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Not too many cars sport an orange and black paint and interior scheme, which makes this 1971 Plymouth Duster 340 for sale on Hemmings.com the perfect HFOD for today. The seller seems to indicate that it came from the factory that way too, which we don't find that hard to believe given the demographic the Duster 340 was marketed to. From the seller's description:
The best of the Duster clan. A 1971 Duster 340, A true H-car. Title says so, as do build sheet/fender tag. 4 spd on the floor (HURST) of course, 150mph speedo. Last year for the hi-compression 340, 10 1/2 comp, rated 275 HP, but actually tipped the HP readings at 325 HP. First yr for Sharktooth grille (buy one of those on-line), last year engines (340) were painted Hemi Orange. Did I say this Duster has the rare, rare orange interior? 3.23 gears in a 8 3/4 rear end. Did I say this has been a catalog cover car for a Mopar parts biz out East? Yes, I do have the cover!! Oh,yes the mileage-15XXXX (documented).
See more Plymouths for sale on Hemmings.com.
I lie the two random holes drilled in the dashboard. Maybe that is where the Cobra CB used to live?
Wow. I'd take it in a heartbeat.
Let me wipe away the tears so I can type. That's it, that was one of the cars I had. A secret about these were that the air vents inside could hold 3 cans of let's say beverages. Before P.I.D. (Pittsburgh International Dragway) became a shopping center she gave me some great runs. Gosh I miss that car.
Old Guy – if there was a way to "like" comments here, I'd like yours.
Very interesting and rare car! I can't imagine owning a car like this and only driving it 15,000 miles in 41 years. Even if you only took it out on Hallowe'en, that is really low mileage!
I am haunted by the orange-letter tires….could they be original? Where would you find replacements today?
I think it's 150,000. They're white letter tires that have been colored (probably just with a permanent marker).
My brother had a '70 340 – 4 speed Duster,… tan with a black stripe down the side. That thing was a running son of a gun! the left side of the engine was chained down to keep from twisting the motor mounts out of it.
I had a super-sleeper brown '70 340 too. Mine had a bench seat (!), 727 and 3.55 gears, it was a shockingly quick car that could surprise a lot of bigger muscle cars, but only when the flakey AVS carb worked right. It did the best donuts ever.
Never seen those wheels before, are they original?
Nice car, all the guys complaining about too many Hemis and automatics (yes, yes that's me as well) should be all over this.
Seems like a right reasonable price too. Someone buy this.
Those are factory Plymouth wheels. Whether they are original to that car, the owner may know.
Those wheels are not Plymouth items but, rather Spyder wheels, which I think were made by Motor Wheel.
Additionally, I don't think the orange striping is stock.
The stripes were only available in black or white in 1971.
You are 100% correct about the wheel manufacturer.
I'm sorry. I stand corrected. I've seem those wheels on other Plymouths, mainly on 74-75 Sport Furys, so I thought they were factory. I can't ever recall seeing them on anything else.
I bought an AMX wearing Motor Wheel Spyders with JCPenney radials in 1983. Back then I thought they were hideous so I put them on the next car I was selling. Just price out a nice set of Spyders today- IF you can find them!
Normally, I'm not a huge fan of the color orange, yet somehow, on this car, the orange and black work exceptionally well, a very nice looking and unusual color condo. Any idea on how the raised white letters were dyed orange on those BFG T/A Radials?
What's with the XXXX on the mileage ? I was wondering if this was the equivalent of ordering a "KRAB" Louie and getting fake crab. I mean, I'm sure it's all legit and all but why play games with numbers?
Oh, the memories! It's November 1977, I'm riding shotgun in a '71 Duster 340 with Swiss cheese floorboards – snow is flying up at me through the floor, we're racing against a 72 Cutlass. 80 – 90 -100 – I didn't look after that – everything was shaking.
The Cutlass driver backed off.
My now brother in law still has that car, parked in a field since 1982. It will never be sold, it will pass on to his son.
Parked in a field for 30 years? All that will be left is the window glass, only part that does not rust.
Vivid memory, friend Bill N was a muscle bound wrestler from high school with a 340 spd car. One day he gave me a ride from a church parking lot to home, the first stretch was about 1/8 mile straight with a slight blind right turn ahead. As we accelerated there was a car ahead so he pulled into the other lane to pass at which point another car came around the bend and was now heading straight for us. Even in that car we could not make the pass and at the last moment he hit the brakes and slotted back in behind the car ahead. Missed by inches and probably gave the approaching driver a heart attack ! Even a Chevy guy like me can appreciate that car.
I love these cars!!! black and orange Halloween style. i had 1 in solid orange about 10 yrs ago had a 383 in it. great car wish they still made something like this.
almost forgot my car had a 727 auto in it.[not stock].
15xxxx to me means that it ain't gonna be parked from now til it sells, so the xxxx will be a-changin'.
I just got it, you gave us a Halloween car?! Black and orange?
When I was visiting California in May 1972 I was allowed to drive a similar 1971 model Duster 340 4 speed for a few hours in San Francisco. It was a wow car then, except that it only had drum brakes all round. It was an interesting car to drive and I would have loved to have been able to take one back to Australia at that time even though we have very high performance Australian built Valiant Chargers with triple double choke Weber carburettors on six cylinder engines. The Aussie bonus was disc brakes which allowed the car to stop effectively unlike the Duster. This car was mid blue with white 340 decal side stripes. The owner told me that the stripes only came in white or black and depended on the base colour as to which was applied by the factory.
I had a Panther Pink 340 I bought new in September 1970. Fast car. Was only beaten twice, by a 427 Impala SS and a '71 Demon 340.
Love it. Other than the Motor Wheels Spyders (I'd put some 15″ Cragar S/S'es on it, reverse on the rear of course), that is a great car.
Of that bodystyle, I'd rather have a 340 Demon, but I'd take either in a heart beat.
The fender tag shows EV2, the paint code for Hemi Orange, so it does not appear it was built with black paint. Decoding the plate gets you an orange car with a black vinyl roof and the orange interior. I can't imagine why someone would replace an original High Impact color with black.
The varying number of XXXs in the ad are perhaps an unfortunate typo. From the blurry shot of the dash it seems to reveal a "15" on the odometer, which would mean 15,000.
Ah, good catch – I did not go to the other page and see the fender tag!
Also is coded for black stripes.
I too owned a 1971 340 Duster 4sp. Mine was a late May 1971 build so although it was a 10.5 compression motor, it was painted blue, had electronic ignition, and other '72 smog parts. But after tuning the Thermoquad, and a little engine and suspension tuning, I had the car running 13.60's all day through factory cast iron headers, mufflers and street tires. Key to success was set of L78/15 Caddilac tires and 4.88 rear posi in a 742 housing. Of course I'm sorry I eventually sold the car for $1400, but today I have '65 Satellite w/440 and 727.
Pretty Decent Machine for the Price .
I had a 71 340 with a 4 speed in Sherwood green and a bench seat, I had lots of fun with it and it was tough to beat on street, stoplight to stop light. The 3:23 gears let me get 130+ mph at which point the speedo would begin to fluctuate so much that I couldn't read it. At that speed it was surprisingly stable but that was as far as I pushed it. It had a very stiff suspension and you could feel every expansion joint, on the road.
The original tires were F70-14 Goodyear Polyglas GTs, probably the best bias ply tires of the era.I mounted them on a set of American Racing aluminum slot mags. They looked pretty good.
I'm pretty sure the stripes only came in black or white. Mine were black.
Years later I was surprised to read that the front track is slightly wider than the back.
The Duster program was all done in a hurry with almost no developmental money. They came out pretty good when you consider that.
It also explains the crappy door glass lifts, cheap plastic interior accoutrements, and miscellaneous rattles and buzzings.
I swapped the Thermoquad for a Holley 650 and the stock iron dual plane intake for a single plane aluminum intake of some kind. I switched back to the stock intake because it was actually a far better item than most aftermarket.
I sold it (cheap) in order to go back to college and get my batchelors degree so I can't really complain.I found it years later for sale but didn't have the money to buy. It was twice what I sold it for. I wonder where it is now
These cars were the perfect size for a muscle car and had great lines. They were blisteringly fast with the 340s and the 360s… I still own an old A body Dart Sport, I still love them….
My second car was a 1971 340 Duster 410 Gears,Duel point distributor,4 Speed.I loved that car. I could welt the tires of it.All black,if I could find one just like it .I would buy it in a Heart beat!!!!!!!!!
My second car was a 1971 340 Duster 410 Gears,Duel point distributor,4 Speed.I loved that car. I could welt the tires of it.All black,if I could find one just like it .I would buy it in a Heart beat!!!!!!!!!My Car looked just like yours,but the roof was,nt vinyl,same grill.Beatiful Car!
I had black 340 @white stripe only on rear. had side stripe delete,body side molding.4speed posi. first day changes hi-jackers bigger tires in rear,rocket mags and cherry bombs. cruised Waukegan ill from may 71 till sept 72 my wife loved that we still talk about it all the time. never saw another one like it.
i ordered my duster in may of 1971 but i ordered a bench seat and was suppose to take six weeks to come in it arrived a week later . i saw it on the hauler on my way to naval hospital great lakes ill. the dealer called said there was a slight problem, it came in with bucket seats. it to had blue engine , and electronic ignition. loved them buckets ! my first car was a 1968 chevel ss 396 @ 325 hp. and believe me that duster was just as quick. traded the duster in 1974 think about it a lot. last seen in peoria ill. wonder what ever happened to it?
I'm the "original owner" of a 71 340 Duster, Curious Yellow, 4 spd, 3:91 gears all completely stock I still even have the original thermoquad for it and the "AM" radio!!!. Car is in beautiful condition!!!. Bought while it was still on the truck being delivered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'd buy that duster sight unseen. From an original owner. It doesn't get any better than that.
i have a rust free factory white with this rare orange interior project car in my garage:)
My Dad was a dealer 1964-late 2005 I have never seen that color of 1971 duster,I have one that my dad give me for birthday in 1971 gold/black vinyl top 340 auto have all paper work invoice has 67000 it is in my showroom, what do you think this car is worth.
Dear Mr. Alligood, From life experiences I would tell you to keep and always cherished your car if you can afford to no matter what. My husband took his time and through our early years was able to restore 67-69-70-and the best 69 conv. All were the GTX models. As our family needs grew he always had one to sell,. things like braces clothes , college, cars and trucks for the kids came first. The 60 conv. GTX went last and has been the last one that left us. I can still see the tear coming out as the old car was leaving. As the tear rolled on down his cheek, he looked at me and said, No more, I don't think I could stand living if another GTX left our drive way, I quit. And he did, our son has his masters degree, daughter finally got hers, was it worth it to him ?? Yes it was, maybe not at first but now, he said hell yes. Candy Roberts, London, Ky.
Doug, I've seen them for as much as $40k, that's a full restoration!!. Unmolested/original, I'd say in the $30k+. I'm the original owner of mine and I'd never take less than 30k for it. The Y3 color, "Curious Yellow", was a color for the 71's. You can look all this up if you just type in…. Plymouth colors for 1971. A whole host of info regarding Dusters too can be found on the internet.


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Keep the Connection inspires you to get yourself started and move to the next degree of mental and physical fitness. Bob tells you how incorporating exercise and healthy eating into your lifestyle can create amazing changes both in attitude and in appearance. In the same way that he motivates Oprah and other top celebrities and clients, he shares with you how to take steps to prepare yourself mentally to be the best you can be.
©1999 Bob Greene; (P)1999 Random House, Inc.; Cover Photograph © Debra Feingold
"A revision of Make The Connection"
Well read by the author
However I have read Make the Connection, which was excellent, but I have learned nothing new, so I am somewhat disappointed.
Worth a listen if you have not read the original (Make the Connection)
"nothing new here"
Very disappointing after listening to Make The Connection. Nothing new in content, just Bob Greene's voice repeating the same ole stuff. Would have been easier to listen to if Oprah read on this one too.
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Bob Dylan - Walking Down The Line
Walking Down The Line(Difficulty: undetermined)
I couldn't find the chords for this song anywhere, so I thought I'd put them up. I'm surprised I couldn't find this, maybe I have the name of the song wrong! Arlo Guthrie did a great cover of this song at Woodstock in 69. he played it with (guitaretab.com)


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From the manifesto of the Spanish indignados protesting austerity earlier this year:
"Some of us consider ourselves progressive, others conservative. Some of us are believers, some not. Some of us have clearly defined ideologies, others are apolitical, but we are all concerned and angry about the political, economic and social outlook that we see around us: corruption among politicians, businessmen, bankers, leaving us helpless, without a voice.
[We are protesting on behalf of] the inalienable truths that we should abide by in our society: the right to housing, employment, culture, health, education, political participation, free personal development and consumer rights... We are people, not products. I am not a product of what I buy, why I buy and who I buy from."


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Wendy French, After the Rice
Years ago I read about a book called sMothering. It sounded like a novel I would enjoy so I bought it. sMothering is a must-read if you enjoy funny women's fiction which I do. It's hard to make me laugh by the way and this book had me guffawing out loud. Who doesn't like to guffaw?
Author Wendy French then came out with Going Coastal. In her second novel, Wendy mixes lots of quirky characters with humorous situations. Wendy's novels are so entertaining and well written that you can read them a day or two. Which is perfect for busy ladies like myself.
Now Wendy has produced another book, After the Rice. I adore Wendy, I love her writing and I liked the book a lot. However- I wasn't crazy about the way it ended. I'm trying not to spoil it for you here, but I had to ask her what was with that ending?
The ending was not what I expected. You know people aren't going to be thrilled with it. Why did you do it?
I knew some folks won't be thrilled with the ending, but many others have thanked me for it. From my limited experience, I've learned that any book can contain a scene, dialogue fragment or word choice that will annoy/irritate/upset a reader and I decided that I wanted to write the ending I envisioned, rather than worrying about reactions to it. I tried to do it in a tactful way, and that's really all I can do.
Do you ever create a main character who is similiar to yourself? And how much do you take from real life? I still love the boxing idea in Going Coastal. I wondered if that was based on your life?
My narrators tend to be about 60% me. This doesn't mean that I've been in every situation, but I let the character react the way I wish I would in a given situation, or the way I knew I shouldn't have in another to lend a bit of truth to the story. I take bits and pieces from real life and skew them to fit the book or the character. As for the boxing scene in Going Coastal, my uncle used to make my male cousins duke it out in the backyard.
How long does it take you to write the rough draft of a novel? Do you write an outline first or just sit down and write?
I don't outline, plot or plan, which is a terrible thing to say, but it's true. I usually have one image in mind and try to build the novel around it. I like to let the story kind of do it's own thing. I think that if I was a big plotter, I would have missed writing some of my favorite bits. A rough draft generally takes me 6 months or so, then I revise it twice before giving it to my editor. The total time invested for the three drafts is over a year, as I work a day job and can only write during evenings and weekends.
The best/worst things about going on a book tour?
The best thing about going on a book tour is being able to say you're going on a book tour. It sounds so darn tootin' fancypants. The worst part is a low turnout at a reading, as it's a tad awkward all-around.
People always want to know where authors get their ideas. So how do you come up with the premise of a novel?
As I mentioned earlier, my novel ideas usually come from one image that sticks in my mind. In sMothering, it was the mother singing the national anthem (the book was originally set in Canada, my home country - a nation of mumblers when it comes to the anthem and I thought it said a lot about the character belting it out regardless). Going Coastal started with the boxing and After the Rice began with the Pink Tyrant, Megan's niece.
Because Wendy is not only talented, but generous too, she sent along a spare copy for me to give away to one of my lovely readers. Post a comment with your email and I will pick a winner to be announced on Wednesday.


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Worst Mom Ever Enlists Children to Costar in Raunchy Amateur Video
Oh. My. God. If you're easily disturbed, this video—in which a mother enlists her two young sons to help with a raunchy-as-hell amateur video to Yo Gotti's "5 Star Chick"—is not for you. Otherwise, come on in!
Here's the video; afterward, I'll break down the most noteworthy offenses (and LAWD are there a lot of them).
So, let's summarize. In just over two minutes, we manage to see:
- 1) A child say "Dick in the butt, a dick, a butt."
- 2) The mother, with at least one face tattoo (the other could be a giant mole?), seductively approach the camera.
- 3) The camera pan down to reveal the fact that the woman's midriff is completely exposed, before she starts bumpin' and grindin' all over the room.
- 4) One son jump on the bed in an attempt to "Make It Rain" on momma as the younger one tries to stuff some bills into her pants.
- 5) The mother simulate oral sex with the younger child, who then tries to stuff money into her belly button.
- 6) The older child spray whipped cream into the mother's eager mouth.
- 7) The mother put some sort of liquid on her stomach before grabbing a box of mac and cheese and pouring it down her entire body.
Did I miss anything? Honestly, I don't even want to watch it again and check.
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Is the Largest in this section and prices are far below all competitors.
We put ON SALE for one week our stock at way down prices. I
Overcoats worth 12 to 15 for 10.
Our Children's stock of Overcoats is slightly
broken and all coats where there is only one or two
of a kind, we will discount from $1 to $3 from regu
lar price the same ,cut is good in
Underselling everybody on
sold as advertised.
SAX & RICE, Proprietors, Rock Island, 111,
Try us when you want a fine dress suit, we make fine goods a specialty.
Santa Claus Dropped
Into our furniture establishment, and here he intends
to stay until
He was so well pleased with our beautiful line that he
"dropped in." By the way, why not drop in your
self and select your Christmas presents. We have
the most artistic, the largest, in fact the finest display
we have ever shown consisting of the finest parlor
suit to the baby's high chair. Nobody in the Tri
Cities can show as complete assortment or treat you
better in the way of price, etc. Call early and make
your selection at
1525 and 1527
Second Avenue.
POCKET KNIVES and SCISSORS took the highest premium
for quality. If you want a good knife try one.
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finish Fire Sets and Irons.
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are the leaders made in Illinois for our soft coal-and every one
guaranteed. These are all good things to buy at Christmas oi
any other time. Come in and see how much I have to show yon
that is useful and novel in housekeeping goods,
Cor. Third Ave. and Twentieth Street, Rock Island.
Overcoats worth
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124, 123 and 128
Sixteenth Street.
$3 to $4 for $2.
5 to 7 for 4.
8 to 10 for 6.
Children's suits.
everything. All goods
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Patronize home industry.
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them ourselves.
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at prices ranging from $16 np.
Our Pants
Are down in prices nnd we invite competition.
Call and make yoar selection from over 200 differ
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excelled, onr goods we warrant, and last, bat not
least, yoar patronage is solicited. .
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Tri-0ity Shirt Factory,
1809 Second avenne, over Loosley's crockery store.
Washes everything from a fine
silk handkerchief to a circus
tent; Lace curtains a specialty.
No. 1724 THIRD AVE.
Telephone No. 1214
JorinSVolk &;co,
Manufacturers of
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wainacoating, -
and all kinds of wood work for builderf.
Ifenteenth SL, bat. Third and Vomrtk ares,
Raum Puts The;r Number
July at 576,068.
Over A,OOft Added lo Roll-
Money teea fur the iscal Teat f'ut
st 9163,000,000 TreMnre for an Extra
Session Growing Weaker Speculation
on tli Organisation of the Next Senate
Trwtor to Build a ralace at the fa filial
Legislation Cnllorn Wants.
' WASHINGTON, Dec 1. The annual report
of Commissioner liaum, of the pension of
fice, was made public yesterday. It shows
that ou June 30, 1892. there were S76,0G8
pensioners on the rolls of the eighteen
agencies, an increase of 199,908 in the last
fiscal year. These pensioners were classi
fied as follow: Widows ard daughters of
revolutionary soldiers, 22; armv invalid
pensioners, SK),74S; army widows, minor
children, etc., 108,C."S; navy invalid pen
sioners, 5,04li; navy widows, minor children,
etc., 2,fi00; survivors of the war of 1S12, lfw;
widows of soldiers of the war of 1812,
6,(551; survivors of the Mexican war, 15,215;
widows of soldiers of the Mexican war,
?',2S2. Act of June 27, 1890: Army invalid
in-iiMoners, ioo,in; army widows, minor
children, etc., 44,fiPG; navy invalid pension
ers, t),o.'.t; navy widows, minor children, etc.,
Cost of the Ust in 18112.
The total amount expended for pensions
during the fiscal year was Si;i9,n.T5.fil3. The
am.tiiil value of the pension roll of 67(5,1(50
peiisrouers on Juno 30,1891, was $9,2-17,200.
From this amount is deducted Sl.;79.224.
he average value of pensions of 21.(587 on
he roll June 30, 18-.il, and dr..mcd from the
roils during the fiscal year, leaving a 1;:1-
nnceof $f7,.V)7,975. To this amount, how
evrr, is added the sum of t4,S"3,242 due on
account of 8,574 persons on the rolls who
hail not been raid dunns the fiscal Tear
s'.l, and who were paid out of the fuuds of
he fiscal year 1S92. The total aniour t paid
on the above stated account was $92,451,218,
ana tlie amount paid upon allowances made
during the fiscal year S1C.45S.394. makknr
an aggregate total pavmtnt for the fiscal
year l!92 of f 139,o;r..12.
l.stitiiatrs Tor xt Year.
The amount due 20.4.'15 pensioners on the
rolls on June at, 1892, who were not paid
for want of time, but who will be paid out
of the funds appropriated for the fiscal
year 1893, is $2,82,2.'!4. The appropriation
for the fiscal year 1893 is $144,100,000. but
taking the cost of the allowances made
during the first four months of this fiscal
year as a basis for calculation the commis
sioner estimates that there will be a deficit
of $10,508,621. In making his estimate for
an appropriation of $165,0v0,000 for the fiscal
year 1893 General Kaura says there is much
difficulty in forecasting the probable cost
of this service for a period so far in ad
vance. If as many allowances of pensions
shall be made during 1893 as were made
during 1S92 the estimated amount will not
be sufficient, but he does not believe that
this will be the case.
The Undines of tiie I5:ireai.
The commissioner savs that it has lteen
the policy of the office during the past three
years to detail a larger part of the official
force upon original claims than upon in
crease claims, and as a result of this plan
224,047 certificates were issued in original
cases and 79,i 81 certificates issued in in
crease claims under various laws. Dur
ing the fiscal years 18(43 and 1894 he. be
lieves the adjudication of original claims
will be substantially complete and made
current, and that at the close of the fiscal
year 1894,the highest nu mbcr of pensioners to
be on the rolls will have been placed there.
The Vermont Senator to Ituild a Mat;niil
cent Residence.
WASHIXGTOX, Dec. 1. Senator PnKtor,
of Vermont, is the next man in public life
who will enter upon the construction of a
magnificent new residence in Washington,
lie has purchased the lot at Vermont ave
nue and K. street, and will soon Ik -in the
building of bis new house on it. The sen
ator proposes, it is said, to make the beauti
ful Vermont marble a feature of the house.
His fortune is invested in Vermont marble
quarries, there are seventy-two feet on K
street and a hundred on Vermont avenue,
and both fronts are to lie of this marble.
Within, the grand staircase and finishings
of the hall are to 1 of marble.
Some Iketails of Uernrsti
In the dining-room the wainscot is to
lie of white marble, the wall above to lie
finished in onyx. As a detail of this room
there is to be a gailtry for orchestra of ela
borately carved marble. The style of the
architecture will bean irregular romau
esque. Senator Proctor is said to have paid
f-t0,(H for the lot. The cost of the house
is estimated at tiiOO.OOO and t he plans have
been drawn by Schneider, who is just com
pleting an elaborate new white stone man
sion for Senator John Sherman.
The Successor of bit Held.
Washington, Dec. 1. The matter or fin
ing the vacancy in the office of tin first
assistant post master general, caused by the
resignation of Colonel Whitfield, is being
considered by the postmaster general, anil
it is lielieved that an appointment w ill
shortly be made. The name now most
prominently mentioned is that of E. C.
J'ow ler, at present chief clerk of the iirst
assistant's ollice.
No I'roopert f an l.xtra Sruion I'olit-
ical 'oniitexion of the Srrett
Washington-, Dec. 1. The belief ingrow
ing among congressmen and senators in the
city that if an extra session is to be held at
all it will not be called for the eai Iy part of
the year 1KJ3. Even those who are anxious
that such a session shall be held are grad
ually forming the opinion that it will not
begin sooner than Oct. 1 next, and w ill
practically form part of the regular session
which will open, according to law, on the
just juonaay in JJecember, ikm.
The 8nst Probably Democratic.
Officeholder!! under the Republican sen
ate are naturally somewhat anxious as to
ihe political complexion of that body in the
fifty-third congress, and some of them ai
still figuring npon a possible Republican
majority. They are claiming forty-three
iriiifn'nu. tutu rtTpnnns r.r.a Iorry-iive
Kepublicans. .More reliable figures, how
ever, appear to he fort j i line Democrats,
forty-oue KertubhcanK and four i'opuliats,
who will probably act with the Democrats!
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reorganising the seLate the jniwer of the
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comes a question v! in:ercst.
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Pendleton lo reorganize tht senate on a
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.T.u::t, 1.1s.. Ilee. 1. A run wan made
yesterday iu..ri.::ig i n the Stone City bank,
a private- iii-l itaUnU operated by Henry
l'isli & Soils. The fait that all cons rs got
their money without a murmur did not de
ter the others in the- imud, who stood
stolidly awaiting tin ir tarn. l;y '.):.';.- a. ni.
foO.OGO Lad been paid out. li was evident
that the p.iymuit could not last- much
longer, so orders were issued to the teller
to pay out no more n:oney. The crowd
was dis.nissed with the asstiruncv that the
bank would pay lerfsi-,ors every dollar
and the doers were duscd to the public.
Started t.j Idle M erUiiiKmeli.
The run was started by the workingmen
of the Enterprise mill. Those who were
discharged w:ien the mill was closed were
paid in time cheeks. They expected to get
the money at the bank, but it being after
hours and the dfors cIom d they started
rumors of insolvency, which precipitated
the run. The liabilities of tiie Stone City
hank are aix'Ut .s'Ka.O'O, iluc depositors.
The firm claims to have given securiiy of
iiVi.tioO worth of property.
The Kioik MuUes ait Assignment.
Just before (1 o'clock last night in the
county court hii assignment of the Stone
City National bank was recorded by the
attorneys for the firm. The assignment
was in favor of J. E. O Donnell. George
H. Monroe was appointeil receiver of the
Joliet Enterprise company. The citizens
were greatly exeiteil yesterday. The busi
nes houses in all part of the city did but
little business and men left their work in
tne mills, iaciones ana stores to inquire
about tlm deposits they had left at the
Stone City bank.
It Will 1'rtneeil to a Kradjust nient
Di:ti:oit, Dec. 1. The annual meeting
of the Western Associated Press took place
here yesterday and was well attended, the
principal question before the meeting being
whether a readjustment of policy should
lie adopted or the old policy continued. It
was decided in favor of readjustment, and
then the old board of directors was re
elected. William Henry Smith announced
his purpose to retire from active journal
ism and the meeting adopted hiszhly com
plimentary resolutions regurdine the gen
eral manager. illiam Peun Nixon, of
the Chicago Inter Ocean, was elected presi
dent, and H. H Ilaker. of the Detroit Free
Press, secretary. The members went to
Chicago last night to-complete the work of
reiiujusi iiiem tit mai- ciiy.
Arbitration to Prevent Strikes.
Chicago, Dec 1. The Alley "L" road
manager the other day discharged a num
ber of engineers, conductors, and guards
for cause. As some of the engineers are
lirotherhood meu they called on Chief Ar
thur to come here, lie had a talk with the
manager in which he learned that the rules
of the company required the hearing of all
grievances betore a disinterested board, and
if any of the discharged men were not
guilty they would be reinstated with pay
during idleness. Arthur nledtred the men
to atrree to the verdict, and the hearing will
be had tomorrow.
Talk of m-cluriiis a Strike "n" Again.
JlOMLSTEAH, pa., JJec. 1. The Amal
gamated association members of Home
stead held a meeting last nit;ht to vote on
the advisability of declaring the strike at
the Carnegie nails on again, iso few men
have been taken back that the members
think they should call their brethren out
again even if the strike is lost, and put the
brand "black sheep" on the Homestead
mills. About 400 men have been taken
back since the strike was declared off, and
most of those were laborers. Another
meeting will be held.
The Way to Dispose of Thieves.
Kingston, NT. Y., Dec. L The trial of
Ostrander, the ex-treasurer of the Ulster
Connty Savings bank, was closed and given
to the jury yesterday. Tbe Jury rendered i
rerdict of guilty, and Judge Fursman Ben
fenced the prisoner to seren yean' hard la
bor in Dannemora prison -
The tTromin; Le-cinlatare.
Chetekke, Wy., Dec t.The final count
of the Carbon county vote makes the legis
lature Republication joint ballot, which
will insure the election of a Republican to
the senate unless the Democrats and Popu
lista, who will control the lower house, un
seat a number of the Republicans. This is
likely, as the Democrat charge the Repub
licans with having Btolen five members in
Carbon county by means of false returns.
Served a Summons on Cleveland.
Kxmork, Va., Dec. 1. The chief incident
of yesterday on Broadwater island, was the
arrival of Sheriff Samuel Jarvis, of Nortt?
hampton county, with a summons which,
he sought to serve upon President-elect
&evnriL H;panae river from the main
land in the afternoon, but was forcel to
wait until the gunning party returned from
their day's sport before presenting the
thicajro. ;
.fntcAob, Nov. 30.
Following were the quotations on the board
of trad today: Wh eat November, opened
Jltfcc, closed tl-c; Iecemlier, opened TlJc,
closed Tljfc; Way, oiteued 7f?4c, closed
Torn November, ocncd 42, closed 42?tic;
cember. opened fjjn, closed 2c; May,
opefiad Tr;c closed 4-sc. Oats November,
opened 3fcfcC, closed ac; December, opened
Hie, closed 81c: May, opened ftitc. closed
'.'Mir. Iork DeceLiber. opened S13.A0, closed
SW4i; January, opened J14.SK), closed J14.0;
Jlay, opt-ned 15.i. closed $lVi. Lard
November, oierjed J9.o0, cloved Sll.Wt. ,
Live Stock Prices at the Cnion Stock
yards today ranced as follows: Hogs Market
lairly active; best grales a shade lower; other
prades &2HH; lower; sales ranged at S4.3UO
5.4." pigs, $-"i.3VTj.r.&i lilit, i.403j.5 rough
packing (.V4-Vi-Y85 mixed, and fl.C&iS.OS
heavy packing und shippinst lots.
Cattle Market dull and priors lower;
quotations -iiint;cil at $-".(0 (f S.55 choice
to extra shipping Ffeors, $l.2T, good to
choice do, 83.70.7. t. f.iir t. Rood, ?!.iwrt3.60
common to medium do, tf -3..io butchers
steers. fC.iiir?.7;, stockers, $ii!0i.75 Texas
steers. S.T.vi 4.1" range steers, S-.-''?i-J.2J feed
ers, JlJiVjii'.Ti cows, Jliiyj.jO balls, and
ti-i"f,Vi0 veal calves.
Sheep Market fairly active and prices ruled
steady and unchanged; quotations ranged at
jj4.7' per b.i lbs westerns k-VU5
natives, SiJiOiil.ol Texas, and t-i.7jj,.j0 for
1-rndnce: Bnttor Fine to fancy creamery,
2!r,'Slc per lb; fancy dairies, i'il'oc; packing
stock, LV-iiOc. Eiigs Fresh stock, &c per
dozen; cold storage, lSVlttc Dressed Poul
trySpring chickens. (&jj)c per lb: hens. 714C1
c; turkeys, choice, llli'c; ducks, 10c, geese.
hiilOc, l'otiitois Wisconsin Rose, tiiiTOa
per bushel; llibrons, 77oc; Burbanks, 75
"i6c; mixed lots, ftWCic Sweet Potatoes Jer
sey, H-OUCM.W per barrel; Illinois. $2.75a3.
Apples Common and poor stock. $1.5032.25
per barrel; fair to good, 82.5132.70; frncy, $3.00
Ci anlMTries Cape Cod, 7.5(1 per bar
rel; fancy, Ss.UliifrS.5iJ; Wiscoosia Bell and
Bugles, $s.25.
New York.
New Youk. Nov. 30. .
Wheat No. 2 red winter cash, TSWtc; De
cember. t(--.v-; January, 77K-c: March, tiOJc:
May. 2?4C. Corn No. 2 mixed cash,51c; l)e-.
eeinber. io'i-c; January. 51Ra:: May. SSbc'
Oats No. 2 mixed casb, 9 . jc: December.
3o!-4e; JainiKry, olUj.-. Kye .Steady but quiet;
price range from Rii-.V-ijc for car lots and
boat loads, ltariey- su-aiij; western, 6o(3d0c;
two-rowed ttate: (.", Pork Dull and lirm;
old mess. S IX'ul-iJ ,7.ri; new. SU.503 14.75. Lard
Quiet: JHnu.iry, ?).;,; March. S-l.40.
Live SincK: 'auk Choice natives firm,
but common t nwiiium grades dull and 10c
permit pa. r; p.j,!ri.st to best native steers,
i3..'i(5.7. per 1 "J lbs; ".-ciut8," $2.3jh!A15;
bulls and dry cows, l.(Oi2.2.". Sheep and
Lambs-Sin p. steady: lututis active at an
advance ot . jk r lb; ll'ep. SaUKUJO perlUO
lbs: lambs.ti. 2".-l. ('. Hogs Nominally steady;
live hots, ii.4iiAlU per iUU lba.
Thef Local nsrketa.
Business on Karket Eqnare bas takea quite a
spurt durirg the last week. Plenty of prodnseis
coming and bnjers who have heretofore bees
nor plestifultban sellers, are now finding the
market better supplied. Bay is now coming in
larger quantities and tbe supply la fully np to the
demand. The follow'ng are the prevailing
pr'ces :
enAitt, etc.
Wheat 90R92c
Corn 546c.
? Rye 7fC81c.
Oats C1&94C.
. Bran S5c per cwt,
v Shipstuff fl.OO per cwt.
Uay Timothy, ttO: upland, Sa 10: sloozh
t68; baled, f n.Wai2.50.
Bnttcf Fair to choice, Kc: creamery 30c.
Egjrs Frefb.22c; packed. 15c.
Poultry Chickens. 1012K; turkeys 12540
docks, l'-'tfc ; geese, 10c.
Apples-f3.2SaS2.75 peibtl.
Potatoes fiWr.c.
Onions 8.t8!Sc.
Turnips I550e.
Hard 7 50(7 75.
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Catt'e Butchers pay for er.rri fed' ato.r.
SHft4Hc; cows and neifeis, t XfLSc'r calves
loirs 4c.
Bheep 4Sc.
Common boards $16.
Joint Scantling and timber, lto 16 feet, $1S.
Vvrrv additional foot in length 60 cents.
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Sold Nikon Action 8x40 Binoculars. Was given these several years back as a service award at the camera shop I worked at for 5 years....I liked cameras but had no use for Binoculars, they have been in the padded case for 99.9% of the time I have had them. Very sharp and clear, no scratches. $50 shipped ---Reduced $35 shipped
SOLD Heini Pot set with soda can stove, wind screen and pot stand. I was gifted this set last year and have used it on a couple trips, works great. Heinis are in short supply and I am not using this set so figure some one could put it to better use than sitting in my gear pile. $30 shipped
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|Jock a hobbyist user from UK writes:
I have the Mark II VP330 Plus. I have no idea how much they are worth now. I picked mine up for £280 about 14 years ago. I love it, cant get enough of it. The choir sounds are great with the ensemble on, however you can still get good results without it. The string sounds always remind me of Vangelis, I'm convinced this instrument was used on the Bladerunner soundtrack.
I wouldnt sell this for all the money in the world. Mmmmm ok well I will swap for a ARP 2500 !!
|Rating: 5 out of 5 posted Friday-Jun-09-2000 at 15:35
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I've become something of a serial # hound lately. I was curious as to whether anyone knows where Roland started these beasts at? I picked up S#00007, in virtually new condition. It sounds as described by AdamT, warm and surprisingly accurate for an analogue 'choir'. Very useable. Also has the neat feature of allowing an external audio source to become the carrier. I plug in and modulate my Memorymoog from time to time using my 909 as the modulator. Talk about drum pads... ANYWAY.
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Imagine the Three Wise Men without that one who brought the frankincense, the KVWN Channel Four news team without Ron Burgundy or even Punch and Judy without the policeman. It just wouldn't feel right. Well that's how Napoli fans imagined it would be without Edinson Cavani guiding their own special group.
Consequently when he did leave last July many were distressed and believed it was the end of an era. In retrospect it was probably the best thing that could have happened. The King's ransom of €64.5m that PSG paid for the Uruguayan helped build a new, exciting team, no longer dependant on that one player.
Yet new Coach Rafa Benitez knew Napoli still needed a lead striker and brought in Gonzalo Higuain from Real Madrid and today he has helped the memories of the Matador fade away. "It was important for us to find the perfect substitute for Edinson and I think that in this sense buying Gonzalo was the ideal one," said Napoli's Swiss midfielder Gokhan Inler. Fellow forward Lorenzo Insigne feels the same way. "Cavani always wants to score goals but Higuain is different," he maintained. "Pipita plays more for the team. His goals have made us even better and he has a great understanding with everyone."
One of the reasons for the Napoli attack being different and offering more of a threat this season is that a new tactical identity, a new philosophy has developed. The Partenopei no longer focus on one player bearing the goal-scoring responsibilities. Today the goals come from everywhere and Higuain, with those different gifts Insigne mentions, has helped Napoli become the best attack in Serie A. The Vesuviani's four-wheel drive of him, Jose Callejon, Marek Hamsik and Goran Pandev has steered in a phenomenal 29 in 17 games. A total which is five more than Juve's and Roma's top four forwards put together and, even though stats only tell part of the story, is still four more than the whole Milan team in total.
Back to Cavani this time last year he had scored 18 including seven in eight Europa League games, while Higuain and Jose have 23, scoring six between them in six tough Champions League games. As the team's new point of reference, Pipita's superlative displays in both the Champions League and Serie A have shown that he is equally efficient on either stage. His nine League goals in 14 starts (16 games) include strikes against Inter, Milan and Lazio, while in the Champions League his strike rate is even more telling with four in five games, plus six assists in both competitions.
In conclusion with the addition of Higuain, Napoli's new style of attacking involves more choice and is almost the opposite formation of the one Walter Mazzarri employed. The former Napoli boss preferred a system that soaked up the pressure before setting up speedy counterattacks on the break with Cavani up front by himself. Now the pressure is on the opposition from the start from any number of channels.
Make no mistake it was exciting to see Cavani's devastating runs, but with the front four getting more opportunities it is even more so. The spirit of El Matador that was feared might hang over Napoli has been banished and soon it might even be "Cavani who?"
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particle testing, liquid penetrant testing, ultrasonic testing, radiographic testing, acoustic emission testing, and many others. Some of the key players influencing the market for NDT are General Electric (U.S.), Olympus Corporation (Japan), Ashtead Technology Ltd. (U.K.), Mistras Group Inc. (U.S.), and Nikon Corporation (Japan).
Most of the leading companies adopted strategies such as new product launches and partnerships to boost their revenue and increase the market presence. Ashtead Group Inc. (U.K.) partnered with JR technology (U.S.) and Silverwing Ltd. (U.K.). Yxlon International GmbH (Germany) entered into a partnership with Mirtec Corporation (U.S.) and Hexagon Metrology (Sweden). Companies such as Nikon Corporation (Japan), Eddyfi NDT Inc. (Canada), Magnaflux Corporation (U.S.), and many others focused on the research and development.
General Electric (U.S.) is expected to play a significant role in the NDT market. It is one of the renowned brands in the inspection and measurement industry. The company has a robust R&D related to testing equipment. GE offers a broad portfolio of ultrasonic, radiographic, visual inspection, and Eddy current testing equipment. GE has developed new products to provide advanced NDT techniques to customers. Also, it has expanded its inspection technologies business. The industrial IoT (IIoT) ecosystem is expected to benefit the NDT division of the company. The company launched a new remote collaboration software platform for non-destructive testing services. This new platform enables realtime monitoring and inspection of industrial equipment through cloud infrastructure and wireless connectivity.
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You want to know why the Rockets are so inconsistent?
It's not Yao Ming being quietly smooth some nights, intimidating on others and uninvolved on a few others.
It's not Tracy McGrady being dominant on some nights, passive on others and a scratch on others.
It's not Shane Battier's Whitney-and-Bobby like love affair with the 3-pointer.
It's not Luis Scola slowly figuring out how basketball is played in the NBA.
It's not Mike James and Steve Francis giving the team little of what it hoped they would when they were picked up in the offseason.
It's not learning a new system under Rick Adelman.
Simply put — and though it's been said many times, many ways — when you are inconsistent at point guard, you will be inconsistent, period. Rafer Alston might as well have "Inconsistent" put on his driver's license and stitched onto the back of his jersey. More people call him that than "Skip To My Lou."
It is difficult to be as good as the Rockets want to think they are with Alston as the best point guard on the team. And by a wide margin. You get somebody else that is close to him (preferably better, of course) and is a better shooter, and you have a shot at surviving on those nights that Alston doesn't bring his "A" game. (And no, that isn't all days that end with a Y.) Aaron Brooks probably isn't ready to do that.
The Rockets need to get easier shots. A better point guard would help facilitate that.
As we've seen, you can win games with Alston running the point. In what might be a surprise to some of you, a team could probably win a championship with Alston running the point.
The problem is — as presently constructed — these Rockets can't.
Alston is shooting 39.3 percent from the floor, 32.9 percent on 3-pointers, and a ridiculous 64.7 percent from the foul line. His free throw percentage is 75th among guards in the Western Conference (153rd among guards league-wide) and is the worst for any starting guard in the conference.
Look at the shooting percentages of the point guards on the teams ahead of the Rockets in the Western Conference standings.
Chris Paul, New Orleans (48.4 percent). Steve Nash, Phoenix (51.9 percent, 48.2 on 3-pointers). Devin Harris, Dallas (48.3 percent). Anthony Carter (46.4 percent) or Allen Iverson (45.3 percent), Denver. Tony Parker, San Antonio (49.2 percent). Derek Fisher, Los Angeles (47.2 percent, 43.1 on 3-pointers). Baron Davis, Golden State (42.6 percent). Steve Blake, Portland (44.6 percent, 45.5 on 3-pointers). Deron Williams, Utah (51.7 percent).
Alston is a worse shooter than each (much worse, actually) and almost from everywhere. He is the worst overall and the worst from the foul line, but is shooting a higher percentage than Parker, the Spurs' leading scorer, on 3-pointers.
Daryl Morey might have to work a miracle or get lucky, but unless something is done, the Rockets will continue to have nights they can't win because Alston leads a crooked shooting team.


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November 11. Taking a break from politics for music. Tuesday night I slipped in a YouTube link, but now I want to link to it explictly, because this classic punk song from 1982 is exactly how America feels to me right now: Fear - Let's Have A War. Related article: Negative Emotions Are Key to Well-Being.
I've been having some email conversations about the occult nature of Trump's win. (It would take several books to explain what "occult" even means.) So it's stunning, but not surprising, that the next celebrity to die was Leonard Cohen, because there's some weird, dark stuff around him. If you have a couple hours, it's covered in this crazy two-part podcast from last year, The Liminalist 31.5: The Guerrilla in the Room. My favorite Leonard Cohen song is Teachers.
Believe it or not, my main project over the last week was putting together music playlists. I've been wanting to merge the songs of my favorite band, Big Blood, with songs by other artists, especially my second favorite band, Hawkwind. Yesterday I finished the core list, 13 songs over 72 minutes, starting with folk and getting increasingly heavy. It's at the top of my favorite songs page.
November 9. After sleeping on it and hearing some reactions, I have a new story: Trump's victory is the 9/11 of the American left. The Tarot card for both events is The Tower, a sudden shocking catastrophe in which something that appears secure is brought down. Also both events were centered around New York City, and both events had a much milder precedent: the 1993 bombing, and Bush's victory over Al Gore.
In both 2000 and 2016 (and 1980) Republicans nominated a gunslinger, a candidate with great political instincts who inspired the base and didn't care about his own flaws. In both of those years (and 2004) Democrats nominated an uptight, awkward moderate who tried to avoid the appearance of having any flaws, but the result was that smaller flaws got magnified, voters were apathetic, and the Republican won. And in 1992, 1996, 2008, and 2012, when Republicans nominated a dignified moderate, they lost. The only reason Bush Sr won in 1988 was that Dukakis was even more of a dweeb.
Remember in 2004 when Howard Dean lost the Democratic primaries after making that weird scream? Compare that to the ten thousand worse things Donald Trump has done in front of a microphone. My point is not that Trump is bad but that this is what a winning attitude looks like. Dean was loose and impulsive and raw in a way that general election voters actually like -- but Democratic primary voters fear it.
The American left has been on its back foot since the 1980's, and I'm not sure why. My guess is that in the decades before 1980, they were so successful working within the system that they lost the skill and confidence to work outside the system. You need that confidence to not be afraid to lose, and you need to be fearless before you can nominate and stand behind a flawed candidate.
This is a dark night of the soul for a lot of Americans, but it's also an opportunity for us to organize in new ways and reinvent ourselves politically. Last night I mentioned disassociating from society, but that allows us to reassociate in ways we might not have imagined.
November 8, late. Shit just got real. A few notes...
If you're unhappy about this, just disassociate. You're not a part of this nation, this culture, this planet, just some kind of alien visiting to observe and have a good time. This attitude is both a cause and an effect of social collapse. A comment from earlier today: "I kind of hope this is the last election, however it turns out."
I do not trust voters to say why they really voted for Trump, or even to know why. I think there's a lot going on subconsciously (see below).
I think everyone who voted for Trump would have voted for him anyway, even if James Comey hadn't resurrected the email scandal at the last minute. But the FBI director was clearly angling to be a close ally of President Trump, and I expect him to be important over the next few years.
On the left, the big winner is Bernie Sanders, who would have won a lot of the votes that Hillary couldn't win. When will the Democratic party stop being afraid of popular excitement? Is it too late?
If Trump wants to prove he can cut through red tape and get shit done, while making even liberals happy, he should start by abolishing daylight savings time. Seriously, why is it so hard to make such a simple change that everyone agrees with? If we can't even do that, how can we hope to make bigger changes?
If Hillary had won, I was going to mention conspiracy theories that Trump's whole plan was to throw the election to the Dems, or that he wanted to remain an outsider populist without having to prove anything, or that his whole candidacy was a distraction. We can throw those away now, as well as the idea that the oligarchy controls the whole thing.
But I have a new grand conspiracy theory (thanks to marijuana, which won big in this election). Did you ever get in a totally baffling conflict, and years later you looked back and discovered a subconscious level on which it all made sense? So there's an example of one single link where the subconscious mind is in control and the conscious mind is just along for the ride. What if these links can form networks? What if they form a global subconscious civilization that is secretly running everything? Never mind the Reptilians -- the enemy is within.
November 8. Here's an updated Chance That Your Vote Will Decide the Election. In New Hampshire, Colorado, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania your chance is at least as good as 1 in 2 million. [New update: it was zero.] And you might be surprised at your results on the ISideWith.com quiz. I just took it and got 99% Jill Stein, 78% Gary Johnson, 73% Hillary Clinton, and 22% Donald Trump.
November 2. This election is getting bizarre. As scandals go, Hillary Clinton's email thing is chicken feed, and it does not begin to explain Trump's surge in the polls over the last week. It's like those people were going to vote for Trump all along and as the election gets closer they'll take a smaller and smaller excuse. And why has Trump fallen in the polls when he's been most in the public eye, right after the conventions and debates? He's like that thing you do that you hate and you always promise yourself you'll never do it again, but then as it fades in your memory it becomes more and more attractive.
I'm not endorsing Hillary. She's a political dinosaur, a predictable synthesis of 1970's liberalism and 1990's neoliberalism, and she's on the wrong side of my favorite issues: unconditional basic income, drug legalization, copyright reform, and retooling the economy for zero growth. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is a crazy hybrid of 1950's conservatism and a 2050 post-crash warlord, and he's on the wrong side of everything except metapolitics.
I see Trump as a correction, bringing together two things that have grown too far apart. On the one hand is how our civilization really works, a vast and inhuman network that is best managed by competent and dispassionate technocrats. On the other hand is the show, the public perception of how it works, that it's all about the personalities of human "leaders", like the tribal leaders of our ancestral memory, and if your life sucks then we just need someone strong and decisive to straighten those folks out.
I appreciate Trump as a performer, and I agree with his instinct that the political show has become a farce and deserves to be played like a farce. But if he actually becomes president, people will learn in the most painful way that their primal view of politics is bullshit, that you can't fix your computer by getting the most confident person to smack it with a hammer.
Trump is not even a good businessman -- he has less money than if he had just put his dad's money in an average investment fund. His positions and his personality are completely authoritarian, and I would expect him to make so many more things illegal that people I know would go to prison. He's an enemy of the poor and I would expect economic desperation to create more crime, which would be used to justify more brutal central control. Ironically his own supporters would be worst off, while blue state liberals could soften the federal trainwreck with adjustments at the state level.
Another irony: Hillary Clinton's most extreme position is her hostility to transparency, her belief that ordinary people shouldn't know how the government really works. If you live by keeping people stupid, you die by keeping people stupid.
October 31. Halloween links. From the subreddit, a comment on creepy clowns. These are my favorite bits edited together:
What particularly intrigues me is that the clowns increasingly tend to be spotted on the edge of the forest. The forest is traditionally the place where the supernatural exists. Our European folklore has magical people that live in the forest, who frighten young children. So in other words, the clowns hover on the border between the natural and the supernatural.
We live in a very stiff era, where we're looking for a trickster figure who can shake up the established order that's failing to work. The creepy clowns are quite literally possessed by Loki, or Anansi, or whatever name your culture has for this phenomenon. They are the collective manifestation of our subconsciousness that the supernatural takes in an era that has a strong yearning for an external source of disruption that allows it to shake off its pathological routines that it finds itself too handicapped to shake off in a conscious manner.
The SCP Foundation is a website where members can submit descriptions of... well, the site carefully keeps this undefined, but it's all weird scary stuff. You might want to start with top rated pages.
Leigh Ann and I have been watching smart horror films, and we really liked Ghostwatch, a fake TV paranormal investigation that caused a panic during its only broadcast in 1992, and inspired the less imaginative Blair Witch Project. The writer of Ghostwatch, Stephen Volk, also wrote a 2011 ghost movie called The Awakening. We watched that and The Orphanage, a 2007 Spanish film with a similar story. I thought The Orphanage was scarier and better directed but The Awakening was better written and more of a head trip.
October 28. A few more practical psychology links. A reader sends this 2010 article, Why Russians Don't Get Depressed. They spend a lot of time thinking about unpleasant memories, but they do it from a detached perspective, as if the events happened to another person.
Google's former happiness guru developed a three-second brain exercise for finding joy. Well, it's not something you do for three seconds but something you do all the time: be on the lookout for "thin slices of joy" and appreciate them. This fits with a general principle that keeps coming up for me: the frontier of self-improvement is at the micro scale, paying attention and doing the right thing in smaller and smaller intervals of time and space. It reminds me of the advice that Steve Largent gave Doug Baldwin about catching a football, that instead of keeping your eye on the whole ball, keep it at the tiniest leading edge.
Another link from a reader, a 40 minute video, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective. It's by the guy who made Picbreeder, and he goes from there to a general theory of creativity: that it doesn't come from chasing particular goals, but from constantly seeking novelty, or "divergent treasure hunting."
Another example from sports. This year the Western New York Flash were expected to finish near the bottom of the National Women's Soccer League, and they won the championship. Partly this was through talent that hadn't been recognized yet, but it was also through a playing style of creating and exploiting chaos. Check out their goal in the 16th minute of the semifinal against the Portland Thorns, which was probably the best game of the year. It's an ugly goal that nobody saw coming, but the Flash get a lot of balls in the net through a general strategy of sending long throw-ins to bounce around in the box, and being able to work with them.
Watch their best player, Lynn Williams, make this penalty kick in the championship game. Penalty kicks happen so fast that usually neither player tries to improvise -- they just decide what they're going to do and hope they guess right. But I'm pretty sure, in that hundredth of a second between stepping forward and kicking the ball, Williams sees the goalie moving to one side and calmly puts the ball away on the other side. My point is, the Flash are the best team because they can improvise in the smallest time scales.
October 26. I liked all the feedback I got from Monday's subject, so I'll keep going with it. Leigh Ann is skeptical of my obsession with hacking happiness, and says it's pointless because you need unhappiness to make happiness meaningful. That makes sense logically, but it doesn't fit my experience. I've met people who are happy all the time, and other people who are unhappy all the time. They still have highs and lows, but their baselines are so far apart that the lows of happy people are still higher than the highs of unhappy people. So why the difference? Brain chemicals? Unexamined mental habits? How well your social context fits your deep personality? Probably some of all three.
Also, when good stuff happens, it's not like I feel worse when it's over. I feel better! Sometimes I can even pull this off with video games if I quit at just the right time. And a bad event can put me in a long-term slump. If there's a benefit from bad stuff happening, it's not that ordinary life looks better in comparison. It's that I get experience climbing out of the hole.
The more I think about this subject, the more complex it is. On the subreddit someone thinks I'll become a Buddhist monk, which is not going to happen, but I love the Buddhist distinction between pain and suffering. Pain is when you stub your toe, and suffering is when it bothers you that you stubbed your toe. I'm good at processing physical pain without suffering, and bad at other kinds of pain. (Maybe that's why teenagers cut themselves, to exchange hard-to-process emotional pain for easy-to-process physical pain.) And if we have feelings on multiple levels, then a happy person might feel better about their lowest lows than an unhappy person feels about their highest highs.
A conversation over email has given me a better understanding of compulsive programmers. I was thinking it was a micro-brain thing where they happen to find the details of programming more rewarding. Now I think it's a whole personality thing, where compulsives do not know how to take a step back and rebalance, how to shift their minds from narrow focus to wide focus.
That fits with a general line of my thinking lately, that a lot of life skills come down to something like a mental transmission, where if it's working right you can smoothly shift gears from one mental state to another. I think that's why I feel so much pain around doing small jobs to fix up the house, because that mental state is so far from the one I'm in normally.
Last night with the help of marijuana (which I doubt is in any monastic tradition) I came up with a promising idea: we negotiate mental adjustments through inner dialogues, and when I struggle with mental adjustments, it might be just because my inner dialogues are too serious, and I need to make them more playful. So instead of being hard on myself for slipping into an unhelpful mental state, I can just think "Heh, there you go again!"
October 24. This book excerpt, Science and the Compulsive Programmer (posted last week to the subreddit) has given me lots of stuff to think about.
It's about the differences between two kinds of programmers, one described as "professional", "hard-working", "careful", and "sensible", and the other described as "disheveled", "transfixed", "possessed", "frenzied", "grandiose", "incestuous", "aimless", "disembodied", and "monastic".
My first instinct is to read against the text: the book was published 40 years ago, and it's firmly in the mid-20th century industrial mindset where getting things done is intrinsically valuable and how we feel about it is secondary. As a 21st century reader, I see human psychology as the only hard problem, and the compulsive programmers have solved it in the most direct way: while responsible programmers are dutifully supporting a tech infrastructure that may or may not make anyone happy, compulsive programmers have simply found happiness. I envy them.
Look at wild animals, and I'm thinking of species you can watch in the city like grey squirrels and house sparrows. While doing what they need to do to survive, they seem to be permanently as happy and engaged as I've only been at my happiest moments, like when I leaned into that curve that wiped out my scooter, or when I bought that exciting thing that turned out to be a burden, or when I played video games until ordinary life seemed like a hellscape of unclear goals and unreliable rewards.
When I think about it that way, compulsive programmers are probably on a similar dead end, and not at all in the same mental state as squirrels or the best and luckiest humans who have found a well-balanced niche in the modern world. And it probably would not work, as a utopian goal, to have all the useful stuff done by machines, leaving us all free to have useless fun forever. Of course we should still try, but I'm becoming more and more suspicious of how hard it is, even with all this technology, to find any kind of hack or shortcut to feeling good. It's leading me away from philosophical materialism and toward something like theology.
October 21. Bunch o' links about technology, starting with lower tech that's better than higher tech.
You've probably heard that the makers of the EpiPen jacked up the price hundreds of dollars because the American medical system has no cost controls. Some folks have developed the epipencil, an autoinjector that you can make yourself for $30 in parts plus the cost of the epinephrine.
Old jobs is an image album of jobs that no longer exist. I can't help but notice that some of them look more fun than any job I've ever had. My larger point is that we could make a better world by putting more foresight into automation, like considering whether doing a job by hand is more enjoyable than maintaining the tech that repaces it.
The secret behind Italy's rarest pasta. It's not a secret, just a skill that takes years to learn. Only two people in the world can do it, and it will probably die with them because our culture no longer has room for that much patience.
The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting Doored. It's not some high-tech sensor. Drivers are just trained and tested in the habit of turning their shoulders, looking behind them, and opening the door with their opposite hand.
Now here's an awesome use of high tech: the best microscope pics of 2016. My favorite is the spider eyes.
I think human space colonies are silly, first because humans are totally unfit for space while robots are perfect, and second because there are more exciting frontiers toward the inside. But this article on Jeff Bezos's rocket mentions something cool that I didn't know: as a rocket gets bigger, it becomes easier to keep it balanced while taking off and landing vertically, for the same reason that you can balance an umbrella on your hand more easily than you can balance a pin.
Finally, some music. A question on the record store subreddit reminded me of a song I was obsessed with in the early 90's. Hammerbox was a Seattle band from the grunge era with a powerful singer named Carrie Akre. She later fronted the band Goodness, and made her last solo album in 2007. I'm going to look into her later stuff and see if she ever found any more great songs to match her voice, after this forgotten gem from 1991, Hammerbox - When 3 Is 2.
October 19. On a tangent from Monday's post, that comment about Trump's hypomania mentions a book called The Hypomanic Edge, in which the author "surveyed leaders in Silicon Valley and they almost universally agreed that the clinical description of hypomania matched what they thought was needed from the most successful startup CEOs."
I'm thinking, suppose we went back millions of years to our primate ancestors, or not so far back to the most brutal groups of humans. In that world, the largest and most aggressive males are the leaders. In our own world, being physically large and aggressive is increasingly useless. There are still lucrative roles in pro sports, but nobody thinks Ndamukong Suh has the right skillset to be a president or a CEO.
My point is, hypomanic people don't either. There is no correlation between hypomania and making good decisions. The correlation is with speed, having the sleepless drive to make a large number of decisions in a day.
This is only a factor because of our extremely fast-paced society. And it's a factor in other jobs too. Peter Higgs, "the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, believes no university would employ him in today's academic system because he would not be considered 'productive' enough." There are people out there who would make great leaders, scientists, house builders, chefs, you name it, but they can't hold those jobs because they're not fast enough.
I dream that this will change. If more speed-dependent jobs are automated, if an unconditional basic income moves more jobs into the realm of volunteer work, and if our culture slows down to match the end of economic growth, we might unlock the vast contributions of high quality slow workers.
October 13. I'll eventually write about deeper stuff, but next week it will probably be politics again, and today, TV show reviews. I used to think it was a real danger that high-tech superstimuli would devour human attention, but as I get older that no longer matches my personal experience. It's getting hard for me to find shows that I like better than daydreaming and listening to the rain.
Starting with the worst, The 100 has a good premise, teenagers from a space station exploring Earth after a nuclear war, but the writing and acting could not be any worse without being more interesting. One notch up, Zoo is more interesting by being more trashy, with a ridiculous plot about a mutation that makes animals attack humans worldwide.
I love 19th century gothic literature, so I wanted to like Penny Dreadful, but the writers have no idea how to tell a story. Episode after episode drags by without advancing the plot, and the whole thing becomes a tiresome showcase for the beautiful dark cinematography and Eva Green's acting. (Update: the key to enjoying the first season is to view every scene as a stand-alone short film and pretend you don't speak English, or to skip episodes 4-7.)
You've probably heard about Stranger Things. It's sort of like Close Encounters or E.T., except that instead of advanced and benevolent space aliens, it's a brutal and horrific parallel world. The whole thing is really well done except that sometimes there are overacted arguments for no good reason. My favorite thing is that the people who seem completely crazy are the ones who best understand what's going on.
A while back I mentioned Dark Matter, the trope-heavy Canadian show about a space ship crew. It's no Firefly, but it continues to get better, and it's one of two shows we're currently watching where I look forward to the next episode.
The other is Scream Queens. The story is a parade of horror cliches, I can't relate to any of the characters, and most of the conversations are annoying macho posturing, but on the micro scale every element is bursting with creativity, and everyone involved seems to be having fun.


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Learning to quilt the "new" way with rotary cutter, rulers and machine. Finding lots of ways to mess up.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Last Sunday at the Art Institute of Chicago
2 comments:
- WoolenSails said...
In this time of machine made products, it is wonderful to see things that were made by hand by artists and the love they put into their pieces.
- July 17, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- quiltmom said...
I have heard wonderful things about this museum- A good friend brought me back an art book from Chicago a couple of years ago. At that time they had an Impressionist show there that included " La Petite Danser by Degas. Art certainly has the power to move one. I have long loved this particular piece of art.
I really enjoyed viewing the tea pots and the paper weights. I have collected a few of both of these items. I love things made of glass and clay. Thanks for sharing your wonderful experience.
Regards from Western Canada,
- July 18, 2011 at 1:48 AM