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David Miranda Is Nobody's Errand Boy
When Glenn Greenwald's 28-year-old Brazilian partner was detained in London this summer while transporting documents related to the bombshell Edward Snowden story, many assumed he was unfairly roped into a situation he didn't understand. That couldn't be further from the truth.
David Miranda and I are debating whether or not to take off our shirts in the middle of a throbbing dance floor inside the heart of gay Rio de Janeiro. Silvery blue lights and men the size of sparrows swirl around us as we gauge the euphoria of the crowd. "It's not that kind of party, honey!" Miranda shouts hoarsely over the Brazilian dance mix of Ke$ha's "Die Young."
We opt instead to gulp the night air. We pound our cocktails and bound out of the split-level nightclub to chat and smoke on the cracked Portuguese-style pavement. A thin white man in his mid-thirties with birdy lips, piss-water blonde hair, and uncool jeans follows us out the door. Miranda and I bullshit with some fellow revelers on the patio: a pudgy art dealer, a redhead, and a bespectacled line cook who has a "thing" for Rhoda Morgenstern. The man with the bird lips lingers close by. Miranda, 28, dusky, pillow mouthed, chiseled, with dark wine eyes, is too fine a specimen not to be cruised tonight, but Bird Lips is standing a little too close and appears, by the jutting of his chin and the self-conscious tilt of his head, to be eavesdropping on our conversation.
Miranda and I shoot each other a wary glance and move back inside. Just as we are about to lose ourselves in a Cher dubstep-banger, Bird Lips perches behind us, unmoving, and begins to stare. We traverse the dance floor; he follows.
What do you call someone who believes they are being spied on? Paranoid? What if that person's not only been spied on, but also already detained by an intelligence agency? When they hush their voice in a crowd or hold a waiter, cabbie, or a stranger at a dance club in a prolonged gaze of suspicion, do you chalk it up to being traumatized or just overcautious?
If you are David Miranda, then on Nov. 3, the British government classified you in legal brief as a terrorist and a conduit for espionage. You've been detained in a Heathrow Airport bunker under the Terrorism Act of 2000 and interrogated for nine hours without a lawyer by unnamed U.K. officials for transporting classified documents between Berlin and Brazil. If you are David Miranda, there's reason to believe the CIA has broken into your house and stolen your laptop. You've been called a spy, a hero, a lawn boy, and a drug mule. Your husband is Glenn Greenwald, MI5 agents have the passwords to your smartphone, and British border agents have probably logged on to your Skype account, so you have every reason in the world to worry why this guy is standing so fucking close to you.
Miranda whips around, squares his shoulders, thrusts his face to Bird Lips' ear, and demands to know: "What are you doing? Are you following us?" Bird Lips gets ruffled and bolts out of the club not to be seen again. "That wasn't just me, right? He was following us!" Miranda insists over the pounding techno, "I'm not crazy, right?"
When news of Miranda's nine-hour detention at Heathrow broke on Aug. 19 and turned him into a household name overnight, cable news pundits and thousands of tweets percolated with speculation and far-flung theories about how willing a player Miranda was in the Glenn Greenwald–Edward Snowden surveillance scandal that had been making headlines for months.
One of those theories posited that the gaping social chasm between Miranda's and Greenwald's backgrounds suggested that the highly educated American lawyer turned whistle-blowing journalist with a background in the ruthless world of New York corporate law had cynically manipulated his younger, slum-raised, hunky, ostensibly ignorant boyfriend into being an unwitting human courier dispatched on a highly dangerous mission.
"I don't mean to be unkind, but he was a mule," Jeffrey Toobin, chief legal analyst for CNN, told Anderson Cooper in the days following Miranda's detention. "He was given something — he didn't know what it was — from one person to another at the other end of an airport." Toobin said he believed the U.K. government was totally justified in detaining Miranda and that the Brazilian native "was lucky that they used the terrorism law" because he was ultimately not arrested.
After I spent several weeks with Miranda and Greenwald in and around their home in the upscale, artist-friendly Rio neighborhood of Gavea over the last month, one thing has become very clear: David Miranda knew exactly what he was doing. To believe he was played as some type of dupe or mule by Greenwald not only ignores the real nature of their relationship but also assumes that there's some safer way to transport sensitive documents across the globe. Is there any device more fail-safe and secure than the person you love the most? Does Apple make that sort of product?
Miranda knew very well that he was traveling from Rio to Berlin to see Greenwald's reporting partner, documentarian Laura Poitras, and that he would be returning through the U.K., all the time carrying a heavily encrypted flash drive directly related to the trove of documents that former and now notorious CIA employee Edward Snowden had vacuumed from the National Security Agency and had given to Greenwald earlier in the year.
As to the relative risk of this adventure, Greenwald and Miranda knew that others who made the same trek were, in the eyes of the authorities, much "hotter" and more conspicuous than Miranda. "Numerous Guardian employees who have worked heavily on this story flew in and out of Heathrow multiple times without incident," Greenwald says, "including when they were carrying materials." Three weeks before Miranda's detention, Poitras herself — who met with Snowden in Hong Kong and wrote numerous articles about the documents — flew to London, entering the U.K., and had no problems. Why would they stop someone much more peripheral like Miranda? the couple reasoned.
"I have been involved in every aspect of Glenn's life, why wouldn't I be a part of this?" Miranda asserts over lunch at a fashion mall in Rio's São Conrado neighborhood the next afternoon. "I think what Snowden did was heroic. Glenn and Laura's reporting is so important. It caused a serious debate about privacy and internet freedom in my country and around the world. I'm so proud to be able to play any role at all in that. I'd go to jail for that."
His already throaty voice is a little huskier from singing along to Justin Timberlake the night before. Miranda has the day off from a cramped school week that includes a major group project on branding and marketing for a local café. Miranda is in his final year at university, where he is majoring in communications. He would ideally like to become a marketing and communications specialist for a major media company, particularly one with a thriving video game department.
"Glenn and I have talked all the time about what doing these stories would do to our lives. Since we met, I've pushed him and supported him," Miranda says. He starts counting on his fingers: "I've helped him negotiate contracts; I make sure he gets paid what he deserves — Glenn just wants to work and sometimes will do it for cheap." Miranda's list continues with ascending urgency. "When Glenn publishes NSA stories in foreign countries, I help reach out to press so the stories get the most exposure. For a while we considered starting our own website to publish the NSA documents; when Glenn thought The Guardian was taking too long to publish the first NSA story, I told him he had to make them know he would go somewhere else to publish if they delayed too much."
"I was in Hong Kong," Greenwald says, referring to his first meeting with Snowden in early June. "We were eager to have the world learn about this spying as soon as possible. And we didn't want any fear-driven institutional constraints getting in the way." Greenwald credits Miranda with pushing him to hold The Guardian's feet to the fire and not delay on this bombshell publication.
"I had my chat box open on my laptop while talking to Guardian editors, and I had David on the phone in my ear, and he's dictating what to write to them word by word. It was something like, 'Please consider this my resignation if the article is not published by 5 p.m. today,' and I was like, 'Oh my god, David, I cannot say that!'" But Miranda kept pushing. Greenwald sent a more compromising, though still firm message. Before 5 p.m. that day, the first NSA story was published on The Guardian's website.
"David is a grown, 28-year-old man," Greenwald says, visibly bristling at the accusation that Miranda was an exploited errand boy. "He is the most insanely willful person I have ever met; it makes me crazy sometimes. He was an orphan and had to take care of himself very early on in a way few people do. So it's absurd to think that I could manipulate him into anything he didn't want to do. A lot of this is pure racism, classism, and ethnocentricity: Some white Americans see a nonwhite Brazilian who grew up poor and doesn't speak perfect English, and so disgustingly assume that he's dumb, naïve, and easily manipulated."
Miranda's life has been totally transformed and taken a radically different course since he laid his beach towel down next to Greenwald's on a Rio de Janeiro beach eight years ago. "We knew we were fucking with power," Miranda says.
But what has shocked both men is that somebody engaged in a journalistic endeavor like Miranda could be labeled a terrorist by the U.K. "I guess we should have known," says Greenwald. "This is a country with a history of repressing press freedoms, that has no constitutional guarantee of a free press. I mean, they still have a queen. Is there anything more primitive and authoritarian than a fucking monarchy?"
Just how much bad blood simmers between these two men and the British government comes to the fore as Miranda recounts here, for the first time, the granular details of his Kafkaesque detention in Heathrow Airport. The news of this detention flashed globally on Aug. 19, but the chain of events that led to this incident began in an unkempt Hong Kong hotel room months earlier.
It was June when Snowden, Greenwald, and Poitras were working out of Snowden's cramped, littered Hong Kong hotel room with Guardian reporter Ewan MacAskill, pushing out the most explosive stories about government overreach since the Pentagon Papers. Snowden offered Greenwald some advice before he headed back Brazil with a cache of NSA documents: Make a copy and give them to someone Greenwald trusts with his life. There needed to be contingencies, Snowden told Greenwald — a backup plan should Greenwald's archive be damaged, confiscated, or if the exiled NSA contractor should ever be captured or disappeared.
"There's only one person who fits that description, of course," Greenwald says, reaching across the outdoor dinner table to Miranda. The floppy tropical fronds of the restaurant veranda hang motionless in the dank Brazilian dusk as Greenwald lightly brushes Miranda's fingertips with his own. Miranda, sitting in front of a roiling fondue bowl, scrunches his lips sideways and nods with a cocksure smirk to Greenwald. "That's right!" declares Miranda.
From Hong Kong, Greenwald told Miranda by Skype — they had not yet had reason to suspect their conversations would be monitored — he would be taking Snowden's advice and in a few days would email Miranda a heavily encrypted copy of the NSA archive to be stored on a thumb drive or a cloud, in a place that nobody but Miranda would know. Miranda would not be able to access the documents — he would not have the encryption key — but there would always be an available copy should something happen to Greenwald's.
"And that's when it all started," Miranda says in a once-upon-a-time tone.
It was with this Skype conversation, the couple believe, that Miranda became a target not only of government surveillance but intimidation to suppress Greenwald's journalism. "The whole thing is disgusting," Miranda snorts.
Miranda started making arrangements to fly to Berlin and stay with Poitras. The simplest reason, Miranda explains: "Laura doesn't like to talk on the phone." And there was plenty to talk about — primarily movie rights. Studios started courting Miranda, Greenwald, and Poitras for rights to their story since Poitras' first images of an unshaven Snowden began to saturate the news cycle. (All signs point to a Sony-helmed production with Ed Norton perhaps playing Greenwald; Greenwald says he doesn't care much which actor is chosen, but half-jokingly adds that only David Miranda could play David Miranda — "Who else could be so smoldering and broody?") He planned to go Berlin to meet with Poitras and her editors to strategize on getting the best and "most serious" version of their story made into a movie, Miranda says.
"Plus," Miranda adds playfully, "I needed a vacation!" Miranda originally planned to accompany Greenwald to Hong Kong in June but stayed in Rio to complete his finals. And there was some other business related to Greenwald and Poitras' journalism that Miranda could help out with on this trip.
Originally, The Guardian was going to fly a staffer to Berlin in July to courier documents between Poitras and Greenwald for stories they were working on together. On the day scheduled for the staffer's flight to Germany, he instead asked Poitras to just FedEx the documents to Greenwald. "The Guardian had just destroyed their hard drives under orders from the [Government Communication Headquarters], and the U.K. government was becoming increasingly threatening," Greenwald says, a mild sympathy in his voice. "I think this employee's supervisor was just totally freaked out." The sympathy quickly gives way to a more incredulous agitation: "But FedEx-ing classified documents? That was obviously not something Laura or I were willing to do." (When asked about this series of events, a spokesperson for The Guardian said over email that the paper does not comment on its "process.")
Poitras was also angered and disturbed by the suggestion. Guardian higher-ups eventually recanted and said they would be willing to have their employee fly to Berlin, but Poitras was unwilling to deal further with The Guardian over the issue. That left the question of how Greenwald would get the materials he needed. "David was going to Berlin to talk to Laura anyways," Greenwald says, "and so he suggested that he just take the documents. Laura trusts David completely, so that became the new plan."
Because Miranda was performing a service to support articles that were to be written for The Guardian, the newspaper paid for his trip and made his travel arrangements through London. Miranda flew to Berlin on Aug. 18 and did the typical club and upscale restaurant scene with Poitras and some of her friends in and around Alexanderplatz. Poitras and Miranda hashed out some details about movie rights — she was skeptical of signing anything that gives big studios access to her film archive or work.
Miranda decided toward the end of the trip to catch a later flight into London, where there was a short layover in Heathrow before continuing onto Rio. "I called the airline to change flights," Miranda recalls, "and they wouldn't let me. They didn't give me any details, they just kept telling me they couldn't do it. I knew the morning of my flight something bad was going to happen; I could feel it."
Miranda and Greenwald now suspect the U.K. government was lying in wait to grab Miranda at Heathrow, knowing that he could be carrying documents or data from Poitras. Indeed, even the Obama White House was given an advance warning of Miranda's detention but it isn't clear with how much lead time. "There was a heads-up that was provided by the British government," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said shortly after Miranda was grabbed.
"We didn't tell anyone about my travel plans," Miranda says. "Only me, Glenn, and Laura and a couple of people at The Guardian knew, so obviously the only way they could know what I was doing on this trip is if they were going through our emails and Skype logs." Miranda's suspicions that his detention was predetermined were confirmed last week at the initial hearing on his lawsuit against the British government. The government told the court it distributed a red-flag Port Circulation Sheet to its border agents in anticipation of Miranda's arrival:
"Intelligence indicates that Miranda is likely to be involved in espionage activity which has the potential to act against the interests of U.K. national security … We assess that Miranda is knowingly carrying material the release of which would endanger people's lives … Additionally the disclosure, or threat of disclosure, is designed to influence a government and is made for the purpose of promoting a political or ideological cause. This therefore falls within the definition of terrorism…"
When Miranda's plane landed, he says, the flight staff announced that everyone would have to show their passports as they exited the plane and crossed onto the tarmac at Heathrow. Miranda queued up, showed his passport, and was immediately taken by two border agents to a sterile, white, windowless room several floors below the departure gates, isolated from the airport's hustle and bustle.
"I thought I knew exactly what was happening," Miranda says flatly. "I knew because Laura had talked about being detained before on other assignments and I just thought to myself, I will try to be as vague as possible." Inside the neon-washed holding room furnished only with a table and four chairs, the agents confiscated Miranda's bags, including a laptop, cell phone, and encrypted flash drive. Under Section 7 of the U.K.'s anti-terrorism law, officials have the right to examine property and search anything the detained person is carrying.
Once Miranda was seated across from the two agents, he told them he knew why they had detained him. "It's because of the work my partner is doing," Miranda recalls, voicing the same braggadocio and confidence he showed at the nightclub. "So what do you want from me?"
"What sort of work is your partner doing?" one agent, who identified himself as Two-Oh-Five-Oh-Six, inquired with a seemingly benign curiosity.
"Come on," Miranda responded, agitated.
"We don't know who your partner is," the agent replied flatly.
Miranda asked if he could have a lawyer; the agents told him he could speak to a lawyer who would be limited to explaining the Terrorism Act to him. What was his lawyer's name? They would ring him straight away.
"Glenn Greenwald," Miranda snapped.
"Does he practice law in the U.K.?"
Miranda bluffed and said Greenwald did practice in the U.K., but after one of the agents consulted a registry over the phone they found that Greenwald was not, in fact, a solicitor in Her Majesty's kingdom. The agents told Miranda he could have an attorney from their own approved list, but that they could only speak by phone and would not be present for the rest of the interrogation. Miranda refused: "I told them no, because I did not trust their chosen lawyers or their phones. I also thought when a lawyer Glenn hired or someone from The Guardian did finally come to meet me, the agents would tell me I already had a lawyer and not allow me to talk to anyone else."
One of the agents asked Miranda for the passwords to his cell phone, laptop, and flash drive. When Miranda did not respond, agents grew sterner and told him again that under the Terrorism Act he could be sent to prison for not cooperating with their requests. Miranda relented.
"I became scared at that moment because I know that people get disappeared by the U.S. and U.K. governments if they claim you're a terrorist," he says. "I didn't have the encryption keys to allow access to the documents, but I did tell them my passwords to my personal phone and laptop."
Miranda's laptop browser was open to his email. His cell phone contained everything one's cell phone typically does: contacts, emails, texts, pictures — the type of pictures you take with your romantic partner. The agents also took from Miranda's backpack a piece of paper that had one of the passwords for the outer shell of the flash drive, not to core data, say Miranda and Greenwald. That flash drive is the focus of Scotland Yard's ongoing criminal investigation against Miranda, British officials say. In a statement given after Miranda's release, Oliver Robbins, deputy national security adviser for the U.K.'s Cabinet Office, said the flash drive contained "approximately 58,000 highly classified U.K. intelligence documents" that were "entirely of misappropriated" materials. Robbins chastised Miranda for exercising "very poor judgment."
Miranda and Greenwald both claim the U.K. government is lying about what that one seized password enables. "It is impossible that they could have access to the documents," Greenwald insists. "David did have a piece of paper, and it did have a password on it, but it did not allow access to the actual documents because there were multiple encryption walls around it. All the password allows access to is a list of the documents and, in some cases, a summary of them. They are lying when they claim it allowed access to the documents themselves, trying, as usual, to scare their public into submitting to their assertions of radical authority."
When the agents got the passwords from Miranda, all pretenses collapsed and the interrogation began in earnest. We can only rely on Miranda's retelling of the subsequent hours spent in the Heathrow interrogation room, since U.K. officials have never released audio or visual from the detention. Indeed, Miranda says when he asked if agents were recording, they said there was no recording allowed during the initial interrogation under the Terrorism Act — though the words "terrorism," "bomb," "weapon," "murder," and "destruction" were not mentioned by the agents, nor were any of the typical nouns often associated with endangering the lives of others. "They never once asked me a single question about terrorism," Miranda says.
A rotating tag team of seven agents asked Miranda questions ranging from his personal life with Greenwald to his family background to his own politics. Miranda's request for a translator was brushed aside, and all nine hours were spent being interrogated in English.
"First they tried to pit me against Glenn," Miranda recalls. The agents asked Miranda whom he went to the nightclubs with in Berlin. "Boyfriends," Miranda replied, meaning male friends. Did Glenn know about these boyfriends? "No." How would Glenn feel if he knew Miranda was out with the other men? "Fine." They asked if Miranda had been in contact with Edward Snowden. "No." Were his family members political? "No." They asked about Miranda's political views. Did he support the street protests in Brazil? "Yes." Did he participate in the protests? "No."
"They offered me water, but they didn't pour it front of me," Miranda says with a note of pride. "So I said no. I didn't trust them for a second, I never had a drink of water while I was there, and I never got up to go the bathroom."
Back in Brazil, Greenwald was asleep at home. "I get a phone call at 6:30 in the morning, which you know is bad news," Greenwald says. A man who gave no name identified himself as a "security official at Heathrow Airport" and said Miranda was in detention under the Terrorism Act. He told Greenwald that Miranda had been held at that point for three hours and that they could hold him up to nine hours, at which point they could arrest him, release him, or ask a judge for additional time to interrogate.
"I look it up, and it's, like, less than 3% of people are held for more than an hour under that law, and less than .3% are held for more than three hours, and if you are held for more than an hour you often end up arrested," Greenwald adds. "I definitely thought they were going to arrest him or haul him before a judge to seek more detention time, which would not go in our favor." The interrogation reached its fifth hour when an agent came to tell Miranda that they had contacted Greenwald.
Greenwald spent the next several hours maniacally stress-eating Doritos, emailing everyone he knew at The Guardian, and chatting with Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras online. Between 2006 and 2010, Poitras herself was detained and interrogated more than 40 times after producing an Oscar-nominated documentary called The Oath about the U.S. occupation of Iraq and while working on a film about extremists in Yemen called My Country, My Country. "Ironically," Poitras tells me via email, "the detentions stopped following an article Glenn wrote about an incident at Newark airport where agents threatened to handcuff me for taking notes because they said my 'pen was a weapon.'"
Poitras says that the most invasive border crossing she experienced occurred in 2010 at John F. Kennedy Airport: "They seized my laptop, phone, and camera and held them for 41 days," Poitras recalls. "When I got my equipment back, the photos on one device had been viewed and a slide show had been created."
After eight hours and 20 minutes, Miranda recalls, he was allowed to meet lawyers from The Guardian. After exactly nine hours, Miranda was released and told he would not be immediately charged. Miranda was told to wait in the customs inspection lounge while the agents tried to find a direct flight back for him to Rio. Miranda asked that his personal electronic devices be returned but was told they were now evidence in a pending criminal investigation and he could not have them back until the investigation was closed.
Another two hours passed with the British agents still holding his passport. The agent arranging Miranda's travel then told him there were no more flights back to Rio that evening and that he would have to go through customs, stay the night in London, make his own arrangements with his own funds, and return to the airport to fly out the next day.
"That's when I went crazy, because I was sure that if I walked out of the airport, they would find some reason to arrest me and disappear me in some prison," Miranda says. "Also, they had just spent nine hours holding me as a possible terrorist, and now they wanted to force me to enter their country and walk free inside of it?"
He then did what H.L. Mencken once referred to as "hoist[ing] the black flag." Miranda began to scream: "I am a Brazilian citizen!" The few dazed travelers coming in from their evening flights, waiting to have their passports stamped began to turn their heads. "I'm being held here against my will!" The customs agents froze. "I want to go home! They will not let me go home! They took my passport!" Within 20 minutes of Miranda's screaming episode, the agents miraculously booked a direct flight back to Rio that night and returned his passport at the last moment as he entered the business class cabin.
"The day after I got home, Glenn yelled for me to come into the living room," Miranda recalls. Greenwald had logged into his own Skype account. "Look," Greenwald said, pointing to his contact list. A little green dot appeared and announced "David Miranda is online" but David Miranda was not online — he was standing next to Greenwald as he got dressed, getting ready to go to school. Miranda had not signed into his Skype account since his laptop was confiscated at Heathrow. "Those assholes in London were going through my Skype account," Miranda says.
Now Miranda and Greenwald are fighting back, challenging the legality of Miranda's detention, and they had their first hearing in front of a three-panel judge in London on Nov. 6. Miranda's lawyer, Matthew Ryder, argued that he was carrying source materials for journalism, which was in the "global public interest." For the U.K. government to invoke the Terrorism Act in order to search and seize his materials was using the law for an "improper purpose" and created a "disproportionate interference with Miranda's right to freedom of expression."
Ryder argued if the U.K. wanted to stop Miranda at Heathrow, they could have done so under normal law, which would have given him some protections as a journalist. The legal proceedings could drag on for months, especially as Greenwald's latest revelations involve the British government. Greenwald's recent departure from The Guardian has freed him from the draconian British press laws that could have hampered the U.K.-based daily from breaking this new round of stories.
"There's a good chance that, at the lowest level, David won't win his court case in the U.K.," Greenwald says, plunking a skewer of raw shrimp into his fondue bowl.
"Don't say that," Miranda says, clicking his cheek in disapproval. "I hate it when you talk like that. It's so negative."
"It's just that it's a post-9/11 era," Greenwald says gently. "I've just seen all these judges who are so subservient, who will get down on their knees in deference every time the state utters the words 'terrorism' or 'national security.'" He adds, to get back in Miranda's good favor, "They're trying to make an act of journalism into terrorism."
If you ask Miranda about the dynamics between him and Greenwald (and the 10 stray dogs the couple have adopted), Miranda describes himself as the alpha. "I'm the pack leader," Miranda tells me, grinning. "A son of Apollo." Miranda tends to dominate through his moods; he's quick to show his disdain, annoyance, or disappointment. "I'm a very emotional person," Miranda says, putting both tan hands to his Armani-clad chest. "Like, you will always know how I'm feeling and when I'm feeling it." Greenwald, a former champion high school debater, city council candidate, and courtroom litigator, tries to counter Miranda's occasional brooding or temper with point-by-point arguments to the contrary.
"We yell when we fight," Miranda admits, "but we never break up. There's something in the universe that says we have to be together. I never met anyone like Glenn — he's my husband and I don't know where either of us would be without each other." Miranda says early on in their relationship, when he was "young and more bull-headed," he would devolve into fits of jealousy and despair when Greenwald would have to travel to New York to wrap up his law practice.
"I have attachment and abandonment issues because of how I grew up," Miranda says with the self-awareness and diagnostic certainty that comes with long hours in a shrink's office.
Miranda grew up in Jacarezinho, a favela town of 60,000 inhabitants, built along the railroad tracks of northern Rio. Miranda's mother worked in Jacarezinho as a prostitute. He has four other brothers from unknown fathers whose whereabouts he's unfamiliar with. When he was 5 years old, his mother died of ovarian cancer derived from a sexually contracted disease, and he was sent to live with one of his mother's friends, who also worked as a prostitute.
"She slapped me the day of my mother's funeral because I wasn't crying," Miranda recalls. "I didn't really know my mom, so I didn't know what I was losing." Miranda doesn't have many memories of his mother — the few he does are of passing kindness: extra treats when she would come home in the mornings, singing songs, letting him play with a bunny rabbit while she attended to men. The woman Miranda lived with had several sons and daughters who became Miranda's surrogate siblings.
Miranda formed the closest bond to one of his adopted teenager sisters, a moody, defiant young girl who used to bring home books about witchcraft and love spells. The two would pore over the occult, Greek myths, and listen to early '90s rock together. When she began to pull away from the family, Miranda, at age 13, dropped out of school, and moved into a run-down apartment with some of his older cousins to claim his own independence. "I kept reading books and magazines on the bus when I'd go to work." Miranda worked through his teenage years at a car wash, handing out sidewalk flyers for a local dentist, then working for the dentist directly. Eventually he moved into a sales position for the Brazilian lottery. "I was actually very happy at that time because I was free and totally in charge of my life." But to this day Miranda refuses to set foot on a Rio bus, thanks to too many days spent riding in cramped buses with too little money.
The winter Miranda would turn 20, he met a Jewish-American lawyer on an Ipanema beach. Their courtship was intense and speedy, with the couple moving in together by week's end. After two years of living together, they became common-law husbands.
Eventually Greenwald insisted that Miranda go back to school. "I just thought it was a tragic waste of intelligence for David not to continue his education," Greenwald says. "He didn't want to be reliant on me, and I didn't want that either." It took several years, but Miranda completed high school and is now in his final year of university.
At dinner, Greenwald and Miranda talk more about Heathrow and the detention; they rehash a few of Miranda's zingers on a recent interview with Anderson Cooper. Whatever squabbles the couple has had in their eight years together — there have been some — they are still as bonded and protective over each other as ever.
"Heathrow was no big deal compared to the 12 hours I thought I was going to be murdered in my house when Glenn disappeared," Miranda says with a flustered laugh. Greenwald begins to blush a bit.
Miranda spent a Sunday evening in early June partying until daylight: partly to celebrate Greenwald's triumph for publishing the first NSA story, partly to avoid being alone in the house while Greenwald was in Hong Kong. This is the same weekend Greenwald told Miranda over Skype he was giving him his own copy of the NSA archives for safekeeping. Miranda went out for the evening and returned home at 6 a.m. He fed the 10 dogs, which bark, growl, and snarl at the slightest noise emitting from inside or around the couple's large two-story house. Miranda plopped down at the kitchen table, checked his email on his laptop, and then dragged himself upstairs for a power nap. Four hours later, Miranda groggily walked downstairs and his laptop was gone.
"I looked everywhere, for over an hour, and I couldn't find it," Miranda says. "Then I thought, OK, someone broke in while I was asleep." Miranda assumed that perhaps it was someone he was friendly with. "Maybe it was someone who knew I was married to Glenn and wanted to make money by breaking into our house and getting one of our laptops." But how did they get past his dogs? That's when Miranda started to get scared, but he didn't want to throw Greenwald's focus with talk of black-op home invasions.
Miranda went to bed early that evening and awoke the next morning to banging on his front door. Two men who said they were from the electric company came to shut the power off. "They said we were late on our bill, which is impossible because we're never late." He showed the men bills to no avail. The power went off. When Miranda called the electric company from his cell phone, the representative said their account was up to date but had some hold on it she could not undo. Greenwald was still in the air, unreachable on his flight between Dubai and Rio. Adding to Miranda's anxiety was Snowden's unknown whereabouts at the time — he had gone into hiding 48 hours prior.
"I spent the next 10 hours at home, with my dogs, with no electricity, waiting for Glenn to come home," Miranda says. "But maybe he wasn't going to come home! I started going crazy. I thought anything could happen to me, like bad things, and it could look like an accident or whatever. I stayed up all night in the dark."
Greenwald arrived the following morning to a frantic Miranda. "I thought they got Snowden," Miranda said, near tears. "I thought they got you."
Greenwald thought it was a strange series of events but nothing like the sort of paranoid nightmare Miranda imagined. He dismissed Miranda's consternation with a hug and some soothing words.
"Looking back," Greenwald says, tilting his wine, a bit repentant and conciliatory, "I realize that David's assumptions were more rational than mine. I didn't want us to become those paranoid, creepy people who attribute every inexplicable event in their lives to the CIA." This change of perspective came after he mentioned the events to one of The Guardian's lawyers, who told him that "he had talked to all these people in the intelligence community and he had heard that the CIA has one of the most robust presences in Rio and that the CIA station chief in Rio is 'notoriously aggressive.'"
With Greenwald's admission, Miranda looks pleased and vindicated and orders the check. "Ultimately, as harrowing and unjust as it was, the U.K. actually did us a favor," Greenwald says as we head toward the car. "They revealed how abusive the U.S. and U.K. can be with power, which is a major point of the reporting I'm doing; they humanized the story, and they gave a platform for my charming and admirable husband to speak out."
While Scotland Yard has been threatening a criminal charge to be brought against Miranda for months now, it's unlikely any formal charges will be made, stemming in part from the fact that the British government has not been able to hack inside the encrypted flash drive. If the U.K. government was able to break into the flash drive and attempted to charge Miranda with espionage, it's highly unlikely the Brazilian government would extradite him.
In the meantime, Miranda is not changing his plans. "I'm going to finish university next year and then I might take some post-graduate classes in journalism," Miranda says. Then he plans to enter to enter the job market as a branding and communications specialist.
"We know we are probably under constant surveillance," Miranda says, as we pile into the couple's cherry red Jeep, "but we don't give a fuck. We're not going to be stupid."
"But we're not going to live our lives in fear," he adds as the car pulls away. "Now everyone in the world is watching, bitches!"


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Chapter Summary: Shouldn't something be wrong with this? I thought to myself, but no matter how hard I searched, I could find nothing amiss. It was only Cat; she was my best friend--and a damn good kisser. --Maybe I should explore... Just what else would she allow me to do?
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In the end, it's not my job to be cool.
As a writer, my job is to simply just be in the presence of cool things—I mean, think about it. JK Rowling didn't really go to Hogwarts, she just wrote the biography of its problematic wunderkind.
So, I'm not too alarmed by how insanely cool my friends are—maybe a little intimidated or a little bit in awe. But definitely not alarmed. They are over there, doing their thing, and I'm over here, with my glasses and my notebook and my frumpy sweaters.
When you first move into the dorms, and you have your first fire drill, there is always a dark thought in the back of your mind. They tell you the fire alarm could go off at any time and you should always be prepared. Be ready to go outside at a moment's notice – don't take anything except your keys, just go because the dorm could be about to collapse. When they tell you that everyone always thinks, but what if I'm in the shower? Of course, you have to go outside anyway, no matter what.
Winter Term, like the men's cologne I received from my grandmother last Christmas, is a gift I didn't really know what to do with.
Well, I'm still here. In Belfast, that is. While many people finish up their study abroad and are ready to start up school again in the winter, I'm on a different track. I keep getting emails from C of I people welcoming me home, and have to answer them with a deferral, explaining that I actually won't be back until Spring term. Not that I mind, I like getting C of I emails. It reminds me that I have a spot waiting for me.
Let me just say that at first, I was not ready to come back to school after break. Don't get me wrong – I love winter term. It's just that this break seemed so…short. Maybe that's because I slept for at least half of the first week I was home, but probably not. Or maybe because I wasn't looking forward to leaving for Paris once I got back. But anyway, now that I'm back, I'm starting to get into the swing of things again.
Never, ever, trust me to save your life.
Sure, there are a lot of things that you can count on me for—unnecessary Star Trek trivia, poorly-timed slow clapping, lofty sarcastic asides, etcetera, etcetera—but, when the going gets tough and you find yourself without a pulse, do not call me. Unless you want the last thing you hear in this lifetime to be my indifferently sighed "ah, jeez, that's gross."
But, anyways, Happy New Year, I guess.
I'm a little late on posting this. I was in the middle of Lord of the Rings marathon and kind of forgot that life existed outside of Middle-earth and my bed for a few days. I'm not going to apologize because I literally regret nothing.
So, let's get started. Entirely in-relation to my week in Middle-earth, this week's post is dedicated to my main man, J.R.R. Tolkien. J Tolks, as I call him.
So…finals, am I right?
This is my fifth round of finals and, to be honest with you, I am not a fan. I disagree with the premise of them. Mainly because I've spent my entire life with Harry Potter, so I know how easily final exams can be cancelled. Hogwarts cancelled final exams ALL THE TIME—too bad if you've spent weeks studying for your advanced potion-making final, Harry Potter discovered the power of friendship or whatever and now exams are cancelled.
It's wet and windy in Belfast today, and what hint there was of the sun has been gone since before 4. After a seminar this morning, and a poetry seminar tonight, I'm back in my room, with my back to the radiator. C of I is about to plunge into finals, and it's a little strange to not have the same encroaching deadlines. Since my five essays aren't due until Jan. 12th, I've only got two of them in progress. The poetry essays will get a start tomorrow though, so that my thoughts will have enough time to stew over the Christmas holiday.
You can tell when the season has come. The number of people in your morning class with coffee in hand has doubled, if not tripled. Eyes are red, with darker and darker circles underneath. Everyone is wearing sweatpants and pajamas to classes and no one even cares. Yes, it's easy to tell when Dead Week is upon us and finals approach more quickly than anyone would like to acknowledge. In fact, this past Dead Week, I had to pull an almost-all-nighter to write a paper and stayed up later than I have ever previously had to while doing homework.
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Title says it all. My main preference in music is Progressive House (Approaching Nirvana mainly) so I was wondering if somebody that owned both pairs could vouch in whether it was a good switch, or any other headphones that would be better. If it's not worth it, I'll be buying an amp, maybe the E5 or the E6, I still need to know which one is better, because it seems like they are the same amp.
Is it worth changing from the Sony MDR-ZX100s to Sennheiser HD 419s?
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I had the ZX100 once - I tore out the awful drivers and replaced them with half decent ones and gave it away.
The HD419 is a COLOSSAL upgrade over the ZX100.
I've auditioned it a number of times and it's one of the best sounding in it's price range.
For the HD419 you don't need an amp, unless you want to turn the volume down on your phone/ipod/mp3 player to save it's battery life.
I am springing for a pair of Panasonic RP-HTF600-S headphones (It was on the summer 2013 buying guide) because looking at the reviews from this site, I saw that the bass was underwhelming for the 419s, and bass is one of my main priorities. I am definitely buying the FiiO E6 amp because the way that I listen to music can cause a lot interference. Any thoughts or suggestions of other headphones that are better at the same price range?


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Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams, who has backed record stimulus, said he favors a slowing in bond buying later this year as the U.S. economy shows signs of picking up.
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke "laid out a timetable for our securities purchases, which includes reducing them later this year and ending them around the middle of next year, assuming our forecasts for the economy hold true," Williams, who doesn't vote on policy this year, said in Portland, Oregon. "I view Chairman Bernanke's timetable to still be the best course forward."
Treasury yields hit two-year highs on Aug. 22 amid speculation the Federal Open Market Committee this month will reduce its $85 billion in monthly bond buying. Policy makers are weighing when to begin tapering large-scale asset purchases known as quantitative easing, which they have pledged to maintain until the job market improves substantially.
"The unemployment rate and a number of other labor market indicators, such as payroll job gains, point to continued progress in the labor market," Williams said to Portland community leaders. "Clearly, we are getting closer to meeting our test of substantial improvement in the labor market."
Williams said the unemployment rate, which dropped to 7.4 in July from 10 percent in October 2009, has probably overstated progress in the labor market. Employers probably added 180,000 jobs last month and the jobless rate held at the more than four-year low of 7.4 percent, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists ahead of a government report on Sept. 6.
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Most recent
For the attached file, the results of sizeToContents are inconsistent.
After the first sizeToContent, the window width is 1 pixel wider than expected.
After the second sizeToContent, the window width is correct.
You can repeat the above by click SizeToC button after resize the whole window.
I know this is caused by the following code in
content/base/src/nsDocumentViewer.cpp (about line 2700):
/* presContext's size was calculated in twips and has already been
rounded to the equivalent pixels (so the width/height calculation
we just performed was probably exact, though it was based on
values already rounded during ResizeReflow). In a surprising
number of instances, this rounding makes a window which for want
of one extra pixel's width ends up wrapping the longest line of
text during actual window layout. This makes the window too short,
generally clipping the OK/Cancel buttons. Here we add one pixel
to the calculated width, to circumvent this problem. */
NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(treeOwner->SizeShellTo(docShellAsItem, width+1, height),
I think this 'width+1' is harmful in some circumstances. If the extra 1 pixel
is in deed required, it should be consistent for sizeToContent calls.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 139101 [details]
the red background is visible after the first sizeToContent or reload
In the file, box3's width style is set to 0px, but it is 1px when displayed.
This is unexpected.
I think the following modification can solve this problem:
float tempWidth = (float)shellArea.width * pixelScale;
width = PRInt32(tempWidth);
if (tempWidth - width > 0.001)
{ // to let the extra 1 pixel when it is required
width ++;
and remove the "+1" in the following SizeShellTo call.
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This bug still exists in FireFox 1.0.7.
Still exists in FF3rc1.
You can work around it by checking dimensions and only calling sizeToContent when the window will actually change size, or you can simply subtract 1 from the width as in http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/toolkit/components/alerts/resources/content/alert.js#138
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> /* presContext's size was calculated in twips and has already been
> rounded to the equivalent pixels (so the width/height calculation
> we just performed was probably exact, though it was based on
> values already rounded during ResizeReflow). In a surprising
> number of instances, this rounding makes a window which for want
> of one extra pixel's width ends up wrapping the longest line of
> text during actual window layout. This makes the window too short,
> generally clipping the OK/Cancel buttons. Here we add one pixel
> to the calculated width, to circumvent this problem. */
> NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(treeOwner->SizeShellTo(docShellAsItem, width+1, height),
I think this +1 is no longer necessary. I'm going to change it on my local build and use it for a while to see if anything breaks.
Created attachment 558444 [details] [diff] [review]
(From update of attachment 558444 [details] [diff] [review])
What about existing consumers, such as mentioned in comment #5?
Oh, hmm, those could be fun to track down. :-/
Created attachment 558763 [details] [diff] [review]
That instance is the only one I could find, using the powers of MXR and grep -A.
For whoever's on checkin duty, this patch passed try before the latest change, and I see no reason why that change would break it.
This was backed out of mozilla-inbound as part of this push <https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Mozilla-Inbound&usebuildbot=1&rev=9f150c4e1a48> which turned the 32-bit OS X reftests perma-orange.
Okay, I'm in way over my head here. I'm going to leave this one to the layout ninjas.
Don't give up! If your patch passed try then it is highly likely that it was one of the other patches in the push that were at fault and not yours.
Looks like it hadn't passed try after all. The try push in comment 12 shows the same Mac OS X 10.5 / 32 bit reftest failures.
*** Bug 696746 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
My version of the patch causes the following failures:
REFTEST TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | file:///Users/cltbld/talos-slave/test/build/reftest/tests/image/test/reftest/ico/ico-bmp-1bpp/ico-size-1x1-1bpp.ico | image comparison (==)
REFTEST TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | file:///Users/cltbld/talos-slave/test/build/reftest/tests/image/test/reftest/jpeg/jpg-srgb-icc.jpg | image comparison (==)
REFTEST TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | file:///Users/cltbld/talos-slave/test/build/reftest/tests/layout/reftests/xul/menuitem-key.xul | image comparison (==)
menuitem-key.xul for some reason has a greenish coloured background, rather than a white one. The reference has a slightly paler background. Not sure why, but I can't reproduce on 10.6 or 10.5 locally. Perhaps something isn't being initialized in this specific case. Of particular note, this reftest contains <menuitems> not in a popup.
The native theme drawing code for menuitems contains a call to CGContextClearRect to set the background. Perhaps the bug is that this call is using some state (alpha, background color, etc.) that was set somewhere else that should be set explicitly.
Markus, any thoughts here?
The two icon tests have a pixel at (8,8) that differs: (249, 250, 6) or (255, 254, 3) instead of white.
(In reply to Neil Deakin from comment #18)
> The native theme drawing code for menuitems contains a call to
> CGContextClearRect to set the background.
Oh! That can't work when painting into a context without alpha. I suspect that call sets the alpha components to zero and leaves garbage in the RGB values, and then we ignore the alpha values and display those garbage RGB values. I'll think about a fix.
Markus, did you look into this issue?
I did at some point, and the first thing I tried didn't work. I'll look into it again now.
Created attachment 581637 [details] [diff] [review]
don't use CGContextClearRect when clearing background
Does this patch fix it?
(In reply to Markus Stange from comment #22)
> Does this patch fix it?
Doesn't look like it is fixed:
I'm now seeing the cocoa alpha painting issue with other patches too:
Created attachment 592114 [details] [diff] [review]
another attempt
Does this work?
(In reply to Markus Stange from comment #25)
> Created attachment 592114 [details] [diff] [review]
> another attempt
> Does this work?
That patch fixed the menu test.
The failure with the image test still happens (see https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=1f0ea28942df ), but Jeff said he had a patch for that I think. Hopefully, he remembers this and can comment.
I believe the bug was 689962
Markus, as your patch seems to work now, can it be reviewed and checked in? Possibly in another bug?
I've filed bug 734381.
I pushed my patch to Try again, and it looks like the OS X reftests are passing now, so if nothing else has broken in the meantime I'll land it.
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Ocean Four Sunny Isles Beach: Beachfront Living at a Great Value
By Sunny Isles Real Estate Expert on November 29th, 2009
It is no secret that the drop in the Miami real estate
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Robert Lamm net worth: Robert Lamm is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has a net worth of $20 million dollars. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Robert Lamm grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He originally intended to pursue a career in Fine Art, but subsequently chose to major in music at Roosevelt University. He formed his first band, The Trondells, in 1962 in Chicago. However, it was his next band, Chicago, which would bring him lasting fame. He went on to pen some of the band's most popular tracks, including "Saturday in the Park", "Beginnings', "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?", and "25 or 6 to 4". In addition to his continued touring and recording with Chicago, he also formed a band with Gerry Beckley, and Carl Wilson. The group disbanded after Mr. Wilson's death in 1998. He has also released multiple solo albums, performed with his own group, The Robert Lamm Band, in both the US and New Zealand, and is a guest lecturer at Stanford University.
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Marina Endicott's critically and commercially beloved novel, published for the first time by Anchor Canada.
In a moment of self-absorption, Clara Purdy's life takes a sharp left turn when she crashes into a beat-up car carrying an itinerant family of six. The Gage family had been travelling to a new life in Fort McMurray, but bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer rather than remnants of the accident. Recognizing their need as her responsibility, Clara tries to do the right thing and moves the children, husband, and horrible grandmother into her own house--then has to cope with the consequences of practical goodness.
What, exactly, does it mean to be good? When is sacrifice merely selfishness? What do we owe in this life and what do we deserve? Marina Endicott looks at life and death through the compassionate lens of a born novelist: being good, being at fault, and finding some balance on the precipice.
—The Globe and Mail
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Toss cabbage, cucumber, and grated carrot in a sweet-hot vinaigrette then top turkey hot dogs with the veggie mixutre, a spicy Asian aioli, and chopped peanuts for a Thai-twist on this American favorite.
Makes 8 servings
Nutritional Information
Calories 210
Fat 5 g
Satfat 1 g
Monofat 0.0 g
Polyfat 0.0 g
Protein 11 g
Carbohydrate 31 g
Fiber 2 g
Cholesterol 20 mg
Iron 2 mg
Sodium 968 mg
Calcium 71 mg
2 tablespoons seasoned rice wine vinegar
1 1/2 teaspoons sesame oil
1/2 teaspoon honey
1/4 teaspoon fish sauce
1/8 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper
2 cups chopped red cabbage
1/2 cup sliced English cucumber
1/4 cup grated carrot
1/4 cup light mayonnaise
3/4 teaspoon fresh lime juice
1/2 teaspoon Asian Sriracha hot chili sauce
Hot dog buns
8 turkey dogs
Fresh cilantro leaves
Chopped cocktail peanuts
Sliced radishes
Whisk together vinegar, sesame oil, honey, fish sauce, and dried crushed red pepper. Stir in cabbage, cucumber, and carrot. Cover and chill 2 hours. Stir together mayonnaise, lime juice, and Sriracha. Split tops of buns lengthwise. Grill turkey dogs according to package directions; place in buns. Top with cabbage mixture, mayonnaise mixture, cilantro leaves, chopped peanuts, and sliced radishes.
Note: Nutritional analysis includes 580mg Sodium from hot dog.
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Chris Bray is a former infantry sergeant in the United States Army and holds a PhD in history from UCLA. 'Corrupted' By Lisa Scottoline By Joe Donahue • Dec 2, 2015 Listen Listening... / 22:04 Lisa Scottoline is the New York Times bestselling author and Edgar award-winning author of 24 novels. She also writes a weekly column with her daughter for the Philadelphia Inquirer titled "Chick Wit" which is a fun take on life from a woman's perspective. These stories, along with many other never-before-published stories, have been collected in six books including their most recent, Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat? Lisa reviews popular fiction and non-fiction, and her reviews have appeared in New York Times, The Washington Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She has served as President of Mystery Writers of America and has taught a course she developed, "Justice and Fiction" at The University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater. Lisa has over 30 million copies of her books in print and is published in over 35 countries. The new novel is Corrupted. Ideas Matter - Exploring Economic Justice By Joe Donahue • May 1, 2015 Listen Listening... / 13:40 Today in our Ideas Matter segment, we are talking with John Sisko, Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences at The College of New Jersey, who has been co-directing a yearlong program exploring the topic of economic justice. The program is entitled Exploring Economic Justice: New Jersey, the Nation, and the World. 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Leaving the Rivoli Cinema we cross the road to one of the numerous adjacent restaurants and choose from the take-away menu. Ten minutes later we are on our way up Burke Road, busy with its throngs of pedestrians and late evening traffic rush. Shortly the doors of Prospect Hill Village open at the command of our security device, sealing off behind us the noisy hustle and bustle of a large city. We enter instead into a quiet and peaceful world, crossing the large gracious lounge area with its high ceilings, soft lighting and comfortable armchairs, to ascend in the lift to our apartment on the second floor. Our food has a brief session in the microwave and we settle down to dinner within half an hour of quitting the Rivoli. Meanwhile our car rested undisturbed in its allocated space in the basement car park.
This little tale encapsulates the reason for exchanging a large house and garden with all the attendant cares and stresses, in favour of life in a retirement village seven years ago. It must be emphasized we would not have moved to just any of these institutions. At the time most of the 'Retirement Villages' were separate living units scattered over wide acreage. One would merely be downsizing from a large house and garden to a smaller one. Moreover, they were situated in outlying suburbs, many kilometres from the CBD. As one got older with driving ability impaired, keeping contact with friends would be difficult. For 'city slickers' like ourselves who have lived in major cities all our lives, used to shops, restaurants and cinemas on our doorstep, such a move was unthinkable.
It was the unique attraction of the newly built Prospect Hill Village that inspired us to face the upheaval of removal. It offered apartment style living in the throbbing heart of a city.
Although other retirement complexes have since moved to the inner city Prospect Hill Village remains unsurpassed position-wise. It is situated next door to a major Supermarket, within easy walking distance of Camberwell Market and a multi-screen cinema complex and surrounded by shops and restaurants. Once inside the Village, it is hard to realise one is in the heart of a city thanks to the excellent sound insulation and the tranquil and spacious public rooms. This sense of isolation from the city bricks and mortar is aided by this structure round a large courtyard filled with towering trees, now extending to the height of the three stories.
There were of course attributes other than the physical ones that made us choose the Village. For instance, the purchasing and owning of one's own apartment (strata title) rather than the use of various leasing type agreements. There was also the question of security and safety, ensured by a resident manager and manageress, with emergency call buttons in each room of the apartment. Also with only 63 apartments it did not have the impersonal and less friendly atmosphere of those with several times that number. Prospect Hill Village is designed for independent living. If inclined, one can close the doors of one's apartment and with the facility of a kitchen fitted with all modern appliances live a completely self contained existence. However, most enjoy social contact with kindred spirits amongst the residents. Dinner is available two nights a week in the very pleasant restaurant for a modest sum. One can make up a regular table, which we make a point of doing at least once a week. If temporarily unwell the meal can be delivered to the apartment. It also provides a great venue for entertaining friends and relatives, with the added advantage that instead of tangling with the traffic afterwards the hosts only have to navigate the lift.
Apart from the daily routine various social events are organised by the ever active Social Committee. This may take the form of dinners to celebrate some special event or various excursions by bus. In this regard the generosity of the Zig Inge family in providing recent buses, which they have also demonstrated in many other ways, is acknowledged. It is a matter of continued joy and celebration amongst the residents that the source of inspiration for Prospect Hill Village and the building thereof, is back in charge.
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I'm new here, and am looking for some input. Have had a 30gal FW live planted tank with some tetras and danios in it for almost 4 years now. The tank is pretty self sufficient (normal mantainence, of course, still performed). I currently have the tank covered with a glass top, and sitting on it a T8 single tube strip light (similar to this:Aqueon® Single Tube Fluorescent Strip-Light - Lighting & Hoods - Fish - PetSmart).
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