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A History of Violence Review
By Joe Lozito
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After a string of above-average horror flicks ("Videodrome", "The Dead Zone", "The Fly"), director David Cronenberg fell into a slump with overly-indulgent claptrap like 1999's "eXistenZ" and 1996's "Crash." Like Sam Raimi maturing from "Evil Dead" to "A Simple Plan", however, Mr. Cronenberg shows a surprisingly contemplative bent in "
A History Violence
The film follows Tom Stall, a small town diner owner who is forced to defend himself when he is held at gunpoint by some out of town thugs. Tom's startlingly brutal act of self-defense makes him a town hero, a spotlight in which he is not comfortable. Before long, reporters flock to his door and his diner is overrun with customers trying to get a look at the local legend. Tom's new-found celebrity sparks the attention of the fiendish Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris, deliciously evil), a man who insists he knows why Tom has a way with lethal force. As Tom tries to return his life to some semblance of normalcy, Fogarty's presence begins to get the better of him. A confrontation, it would seem, is inevitable.
Happily writer Josh Olson, adapting the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, doesn't milk the "is he or isn't he" question for too long. The film spins off in another direction, becoming more of a meditation on identity and past deeds. Maria Bello continues a string of fine performances as Tom's patient but not passive wife. Relative-newcomer Ashton Holmes gives a surprisingly effective turn as Tom's confused son. And Ed Harris, of course, is always a treat.
But it's Viggo Mortensen who must hold the film together as Tom. Wisely choosing to follow the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy with a quiet, character-driven piece, Mr. Mortensen is able to flex his acting chops a bit. Early in the film, he is restrained almost to the point of caricature, but there is something lurking beneath the surface of this performance which serves the character well.
William Hurt, who's been on auto-pilot for far too long now (he's in the running to become the next Donald Sutherland; what happened to the actor from "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and "Broadcast News"?), shows up late in the film and nearly derails it entirely, but Mr. Mortensen and the sparse, intelligent script hold it together.
"History of Violence" marks a return to form for David Cronenberg, but it's not the form we would have thought from his past. Perhaps that's what attracted him to this film; you can't judge a man by his history.
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Kennedy had been in declining health since having a seizure in May 2008. Subsequent tests determined that he had a malignant brain tumor.
Kennedy had not been to the Capitol since April, missing the passage in June of his groundbreaking measure to regulate tobacco. In July, he could not participate in the drafting of healthcare legislation in his role as chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
He did not attend the funeral for his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died Aug. 11, or a White House ceremony during which he was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
"We've lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever," his family said in a statement.
A popular figure on both sides of the aisle in the Senate, Kennedy electrified his colleagues in July 2008 when he appeared briefly to vote on a measure to stave off a cut in Medicare fees to doctors who treat seniors, military personnel and their families and others. The measure passed on a 69-30 vote.
Kennedy was greeted with a wild reception from the party faithful in August 2008 on the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver. He addressed the gathering in a strong, steady voice, predicting that "this November, the torch will be passed to a new generation of Americans," a reference to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who was elected president three months later. Kennedy's endorsement of Obama in January 2008 was credited as an important validation of the senator's bid to win the nomination against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
"The Kennedy family and the Senate family have together lost our patriarch," Harry Reid, the Senate's Democratic leader, said in a statement.
Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House, also expressed her sorrow in a statement. "Senator Kennedy had a grand vision for America, and an unparalleled ability to effect change," she said.
As the standard-bearer for the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, the square-jawed "Ted" or "Teddy" Kennedy believed in government's ability to help solve people's problems, and over the decades he learned how to wield power in the Senate to move the government in that direction. He found numerous ways to work with Republican administrations and senators to fashion significant legislation on issues he cared deeply about.
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After that last foray into presidential politics, Kennedy concentrated his efforts on the Senate, becoming one of that body's most effective members.
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Dual-boot Linux Mint 11 and Windows 7
This is the main window of the Advanced partitioning tool. You should see the two Windows 7 partitions and the free space. The task here is to create partitions from the free space for installing Linux Mint. To start, select the free space and click Add. Note that this step will have to be repeated for all the partitions you will configure.
On a default installation of Linux Mint 11, only two partitions are configured – /, the main file system directory, akin to Windows' C drive, and Swap, disk space that the computer may use as virtual memory. However, when creating partitions manually, four partitions for the following file systems are recommended:
- /boot – where boot loader-related programs will be installed
- Swap
- /
- /home
A separate partition for /home makes life a bit easier when upgrading.
The first partition should be for /boot. With two existing primary partitions on the disk, the installer will, by default, configure all the partitions as logical partitions. And that is just fine. For size, about 200 MB should be enough, and the file system can be ext2 or ext4. By default, it is ext4. If you do not like the idea of using a journaling file system on /boot, use ext2. OK.
The second partition will be for Swap. About 2 GB or more is recommended. Select "swap area" from the "Use as" dropdown menu, then click OK.
The third partition will be for the root file system, mounted at /. Linux Mint's installer recommends a minimum of 4.7 GB for installation, but on a newly installed system, only about 2.7 GB of the space assigned to / is used. Depending on the amount of free space you have available, a value between the recommended minimum and 10 GB should be enough. The default file system is ext4. Btrfs, a new file system, is also supported, but using btrfs requires a slightly different disk partitioning scheme. (See how to install Linux Mint 11 on a btrfs file system.)
And finally, partition four will be mounted at /home. The file system will be the default, no point mixing partitions. The size you allocate will depend on the amount available, and whether you intend to install another operating system on the disk. For this tutorial, the rest of the available space is assigned to /home. OK.
Back to the main window of the advanced partitioning tool. The newly configured partitions are listed below the ntfs (Windows 7) partitions. Before clicking Install Now, you must decide where you want to install GRUB, the boot loader. If you do not specify otherwise, the default location is in the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the disk. The other possible location is in the boot partition (/dev/sda5) of the Linux Mint installation. A good case can be made for or against both locations.
If you stick with the default location, GRUB will overwrite Windows 7's boot loader. An advantage of installing GRUB in the MBR is that you do not have to do anything else. After installation, reboot, and you will be given the option of booting into Linux Mint 11 (the default), or Windows 7.
A disadvantage is that if you have to reinstall Windows 7 for any reason, it will overwrite GRUB, which means you will have a small mess on your hands. Windows 7 has also been known to write some files to the MBR during an upgrade or Service Pack installation. Some Anti-virus programs have also been know to write small files to the MBR, and if Windows 7's boot loader is not there, GRUB will be messed up.
Installing GRUB in the boot partition is recommended if you do not want to deal with Windows 7 messing with GRUB. However, that too has to be considered carefully because dual-booting has been known to fail (that is, Linux has failed to boot), if the boot partition is close to the 1 TB mark on, say, a 2 TB disk. In such a situation, you may have to locate the boot partition closer to the beginning of the disk. It is not a straight-forward process, but it can be done, It has been done. (See the comments by Siva in how to dual-boot Fedora 14 and windows 7.)
A smaller issue involved with installing GRUB to the boot partition is that the computer will reboot into Windows 7 instead of into Linux Mint 11 after installation. It just means that you will have to add an entry for Linux Mint in Windows 7's boot menu.
For an installation on a relatively small hard disk, installing GRUB to the boot partition should not give any problems.
Therefore, the best option is to change the "Device for boot loader location" to /dev/sda5, the partition mounted at /boot. Click Install Now.
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I shrunk the C partition to have some free space. Getting into Mint [15] where there is no 'alongside' option, I say that my free space read as 'unusable.'
I did some research and found that with all HP computers, there are already 4 primary partitions. All are important, so I don't want to delete them. And 4 is the maximum number of partitions per hard drive.
I have already installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 7 from before. The 'alongside' option was available.
I could just use Wubi's 'inside Windows' option, but that would require me to uninstall Ubuntu, which I do not want.
I am not sure what to do.
Does it make a difference if you create the partitions in a different order, such as, boot, root, swap
instead of boot,swap,root ??
I ask because i read another tutorial some tyime ago that did it in that order
Hi, Im trying to find instruction like this the other way around install mint first then windows 7, I found your tutorial guide -> http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/01/14/manual-disk-partitioning-guide-for-linux-mint-12-kde/ but I cannot find the continuetion of this. please help thanks
thanks for such a great and easy way to make the things clear. actually I installed Linux mint 14 along with windows xp(already installed and working).but easybcd is showing the same error for me as what is given a few comments below by TRZALICA.i found on net that it doesn't work for systems having only windows xp(and not windows vista/7 alongside)
I also couldn't find any alternate software for easybcd. I tried to manually edit boot.ini file in xp and made an entry for mint by writing ' c:\grldr="Linux mint 14(cinnamon)" ' at the end. now on startup, window shows a choice to select between two os but soon I pick "Linux mint 14(cinnamon)",it gives the following error :
windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
please re-install a copy of the above file.
and then when i click enter,it boots to windows xp. i think it could not locate GRUB and the correction i made in boot.ini file is to check for GRUB at some other location. please give your valuable response about how to make a correct entry for GRUB during windows xp startup. thanks in advance
sorry I wrote the error message incorrectly. the following is correct message that I am getting :
windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
please re-install a copy of the above file.
there is written just before \system32\hal.dll. I don't know even after entering why it didn't come in above two comments.
omg again!!!!
why that keyword is not coming in any comment????it is:
angle bracket start windows root angle bracket end
then \system32\hal.dll
not this time please…
I don't get it. I followed every step to the letter and tried this with LM14, picked the LM option in the MBR and all I seen was the word grub>… Anything?
This happened to me. Did you try to install it through the windows installer? It's going to say that the Kernel must be installed.
Burn the image on a cd and install it using that.
It was installed via a live USB. I'm not too sure about the board, it's an M2N-SLI board. I made a 50 GB partition for it and I used all the same sizes you did above, except for the /home partition. I just left it to use the rest of the hard drive partiton.
It worked fine with Grub and would dualboot, but I wanted to use the 7MBR. Windows 7 partition was 400 gb or so, it still had the recovery partition that 7 uses for restores.
Hey, I followed through your tutorial and I got stuck in a GRUB4DOS and it's saying that the Kernel has to be installed. I did not install Linux from a disk but from a Windows Installer that was run on a Virtual Disk Mount.
I understand that the Kernel is in the Virtual Disk Files but is there any help you can provide me in accessing that or at least is there an easy way to solve this without having to reinstall Linux?
I have one question. I set my partitions like this: /boot, /root, swap, /home and I installed GRUB into /boot partition (don't want that Windows mess up with GRUB). I want to install LMDE next to Windows XP and I want to know how to do that because there is no solution in style of EasyBCD for Windows XP?? Everything is installed but I can't see Linux in NTLRD boot menu…
Please help!!
Thanks in advance!
TY for this tutorial, really nicely put together.
Congratulations. This is the best web site i have seen. Very useful. I've done the steps and installed successfully the Mint with Win 7 working as dual boot. I just have a doubt: is EasyBCD no free anymore?


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YOUNGSTOWN — Police Chief Jimmy Hughes has fired two officers involved in a Feb. 27 incident in which a paraplegic complained he was dragged out of a sport utility vehicle, assaulted by a police officer and left lying face down in the snow.
The chief announced today the terminations of Officer Robert Jolliff, the alleged assailant, and Officer Jay Fletcher, who allegedly failed to react properly as events unfolded at the scene.
Jolliff "was terminated because of the allegations of excessive force and conduct unbecoming an officer," Hughes said. The chief added he believes Jolliff was not truthful in his comments during the internal affairs investigation.
Jolliff had prior complaints and some prior discipline in his personnel file, but his termination was almost entirely due to the Feb. 27 incident, Hughes said.
Fletcher was fired because of the combination of the Feb. 27 incident and prior discipline in his file, the chief said.
Jolliff and Fletcher may appeal their termination.
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I agree GTX, they seemed to miss the storyline when following up on this. Some may not have known all of the events leading up to the firing, and automatically thing they were wrong. I think there is more to this story. I think it's a shame because if they don't fire them then the race AND handicap comes out. Daniel also has a criminal history.
The subculture of Youngstown can get away with driving drunk, selling drugs , breaking into houses and robbing people with very little consequence . The police are limited in their ability to keep control in the city . Jimmy Hughes has proven that the subculture rules !
Blood alcohol levels, prior records, etc. don't excuse assaulting an assailant.
Daniel should be charged with DUI and tried, but those officers have a duty to perform and responsibilities to fulfill. Both proved unable to do so, one going as far as to assault a paraplegic.
I'm a big fan of police and usually give them pretty wide latitude, but nothing in any reports or articles I've read indicates that Daniel was endangering anyone at the scene.
Daniel was just being cool on his stool until that pole jumped in front of him . The utility company should be charged !
It's a shame because these 2 police officers had to take the fall because of one drunken fool. 2 officers are fired because this fool runs to the media to have the public feel sorry for him. He was wrong for even being on the road and driving drunk.
"Alleged" = not proven.
to solve the problem, give the brother a lie detecetor test... I believe Daniels wasn't driving.
"According to Daniel, he was in a SUV with his brother behind the wheel driving down Wilson Avenue when they were involved in a one-car accident. He said his brother left the vehicle to find a pay phone to call Daniel's wife and a tow truck."
How come the brother never came back to the scene if he was actually there? His wife came to the scene so why not the so called brother? And I haven't read anywhere where the brother talked to the police that is was indeed driving.
"Daniel said a tow truck rode by the accident shortly after his brother left the scene, and he slid into the driver's seat to flag down the driver. Daniel asked the driver for assistance, but said he did not need to have the police called."
Why not? Hiding something?
"Police did not find a gun, but did find a black stick inside the vehicle. "
How convenient? Black stick for the brake and pedal?
Way to many holes in his story. And with his past history doesn't add up as I don't think a officer would choke or hit him for no reason.
It is pretty sad when a chief of pd has no stones to stand by his men! What do you expect once a puppet always a puppet! You get a criminal who obviously was breaking the law and thank God he did not cause or kill someone while he was driving drunk. But of course the administration takes the word of a convicted felon with a criminal history a mile long against to officers that the only wrong doing was having a lapse of judgement in their past work history! The City of Youngstown are again covered in blood from shootings and violent crimes, and the good men and women of law enforcement have to deal with not enough man power to try to get the job done, But no, they have to hug a thug, and also must be sensitive to the the different ethnic needs of the community! Your a black law breaker accusing a white and black officer and the city buckles and on top of it they will probably pay this guy and his girlfriend both with charges pending, some money so they can keep on commiting crimes at the expense of tax payers and the careers of two good officers! Score criminals=1 officers=0. Whao its going to be one hell of a summer! God bless us all! Good luck to the officers hopefully they can appeal to someone with stones and get their jobs back!
Appeal the bad decsion by the police chief. They will get their jobs back and money from the city. How Hughes could do this is beyond me. A drunk over a police officer - NEVER! No wonder Y-town is so criminally out of control.
To witness what some of you jackal type jellyfish variety, jaw jacking John Wayne's, That serve as couch trip twits are contending as trying to defend wayward swains is absurd.
Chief Hughes and those that conducted the IA are to commended for their honor and integrity.
Where I don't advocate physicality however, be it known if that side of you were to expose itself in a call to diffuse a disturbance. You'd belong in a cell just for your mealy mouth and ugly temperament. Where if you dared try acting out or upon your discourse you'd soon be in need of a good dentist and a well trained chiropractor,..
See to be a suspect requires nothing but circumstance. To include for one to be a criminal takes nothing but their disregard for the law. However, in law enforcement you'll be in situational circumstances by duty and you can't resort to criminality yourself.
Law enforcement be it city, state or federal isn't an easy job and not all are law enforcement material,.. as evidenced by some of your slanted, crooked, deranged and idiotic idiosyncrasies.
That said and before I get into my perspective let it be known. That we should all respect that and those whom honorably serve because it requires a special breed of individuals to keep the peace.
Not perfect but to be the best and be due the respect of the position. You'll not find a better human being regardless to gender, race or anything else on the face of this earth and that's said bar none,.. I'M TELLING YOU WHAT I KNOW !!!
However, just like in any and every other capacity where service is to be honored. There are those whom by personal transgressions just don't belong.
Where not to try to distinguish by anything other than their actions. Their manner and approach in conduct will provide a distinction on who does and who doesn't,.. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE CASES !!!
I'm no way for initiating brutality nor exercising excessive force. But by no means am I against manners of subduing and applying a bit of attitude adjustment within the limits of duty scope,.. play nice or get the business.
See smart mouth and belligerent armed clowns routinely get the ever loving brakes beat off them being subdued. But strictly via their dictating that's the only way they were going to be disarmed and processed.
To wit that doesn't bother me a bit and in the capacity of law enforcement my concern is for the safety of the officer,.. comply with instructions and don't force such a face off.
However, from what's been discovered the appropriate action of dismissal has and even further is being taken and there's no doubt about it. See the uniform and position is one of honor and integrity but unfortunately not all that puts it on deserves it.
See granted where it's still my strong belief that the individual arrested was driving that vehicle, wasn't telling the truth and even offered drunken speech.
To which his actions and possibly / very likely mouthing off a bit. No doubt riled the cop up and a firm snatch, push and a shove in cuffing was in order but wasn't all that was done,.. AND THAT'S THE BIG PROBLEM HERE !!!
See the lawful and appropriate actions of a law officer is to assess, question, apprehend if deemed necessary and transport for booking and detainment,.. PERIOD !!!
See this is no race issue to me as so many that isn't enforcement material would like to rally around. In fact I'd like to feel it wasn't for the officer nor the detained individual either.
I'm of the belief the drunken individuals actions, verbiage and all would have been the same no matter what races where involved on the call.
I'd have also liked to had believed the dismissed individuals actions wasn't race induced. However, it certainly speaks to have been done with malice not solely because the dismissed individual[s] have records of such conduct. To wit to show no remorse they even lied to superiors about his / their actions,..CAN'T HAVE THAT !!!
My stance would be the same on this no matter what gender, races or if there was a paraplegic involved or not.
The focus is and has to be upon if a suspecting law violator is being apprehended. There's NO authorization of unnecessary / excessive force or brutality to be administered nor accepted,.. PERIOD !!!
Where via evidence upon probe and discovery it's clear that one individual on the call didn't do that. Where he'd opted to have went outside the protocol and duty scope. To have heinously beat the suspect in a uncivil, non disciplined, unjust and unlawful type manner,..and that's LAWLESS and Criminal !!!
I have the utmost respect for chief Hughes and just like he's not favoring one nor the other. Where unfortunately you can't expect cooperative conduct from all suspects and certainly not criminals.
However, beyond expecting chief Hughes and ever other supervisor has got to demand more out of his force officers than what the two dismissed rendered.
Grossly incorrect,..as usual.
See " this ain't Warren " there Jethro and having a legit police chief overseeing this ordeal is a stark difference.
See just like the drunk is charged and will be prosecuted. It's equally highly unlikely that either of the two disorderly duo as puncher and onlooker will get those jobs back.
Which that " happenstance " accident the punchy patrolman had at work right after that fight night and pursuant to that investigation strongly signifies he knew that.
Be it known that beyond hearsay there was a lengthy and non bias IA performed. For which at conclusion he'd not been termed if he had merit.
Apparently to include beyond incident if he / they hadn't conducted themselves even more reprehensibly even in effort to cover it up.
However, the bright side is those two are available. For you to employ as a and or a pair of added member[s] of your personal entourage.
See in that instance the cities loss would be your gain and boy would you make out like a bandit getting such a illustrious pair.
You're the crevice of all crusty cracks,..
See where I'm all for supporting law enforcement I don't align with criminality from either side.
See in such extreme difference you're the same backsliding bag head that reeks of being such the blasphemous bigot.
That contended drawing down on those k grade school children in Warren on their way home from school fresh off the bus was warranted.
Now when more criminality is conducted in the form of police brutality and failure to adhere to law and humane conduct. Instead of having any rationality or sanctity for sensibility.
You non cogently contend the I'd believe unlawful drunk. Was somehow " rightfully " to have been beaten in bar room fashion and it was honorable to lie about it and screw up the charges by trying to cover it up,.. YOU-ARE-A-IMBECILE !!!
See an angle can be unique but comments are distinct and combined they provide a reflection of what makes an individual click. Which I find you're so silly and slanted I bet your hoof prints embed backwards.
As well as reflect you scurry on fours and one would need a gyroscope to grasp the magnetic's of your maniacal self tormented mania.
See you're so much of a soft shelled glute based " get em " individual. That if you were even as much as warned that you'd be handled. You'd bawl like a baby and allege your psyche was wailed upon so profusely it traumatized you and caused you to soil yourself.
I bet you're so insecure you sleep with a knife, sword or fork. Just knowing that by your half baked composition. You're only fit to provide the flatware for somebody to happen by to have you for lunch.
To which you better be glad there's compassionate men like me around that sense your insecurity and don't find you in the least bit appetizing,.. but divinity is gonna whoop you for playing with the word you blasphemous buffoon.
"See in such extreme difference you're the same backsliding bag head that reeks of being such the blasphemous bigot. "
Bigot? Me? haha your funny nunya, no, I'm very open minded when someone makes sense. But your useless babble says nothing on issues just GIGO.
"That contended drawing down on those k grade school children in Warren on their way home from school fresh off the bus was warranted."
Yes it was warranted. Stand in a policeman's shoe for one day and see the animals they deal with on a day to day basis. You wouldn't last a hour. In your fantasy world kids do no wrong. Remember just recently a 12 year old robbing a Subway with a gun?
"I bet you're so insecure you sleep with a knife, sword or fork. "
Actually my cat lays next to me at night.
"To which you better be glad there's compassionate men like me around that sense your insecurity and don't find you in the least bit appetizing,.. "
I would hope not I'm not that way.
Insecurity, me? Surely you jest.
"Now when more criminality is conducted in the form of police brutality and failure to adhere to law and humane conduct. Instead of having any rationality or sanctity for sensibility."
After your long winded whatever you call it, you say police brutality? When you spend some time in the back seat of a cruiser or in numerous county jails and prisons then you can talk to me about police brutality and the animals that deserve every bit of ass whooping they get. You have no clue what goes on behind the walls in a prison or jail or on the streets. Everyone uses the media to win the hearts of the public and is a tool that everyone knows how to use. And the fools like you eat it up. Open thy eyes and quit living in your fantasy world it's called "real" life out there not some TV show you seem to watch daily.
Nunya :
"Chief Hughes and those that conducted the IA are to commended for their honor and integrity."
Or lack thereof . . ..
Daniel who ranks high in the subculture should have all of his charges dropped . He should not have been charged at all . Why ? For him there is no penalty as he is on the public dole . We now have to pay for his attorney and his fines plus costs . The utility company should be fined because their pole contributed to this accident that was the cause of it all .
You've just left yourself and open short story of super stupidity, Having angled in a cross tangled manner of having missed your attempted mark.
Which in that you've said nothing in regards to even remotely accomplishing your attempt to disparage the police chief,.. not even close.
See there was an incident and the police chief did exactly what was warranted and he didn't posture to play pansy, politics nor favorites in doing it properly,.. the man is to be commended.
However, just so you'll have your angle addressed.
Sure the drunken and handicapped criminal is black. He's possibly not ever established enough work history to have contributed much if anything in regards to wage taxation from any earnings toward the funding he receives.
Yes he's one of a number of such individuals of both genders and all races that present that financial liability.
However, your empty effort to contend his ethnicity is the sole factor of any relevancy is inaccurately ridiculous,.. check the numbers.
So now,..
Just what does any of that have to do with the honor of chief Hughes?,.. NOTHING.
What does chief Hughes following the directives of protocol and holding steadfast to demanding proper conduct and behavior of officers under his charge?,.. NOTHING.
How in the world does that apprehended culprit. In anyway fit your baseless, non-connective, irrelevant and convoluted attempt to disparage the police chief because he's black,.. IT DOESN'T.
So see flim flam Stan, your idiotically acidic and imbecilic race based hate. Has yet again left you missing the mark.
As well as revealing you as an all too easily identified mealy mouth moron. Of nothing less than the motley mutt variety and nothing more nor less than that.
The chief has done his job admonishing and expelling rogue's from the roles of his force. As well as preserving the criminal charges against the individual that played culprit and became victim.
See this is actually a case where the chief has shown he's not just worthy of the position.
To include it's an honor to have him willing to serve.
To wit I can't think of an instance where any chief anywhere. That has shown such competence, integrity and resolute leadership in how he's going about this,.. I'm extremely pleased and impressed.
So now can you refute that with any facts?
Police Chief Jimmy Hughes is just a puppet in the political entity.
Nunya :
"the man is to be commended."
Who Daniel ? You bet ! He really knows how to manipulate the system and really enjoy himself . The chief is his oyster and has been shucked .


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When "Suits" ended its first season last September, things looked grim for faux-lawyer Mike Ross ( Patrick J. Adams) as his shady former best friend marched himself into the office of Jessica Pearson ( Gina Torres), the founding partner of Mike's law firm, to reveal Mike's secret: He doesn't even have a law degree, just an eidetic memory that allows him to retain a comprehensive knowledge of the law.
Last week's gripping season premiere of USA Network's hit Thursday legal dramedy neatly resolved the most burning issues in that cliffhanger. Jessica is decidedly unhappy to learn that Harvey Specter ( Gabriel Macht), her right-hand guy, conspired in Mike's deception, but she ultimately agreed not to fire Mike in the face of a much more serious threat: the return of previously unseen senior partner Daniel Hardman (new cast member David Costabile), who has a major grudge against Jessica and Harvey.
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"Now we have Daniel Hardman coming in to reclaim his space and try to get his power back," Macht tells Zap2it of this season's major new story wrinkle. "Hardman's return may be a game-changer, and [Harvey and Jessica are] not sure what that means. He doesn't come across as a very trustworthy guy, but as we move forward you'll see that he has some good qualities, and at least to some extent, he's trying to make amends."
Macht pauses, then adds with a chuckle, "OK, Hardman basically was blackmailed by us in the first place, so he definitely wants Jessica and me out of there."
But then, twists and reversals are second nature on "Suits," which premiered last summer to relatively little fanfare but quickly blossomed into a critical and popular hit. In fact, many of the show's fans consider it the gold standard among USA's consistently successful original series.
"The reaction I am getting on the street is incredible," Macht says. "It's very odd. I'm actually very different than Harvey in so many ways, and I definitely dress nothing like him when I am not working. I'll run into people who ask me what I'm working on, and I say, 'Suits,' and they say, 'Oh, my God, that's like my favorite show. That's you?' My point is, I always get a strong reaction because people have become so invested in these characters."
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The part instantly resonated with Adams, who was at a low point himself after getting fired off an NBC comedy pilot that left him wondering whether he needed to make a career change.
"The show wasn't about his gift; it was about how he had squandered it and how he had this potential that he never had found a way to realize his dream," Adams recalls. "Through some very strange circumstances in the pilot, he was given this opportunity to finally prove to himself that he is capable of doing something he was always meant to do. I thought for sure that was something I could connect to in a very real and personal and emotional way. I mean, I had been fired and broken down, and here I got the opportunity to go in and just speak from the heart and do these scenes about a young guy who feels that he has all this potential, but it just hasn't come together yet."
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CSUN found itself down 1-0 early, having lost two of the three doubles contests. Jennifer Sher and Sabrina Man-Son-Hing won their top-seeded draw 8-4, but LMU was triumphant in both the No. 2 and No. 3 matches. Sher and Man-Son-Hing are now 13-5 in No. 1 doubles this year.
In singles, Sher won by retirement as Tory Parravi, who had captured the first set, had to withdraw from the match. Fellow senior Nigora Sirojiddinova snapped a four-match losing streak and evened her season record at 9-9 with a straight-set victory at No. 2 (6-4, 6-1).
Anna Yang was the next to finish, capturing the third draw with a straight-set victory (7-5, 6-4). She is now 11-7 on the year. LMU would take the next point to draw the match within 3-2.
Man-Son-Hing then rallied for a 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 victory at the fourth draw to seal the victory. She has now won two-straight three-set thrillers were she lost the opening frame.
Following suit, Lorraine Cheung was the last Matador to post a victory. She also rallied from a set down to improve to 11-6 on the season with her 2-6, 6-1 and 6-3 victory in the sixth draw.
The Matadors have a match at San Diego State on April 21 before heading to the Big West Championships in Indian Wells, Calif. The Matadors are likely to be the sixth seed and face No. 3 UC Irvine in the Quarterfinals.
Singles competition
1. Jennifer Sher (CSUN) def. Tory Parravi (LMU) 4-6, 1-2, retired
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3. Anna Yang (CSUN) def. Elisaveta Pironkova (LMU) 7-5, 6-4
4. Sabrina Man-Son-Hing (CSUN) def. Miya Jin (LMU) 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
5. Reka Rohonyi (LMU) def. Maria Pistalu (CSUN) 6-3, 0-6, 6-4
6. Lorraine Cheung (CSUN) def. Ashley Anderson (LMU) 2-6, 6-1, 6-3
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2. Elisaveta Pironkova/Reka Rohonyi (LMU) def. Nigora Sirojiddinova/Anna Yang (CSUN) 8-5
3. Claudia Razzeto/Miya Jin (LMU) def. Maria Pistalu/Lorraine Cheung (CSUN) 8-6
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Toshiba Qosmio X770-136
SpecificationsNotebook: Toshiba Qosmio X770-136 (Qosmio X770 Series)
Processor: Intel Core i7 2670QM
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
Display: 17.3 inch, 16:9, 1920x1080 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 3.4kg
Price: 2000 euro
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The X770's bright and crisp screen displays some quality 3D effects, via the bundled Nvidia active shutter glasses. 3D gaming does slow down the frame rates achieved, but the Qosmio has enough graphical firepower, to ensure an immersive and relatively fluid experience with the likes of Battlefield 3. Toshiba has produced a good looking and well-featured laptop here, with that rather lofty price tag and poor battery life, being the only real sticking points.
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Rating: Total score: 80%
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Sorry SJ.... I've been meaning to, honest. I went through some pretty thin internet areas, but I've got plenty uploaded to work with now. Just need to find somewhere cool to sit.
Speaking of sitting... ata asked about how long people here can work like that... squatting on their haunches... seemingly forever. They all do it, young and old. They are damn flexible and damn fit.
Things are winding down a bit at this end. I'm in Siem Reap, which is where I'll leave the 525 for a few months. I need to be home by the start of December, as the missus goes in for her second hip replacement. I think I need to say something about her dedication here. She is a school teacher and she's struggled through this year in a lot of pain because she wouldn't desert her classes for a few months. Dedication above and beyond, methinks.
The 525 needs some bits replaced too. Its in pain....
Still, its got me here. I'll post up the ride from Phnom Penh to here later. I took a few detours to get away from the main roads. I still need to do the baa baa tourist thing and get out to Angkor Wat. I've seen it before, two years ago and I reckon I'll see it again when I come back to ride the Cardamoms.
In the meantime... for your sensory pleasure... how's this one?
And let me introduce you to Cambodia's newest adventure rider. Chin Chin is but 8 weeks old. That's her dad, who will be minding the 525 for me.
I've told him in no uncertain terms that it will NOT be in their room with them. There's 4 of them living in the one room... and I'll take the risk on it being outside... with a big chain on it.
I'm on a flight out of here on Nov 1... back to the SE in Chiang Mai. I want to ride the Mae Hong Son loop, with its 1864 corners (I've done the bottom half of it already). I need to get transport for the bike sorted, either by ship or plane out of Bangkok.... should be home by Dec 1.
Update later. Its my mate's day off today, so I might ask him to help me with an oil change and sourcing a chain and cover. I'm so nice eh?
A man should only do the work that is required of him. To do more is a form of greed.
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So, to finish off Phnom Penh, this time around at least, I guess I should explain a bit more of why I didn't get out to the Killing Fields.
I've seen enough death and destruction over the years.... and I don't think a second visit is going to inform me any more than the first.
Here's a couple of shots from my first Asian ride, a bit over two years ago. I came through here with a friend, we went down the Mekong and bought scooters and headed north on that trip.
The Killing Fields
There were signs there asking people to not walk on the mass graves... but this next shot is the pathway. That's human bones coming through everywhere and bits of clothing.
The Khmer Rouge were absolute scum... and there's plenty of them still breathing, unfortunately.
I guess the hangover of that and the impending end of the trip slowed me down a bit in PP.
Its a funny feeling. After 15 months, 10 of them on the road, and I've finally reached the end point of this trip. Sort of, and almost. There's a month to go in Thailand and I'll have the "new" bike here for a ride or two more up here. That'll be the Cardamoms in Cambodia and back to Laos.... in the dry, maybe. Then, it looks like Burma may be a possibility in a year or two. I'd like to set up a Cardamom trip with another rider or two along. Try the old smuggler's track maybe. Definitely not a ride to do alone.
I made it to Siem Reap after two dusty days on the road from Phomh Penh.... not in a straight line, of course. I stopped at Kampong Thom so that I could take a morning stroll through the three Sambor Prei Kuk compounds.
These particular temples are the start of it all in relation to the temples and monuments that would eventually include Angkor Wat some 800 years later. Sambor Prei Kuk is pre-Angkorian, started in 609 AD and we are very lucky it survives. The US Air Force dropped 200 bombs on it in 1971-72, destroying a lot of the temples. In the central compound, only one of the original 42 survives. What's left is still amazing.
Latest route map. Last two days is dark grey from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap.
I took some back roads from there and eventually rejoined the main highway for the last 100km or so. Lots of water out there on the plains... most people in it one way or the other... with fishing nets, scoops or whatever... chasing protein.
I've caught up with my mate, who's flat out with work at the moment, but we've had dinner a couple of times and I've been out to see his family. He's still got his old tuk tuk from when I met him a couple of years ago, but its his new van that's bringing home the money now. There's 10,000 drivers in this town now... mostly in tuk tuks. He's a good bloke and I was happy to help him get the van. Most days he's got both on the road.
It was good to catch up with Jeat. He's a guy with the right attitude.... and he's as crappy a subject for a photo as me...
Its also been good to stop in the one place for a few days, get some laundry done properly... starting to get the red dust out,,, and to recover from whatever bit of nasty food it was that churned my guts something fierce. I'm blaming this lady... she took me to a quality restaurant in PP... food was great going in, but, sheesh.....
Maybe it was her way of stopping me coming out to have a look at her NGO setup. She's got 2,500 kids and young adults that she (and 500 staff) are educating. All from families earning under 50 cents a day. Fascinating talking to her about it and some of the issues that I've been looking at on this trip. She cleared up a few of my questions.
Speaking of dining out, I saw an interesting side of things when I went out for dinner the other night with Jeat and friends. Four of us went to a "local" restaurant as he called it. When the bill came... four dishes, two buckets of beer (12 small bottles)... it was 180,000 kip.... $45. I commented that it was a bit much... he asked for it, looked at it, said something slightly heated to the waitress, who took it away. I asked what he said... "writing not clear". The bill came back... 80,000 kip. $20. The difference was "local prices". If anyone is coming here... and its well worth seeing... and wants a guide who will look after them, let me know.
Here's Jeat and Chin Chin
She's 8 weeks old.
and is giving him a bit of a hard time at night.
Here's the whole crew. I'm not sure whether to say this is in the kitchen or the garage... because its both
Jeat's settled down to married life since I was here June two years ago... during his last throes as a single man. Mei Mei was on the way and he wasn't too keen on settling down, but he's well there now. That's his original tuk tuk in the background. We went out the other night in his van, one of the many Ssanyong vans around here now. He's keeping it and the tuk tuk busy.
Its not an easy life though... he moved here because Mei Mei was too active around the main road he lived on before. This place is one room... and he was insisting my bike go in there, with the four of them. Um, no mate... the bike will go outside thanks.. I'll buy a big chain and a drop cloth. He's got a long way to go before he's what any of us would call set. Its well water there too, which I managed to avoid. His mum isn't too well either "her blood is very old". I reckon she might be around my age (he's coming up to 33, his wife 23).
We went to a live music venue the other night, one aimed at Cambodians, not tourists and were having a nice dinner, watching the singers when there was a scream and a crashing noise. A half dozen or so guys left and security put a human wall around a private room that was only about 5 metres from Jeat and I... and a cleaning team went to work. Turns out a cop smacked one of the hostesses in the mouth.... knocking a table flying in the process. Nice chap. Nothing came of it... and I doubt the cop(s) paid their bill.
Among all the singing, there was a middle aged woman come on... not dressed well, but when she started to sing.... her voice and songs were chillingly beautiful. We and many others tipped her.. the only singer to get money btw. She was a landmine victim.. no feet, on crutches.... singing to support her family. There's one new landmine victim every day in this country...
I said I'd "sort of" reached the end of the trip. I'm going to potter around here for a few more days, store the bike (petrol out, new oil, bit of oil in the cylinder, up on blocks if I can organise it) and then fly back to Chiang Mai on Nov 1. I've got a couple more rides to do up there... including finishing the Mai Hong Son loop... with its 1864 corners... and I've got to figure out how to get the big bike home. There's some bureaucracy involved and in the end it may be easier to fly it out, depending on how long my import approval takes to get. I went to fill the form in a while back, but I need to include a photo of the compliance plate, so I might be cutting it fine. Many guys in the past can't even get shipping agents to return a phone call. Time will tell.
Back to the ride. How's this for a load on a bike?
That was on the main highway... and I saw a couple of them like that. Its a Cambodian semi-trailer.
Then, there's this. If its sunny, you need a hat. Just grab a branch from the nearest tree.
That most certainly wasn't on the highway. Well off it in fact. It was back to kids looking up, seeing me and fleeing into the paddy fields. Sometimes, not always.
When I came back to the highway, I found this...
The load, including people, extended a couple of metres out the back of the van. There were 4 motorbikes out there... three of them bouncing along the road, a couple with people sitting on them. More on the roof. Maybe 30 or more people in a 12 seater van.
One of the earliest of the temples I mentioned (northeast of Kampong Thom by about 25km, half of it up a chewed out dirt road). Sambor Prei Kuk.
This damage inside one isn't from the USAF... its been raided for the gold under the floor... the stonework destoyed by a bomb
That's the female representative part of the show. The male part, umm, plugs in above ... like this (a photo I took in a museum in Vietnam, but its the same sort of thing)
One of heaps of bomb craters there
That's the clearance sign at the temple I visited today. They cleared 1.5 million square metres there, which isn't much, pulling over 400 mines and over 800 UXO items. There's an awful lot of mines and UXO in the wider area.
Nice temple. Beng Melea. It was built in the 14th century by the same king who built Angkor Wat. Its 63km from Siem Reap, so its less visited than most. Its sprawling... covering one square kilometre and quite heavily impacted by vegetation. Reminiscent of Ta Prohm (Tomb Raiders).
I'll sneak in s few more photos while I'm holed up in this restaurant, but most of them will have to wait.
This is the jungle track I backed out of a couple of days ago. Shoes and cotton trousers wasn't the gear to be riding in up 8' rock shelves... with 20km to go to the destination.
That, and the buggered sprocket on the bike convinced me to back down this trail.
The bike is still OK around town, but I'm taking it easy. I pulled up next to some traffic cops the other day. They weren't the slightest bit interested in checking out a bike with no rego plate.
This is the outside moat at Beng Melea (spelt at least 3 different ways in things I've seen)
I've seen heaps of old boats semi-submerged or abandoned as I've gone around.
Another typical warning sign. A branch on the road. In this case, go to the left... you die.... its a big, big hole.
some more from the Boang Melea temple. This was built in the 14th Century.
A Buddha or two among the rubble
I wasn't over enthused at walking on carvings.. there were obvious signs of wear... but it was an official guide who took me through. He was damn good too, pointing out some decent angles
Crocodile in the centre
Hey Hey, We're the Monkeys
I'm loading from the thumbnails, but I'm pretty sure this is the rhinocerous. There were also elephants, tortoises, etc
This one of a pair of the small libraries. Also two large ones
There's lots of Chinese tourists in town. Not lots of anyone out at this temple, but the Chinese made up the bulk. This guy was from Nanjing, where my daughter completed her TCM degree... spending 4 months there. She loved Nanjing.
Some of the blocks could use some re-aligning.
Some Roundup would help too.
.... and for something totally different... this lady was trying to earn a few cents selling waterlilly buds at a service station.
I was out on Tonle Sap ysterday - and got a couple of hundred shots of various boats and pier houses. I got to drive the tourist boat (did that last time I was here too)... I was quite surprised that they let me bring it up the channel... albeit with lots of piloting instructions.
Here's the road heading out of Siem Reap yesterday. It gets a lot worse than this.
I rode out to a small town east of Siem Reap, near Tonle Sap, the big lake that dominates a map of Cambodia.
This lake is 26 times more productive than the North Sea apparently... one of the most fertile fishing grounds on the planet. Those upstream will stuff it eventually. I read yesterday of another 3 dams being built in Laos... despite not having approvals. Big hydro stuff.
Here's a boat being repaired
On the water again...
This kid pushed off the side of out boat... about a 40'er, jumped up onto the fixed rat tail of the boat... with its exposed, spinning 14" prop.... and dived back in, while we were moving.
Local secondary school
Local seafood. Luckily the owner's daughter sat down and peeled most of my prawns for me.
The other daughter, our waitress, is 5 days older than my youngest.
21 in two months
Apparently I was a good customer.
That guy surrounded by our evidence is from someone else's boat.... carrying a couple of American women. They didn't buy his lunch (nor did I), but I did at least give him a beer or two... along with my driver and crew. Saw the same thing last time I was here. Not good folks. Buy your guides lunch and a beer or four... they'll love it and they'll look after you like a long lost brother.
... and when you ask "Can I have a drive"...
No worries, not even in the traffic.
Our skipper actually hit another boat on the way out btw.... just a glancing blow. You sure wouldn't want to have had your fingers on the gunwale.
I'll be back later with more. We had a thunderstorm here a few hours ago and its thrown my planning (ha ha) out. I need to get an oil change on the bike. I don't want to leave it for 4-6 months with old oil in it. I'm planning on taking in the sunset from Angkor Wat too... before heading out for dinner with Jeat.
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The Bigfella screwed with this post 10-30-2012 at 01:43 AM
Gnarly Adventurer
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Great report Bigfella, I'll miss 'em when you return to Oz. I'll buy you a beer or three if you get to Perth
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Senses restored.
How's business?
Sleepy John
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Thanks guys.
SJ... I presume you mean Jeat's tuktuk / van business. He's got a couple of headaches tonight. His tuk tuk starter went today and he's got alternator problems too by the look of it. Its been a hard life for that little Honda... 7 years pulling the tuk tuk.. and it was second hand when he got it. When I dropped the bike out to his room for storage, he brought me back in the van. He's loaned it to a mate for 2 days. Brake pads are gone.... and he's got an 8am pickup.
They are pretty slack in their approach to things here. I did a bit of prodding and suggesting.
We had a somewhat damaging night last night. Not so much the frogs or even the eel or the steamed fish. More the beersssssssss. I saw 3am on the watch as I hit the sack... and then the alarm went off at 6am to do the sunrise at Angkor Wat. Ummm... no thanks.
The guys I'd all met out in the sticks over beer and fried crickets two years ago. One of them piped up today out at Ta Prohm... the Tombraider temple as its known.... "Hello Mr Ian" as I went past his tour group... sheesh. Can't hide anywhere here. The girl is from LA... one of two girls that one of the guys was showing the local food to. They handled the influx of extras well.
Here's a couple from today for you. I had a good chat to these monks who ended up saying prayers for me after I made a donation for one of their causes.
I know this girl from two years ago. She's still the same bubbly kid. She saved me $50 last time. "Hey Mister.... you are losing your money" Anywhere else, she'd have followed me and scooped it up as it dropped out of my pocket.
As usual, there were wedding photos going on at Angkor Wat. Dunno how, but I seem to have missed the groom.
She spoke perfect English and thanked me when I asked her if the groom knew how lucky he is.
and on that note... I'm off for a massage. Tomorrow, I fly back to Chiang Mai
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Can't believe this trip is coming to a close...
For me your interaction with the locals is what makes it a great read.
Thank you for sharing your adventures.
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Hullo Mr Ian.
Sleepy John
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Sorry John... you'll have to wait. The forum just ate the 90 minute post I just put together.
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Sleepy John
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Thanks Mark... I have to say, the friendliness of the locals has been a high point of the trip for me too. Its amazing just how welcoming they are. The trip's not over yet... and I've got some catching up to do on the writing.
I'm back in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The plan is to get the big bike shipping arranged, catch up with a friend's mate down the road a tad and take in some local events. I've just ridden the Mae Hong Son loop, with its 1864 curves. I'd done part of it before, but this time we took the dirt truck road and picked up the rest of the tar, so most of my planned riding is done.
There's also a couple of festivals here toward the end of the month (28th) - one entailing thousands of lanterns being released as hot air balloons at night, the other involving Hmong downhill cart races - although they are both on the same day I think and a bit apart. I've got my ticket already to fly out on the 29th. All that is as close to a plan as I've done the whole trip....
I had to take it easy for a few days. No booze, bland food, little activity. Damn near killed myself the last day I was in Cambodia. Food allergy. It hit me on the flight out of Cambodia to Bangkok... and my emergency pack ended up in the luggage after stuffups with carry-on gear. Late stage 1 treatment meant I got into stage 2 and the dreaded steroids. I was on the wind down of those last week and got hit again with a renewed and more serious attack. Never had that before... but have had anaphylaxis from it 10 years back which was intensive care hospital stuff for a couple of days. I was already having contra-indications from the steroids that'd have sent me to the hospital in Oz, but I just threw some more in and made it through. One of the staff here got upgraded to nurse duty for a while... sitting there with 5 Epipens lined up after a quick training session. I must remember to tip her when I leave. It was damn nice of her to do it for me.
I'd have been back to Oz already if it wasn't for all that. There's been a bit of death and destruction going on. My Dad's eldest sister died and I'd have gone to the funeral but for trying to stay breathing myself. I caught up with two other guys from Coffs Harbour here the other night (I was born and bred there for most of my younger years). Both here independently. Small world stuff. I used to race against one's father in Kittycats as a teenager (12' racing catamaran) and the other guy knew a mate of mine from many a year ago. Told me he was killed about 18 months back in a car crash. To make up the trio of death and destruction, the guy I bought the 525 off, Justin, went over the bars of his bike at speed the other day and has just got out of hospital, having had plates inserted into his arm.
Enough of the crap. Good stuff. The KTM 950 Super Enduro had sat gathering dust for 2 months. I drained a bit from each fuel tap... no water. Good. Cranked her up and she's running sweet. She coughed a few times the first time I rode her, but that's all done now. She's been yodelling in the mountains for the last five days. Two up this time and with an airhead BMW for company. Both of us threw it down the road... or should I say elephant track... no worries apart from me laying there in the mud with my pillion pounding away on my shoulder. Photos later.
So, medical emergencies aside, I'll see how I go getting some more Cambodia photos up. I've posted a few of these on other threads, but bear with me... I'll bring it all together here.
Siem Reap is a bustling town. Its got the high end places (Park Hyatt is opening in 2013 - but there's plenty of others)... right down to the $3 backpacker rooms. I went in for the lower midrange... $18 a night IIRC, including brekkie. There was a pool there, but my swimming trunks didn't make the cull for the smaller bike. Night entertainment ranges from dance restaurants, high end stuff, through local-oriented open air places, live music (mostly the hostesses singing a song and trying to get noticed) through to Pub Street... aimed at the lower end tourists. Here's the first of the Halloween parades
There's a lot of poverty and destruction still in Cambodia. I spoke at length with a Danish shipping guy who has a charitable foundation and he's built a couple of schools there. He was a bit cynical about the situation, but with good cause. An example.. a guy who's name I've forgotten, introduced high yield rice to Vietnam... turned them from an importer of rice to and exporter fairly quickly. Came to Cambodia and gave up after 8 years. The Cambodians introduced the high yield rice, but only planted half as much... why do more work than necessary. Also, lots of stuff being done as concessions for other contracts - build us a school so we look good in our statistics as part of the deal we do with you on xxxx deal... but then it doesn't get used, that sort of thing. He and I shared our views on NGOs and the problems in the sector. Smart guy... (thinks like me). I'll make contact with him again later. We covered off the issue of girls coming into the garments sector and ending up on their backs in nearby whorehouses too. This whole family issue - arranged marriages, bride price stuff creates a lot of downstream issues.
There's lots of professional beggars around the place. Many landmine victims. There's still 30 a month being killed / maimed, down from 300 a month a while back. The UXO / landmine problem is longstanding... back to the American war, the Vietnamese ousting of Pol Pot, troubles with Thailand and so on. I had some good discussions with folks, including victims, about it.... but that's not for here so much as elsewhere.
Professional beggars
I posted the one above earlier, but I'll run it again here because I didn't include the context earlier. I really don't like that professional begging stuff.
On a happier note, here's the guys I met two years ago, friends of my tuk tuk driver. We got some takeaway food and Jeat bought a carton of beer and some ice for us and took us to his friend's house. They threw in some fried crickets (taste good, hate the damn wings though) and we had a good chinwag about life in Cambodia.
These are mostly the guys I shouted dinner in Siem Reap in the photo a few posts back. It was lovely to return the favour from two years ago. They've been fast workers. That bamboo hut has been upgraded to house status and the owner, like Jeat, has had two daughters in two years.
Here's a bonus Siem Reap photo from two years ago... the storm that rolled across the lake while we were at the floating village.
I must dig out the rest of that panorama sequence... now that I've learnt how to stitch them together.
Here's some random ones from the temples. I spent a rather wet day riding around some of the ones I'd seen last time. Since I got back to Thailand, I've got some good leads on some really interesting ones to see when I go back to Siem Reap to collect the bike, including some remote stuff. One I really want to get to is a couple of animals carved from stone in the middle of the mountains... a full sized elephant.
My KTM with Jeat's tuk tuk
Seen enough temples?
Meanwhile... look what found me
At a guess, its a 16C (C for Colonial) - derived from the Norton 16H (H for Home) model.
A sidevalve 500cc single. I believe it is a 1939 model - although someone said 1936. Not terribly important in the scheme of things. Its about the same weight as the Super Enduro but with one fifteenth as much power. 14hp. A nice ride half a dozen times a year to local cafe meets.
My father rode this model in Greece / Crete in WW2 - as a Despatch Rider / Provost - but much preferred the Indian Scout. These, along with the BSAs, Harleys and Indians were the bikes used by Commonwealth forces in WW2. Dad was wounded in Greece, left for dead - knocked out with shrapnel in his forehead (not removed until post-war) from a Stuka attack while he was directing traffic. When he came to, the Germans had advanced and he was behind enemy lines. He got back on his bike and rode past a German column, expecting a bullet in the back.... and made it back to the Allied lines. He was captured in Crete though and spent the rest of the war in holiday camps as a guest of Adolf.
I could "throw" this one in the crate with the Super Enduro (no particular customs issues involved... its old enough to not be a worrry for import approvals... just pay the $50 fee).... or, more likely, Neil, Clarissa and I will share a container and ship everything home if he can find another bike to throw in - and I do believe he's onto one.
I sorta like it. Its pretty original, except for the Bing carbie on it... should be an Amal. I doubt that's too much of an issue. It isn't running at present, but has been and wouldn't be hard to get going again. It isn't a project.... I need another project like a hole in the head... it just needs a service and re-location to Oz. I'd run it on historic plates. $28 a year rego IIRC.
It was carried out of Burma about 15 years ago and has no papers for here, hence its cheap. I'd have to export it as parts to get it out, but with import approval there's no issue in Oz.
I've also just grabbed a whole swag of KTM bits off Justin... the guy I bought the 525 EXC from. He had some motard wheels for it... with radial brakes. Big mutha of a disk... 320mm I think with a 4 piston caliper. They'll do the 950 as well... maybe with some playing with spacers, so that when I get everything home, I'll have two canyon racers and two dirt bikes... all achieved by just changing wheels. He finally got everything together and I'm still shaking my head at the fact he had two brand new front sprockets there,
I'm riding a Yamaha Fino around Chiang Mai. Just a getabout 115cc retro styled scooter for around town. - so much easier than the Super Enduro in the traffic. If only I could buy this sort of thing at the price in Oz. When I got home from Vietnam a couple of years ago, I went looking for something like this, but they were all in the $2,000+ range. Here, they are less than a third of that second hand.
It's got 11,000 genuine km on it. Never been dropped... 100mpg, etc Like this... but with road tyres, not knobbies.
I'll write up what's been happening back in Thailand.... later. Toy ride with the 1%ers, photos with the long necked women, etc. Oh yeah... snuck out of Thailand yesterday but they wouldn't let me ride into Burma. Photos later.
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Love that Norton - get me one too.
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Anyone else? I guess you could rustle the odd one or two up, but all that takes time. If I'm lucky I might find a Vespa at the right price
Mine just got compressed... time that is. It looks like I'm back into Laos next week.
I've been to Hongsa in Laos twice and this would be the third time. There's three villages there that we are looking to get aid to. Two of them are only reachable by boat. 800 people all up. Very poor people. Clothes and blankets, basic stuff. Looks like we've got about $8k so far... $10 a person, but that's a start. We think we'll be taking two ute loads of stuff, I'll go on the Super Enduro if I can or drive a ute if I have to ship it beforehand.
Meanwhile... I've still got bikes (and me) to get home.... and after an "insufficient funds" message at the bank, I've been enjoying the vagaries of international transfers.....
Another update to follow in a day or two. There's lots to catch up on.
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I went out looking for a Vespa yesterday. I can't see it happening. They are in the $2k to $3k range here. If I could pick one up for $1k, I'd probably throw it in the suitcase and take it home for the cappucino run of a morning. Too much else happening though....
The run back into Laos is on. Next weekend. It's a "give something back" run... kids clothes and blankets to three remote villages. One is reachable with the utes, the other two are working elephant villages that are only reachable by boat. Som is out buying 400 blankets now and a similar number of sets of warm kids clothes - winter is actually quite cold up in the hills. Its not a big event... its come about from a few guys who want to do something for some of the poorest people there... and they aren't into giving money to NGOs only to see large chunks disappear before things get to the needy. I won't say any more at this stage, but will write it up later.
So... Cambodia..... I guess I better finish off that section before I repeat myself too much.
Cambodia used to be my favourite Asian country. These days, I reckon I'd rate Laos as my favourite. I'm still in love with Cambodia, Flores & Sumatra (Indonesia) and NW Thailand... but Laos, away from the bitumen, is simply brilliant. I've had a few sessions at Riders Corner in Chiang Mai with guys who have a lot of riding (and running tours) in Cambodia. I've got some ideas for when I go back. One of the guys was riding in Cambodia back when Pol Pot was still popping people off. Hopefully, he might be in on part of my next ride. A few things I want to see are the pyramid temple (only one in SE Asia I believe) and the elephant sculpture that's a difficult single-track ride to access... and then I want to have a shot at the smuggler's track through the Cardamoms. That one's best done with a riding partner.
One of the things I really wanted to see in Cambodia was the lake with more water in it than when I was there at midyear last time. I'm rather worried for the future of Tonle Sap.... given all the dams being built in China and Laos in particular. I posted some photos of my trip out there... here's some more.
I posted a shot of me driving the tourist boat earlier. The controls on this boat were a lot more advanced than the one I drove a couple of years back. This one had a proper pedal box. Two years ago, the throttle was a bit of wire attached to the engine.... whack your foot down on the wire and go... not easy to finesse. Here's the good one::
At a guess, this is some sort of tourist development under construction
The villagers here are in the water left right and centre.
Every house had several of this style of boat tied up to it
Most of the powered boats were inboards, rather than rat tails
Like I said.... in the water everywhere
Not much paint used
This one shows the construction
In the dry season, these houses are 20' and more above water level
I'm not sure what the story is with these little shacks. I was told by Ellie that up in northern Laos little huts like this are retreats for lovers. Here?
It was nice to see waterbirds in their natural environment... rather than in the cooking fire
I showed the secondary school in an earlier post. This is the primary school
It was wall to wall boats up the channel
The shot above shows the stern tube on the boat, out of water here... and its missing its shaft and prop. These things are normally driven with a 5hp Honda stationary engine... or something similar. Very different to the rat tail boats on the rivers.
This next one shows them drying shrimp.... or as the Aussies would say, prawns.
I'll leave it at that with Tonle Sap. There's more, of course... but I think that's enough. Phew... not a single bike shot eh?
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What an amazing journey to follow! Kudos Bigfella! What you're doing, and the way you're doing it, is exactly the way I want to do it, to experience the real experience, to make real friendships with faraway people, to help where possible and to come home (America for me) with a greater appreciation for our blessings where I can't.
It's a shame you have to censor some of your postings, as it ends up being a "sanitized" view of your experiences. If only more people could really see and understand how fortunate we are - so many just have no idea.
Just fantastic! You are truly blessed; what an amazing wife you have, and your kids seem like they are quite well rounded like their dad! Just fantastic!
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Thanks. Its certainly been interesting over here.
I'm off to Laos at sparrowfart in the morning and will probably be off-line for four days, so I guess I better get an update in now eh? I managed to be the only guy around the place this morning when 400 blankets arrived... and the little Thai guy who delivered them wasn't going to help unload them. Muggins here got to lug them in... 50 at a time. I'd never thought of blankets as heavy before.
So... with one last gratuitous temple shot... and another showing where the 525 is having a holiday, I'll call an end to the Cambodian leg of the trip
I flew back to Chiang Mai via Bangkok... and for the second time in 20 years, I just transited through the airport.
Maybe I'll visit the city eventually....
It was back to my base in NW Thailand... and my first sight of the Super Enduro in just under two months. She cranked up pretty well, but spluttered a few times on her first ride. I'd run her dry, but not drained the dregs from the carbs, so I guess a bit of varnish went through. That first ride was a charity run to a school about 60km from Chiang Mai... up in the hills.
It was a quiet Sunday, so Phil and Som each rode their bikes, I doubled one of the staff... and one got left to cover coffees, etc. Som setting off on her Harley
and clowning around at our first stop. Breakfast at a bar where the rest of the riders assembled
along with a group of monks invited by the organisers
You wouldn't see this mix of shirts too often in Oz. Lots of different 1%ers involved
Our Norwegian friend and his wife on their Rocket III trike were up front, with us not far behind.
It was pretty orderly at the start, but we spread out a bit once we got into the twisties... KTMs (Phil was on one of his 990's and me on the SE) at the front... Harleys to the rear
Being a typical Thai event... there was a bit of stuffing around and speeches... and then we set off. Right up front was a police car, lights flashing, sirens on... the whole way. We did red light runs, blew through towns at speed and watched the cop force oncoming traffic off the road out of our way.
There were some interesting Japanese-based bikes
Lots of these things
.... back with more soon
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schwit1 (797399) writes The U.S. Air Force on Thursday issued a request for information from industry for the replacement of the Russian-made engines used by ULA's Atlas 5 rocket: "Companies are being asked to respond by Sept. 19 to 35 questions. Among them: "What solution would you recommend to replace the capability currently provided by the RD-180 engine?" Air Force officials have told Congress they only have a broad idea of how to replace the RD-180. Estimates of the investment in money and time necessary to field an American-built alternative vary widely. Congress, meanwhile, is preparing bills that would fund a full-scale engine development program starting next year; the White House is advocating a more deliberate approach that begins with an examination of applicable technologies. In the request for information, the Air Force says it is open to a variety of options including an RD-180 facsimile, a new design, and alternative configurations featuring multiple engines, and even a brand new rocket. The Air Force is also trying to decide on the best acquisition approach. Options include a traditional acquisition or a shared investment as part of a public-private partnership. [emphasis mine]" The Atlas 5 is built by Lockheed Martin. This is really their problem, not the Air Force or ULA. In addition, the Air Force has other options, both from Boeing's Delta rocket family as well as SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
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Why do we wear costumes and masks on Purim? Well, it could be to remind us that Queen Esther hid her Jewish identity from King Ahasuerus. Because of that, she was able to save the Jewish people. It could be a way for us to turn the world upside down for a little while, in the same way that the world was turned upside down in Shushan: Haman was hanged on the gallows that had been built for Mordechai; the Jews were not killed, but were able to defend themselves; and a day of mourning was turned into day of joy.
The Joy of Purim
Purim takes place on the 14th day of Adar. So we say: Mishenichnas Adar marbim besimcha. "In the month of Adar, we are filled with joy." So, here's a joke: Q:What do you call a steak ordered by 10 Jews? A: Fillet minyan!
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