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5G is the next generation mobile network coming after the current 4G LTE-Advanced. It is still under research and development, but we can expect it to hit the market in near future.
What can we expect from 5G enhancement from the current 4G technology?
- Up to 1000 times increase in bandwidth per unit area
- Up to 100 times more connected devices
- Up to 10 Gbps connection speed to mobile devices in the field (see picture below for comparison with older technologies)
- Perceived network availability of 99.999%
- Perceived 100% network coverage
- Maximum of only 1ms end-to-end round trip latency delay
- Up to 90% reduction in network energy utilization
So, 5G is the next generation mobile technology well prepared for the world of IoT, with significantly improved bandwidth, connection speed, stability, reliability, coverage, etc.
With 5G, the necessity of laying fibre landline will be greatly reduced. The world will truly enter into Gigabit Internet era.
Huawei which has just received the "Outstanding Contribution for LTE Evolution to 5G" award at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 is among the industry leaders who lead in the worldwide 5G development. (Unfortunately to investors, Huawei is not a public listed company)


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Monday, September 19, 2011
Mr. EBT and the Death of the Welfare State
Clive Crook at the Financial Times believes only a "move to the middle" can save Obama's Presidency, but Obama encapsulates much of what the Democratic Party has become: the Anti-White Guy/anti-White Middle Class party.
Democrats rely on gerrymandered districts, with Black and Hispanic voters, and state and nationwide, on Black votes around 95%+, and Hispanic votes around 65-70%+, to win. With a about 30% of the White vote, this is often enough. And the coalition of the anti-White votes and the White elite (Steve Sailer's "hi-lo" team-up) is based on transferring money from middle class voters to Black/Hispanic patronage politicians, and folks like Mr. EBT.
At a time when unemployment is at record highs, families are stressed by ever rising food and energy and clothing costs, Clive Crook does not get it, nor do most of the establishment. Voters among the White middle and working class have rejected the Welfare State because the Welfare State does not exist for them. The Welfare State exists for Mr. EBT. A man incapable of earning a living or doing much of anything, other than "keeping it real, dog." The Bismarckian Welfare State, giving ordinary workers a direct stake in the State, by getting various checks and benefits, regularly, is gone. Taken up by race-based Welfare and a permanent Jihad against the White working and middle class.
It is Mr. EBT on the lower end, making life miserable for pretty much everyone, and various enthusiasms of the White Elite Upper Classes, such as "green" lunacy, hideously expensive electricity rates, banning private autos (but not limousines), flights for the average person (but not private jets) and the like.
There is no more money to be gotten out of the White middle and working class, without a French Revolution style fight over taxation. There is no legitimacy or trust or desire to fund a Welfare State oriented around Mr. EBT. This video, a trivial affair, may yet be the opening start of the widespread repudiation of the Welfare State. Drudge has linked to it from the top of his page. The NYT obviously does not want anyone to see it, nor does the rest of the media. But the very act of the Drudge Report alone (which dwarfs the page views of say, the NYT or CNN) linking it and millions of voters and taxpayers seeing it, is revolutionary.
There is no going back to the Welfare State. The Tea Party exists because ordinary White working people, of some money or struggling means, just don't believe the government exists for any other purpose other than to take money from them and give it to Mr. EBT. Barack Obama and his policies just to borrow a Marxist phrase, sharpen the contradictions and class warfare (with overt racial underpinnings) between the hi-lo team up and the White majority. White guilt and shame are poor foundations for that sort of coalition, and the "swipe, swipe" of Mr. EBT may just start the beginning of the end of the Welfare State. You cannot ask the majority of the nation to make themselves patsies forever.
33 comments:
- An Unmarried Man said...
The gov't needs to end this ridiculous charade and let Mr EBT purchase weed and 40's of St. Ides with his EBT. All the cash he saves by buying Kix and potato chips with taxpayer money will simply be transferred into the adjoining income column where all his cash purchases occur.
- September 19, 2011 at 8:35 PM
Yeah I saw this on Drudge and I immediately thought of this blog. I can't tell if this is supposed to be a smart parody or "for real".
Whiskey, I don't know if you read comics but something really depressed me today. It's on par with my disappointment with A Game of Thrones or Harry Potter where ideology ultimately infects everything.
I used to be a huge alan moore fan. That is until I discovered conservatism and read about his love for Bertolt Brecht. Realizing my disgust for brecht ruined so many modern speculative fiction writers for me, they all love this misanthrope. Even Neil Gaiman, he divorced his wife to shack up with a songwriter who LOVES brecht.
I finally managed to get my hands on the latest League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel from Alan moore. It just depressed me within 5 pages with this line, "Don't be such a straight". Get it? Because straight people suck and they're uncreative and they've never done anything for civilization. Alan Moore is a cunt.
He's the Jane Lynch of comic book writers. He's the Louis CK of creative genius.
This guy has such talent, his subject matter is so interesting. And all I hear when I read his eloquent interviews is "fox news sucks, conservatives suck and corporations ruin creativity". All he does with his genius is push ideology and acts like he's above it because he has intellectual predilections.
The only people with that much talent are sadly, not creative people. They're conservative intellectuals who are unaware of people like Alan Moore and that they're controlling the cultural narrative.
- September 20, 2011 at 4:55 AM
I know Whiskey likes to comment on American television and films, but I do dabble a bit in reading science fiction and fantasy books.
Alan Moore and his "friends" are doing to comic books and scifi what the bloomsbury group did to the literary world post WW2. They shat on everyone who wasn't part of their "we hate the west" clique. When TS Eliot converted to anglicanism, suddenly we find that he had been writing anti-semitic verses. Of course, the anti-semitism of the bloomsbury group is largely forgotten.
Before I start ranting again, just read this article by Theodore Dalrymple on how and why exactly did Woolf cause damage to Western culture and understand that her cultural mindset now rules American culture.
- September 20, 2011 at 6:43 AM
Of course we have one slight problem: a nation full of worthless black males,with more coming in all the time.The lefty NGO's know this all too well as they aim their efforts in the MuvvaLand at the female,with micro-loans and other well-meaning bullshit. the female does the work,the black male loafs and contemplates the universe,life and death,and his dick.(But mainly his dick.)This fits in well with the female supremacy wishes of the femcunts. here in the USA we are bleeding money (and jobs) to these idiots. Massive amounts of "dat social spandin" (investing in the black community they call it!)are stolen by the top echelon blacks before it can be stolen and wasted by the bottom blacks.Here in Chicago,we just had a scandal with Obamas very,very close friend (and whats THAT all about?) Dr. Eric Whitaker,with someone under him stealing 65k to buy a Hummer for "Aids outreach".(Got dem reeyums!!)The fraud is everywhere. The village of Maywood being busted for massive fraud and stealing. So what do we do with all these good for nuffin blacketty blacks?
- September 20, 2011 at 12:09 PM
Have you thought through the implications of ending the Welfare state?
For what remains of the working people, this means a much lower level of consumption, lower investment in what kids they do have (of which the responsible ones will be having fewer) and deflation from everybody moving to zero sum hording. A modern economy or even a functional one with todays technology can't survive 30% savings rates and people refusing to take on debt
Worse because pretty much everyone will be doing this and being unable to push exports onto other people (since the US is no longer buying) , this means the global economy and production shrinks. And yes services too, which means a good chance of a deflation spiral like we see in Japan, only everywhere on Earth at once, well till trade probably falls apart.
Also rather more important, a lot of people need these cards to eat , shut them off and you have at least 40 million people of all races who using EBT or other programs (disability going to go too?) , most of whom are armed or can be in a trice, who now as you mentioned will have no connection of any kind to the existing social order and no hope for a future.
How precisely do you plan to contain the violence?
Assuming we ignore most Whites and Asian on EBT ( they don't show up for the food riots) there are at least 30 million at least lightly armed people (7.5x the size of the entire armed forces!) to contend with.
If you think the mob actions are bad now, holy crap wait till the radical cousins La Raza and Nation of Islam and all that decide to even the score.
Now its perfectly possible White people could win but I do not think a war that kills millions possibly with gas or worse would do much for us in any way shape or form.
And BTW, you can't do a gradual cutback and hope that decent jobs will be created.
Even if somehow you can train up the EBT crowd, the CONservatives and LIEbertarians won't hire if they can help it . That crowd are basically thieves and only does the right thing in the broader sense with forced too with government guns.
And while I agree that welfare sucks, there really are no alternatives.
- September 20, 2011 at 12:55 PM
Anon 12:55
Destructive rioting in the US has had one prominent feature - it has been a localized, neighborhood phenomenon. Angry folks have not traveled across big, sprawled out MetroPlexes in their cars to attack other ethnicities in their home neighborhoods.
There are several good reasons for this. One is a lack of any coherent motivation for doing so and another is that they would surely lose the ensuing gun-fight. On some level, I think they understand this.
The Law in a place like Texas is overwhelmingly on the side of defending property owner. There is not even a need for "I was in fear of my life" BS. You can do whatever is necessary to prevent felony crimes against your property. If you are in the right, there is no duty to retreat or even to fore-warn. They already know better...
These kind of legal understandings arose in a time and place where it was well understood that law enforcement was only days away(when seconds counted). Which, BTW, is what would describe a large scale urban riot.
Check out the gun laws in the State of Alaska. You could put them all on the cover of a match-book.
- September 20, 2011 at 3:32 PM
I'm not advocating violence, and I'd hate to see it come to that. But I'm not about to cave in to the threat of violence, either.
What you are asking us to accept is a legalized form of mugging -- "hand over your money or I'll kill you!" That's not OK with me.
I am tired of the underclass. It is hard enough for me to feed, clothe and shelter my own family without being forced to feed, clothe and shelter someone else's. I could really use the extra money that is being taken from me to pay for the welfare mooches. And even if money were no object, I'd still resent paying for someone else to sit on their behind. People should pull their own weight.
Yes, the economy is tough. But not tough enough for blacks to stand around outside of Home Depot, bus tables, or clean floors. They'd rather collect welfare.
I'd rather not pay. And if the underclass is going to try and shake me down by threatening violence should benefits be reduced or eliminated, I'm not going to be intimidated. Bullets are cheaper than welfare, if it comes to that. I hope it doesn't come to that. Such an outcome would be a tragedy.
And if it did ever come to that, my pasty-faced suburban friends and I would annihilate the Crips and the Bloods. It wouldn't even be close. See, we have things like organization, discipline, strategy and tactics that the urban underclass lacks. It won't come to that, because we have the police. But even if civil unrest did break out, working and middle-class whites would mop up the urban underclass in short order. We'd organize ourselves into neighborhood watches and militias and could easily repel any attack.
Agan, I hope it doesn't come to that. But anyone threatening to riot if they don't get their EBT card can go to hell as far as I am concerned.
- September 20, 2011 at 3:38 PM
- Whiskey said...
Anon, yes people will starve. But the video is just so explosive. It pretty much eliminates any compassion by the White working/middle class which is struggling to support Mr. EBT and swipe-swipe. Most figure, he can get a job sweeping somewhere. Instead of the vulpine lope Dalrymple nailed.
Yes they will riot. They already riot. They don't have the means to travel outside, America is so big the tyranny of time and distance works against them.
Besides, the money is running out. There are far too many Hispanics (Mexican illegals and their kids) to support and not enough Whites and rising White incomes. It's become an issue of fight rather than flight.
- September 20, 2011 at 4:27 PM
Jules, if you're only just now coming to hate Alan Moore, you're either obtuse, or only recently came to your senses. He's so obviously a mindless cunt (one must obviously be soullessly mercenary or mindlessly leftoid to pretend the danger for England is right-wing totalitarianism).
I don't see how anyone misses the fact that Watchmen takes a great big shit on the superhero genre, btw. It's funny how this even seems to have escaped Zack Snyder, a fact which IMO elevates the movie far above the graphic novel.
- September 20, 2011 at 5:05 PM
Rum, I don't think Texas is as set to defend itself as they think. If it all goes to hell now, well maybe, but in 1--20 years when the HUGE 2006 baby boom starts to come of age.
By than many of the Boomers will be dead, Gen X is tiny (and by than middle aged) and you can't count on them or Gen Y to defend you on racial solidarity grounds anyway, not when they have been shafted far more by big White money than by welfare.
Also counting on the foe to act as you think they should or just be localized is folly. Its getting to be a global guerrillas world and everyone is vulnerable.
Speaking bluntly, you opponents are quite capable of ruining the quality of everyones life, running snatch squads, shooting, burning and killing anywhere anyhow, anytime and maybe even going global; guerrilla on the infrastructure, food supply and water enough to bring society down. Trust me its a fight no one wants.
And sure you can defend your self with your private handgun or carbine, they always have the advantage. They have the readiness in ways a defender does not (they have to prep to act once, a defender always has to prep which is exhausting) . Its the reason that people in say the recent Reno shooting did respond despite being military and others armed.
And yes YT can probably will win here but at a terrible cost, one far far greater than a smarter welfare system.
And Anon 338, I don't blame you for not wanting to pay for that. However with automation and such, you are going to have to for greater numbers of all races. Computers kill jobs and in turn kill the economy . Also such programs are Constitutional legal and necessary. You don't get to pick and choose even in a Republic.
Whiskey to your point about the illegals, well thats a fair one. Understand though the brats are mostly US citizens and thats not however as much as all of us would like going to change. You can kick Los Madres Southward but they kids will end up on your door anyway.
Now you certainly can go all civil war on them and do a little ethnic cleaning. , I am not sure how that would go. There are lots of people who might just intervene from down South if we decide to mega-kill their nationals.Its could get real ugly, real quick.
Also mobility, well thats not really true. Most Whites live in cities that are vulnerable to the horde and almost all our economic activity is there.
We are not a nation of tiny rural townships but of great cities, we lose too many of those, we lose us.
However despite my disagreement it was as always enjoyable and thanks.
- September 20, 2011 at 5:53 PM
Paying for the protection racket for peace from the black underclass has been a failed experiment. There is more black-on-white violence now than there was in the 1950s when the income transfer payments were 1/10th (even adjusted for inflation) of what they are today. The payments shouldn't be eliminated outright, but first things like drug testing should be implemented, ability to vote taken away, mandatory weekly classes that must be attended with tests that must be passed about basic functional literacy and proper citizenship (not comitting violence, destroying public and private property, properly raising a family and being in relationships), and certain other privleges like use of parks and recreation and other fringe benefits offered to cetains suspended while receiving payments.
This would do one or both of two things, cut down on the number of people receiving payments, or make those receiving payments unable to vote in candidates who promise them more payments. Hopefully both.
The goal is that a lot fewer people would get the payments thus erasing much of the cost to the us the taxpayer who need to be raising our own families, stigmatizing those who receive the payments, and restricting the ability of those getting payments to proliferate the costs associated with the programs, cutting out the most violent and degenerate of society from getting the payments, as well as possibly teaching them to function in a civilized society.
- September 20, 2011 at 6:00 PM
What do you do? Continue to whine on blogs. Thanks for the tax money, btw. :-)
- September 20, 2011 at 7:46 PM
Anonymous 3:38pm
Modern neighbors who don't even know each other's names are going to form militias? This isn't your father's America.
They didn't fight back in Rhodesia or South Africa, they won't fight back here.
- September 20, 2011 at 8:19 PM
What do you do? Continue to whine on blogs. Thanks for the tax money, btw. :-)
@Anonymous 3:38pm
Modern neighbors who don't even know each other's names are going to form militias? This isn't your father's America. They didn't fight back in Rhodesia or South Africa, they won't fight back here. This is reality, not the Turner Diaries.
- September 20, 2011 at 8:23 PM
"Also rather more important, a lot of people need these cards to eat , shut them off and you have at least 40 million people of all races who using EBT or other programs (disability going to go too?) , most of whom are armed or can be in a trice, who now as you mentioned will have no connection of any kind to the existing social order and no hope for a future.
How precisely do you plan to contain the violence?"
That's the point. It can't be contained. The EBT will end voluntarily, or it will end when the government is bankrupt and the bond auctions are failing and the government checks are bouncing. But it will absolutely end. The only thing that can be controlled is how to react to that ending, and the events that will come with it.
I keep saying that the USA is going to disappear, and that a USSR-style collapse is the best case scenario. People keep telling me I'm crazy - or worse, don't argue at all. But they never have specific counterarguments to the facts I point out.
- September 20, 2011 at 8:28 PM
The Bismarckian Welfare State, giving ordinary workers a direct stake in the State, by getting various checks and benefits, regularly, is gone.
So Whiskey, does this mean you are alright with a Bismarckian welfare state? A multi-racial welfare state is bad but a uni-racial welfare state is good? Gee, some liberty lover you are. Why not oppose the welfare state on principle? Oh I forgot, you're a conservative. That explains it.
D. Bandler
- September 20, 2011 at 10:38 PM
White men are weak cowards and won't do a thing to the black man.
If they do they will get smacked just like they did in Africa.
- September 21, 2011 at 7:13 AM
@josh "the black male loafs and contemplates the universe,life and death,and his dick.(But mainly his dick.)" HAHAHA, I laughed out loud at that one!
- September 21, 2011 at 9:21 AM
I noticed we had a couple of Black troll-umphalists here over the last couple of days.
No matter, just to play along. Understand something, the conditions that allowed South African and Rhodesian Whites to lose do not exist in the US.
There is no global liberal boot on the US's face, that era is over.
Also numbers matter, Blacks are 15% or so of the population, not nearer to 90% as in SA or Zimbabwe . Upcoming changes are not on their side either, many of the the Hispanics hate them with a passion (see Azusa 13 for details) in ways a White Supremacist could only envy and the Asians , well remember the LA riots? No allies, No numbers.
Also re: SA the Whites though about 11% of the population control almost all the wealth and while not strong enough or ruthless enough to take the whole country are holding out. Y/T is not doing as well as I might like but is doing ....
- September 21, 2011 at 12:02 PM
- Whiskey said...
A place like Germany, which did not want to change too much, and had no colonies, required pretty much a Bismarckian Welfare state. There was not much other alternative, given how disruptive industrialization and unification both were, to Germany society. The same holds true for Scandinavian nations, which went from poor agrarian societies that mostly preyed upon their neighbors (Sweden was a scourge of the Baltics and Germany in particular until the early 1700s) ... to modern industrialized states. They avoided their own French revolutions by giving people a stake, just as Napoleon ended that process by making French peasants small landholders. There is nothing so conservative as those who own a small piece of property, or own a stake in the state where the property cannot be given.
As far as EBTs go, there is no more money, to fund Mexican/Black welfare and give money to the Middle Class. The middle class no longer believes in the Bismarckian Welfare State, and wishes to dismantle it, because it has morphed into a simple funds transference with no more benefit to the White middle class.
As far as that goes, the National Guard and Army can crush any racial rioting, Black or Hispanic, once a political consensus is made. The LA Riots of 1991 were far different than a White Middle Class no longer able to afford or willing to pay not to riot. Yes the drug gangs southwards are good at killing people who have no guns, they are not good at a stand-up military force basically killing anyone who even looks like a threat.
The most significant thing is that the West ran out of money, and the ability as well as willingness to pay off non-Whites who cannot survive on their own is at an end.
- September 21, 2011 at 1:01 PM
- Whiskey said...
Regarding Alan Moore, he is interesting. His League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reveals an astonishing nostalgia and desire for a return of British Imperialism and Victorian Ways -- with everything except sexual license. Moore is a self-described heavy drug user and Black Magic devotee -- both fairly pathetic in indicating unsound mind and habits.
Watchmen was tripe, in that it posited "real heroes" had to create some fake threat to stop nuclear annihilation. Yet the nuclear duopoly was remarkably stable, Ike kiboshing Suez, Stalin making sure Korea did not extend to Japan. After Stalin, even more so. The elderly, time-serving apparatchiks who survived Stalin's purges had no ambition whatsoever (why they survived) and merely wanted their comfort. On the West side, after Kennedy, compromise and accommodation was the watchword.
The real risk was already in plain view by 1979 -- ascendant Islam with nukes viewing both the USSR and USA as weak targets of opportunity. Moore missed the obvious, caught up as he was in the world of 1952.
But even he doesn't want to die for the Colors of Benetton. He still longs for an era when Britain mattered and style, clothing, and confidence in the West reigned supreme.
- September 21, 2011 at 1:07 PM
- Whiskey said...
Comics generally have been left-wing and self defeating. DC has killed off many White superheroes to make them Black, Gay, Hispanic etc. (Blue Beetle being the best example). But Blacks, Gays, Hispanics do not buy comic books. It is nerdy White guys who do and they do not care about Black, Hispanic, or Gay superheroes.
Most comic books and companies are not about publishing anyway, but licensing their characters for movies and toys. Where the real money is. So it becomes an agit-prop basement for media companies, allowing idiots to make their social statements about how enlightened they are.
- September 21, 2011 at 1:09 PM
Whiskey, Tell me what you think of this article.
- September 21, 2011 at 8:54 PM
It sounds like the anon advocating welfare and the buying off of the minority underclass is advocating, in essence, the Roman strategy. As in, let's placate the invading hoards and underclass because it's more convenient. It (being anchor babies, massive welfare, etc.) is also, in his incorrect view, "legal" (and somehow welfare is supposed to be good for the economy as well, and presumably by the negating of the rules of mathematics, fiscally sustainable). So just leave all the problems in place, the demographic timebombs and all the rest. Yeah. Remind me again how that worked out for Rome.
Of course, since our elites are so against any change, and the middle class is so disorganized relative to them and the various minority grievance groups, foundations, and the like, any discussion on how to change this is likely to stay strictly in the realm of the theoretical, unfortunately.
- September 22, 2011 at 12:05 PM
having a welfare state as bad an idea as it is can stabilize things between lower and middle long enough to get rid of the leeches.
The problem is that we are so busy worrying about the lower ranks when they are less of a threat that the 1-3% richest. yes, the Blacks and Mexicans are an issue but its a manageable one.
To use the Latin Divide et impera
While we are distracted, the zero sum sociopaths in the upper class simply do not allow anyone else to get ahead if they can help it and are engaged in Disaster Capitalism on a Massive scale just like they did on Latin America.
To save the union you have to get rid of the Super Rich with crippling taxes,(try 99% above 4 million with foreign ownership restrictions among other things) and break their power base .
Once they are slammed down hard enough and you close the borders you can figure out a better solution.
And note if you tie taxes to job creation and middle class wealth distribution, you create a middle class society and limit the ability of the powerful to wall themselves off.
Do these things and you force them (through lack of better options) to share the Middle interests. They'll still be powerful and detached, just much less so.
Its just as Elizabeth Warren says, no one got rich on their own.
As I see it baring a populist White and Asian (and BTW I include some upper class Blacks and Hispanics here as well) revolt and real enforced change, the US is doomed to 3rd world status or collapse anyway.
Why not give yourself a breather.
- September 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM
"the National Guard and Army can crush any racial rioting, Black or Hispanic, once a political consensus is made."
I don't think so. Come the DIAHTF (Day it all hits the fan), the primary function of the police and national guard will be to confiscate white guns and otherwise prevent whites from fighting back. That is what happened in New Orleans during Katrina.
And if things get REALLY bad, law enforcement will either abandon law and order to riot and loot with the rest of them (except with better armaments), or simply hole up in the police stations and army bases and wait for the worst to blow over (That is what happened during England's recent riots).
Either way, don't count on agents of our government to come running to your aid on the DIAHTF.
Remember, our government is implementing a population-replacement project. They want whites out, browns in. Why would they help you?
- September 22, 2011 at 4:04 PM
True that Alan Moore has a fetish for Victoriana, but From Hell is a very harsh marxist indictment of a culture and social structure that managed to rule over a large part of the planet. The same with the 3rd volume of the LOEG, where imperialist quatermain and libertine mina murray beat the shit out of a misogynist, murderous rape-attempting james bond.
Wait, wasn't Vita-Sackville West a predatory lesbian who tried to have sex with an unwilling-shhh-shhh...patriarchy patriarchy evil patriarchy.
Even Obama's own feminist heavy cabinet couldn't resist playing the victim while occupying THE HIGHEST government posts in the world.
- September 23, 2011 at 7:35 PM
I noticed that there is some black supremacists crowing about the Whites becoming a minority (as well as anonymous concern trolls claiming that Whites (or Asians) won't form militias in a chaotic situation. The claim is false, as shown in LA and New Orleans). The problem is that they are delusional. The American Black population is actually shrinking both in numbers and as a percentage of the population. With concurrent decrease in the size of the ghetto underclass.
The black birthrate is below replacement, much like the Metrosexual Whites. The increase in the "non-white" (I put that in quotes because Hispanics have largely European ancestry and Asians are quite similar to Europeans in average behavior) population isn't going to give power to black people, it will crush the power and influence of black people since the newcomers despise blacks with more passion than the kkk can muster. Like other posters have already said.
As far as birthrates are concerned, the two largest groups with replacement or above replacement birthrates are Hispanics and Rednecks. The African-Americans should be clamoring for mile high steel border walls instead to protect their interests.
- September 23, 2011 at 7:50 PM
The welfare state was originally emplaced to keep the working class from getting too radical. But the welfare state has now morphed into support for a permanent and dysfunctional underclass. A working class welfare recipient might have taken the government money until back on their feet. But the underclass sees little reason to form families, stay in school, or learn employable skills.
The American Great Society/War on Poverty of the 1960s was intended to be a temporary state of affairs, leading to an eventual transition of the underclass into the middle class. This has not happened, and we can blame any number of factors.
Regardless, the pathologies of the underclass--massive illegitimacy, violent crime, illiteracy, gang formation--are becoming permanent states of affairs.
Effectively, the inner cities become reservations for excess populations. There's one theory (from the left) that the war on drugs is intended to neutralize the underclass via mass arrests and paramilitary policing. Maybe, just maybe.
But how long can the lid be kept on?
- September 23, 2011 at 11:58 PM
As for a catastrophic conflict coming the day after welfare stops: I'd speculate that we are today living in post-catastrophic times. It's just that the decline has been so gradual that there is no particular defining event which we can label "X-Day."
Look at the following, which have been in progress for several decades:
* Ruling elites in the West who are indifferent to the interests of their own citizenry.
* De facto open borders and mass migrations from the third world into the first (abetted by those same elites).
* The growth of urban gangs (mainly minorities) to the point of becoming low level insurgencies.
* The decline of infrastructure (especially in the USA) and the trashing of inner cities via the welfare class and gang violence.
* The narcotization of the populace via mass media.
* Urban rioting and flash mobs in which the perpetrators have been primarily blacks.
* The support of Western elites for "liberation" movements against white governments in Rhodesia-South Africa.
* etc and etc.
An objective observer might note that there has been a low level race war going on; and that the mainstream seems incapable of recognizing it is taking place.
(I will note that a race war is an ugly thing, and that many if not most people would rather look the other way than face reality. But this war is being forced on various Western peoples by the violence of the underclass, third world illegal immigration, the "youths" burning cars and such in Europe, etc.)
To give but one example: doesn't it register in the public consciousness that virtually every last race riot in the USA since the 1960s was initiated by blacks? And this in an era when civil rights is the law of the land. How does that fit in with the elite narrative that minorities are somehow oppressed in America? It doesn't, but that does not keep this agitprop line from being pushed.
And what does a young white liberal couple think the future will be for their children in a country in which they will be the minority? Do they believe that one day gang violence, flash mobs and riots over police brutality will end?
Or is liberalism, pace James Burnham, simply an ideology which rationalizes Western suicide by translating symptoms of decline into victories for progress?
Yet are rightists that much better? There seems to be an expectation that one day a catastrophic event will occur, perhaps a 1929 style stock market collapse to be followed by massive urban rioting. At this point, white people (or whomever) will then awaken to the threat, lock-and-load their firearms, and the big battle will be on. And after that...well, what?
But waiting for that future event means waiting until the worst possible moment to begin taking action, i.e., when the balance of power has already turned against the citizenry.
I think what bugs me is the assumption that the apocalypse is going to come down to a gun battle between the middle class and underclass, or citizens against non-citizens, or counter-jihadis against jihadis, or whatever. The real problem for the Western world is that these conflicts are all symptoms of a deeper dilemma.
Western elites (government, academia, media, corporations, etc.) have pretty much sold out their own people. Now they are playing segments of the populace off against each other. Even assuming it came down to some massive gun battle in the future, and whites came out on top, what would have changed?
The issue is political: recognizing that we live today in catastrophic times. I'd note that the growth of websites such as this one is an example of how people are starting to wake up to the reality. Westerners need to come up with a viable political plan to guide the action.
The current crop of Western elites have to be discredited and replaced with leaders who represent the citizenry.
My two denarii worth.
- September 24, 2011 at 12:47 AM
- Leon Chase said...
I'm not going to argue with the idea that there are problems with the EBT program, or that short-sighted idiots of this caliber might actually exist.
In fact, neither would Stanley LaFleur, the man who created "My EBT". Because, lest we forget, Mr. EBT is a character, and the video is obviously (to most of us, anyway) a comedic parody, poking fun at both the perceived abuses of the EBT program within his community and the pseudo-rich posturing of wanna-be rap stars. Regardless of whether you personally find him funny, or can even stand the music and language involved, you need to understand that this is a PERFORMER in a staged comedy scenario. Your blog would have us believe that this video is a documentary, and that Mr. EBT is a real person, genuinely lamenting his inability to buy malt liquor and weed with his card.
I find it curious that, when the performer is a black rapper, people in the mainstream seem to have a much harder time separating the performer from the song. As if, because Mr. LaFleur is (we assume) from a certain background and income level, he is somehow incapable of the thought and creativity involved in creating a separate character and taking on his voice. Was there a public outcry when Johnny Cash sang about stealing car parts from his job, or when he stated that he "shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"? Granted, in terms of talent, Stanley LaFleur is no Johnny Cash. But neither, to use a more modern example, is Larry the Cable Guy. I find it equally tasteless when "Larry" sings about "retards" and threatens to beat starving African children, but like most people I also don't believe that those are the real beliefs and practices of Daniel Whitney (the creator of "Larry"), any more than I believe that Larry is a broke white moron who actually works for the cable company.
If this song had been set in a trailer park and sung by Larry the Cable guy, would the public response be as dead-serious as all this? I wonder.
- September 26, 2011 at 8:23 AM
- Whiskey said...
Why does Mr. EBT generate so much outrage? Because most of the crime and nearly all the welfare usage come from Black and Hispanic people, while Whites who now NEED Welfare are told to get to the back of the line, Mr. EBT needs to swipe-swipe.
Johnny Cash can sing about shooting a man in Reno, few Whites shoot people. By contrast, Black people shoot someone at least every day (mostly, granted, each other).
It is the same way Garrison Keilor can advise say, a nerdy guy in the Chess club to "go crazy" because Kielor's idea of going crazy is staying up till Ten PM, and a whole second helping at Hometown Buffet. For the Chess Club nerd, that's probably the same thing -- staying up till eleven to play WoW or something. For Lindsay Lohan, whom Keilor advised to "go crazy" that advice is ... disastrous. Generally involving a commandeered car, a late night arrest, and community service (if everyone is lucky).
Black and Hispanic people DEPEND on US Whites agreeing to their tax money. Now when Whites need that tax money for their own use, anything less than a grateful, non-agitating attitude is going to make the White middle class pull the plug, absolutely, on Welfare and construct their own, non-Whites not invited. [This is particularly true since massive welfare transfers go hand in hand with Black mob anti-White violence, and fifth class citizenship, if that, for Whites specifically EXCLUDED from any and all Civil Rights.]
In short, Blacks and Hispanics had a good thing going, times changed, and they did not realize that kicking a bear in the ribs was a bad move. Now that the bear is hungry and in survival mode.
- September 28, 2011 at 3:09 PM
Cut out the middle-men, and hand over the money directly to the thugs. Works better.
- November 5, 2011 at 9:13 AM

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What are your plans for Friday (Feb. 15)? You're going to need to cancel them, because we've just been informed that it's Phil Collins Day.
But seriously, Phil Collins Day is a real thing — it even has its own official website, as well as a daylong celebration, held annually in New York's Rockaway neighborhood. In fact, it's been going on since at least 2007, when attendees showed their Philpreciation by holding a 'Face Value' dance party. The following year, the theme was Post No Phils, with Jacket Required following in 2009, Come Get Your Phil in 2010, an amazing-looking Phil Collins Day Parade in 2011, and a 'Testify' confessional booth in 2012.
It might sound like a frivolous thing, but there's actually a serious side to Phil Collins Day. This year's theme, inspired by the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy last fall, is Take Me Home, featuring a come-one, come-all drum circle in which participants will "celebrate our survival while dancing by the sea." As the festival's organizer put it in an email to Gothamist, "We were, like the majority of the peninsula, hit pretty badly by the storm; house destroyed, lost all of my tools, garden, etc. And the past three months have been one of recovery and rebuilding. Rockaway is strong. And it is the resilience of this community that keeps us all together."
In other Phil Collins-related news, the Australian duo Big Scary is celebrating Phil Collins Day this year with the release of their new single, the aptly titled 'Phil Collins.'
What are your favourite Phil Collins tracks? He's had so many hits it's hard to narrow it down but here are a few of mine:
In The Air Tonight
I Don't Care Anymore
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, February 20, 2006
Stan Galli (1912- )
According to Walt Reed's "Illustrator in America" Stan Galli was born in San Francisco and had a variety of jobs as a young man trying to survive through The Depression. He eventually saved enough to get an education at the California School of Fine Art. His art career afterwards was interrupted by service in WWII, and though he returned to a partnership in a San Francisco art service after the war, he found the business aspects didn't suit him. TI list member Bruce Hettema mentions Galli as having worked for his company, P&H Creative, so I wonder if this might be the art service mentioned, but in an earlier incarnation? He chose instead to become a freelance illustrator, a decision that proved to be very rewarding.
Galli had a long and successful career illustrating for many major American publications, but perhaps most notable is his key role in a long campaign for Weyerhauser Timber. Galli did over fifty paintings for the company on the theme of conservation and brought in other artists like Fred Ludekens and Bruce Bomberger to produce ads as well.
Galli is in the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame and his work is in the U.S. Air Force Art Collection.
You can see a few examples of his work in my Stan Galli Flickr set.
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- Brooke11:53 AM
I is great that you are honoring Stan Galli inn this way. My parents were friends of his and his wife Fran And my brother and I were friends with their sons, Tim and Tom.They lived in a lovely house in Kenfield, CA (Marin County). My dad posed for Stan several times for car commercial, I think. Once, in 1958, Stan was illustrating "The Ugly American" for a "Saturday Evening Post" serial. Stan build step in the back yard, and my dad in a bathing suit sprawled in the steps and I wearing a chom san (sp?) and carrying a parasol, bent over him.ReplyDelete
David Hall was kind enough to track down the image for me in a Saturday Evening Post. Here is his info if anyone wants to communicate with him.
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My father died back in 1985 and we packed up a bunch of his belongings (he was a pack rat) and put them in storage. Well, I was recently going thru some of the boxes (over 20 years later) and came across an old Air Force magazine (Strato Scope 1957). I almost threw it out as there was so much stuff to go thru but my father had retired from the Air Force (he had also served as a Marine earlier) and I figured he saved the magazine for a reason. So I opened it up and on the inside cover was an illustration. I recognized the man right away as my dad! (no wonder he saved it...LOL)ReplyDelete
The likeness was incredible and I was surprised I had never seen it before. On the bottom of the drawing/illustration was a brief bio of the subject (dad) and a signature of the artist (Stan Galli). On the very bottom it advertised an article entitled "Men or Machines?" on page 25. The article was about Mr. Galli doing art work at Air Force bases across England (my dad was stationed in England at the time).
Then tonight I was going through another box that contained a bunch of old photographs. One of the pictures is of Mr. Galli doing the illustration as my father posed for him. I was quite pleased and even more impressed with Mr. Galli's skill (The drawing and picture match perfectly). I will most definitely be framing the magazine illustration along with the photograph (what a nice find).
The find peeked my interest so I "Googled" Mr. Galli to see what I could find. So here I am! From what I can tell, Mr. Galli is still living? I wonder if there is anyway to contact him or his family? It sure would be nice to see if I could track down the original.
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Drinking for healthy breasts at The ReinCarnation Project.
As ASR gets under full swing, so do the parties, drinking, and movie premieres that go along with it. While the trade show is increasingly focused on skateboarding and surfing, many snowboarders show up for the evening events.
Last night, after a long first day of the trade show, a who's who of the snowboard world came out in full force to see the film debuts of Absinthe Films' Transcendence and Blacklight. The premiere party was hosted by Modart at The ReinCarnation Project in downtown San Diego.
Industry people, pro snowboarders, and friends alike gathered around the venue's outdoor screen to see the amazing snowboarding from last season. Tina Basich, Tom Gilles, Elan Bushell, Abe Teeter, and Travis Rice were just a few of the film's riders who were there to share the moment and get feedback from their peers.
"It's amazing to me how you see yourself on the screen. I know I made those runs or lines, and I know how good it felt when I did them, but then sometimes it looks even better on screen than it felt," said Airwalk rider Tom Gilles of his part in Blacklight.
Both of the movies were sick, showing off progressive freestyle and freeriding from all across the globe. Everyone in the place left excited for the upcoming winter. "Our team did so good, so I'm stoked," said Greg Keelin, the national sales manager for Salomon/Bonfire.
"In Blacklight, up-and-comer Adam Short totally stepped up. We (Salomon/Bonfire) gave him a small travel budget and free product and he has a part. It's awesome," he continued.
Overall, the event was a great kick off for the 2001/02 snowboarding season and the party provided an extra incentive for people to hit the bar. Raising some money for a good cause¿a percentage of the proceeds from the drinks went to Boarding for Breast Cancer.


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Reports: Metro-North RR worker accused of sex act on train asks help for stress
Manny Ramos had been under a lot of stress lately.
The Metro-North Railroad employee's relationship with his wife had soured and, on the morning of Jan. 28, he was on his way to New Haven to take a physical characteristic test for the railroad's engineer-training program.
The 35-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., man then spied the pregnant woman asleep in the nearly empty train car he was riding in somewhere between Westport and Fairfield.
The events that then allegedly transpired on the train are detailed in police reports reviewed Friday by Hearst Connecticut Media.
"I was studying for the test when I started to have unwanted thoughts," Ramos later told MTA police, according to the reports. "I began to touch myself when I felt ill with a headache and stressed, the next thing I knew I was masturbating."
The woman, a 33-year-old medical researcher who is five months pregnant, boarded the 7:35 a.m. train at Grand Central Terminal on her way to work at Yale University. She was tired and, after most of the passengers in her car disembarked in Stamford, she stretched out and closed her eyes.
"Just before the train arrived in Fairfield, I felt and heard something moving around me," she told MTA police. The woman said she felt something drop on her pants and opened her eyes to see something "white" on her clothes. "I then looked straight ahead at a male with his penis exposed, his pants were down showing his black underwear," she said.
The woman yelled.
A startled Ramos told police he immediately began zipping up. "It wasn't me," he told the woman.
On Tuesday, Ramos will get a to try out that defense when he is arraigned at Superior Court in Bridgeport.
He was initially charged with public indecency and second-degree breach of peace, but police sources and a written report noted he will additionally be charged with fourth-degree sexual assault.
If convicted of the charges, he could get up to two years in prison. Ramos is now free after posting $1,000 bond.
In 2006, the state passed a law extending sexual contact to include ejaculation -- if it strikes the victim -- in response to an incident at the University of Connecticut that caused a public outcry when some male students who masturbated on a sleeping female students were only charged with breach of peace.
MTA police said the woman in the Metro-North incident began screaming for other passengers to stop Ramos as he began walking away from her, but no one came to her aid.
As the train stopped at the downtown Fairfield station, Ramos bolted out the door, the woman in pursuit.
Police said she managed to grab him by the backpack he was wearing. A conductor leaned his head out of the train and as the woman began to explain what had happened to her, Ramos broke free and walked away.
Police broadcast an alert for the capture of Ramos, who was stopped a short time later on the Unquowa Road overpass over the tracks by Fairfield Police Sgt. Chris Loli.
MTA police said they brought Ramos back to the station platform where the woman positively identified him as the man who masturbated on her.
Police said they noticed the woman had several white stains on the upper leg portion of her maternity pants. A co-worker brought her some new clothing and she turned the pants over to police. They subsequently drove her to the Bridgeport train station and put her on a train back to Grand Central.
Police said both the victim and Ramos' wife are Asian.
Meanwhile, the train, filled with about 200 passengers, was held at the Fairfield depot for nearly an hour.
Concerned that Ramos might have been involved with similar incidents prior to taking tests, police said they checked other testing sites he had gone to -- Poughkeepsie, Brewster, Wassiac, New Canaan and Stamford stations -- for complaints, but found none.
Formerly a Metro-North rail coach cleaner, Ramos was a student engineer at the time of the incident. He has since been suspended with pay, pending the criminal charges against him.
"I really had no intention to harm or disturb anyone," Ramos told MTA police. "I just wanted this feeling to go away. I'm trying to help myself as best I can by keeping busy, spending time with my family and trying to convince my wife to come with me to counseling so I can have peace and continue to be a father and husband for my family.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Chocolate From Bean to Bar
The Mansion View Inn was a beautiful setting for last night's chocolate event. Some of Toledo's savviest food purveyors were on hand - Flying Rhino, Downtown Latte, Phonenix Earth Food Co-op and the Original Sub Shop were all represented - to learn about Ecuador's Kallari Chocolate Co-operative, where indigenous families harvest, ferment, and roast cacao beans in the foothills of the Andes, then make fabulous organic dark chocolate bars at nearby factories in the cooler highlands.
We blind-tasted 10 dark chocolates, and the Kallari bars were a clear favorite. Look for them now at Whole Foods, perhaps soon in Toledo!
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Think you can come up with a sequel to "Prometheus" that boasts a better script than the Damon Lindelof-penned first film? You may have a chance.
As previously reported, Lindelof is reportedly not coming back and pen the script for the follow-up due to scheduling issues, namely his commitment to Brad Bird's "Tomorrowland" at Disney and a TV series at HBO.
Yesterday, Bloody Disgusting posted a report saying Fox and director Ridley Scott are "literally freaking out" as they try to figure out the story after Lindelof abandoned the project. They add that the studio is "taking pitches from basically anyone who can crack the story. While a sequel is nearly inevitable, it definitely puts it in flux, and in a state of jeopardy."
Lindelof himself has since responded to the matter with a lengthy statement to SlashFilm:
"While I'm happy to maintain my ongoing role as internets whipping boy (well, not happy, but at least resigned) this is a weird attack piece, even for someone who should be used to it by now. The unglamorous truth is this:
During the creative process of Prometheus, all involved (that includes Fox and Ridley) had a strong desire for this film to launch off in its own way so that by the end, it would not connect directly to the original Alien, but instead run parallel to it. This is something that I talked about many, many times in the press burst around the release of the movie. As you probably remember, there was a lot of interest as to whether Prometheus was a "prequel" – the answer was, 'Yes. Sort of. But if there was a sequel to Prometheus, it would not be Alien.'
Taking the strong foundation that Jon Spaihts had already written, I worked on the script to this end – and yes, during that process, Ridley did occasionally riff on what he felt might happen next as Shaw and David's Head ventured off of LV-223 in search of wherever The Engineers had come from.
After the movie came out and discussions began about a possible sequel, I was already neck deep in writing and producing Tomorrowland with Brad Bird. I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking. And contrary to popular belief, I do not want anything I work on to suck. I really don't. I care about these stories deeply – not just as a writer, but as a fan. It might not always feel that way to the audience, but I swear to God it is true.
It also so happens that Ridley was about to embark on directing his next movie, The Counselor, and had another one, Child 44 lined up right behind it. The conclusion was obvious – In the best interest of the franchise, it was best to take myself out of the running before I had to suffer the embarrassment of potentially not even being offered it. And that it is the complete (if not somewhat boring) truth.
As to whether Ridley and Fox are "freaking out" about me not working on a sequel, well that's news to me. I retain awesome relationships with both. More importantly, the idea that there aren't many, MANY writers out there capable of taking the reins is sort of ridiculous. I did not map out a trilogy and then walk when the going got tough. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know me and doesn't know the truth.
The process of working on Prometheus with Ridley was one of the greatest things that has ever happened to me. Love or hate the result of that work, I don't regret having done it for a second. Bloody Disgusting was very clever in tagging their story with the sentiment that denials were going to come. This would seem to throw shade on me denying the veracity of the story simply by anticipating that I would.
But denying the story I am. As I said, I will take all the abuse in the world for the things I have done, but I refuse to take it for the things I have not. That's my story and I'm sticking to it."


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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #462
This week: Updates on Dean Haglund's forthcoming performances at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, on his graphic novel (sounds like there's been progress), on a play he has been writing for decades (!) and on the book he recently had published!
This week: Phil offers a "mea culpa" to the makers of the new episodic "Star Trek", he marvels at some of the great on-screen friendships, he ruminates on the differences between filmmakers, artists and geniuses, he champions (once again), the Coen Brothers' Hail, Caesar!, he asks Dean about bitcoins, he weighs in on a "Live Event of the Week" and he and Dean remember three individuals in "Celebrity Deaths".
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MONTGOMERY, AL — Pilates doesn't burn a lot of calories, but it does provide toning benefits, according to a study at Auburn University Montgomery in Alabama.
Researchers monitored 10 people during their Pilates workout and found that Pilates moves — particularly the Criss-Cross move — offered more of a workout for external obliques than basic crunches. Other beneficial moves included the Teaser and the Roll-Up, both of which provided more benefit to the rectus abdominis muscle than standard bent-knee crunches.
Some infomercials have touted Pilates as beneficial for weight loss. The study, however, found that how many calories an exerciser burned depended on the level of the workout.
A basic Pilates routine burned the same calories as moderate stretching and a moderate routine burned the same calories as basic stepping. Advanced workouts provided the most calorie-burning benefits — as much as speed walking at 4.5 miles per hour.


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Internet Hackers Out to Steal Military Secrets
McAfee researchers say hackers are attempting to steal U.S. and South Korean military secrets using malware designed to find and upload relevant information. They say malware has infected many websites in an ongoing attack that it calls Operation Troy.
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City of Lincoln
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Mayor Chris Beutler today presented the Mayor's Award of Excellence for December to a team from two departments: Nicholas Wemhoff is Systems Software Integrator in the Information Services division of the Finance Department, and he has worked for the City for eight years. Barbara Boggs is an Employment Technician II in City-County Personnel, and she has been with that department for more than 30 years.
The monthly award recognizes City employees who consistently provide exemplary service and work that demonstrates personal commitment to the City. The award was presented at the beginning of today's City Council meeting.
Personnel Coordinator Pat Kant nominated the team in the categories of productivity and loss prevention for a multi-year project to make the application and hiring process almost paperless. Wemhoff wrote and developed the Personnel Applicant Tracking System, and Boggs was the Project Manager. The system features an online job application and supplemental questionnaire; automated job requisition and preliminary rating processes; and online job posting and advertising. Applicants can use the system at all hours, determine their status within the process and receive e-mail notification of any specific job opening.
Kant said the project has saved an estimated $11,000 a year in material expenses alone. It also is more efficient for applicants and staff and has increased productivity. Nearly all City and County Departments now use the system, which was cited as a significant factor in Lincoln being named the top digital City in the nation by the Center for Digital Government.
Wemhoff also was recognized for a second nomination in the categories of customer relations and productivity. He was nominated by County Clerk Dan Nolte, Deputy Clerk Cori Beattie and County Records Specialist III Melissa Koci for his work on a new property valuation protest system. Wemhoff developed a program that allows property owners to complete a protest form electronically, print the protest and to self-schedule a convenient hearing date and time.
Nominators said the program saves the public time and effort and saves staff many hours of data entry. Because typed protest forms are easier to read than handwritten forms, the program has increased accuracy as well. In 2008, 78 percent of the protests were done online, far surpassing the County Clerk's estimates, and many positive comments were received from the public about the new system.
The other categories in which employees can be nominated are safety and valor. Consideration also may be given to nominations that demonstrate self-initiated accomplishments or those completed outside of the nominee's job description.
All City employees are eligible for the Mayor's Award of Excellence except for elected and appointed officials. Individuals or teams can be nominated by supervisors, peers, subordinates and the general public. Nomination forms are available on the City Web site at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: personnel) or from department heads, employee bulletin boards or the Personnel Department, which oversees the awards program.
All nominations are reviewed by the Mayor's Award of Excellence Committee, which includes a representative with each union and a non-union representative appointed by the Mayor. Award winners receive a $100 U.S. savings bond, a day off with pay and a plaque. Monthly winners are eligible to receive the annual award, which comes with a $500 U.S. savings bond, two days off with pay and a plaque.


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By Mike Norton
Suppose you want to take a hike in the woods, but you've only got an hour of free time and you're traveling with your elderly mom. Or maybe you're looking for a beach where you can take your dog, but you don't want to drive too far to get there.
If you're visiting Traverse City, help is just a click away. Thanks to a free smart phone app called "Experience 231," visitors to this Michigan resort community can instantly access information about 300 year-round outdoor experiences – hiking, cycling, snowshoeing, skiing, swimming, paddling and birding — with a user interface that allows them to instantly select one that fits their particular needs and interests.
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Monday, December 13, 2010
Online Persona Workshop Week Eleven: Wrapping Up
Phew! You made it! You stuck with this workshop for all eleven sessions! Hurray YOU! (And yes I know, eleven is a strange, untidy number, but that's how the cookie crumbled.) Hopefully you've gained some insights not only into why and how you are online, but also discovered some of the different layers and aspects of your self and how they might interact with your professional online presence. If not, well, you can repeat the course as many times as you'd like and no one will be any the wiser. ☺
Someone had asked a few weeks ago in the comments what sorts of numbers and metrics to shoot for in terms of followers. How many new followers/friends should we aim for each week? Month? Year?
The truth is, while I love measurable metrics as much as the next person, (Hel-lo Amazon Bookscan numbers!) I'm not sure this is the best way to approach your list of followers & friends. The thing we're after here is building meaningful connections. It is much better to have a small, dedicated, truly interested group of 500 friends & followers than it is to have 1,000 who are all just mutually following each other to inflate their numbers. So . . I'm not going to answer that question. I think a much more effective approach—and saner—is to focus on the quality of the interaction between you and the community you are building.
Having said that, I also know it will not be enough to satisfy the truly metric-centric among you, so I will say that there seems to be a general sense that if you can garner 1,000 dedicated followers, that then you begin to have something. (If you Google 1,000 followers you'll see lots of talk about it, but basically the concept revolves around a committed, dedicated core of true fans, not mutual number-padders.)
The truth is though, not all of us will find 1,000 followers—at least not for a long time. It takes a lot of work and stick-to-itiveness, very much akin to building a writing career. It will also depend HUGELY on your genre and who your ultimate audience is. Genres that are able to interact directly with their audience online (YA, romance, fantasy) will be able to build a following faster than those who rely on gatekeepers (PB, MG).
The vast majority of us will have friends and followers who find us after they've read our books and decide to seek us out online. We want to be sure and have a solid presence ready for them when they do. Another, smaller percentage of us will manage to build a significant online presence that will then lead our friends and followers to our work. You have to decide for your own self and your own path where you will put your energy. Where you WANT to put your energy. For every person who found a book deal through their blog, there are many more who sold the book first and developed on online presence to interact with the readers that book brought looking for them.
Where do you want to spend your emotional and creative resources? This isn't a trick question and there isn't one right answer. You have to do a cost/benefit analysis of how maintaining an online presence fits into the current stage of your writing career. If you are getting up at 4:30 every morning to write before work, then falling asleep at night sometimes before your kids do, then time is probably your most precious resource right now and best not to squander it. Better to spend your time learning the craft and pursuing your dream. But if your engine is set to high idle and you're just raring to go, by all means, dive in and being putting some of that energy to work for you in building a social media presence. You can absolutely have a two-pronged approach to establishing your career!
By the same token, as an introvert, if your day job or family demands simply consume all your social energy, then you have to really think about whether or not you can be effective online if you're socially drained before you even log on. On the other hand, if you feel isolated and alone and desperate for the company of other writers as you journey on your path, then you probably have a lot to gain.
One other thing that I think is worth mentioning is that there have been a rash of brilliant, honest, and soul-bearing posts lately about the ups and downs of the writing life and its demands. From the soul sucking experience of being out on submission for months and months to the very human feelings of envy and jealousy that nearly every writer experiences, to honest, realistic exposés of what the reality of being published is like when compared to our dreams. Take the time to read these posts and let them be an important counterbalance in your head to the constant inner whispering and urgings to go faster, do more, don't fall behind, they're pulling ahead, she has more followers, he has more blog readers. Just. Stop. Don't only listen to (and try to keep up with!) all the success stories you see on the internet, but use the experiences of those who are willing to be honest as cautionary tales of what to avoid.
Most especially, don't spend so much time and energy focusing on the cliques you don't belong to and the friends & followers you don't have, that you ignore or take for granted the ones that you do.
16 comments:
- Sheila Cull said...
Hurray back at ya!
- December 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM
- Cynthia Leitich Smith said...
Thanks so much!
- December 13, 2010 at 7:23 AM
- Alex Beecroft said...
Thanks for this series, it was great! In the end I've decided to leave my blog as it is, but at least that's now an informed decision ;)
I'm also much encouraged by the thought that I'm not the only one struggling with writerly jealousy. There's a vice that is its own punishment, and I know that, but it's still so hard to overcome.
Probably the best thing for me that has come out of doing this workshop, and reading the wonderful Hero Archetypes book which I won (thank you for that!) was the realization that, for me, the ambition to be successful as a writer is killing my joy in writing. I've decided to let go of that and concentrate on just writing stuff I feel proud of. The rest can take care of itself.
- December 13, 2010 at 8:00 AM
- jama said...
Thank you for this wonderful series, Robin. Learned a lot and appreciate all your effort!
- December 13, 2010 at 8:05 AM
- Robin L said...
Thank you, Sheila!
And thank you, Cyn, for spreading the word about the workshop around the blogosphere!
Alex, that seems to me a most excellent lesson to have learned--an absolutely guiding principle, really. (And so glad you enjoyed the book! It is my new favorite.)
I'm so glad you found the series helpful, Jama!
- December 13, 2010 at 8:28 AM
- liz said...
Thanks so much, Robin. Your series was such a thoughtful look at the questions that have been bubbling around in my head lately. It was great to read your posts, but also to read how other writers are handling these types of questions.
- December 13, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- Jennifer R. Hubbard said...
Can you hear me applauding?!
- December 13, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Excellent round up. Extremely informative and very helpful. Thank you for taking the time to share you wisdom with us.
Applause from me too!!!
- December 13, 2010 at 8:14 PM
- Kimberly Lynn said...
This workshop was an amazing experience, Robin. You were so generous with your time and we truly appreciate it. I can't wait for Christmas vacation, so I can get busy incorporating everything I've learned over the past eleven weeks. Cheers!
Made to Stick was awesome. Also, I was surprised at how funny it was. I read a few excerpts to my husband while he was ironing one morning, and now he's reading it. LOL!
Thank you!!!!
- December 14, 2010 at 4:39 AM
- Kimberley Griffiths Little said...
This workshop series has been absolutely beautiful, Robin. Perfect. Inspiring. Motivational. And calming. Thank you so much. xoxo
- December 15, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- Jennifer said...
I just powered through all your workshop posts. Amazing! Thank you for such fantastic blueprint!
- December 17, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- R.L. LaFevers said...
Thanks for all your kind words about the workshop, guys! I am thrilled you found it helpful!
And thanks for the applause, Jenn and Melanie. One can never have too much applause in one's life. :-)
Kimberly Lynn, I'm so glad you (and your husband!) liked MADE TO STICK!
And Kimberly GL, I was SO wanting the workshop to bring calm, so YAY! Thanks for letting me know that came through.
You're so welcome, Jennifer!
- December 19, 2010 at 12:33 PM
- Solvang Sherrie said...
Nice wrap up to the series. And you have a link in here that I haven't read yet. I'm off to read about the reality of being published :)
- December 20, 2010 at 7:26 AM
- Carrie said...
I discovered your blog this morning while reading a Fuse 8 post and spent the morning with your online persona workshop. Very, very thought provoking - plus I picked up a couple more blogs to follow. Thanks for the time and effort you put into it.
- January 12, 2011 at 7:31 AM
- Anne E.G. Nydam said...
I'm so sorry that I missed this series of posts until it was over. I've gone through your "course," but missed out on posting comments along with the others. Thanks for a blog that seems targeted directly to me: someone who's always wanted to be a writer and never wanted to be in sales and marketing.
For me the push to start getting serious about putting myself out there was when I realized that writing needs reading. Telling stories that no one ever hears is just too sad, like talking on the telephone after the other person's hung up. But putting myself out there is not my thing and it's been a struggle... So again, thanks.
- January 22, 2011 at 2:34 PM
Coming late to say, thanks so much for this workshop series! I did it all in one day, and it's totally clarified and informed the process I'm in right now of reinventing my online presence.
I'm truly grateful.
- February 18, 2011 at 4:02 PM


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Brinn MacDougall 5/25/2004 10:22:32 AMThis is very striking..love the colors..well done, Bob! #131558
Marie Fields 5/25/2004 10:30:28 AMGorgeous image, Bob! #559849
Marja H. Konimäki 5/25/2004 10:38:35 AMWonderful image!!! #559859
Lori Ditlefsen 5/25/2004 11:02:30 AMVery nicely done Bob! #559877
Kelly Abernathy 5/25/2004 11:29:56 AMBeautiful! -K
Casey A. Hanson 5/25/2004 11:47:02 AMThis is awesome Bob! The colors are stunning, very nice. #559964
Theresa McCloskey 5/25/2004 11:55:11 AMterrific shot Bob - wonderful colors :-) #559971
Alisha May Furbish 5/25/2004 12:27:39 PMHoly cow- spectacular!!!! A winner in my book! #559988
Kristen McKain 6/15/2004 12:49:33 PMWow.. I must have missed this one.. I dont know how, though! Congrats!! #595540
Kelly Abernathy 6/15/2004 12:55:59 PMCongratulations! -K #595575
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 6/15/2004 2:22:42 PMThis is so beautiful, a well deserved win!!!! Love the colors!!!! #596055
Cathy Barrows 6/15/2004 2:37:50 PMCongrats!...beautiful #596194
Thomasa 6/15/2004 3:37:58 PMWOW! The sea foam makes it look like you could walk on clouds. Great colors and I love how the foam leads your eye to the sunset/sunrise. Nicely done! #596388
Dan Holm 6/15/2004 5:00:26 PMAbsolutely stunning shot! Congratulations, Bob! #596796
Diane Dupuis 6/15/2004 5:30:35 PMStupendous Bob! Congrats on your 7 finalists and good luck!! #596944
Jim Kinnunen 6/15/2004 6:31:00 PMWonderful image and great exposure!!! #597218
Jennifer Rennison 6/15/2004 8:09:59 PMThis is absolutely beautiful, stunning! Congratulations! #597595
Evy Johansen 6/15/2004 10:06:02 PMWow - this is beautiful! As always... Many congratulations Bob! #597756
Kasia Elser 6/16/2004 6:14:48 AMCONGRATS! #598305
Kasia Elser 6/16/2004 6:14:49 AMCONGRATS! #598306
Peggy Wolff 6/16/2004 7:06:22 AMWow is right! What kind of work was done on this? #598523
Karen Engelbreth 6/16/2004 7:19:34 AMMany congratulations, Bob! #598587
Doug Gould 6/16/2004 10:23:19 AMThis image is so beautiful and unique, Bob. You must be proud of it! Congrats. #599095
Gianna Stadelmyer 6/16/2004 11:44:59 AMCongratulations, Bob! This is fabulous:-) #599210
Alisha May Furbish 6/16/2004 12:12:42 PMWell deserved congrats!! #599294
Kelly Abernathy 6/16/2004 6:30:03 PMA well deserved win! Congratulations - I just love this shot - so beautiful! -K #600102
Patrick Campbell 6/16/2004 6:38:32 PMI love the spectacular color and the intentional blur of the sea foam. Congrats Bob! #600120
Evy Johansen 6/17/2004 12:13:42 AMI'm so glad to see this beauty as a winner!! Congratulations on your second place win, Bob! Very well deserved! #600505
Mette Vendelboe Allison 6/17/2004 12:44:45 AMCongrats! Great photo! #600518
Donna W. Neal 6/17/2004 3:33:07 AMCONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WIN Bob! #600662
Paul C. Gazzanigo 6/17/2004 3:33:46 AMCongratulations, Bob! #600665
Donna J. Eaton 6/17/2004 5:14:32 AMA big congratulations Bob! Stunning work as always! ;-) #600904
Deborah Sandidge 6/17/2004 6:19:20 AMCongratulations, just beautiful! #601111
Lori Ditlefsen 6/17/2004 6:36:37 AMCongrats on the win Bob! Well done! #601154
Jennifer Rennison 6/17/2004 7:25:12 AMCongratulations on your win, a beautiful image! #601269
Susana Matos 6/17/2004 12:25:15 PMamazing!!!!!!!! as usual! Congratulations on your win!
Mary K. Robison 6/17/2004 1:59:13 PMSuperb, as always. Congratulations! #602097
Robin L. Wehrman 6/17/2004 2:35:52 PMWOW this is outstanding , beautiful colors, Congratulations on your well deserved win !! #602178
Anton Falcon 6/18/2004 7:43:35 AMjust amazing! many congrats to you, Bob!! #603582
Dolores Neilson 6/20/2004 7:44:49 AMBob ...your photography just keeps getting better and better! Congrats to you my WElsh friend! You're one of the best! #606515
Carol Brill 6/20/2004 9:50:38 PMCongratulations, Bob, what impressive colors, composition, and exposure in this amazing image!! #607499
Jim Collier 6/22/2004 8:40:27 AMWith all due respect to Bob, this shot is way, WAY too color saturated. Actually it's not the shot--which is technically sound and artistically pleasing, saturation aside--it's obviously the digital post-processing.
As a general observation and not a criticism, I simply do not understand why grossly oversaturated sunset shots like this are SO popular (even with a photo-savvy audience), and win so many amateur contests! For example, this shot is so unnatural-looking, it's distracting. And for purely "artistic" value, the artifacting caused by too much saturation is glaring. (Notice the uneven tone, bleeding, uneven color shifting, etc.) If I were judging, I would severely penalize this, and shots like it, on over-saturation alone.
To my eyes it would have been a GREAT shot if it wasn't so severely oversaturated. I looked at Bob's gallery and he is very talented and has some great shots, and obviously doesn't need any suggestions on HOW to not over-saturate it. (I really love his wide-angle shot of the sheep in the green valley.) Although, there are a small handful of other oversaturated shots--but not as bad as this one.
A small gripe I have with this site, related to this, is a total lack of constructive criticism. We NEED constructive critiques to collectively grow as artists and technicians. Instead, it seems to be all sunshine and glowing superlatives, even for really horrible submissions--whose creator could really benefit from constructive pointers from the more experienced members. It's obvious some people feel compelled to encourage newbies to keep at it, but heaping praise on shoddy work doesn't work for toddlers, much less mature adults who would really appreciate specific pointers targeted specifically to their submission, and from which they could truly benefit from! (I will say though that the total lack of UNCONSTRUCTIVE flames is very nice, and a nice change of pace from most places on the internet in general.) I would suggest a change to the site: instead of just a "comments" field, call it, "What I like about this shot". Then add another field called, "What could be better"--which would encourage everyone to offer constructive criticism for every comment, rather than just blowing sunshine up you-know-where!
So, departing from high-concept discussion, here's my constructive criticism specific to this submission: Bob, nice shot. You are obviously a skilled artist. But I wouldn't have used nearly so much color saturation! Perhaps try not using the Hue/Saturation dialog, or if the over-saturation was a side-effect of increasing the contrast, use Hue/Saturation to back it off, back to natural levels. I know amateur contests seem to favor grossly oversaturated sunset shots regardless of the presence of over-saturation artifacts, but buck the norm!
With sincerity,
Jim #610284
Jim Collier 6/22/2004 8:44:13 AMAlso, one reader commented "nice selective blur on the foam". It looks to me that it is "UN-selective", natural blur, induced by motion and a slow shutter speed, rather than in digital post-processing as apparently suggested. That's a second [very small] gripe I have with this site (although overall I love it)--the comments are mostly stand-alone, not interactive and feeding off one another. No one else corrected, countered, corroborated, or even mentioned that comment about the foam. I'm not sure how to encourage that better though! Ideas? ;-) #610292
Bob Jones 6/22/2004 10:46:21 AMJim ... e-mail me I would really like to discuss this with you ...
Sharon McClung 7/4/2004 12:45:30 PMThis is terrific! Congratulations! #630976
Joy Rector 7/7/2004 6:38:49 AMI was reading jim collier's comments and along those lines I would like to see along with the winning photos the reasons why each winner was chosen...what about the photo/art piece was singled out as a winner. I think this would help the rest of us develop our skills and continue to learn. I also like the idea of ""What I like about this shot". Then add another field called, "What could be better"--which would encourage everyone to offer constructive criticism for every comment" that Jim mentioned.
This is a wonderful site. I have taken over a thousand dollars worth of classes and visit it every day to try to learn more to improve my own work.
And Bob I like the photo. I live in an area where our sunsets/sunrises and not nearly this colorful but I am sure there are such in other parts of the world. #635476
Kathleen R. Struckle 7/14/2004 8:51:16 PMCongrat"s on your win Bob! Wonderful image!! #648071
Dolores Neilson 9/11/2004 5:48:52 AMWho says colors have to look "natural"??
While I can respect photographers who don't care for lots of bold color, it is important to keep in mind that we can manipulate our photography for the effect we like just like painters do and it is still an acceptable art form. Painters overexaggerate strokes, colors aand reality all the time, and no one complains about that. The only time I feel it is not acceptable is with photojournalism...as that is the art of capturing reality. Ansel Adams was the father of manipulation though many may not realize it. What came out of his darkroom was not what he really saw....dodging and burning to his heart's desire to achieve the effect he felt would have greatest dramatic impact...and people loved his work! Sure color wasn't overexaggerated (how can it be with B&W?)...but his skies were! Composites sell...yet they're hardly real. And who cares?? It's how it makes you feel that matters. If the photo is visually appealing, then the photographer has done his job.
Joy...to request that the professionals who have to judge thousands of images every month spend extra time writing why EACH winner was selected is unreasonable. In fact, we don't pay to enter here....it's free for everyone. To ask them to do more is not really fair. Our photos are judged by professionals and we don't have to pay a thing. They're already giving alot I think. I see your point..but from a site that's free, it's way too much to ask. Imagine how much more time that would take! Just my thoughts.
Joy Rector 9/11/2004 8:18:58 AMyou're rigtht Dolores there are thousands of entries in the contest each month. But only a few of those are selected. I was talking about the first and/OR second place winners and there are not that many. I was only trying to participate in the discussion and offer ideas. #769433
Dolores Neilson 9/11/2004 8:32:51 AMHi Joy..I wasnt' criticizing you. I understand you meant the winners only. But you're incorrect in that there's "only a few". There are a total of 111 first and second place winners...and a grand prize. That's 111 commentaries on each winner...that's what I was talking about. And that's not counting the finalists! Judges have difficulty going through the selection process as it is...without 111 commentaries to post in addition to that. It's still an unreasonable request IMHO. Considering what they have to do. #769476
Joy Rector 9/11/2004 9:05:27 AMPoint taken. #769529
Fawn M. Schutt 9/2/2007 8:37:51 PMAmazing! I love the colors! #4738254
Pamela Oms 9/11/2007 3:58:15 PMwonderful colors #4778814
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Benjamin Waterhouse, (born March 4, 1754, Newport, R.I. [U.S.]—died Oct. 2, 1846, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.), American physician and scientist, a pioneer in smallpox vaccination.
Upon reading in 1799 of the work of Edward Jenner, the British surgeon and doctor who discovered vaccination, Waterhouse began a lifelong crusade for vaccination in the United States, beginning with his five-year-old son. Waterhouse was in his day perhaps the best-educated physician in North America, having studied for seven years in London, Edinburgh, and Leiden. In 1783 he formed, with John Warren and Aaron Dexter, the first faculty of the Harvard Medical School.