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Gardeners put a lot of effort into lawns and know that grass means work. At the very least you have to mow it. At the most you can weed-kill, moss-kill, worm-kill, scarify and rake (these two are different activities, apparently), fertilise, aerate, water, dethatch and — heaven forbid — edge. These activities can keep some people happily occupied all summer. These same gardeners sometimes have ghastly, neglected water "features" in their gardens.
It's time to end this selective blindness. Especially if you open your garden to the public, it is necessary to recognise that an imitation of the "great grey-green greasy Limpopo River" (Rudyard Kipling) is not a garden feature to be tolerated, however ubiquitous it may be (nearly every "major" garden in this country boasts such a feature).
In fact, you might do well to think whether you really want a water feature at all. You might fancy the idea of falling or fountaining water — but falling or fountaining out of what? Contemplating the fountaining things on offer you may find various creatures appearing to vomit water, or replicas of a small boy having a pee. A good rule of thumb: if you wouldn't like a real creature doing it in your pool then don't have an imitation doing it.
Avoid twee, avoid faux Classical (the Romans left nearly 2,000 years ago), and what do you have left? Things you can't afford.
If you already have one of these things, contemplate conjuring ruin and decay. Nothing looks quite so ruined and decayed as a moribund water thing with no water and with green slime in it. Add a few judicious weeds and leave your visitors to contemplate their mortality.
If you must persist, think carefully about the context — avoid the Chatsworth effect of a Grand Cascade culminating anticlimactically in a gravel path, or the Alnwick equivalent with gravel path plus children's plastic toys. Grandeur needs an appropriate setting and finishing.
Avoid white edges. They ensure dirty footprints. If you are liable to hosepipe bans, remember that you may be unable to fill your pool for long periods, and this gives rise to the dreaded vision of black liner. To avoid this entirely, when you make your pool with its rubber (not plastic) liner, build an inner wall of block or brick, so that the liner is sandwiched invisibly away.
That sinking feeling
There are various aesthetic purposes of water in a garden. A functioning fountain can make light play with joy. Other kinds of play are possible too — go and see the Garden of Surprises at Burghley House, by George Carter. While it is wonderful to see the children's delight in the water play, you will also be confronted by the skill, flair and total expense it takes to bring real class to water in the garden. It's so easy to get it wrong, as Charles Jencks did at the Chaumont Garden Festival. With Garden of Surprises-type fun in mind he introduced a range of water jets attached to hoses along the front of his garden. Within five minutes of the first party of children arriving, his entire garden was flooded.
It is possibly easier, though be prepared for quite hard work, to use water as a reflective surface. A reflecting pool brings light, and with it, a sense of space. It is calming, can be a relief from relentless flowers, and is reflective in every sense — but it doesn't work if the water is a muddy murk. All sorts of bad things happen in water and contribute to this ominous possibility.
There are many interesting forms of algae (more than 17,000) and most of them are in shades of murky green. They reproduce so fast in the right conditions that we may end up growing them on purpose for fuel, but this is not generally considered a domestic industry and is best left to the professionals.
Remove this stuff if it begins to cloud a pool. There are almost as many chemicals to do this as there are types of algae (always a bad sign), and I have never found one that worked, but the effort must be made. My best, if not totally foolproof, solution is to blacken the water with an organic black dye such as Dyofix Pond Black, which disguises or discourages algae, while also introducing the necessary reflective quality to the water. It may be the essential tool for a pool-lover.
The next essential tool is a rake, to remove blanket weed, which seems to be black dye-resistant. Regularly fishing out and removing blanket weed is a soothing weekly task, and unlike all those lawn activities, involves no noisy machinery or noxious chemicals. You can take the weed to the compost heap or mow it up.
The other lamentable thing which happens to your water surface is bits. Just like your carpets indoors, water attracts bits. Some, like leaves, will be big enough to fish out with a fine net, but the plague of Chelsea water gardens, tree pollen, is not. That and similar messes can be treated by five or ten minutes with a lawn sprayer. The fine droplets will either drown the bits or drive them to the side where they can be netted off. If you have a hosepipe ban you may have to drain the pool and replace it with a lawn, or move.
At all costs abandon any thoughts of pools if you think you may have to cover the surface with a metal grid to either keep fish in or children out. At this point the whole exercise becomes totally pointless as well as ugly. Stick to edging your lawn.
Anne Wareham edits the website thinkingardens.co.uk
Burghley House, Garden of Surprises, Stamford, Lincs (01780 752451; burghley.co.uk)
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A woman with a long history of bulimia nervosa often comes to an inpatient or residential treatment center believing that her hope is lost.
Or she may believe that she isn't capable of feeling good about herself, or regaining confidence in her future.
Often, her beliefs about food and eating, dieting, or exercise behaviors are tightly intertwined with feelings of anxiety, sadness, fear, anger, shame and other complicated emotions. Although a woman with bulimia symptoms frequently excels academically or professionally, she can't understand why she continues to binge and purge despite her desire to stop, and the negative physical, emotional, social and/or spiritual consequences she suffers.
We Take a Holistic Look at Bulimia Treatment
While many bulimia treatment centers focus exclusively on treating a woman's eating disorder, our integrated treatment team takes a step back and looks at the whole person. That's because some of us have suffered the effects of bulimia nervosa ourselves, and struggled to achieve recovery through multiple rehab programs.
Through our experience, we've learned that many women diagnosed with bulimia nervosa also suffer from co-occurring psychiatric or addictive disorders, sometimes referred to as a dual diagnosis. These conditions may either contribute to the cause of bulimia, or they may develop as a woman attempts to cope with bulimia side effects or manage the symptoms of an eating disorder.
Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center places more emphasis up front on understanding a woman's entire history of addictive and/or compulsive behavior, given the critical impact these co-occurring conditions will have on treatment and recovery from bulimia. Psychiatric conditions or disorders commonly co-existing with bulimia nervosa include:
- depression
- bipolar disorder
- panic and anxiety disorders
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- obsessive compulsive personality disorder (which is different from OCD)
- borderline personality disorder
- sleep disorders
- substance abuse disorders, including alcoholism, drug addiction and abuse of prescription drugs
Why Is Our Treatment for Bulimia Nervosa Successful?
Effective approaches to eating disorder treatment and recovery consider all available information about a resident, and leverage the resources of an integrated staff of experts to customize each woman's treatment for bulimia nervosa.
This level of collaboration is one of the distinctive benefits of bulimia treatment at a leading rehab center like Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center. It's also one of the reasons why so many leading outpatient eating disorder specialists and inpatient hospitals recommend us to their patients who need more intensive bulimia treatment, or who have struggled to sustain recovery in a lower level of care.
Before Admission
Assessment of a woman's treatment needs begins early on in our admissions review process. We ask both the woman and her family to provide information about her symptoms of bulimia, issues with friends and family, and challenges in school or work. We also seek her permission to communicate with previous eating disorder treatment providers to gather additional information about medical history, psychiatric history, past eating disorder treatment progress, and stumbling blocks to achieving or maintaining recovery from bulimia.
Thorough Intake Assessment
Once she is admitted, each woman undergoes a comprehensive medical and psychiatric assessment. She is then assigned an eating disorder treatment team with several members whom she will meet individually after she settles in on campus:
- Primary therapist
- Family therapist
- Psychiatrist (MD)
- Internal medicine physician (MD)
- Registered dietician (RD)
- Eating disorders specialist
Each treatment team member provides an assessment within the woman's first days at Timberline Knolls. The findings are integrated and reviewed with our entire clinical staff, including other therapists and psychiatrists. As a result, our full knowledge about effective treatment for bulimia is integrated into each woman's treatment plan.
Taking Ownership of Treatment
We believe it is critical for each woman to take ownership of her treatment and recovery from the outset. Once her treatment plan is formulated, our team's recommendations are shared with the woman in her first care conference, which will include her primary therapist, family therapist, psychiatrist, discharge planner, nursing staff and lodge staff. This cooperative approach gives her input into the goals for her treatment and allows her to choose several elective elements of her program. She will be asked to sign off on her treatment objectives and the progression of her plan for treatment of bulimia nervosa and any other co-occurring psychiatric or addictive disorders. This conference also sets stage for ongoing collaboration between the woman and her treatment team throughout her stay in residential treatment.
Looking Forward to Recovery
Following the initial care conference, the treatment team will meet weekly throughout the resident's stay, and consult each other informally to monitor her progress and to make sure her recovery needs are being fully supported. If new bulimia symptoms appear, a woman may also undergo additional psychological testing or medical evaluation to insure her bulimia treatment considers all relevant aspects of her health.
Additionally, women with other medical symptoms or complications from bulimia may be referred to consulting healthcare providers such as a dentist, cardiologist, gynecologist, orthopedic surgeon, or gastroenterologist.
Our Staff is Committed to Meeting You Where You Are
Every woman who commits to treatment for bulimia brings her own story of challenges, emotions, and heartache. We focus on meeting each woman where she is, and supporting her in an uplifting, empowering manner, not through shaming or policing her behavior.
Several members of our eating disorder treatment staff have personal experience overcoming the effects of bulimia nervosa. Our psychiatrists and therapists know that a woman doesn't want to engage in bulimic behaviors, but that symptoms are an attempt to cope with complicated emotions. We also understand the complex fears and obstacles that come with committing to residential bulimia treatment, and seeking a new path with different behaviors, thinking patterns, and a different way of living.
That's why we take such an integrated, individualized approach to the treatment of bulimia by helping girls and women:
- Identify emotional triggers for symptoms of bulimia nervosa, which may have other underlying causes that have not been properly identified or addressed
- Create awareness of healthy ways to respond to stress, fear, anger, sadness or shame
- Avoid destructive "either/or" thought patterns that add to the sense of hopelessness and unmanageability that many women experience in their disease
- Develop confidence in her potential to make healthy choices one day at a time that will lead to life-long recovery
We don't make assumptions about a resident's experience and needs based on her age, weight, or patterns of bulimic symptoms. Residents receive coaching and reinforcement that is individualized to help them grow in key areas of interpersonal skills, distress tolerance and management, reality acceptance skills, and emotional regulation skills.
What is Bulimia Nervosa Treatment like at TK?
A woman's experience at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center may differ significantly from other rehab facilities or bulimia treatment programs she has attended. That is by design.
Comprehensive, Integrated Treatment and Recovery
There is no such thing as a miracle cure for bulimia nervosa.
Every woman who seeks recovery from bulimia must develop tools she can trust to help her healthfully experience emotions that used to trigger binges and purges. We work with our residents to help them recognize their feelings and identify the conscious choices they make throughout their day. Through ongoing, supportive reinforcement women learn to trust the tools we give them in situations where they would have previously turned to their bulimia.
As they gain confidence in their ability to make positive, healthy choices, they experience improved self-image and body acceptance, reduced stress and anxiety, healing of trauma, and increased self-awareness. They begin to lose the sense of loneliness and isolation they experienced so much of in the disease. The come to know the healing power of belonging and healing in a recovery community.
Comprehensive and individualized eating disorder treatment plans use approaches proven to help women learn to healthfully experience their emotions and develop the tools to recover from bulimia disorder. Specific examples include:
- one-on-one therapy sessions
- expressive and experiential therapy
- education about disease processes and recovery
- meal support and regular consultation with dietary staff
- group sessions to teach and practice behavior modification and emotion management
- family therapy (including family participation)
- twelve-step facilitation
- onsite and offsite twelve-step meetings
- weekly psychiatric consultation
- trauma awareness and recovery groups
- educational services for school-age women at Timberline Knolls Academy
Expressive Therapy Provides a Healthy Outlet for Emotions
Expressive therapy has been clinically proven to promote healing and recovery in women with bulimia, anorexia nervosa, and other eating disorders. It also provides a needed creative outlet and physical exercise that strengthen women during treatment for bulimia, and after they return to their home environment. Our expressive therapy program includes a variety of outlets a woman can select based on her personal interests:
- art therapy in a historical art studio that supports painting, sculpture and other medias
- dance/movement therapy
- empowerment group (experiential trauma recovery)
- self-defense in our on-site fitness facility
- outdoor recreation such as volleyball, basketball, soccer, badminton or gardening on our 43 acre campus
A Realistic, Supportive Approach to Nutrition
Many teens and adult women come to a residential treatment center for bulimia with great apprehension about meals. We believe that healthy changes in eating behavior begin with listening and empathy, not with policing or judgment.
Our nutrition and eating disorder treatment staff focuses on creating an environment where a woman can feel safe expressing the emotions that arise in the context of food and eating. Learning to verbalize her feelings, a woman will start to realize that she is not alone with her illness, or in her struggle to cope with her fear, sadness, anger and shame. Our nutritional philosophy focuses on supporting women as they seek this awareness and helping them develop confidence in their ability to make healthy choices about food with support. Experiential activities like shopping and cooking give residents the chance to practice skills needed to overcome bulimia in the real world while still surrounded by eating disorder treatment professionals who understand the challenges of recovery.
We recognize that successful treatment for bulimia must also equip a woman's family to engage in the process of recovery during and after her stay at a bulimia treatment center. Nutrition and meal preparation approaches are part of weekly family conferences over the phone, as well as hands on sessions with our eating disorder specialists and dieticians during on-campus visits. When clinically useful, we may also encourage the family to practice these skills together during a during off-campus meals.


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The anvil has landed. A season full of obvious portents of doom has at last produced a death. I'm just not sure how central this fatality is to the story. But it may illustrate a larger point about the need to be able to surf the waves of changing times.
As always, there be some spoilers ahead. Incidentally, you can see all my Mad Men pieces, going back to 2009, here in The Mad Men File.
I have always enjoyed the character of Lane Pryce and think that Jared Harris is a fabulous actor, both on Mad Men and Fringe, as well as in his movie work. He was a terrific Moriarty in Robert Downey, Jr.'s latest Sherlock Holmes epic and I'm looking forward to his Ulysses Grant in Steve Spielberg's forthcoming Lincoln. In Lane Pryce, the rather old-school and more than slightly fussy British financial manager who is practically the antithesis of Harris's roustabout movie star father Richard, he has deftly created a portrait of a man who yearns to be free but doesn't know how to go about it.
And yet. And yet, the character has been something of a third wheel on Mad Men since Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce was formed. His machinations freed the core of the old Sterling Cooper crew from their British corporate overlords, but since then, the show has struggled to provide a strong storyline for Lane Pryce.
So his death, as a result of a chain of circumstances that seems somewhat contrived, doesn't have the impact that a more highly anticipated (hoped for?) demise would have.
But, and yet again. Despite creator Matthew Weiner's efforts, the character didn't pay off in life on the show, yet the death of Lane may point up an extraordinarily important lesson for those in challenging, changing times, which the late 1960s (it's 1967 on the show) certainly were becoming.
In "Commissions and Fees," we see Lane Pryce go from the heights to the depths with stunning swiftness, due to his inflexibility and unwillingness to surf waves of change. He is accorded a major honor as a top financial manager by the national advertising association and he is unmasked as an embezzler in rapid succession. Can you say, "ironic?" Anvils.
Anyhow, Don Draper confronts him. The identity thief and deserter under fire from the U.S. Army (that is a very serious crime, which can carry the death penalty) doesn't like Lane's explanation for forging his signature on a check -- really, Lane should have just asked for help, but was too proud and embarrassed to do so -- and forces him to resign.
Which leads to Lane's suicide. First he tries to kill himself in the beautiful new Jaguar E-Type in the classic British Racing Green that his clueless wife has bought to sacrifice his success, and which won't start. (A cheap and easy joke on the show's part, considering how many of those cars are running a half-century later.) Then he hangs himself in his office, leaving behind not a note, but the resignation letter Don had required.
Don is all about reinvention, to a point. He can't grasp that Lane has not broken free from Old World strictures even as he's embraced the New World.
But the irony is that this paragon of new starts is himself falling behind the pace of change in the advertising business and in '60s America. He's not into the Beatles, he doesn't really get his smart and spiffy young wife, he may not even be the best advertising mind at his own firm any longer, perhaps because he hasn't been applying himself.
Don is spurred to self-renewal by Lane's desperate act. But what he does sounds a little psychotic. He complains that he only wants the biggest companies as clients. (Really, Don?) After getting Roger Sterling to arrange a meeting with Ken Cosgrove's fairly smarmy father-in-law, a big wheel at Dow Corning -- or is it Dow Chemical? -- Don blows into the meeting insisting that the corporate giant needs new advertising and he's just the man to provide it.
Declaring that happiness is just "a moment before you need more happiness," which sounds like the ethic of the great white shark, which must keep moving constantly forward or else it dies, Don blathers that they can't be happy with 50 percent market share because 100 percent market share must be the goal. But total dominance, monopoly, is itself the path to stagnation, as AT&T and IBM conclusively demonstrated.
The old Don is back, seeing few limits to possibility even as he rejects the contentment he found for a time with Megan.
But, having just won the account, however it happened -- another way to think of it is that SCDP would have won anyway had the car dealer on the advertising committee not practiced sexual blackmail -- Don, or someone, doesn't quite grasp what Jaguar means to his agency.
I see an analogy with the real world example of Chiat/Day and Apple. Like Jaguar, Apple's Macintosh computers were cool and glamorous, a lucrative niche product not suited to the mass. Just as everyone was not going to want a graphical user interface (or so it was thought), not everyone is going to want a sexy British sports car.
Chiat/Day turned advertising Apple's products into a sort of art form, with the epic "1984" ad as only the most famous example. They became a go-to agency as a result.
SCDP's work for whatever the heck they've been selling these last years -- floor polish, baked beans, etc. -- hasn't showcased them at all. Nor has it been much of a window into the times, a disappointment of mine with this show. Don had a great shot with Hilton Hotels, but failed to think big and wild enough for his eccentric pal Conrad Hilton.
The fact is, he needs to stop being so damn staid. And that was clear even before the '60s became "The Sixties."
On the soap opera level, Don's callousness has now spurred two people to suicide. First, his own brother; now, the man who made it possible for him to have an agency in the first place.
Incidentally, I haven't researched this, but something bothers me about the Lane Pryce storyline, well-played though it turned out to be in the end. I thought it was outstandingly presented in this farewell-to-Lane episode. But the conception of it bothers me a bit.
I recall there being some famous British actor tax exiles, i.e., actors in the '60s and '70s who got out of the UK's very high rate of taxation by mostly living and working outside the country. Hmm, who does that sound like?
Lane has lived and worked away from Britain almost exclusively for years. He's been at Sterling Cooper and then SCDP in New York for at least four years, and may have worked elsewhere abroad for Putnam, Powell, and Lowe before that. After all, they had initially planned to send him off to Bombay, India (now Mumbai), when they brought in the fellow who got his foot chopped off by Lois and the lawn mower.
Is it possible that Mad Men didn't get this situation right? I don't know. As I said, I haven't fully researched it.
But the show certainly appears to have made a mistake about another big part of this storyline.
With regard to the company Don and Roger hit up to make their move into mega-corporate work, the show seems to have gotten confused about what company it's talking about. Don and company are at last pitching that napalm maker Dow Corning for its advertising business. Except, uh, Dow Corning never made napalm.
The company that made napalm is Dow Chemical. Dow Corning is a separate company launched as a joint venture by Corning and Dow Chemical. Way back in the early '40s.
Dow Corning never made glassware, either, as Roger Sterling said they did in the episode in which Ken Cosgrove's father-in-law, a top Dow Corning executive played by Ray Wise, is introduced. That was the episode with Don being honored at the American Cancer Society awards banquet for his farewell-to-tobacco ad in the New York Times, which the assembled corporate elite honor publicly but which Wise's character tells Don privately has caused them to determine that Draper, having bitten the hand that fed him, can never be trusted. Because they make some nasty products, too, presumably, that Don might have second thoughts about down the line.
Incidentally, there's no mention of Peggy Olson whatsoever in this episode, even though she just left the agency which, in one guise and another, has employed her since 1962 and was part of the core group that formed SCDP at the end of 1963.
Hopefully, she will at least be mentioned in the season finale.
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It's gonna get sappy up in here.
I've been in a super-important XO meeting all afternoon, and while I can't tell you the awesome stuff we talked about, I can tell you that it went long and I ran out of time to write a cutesy intro to this week's beauty news.
Miley Cyrus is having quite the creative week in hairstyles.
Personally, I don't follow Miley Cyrus's Instagram account. I'm 36. But it has come to my attention that, over the last few days, her hair has gone through a rapid series of looks that are... uh... not subtle?
First, there was the hangover-curing rainbow streak and matching barrette...
Then she seemed to put on the colorful clip-ins that come with old Lady Lovely Locks dolls. (Joint sold separately.)
She kept it bright by piling up multicolored dread extensions into a beehive-y thing that was, contrary to the caption, neither Rasta nor real...
Next, a long, straight, mint green wig...
Then the "if Britney had dreads in the 'Baby One More Time' video" look...
And just earlier today, she started the "weed poof" trend...
I'm waiting with bated breath for the next look. But I'm still not going to follow her.
Urban Decay's founder announced the next Vice palette with the most epic arm swatch ever.
The NAKED palette isn't the only Urban Decay franchise that keeps coming out with sequels. They're launching Vice 4, the latest super-colorful eyeshadow palette, which would pair beautifully with Miley's recent hairdos.
To get fans ridonkulously excited about the new shades, brand founder Wende Zomnir posted a mouthwatering line of swatches on her forearm.
Ariel Winter got a breast reduction, and some of the reasons will make you want to punch media in the face.
Seventeen-year-old Ariel Winter, known for playing brainy daughter Alex Dunphy on Modern Family, opened up to Glamour about the breast reduction she underwent in early June, and while some of her reasons are very relatable to many women who have gotten or are considering getting a breast reduction—"It started to hurt so bad that I couldn't take the pain"—some of the reasons are depressingly specific to being in the spotlight.
"Every article that has to do with me on a red carpet always had to do with 'Ariel Winter's Crazy Cleavage!' Or 'Ariel Winter Shows Huge Boobs At An Event!' That's all people would recognize me by, not, 'Oh, she does great work on Modern Family,'" she said. "It made me feel really uncomfortable because as women in the industry, we are totally over sexualized and treated like objects."
And she's right: women, famous and not famous, are objectified like crazy. But what she doesn't directly mention—and what creeps me the eff out—is how willing mainstream media outlets were to talk about a child's boobs. Like when E! dedicated an entire article to then-not-yet-16-year-old Ariel's breasts, with the headline, "Ariel Winter's Cleavage Is Out of Control on the SAG Awards Red Carpet." I don't care if she seemed to be confidently flaunting them; if it would be creepy for an adult man to comment on, it's creepy for an article.
Jessica Alba's high school look was NOT her Alex Mack look.
Remember when Jessica Alba played the mean, popular girl on The Secret Life of Alex Mack who looked exactly like every mean, popular girl of the '90s?
According to a new Allure interview, that was totally not her IRL look. Apparently, she was into "Nineties grunge. Doc Martens. I got my bellybutton pierced the second I could. I wanted to shave my head and pierce my nose, and my mom said she was going to make me stop acting."
She also talked about the worst beauty advice she's ever gotten (piling on foundation), her biggest skin issue (dryness), and how she doesn't do masks around her husband because "it shocks him." Get over it, Mr. Alba.


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Beavis and Butthead in London jihad
Burst disk
All pressurized cylinders have a burst disk to prevent them from exploding should the pressure rise too high in the tank. The propane would boil off and come blowing out the tank in a jet, which would ignite. But a fireball? Probably not. Propane makes a poor explosive. But it is heavier than air. Release it, then ignite it.
hear hear!
absolutely wonderful, glad to see that there are still folk who haven't been taken in by the supposed "terrorist threat" on every street corner.
As we all should know, the local Al-Quaeda branches can't fit under every bush on the street because of the hundreds of paedophiles already lurking there!
somewhat more seriously, this ludicrous incident is already being touted by the media-spinners as having "an international dimension" (R4 17:56 this evening) No doubt this will mean that one of the supposed "terrorists" had a holiday in Tunisia once or that he buys ready-made cous-cous from Al-Tescaw. Mind you my 10yr old still can't take a carton of Kia-Ora or his Crayola Jumbo crayons on our charter flight to Torremolinos because he might be part of a sinister terrorist plot to undermine our freedoms......
Terrorists take all the fun out of it
I can't even mess around with small home made explosives in my front yard any more because I'm afraid that my neighbors will call the police. They used to come over and watch me blow up an old toilet or something, but since a few enterprising individuals managed to run some aeroplanes into some buildings, they just take their children inside and look at me oddly.
And explosives are fun, especially if you know what you're doing. Unfortunately 'terrorists' use explosives, and the general population (as this article shows) has no understanding of explosives, so any activities involving them are seen as criminal.
People do tend to fear what they don't understand, and I suspect that terrorism and explosives both fall into that category for most people.
Seriously, no oxidizer though? Did someone not make it through highschool? Hell, even the Anarchist's Cookbook explains how damned hard it is to make a fuel air bomb, and from this article, I'd imagine thats just the sort of literature that this 'terrorist' would have referenced.
- Nex
Impound my garage now and arrest me!
For it too contains petrol, gas cylinders and nails.
Actually unless the reporting about this 'bomb' has missed out the crucial element of charge to detonate the above, my garage is MORE dangerous than the London car 'bomb' since it does contain a modest quantity of nitrate explosive too in the shape of my clay-pigeon-shooting cartridges. Oh No! Perhaps Al-qaeda 0wn3 my garage!!! Hi ho, Hi ho, off to Gitmo I go ..........
Even sillier...
there probably would not have been a fireball from burst cylinders. Commercial propane cylinders have pressure-relief valves which would have opened before the internal pressure was high enough to burst the cylinder(s). More likely there would have been a jet of burning propane and maybe a flying jet-propelled cylinder but, sorry, no booma-booma.
The whole affair reminds one of the non-existant liquid explosives, fear of which has resulted in the banning of hair pomade and baby formula from carry-on baggage in airliners.
Keep 'em on their toes
Sheesh, we had the IRA for most of my life (40+ years), car bombs, vcr timered; you name it, they did it... and now we have a bunch of wanna be pseudo-Muslims. Last time I looked (and I do own a copy of the Koran), other faiths were 'to be educated' .... one wonders how you educate the dead.
Still - I suppose it keeps our security (ha ha) forces in a job so makes the employment figures look better....
Maybe that surf shack in Tahiti is looking better... assuming the damned French don't let a nuclear bomb off nearby.
Ho hum - life goes on.
"Imagined" terrorists
You know, I have a hard time getting behind our "War On Terror", despite living in the US. The media protrays anybody who isn't "normal" as a terrorist, pedophile, or socially deviant. We have long lines in airports to get our shoes X-rayed, you are photographed, fingerprinted, video'ed and your phone tapped.
Truly, the "car bomb" was laughable. Noisy, scary, and panic-inducing, yes. But certainly not as lethal as the media made it out to be.
After all, what with Paris Hilton now being a "respectable" citizen who no longer "acts" stupid, there *MUST* be something to feed the ravenous unwashed hordes in the name of "news and entertainment".
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm sure there's an FBI agent next to my desk disguised as my trash can. He probably would like a cup of coffee.
Funny you should say that...
The Beeb collared an "explosives expert" to "simulate" what the "explosion" would have been like, to show us how afraid we should all be. Big fireball, small boom, no signs of a shockwave (didn't even wobble the camera much). Funny, that.
I was so hoping it was a name I wouldn't hear today but I did on the BBC news tonight. Al Qaeda. There, they had to go and say it, didn't they? But none of the hallmarks of them were present. Where was the synchronization, the rush-hour timing for best media exposure? And don't get me started about whether or not "Al Qaeda" actually exists...
Yes, the media would have us believe that we're all gonna die but what sickens me most is that then, when the population at large fail to fall for their fake terror and just get on with their merry lives (as London appears to be doing today), that they then have the barefaced cheek to call us brave.
I always thought that the news was meant to tell us what *has* happened not what *might* have happened. Obviously, I'm totally misguided.
You have to get the oxidiser JUST right
When I was at school, one of the most popular things I did that nearly got me expelled was filling draws in the Physics lab with gas from the bunsen burners, then lighting them.
A draw completely filled with gas was useless. If you got it to light, a medium-sized flame would add the smell of burning wood varnish to the already incriminating smell of the gas.
My speicality was being good at judging how much gas to put in, so that it mixed with the air in the best ratio. The best I managed blew the draw 4 feet across the lab, just reaching the next bench.
A car filled with patio gas isn't going to go off. You could sit in there flicking your lighter - it wouldn't light and neither would you (although you'd soon be unconscious from lack of oxygen.
If a detonating device actually blew out the windows, allowing the gas to mix with the outside air, AND it kept detonating (or producing some sort of ignition source) for long enough, then it might set off the gas. You'd get a big pop and a pretty fireball. You might get your hair singed within 20 feet or so. The flame might even blow itself out.
The only real danger I can see is the petrol gets lit and then burns for long enough to heat the gas cylinders to the point of exploding. How many people will be standing around watching by that point?
There wer some other horrifying aspects they forgot to mention in the reports. The "device" included dangerous poisons like dioxins (flammable car upholstery), materials intended to injure people at a distance (friable car safety glass) and deadly shrapnel (well a car is mostly made of metal). Never mind the complex data aquisition modules (we ICE is pretty good nowadays).
Wrong car?
Everyone seems to be missing the real issue:
If they had instead used a mini cooper, could they have blown the doors off?
True but...
While I agree with your overall argument – it's really nothing after all on what the IRA used to do - I suspect you don't live in Central London, nor pass through that area very often.
There are 2 big bus stops there, and tiger tiger is less than a few meters with huge windows. It's a really busy area right through until 4/5am. I've stood at the bus stop 15m down from there often.
The Terrorist links and Hysteria yes are bad. But it never affected us for the last 25 years so I don't see why it should now.
Are people right to fear getting blown up - even those "few fatalities" you just seem to brush under the carpet as not that important? Of course, I am concerned. But I know life does and will go on. And I'll look out for suspicious things while walking around.
Yes the finger pointing towards all those "nasty terrorist and insert political reasons" are bad. I hate it and agree that that is stupid. But equally there was a bomb, and it could have hurt me if I had been standing there like many times before.
Yup - stiff British upper lip - but it's what has always been a good thing about the UK. Am I anymore afraid to go there today? No... but to mock the "few casualties" if it had gone off... that just undermines your point.
Something that I forgot...
A friend once told me about a fun thing that he and others would do in the middle of the desert while on RV trips.
When they had finished off a propane tank, they would set it in a bush, light the bush on fire, then run away and shoot the tank with a 22 rifle. The remaining gas inside the tank would ignite and rip the tank apart at its seam, which resulted in the top half shooting 40-50 feet in the air.
Besides sounding like a hell of a lot of fun, it does illustrate how to properly blow up a tank: with the gas inside at atmospheric pressure, so it doesn't require quite so much air to burn completely.
I thought they said bumblers.
I read that story on yahoo! I saw bumblers not bombers
oh well. Whoohoo! Thomas go babe you tell em especially
that part about them making things much nastier which they
have the thing is so transparent it was the theme of
every Orwellian paranoid fantasy of government as con artist
and we are supposed to not see, try again only this time hire
some real terrorists, this sort of thing is terribly insulting to our intelligence. Of course if they go too far we might start asking
why they haven't done something real about the problem we couldn't
have that could we. Poison food, horrible slow reactions to disasters
that kill hundreds of thousands, homeless families, really
non-existant health care in the US, soldiers sent back to war
over and over till they finally do get killed or lose a limb (seen
plenty of those) none of these things matter as much as the mad
bumblers.Get a rope.
And anyway...
Half the fricken country is under water, 1000s of homes are or have been underwater, people *did* die and the damage runs to millions and millions of pounds.
What's more important to the nation right now, that or some Bin Laden wannabe's wet dream of an idea? Perspective acquired :)
The next logical implication
If this half-witted attempt was less dangerous than your average reckless driver, how long before the government decides that every kid who runs a stop sign is a potential terrorist
I'll Pray You Aren't hit by the next one
I'm always amazed at the depths of stupidity, ignorance and hatred that oozes from people like the writer of this bit of drivel. There are pimples on my ass with more integrity and intelligence.
I'll say a little prayer that you aren't hit by the next Islamist attack. And, mostly, I'll say a big prayer that I might be able to hate leftist dumbasses a little less.
Did anyone notice that the car was flying?
Quote: "The car containing it had been abandoned after its driver was observed piloting it erratically, crashing it, then running off, like a true professional." Unquote.
PILOTING the car? It must have been a flying car! If teh t3rr0r1zt5 have got Moller tech, we're all doomed! Doomed, I say!
flooding - Al Qaeda blamed for rain
I'm surprised the media haven't blamed terrorists for all the rain - no doubt they're flying over the country seeding the clouds to make sure we all get flooded.
well done Thomas for your "emperor's new clothes" story.
The old FIS bombs in France
The FIS (islamic salvation front) used to refill old 13kg gas cylinders (used a lot in France for powerng a stove when you live out in the country), emptying them, filling them with somthing other than propane or butane (plastic or black powser) and covering them in with nails. That sort of thing killed 8 and wounded 150 people in a Parisian underground station in july 1995.
It would seem also in Algeria, that if someone does not like you, they will use the same sort of gas bottles, drill a hole somwhere in your house, put the tube through it and empty 13kg of propane then toss a match through the hole and run...
But as for setting them on fire in a car, the pressure release valve would rupture, and a nice flaming torrent of gas would come out, ignited by the fuel... I would think that the London Fire Brigade would have that under control in a jiffy...
Now, if they were filled with nitroglycerine or black powder, then we could have some nice 1980's IRA style fireworks... (and No, I would not like to drive 30 litres of nitro in a car over England's roads :)
No, this does not look like any professional job... unless... A) we are not told all the truth or B) the second suspicious car that was found was a realler-deal and/or the first car was a nice graphic decoy...
At last, I've found intelligent people!!
Myself and yourselves are clever enough to make car bombs and destroy buildings and lives in the process - we choose not to because we have no intention of destroying buildings and lives. So how on this earth did 2 FAILED car bombs be found in London ...
I mean WTF.
You can guarantee that defence funding will get an added boost of a few billion to PROTECT our shores and when they need a few bil' more, then again we will have a pathetic series of minor disruptions and failed bombings.
I think we need a demonstration
And I think the writer of this article and most of the commenters above should be guinea pigs to stand as close as the people in Tiger Tiger and people waiting for buses nearby. You can help each other pick out the nails and broken glass from each other.
Nice of you to criticise the press for jumping to conclusions while at the same time assuming you know exactly what was in those cars, how they were set up and how they were going to be used.
Now apart from the road closures this city has got on with life as normal so could you slack jawed yokels kindly fuck the fuck off out of our business and go back to shooting squirrels or whatever it is you have to do on Friday night.
Thanks for the enlightenment !
That was the missing link for me:
When I read the first article about this on the BBC, I smelt something fishy in the state of Brown. But on the psychological and sociological terms: Driving around erratically, leaving a car behind; in some no-parking lot from where it would be towed sooner or later, to an unidentifiable location. The car had been towed. Later it was found smelling of petrol. Not even gas. Petrol. Any basic DIY chap can close a liquid tank nicely enough to prevent it from smelling. Just the petrol in the tank doesn't usually smell, does it !
Oh, how much I wished this was the level on which Osama et al operated ... ! We could all go back to our everyday life; quiet and in privacy. From time to time we'd experience some unexpected firework here or there, after which we'd use to broom to clean off the location; identical to how we do it after any other car accident. Of which we have hundreds per day.
So what if they're idiots?
I can sympathise with the general thrust of the article, but so what if they're too stupid to make a bomb? The point is people keep trying to do this, quite regularly if you believe the number of security operations going on around the country. The poing all of you have missed is that they are trying to kill people, and one of these days they'll manage it purely on the odds. The people behing the july bombings were competent enough and there are a lot more people out there, equally competent, who are simply waiting to make their move.
I agree that a lot of the security precautions taken by this country are unnecessary, for example the liquids one (though, really, any explosion on board a plane, no matter how small or how incompetently produced, is going to be dangerous because of the dynamics involved) and other things that are really an attempt by the current government to tighten its grip over our lives, but I can remember the precautions taken during the IRA's tenure as well. For a while a lot of cities removed all their litter bins in order to prevent the IRA using them to hide bombs.
They started out as incompetents as well.
Whatever our government is doing, the truth remains that these people want us dead, and they want it because we aren't muslim, because we don't worship their version of god and don't venerate his prophet.
"Leftist dumbass" spotted in post. Film at 11.
> I'm always amazed at the depths of stupidity, ignorance and hatred that
> oozes from people like the writer of this bit of drivel. There are pimples on
> my ass with more integrity and intelligence.
> I'll say a little prayer that you aren't hit by the next Islamist attack. And,
> mostly, I'll say a big prayer that I might be able to hate leftist
> dumbasses a little less.
Let's see: One count of "hatred", one "I will pray for you" and one "islamist attack". One peremptory statement of being a "leftists dumbass". One "I'm always amazed that X". One accusation of "stupidity and ignorance" while posting a text that evidently fits said adjectives.
Yes! The probability of the writer belonging to "red-state fascist america" is _good_.
So many experts
Makes you wonder why the police every bother calling in bomb disposal or other authorities in cases like this. There are obviously so many instant experts on IEDs passing by that they could just ask anyone to confirm that its just 'a collection of propane cylinders and petrol'.
Why didn't they use chapatti flour like the last guys? it's cheaper and according to govt. experts "more explosive than TNT"
Also if this is true, why can we still take chapatti flour (and matches) through airport security, and yet no water or oil (which you need to make a real chapatti)
Yeah and....
James Mabury:
> I'll say a little prayer that you aren't hit by the next Islamist attack. And, mostly, I'll say a big prayer that I might be able to hate leftist dumbasses a little less.
And whilst you're doing that, pray that Gordon Brown isn't going to use this as an excuse to whittle away our basic Rights and Freedoms a little more.
"Following this attack, here is a list of changes I'm going to make that was prepared earlier by the Security Services who have just been waiting for another opportunity to get even more information on everyone and consider them suspects..."
Re: I'll Pray You Aren't hit by the next one
The language suggests a comment from the US...
First off, statistics make it clear that the chances of getting killed or injured - even by a *competent* terrorist attack - are insignificant compared to all sorts of daily risks. So it's unlikely I'd ever start to worry about the threat from 'Islamist' or indeed any other terrorists, especially as in the unlikely case that something happened I probably couldn't have done anything to avoid it.
Secondly, in the UK there are years of experience with living with the threat from the IRA, who actually *did* know what they were doing, unlike the current lot who obviously have some degree of intent, but no real clue of how to turn wild ideas into reality. (Though the IRA ASUs did have the advantage that they always planned to survive & escape, so could pass on knowledge of what actually worked!)
This seems to be a common thread between all the recent plots and attacks we've seen in the UK, even the successful ones - we have a load of separate groups (so no global conspiracy) sharing more or less the same motivations and with similar plans ('cos they saw them on the news!), who have a vague idea they want to do something but are completely lacking in even the basic knowledge and skills to actually carry it out - or if they do have some knowledge and skill are still not particularly competent. They're basically a group of fantasists.
Of course, it's convenient to take the fantasists, and their stupid ideas, and make them out to be rabid terrorists who were going to cause carnage: after all, it justifies the actions of the authorities. And we always need a bogeyman to fear.
But thinking & talking about something and actually being able to do it are two very different things; for example, just because I talk to some mates about building a rocket and flying to the moon doesn't mean I can actually ever do it!
Shame the degree of success shown in catching the various groups of 'terror plotters' hasn't been repeated against groups like the ALF and SHAC; there's more than one type of terrorism, and you'd think if you can catch the others than the not particularly subtle animal rights groups would be easy, and worth it just for the training value.
But the really worrying thing to me about the current situation is that all the incompetents being picked up means either there isn't a major threat (so loss of libery for no real benefit), or even worse that in chasing the fantasists the people who do know what they're doing, who understand OPSEC and could really cause damage are being overlooked in favour of an easy win.
The power of Prayer...
@James Mabry:
Thanks for offering to pray for my safety against terrorist attack, but it's a million-to-one chance. Could you possibly pray for my safety against something that's actually likely to *happen*, like car crashes or getting cancer?
Meantime, I'll pray for you not to get hit by a meteorite. Seems about fair.
You're Right
We should all return to our complacency before 9/11, 7/7 and other dates of note.
The successful propane-enhanced car bombs only work in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And come on, what are a few guys with box cutters going to do?
Relax people, how bad could a fireball be? So what if one or two nightclubs catch on fire.
Oh, really?
Are you really so blind?
Kids lighting fireworks are meddlesome at best. People packing cars with what they thought to be lethal explosives and fragmentation-ammo, are not just meddlesome - they were actually trying to kill people.
It's a good thing that they "forgot the oxidiser," because of they didn't, you might be singing a different tune.
Just because their plans happened to be ineffective isn't enough incentive for me to forget that some people filled with hate just attempted to kill a lot of innocent people. Again, if that's not clear enough... if they hadn't "forgot the oxidiser," a lot of innocent people would now be dead.
Did you stop to consider how lucky we all are for the mistakes made by these wanna-be-killers before you stepped-up to your soapbox?
Better ways...
They'd have been more succesful if they'd started a fire rather than try and build a bomb. Find a building, lock fire escapes, pour petrol down stairs, and open gas cylinders then ignite (preferably not while stood to near). If the rest of the building catches then they've already put people in more danger than the bomb.
Terrorism is
Whilst I might agree with Thomas's 'media hypes everything' bias, he seems to miss the point. Terrorism is as terrorism is, not as terrorism achieves. Whether the perpetrator(s) in this case know how to construct explosives is, surely, irrelevant. It is the purpose behind the act that allows us to label it.
Death occurs daily, live with it.
Well maybe you experts don't know EVERYTHING
I suppose as you smugly and cynically sit and pass judgement on the people who's responsibility it is to protect you and I from acts of terrorism you think that the the so called "facts" about this incident that you are reading about in the media are the entire story.
Have you ever been involved in an incident that was widely reported in the media and noticed the discrepancy about what you experienced and what the media reported?
How do you know there was no oxidant in the car..were you there to have a look.?
Just because the perps may have been incompetent, does this mean there is no threat?
If the public loses interest in terrorism because they are busy deciding whether to buy the blue Lexus or the Silver one, is it a bad thing to use these kinds of incidents to keep them aware that there is a threat, since the resources required to properly manage these threats are directly related to the perceived threat, not the real one?
Also as you contemptuously and and cynically cast the law enforcement officials as immature, paronoid, boobs running around like Keystone Cops, are YOU with your implied superior knowledge of how things REALLY work, prepared to take responsibility for the protection of the public...and bear the consequences for your failures along with the glory for your superior insight?
Your article reminds me of a 3rd rate university campus newspaper that editorializes harshly on everything based on the author's Poli-Science 301 course that has brought him the enlightenment he now feels the need to share with the dim-witted average Joe in order expose the stupidity of the established administration who only have 30 or 40 years of adult life experience to guide them.
RE: Well maybe you experts don't know EVERYTHING
Hey I'm not dim-witted, apparently a troll from the 1960's is terrorising the Internet boobs!
Campus cynicism is so
TimeTraveller, well said sir/madam. I wanted to write something very similar but just didn't have the energy to have to deal with mentality of many of those above.
As for the glib commenters who seem to delight in the statistical liklihood that it will be someone else and not them who gets cut apart by the next successful nail bomb, hiding behind odds is not moral, wise or brave. Will any of you have the courage to face the families of the inevitable dead and maimed and express your mocking cynicism to them, telling them how 'death happens, so get over it', or will you just wait 18 months for it all to simmer down and start anew the whole process of ridiculing and pouring scorn upon those whose jobs it is to remain vigilant? Hang on, I'll answer that for you, you'll all take the latter course of action.
This is so stupid
I have in my garage right now the means to make a _far_ bigger bomb than those morons.
1 four (empty, but that's easily fixed) 5 US gallon petrol containers. (I live in South Florida and have a generator which needs fuel.)
2 a substantial amount of soap powder and vegetable oil. (I just did the month's shopping for certain consumables at Sam's)
3 a substantial amount of sulphuric acid. (And not all in car batteries, either)
4 a substantial amount of potassium permanganate.
5 a substantial amount of ammonia.
6 two (full!) 5 gallon containers of diesel. (I have a diesel 4x4 which very often goes places where there are no fuel stations. I take fuel with me.)
7 about 10 pounds of styrofoam peanuts.
8 about a gallon of liquid iodine.
9 about two pounds of potassium nitrate.
10 one (full!) 5 gallon container of kerosine.
11 twenty pounds of charcoal.
12 two (full!) 25 pound propane cylinders, and one half-empty one.
13 a substantial amount of cotton, in the form of no-longer-usable-for-the-original-purpose ex-socks and ex-underwear and ex-shirts, now used as cleaning rags but suitable for conversion into wicks.
14 several cans of paint and paint thinner.
15 a carton of matches, grills-for-the-starting version.
16 twenty pounds of 'enriched' fertiliser.
Can anyone guess just how many _different_ types of explosive and incendiary devices I can make? Starting with, oh, napalm?
The public are more likely to "lose interest" due to the overhyping of stories like the bomb story than anything else. The media, with their penchant for hypebole, are, at the present time, far more dangerous than the so-called terrorist threat. They are like a kid yelling "Fire" in a crowded cinema every 5 minutes.
Thomas C Greene is demented
I can not believe the sheer grinding vapid stupidity of this article. Dripping with venom for the government without an iota, not a single shred, of proof is pathetic. As a work of pure demented fiction, the article says much about the author's mental state than anything else. Mr. Greene hates the government, fears the government, and sees himself as better, smarter, and more capable of understanding the 'truth' than the rest of us. Accordingly his drooling syncophants on this board dutifully kiss his virtual arse in a show of degenerate group stupidity that must be read to be believed. They actually vie to see who can be the most inane and clueless.
Mr. Greene, propane can be highly explosive. Google it you blithering idiot. I don't know - and neither do you - the actual configuration of the bombs in those cars. But it is easy to see that propane released inside a car where it would pool on the floor and vaporize into what is a closed compartment of air could generate a tremendous explosion and the attendant gas would ensure plenty of fire. Hundreds of people are killed and hurt every year in this nation by propane accidents, some of which are violent explosions. These terrorists - whether expert or novice - wanted to kill, mutilate, and burn your fellow countrymen and you are obviously ok with that as you spend what little writing ability you have bashing those fellow citizens especially the ones in government that are responsible for trying to prevent and if not prevent then deal with the consequences of terrorist acts.
You are beneath contempt.
Hiding behind odds etc...
"Will any of you have the courage to face the families of the inevitable dead and maimed and express your mocking cynicism to them, telling them how 'death happens, so get over it"
So we are all duty-bound to stand in shock at terrorist attacks lest the everlasting shame of having shown too little empathy with the victims of said attacks will fall upon us? I find this attitude distasteful. In german you have the word "Pflichtbetroffenheit" which can be translated as "the duty to be concerned" (the word has a sardonic undertone). Refusing "Pflichtbetroffenheit" and putting the situation into context is not "hiding behind odds". Think about it - the US could actually have better cards now by not having gone into panic spasm mode in 2001. What a concept. Oh wait, there's that oil..
"those whose jobs it is to remain vigilant"
There is no-one who matches that job description, except maybe members of Parliament (often asleep at the wheel). In an authoritarian fantasy world, though "they" would indeed take good care of "us"... Stop reading Perry Rhodan!
I think some London bombers got lost. Two people tried ramming the bollards outside the entrance to Glasgow Airport. Problem is, they had the petrol filled vehicle, but decided to set fire to it before ramming the bollards. Probably because by now they'd probably worked out that a mobile phone dosen't make a very good explosive detonator. They crashed into the bollards but as bollards are designed to stop cars going through them that's as far as the vehicle got. The two who had tried to pull off this rather comical attempt at "terrorism" only got as far the Strathclyde police officers who grabbed them nearby and extinguished the one who was on fire.
See, there are people who are as thick as George Bush
(I love saying "Bollards")
The responsibility to care
Anonymous coward wrote: "So we are all duty-bound to stand in shock at terrorist attacks lest the everlasting shame of having shown too little empathy with the victims of said attacks will fall upon us?"
No one said that. You are attempting to create a strawman and it won't work. The other commenter was referring to the clear lack of compassion shown by some commenters here towards those that have been hurt and killed as well as to those who - but for some luck - would have been killed, mutilated, and burned in these incidents.
Being grateful for these people not being hurt or killed is a sign of a civilized human being. The opposite is also true. It seems to me there is a particular madness infecting those who hate/fear the governments of the UK/US that they will acknowledge nothing that in any way would tend to even in the most remote way validate anything said governments do, even to the detriment of their basic humanity.
The question is surely not the competence of the terrorists
It really matters little if the attackers were professionals or bumblers if the intent was to kill. What is more an issue is how we let it effect our lives and how willing we should be to give up our liberty to politicians who are claiming that they can 'protect' us from such dangers. I suppose I am a little skeptical of requests from government to be 'vigilant' when it seems to mislay the whereabouts of known terrorism suspects on such a regular basis. My alarm bells also start ringing when the main stream media starts putting out misleading statements suggesting that the modus operandi of the attackers was the same as that deployed by Al Qaida in Iraq when there is really precious little evidence to suggest that is the case. I fear that the recent incidents will be used as yet another ploy to allow the current administration to push through its pet security projects such as ID Cards which in reality will do little to protect us from the current terror threat but will make us less free. No matter what we do in life we can not avoid the inevitability of death so maybe it is time we grew up and started to evaluate the risks of life like adults rather than hoping that 'nanny' will protect us from all misfortunes. Maybe then we might learn how to live as a free people.
Modus Operandi
> My alarm bells also start ringing when the main stream media starts putting out
> misleading statements suggesting that the modus operandi of the attackers was
> the same as that deployed by Al Qaida in Iraq when there is really precious little
> evidence to suggest that is the case.
Indeed. In Iraq, the car bombs actually go off.
Yawn , man this new centuries cartel mass media terrorist propaganda machine must be powered by the ghost of Dr Josef Goebbels on steroids , or were they filming an episode of "Spooks"?
Abe Lincoln neatly summed it as follows "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
There is stupidity and serial stupidity.
The number of "thwarted" unworkable, unsuccessful or botched attacks IS rather remarkable.
Too cute for their own good, or some trivial but critical oversight seem to be a hallmark of "poster child" attacks on Western soil. One explanation is that away from the "front", "agents" become reluctant to carry through and subconsciously "screw up". Another is that they wish to make a "See what we COULD have done" statement. And a third is that at least some of the attacks have been manufactured domestically, either by infiltration and "encouraging" a bunch of mouthing off yahoos, or entirely out of whole cloth.
Making a working bomb is a non-trivial, but not too difficult task. The basics are easily within the grasp of anyone who halfway paid attention in high school physics and chemistry. So why so many failures?
It seems to me that those who are supporting liberty (ie. the restraint of law) in the face of terrorism are resorting to facts, whereas those who are supporting the state are exaggerating one-off incidents, or looking to arguments like "What are you going to tell the families of the victims?".
It all comes down to whether we should have a rational policy or one dictated by emotion as felt by authoritarians (the viceral dislike of government encroachment as felt by libertarians doesn't count).
Historically, government has always reassured people, emphasised the odds, and told people to continue going about their business in the face of terrorism. By steering from the responsible course, it is the government that is exposing authority to ridicule. But what other course is available to those who want a responsible policy reinstated? Argument doesn't appear to work.
Disasters (explosions, floods, chemical fires, road accidents) occur every day. Families are always distraught. They reasonably ask whether a factory could have had better saftey procedures, or whether cars could be made to go slower along a stretch of road. A billion pounds allocating to saving lives from such accidents would almost certainly lead to none being spend upon terrorism, except as a useful side-effect of other spending.
What makes terror different isn't the sufferring of relations, or the degree of commitment by professionals; it is one thing only: media coverage. The sufferring of those close to the victims is a smokescreen for our own feelings of empathy. But our empathy is uninformed, since so much sufferring isn't news.
The result is governernment by not reason but emotion. If you want oppression, this is where you start.
Why is this here?
I understand the occasional funny/weird/"glad it's him and not me" deviations from what is, after all, a technology/IT site, but what is this story doing here? Slow day at Vulture Central?
"Clowns have got to be passed off as terrorists"
The suggestion seems to be that we should ignore/excuse them because they're incompetent.
Just because they didn't get it right doesn't mean they aren't terrorists.
Eventually, they WILL get it right (such as the 7th July bombings) and I don't want to be there when they do. Perhaps you could take my place if you're so convinced that they're just clowns?


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If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?
I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.
When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.
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WASHINGTON - May 8 - Today, I am proud to be a Californian. I'm here with people from across the Golden State on the steps of the California State House in Sacramento to show support for Assembly Joint Resolution 22 (AJR 22). This resolution calls upon Congress to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's disastrous Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling, take democracy off the auction block and preserve constitutional rights for people – not corporations.
Polls consistently have shown that a large majority of Americans oppose the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling. So, these thousands of signatures do not represent the opinion of a fringe group, but are the large tip of an even larger iceberg.
The thousands of signatures on this petition calling for a constitutional amendment represent the voices of actual citizens, who are the "demo" of democracy. These people are asking for passage of AJR 22 in the only way voters can – one voice per person.
Our American revolution was fought to free ourselves not only from the British crown, but also from the overbearing commercial interests of the Massachusetts Bay Company, the Hudson Bay Company and the British East India Company. It was the British East India Company, with its monopoly and duties on imported tea, that led to open rebellion and added the now infamous term "Tea Party" to our lexicon.
Let's preserve our "demo"-cracy by rebelling against the powerful commercial interests of our day: the Big Oil money that keeps the disastrous Keystone XL pipeline alive in Congress despite widespread opposition. The Wall Street firms that reversed the Glass-Steagall Act, helped cause the 2008 financial crisis and have sought to block effective government regulation of the financial sector after the fact. And, the big insurance and pharmaceutical companies that dictated the terms of the Affordable Care Act.
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After all the effort that went into finishing my Macaron, I nearly destroyed the dress on its second outing. I was climbing over a fence to get out of a park and decided to show off by jumping down. I managed to catch the skirt on one of the spikes, popping most of the side seam (which looked great for the rest of the evening) and also tearing the fabric.
After deciding not to chuck the dress in the bin, I thought that a patch was the best solution. It wouldn't interrupt the floral pattern and it would also serve as a permanent memorial to my ongoing foolishness.
I bought a few patches in India that I thought might do the job. However, when searching through my craft stash for something else, I found a patch that I bought from Hand Over Your Fairy Cakes. The colour palette complements my Macaron pretty well, and it was just big enough to cover the tear.
I started by loosely stitching up the rip.
I used my embroidery hoop because my aim was to make sure the fabric was hanging true before patching.
The fact that I had an iron-on patch made my job nice and easy. I could perfectly position the patch before securing with stitches.
I used the embroidery hoop again because the fabric is so light.
I didn't do anything fancier than some small running stitches hidden in the white border. The patch is only just bigger than the hole in the fabric but I hope the glue will hold the fibres together. Also, the back of the skirt isn't a high-stress area on the dress (unless you are doing questionable activities while wearing it.)
Overall, I found it surprisingly enjoyable to mend my dress. Even though I'm not totally in love with it, I think Macaron is a great pattern that looks really nice on, and I always get nice compliments when I wear it.
(Sorry not sorry for the cheesy pic)
I finished sewing my Macaron dress!
Sewing projects always trick me into thinking there's hardly any work left. When I wrote my previous post about this dress, I basically thought I was done as I had constructed the bodice, skirt and sleeves. I hadn't factored easing in the sleeves, lots of seam finishing (a step I was initially planning to skip), joining the pieces, inserting the zip and finishing the hem.
In between the two phases of making the dress, I had my sewing lesson to help me fit the bodice. Turned out that it was a fairly straightforward fix of reducing length in the back. We took a curved line out of the upper bodice so as not to disturb the style line of the pink fabric. Apparently, this is an alteration that is commonly needed if you have a larger bust and an upright posture. In fact, I have had issues with the back bodice in other dresses, so this is definitely a hot tip for future makes.
Things I've learnt for my next Macaron:
- Be careful to transfer all markings from pattern to fabric
- Be precise when sewing bodice seams so the pieces match at the sides
I don't know what it is about this pattern, but it really emphasises the waist, which I absolutely love. I'm confident that I will be able to wear my dress to parties without foundation garments, eat and dance all I like, and it'll still be flattering.
I'm really looking forward to starting work on my second iteration of this pattern. After being inspired by a dress on Pinterest, I'm on the look-out for some lace to complement the Liberty fabric. I do love a challenge!
Pattern: Macaron by Colette Patterns
Fabric: Under 2m pink rayon from Indonesia. Contrast fabric from Goldhawk Road, used less than 1m
I've got to admit that after my final class, I was worried that I would never finish sewing my Ultimate Shirt. The remaining tasks seemed very daunting for me to tackle on my own. But I went for it, and I'm glad I did!
Here's how the shirt looks with my specially made tulip skirt. I re-did the hem, which I put off for months because I knew how dull it would be. I was right, it was boring and took two hours, but it looks much better. Having a steam iron (thanks dad!) also makes a big difference, although looking at these pics makes me realise it STILL needs more pressing.
I think this shirt is really only wearable tucked in, but shirt tucked into skirt worn on the waist is a look I rock at work a lot, so that's fine.
Notes on steps taken after third class
Hand-stitching the cuff facing seemed okay as I had already used the same technique on the collar stand. Emboldened by my success, I attached the second cuff.
I next spent about an hour pressing and pinning the hem. Like my unicorn top, the hem looks shit in places, but I don't want to redo it so I think this is something I will live with for now. I will mostly be wearing this shirt tucked in anyway. Looks like I have found my sewing nemesis- shaped hems.
The next step was scary. Buttonholes. I spent ages thinking about which colour thread to use, which turned out to be a bit of a waste of time. I don't think I've ever machine sewn a buttonhole before because my mum lost the foot for her machine years ago.
I did something I normally never do- consulted the handbook of my machine for advice. I then used some scrap fabric to practice, and the resulting holes looked pretty good.
It was time. I tried on the shirt to ensure that a button would cover the fullest part of my bust, to reduce the risk of gaping. I then measured and marked each buttonhole, which worked out at every 7cm.
I did manage to make one really stupid mistake. I accidentally started one of the buttonholes on the 'top' mark instead of the 'bottom', meaning that it was about 2cm out. Next time I mark buttonholes, I will use different colours for the top and bottom marks to avoid this happening again.
Since my buttons are fluorescent pink, I knew this error would be very obvious. It was time to do something I had never wanted to do on such a light cotton voile. Unpicking. I practiced unpicking one of my practice buttonholes and managed not to break any of the threads in the fabric. Heart in mouth, I unpicked the errant hole on my blouse. I won't keep you in suspense, dear reader. I survived, and I don't think my silly mistake is too noticeable.
I've got to say, I absolutely love this outfit! Go me. I'm hoping to engage with Me Made May a lot more this year, and I think this outfit will be a key player.
I wanted to join in with the Pussyhat Project, but I knew I couldn't make the march, and I missed the postal deadline for donating hats. SO I decided instead to use this pink yarn I was given as a secret Santa present to make some mini cat hats.
- A small amount of fingering weight pink yarn
- 2.75mm DPNs/circular needles
- 3mm DPNs/circular needles
1. Using smaller needles, CO 40 sts. Join to work in the round
2. K1P1 rib 6rnds
3. Change to larger needles. Work in stocking stitch for around 18 rounds, until total piece measures around 5.5cm/2 1/4in
4. Rearrange stitches onto two straight needles and Kitchener together
I've finished my holiday shorts!
The cutting out and machine sewing took about fifteen hours. I'm a bit baffled by the sizing on these shorts. My original cigarette trousers, a 10, are quite big, but these shorts are on the small size despite only being an 8 at the waist, and grading up to a 10. I also forgot that there is an error in the waistband piece of the pattern, which nearly caused me a big problem as I didn't have any leftover fabric to cut out a spare.
Here I am trying them on. I had to let out the crotch and side seams a little. At first, I was stressed out because the waist looks a bit crap, but then I pulled my t-shirt down and remembered that the waistband will never be on show. It can be hard to maintain perspective when you have spent hours and hours working on something.
Overall I would say that I am very happy with this make, which, sadly, is unusual. The fabric only cost £12.20 including delivery, so the total cost of the materials was well under £20. And I think it's safe to say that I am the only person in Rio strutting about in hot pink zebra pants.
Pattern: Cigarette Pants by Sew Over It
Fabric: 93x112cm remnant of cotton, plus about 0.5m of contrast fabric
I was idly scrolling on some full website the other day when BAM! I spotted a remnant of hot pink fabric printed with zebras. I had to have it. And not just because I wanted to write fuchsia some more.
I'm going on holiday soon, and I am seriously lacking in the shorts department. It's so hard to buy anything other than hot pants, which I just feel uncomfortable wearing without tights. So the obvious solution was an exquisitely tailored pair of pink zebra shorts. Easy.
These wil be Shark Shorts 2.0. Although Yikes! is probably my favourite fabric print on earth, the shorts have some issues. They were winged based on the Ultimate Trousers pattern, and I think the end result has some issues. I prefer a more meticulous approach to craft.
This time, I am using the Sew Over It Cigarette Pants pattern. My original trousers aren't a perfect fit, and I think the problem is the waistband, so this time I cut the waistband in a size 8, grading out to a 10 in the rest of the trousers. Since I have only just over a metre of fabric and little time, I decided not to attempt pattern matching at all. I hope this won't come to bite me in the zebra-clad arse.
I'm using the leftover double gauze from my Unicorn Cami as my lining fabric. Loving how the two prints look together.
Even though this is meant to be a quick make, I couldn't resist finishing the edges of my pocket facings with black bias binding. You're meant to overlock, and I didn't want ugly zigzagging showing. I think it looks really cute.
This is my progress after an intense five hour sewing session, having come home from work to find the fabric waiting for me.
Sewing is such an interesting experience for me. I find it totally immersive and addictive. I almost forget to breathe as I am so focused on the task at hand.
I'm pleased to say that I've finished sewing my Sew Over It tulip skirt.
Having looked at the pictures, I still need to press the skirt some more, and I may redo the hem. I think it's bunching a bit because I made it too narrow.
When I stopped my previous post, I still had lots of work to do on this skirt. Further issues I had surrounded the pockets. I had to pin the pocket openings of the two sides together to ensure that the openings lined up without gaping. If I make this skirt again, I will draft my own pocket pieces as I would like the pockets to be a bit deeper. I tried to freehand this a bit when I was cutting out, but it didn't really work. The positioning of the pockets is also a bit low, so I might try to address that too.
The invisible zip insertion was also stressful. I may invest in an invisible zip foot for my machine in future. However, I'm very pleased with this one for a first go. The first time I inserted the zip, my stitching lines were around 2mm away from the zip's teeth, so it was totes visible. However, I remembered the trick of moving your needle across to sew closer to the teeth, and this fixed the problem.
I also have to say that once again, I have found the sizing on this pattern totally off. Having measured a skirt that fits me perfectly, I cut a size 12, which is meant to give a 30.5″ waist on the finished garment. However, when I tried the skirt on before putting the zip in, I could see that it would be way too big on the waist. In the end, I had to take a 4cm seam allowance on the back seam (the only place to make the skirt smaller without a MASSIVE headache) for it to fit. Overall, I made the skirt 5cm narrower, which means that I should actually have cut a size 8. I almost always buy size 10 in RTW garments, and my tummy is my 'problem area' so I'm really not sure how that works. Still, a victory for making your own clothes and trying on as you go.
I went out and bought some matching thread before attempting to slip-stitch the hem. When I tried on again before hemming, I wondered if the bottom of the skirt was too poofy. But I don't think it is. One of my weird things about sewing is that I often forget about how the garment will be used when I'm making it. For example, I will forget that you need openings to get in and out of a dress, or I will fail to factor in that a knee-length skirt probably shouldn't be skintight.
Pattern: Tulip Skirt by Sew Over It
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