I am an Independent Scientologist. If true, score another step change invention to make things better and, in this case, healthier, for consumers. His tactics are known as terrorism in law enforcement circles. Holding over 30 patents Robert Almblad is the ingenious mind behind the key cutting machines used by countless people to make spare keys amongst other products. 2017 Village Voice, LLC. A class with Duke University art professor, Ted Gravison, helped him brush up on his watercolor skills and regain confidence. Robert employed Rinder on what could have been one of the most beneficial inventions to the public since antibiotics. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists of professing to believe what he does not believe." He joined in 1972, worked for a year on staff with L. Ron Hubbard and then was a regular non-staff parishioner (a public) until 2007. What can you do when times running out on your office wife? Robert Almblad has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. The keys hang from the card by small threads of plastic and work just like regular metal keys. Christ.). Type: Grant. *A-E = the cure for being declared a suppressive person. ], One Year of War: In Conversation with Ukrainians Standing Fast, Beyonc and Jay-Z Work It Out in the Louvre, Creed: The Musical: Not an Unserious Production by Unserious People, Waiting for the Nighthawks Edward Hopper and the Denizens of New York, No Longer a Lost Treasure: New Yorks Hispanic Society of America Takes a Star Turn in London, Sunny Skies in Pacifiction Veil Intimations of Apocalypse. Tarpon Springs, Florida, United States 3 connections Join. And then someone rented the office across the street that had a window facing our office, he says. (Also here.). #23: Ken Dandar (and other attorneys who litigate against the church) #17: Jefferson Hawkins, the man behind the TV volcano Enter Robert Almblad, an internationally known engineer and inventor, who lives and works in Tarpon Springs, FL. He's seen too much. As Mark Marty Rathbun, Rinders former guru observed:, God, its been 10 years since he left, and he literally for an entire decade has not worked, and I arranged virtually all of his gigs with people that would pay him to just do anti-Scientology stuff. He said: A lot of people were fooled and Almblad has never been held accountable. There are many other technologies; some are a bigger deal than an ice machine. Then it's up to the user. Funeral Saturday, 9:15 a.m. from Colonial Funeral Home, 591 Ridgeview Dr., McHenry to the Church of Holy Apostles for Mass at 10 a.m. Interment private. Almblad says he began to call local police every time the squad showed up, and the police advised him to get a restraining order against them. And, you know, my conversations with the guy were, you know, kind of talking him off the ledge about how its kind of a neat pipe dream but the practicalities are, it aint going to happen. For employing Rinder, Almblads business has been targeted for utter ruination. [All hell breaks loose in Israel] | [Scientology sees fundraising gold in the UK riots] In 1982, Almblad became enmeshed in another business dispute. They want to crush it rather than see it come to life.. His name appears on a list called The Indie 500 dated 2010, 2 years after Rathbun and Hall began the movement. He sucked it up and continued to do his job. One of our primary aims is to de-fang the monster Miscaviges operates to make lives miserable. Chief among his paid minions is Remini flunky and chauffer Mike Rinder, who once worked for Almblad full time. Filmography (by Job) Trailers and Videos. Patricia E. Almblad, 93 of Prospect Heights was born June 6, 1929 in Chicago to Lorne Scott and Ethel (Wickman) English and passed away July 28, 2022. Patents, 1970-2019 . 2022 Church of Scientology International. Married over 25 years to a wonderful man who puts up with all my moods. Carls parents enabled him and his brother to enjoy many experiences that played favorably into their future: piano and voice lessons, art classes at the Chicago Art Institute, woodworking, Boy Scouts, and biking adventures. Because a man dares to criticize a church, that church is now trying to prevent the world from getting life-saving technology simply as a form of revenge. Tony Ortega is the editor-in-chief of The Village Voice. Id been working on this ice machine for 6 years. Almblads ethical bankruptcy led to his being expelled from the Church of Scientology three times, first in 1980, when Almblad was discovered to have been poaching Church staff for apersonal business. Almblad apparently has never repaid this loan. [Tad Reeves: Scientology might listen to this guy] | [More Tad Reeves and family] Hilarity ensues.] The case eventually settled. Rinder did not launch a billion dollar anti-Scientology harassment scheme. The show ran its course and since then Leah Remini and Mike Rinder have continued to be strong, active advocates for exposing the truth. He was just 22 years old. #16: Marc and Claire Headley, escapees of the churchs HQ Remini and Rinders multi award winning docuseries Scientology and the Aftermath. For the sake of hospital patients everywhere, well be updating that story when it comes. It's the same concept used by high-tech manufacturing clean rooms that maintain higher air pressure inside and thus "push" away any exterior contaminants seeking entry. Robert Almblad is on Facebook. So, I went back to my inventions and carried on with that for the next 25 years. In June 2000, Almblad and his wife took out a $50,000 loan from a Robert Metzler. In case the people he met with checked on that, he also changed his companys website to reflect the name. In 1998 the Church allowed him back in after he claimed he was a changed man and had taken responsibility. It seems, Almblad said, that ice machines in military situations are often outdoors and in sandy environments that torment regular ice machines. As it turns out he was living with his paramour and business associate Susan Clickner in Tarpon Springs, Florida, in a waterfront home in foreclosure because no mortgage payments had been made for three years. I did this in my spare time while I went to Business Colleges and Universities. So you may be pleased to hear that a man named Robert Almblad has invented a machine that reliably puts out bacteria-free ice. So I did spend some money to have my employees hire attorneys and get restraining orders.. In typical Freedom magazine style, a number of unconnected documents from his past are jumbled together without much rhyme or reason to give the impression that Almblad is an evil man bent on ruining other people. Hes a man who loves other peoples money.. COS cannot have it both ways. He rose through its ranks and by his early twenties was helping the church deal with negative publicity by replacing its notorious Guardians Office with a new covert-operations wing, the Office of Special Affairs. 2. You could survive but in a bad week there was no money for diapers and sometimes the food for staff was substandard. He duped her into investing in his new company, High-Technology Industries, Inc. According to the lawsuit which was later filed, he claimed his company had $10 million in assets. Its difficult to do new product development. Serial inventor Robert Almblad is talking slime. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Sister editorial to their recent Leah Remini assault, COS once again reaches into the past to revisit the many lies theyve spread about Mike Rinder. He spends three hours a day reading the patents of other inventors. December 10, 2018 By Mike Rinder. Case Details Parties Documents Dockets . In five years, the inventor predicts that most ice machines in the United States will be operating using his design. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Robert Almblad Design Automation and Sanitation of food service equipment. Awards. Either Mike left on his own or he was expelled. Almblad attracted the attention of the trustee overseeing the womans award, who filed suit to recover the funds that supported her and her children. It's the kind of slime made infamous in a 2006 science project of Jasmine Roberts, a Tampa seventh grader at the time, who found (with testing help by the Moffitt Cancer Center) that the ice produced at area fast-food restaurants contained more bacteria than the same restaurants' own toilet water. Almblad had a royalty agreement with Axxess that allowed him to keep a cash flow going, thanks to the efforts of his successors. Why? Record information. Robert Almblad is used as an example in the book "Corporate Partnering - A How-To Handbook" by Curt Sahakian at the Corporate Partnering Institute a references his many technology . or "selling postcards" or borrowing money. They said they were selling surveillance cameras and repairing computers. We own a tremendous amount of material and so forth, and it keeps growing. Mike Rinder did not attack his bitter harridan ex-wife. Embittered, he hired comrade in hate Rinder to work with him on his scams and to try to take revenge on the Church of Scientology. Rather than mechanically "copy" an existing key, Almblad's machine takes a digital picture of a customer's key and compares that digital image with those of original keys stored in the machine's memory. From my teenage days, I was able to create successful business ventures and invent things, so I was very confident that I could create a financial empire in my life. Instead, it is the last implant station where you drop off your worldly possessions and disperse yourself in the tail of Haleys comet and wander around the universe! Donald F. Almblad, 79, formerly of Morton Grove, IL, passed away peacefully April 4, 2006 in Prescott, AZ. Most, he says, are ineffective. Miscavige has given his go-to private investigator Dave Lubow unlimited funds to buy phone records, stalk through illegal electronic surveillance through phone gps devices,harass and annoy, spread rumor and innuendo, and organize KKK-like gangs to stalk and attempt to intimidate. [A Scientology spy comes clean: Paulien Lombards remarkable public confession] The Robert Almblad attacks to the unbriefed may seem like evidence to the contrary. with a reception following the service. The case status is Not Classified By Court. #19: The Squirrel Busters (and the churchs other thugs and goons) Besides, who's to know if clear ice cubes are clean or just plain gross? 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