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October 30, 2013, 07:07:10 AM »
My wife and I were debating that if it did happen, whether it was more likely that the van or the bus would be broken into. So out of curiosity I am asking if anyone has ever had there bus broken into and stuff stolen from it (not just kids screwing around but legitimate theft) and where and when it happened?
I'd like to hear about bus theft from other private bus owners. I've searched the threads and haven't found any threads that are directly related to someones bus or bays being broken into other than parts being stolen from buses that are just sitting.
Also - other than carrying a glock what other things are you doing to avoid being a target for theft while on the road? (i.e. how/where to park, talking to locals, etc)
Thanks guys!
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October 30, 2013, 07:23:49 AM »
Never had the slightest problem in 10 years of wandering all over western Canada and the US. Not worried about it either.
We don't have a Glock in the bus, but have 2 wasp spray cans, the Canadian hand gun, ha, ha, one at the front and one in the bed room, to be used against an intruder. Probably, hopefully never.
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October 30, 2013, 07:26:00 AM »
We have never had a theft involving the bus. All we do for security is lock the bays and a deadbolt on the front door. If we are going to be gone for a while and don't feel really comfortable about where we are parked we will also place a padlock on the door button on the front of the bus. As far as personal protection, there's a pistol in the bedroom, one in the car, one in the wife's purse. There is also a sniper rifle and a 12 gauge with slugs in an "undisclosed location". Guns don't kill people. Stupid people with guns kill people.
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October 30, 2013, 07:29:18 AM »
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October 30, 2013, 07:33:15 AM »
I leave my bus unlocked at home all the time. The interior of the bus is basically devoid of anything of value. There is a $60 microwave, but it is bolted down.
One forum member who lives near me told me he had his black and white CRT rear view monitor stolen maybe five years ago. His bus is parked at his house.
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October 30, 2013, 07:54:07 AM »
Never had any issues here in Montana, when we travel we do lock things up. I also take percautions on what is going on around us and where we park. Belive in being where you are supposed to be and do what you have to do.
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October 30, 2013, 08:32:14 AM »
Because of the rather high floor height in most bus conversions, the idea of someone breaking in through a window seems remote. Especially if the occupants are at home. The intruder would be very vulnerable I think. One member in our BusNuts chapter carries a child's baseball bat just in case that happens, but after 25 years of full-timing has never needed it.
In our case we carry a pistol in an undisclosed location but have rarely put it by the bedside.
Other members carry the aformentioned wasp spray or even a marine flare gun.
I do routinely park at WalMarts and the occasional rest area, but I try to park under a light, with the door of the bus facing the store, and I always lock the bays.
No problems so far after 13 years of fun travel.
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October 30, 2013, 08:55:04 AM »
Hi Sean, Ive never had the bus or class A broken into (I had to break into the motorhome once myself) but did have a trailer broken into in LA, my dog was barking I was told, she was a puppy, I had just bought an expensive new kind of tv, this was in the 1980s, and left the box around, they broke in when I was away for a while, I think the dog brought attention to the trailer, they saw the tv, when I was gone, it was the opportunity. Mostly I think trailer & RV parks are just little communities that look after their own (meaning residents), lvmci...
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October 30, 2013, 10:06:33 AM »
I never had a problem in many years of living on the road in my job. I stayed in some questionable trailer parks a few times, but never an issue. I will say, I felt a lot more secure in the 4104 that I did in a travel trailer.
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October 30, 2013, 10:13:42 AM »
I had an attempted break in, (realized because my door handle was extremely bent/pried to the point of replacement apparently with something similar to a large crescent wrench), after previously having lost two bicycles.
My remedy was a sign in the door window, a security alarm company sticker on the bumper and a usb wired camera clearly visible in the
same window that is occasionally recording.
No more bent door handles.
PS this was in a space in an RV park in N. Florida panhandle, right next to the owners house ...they installed security cameras of their own the following day.
these attempts were not while the bus was occupied.
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October 30, 2013, 10:35:53 AM »
On a Prevost forum I read it was reported that several coaches in a converter's lot were broken into and audio-visual equipment was stolen from them. One owner reported he was in a campground (I forget where) and his bedroom window had been forced open and some personal items were stolen while he was away from the coach. Those are the only two instances I saw anyone mention problems with breakins
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October 30, 2013, 10:56:04 AM »
Two winters in a row, 2011 & 2012, I had 100 plus gallons of diesel stolen each time. I used to top off the tank for the winter to reduce condensation. For 2013 I left 20 or so gallons in it. It was all there in the spring. I usually use the coach year round and top off the tank about 10 miles from home. No damage done, just some spilled fuel on the ground which got my attention.
I keep a pistol crossbow hidden in the bus in the states it's legal in, which is most without a permit. Otherwise a pistol where legal.
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October 30, 2013, 01:21:28 PM »
I am OCD about locking absolutely everything. Even though one guy in high school was fond of saying, "A lock is only intended to keep an honest man out." It turns out he was a thief.
We have traveled year round, country wide for 11 years in various RVs and our bus for half of that time. I had diesel stolen from the bus in an RV Park in Colorado Springs in 2010. I told some of the workers we were going to Durango for two days in our car. I wondered why they were not as friendly when I got back to the bus. Well, I wondered until I pulled out and noticed my fuel gauge.
We are all well trained and well equipped to discourage somebody from coming in and hurting one of my girls while we are in the bus but if somebody wants in while we are gone then all our locks will only slow them down and probably not all that much. I tell God pretty regular, "All this stuff belongs to you so if you let somebody take it then they are taking your stuff and not mine. I will let you deal with it."
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November 01, 2013, 05:21:35 PM »
I had someone come into my bus while it was parked at my house. They tried to steal my backup camera off the dash (probably me that Brian was referring to). They didn't take it, just unscrewed a couple of the 4 screws that hold it to the mount and moved my Tigger off the top of it. That's how I knew it had been tampered with. Tigger wasn't in his place when I got in. I think it was probably someone from the mexican roofing crew that was working on the house across the street at the time. I suspect they realized it wasn't a TV and decided they were at risk of being shot if I caught them in there. As near as I could tell, they didn't touch anything else, though there wasn't much else in there. At that time, we carried the TV and VCR/DVD out from the house for each trip and back in when we got home.
Other than that, I've never had anyone messing with anything, that I'm aware of. I used to leave all my bays and even the front door unlocked (it was unlocked at the time the above incident occurred). I don't do that any more unless I need to be in them frequently for some reason or when we're camped and around the bus.
As for having personal protection while traveling... well, we'll just say maybe, and leave it at that. It's anybody's guess if an illegal entry will result in a life limiting experience or not.
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November 01, 2013, 05:55:28 PM »
I have never been broken into, but when I lived in west Oakland, CA I stored the bus on the street. Vandals threw firecrackers which shattered the windshields and all the windows on the right side. An expensive lesson but still cheaper than storage overall. Storage prices in the bay area are insane and this was the only incident in 3 years. It is the same story in San Francisco when I lived in a central neighborhood (3 blocks from union square), I had a car window broken quarterly even though there was nothing to steal. Was still cheaper to replace the glass than pay for parking! Something just to budget for.
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In other words, the team played the varying brightness levels as waveforms to create a different sound. The lab then cleaned the signal and removed some of the ambient sound before sending audio pitches to the band. Echo Movement looped the sounds and composed them into a four-part harmony.
For the final step, the students used a different binary star (Kepler 10291683) to adjust the timbre even further by adding a tremolo effect. This created a shuddered, natural sound rather than a flat, computerized noise.
The final result is a melody that will be used in the intro of Echo Movement's song "Love and the Human Outreach," which will be released in September.
"People have made music with space sounds before, but largely using pulsars and space events that can be recorded in the radio spectrum. We wanted something completely off the chart," said band member David Fowler, who was encouraged by Edna DeVore at the SETI Institute to look at the Kepler Mission. "Discovering planets around other stars is a relatively new science worthy of everyone's attention and digs deep at the core of humanity's most basic quest to orient itself in reality," he said.
The Georgia Tech team will present the sonification process at the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) in Atlanta June 18 - 21, 2012.
The project's goal, to create an authentic, aesthetic sound, was a success. The melody is further proof that sonification can be a valuable tool when working with large data sets.
"Sound is the best pattern recognition tool we have," said Walker. "Instead of visually scanning through a long list of numbers, looking for patterns or random occurrences, sometimes it's easier to create an audio file and listen for them. Very interesting patterns can often be discovered by using sound."
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In this talk from QCon London 2009, Martin Fowler talks about ThoughtWorks's experience with using Ruby on client projects for the past three years.
Dozens of client projects and ThoughtWorks Studio's Mingle, all implemented in Ruby, provide a ton of information about what it means to use Ruby in realworld situations. The talk discusses questions such as:
- Is Ruby's performance (or lack thereof) really a problem?
- Are Ruby teams really significantly more productive?
- Is Ruby code read- and maintainable?
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Has there been any sampling on whether the use of ruby is more advantageous in the creation/early stages of a project, relative to the later maintenance and upgrade phases?
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Nice talk ... but
Ali Motaz
that I enjoyed it greatly!
Martin presented his ideas clearly, and in case you never heard of him before
he is a UML and Agility hotshot, in a good way!
41 Ruby project by a reputable company is something any new technology can aspire
for, definitely good PR for Ruby and Rails
But the funny thing is, and if you think like I do, the bad things about Ruby,
which Martin highlighted in the talk are really, really, really terrible.
1. Ruby have a bad implementation.
Whats news to me was that Matz according to Martin doesn't have the skill to change this!
2. Ruby is slow.
But what you can read through the lines is , ThoughtWorks is trapped with 41, its a little too late to turn back to something else.
And the excuse that it's ok for a program to perform bad if it was written quickly seem hard to swallow.
OCaml at least one choice that offer high level abstraction and good performance.
3. He says that the bottle neck is the DB, and that they don't have the skills to fix this.
In many ways, Martin really admitted this in his talk, to defend Ruby's slowness he suggest that the problem and bottle neck are normally elsewhere like in the DB, and then he goes to say that mingle is slow! Which just means they don't know how to write fast DB applications, which is weird!
4. We deliver slow application to our customers! And they don't mind.
Presumably because they are delivered fast! Well, all I can think of is, they got lucky booking customers who are not demanding!
Personally I never met a customer who like slow application!
I do notice that number 3 and 4 and not really about Ruby, but what I am thinking is that they used Ruby to deliver these bad things. And they are tolerating it because of Ruby. Which at least fro me creates a bad association
Finally, all I wonna say is, after this talk, you might feel not so enthusiastic about Ruby.
Would not it have been better if he explained how he created fast performing application, and how his customers live the speed. And how speed in doing things changes perspectives and potential.
But he didn't, because they didn't!
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On most of our applications the DB is the bottle neck, so Ruby's slowness isn't important. Mingle is an exception, but in that case they feel that rapid feature delivery is worth the need for more hardware.
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Ruby/Rails may not be the perfect fit for all projects and teams. I think the presentation provides provides good information for determining where, who and how to apply Ruby/Rails.
"Is Ruby Slow?"
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(1) Does the increasing popularity and maturing of languages like Clojure, change anything for your company's approach towards Ruby (because Ruby is slow)?
(2) Do you foresee TW using Lisp or Clojure or say, some of the functional languages in the near future?
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The fact that Ruby on Rails has been indicated as a more productive environment than usual choices such as JEE or .NET in three years worth of projects, despite these issues, is certainly a great thing. It is difficult to see Ruby's slowness as an issue, since even Java was once like that, and look at how influent Java is in the enterprise market nowadays.
Regarding the learning curve, you mentioned that the teams were slow at the beginning (as expected with any new technology). Progressing through the "Improvement Ravine" had a relationship with their background on other scripting/dynamic languages and also with achieving the right attitude towards meta-programming. Perhaps I just didn't understand all the gathered data, but I could not visualize how steep this learning curve is. I think it would be really useful if you could provide some kind of feedback on this, and how it affected the teams' productivity at the early stages, this way people could have more realistic expectations on the outcome of adopting these technologies. How long until a JEE or .NET team can become productive on RoR?


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I am not saying that both sides have not been guilty of this extreme rhetoric in the past but the right seems to have the market cornered on fear-mongering. The R's are not doing any favors by not distancing themselves from the Tea Party groups. In fact some House Repubs. seem to be feeding into this movement with some of their rhetoric, calling this bill Armageddon, a member of Congress yelling "baby killer" or "You Lie!" It is one thing to have a member of the general public say these things, it is another for a member of Congress to. By members of Congress saying these things, they are doing nothing but fanning the flames and are on the same level as O'Reilly, Beck and Limbaugh.
Instead of trying to actually improve this bill the R's are using stall tactics and trying to force the D's in the Senate to cast unpopular votes during this reconciliation process so the R's have fodder to place in future campaign ads. As I said in the "Health Care Bill" thread, the R's never had any intention of supporting healthcare reform, no matter what the bill would have contained. It was very telling when I heard Sen. Jim DeMint and RNC Chair Steele last July, saying that if they could kill HCR, it would be Obama's Waterloo.


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It be Monday…
How else can we start another week of shows – without having some exciting tech issues! [YAY!] So we spend much, much, MUCH time trying to ignore the obvious flaw in today's show. Meanwhile, Brian and LoneSQRL call in to help Leigh totally ignore the obvious flaw in the show. Finally we get hold on MrOil who also helps us to ignore the obvious.
Over the weekend, Mike Phillips had tweeted about John Lee Dumas, the Founder and Host of EntrepreneurOnFire,who has decided to start a new project called PodPlatform. Can KITTY LITTER shrink your pores? Beauty expert shows how a $2 bag of clay pellets can leave skin 'extremely soft'. During the weekend Leigh has decided to try and 'cut the cord' – but is amazed how Roku, PS3, Boxee [etc] are being sold in the UK without any apps for the UK market [cue rant]. Mid-South 'Ghost Hunter' Charged with Domestic Assault.
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Everything's looking a little sunnier for solar power in Georgia. Costs are plummeting, and the political climate is warming to large-scale projects, too.
With that in mind, the nonprofit Center for a Sustainable Coast is offering a Saturday solar forum from 3-6 p.m. at the Coastal Georgia Center. Featured speakers are Paul Wolff, who installed solar panels on his Tybee Island home and Robert Green, co-founder and president of Georgia Solar Utilities, which earlier this month got the blessing of the Public Service Commission to challenge the state law that has so far prevented utility-scale solar by start-up companies.
Wolff's talk will be a how-to, starting with what he considers essential even for those not considering solar: Efficiency. A blower door test showed where his house, built in 1997, was not airtight, and he got to work.
"With less than $50 dollars of spray foam, caulk and baby plugs I cut my base load almost 30 percent," he said. An old-fashioned clothesline helped him reach a 45 percent reduction in his monthly electricity usage.
Then he added solar, and Georgia Power began paying him rather than vice versa.
With the cost of solar panels down 50 percent since he bought his, and federal tax credits still available, solar offers a better investment than ever, Wolff said.
He predicts his system will pay for itself in less than 10 years, and then it'll provide free electricity for the remaining two decades for which its performance is guaranteed.
Green, of Georgia Solar Utilities, will discuss his company's venture. It's a mutual type company aiming to deploy 2 gigawatts of large scale solar projects. Ratepayers will profit from dividends, Green promises, and Georgia Power will be made whole with a grid access fee that will make up for its lost profit.
"There is a way for solar to be deployed to lower everyone's electric rates," Green said.
Standing in the way of this plan is the state's 1973 Territorial Electric Service Act, which protects utilities from competition within their defined territories. The PSC has voted to support efforts of solar utilities to pursue legislative amendments to remove barriers to expanding the deployment of solar power in Georgia.
Green is betting that lawmakers will be won over by solar's potential, not least of which is revenue generation for the state.
"There's quite bit of revenue that can be split with the state," he said. "In year one, $100-150 million can be spun off to state coffers. It becomes a real opportunity to the state."
Forum on Solar Energy in Georgia; annual meeting and reception
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Time: 3 - 6 p.m. Featuring Robert Green, CEO of Georgia Solar Utilities and Paul Wolff, Tybee Island
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I can understand why some would be outraged by Rolling Stone Magazine's rock star-like cover photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber.
It is an instinctive reaction, I believe, to the mayhem perpetrated by the bomber, who has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and with malicious destruction of property by means of explosive devices resulting in death.
The outrage is that the magazine cover is a de-facto glorification of terrorists, but is it?
I have read the story that accompanied the cover photo, and I didn't find glorification of a terrorist, but an attempt by a reporter to understand why a young man who spent most of his formative years in this country would commit such a heinous terrorist act.
Speaking of Tsarnaev, who is nicknamed Jahar, the reporter noted, "There were many, many Jahars in Cambridge: children of immigrants with only the haziest, if idealized, notions of their ethnic homelands."
She also noted that Cambridge, where Tsarnaev grew up and went to school, is one of the "most liberal and intellectually sophisticated cities in the U.S.," as well as "one of the most ethnically and economically diverse."
"There are at least 50 nationalities represented at the city's one public high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, whose motto — written on walls, murals and school-course catalogs, and proclaimed over the PA system — is 'Opportunity, Diversity, Respect.' "
A former female friend of the bomber told the reporter that Tsarnaev is a "sweet kid," with whom she used to hang and get high.
"He is a golden person, really a genuine good guy who was cool with everyone," she said. "It is really hard to explain Jahar. He was a Cambridge kid."
The reporter noted The Boston Globe article in which the paper had spoken to the nurses who cared for his injuries at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
"You see a hurt 19-year-old and you can't help but feel sorry for him," one of the nurses was quoted as saying. The nurse went on to say that she had accidentally called Tsarnaev "hon" and that she and the other nurses had formed a pact in which they agreed "to alert each other if they used a term of endearment with him again."
In the end, the reporter didn't tell us anything we didn't already know about the bomber and his life, and I certainly do not agree with the sentiments expressed by some of the individuals the reporter interviewed, such as Wick Sloane, an education advocate and a local community college professor who commented on the "condition among many young immigrants who pass through his classrooms."
"All of these kids are grateful to be in the United States," he is quoted as saying.
"But it's the usual thing: Is this the land of opportunity or isn't it? When I look at what they've been through, and how they are screwed by federal policies from the moment they turn around, I don't understand why all of them aren't angrier. I'm actually kind of surprised it's taken so long for one of these kids to set off a bomb."
Such a statement should spark outrage, because this is not who we are as a country. We do not bomb fellow Americans because we are mad at the federal government. Yet it is the cover photo that is drawing all the attention and which ironically is driving home the point I believe the reporter had laboriously tried to make — that Tsarnaev was one of us.
But in a world in which symbolism so often dominates understanding, we are much more comfortable viewing Tsarnaev as a monster, and that is what is so troubling about the Rolling Stone cover photo. It doesn't look like the face of a monster.
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You do not spend eight years at the heart of "The Cosby Show," the seminal TV show that revived the sitcom genre in part by extending to its reach to affluent and successful African-Americans, without learning a thing or three about mining family traumas for laughs. "Immediate Family," the highly entertaining new dramedy by Paul Oakley Stovall, is set in Hyde Park, rather than Brooklyn Heights, and the affluent black family at its core is not Mom, Dad and the kids but grown, far-flung siblings of the troubled Bryant family, who, were it not for the need to come together in the South Side homestead for a family wedding, are mostly estranged. But the basic plot here — one sibling comes home with a gay, white guy he hopes to marry — could well have formed the basis for an episode of that TV show, especially if a next-generation sequel were on the air now.
And Phylicia Rashad, who played that show's Clair Huxtable, shows a laudable insistence on high stakes, a fast-paced, rich comic business and characters into which stellar Chicago actors can sink their talents. She directs this show with a rich focus on the complexities of love and the most striking comedic vivacity. "Immediate Family," essentially a pre-Broadway tryout staged by commercial producers in rented space at the Goodman Theatre, just bursts with life.
It also has plenty to say. Just as "Clybourne Park" turned the tables on "A Raisin in the Sun," you could say that "Immediate Family" does the same with "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?," from both a racial and a sexually-oriented perspective. Whether or not the widely held assumption that upscale black families are more resistant to gay rights actually holds water, it's indisputably true few plays have probed the topic in the black community. Stovall focuses his action primarily on whether one of the grumpier sisters, Evy (Shanesia Davis) will accept the new life of brother Jesse (the moving Phillip James Brannon) who has thrown in his romantic lot with Kristian (Patrick Sarb), a handsome Swedish photographer. He takes on some important issues here. And yet he does so without preaching, due to a carefully balanced slate of empathetic characters, all of whom have their carefully chartered reasons for their views, and a gently self-parodying authorial sense of humor.
There is, for sure, something delicious in making the invading white character a Swede — you cannot, Stovall seems to be arguing, get any whiter than that. Especially since he lives in Minneapolis. Then again, so does Jesse, very happily.
"Immediate Family" is no font of structural innovation. A one-set, 90-minute show taking place entirely within 24 hours, the play relies on the device that Jesse has mostly kept this relationship secret from his sibs, but has been pressed into revelation by the need for Kristian's complimentary photographic talents at the wedding of his good-dude, go-along-to-get-along brother Tony (the funny Kamal Angelo Bolden). Stovall throws a couple of other characters into his mix of 30- and 40-something professionals, including a spunky lesbian friend of the family called Nina (played, with hilarious gusto, by J. Nicole Brooks), there mostly to make fun and trouble and offer the liberal point of view, and a wound-tight, half-sister Ronnie (Cynda Williams, who shows her teeth when needed), there to point out that the deceased heterosexual patriarch who spawned this crew and built this Hyde Park home was far from perfect himself, and that families, be they black or white, long have variances from the perceived ideal. But the play is mostly about the relationship between Evy and Jesse.
The problem, at this juncture of the play's development, is that Stovall pushes Evy too far to two extremes. The requisite tension of the piece requires her to struggle with the gay relationship, of course, but she is far too much the villain in the first hour. Ultimately, the reverse problem rears its head as Stovall wants Evy to change more in one day than, alas, people ever actually manage. Those edges need sanding down — and the stagy final tableau needs retiring — not least because the sense of life as it is lived is so acutely present elsewhere on John Iacovelli's richly detailed set. There also is some missing information: We never know, for example, what the characters' father did for a living, which would be interesting, and the play could use more details of its social milieu. We are, it seems, around the corner from the Obama residence and more of a sense of place and its history would enrich the play.
All that said, "Immediate Family" is an appealing, commercial and accessible play from a mostly unknown but demonstrably talented writer. The contrivances of plot are not bothersome because the family dynamic is explored with such spunky verisimilitude and, well, the play is just too good a time. As laughs rung loudly around the theater on Saturday night — nobody was bored or confused for an instant — it started to seem that "Immediate Family," if the work gets done and the stars align, might well turn out to be quite a timely and important American play. Or movie.
When: Through Aug. 5
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Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
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Dear Annie: I had a fabulous time in college. I was president of my sorority, a peer mentor at our advising center and active in many organizations. I also was granted many awards and honors. I loved rushing around with little sleep and juggling many things on my plate. Now my life is a different story.
Dear Annie: My husband and I recently attended my niece's evening wedding. We are not well, and I told my sister that I didn't know how long we could stay. When she told me the wedding cake would be cut at 11:30 p.m., I asked her to bring a slice home for me.
Dear Annie: Five months ago, I begged my sister to move in with me to get her away from her abusive boyfriend. It took some convincing and tough love, but she finally ceased contact with him completely. Three months after she moved in, my fiance and I found out that we were expecting a baby. We set a wedding date, and he moved in immediately.
Dear Annie: I am constantly getting chain-letter e-mails from a friend I met in a class years ago. The e-mails usually contain vague threats about how something bad will happen to me if I don't forward the letter to five friends, or how good luck will follow if I do. The last straw was when she sent me one that said, "Forward this, and something good will happen. If you are not a believer in God, delete."
Dear Readers: Today is Memorial Day. We know for many, this is simply part of a long weekend. But we hope you will keep in mind the reason behind the holiday -- a day to remember those servicemen and women who have died serving their country. Please honor our fallen heroes by visiting cemeteries and placing flags or flowers on the graves of veterans. It is also customary to fly the flag at half-staff until noon.
Dear Annie: How can I help a friend who is convinced his neighbors are bombarding his house with rays that have affected his health and caused the death of one of his dogs?
Dear Annie: My daughter has five beautiful children whom we love very much. My husband and I often take the kids overnight and on weekends to give some quiet time to their parents.
Dear Annie: I married "Theo" three years ago. The marriage started out OK, but then I discovered he had a drug addiction. After a great deal of pushing from me, Theo finally got clean two years ago. The problem is, he has not held down a job since he moved in with me six years ago, while I have worked a full-time third shift to support my children and household. It's not enough to make ends meet.
Dear Annie: You recently printed a "Contract for Drivers," by John Violette. It requires teenage drivers to maintain decent grades, follow all traffic laws and never drive impaired or get in the car with a driver who is. It reminded me of the essay "Dead at 17," which relates what happens when kids don't follow those rules. Every year there are new teenage drivers who haven't seen it. Maybe if parents attach it to the contract, the need to drive safely will have a greater impact. Please print it again. -- Chicago Mom of Three
Dear Annie: My good friend "Lara" is three months pregnant with her third child. She recently confided in me that she purposely didn't use birth control. She told her husband, "Joe," that the pregnancy was "an accident."
Dear Annie: I'm a 47-year-old father of four kids. My oldest, "Janet," is 24 and lives on her own. I adopted Janet when she was 2. Her mother made it clear that Janet is to never know that she is not my biological child. Janet's mother and I are now divorced, and I have moved on to a happier life.
Dear Annie: My beloved sister, "Dawn," died last year following a long battle with cancer. Her husband of 43 years was a caring and capable caregiver. At the memorial service held in their church, "John" spoke tearfully of their love.
Dear Annie: My brother was scheduled for open-heart surgery involving three different procedures. I hadn't seen him for several months and wanted to visit before the operation, as I feared he might not make it through.
Dear Annie: When I was 5, my mother married an abusive man. He talked down to us and often resorted to slapping and name calling. On at least three occasions, he was physically abusive -- punching, throwing and beating us. On the other hand, he adopted us and often did nice things, too.
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Samsung has made the Galaxy Gear smartwatch very proprietary, especially considering that it doesn't work with anything but Samsung devices. But it also didn't show Gmail notifications, forcing you to use the original Samsung email app. Many other apps would simply show up on the Gear saying there was a notification, nothing more.
Now with the latest update to the Galaxy Gear, all notifications can now be displayed on the smartwatch display. Using the Gear manager app on your phone, you can select what apps can and cannot display notifications. This can include anything from Gmail to Twitter. This is excellent news for those who own the device and could encourage others to purchase it (the AT&T Galaxy S4 is receiving its 4.3 update with compatibility built in, so there is incentive).
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Most of these lessons were developed using the Kansas Social Studies standards of 2004 and the earlier version of Kansas Language Arts standards. The printed or PDF version of the original lesson plan includes those standards. A correlation between the new Kansas College and Career Ready Standards (KCCRS) and the 2013 Kansas History, Government, and Social Studies Standards is included within each lesson.
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Hubbard and Hitler
Hubbard and Hitler
Why Scientology calls its critics "Nazi's"
Penthouse Interview:
Transcript of Lecture: "the same individual that transmitted the various Magick tech to Adolf Hitler as a young man also transmitted them to Dad.
Newsherald Article.
1982 Commission Hearings: "Your father wanted you to steal an H-bomb? Yeah. He wanted me to"
Charles Manson and Scientology - There was an E-meter at the SPahn Ranch
Ex-Scientologist Jon Atack's Hubbard and the Occult
Readers Clarification of the relationship between OTO and Hubbard et al.
Jeff JacobsenHubbard and Aleister Crowley
New York Post
Clearwater Sun Witness: Hubbard used Black Magick
Hubbard's Magic
Life as a Satanist Propelled Rocketeer
Case Documents - Jack Parson's sued L Ron Hubbard
More Information on Hubbard/Scientology similarity to Hitler
Scientologists claiming to be nazi's in prior lifetimes
VideoCharlie Chaplin spoofs Hitler - Notice the same keywords used in the false promises of L Ron Hubbard..
Scientology's renovation of Historic Buildings - another public relations tactic of the Third Reich - LINK
The Character of Fascism (for comparison to Scientology)
Hubbard Youth - Clearwater Sun Judge says: "tactics used by Hubbard and his helpers are grimly reminiscent of the ranting and bullying of Hitler and his henchmen"
Related Links:
Jury convicts Hubbard of fraud in US
Hubbard convicted of Fraud in France - Catholic Sentinel
Beliefnet chatboard acting as frontgroup for Scientology
To Ex-Scientology Staff members: Why you never got that promotion
Why did Hubbard continue to publish Science Fiction after Scientology?
Battlefield Earth - Why it's worse than you think
Psychiatric Evaluation of Hubbard's Admissions
Chapter One of The Scientology Story Series by the Los Angeles Times
Tribute to Anonymous
Readers Digest - Scientology - The Sickness Spreads
Pulitzer Prize Winning newspaper series - St. Petersburg Times
Richard Leiby's articles on Scientology
Scientology's Gulags - A contemporary report - The RPF Insider Series
"Respected German historian Guido Knopp has compared a speech by US actor Tom Cruise to the Church of Scientology with a call to war by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
Knopp, an expert on World War II history, said in an interview with Bild newspaper: "Tom Cruise's manner calls to mind Goebbels."
The video above from a german documentary, "Missing in Happy Valley" and serves as an excellent introduction to this page about Scientology's roots.
"The same individual that transmitted the various Magick tech to Adolf Hitler as a young man also transmitted them to Dad. And like Dad, Hitler, when he came to power, promptly had his teachers and the occult field in general wiped out."
"Justice Latey said that the tactics used by Hubbard and his helpers are "grimly reminiscent of the ranting and bullying of Hitler and his henchmen".
"She said doctors told her, her husband was suffering from a mental ailment "known as paranoid schizophrenia."
Russian Law expressly states that Scientology is a dangerous cult. For instance, the Order no.254 of Russian Health Ministry directly prohibits promotion and use of Scientology and Dianetics methods. The official "Handbook of destructive religious cults" also states that CoS is the "Destructive cult of satanic orientation" LINK
"[The court record is] replete with evidence [that Scientology] is nothing in reality but a vast enterprise to extract the maximum amount of money from its adepts by pseudo scientific theories... and to exercise a kind of blackmail against persons who do not wish to continue with their sect.... The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder, L.Ron Hubbard."
Adolf Hitler was also classed as a 'paranoid schizophrenic.' See this one classified, 1943 OSS evaluation of Hitler, go to page 26 HERE.
Hubbard had fondness for the number 8 and used it extensively in scientology, as in Hubbard's books named Technique 88, Scientology 8-80, and one called 8-8008. There are also 8 dynamics, and the their gradation chart of awareness, is set up on 8s too, there are 8 levels to "Clear" and then 8 levels to OT8..now jump back to the 1930's, Hitler's SS - SS is the closest approximation in letters to 88. Note the colors and feeling of the Scientology Management logo below from their own pages.
It has always been the writers contention that Hitler is the greatest hypnotist of our day" G. H. Estabrooks
So was L Ron Hubbard LINK
Scientology and the Occult
In 1950, L Ron Hubbard wrote the book "Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health." In 1952, the term "Scientology" was introduced. Corporate status was received by Scientology in 1954 in California. Since that time, "Scientology" has been repeatedly questioned for it's bogus claims of medical healing and unexplained deaths.
Dianetics and Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard's personal references as a "war hero," or "nuclear physicist," are just a few of Scientology's false claims to recruit the unknowing.
Scientology didn't begin "acting" like, or operating as a "church" until 1969, when they were engaged in litigation with the FDA. Hubbard began issuing policies to members such as in Hubbard Communication Policy Letter of 12 February 1969:
"All Orgs are now Churches; Stationary is to reflect fact that orgs are churches; All public literature must state that Scn is religious." It also states, "This may or may not be publically acceptable. This is NOT the point. It is a requisite defense."
Members carried "crossed out crosses" into their establishments and were told to wear ministerial collars. "Alternative mental health and medicine" was now "healing." L Ron Hubbard avoided the exposure of the fraudulent medical practices of "Scientology" by becoming a so-called "church."
Many of the methods and ideology that Hubbard used in Scientology are taken from other sources. The mixture of using different teachings has long been associated to include the occult, since it is a known fact that L Ron Hubbard was familiar with the writings of "black magician," Aleister Crowley's work since Hubbard was a teen.
Crowley, a self-declared "beast" and "anti-Christ," once headed the British "Ordo Templi Orientis," (OTO) branch, and established those teachings in the United States in 1916, during World War I in Europe. Crowley's OTO teachings of magick included the Golden Dawn and that of Thelemic Law.
Influences of Aleister Crowley are found in Scientology "technology," or teaching materials - including L Ron Hubbard's own admission that he was the "anti-Christ." Aleister Crowley died in 1947. But in 1969, the same year that Scientology donned the crosses and minister's garb, was the same time that the "Thoth Tarot Card Deck" was published and sold, (a product produced years before, by Aleister Crowley with artist Lady Frieda Harris, (deceased in 1962.) This was the same year that L Ron Hubbard directed members to bring in the crossed out cross and wear minister's clothing.
Another well known fact of L Ron Hubbard's association with Aleister Crowley and the teachings of magick was his relationship with John Whiteside Parsons. In 1941, Parsons joined the California-based Agape lodge of Aleister Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis, (OTO.)
Timeline of L Ron Hubbard with Aleister Crowley
L Ron Hubbard moved in with Jack Parsons, where they began the practice of the occult and sexual magick. Parsons' mistress, Sara Northrup, left him for Hubbard and later became Hubbard's second wife, even before Hubbard had divorced his first wife.
The most well known and documented story of Hubbard's relationship with Jack Parsons, is that of the Invocation of the Goddess, Babalon," which they performed in the "Babalon Working" ritual along with "Scarlet Woman," Marjorie Cameron. The goal of this ritual was to produce a satanic "Moonchild."
The only other reference to a 'moonchild ceremony' being performed is by Adolf Hitler:
"From page 24 of Gods and Beasts - the Nazi's and the Occult by Dusty Sklar Pretzsche had introduced Hitler to consciousness-expanding drugs, as well as to astrological and alchemical symbolism. Hitler told Stein that Pretzsche had been present when List tried to materialize "the Incubus" in a ritual designed to create a "Moon Child." "...About 1912, disciples of Lanz and List started the Germanen Orden under the leadership of a member of List's Armanen, a journalist named Philipp Stauff, and several others. [ Ed.Comment: The German Orden later evolved into the Nationalist Socialist Party or Nazi Party recruiting Hitler as their 'Fuhrer']
Both being influenced by the ritual's and teachings of Aleister Crowley, Parson's acknowledged that Crowley's "Book of Thoth" was in Hubbard's possession at the time of this ritual. The "Book of Thoth Tarot Card Deck" also holds some symbolism and influence that Hubbard used and vocalized in teachings to Scientology members. Hubbard conveniently used "redefinition of words" to change meanings to cover the sources he was to use from.
Significantly, this symbol is used in Aleister Crowley's "THE FOOL" Tarot Card in ways that reflect the Golden Dawn Teachings. There is also visible a faint S after 'The Fool' on the card above which looks much like the typeface used for the S in Scientology...
Aleister Crowley's "Magick in Theory and Practice" states:
"The whole and sole object of all true magickal training is to become free from every kind of limitation....
(Bent Corydon, Messiah or Madman, p. 48).
L Ron Hubbard says, in a 1952 taped Scientology lecture:
"Our whole activity tends to make an individual completely independent of any limitation...'" (Ibid.)"
"There are interesting similarities between Crowley's writings and the teachings of Hubbard. Dianetics' Time Track, in which every incident in a person's life is chronologically recorded in full in the mind, is quite similar to Crowley's Magical Memory. The Magical Memory is developed over time until "memories of childhood reawaken" (5) which were previously forgotten, and memories of previous incarnations are recalled as well. Hubbard gives examples in the Philadelphia Doctorate Course of several people remembering lives earlier on earth, some up to a million years ago. The similarity between the Magical Memory and Time Track, then, is that they both can recall every past incident in a person's life, they both can recall incidents from past lives, and they both must be developed by certain techniques in order to make use of them."
From essay of Jeff Jacobsen,
"... The one super-secret sentence that Scientology is built on is: 'Do as thou wilt. That is the whole of the law.' It also comes from the black magic, from Aleister Crowley. It means that you are a law unto yourself, that you are above the law, that you create your own law. You are above any other human considerations."
"I've made the Magick really work," he (Hubbard, Sr.) says. "No more foolish rituals. I've stripped the Magick to basics -- access without liability."
Quote to son, L Ron Hubbard, Jr.
"Sex by will," he says. "Love by will -- no caring and no sharing -- no feelings. None. Love reversed. Love isn't sex. Love is no good; puts you at effect. Sex is the route to power. Scarlet women! They are the secret to the doorway. Use and consume. Feast. Drink the power through them. Waste and discard them."
Quote to son, L Ron Hubbard Jr.
" These cults, from those connected with George Ivanovitch, Gurdjieff, Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, and Rudolf Steiner to their present reincarnations, shared certain features: an authoritarian obedience to a charismatic and Messianic leader; secrecy; loyalty to the group above all other ties, a belief in supernatural possibilities open to members only, a belief in reincarnation; initiation into superhuman sources of power; literal acceptance of the myth of ancient " "giants" or supermen who handed down an oral tradition to a chosen people and who were guiding us now; and, in uncommon cases, Satanic practices." "The Nazi's and the Occult 1977, by Dusty Sklar"
....and from Chapter 5: "Riffraff into Supermen"
"The nationalist socialists derived power from one source: ...a fanatical autohypnosis which convinced disciples, succumbing to the totalitarian discipline in the promise of reaching transcendent reality, that they were the new men the age was waiting for.. ..that they were endowed with a secret energy which would enable them to take over germany and the world. If they were properly prepared, mysteries would be revealed to them which would give them Satanic powers.." from Gods and Beasts - The Nazi's and the Occult, by Dusty Sklar (c) 1977 isbn 0-690-01232-2
Webmaster Comment: Those familiar with Scientology will recognize how similar the promises made to entice would be members into the National Socialists were to what Hubbard promises it's own members... L Ron Hubbard says that people are all "THETANS" - if you say SATAN with a lisp it comes out THETAN
L Ron Hubbard's son said, in his 1983 interview with Penthouse Magazine:
"L Ron Hubbard Jr ( Ron DeWolf ): I believed in Satanism. There was no other religion in the house! Scientology and black magic. What a lot of people don't realize is that Scientology is black magic that is just spread out over a long time period. To perform black magic generally takes a few hours or, at most, a few weeks. But in Scientology it's stretched out over a lifetime, and so you don't see it. Black magic is the inner core of Scientology --and it is probably the only part of Scientology that really works. Also, you've got to realize that my father did not worship Satan. He thought he was Satan. He was one with Satan."
Related reading - The Rainbow Swaztika - written by an Israeli housewife
click the image for more about CST
I learned from an ex member, Pixie, on ESMB chatboard that was into tarot and card readings that
the diamond on a regular deck of cards is the equivalent of the "Coin"
representing money in the Tarot deck, hence the CST logo visible from
space is a "Here's where I hid the loot" marker for the returning reborn
L Ron Hubbard"
"I knew a former top leader in the "OTO" organization that was re-designed by Crowley in the early 20th century. 'Jim' told me that Hubbard was actually an 'ultra-thelemist'. Thelema being the main philosopy propounded by Crowley that basically is usually interpreted as finding your true purpose or 'true will' in life, and when you do that, you have a source of inexhaustible power. The ultra thelemist believes anything he has the will to do gives him the right to do it, and the right to destroy anyone who crosses him. Sound like anyone we know?" posted by Rmack LINK
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A lot of notable stuff happening this afternoon — none of which is interesting enough to warrant an entire post. Onward…
— HDNet Fights has formed a broadcast partnership with Canadian MMA outfit Hardcore Championship Fighting, and will air three of its events this year, starting with a February 22nd card featuring UFC vet Pete Spratt (17-10) against Ryan Ford (4-0).
— Zuffa has gone to some very shady lengths to rescue Xyience from bankruptcy. As Adam Swift reports on Sherdog, Xyience has stiffed fighters like Matt Serra and Rich Franklin to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, yet Zuffa remains its third-biggest share-holder (through a made-up company named "Bevanda Magica" — Italian for "magic drink") and its biggest creditor (through another made-up company called "Zyen," which gave the floundering company an additional $1 million loan last week). Are the Fertittas allowing an inexplicable personal loyalty come in the way of good business? Don't ask me!
— MMA Agent/M-1 Global exec Monte Cox has convinced Jeremy Horn to use a cover of Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero" — sung by a 17-year-old girl — as his entrance music on Saturday. In other words, Horn's dignity has a price, and Cox was able to match or exceed it.
— MMA Fever has the Fight Science: MMA episode in its entirety.
— Nick "The Goat" Thompson has revealed that he's close to signing with World Victory Road and HCF (see above). He would sign with the UFC, if not for two things: 1) The UFC pays dick. 2) Georges St. Pierre would kick his ass.
— We're just going to close our eyes for like 15 minutes. Wake us up if we start snoring.


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