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The Lamson Adventures!!!! Rat Pack Tribute Show, Las Vegas NV Not only did we get to see a fantastic show but it was in the last old school showrooms in Las Vegas. Located right at the end of Freemont, it was worth every penny. I wish I could explain how it was but the photos do not show it well. We sat in the old style round booths that face the stage that jutted out into the room. The crush velvet curtains and small band added to the feeling of the old Rat Pack days. The food, which we expected to be horrid, was fantastic. That was the best steak dinner I have had in years. Be ready to be brought back in time. Unlike everything else in Vegas, these entertainers encourage photos. My favorite photos of the main four on stage together. I reminded me of the films of the "Live at the Sands" show. The entertainers were so dead on, we even got to see Ms Monroe sing Happy Birthday, Frank threaten Joey Bishop. All of them were fab!! We got to see Frank do a whole other show on Freemont later that night. The photos are on the Freemont page. Back to the Lamson Adventures
City of Alexandria, VA City of Alexandria Closes FY 2011 with $9.8 Million Surplus At Alexandria City Council’s first legislative session in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012, Acting City Manager Bruce Johnson reported that the City of Alexandria closed out FY 2011 on June 30, 2011 with an additional, unexpected operating surplus of $9.8 million, or 1.8% of the total General Fund Operating Budget. The sources of the surplus were $5.57 million in expenditure savings and $4.26 million due to higher than anticipated revenue. Alexandria City Council is considering recommendations from Johnson to set aside an additional $6.7 million in fund balance to protect against considerable economic uncertainty facing the City, which could lead to future revenue shortfalls. Johnson suggested that the remaining one-third of this surplus ($3.1 million) could be split up and used for the following purposes:
Hey kids, we have 3 shows this weekend. Exciting! 2 of them are benefits. All of them are with Tyrannicide. 26/4/2013 L.E.D.E.R.E.R., Regensburg, Germany (FAU-IAA benefitshow) w/ Tyrannicide + more 27/4/2013 EKH, Vienna (ABC benefitshow) w/ Tyrannicide, Leechfeast, Paperplanecrash + more 28/4/2013 Sächsischer Bahnhof, Gera, Germany w/ Tyrannicide We play a Soli show for Greek self-governing factories in Regensburg. If any of you have seen a documentary called The Take, about workers taking over the factories in Argentina, you might have an idea of what is happening in Greece at the moment. If you have not watched this documentary, please do so, it’s really inspiring. As what the factory workers are doing in Greece at the moment. Here is a link with some more information on the Greek situation in english. And here is a website of the Vio.Me. factory in Thessaloniki with a short documentary about it! 8/3/2013 In a house, Nottingham 09/03/2013 EqualFest, Bradford w/ Finisterre & 4 more 10/03/2013 Audacious Art Space, Sheffield w/ Huffin’ Paint and Nu Pogodi 11/03/2013 Wahlbar, Manchester w/ Huffin’ Paint, Swinelord & Warparty 12/03/2013 The Croft, Bristol w/ Finisterre, All we have, The Breakout 13/03/2013 on holiday 14/03/2013 Urban bar, Whitechapel, London, w/ Finisterre, We came out like tigers, Ruined families & Man hands 15/03/2013 Cowley Club, Brighton, w/ Finisterre & Man Hands
by David Hogue Interfaces and devices are providing more and more power and functionality to people, and in many cases this additional power is accompanied by increasing complexity. Although people have more experience and are more sophisticated, it still takes time to learn new interfaces, information, and interactions. Although we are able to learn and use these often difficult interfaces, we increasingly seek and appreciate simplicity. The Complexity Curve describes how a project moves from boundless opportunity and wonderful ideas to requirements checklists and constraints then finally (but only rarely) to simplicity and elegance. Where many projects call themselves complete when the necessary features have been included, few push forward and strive to deliver the pleasing and delightful experiences that arise from simplicity, focus, and purpose. In this session, David M. Hogue, Ph.D. - VP of Experience Design, applied psychologist, and adjunct faculty member at San Francisco State University - will introduce the Complexity Curve, discuss why our innovative ideas seem to fade over the course of a project, explain why "feature complete" is not the same as "optimal experience", and offer some methods for driving projects toward simplicity and elegance. 9th–13th March 2012
Each website is a product used daily by people to take actions, not just read the content on it. Your product is amorphous, it takes the shape of whatever container it fills: a mobile browser, a touch enabled desktop browser, or a 30″ iMac that is connected to the Internet via tethering. Photoshop is just one of the means to an end in this new age of utilitarian web sites. The new technologies available in HTML5 already allow you to create prototypes quickly in the browser. Learn how to create a prototype from start to finish using these new technologies while taking advantage of quick prototyping tools. Sign in to add slides, notes or videos to this session
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By José A. Álvarez Six months ago, Ben Medina had to be rushed to the University of California San Diego trauma center after a major car accident. The center had no more room and Medina, from National City, was originally turned away. After coaxing from paramedics and given the severity of his injuries, Medina was accepted but had to spend the weekend on a gurney because the hospital had no beds available and he could not be admitted. “The place was so full that I could not get a bed the entire weekend, then moving the hospital from an area where it’s most needed would be a big mistake,” said Medina, adding that the pleading from the paramedics “saved my life.” The pending closure of UCSD’s hospital in Hillcrest and the possible implications that the moving of other acute care programs to its hospital in La Jolla is what brought Medina to a town hall meeting in Chula Vista, one of several that have taken place throughout San Diego County to determine the future healthcare needs of the region. Initiated by Supervisors Greg Cox and Ron Roberts, the Healthcare Safety Net Study is expected to determine the resources required to meet the community’s demand for healthcare services. “The study will take a look at what we can expect five to ten years from now,” Cox told a crown of about 30 people. While the meeting had been organized “specifically to hear the concerns of residents” of the South Bay, most of the forum attendees were healthcare providers and representatives of The Abaris Group, the consulting firm which is conducting the study. “The study will take a look at the challenges that having a healthy community represent…and plan for the services that we will need in the future.” The six-month, $600,000 projectfunded by the County and the California Endowmentis expected to present an independent and comprehensive assessment of the long-range needs of the healthcare safety net serving of San Diego County residents. The study will encompass all areas of healthcare, including mental health, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS. In addition to the town hall meetings, project coordinators have been interviewing healthcare providers or “stakeholders” and conducting focus groups. “It’s a large study to predict what’s going to happen,” said Michael Williams, President of The Abaris Group and the leader of a team of 15 peopleresearchers, statisticians, demographers, epidemiologists, etc.who are working on the project. “It’s important for the community to take a look at the current capacity… (and) what is the demand going to be in the future, determine if there are going to be gaps and how do we breach them.” For José Preciado of the South Bay Forum, the main concern is the amount of resources the county dedicates to healthcare. He urged Cox for additional funding, especially for the South County region. “We want to advice you that there isn’t enough funds to deal with the issues,” said Preciado. “Every time my neighbor does-n’t get treated, it affects me…It affects all of us whether we’re millionaires or whether we’re poor…These are life issues, we cannot save a buck.” It is expected that by the year 2030, the County will see its population grow to more than 4 million people and the South County region is anticipated to be a big part of that growth. It is estimated that about 500,000 countywide lack health insurance and thousands more are underinsured. Cox made no promises for additional funding in the near future and said that “the study will help us see where we have those mind-blowing gaps” and that it will help to “level” the playing field. “It should make no difference where you live in the county,” Cox responded. “You should have access to affordable healthcare.” Present at the community forum was Dr. Thomas Mc-Afee, UCSD’s physician in chief. He was there to answer questions about UCSD’s future plans to move its hospital. He explained that their hospital is not county-funded and that their financial situation is similar to that of the other hospitals in the area. “It’s our response to the business reality that we’re facing. We want to make sure that we stay in business,” said Dr. McAfee, adding that “we welcome the study.” Preliminary results of the study should be available in June, at which time the findings will be announced to the public and community forums will be taking place. The full study should be completed by September. More information on the study can be found at www.abarisgroup.com under Project Sites. Non-English speakers can get more info at (888) 367-0911.
Jeremy Shockey isn’t exactly the most well-liked guy in the league. He pretty much ran his way out of the Giants and became a controversial figure in the playoffs because he was out with a broken leg and there were questions whether or not he’d be there to support his team during their games. The Saints traded what seemed like was too much to acquire him in the off-season and have been rewarded with, well, nothing. Kevin Boss is completely outplaying him, and what’s worse, Shockey’s supposedly already hated on his own team. It’s gotten so bad that Shockey was even benched in the 4th quarter against the Falcons on Sunday for missing an assignment earlier in the game: Facing third-and-10 from the Saints’ 37-yard line and still within two touchdowns, Shockey failed to pick up a rushing Falcons defender, forcing Brees to unload a quick dump-off pass to him in the left flat to avoid a sack. Not only did Shockey miss the block, he missed the ball, dropping it with a half-hearted effort that spurred Brees to sprint toward him and emotionally voice his frustration. The animated discussion continued on the Saints’ sideline. Shockey took the blame for missing the assignment and really took some verbal abuse from Brees after the play. It was kinda cool to see a badass like Shockey get undressed by a cool customer like Brees — it shows who has the respect and who runs the team. It’s unfortunate that Shockey has been so useless for them when he was supposed to be another offensive weapon. Now he’s just another talented player that isn’t performing. Too bad there aren’t any pictures or videos available because that was awesome.Google+ Tagged with: Drew Brees • Jeremy Shockey
This “The Best…” list is a companion to The Best Sites To Learn About The U.S. Financial Crisis. Those sites tried to explain how we got into this mess. The resources on this list share what is happening to us as a result. These sites try to give a picture of the recession’s effects throughout the world. These sites, all relatively accessible to English Language Learners, are divided into three sections. The first are some narrative reports on what is occurring. The second are interactive charts or graphs that show “the numbers.” The third are multimedia presentations giving a human face to the recession (of course, most of my students are experiencing that human face directly in their own lives). Here are my picks for The Best Sites To Learn About The Recession: Voice of America’s Special English has a report (with audio support for the text) titled Trying To Live With A Recession In The World’s Largest Economy. Breaking New English has a lesson (again, with audio support for the text) called Huge U.S. Job Losses Spark Recession Fears. ESL Podcast Blog has an engaging report on ways a recession affects society CBBC has a good report on the recession in the United Kingdom. CHARTS & GRAPHS: Where Does Your State Rank? is a map from CNN showing the recession’s effect across the United States. Layoffs Pile-Up is a graph from the Wall Street Journal showing what economic sectors are experiencing the worst job loss. USA Today has a very complete analysis on jobs loss and growth in the United States. The National Conference of State Legislatures also has an interactive map on the effects of the recession in all fifty states. These would require some teacher explanation, but are intriguing nevertheless. They’re are two infographics showing how the proposed economic stimulus would be used — one from the Washington Post and the other from Credit Loan. CNN has a new interactive on the compromise that the Senate and House just agreed to. The Obamameter is a regularly updated visual representation of different aspects of the U.S. economy. It would be accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners with some explanation. FinViz shows the stock market in a vivid color-code. The Economy Tracker from CNN shows the latest economic data on a map, and combines that with personal stories of those affected. The Geography Of A Recession comes from The New York Times and shows, in detail, unemployment rates throughout the United States. Maplibs has a color-coded world map that shows international financial centers. The key is the color — if it’s shown in red then it’s down, if it’s shown in green then it’s up. The Sacramento Bee has a scary map of unemployment in California. Economic Reality Check is from CNN and provide short facts about different aspects of the recession. The Sacramento Bee has just published an Income Gap Interactive Graphic. It’s based on Sacramento data, but I suspect the information is similar across the United States. It vividly, and in a way that’s accessible to English Language Learners, shows how long it takes for different people (by occupation, ethnicity, and educational background) to earn $100,000. MSNBC has developed what they call an Adversity Index. It’s an animated map that “measures the economic health of 381 metro areas and all 50 states.” It’s pretty intriguing, though would probably require some initial explanation before English Language Learners could fully decipher it. Right below the Adversity Map, you can also find a “Map:Recession-resistant areas” that highlights communities in the U.S. that have escaped the recession’s effects. The San Francisco Chronicle published a simple and very accessible chart today titled Unemployment Characteristics. It “breaks down” unemployment data by race, gender, and education background. Great Depression Comparison is an excellent interactive comparing the Depression to our present Recession. Here’s a very accessible infographic that shows the change in unemployment in major US cities over the past year. The Associated Press has an Economic Stress Index which shows, in an interactive graphic form, what is happening to every county in the United States economically. It measures bankruptcies, home foreclosures, and unemployment, and then interprets it into what they call a “stress index.” The New York Times has published an interactive graphic titled Broad Unemployment Across the U.S. It shows both the official unemployment rate, and what the rate would be if it included “ipart-time workers who want to work full time, as well some people who want to work but have not looked for a job in the last four weeks.” Moody’s has put together an impressive and accessible Global Recession Map showing how all the economies in the world are going. “Food Assistance” is a very simple and visual infographic from GOOD Magazine tracking the rise of food stamps over the past year. Times Of Crisis is an extraordinary interactive timeline showing the critical events of the economic recession over the past 365 days. The Geography of Jobs is an excellent animated map demonstrating the loss of jobs in different parts of the United States during the recession. Flowing Data has some maps that very visually show where unemployment has increased over the past few years. The Unemployed States of America, a nice infographic (in terms of accessibility, not because it shares good news) How the Great Recession Reshaped the U.S. Job Market, an informative (and a bit “busy” looking) interactive from The Wall Street Journal. “America’s 35 Hardest-Hit Cities” is a very accessible infographic showing the communities around the U.S. with the highest unemployment rates. Quite a few of them are located right here in California’s Central Valley. Comparing This Recession to Previous Ones: Job Changes is a New York Times graphic that very clearly shows we’re not doing so great right now. “How The Great Recession Has Changed Life In America” is an interactive from The Pew Center. Who’s Hurting? is a Wall Street Journal interactive showing which economic sector is losing/gaining jobs How Do Americans Feel About The Recession? is an infographic from MINT.It has some interesting information, and a teacher could ask similar questions of their students. “Decline and fall of the California job market” is a very good interactive from The Sacramento Bee showing the chronological progress of the monthly unemployment rate for each county in the state over the past three years. Visual Economics has published two good infographics in one place: “Cities That Have Missed The Recovery” and “Cities That Are Having A Great Recovery.” “How The Recession Has Changed Us” is what I think is a pretty amazing infographic from The Atlantic. Where Are The Jobs? is a very good interactive infographic from The Washington Post showing which economic sectors are increasing jobs and which are not doing so well. GOOD has just published a very good series of infographics explaining the economy. It’s called All About The Benjamins. VIDEOS & SLIDESHOWS: Boomtown To Bust is a New York Times slideshow on the recession’s effect in Florida. The Sacramento Bee has a series of photos Chronicling The Economic Downturn. Long Lines Of Job Seekers Continue is a slideshow from The Washington Post. Downturn Leaves More Families Homeless is another slideshow from The Washington Post. The Wall Street Journal has excerpts from recent songs that have been written about the recession. Following A Closing, The Struggle To Find Work is another slideshow from The New York Times. A Community Facing Hunger is a video from The New York Times. Out Of Work In China is a video showing the effects of the recession in that country. A Painful Return is a slideshow discussing the recession’s effects in China. Tough Times For Summitville Tiles is a Wall Street Journal slideshow about the closing of a factory. Black Thursday In France is a Wall Street Journal slideshow about protests in that country demanding that the government do more to stop the recession. Ohio Town Faces Economic Collapse is a slideshow from Pixcetra. The American Economy: Down and Out is a slideshow from TIME Magazine. Tough Times In Cleveland is another TIME slideshow. An audio slideshow from The New York Times called In Economic Vise, Pontiac Struggles. There Goes Retirement is an online video from The Wall Street Journal. The progressive magazine The Nation has a useful slideshow called The Great Recession. It’s a bit ideological, but provides a different kind of analysis and response to the recession. It also includes links to articles that would not be accessible to ELL’s. However, the images, teacher modifications of the articles, and lesson ideas provided by them could offer some good opportunities for student discussion and higher order thinking. The Faces Of The Unemployed is a slideshow from The New York Times. Searching For A Job is a series of photos from the Sacramento Bee. Looking For Work is an audio slideshow from Reuters. Desperately Seeking A Salary is another audio slideshow from Reuters. Job Seekers Flood Local Job Fair is a slideshow from The Sacramento Bee. Recession Hits The Saddle is a slideshow from The New York Times. Auto Town Struggles With Unemployment is a slideshow from The New York Times. Dark Stores from TIME Magazine. The New York Times has an audio slideshow about people looking for work in the state of Tennessee. Inside California’s Tent Cities is the newest addition to this list. It’s a New York Times slideshow on the growing number of homeless encampments around the United States, particularly here in Sacramento (which was recently featured on Oprah Winfrey’s show) and in Fresno. The Death of the American Mall is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal. Stimulus Watch is a site that doesn’t really fit into any of the categories on this list, but it’s intriguing. It supposedly lists all the projects different governmental projects have proposed to do with stimulus money, and then people can vote which ones they think are best. They’re categorized by community, so they’re very accessible. The only drawback to it is since it’s a wiki, even though all the projects are listed, many don’t have detailed information yet on what the project entails. Nevertheless, its interactivity could offer some good possibilities for student engagement. How Do You Feel About The Economy? is a great interactive graphic — especially for English Language Learners — from The New York Times. You’re supposed to be able to enter a word that indicates how you’re filling, and you’re given many choices. It’s a good opportunity for vocabulary development. Picturing The Recession is yet another exceptional interactive from The New York Times. It’s composed of photos contributed by readers, including captions, divided by topic or location. Adapting To Job Loss is a slideshow from The Washington Post. Survival Strategies is a new interactive feature from The New York Times. People offer brief ideas on how they’re saving money now in the recession. Readers can vote on which ones they think are best. You have to register in order to vote, offer suggestions, or contribute your own. Forced From Home is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal. Ghost Factories is a slideshow from The New York Times. “The Long-Term Unemployed” is a multimedia interactive from The Wall Street Journal. “America Out Of Work” is ongoing series of video interviews the Los Angeles Times is doing with the unemployed. America at Work is slideshow from The Atlantic. As always, feedback is welcome.
Even though the CNC machines require little human intervention in the development process of the end desired product, human intervention is still needed when it comes to the computer software programming for the CNC machines. A CNC machine programmer must understand the programming, so that they are capable of accurately telling the machine what to do. CNC machines a programmed through a sentence like structure that is written in a code that it understands. Each axes that the machine uses, requires instructions for the development of the final project. If you forget to program one of the axes, the product will not turn out; in the same terms, if you program wrong, the axes will do what the program tells them and not what you want them to do. A CNC machine operator helps on the other end. The programmer writes the code for the machine, but the operator is responsible for downloading the program into the machine and getting the machine set up to properly do the job. The operator may have to set up the tools in the tool holder for the machine, position the material that is needed for the job in the machine, and then start the machine. If the CNC machine operator is experienced, they will begin to learn the different sounds that the machine makes and will be able to tell just by the sound whether there is a problem with the machine. A more experienced CNC machine operator is required to do this type of work. Once the machine completes the program and the work progress is done, operators may be switched. At this point in time, a less experienced operator can take over from here. Usually CNC machine operators will start out at the lower level and gradually work their way up as they become more experienced in this type of machining. Experienced CNC machine operators can detect program flaws and can usually make the modifications to the program themselves. If they notice that the end product is not to the specifications needed, they can fix the problem in the program and continue on with the job. They will not have to take the time to contact the programmer and wait for the program to be fixed. Limited input from the operator is needed to operate a CNC machine. It is because of this reason that one operator may be able to watch multiple machines. The machines do all of the work and only one person is required to do the set up of the machines. This enables companies to employ fewer people and saves them in the payroll department. CNC machine operators must adhere to safety precautions just like they would in any other machine shop. Even though the CNC machines are usually completely enclosed and can limit the noise, debris and so on, there are still dangers and the operator will need to abide by the safety rules and precautions. Wearing safety goggles/glasses and ear plugs are a good idea and can help to protect the operator.
Watch Meg Whitman, Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger live at Long Beach event With just one week to go before Election Day, the two candidates for governor will join on stage the man they hope to replace. Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman will appear with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at the annual Women's Conference, hosted by Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver. NBC's Matt Lauer will moderate a discussion with the two candidates and the current governor to discuss the state's challenges. Schwarzenegger has yet to endorse a candidate in the race, but both Brown and Whitman have criticized the current governor throughout the campaign. You can watch the event live below. -- Anthony York in Sacramento
Jerry Brown calls for solar-power 'miracle' at Capitol menorah lighting Gov. Jerry Brown led the annual ceremonial Capitol menorah lighting Monday, lamenting the use of an electric menorah instead of one with “real fire,” and using his brief remarks to compare the story of Hanukkah to his push for renewable energy. “What a wonderful time to celebrate Hanukkah, and the festival of the lights and the whole idea that we’re running out of oil so we need a miracle,” Brown said to laughter and applause. “The miracle is to not use more oil but to utilize the sun ... to light up California.” The ceremony, sponsored by Chabad of Calfornia, also underscored some of the differences between Brown and his predecessor. Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seemed to revel in these types of ceremonial functions, staying on to celebrate and dance with the rabbis. Brown stuck around long enough to hand out a few packets of chocolate-covered coins to members of the Pacific Boychoir, before making a quick return to his office. When asked why he didn’t stay to dance the hora, Brown said, “Well, I can’t do everything.” -- Anthony York in Sacramento Photo Credit: Anthony York / Los Angeles Times
Gov. Jerry Brown signs bill to modernize campaign disclosure website Gov. Jerry Brown signed a measure Monday requiring California lobbyists and politicians to pay more to register with the state so that it can modernize its website for reporting campaign contributions and lobbying activity. Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) authored the bill after the state's Cal-Access campaign website repeatedly crashed for days at a time, meaning the public did not have easy access to information on who is financing campaigns and hiring lobbyists. The governor signed SB 1001, which doubles to $100 the registration fee paid every two years by the approximately 2,000 lobbyists in California. The bill also charges a new $50 annual fee to political campaign committees. The estimated $600,000 that will be raised will help maintain, repair and modernize Cal-Access, Yee said. "It is simply unacceptable to have such an outdated public disclosure system in our state," Yee said. "The crash of Cal-Access not only prevented public access, it meant government was not being transparent or being held accountable." The bill was supported by California Common Cause, whose policy advocate, Phillip Ung, said it is fair to have lobbyists and campaigns pay for the upkeep of a system that sheds light on their activity. "It's time California replaced a 21-year old computer with a 21st century system that increases transparency at no cost to the taxpayer," Ung said. -- Patrick McGreevy in Sacramento
UFC 116 Live Coverage from Las Vegas UFC 116 takes place tonight from Las Vegas, headlined by the UFC heavyweight title matchup between Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin. Stay tuned for live results throughout the evening from Octagonside at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Jon Madsen vs. Karlos Vemola Both fighters are undefeated prospects. Vemola is a physically imposing powerhouse while Madsen is a wrestling standout. Round 1. Madsen lands the first telling blow of the fight, a really stiff hook that stuns Vemola slightly. Vemola goes for a takedown but eats some punches and knees in the process. They clinch against the cage, and there isn't much action. Referee Mario Yamasaki eventually separates them halfway through the round. Vemola charges across the ring for another takedown but is again thwarted by Madsen and they clinch against the cage. Yamasaki separates them again. Vemola swings wildly and again clinches. This time Madsen not only blocks but takes Vemola down himself. Madsen ends up in Vemola's half guard. Madsen throws a few light punches and elbows as the round comes to a close. 10-9 Madsen. Round 2. Madsen takes Vemola down at the start of the round. He is mostly inactive from top position, throwing a few elbows against the cage. Vemola tries to stand up and eats some punches in the process. Madsen keeps him down and throws some punches and elbows. They are stood up, and Madsen throws a few hard hooks. Vemola goes for a takedown but again has no success. Vemola lands a nice straight punch that was probably his best blow of the fight. They again clinch next to the cage. The crowd has been surprisingly kind to what has been a very dull fight. Vemola doesn't look like a UFC-caliber fighter. 10-9 Madsen. Round 3. They clinch again. Madsen goes for a takedown but doesn't get it. Vemola lands a few nice kicks, first to the leg and then to the body. Madsen takes Vemola down. Madsen postures up in Vemola's guard and throws a few punches. Vemola looks for a kimura submission from the bottom but doesn't come close to extending it. The crowd finally begins to boo the fight as Madsen moves into side control. Madsen is in north/south when they are stood up, which is an odd standup choice but this isn't exactly a riveting fight. On the feet Vemola goes for a guillotine choke but Madsen escapes and gets top position. He's pretty much immediately stood up by Yamasaki and the fighters throw a little to close the round. 10-9 Madsen, very easy to score 30-27 decision. Winner: Jon Madsen, unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27). Daniel Roberts vs. Forrest Petz Roberts needs a win here following a UFC debut loss to John Howard. Petz is returning to the UFC. He last fought for the company in 2007, and has a 2-3 UFC record. Round 1. Roberts immediately shoots in for a takedown. He gets Petz down but Petz works his way back up against the cage. They feel each other out in the standup, with neither man throwing much. Roberts goes for a takedown. He again gets Petz down but Petz again stands back up. Roberts makes his third concerted takedown effort and this time successfully keeps Petz down. He takes the back of Petz and looks to hook in a rear naked choke with a minute left in the round. Petz is able to hold on for the remainder of the round. 10-9 Roberts. Round 2. Petz lands a few nice leg kicks. Roberts moves in for a takedown and eats a good uppercut in the process. Roberts again looks for a takedown and this time secures it. Petz uses the cage to try to stand back up but is pulled back down into position for a Roberts rear naked choke. Petz again does a good job defending the choke and escapes the position. He opens up with hard punches on Roberts, who looks tired. Petz lands a really good overhand right and is swinging for the knockout. Roberts again takes him down and works into side control. Petz gets up and takes down Roberts. Roberts looks for a guillotine at the end of the round. Tough round to score. I give it to Petz narrowly because he did more damage. 19-19 through two. Round 3. Petz begins the round again with some leg kicks. He lands a nice straight right. Petz is throwing a lot more than Roberts but isn't landing anything huge. Roberts throws a body kick and is caught with a hard counter left punch. Roberts shoots for a takedown and gets Petz down with two minutes left. He opens up with some punches and elbows. Petz then moves to stand up and Roberts has to concentrate on preventing that. Roberts mounts Petz with 30 seconds left. Petz tries to reverse but can't do it. First round was clearly Roberts, the other two are close. 10-9 Roberts, 29-28 Roberts. Winner: Daniel Roberts, split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28). Gerald Harris vs. Dave Branch Branch is a former Bellator fighter who is making his UFC debut. Harris has won two straight UFC fights and sports a 16-2 career MMA record. Round 1. Harris is keeping his posture very low. Branch throws a head kick that doesn't connect all the way. Harris moves in with punches and is caught with a counter knee. Harris throws a wild overhand punch that misses but then follows with a short punch that connects. He moves Branch back with a jab and throws a wild hook with bad intentions but it misses. Harris moves forward with more heavy punches and looks to take Branch down with a minute left in the round. Harris slams Branch down hard at the close of the round. 10-9 Harris. Round 2. Harris throws a right hook and takes Branch down. Harris drops down a few hard punches inside Branch's guard. Branch stands back up. They clinch for a bit and Harris takes Branch back down. Branch gets up and eats a couple hard punches in the process. Harris lands a very nice jab and the round concludes. Harris looks good. 10-9 Harris. Round 3. Branch moves aggressively forward with a head kick and Harris throws a counter punch at the same time. Harris takes Branch down but in the process Branch moves to set up a triangle choke. Harris lifts him up and slams him down, escaping danger. Branch gets back up. They clinch against the cage and the crowd begins to loudly boo. Referee Herb Dean separates them and Harris again looks for a takedown. Branch jumps up into standing guard but Harris pushes Branch's face forward with his forearm and then slams him down with power and knocks Branch out from the slam. Harris noticed Branch was out upon impact and pulled back on his punches. Spectacular finish. Winner: Gerald Harris, knockout, round 3. Kendall Grove vs. Goran Reljic They are running low on time and for the past couple fights both fighters have come out together. I don't recall seeing that at any previous UFC PPV events. There have been no post-fight interviews either. Grove is the winner of the Ultimate Fighter season 3. He was originally going to be on the Spike TV portion of this event but following some negative comments about Spike TV he was moved down to the untelevised portion. Reljic looked fantastic in his UFC debut against Wilson Gouveia but lost his last fight to C.B. Dollaway. Round 1. Reljic is more agressive in the standup, mixing in punches and kicks. Grove is able to defend well early and throws a high kick of his own. Reljic has a very diverse offense, mixing punches and kicks at all ranges. Reljic takes the fight to the ground with two minutes left in the round. Reljic stands up, looking to throws some punches down into Grove's guard, but Grove throws a powerful upkick that drops Reljic down. Grove gets back up and throws some knees. He lands a really hard one to the head towards the end of the round. Reljic was dominating the round early but Grove came back strong and landed the best blows of the round late. 10-9 Grove. Round 2. Grove moves in with some light jabs and is answered with a hard punch counter. Grove immediately goes for a takedown and gets it. Reljic reverses position with an omoplata and ends up on top. He is on his feet throwing down and the crowd reacts big to Grove's attempts at upkicks. Reljic moves down into Grove's guard and Grove throws elbows from the bottom. Reljic becomes more active on top with punches. Grove is still being more aggressive from the bottom with strikes but isn't moving his hips up to attempt any submissions. They are stood up with a minute left. Neither man is able to land any telling blows. 10-9 Reljic, 19-19. Grove spends the period between the rounds standing and bouncing on his feet. Round 3. Grove comes out more actively, backing Reljic up with jabs and some power punches by the cage. Reljic shoots for a takedown but it is blocked. Grove looks to have a lot more energy at this stage of the fight. He mixes in high and low kicks. Grove catches Reljic with a straight right and appears to be taking over the fight. Reljic shoots for a takedown. Grove looks for a guillotine, releases, and throws a nice knee to the head. Grove follows with more knees as Reljic looks to get the fight to the ground. Reljic finally does with a minute left in the round. Reljic looks to move into side control and finally gets his leg through Grove's guard with 45 seconds left. Reljic has north/south but Grove gets up as the round comes to a close. 10-9 Grove, 29-28 Grove but this is a close fight. Winner: Kendall Grove, split decision (30-27, 28-29, 29-28). This is going to be a weird Spike TV broadcast because they don't have any shorter fights to air. Seth Petruzelli vs. Ricardo Romero Petruzelli is famous for knocking out Kimbo Slice and (as Joe Rogan joked at the weigh-ins last night) almost single-handedly killing EliteXC. Romero is a well regarded prospect whose only loss was via DQ. They need to kill this idea of playing generic music and having both men enter at the same time. Fighter entrances build drama for the fight. Round 1. Petruzelli opens up at the start with hard punch combinations. Romero goes for a takedown but it is easily blocked. Petruzelli is really tagging Romero with punches and Romero flees out of trouble. Petruzelli closes a punch combination with a high kick that drops Romero to the canvas. Romero gets back up and is okay. Romero lands his best punch of the fight but Petruzelli answers with a series of punches and a spinning back kick. Romero takes Petruzelli down halfway through the fight. Romero looks to grab a choke but Petruzelli gets out and starts throwing down punches from top position. He is really hammering Romero and Romero desperately gets up and takes top position. Romero mounts Petruzelli. He looks for an Americana. He then moves for a rear naked choke attempt. Petruzelli avoids and ends up back in mount. Romero looks for an armbar but Petruzelli gets up and ends up back on the feets. Petruzelli drops Romero and begins throwing down bizarre double ax handles. Romero then moves for a rear naked choke again at the close. That was one unbelievable, phenomenal round of action. 10-9 Petruzelli. Round 2. Petruzelli again gets the best of the standup, having success with early kicks. He backs Romero against the cage and opens up with punches. Romero desperately shoots in and Petruzelli looks to get an armbar in the process. He has the arm extended but can't lock in both legs to secure the submission. Romero is bleeding from the head as Petruzelli throws elbows from the bottom. Romero moves into side control, drops a hard elbow and looks again for the armlock. He cranks it and Petruzelli submits. Petruzelli waited too long and it looks like something snapped in his arm. Petruzelli is in a lot of pain. Tremendous fight by both men. Winner: Ricardo Romero, submission, round 2. Chris Tuchscherer vs. Brendan Schaub Tuchscherer is a training partner of Brock Lesnar while Schaub is a training partner of Shane Carwin in a little preview of the main event of the evening. Tuchscherer is a thick wrestler while Schaub is a much more athletic former pro football player and striker. Round 1. Tuchscherer moves in for a takedown and is caught with some hard punches in the process. He backs up. Schaub drops Tuchscherer with a power right and goes to town with punches before referee Herb Dean steps in and stops the fight. Winner: Brendan Schaub, TKO, round 1. George Sotiropoulos vs. Kurt Pellegrino Sotiropoulos is an Australian jiu jitsu standout who is riding a wave of momentum following a very impressive win over Joe Stevenson. Pellegrino is a criminally underrated lightweight star whose star power isn't equal to his skill. Round 1. Sotiropoulos connects on some early punches and pursues Pellegrino. Sotiropoulos drops Pellegrino with a left and continues to punch him on the ground. Pellegrino spins out of trouble and gets back to his feet. Sotiropoulos lands a couple nice hooks and a knee. Pellegrino takes Sotiropoulos down but then lets him back up. Sotiropoulos hits a nice knee. Pellegrino takes him down with 50 seconds left. Sotiropoulos uses the rubber guard to tie up Pellegrino. Pellegrino throws a few punches as the round ends. 10-9 Sotiropoulos. Round 2. Pellegrino throws a superman punch and Sotiropoulos uses the opportunity to take an offbalance Pellegrino down. Sotiropoulos works to pass guard and nearly gains full mount. He drops down some elbows from half guard onto Pellegrino. Sotiropoulos looked like he might be setting up for a knee bar but Pellegrino avoids danger. Against the cage, Pellegrino stands up. Sotiropoulos tries to take him back down but Pellegrino defends.They trade, with each man getting in some blows. Pellegrino's body language has radically shifted from the start of the fight. 10-9 Sotiropoulos. Round 3. The round starts as pure boxing. Sotiropoulos lands a few nice punches and moves in to push the action but is taken down for his trouble. Pellegrino grounds and pounds Sotiropoulos while avoiding Sotiropoulos' attempts at submissions. Sotiropoulos ties Pellegrino up and begins throwing punches of his own from the bottom. Sotiropoulos gets back up and connects with some straight punches on Pellegrino. Pellegrino drops Sotiropoulos with a knee and a hook, but fortunately for Sotiropoulos the round comes to an end. 10-9 Pellegrino, 29-28 Sotiropoulos. Winner: George Sotiropoulos, unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 30-27). Stephan Bonnar vs. Krzystof Soszynski This is a rematch of a controversial fight they had in Australia. It was an exciting fight that was stopped due to a bad cut on Bonnar. The fight was ruled a TKO victory for Soszynski, but replays showed the cut was caused by an accidental head butt. Round 1. They immediately move in and begin exchanging punches. They trade leg kicks. Bonnar catches a leg kick and uses it to take Soszynski down. Bonnar tries some ground and pound but Soszynski uses an armbar attempt to reverse position. As Bonnar stands up Soszynski starts unloading with huge power punches against the cage. Bonnar is able to avoid the biggest shots but is cut. Bonnar hits Soszynski with a hard knee to the body. Soszynski follows in Bonnar with punches and Bonnar covers up. Bonnar lands a couple elbows against the cage and opens up with punches of his own. Bonnar goes for a takedown but can't get it and Soszynski lands a nice punch as Bonnar is backing up. Soszynski again moves in with heavy punches and they just throw huge blows back and forth. Bonnar uses a head kick and push kick as the round comes to an end. Bonnar has separate cuts under both eyes. Excellent round. 10-9 Soszynski. Round 2. Bonnar starts with a nice pair of jabs. Soszynski keeps moving in with big looping punches. One lands right on Bonnar's chin and is one of the best blows of the fight. They start recklessly swinging yet again next to the cage. It looks like Soszynski is in trouble and then it looks like Bonnar is in trouble. We then get the same sequence again with Bonnar mixing in a head kick and a knee to the head. This is an incredible fight. Bonnar gets a takedown. Soszynski stands back up. Bonnar drops Soszynski with a knee to the head and throws repeated punches to the head. Sosyznski is just covering up and the referee finally stops the fight after dozens of uncontested punches. Bonnar poses comically. That was a heck of a win for Bonnar. Winner: Stephan Bonnar, TKO, round 2. After the fight Bonnar talks about how much he loves laying it all out on the line for the fans and gets a huge positive reaction from the audience. Chris Lytle vs. Matt Brown Lytle and Brown are known for action-packed standup wars and this fight was put together basically to be an exciting brawl. Of course, they have their work cut out for them to win fight of the night over Romero/Petruzelli and Bonnar/Soszynski. Round 1. Lytle throws a big overhand right that doesn't connect. Brown throws a few hooks. They clinch against the cage. Lytle throws mostly body punches with Brown using a few knees. As they separate Brown lands a nice head kick and follows that with a heavy knee to the body. Brown takes Lytle down but Lytle quick gets up. Brown looks for an anaconda choke but eventually lets it go. Back on the feet Lytle throws more big haymakers but doesn't have much success landing them. Brown drops Lytle with a straight counter as the round comes to an end. 10-9 Brown. Round 2. Lytle again opens up wide wild overhand punches. He grabs a guillotine and works into mount position. Lytle releases the guillotine and switches into side control. He uses his legs to triangle Brown's head and one arm and then looks to hyperextend the other. Brown submits. Winner: Chris Lytle, round 2, submission. Chris Leben vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama Akiyama is one of the biggest attractions in Japanese and Korean MMA, and won his UFC debut last year against Alan Belcher. He was supposed to fight Wanderlei Silva on this card but Silva had to pull out of the fight due to an injury. Leben takes the fight on short notice, having fought just two weeks ago on the Ultimate Fighter Finale. He is a wrestler and brawler well known for his antics on the first season of the Ultimate Fighter reality show. Leben seems in a very good mood dancing to the ring, and this is a great low risk high reward fight for him. Akiyama comes out to "Time to Say Goodbye" by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman, the best entrance in MMA. Round 1. Leben throws a kick and Akiyama sweeps it to score a takedown. He throws a few punches and Leben quickly gets back up. "Leben" chants and then "Aki" chants. Leben moves in with punches and gets caught with a hook. Leben throws a few hard leg kicks and mixes in a body kick. Leben gets caught with an accidental low blow. Starting back Akiyama lands a nice straight right punch. Akiyama uses a spinning back elbow and takes Leben down. Leben looks for an armbar but Akiyama isn't in trouble and throws some punches from top. Leben looks for the armbar again. This time he has it deeper but Akiyama gets out. Akiyama then looks for a kimura of his own. Akiyama is in Leben's half guard and looks to pass. Leben just gets back up. In the process Akiyama looks for a guillotine but doesn't have Leben in trouble. They trade punches and Akiyama takes Leben down with a judo trip at the end of the round. Close round, I've got it slightly for Akiyama, 10-9. Round 2. Akiyama lands a nice body punch and head kick. Leben looks to be moving much more slowly. Akiyama lands a hard spinning back fist on Leben. Akiyama moves in recklessly and gets caught with a hard Leben counter. This leads to an incredible sequence with each man landing really hard punches right on the chin. Very little defense, just trading power punches. It looked at various points like each man was in trouble of being dropped. Akiyama in particular was just tagging Leben but Leben has a great chin and fought through it firing back. Akiyama scores the takedown. Leben stands up and receives some punches while doing so. Akiyama looks for a takedown again. Leben tries for a guillotine but it isn't deep. Leben moves in and is caught with a straight right to the chin. Leben lands a series of his own, just catching Akiyama repeatedly on the chin. Each guy has to be wondering what exactly it takes to stop the other guy. Really tough round to score. 10-9 Akiyama. This has been a great, great PPV card. Round 3. Both men look spent. Leben throws a high kick. Akiyama throws a punch on an off balance Leben and pushes him to the ground. Akiyama goes for the old can opener while Leben throws punches from the bottom. Leben again looks for an armbar. Akiyama gets out and moves into top position. They trade punches with Leben throwing from the bottom and Akiyama from the top. The crowd chants for Leben. They're just brawling with each other despite Leben fighting from his back. Akiyama is getting the better of it as one would expect from top. Leben locks in a triangle choke and is throwing punches with 30 seconds left. Akiyama taps and that's it. The crowd erupts. Amazing fight. Winner: Chris Leben, round 3, submission. UFC heavyweight title: Brock Lesnar vs. Shane Carwin Lesnar is the champion but was out of action for a long period of time with diverticulitis and Carwin won the interim heavyweight title with a win over Frank Mir. Both men weighed in at the heavyweight maximum of 265 pounds. Lesnar is getting mostly cheers coming out, in contrast to all his other Las Vegas UFC fights. Round 1. Lesnar shoots for a takedown. Carwin defends and throws a nice knee to the head. He opens up with big punches and Lesnar is in huge trouble. He's just covering up and Carwin is raining down punches. Lesnar is doing nothing from his back. Carwin is pummeling Lesnar. Carwin is dropping huge elbows and punches. Lesnar has no answers whatsoever. Lesnar is bleeding. Carwin backs up and Lesnar just stays on his back. Lesnar finally gets up with a minute left in the fight. Lesnar looks to take Carwin down. Carwin defends. Lesnar throws a nice knee to the head. 10-7 Carwin. Round 2. Lesnar is smiling as the round starts. Lesnar takes Carwin down. He throws some punches from inside Carwin's half guard. Lesnar has an arm triangle choke. He squeezes and gets the tap. What a performance by Lesnar. The crowd goes crazy with cheers. This has been one of the best UFC cards, if not the best, of all time. Winner: Brock Lesnar, submission, round 2. "I stand before you a humble champion and I'm still the toughest SOB around," Lesnar declares after the fight.
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Elder abuse is a world-wide phenomenon that has only recently received the attention and research dollars that it deserves. For our senior citizens who are victims of caregivers or family members, the emotional and physical damage and financial exploitation is often hidden behind closed doors. Such is the case in a recent elder abuse situation in Missouri that has now been exposed by authorities who have charged Kansas City lawyer, Susan Elizabeth Van Note, age 44, with first degree murder and felony forgery. Ms. Van Note’s 67-year-old father and his long-time girlfriend, who he intended to marry, were attacked by an intruder in their Ozarks vacation home. Mr. Van Note’s girlfriend, Sharon Dickson, age 59, did not survive her gunshot wounds and died at the scene. Mr. Van Note survived and was transported to hospital, but died four days later, after his only child, Susan, gave his medical team a durable power of health care attorney, that authorized her to determine whether or not to “pull the plug”. She decided that life support should be terminated. With the death of her father and his fiance, Susan Van Note became the beneficiary of his multi-million dollar estate. Authorities later determined that the power of attorney was a forgery. A September 2012 criminal indictment against Ms. Van Note says that she “knowingly caused the death of William Van Note by shooting him…either acting alone or by knowingly acting together with or aiding another or others” and used a forged power of attorney to deny him potentially life-saving treatment. No charges have yet been brought against her in respect of the death of Sharon Dickson. Two high school friends of Ms. Van Note’s have also been charged with felony forgery and second degree murder. Desre and Stacy Dory also plead not guilty. Not surprisingly, Ms. Van Note was removed as the executrix of her father’s will and was ordered to relinquish control of the assets in her father’s estate. She did, however, manage to post cash bail of $1 million dollars after pleading not guilty, a situation that has caused concern because Ms. Van Note filed for bankruptcy the year before her father’s death, claiming assets of $250,000 against debts of $375,000. The obvious inference is that Ms. Van Note has already helped herself to estate assets. Ironically, Susan Van Note practices estate law touting her “compassionate representation of clients” and expertise in end-of-life issues. Lawdiva aka Georgialee Lang
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February 12, 2008 Nonprofit group helps overextended mortgage borrowers renegotiate with lenders The New York Times reports that ACORN Housing, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, is working with borrowers and mortgage lenders in order to help borrowers avoid foreclosure. Countrywide Financial Corp., Washington Mutual Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Citgroup, Inc. are prepared to offer borrowers in default a grace period of 30 days to negotiate new loan terms, rather than immediately foreclose on the property. The lenders hope that borrowers will be willing to reach out to nonprofit groups such as ACORN Housing to work out solutions before foreclosure proceedings begin. According to its website, ACORN Housing provides free housing counseling to low and moderate income homebuyers, including through its Home Equity Loss Prevention Program (HELP). Its GuideStar profile says that "[o]ur program emphasizes the one-on-one approach to counseling that has proven to be most effective at giving clients the information and tools they need. We counsel clients on the full range of housing finance needs: pre-purchase, delinquency, refinance, home equity, subprime, and predatory rescue." It would be interesting to compare and contrast this organization's activities with those of formerly-charitable credit card counseling agencies. TrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Nonprofit group helps overextended mortgage borrowers renegotiate with lenders:
January 3, 2013 Non-Tax Estate Planning Considerations 1. Plan For the Possibility of Estate Tax: Don't ignore the tax laws completely and it might be wise to insulate assets from future estate taxation by allocating some of the deceased spouse's assets to a separate trust that is covered by the deceased spouse's exemption amount. 2. Reassess Existing Life Insurance Policies: One should review his or her life insurance policy regularly to ensure the policy will remain in effect through the insured's death and is performing competitively with currently available insurance products. 3. Incorporate Asset Protection Planning into Estate Plans: It is wise to structure a child's inheritance in a way that protects the assets from unforeseen circumstances. 4. Plan For The Disposition of Family Businesses: A business owner's estate plan should address the future ownership, voting control, and management of the family business. 5. Clearly Identify Estate Beneficiaries: Avoid inadequate or incorrect identification of a beneficiary that could give rise to litigation. 6. Fund And Periodically Review Revocable Trusts During Lifetime: A periodic review of revocable trusts ensures that assets remain in the name of the revocable trust. 7. Review Beneficiary Designations For Life Insurance Policies, IRAs, Retirement Plans, And Annuities: The beneficiary designation, not the will, controls these policies, so it is important to pay close attention to who is designated. And if it is a child who is designated, then an expense trust or a custodial arrangement should be made if that child is a minor. Otherwise, the assets are held by a court-appointed guardian until the child turns 18 and the court can distribute the assets outright to the child. 8. Use Durable Powers of Attorney and Health Care Powers Of Attorney To Plan For Incapacity: These documents should designate an alternate agent in addition to an agent. 9. Generally, Avoid Joint Tenancy in Assets or "Transfer On Death" Accounts: Such accounts frequently produce results at odds with an individual's estate plan and can lead to litigation, so it is best to deal with these assets through a well-drafted will or trust. 10. Provide For Flexibility In Trust Arrangements: Provisions can be made for the naming of future, currently unidentified, beneficiaries and removal and replacement of an ineffective trustee. See Stuart B. Dorsett, Top 10 'Non-Tax' Estate Planning Recommendations, WRAL Tech Wire, Jan. 2, 2013. Special thanks to Jim Hillhouse (Professional Legal Marketing (PLM, Inc.)) for bringing this article to my attention. TrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Non-Tax Estate Planning Considerations: Thanks for posting. With the onset of the latest tax law-a permanent estate tax law, it would seem that these considerations would be at the forefront of discussions for the vast majority of our clients. I have noted commentators who suggest that nothing need be done to existing plans, especially "tax driven" plans even though they are dominated by language which is impossible for the ordinary person to understand and rendered largely irrelevant by the law. In the short period since the law was enacted I am being surprised by the number of clients who have expressed interest in unraveling complicated tax driven plans in favor of simpler ones in order to gain the enhanced piece of mind which comes from genuine understanding. Posted by: brian j. cohan \| Jan 5, 2013 3:00:53 PM
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Layout \| Football World Cup Tracker v7 Here is the penultimate update to my Football World Cup tracker. Once again I got a finalist wrong after Spain completely dominated Germany to advance. It is great that this world cup will be won by a team never to have won it previously. This should now settle the debate as to which country is the best never to have won, with whichever team losing on Sunday sadly taking that crown. I personally am backing Spain to add the World Cup to their European title. A few changes to the tracker sees the goal scorers added to each game, and inspired by Bruno Maag, the type set in different weights of Univers instead of Helvetica. Click on the image to see it full sized.
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We started off the weekend of my favorite holiday by taking our Henry on a little pre-birthday trip to the Denver Zoo. Rick took the day off and the weather was perfect, so we hung around with the furry and feathered friends. The trip was really great. First thing when we walked into the zoo, we stopped a the monitor lizard. Well, this scaly guy saw Henry peeking through his window and got up off his branch, moseyed across his cage, and swam down into the water near the window, right in front of Henry. I could tell this was going to be a good day. We decided that we’d visit the monkeys (of course). On the way to monkey cage, we saw the elephants snacking in their pen… check out what this great girl was doing to get her snacks: This elephant blew the leaves around the moat into a pile by the wall with her trunk. Then after they were in a nice pile, she reached waaay down with her trunk to pick them up. She stuck her back foot out for balance! Henry was also excited to see the mountian goats and big horn sheep that were along the way (click for best view): A fun side note: on Halloween, the zoo keepers give all of the animals pumpkins in their pens. The hyenas we chowing down on a great big one, and the gorilla’s pumpkin was demolished before we ever saw it. Even the bears and elephants and all the different deer and buffaloes had pumpkins! When we finally arrived at the monkey’s Henry was pretty excited to see them all running and playing. Here are a few more of my favorite pics of the day: On the way out we saw this bird… Then it was Boo-time – time for trick-or-treating! Henry was a monkey, of course, and he had a great time knocking on the neighbor’s doors once he figured out that they were all giving him candy! Saturday was the big day – Henry turned TWO! We celebrated witha monkey themed birthday party. Here are a few of the pics we got: First off – the monkey cake I made with my mom. It matched the invitations (and Henry’s shirt!). It was banana with chocolate butter cream frosting. Next a few of Henry’s favorite gifts: a cool toy saw, a “laptop,” and a buffalo shirt… who says kids don’t like getting clothes??? This biggest hits of the day: a new tricycle from Grandpa & Grandma K and all of the stuffed monkeys!
Here’s the next segment of What Happens Next? (Psst, like the new title?) Brandon, chest slicked with sweat, emerged from the woods. Illuminated in the moonlight, his muscled bulk appeared twice its normal size. Dark veins trekked along his arms and legs. His eyes flashed a luminous green. Fangs spilled over his bottom lip. He smiled, revealing two rows of uniformly sized, sharp-edged teeth. “I told you, escape was impossible.” He clicked his long, claw-like nails. Jack’s satisfied laugh sounded behind me. It couldn’t be true. Fangs? Claws? Brandon snarled. “You look scared, Tamara.” “What are you?” My heart slammed against my ribcage. Adrenaline squeezed my chest. “Really? You don’t know?” He rolled his eyes. “And I thought you were one of the smarter ones.” “But we…” Spent time in the sun. Time alone. Time…together. “Wah, wah. You always do this. I’m bored. Let’s just finish her already,” Jack whined. My boyfriend turned vampire raised a hand. “I’m not done yet.” “You take. Too. Long.” Brandon stepped on the pavement. “You got a problem with how I do things?” Jack shoved past me. “Yeah. I got a problem. Like I said. You take too long. You’ve had the past month to play with her. Time’s up.” The two monsters lashed at one another, vying for dominance. Jack growled and lunged at Brandon. The impact sent both of them barreling back into the woods. I stared, slack jawed, as the trees swayed and snapped from their battle. Go. Run! My self-preservation instinct screamed. I listened and took off at a gallop toward town. At my best, I could run a six minute mile. That meant I’d be at Anne-Marie’s in less than twenty. Hopefully, Brandon and Jack forgot about me. Their crashing faded the more distance I put between us. A pair of headlights blinded me. The car approached fast. I shifted to the side of the road and waved my arms, still running. The vehicle slowed and veered toward me. I dodged out of the way, relieved someone came along. The passenger window opened before the sedan came to a full stop. “Hey. You okay?” I didn’t ask permission to get in. Locking the door behind me, I yelled, “Hurry, I’m being chased.” “All right, all right.” The man drove on. “Who’s chain’ ya?” “No, no, turn around! Don’t go that way. I need to get to town.” I hated the high-pitched tone of my voice, but if the monster pair saw us, they’d probably split the car in two. Heck, Brandon had snapped a tree in half. “But I’m heading this way.” Mr. Middle-aged, dressed in a polo shirt and khakis, glanced at me. “You don’t understand, they’ll hurt you too. They’re…” I stopped, at a loss for words. His brow wrinkled. “They? Who?” “Never mind. Just please turn around.” We rounded the bend and nearly crashed into the felled tree. I screamed and grabbed the dash, breaking a nail below the quick. The driver swerved just in time, sending the sedan into a fishtail. He counter-steered and righted the car with stunt driver deftness. “What the hell?” He looked in the rearview, then at me. “Did you set me up?” “Did you know that the tree was there?” “No, of course not!” The man frowned and pulled the car over. I glared at him. “Why are you stopping?” He stuck a finger in my face. “I don’t appreciate getting pranked by some stupid teenager. Look at you. You’re covered in dirt. Probably high. I bet you thought it would be funny to get an old guy to wreck his car, right?” Why would I have to be picked up by a crazy man? “I’m not–” “Get out.” He unlocked the doors. “No, please, I–” “Get out!” He reached across me, opened the door, and shoved me to the ground. He drove off before I could even stand. The night around me was quiet. Back to square one.
Halo and Madden Tournament Event This event coming up on Friday, October 26th, 2007 is different for several reasons. First, students have planned the event. Tyrone Samuals and Anthony Brown have been involved in all previous events, and when they heard that I did not have time to coordinate a fall event, they offered to take on the project. The new leadership is super for several reasons. They have planned the event with an emphasis on tournaments, creating their own promotional fliers, contacting college departments like technology and audiovisual, detailing the tournament rules, involving other students and clubs, and marketing to community areas that we've never considered before. Anthony and Tyrone feel very confident about organizing and managing tournaments...I would never have imagined a Halo tournament with 32 teams, or a Madden tournament with 32 participants! For the first time, they are asking people to pay to register, since this is also a club fund-raiser. First place tournament winners will win some of the cash, and they feel certain this will bring in some serious players. We are looking forward to how this gaming event will work out. In any case, it has been an enjoyable experience for me to collaborate with these two young men. I'm hoping they will be inspired to take on the NEXT gaming event Spring 2008!
As we head into the final weekend of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, and Kevin Harvick have separated themselves from the rest of the pack to make it a three-horse race for the Cup. This has to be exactly what NASCAR officials had in mind when they created the Chase back in 2004 – the championship battle going down to the last race of the season. All three drivers have a legitimate shot to win the championship. Just to give you an idea of how close this championship battle is, if Kevin Harvick wins the race and Denny Hamlin finishes eighth, but does not lead a lap, Harvick will win the Cup, as long as Jimmie Johnson finishes fifth or worse and doesn’t lead a lap. But, if Johnson does lead a lap, he’ll win with a fifth-place finish in that scenario. If Johnson wins and Hamlin finishes second and doesn’t lead a lap, Johnson will win the Cup regardless of where Harvick finishes. If Hamlin leads a lap, though, he will be tied with Johnson, which means that Hamlin would win the championship because he has eight wins this season to Johnson’s seven (including Homestead). Or, Hamlin will win the Cup if he finishes at least four positions behind Johnson (if both are in the top 5; three positions if both are between sixth and 10th, or five positions if both are 11th or worse – assuming Harvick finishes fourth or worse and doesn’t lead a lap.) See how convoluted this is? That’s how close it is… everything matters: leading a lap, staying in touch with your competition, no mistakes, winning the race! So, with things this close, who is in the best position to win it? Logic would tell you Denny Hamlin because he’s got the lead. But, one stumble, one bad pit stop, and he could lose the Cup. So, it’s anyone’s ballgame. Over the last five years, Harvick has the best average finish (7th) of the three contenders at Homestead-Miami Speedway. But, Hamlin (11th) and Johnson (15th) aren’t far off. He also has the highest driver rating of the three at the track at 101.1 compared to Hamlin’s 94.7 and Johnson’s 92.9. Harvick has four top 10s in the last five years while Hamlin and Johnson both have three. But, Hamlin is the only one who has won at Homestead in the last five years. And, Harvick has not won a race on an intermediate, 1.5-mile oval this season. Both Hamlin and Johnson have two wins each on this type of track. But, when you factor in the finishes from all of the 1.5-milers this season, they are virtually even. Harvick has an average finish of 12th while Hamlin and Johnson both have an average finish of 11th. But Harvick leads all three with eight top 10s at mile-and-a-halfers, compared to Johnson’s seven and Hamlin’s five. If you take the finishes from all of the 1.5-mile tracks this season and the finishes at Homestead over the last five years and average them, Hamlin leads the way with a 9th-place average finish while Harvick has an 11th-place average and Johnson has a 13th-place average. That translates into Hamlin having the best statistical chance to win the Cup. But really, the bottom line is that any one of them could win or lose the Cup. It all will depend on how the chips fall on Sunday.
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- Managing Me - Big Ideas - Managing People “The object of [the Fair Work] Act is to provide a balanced framework for cooperative and productive workplace relations that promotes national economic prosperity and social inclusion for all Australians …” Fair Work Act, 2009. Many rail against the strictures of the laws governing the workplace. But what would they do if the Fair Work Act authorised them to craft their own framework, subject to but one key condition: that they must negotiate and agree that outcome with the rest of their workplace stakeholders? Could they rise to the challenge? There is no general consensus in Australian society on what our model of workplace relations should be. Anyone who doubts this need simply look at the divergent views of employers, unions and others that have been posted recently on the Fair Work Act Review Panel website. Perhaps the most insistent claim of employers is that the law should allow them to relate to their employees as they see fit and with minimal interference from trade unions. Unions generally want the law to gift them more scope and influence across workplaces. The key parties do, though, seem to agree on one thing: their interests are substantially at odds with one another. And so they argue the rightness of their competing positions and appeal to the political process to nudge or shove the legislative pendulum in their favoured direction. But this arm wrestle is only about the resting point of a pendulum that describes an inferior arc. Defying the parties’ analysis, the Fair Work Act asserts that its object is to promote “cooperative and productive workplace relations” – very similar language to its forerunner, Work Choices. However, our current Act, again like its immediate predecessor, has 21st century objects serviced by 20th century machinery. It does very little to provide structures, processes and remedies to foster collaborative and fruitful workplace engagements. It is designed and operates to set basic terms and conditions of employment and then to institutionalise conflict. Both worthy and necessary goals, but a far cry from the recipe for great workplaces. The features of the great workplace are well-known: mutual trust and respect, good communications, fairness, the right skills, a strong business plan, and some more. In the Australian and Anglosphere context, the explanation for the failure to go for greatness can be attributed in large measure to the fact that the workplace parties are the captives of their antagonistic histories. That ingrained antipathy looks increasingly small-minded with each passing decade. Given the character of contemporary Australia, perhaps the most scathing thing that can be said about the state of much of current industrial relations is that it is unnecessary. Australian society, while not without its serious flaws, is broadly consensual, congenial, accommodating and successful. If its workplace relations reflected the broader societal picture, it would be more Nordic than Anglo-Saxon – better still, Australian – in character. Enabling labour legislation that can help steer the workplace parties in a more constructive direction is what is needed. It is unlikely that that the current statutory review process will trigger sweeping changes favouring one or other of the major social players. There is, however, an option for reform – a threat-free invitation brimming with possibilities – that should excite everything but consternation. Open-minded workplace parties should be given this empowering offer: assume mutual responsibility for developing productive workplaces and the statute will support you. An astutely revised Fair Work Act should provide a pliable alternative to its default scheme. Willing workplace parties should be given the latitude to negotiate comprehensive, customised frameworks for the regulation of their relationships. They would need to demonstrate that their creations promoted the achievement of a cooperative and productive workplace as envisaged by the object of the Act. A necessary starting point is that employers not only acknowledge but comprehend that employees’ interests are promoted by association, matched by an understanding on the part of employees and their representatives that an abiding commitment to improving organisational performance must be part of the bargain. Unions have traditionally represented employees, but for non-unionised workplaces a formula is needed for elected representatives whose standing is sourced in a charter that ensures their independence and viability. Thereafter, the scope for bespoke arrangements should be extensive. The parties should be able to agree to engage with one another on all matters of mutual interest between them, and the forms of engagement should range beyond bargaining to consultation and other varieties of dialogue. They should commit to capacity building in respect of business education and continuous process improvement and, if indicated, to training in appropriate negotiation, consultation, problem-solving, dispute prevention and dispute resolution skills. They should be able to draw on independent resources (FWA with an expanded brief or some other agreed and independent agency). They would need to decide how best to conciliate and finally resolve any disputes of right or interest that may arise between them. And their agreed deals should be legally enforceable. Those open to exploring, developing and settling such flexible alternatives to the otherwise prescribed formula should be assisted with access to federal funding and other capacity-building resources. Any approved framework could dispense with and indeed displace all the statutory provisions dealing with bargaining representatives, bargaining procedures, good faith bargaining requirements, bargaining scope provisions, individual flexibility agreements, job security provisions, consultation requirements, the better-off-overall test, formal agreement approval requirements and industrial action regulations, amongst others. Basic statutory rights such as the National Employment Standards would need to be respected. The provisions of modern awards, though, could be substituted. Self-evidently, employers and employee representatives would only agree to supplant the default system if they shared the belief that their jointly negotiated alternatives served their combined interests better. And they should do better, because the dated design features of the current statute do not of themselves assist with the making of great contemporary workplaces. Any provisionally agreed framework for the promotion of cooperative and productive workplaces that displaced the default provisions on bargaining, consultation, industrial action and dispute resolution provided for by the statute would need to be submitted to Fair Work Australia for examination and approval. Before endorsing any such arrangements, FWA would need to be satisfied that they met the prime objects of the statute, were not for any reason contrary to the public interest and that a convincing majority of the affected employees supported them. It is suggested, though, that Fair Work Australia should show a proper margin of appreciation to the bargaining and consultation outcomes of endorsed engagement frameworks. Explicit provision for that margin would serve as a further incentive for the workplace parties to opt for (more) autonomous and tailored bargaining and consultation arrangements. No one would be compelled to enter into any such arrangements; they could only be the product of coercion-free, voluntary negotiations. They would be available only to those parties who showed sufficient imagination, collaboration and resolve to get them up. Were such arrangements to be provided for, a telling boost would be given to prescient parties to cut through all the regulatory requirements of the statute and to arrive at simplified, expeditious and functional engagement frameworks that meet both their particular needs and the needs of a get-ahead 21st century society and economy. Nor would the negotiated arrangements be uniform or static. It is reasonable to assume that workplace parties operating in different sectors would fashion quite different frameworks to meet their particular needs and circumstances. And that these solutions would evolve continuously, adapting to the dynamics of the domestic and global economy. The international and local research and experience suggest very strongly that parties who took up the cooperative proposition would gain a significant competitive advantage over those whose apparently implacable differences obliged them to soldier on under the ancient regime. Amongst other things, they could escape many of the constraints of our conflict-premised legislation, with its cramped conversations and prescribed bargaining cycles, opting instead for alternatives such as continuous consultation. Today only a minority of Australian workplace parties, acting in combination, would have the imagination and then the dexterity to actually negotiate their own futures. Most are still caught up in the zone of industrial indignation and finger-pointing. There is something quite fitting, though, about the fortunes of the quarrelling mass being tied to the vagaries of the political pendulum. If Australia is serious about innovation, then the law should enable the social parties to innovate. There can be little policy hazard in providing legislative space for cooperative pioneers. Consent is their platform, and they need venture only so far and as fast as their combined intent takes them. And should their ingenuity overshoot the public interest, the independent umpire can rein them in. Could our legislators contemplate moving from brown to green to rainbow fields? This article first appeared on The Conversation.
\|"You belong in a museum!" This article or section documents removed content. Innervating Locket was a Legendary Item in League of Legends. It was removed from the game in V220.127.116.11. \|Aura\|\|Unique: Nearby allies gain 20 health regeneration per 5 and 9 mana regeneration per 5.\| Unique: +10% cooldown reduction.\| Unique: When you use an ability, you regenerate 50 health and 20 mana over 2 seconds. This effect has a 3 second cooldown. Defense > Health\| Defense > Health Regen Magic > Cooldown Reduction Magic > Mana Magic > Mana Regen \|Item cost\|\|2250g (450g)\| It had been rumored to be re-introduced in Season 2. - Several employees at GamesCom '11 also mentioned a possible re-introduction of the Innervating Locket. - The Journal of Justice Volume 1, Issue 28 includes a very big hint that it's being reintroduced. - In the 20th Summoner Showcase, Nikasaur (A Riot employee), linked to a video by GeneralCacti about Udyr and an innervating locket. - Innervating Locket may also have been removed due to Champions like Udyr who possess low cooldowns on their abilities, allowing for the passive on Innervating Locket to become a source of near infinite sustain for such champions.
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I started teaching Python to 8th graders years ago. We were already teaching it to all of our 9th graders, so I talked the 8th grade computer teacher into it (pretty easy since a) she was as very smart woman, and b) I was sort of her boss ) so that we could build a little buzz for programming before kids made it to high school. I started them just with IDLE and some text based programs, followed by some stuff from the LiveWires lessons and it was a modest success. However… I felt I was spending too much time on the mechanics of using the environment and not enough on the actual prorgramming. This mattered since we could only carve two weeks out of the existing curriculum for the programming unit. I’d also switched to a curriculum completely based on using Python’s built-in turlte module, which became much easier when some us added several tweaks to the library for the 2.5 release, and even easier when Gregor Lingl’s brilliant x-turtle was adopted as the replacement for the turtle library in Python 2.6. Still, I wanted an even more supportive environment than IDLE. I wanted something that would take care of saving – kids forgetting to save was pain in the rear, and a good way to kill their enthusiasm. I also wanted something that would offer help on the commands as they were starting out. Not code completion, exactly – for novices that can more confusing, but something that would enable them to find the command they wanted easily without leaving the enviroment. So… I created my own. I used it and thought it worked pretty well, but never really got around to promoting it. Then Simón Ruiz started using it to teach our 9th grade class. Simón polished and refined the interface based on his experience and testing, and the result, if I do say so, is worth a look if you want to teach Python to kids using the turtle. It has the great advantage of being a single file, so installation is easy, and its only dependency is that it requires Tkinter and IDLE. At the moment Turtlelab isn’t really under active development – I’ve since left teaching and Simón has other assignments, but I believe he’s considering a blog post or two in the near future focussing on it. Rather than explain it in great detail, I’m sharing the link to the BitBucket repository and you can go play with it yourself. And if you really like it and want to use it, please do. If you like it even more and want to take it over, please let us know – we love to have it in use and under development.
Tatting normally flows for me. It's soothing, rhythmical, and effortless. But just lately, it's not been so. I've become too obsessed with improving rather than enjoying and in fact, I think it's made my tatting worse! That last Iris Niebach motif was awful. And even this one below was hard work - I don't think I've ever untatted so much in one small motif!! My proposed remedy is to go backwards a bit and just enjoy tatting as I did before, not worrying about the side or the up or down join for a bit. Until I get "my flow" back! This is a motif from Blomqvist and Persson's Book "Tatting Patterns and Designs" It is tatted in Lizbeth 20 Country Grape Lt. But does this motif look familiar to you? I'm sure I've tatted something very similar before... but at the moment I can't remember where it was from or when I tatted it! I decided to decorate a couple of Aerlits for myself to give them a good try. This one in a lovely vintage floral print went so well with the thread, I had to show you a photo:
It probably won’t satisfy the fiercest critics of Google’s privacy policies, who claim the company has strayed too far from its “Don’t be Evil” mantra. One advocacy group has even put up a billboard in Times Square showing a sinister Joker-like character, in the likeness of Google CEO Eric Schmidt, offering kids free ice cream as he steals their personal information. But Google is tweaking its privacy policies hoping to make them easier to understand, associate general counsel Mike Yang announced Friday on the search engine’s official blog. The changes take effect October 3. “Even taking into account that they’re legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand,” Yang wrote. “We aren’t changing any of our privacy practices. We want to make our policies more transparent and understandable.” “Our updated privacy policies still might not be your top choice for beach reading (I am, after all, still a lawyer),” Yang wrote. “But hopefully you’ll find the improvements to be a step in the right direction.”
My series titled Women of 5th Avenue was just published in the Huffungton Post. Some interesting comments to say the least. New York Street Photography The Huffington Post is now running the largest selection from my 1970′s NYC street photography that’s been published yet. Over 40 Images and a short interview is included. A selection of my NYC street photography from the mid 1970‘s is running in the Daily Mail online site titled Mail Online. The Daily Mail is the UK’s second largest daily newspaper and has the largest online presence of all UK’s papers. These shots were on Tri-x film often pushed to 800ASA so I could hand hold my 80-200 zoom lens. Yes folks, that’s real film grain. Long live The Ramones . . . A series from my new York city wall Art won a bronze award in The One Eyeland contest in the category specialty camera. All photos from this series were shot on my iphone. Good old Mitt from my New York City Wall Art series My latest New York City Wall Art Photo for rainy Friday afternoon shot in Times Square, NYC. The latest from my New York City Wall Art series. I just see this stuff . . . Who says he NYC subways are grey and dreary?
Beer and loathing in America The White House happy hour President Obama convened last week to soothe hurt feelings between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley was yet another glimpse at the undeniable reconciliatory power of beer. Beer has been making jokes funny, furniture comfortable and homely people sexy for at least 10,000 years, and there could be no finer tool to thwart post-racial racism. Any substance that could make golf entertaining ought to be able to put the brakes on a frothing media and convince the parties involved to put the matter behind them. And it seems to have worked: Lubed with beer, the heretofore somber professor Gates said of his arresting officer: “When he’s not arresting you, Sgt. Crowley is a really likable guy.” There is, of course, much precedent in American presidential history for using psychoactive substances to bring together feuding factions. While the White House has been dismally abstemious for the past eight years (not counting being drunk on imperialism), previous centuries were marked by great moments in insobriety. For example, Jimmy Carter famously brought Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin together at Camp David to snort an eight ball of pure, Peruvian blow. The result: peace between those nations, Nobel Prizes for Sadat and Begin, and an exhilaration Carter described as “Dang, mah whole head is numb.” Just a few years earlier, Richard Nixon opened China to the Western World by meeting with Henry Kissinger, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai and knocking back a case of Cutty Sark (though Mao complained Nixon bogarted the Scotch). Even during Prohibition, Franklin D. Roosevelt got Wall Street and financial reformers to agree to the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission by passing around a pitcher of Old Fashioneds and several “tobacco cigarettes enhanced with cannabis sativa.” Going back further, who can forget Dionysus, who got Euripides and Aeschylus so baked on wine and hellebore that they agreed, “Tori Amos isn’t so bad after all.” So no one can complain that Obama “acted stupidly” in inviting Crowley and Gates over for beer, even though his choice of beverage was disappointing. According to The New York Times, “Mr. Obama had a Bud Light, Sergeant Crowley had Blue Moon, Professor Gates drank Sam Adams Light and Mr. Biden, who does not drink, had a Buckler nonalcoholic beer.” Of course, everyone is entitled to his or her taste in beer, and I will leave it to my far-more-qualified colleagues Roger Baylor or Sara Havens to alcho-analyze. But the Bud Light choice seems to say Obama was more interested in shutting down the media shitstorm than achieving reconciliation. If he really wanted progress, he could have chosen a beer with substance, perhaps the Tall Tale Pale Ale from Cambridge Brewing Company — or at least shotgunned the Bud. But that’s a technicality in what was otherwise my favorite White House photo op since Nixon made Elvis an honorary federal narc. If there’s anyone who’s done as much as Obama to make me feel the world is really going “post-racial,” it is Gates himself. His PBS miniseries “African-American Lives” was an enlightening look at the genealogy of famous African-Americans like Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Don Cheadle, Maya Angelou and Oprah. By telling the family histories of famous people, the stories felt more personal. By using DNA evidence, Gates showed that we all come from a complex admixture of world bloodlines. And there are a lot of people with pretty much the same racial makeup as Obama who look as white as Joe Biden. Maybe we won’t be post-racial until our lying eyes evolve past the point where they tell our faulty brains that, because somebody’s skin appears a different color than ours, that person is somehow different from us. At any rate, four out of five pundits agree that this national dialogue on race is necessary and cathartic but will be painful. But you know what four of five bartenders agree is good for pain? Beer! The whole Gates-gate episode and most especially Obama’s presidency prove we’ve made strides in the right direction. And I’ll drink to that. Thanks to all of you who’ve sent suggestions for albums for Laura. Polls are still open — if you’d like to join the festivities please visit http://tinyurl.com/LauraRose and drop me a line at email@example.com. I’ll report the results in my next column.
What took you so long? I don't know about you guys but this has been one busy week in the Daniel household! Owen has been sick all week! Sleepless nights full of deep loud coughing that keeps a mama on stand by all night long. (He's finnaally getting better) I started coaching Owen's basketball team... I forgot how draining it was to talk over the sound of 100 basketballs bouncing in the gym. (somebody save me lol!) My nephew was born! 8 pounds 13 ounces (welcome to the world little one!) A secret undercover project with my very talented friends... more to come on this soon(ish). Let's just say I was WAY out of my comfort zone for this one folks... Writing, editing and editing some more. I'm reaching a deadline for a writing project... (feeling the fear and forging straight ahead...deep breathes!) No time in the studio ALL week. Let's get messy!!! Last but not least.... Look what showed up in my mail box last night? was selected for the Banners We Love in the absolutely BEAUTIFUL magazine What a FABULOUS way to end such a nutty week! I'm off to get my paint on... Wishing you all a weekend filled with tender loving care!
Graham E. Berry, State Bar Gordon J. Calhoun, State Bar No. 84509 Lewis, D’Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard 221 N. Figuero Street, Suite 1200 Los Angeles, California 90012 Telephone: (213) 250-1800 Attorneys for Defendants UWE GEERTZ, Ph.D. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY ) No. CV 91-6426 HLH (Tx) ) REVISED DECLARATION OF HANA Plaintiff, ) WHITFIELD RE MOTION FOR COSTS vs. ) Date: APRIL 4, 1994 STEVEN FISHMAN and UWE GEERTZ) Time: 10:00 a.m. DECLARATION OF HANA (ELTRINGHAM) WHITFIELD I, Hana Whitfield, declare as follows: 1. I am over the age of 18 years. I am a resident of the State of California and I have personal knowledge of the matters set forth herein. If called upon as a witness herein I could testify competently as to the matters set forth herein. 2. Having been retained and designated as an expert witness in the Church of Scientology International vs Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz law suit, I am responding to several declarations submitted by Messrs. Lubell, Moxon, Bowles, Miscavige, Starkey, Mithoff, and others on February 17, 1994 along with the Church of Scientology International's ("CSI") Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of Motion to Dismiss, dated February 16, 1994. 3. It is significant to note the hateful and vengeful emotions the aforementioned Scientologists entertain toward their critics such as Dr. Uwe Geertz, Steven Fishman ("Fishman"), their attorneys, Vaughn and Stacy Young and others. These emotions and their ensuing acts, have been dominant toward CSI critics for decades. They originate in the very policies and bulletins written by L. Ron Hubbard ("Hubbard") included herein. 4. It is apparent that the CSI vs Steven Fishman and Uwe Geertz law suit was designed exactly according to Hubbard's policies so as to do the very acts to Dr. Geertz and Fishman that CSI and the Religious Technology Center ("RTC") and Author Services, Incorporated ("ASI") claim is being done to them. 5. I was a Scientologist for twenty years. I became an adherent after reading Hubbard's book, Dianetics The Modern Science of Mental Health ("DMSMH") in 1965 in South Africa. I started auditor training in Johannesburg, then went to Saint Hill, England, and received advanced auditor training through Level 7, the highest auditor and case supervisor training level available at that time. I also completed Hubbard's Organization Executive Course, a multi-volume course covering all Hubbard's organizing, business management, finance, establishment, promotional and public relations policies and procedures, during which I learned how to run a Scientology Organization. 6. I received auditing up through the state called "Clear." Hubbard's Technical Dictionary contains thirteen definitions for the state, attached hereto as Exhibit 1, some of which are: "A Clear, in an absolute sense, would be someone who could confront anything and everything in the past, present and future." (Taken in part from Ability Minor Magazine Number 256); "A Clear has no vicious reaction mind and operates at total mental capacity just like the first book (Dianetics The Modern Science of Mental Health) said. In fact every early definition of Clear is found to be correct." (Taken in part from Hubbard Bulletin 2 April 1965, "The Road to Clear"); "To clear: to release all the physical pain and painful emotion from the life of an individual." (Taken from Hubbard's book, DMSMH.) 7. I served one year as contracted staff at the Los Angeles Organization in 1966 and 1967 after which, by special invitation, I joined Hubbard's Sea Project in Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Hubbard assumed the title of Commodore in 1966 or 1967. The Sea Project grew into the Sea Organization ("Sea Org") which was looked upon as Scientology's 'elite.' Even though we were Scientologists and ordained ministers, Hubbard had us wear naval type uniforms and insignia, and sign billion year contracts. For the next eight years through 1975, I served on two of Hubbard's ships, on the "Avon River," later renamed the "Athena," and the "Royal Scotman," later renamed the "Apollo." I held positions including those of Ship's Captain, Deputy Captain, Commodore's Staff Aide, Deputy Commodore for the United States and others, and was immediately subordinate to Hubbard for most of this time. 8. Hubbard once spoke about his strategies for "handling" his enemies. The best way was to, literally, drive them crazy, to use all one's resources to find their weaknesses and hit them hardest where it hurt the most. He said there were few men in history who mastered the techniques to do so successfully. He intimated he was one. 9. By 1975, Hubbard's auditing techniques were already affecting me negatively. I had almost constant migraine headaches and was scared that Hubbard's techniques no longer worked on me. 10. In October 1975, Hubbard moved his organization ashore to Clearwater, Florida. From then on to the early 1980s, I got worse. I couldn't get medication strong enough to stop the never ending pain. By early 1976, I developed suicidal ideation because I couldn't conceive any other way to stop the pain. It continued unabated until well after I left the Sea Org in March 1982. 11. In 1984, I experienced a disaster with a CSI front group, Sterling Management Systems, ("SMS"). SMS promoted Hubbard's business management policies to doctors, dentists and chiropractors as a way to way to expand their business and double their income. SMS claimed no connection to CSI though its consultants, including myself, knew otherwise. The despicable treatment I saw meted out to two decent dentists in a San Bernadino clinic, and to me and my superior, by Sterling staff and by Scientologists, shocked me so deeply that I left CSI. Both dentists paid for expensive SMS consultants to introduce Hubbard's management techniques into their practice, train their employees and double their income by year's end. 12. The dentists were pushed to buy a CSI auditing package for nearly $1,000 an hour, with a minimum of 25 hours, for each dentist. They saw their budget overextend and put a stop on the check. On the same day the dentists heard one of their SMS consultants, who touted no connection between SMS and CSI, talk about the transgressions they had divulged to their auditors in confidential priest-penitent auditing sessions. The same day, one dentist's wife also bought home a pack of critical CSI news articles from the public library. 13. SMS and CSI went into overdrive and the screaming and duress began. The dentists were threatened: to make the check good one dentist was blackmailed and the other was told he would reincarnate as a rock in his next life. My superior and I were fired two weeks later, and I left Scientology forever. 14. I then began a long recovery, searching for answers as to why I joined Scientology and gave it twenty years of my life only to end up suicidal and in chronic ill health. SCIENTOLOGY POLICY ESTABLISHING LINES OF AUTHORITY WITHIN SCIENTOLOGY. 15. In order to understand how Hubbard directed Scientology throughout its myriad corporations almost up to his death in 1986 and how the authority he created has continued thereafter, one has to understand his foundational policies. Hubbard's policies established all lines of authority, corporate structures and job descriptions in CSI. His policies had seniority over those of others without exception, regardless of corporate or organization positions. His policies were permanently valid unless canceled by Hubbard himself. 16. Hubbard Policy of 13 March 1966, "Orders, Precedence of Personnel, Titles Of," attached hereto as Exhibit 2, states, "The following table gives the precedence ... of orders or directions in Scientology. This table shows what order to follow first and if one below is contrary to one above, follow the upper one." (emphasis added). The first three entries are Board Resolution, Policy signed by Hubbard, Bulletin signed by Hubbard, and so on down the chart. Orders originated and signed by others come after these four. The policy continues, "No order lower on the scale may cancel or set aside an order above it on the scale ... Any written or published order may be canceled by a published order senior to it on the above chart except that, traditionally, board minutes cannot cancel policy letters or bulletins, these being originated or modified by the Executive Director whose powers only are ratified by the board." 17. On 13 August 1967, during the early days of the Sea Project, Hubbard wrote Flag Order #5, "Staff Conduct," attached hereto as Exhibit 3. It states, "The order of importance of ... orders is: (a) Commodore's (Hubbard's) concerns first, (b) others second. Do both. Both are important." This Flag Order was never canceled by Hubbard. 18. In 1978 Hubbard wrote, "The Code of a Sea Org Member," attached hereto as Exhibit 4. It states, "I promise to uphold, forward and carry out Command Intention." This Code was never canceled by Hubbard. 19. Another Hubbard policy of 24 September 1970, "Issues-Types Of," attached hereto as Exhibit 5, clarified the value of various major types of issues: "HCOPL - Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter. Written by LRH only. This is a permanently valid issue of all third dynamic (group), org and administrative technology ... HCOBs - Hubbard Communications Office Bulletins. Written by LRH only. These are the technical issue line. They are valid from first issue unless specifically canceled ... The above are the ... main lines of issue of valid data. They have first priority on mimeo and in distribution." This policy was never canceled by Hubbard. 20. A later CSI Policy Directive #19 of 7 July 1982, "The Integrity of Source," attached hereto as Exhibit 6, stated, "It is hereafter firm Church policy that LRH ISSUES ARE TO BE LEFT INTACT AS ISSUED. No one except LRH may cancel his issues. No one except LRH can revise his issues ..." It was written and issued by the Watchdog Committee, a division of CSI. 21. These Hubbard policies laid an automatic response into Sea Org members and Scientologists - that their first loyalty was to Hubbard as head of the Sea Org and Scientology, not to the Commanding Officer of their own organization and even less so to their direct organization superior. This loyalty remains so into the present. Current and former Scientologists would all say that they would follow Hubbard's orders or a Commodore's Messenger's orders rather than that of their Commanding Officer, attached hereto as Exhibit 7. MISREPRESENTATIONS AND CONCEALMENTS IN DECLARATION OF DAVID MISCAVIGE. Misrepresentation That Criminal Acts Done in the Past Were Aberrational Acts By The Discredited And Defunct Guardian Office Rather Than Mandated By Hubbard's Policy. 22. David Miscavige ("Miscavige"), in his February 17, 1994 declaration filed herein, misdirects the attention of this Court by misrepresenting that criminal acts done in the past were aberrational acts by the discredited and defunct Guardian Office ("GO") and concealing that such criminal acts were, and still are, mandated by Hubbard's policy. (Miscavige declaration, pages 19 and 26). He also said (page 39), "... the only reason that the Youngs feel safe enough to make their outrageously false allegations of bad conduct and harassment against the Church and me is because they know there will be no "Fair Game" retaliation, thanks to my kicking out the GO and putting a permanent end to their abuses." (Miscavige declaration, page 39). 23. Miscavige's claims are false. The defunct GO is the wrong direction to look for blame and the wrong source to focus it on. 24. To look in the right direction and at the right source, one must go to Hubbard's own policies. 25. In a taped lecture in June 1952, "The Journal of Scientology, Issue 18-G," attached hereto as Exhibit 8, pages 1 and 2, Hubbard said, "The only way you can control people is to lie to them ... When you find an individual is lying to you, you know that the individual is trying to control you. That is the mechanism of control.....Not "is going to", but "is lying to you." This taped lecture was never canceled by Hubbard. 26. A Hubbard bulletin of 5 November 1967, "Critics of Scientology", attached hereto as Exhibit 9, states, "Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts. Over and over we prove this." Hubbard continued on page 2, "Two things operate here. Criminals hate anything that helps anyone, instinctively. And just as instinctively a criminal fights anything that may disclose his past ... If you, the criticized, are savage enough and insistent enough in your demand for the crime, you'll get the text, meter or no meter. Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown. And act completely confident that those crimes exist. Because they do." This is a key Hubbard bulletin which lays the foundation for the beliefs and the actions of Scientologists. Other Hubbard writings amplify it. This bulletin was never canceled by Hubbard. 27. In mid-March 1955, Hubbard wrote the "Dissemination of Material," attached hereto as Exhibit 10, which states: "The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway ... will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly." This article was never canceled by Hubbard. 28. Hubbard's policy of 15 August 1960, "Dept of Govt Affairs," attached hereto as Exhibit 11, states: (3) Make enough threat or clamor to cause the enemy to quail ... (6) If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or ... any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them [emphasis added] to cause them to sue for peace. Don't ever defend. Always attack. Don't ever do nothing. Unexpected attacks in the rear of the enemy's front ranks works best." This policy was never canceled by Hubbard. 29. Hubbard policy of 25 February 1966, "Attacks on Scientology," attached hereto as Exhibit 12, states, Scientology must respond to attacks by "... attacking the attackers only. NEVER agree to an investigation of Scientology. ONLY agree to an investigation of the attackers. This is the correct procedure: (1) Spot who is attacking us. (2) Start investigating them promptly for FELONIES or worse using our own professionals, not outside agencies ... (4) Start feeding lurid, blood, sex, crime, actual evidence on the attackers to the press. Don't ever tamely submit to an investigation of us. Make it tough, rough on attackers all the way.... There has never yet been an attacker who was not reeking with crime. All we had to do was look for it and murder would come out." This policy was never canceled by Hubbard. MISREPRESENTATIONS ABOUT FAIR GAME. 30. Miscavige brought up Hubbard's policy on the "FAIR GAME LAW" in his February 17, 1994 declaration attached hereto, page 39, saying there would be no "Fair Game" retaliation on Vaughn and Stacy Young who, like my husband and me, are speaking out about CSI. This is false. 31. The first Hubbard policy on "Fair Game" was printed 1st March 1965, "JUSTICE SUPPRESSIVE ACTS SUPPRESSION OF SCIENTOLOGY AND SCIENTOLOGISTS THE FAIR GAME LAW," attached herein as Exhibit 13. It states: "By FAIR GAME is meant, without rights for self, possessions or position, and no Scientologist may be brought before a Committee of Evidence or punished for any action taken against a Suppressive Person or Group during the period that person or group is "fair game ... Such Suppressive Acts include ... Ist degree murder, arson, disintegration of persons or belongings not guilty of suppressive acts (emphasis added)..." Hubbard thus gave Scientologists carte blanche to commit criminal acts against anyone declared a suppressive person. Despite Scientologists' protestations that the policy does not exist or never existed, I was a student at Saint Hill Manor, England in late 1965 when I was required to study it. 32. These Hubbard policies are not philosophical. They are functional; they are the guide to how CSI and RTC operate, how the GO operated, and how its successor, Office of Special Affairs ("OSA"), a division of CSI, operates. 33. After the policy's distribution, there was so much media and public outcry against it, that Hubbard revised it and deleted the underlined phrase above. The most recent revision, Hubbard Policy of 23 December 1965 revised 8 January 1991, "SUPPRESSIVE ACTS SUPPRESSION OF SCIENTOLOGY AND SCIENTOLOGISTS," attached hereto as Exhibit 14, bears little similarity to the earliest 1 March 1965 edition. 34. A further Hubbard policy ordered upper level OT graduates to commit criminal acts on suppressive persons. It is, "O.T. REGULATIONS," of 30 September 1966, attached hereto as Exhibit 15. It states, "No Operating Thetan may engage in a suppressive action against any person, state or country in the absence of an ... Ethics Order labeling the person, state or country suppressive. Such orders must be obtained beforehand." This policy was never canceled by Hubbard. 35. A later Hubbard policy of 18 October 1967, "PENALTIES FOR LOWER CONDITIONS," attached hereto as Exhibit 16, states: "SP Order. Fair Game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed." This policy was never canceled by Hubbard. 36. The action of declaring people suppressive persons still continues in all Scientology Organizations. MISREPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE CANCELLATION OF FAIR GAME. 37. Scientologists argue interminably that Hubbard's "Fair Game" policy was canceled in 1968 and again later, that it never existed, that because it doesn't appear in the 1991 policy manuals it doesn't exist, and more. A review of "Fair Game" cancellations shows this is false. 38. Hubbard policy of 21 October 1968, "CANCELLATION OF FAIR GAME," attached hereto as Exhibit 17, a key policy quoted by Scientologists as purportedly canceling "FAIR GAME," in fact upholds the "Fair Game" treatment of suppressive persons with criminal acts. It states, "The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations. This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP" (emphasis added). This meant that a declared suppressive person or SP was still subject to the practice and acts ordered by "Fair Game." He just was not labeled "Fair Game" anymore. 39. An affidavit written by Hubbard on March 1976, attached hereto as Exhibit 18, though claimed by Scientologists to cancel "FAIR GAME," fails to do so. 40. An 8 June 1979, order titled, "DECLARE," attached hereto as Exhibit 19, quotes Hubbard's "Fair Game" policy of 23 December 1965 and the words "THE FAIR GAME LAW." This was well after any Hubbard "cancellations." 41. In a 16 December 1980 "Sentencing Memorandum of the United States of America," attached hereto as Exhibit 20, US Attorney Ruff and US Assistant Attorneys Banoun, Hetherton and Winfree wrote that, "the fair game policy continued in effect well after the indictment in this case and the conviction of the first nine co-defendants. Defendants claim that the policy was abrogated by the Church's Board of Directors in late July or early August, 1980, only after the defendants' personal attack on Judge Richey." (Sentencing Memorandum, page 16 footnote) 42. Several Courts found that CSI continued applying the "Fair Game" doctrine beyond any time the Church said it was canceled, such as Judge Breckenridge in his decision of June 22, 1984, in Church of Scientology of California vs Gerald Armstrong, specifically pages 8, 11 and 13, attached hereto as Exhibit 21. 43. A further purported "Fair Game" cancellation of 22 July 1980, "ETHICS CANCELLATION OF FAIR GAME, MORE ABOUT," attached hereto as Exhibit 22, also did not conceal the practice. It wasn't even written by Hubbard but by "The Boards of Directors of the Churches of Scientology," so, by Hubbard's own rules quoted in paragraphs 16 to 21, this "cancellation" did not have the authority to cancel Hubbard's "Fair Game" policy. 44. That "Fair Game," including criminal action and massive financial fraud continue and which implicates Miscavige himself, occurred in San Francisco, on 17 October 1982. 44a. Seven top Scientologists held a conference of United States Mission Holders in the San Francisco Hilton Hotel. They were Miscavige, Norman Starkey ("Starkey"), Marc Yager ("Yager"), Lyman Spurlock ("Spurlock"), Ray Mithoff ("Mithoff"), Guillaume Lesevre ("Lesevre") and Steve Marlowe ("Marlowe"), attached hereto in Exhibits 23 and 24. 44b. Exhibit 23 shows the seven men at a table with Starkey talking at the microphone. Miscavige is behind the microphone, looking up at Starkey. They are all in Sea Org Officer uniform, with lanyards and service ribbons. Miscavige was a Commander, Starkey a Commander, Yager a Captain, Spurlock a Warrant Officer, Lesevre a Captain. Mithoff and Marlowe, who worked in the non-profit RTC, were both Commanders. 44c. The United States Mission Holders, with whom they were interacting, were licensed by a separate entity, Scientology Missions Int.("SMI"), operating within the non-profit CSI's corporate structure. 44d. The announced conference purpose was to make the Mission Holders unquestioningly compliant. Miscavige personally declared at least one Mission Holder a suppressive person, attached hereto as Exhibit 25, and said criminal charges were filed against him. This constituted the practice of "Fair Game." The conference resulted in massive intimidation and belittling of Mission Holders. 44e. What Exhibits 23, 24 and 25 do not show, but what occurred in fact was an utter abandon of corporate integrity. The majority of these Officers held full time positions in the for profit AUTHOR SERVICE, INC. organization, yet represented themselves as non profit CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL members and SEA ORG OFFICERS as well. (1) All seven men worked in tandem during this conference; (2) All seven men wore full Sea Org uniform and were introduced by their Sea Org ranks; (3) Miscavige and Starkey held full time positions in the for profit ASI; Miscavige as ASI Chairman of the Board since March 1982 and Starkey as ASI Chief Executive; (4) Spurlock held a full time position in the for profit ASI as Corporate Affairs Director. (5) ASI supposedly acted as agent for Hubbard's fictional works, but in reality it was running the non-profit CSI and RTC, attached hereto as Exhibit 26, in trial testimony of Homer Schomer in JULIE CHRISTOFFERSON TITCHBOURNE vs. CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY, et al., pages 3598, 3605, 3607-8. (7) Marlowe, Lesevre and Mithoff were the only three who wore Sea Org Officer uniforms validly - they were Inspector General RTC, Executive Director Int. CSI, and Senior Case Supervisor Int. CSI respectively at the time, both RTC and CSI being non-profit corporations. 44f. What is also not seen in Exhibits 23, 24 and 25, is that the Mission Holder Conference was held in order to perpetrate an enormous financial fraud and scam on CSI and individual Mission Holders, and was done with the full knowledge and participation of Miscavige, others present as well as Hubbard as follows: (1) Through massive intimidation and coercion ("Fair Game"), the wealthy and independent Mission Holders were forced to pay huge sums of money through CSI to ASI; (2) ASI funneled the money through a Liberian shell corporation, Religious Research Foundation, and through Canada, into Hubbard's private bank accounts in Luxembourg and Lichtenstein; (3) During only part of 1982, over forty million dollars from the non-profit CSI was funneled through the for profit ASI into Hubbard's personal bank accounts, attached hereto as Exhibit 26, according to trial testimony of Homer Schomer in JULIE CHRISTOFFERSON TITCHBOURNE vs. CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY, et al., pages 3609, 3611, 3614-3620, 3629-3630. 44g. This is only the tip of the iceberg concerning corporate integrity violations, which were standard operating procedure with Hubbard and which he passed on to his followers. Scientology management cannot succeed without such violations ... Hubbard's policies and procedures, only some of which mandate the authority and independence of Boards and Executive Directors, do not, in the main, tolerate this in practice. 44h. Miscavige's attempts to portray himself, CSI, RTC and ASI as having clean hands since the "demise" of the GO in 1981 are thus blatantly false, attached hereto as Exhibits 23, 24, 25, and 26, according to trial testimony of Homer Schomer in JULIE CHRISTOFFERSON TITCHBOURNE vs. CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY, et al., pages 3652 and 3659. 45. Hubbard was Miscavige's role model. Hubbard purportedly signed an "Agreement" on September 15, 1966, regarding his resignation, "from all directorships of Church of Scientology effective September 1, 1966." I purportedly witnessed the agreement and signed it, "Hana Eltringham," my former name, attached hereto as Exhibit 27. The Agreement is false. In September 1966, I was a student auditor at Saint Hill, England, completing Class 7 auditor interne requirements in order to join my husband, Guy Eltringham, in Los Angeles. I was a nobody. Up to that time, I never met or spoke with Hubbard. I signed the Agreement either on board the "Avon River" or the "Royal Scotman" between August 1967 up to March 1969, when I was still a rising star in Hubbard's personal entourage. 46. "In 1983 and 1992, CSI printed and distributed two publications, each containing hundreds of Scientology and Sea Org members names who were declared suppressive persons. They are SO ED 2192 INT (Sea Org Executive Directive 2192 International) of 27 January 1983, "LIST OF DECLARED SUPPRESSIVE PERSONS" containing approximately 570 names, attached hereto as Exhibit 28. And FLAG ED 2830RB (Flag Executive Directive 2830RB) of 25 July 1992 containing approximately 415 groups and 2,230 individuals, attached hereto as Exhibit 29. Both my husband's and my name appear on these lists. 47. Arguing whether "Fair Game" is canceled or not is the wrong issue. Scientologists continuously deny that Hubbard meant what he wrote in his first policy on "Fair Game." Hubbard does the same in his March 1975 Affidavit, attached herein as Exhibit 18. If so, why do Scientologists continue to practice "Fair Game?" 48. The record clearly shows that "Fair Game" continues. It is replete with harassment after harassment of current day critics, per paragraphs 64 through 93. It, and the other Hubbard policies, are the criminal legacy Hubbard passed onto his blindly loyal followers. 49. Further, if Hubbard's "Fair Game" policy was really canceled and remains canceled in the present, why weren't all the other Hubbard "fair game type" policies stricken out of the record long ago? Why are they reprinted in the 1991 Policy and Bulletin manuals? 50. It must be noted that this Court is not immune to the "Fair Game" treatment meted out by Scientologists to courts in the recent past. Some of these abuses are documented in the 1980 article, "Scientology's War Against Judges" attached hereto as Exhibit 30, and the 1993 article, "Churches Litany of Lawsuits," attached hereto as Exhibit 31. CSI's personal attack on Judge Ritchie is attached hereto in Exhibit 20, page 16 footnote. Another example is that of Judge Ideman as outlined in his declaration of 17 June 1993, attached hereto as Exhibit 32. 51. All Hubbard's works, including "Fair Game," constitute CSI's sacred scripture, attached hereto as Exhibit 33, page 24, "Scriptures: In the Scientology religion, the scriptures are all the spoken and written words of L. Ron Hubbard. The scriptures include millions of written words contained in books, films, various forms of issues, and writings and several thousand tape recorded lectures." 52. This is the Hubbardian mindset which directed the criminal acts of the now-defunct GO, and which continues to direct the acts of all Hubbard's corporations today, both profit and non-profit. 53. I experienced this in 1968, when both the "Avon River," the ship I captained at the time, and the "Royal Scotman," Hubbard's Flag ship, were in Bizerte, Tunis, in North Africa. Two Sea Org Officers and I spoke on the dock one evening. They were both flying out the next day to Los Angeles, on a Hubbard assignment. They told me that Hubbard ordered them to shoot up Jack Horner, who lived in Los Angeles, a suppressive person whom Hubbard had personally declared some years earlier. Both men had hand guns and would travel with them. They left ... and then returned some weeks later. After their debrief they told me that Horner had indeed been shot at multiple times, while he and his family were in their home one evening. Fortunately, no one had been hurt. THE CURRENT DECLARATIONS ARE A LAST DITCH EFFORT TO REWRITE HISTORY. 54. Scientologists, knowing their vulnerability to a motion for costs, attorneys' fees and sanctions based on bad faith litigation tactics and use of litigation for improper purposes, are attempting to rewrite Hubbard's criminal policies. One documented example is Hubbard's 1955 Article, "The Dissemination of Material." It states, "The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody ... will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly." It appears in the Technical Bulletin Volumes printed in 1976, attached hereto as Exhibit 10. 55. Despite policy which forbids Hubbard's writings being changed except by himself, the same article appeared without the quote in a 1986 Impact Magazine, after Hubbard's death, attached hereto as Exhibit 34. In the 1991 edition of the Technical Bulletin Volumes, the article also appears without the quote, attached hereto as Exhibit 35. 56. That Scientologists and the general public only see the watered down version since 1986, does not negate or minimize the validity of the original Hubbard order. 57. Nor does it prevent CSI from continuing to silence its critics by the misuse of the litigation process. OSA, a division of CSI, attached hereto as Exhibit 36, is the entity which took over from the infamous GO, as stated in an 18 May 1986 letter from OSA staff member, Lela, to Mike Meyers, attached herein as Exhibit 37. It states, "Dear Mike: Seven years ago you had some interest in USGO (the United States Guardian Office.) This group is now called Office of Special Affairs ..." 58. OSA is the entity responsible for carrying out "Fair Game" on critics and suppressive persons, and injuring, tricking, suing, lying or destroying them. It gathers overt and covert data on critics and enemies and runs overt/covert operations against them. It directs all litigation activities. 59. In his Memorandum of Points and Authorities filed on February 16, 1994, filed herein, Jonathon Lubell tries to portray the injustice of five CSI entertainers, Charles Durning, Kelly Preston, Maxine Nightingale, Juliette Lewis and Isaac Hayes, all non-parties to the litigation, being served with subpoenas, (J. Lubell Memorandum of Points and Authorities, page 1 & 30), that discovery has been extensive, abusive and is a harass-to-default strategy (J. Lubell Memorandum of Points, pages 4 & 5), that deposition questions were abusive, irrelevant and harassing (J. Lubell Memorandum of Points, page 10), and that the deponents have no relevance to the case (J. Lubell Memorandum of Points, page 14). 60. Kendrick Moxon, CSI attorney, in his Declaration of February 14, 1994 filed herein, accuses Geertz's counsel of improper and abusive discovery tactics and seeking to provoke disputes and incite hostility (K. Moxon declaration pages 2 & 18). 61. Miscavige, in his Declaration of February 17, 1994, filed herein, protests he is accused of evading service (D. Miscavige declaration page 2), that he never received a subpoena (see D. Miscavige declaration page 8), and, that by attending the Corydon vs. CSI deposition, he was rewarded by being served with subpoenas in disrelated matters (Miscavige declaration page 9). 62. The truth is these tactics are common litigation practice by CSI attorneys and related personnel. They are sourced in Hubbard's policies and bulletins, attached hereto as Exhibits 8 to 16, as they were in the heyday of the defunct GO. Their compliance in the present is unquestioningly demanded just as it was then. PERSONAL EXPOSURE TO "FAIR GAME" TACTICS. 63. My husband and I became well acquainted with "Fair Game" tactics over the past seven years. We work with families who have a loved one in CSI, and at their request, conduct voluntary interventions during which the loved one can obtain information to make a more informed choice about his affiliations. Because of this, Mr. Moxon and other CSI lawyers and hordes of their P.I.s and agents have repeatedly tried to prove; (1) we are kidnappers, (2) we are deprogrammers, and forcibly, physically and mentally assault and harm and injure Scientologists, (3) we are agents of cult awareness groups; (4) we kickback to such groups, (5) and much more. Despite all their posturing, neither CSI, RTC or any other Scientology organization has presented one bit of evidence to back their allegations. Why? Because we do not do the actions of which they accuse us. 64. In 1986, P.I. Al Bei of Ingram Detective Agency, called upon Jerry's elderly father in New Mexico, falsely representing himself as a Federal Investigator, saying that Jerry's father could answer questions about Jerry then and there or else be subpoenaed to answer the questions in a California court. Al Bei also divulged personal information about Jerry to his father which could only have come from Jerry's confidential priest-penitent CSI preclear folder. Attached hereto as Exhibit 38. Jerry's sister also wrote a report on the incident, attached hereto as Exhibit 39. 65. In 1989, a CSI front group in Glendale, SMS, found a bomb threat note in their men's washroom, attached hereto as Exhibit 40. My husband's name was one of ten top suspects. Don Yaeger, an Investigator for the Glendale Fire Department, and Dan Becker, a P.I. assisting Yaeger, were in possession of a sample of my husband's printing - the bomb threat was hand printed. It did not, though, match my husband's printing. We took the opportunity to educate both men on CSI's "Fair Game" tactics and harassment operations, such as the false bomb threat manufactured by Scientologists against New York freelance writer, Paulette Cooper, who was a very vocal Scientology critic in the 1970s and the years of unmitigated harassment they dealt her, attached here to as Exhibit 41, (transcript of Cooper's testimony in the 1984 Clearwater, Florida, hearings into CSI). Over five years, CSI (at least) has compiled dossiers of spurious information on my husband and me. They are evolving documents, sometimes distributed as a dossier on each of us, sometimes as one on both of us. The latest edition is attached herein as Exhibit 42. Since 1991, innumerable copies have been handed in person or mailed to our friends, colleagues, associates, and even people we do not know in the USA, England and Australia. In November 1993, my husband and I attended a Cult Awareness Conference in Minneapolis. I found dossiers about me in the ladies washroom. Dossiers about my husband were found in the men's washroom. Scientologists handed copies of the packs to conference attendees. 69. In 1991, someone impersonating my husband called American Express and obtained three months worth of our statements. In 1992 someone called inquiring into other credit cards. In 1993 the same occurred. 70. Repeated attempts were made for more than five years to obtain our phone account information, and failing that, to determine what calls we make to certain area codes at certain times. (Someone was trying to find out which phone numbers we called long distance, and therefore which families we were working with.) 71. Between 1991 and 1993, at least fifty of our family members, friends, acquaintances and associates, including people we did not know up to that point, were phoned or visited by CSI hired Private Investigator John J. Gaw, and at times other P.I.s, asking questions about us, our backgrounds, families, education, work and clients and making false and/or derogatory innuendos. The P.I.s used many "fronts," such as: (1) they needed a deprogrammer to get their Scientology child out of the group; (2) we owed an East Coast client a lot of money and refused to pay him or take his calls; did the person know whether we had other disgruntled clients? (3) they needed a deprogrammer and were the Whitfields any good; (4) and many more. 72. During 1991, in England, we worked with a family whose son was a Scientologist. Someone impersonating my husband's elderly father called an English friend begging and pleading for our phone number in England, saying it was a matter of great urgency. Our friend finally gave the number, thinking the caller was genuine. Within hours, our Bed & Breakfast was surrounded by at least five cars driven by Scientologists. We were under heavy P.I. surveillance from then on. The P.I.s photographed us from their cars as well as their second floor stake-out room in the Bed & Breakfast across the road. The P.I.s room contained expensive surveillance equipment aimed at our Bed & Breakfast twenty four hours a day. The surveillance continued around the clock for a week. Our landlady was followed when she went shopping. The head of OSA, a division of CSI, in England, Ms. Barbara Bradley, told the police that my husband and I had kidnapped and were holding two people against their will in our Bed & Breakfast. The police investigated. They found the report false. 73. In August 1991, my husband was subpoenaed in, Friend vs. Church of Scientology International. Even though my husband never met or spoke with Roxanne Friend and provided a declaration to that effect, he was the first person to be subpoenaed, attached hereto as Exhibit 43. 74. In late 1991, someone called a friend of ours in England, long distance. The person, identifying himself only as an interviewer from a New York TV station, said he was calling urgently for Hana Whitfield and needed to know my phone number and location in England. No one in a New York or other American TV station knew I was in England. (Someone was trying to locate us and find out which family we were working with.) 75. We receive many phone calls from families requesting information on Scientology and assistance. We learned rapidly to determine which calls were genuine and which were not. 76. We were under surveillance for months on and off. In 1993 I had three to five cars, as well as two people on motor bikes, monitoring me all at the same time. We were photographed and video taped innumerable times and also covertly tape recorded many times. 77. P.I. John Gaw filed a complaint with the Board of Behavioral Science Examiners in Sacramento, attached hereto as Exhibit 44, that we practice counseling or interventions without a license. We don't counsel, now have we ever called ourselves counselors. Nothing came of the report. 78. The Zoning Commission said our neighbors were complaining because there were too many people visiting our home. We have very few visitors, a friend now and then, and are on extremely good terms with our neighbors. So we knew the complaint was false. 79. Scientologists falsely defamed my husband as a child beater, a wife beater, a drug dealer, addict and thief. They falsely accused him of "stealing" Narconon, a CSI front group and drug treatment center, attached in Exhibit 42, page 1. 80. Scientologists accuse me of potential violence because I took Prozac. However, what it did was help resolve the chronic, debilitating depression and mental "fragmentation" brought on by Hubbard's dangerous auditing techniques and CSI's intense high demands, duress and manipulations. 81. We were repeatedly called kidnappers and deprogrammers and accused of "brutally ripping peoples' beliefs from their minds," in CSI publications and on TV and radio programs. 82. In 1992 we were sued for "false imprisonment," attached hereto as Exhibit 45, by Scientologist Casillas ("Casillas"), who ran surveillance on my husband and me for days. An LAPD Officer stopped Casillas for driving without a license plate and cuffed him while he checked Casillas and the car. Casillas was then released, attached hereto as Exhibit 46. The result? We were sued. 83. On March 14, 1993, the CSI law firm Bowles & Moxon, flew a young man, Curtis Harmon, from Seattle, Washington State, to Los Angeles to depose him. (Earlier, my husband, I and Mr. Harmon, arranged an intervention after which Curtis left CSI.) Eugene Ingram, a CSI P.I., told Curtis that unless Curtis agreed to be deposed, he would lose his relationship with his Scientology mother. So Curtis went through ten hours of video deposition in which he was asked the same questions repeatedly. Afterwards, he was given an affidavit, attached hereto as Exhibit 47, which drafted and typed for Curtis' signature. It contained statements contrary to those he said in the deposition, but, because he was exhausted and afraid of losing his mother, he signed. On the 23rd March, Curtis wrote a second affidavit in Seattle to correct the first, attached hereto as Exhibit 48, stating, "... I was asked the same question over and over in many different ways until I agreed to one small part of what they were talking about, but then it would be twisted to fit what they wanted to hear. Even when I would say I didn't really remember or didn't really know for sure, it would end up in the Affidavit anyway." (C. Harmon affidavit of March 23, 1993, page 1). 84. On April 13, 1993, my husband and I were served with two subpoenas each in the CSI vs. IRS case, and the Kevin Harness vs. Cult Awareness Network, et al.,In Re: CAN Coordinated Cases, attached herein as Exhibit 49. The two subpoenas were handed to each of us three times that day by three different people, once in Logan Airport, Boston, by an OSA staff member, Jane Parker, a second time by a man as we waited to board our plane, and the third time by Scientologist Andrew Bagley and another man after we arrived at LAX airport. My husband and I were non parties. 85. Sometime in May 1993, I was served with a subpoena in the (Scientologist) Philip Hart vs. Cult Awareness Network case. On May 4, 1992, our attorney filed a protective order, attached herein as Exhibit 50, Protective Order of 4 May 1992, pages 4 to 9. 86. Miscavige claims in his February 17, 1994 declaration that he was "rewarded (after deposition in Corydon vs. CSI) by having plaintiff's counsel serve me with various subpoenas in other disrelated matters." CSI did the same to my husband and me. In June 1993, we were deposed by CSI lawyer K. Moxon in a CSI vs. IRS case. We were non parties. The questions were irrelevant, harassing and went into irrelevant issues. Moxon then served us with subpoenas in another unrelated case. 87. On June 25, 1993, I was deposed in a second CSI vs. IRS case - I don't know title or number. I was a non party. 88. On June 30, 1993, my husband and I were deposed in the Harness vs. Cult Awareness Network combined case as non-parties. Neither my husband nor I know Mr. Harness. 89. During the latter half of 1993, I and my husband were served with subpoenas in the Emery Wilson Corporation DBA Sterling Management Systems vs. Cult Awareness Network Et Al as non-parties. Due to harassment my husband experienced in his deposition, our attorney filed a Protective Order for me, attached herein as Exhibit 51, because my husband was subjected to extensive harassment regarding not only our intervention activities but also our confidential financial affairs and associations, even though the court ordered all allegations about deprogramming and exit counseling to be stricken. None of the questioning was discoverable as a matter of right. It was clear we were being sought for an improper purpose. 90. In September 1993, I learned of further "Fair Game" and harassing tactics initiated by CSI and RTC against me because I am a Scientology critic. John Richardson ("Richardson") of Premiere Magazine, wrote that Marty Rathbun, RTC Inspector General for Ethics, and Heber Jentzsch, CSI President, claimed I was an accomplice in the tragic murder of my father 30 years ago, attached hereto as Exhibit 52 of September 1993, page 91. This is blatantly and completely false. 91. In early November 1993, my husband and I attended a Cult Awareness Convention in Minneapolis. Three Scientologists, Carly Swirtz, Jane Parker (OSA staff) and Jennie Walker, handed out earlier versions of the spurious dossier on my husband and me, attached hereto as Exhibit 42. 92. In 1993, groups of people, among them Scientologists, demonstrated outside our home in Silverlake, Los Angeles, waving placards stating "Hate Mongerers [sic] get out of Silverlake" and "Stop religious bigotry." They handed leaflets, attached hereto as Exhibit 53, to neighbors and passers by, which say, "WHICH HUSBAND AND WIFE TEAM BREAKS UP FAMILIES FOR $1,5000 A DAY?" and then give our names. They falsely state that we are violent kidnappers, our actions are terroristic, that I tried to kill my father with a gun then changed my name and fled South Africa. 93. These actions are the practices of "Fair Game." They show that Hubbard's "Fair Game" doctrine is alive despite supposed cancellations, and is practiced by CSI and RTC. 94. CSI lawyer, Jonathon Lubell, says in his February 16, 1994 Memorandum of Points and Authorities, attached herein, that CSI religious tenets and scriptures have been assailed (page 2), that certain religious writings called upper level materials are held to be strictly confidential as a matter of religious precept (page 12), that there is a precise path to spiritual freedom that one walks one step at a time (page 13), non-party entertainers who have not achieved this level will be at risk (page 14). 95. CSI lawyer, Tim Bowles, states in his February 16, 1994 declaration that the insertion of altered or recreated versions of CSI's upper level scriptures into the court record would violate the religion's deep belief that such are confidential (page 5). 96. Both the above statements are invalid and attempt to cloud the Courts perception of these upper level scriptures or materials. The upper levels start at Operating Thetan One, or OT 1, and advance up through OT 8. They are strictly confidential within CSI. A Scientologist can only get onto a higher OT level by satisfactorily completing the earlier one and paying for the next one. 97. OT 1, in summary, consists of walking around and observing one's surroundings in different ways so as to familiarize oneself, as a new "Clear," to one's environment. 98. OT 2, attached hereto in part as Exhibit 54, consists of running out or deleting past life "implants." 99. OT 3, attached hereto in part as Exhibit 55, of all the OT levels, attracts the most criticism. It consists of telepathically locating "body thetans," also called BTs, which are stuck to one's body. Each BT is then individually audited on techniques to erase the implants it forcibly received 75 million years ago from a despotic ruler named Xemu (sometimes spelt Xenu). Hubbard called OT 3 the "Wall of Fire, attached hereto as Exhibit 56, pg 2. The BT then leaves and goes on its way or reincarnates into its next life as a human being. The next BT is then located and audited until it leaves ... and so on. Each person has hundreds of thousands of BTs on his body and inside it. Ridding oneself of concentrated quantities of BTs is akin to performing a religious practice of exorcism on oneself. 100. OT 4 through OT 7 consist of exorcising more lawyers of BTs, though each new OT level utilizes different techniques. 98. Having seen CSI's OT levels printed in publications like the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and books, I can verify that they are Hubbard's exact upper level materials as written by him and which I audited from 1968 onward. 101. A significant reversal, a manipulation, occurs in Hubbard's cosmology between the state of Clear and the OT 3 level. As a Scientologist gets to Clear, he learns and believes that all his physical and psychosomatic ills will be eradicated forever. He learns from Hubbard's article, "The State of Clear," that, "A clear can be tested for any and all psychoses, neuroses, compulsions and repressions (all aberrations) and can be examined for any autogenetic (self-generated) diseases referred to as psychosomatic ills. These tests confirm the clear to be entirely without such ills or aberrations. Additional tests of his intelligence indicate it to be high above the current norm," attached hereto as Exhibit 57. 102. He learns from Hubbard's bulletin, "TECHNICAL BULLETIN OF 22 JULY 1956," attached hereto as Exhibit 58, that "We are now capable of solving cases to the extreme level of clear ... We have created the permanent stable clear." 103. He learns from Hubbard's 1958 "The Freedoms of Clear," attached hereto as Exhibit 59, that "In clearing people we achieve four freedoms, and I'll enumerate them for you ... The first one is illness ... Next we have freedom from pain ... The next ... is freedom from ignorance ... a thetan knows everything ... The last part of these freedoms is the most controversial of them all: death (emphasis added)." 104. He also learns from Hubbard's 2 April 1965 bulletin, "The Road to Clear," attached hereto as Exhibit 60, that, "I have just made a breakthrough in finding what a clear really is ... A clear has no vicious reactive mind and operates at total mental capacity like the first book said. In fact every early definition of CLEAR is found to be correct ... But at its end, MAGIC ... There's the state of clear we've sought for all these years. It fits all definitions ever given for clear." 105. He learns from Hubbard's bulletin of 23 August 1966, "CLEAR TEST," that the first Clear, John McMaster, achieved Clear, attached hereto as Exhibit 61, and that, "no doubt exists that he has erased his bank completely and its gone." 106. He learns from a "GO CLEAR" advertisement, attached hereto as Exhibit 62, that "A Clear is a being who can be at cause knowingly and at will over mental matter, energy, space and time as regards the First dynamic ... It is a stable state ... A Clear has over 135 I.Q., a vibrant personality, glowing health, good memory, amazing vitality, self-control, happiness and more." There are many more Hubbard claims about Clear. 107. However, despite the claims, all Dianetic and Scientology auditing results are temporary, though emotionally fulfilling while they last. Clear is not a permanent state. 108. Clears find, to their chagrin, that they hurt again with similar hurts, upsets and problems they had before and they hope that OT 3 will fix them. When they are told that they are at risk until they do OT 3, attached hereto as Exhibit 63, they don't realize that OT 3 is Hubbard's excuse for his false claims about Clear. 109. It is only after the Clear completes OT 1 and 2 and pays for OT 3 that he can learn what OT 3 is. 110. When he reaches OT 3, he finds, usually to his shock and incredulity, that all his physical and psychosomatic problems are caused by BTs and not by engrams in his reactive mind, that every negative thought, problem and upset he has find their origins in the minds of BTs, not in his mind. 111. This is Hubbard's most insidious bait and switch. All the way to Clear, the person believes the cause of his upsets and problems was his reactive mind and engrams, and that he will be Clear forever. On OT 3, he suddenly learns that he paid $6,000 and $7,000 to find out he is infested with hundreds of thousands of BTs who are the cause of all his ills, and that he must learn to be an exorcist and talk telepathically to demons in order to reach OT 8. Attached hereto as Exhibit 64. 112. Throughout Hubbard's 1950 book, DMSMH, and later writings, Hubbard repeats that dianetic techniques are not hypnotic. Yet his dianetic auditing procedure from DMSMH clearly shows the technique is hypnotic. Attached per Exhibit 65, pages 42 and 43, from the "HUBBARD DIANETICS SEMINAR" training pack "based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard." 113. Hubbard then wrote in his 1952 article, "Danger, Black Dianetics!" that, "Hypnotism is a rather old and untrustworthy method of influencing or enslaving others. However, hypnotism is very unreliable ... The mechanisms of hypnotism ... are circumscribed in Black Dianetics ... Processing ... can undo Black Dianetics unless, of course, the victim has been driven into suicide or past the point of no return - a feat which is not difficult, but a condition which is not desirable where the operator seeks real advantage ... Several people are dead because of Black Dianetics ... Thousands may die because of Black Dianetics ..." Attached hereto as Exhibit 66, pages 519 & 520. 112. Scientologists can't grasp these contradictions because their normal reality checks are 'disengaged.' This occurs in the constant application of repetitive and hypnotic techniques in Hubbard's auditing and business management techniques, and the resultant onset of trance states, the wide awake, intensely focused state in mental and physical creativity. Scientologists have to deny these contradictions in the face of incontrovertible evidence they are correct, because their existence revolves around the one person they trust completely, their authority figure, Hubbard. 114. The Scientology "Bridge" is also a massive form of financial fraud. Even though the 'services,' the auditing and training, have been promoted for years as being "100% standard tech," the same auditing action costs less at a subordinate organization and more at each successively higher level organization. The rationalization used for the price increase is that the higher level organization has better trained auditors, thus less flubs and faster delivery. Scientologists do not see the two sides of that coin .. and that it can't be both ways. 115. In my experience, which is not based on psychological expertise I claim but what I learned from mental health experts and from CSI, it is the bait and switch and the false claims about the techniques, including those on the OT levels, that cause so many upper level Scientologists physical and mental illness and even death. 116. That Hubbard ordered the OT materials to be kept strictly confidential under threat of immense punishment, becomes apparent when one reads them. The OT levels are confidential for the survival of Scientology, not for that of its parishioners. They are confidential because newer and less indoctrinated Scientologists would not believe them. If a Scientologist knew up front that on OT 3 he would, at great cost, enter a science fiction world and telepathically exorcise good and bad BTs for years, he might seek less costly and more conventional help elsewhere. 117. Scientologists argue that premature exposure to the OT level materials will cause anyone, including their parishioners, great physical harm and possibly death. What would really happen is that Scientologists would see Hubbard's doctrine for what it is - patently science fiction and not scientifically valid nor containing observable facts. 118. The OT materials have been in the public domain since the late 1970s. I have never heard or seen reports of large numbers of deaths occurring coincident with the general public reading these materials in publications. 119. Hubbard spoon fed Scientologists level by level. There are books and materials on past lives, on out of body and mystical experiences and more, available but these are "teasers" and "mysteries" to keep Scientologists moving along. The big mysteries are the state of Clear and the OT levels. 120. In his "Professional Auditor's Bulletin" Number 66 of 25 November 1955, attached hereto as Exhibit 67, page 2, Hubbard said, "The principle of Mystery is, of course, this: The only way anybody gets stuck to anything is by a mystery sandwich." 121. I also heard Hubbard say that, to keep a person on the Scientology path, feed him a mystery sandwich. 122. The Scientologists are entitled to any beliefs they wish. It is actually not their beliefs that is the issue. What is the issue is how they act. 123. It is CSI's practices, not their beliefs, that were the issue in the past and are still the issue now. For example, in this case it is CSI's practice of telling parishioners and staff members to end their lives, as in paragraph 257, so as to promote the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics, telling parishioners to kill suppressive persons for the same reason according to "Fair Game," and orchestrating large financial frauds for the same reason and not religious beliefs that are the issue. 124. Hubbard's OT 3 materials are skimpy and bring up many questions. Some which I've tried to help OT 3 students resolve are: how do BTs stick to a person lifetime by lifetime if he has a different body each life? how can an electronic ribbon "catch" a body thetan? how are BTs packed into boxes and flown around in airplanes? how come BTs were implanted 75 million years ago on Hawaii and the Canary Islands when these islands did not exist at that time? I audited hundreds of Scientologists through such confusions to complete their indoctrination and accept the materials as valid. 125. I talked with many former Scientologists in the last eight years. The majority said they left CSI after getting onto OT 3 and reading the materials, or after getting onto higher OT levels and realizing they contained more BT exorcism techniques. I also talked with many former Scientologists who claim their physical and/or psychological problems started or worsened after getting onto OT 3. CRIMINALS ACCUSE OTHERS OF DEEDS THEY HAVE DONE. 126. Miscavige writes in his 17 February 1994 declaration (attached herein) that "[Vaughn] Young has taken a personal tragedy in my family's life, the suicide of my mother-in-law, and attempted to make this an issue in this lawsuit by twisting it to imply non-existent wrongdoing in my past." 127. This is the criminal mind talking. Hubbard's bulletin of 15 September 1981, "CRIMINAL MIND," attached hereto as Exhibit 68, states, "There is a datum of value in detecting overts and withholds in criminal individuals: THE CRIMINAL ACCUSES OTHERS OF THINGS WHICH HE HIMSELF IS DOING ... THE CRIMINAL ONLY SEES OTHERS AS HE HIMSELF IS." 128. My husband and I have also experienced similar abuses by Miscavige and CSI, including multiple accusations of murder and other crimes which are not based on facts and of which we are not guilty. 129. Miscavige took a thirty year old personal tragedy in my family's life and twisted it to imply non-existent and criminal wrong doing on my part, as follows: 130. In early 1992, Miscavige, as RTC Chairman of the Board announced to a group of 700 Sea Org members that I murdered my father. He said this at a full staff meeting of the CSI International Headquarters in Gilman Hot Springs, Southern California. Three former high level Scientologists who recently defected, witnessed this. All three defectors told me that Miscavige said I was caught with my hand in the cookie jar and was, at that time, in prison in South Africa serving time for the crime. This is a complete falsehood and fabrication. Not one part of Miscavige's statement is true, except that my father was tragically murdered in 1964 in East London, South Africa, thirty years ago. My older brother, after a life time of incest perpetrated by my father on the children, confessed to the crime and was tried, convicted, sentenced, and served time. I was in Johannesburg at the time of my father's death and had nothing to do with it. Miscavige knows that. 131. CSI agents and P.I.s, including my former husband, Guy Eltringham (a Scientologist living in Los Angeles), attempted to get the South African Police ("SAP") to re-open my father's murder investigation on the basis that I did it or was an accessory. My elderly and ailing invalid mother, and my brother and his family in Johannesburg, were terribly harassed, to the point of my mother shouting in fear at the 'investigators,' and my niece also screaming in fear at the strange men who came to her father's house late at night with invasive and harassing questions about her father's past. My husband and I had to retain a Johannesburg attorney to defend my family and myself from CSI's and RTC's horrendous "Fair Game" acts and spurious charges. Our Johannesburg lawyer concluded the Scientologists spent well over a year and a fortune on their investigation. However, the SAP recently said the matter is closed as there is no evidence of my complicity. I am awaiting formal notification to this end from them. 132. This has not stopped CSI from continuing with its "Fair Game" activities against us. Several days ago, Marcy McShane ("McShane"), the wife of OSA member Warren McShane, who worked for the GO, visited our home unannounced, asking to see Hana, myself. My husband answered the door. McShane proceeded to accuse us of deprogramming and hiding like criminals. She scolded my husband, saying that he had promised to stop giving radio interviews if, as McShane said, "We stopped the murder investigation on Hana in South Africa and stopped demonstrating outside your home." McShane was misinformed. My husband had never made such a promise to anyone at anytime, ever. 133. On 7 March 1994, an updated "dead agent" dossier reached my husband and me from CSI. It contains additional information about my brother's court case and trial, testimony of witnesses and includes an affidavit reportedly written by a family member which recounts explicit sexual acts ... the document is pornographic. Furthermore, it has nothing to do with me. Additional information is also included about my husband. 134. The CSI's actions stem from Hubbard's policies and procedures which order the death of suppressive persons, their unending harassment with "manufactured" evidence if needed, and more. 135. Due to the years of unmitigating and shocking "Fair Game" harassment by CSI and RTC of my husband, myself and my family, I experienced overwhelming shock, emotional and physical distress which has caused frequent illness and inability to function and work. 136. The following excerpt of Hubbard's taped lecture, "Clearing Methodology" of 13 May 1959, reprinted in 1993 by the Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization in Clearwater, attached hereto as Exhibit 69, page 2, applies. It states, "I won't call it privacy because that dignifies it. You have to be willing to invade privacy, very definitely ... when you realize that the highest point of aberration on the third dynamic was the first time you decided not to invade somebody's privacy ... you will see at once where this connects on 8-Cing somebody into a service zone." 137. It is shocking that Miscavige and Jentzsch, who are protesting the fruits of their own law suit, the particulars which have come to light during its proceedings and their court ordered depositions, would protest their innocence while being guilty of acts to blacken critics' names such as those of Dr. Uwe Geertz, Fishman, Vaughn and Stacy Young and my husband and me. PSYCHOTIC EPISODES, PTS TYPE III, SUICIDAL IDEATION AND SUICIDE INDUCED BY AUDITING. 138. Raymond Mithoff ("Mithoff"), Senior Case Supervisor Int., writes in his February 16, 1994 declaration attached herein, "I can ... state that there is no special terminology in Scientology Church scripture for suicide. Suicide is regarded, in church scripture, as an aberration, and any person who has suicidal tendencies is a person who needs help." Mithoff doesn't specify what help is given to Scientologists with suicidal tendencies and who are PTS Type III. Due to my auditor training and experience, I was privy to information about suicides and PTS Type 3s, as was Mithoff, that most Scientologists aren't, so I understand his reluctance in elaborating on these points. 139. Hubbard redefined or repositioned mental health terms, including words like "suicide" in his own language and to his own ends. One example of the repositioning of "suicide" is contained in Hubbard's taped lecture of 3 January 1960 titled, "CREATE AND CONFRONT," attached hereto as Exhibit 70, pages 93 and 94. Hubbard said the Markab Confederation, a civilization that existed between 19,000 and 40,000 years ago, was so medically advanced that death was eliminated. People received body part replacements instead, ad infinitum. The one sure way to die was to do it oneself, massively, on a speedway or racetrack, which existed for that purpose. Hubbard said, "And so before I used the track for the purpose it was intended, which was knocking off a mock-up, why, I'd get in there and ...." Another example is 'PTS Type 3' or 'PTS Type III', in Hubbard bulletin of 24 November 1965, "Search and Discovery," attached hereto as Exhibit 71, pages 701, 703 & 704. Hubbard said, "Type III is beyond the facilities of organizations not equipped with hospitals as these are entirely psychotic ... Type 3 PTS is mostly in institutions or would be. In this case the apparent SP is spread all over the world ... for the person sometimes has ghosts about him or demons and they are just more apparent SPs but imaginary as beings as well. All institutional cases are PTSes. The whole of insanity is wrapped up on this one fact ..." Hubbard's remedy - a safe environment, quiet, rest, no treatment of a mental nature at all, intravenous feeding if required, soporifics (narcotics, sedatives or tranquilizers). 140. According to Hubbard, psychosis, insanity and PTS Type 3 are one and the same. 141. Based on my Scientology experience and what I have learnt from psychology experts, Hubbard's aim in auditing was to push the preclear into his past, make him believe what he found, then push him into his youth ... then his birth experience ... and then ... past lives ... all the while believing that what he sees in his mind is as real as what he sees with his eyes in the material world. In so doing, Hubbard successfully collapsed the factual boundaries between objective and subjective reality. 142. Scientologists will adamantly deny this and as adamantly declare that contacting and auditing their past lives and believing what they find, is voluntary. But Hubbard's books, tapes and all Scientology and Dianetic techniques and literature are replete with past lives and mystical experiences. 143. The OT levels are the ultimate past life. One audits not just one's own past lives but those of hundreds of thousands of BTs as well. One runs into mass kidnappings, betrayals, exploding volcanoes, decimation of civilizations, mass implanting of body thetans, evil rulers, electronic mountain traps, heroes, earlier universes, parallel universes, between lives implants, the beginning of the cosmos, and more. 144. Many Scientologists have difficulty determining whether their past lives are real or imaginary. Hubbard's 24 November 1965 bulletin, "Search and Discovery" attached hereto as Exhibit 71, states that the ghosts and demons seen by institutionalized persons are imaginary. But his OT 5 materials state that BTs (who Hubbard said are real) can take on the identity of a ghost or a demon. Attached hereto as Exhibit 72, Bulletin of 17 September 1978, NED for OT Series 6, page 3, "A BT or cluster can go into the valence of a person ... BTs and clusters thinking they are the person ... This is discussed under the heading of "Ghosts" ... Nearly everybody has a ghost if he looks ... " In answer, therefore, to how one will know whether past lives and BTs and clusters are real or not, Hubbard's sole answer is that one will know. As Hubbard is the absolute authority figure, Scientologists' answers are that they will know. 145. One question arises - what happens to people who live in a fantasy world which becomes more real to them than the physical or material universe? In which objective reality has become subjective reality, and vice versa? This could be said to happen to people in institutions. This is what happens with every practicing and dedicated Scientologist who starts into auditing and continues on with it. 146. A fundamental Hubbard doctrine is the "overt motivator sequence." It meant that I, and I alone, was responsible for my upsets and problems. It wasn't Hubbard, or the organization, or his techniques ... and never could be. A Scientologist's acceptance of this and other Hubbard's doctrines and policies, assisted the Scientologist in accepting the validity of his subjective reality almost over that of his objective reality. 147. An example of this occurred in the early 1980s at the HQ in Clearwater, Florida. A painter from New York was at the HQ getting auditing. While he was in session one day, his small child, under the supervision of a nanny, fell into the pool in the garden and drowned. The painter was told about the tragedy after his session. He was shattered. Instead of an investigation being held into how and why the young child fell into the pool and why it was left there long enough to drown, the only action that was taken with any of the people involved, was to put the father back into an auditing session immediately. He was then audited on what sins or transgressions he had done that caused his young child to drown. 148. Based on my Scientology experience and what I learned from mental health experts, most Scientologists undergo vast personality changes. They are completely unaware of it, and will deny it and argue with great conviction against it. But the longer and stronger their adherence, and the more they are steeped in Hubbard's teachings, the deeper and more lasting the changes. Their normal thought patterns, reality checks, logical thought processes, responses and family values they were raised with, are all modified by Hubbard's teachings. They eventually become Hubbard's alter-ego, to the point of chain smoking (Hubbard had bad teeth, nicotine stained dark brown), screaming at subordinates as a routine ... and manufacturing evidence against SPs, inducing parishioners into insanity, holding people against their will, denying people professional treatment, ordering parishioners to kill SPs and themselves, and orchestrating large financial frauds. 149. Considering the numbers of Scientologists who were ill despite repeated 'PTS handlings,' those on whom the techniques did not work, those who had interminable case problems and who required extra auditing or the best auditors, and the tens of thousands who never took their next step, Hubbard's grandiose claims about Scientology are patently false. 150. The techniques, particularly the OT levels, and the drastic personality changes, are dangerous and harmful to the Scientology majority who apply them over long periods of time. They induce mental illness of many kinds, such as dissociative states, hallucinations, paranoias, suicidal ideation, all of which are considered normal within CSI ... and death. I have seen many Scientologists suffer, and live in pain, because of Hubbard's beliefs, but now their own, that auditing would 'handle' their physical or emotional or mental condition. 151. In forty four years, Scientology has produced only 50,000 Clears and 1,200 OT 8s, attached hereto as Exhibit 73. Yet CSI claims an active international membership of six to thirteen million. What happened to the rest? 152. CSI auditors are unlicensed practitioners who have no professional or academic credentials about the human mind. 153. The wanton waste of human life in CSI is horrifying. MY MENTAL ILLNESS INDUCED BY OT AUDITING. 154. I had a devastating experience in CSI. I did well at first. But had great difficulty accepting the "BT" story on OT 3 and applying the techniques. I began "hearing voices" soon afterward, at first faintly and then increasingly. 155. From 1974 onward, I suffered from intense, continuous migraines - ironically brought on in auditing which was designed to remedy forever the occurrence of headaches. I ended up in pain twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, four weeks a month and twelve months a year thereafter. 156. Periodically the "voices" got worse. I felt split into hundreds of "me's", each arguing with the other. I got physically and emotionally very debilitated. Because of Hubbard's doctrine, I felt I must have done something terrible in a past life to be in so much pain in the present. At times I thought I was going crazy. 157. But according to Hubbard's doctrine of the "overt motivator sequence," I, and I alone, was responsible for my pain. I was responsible for everything that happened to me. A burning question was ... if the doctrine was correct and applied to every Scientologist, how come the same doctrine didn't apply to Hubbard and Scientology? Because Hubbard and Scientology were experiencing increasing quantities of problems internationally, year by year? 158. In my auditing sessions over the next seven years, I almost went crazy trying to find the cause of the pain - to no avail. Until early 1976, I received thousands of hours of daily auditing, with Hubbard as my case supervisor - to no effect. 159. I was often unable to work for two to three days each week due to the pain. I could not lie down because the pressure of the pillow or mattress on my head made the pain unbearable. It was all known to my auditors, case supervisors and Hubbard. 160. I finally realized that my only solution to stopping the pain was to end my life. I mentioned this in my auditing sessions repeatedly. In late 1977 in Clearwater, Florida, I was sent to a doctor for physical tests - with no result. This depressed me more. I searched for help in Hubbard's writings; I asked a few Class 12 auditors for any Hubbard bulletins, books or tape references that would help me. Paulette Cohen referred me to Hubbard's Expanded Dianetic taped lectures. I listened to all of them. The material referred to evil purposes, evil intentions and other things. But it didn't address my problems. I ended up more confused. I continued getting regular sessions though Hubbard no longer did the case supervision. Sometimes my sessions went badly for weeks. A big square piece of red paper, a "red tag," was frequently pinned to the front cover of my pc folder. It denotes a failed session in which the preclear did not improve. Every time I saw the "red tag." I felt more guilty that I wasn't respond to Hubbard's techniques. This redoubled my efforts to find what was wrong. I was reduced to terrible, continual fear for my life and sanity. 161. I was also fearful that by REMAINING at the CSI HQ in Clearwater, my presence would harm Hubbard, his family and his goals. The only solution I could see was to leave, or die. I came very close to committing suicide several times. What held me back was the hope, always the hope, that the next session would bring relief. Sometimes I took up to 15 aspirin a day to alleviate the pain - it never did. I always told my auditors what I was thinking about, including how many times I nearly jumped from the top floor of the Clearwater building but refrained because it cause disrepute to Hubbard and CSI, how many times I almost broke into the Medical Officer's room to find relief for the pain, how I planned to run away and burn my ID (to prevent ill repute to Hubbard and Scientology) and kill myself. The only things that prevented me from leaving Scientology earlier or killing myself, were my dedication to Hubbard and complete belief in him and my adamant unwillingness to bring ill repute to his name and his organization. This continued until I left the Clearwater HQ in March 1982 of my own accord. 162. I was never given licensed medical or mental health assistance, only that provided by Hubbard's Scientology techniques which was inadequate for the task. MY EXPERIENCE AUDITING OTHER SCIENTOLOGISTS WHO EXPERIENCED PSYCHOTIC EPISODES, PTS TYPE III EPISODES, DEVELOPED SUICIDAL IDEATION AND/OR COMMITTED SUICIDE. 163. During my twenty years in Scientology, I delivered thousands of hours of auditing to others, among them preclears with similar experience to mine and worse, and some who committed suicide. 164. In mid-1985 a high level Scientologist, Mary Florence Barnett, called Flo, phoned me. She was Miscavige's mother-in-law. I had left CSI the previous year. Flo cried on and off during the call. She complained of severe, constant pain in her head which nothing helped. According to her doctor, a recent head operation to repair an aneurysm wasn't the cause, but he did not know what the cause was. Flo was very scared of the pain, and kept saying she wanted to kill herself to stop the suppressive BTs from taking over her mind. Both the Advanced Organization in Los Angeles ("AOLA") and the Clearwater HQ refused to audit her because she had no money to pay. Flo had been to the Advanced Ability Center ("AAC") once, a break-away former CSI group in Santa Barbara, and had good auditing there, but had no money to return. 165. Flo was very depressed after her daughter Shelley, Miscavige's wife, came to visit and ended up screaming at Flo. Flo said, in several of our phone talks, that neither Shelley or Miscavige cared a damn about her, and she was horrified into what monsters Scientology had turned her children. However, she promised to call Shelley again and ask for help. 166. I was deeply concerned about Flo's condition, but felt incapable of helping her as I doubted the effectiveness of auditing. I spoke with Camille, another daughter living with Flo, who said her mother refused to see the doctor because he hadn't helped her and said her condition wasn't serious. Camille said her sister Shelley and brother-in-law Miscavige knew about their mother's condition but refused to see her or have anything to do with her because, they said, Flo was making herself ill, refusing to see the doctor, and was "down stat. 167. Over the next few weeks Flo called me and I called her many times. We spoke frequently, sometimes for hours. On occasion Flo begged me to get rid of the suppressive BTs that were killing her; at others she refused auditing because, as she said, "That's what messed me up in the first place." I spent a lot of time listening to her and letting her talk - she had a lot of fears and hurts. She cried a lot on the phone. She was in constant pain, unable to eat or sleep, and wanted to die or kill herself. She was very scared of the "things" she was seeing and hearing. She often talked about the suppressive BTs, that they were torturing her and making her go crazy, that they were implanting bad things into her and that she had to make them stop or go away. She said she'd heard and seen the "things" for years, but "they" were strengthening their hold on her. Several times, Flo openly blamed CSI for her condition and spoke bitterly about how CSI messed her up in auditing, that Scientologists were callous and, now that she was out of money having given it all to CSI, no one cared about her enough to help, not even Shelley and Miscavige. 168. Camille verified that Flo had no money left and that was why CSI would not help her. 169. Two days after our last talk, Camille called and said Flo had shot herself. I was devastated. 170. Two days later, Camille called again. We talked about Flo. She said whereas she was grieving over Flo's death but relieved her pain was over, Shelley's response was cold and indifferent, and relieved the embarrassment was finally over. Camille asked Jerry and me to attend Flo's funeral which would be small and limited to family and close friends. 171. But the next day, Camille called again and asked us not to attend. She hoped we weren't hurt by her request, but Miscavige, Shelley and other CSI top executives had decided to be there after all because they felt it was a duty and "to put on a show." Therefore our presence, as former Scientologists, wasn't wanted and would cause tension. I was very cross and upset, because Flo's Scientology relatives had done absolutely nothing to help her, but were going to put on a show for her funeral. But I agreed, and we sent a large wreath and a card instead -- for Flo's sake. Later, Camille thanked us for understanding. That was the last I heard from Camille. 172. In his February 17, 1991 declaration, Miscavige wrote on page 1, attached herein, "My only association with this tragedy was to console my wife who was understandably emotionally traumatized and grief stricken." Camille gave me the completely contrary impression - that Miscavige's wife, Shelley, was uninterested in anything to do with Flo and greatly relieved that her embarrassing mother was finally out of the picture. 173. It is improbable that Flo, in her debilitated physical and psychological condition, shot herself three times in her chest and once through her head with a rifle, leaving no powder burns or marks, according to the Forensic, case, investigator and coroner reports, attached hereto as Exhibit 74. Yet, by all reports, this is what she did. 174. Facts that lead me to strongly doubt Flo died like that are the following: (1) she received three rifle shots through her chest and one rifle shot through her temple; (2) there were no powder burns or marks at the gun shot sites; (3) her debilitated physical and psychological condition didn't permit her to hold the rifle far enough away to shoot herself four shots without leaving marks. 175. According to both Flo and Camille, Flo was an embarrassment to Miscavige and Shelley, as; (1) Shelley visited Flo only once during her lengthy illness, Miscavige never did; (2) Shelley ended her visit to Flo by screaming at her; (3) they never took any action to assist Flo; (4) they considered Flo PTS due to her connection to former high ranking CSI officials, David and Julie Mayo, whom CSI declared Suppressive Persons, and her antagonism toward CSI; (5) they considered Flo a "squirrel" for receiving auditing from David and Julie Mayo. 176. However, Miscavige was also PTS because he was, " ... connected to a person ... opposed to Scientology ..." and was, " ... intimately connected with persons (such as marital or familial ties) of known antagonism to mental or spiritual treatment or Scientology." This per Hubbard's policy of 31 December 1978, "EDUCATING THE PTS," attached hereto as Exhibit 75, pages 425 & 426. 177. Therefore Miscavige could not remain Chairman of the Board, ASI, or hold any top command position according to Hubbard's 12 May 1972 policy, "PTS PERSONNEL AND FINANCE" attached hereto as Exhibit 76, because "IT IS UNSHAKABLE POLICY HEREAFTER THAT NO PERSON WHO IS PTS OR CHRONICALLY ILL ... MAY BE ON FINANCE ... LINES OR IN TOP COMMAND POSTS ..." (emphasis in the original). The only actions Miscavige could take were to get Flo back into CSI or disconnect from her completely. 178. I have seen two letters from Flo Barnett dated 28 September 1984, one addressed to David Mayo, attached hereto as, another to Julie Mayo, attached hereto as, who owned the Santa Barbara AAC, and a third note dated 7 May 1985 to Julie Mayo, all attached hereto as Exhibit 77. Knowing Flo's handwriting, I can verify that these three notes were written by Flo Barnett. Quentin Hubbard, the oldest son of Hubbard and his third wife, Mary Sue, also committed suicide. Hubbard wanted Quentin, a Class XII auditor and one of the highest trained, to take over his technical position when Hubbard died. Quentin didn't want to. His only wish was to become a pilot and fly. During the 1970s while we were aboard, I often saw him walking along the decks or passageways mimicking an airplane, with one or both arms outstretched, weaving from side to side as he walked and making engine sounds in his throat. He was never self conscious, but just smiled or laughed as he passed by and carried right on 'being' a plane. 181. Quentin went AWOL from the ship twice in 1975 while we were on board the "Apollo" in the Caribbean. Both times, teams of crew were sent ashore to look for him. 182. At one of those times, I was standing on B Deck Aft with Hubbard, his wife Mary Sue, some Aides and the Ship's Captain, about fifteen of us, waiting for Quentin's return. It was night time, and cold. Hubbard was mad at Quentin. He muttered under his breath on and off how much trouble Quentin was causing and the time he was wasting. Several times Hubbard ordered specific penalties to be assigned to Quentin after his return. Mary Sue was distraught and worried sick about her son. When Quentin finally returned, he was quiet and looked exhausted. Late that night, I heard Hubbard shouting in his B Deck cabin. 183. In 1976, after we moved to the Scientology HQ in Clearwater, Florida, I rarely saw Quentin as I was a senior executive and he was an auditor. 184. In late October or early November, 1976 in Clearwater, a GO staff member briefed us that on 28 October that year, Quentin was found unconscious in his car outside Las Vegas and was hospitalized. About two weeks later we learned he was dead. A few days after that, we heard that Mary Sue ordered three autopsies done, and the third located the cause of Quentin's death; he was suffering from a rare disease. We weren't told its name. I and others I knew, questioned why we were not given more information about how Quentin was found, hospitalized and how he died. 185. Many years later, I saw the Coroner's report and the Report of Investigation, both attached hereto as Exhibit 78, and I read that Quentin had a possible cerebral abscess when he died, but no trace of carbon monoxide toxicity. Attached as Exhibit 79, are the November 23, 1976, St. Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune, and the November 25, 1976 St. Petersburg times news releases of Quentin's death. 186. Another crew member who committed suicide was Susan Meister. I was on board the "Apollo" in mid-1971 when she allegedly shot herself. The ship was in Moroccan waters. Hubbard was aboard. 187. Susan was on board about six months. She was "PTS" - her family was upset because the ship's location was confidential and they did not know where she was. 188. In mid 1971, in my office on A Deck, I heard a strange, sharp sound. It was traced to the aft bridge cabins where the senior Ship's Officers berthed, and specifically to that of Chief Officer Amos Jessup. Susan was found, shot, lying on the bunk in Amos' cabin. I helped Mary Sue Hubbard, who was in charge of the GO, to investigate the death. Mary Sue checked the aft bridge cabin where Susan died. I checked Susan's bunk below decks and her possessions, but found nothing amiss. Mary Sue had already removed Susan's letters, note books and other personal effects. I arranged for someone to send Susan's clothes to her family. We interviewed Amos Jessup, who was visibly upset and shaking on and off. He blamed himself, as Susan wanted a committed relation-ship and he didn't. Susan was in the cabin alone after he went to work. He didn't see her alive again. He had no idea she was suicidal. 189. We interviewed a deck hand who was working on A deck port side, aft of the bridge cabin, when the shot occurred. He reported the sound and located Amos. We interviewed Susan's superior, the ship's medical officer and several other people. They all said Susan was emotionally unstable. Mary Sue wrote a report for the Moroccan police. 190. Scott Leland, a good friend of mine, also committed suicide. I met Scott in 1965 in England. We went through several courses together including the Class Seven Auditor Training Course and the Clearing Course. 191. Afterward, Scott moved to Denmark, married and raised a family. He went through all the OT levels up to OT 6. 192. I did not meet him again until 1986, when out of the blue, he stopped to see my husband and me enroute to the Santa Barbara AAC for auditing. He did not look well. He cried several times over the next few days, telling me he'd been crazy for fifteen years and that the trouble started after he went Clear. When he started auditing on OT 3, he began hearing and seeing things and this gradually worsened to where he thought he was going nuts. He pleaded for help, saying he had no money for auditing at the AAC. I was very concerned and scared over Scott's condition. 193. The AAC said Scott could return at no charge, or if he wished, he could go to someone else and the AAC would provide case supervised instructions free of charge. Scott never acted on the offers. 194. Scott stayed with my husband and me for two weeks -- we fed and housed him. Scott mainly slept, ate, took long walks and read books. He looked and sounded much better when he left. He went to the US East Coast to see his mother before returning to his family, his wife and two young sons, in Denmark. I didn't hear from him again. 195. In 1987 I heard Scott hanged himself in his mother's house on the East Coast. 196. Another suicide occurred during the late 1970s while I was in Clearwater. A well known Scientologist at the Clearwater HQ was auditing her BTs and clusters. She drowned herself in the ocean off Clearwater Beach one night. Her death was declared a suicide. Reportedly no one knew she was suicidal. I don't remember her name. Her suicide was very hushed up by Scientology top command in Clearwater. 197. Other suicides which I know of are the following: (a) Larrayne Johnston: She committed suicide in the mid to late 1980s by throwing herself off a bridge into freeway traffic in Los Angeles. She did this because Scientology would not help her after it alienated her from her husband and family. Rodney G. Rimando: He was a Scientologist from San Jose, California. He joined the Sea Org in Los Angeles in January 1986. He committed suicide by "falling" out of a window. Police were given a note by Church of Scientology officials which proved to be forged. FURTHER SCIENTOLOGY VICTIM OF CANCER, as well as KIDNAPPING. 198. Roxanne Friend, a Scientologist, contracted cancer in the late 1980s. She was getting auditing for her condition at the Clearwater HQ, but was not doing well and repeatedly requested approval to see a doctor. Her requests were not granted. She was told continue on with her auditing. Finally, Roxanne left without approval and went back home to San Diego for medical treatment for her condition. In the early 1990s, her brother, according to his deposition in which he reports the following, and also a Scientologist got an RV, and with some of his friends, captured Roxanne, drugged her and drove her back to Florida, with Roxanne druggily protesting on and off all the way. The Scientologists/Sea Org members in Clearwater held Roxanne captive in their Clearwater complex for several months, against her will. She was finally able to get away and back to San Diego. Roxanne's illness has advanced since then. She still lives in San Diego and still wants to take action against CSI, and, if her current strength continues, feels she may be able to do something in that direction. SCIENTOLOGISTS WHO ATTEMPTED SUICIDES. 199. Some attempted suicides that I know of: (a) Jim Hester was a preclear at the Miami Org in the mid to late 1970s. He attempted suicide in Miami and was then hospitalized in critical condition. He left a suicide note blaming Scientology, attached hereto in Exhibit 80, a copy of a GO report. (b) Leah Theriery. She attempted suicide sometime in May 1974, attached hereto in Exhibit 81, a copy of a GO report. (c) A friend of Gerald Simon's who was a Scientologist, attempted suicide by drinking a full can of RAID insect killer because he had been ordered to disconnect from his girlfriend. 200. I saw many Scientologists and Sea Org members go crazy and/or suicidal, like myself, while getting auditing. 201. During the early 1970s on board the "Apollo," I was Commodore's Staff Aide One, a position with international responsibility. Hubbard was my direct superior. A visiting Scientologist, auditing on the OT 3 level, went crazy, shouting, screaming, moaning incessantly and throwing himself around. I saw Hubbard give orders as to his care; he was to be confined in an aft cabin where his screams would not disturb top or middle management working in the fore and mid sections of the Apollo; three strong men were to guard him twenty-four hours a day, in eight hour shifts, until he was sane; he was to get three meals daily whether he ate them or not; his captors were to maintain complete silence around him at all times whether he spoke or not; Hubbard was the only person who could communicate with the man and he did so by writing notes; the captors were to have sufficient "cal-mag" (a Calcium magnesium drink of Hubbard's own recipe and reportedly conducive to relaxation and sleep) on hand for the man to drink if he wanted it. 202. Hubbard personally supervised the man's "case handling" during his imprisonment. He wrote the man daily. Responses, when they started, were brought directly to Hubbard. The man was given some medication, prescribed by Hubbard, but I don't know what. The man almost got away from the guard once and was forced back into the cabin and tied to his bunk. He was held captive for over two weeks. He gradually calmed down, was released into the shipboard community, got some auditing and finally returned to the USA. 203. At no time was he seen or treated by a qualified medical doctor. Hubbard's directives on handling the man were later used as a guide for similar cases. 204. During the early 1970s, Bruce Welsch, a crew member on board the "Apollo" went crazy, or Type 3 PTS. He was locked up in a port aft cabin by Stuart Moreau and Ron Anderson, two ship crew members. I was in the aft area a few days later on some work assignment and I could hear Bruce making almost animal type sounds. They were terrible, inhuman sounds. And I could hear what I thought could be chains rattling. I was not around when Bruce recovered. Attached hereto as Exhibit 82, page 2. 205. In 1980 I was auditing at the Clearwater Organization HQ in Florida. A young woman, who was receiving Life Repair auditing from another auditor, began hearing "voices" talking to her. 206. She was reassigned to continue her auditing with me. The voices really scared her; she couldn't think of anything but the terrible things they said to her and told her to do. 207. From then on, the hundreds of hours of auditing I gave her were directed, by the Case Supervisor and the Senior Case Supervisor, at resolving the "voices." To no avail. She was transferred to yet another auditor, and then finally went home. I never knew what happened to her. 208. In 1966, I audited a nine year old girl at Saint Hill Manor, England, simple locational processes. During the session, she became violent, screaming and shrieking abusively as she kicked and bit my hands and arms. She flung herself against the furniture and onto the floor, spat at me and gagged a few times with her eyes rolling. I tried to hold her, gently yet firmly, so she didn't hurt herself, but she kicked and bit me and screamed all the more. I was scared. I continued the session as long as I could, because Hubbard's doctrine ordered, "What turns it on will turn it off." As soon as the girl was quieter, I ended the session and got John McMaster, the Qualifications Secretary, to advise how to continue. 209. The family returned to Scotland though - young girl got no further auditing. John told me that her parents were happy with her auditing results. I never knew how she was thereafter. 210. In 1969 or 1970, while I was Deputy Commodore for the United States and stationed in Los Angeles, a young man in his mid to late twenties, was auditing on OT 3 at AOLA. He went "crazy" in session one day. He was incoherent, screaming and hallucinating, seeing "things" on the wall and on himself. At times he was violent and kicked the walls and threw himself around. 211. The AOLA staff locked him up in a 2nd floor auditing room at the back of their building. Sheets, mattress and a pillow were put in the room. Everything else was removed so that he could not harm himself. 212. He never received medical help. We did not know or trust any medical doctors enough to let one in on the flap. The man was fed and held captive in the room under twenty four hour guard. I don't remember how his bathroom trips were arranged. 213. I saw him three weeks after he was "sane. He apologized over and over for the trouble. 214. I reassured him as best I could. I was incredibly relieved he was all right. He left shortly thereafter and returned to his home elsewhere in California. I never saw him or heard of him again. 215. I also had contact with many former Scientologists who were suicidal. Larry lived with his wife in Washington State. They were long term Scientologists. In 1986 or 1987, he arrived unannounced at our home in Los Angeles. In rambling, disconnected sentences, he told my husband and me that he left Seattle in order to kill himself, he had thought about it for a long time, his wife did not know where he was and he did not want her to know. He said his business and marriage failed, his Scientology gains had disappeared, the more auditing he received, the worse he got, and it was all his fault. He was confused and scared. He said that when he reached Los Angeles he remembered where we lived and came for help. My husband and I were both shocked at his condition and very concerned for his safety. Larry stayed with us for several weeks in our home. We fed and clothed him. 216. He spent the first two weeks sleeping and eating. He read and watched TV a lot. We talked often. He got better. We encouraged him to see a licensed counselor or therapist for help, but he refused. 217. After three weeks, I got Larry to call his wife to let her know where he was, that he was safe and would be home soon. They spoke a long time. From then on, they talked regularly by phone. He and his wife now live in another state and are happy and doing well. 218. Larry was fortunate. I wish there were more who recovered like he did. 219. David Voorhees lives in Washington State. In 1982 or 1983, he had a similar experience in Los Angeles. He was auditing on the OT levels and experiencing great difficulty. He could not apply the materials to himself yet knew that he had to. He went crazy trying to audit the BTs and clusters. He was held captive in a room somewhere in Los Angeles for weeks and injected with Thorazine injections by his captors to calm him. In his more lucid moments, David was told by his captors that he was getting Vitamin B injections. Attached hereto as Exhibit 83. Another suicidal person was former Sea Org member, Ethel Budd Miller. Sometime in the mid to late 1970s, she wrote an SO1 letter which could have been a veiled suicide threat, attached hereto as Exhibit 84, a copy of a GO report. 220. Even today, Scientologists are still going crazy while applying Hubbard's auditing techniques. A recent expose from an English newspaper reveals shocking instances of Scientologists going crazy and being imprisoned at or near the Saint Hill Manor CSI headquarters in East Sussex, attached hereto as Exhibit 85. DEATHS OF SCIENTOLOGISTS. 221. Lori Wood, the daughter of long term Scientologists, Peter and Doran Greene, was also a Scientologist and Sea Org member. She served with me aboard the "Avon River" in the Mediterranean when I captained the ship. Lori was at the Scientology/Sea Org Clearwater HQ in 1978 or 1979, while I was there. She was receiving auditing on OT 5 (which exorcised more BTs and clusters), or "NOTS" as it was then called. She got quite ill at one point during her auditing and was sent to the Ethics Officer. For some reason that I do not know, the ethics matter, if it fact there was anything incorrect she was involved in regarding ethics matters, escalated and kept on escalating. I asked at one point what was going on but could not get an answer. A short while later, without recovering from the illness, Lori died. What upset me so terribly about her death was that: (a) she was a good Scientologist; (b) she was in the middle of an auditing program; (c) she was being harassed by the Ethics Officer, Rae Matheson ("Matheson"), while she was ill, which is unpardonable, and while she was getting physically worse. Her mother told me that when she, Doran Greene, challenged Matheson as to why he ordered the attack on Lori when she was in the middle of an auditing program as well as being ill, Matheson shrugged and huffed and said, "Where is that in writing?" Matheson's statement, though referring to a basic law of Hubbard's, "If it isn't in writing, it isn't true," never-the-less showed a characteristic Scientology attitude toward anyone who was in trouble or ill, who was making mistakes, or not making the expected progress in his auditing or training - it was the person's fault, it was always the person's fault, never that of Hubbard, his policy, his techniques or his organization ... never. The policy referred to is titled, "ORDER BOARD AND TIME MACHINE," attached hereto as Exhibit 86, which states, "In Scientology if it is not written it is not true. That's a major policy. It applies to all. Every order an Executive issues must be in writing." MANY SCIENTOLOGISTS WHO DIE FROM CANCER ARE GETTING ONTO AND AUDITING ON THE OT LEVELS. 222. I have known many Scientologists and Sea Org members who died from cancer. The common denominator among them is that they did not seek medical assistance rapidly, when they first noticed something wrong. The overwhelming belief among Scientologists and Sea Org members was to get audited or continue on with auditing (if they were already receiving auditing) with the conviction that auditing would resolve the cancer. 223. In Hubbard's 1975 edition of his book, History of Man, Hubbard wrote on page 20, "Cancer has been eradicated by auditing out conception and mitosis." Attached hereto as Exhibit 87. This, and similar claims for other illness in Hubbard's DMSMH, may have helped to bring about the disregard for the medical doctor. In the recent edition of the same Hubbard book, History of Man, which, ironically occurred after Hubbard's death, a rewrite of the statement above occurs, saying, "Cancer has reportedly (emphasis added) been eradicated by auditing out conception and mitosis." There is no accompanying statement in the recent edition of the book saying that Hubbard authorized the change prior to his death, which he would have had to do for the change to be valid. 224. A friend of mine, Yvonne Gillham Jentzsch, died of a brain tumor. In early August 1967 I joined Hubbard's Sea Project in Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Yvonne was already on the ship and we got to know each other well. 225. In 1969 and 1970, while I was stationed in Los Angeles as Deputy Commodore U.S., Yvonne was the Commanding Officer of the first Los Angeles Celebrity Center. We met frequently in a work capacity as well as socially. 226. During the early to mid-1970s, I flew to Los Angeles on assignment several times and met Yvonne. 227. During 1977 we exchanged letters. Her's were shorter than usual, just brief notes. I noticed the change as Yvonne was known for her lengthy letters. She said she was tired, losing weight and getting headaches, all unusual for her. I didn't think much about the last; I also had constant headaches. 228. In late 1977, Yvonne suddenly arrived in Clearwater, very ill. She talked with difficulty, lost track of what she said half way through a sentence and lost her balance while walking. Yvonne told me she had a brain tumor and that she was dying. She said she hadn't seen a doctor because she thought auditing would fix it. The illness started with an "out of balance" feeling which she assigned to lack of sleep. The doctor told Yvonne the tumor was removable if she had seen him earlier. We both cried. I knew auditing did not resolve everything, but I was shocked that her life was wasted through such neglect. 229. She said that Hubbard ordered her to Florida for auditing to ease the transition, meaning death, as well as to do an end of cycle on her "hats" so that someone else could take over her Celebrity Centers after she "dropped her body". One day she cried and blamed herself for the terrible overt of dying and deserting Hubbard. She was in continual pain but wouldn't take pain killers so that she could get auditing. On a later occasion, Yvonne was quite philosophical about her forthcoming death and said she was phasing out of her life and no one should grieve. I knew at that point that Yvonne had had auditing on her nearing death and that, in Scientologese, she had discharged any fear or trauma connected to it. Now I see that what occurred, as with all other auditing, was that Yvonne's reactions to death were temporarily desensitized. 230. Over the next few weeks Yvonne's condition deteriorated rapidly. One day when we were outside, she spoke with increasing difficulty and went unconscious several times for short periods. It took us a long time to get up the stairs from the garden to the building Lobby, even with my help, because she could not coordinate her leg movements. She never received medical treatment of any kind that I know of. 231. Yvonne died in early 1978. No one I know of, except her family, was informed about her death for days or about funeral service. Nor were her close friends, such as I, given an opportunity to do a proper closure with Yvonne. We had a short briefing in which we were told that Yvonne had dropped her body happily and was in good case shape to pick up the next one, and that as this was a happy occasion, there was to be no time wasted in unnecessary grieving. Those most affected were only given auditing sessions. 232. Hubbard, in a published memo after her death, applauded Yvonne's achievements and granted her a leave of absence for twenty one years until she rejoined the Sea Organization in her next reincarnation. 233. Another Sea Org member who died of cancer was Carol. She developed breast cancer after joining the Sea Org. She told me that she did not report it because she believed that auditing would cure it. She also did not want to bother anyone. 234. Carol never received medical treatment for the cancer. She never got regular PAP smears and mammograms. 235. In the late 1970s, after the cancer became terminal, Carol was hospitalized. Because I had an RN degree, Cathy Heard, a GO staff member, assigned me to take Carol home to her parents in England to die there. Cathy said she could not die in Clearwater as it would be bad PR for Scientology and the Sea Org. 222. Carol looked terrible when I saw her. She had lost fifty pounds, was very weak and her mind was wandering. She pleaded to stay in Clearwater because she did not want to go back to her family. I told Cathy but the request was ignored. 236. The hospital nurses said Carol could not travel in her condition, particularly as she did not want to. Her x-rays showed the cancer spread throughout her body into all major organs. Cathy instructed me to give the nurses a "shore story" saying Carol's parents wanted her to visit them for years, that Carol had disobeyed them for years, that they were now demanding her return, and we had found out and were desperately trying to intercede before it was too late. After hearing the story, the nurses became very helpful. 237. Her parents were very happy to see Carol though shocked at her condition. The family doctor was so disgusted after I gave him the medical reports the next day, and that Carol traveled while critically ill, that he refused to talk to me thereafter. The parents were very grateful that I had helped Carol get home. I stayed in England with the family for a week. Carol slept most of the time - she was too weak to get out of bed. I then flew back to Clearwater and debriefed. I was deeply disturbed by the experience. Ironically, I was assigned a condition of "power" by Cathy and Liz for successfully handling a potentially dangerous and sensitive situation. Carol's death was not known about in Clearwater. For years afterward, I wondered if there was more to Carol's death than I knew. Because death is natural. It shouldn't be a "dangerous" or "sensitive" situation. Sally Esterman (formerly Chaleff) was another Sea Org member who died of cancer in January 1987. She developed cervical cancer, which in 99% of cases is curable if caught early. Sally never received regular PAP smears or mammograms, and by the time she reported her condition, the cancer was terminal. She gradually weakened until she was unable to work. 240. Sally was put into a convalescent home near the Scientology Complex in Los Angeles. She was bed ridden, too weak to do anything, for over a year. The room she was in and her sheets, towels and night clothes, were filthy. She didn't have the strength to clean them. Sally had no visitors, not even her Scientology husband, Mitch, who worked nearby. He was mad at her, said she was lazy, that she allowed herself to get ill so as to shirk work. 241. Sally was left to die on her own. She was in terrible pain continually, with nothing to alleviate it. Dr. Gene Denk ("Denk"), a Scientologist physician, saw her occasionally. It was Denk who gave Hubbard's medical officers blank, signed prescription forms so Hubbard could get all the drugs he wanted. Denk still treats Scientologists and Sea Org members to this day. He told Sally one day that she was too far gone, and all that was left for her to do was die and that she better not mess that up. Fortunately, Sally had a friend who was no longer in Scientology. "Anne" saw Sally, after learning where she was, for the first time after she contracted cancer, at which time Sally weighed only 60 lbs. "Anne" looked after her from that point on for four months until Sally died. "Anne" cleaned out Sally's room completely, got her medication for the pain, clean clothes and sheets and other necessities, including flowers for her room. Sally suffered her last days on her own, abandoned by Scientology. Not even her former husband, Ira Chaleff, was told she died. Her death was very hushed up. She did have one friend though. 242. Some years earlier, Sally's former husband, Ira Chaleff, who was a declared suppressive person, came to Los Angeles, demanding to see his 17 yr old son, Sky. When he was ignored, Ira demanded to see Heber Jentzsch, CSI President. Ira was told to see the Ethics Officer because of his SP declare. Ira got mad, flashed his Congressional I.D. card, and suddenly that he didn't have to see the Ethics Officer and got to see his son instead. He found Sky was way below grade average and suicidal. Even though Sky worked a regular schedule at the Scientology organization, he was denied all services because his father was an SP. Ira took the boy back to Washington with him ... Sky just recently graduated Magna Cum Laude in Computer Science, and is now a healthy young adult with his whole life ahead of him. 243. Susan Todhunter, a long term Scientologist, died of cancer recently in San Diego. She was an opera singer and a Scientology 'celebrity.' Her family wealth allowed her continual auditing. I audited her in Clearwater between 1979 and 1981 when I was a "case cracking" auditor. Later on she completed OT 7, the highest OT level which exorcises BTs and clusters. She developed cancer in the 1980s. Because of her wealth, Susan got auditing from top trained auditors at the Los Angeles Celebrity Center almost up to her death. 244. Marie Passmore was a long term Sea Org member, a Class 8 trained auditor, and on the OT levels exorcising her BTs and clusters. She developed cancer in the late 1970s or early 1980s, and then got auditing in Clearwater, as she told me, to cure her cancer. She was convinced that exorcising her BTs on OT 5 would cure her. When the cancer became terminal, she was sent to Europe to die. I never saw her again. Her death was hushed up. 245. Phoebe Mauerer was also a long term Sea Org member. She was a trained auditor, and was exorcising BTs and clusters on the OT levels. In her last years, she was stationed in Los Angeles and Scientology's secret HQ at Gilman Hot Springs in the Southern California desert. 246. Phoebe did not believe in doctors and never got regular PAP smears or mammograms. After she found she had cancer, she went to Mexico for treatments. She eventually died. 247. Jens Bogvad was also a long term Sea Org member. He was Executive Director Tokyo Scientology Org when he contracted cancer. He had studied and graduated many of Hubbard's management courses, including the Org Exec Course, the Flag Briefing Course, and others. He was also a Class 8 auditor and on the OT levels, exorcising his BTs and clusters. He was finally sent home to Europe to die. His wife, Jeannie, is now the Exec Dir of the Los Angeles Org, and has remarried. 248. Betty Filisky was another long term Scientologist. She was the first person to complete OT 5 after its release in 1978, and received a lot of Scientology publicity on her achievement. 249. Betty was already suffering from cancer when she completed OT 5, but she believed she was cured. She relapsed six months later and died. Her death was so hushed up that not even her former husband and one child, also Scientologists, knew. He found out by chance about Betty's funeral service in Texas, and so was able to attend. 250. Peggy Bankston was also a close friend of mine. She was an original Sea Project/Sea Org member, a class 6 trained auditor and a graduate of the upper level OT 3 auditing. Peggy was already on board the "Avon River" in Las Palmas, in early August 1967, when I arrived. Peggy held various positions on board, the main one being that of Flag Banking Officer and Hubbard's personal Finance Officer. She was very admired by Hubbard and he gave her a number of assignments to do which she always did well. Sometime in late 1967, she suddenly fell into disfavor with Hubbard, then got ill. Shortly thereafter, she left the ship, quietly and quickly. I was away at the time and never found out what occurred exactly. When I returned, I found Hubbard had written an ethics order about her, which shocked me, attached hereto as Exhibit 88. Several years later I found out Peggy had died of cancer. She was living somewhere on the West U.S. coast at the time. I was never able to find out whether she had cancer when she was in the Sea Org or not. She did have a large, darkened skin blemish her left cheek, about an inch in diameter, somewhat similar to a mole but much larger, which Hubbard verbally abused her about. For example, he said to her, "You have that thing on your face because of overts, you know that, don't you?" ... and ... "If you're an OT, why don't you get rid of that overt on your face?" ... and ... "You haven't told all yet!" Then he would laugh at her and walk away. 251. Daphne Parselle was in Scientology in the late 1960s, in London and Saint Hill, East Grinstead. She achieved the state of Clear in 1967. During her Clear speech, (Clears in those days gave a short speech about their 'wins and gains' in reaching the state) in the Chapel at Saint Hill Manor, she claimed, very positively and enthusiastically, that she was cured of the cancer because of her auditing. However, she died of the cancer shortly thereafter. 252. Ellen Carder was an American, and a Scientologist in the early 1960s. She had cancer. She went to England for advanced auditing. While there, she claimed that Hubbard told her that if she studied the Clearing Course and then applied the auditing techniques to herself to achieve the State of Clear, her cancer would be cured. Ellen started on the course of action. However she died in June 1966 at Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, England - from the cancer. 253. A high level German Scientologist who came to Clearwater for upper level auditing on BTs and clusters, died one day in his room. The "PR story" was he slipped in his bathtub one day and died. I don't remember his name. His death was very hushed up by Scientology top command in Clearwater. SCIENTOLOGISTS AND SEA ORG MEMBERS ARE OFTEN LOCKED UP AND HELD AGAINST THEIR WILL, SOMETIMES FOR MONTHS. 254. In May 1978, I was assigned to the Rehabilitation Project Force ("RPF") in Clearwater, Florida, attached hereto as Exhibit 89. This is a Sea Org detention camp, a 'gulag,' to which are assigned Sea Org members who have (according to Hubbard's doctrine and policies) seriously erred or produced badly. My assignment was for being a failed executive and for not doing well on my job. In addition, a recent auditor of mine reportedly saw a specific E-meter needle reaction occur during my session. It was called an R/S. The R/S reportedly occurred while I was talking about Hubbard, his techniques or organizations, and that meant, again according to Hubbard, that I harbored bad intentions toward Hubbard, his techniques or organizations, and therefore, I was a bad person and required immediate isolation and "rehabilitation." I was commandeered off between two big Sea Org men, both already in the gulag, to the second floor garage of the Fort Harrison Hotel and locked up in solitary confinement for two or three days, in a small room, without windows and a mattress on the floor. I was devastated, in shock and numb ... (Needless to say, 18 months later, I was exonerated of the charges, as per Exhibit 90.) 255. It was common to treat Sea Org members this way, from top command to galley hands. And it was common for those assigned to the RPF, or gulag, to be locked up in solitary for one to several days or more until the person had 'calmed' down, come to his senses and realized he needed rehabilitation. He was then released into the arms of other inmates to do his 'time' and attend to his and others rehabilitation. 256. Some months later, also in 1978, a new person was assigned to the RPF, Lyn Froyland. She was to be my twin - meaning we were to help rehabilitate each other. I found out to my surprise that Lyn was a GO staff member from Los Angeles and on assignment to Washington, DC, and was sent from there to Clearwater. Customarily, GO staff weren't ever RPF'd with Sea Org members. I also rapidly learned that Lyn was devastated over something which occurred in Washington, DC. She said something terrible was going on, Hubbard and GO policy was being completely violated. She tried to correct the situation, only to find herself removed from the assignment and in the gulag with no recourse. To rehabilitate herself, Lyn was expected to talk about her upsets and problems in her gulag auditing. But she would not. She maintained that she had been bonded many times and could not and would not reveal security and confidential information about her organization, the GO, her position or her assignment. Because of the continued refusal to cooperate, Lyn was rapidly assigned to the RPF's RPF. This was several steps down from the RPF, in the boiler room under the Ft. Harrison hotel building. It was a dark, filthy, smelly place where the huge boilers roared and clanked day and night and where the rats lived. Lyn was chained to a pipe down there for weeks, under guard. She was taken meals and allowed toilet breaks, but no other hygiene. I tried desperately to get her to repent and get out of the hole, but she would not. The longer she stayed in the hole, the less she spoke and the more unwilling, sullen, filthy and feral looking she became. I was stunned by what was happening to Lyn. Finally, she did the actions necessary to get out of the hole and back into the RPF, though she was still under 24 hour guard. That night, Lyn somehow got away from the security guard ... and disappeared. I have not heard from her or about her since. PROFESSED CONCERNS ABOUT PAST LIVES IS A RED HERRING BECAUSE A SCIENTOLOGIST'S BELIEF IN PAST LIVES IS WIDELY AND PUBLICLY DISSEMINATED. 257. In his declaration, Mr. Moxon takes umbrage that CSI deponents might have to testify about their belief in past lives. (Moxon declaration, page 22) 258. There is nothing confidential or secret about past lives in Scientology, except for the OT levels. On the contrary, Hubbard himself wrote at least three publicly available books which delve extensively into past lives. They are: (1) Mission Into Time which covers several of Hubbard's claimed past lives, attached hereto as Exhibit 91, including treasure he buried in those lives. The book summarizes a 1968 expedition led by Hubbard to Mediterranean countries to locate and dig up his treasure. I was the Captain of the "Avon River" on that expedition. (2) Have You Lived Before This Life, contains forty-one alleged auditing case histories of past lives, one of which supposedly occurred 23 billion years ago, attached hereto as Exhibit 92, page 238. (3) Scientology: History Of Man, written by Hubbard, states in the Forward: "This is a cold-blooded and factual account of your last sixty trillion years," attached hereto as Exhibit 93. Hubbard continues: "This is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner." The book contains Hubbard's perspective of the history of the human race and describes strange past lives which he claims every person experienced from the beginning of time, including that of the Pilt Down man, later found to be a hoax. All three books are available in major bookstores as well as Public Libraries. They are sold to Scientologists in Organization bookstores, though at far higher prices than in retail stores. Hubbard even developed a technique to resolve past life occlusion. In 1975 he wrote a bulletin, "PAST LIFE REMEDIES," attached herein as Exhibit 94. It states, "There are many remedies and considerable tech developed over the years on the subject of pcs (preclears) unable to go earlier than this life ... The earliest was getting the pc to locate and run imaginary [emphasis added] incidents ... Delusion tends to run off but the real incidents [emphasis added] move into view as well." I ran this 'remedy' on many preclears with mixed results -- some preclears ended up believing they lived in the past and were the identity they found; many did not. I know of many other auditors who did so as well, also with mixed results. It was run on me many times with limited result. Getting a Scientologist to believe that what he sees in his mind is valid, is achieved step by step. At first, the lower level grade auditing gets him looking into his mind for this life memories, which he knows are true. As he often also achieves emotional highs in remembering something, his belief that his memories are valid is enhanced. His next step, according to Hubbard, is Dianetic auditing. At this point he may or may not go into past lives. If he does, he more willingly accepts those memories as valid because he knows that the earlier ones were valid. And he will accept 'memories' of past lives including some extraordinary and unbelievable ones. When he finally gets to OT 3 and learns that he has spiritual cooties all over him, and if he has been a true believer up to that point, he normally accepts that as well. 261. Despite the fact that Scientologists must believe in past lives and be able to audit them to reach the top of Hubbard's Bridge, the CSI attorneys have seen fit to attack the credibility of defendant, Steven Fishman, because he believes in past lives and has a belief he was Malchoot, or the father of Jesus Christ. 262. Fishman's belief is exactly the end result a preclear is expected to obtain during his Dianetic session, a belief that he lived as a particular identity some time in the past, often a famous one. 263. During the thousands of hours I audited others, a large number of my preclears remembered one or more of their past identities. About ten of my preclears believed they were Jesus Christ, about five believed they were Joan of Ark, four were convinced they lived as George Washington and one as Thomas Jefferson. 264. In 1968, I heard Hubbard say that who a preclear believed he was in a past life was unimportant. The importance lay in 'rehabilitating' the ability to recover past lives. 265. Most former Scientologists refuse to get mental health assistance for years because of Hubbard's belief that Mental Health professionals are destroying mankind and the world - that they are the cause of all illness, and familial, governmental, economic, educational, industrial and financial problems. 266. Regular PAP smears and mammograms are not provided in the Sea Org, nor is routine dental care. Hubbard believed he was invulnerable - so do Scientologists. 267. Miscavige's attempts to discredit Vaughn and Stacy Young as CSI experts was expected. (Miscavige declaration, page 15) He can do no less. Hubbard insisted that his critics and enemies be discredited, their names blackened, their lives ruined and their deaths demanded. Miscavige, being a true believer, has to follow Hubbard's orders. The Youngs will more than likely, receive more harassment. 268. This does not alter the fact that anyone who has served and worked in CSI and the Sea Org as long as Vaughn and Stacy Young, who received the extensive training they have, and held the positions they have, is an expert on CSI and the Sea Org. 269. I am sure that in response to this declaration, the Scientologists will further discredit me and manufacture more disclosures about me in their continued "Fair Game" actions to blacken my name and ruin my life. I expect nothing less of them, as they are duty bound to follow Hubbard's directives on their perceived enemies. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed in Los Angeles, California this 8th day of March, 1994. Hana Eltringham Whitfield
I'm going to a tapas potluck tonight. Scallops from Taylor Shellfish are the star of the show and fritters from a Red Cat (the famous pub in Brooklyn) recipe. Can't wait! So, what am I bringing? My kick-ass deviled eggs. I've said this before, but it bears repeating: I'm a fairly recent convert to the charms of these heavenly bites. It wasn't until I lived in the South that I got to taste deviled eggs as they were meant to be, the yolks turned velvety instead of gritty because somebody had the good sense to add a little butter. Be still my sluggishly beating heart. Since my deviled egg epiphany, I've been playing around with making my own. It's harder than you think. The biggest challenge for me is peeling the eggs. It seems like those shells would slide right off, but no... They crumble and shatter into a million sharp little pieces that you have pick off the egg one by one by one until you're ready to SCREAM! Please, somebody show me the way! How's it done? If you share, I promise to print my secret recipe for deviled eggs that have the power to make saints into sinners.
April 7th, 2008, 01:37 PM #1 Maki Maki at the Irvine Spectrum First off i hate the Spectrum, but went the other day because I was in the area and wanted some PF Changs. The wait there was 1.5 hours, Cheescake Factory was 1 hour and Yardhouse was 30 minutes. So then there was this place called Maki Maki that I had never heard of and it had no wait - which should've been a big red flag. This place sucks. Bad. It was horrible, horrible food. The sushi was crap, the gyoza was right out of the Costco freezer section, and the "thin slice korean rib eye bowl" was worse than Yoshinoya. Stay far far away and don't waste your money. April 7th, 2008, 01:40 PM #2 haha... my friend had me meet her here for happy hour once. ya... not exactly the best. and i think their happy hour is actually called "yack hour" or some similar sort of barfing euphemism. meh! April 7th, 2008, 01:47 PM #3 I have never eaten there Hip and I went there twice and started shooting sake with the bartender and left pretty messed up both times I give the bar a A- The Bartender an A++ p.s. Salty Dog's dog is a lesbian
Watched Jun 13, 2012 Corey Pierce’s review: At some time in 2005 Jay Leno during his headlines bit posted a version of the article you may now know from this trailer and the film's poster. "WANTED: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box XXX Oakview, CA 93022. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before. " Not long after, it was posted to the user-generated content site YTMND.com, with a photo of a man with a blonde mullet and a clip of the song "Push it to the Limit". A modest internet meme was born. timetraveler.ytmnd.com/ It was combined with various other time travel clips, from Back to the Future to Napoleon Dynamite, and like other memes it wore out it's welcome pretty quickly. At one point even, famed movie trailer voice Don Lafontaine was called to read the ad, and it was made into a fake movie trailer: hardsafety.ytmnd.com/ Users even began their own investigations to find the source of the ad. 7 years later we have this film, with a Seattle Magazine crew hunting down the would-be time traveler. ...and the movie is twee garbage. On one hand, it's short, it's cutesy and inoffensive, and Aubrey Plaza is charming, breezing by in the same role we are used to seeing her in. However, it's just badly made. The film has such bad comic and dramatic timing that I could not help but be constantly frustrated by how many beats it was missing with it's line readings and editing. The characters have no chemistry, and the film is heavily involved in a side story with Jake Johnson working an Indie Stifler-type in a crappy romantic subplot that never pays off, is overwritten and unbelievable. This character more than anything ruins this film every time he is on screen, so very much imposed onto the proceedings. There is not much else to say about it. There's no new, interesting or funny angle played with the concept, or true playful spirit explored with an outsider character who thinks he's a time traveler. It is entirely predictable all the way to it's twist(if you can call the obvious ending a twist?) ending. All they did was tack on a dated meme to a crappy indie rom-com. It was funnier when it was just a piece of paper read by a hack comedian on late night TV.
Anyway, these two issues of Archie tackle a very similar scenario: because of a (typical) Archie mistake, the population of Riverdale swaps lives and places with the residents of Storyland. Archie, as Prince Charming, Sabrina, as the Magic Mirror, and Jughead, as Old King Cole, are the only three who remember who they were and understand what’s going on. The rest of the story is the tale of Prince Charming’s efforts to fix the mess, with plenty of kissing fair damsels and a nice little war along the way. It’s a light, entertaining take on the old perennial story of switching time lines/dimensions… without the scary parts. Nice for kids. Actually, that’s one of the potential great values to this: it can serve as a wonderful starting point to get kids interested in the classic fairy tales. As an adult raised with them, I know the back stories to all the characters that pop up in the two comics. For a youngster who hasn’t had an interest in “that old stuff”, this just could spark some interest. They’re worth picking up, if you’re not usually an Archie fan.
Sunday, November 28, 2010 Sunstone's big comics issue just arrived in the mail -- including the above comic by yours truly!! As you may recall, the deadline was too short for me to have time to draw something just for Sunstone, so I took the lazy-artist's route, and sent in some illustrations from my novel ExMormon with captions supplied by readers. As you can see, the winning caption was provided by Sabayon. (Note to Sabayon: I wrote in my bio sketch that you provided the caption, but the editors cut that part off, so all I can really offer you is the joy of knowing in your heart that you've been published in the Sunstone comics issue -- sorry!) Here are the other panels I submitted, which didn't make the cut:
REPORT BY JULIA ROBSON PHOTOGRAPHY BY SHANIQWA JARVIS Bloggers who see Fashion Week as an occasion to dress up may not get that when you’ve doing it for MORE YEARS THAN THEY’VE BEEN ALIVE, planning what to wear for showtime becomes a bore. Besides gauging the weather and observing frow rules (work in current and next-season trends, etc), wearing lovely new things is rule number one. So when Boden offered to let me cherry pick from their A/W12 collection I jumped. Yes, I know preconceptions are more David Cameron than Sam Cam (it’s one of Dave’s faves), and the look is ‘county lady’, but today, with just one day of Boden-wearing left, I’m strangely sad. Not only have I managed to rock a few S/S13 looks (knitted dress, camel, librarian skirt), I’ve had an embrace from an ex Vogue colleague (who’s blanked me for over a decade), been fast-forwarded to the frow and had tons of compliments. It’s been like having a country aunt to stay, who proves the perfect guest and charms your most difficult neighbours.
Even the AP is calling Obama on his lies Surprisingly the AP decided to fact check Obama’s Small Business Tax credit included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Ok, it’s not really that surprising they decided to fact check the tax credit. What is surprising is they were honest with the results. Obama and his half-wit press secretary Robert Gibbs have been claiming this credit will stimulate job creation. Not so shockingly it turns out the credit will actually do the opposite. As the AP reports the credit encourages small businesses to keep their number of employees low, and keep their employees salaries lower: Zach Hoffman was confident his small business would qualify for a new tax cut in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law. But when he ran the numbers, Hoffman discovered that his office furniture company wouldn’t get any assistance with the $79,200 it pays annually in premiums for its 24 employees. “It leaves you with this feeling of a bait-and-switch,” he said. When the administration unveiled the small business tax credit earlier this week, officials touted its “broad eligibility” for companies with fewer than 25 workers and average annual wages under $50,000 that provide health coverage. Hoffman’s workers earn an average of $35,000 a year, which makes it all the more difficult to understand why his company didn’t qualify. Lost in the fine print: The credit drops off sharply once a company gets above 10 workers and $25,000 average annual wages. Thanks for the info AP, but you’re a little late to the party. Heck, even I got this one right two weeks ago.
I should add “on the Mac” to that title, but I’ll avoid any born again references for now. By virtual, I’m referring to the ever so wonderful virtualization, the ability to run a guest OS within another (see wikipedia entry on virtualization for more). For me, on my iMac, I’m using VirtualBox. It’s opensource, from a company which was recently purchased by Sun. My primary use will be quick access to an OS to test configurations or run (windows-only) software. I currently have debian and ubuntu versions, will get a Windows (Vista probably) as soon as I am willing to shell out the $$. Right now, for the few windows-only apps I have, I VNC to my seldom used windows boxes (Vista, Win2k). VirutalBox has guest edition software for Windows and Linux which adds nice features such as mouse pointer integration and integrated windows. Plus, sharing host directories is very easy. These features are available in the other commercial virtual host solutions I’ve looked at. OS installation was a breeze for the Linux distributions, as I simply downloaded the iso images and mounted it as cdrom for the guest installer to use.
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Q: I have a poor credit score (614). Is it possible for me to get a home buyers loan? A: It is technically possible for you to get a mortgage to purchase a home. The FHA program is theoretically open to borrowers with credit scores as low as 580 and a down payment of just 3.5 percent (plus an up-front insurance premium of 1.75 percent of the loan amount). However, in reality, many lenders won't write FHA mortgages with FICO scores below 620, even if the FHA will accept them. These add-on requirements (over the program minimums)--called "overlays"--are added by lenders who are afraid that low-credit-score loans will fail at a rate high enough as to bring down the wrath of the FHA upon them. A lender whose loans fail at a significant rate can even lose their ability to participate in the FHA program, so it's little wonder they are acting defensively and instituting their own overlays. Since your 614 score is not too far away from the minimums many lenders will consider, your first move should be to take a look though your three credit reports to see if there are any errors or omissions you can correct which might improve your score. Since you are close, it shouldn't take too much time or effort to get you over the 620 barrier. Here are a few strategies that can help boost your credit score in just a short period of time: - Pay down your balances. Paying down debt is by far the simplest way to improve your score. "People with the highest FICO scores carry balances on their credit cards that are less than 20 percent of their total available credit," says Anthony A. Sprauve, director of public relations for MyFICO.com in San Francisco. "Your balances account for 30 percent of your credit score." - Use that old credit card…once. If you have an older credit card account with no recent activity on it, use the card once then immediately pay off the balance. - Don’t close your old accounts. While you may think you’re doing the right thing by closing old credit card accounts, the opposite is actually true. Experts say that it’s equally damaging to open new, unnecessary accounts than it is to close accounts. If you have old or unused accounts, continually monitor your credit reports to keep your eye on them, but keep them open. To learn more, be sure to read “5 quick ways to boost your credit score. A 25-year expert observer of the mortgage and consumer debt markets, Keith Gumbinger has been cited in thousands of articles covering a wide range of consumer finance and economic topics in outlets ranging from the Wall Street Journal to the Bottom Line newsletters. He has been a featured guest on national broadcasts for CNN, CNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC television networks and has been heard on NPR and other national and local radio programs. Keith is the primary researcher and writer for HSH.com's MarketTrends newsletter and has authored or co-authored a number of consumer guides on mortgages, home equity, refinancing and more.
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Posts tagged ‘futures conference’ The follow-up meeting for those who attended the Mid-Atlantic Futures Conference takes place tomorrow morning at the Princeton Public Library. I’m really looking forward to it and I’m really excited about it. No doubt Pete, myself and others will have much to say! You can finally check out the hand-outs and materials, etc. from the conference here! At The Futures Conference, Peggy Cadigan and Barbara Cole stayed up all night working up this great powerpoint to capture all the great thoughts and comments that came out of the World Cafe that took place after a great day of presentations! Take a look here! (Great use of SlideShare.net too!) The World Cafe was a chance for everyone to socialize and talk about what we had experienced throughout the day. We were in small groups and talked aabout a question that was posed something like, “If you die 100 years from now what will be different about the world you leave compared to the one you came into?” And one other one I can’t recall right now – help me out someone! FYI if you look at the pictures, the World Cafe pics are the ones that show lots of glitter and stuff on the tables and tables named after books and/or movies, and all those newsprint papers hanging up with all our doodling, drawing and brainstorming on them! It was fantastic and excellently created, organized and run by Peggy and Barbara! Kudos! I’ve just come back from the HRLC Annual Meeting up at the lovely Parsippany-Troy Hills library (I really like the library’s “opening doors to the world” logo and mission). I went as an employee of an HRLC member library, and as the Chair of the HRLC Technology Committee, and also as a representative from the NJLA Member Services Committee. This is the first year I’ve been able to attend the annual meeting and I have to say it was great! Norma Blake, the State Librarian, was there sharing about the State Library and what it’s up to and where it’s going. I just want to quickly share that everything that Norma talked about was very exciting and really “on track” from my perspective of what libraries in NJ need. (Apologies if I’ve gotten anything incorrect here or misrepresent anything – please put me straight anyone if so!) This presentation was similar (though much shorter) to the one presented at NJLA last month by the State Library and seemed very focused and more specific. It was also clearly influenced by the Futures Conference which was what I was so excited to see! I heard things that came directly out of the conference such as the fact that they will have a position for Urban and Adult services – they already have teen services and now they want to focus on the needs of urban libraries and of the needs of the increasingly older population – Norma specifically said they will be working with Americans for Libraries Council which was what Mary Catherine Bateson spoke about when she did her presentation on “active wisdom,” and the importance of the relationships and value that the older generations bring, and their worth and place in society. It was also what the demography program showed us – the boomers are getting older (sorry guys!) and they are a large population! Clearly, the State Library is paying attention and responding! Norma shared that they are “reworking” some positions – since they can’t afford to just create and hire new people. For example, Peggy Cadigan’s role is going to evolve into an “Innovations” position where she will be a member of a futures group and attend conferences and meetings about the future that are held by not just libraries and librarians, but by other fields too so that we will know what’s ahead “down the pike” not just for us, but in other areas – areas and things that will certainly impact upon us! VERY exciting – for Peggy and for NJ libraries and librarians! They are also going to have a Technologies position and want to create a help desk and have assistance available for libraries. This is all of course in addition to the great marketing and pr work they are doing, the other initiatives and efforts they are pursuing. This is by no means a comprehensive list! I also think the idea of creating pilot projects in each region to demonstrate the value for the constituents is great – the pilot projects also aim to attract new users. I spoke to Norma during the break to tell her that I am very excited by everything she talked about – she even has a plan for how to proceed following the Futures Conference! The New Jersians who attended the conference will be meeting up for an “After the Futures” meeting to continue to talk about what we heard and saw and brainstorm how specifically to proceed in NJ. From this brainstorming meeting we will see what ideas shake out and then we will invite input from all and develop some plans around the ones that get the most support. I am really excited (did I say that already?) to see ACTIONS coming out of the Futures Conference – after all, it was called Imagination to Transformation, and transforming requires action! I am really happy to see the State Library taking a strong, specific leadership role for the future of library service in New Jersey! There was more of course, and the Strategic Plan for the Highlands Regional Library Cooperative was shared and voted on – awards were given out and food was had! Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to take any photos what with manning the Member Services station and attending the meeting, but I left there feeling very energized! Hopefully we will find out more about all of these things soon! P.S. You can now blog and read about reactions to the Futures Conference on that blog and there is a new flickr page for the photos! I also see a video posted with Peggy in it but I haven’t viewed it yet! Still looking around for those slides from the presentations though …. I had the mind-blowing pleasure of attending Imagination to Transformation, the Mid-Atlantic Library Futures Conference, on Monday and Tuesday. I have lots of notes notes notes, a swirl of ideas, and a pile of inspiration. In the interest of sharing the goodies, I’m posting my notes in a fairly raw form with limited commentary. Get it right or get it written, right? Before I get into my notes, a big thank you to the New Jersey State Library (esp. Peggy Cadigan) , Palinet (Catherine Wilt, Ann Yurcaba, Diana Bitting), and all of the organizers for all their hard work and for doing a fantastic job! Great speakers, great space, great conference! OK, here are my notes from: LIBRARY SPACE: IS IT THE LAST FRONTIER OF THE DIGITAL AGE Jeffrey Scherer of Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd. (BTW, this is a highly filtered report. Scherer talked a lot about lighting, about environmentally friendly building design, and many other fascinating topics. I highly recommend you take a look at his whole presentation when it’s posted to the conference website.) - The library in 2030 will be as different from today’s library as today’s library is from the library of 1930. - The library as a central place is the only single political agent that can affect change at all levels. Our neutrality is an important tool for us to think about. - The library is an agent of these four elements of our lives: live, work, play, learn. - We are a service profession that delivers great content, struggles with technology and frets over cash. The real decisions are made around cash. If you reflect on the fact that Americans spend as much on Halloween candy as they do on library books, you see that the $$ is there. - We need to stop focusing on what is not possible, and focus on what is possible. It’s important to be optimistic. If you focus energy on what’s not possible, you’ll never create the possible. - “Our eyes connect our emotions.” - “Love is probably the central focus of great libraries” Guiding principle: We need to create space for spontaneity and socializing: the library as 3rd place (agora) Carleton college did a survey of alumni: 40% of graduates married other Carleton students; 40% of those people met in the library. Why? Because they were in a different social space than if they had met at a football game. Being in a library raises our commonality; transcends our boundaries. Applying the lessons: How to create a 3rd space: - Reading nooks with back to wall (people love to curl up) - Daylight and views - Computer tables (missed some of what he said on this) - Offer a variety of options - Self-controlled lighting - Daylight and good views - Gossip corners that don’t interfere with others - Homelike features; fireplace, natural flooring - Group seating that can work with one to three people - Privacy (acoustic and visual): people want to get information in private - Visibility of service points and collection - Come out from behind the desk and greet patrons. There has to be a transformation in this area! Other key points - “I want to do it myself” Trend to self service is huge. - “Help is on the way” but only if you need it. (Point of need service delivery) Lots of friendly, happy, familiar NJ librarians are here! And lots of happy, friendly and not-yet-familiar out-of-state librarians are here! The wireless here in The Borgata seems to be great in some places and not-so-great in others, despite the promise of free wi-fi all over the hotel! Tomorrow I have to conduct a webinar from here and I have finally secured a location but now need to confirm decent Internet access (more on that later). The first session here was already inspiring – I went to Salvador Avila’s presentation (I believe many presentations and even podcasts and information is to be made available on the Palinet site) and already, from that session, I was invited to take part in some “brainstorming” for a project – however, I had previously arranged a brainstorming lunch with Pete so I’ll have to be brought up to speed on their brainstorms later on! There’s tons of brainpower here! I started that post this morning at 9am and couldn’t get enough good online time to justify running my battery on the laptop down, so I took hand-written notes and will post those tomorrow – it’s 12:35am! – so that is today, I guess! I would have done it earlier tonight but I was very good and attended my online class from 7-9pm! I have already posted my first set of photos on flickr - I’m exhausted though so more from my notes tomorrow! [Note to Pete and self - we forgot to talk specifically about CLENE!]
You guys have talked a lot about how to deal with noisy neighbors, but what if you are that noisy neighbor? I like to watch movies and listen to music pretty loudly, but want to be courteous. Are there any DIY soundproofing tips I can use to keep noise from soaking into nearby apartments? Unfortunately, true soundproofing is something you have to do at the construction level, and if you're in an apartment, it's not something your landlord will really let you do. You have a few choices, but none of them are probably going to get you what you want, so you'll probably have to compromise a little bit. First: Talk to Your Neighbors The first step of the process is to communicate with the unfortunate souls that share a wall with you. Some of them might not care about the noise. Some of them might only care about it late at night, and some might not even hear it. If you've gotten some noise complaints already, then you know you have a problem, but if not—if this is just a pre-emptive strike—you might consider asking your neighbors if they're bothered by the noise you've made thus far. If they aren't, then you may not have anything to worry about. If they have heard it, talk to them about what hours might be appropriate for movie watching and music playing, and what volume level is bearable. Absorb Sound with DIY Tricks Like we said, you can't truly soundproof an apartment unless you can tear down the walls, but there are some things you can do to try and dampen the sound. Heavy drapes on the windows and carpeting on the floor will help a little, while more serious cases can try acoustical wall panels like these in your office or home theater. They may not be pretty, but you can always try to cover them up with something else to keep them from being an eyesore. You can also use some weather stripping tape to try and seal up the areas around doors and windows, where sound is more likely to escape. A door sweep could be helpful, too, if that sound is leaking out into the hallway. Lastly, it's important to note that one of your biggest problems will be bass. The bass frequencies that come from your subwoofer are going to be some of the most annoying to your neighbors, because they're so hard to dampen and the vibrations travel so easily. Try sticking an extra piece of carpet or a thick foam rubber pad under your subwoofer to quiet it up. However, if that fails, you may need to just... Turn It Down (or Get Some Headphones) We know it isn't what you want to hear, but especially in close-quarters apartment buildings with thin walls, you may just have to compromise on the noise level. Turn down the volume, turn down your subwoofer, do whatever it takes to get the volume to a more appropriate level—or at least a level that's easily drowned out by the above DIY tips. Alternatively, get yourself some headphones and use those for watching your movies or listening to music (you may need an extension cord for the movies). Investing in a nice pair of headphones is a great way to keep you and your neighbors happy. It's still a compromise, but it's a pretty darn good one in our opinion, since you can still listen to your music as loud as you want without anyone complaining. Have a question or suggestion for Ask Lifehacker? Send it to firstname.lastname@example.org. Title image remixed from YuriArcurs.
This week’s Newsweek features a piece by David McCullough Jr, a teacher who gave a speech to the 2012 graduating class of Wellesley High School. Visit Wellesley’s website. The school sounds more like a university than a high school. The gist of McCullough’s speech was “You are not special. You see, if everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless…We Americans, to our detriment, come to love accolades more than genuine achievement.” Incendiary words, spoken to children who epitomize the best and the brightest of what this country has to offer. The problem is that the “best” and the “brightest” have ceased to have any real meaning. We are the educated middle class, the loving parents of these kids. And we have created a protective aura around our children. Just as we remove all manner of objects and food groups that might harm them physically, we remove any sort of failure that might harm their little psyches. Because we believe them to be so special and so perfect, we make sure the world sees them in the same way. We email or fax reports to school and make no pretense that they are coming from Johnny. We expect A’s, with no concern that A’s have thus become meaningless. We graduate children who can barely read and who cannot think for themselves. We fight to have Johnny admitted to special ed classes, believing it is better to have the label of special ed than to be “regular.” Regular, average, and normal are no longer acceptable terms for our children. If Johnny is above average, we demand the designation “gifted.” And we are willing to pay handsomely for it, to bypass the system and get the results we want from those who provide independent educational assessments. We demand that Johnny makes the most competitive sports team. We don’t care that his making the team might mean that the team will lose or that a worthy child won’t then get a slot that he deserves to get because our child took his place. We are incensed if a teacher tells us that Johnny isn’t special, or worse, that he is falling behind. We storm into the school and berate the principal for the stupidity of the teacher. We treat our children’s teachers and coaches like we treat other drivers on the road. They are mere impediments to our getting where we want to be in the most efficient way possible. When we cause an accident, we blame the other driver. When our child fails, we blame the system. We are thus shocked that Perfect Little Johnny turns out to be someone who doesn’t quite come up to the expectations we had for him. As Newsweek says in a piece titled “Generation ‘Special,’’ “…it seems that affluent parents now have a major beef with how their offspring…correction, the offspring of others…are turning out. Just a bit entitled perhaps? A little unrealistic in expectations? A little complacent?” There are many caring (and realistic) parents out there, who don’t steamroll over the system. There are many students graduating from high schools who are hardworking and who have never expected anything they didn’t deserve. But there are also many of the others. These other kids will graduate, some with honors, and go on to colleges they never should have gotten into. They will sit in classes they don’t deserve to be in, and they will struggle to get by or they will simply drop out. But few of them will understand why this has happened to them, and fewer, still, will place any responsibility on themselves. From Newsweek: “…we’ve given our children everything except for the thing they need most and the thing no one can provide, the ability to find their own core passion without artificial support. And the understanding of how much work, how much sheer effort, it takes to succeed.”
Is there something you’re procrastinating on doing today? Or any day for that matter. One of the things that has been on my “To Do” list for a couple of days is to create an editorial calendar for my blog posts. It’s part of an assignment for the 31 Day Build a Better Blog challenge (sponsored by ProBlogger http://www.problogger.net) that I’m participating in with my blogging buddies — Delicacte Flower http://delicacies.wordpress.com and Digital Citizen http://digitalcitizen.ca . How timely that I should receive an email this morning about procrastination. The catchy title caught my attention. The email was about a book on procrastination titled “Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time,” by Brian Tracy. There’s an old saying that says…”If the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is eat a live frog, then nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day!” Well, I can still think of a few worse things…but you get the point. Brian Tracy says that your “frog” should be the most difficult item on your things to do list, the one you’re most likely to procrastinate on; because, if you eat that first, it’ll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day. But, if you don’t…and let him sit there on the plate and stare at you while you do a hundred unimportant things, it can drain your energy and you won’t even know it. Hmmm, maybe some of us have too many frogs on our plate at one time and that’s why we’re feeling overwhelmed. Check out the cute video and then read the book excerpt below the video: Here’s an excerpt from “Eat That Frog!” that I received from Simple Truths http://simpletruths.com. It’s a small sampling in Brian’s chapter titled: Apply the 80/20 Rule to Everything. Enjoy! The 80/20 Rule is one of the most helpful of all concepts of time and life management. It is also called the “Pareto Principle” after its founder, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who first wrote about it in 1895. Pareto noticed that people in his society seemed to divide naturally into what he called the “vital few”, the top 20 percent in terms of money and influence, and the “trivial many”, the bottom 80 percent. He later discovered that virtually all economic activity was subject to this principle as well. For example, this principle says that 20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results, 20 percent of your customers will account for 80 percent of your sales, 20 percent of your products or services will account for 80 percent of your profits, 20 percent of your tasks will account for 80 percent of the value of what you do, and so on. This means that if you have a list of ten items to do, two of those items will turn out to be worth five or ten times or more than the other eight items put together. Number of Tasks versus Importance of Tasks Here is an interesting discovery. Each of the ten tasks may take the same amount of time to accomplish. But one or two of those tasks will contribute five or ten times the value of any of the others. Often, one item on a list of ten tasks that you have to do can be worth more than all the other nine items put together. This task is invariably the frog that you should eat first. Focus on Activities, Not Accomplishments The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous. For this reason, you must adamantly refuse to work on tasks in the bottom 80 percent while you still have tasks in the top 20 percent left to be done. Before you begin work, always ask yourself, “Is this task in the top 20 percent of my activities or in the bottom 80 percent?” The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you will be naturally motivated to continue. A part of your mind loves to be busy working on significant tasks that can really make a difference. Your job is to feed this part of your mind continually. Just thinking about starting and finishing an important task motivates you and helps you to overcome procrastination. Time management is really life management, personal management. It is really taking control of the sequence of events. Time management is having control over what you do next. And you are always free to choose the task that you will do next. Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work. Effective, productive people discipline themselves to start on the most important task that is before them. They force themselves to eat that frog, whatever it is. As a result, they accomplish vastly more than the average person and are much happier as a result. This should be your way of working as well. Other good links for Eat That Frog!: To see all 21 ways to stop procrastinating here is a good summary: Eat That Frog! book excerpt from amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Eat-That-Frog-Great-Procrastinating/dp/1576751988# Brian Tracy website: http://www.briantracy.com/
I left my camera there, which is sad because I got some truly amazing shots of the boys in the pool. They're still awake upstairs, which is also sad, because I am exhausted, but I am glad to be home, so am pretending not to notice. We had the time of our lives: eating, laughing, swimming, drinking, repeat. To sum up: Dear Inventor of Water-Wings, God bless you, you-who-are-clearly-a-parent. The Reds had a blast, hurling themselves into the deep end, learning to hold their breath underwater and proudly sporting their brand-new goggles and flutter boards. I enjoyed paddling about without a flailing bodies climbing onto to my head in a panic. A Grateful Mother Bought coolers for the first time in Was not AS delighted to drink one. Perhaps you might consider renaming the drink, "Blueberry Muffin Mix-Mosquito Repellent-Purple 'Thrills' Gum", for that is exactly how it tasted. "Pina Colada Vodka Mudshake" Lover You know how much I love you. But I have also found myself spending a great deal of time with "Pina Colada Vodka Mudshakes." I wish I could say I feel guilty, but they're far too yummy for that. I hope you're OK with that. Dear Matthew and Luke, Thank you for not fighting (much), for surviving 10 hours of driving cheerfully and without peeing in your car seat (Luke). Thanks for great manners, snuggles at dawn, laughing so hard, swimming so happily and for at least trying new foods (Matthew). You make me very proud. Every day, you bring me great joy. Thank you, especially, for that. You are wonderful, wonderful friends and consummate hosts. Thanks for great food, awesome drinks, soft beds, Fruit Loops for my gobsmacked "Mummy-only-let's-us-have-Cheerios" kids and for letting me sleep in EVERY morning. Thank you for sage advice, chatting until dawn, not freaking out when my son (who-shall-remain-nameless-but-might-be-called-Luke) peed on the brand-new couch and for making each moment relaxing and easy. Belly and the Reds
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?" Thoreau I saw this short film and was reminded of another day, many years ago. July 2, 1997 We were just kids, excited, apprehensive, headed to the maternity ward to have our second child. The elevator doors opened and a young man stepped off pushing a woman, apparently his wife, in a wheelchair. Their expressions were grim, her face ashen and devoid of emotion. As we were getting Tina set up in her room and wondering aloud what had happened, the orderly filled us in. They had just left the maternity ward. She had had to come in to deliver her almost full term baby who had died in utero. For a moment I gazed into a chasm of empty hopelessness and was very afraid. Then the moment passed, and we were back to the business of preparing for the arrival of our little one. It has haunted me for years. Their child would be 16 this July. Our Samantha will turn 16 this July 2. I'm a storyteller. When I was an over the road trucker, the rare treat was the evening when, after I had parked my truck and showered, I moseyed over to the truckstop bar, ordered some dinner, and found that the group around the bar was personable and talkative. Many truckstops don't serve alcohol but have a large bar anyway, because men who have been alone with their thoughts for hours on end, like to sit around and talk with other, similar men and the waitresses at dinner. Most nights would start out with everyone eyeballing the menu or looking down at their plate and eating, 'til one guy would get up the nerve and open with an innocuous question, "Smokeys everywhere today, huh?" or "Good Lord, is this winter ever gonna end?". Then the dam would break loose. Small talk at first, with everyone giving just enough to make sure there weren't any real nut jobs present. The stories would start to flow, and with the general male competitive nature, coupled with their desire to impress the waitress, be she young and pretty, old and personable, or just as mean as a rattlesnake, the one upmanship would guarantee better and better stories until the calculators started whirling in our heads and we reluctantly admitted we would be pretty useless at 3 am if we didn't get back to the truck for at least a little shuteye soon. The best part about those evenings was that while the other guy was telling his story, it would get the get the gears going in everyone else's brains, and he would be lucky to finish his story before someone gave a little laugh and, "You're not kiddin'! That reminds me of the time when...." If you think about it, that's how our kids learn a lot about us, as well. Last night Rebekah fell off her scooter and ended up needing stitches, and the whole evening we talked about various things that have happened to us. Things we might never again have spoken of if her mishap hadn't prompted the memory. "There was that time when I was delivering a load in Atlantic City and cut my finger. I talked for days about how efficient that ER was. They got me in and out in 45 minutes, stitches and all. Then I got the bill for $1,800, and I've had nothing good to say about them since." "When I was a little boy, I was hanging upside down from a tree when Mom called us in for dinner. It startled me and I fell and landed headfirst on an orange crate. You know what an orange crate is? (the explanation followed) Anyway, my head was killing me, but I went in and sat down to dinner. We said grace and started to eat, and at one point, I reached up and held the top of my head to ease the pain. A few bites later, I happened to look at my hand as I prepared to take another bite, and saw that it was splotched with a lot of dark, clotting blood. Took me a few seconds to figure out, it was from my head." I'd like to do some posts that tell stories, and I'd like to hear your stories as well, so here's my proposal. Using something you've read (or seen) either in my blog or someone elses' as a prompt, write a post telling us a story from your past. Then tag me and/or whoever provided the story that prompted you. It should provide for some good reading and enjoyment. Doesn't need to be long or fancy, just give us a little glimpse into your life. I will enjoy your stories and will remember things otherwise forgotten that might prompt me to write even more stories from my life. You might be surprised at the fond memories that can be dug up by this little exercise. Anyone in? It has been one of those weeks. Rebekah, finally big enough to ride one of the racing bikes, was practicing in the neighborhood behind us, and fell, getting several nice scratches from the teeth of the sprocket down the inside of her thigh. ^This is a pic we took when we were fishing on a windy day when the family was up for Granny's funeral. Below are Rebekah's battle scars. The stripes on the right leg are from the chainring on her bicycle and the bandage covers her recent stitches. I worked Wednesday and Thursday, chipping off a piece of one of my molars during that route. I interviewed Friday morning, then had to go back in to learn to route the next day's trucks that evening. I had a nice bicycle ride around BWI airport after routing. The trail around the airport is just over 10 miles, but I continued riding for another 8 and was rewarded just before getting back to my car with a very rare sight, an almost completely white deer. I used the iphone to get a pic, so I couldn't zoom in, but it was an amazing thing to see, and he stood there and let me take his picture. I rode off and he was still standing, eating grass from the meadow. The little white speck is the white deer about 50 yards away. I slept in one of the trucks at work Friday night and headed out on my route Saturday morning, only to find that a filling had fallen out on the other side of my mouth. Already had an appointment with the dentist for this coming Tuesday, so no worry. I made two uncharacteristic mistakes on my route, and I had to go back and fix them, adding over 100 miles to my route, but the bosses prefer that to having to send out another truck, so they typically give you a pat on the back for finding your own errors and fixing them. I rolled back in to our yard just in time to do the routing for Monday's routes, then jumped in the car and headed home. Today, as evidenced by the bandage in the picture above, Rebekah fell off her scooter onto a piece of metal which scooped out a nice little divot of skin, so it was off to the urgent care to get stitches, then out to Cracker Barrel for dinner with just she and Tina and I, just as a little comfort for all her trouble this week. (She, too, lost a filling yesterday, and will accompany me to the dentist tomorrow.) Now, it is a waiting game. I have to continue to practice routing the trucks two days a week and cover my regular routes until they hire a new team leader within the month. I'm sort of hoping that team leader is me, but either way I'll at least know where I stand in the company and what my chances are of moving up. Also, when the process is over, I'll be back to doing just one job, either learning to run the transportation department or being a delivery driver. This waiting is killing me, though. I'm really trying not to get my hopes up, but the team leader job would mean not only steady pay but also most weekends off, so it is a difficult thing to suppress the rising tide of hopefulness. As with any other endeavour in life, time marches slowly on, and the process will end whether in my favor or that of another candidate. Though I will be disappointed if they hire someone else, the process has been a real joy. I have loved the challenge and the intense effort of learning quickly how to write a resume. Enumerating the things that would make me a good leader has been an enlightening exercise and if nothing else has given me a confidence I did not earlier possess. Also, the interview process is a huge challenge to me and I had forgotten how much I enjoyed it. When your turn comes, you have one chance to get it right. Every word and expression counts and can't be undone. It is a heady experience. Yes, times are exciting at our house, but we will be glad for them to calm down a bit. How is spring 2013 treating you? Several days of hectic resume preparation. Two weeks of waiting and then the call, "Can you come in this Friday for an interview?" So I spent the week preparing for the interview. Digging around my "sources" for information to give me a leg up. Going to the back of the closet and the local Jos. A. Banks outlet for stuff to put together a suit. When you work every weekend at a blue collar job, you find you very seldom use formal clothing. Getting through the nerves all week, and then you park the car and you're on! What do you expect when you walk into an interview with the administrator of the facility where you work? How about, "Hey look at this! Dan's wearing a suit! Wow Dan, you gotta go show XXXX!" Then down to business. I'm applying for a job managing 50+/- drivers, three office staff and all the company's deliveries to the surrounding states. (NJ,DE, MD, PA, and some of WV and VA.) The interview was conversational and a little odd, but more like what I was expecting thana traditional job interview. Odd questions that had a correct answer, but more concerned with the process of getting to the answer than the actual answer. I came out feeling more confident than when I went in, and with a little better perspective on what I'm up against. This was the first round of interviews. There were 4 internal applicants and 3 external. It appears all the internal applicants were given a shot at the first interview, and the 3 best were selected from the outside applicants. I'm more worried about the outside guys than any current employee I can imagine would have any interest in the job, but today's job was to get into the top 2 or 3 of 7 and I came away with the feeling that I did just that. Guess I'll know more soon. The last interviews are next week and then we'll be notified as to who made the selection, so until then it's back to work. One good thing about going through this process. I had to sit down and enumerate the things in my past that qualify me to lead a transportation department and having done that, I find my confidence increasing. I'm the guy some company is looking for to lead their transportation department. I hope it's the company I work for, but if not, it's just a matter of time. I have been off Xanga for a while. Haven't even had a chance to sit and read blogs. Through a series of unfortunate events we lost our team leader and an assistant team leader (that's what they call our transportation manager and his assistant.), which left our department's management team at one assistant manager and one secretary. After a couple weeks of holding down the fort, they called to see if I would come in and train to be able to provide some relief when it was needed. Meanwhile, I spoke with our facility director to see if it would be worth my time to apply for the team leader decision. He replied neutrally (as would be expected considering there may be other in house applicants), but recommended that I apply. I went home and proceeded to attempt a resume. As DOT regulations indicate the information necessary to apply for a truck driving job, most truckers go their whole career without ever needing a resume, and up to this point I was no exception. I proceeded to scour the internet for ideas. Meanwhile, between working in the office and running my scheduled routes, I was on the road two days at a time for my normal routes twice a week and then in the office the other days. Today is the second day off I've had in the last fifteen days, so researching ideas and creating a resume was pretty difficult, but I finally got it submitted last Monday. I have been trying to keep it on the down low in the office, but today in a phone meeting with the facility director I spilled the beans not knowing that he had me on speaker phone and the rest of the management team was in the room. It's going to be a little awkward, but I'll just have to deal with it. Tina quit her job recently to have more time at home and (this coming autumn) to have a crack at going to college, so now that I finally got a day off, we got all the kids off to school and took our time getting ready, then headed off to Easton to get some lunch at Panera and run some errands. I had to drop a bicycle off at WalMart. Whoever built the bike had cross threaded and completely stripped one of the pedals and while Rebekah was riding it the pedal fell off, so I'm trying to get it fixed or replaced. We had to pick up some supplies for the pool, too, so we ended up making a day of it. After we got home and the kids got off the bus, we were sitting in the living room and my phone rang. It was the human resources lady to inform me that they'd like to schedule me for an interview for the team leader position! I'm still not sure if it's just a gesture, "Well, he does work here, so at least we should give him the courtesy of an interview" or truly an interview based on my qualifications as laid out in my resume. I guess it doesn't matter. I've got a few minutes of the boss's time to convince him that I'm the man for the job, and that's more than a lot of people who applied have at this point. I'm very nervous, not knowing what to expect, but I know I have the experience to do the job, so I think I have at least a long shot. I'll definitely keep you posted. On a more practical note, I'll be glad for the selection process to be over, no matter how it turns out because it'll mean I can go back to working a regular schedule and see my family regularly again. Hope you all are well. When I get back to normal I'll catch up on all your blogs.
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Joined: 04 Oct 2008 Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE \|Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 2:10 am Post subject: My latest happenings \|A couple of things going on for me. 1) I started posting that serial on my blog. I like it and it was fun to write. The fourth installment will be going live sometime later today. 2) My second Weaver's Circle novella, Long Memory, came out Monday. Beth has been taking care of Nonie Bennetti for years as her dementia worsens. She knows the end is coming soon, but she doesn't expect it to come in the form of Nonie's grandson. James just wanted to hide from the notoriety of a real estate scandal he uncovered in Atlanta, but Beth's struggles and his mother's demands that he audit her handling of Nonie's finances put him right in the middle of another mess. 3) Signed the contract for Arden FD #3, Struck By Lightning. It'll be out in November from Lyrical. Arden FD #1, Three Alarm Tenant, will be featured on Lyrical's website the last day of the month and I believe that entails the offer of a free download of the first chapter. 4) Still working on that sheikh romance. Ask Jane O, she bumped into my co-writer not long ago. It's a small world after all. 5) It is 11AM local time, I've been up since 6, cleaned my apartment, did a bunch of minor tasks and have yet to eat breakfast, so breakfast it is. Angsty romance with scattered humor. My Faux Website
Google: Android isn’t designed for tablets… yet Google clearly didn’t have tablets in mind when it designed the Android operating system. Way back in 2007, tablets were generally expensive computers running Windows software which often had a full keyboard, a screen on a swivel, and active digitizer and stylus doohickeys for input. Android, on the other hand, was aimed at smartphones. Flash forward a few years and it seems like every day there’s a story about a new company coming out with an Android tablet. That makes sense, because let’s face it, the iPad is probably the most popular tablet computer ever, and it’s basically running an operating system designed for a smartphone. There’s not much difference between the versions of iOS running on the iPad and the iPhone. Since pretty much anyone can license Android for free and use it how they see fit, it’s not surprising that companies looking to pump out iPad rivals are going with Android. The problem is that Google hasn’t officially given these devices its blessing yet — and Google mobile director Hugo Barra tells Tech Radar that the company probably won’t until a future version of Android that’s optimized for tablets is available. In other words, that shiny new Android 2.2 Froyo operating system Google launched earlier this year? You know, the one that tablet makers are scrambling to install on their mobile devices? It’s not what Google had in mind for tablets. While the basic Google Android operating system is open source and free for anyone to use, Google holds tighter reigns on some of the apps that run on top of Android, including its Gmail, Google Calendar, and Android Market apps. So far, Google hasn’t officially given the go ahead for any hardware maker to install the Android Market app on a device that doesn’t meet the minimum requirements — which basically means you need to have a device with an accelerometer, WiFi, and phone capabilities. That’s why the Samsung Galaxy Tab and Dell Streak both have Android Market access and the Archos 101 and Augen GenTouch78 don’t. The former have 3G modems and the ability to make phone calls. The latter don’t. The good news is that Barra says future versions of Android will support the tablet form factor. But right now, he says that the problem with installing the Android Market is that some of the 80,000 apps available for download simply won’t run properly on tablets. Honestly, it seems like there should be a relatively easy fix that simply requires an updated Market app rather than a brand new operating system. Just segregate apps based on their hardware requirements. Apple does this by separating out the iPad apps from the iPhone/iPod touch apps in the iTunes App Store. But Google appears to be taking a different approach. I get the feeling that Google never really wanted Android tablets to exist in the first place and is just now playing catch up in response to the obvious demand. The company has another mobile operating system in the works called Google Chrome OS, which is basically an OS built around a web browser. Instead of downloaded apps, it will run web apps, although we expect there to be some offline caching capabilities which should let you do things like read eBooks or watch videos even when an internet connection isn’t handy. Since Google is first and foremost a company that makes its revenue from web-based advertising and web-based software, it’s no surprise that Google’s vision for the future is cloud-based apps instead of downloads. Google doesn’t offer as many desktop apps as it used to, instead focusing on the cloud. If Chrome OS were ready to go earlier this year, I suspect Google still wouldn’t be thinking about Android for tablets — unless Chrome OS turned out to be a big flop with users clamoring for downloadable apps. Don’t forget, when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, it didn’t have native apps either. He insisted that the development platform for the iPhone was the web, and the phone was designed primarily to run web apps. Today, there are over 250,000 native apps available in the App Store because, let’s face it, web apps just aren’t always going to do the job. Anyway, long story short — I’d be shocked at this point if Google didn’t respond to the huge demand for Android tablets by finally pushing a tablet friendly version of the operating system by the end of the year. But I don’t really think Google is going to be happy about it… and pushing a version of Android that isn’t exclusively for phones could be all it takes for Chrome OS to be dead on arrival. After all, who needs a web-browser based operating system when you’ve already got an always-on, light weight mobile OS that includes its own Webkit-based browser and the ability to run tens of thousands of third party native apps?
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 The Senate rejected Pat Toomey's attempt to expand background checks via a controversial gun control amendment voted on Wednesday afternoon. U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey sounded unconcerned in a conference call Wednesday when a reporter asked about the possibility that his NRA rating would be downgraded because of his recent compromise move on gun control. "This is not about the NRA or politics for me," Toomey said. The Toomey-Manchin amendment to expand background checks was narrowly defeated in the Senate on Wednesday afternoon. The vote was 54 yes to 46 no. Sixty votes rather than a simple majority were needed to pass the amendment. Toomey issued this statement just after the vote: “I did what I thought was the right thing for our country. I sought out a compromise position that I thought could move the ball forward on an important matter of public safety. My only regret is that our… Friday, April 5, 2013 Risa Ferman says it could reduce violence in Montco. Friday, April 5 Delaware Valley politicians ban together to fight to get tougher gun laws. The district attorneys in the Greater Philadelphia area have put their heads together to find ways to restrict illegal weapons in the region. Risa Vetri Ferman, Montgomery County District Attorney, told Nesworks that "the legislation could also help reduce violence in [Montgomery County] areas." According to a report by WHYY, Ferman has "joined a bipartisan contingent of lawmakers to discuss new state legislation setting a mandatory minimum two-year sentence for illegally carrying a firearm in Philadelphia." To read the full report and all the bill entails, visit the Newsworks story here. Thursday, April 4, 2013 Many Montco politicians are pushing for measures that seem to fall flat in state legislature. Thursday, April 4 As Connecticut passes its laws to restrict gun purchases with stricter policies, similar bills in Pennsylvania's legislature are falling flat. Local rallies have been hosted in Montgomery County, and its representatives are voicing the concerns. State Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-153) of Montgomery County, has worked with state Rep. Steve Santarsiero (D-31) and state Rep. Ron Waters (D-191) on a series of bills, including the banning of assault weapons called House Bill 517, according to a report in PhillyBurbs.com. Restrictions are not just being called for one one side. Todd Stephens (R-151), a former Assistant District Attorney in Montgomery County, has introduced House Bill 931, to "require the Pennsylvania State Police to send all existing … Thursday, March 28, 2013 Speakers say they aren't interested in taking away anyone's right to own firearms legally. Gun rights advocates there to protest the rally were not convinced. More than a dozen local politicians, law enforcement officers and gun control supporters took to the steps of the Montgomery County Courthouse on Thursday afternoon to call for what they say is "commonsense" gun legislation requiring universal background checks for anyone wishing to purchase a firearm in any situation. The rally was organized by Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) and a local group called Lower Merion United in conjunction with a "National Day to Demand Action" on behalf of gun control legislation. "We believe that the way to prevent gun violence is for all of us to have the courage to reach out to one another," said Shawn Kraemer, one of the organizers of the group. Other speakers included Montgomery County Commissioners' … Norristown's interim Chief of Police Willie Richet and Montgomery County Commissioner Josh Shapiro are expected to lead the call to end gun violence and 'support commonsense gun laws' as part of a "National Day to Demand Action." The debate over gun control continues in the county seat as both Norristown's interim Chief of Police Willie Richet and Montgomery County Commissioner Josh Shapiro are expected to take to the steps of Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown at 2:30 p.m. today, Thursday, March 28 to call for an end to gun violence and urge lawmakers to pass gun safety legislation like universal background checks. The planned rally is part of a "National Day to Demand Action" organized by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a bipartisan gun violence prevention advocacy organization co-chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. There are similar events planned in more than 100 towns and cities across the country today, … Tuesday, March 5, 2013 The Montgomery County Sheriff's Department's Gun Permit Division will have special morning hours this Saturday. In an effort to serve county residents whose work schedules make it difficult for them to visit the Montgomery County Courthouse during normal business hours, the Sheriff's Department has announced special Saturday hours this weekend for the Gun Permit Division. Department employees will be available to service residents seeking gun permits this Saturday, March 9 from 9 a.m. to noon. Gun permit applications, instructions and local police check forms can be found on the county's website or downloaded from our PDF section. In related news, the Prothonotary's office will also be open this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for "Passport Day in the USA." Read more about county passport services on Saturday here. Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Meanwhile, a Republican-sponsored bill named for a popular caliber of handgun would seek to prevent any federal gun control legislation from being enforceable inside Pennsylvania. Tuesday, February 19 Citing the December shooting deaths of a classroom full of Connecticut first graders as a last straw, Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-153) of Montgomery County has entered the the national gun control debate by co-sponsoring legislation that would "ban the possession, use, control, sale, transfer, or manufacture of an assault weapon within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." The bill, H.B. 517, defines as assault weapon as any "selective-fire firearm capable of fully automatic, semi automatic or burst fire at the option of the user." It also lists a roster of specific semi automatic gun models that would be prohibited. Republican state legislators have vowed to stall the bill, which Dean sponsored along with Rep. Ronald G. Waters (D) of Delaware … Monday, February 18, 2013 A Pennsylvania tot gets suspended from kindergarten. On the heels of the events at Sandy Hook, a shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut, the nation has been abuzz with gun control debates. This weekend, USAToday reported that a Pennsylvania girl, waiting for her bus to kindergarten, was suspended from school for her actions. "Waiting in line for the bus, a Pennsylvania kindergartner tells her pals she's going to shoot them with a Hello Kitty toy that makes soap bubbles," said the article. The act landed the 5-year-old Eastern Pennsylvania girl in for suspension, as her district cited "terroristic threats" as its reasoning. Can a 5-year-old commit a terroristic threat? Are our schools going too far? Are they not going far enough? Voice your concerns, in favor of or against the act, … Thursday, January 24, 2013 The State Police have complied with State Rep. Todd Stephens' request to have mental health records included in a national gun check database. It took 18 months, but State Rep. Todd Stephens said the Pennsylvania State Police have begun sending the mental health records of people prohibited from buying firearms to a federal database. Stephens (R-151) of Horsham, has been working for a year and a half to prevent what he calls a “loophole” pertaining to the inclusion of mental health records in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Without that inclusion, Stephens said anyone from Pennsylvania who has been involuntarily committed, or found to be mentally deficient - and thus ineligible to buy firearms - could travel to another state and buy a gun. Earlier this month, Stephens said he intended to introduce legislation that would require that the state's … Friday, January 18, 2013 As Capitol Hill debates gun control, sales and registrations in the county are booming. Friday, January 18 Business is booming. Those in the gun-selling industry are finding a good deal of action in Montgomery County. According to an article in the Pottstown Mercury, the counter in spots like the French Creek Outfitters has seldom dropped below a dozen customers all day long. In the wake of the debates on Capitol Hill and President Barrack Obama's recommendations on gun control, the sales and registrations in the county have been on the rise. Many makes and models are sold out at local gun shops. "When asked about AR-15 rifles, one employee shook his head. 'We’ve been sold out of those for weeks,' he said," quoted the Mercury article. Many local vendors are noting the sales went up more after Wednesday's statements by the president. "Gun shops …
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I've released man-pages-3.38. The release tarball is available on kernel.org. The browsable online pages can be found on man7.org. The Git repository for man-pages is available on kernel.org. The most notable changes in man-pages-3.38 are as follows: - A new get_nprocs_conf(3) page by Petr Beňas documents the get_nprocs_conf() and get_nprocs() functions. - A new mallopt(3) page (by me) documents the mallopt() library function and corresponding environment variables used for controlling the behavior of the malloc(3) suite of functions. - A new malloc_get_state(3) page (by me) documents the malloc_get_state() and malloc_set_state() functions. - The mtrace(3) page has been completely rewritten (by me), adding a lot of detail. - A new scandirat(3) page by Mark Bannister documents the scandirat() function. - Mark Bannister also added documentation of the qsort_r() function to the qsort(3) page. - I've added documentation of the aligned_alloc() function (specified in the recently released C11 standard) and the obsolete pvalloc() function to the posix_memalign(3) page. - The malloc(3) page adds a short discussion of allocation arenas.
Date: 28 Jul 2003 14:02:15 -0700 Sorry if I'm disturbing your newgroup with my newbie questions, i hope Which books would you recommend for someone who is designing an entire operating system from scratch, without a tutor. I already own Andy's "design and implementation 2/e", "modern operating systems 1/e" and milenkovic's "operating systems concepts and design 2/e". I've read the OS theory and now i'm in the design and development stage of the project, but i need further information in order to implement what i I've been looking at amazon.com, and i found some interesting books -Operating systems concepts; John Wiley & Sons -Understanding linux kernel 2/e; o'reilly -Linux device drivers; o'reilly -Solaris Internals Core Kernel Architecture; prentice-hall -Linux kernel internals; addison-Wesley Pub Co -UNIX internals: the new frontiers; prentice-hall -Design of an UNIX operating system; prentice-hall -Design and implementation of the 4.4 bsd operating system; addison-Wesley Pub Co which books would you choose and why, considering my position. - Re: Database Design & Normalization Question ... understand the logic behind the books, videos, software, ... didn't have to change the database design to store new ... - Re: MVC design questions ... Instead of a single CRUD GUI program I've got two, the idea being that one can be given to anybody because it can't damage the database (no insert/update/ delete capability at all while the other, which can do these things, is intended only for suitable authorised users: most data is bulk loaded and the update GUI is only there for removing to odd piece of junk and tidying up. ... In fact, i'd create three - a full-access account for the DBA, an account with the ability to edit the data, but not do DDL, for the update app, and a read-only one for the search app. ... I have almost no OO background and have no idea who the currently recognised OO design gurus are. ... That era was dominated by big ideas - big processes, big notations, big books, big words. ... - Re: Applications "buying" resources ... It all boils down to how you specify a correctly working system. ... want to design a system that will do a particular job most of the time, ... I just find my reasoning for using an operating system in my ... it is true that a real-time system must ... - Re: Recommended books on Top Down Design ... "Top down design" still happens, but books these days don't promote it. ... The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth ... some dynamic typing abilities. ... - Re: What books do you read / recommend ... category is the C++ books, not because it's the best, or because ... well-explored that lots of uniquely good design books are also good C++ ... The C++ Programming Language 3rd Edition by Bjarne Stroustrup ... Design Patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software by Gamma, ...
Network timeouts on suse 9.3 after upgrade from 9.1 Date: 10 Jun 2005 18:11:44 -0700 I upgraded to from suse 9.1 to 9.3 and after that I keep getting network timeouts when accessing websites which inturn have referring Example: when accessing cnn.com or similar sites which inturn refer to the ad websites like ar.atwola.com, I get constant timeouts to these referred sites. Consequently the pages dont complete downloading. Reinstalled and reconfigured dhcp, network drivers, turned off ipv6, manually restarted networking etc., but problem persists. Checked routing tables, network config. Websites which do not refer to other websites load fine and fast ! Same hardware when booted with windows works fine. - Mobile phones, Facebook, YouTube cut in Iran following election protests ... Tehran Saturday evening while popular Internet websites Facebook and ... The mobile phone network stopped working at 10:00 pm, ... Iran has two national networks run by state-owned MCI ... Iranian authorities banned the popular social networking website ... - Re: blocking websites ... website, but if i need to, ill start blocking all those websites. ... matter of concept. ... Some more basic thoughts on that idea: In any networked environment, ... Sorry, this is nothing personal, but I just see too many network ... - Re: Server Error HTTP/1.1 500 ... If your Norton Protect contains the Norton, ... proper access to websites. ... > The upgrade proceeded from a complete re-install of the factory OEM WinXP ... > MS Windows Network, which is governed by a Cisco router. ... - Re: cant get certain websites ... >>all of a sudden i can't get to certain websites. ... >>can from a different computer on my home network. ... >Now check for, and remove, spyware. ... for security updates. ... - Loss of Connectivity ... We have a Windows network with 2000 and 2003 servers, are hosting websites ... We can access the network from WEB2, ... from some machines on the network, ...
Slider markings still not possible with this - it is only a 'current' value. OK final message for now... On July 16, 2010 08:56:30 pm Tim E. Real wrote: But that's OK, I'm now thinking markings on every slider would be clutter. Instead, let's have a dB label below the integer value label, and use snd_mixer_selem_get_playback_dB() to fill it. I think that might be reasonable. dB markings may be impossible here... Yap yap yap... Cheers. Tim. Linux-audio-dev mailing list
To be able to invoke commands like suspend and hibernate from the command line not so long ago required having root privileges or using the desktop environment built-in tools. Now to invoke suspend, hibernate, shutdown, or restart, D-Bus can be invoked as Regular user. I created a script called pwrman to ease the task (requires UPower to be installed). (I got this idea from a person from the Arch Linux forums. I forgot who you are, so sorry, but thank you.)
[vdr] Announce: mplayer.sh version 0.8.7 list-linux.vdr at koschikode.com Sun Feb 11 21:25:56 CET 2007 this release mainly adds support for MPlayer versions newer than 1.0rc1. Unfortunately, I had to drop the support for MPlayer versions prior to 1.0pre series (0.9x...). This step was necessary, because current MPlayer development version stopped accepting the '-vop' option. The '-vf' option must be used As usual you can get the new version of mplayer.sh from - added 544x480 as valid NTSC resolution (thanks to C.Y.M) - removed 688x576 from the valid PAL resolutions; - calculate USE_SPEED with 30 fps instead of 29.97 - use '-vf' and '-af' instead of '-vop' and '-aop', as the latter are deprecated More information about the vdr
\|Stats at a Glance\|\|LIP\|\|TTU\| \|FG Percentage\|\|.333 (14-42)\|\|.390 (23-59)\| \|3P FG Percentage\|\|.412 (7-17)\|\|.304 (7-23)\| \|FT Percentage\|\|1.000 (6-6)\|\|.615 (8-13)\| PHILLIPS - 1 ROBINSON - 1 Saturday, November 17, 2012 NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb women’s basketball team continues its run of three teams in four games against BCS conference schools with a 2 p.m. tip-off at Texas Tech on Sunday in Lubbock, Texas. The Lady Bisons enter Sunday’s matinee looking for their first win of the year after falling short to No. 16 Vanderbilt last Monday. Lipscomb cut a 20-point deficit to just six points, two different times, but could not capitalize on the comeback opportunity, falling 62-45. Senior Hannah Phillips led the Bisons with 21 points, on her way to picking up the first A-Sun Player of the Week for the 2012-13 season. Phillips averaged 18 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 38 minutes per game, all team highs, enroute to her first career award. Texas Tech enters Sunday’s matinee 1-1, having beat Arizona State 61-49 and falling to New Mexico 65-61. The Lady Raiders return nine letter-winners and four starters from a season ago. Monique Smalls leads the team with 14 points per game, coming off a career-high 22 points at New Mexico. Christine Hyde leads the team with 6.5 rebounds per game, including three boards a game on the offensive end. Hyde also ranks second on the team with 10 points per game. The Lady Raiders average 61 a night, knocking down 43 percent of their shots but shoot just 18 percent from 3-point distance. Lipscomb continues on the road, with a 6 p.m. game at Murray State on Monday, Nov. 26 in Murray, Ky. \|Copyright ©2013 Lipscomb University Athletics. All Rights Reserved.\|\|www.LipscombSports.com\|
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Here we are again talking about discernment! (weekly January and February) Getting better at discernment helps us understand God, his ways, and his plans with greater proficiency. A lot of time (most of us) are trying to find our way. Learning some time-tested exercises that foster better discernment can bring more than just peace of mind, but a richer walk of faith. The presence and movements of God are certainly a grace…pure gift. But, we can also prepare ourselves to do much better with what he graces us with. Initial recognition for starters! We start to awaken. When practicing the ways of discernment we learn to “read God’s face” as it were. Just like you might know precisely what your friend or spouse is feeling in the 2 seconds time he or she enters your presence, we can learn to distinguish the nuances of God’s presence through familiarity and good listening. So what of these attacks that happen to us from time to time? The things that discourage us whether from within or without…what do we make of them, and how can they derail us? Desolations, as we spoke of before, are interior stirrings that are not sourced in God. They may derail us because they are intended to draw us away from God. Yet, they can be used to help us because God will use what he wants to for his aims…even if the original aims from our opposition may have been intended otherwise. We might call these things Weeds that grow among the good things…the Wheat. Weeds may start out looking like nutritious wheat, but as they develop we can note the differences. We may lose heart that we can’t rid the Weeds all from our lives…and maybe, strange as it seems, some weeds are supposed to stay in place until the harvest. In truth, the Weeds teach us things we could not know otherwise. Here are some: • Weeds may test our mettle. • Weeds may awaken us to negligence or unnoticed and crucial interior things that need our attention. • Weeds may draw a contrast between what is of God and what is not by clarifying the distinction. • Weeds may aid in our dependence on God, like Paul speaks about in 2 Corinthians 12…the thorn and strength in weakness passage. Have any weeds of life ever helped you? (My sources for many of these ideas comes in part from a book my spiritual director lent to me (see below). “Weeds in the Wheat: Discernment: Where Prayer & Action Meet” by Thomas H Green S.J. To be sure this book has a decidedly Catholic perspective (if you can handle that), and sheds light on this view of discerning God’s ways through the Ignatian vantage point.) Click to get new content by Email…the Series continues! Want to read the other Discernment installments? • Discernment Series (first post)
I can’t believe Canal House Cooking is already on Volume No. 7, and I can’t believe I don’t have them all. I definitely need to fill those holes in my collection. This latest volume was inspired by Hirsheimer and Hamilton’s month-long visit to Tuscany, and I received a review copy. They spent a month in a stone farmhouse at the end of a gravel road and cooked with all the ingredients of fall they found nearby. When they returned to their studio, they developed the dishes found in this volume based on simple, Italian, autumn cooking. There are tramezzini and panini with truffle butter and buttered toasts with bottarga, hearty soups with chicken and escarole or little stuffed pasta, and there is pasta. With recipes for fresh spinach pasta and ricotta, you can make lasagne, ravioli, and tagliatelle dishes entirely from scratch. There are dishes for seafood, poultry, and meat. In the vegetables section, the peppers in agrodolce are stuffed with anchovies and covered with a reduced sauce made from currants and vinegar, and the photo alone convinced me I need to try it. For dolci, there’s an apple cake, a beautiful jam tart, and gelato di gianduia among others. I’ll be turning back to the pasta pages soon enough, but first, I tried the risotto bianco. It’s as simple as risotto gets since it’s built with water rather than broth and only involves a few other ingredients. The ingredient that caught my attention, though, was preserved lemon rind. I have some lemons that I preserved a few months ago, and I was delighted to use them here. You might wonder if this risotto is going to be bland since you start by simply bringing plain water to a simmer. Fear not. The beauty of the dish is the simplicity. As the water comes to a simmer in a saucepan, butter is melted in a large saute pan, and finely chopped onion is cooked just until translucent. The chopped preserved lemon rind is added next followed by the rice. After toasting the rice just a bit in the butter, you proceed as usual with risotto-making. A little water at a time is added as you stir and stir. When the rice is tender with a firm center, a little more butter and some grated parmiggiano-reggiano are added. The lemon flavor is actually very subtle in the finished dish, but then everything about this is meant to be subtle. Fight the urge to make it more complicated. Don’t use broth in place of the water, and don’t caramelize the onion. You’ll get a risotto with fresh flavors of onion and lemon, richness from the butter and parmiggiano, and a new appreciation for simplicity on the plate. recipe re-printed with publisher's permission Risotto is traditionally made with the short-grain rice of the Po Valley. There are three main rice varieties: arborio, with its large plump grains that produce a starchy risotto; carnaroli, smaller grains that produce a looser (wavy) risotto; and vialone nano, with firm grains that cook up soft with a kernel of chewiness in the center, just the way Italians like it. 4 tablespoons butter 1 small onion, finely chopped 2 tablespoons finely chopped preserved lemon rind, optional 1 cup arborio, carnaroli, or vialone nano rice ½ cup grated parmigiano-reggiano Salt and pepper Fill a medium pot with about 5 cups water and bring to a gentle simmer over medium heat. Reduce heat to low and keep the water hot. Melt 3 tablespoons of the butter in a heavy deep sauté pan over medium-high heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring with a wooden spoon, until soft and translucent, about 3 minutes. Stir the preserved lemon rind, if using, into the onions then add the rice, stirring until everything is coated with butter. Add 1/2 cup of the simmering water, stirring constantly, to keep the rice from sticking to the bottom of the pan. Push any rice that crawls up the sides back down into the liquid. When the rice has absorbed all the water, add another ½ cup of water. Continue this process until you have added most of the water, about 20 minutes. Taste the rice, it is done when it is tender with a firm center. The fully cooked risotto should be moist but not soupy. Add the parmigiano and the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter and stir until it has melted into the rice. Taste, and season with salt and pepper, if needed. —From Canal House Cooking Volume No. 7, La Dolce Vita by Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirsheimer/distributed by Andrews McMeel Publishing
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By the time Scarlett had undressed and blown out the candle, her plan for tomorrow had worked itself out in every detail. It was a simple plan, for, with Gerald's single mindedness of purpose, her eyes were centered on the goal and she thought only of the most direct steps by which to reach it. Scarlett obeyed, bracing herself and catching firm hold of one of the bedposts. Mammy pulled and jerked vigorously and, as the tiny circumference of whalebone girdled waist grew smaller, a proud, fond look came into her eyes. There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt. Had she been told, she would have been pleased but unbelieving. And the civilization of which she was a part would have been unbelieving too, for at no time, before or since, had so low a premium been placed on feminine naturalness. As they neared the intersecting road that came down the thickly wooded hill from Mimosa and Fairhill, the sound of hooves and carriage wheels became plainer and clamorous feminine voices raised in pleasant dispute sounded from behind the screen of trees. Gerald, riding ahead, pulled up his horse and signed to Toby to stop the carriage where the two roads met.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Orgmode] Re: [bug] [babel] executing code block overwrites subsequent h [Orgmode] Re: [bug] [babel] executing code block overwrites subsequent heading Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:38:19 +0100 Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (windows-nt) Eric S Fraga wrote: > suddenly, there seems to be a rather strange bug in the insertion of > babel code block results into the org file. Attached are two files: > =examplebug.org= which has a simple octave code block before the code > block is executed and =examplebugafter.org= which is what the file looks > like after executing the code block (C-c C-c). > The =#+end_example= line is somehow placed in the middle of the > following headline! Very strange. > I do not believe I have changed any org or babel specific configurations > in a while... > org itself is very recent (a couple of minutes ago), with version in my I do experience the same type of problems with #+call lines, on an Org version of 2 days ago (or so). This problem seems very new to me, certainly a commit from somewhere this week.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: how to instruct gmake to read included fragmented makefilesparalally Re: how to instruct gmake to read included fragmented makefilesparalally.. Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:29:57 -0600 On 6/21/07, Divakar Venkata (divvenka) <address@hidden> wrote: o. We use -MD -MF flags of compiler to create makedependencies for each object file and include them too before compilation.. And these files are ~40kb Generating dependencies before compiling using makedepend or gcc's -MF option or such is often pointless. You need dependencies for two 1) so that make can determine whether the file is older than one or more of its dependencies, and 2) so that make can build or update any generated dependencies before building the target. If a target doesn't exist, then (1) is pointless: a missing file is out-of-date by definition. If you calculate and save the dependencies when compiling the file, then (1) is taken care of on the fly without I/O wasting makedepend processing. That can be done using gcc -MD option in tandem with the -c option. So, can case (2), generated source files, be handled more efficiently than the blunt hammer of makedepend? Many projects don't have any and can ignore it. Others have only a few (say, a yacc parser) and can just declare them manually. If you have many, then finding a way to calculate the maximum possible direct dependencies and create order-only dependencies for them can do the trick without wasting I/O. The largest project I deal with has an variable in each directory's make fragment that control which other modules this one may 'use' which is used to add the correct -I options and generate order-only dependencies on any generated files in those other modules. o. I have seen it takes anywhere between 5 to 10mins..(depending on I mean time spent in calculating dependencies. If by "calculating dependencies" you mean "running makedepend", then stop doing that. If you're using makedepend, you should only need to 1) after a fresh checkout 2) after a "make realclean" or other "nuke everything" cleanup...and you should almost never be doing that. Remember, there are only three reasons to run 'make clean': 1) to save diskspace, 2) to work around broken make files, and 3) paranoia (usually in the run up to a release) If you're running 'make clean' and 'make depend' often, then you should treat the cause: 1) get more diskspace 2) fix the broken makefiles, or 3) take you anxiety medication and/or make your boss take his or hers. If that isn't what you meant by "calculating dependencies", then please describe exactly what you're measuring and how you measured Or time taken before starting compilation.. So, how long does the "nothing" target suggested by David Boyce in the message you quoted take?
[Koha] Koha3rc1: ImageMagick beda at muri-gries.ch Tue Jun 24 07:36:49 NZST 2008 Walker, Michael schrieb: > I've been trying to upgrade from the beta 2 to the RC today on my > Debian Etch system, but it's been giving me a lot of trouble with the > Image::Magick perl module. I installed ImageMagic 6.2 via apt-get, but > that's apparently not good enough. I tried installing via Perl/CPAN, > but it fails without any useful failure logs (plus it's 6.4, whereas > the installer wants 6.2). Any suggestions? I had the same problem. I installed the debian package perlmagick with sudo apt-get install perlmagick and after that a test with: sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Image::Magick' Image::Magick is up to date. But I have an other problem now. I can't delete or edit any record (see my other post, I would like to hear from you if you experiment the same More information about the Koha
lm_sensors2/lib data.c init.c khali at linux-fr.org Wed Dec 3 07:17:33 CET 2003 > > There still are three of them in the library, but it's in the > > generated parser code. I just can't read this, so I will be unable > > to fix them. If anyone with more knowledge of bison/flex could > > tackle this, I'd of course help. > Interesting. Did you use valgrind to find these? Yes I did. I also used it to locate and fix bad memory allocation/accessses in dmidecode (2.x) and associated tools. This is a really helpful tool and I'd recommend it to everyone. More information about the lm-sensors
[OSRS-PROJ] <Update>:Initial step ready for testing paul at toolscenter.org Thu Jun 20 02:26:22 EDT 2002 I wish to report that the initial part of my work on the Proj4 library is ready. This initial part involves mainly removing the macros and some of the #defines. Unfortunately, the proj4 mailing list has no file section like the related lists being hosted on yahoo.groups so I do not know where to upload the I could send the files to anyone interested in testing the results, and I to post them to the related mailing lists file sections like the GDAL list so that all can download it. Please I really need your support to complete this work. I have not yet started using the library in my projects and therefore cannot provide testing, please help. Simply use it as the previous and see if there is any There is no expected change, since the work so far is all about removing the macros to make the codes more readable. I am working on Windows and have created VC++6.0 workspace for the library. The workspace has 1. proj4 DLL project 2. proj4 static library project 3. projects for all the utility programs like cs2cs, proj etc. The utility are linked to the static library. 4. A simple console test program, which uses the DLL version. I have attached a screenshot to show the workspace. I hope this will make it easier to Windows users with VC++6.0 to play with the sources. The "zipped" workspace is about 286 KB. The output of the projects are created in a subfolder/directory, named I have left the macros still in the sources - only commented them out. After enough test, I will remove all. Another request, please can you send me some test programs and data. It can be the proj.exe command line for various projections you use, some values the expected output. These will help me test most of the projections. In other help will be very much appreciated. Please write directly to me if possible. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Size: 16490 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/proj/attachments/20020620/6050a702/wkspace.jpg More information about the Proj
[FFmpeg-devel] [BUG avutil] Armv6 crash with AV_RN32 Wed Mar 3 03:43:21 CET 2010 Pavel Pavlov <pavel at summit-tech.ca> writes: >> Pavel Pavlov <pavel at summit-tech.ca> writes: >> What makes you say that? The ARM documentation states clearly that it > Obviously you don't use firefox, these docs do not exist for firefox users. I do use firefox, and that link works perfectly. You're probably using some buggy plugin that interferes. >> It also works very well on _my_ ARM1136 CPU. >> > I'm wondering, how is that possible that OS is misconfigured (HTC >> > Touch pro 2, retail unmodified version)? >> Some idiot configured the retail version of course. > Is there a way to modify that control register? Do app have access > to that control register? More information about the ffmpeg-devel
hiretto at gmail.com Sat Jan 17 18:05:12 CET 2009 Upload it on opkg.org 2009/1/17 kris Occhipinti <metalx2000 at gmail.com> > Well, a few months ago, before I have a FreeRunner I saw a LightSaber > application for the iPhone, I thought was neat. > So, I made My own for the FreeRunner Yesterday. > Here is the link > How to install: > Just un-tar it to your root directory and it should place everything where > it needs to be > and give you an icon on your desktop. > What it does: > Start the App and the phone sounds like a LightSaber Extending and then > Humming (You know, Like StarWars) > Swing the Phone Around and it sounds like you're having a LightSaber Fight. > Features so Far: > Sound, Vibration, and The Power Button LED flashes Blue on Swings. > Todo list: > Work on the GUI (Currently just a big exit button) > add buttons to extend and retract Saber ( so you don't have to exit the > program to stop the sounds ) > And some sort of graphic or image of a Light Saber. > Add More sounds > Have buttons so you can choose the color of you lightsaber. > Sometimes while exiting, if you are still swinging the phone around, the > LED and/or the vibrator will stay on. > If this occurs, start the app up again and then close it with out swinging > the phone around. > I believe I can fix this with ease. I just wanted to get what I have done > out before I continued working on new things. > I got the sound fx off a free sound fx website. Don't know who made them. > I hope it is ok that I used them. > Openmoko community mailing list > community at lists.openmoko.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... More information about the community
ekoyle at gmail.com Wed Jun 17 07:30:52 CEST 2009 On Jun 11 20:20-0300, Werner Almesberger wrote: > Even in the hardware area, there's more than just low-risk > implementation projects. E.g., there should also be activities that > take on the risky bits and bring them under control. Such "pioneer" > efforts can then be integrated into the next "safe" design. I would really like to see this paradigm expanded to other types of currently-proprietary hardware. You could even rip off large parts of the current design :). As an example: An openmoko HAM radio. Commercially-produced amateur radio equipment is quite proprietary (and expensive, since it's a fairly small market). Most of them have a very limited feature set, partly because of software limitations. Since the nature of amateur radio is to promote experimentation and emergency communications, a device like the openmoko (replacing the GSM radio with hardware to handle HAM radio, SDR?; and a larger form factor) would be highly useful. To give you an idea on pricing, there is a popular (high-end) $400 handheld right now that can handle 2 receive channels, bluetooth (w/$70 add-on board), gps (w/$70 gps receiver add-on for you to accidentally break off the top), APRS messaging (easily handled by a PIC microcontroller... imagine what a real processor could do), and a 1.3"x.8" dot matrix display. BOFH excuse #185: system consumed all the paper for paging More information about the community
gta02, debian, fso: pairing (and using) bleutooth headset? angus.ainslie at gmail.com Fri Sep 5 19:55:03 CEST 2008 OK reproduced a few times now. Some times the bluetooth/alsa/dbus gets into a state where this will not work so you should reboot to start everything fresh. I've created a new state file that prodices NOISY audio , I will be looking into the source of noisy and getting the mic path properly setup as well. Pair the headset ( only needs doing once ) ./BtHeadset.py <bluetooth address> You should hear static in the headset at this point. If not try rerunning BtHeadset.py. If you still don't have static reboot. start the phone call. Once connected alsactl restore 0 -f gsm_headset.txt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... More information about the support
[OM2008.12] How to fix Echo problem? Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindfors at iki.fi Sun Feb 8 12:10:55 CET 2009 Kristian Frisk <kristian at frisk.ax> writes: > when using the phone the person "at the other end" (who I am talking to) > hears a strong echo of his/hers own voice. > Is it possible to get rid of this echo? Yes, the undocumented command AT%N0187 enables noise cancellation. At least FSO framework version 5c40b0ae089d9d04f3cb49df986df68a3b82be3d More information about the support
[Accessibility] How to map parts of tactile paving and other feature? s_higash at mua.biglobe.ne.jp Sat Jul 31 15:15:42 BST 2010 I think we need to draw all foot-ways for accessibility-mapping, though it may take long time to complete.. Because it is mainly for walking/wheelchair driving route. (sorry Japanese article) As for myself I haven't draw enough ;-) > Dear all, > I have been reading up on the archive, but have not come across an > answer to my question, so I hope you can help me out. > Mapping for the blind is one of the OSM activities I wish to > contribute to, because there is not much activity on this topic > amongst the Dutch mappers, and because I live in an small city with a > institute for the blind (especially education to blind children). > Therefore there is a lot of tactile paving and other facilities in my > town, and also a group of people that can benefit from mapping these > facilities. But I can not find clear choices on how to map tactile > paving. I looked at German examples, but most of them are bus-stop > platforms or additions to traffic-light crossings. I can not find > examples of tactile paving on foot-ways along roads (only a few where > the foot-way is completely separated in a park). > So I am wondering what is the best way to map tactile paving on > foot-ways along roads (directly next to the road of only separated by > a small border of cycle-path)? > Should I only mark the nodes of the crossings? And what if a section > of the path is mark apart from crossings (example: there is place > where cars are allowed to park on the foot-way, which is extra width > at that point. There is tactile paving on the part of this foot-path > to lead the blind around the parked cars, but there is no crossing at > the beginning nor at the end of this part)? > How should I make clear that the tactile paving is only on one side of > the road, if the foot-ways are on both side? > Or should I draw all these foot-ways, even if they are directly along > roads, so I can mark the exact sections with tactile paving? I think > this last option is the most clean option, but takes a lot of work, > and this is not how others have done it so far.... > Please give me some advise, as I am keen on starting mapping this > tactile paving. > With kind regards, > Annemieke Vogel > lat. 51.763047 > lon. 5.728747 > Accessibility mailing list > Accessibility at openstreetmap.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list send an empty email to > accessibility-unsubscribe at openstreetmap.org More information about the Accessibility
SLUG Mailing List Archives Re: [SLUG] Who is looking for a JOB in a linux project - To: Ralph Steigrad <steigrad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - Subject: Re: [SLUG] Who is looking for a JOB in a linux project - From: Anand Kumria <wildfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - Date: Wed Aug 9 15:44:23 2000 - Cc: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx - Reply-to: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx - User-agent: Mutt/1.2i On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 03:12:15PM +1000, Ralph Steigrad wrote: > I am in a LINUX project with firewalls. We are looking for somebody with > LINUX flair to help us. Is anybody interested in doing such a job. > Workplace is in the eastern suburbs. You may also want to consider posting this job-ad to the Linux Australia Job DB <URL: http://www.linux.org.au/jobs/>
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Man Returns $1,200 to Completely Rude and Ungrateful Owner Honesty is the best policy, right? Kyle Osborn may not be so quick to agree with you. Osborn recently returned $1,200 in cash he found in an envelope in Harrisonville, Missouri to its owner, only to have the owner question whether all the money was there. Osborn, 29, is a tatted up auto detail shop owner with a scraggly beard who recently found the money while in Sutherlands Hardware Store. Sure, he could’ve kept the money for himself, but he decided to be a Good Samaritan by hunting down the person who lost the envelope, instead. He finally found the man in the store and what took place next is surprising: A guy realized his dad had an envelope. He said my father had some. We go up and ask him if he lost anything and he looked around his pockets and realized he did. I reached in my pocket and handed it to him. He looked at me and he said, ‘I hope it’s all there.’” Osborn said he was shocked and walked away, trying to shrug off the lack of gratitude and borderline accusation of theft. After he posted the story on his Facebook page, word spread and people at Sutherlands got wind of what took place. To show that, yes, honesty is indeed the best policy, Sutherlands rewarded Osborn for his actions, giving him a basket of items, as well as a $50 gift card as a thank you. Osborn took it all in stride, saying, “I think older people just tend to observe people the way they look and not who they are. Just because someone with a beard, tattoos and dirty doesn’t mean they are bad people.”
A nuzzle of the neck, a stroke of the wrist, a brush of the knee—these caresses often signal a loving touch, but can also feel highly aversive, depending on who is delivering the touch, and to whom. Interested in how the brain makes connections between touch and emotion, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered that the association begins in the brain’s primary somatosensory cortex, a region that, until now, was thought only to respond to basic touch, not to its emotional quality. “We demonstrated for the first time that the primary somatosensory cortex—the brain region encoding basic touch properties such as how rough or smooth an object is—also is sensitive to the social meaning of a touch,” explains Michael Spezio, a visiting associate at Caltech who is also an assistant professor of psychology at Scripps College in Claremont, California. “It was generally thought that there are separate brain pathways for how we process the physical aspects of touch on the skin and for how we interpret that touch emotionally—that is, whether we feel it as pleasant, unpleasant, desired, or repulsive. Our study shows that, to the contrary, emotion is involved at the primary stages of social touch.”
WE have in this chapter to consider why the females of many birds have not acquired the same ornaments as the male; and why, on the other hand, both sexes of many other birds are equally, or almost equally, ornamented? In the following chapter we shall consider the few cases in which the female is more conspicuously coloured than the male. In my Origin of Species* I briefly suggested that the long tail of the peacock would be inconvenient and the conspicuous black colour of the male capercailzie dangerous, to the female during the period of incubation: and consequently that the transmission of these characters from the male to the female offspring had been checked through natural selection. I still think that this may have occurred in some few instances: but after mature reflection on all the facts which I have been able to collect, I am now inclined to believe that when the sexes differ, the successive variations have generally been from the first limited in their transmission to the same sex in which they first arose. Since my remarks appeared, the subject of sexual colouration has been discussed in some very interesting papers by Mr. Wallace,(2) who believes that in almost all cases the successive variations tended at first to be transmitted equally to both sexes; but that the female was saved, through natural selection, from acquiring the conspicuous colours of the male, owing to the danger which she would thus have incurred during incubation. Fourth edition, 1866, p. 241. (2) Westminster Review, July, 1867. Journal of Travel, vol. i., 1868, p. 73. This view necessitates a tedious discussion on a difficult point, namely, whether the transmission of a character, which is at first inherited by both sexes can be subsequently limited in its transmission to one sex alone by means of natural selection. We must bear in mind, as shewn in the preliminary chapter on sexual selection, that characters which are limited in their development to one sex are always latent in the other. An imaginary illustration will best aid us in seeing the difficulty of the case; we may suppose that a fancier wished to make a breed of pigeons, in which the males alone should be coloured of a pale blue, whilst the females retained their former slaty tint. As with pigeons characters of all kinds are usually transmitted to both sexes equally, the fancier would have to try to convert this latter form of inheritance into sexually-limited transmission. All that he could do would be to persevere in selecting every male pigeon which was in the least degree of a paler blue; and the natural result of this process, if steadily carried on for a long time, and if the pale variations were strongly inherited or often recurred, would be to make his whole stock of a lighter blue. But our fancier would be compelled to match, generation after generation, his pale blue males with slaty females, for he wishes to keep the latter of this colour. The result would generally be the production either of a mongrel piebald lot, or more probably the speedy and complete loss of the pale-blue tint; for the primordial slaty colour would be transmitted with prepotent force. Supposing, however, that some pale-blue males and slaty females were produced during each successive generation, and were always crossed together, then the slaty females would have, if I may use the expression, much blue blood in their veins, for their fathers, grandfathers, &c., will all have been blue birds. Under these circumstances it is conceivable (though I know of no distinct facts rendering it probable) that the slaty females might acquire so strong a latent tendency to pale-blueness, that they would not destroy this colour in their male offspring, their female offspring still inheriting the slaty tint. If so, the desired end of making a breed with the two sexes permanently different in colour might be gained. The extreme importance, or rather necessity in the above case of the desired character, namely, pale-blueness, being present though in a latent state in the female, so that the male offspring should not be deteriorated, will be best appreciated as follows: the male of Soemmerring's pheasant has a tail thirty-seven inches in length, whilst that of the female is only eight inches; the tail of the male common pheasant is about twenty inches, and that of the female twelve inches long. Now if the female Soemmerring pheasant with her short tail were crossed with the male common pheasant, there can be no doubt that the male hybrid offspring would have a much longer tail than that of the pure offspring of the common pheasant. On the other hand, if the female common pheasant, with a tail much longer than that of the female Soemmerring pheasant, were crossed with the male of the latter, the male hybrid offspring would have a much shorter tail than that of the pure offspring of Soemmerring's pheasant. * Temminck says that the tail of the female Phasianus Soemmerringii is only six inches long, Planches coloriees, vol. v., 1838, pp. 487 and 488: the measurements above given were made for me by Mr. Sclater. For the common pheasant, see Macgillivray, History of British Birds, vol. i., pp. 118-121. Our fancier, in order to make his new breed with the males of a pale-blue tint, and the females unchanged, would have to continue selecting the males during many generations; and each stage of paleness would have to be fixed in the males, and rendered latent in the females. The task would be an extremely difficult one, and has never been tried, but might possibly be successfully carried out. The chief obstacle would be the early and complete loss of the pale-blue tint, from the necessity of reiterated crosses with the slaty female, the latter not having at first any latent tendency to produce pale-blue offspring. On the other hand, if one or two males were to vary ever so slightly in paleness, and the variations were from the first limited in their transmission to the male sex, the task of making a new breed of the desired kind would be easy, for such males would simply have to be selected and matched with ordinary females. An analogous case has actually occurred, for there are breeds of the pigeon in Belgium* in which the males alone are marked with black striae. So again Mr. Tegetmeier has recently shewn(2) that dragons not rarely produce silver-coloured birds, which are almost always hens; and he himself has bred ten such females. It is on the other hand a very unusual event when a silver male is produced; so that nothing would be easier, if desired, than to make a breed of dragons with blue males and silver females. This tendency is indeed so strong that when Mr. Tegetmeier at last got a silver male and matched him with one of the silver females, he expected to get a breed with both sexes thus coloured; he was however disappointed, for the young male reverted to the blue colour of his grandfather, the young female alone being silver. No doubt with patience this tendency to reversion in the males, reared from an occasional silver male matched with a silver hen, might be eliminated, and then both sexes would be coloured alike; and this very process has been followed with success by Mr. Esquilant in the case of silver turbits. Dr. Chapius, Le Pigeon Voyageur Belge, 1865, p. 87. (2) The Field, Sept., 1872. With fowls, variations of colour, limited in their transmission to the male sex, habitually occur. When this form of inheritance prevails, it might well happen that some of the successive variations would be transferred to the female, who would then slightly resemble the male, as actually occurs in some breeds. Or again, the greater number, but not all, of the successive steps might be transferred to both sexes, and the female would then closely resemble the male. There can hardly be a doubt that this is the cause of the male pouter pigeon having a somewhat larger crop, and of the male carrier pigeon having somewhat larger wattles, than their respective females; for fanciers have not selected one sex more than the other, and have had no wish that these characters should be more strongly displayed in the male than in the female, yet this is the case with both breeds. The same process would have to be followed, and the same difficulties encountered, if it were desired to make a breed with the females alone of some new colour. Lastly, our fancier might wish to make a breed with the two sexes differing from each other, and both from the parent species. Here the difficulty would be extreme, unless the successive variations were from the first sexually limited on both sides, and then there would be no difficulty. We see this with the fowl; thus the two sexes of the pencilled Hamburghs differ greatly from each other, and from the two sexes of the aboriginal Gallus bankiva; and both are now kept constant to their standard of excellence by continued selection, which would be impossible unless the distinctive characters of both were limited in their transmission. The Spanish fowl offers a more curious case; the male has an immense comb, but some of the successive variations, by the accumulation of which it was acquired, appear to have been transferred to the female; for she has a comb many times larger than that of the females of the parent species. But the comb of the female differs in one respect from that of the male, for it is apt to lop over; and within a recent period it has been ordered by the fancy that this should always be the case, and success has quickly followed the order. Now the lopping of the comb must be sexually limited in its transmission, otherwise it would prevent the comb of the male from being perfectly upright, which would be abhorrent to every fancier. On the other hand, the uprightness of the comb in the male must likewise be a sexually-limited character, otherwise it would prevent the comb of the female from lopping over. From the foregoing illustrations, we see that even with almost unlimited time at command, it would be an extremely difficult and complex, perhaps an impossible process, to change one form of transmission into the other through selection. Therefore, without distinct evidence in each case, I am unwilling to admit that this has been effected in natural species. On the other hand, by means of successive variations, which were from the first sexually limited in their transmission, there would not be the least difficulty in rendering a male bird widely different in colour or in any other character from the female; the latter being left unaltered, or slightly altered, or specially modified for the sake of protection. As bright colours are of service to the males in their rivalry with other males, such colours would be selected whether or not they were transmitted exclusively to the same sex. Consequently the females might be expected often to partake of the brightness of the males to a greater or less degree; and this occurs with a host of species. If all the successive variations were transmitted equally to both sexes, the females would be indistinguishable from the males; and this likewise occurs with many birds. If, however, dull colours were of high importance for the safety of the female during incubation, as with many ground birds, the females which varied in brightness, or which received through inheritance from the males any marked accession of brightness, would sooner or later be destroyed. But the tendency in the males to continue for an indefinite period transmitting to their female offspring their own brightness, would have to be eliminated by a change in the form of inheritance; and this, as shewn by our previous illustration, would be extremely difficult. The more probable result of the long-continued destruction of the more brightly-coloured females, supposing the equal form of transmission to prevail would be the lessening or annihilation of the bright colours of the males, owing to their continual crossing with the duller females. It would be tedious to follow out all the other possible results; but I may remind the reader that if sexually limited variations in brightness occurred in the females, even if they were not in the least injurious to them and consequently were not eliminated, yet they would not be favoured or selected, for the male usually accepts any female, and does not select the more attractive individuals; consequently these variations would be liable to be lost, and would have little influence on the character of the race; and this will aid in accounting for the females being commonly duller-coloured than the males. In the eighth chapter instances were given, to which many might here be added, of variations occurring at various ages, and inherited at the corresponding age. It was also shewn that variations which occur late in life are commonly transmitted to the same sex in which they first appear; whilst variations occurring early in life are apt to be transmitted to both sexes; not that all the cases of sexually-limited transmission can thus be accounted for. It was further shewn that if a male bird varied by becoming brighter whilst young, such variations would be of no service until the age for reproduction had arrived, and there was competition between rival males. But in the case of birds living on the ground and commonly in need of the protection of dull colours, bright tints would be far more dangerous to the young and inexperienced than to the adult males. Consequently the males which varied in brightness whilst young would suffer much destruction and be eliminated through natural selection; on the other hand, the males which varied in this manner when nearly mature, notwithstanding that they were exposed to some additional danger, might survive, and from being favoured through sexual selection, would procreate their kind. As a relation often exists between the period of variation and the form of transmission, if the bright-coloured young males were destroyed and the mature ones were successful in their courtship, the males alone would acquire brilliant colours and would transmit them exclusively to their male offspring. But I by no means wish to maintain that the influence of age on the form of transmission, is the sole cause of the great difference in brilliancy between the sexes of many birds. When the sexes of birds differ in colour, it is interesting to determine whether the males alone have been modified by sexual selection, the females having been left unchanged, or only partially and indirectly thus changed; or whether the females have been specially modified through natural selection for the sake of protection. I will therefore discuss this question at some length, even more fully than its intrinsic importance deserves; for various curious collateral points may thus be conveniently considered. Before we enter on the subject of colour, more especially in reference to Mr. Wallace's conclusions, it may be useful to discuss some other sexual differences under a similar point of view. A breed of fowls formerly existed in Germany in which the hens were furnished with spurs; they were good layers, but they so greatly disturbed their nests with their spurs that they could not be allowed to sit on their own eggs. Hence at one time it appeared to me probable that with the females of the wild Gallinaceae the development of spurs had been checked through natural selection, from the injury thus caused to their nests. This seemed all the more probable, as wing-spurs, which would not be injurious during incubation, are often as well developed in the female as in the male; though in not a few cases they are rather larger in the male. When the male is furnished with leg-spurs the female almost always exhibits rudiments of them,- the rudiment sometimes consisting of a mere scale, as in Gallus. Hence it might be argued that the females had aboriginally been furnished with well-developed spurs, but that these had subsequently been lost through disuse or natural selection. But if this view be admitted, it would have to be extended to innumerable other cases; and it implies that the female progenitors of the existing spur-bearing species were once encumbered with an injurious appendage. * Bechstein, Naturgeschichte Deutschlands, 1793, B. iii., 339. In some few genera and species, as in Galloperdix, Acomus, and the Javan peacock (Pavo muticus), the females, as well as the males, possess well-developed leg-spurs. Are we to infer from this fact that they construct a different sort of nest from that made by their nearest allies, and not liable to be injured by their spurs; so that the spurs have not been removed? Or are we to suppose that the females of these several species especially require spurs for their defence? It is a more probable conclusion that both the presence and absence of spurs in the females result from different laws of inheritance having prevailed, independently of natural selection. With the many females in which spurs appear as rudiments, we may conclude that some few of the successive variations, through which they were developed in the males, occurred very early in life, and were consequently transferred to the females. In the other and much rarer cases, in which the females possess fully developed spurs, we may conclude that all the successive variations were transferred to them; and that they gradually acquired and inherited the habit of not disturbing their nests. The vocal organs and the feathers variously modified for producing sound, as well as the proper instincts for using them, often differ in the two sexes, but are sometimes the same in both. Can such differences be accounted for by the males having acquired these organs and instincts, whilst the females have been saved from inheriting them, on account of the danger to which they would have been exposed by attracting the attention of birds or beasts of prey? This does not seem to me probable, when we think of the multitude of birds which with impunity gladden the country with their voices during the spring.* It is a safer conclusion that, as vocal and instrumental organs are of special service only to the males during their courtship, these organs were developed through sexual selection and their constant use in that sex alone- the successive variations and the effects of use having been from the first more or less limited in transmission to the male offspring. * Daines Barrington, however, thought it probable (Philosophical Transactions, 1773, p. 164) that few female birds sing, because the talent would have been dangerous to them during incubation. He adds, that a similar view may possibly account for the inferiority of the female to the male in plumage. Many analogous cases could be adduced; those for instance of the plumes on the head being generally longer in the male than in the female, sometimes of equal length in both sexes, and occasionally absent in the female,- these several cases occurring in the same group of birds. It would be difficult to account for such a difference between the sexes by the female having been benefited by possessing a slightly shorter crest than the male, and its consequent diminution or complete suppression through natural selection. But I will take a more favourable case, namely the length of the tail. The long train of the peacock would have been not only inconvenient but dangerous to the peahen during the period of incubation and whilst accompanying her young. Hence there is not the least a priori improbability in the development of her tail having been checked through natural selection. But the females of various pheasants, which apparently are exposed on their open nests to as much danger as the peahen, have tails of considerable length. The females as well as the males of the Menura superba have long tails, and they build a domed nest, which is a great anomaly in so large a bird. Naturalists have wondered how the female Menura could manage her tail during incubation; but it is now known* that she "enters the nest head first, and then turns round with her tail sometimes over her back, but more often bent round by her side. Thus in time the tail becomes quite askew, and is a tolerable guide to the length of time the bird has been sitting." Both sexes of an Australian kingfisher (Tanysiptera sylvia) have the middle tail-feathers greatly lengthened, and the female makes her nest in a hole; and as I am informed by Mr. R. B. Sharpe these feathers become much crumpled during incubation. * Mr. Ramsay, in Proc. Zoolog. Soc., 1868, p. 50. In these two latter cases the great length of the tail-feathers must be in some degree inconvenient to the female; and as in both species the tail-feathers of the female are somewhat shorter than those of the male, it might be argued that their full development had been prevented through natural selection. But if the development of the tail of the peahen had been checked only when it became inconveniently or dangerously great, she would have retained a much longer tail than she actually possesses; for her tail is not nearly so long, relatively to the size of her body, as that of many female pheasants, nor longer than that of the female turkey. It must also be borne in mind that, in accordance with this view, as soon as the tail of the peahen became dangerously long, and its development was consequently checked, she would have continually reacted on her male progeny, and thus have prevented the peacock from acquiring his present magnificent train. We may therefore infer that the length of the tail in the peacock and its shortness in the peahen are the result of the requisite variations in the male having been from the first transmitted to the male offspring alone. We are led to a nearly similar conclusion with respect to the length of the tail in the various species of pheasants. In the Eared pheasant (Crossoptilon auritum) the tail is of equal length in both sexes, namely sixteen or seventeen inches; in the common pheasant it is about twenty inches long in the male and twelve in the female; in Soemmerring's pheasant, thirty-seven inches in the male and only eight in the female; and lastly in Reeve's pheasant it is sometimes actually seventy-two inches long in the male and sixteen in the female. Thus in the several species, the tail of the female differs much in length, irrespectively of that of the male; and this can be accounted for, as it seems to me, with much more probability, by the laws of inheritance,- that is by the successive variations having been from the first more or less closely limited in their transmission to the male sex than by the agency of natural selection, resulting from the length of tail being more or less injurious to the females of these several allied species. We may now consider Mr. Wallace's arguments in regard to the sexual colouration of birds. He believes that the bright tints originally acquired through sexual selection by the males would in all, or almost all cases, have been transmitted to the females, unless the transference had been checked through natural selection. I may here remind the reader that various facts opposed to this view have already been given under reptiles, amphibians, fishes and lepidoptera. Mr. Wallace rests his belief chiefly, but not exclusively, as we shall see in the next chapter, on the following statement,* that when both sexes are coloured in a very conspicuous manner, the nest is of such a nature as to conceal the sitting bird; but when there is a marked contrast of colour between the sexes, the male being gay and the female dull-coloured, the nest is open and exposes the sitting bird to view. This coincidence, as far as it goes, certainly seems to favour the belief that the females which sit on open nests have been specially modified for the sake of protection; but we shall presently see that there is another and more probable explanation, namely, that conspicuous females have acquired the instinct of building domed nests oftener than dull-coloured birds. Mr. Wallace admits that there are, as might have been expected, some exceptions to his two rules, but it is a question whether the exceptions are not so numerous as seriously to invalidate them. * Journal of Travel, edited by A. Murray, vol. i., 1868, p. 78. There is in the first place much truth in the Duke of Argyll's remark* that a large domed nest is more conspicuous to an enemy, especially to all tree-haunting carnivorous animals, than a smaller open nest. Nor must we forget that with many birds which build open nests, the male sits on the eggs and aids the female in feeding the young: this is the case, for instance, with Pyranga aestiva,(2) one of the most splendid birds in the United States, the male being vermilion, and the female light brownish-green. Now if brilliant colours had been extremely dangerous to birds whilst sitting on their open nests, the males in these cases would have suffered greatly. It might, however, be of such paramount importance to the male to be brilliantly coloured, in order to beat his rivals, that this may have more than compensated some additional danger. Journal of Travel, edited by A. Murray, vol. i., 1868, p. 281. (2) Audubon, Ornithological Biography, vol. i., p. 233. Mr. Wallace admits that with the king-crows (Dicrurus), orioles, and Pittidae, the females are conspicuously coloured, yet build open nests; but he urges that the birds of the first group are highly pugnacious and could defend themselves; that those of the second group take extreme care in concealing their open nests, but this does not invariably hold good; and that with the birds of the third group the females are brightly coloured chiefly on the under surface. Besides these cases, pigeons which are sometimes brightly, and almost always conspicuously coloured, and which are notoriously liable to the attacks of birds of prey, offer a serious exception to the rule, for they almost always build open and exposed nests. In another large family, that of the humming-birds, all the species build open nests, yet with some of the most gorgeous species the sexes are alike; and in the majority, the females, though less brilliant than the males, are brightly coloured. Nor can it be maintained that all female humming-birds, which are brightly coloured, escape detection by their tints being green, for some display on their upper surfaces red, blue, and other colours.(2) Jerdon, Birds of India, vol. ii., p. 108. Gould's Handbook of the Birds of Australia, vol. i., p. 463. (2) For instance, the female Eupetomena macroura has the head and tail dark blue with reddish loins; the female Lampornis porphyrurus is blackish-green on the upper surface, with the lores and sides of the throat crimson; the female Eulampis jugularis has the top of the head and back green, but the loins and the tail are crimson. Many other instances of highly conspicuous females could be given. See Mr. Gould's magnificent work on this family. In regard to birds which build in holes or construct domed nests, other advantages, as Mr. Wallace remarks, besides concealment are gained, such as shelter from the rain, greater warmth, and in hot countries protection from the sun; so that it is no valid objection to his view that many birds having both sexes obscurely coloured build concealed nests.(2) The female horn-bill (Buceros), for instance, of India and Africa is protected during incubation with extraordinary care, for she plasters up with her own excrement the orifice of the hole in which she sits on her eggs, leaving only a small orifice through which the male feeds her; she is thus kept a close prisoner during the whole period of incubation;(3) yet female horn-bills are not more conspicuously coloured than many other birds of equal size which build open nests. It is a more serious objection to Mr. Wallace's view, as is admitted by him, that in some few groups the males are brilliantly coloured and the females obscure, and yet the latter hatch their eggs in domed nests. This is the case with the Grallinae of Australia, the superb warblers (Maluridae) of the same country, the sun-birds (Nectariniae), and with several of the Australian honey-suckers or Meliphagidae.(4) Mr. Salvin noticed in Guatemala (Ibis, 1864, p. 375) that humming-birds were much more unwilling to leave their nests during very hot weather, when the sun was shining brightly, as if their eggs would be thus injured, than during cool, cloudy, or rainy weather. (2) I may specify, as instances of dull-coloured birds building concealed nests, the species belonging to eight Australian genera described in Gould's Handbook of the Birds of Australia, vol. i., pp. 340, 362, 365, 383, 387, 389, 391, 414. (3) Mr. C. Horne, Proc. Zoolog. Soc., 1869. p. 243. (4) On the nidification and colours of these latter species, see Gould's Handbook of the Birds of Australia, vol. i., pp. 504, 527. If we look to the birds of England we shall see that there is no close and general relation between the colours of the female and the nature of the nest which is constructed. About forty of our British birds (excluding those of large size which could defend themselves) build in holes in banks, rocks, or trees, or construct domed nests. If we take the colours of the female goldfinch, bullfinch, or black-bird, as a standard of the degree of conspicuousness, which is not highly dangerous to the sitting female, then out of the above forty birds the females of only twelve can be considered as conspicuous to a dangerous degree, the remaining twenty-eight being inconspicuous. Nor is there any close relation within the same genus between a well-pronounced difference in colour between the sexes, and the nature of the nest constructed. Thus the male house sparrow (Passer domesticus) differs much from the female, the male tree-sparrow (P. montanus) hardly at all, and yet both build well-concealed nests. The two sexes of the common fly-catcher (Muscicapa grisola) can hardly be distinguished, whilst the sexes of the pied fly-catcher (M. luctuosa) differ considerably, and both species build in holes or conceal their nests. The female blackbird (Turdus merula) differs much, the female ring-ouzel (T. torquatus) differs less, and the female common thrush (T. musicus) hardly at all from their respective males; yet all build open nests. On the other hand, the not very distantly-allied water-ouzel (Cinclus aquaticus) builds a domed nest, and the sexes differ about as much as in the ring-ouzel. The black and red grouse (Tetrao tetrix and T. scoticus) build open nests in equally well-concealed spots, but in the one species the sexes differ greatly, and in the other very little. * I have consulted, on this subject, Macgillivray's British Birds, and though doubts may be entertained in some cases in regard to the degree of concealment of the nest, and to the degree of conspicuousness of the female, yet the following birds, which all lay their eggs in holes or in domed nests, can hardly be considered, by the above standard, as conspicuous: Passer, 2 species; Sturnus, of which the female is considerably less brilliant than the male; Cinclus; Motallica boarula (?); Erithacus (?); Fruticola, 2 sp.; Saxicola; Ruticilla, 2 sp.; Sylvia, 3 sp.; Parus, 3 sp.; Mecistura anorthura; Certhia; Sitta; Yunx; Muscicapa, 2 sp.; Hirundo, 3 sp.; and Cypselus. The females of the following 12 birds may be considered as conspicuous according to the same standard, viz., Pastor, Motacilla alba, Parus major and P. caeruleus, Upupa, Picus, 4 sp., Coracias, Alcedo, and Merops. Notwithstanding the foregoing objections, I cannot doubt, after reading Mr. Wallace's excellent essay, that looking to the birds of the world, a large majority of the species in which the females are conspicuously coloured (and in this case the males with rare exceptions are equally conspicuous), build concealed nests for the sake of protection. Mr. Wallace enumerates* a long series of groups in which this rule bolds good; but it will suffice here to give, as instances, the more familiar groups of kingfishers, toucans, trogons, puff-birds (Capitonidae), plantain-eaters (Musophagae, woodpeckers, and parrots. Mr. Wallace believes that in these groups, as the males gradually acquired through sexual selection their brilliant colours, these were transferred to the females and were not eliminated by natural selection, owing to the protection which they already enjoyed from their manner of nidification. According to this view, their present manner of nesting was acquired before their present colours. But it seems to me much more probable that in most cases, as the females were gradually rendered more and more brilliant from partaking of the colours of the male, they were gradually led to change their instincts (supposing that they originally built open nests), and to seek protection by building domed or concealed nests. No one who studies, for instance, Audubon's account of the differences in the nests of the same species in the northern and southern United States,(2) will feel any great difficulty in admitting that birds, either by a change (in the strict sense of the word) of their habits, or through the natural selection of so-called spontaneous variations of instinct, might readily be led to modify their manner of nesting. Journal of Travel, edited by A. Murray, vol. i., p. 78. (2) See many statements in the Ornithological Biography. See also some curious observations on the nests of Italian birds by Eugenio Bettoni, in the Atti della Societa Italiana, vol. xi., 1869, p. 487. This way of viewing the relation, as far as it holds good, between the bright colours of female birds and their manner of nesting, receives some support from certain cases occurring in the Sahara Desert. Here, as in most other deserts, various birds, and many other animals, have had their colours adapted in a wonderful manner to the tints of the surrounding surface. Nevertheless there are, as I am informed by the Rev. Mr. Tristram, some curious exceptions to the rule; thus the male of the Monticola cyanea is conspicuous from his bright blue colour, and the female almost equally conspicuous from her mottled brown and white plumage; both sexes of two species of Dromolaea are of a lustrous black; so that these three species are far from receiving protection from their colours, yet they are able to survive, for they have acquired the habit of taking refuge from danger in holes or crevices in the rocks. With respect to the above groups in which the females are conspicuously coloured and build concealed nests, it is not necessary to suppose that each separate species had its nidifying instinct specially modified; but only that the early progenitors of each group were gradually led to build domed or concealed nests, and afterwards transmitted this instinct, together with their bright colours, to their modified descendants. As far as it can be trusted, the conclusion is interesting, that sexual selection together with equal or nearly equal inheritance by both sexes, have indirectly determined the manner of nidification of whole groups of birds. According to Mr. Wallace, even in the groups in which the females, from being protected in domed nests during incubation, have not had their bright colours eliminated through natural selection, the males often differ in a slight, and occasionally in a considerable degree from the females. This is a significant fact, for such differences in colour must be accounted for by some of the variations in the males having been from the first limited in transmission to the same sex; as it can hardly be maintained that these differences, especially when very slight, serve as a protection to the female. Thus all the species in the splendid group of the trogons build in holes; and Mr. Gould gives figures of both sexes of twenty-five species, in all of which, with one partial exception, the sexes differ sometimes slightly, sometimes conspicuously, in colour,- the males being always finer than the females, though the latter are likewise beautiful. All the species of kingfishers build in holes, and with most of the species the sexes are equally brilliant, and thus far Mr. Wallace's rule holds good; but in some of the Australian species the colours of the females are rather less vivid than those of the male; and in one splendidly-coloured species, the sexes differ so much that they were at first thought to be specifically distinct.(2) Mr. R. B. Sharpe, who has especially studied this group, has shewn me some American species (Ceryle) in which the breast of the male is belted with black. Again, in Carcineutes, the difference between the sexes is conspicuous: in the male the upper surface is dull-blue banded with black, the lower surface being partly fawn-coloured, and there is much red about the head; in the female the upper surface is reddish-brown banded with black, and the lower surface white with black markings It is an interesting fact, as shewing how the same peculiar style of sexual colouring often characterises allied forms, that in three species of Dacelo the male differs from the female only in the tail being dull-blue banded with black, whilst that of the female is brown with blackish bars; so that here the tail differs in colour in the two sexes in exactly the same manner as the whole upper surface in the two sexes of Carcineutes. See his Monograph of the Trogonidae, 1st edition. (2) Namely, Cyanalcyon. Gould's Handbook of the Birds of Australia, vol. i., p. 133; see, also, pp. 130, 136. With parrots, which likewise build in holes, we find analogous cases: in most of the species, both sexes are brilliantly coloured and indistinguishable, but in not a few species the males are coloured rather more vividly than the females, or even very differently from them. Thus, besides other strongly-marked differences, the whole under surface of the male king lory (Aprosmictus scapulatus) is scarlet, whilst the throat and chest of the female is green tinged with red: in the Euphema splendida there is a similar difference, the face and wing coverts moreover of the female being of a paler blue than in the male. In the family of the tits (Parinae), which build concealed nests, the female of our common blue tomtit (Parus caeruleus), is "much less brightly coloured" than the male: and in the magnificent sultan yellow tit of India the difference is greater.(2) Every gradation of difference between the sexes may be followed in the parrots of Australia. See Gould, op. cit., vol. ii., pp. 14-102. (2) Macgillivray's British Birds, vol. ii., p. 433. Jerdon, Birds of India, vol. ii., p. 282. Again, in the great group of the woodpeckers, the sexes are generally nearly alike, but in the Megapicus validus all those parts of the head, neck, and breast, which are crimson in the male are pale brown in the female. As in several woodpeckers the head of the male is bright crimson, whilst that of the female is plain, it occurred to me that this colour might possibly make the female dangerously conspicuous, whenever she put her head out of the hole containing her nest, and consequently that this colour, in accordance with Mr. Wallace's belief, had been eliminated. This view is strengthened by what Malherbe states with respect to Indopicus carlotta; namely, that the young females, like the young males, have some crimson about their heads, but that this colour disappears in the adult female, whilst it is intensified in the adult male. Nevertheless the following considerations render this view extremely doubtful: the male takes a fair share in incubation,(2) and would be thus almost equally exposed to danger; both sexes of many species have their heads of an equally bright crimson; in other species the difference between the sexes in the amount of scarlet is so slight that it can hardly make any appreciable difference in the danger incurred; and lastly, the colouring of the head in the two sexes often differs slightly in other ways. All the following facts are taken from M. Malherbe's magnificent Monographie des Picidees, 1861. (2) Audubon's Ornithological Biography, vol. ii., p. 75; see also the Ibis, vol. i., p. 268. The cases, as yet given, of slight and graduated differences in colour between the males and females in the groups, in which as a general rule the sexes resemble each other, all relate to species which build domed or concealed nests. But similar gradations may likewise be observed in groups in which the sexes as a general rule resemble each other, but which build open nests. As I have before instanced the Australian parrots, so I may here instance, without giving any details, the Australian pigeons. It deserves especial notice that in all these cases the slight differences in plumage between the sexes are of the same general nature as the occasionally greater differences. A good illustration of this fact has already been afforded by those kingfishers in which either the tail alone or the whole upper surface of the plumage differs in the same manner in the two sexes. Similar cases may be observed with parrots and pigeons. The differences in colour between the sexes of the same species are, also, of the same general nature as the differences in colour between the distinct species of the same group. For when in a group in which the sexes are usually alike, the male differs considerably from the female, he is not coloured in a quite new style. Hence we may infer that within the same group the special colours of both sexes when they are alike, and the colours of the male, when he differs slightly or even considerably from the female, have been in most cases determined by the same general cause; this being sexual selection. * Gould's Handbook of the Birds of Australia, vol. ii., pp. 109-149. It is not probable, as has already been remarked, that differences in colour between the sexes, when very slight, can be of service to the female as a protection. Assuming, however, that they are of service, they might be thought to be cases of transition; but we have no reason to believe that many species at any one time are undergoing change. Therefore we can hardly admit that the numerous females which differ very slightly in colour from their males are now all commencing to become obscure for the sake of protection. Even if we consider somewhat more marked sexual differences, is it probable, for instance, that the head of the female chaffinch,- the crimson on the breast of the female bullfinch,- the green of the female greenfinch,- the crest of the female golden-crested wren, have all been rendered less bright by the slow process of selection for the sake of protection? I cannot think so; and still less with the slight differences between the sexes of those birds which build concealed nests. On the other hand, the differences in colour between the sexes, whether great or small, may to a large extent be explained on the principle of the successive variations, acquired by the males through sexual selection, having been from the first more or less limited in their transmission to the females. That the degree of limitation should differ in different species of the same group will not surprise any one who has studied the laws of inheritance, for they are so complex that they appear to us in our ignorance to be capricious in their action.* * See remarks to this effect in Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, vol. ii., chap. xii. As far as I can discover there are few large groups of birds in which all the species have both sexes alike and brilliantly coloured, but I hear from Mr. Sclater, that this appears to be the case with the Musophagae or plantain-eaters. Nor do I believe that any large group exists in which the sexes of all the species are widely dissimilar in colour: Mr. Wallace informs me that the chatterers of S. America (Cotingidae) offer one of the best instances; but with some of the species, in which the male has a splendid red breast, the female exhibits some red on her breast; and the females of other species shew traces of the green and other colours of the males. Nevertheless we have a near approach to close sexual similarity or dissimilarity throughout several groups: and this, from what has just been said of the fluctuating nature of inheritance, is a somewhat surprising circumstance. But that the same laws should largely prevail with allied animals is not surprising. The domestic fowl has produced a great number of breeds and sub-breeds, and in these the sexes generally differ in plumage; so that it has been noticed as an unusual circumstance when in certain sub-breeds they resemble each other. On the other hand, the domestic pigeon has likewise produced a vast number of distinct breeds and sub-breeds, and in these, with rare exceptions, the two sexes are identically alike. Therefore if other species of Gallus and Columba were domesticated and varied, it would not be rash to predict that similar rules of sexual similarity and dissimilarity, depending on the form of transmission, would hold good in both cases. In like manner the same form of transmission has generally prevailed under nature throughout the same groups, although marked exceptions to this rule occur. Thus within the same family or even genus, the sexes may be identically alike, or very different in colour. Instances have already been given in the same genus, as with sparrows, flycatchers, thrushes and grouse. In the family of pheasants the sexes of almost all the species are wonderfully dissimilar, but are quite alike in the eared pheasant or Crossoptilon auritum. In two species of Chloephaga, a genus of geese, the male cannot be distinguished from the females, except by size; whilst in two others, the sexes are so unlike that they might easily be mistaken for distinct species.* * The Ibis, vol. vi., 1864, p. 122. The laws of inheritance can alone account for the following cases, in which the female acquires, late in life, certain characters proper to the male, and ultimately comes to resemble him more or less completely. Here protection can hardly have come into play. Mr. Blyth informs me that the females of Oriolus melanocephalus and of some allied species, when sufficiently mature to breed, differ considerably in plumage from the adult males; but after the second or third moults they differ only in their beaks having a slight greenish tinge. In the dwarf bitterns (Ardetta), according to the same authority, "the male acquires his final livery at the first moult, the female not before the third or fourth moult; in the meanwhile she presents an intermediate garb, which is ultimately exchanged for the same livery as that of the male." So again the female Falco peregrinus acquires her blue plumage more slowly than the male. Mr. Swinhoe states that with one of the drongo shrikes (Dicrurus macrocercus) the male, whilst almost a nestling, moults his soft brown plumage and becomes of a uniform glossy greenish-black; but the female retains for a long time the white striae and spots on the axillary feathers; and does not completely assume the uniform black colour of the male for three years. The same excellent observer remarks that in the spring of the second year the female spoon-bill (Platalea) of China resembles the male of the first year, and that apparently it is not until the third spring that she acquires the same adult plumage as that possessed by the male at a much earlier age. The female Bombycilla carolinensis differs very little from the male, but the appendages, which like beads of red sealing-wax ornament the wing-feathers,* are not developed in her so early in life as in the male. In the male of an Indian parrakeet (Paloeornis javanicus) the upper mandible is coral-red from his earliest youth, but in the female, as Mr. Blyth has observed with caged and wild birds, it is at first black and does not become red until the bird is at least a year old, at which age the sexes resemble each other in all respects. Both sexes of the wild turkey are ultimately furnished with a tuft of bristles on the breast, but in two-year-old birds the tuft is about four inches long in the male and hardly apparent in the female; when, however, the latter has reached her fourth year, it is from four to five inches in length.(2) When the male courts the female, these ornaments are vibrated, and "are shewn off to great advantage," on the outstretched wings: A. Leith Adams, Field and Forest Rambles, 1873, p. 153. (2) On Ardetta, Translation of Cuvier's Regne Animal, by Mr. Blyth, footnote, p. 159. On the peregrine falcon, Mr. Blyth, in Charlesworth's Mag. of Nat. Hist., vol. i., 1837, p. 304. On Dicrurus, Ibis, 1863, p. 44. On the Platalea, Ibis, vol. vi., 1864, p. 366. On the Bombycilla, Audubon's Ornitholog. Biography, vol. i., p. 229. On the Palaeornis, see, also, Jerdon, Birds of India, vol. i., p. 263. On the wild turkey, Audubon, ibid., vol. i., p. 15; but I hear from Judge Caton that in Illinois the female very rarely acquires a tuft. Analogous cases with the females of Petrcocssyphus are given by Mr. R. Sharpe, Proeedings of the Zoological Society, 1872, p. 496. These cases must not be confounded with those where diseased or old females abnormally assume masculine characters, nor with those where fertile females, whilst young, acquire the characters of the male, through variation or some unknown cause. But all these cases have so much in common that they depend, according to the hypothesis of pangenesis, on gemmules derived from each part of the male being present, though latent, in the female; their development following on some slight change in the elective affinities of her constituent tissues. * Of these latter cases Mr. Blyth has recorded (Translation of Cuvier's Regne Animal, p. 158) various instances with Lanius, Ruticilla, Linaria, and Anas. Audubon has also recorded a similar case (Ornitholog. Biography, vol. v., p. 519) with Pyranga aestiva. A few words must be added on changes of plumage in relation to the season of the year. From reasons formerly assigned there can be little doubt that the elegant plumes, long pendant feathers, crests, &c., of egrets, herons, and many other birds, which are developed and retained only during the summer, serve for ornamental and nuptial purposes, though common to both sexes. The female is thus rendered more conspicuous during the period of incubation than during the winter; but such birds as herons and egrets would be able to defend themselves. As, however, plumes would probably be inconvenient and certainly of no use during the winter, it is possible that the habit of moulting twice in the year may have been gradually acquired through natural selection for the sake of casting off inconvenient ornaments during the winter. But this view cannot be extended to the many waders, whose summer and winter plumages differ very little in colour. With defenceless species, in which both sexes, or the males alone, become extremely conspicuous during the breeding-season,- or when the males acquire at this season such long wing or tail-feathers as to impede their flight, as with Cosmetornis and Vidua,- it certainly at first appears highly probable that the second moult has been gained for the special purpose of throwing off these ornaments. We must, however, remember that many birds, such as some of the birds of paradise, the Argus pheasant and peacock, do not cast their plumes during the winter; and it can hardly be maintained that the constitution of these birds, at least of the Gallinaceae, renders a double moult impossible, for the ptarmigan moults thrice in the year.* Hence it must be considered as doubtful whether the many species which moult their ornamental plumes or lose their bright colours during the winter, have acquired this habit on account of the inconvenience or danger which they would otherwise have suffered. * See Gould's Birds of Great Britain. I conclude, therefore, that the habit of moulting twice in the year was in most or all cases first acquired for some distinct purpose, perhaps for gaining a warmer winter covering; and that variations in the plumage occurring during the summer were accumulated through sexual selection, and transmitted to the offspring at the same season of the year; that such variations were inherited either by both sexes or by the males alone, according to the form of inheritance which prevailed. This appears more probable than that the species in all cases originally tended to retain their ornamental plumage during the winter, but were saved from this through natural selection, resulting from the inconvenience or danger thus caused. I have endeavoured in this chapter to shew that the arguments are not trustworthy in favour of the view that weapons, bright colours, and various ornaments, are now confined to the males owing to the conversion, by natural selection, of the equal transmission of characters to both sexes, into transmission to the male sex alone. It is also doubtful whether the colours of many female birds are due to the preservation, for the sake of protection, of variations which were from the first limited in their transmission to the female sex. But it will be convenient to defer any further discussion on this subject until I treat, in the following chapter, of the differences in plumage between the young and old.
Jules Archer for #shortstorymonth To celebrate Short Story Month, we’ve asked some awesome writers, editors, and other literary types to weigh in on their favourite stories and collections, and what makes a piece of short lit great. Today, writer Jules Archer. What makes a short story great? For me, a great short story has an instant hook. Whether it’s a character, a sentence, or a plot, something always hooks and draws me in. Usually, if the first sentence makes me keep reading, I know I have a keeper. From there, I just want a well-told story. Killer language. Sparsity. Twisted tales. Humor. Nothing normal is always good. I admire the short story form for getting so much into a cramped space. If you can do it right and freakishly, you have my attention. I really am in love with The Paper Bag Princess by Rebecca Jones-Howe at Manarchy.
Hard to believe, a year ago today I started this blog... Time has flown by at a rate of knots. On April Fool's Day I turned a year older too... When I think back over the past year it feels like I stepped into the Tardis and pressed fast forward 12 months. I've made friends all over the world. I've learned things, I love it that you can learn more from food blogs than you can from picking up a book. I think that's because quite often it's like reading a note from a friend and a little like being in the kitchen with them. People can scoff at blogs all they like but you rarely get that in a book. In a book the author is often unreachable. Food bloggers are oft friendly more than not and have the ability to welcome you to their kitchen with open arms, serving great food and chat all at the same time. After a few minor complications post surgery, I've been back in the kitchen, and my does it feel good! Thank you to everybody who has left comments, sent heart warming e-mails and to those who I see and speak to, (those who tell me your opinions to my face or over the phone), without your support over the last few months, things would have been a lot harder. Hubs did the whole house husband thing with aplomb, baking bread every other day, sometimes every day (and really good bread too, it got better with each loaf!). He drove me mad, but for all the right reasons. The house seemed tidier, I found that really annoying and thankfully it didn't last. He's been too busy to hi-jack the blog which is a shame as he's very good with words and has a great sense of humour. He's also served up some amazing food, all made with love, all served with a smile. I did think at one point he could at least get one thing wrong just to make me feel better, but no. Before I get back to blogging about what we're cooking, I thought I'd reflect on some things from the past year... ...and one of the first events I took part in which I posted about here, A Taste of Yellow 07, this event was incredible and Barbara of Winos and Foodies is doing it again A Taste of Yellow 08, so give your support to this incredible lady. Go on, head over there, cook something yellow, post about it, spread the word.
Holiday Songs Gone Wrong – “O Little Town of Bethlehem” I work at a pharmacy and several years ago, I wrote one of these to entertain my co-workers. They liked it so much, that I wrote at least one more each year dedicated to a specific medication. I am not encouraging rampant drug use at ALL… this is just a way to laugh about the stress of this time of year and have a little fun with some holiday tunes. Enjoy! O Little Box of Valium Sing it with me to the tune of “O Little Town of Bethlehem” – here we go! Oh little box of Val-i-um How thrilled I’m to see ye tonight. Santa’s a creep, I need my sleep.. The holiday rush a fright. But in the cabinet shineth.. Your name in black and white. To cope sans tears without ten beers.. Digest in me, tonight! Copyright © 2011 Little White Lion All Rights Reserved

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