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Open sourcing oil and gas…
The oil price crashed. All of a sudden the industry needs to dramatically reduce costs if it wants to stay profitable. The oil and gas industry is one of the few industries that has created bespoke solutions for every well. Part of the explanation for this is that each oil and gas platform behaves differently. Drilling and pumping oil is not a predictable business. There can be bubbles, obstructions, lots of oil, variable pressure, etc.
However the bigger explanation is that in a highly profitable business, IT costs were just a drop in the ocean and it was a lot more profitable to focus on maximizing output then optimizing costs. This reality has changed with the oil prices falling extremely low and shale gas creating oversupply for the first time in history.
How can open source help the energy industry?
At this moment each IT solution in oil and gas is bespoke. By open sourcing a next-generation oil and gas management platform, adoption will be a lot higher than any proprietary solution. If the solution focuses on the communalities more than the differences and abstracts complexities then 80% of the average use cases can easily be covered. The remaining 20% will still be bespoke but if an automated change management solution is put in place then automatic upgrades and rollbacks will reduce costs of the bespoke parts substantially as well.
Looking for a name for this new platform? Let's call it EnergyStack for the moment. Openstack is the open source private cloud technology that is currently revolutionizing the IT landscape. Although EnergyStack is probably going to get born and managed in a different way, Openstack is a good example of how an industry has been revolutionized and solutions of equal quality have been brought to market at a factor of a tenth of the price of the incumbent solution.
How to kickoff EnergyStack?
Incumbent IT players will be the once that get commoditized by an open source energy management platform, for which they are not the right players to push the idea. The ideal players are challengers that join a couple of early adopters. The main problem is finding financing because in an economically challenging moment investing to save costs is not the strength of a chief financial officer that manages capex on a quarterly basis. So anybody that has a good idea, don't hesitate to share it.
Dreamcoms: A Crowdfunded Mobile Operator that is Awesome?
Mobile operators are at the top of the list of companies customers complain about. Their prices are abusive. Their services usable at best, but often horrible. Have you seen T-Shirts saying "I love my voicemail!"? When you call them for support, you end up adding inadequate support to the list of complaints. So writing a blog post about how unhappy people are with their mobile operator is not valuable. What if the crowd could fix all these problems?
How to build a dream mobile operator?
From a technology perspective we have come a far way in recent years. Lime Micro, Yate, Nuand, Fairwaves, Telestax, Metaswitch, etc. have all been working on little puzzle pieces. There are relatively cheap micro base stations and very likely we end up below $100, and even $50, in the next two years. Shortly there will be open source LTE. There are open source value added services app stores. Open source and scale out communication management solutions. Open source software defined networking. It is time to start putting the pieces of the puzzle together.
Don't you need an LTE license? In countries like the Netherlands and Sweden it is legal to put a mobile base station as long as you stick to some limitations around height, strength of signal, etc. In Mexico you can put up a base station in areas that are not covered by the traditional mobile operators. You have LTE-U, an unlicensed part of the spectrum that new mobile phones support. White spaces database can technically allow LTE spectrum that is not being used in a geographical area to be repurposed while the main license holder does not use it. So if you use the unlicensed spectrum and white spaces in most countries and start with normal spectrum in a handful of other countries and focus on making customers happy, then governments will get persuaded by happy crowds to change laws on spectrum licenses and make voters happy. What is needed is a better model that can be copied by many countries.
What does a dream mobile operator look like?
Should a mobile operator allow communities to build out their own networks and have federated models in which communities can interconnect? You can use my network, if I can use yours. Or alternatively is there only one network? Perhaps a peer to peer model?
If you don't host an antenna, would you pay for data and if so how much? What if somebody does not pay? Prepay vs postpaid? Should bitcoin be the preferred form of payment? Should data caps exist to avoid abusive behaviour? Can certain traffic be given less priority if it improves overall experience for everybody at the cost of some? What services would be needed? How is support provided? What about governments and operators trying to use laws to go against what the crowd wants?
There are still a lot of questions to be answered. And with enough people trying to find solutions, they are all solvable. However there is one fundamental question:
Would you use a crowd funded mobile operator?
If there is no demand for a crowdfunded mobile operator then this is just another blog post. But the first step in a crowd funded mobile operator is to validate that the crowd wants it. How do you do this? Simple! Tweet, retweet, favour any tweet with #dreamcoms. Vote up on Hacker News any articles about Dreamcoms. Tell your Facebook, Google+, etc. friends about Dreamcoms. Blog about how Dreamcoms could solve certain problems. Make viral Youtube videos about Dreamcoms. Make T-Shirts. Campaigns. Anything that brings Dreamcoms into the spotlight.
If you are unhappy with your current mobile phone operator and you want to dream about a communication provider that is awesome, you tell the world about Dreamcoms. Enough social media traffic will enable to form a community that can work on Kickstarter and Crowd funding initiatives that solve every aspect that needs to be put in place. At the moment it is a dream but wouldn't it be awesome to make it real. It is in your hands now to tell the world that you want Dreamcoms to happen…
The Wolf of Wall Things
Hacker news had the following article at the top of their list: the wolf of wall tweet. It talks about algorihms that used a rumor and the options market to make millions in seconds. This article refers to Flash Boys as well, a famous book about high frequency trading. However the big news is that whatever the article talks about as being magical is not magical at all, you can do a lot more and you will read about examples later on.
How does tweet option buying work?
Advances in neural networking have led to Deep Belief Networks (DBN). DBN in some cases are able to do natural language recognition and other types of recognition better than human beings, or at least a lot faster. So a DBN that is trained to read from the Twitter firehose and scan lots of news articles will beat humans in speed. Add an interface to options trading and you have what the article describes.
Taking it to the next level – knowing the future of the economy
What if you would know economical facts with a high degree of certainty before anybody else, and not sub seconds but hours, days, weeks, even months before anybody else. This is what Internet of Things combined with DBNs and automated trading can give you. How? Imagine you are into trading car stocks. Via computer vision you are able to count events. There are lots of public street cameras that stream in real-time data about what is happening on the roads. Humans look at them to see if there is a lot of traffic. Computers can use them to recognize and count events. So what would happen if strategically picked street cameras get hooked up to DBNs, you would be able to count how many trucks leave a factory with cars. You would be able to correlate these events month after month with the revenue figures of car manufacturers and then correlate with their stock value. The car manufacturers will at the end of a quarter announce their profits and a key aspect of their success depends on how many cars where sold. If you would know weeks or a month in advance that the volumes of cars coming out of a factory have picked up dramatically then you know the stock value will go up. If you would buy minutes before the figures come out a large quantity of car stocks then trading algorithms will pick up on this and will make you loose lots of the potential profit. However if you can spread purchase orders over weeks in small quantities then HFT can not detect your strategy.
Street cams is only the beginning
Using street cams would only be the beginning. Add weather sensors and lots of other sensors and you can do magic at large scale and would have a magical dashboard of the real economy before anybody else. If you are interested in this subject be sure to reach out on LinkedIn…
You can't be excellent at software, hardware and services…
The "Ectors Principle" says that it is impossible to be excellent at hardware, software and services. You have to pick one and at most two but you can't have all three.
Why can't you be excellent at all?
Hardware is a discipline that requires you to define everything upfront and then to produce in as large volumes as possible to get to the lowest price per unit. It is a volume business with low margins.
Services requires people that understand customers ' problems and try to find solutions for them. It focuses on integration, customization, support, etc. To double revenue, you need to double the workforce.
Software is the art of combining easy to use solutions, with extensible and customizable features at an optimized and acceptable level of performance and availability. Smarter programmers can win from armies of dumb programmers.
So how can you combine a hardware platform that needs to have all features prebaked, with a people business that focuses on adding new features for each customer, with a software in which the art is to offer more with less features because feature overload kills ease of use, performance and availability? The simple answer is you can't do them all well. You have to pick.
Who is trying to prove the "Ectors Principle" wrong?
IBM, HP, etc. come to mind when the words hardware, software and services are mentioned. How are they doing? BAD!!! Please name 5 HP software products that you find inspiring! IBM at least realized that being excellent at all three is hard and sold its PC and server business to focus on services and software. A word of advise: spin-off Power processors as an independent company!
Apple? Apple is not in the services business because you can't have a closed software and hardware ecosystem and try to customize it to everybody's needs.
Google? Google tried hardware with Motorola (failure!) and Nest but is not focusing on services because they don't want to have to hire double the amount of people to double revenue.
Amazon? Hardware is proving difficult. Enterprises cloud services was a stretch.
General Motors? Do you like the software that comes with cars. Would you call it excellent?
Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, etc.? Software defined networks will kill their hardware margins in the next months/years. Alacatel Lucent just threw in the towel. More consolidation to follow.
General Electric? Wait until everything becomes "smart". If GE is smart then their smart fridges have app stores with apps and peripherals from others. If not it will not be pretty.
Focus on one
Ideally you focus on one discipline and have another one as a hobby at most. Trying to do all will result in a weak link in the chain. The exact link that competitive startups will focus on to bring the imperium on its knees…
The first IoT devices
Every industry will be affected by IoT. Homes, businesses, cities, farm land, seas, space, etc. will get sensors. However the first IoT devices that will be massively adopted will not be a new breed of devices. They will more likely be devices we already know but will come with extra connectivity options and other IoT features.
Why not new devices?
For any new device that customers don't know, you will have to educate the users, setup a new distribution channel as well as aftersales services offerings. This takes time and is risky and as such device manufacturers will not massively produce them from day one. The result is that new types of devices will cost more than the magical $100 for which they auto limit their market success.
What will be the first IoT devices?
You can already say that Bluetooth scales, Nest thermostats & firedectors, Phillips Hue, etc. are the first IoT devices alongside Fitbits and other wearables. However these devices are single purpose devices that often don't do more than their non-connected counterparts. Let's call them the Internet of Isolated Things because out of the box, most of them work only with their app or their cloud and none has any meaningful peer to peer relationships. They only allow other devices to be a remote control.
The real revolution in IoT will start when devices will not come with everything prebaked by the manufacturer. As soon as for instance a storage NAS is able to run multiple IoT apps to connect to your Bluetooth scale, your Nest firedectors, your Hue lights and your Fitbit will we see the real power of IoT in the home. From that moment onwards you will see something amazing happening, devices together will have synergies that weren't there before. You will have the lights in the living room go red, Fitbits receiving messages and your Nest firedectors downstairs launching a "mom will be upset alert!", just because Mom stood on the scale and the results wasn't pretty. You will have 30 seconds to hide the scrambled eggs and butter croissants and substitute them by fresh fruits and Special K
Without a joke, the devices that you will buy regularly, but whose next-generation can hold many IoT apps will become the key IoT success enablers. Think WiFi routers, NAS, unified conference systems, set top boxes, etc. They might not be the sexiest devices in the world but people buy them in large quantities so IoT app enabling them will assure the IoT revolution to be accelerated…
In a bit pipe world, do we need telecom standards?
GSMA, ETSI, etc. have been defining standards for the telecom world for years. However outside of the telecom industry these standards have found little or no adoption. In a world where telecom operators are fast becoming bit pipes, do we really need telecom standards? Why can't the telecom industry just use SIP, WebRTC, REST, etc. just like everybody else?
The current systems in telecom are assuming calls and SMS need to be billed for. What would happen if the starting point is: data insights, network apps and connectivity are the only things that are billed? Connectivity is likely going to be unlimited or with very high limits over time. New revenue would have to come from selling data insights, either individually with consent, or aggregated and anonymised. As well as from apps that run inside the network: on CPEs, DSLAMs, mobile base stations, etc. So for the purpose of this blog let's focus on a world where calls and SMS can no longer be charged for and connectivity is close to unlimited for most normal use cases. To move bits fast through a network, you want the least number of protocol converters. So using many different standards would make things slow and expensive. Additionally telecom operators have overpaid for lots of standards and their software support during years without ever using them. Finally implementing a standard is very costly because often only 20% of the functionality is really used, but the other 80% needs to be there to pass compliance tests.
The nonstandard or empty networking appliance
In a world where software can define networks and any missing functionality is just a networking app away, it would be a lot better to start from an empty networking appliance, i.e. networking hardware without software, and then to buy everything you need. If you need a standard then you might want to buy the minimal/light, equals 20%, implementation and see if you can live with it. Chances are you still have too many functions that are not used. Facebook open sourced its top of the rack networking solution and surprise, surprise, the interface is Thrift based. Thrift is used in all the other Facebook services to have a standard high throughput interface for all its software services. Google probably uses protocol buffers. Apache Avro would be another alternative and the most openly licensed of them all. So instead of focusing on a standard, it would be better to standardise on a highly throughput optimised interface technology instead of public slow standards. Inside a telecom operator this would work very efficient and for those systems that talk to legacy or outside world systems, adding a standard is just a networking app away. This would simplify a telecom network substantially, saving enormous costs and accelerating speed of change because less code needs to be written and maintained making integrations easier. These are all ideas that assume there are actual appliances that are software defined. As soon as general purpose compute becomes fast enough for heavy data plane traffic then the reality will be software defined networking in a virtualized way with autoscaling and all the other cloud goodies. However this reality is still some years off, unfortunately. In the short run virtualization of the control plane and software defined networking appliances [SDNA] for the data plane, is the most realistic option…
3 ways to know if you need a Dinovator
IT departments are a strange beast. Several years ago they were the most innovative department in most companies. They offered software solutions the business was not prepared for. However cloud, big data, IoT, etc. have accelerated in the last years faster than most in-house IT departments could handle. Some IT departments have more focused on putting processes in place to avoid talking to end-users than to actually helping the business compete faster and better. So how do you know if you are dealing with an IT dinosaur department or not?
1) speed of simple routine tasks
How fast can an IT department do simple tasks, e.g. open a firewall port, correct a misspelling on a website, add a user, add a subdomain, etc. If yours can turn around these tasks via automated solutions in minutes, you are top class. In hours, you are fine. However when we start talking about weeks or months then you definitely have an IT dinosaur department.
2) willingness to help the business
If your business has a problem, do you go to your IT department to ask for help on how IT might solve the problem and give the company a strategic advantage? Or on the contrary, the business has no other choice then to bring their own devices, use corporate credit cards to buy cloud resources, use external consultants, etc. because the last department that will listen to them is the IT department? Years of IT cost optimisations have pushed innovation out of some IT departments. If this sounds like yours: "IT dinosaur department".
3) attitute towards change
The world is innovating so fast that any business that wants to be competitive needs to embrace change. This means that waterfall methodologies no longer work. Lean, scrum, minimum valuable product, continuous deployment, etc., call it whatever you like. The reality is that if your attitude is that whatever you decide today will need to be changed tomorrow, you are doing the right thing. Few businesses can afford to make a five year IT plan any more. When the ink dries, it will be outdated. In a world were HP, Dell, IBM, Accenture, etc. need to reinvent themselves continuously or risk dying, what do you think will happen to other sectors? One mobile app like Uber, can create global chaos in an over-regulated sector like the taxi sector. There are too many sectors that have not been innovating and risk being disrupted, e.g. telecom, energy, logistics, financial services, retail, etc. If there is no attitude to embrace change, then you are at risk of becoming or already have become an IT dinosaur.
What is a dinovator?
A dinovator is a person that accepts that they work for or are at risk of becoming an IT dinosaur but don't accept this reality. A dinovator will look for unproven, non-standard, and often risky technology solutions to apply to the current business challenges and will via prototypes demonstrate to others that there is a better future. A dinovator will not try to make slides and convince others. They know that some people still don't have a smart phone and will probably never change their mind. A dinovator makes sure that others understand how cutting-edge technologies can give a company a unique advantage. Seeing is believing. If you would live in 1802, would you belief that one day the world would be jammed with cars, planes and smart phones? You would not. You would call a fool to anybody trying to convince you otherwise. However if somebody would show a prototype of a car to you, then you would have to belief that horses are not the only means of transportation. Only over time will you realise that traffic jams and F1 will be possible. But at least you stopped believing that horses will continue to have a monopoly. The world needs dinovators to show this message to telecoms, energy companies, transport companies, banks and insurers, super market chains, etc.
Everybody can be a dinovator
You don't need to be technical to be a dinovator. If you are in a business position, just asking smaller or alternative suppliers to show different more innovative approaches will also work. Telecom operators have during years asked their suppliers to give them faster and cheaper networks. They did not ask with the same intensity for new revenue generating solutions. The end result is that their regular suppliers have been focusing all their energy on what the customer asked. If a customer does not ask for it, then a "well managed company" will not dedicate resources to it. It is the typical innovator's dilemma. The end result is that the industry is shrinking and once super companies have no other choice then to consolidate and fire employees, e.g. Nokia just bought Alcatel Lucent. You have a choice. Either you wait for others to make your job irrelevant or you become a dinovator. If you are good at being a dinovator then pretty soon you will be able to call yourself and your company an innovator. Being an innovator is an attitude. So join the dinovator movement, tweet your dinovations to the world and include #dinovator @telruptive.


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US Politics & Gov't
Kenny - 5 hours ago - bailoutpeople.org
City Spent Millions to Attack Occupy Oakland
crazy...unlike this city who is working with protesters and helping them
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/orange-county-accepts-occupy-tents-as-free-speech.html#ixzz1cE1VBCxg
Why I Got Tear Gassed at Occupy Oakland
US Politics & Gov't
- 1 day ago - apnews.excite.com
In Denver Today
Police shot Mace and Pepper spray at Demonstrators On News @ 10:10 PM EST
at this point the cops should be just trying to keep calm and protect our rights to a peaceful protest. they are victims of budget cuts and losing thier jobs too...
from the article:
Occupy Wall Street was unequivocally influenced by the Egyptian uprising, but yesterday the citizens in Tahrir Square flipped the script: a group of protesters, dismayed by the police brutality California protesters were met with this week, marched in solidarity with Occupy Oakland.
read more...
...the shot heard round the world.
thank you egypt.
thanks for the vids Mama !
Marine Says Oakland Used Crowd Control Methods That Are Prohibited In War Zones
from the article:
How did a cop who is supposed to have training on his weapon system accidentally SHOOT someone in the head with a 40mm gas canister? Simple. He was aiming at him.
This post was modified from its original form on 29 Oct, 21:42
This post was modified from its original form on 29 Oct, 21:42
Occupy Oakland seeks strike after Scott Olsen injury
Activists taking part in the the Occupy Oakland protests have called for a general strike in the city.
The call to strike on 2 November emerged as protesters gathered late on Wednesday, one day after clashes with police left an Iraq veteran badly hurt.
On Tuesday evening police used tear gas and baton rounds to force protesters to leave their camp. Many have now called for the mayor of Oakland to resign.
Occupy Wall Street protests are now in their sixth week.
I saw this story on Care2 in the morning, and saw another one but cannot find it now. I have hardly seen any coverage of this story whatsoever.
Thanks for posting this
One week ago, Oakland authorities – citing safety hazards from an "Occupy" encampment – unleashed a predawn police raid to drive the protesters from a plaza. City officials called the action necessary, but a local security guard emerged to tell Dennis Bernstein a very different story. . .
US Politics & Gov't
- 1 hour ago - cbsnews.com
US Politics & Gov't
- 5 hours ago - alternet.org
Protesters rally in Oakland, shut port operations
from the article:
"Thousands of protesters shut down operations at Oakland's port and blocked traffic on Wednesday to rally against economic inequality and police brutality in demonstrations marred by scattered vandalism."
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very nice, they seem to be gaining even more momentum
That's huge, actually, if they can shut down commodity shipments for even 1 hour means big demurrage fees.
" demurrage - a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure
charge - the price charged for some article or service; "the admission charge"
Mercedes hits 2 Occupy Oakland protesters
from the article:
(11-02) 22:21 PDT OAKLAND -- A car struck two Occupy Oakland protesters tonight as they marched with a crowd along Broadway, and an angry mob surrounded the car as emergency workers tended to the injured.
The driver, who was not identified, sat in his silver Mercedes-Benz sedan after the 7:30 p.m. incident while hundreds of people screamed at him through his closed windows.
Police arrived, questioned the driver and several witnesses, then let the driver leave the scene at 11th and Broadway in his car. Most of the officers on scene were BART police.
ye H, im begining to think the city of oakland is going to get its ass handed to them
The teamsters actually managed to shut down the port during the day. The protesters moved in to prevent the night shift from working.
Some of the banks were putting plywood up in their windows out of fear of their windows being smashed.
BBC - 3 November 2011
Thanks Ken - hard to know sometimes if the protestors start the violence ar police undercover infiltrate the protestors and start the violence like they did in Seattle during G2o.
Apparently some of the protesters (I use that word lightly) threw molitov cocktails, bottles, rocks, sticks, etc. at the police. They broke windows in Wells Fargo and elsewhere, some businesses were shut down completely. This is NOT the way to get our point across. Some of them are what I call "serial protesters" they appear at any event and protester whatever. They do and will continue to make a bad name for those of us who want to peacefully protest. I am behind OWS, have gone to Walnut Creek, California, but cannot condone what some of them did last night.
agreed Carlene really disheartening to see this behavior. it cripples us.
agree with Carlene and Victoria, this is not the way
I tend to agree with Val and Michael Moore who caution to question whether or not the violence is being committed by infiltrators from the police or right wing. Some Tea Party types have already admitted they have joined the OWS movement and we all know their verbal rhetoric has called for violence if they didn't get their way. Violence and destroying property is not how we win this war. We have the numbers and that means, unlike the Tea Party who don't, we don't need to resort to violence and vandalism to win.
November 3, 2011 at 7:00pm
An overflow crowd is expected when the Oakland City Council meets tonight to consider a resolution supporting Occupy Oakland. A wideranging public debate is likely in the wake of yesterday's general strike and the nighttime clashes with police. KPFA's will join the meeting in progress with a live broadcast beginning at 7 pm.
Thanks Ken~
I agree with you 100% Ralph. I have been to a few of these protests and the people are not violent {although the police often are}. There in no benefit to violence and everyone is asserting their right to Assembly Peacefully.. so becoming violent would only destroy the movement. So? Why would the protesters destroy the movement?????
THEY WOULDNT! But the Right Wing would, as they continue to try to paint the protesters as violent, hippie, drug addicted, disease carring bongo players!
Right Wing Media Infiltrates Occupy Wall Street to Discredit It
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/right-wing-media-infiltrates-occupy-wall-street-to-discredit-it.html#ixzz1cf66kXvW
from the article:
(Reuters) - A former U.S. Army Ranger and Occupy Oakland protester was in intensive care on Friday after a veterans group said he was beaten by police during clashes with demonstrators this week. The veteran, identified as Kayvan Sabeghi, was the second former American serviceman during the past two weeks to be badly hurt in confrontations between anti-Wall Street protesters and police in Oakland. The group Iraq Veterans Against the War said Sabeghi was detained during disturbances that erupted late on Wednesday in downtown Oakland and was charged with resisting arrest and remaining present at the place of a riot. Highland General Hospital confirmed that Sabeghi was a patient in the intensive care unit there. Brian Kelly, who co-owns a brew pub with Sabeghi, said his business partner served as an Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said Sabeghi told him he was arrested and beaten by a group of policemen as he was leaving the protest to go home. "He told me he was in the hospital with a lacerated spleen and that the cops had jumped him," Kelly said. "They put him in jail, and he told them he was injured, and they denied him medical treatment for about 18 hours." The Oakland Police Department did not immediately return calls seeking comment. Sabeghi's name was listed by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office as one of more than 100 people arrested that night. The veterans group said in a statement that police struck Sabeghi with nightsticks on his hands, shoulders, ribs and back, and that in addition to a lacerated spleen he suffered from internal bleeding." read more... http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/04/us-protests-oakland-veteran-idUSTRE7A37A820111104 those injuries are a result of intentional brutality. that is indefensible.
(Reuters) - A former U.S. Army Ranger and Occupy Oakland protester was in intensive care on Friday after a veterans group said he was beaten by police during clashes with demonstrators this week.
The veteran, identified as Kayvan Sabeghi, was the second former American serviceman during the past two weeks to be badly hurt in confrontations between anti-Wall Street protesters and police in Oakland.
The group Iraq Veterans Against the War said Sabeghi was detained during disturbances that erupted late on Wednesday in downtown Oakland and was charged with resisting arrest and remaining present at the place of a riot.
Highland General Hospital confirmed that Sabeghi was a patient in the intensive care unit there.
Brian Kelly, who co-owns a brew pub with Sabeghi, said his business partner served as an Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said Sabeghi told him he was arrested and beaten by a group of policemen as he was leaving the protest to go home.
"He told me he was in the hospital with a lacerated spleen and that the cops had jumped him," Kelly said. "They put him in jail, and he told them he was injured, and they denied him medical treatment for about 18 hours."
The Oakland Police Department did not immediately return calls seeking comment. Sabeghi's name was listed by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office as one of more than 100 people arrested that night.
The veterans group said in a statement that police struck Sabeghi with nightsticks on his hands, shoulders, ribs and back, and that in addition to a lacerated spleen he suffered from internal bleeding."
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those injuries are a result of intentional brutality. that is indefensible.
This is shameful!
The fact that he was denied treatment is unconsionable as well. I am becoming more and more convinced that there is a large cohort of sadists within the ranks of the police.
I do AGREE with you, William! I can say the same about Italian police, they proved it again and again. Sadism seems to be one of the requirements to apply for such a job, unfortunately.
They do it all the time these days, send in cops to pose as
protesters and incite crimes and violence among peaceful protests
to discredit and marginalize the movement as a whole.
It's called false flag, it's deceptive and wrong, and it should be
illegal, but we catch them doing it all the time.
Check out these cops trying to infiltrate the Occupy Oakland
Occupy Oakland Closes the Port.
This post was modified from its original form on 05 Nov, 7:32
Oakland police will be the first to cry when their jobs are cut. What a shame
Ken D: That was a rather damning video. Those "protesters" were definitely the cops that were shown.
The whole thing is now out of hand. The anarchists are looming in the background just waiting to pounce and the cops are way overboard with their crowd control, also waiting to pounce. Grew up in Oakland and this is sickening to me. Mayor Qwan is at the root of what is going on, she needs to take a stand and stick to it. Instead she waivers back and forth, for the OWS protestors, then against, then backs the cops, then doesn't. How she got elected is beyond my comprehension. I wish they would take the whole thing down, start over in another place and begin again. The park where they have their tents was frequented by homeless people before this started and the cops were sent there many times to break up fights, disperse people, arrest drug dealings, and the like. Oakland has many other places where OWS can occupy and if need be, go home at night and come back the next day. I still say if you are breaking the law by camping in a city area, you need to follow the law and go home until the next day.
Man Shot to Death Near Occupy Oakland Camp
It is not clear whether this had anything to do with Occupy Oakland. NPR reported that the shooting arose out of a dispute between a protestor and a local business man. This article says that it was apparently sort of gang related.
This post was modified from its original form on 10 Nov, 22:48
thanks William
Here is another story about the Oakland shooting.
It appears that Mayor Qwan would like to use this as an excuse to shut down Occupy Oakland.
Last I heard the fellow who died had been staying at the camp for about 5 days. The shooter is still to be found. Oakland is full of crime, full of guns and it is not at all a surprise to me that a conflict was settled with this shooting. It is unthinkable that someone had to die there.
After the OPD sent a letter asking the OWS people to please dismantle the camp and move out of Oakland, as of last night, the tents were still there.
Is Oakland becoming Little Iraq?
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- 6 hours ago - alternet.org
Thanks for posting that article, Nyack. I fear that another such confrontation is in the offering.
This is only the beginning. It's not over yet as the show must go on. Thanks for the updated articles since I've missed most of the news.
First the bad news:
Then the good news:
Iraq War Veteran Hurt in Protests Leaves Hospital
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14 November 2011 Last updated at 16:45Occupy Oakland: Pre-dawn raid clears Frank Ogawa Plaza
Police have moved into a camp set up by Occupy protesters in Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza, dismantling tents and reportedly arresting 20 people.
The raid comes after police issued eviction warnings to the protesters.
Many demonstrators appeared to have left the camp and moved to an intersection, according to reports in local media and on Twitter.
A similar raid ended with police in riot gear arresting 50 people in Portland, Oregon on Sunday evening.
Police declared the Oakland plaza a "crime scene" shortly after Monday morning's arrests and cleared media from the area.
Hours before the raid, a legal adviser to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan resigned, at 02:00 via Twitter, saying he supported Occupy Oakland.
The protest has been marred in recent weeks by repeated outbreaks of violence and a shooting incident.
'Crime scene'
Police calls for protesters to "cease and desist" increased after the shooting of 25-year-old Kayode Ola Foster near the plaza on Thursday evening.
Foster's family confirmed to police that he had been a frequent resident of the Occupy Oakland encampment.
Oakland police said witnesses have told them that one of two suspects in the shooting stayed at the plaza, but they have not released the names of either suspect.
Even as officials blocked the streets around the camp, some demonstrators said they would return.
"I don't see how they're going to disperse us," Ohad Meyer, an Oakland resident told the Associated Press. "There are thousands of people who are going to come back."
Johnna Watson, a police spokeswoman, told reporters the area was now a crime scene.
"We don't want anyone to go through where we have to document property," she said.
Mayor Jean Quan and other officials reportedly toured the plaza with police after it had been cleared.
Ms Quan has come under criticism for her handling of the last attempt to clear the protesters, in which a Iraqi war veteran was wounded.
Scott Olsen, 24, suffered a skull fracture on 25 October and became a rallying point for protesters across the country.
'No riot here'
In Portland, Mayor Sam Adams, ordered the camp to be shut down on the grounds that "crime, especially reported assaults, has increased in the area around the camps".
Using loudspeakers, police warned that anyone who resisted orders to leave the parks and surrounding areas risked arrest and "may also be subject to chemical agents and impact weapons".
Demonstrators chanted "We are a peaceful protest", "I don't see no riot here, take off your riot gear" and "The whole world is watching".
The protest began peacefully, witnesses said, but there were confrontations and shouting as police in riot gear attempted to move people out of the squares.
Police also moved in to evict protesters camping in the cities of Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday.
Seventeen people were arrested in Denver, police said.
Occupy Wall Street is in its second month of protest against corporate greed and economic inequality.
Wonder when they will shut down the White House for "Fatal Shooting"?
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- 42 minutes ago - sfgate.com
This article is a live blog; it is still being updated. It has announced that the Deputy Mayor of Oakland has resigned now too.
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Kit - 8 hours ago - alternet.org
The article of Kit's is awesome.
Thank you for the info
After a long dormant period out of the media limelight, Occupy Oakland is back! And getting teargassed by the Oakland Police who are violating their policies and are therefore heading toward a federal takeover of their department...
Hey William - a shout out to you for support! Let us know how it's going man - the news is difficult to decipher!
for sure Lee. thanks William.
the group as it's getting too dangerous, so it seems. More than ever we need to reach the public in such a way as they see we are legit. & willing to back us, because when that happens, I'm sure the authorities will actually start listening.
Our causes are valid, so we want to ensure success -- or what's the point?


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Jess loved this old manor house, despite its state of disrepair. There were dozens of rooms where she and Daif, her grandfather's stable boy, spent hours exploring and going on quests. She never wanted things to change.
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See also: Max Shacknai Was Killed, According to Independent Experts
See also: Rebecca Zahau's Death Ruled Suicide; Max Shacknai's Death an Accident
See also: Jonah Shaknai's Son Pronounced Dead Just Days After Girlfriend's Death
Although independent investigators concluded Max Shacknai died from an assault, police in Coronado, California will not reopen the investigation into the 6-year-old's death.
Dina Shacknai released a statement calling the decision a "predetermined and politically expedient outcome," although the experts she hired concluded her son was likely a homicide victim.
Max, the son of Medicis Pharmaceutical CEO Jonah Shacknai, died at his father's Coronado, California mansion last year, just days after the body of 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau -- Jonah Shacknai's girlfriend -- was found naked, bound, and hanging from a balcony at the house.
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Max was in Zahau's care when he died after falling down stairs in the home, according to the findings of the medical examiner in San Diego County.
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'Occupied Spaces' Book
This limited edition book was first published in 2012. A collaboration with boutique publisher Here Press, with design by Ben Weaver and text by Naomi Colvin, this publication took aim at the UK's mainstream media and their coverage of the Occupy London protest. The book was chosen by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger to feature in the 3rd Volume of their celebrated series 'The History of the Photobook'.
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MGM Grand, Las Vegas - Matt Korobov (14-0, 9KOs) demolished Michael Walker (19-7-2, 12KOs) with a single counter hook in the first round of a middleweight fight. Walker barely made it to his feet. Referee Joe Cortez quickly waved it off as Walker stumbled into the ropes.
In a super bantamweight contest, Jesus Rojas (17-1, 12KOs)won a six round unanimous decision over Isaac Hidalgo (8-7-2, 1KOs). The scores were 59-55, 58-56 and 59-55. Rojas, now trained by Emanuel Steward, outworked and outboxed Hidalgo.
Mexican-American heavyweight prospect Eric Molina (17-1, 13KOs), who recently signed with promoter Don King, stopped Joseph Robotte (9-16-1, 3KOs) in the sixth and final round of their fight.
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This is the name chosen to represent the societies on this website. We are not a formal body, but an informal group of enthusiasts. In the main we represent the local and family history groups of the area, though lone researchers are also welcome to join us.
Our aim is to encourage the growth and development of interest in local and family history in North Staffordshire and South Cheshire by working together wherever we can. Sixteen successful one day fairs have been held at Alsager, Cheshire in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2008, Leek Staffs 2003, Congleton Cheshire 2004, Biddulph 2005, Audley 2006 Burslem 2007, Alsager 2008 & 2015, Kidsgrove 2009, Congleton 2010, Biddulph 2011, Burslem 2012 Audley 2013 and Sandbach in 2014
The next fair will be held on Saturday 8th October in Congleton Town Hall, 9.30am - 2pm. It is hoped that historical talks will take place in Congleton Museum on the day. Admission will be £1.00.
The group is not exclusive. We hope that other societies, groups will join us - many took part in the previous events. If your society or group wishes to be part of the group you will be welcome at our meetings. We work on the basis that all participants will play an equal part: jobs are not left to one or two individuals, but shared on a voluntary basis. At the same time, it is fully appreciated the main interests and concerns of members are their own societies and we intend to retain the informal nature of the group. Click HERE to see photo of presentation to Alsager School's 6th Form Pupils
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A State and Federal Government initiative to send emergency alerts to all mobile phones within a declared danger area was announced on Friday and will be introduced in time for the next summer bushfire season.
The alert system differs from the current practice which allows alerts to be sent to residents whose phone billing address is within an area where there is a danger.
The new system has been welcomed, but it has renewed calls for action to fix mobile phone blackspots in many parts of the Gippsland region.
Ralph Cooper, the owner and operator of the Best Friend Holiday Retreat near the Tarra Bulga National Park, says the emergency alert telephone warning system would be useless in his region which has no mobile phone reception.
"It just wouldn't happen because we've got no reception. It (the new alert system) has got to be applauded. It's a step in the right direction, but where there is no mobile coverage it's useless."
Mr Cooper says thousands of tourists visit the Tarra Bulga region every year and he is concerned about the lack of mobile phone reception in times of natural disasters or medical emergencies.
Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester says there are many parts of Gippsland where the new emergency alert technology will not be of benefit to residents and visitors due to poor or no mobile phone reception. While the mobile phone blackspots program has made some progress in improving mobile phone reception in Gippsland in recent years, Mr Chester says there are still many areas without a reliable signal.
"There are still some very noticeable areas and unfortuantely a lot of those areas aren't going to be economically viable for a lot of the telecommunications companies to come in and say 'we'll put a tower up there'. So I think it's going to need to be a partnership between the industry and the government."
Mr Chester says some of the Gippsland locations that have poor mobile phone reception are areas that are popular with visitors to the region.
"Some of those places have a massive increase in population during the holiday season, during the summer season which obviously is our biggest risk for bushfires. We need to make sure that people travelling to those areas have the opportunity to benefit from the new technology and I think that's our challenge in the next 12 months and beyond.
'If we are rolling out technology that can save lives I think we need to be fair to visitors and to locals alike and roll it out into areas where the greatest risk is."
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These companies often hoard cash in offshore subsidiaries, and in the past they have successfully lobbied for a tax holiday to repatriate cash at lower tax rates. The Baucus proposal would, among many changes, end this practice of tax deferral and impose a minimum tax of about 20 percent on overseas profits — whether those profits are repatriated to the United States or not.
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The 150 acres (60.7ha)approx. of land on which the home is situated comprises 118 acres(44.45ha)of top quality pasture which has 112.3acres east of the creek and 6acres of pasture west of the creek. the remaining 31.7acres (12.82ha)approx remains as bushland. As the property also has a dam and town water it is ideal for those wishing to establish their own hobby farm or market garden or simply wish to enjoy what country life has to offer.
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