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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Draft Recap
I am excited about Ted Thompson's approach to the 2008 Draft. Thompson wanted play makers on offense. He went after his guys and he got them. He added competition at WR, QB, CB, TE, and DE. This draft was about finalizing our roster and then building depth and competition. He went with athletes at the front of the draft and went fishing for offensive depth to finish the draft.
While watching the draft, I wanted Thompson to either trade down and out of the first round or I wanted to draft a WR. I was hoping for either Thomas, Jackson or Sweed. Jordy Nelson surprised me. I like having Nelson as a Packer, but I thought that we could get him much later. But, if you like a guy enough, why wait? Obviously, Nelson was the guy that Thompson wanted. He traded down to accumulate a pick and he still got his guy. As an interesting stat: Nelson stands 6'2 5/8" and weighs 217 lbs. By comparison, Terrell Owens stands 6'3" and weighs 223. Roy Williams stands 6'2" and weighs 220 lbs. Additionally, while he ran a 4.51 40 at the combine, video shows him running away from Aqib Talib, the Bucs 1st round pick, when they are both in the open field. At the combine, Talib ran a 4.45.
In the second round, I wanted Slaton. I was hopeful. I understand the Brian Brohm pick, but I do not love it. I don't believe that he's a fit for the system. He's a good pocket passer. He's intelligent. He's got solid awareness and a strong arm. He's accurate. But, he's immobile, which will limit his production in our current system. Nonetheless, Thompson got his guy. Thompson said that he was considering Brohm in the 1st round at #30. Personally, I would have rather had Kevin O'Connell in Round 3.
With the other second round pick, the Packers needed corner. They got one in Patrick Lee. Lee has the build and speed to make it in Green Bay. I like the pick. I'm excited to see him perform.
Before the 3rd round started, I sent my good friend, Stack, a text message. I wrote "Slaton, Charles, Zbikowski, C. Jackson, Schmitt, Hillis, Rucker, J. Finley, DE, OL." All were available to start the 3rd round and by the time we were eligible, only Schmitt, Hillis, Rucker, and Finley were available. I'm excited to have Finley. 6'4" 243 lbs. Big. Athletic. Great hands. Not afraid of contact. Great run after the catch. Welcome to Green Bay, "J-Mike." Watch these videos and judge for yourself:
And for an even better buzz, read this article which was dated February 21, 2008:
No doubt, "J-Mike" will add a nice dimension to the Packers offense.
In my mock draft, I suggested that I'd be open to Jeremy Thompson becoming our 3rd round pick. I was happy to see Thompson trade up to get him. I've been drawn to Thompson over the last 4-5 days. His name kept showing up in front of me. I was getting signs that Thompson would be a part of the Packers draft. He's mobile in space. He's got a great build. He's seems aggressive. And apparently, he's got football & body growth ahead of him. He's a solid 4th round pick.
Josh Sitton and Breno Giacomini add depth, competition, toughness and attitude to our offensive line.
I also liked watching Ted Thompson work his magic and accumulate 7th round draft picks. Before the 7th round, I thought that the Packers were positioned for success. We had options. I thought that Peyton Hillis would have provided versatility and an upgrade at FB. I wanted the Packers to also consider a RB such as Cory Boyd. A third-round specialist back or a speed back would have been a desired addition. I also thought the Packers should think about a small school S such as Bobbie Williams. Stack and I discussed the possibility of drafting a QB and living in a world like we did in the early 90's with Favre, Brunell and Detmer. But, ultimately, Ted Thompson had positioned himself to select the best player available.
I like the Matt Flynn pick. Not because I think that Flynn is going to be a great NFL QB, but I like Flynn because he's going to compete every day. He's a fighter. He's tenacious. He's been a winner. He's been a leader. He's been a champion. He's a good guy to bring into our program as we continue to mature in a young locker room environment.
Brett Swain has the build that you look for in a WR. Statistically, he showed a knack for making the big play at the collegiate level. Here is a link in which you can see him score 3 TD's in the 1st half of a game. While the video is over 7 minutes long, you can see his TD's in the first 4:35 seconds of the video. But, I would suggest that you cue up the video to 5:45 seconds and watch the rest of it. It'd be approximately 90 seconds of good Swain video. He's wearing #16.
Overall, I'm happy with the draft. Jordy & J-Mike will add excitement to our offense. Thompson and Lee will add energy and athleticism to our defense. We've added depth & competition at OL and QB. We took a chance on a WR from San Diego State and we added a pick for next year. Expect to see the Packers sign a number of players as undrafted free agents.
J-Mike for a 1st down,
Talkin' S-Mac.
9 comments:
- BlueGuy said...
Scotty I agree, I think the Pack had a pretty good draft. Slaton would have definitly been nice for you guys but they did well overall. A long way away from the horrible pick of Ahmad Carrol.
Tell me something, you say the Brohm pick is suspicious because of the system. With #4 gone do you think the system changes at all? What is their offensive system exactly in words, and maybe the offensive coaches will look tailor the system to Rodgers/Brohm? After all, a good coach should revise his system to get the best out of his players. Enlighten me S-Mac.
- April 27, 2008 at 8:40 PM
- Stack said...
Good draft, I'll share some comments at some point, but I wanted to get on with our undrafted free agents...
Marcus Riley - LB - Fresno State
Nothing stunning in terms of awards or accolades, but the guy can run...
You're going to want to learn how and when to slide...
He's overpursuing at a bit here, and the camera goes to #24, but it looks like #31 is the guy bringin the wood to me...
- April 28, 2008 at 11:11 AM
- porterbela said...
Never too early to compare a white WR to T.O and Chad Johnson!
- April 29, 2008 at 6:52 PM
- Talkin' S-Mac said...
You're right. Let the comparisons size begin. You're also right that Chad Johnson is a big NFL WR target. So, in order to give the reader and idea of just how big Jordy Nelson is, I offer you this:
Chad Johnson - 6-1 192
Jordy Nelson - 6-2 5/8 217
In 2001, Chad Johnson ran a 4.54 at the NFL Combine. (http://espn.go.com/melkiper/s/2001/0307/1136944.html)
In 2008, Jordy Nelson ran a 4.51 at the NFL Combine.
- April 29, 2008 at 7:29 PM
- Talkin' S-Mac said...
While McCarthy has implemented his own version of the West Coast offense, it still has common ingredients of a West Coast offense. I've always felt that one of the major components of a successful West Coast QB was his ability to throw on the run. Think Favre, Young, Montana. All were terrific on the play action roll-out. This was not Brohm's strength in college.
Enter Mike McCarthy.
Hopefully, McCarthy can improve Brohm's weaknesses. McCarthy takes pride in his ability to develop QB's. Brohm has the arm to make it in the NFL, but thus far, he's shown me that he's almost strictly a pocket passer.
I disagree with your statement that "after all, a good coach should revise his system to get the best out of players." Think about Bill Belichick. He finds players that fits into his system. Look at the WR's of the Packers in the 90's: Brooks, Freeman, Rison. All were solid players for us because they fit into our system. Derrick Mayes had potential to play in the NFL, but he did not fit into what we do and fell off the face of the Earth. What was the difference between Freeman & Mayes? I'd argue that one fit into the system and the other did not.
I believe that you find players that fit your system. You don't develop your system around your players.
Talkin' S-Mac.
- April 29, 2008 at 7:44 PM
- Talkin' S-Mac said...
Great research on Marcus Riley. I'm stoked to see him in a Green & Gold uniform.
A few good notes:
Jordy Nelson is wearing #87.
J-Mike is wearing #88.
Jeremy Thompson is wearing #99.
Patrick Lee is wearing #22.
Brian Brohm is wearing #11.
Matt Flynn is wearing #10.
Brett Swain is wearing #16.
- April 29, 2008 at 7:51 PM
- Stack said...
- May 2, 2008 at 2:19 PM
- porterbela said...
Is Jordy Nelson going to get a fat grill like Chad Johnson?
- May 2, 2008 at 11:51 PM
- porterbela said...
Size comparisons mean very little, Scottie. It's always fun to be excited about your 1st pick in the draft (unless you're the Browns and it comes in the 30th round). So I have nothing against you comparing Nelson to Johnson if that excites you. But don't get too excited about his size.
For example, Bears 7th round pick...Marcus Monk.
height 6'4"
weight 222 lbs.
40 time: combine 4.56
pro day 4.41
vertical: combine 34 1/2
pro day 36
This equates to a 7th round pick.
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Sometimes its better to explode then to hold it in. Had this relative said " I get on your nerves bear with me"I would have been okay. Instead he attacked me in the most crude manner and I was angry not because of the words but because he just didn't put his hand out. It was the sense of entitlement, that your feelings don't matter. The words meant nothing, it was the failure to put out the hand and acknowledge my humanity.
Rather then get defensive and fight, he should have said I know bear with me. It was not the toxic words that angered me. It was the inability to hold out his hand and say bear with me a tad more.
It takes no skill to fight. It takes more skill to be humble and give the man a finger. By bottling up this anger I did not help the situation at all. This relative needed to grasp other people matter. It is easy to fight, but it was not needed.
I work a brutal job. Yet among the misery and pathos, I rise up and am the gentle smile that welcomes people to our door. Workers in my agency don't dress up like Spock or line dance. We don't go to conferences every minute. My agency is always last in employee satisfaction and my office and section until recently were the worst out there.
It is the toughest beat in the worst area in the worst location. I am the gentle hand that says welcome or try again. Up until this boss, I never got a kind word or thank you. I mentored dozens and pulled my weight and that is no fat joke. Serving the public is enough and seeing a heartfelt thank you is enough. Saying welcome to a person who has overcome adversity is enough. My hero is a modest woman from Jamaica working two brutal jobs to support her adult developmentally disabled daughters. If you felt sorry for her she would slap you and thank God for her lot.
My job is a hell hole. I work in a place that is rife with cronyism and treats Jews, Gays and anyone over 40 like excrement. Like the Jamaican woman, I must learn grace and dignity. Yes, management sucks for it is stupid, rife with nepotism and incompetence. In many ways my relationship with my job is like a battered spouse. I love the public and the work I do. Sadly, it comes with a set of clods who lack humanity.
I am thankful that I was allowed to see the ray of sunshine and humanity of the top boss. She can get more with a smile and the words Beaky then all the fear and bullying.. I would march through hell and back for her a million times only because she has confidence in me and treats me like a human.
We live in a world where there isn't always right or wrong. I had an oh my God case and she said "Beaky you and I know the past stinks. That was twenty years ago and the couple is together. Treat the family with respect or at least get them out of the way fast". She said it with a smile and I knew she was right and had faith in me to get it right. Having a boss that believes in you is a blessing.
Why I would march through hell and back is she understands people are not numbers. If we have to throw the book, at least pick the right people to throw the book at. Grace and glory will come to you here without making mountains out of molehills.
Oddly, I feel whole and I am no longer angry. Bottling it up was worse then fighting. It is easy to hate frummies. They are self centered, they don't understand other perspectives, they are cultural zombies, they really just don't understand hard work and they have Gods authority. If I can find forgiveness in others, I should forgive the frummies for what they are not. The sense of superiority and entitlement got to me. Of course had this relative said " I know it sucks, but we'll get through it I would be fine." It was the failure to acknowledge me as a human that did it.
I still abhor frumkiet. It sickens me and is a mockery of actual faith. Work hard, take care of yourself respect others and the big guy gets it in the final chapter. My love is that which I swore an oath to. My love is that which surrounds me. I am American in content and substance. I am a Jew, but it is but a detail in a larger picture. I celebrate and enjoy those things around me. I do not seek to separate myself with quirky dress. Nor do I look upon the ghettos of Europe with a tear in my eye. Life was hard and aping the customs is as absurd as starting a cult around Sanford and Son, Gilligan's Island or Alf.
For all the boorish piety and absurd clothing frummies miss the part about hard work and dignity. Studying the talmud was done for 90% after work. Even Maimonides had a day job and never asked for a crumb.
Nor is following cult like ethically challenged cult Rabbis part of our traditions. These Cult leaders make themselves out to be king and need to be prosecuted under the RICO act in many cases.
Part of this is my fault for not exploding sooner. Merely, telling this relative show some humility should have been said long ago. Those words were really hateful and vile, yet in the big picture they meant nothing. You get further in life with we are all in this together then haughtyniss.
Oddly this relative has an incompetent relative that cost me $900.00 dollars and my car. I told her change the plates but as a useless incompetent and after feigning expertise duhh I got to change the plates,. If my car did not move for six months it is not your business. The fact it was given to me as a gift is not your business. I owned and maintained it well. Your car breaks and you ask for mine like I owe you something with no regard and you feign it doesn't really belong to me. What part of it was a gift given to me nine years ago eludes you. What part of show humility did you forget. Why when I told you to change the plates did feign expertise pretend it is not my car. How much incompetence and boorishness must I endure.
Why am I the only one in this place that ever gets shit right the first time. If I married that idiot I would kill myself to get away from her. How much incompetence, stupidity and boorishness must I endure. It is the incompetence that gets to me.
I can't hate this relative, but his wife and bratty kids are another story. He needed to learn humility, to respect me as a human. These relatives are very easy to hate especially his wife who can't get a thing right and knows everything. The kids are obnoxious uncouth. In my days Yeshiva kids in my day understood that hard work and respecting others meant more then ceremonies. The sense of "we are the center of the world " arrogance really gets me. I was a college graduate and on the first day the boss tossed me a broom. I did my job with pride and didn't have the attitude it is beneath me.
My only wish is when my hour comes to return my soul to the jungles of Guyana. I want my spirit to rest among the trees and animals. I do not wish to be reclaimed into a faith that has treated me poorly and I chaffed against. Being Jewish has never been a source of happiness for me. It has always created conflict and pain. My pain was in my battle to define myself on my own terms. Much like a gay man being in the closet I lived a lie. I never felt religious and chafed at having to fake it. It was not as if I stepped out of the secular closet as I shouted this is who I am. Nobody accepted my secular lifestyle and there was always the belief I would return to the path. Sunbeam was a psycho, but she was right about one thing I can't fake my disdain for long. Something primal inside me rejects having to feign faith I never had.
Be yourself, be proud of what you are and live.
Monday, August 12, 2013
1 comment:
- Always On Watch said...
Exploding is important! It serves as a pressure-relief valve!
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"that philosophy and poetry were indeed closely related; they were not identical but sprang from the same source – which is thinking" (1)
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Just as "poetry makes nothing happen" (2), thinking "does not bring knowledge as do the sciences" nor "does it produce usable practical wisdom"(3).
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[…] thinking and knowing are two altogether different concerns, [corresponding] with meaning in the first category, and cognition in the second. […] The need of thinking is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning . And truth and meaning are not the same. " (4)
Religion (allegedly (5)) reveals both truth and pre-ordained meanings, sanctioned in hallowed formulas & ready-made rituals, shared by a community. All very comforting & soothing & unchanging. No exhausting thinking needed. And only one Book to read.
Poetry & philosophy – ah, no truth is revealed, nothing's pre-ordained, much less is sanctioned (even the Canon of writers has crumbled). So much thinking to do for so elusive a morsel of meaning.
But is the alternative then to go without individual thinking, to go without this dialogue with the many tentative stories woven throughout the ages? What kind of meaning-less society would that produce? (6)
"Stories constitute together, and referring to each other, the proof of our presence " (6) (7)
Thinking inevitably produces footnotes:
(1) Hannah Arendt – The Life of the Mind
(2) Says the Poet: W.H. Auden
(3) Confesses the Philosopher: Heidegger
(4) Hannah Arendt – The Life of the Mind
(5) Allegedly – such a lovely word!
(6) Marc Reuyebrink
(7) It's only in a footnote that I would dare to quote Baudelaire's pathetic outcry in "les phares" (about how the great artworks troughout the ages are « ardent sobs", and the best testimony of human dignity): "car vraiment seigneur, c'est le meilleur témoignage que nous puissions donner de notre dignité, que cet ardent sanglot qui roule d'âge en âge et vient mourir au bord de votre éternité »


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KidCards are books of pre-assembled cards that kids can tear out, color, fold, and give away. Each card has an unique design for different occasions: birthdays, get well, thank you and more. There is 20 cards and 20 envelopes in each packet of KidCards.
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24 comments:
- Ailurophile said...
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- May 24, 2009 at 10:55 AM
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- May 25, 2009 at 1:36 PM
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- jennem said...
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- May 27, 2009 at 11:11 AM
- Jeff and Mandee said...
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The news that has been circulating regarding kidnapping and abduction of young children is making me feel paranoid. I heard stories when kids in the mall will just be grabbed without being noticed by the parents or kids will be tricked by the bad guys so the innocent kids will go with them either to kidnap them or get all their valuables and belongings.
That is why whenever we are out, my husband and I always sees to it that at least one of us is with our kids even if we have our nannies to help us. We don't know how smart these crooked guys are that our nannies can easily fall as their victims.
And speaking of nannies, it is also important that we conduct criminal background check since these are people that we allow to enter our homes and entrust our kids. We don't want to go home one day and find out that our kids have been abducted by our nannies.
I am lucky as my parents are living with us so they get to monitor the nannies while my husband and I leave for work. Otherwise, I would have resigned and leave my work as I can't bear the fact that I will leave my kids the whole day with just the nannies.


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It's the PMO's communications budget that has skyrocketed over the past year, leading by example as always, with no regard to the belt tightening most Canadians have undergone. Did your business slow down? Did you watch what you spent? Are you still watching? Did you watch the price of groceries climb and realize how much more you were spending every week? I mean, even the Queen has cut back, you'd think some of that thriftiness might have rubbed off on old high spending Harp during their royal tour.
So what's the justification for the big shiny ever-expanding communications budget? Take a ride on the spin machine, this is the quality stuff we're paying for after all:
There is more pressure in a 24-hour news cycle for ministers, MPs and the government to respond, said Andrew MacDougall, but the explosion in third-language media has also added to demand.What's comical about such a response is that this PMO is notorious for information control and being less forthcoming. For not being more helpful, as the spokesperson claims. Indeed, recently, the Parliamentary Press Gallery rang the alarm about the lack of information coming from this government and the PMO in particular:
"We've made the conscious effort to really step up our efforts and frankly, in contrast with past communications shops, to be out there more and be more helpful," he said.
Most Canadians are aware of the blacked-out Afghan detainee documents and the furor over MPs' secret expenses. But the problem runs much deeper. Under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the flow of information out of Ottawa has slowed to a trickle. Cabinet ministers and civil servants are muzzled. Access to Information requests are stalled and stymied by political interference. Genuine transparency is replaced by slick propaganda and spin designed to manipulate public opinion.Does any of that sound like a "more helpful" PMO? Or the PMO stepping up their efforts? It's more appropriately characterized as circumventing, evading, stifling. Oh sure, we get more slick photos of the day, videos and handouts. But that's not information, that's something else starting with the letter "p."
The result is a citizenry with limited insight into the workings of government and a diminished ability to hold it accountable. As journalists, we fear this will mean more government waste, more misuse of taxpayer dollars, more scandals Canadians won't know about until it's too late.
It's been four years since Harper muzzled his ministers and forced reporters to put their names on a list during rare press conferences in hopes of being selected to ask him a question. It's not uncommon for reporters to be barred from posing questions on behalf of Canadians.
More recently, information control has reached new heights. Access to public events is now restricted. Photographers and videographers have been replaced by handout photos and footage shot by the PM's press office. It's getting tougher to find an independent eye recording history. But handouts are, unfortunately, widely used by media outlets, often without the caveat that they are not real journalism.
In the end, that means Canadians only get a sanitized and staged version of history.
Meanwhile, the quality of factual information provided to the public has declined steadily. Civil servants ñ scientists, doctors, regulators, auditors and those who draft public policy and can explain it best ñ cannot speak to the media. Instead, reporters have to deal with an armada of press officers who answer tough questions with vague talking points vetted by layers of political staff and delivered by email only.
In addition, the Access to Information system has been "totally obliterated" by delays and denials, according to a scathing report by the country's information commissioner. Requests are met with months-long delays, needless censoring and petty political interference. (emphasis added)
We're getting less information from this PMO but we're paying much more for it with our tax dollars.
P.S. When was the last time this Prime Minister had an unscripted public event where he took questions, uncensored, from Canadians? Think hard. And by the way, that's free.


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Oh dear...I'm a blubbering mess...
I'm standing here in Layla's closet going through clothes and in true girl form I stop and started looking through all of the items I set aside to keep forever...this one is what started the emotional roller coaster.
This simple doll has so much love, emotion and tears soaked in it.
One day after Layla was born her neonatologist came in and said that Layla had meconium ileus because of her CF. Which means her poop was basically tar in her intestines that could not get out on it's own so they were sending her to Cook Children's and the ambulance was on its way?! That is a lot for this mom, who just had a baby, to handle.
When the Cook's team arrived at Baylor the very first thing they did was give me this doll and told me to place the doll in my bra so that it would smell like me and it could be close to Layla when I could not be. So I hugged, squeezed, prayed and loved this doll as much as humanly possible so that when it was next to my girl she would feel all that love and know that her momma was there and would always be there to love and take care of her.
Thank you Lord for sweet and kind of difficult memories that bring such joy.
Thank you sweet friends for being my prayer warriors and being such amazing friends.


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Okay, it's that time of year again, where lists dominate the internet, overwhelming us, pulling us this way and that. My list may not be a traditional view of the top twenty comics that have come out this past year, but they are the twenty I personally enjoyed the most. I'm not going to put something in my list just because I feel obligated to do so. And so, this is the first half of the best of the year...
20. Seven Soldiers: Guardian by Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart (DC Comics) The new Manhatten Guardian surprised me by becoming my favorite of the maxiseries Seven Soldiers so far. I wasn't expecting much, but the creative zaniness of this story just worked, with each issue seeming like a story in its own right, all different from one another, but all great nonetheless.
19. Mora by Phil Harmon (Image Comics) A strange, disturbing horror story with three storylines drifting and overlapping through four issues. Read more
18. Fables by Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham (and may I also mention the gorgeous covers by James Jean) (DC/Vertigo) This year's stories included the great "Homelands" arc, where we get to see where the NYC fables came from and who instigated their evacuation.
17. Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona (Marvel Comics) The beginning of the second "season" of the series, with a giant leap forward in art by Alphona, and the runaways creating a new life for themselves in the ever-changing series.
16. Manhunter by Marc Andreyko and Jesus Saiz (and again, great covers by Jae Lee) (DC Comics) Including the "Manhunted" arc, this dark portrayal of superhero vigilante Kate Spencer is the best in years. A welcome new character in an already-crowded superhero universe.
15. Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday (Marvel Comics) My number one book last year with the awesome "Gifted" story falls to fifteenth place with "Dangerous," even though it was a great story despite harsh criticism.
14. Mnemovore by Hans Rodionoff, Ray Fawkes and Mike Huddleston (DC/Vertigo) A real creepy mini-series that experiments with the medium and creates a great atmosphere to get disturbed in. Read more about this little horror number.
13. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon) This is a great autobiography from a woman escaping a country plagued by war. She's really interesting and goes through some trying times in Europe, lonelier than she's ever been.
12. Lady Snowblood by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura (Dark Horse) From the creator of Lone Wolf and Cub, this samurai series was the inspiration for the phenomenal Kill Bill movies. Read more about volume one of this series.
11. Sexy Voice and Robo by Iou Kuroda (Viz) This manga title I had trouble placing in my countdown. I was back and forth between this one and my number ten comic, but the other title won out. This is about a schoolgirl who uses her voice ala Veronica Mars to carry out missions for an enigmatic old man. Read more
Stay tuned for part two of my best of the year!


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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch.
For nearly four years, Cassandra Martin lived in West Oakland, a few blocks from two freeways and the city's port. This has made her an accidental expert on air pollution.
"I used to wonder what that black stuff was on the windowsill," said Martin, who was diagnosed with asthma in 2009. "I would constantly wipe the walls and windowsills, but it would get so caked with soot. That's a reason I was wondering about particulate matter."
Martin now works part time collecting air-quality data for a West Oakland environmental group.
As the hub of a busy port and freeways, much of West Oakland has been designated by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District as a Community Air Risk Evaluation site, which means residents living there face some of the greatest health risks due to toxic air.
West Oakland also has been identified as a priority development area under a 2008 state law that requires regional agencies to draft urban plans aimed at reducing greenhouse gases. Public meetings are being held in the Bay Area this year to draft its plan, which could be finalized by 2013.
But according to a recent analysis by Oakland's Pacific Institute and a group of public health and air-quality advocates known as the Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative, California's efforts to build sustainable communities as mandated by the state law could unintentionally threaten the health of Bay Area residents.
"Unless health-protective measures are incorporated into infill and transit-oriented development policies, these forms of development may actually exacerbate the adverse impacts of freight transport on community health and quality of life," the report said.
According to the Pacific Institute analysis, about a quarter of Bay Area land prioritized for smart-growth development under the 2008 law intersects with the air district's high health risk communities.
"Infill development could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by locating more housing near job centers and public transportation, making it easier for people to avoid driving long distances to meet their everyday needs," the report stated. "However, infill development could also expose more people to toxic air pollution if more housing is sited near freeways and other freight-related land uses without accounting for the risks that this poses to human health."
It's a scenario that has created unexpected tensions between public health advocates and smart-growth- oriented urban planners.
"What we're faced with are some difficult tradeoffs between short-term respiratory health concerns and concerns related to the long-term habitability of our earth," said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of the San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association.
East Bay neighborhoods along the I-880 corridor and near Port of Oakland activities are among the Bay Area communities that face the most severe air quality-related health risks, according to the air district.
"There is a far-reaching impact from freight transportation in these neighborhoods," said Catalina Garzón of the Pacific Institute. "Toxic diesel pollution is a harmful substance that has been shown to contribute to additional cancer risk in these communities and which has contributed to respiratory conditions like asthma."
To address these air-quality concerns, the Pacific Institute recommended building new Bay Area housing and schools "far away from polluting land uses to protect the health of current and future residents," said Garzón, lead author of the report. In cases in which housing is built near freeways or freight-related industry, Garzón said, "potential health impacts should be assessed and mitigation measures should be included in the design," such as the installation of indoor air filtration systems.
Increasingly, modern urban design is seen as playing a crucial role in improving public health.
"We've built places that are designed for disease," said Robert S. Ogilvie, program director of the Planning for Healthy Places initiative of Oakland-based Public Health Law & Policy. "Kids can't walk to school; people have a hard time accessing healthy food. We've designed places like this, and it's up to us to undo it, and the only way is through urban planning."
Some land-use experts, however, say the Pacific Institute report doesn't fully acknowledge some of the realities of Bay Area development.
"Here's the dilemma: There is an urban ring around the Bay Area where all of the jobs are concentrated, all of the houses are concentrated, and from a land use, transportation and greenhouse gas reduction perspective, what we want to do is direct new growth into the existing urban footprint," Metcalf said. "I don't know the right way to resolve all of these tradeoffs. I do know it will not be a good outcome if we unintentionally push new growth into the suburban fringe in the name of promoting public health."
Kate White, executive director of Urban Land Institute San Francisco, said the report also failed to consider the air-quality benefits to creating dense and walkable developments.
She added that public health advocates should target the source of pollution, not developers – especially those building low-income housing.
"It's backwards to regulate the developers and the community development nonprofits and building professionals who are trying to build good communities that are mixed-income and vital communities," she said.
But the Pacific Institute's Garzón said the report does not advocate against infill development.
"It shouldn't be an either/or," she said. "We can still reduce greenhouse gases and encourage infill development in these areas and do it in such a way that it creates healthy living conditions for residents. When you look at it in big-picture terms, you can pay on the front end so that there are healthy living conditions for residents, or you can wait until these kinds of living conditions make people sick and you pay in terms of hospitalizations or missed days of work and school."
Martin, the former West Oakland resident, moved to Alameda last week, but she still spends most of her week working at the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. Although she no longer lives in the community, she thinks air quality should be considered when new housing and schools are built in West Oakland.
"That would make a lot of sense," she said. "You see, a lot of low-income residents live near where all of these things are. They don't think about the impacts, or they should do a better study of the impacts to know if this stuff is harmful before they build residences there."
Martin said that as she walks through the community to collect air-quality data, she routinely sees five-axle trucks idling in parking lots and on residential streets.
"There is a danger out there, a hidden danger," she said of the contaminants in diesel exhaust. "Particulate matter, you can't see it and you're breathing it. You don't know it's there unless it's brought to your attention."
Bernice Yeung is an investigative reporter for California Watch, a project of the non-profit Center for Investigative Reporting. Find more California Watch stories here.


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Sarah Palin Quits Before She Starts! ("Only Dead Fish Go With the Flow, Don't Cha Know.")
I wonder how long it will be untill she goes broke and returns to her white trash world.
I gotza feeling though that it will not stop her from begging for money... or 'writing' a new book to shill.....
They'll keep her until no one's interested in her babblings any longer or she starts to threaten the audience like BecKKK did.
Darn, it would have been so much fun with her in the race!
Silly Humans! Roger Ailes never intended to let Sarah run for President and lose his greatest ratings booster since GB's departure. And Sarah the quitter knows that being elected is hard, gosh darn it! Better to just have a super PAC to ask fans for money than it is to actually run for office, or articulate an informed position, or even to actually read (all those words! reading is hard!).
Chimp, sadly, I do not think she'll go broke. She's tapped into the gooey, sticky, undercurrent that Repressed Republicans have harbored for many years and which they cannot resist. If she looked more like Hillary in a pants suit, she'd have little to no sway over drooling Republicans, AND Roger Ailes would not have her on the pay roll.
She has been on a downward spiral for awhile now. Thank goodness she realized that she didn't have a hope in hell of getting anywhere with a presidential run!
a political campaign might've have interfered with her hectic personal appearance schedule.
Chimp: "Return to her white trash world?" Ha! That's where she lives now! ;o)
okjimm: Oh, I guess that the cash cow giveth and the cash cow taketh away... ;o)
Suzan: What is interesting to note is that anybody listens to her at all. ;o)
BAC: I know! I am so disapointed. :o(
JustJoeP: Well put! Very well said. :o)
Laura: Sarah Palin's death spiral of ideological purism has been one of the most amusing parts of the Republican election cycle. ;o)
Jang chub Ozer: So true! Now maybe she can get on Oprah. ;o)
Oprah? I would enjoy watching her and her inbred dyslexic family duke it out on the The Jerry Springer Show with Sarah Palin's almmost son-in-law Levi Johnston who ran for Wasilla Mayor and posed naked for Playgirl.
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Welcome to the jungle we take it day by day.
If you want it you're gonna bleed but it's the price to pay...
You can taste the bright lights but you won't get there for free...
Welcome to the jungle it gets worse here every day.
Ya learn to live like an animal in the jungle where we play.
—Guns 'n Roses
After a rough start that wasn't as rough as I thought it was, things got actually rough. I still was unhappy with my first day, in large part because I didn't actually look at my training folder until the day of the last sim session.
That was something I would do different if I had it to do over again. After all, one of the reasons we had them was so we could see how we were doing. If I had looked at it earlier, I would have spent less time frustrated because I would have found out that I was doing as well as I should have been. Usually.
After the adjustment of Day 1, the second day was somewhat better, but still not as good as I thought it should be. Day 2 is the last "easy" day: not too many malfunctions, and the ones we did have were relatively simple. Looking back at the syllabus, it reads like baby steps now, but at the time it felt like trying to run before you even know how to walk.
Nonetheless, our instructor (and I say "our" instructor because you're working as a team with your sim partner through the entire process) rated our second day's progress as pretty darn good. Once again, I graded myself harder, but even the problems I perceived were nothing some studying couldn't fix, however.
Which didn't really happen, unfortunately.
It's not that we didn't study at all; we did. The problem was that we weren't studying the right things. We were still focusing on getting the flows correct. Naturally, that's an important part, but that left little time for improving the callouts. And then the time we should have devoted to callouts we spent on reviewing systems. Day 3 was right around the corner, and although engine failures haven't even started yet, we still hadn't done anything except a few run-throughs of the callouts in the book.
That would make for a looong Day 3. Hence the drop from almost all 1s to a single 1, a bunch of 2s, and a horrible 3!
When I was in basic training in the Army, there were 4 companies in each quad (a square arrangement of buildings with one building per side). Since basic was 8 weeks then, that meant each company started 2 weeks apart. At the end of each 2-week period (a "phase"), your company got a different colored streamer to accompany the guidon: none for the first two weeks, red for weeks 3-4, white for 5-6, and blue for the last two weeks. Getting that streamer felt like a huge accomplishment because you went through so much in just two weeks that you felt like an entirely different person (and company) than you were "way back when". When you had a red streamer, you looked down on the noobs who didn't even have one. The ones with a white streamer looked down upon you as fresh meat. The ones with the coveted blue streamer laughed at everybody else, because they were the "long-timers" now, even though they hadn't even been there for two months yet.
The sim pace felt a lot like that, but instead of bi-weekly streamers, every day was an extra stripe. Day 3 is a legendary day in the sim; one which those who had gone through shook their heads and laughed about afterward. Things start to fall apart faster and harder, and you're shooting approach after approach. You still don't have to deal with V1 cuts yet, but those are right around the corner. Even so, going from one kind of approach to another kind of approach to another kind of approach for four solid hours is more than enough.
One of the hardest things to adjust to in the sim is the lack of continuity. In a real flight, there is an easily-defined, natural flow from before start to taxi to takeoff to cruise to descent to approach, and so on. In the sim, you accomplish the objective for that particular maneuver or item and then you're snapped right on to the next. It allows for a lot of material to be covered in a short amount of time, but it's a bit disconcerting to be in one mindset and have to shift immediately into an entirely different one. It's discombobulating to try to figure out what expected of you for the next ten minutes when you barely kept up with the last ten.
But that's just the way the sim world works, and it's one of the reasons the sim is so fatiguing. There's no half-hour "How's the wife and kids blah blah blah... [Time passes] Well, I'll pick up the weather for you" conversations in the sim like there is enroute in the real thing. Instead it's "OK, you didn't screw that up too badly. Now you're on 22R at intersection Whiskey in Newark. Ready? Go."
When Day 3 was over, we needed no rebuke from the instructor to know we had screwed the pooch and were driving to the pound. Of course, we got a good butt-chewing from him anyway, but that was just icing on the cake. There is a pilot joke that, like most humor, has a dash of truth in it: "If someone asks you who the best pilot in the world is and you say, 'I don't know', it ain't you." We both knew we weren't it that night.
When you get beat up, there are two choices of how to respond:
1. Whine about life not being fair and hope everything somehow turns out all right
2. Shut up and get to work and make everything turn out all right
|Just stare out the hotel window at the Dash-8 you're supposed to be here learning how to fly, or open the Blue Book and learn how to fly it?
After hours of this, we took a break to catch a nap before sim time. It was make or break time, and if we couldn't do it right by then, we were never going to be able to. All that was left was to show up, shut up, and get to work.
Day 4 was a HUGE difference. We crushed it that night. It didn't matter what he threw at us: we just smashed it out of the park. Curve ball, breaking ball, fast ball, it didn't matter: we were all over it. Just as we didn't need a debrief the previous session to know how badly we had done, we didn't really need one to know how well we had done that night. In fact, we even exchanged a high-five on the way to our rooms, and the training folder was full of 1s again.
That momentum carried into Day 5. By that point in the curriculum, we're well into V1 cuts. A V1 cut is when an engine fails on takeoff right at the point where the point of no return is reached. You're going too fast to stop on the runway, so you're committed to taking off. You just keep the aircraft under control, rotate, and climb out like you're in a 180-hp Cessna instead of a 2000+ hp airliner. A Cessna that's trying really hard to flip on its back, that is.
V1 cuts are one of the harder things to deal with in general, but that's life with a multi-engine rating. However, once you've done enough, they start to become fun. (Plus your right leg muscles end up in great shape from stomping on and holding in the rudder.) Once you've done enough emergencies, they start to become fun, too. We had settled into the sim routine, and flying started to become enjoyable again. Instead of "Oh no--what are we going to have to do now?" the game became, "Hey, what are going to get to deal with tonight?"
That, really, is the whole point of the avalanche that is sim training: to make the unusual into the routine and burn a neural path into your brain in the extremely unlikely event you'll ever have to deal with an engine failure right at the most critical moment of flight, dual generator failures, landing gear that won't come down, etc. That's why the 747 in London with a landing gear problem simply had a "non-standard landing procedure" (their words) instead of a "non-standard defecation procedure".
Day 6 was more of the old routine, and we were starting to feel like the blue-streamered company. Which is just as well, since it was one of 2 checkride readiness evaluation flights. There were only 7 flights in the curriculum, so the big day was already drawing near, just as we were kind of beginning to feel less uncomfortable in the sim.
Our performance had a bit of a dip, but not a disastrous one. It was more like a batter who had been going on a month-long .500 tear and drops down to a .333 pace: not bad at all, but not as commanding as before. This is just another example of the competence curve trough, just compressed into a week.
When learning a new skill, most people do not have learning curves that are perfectly upward. Usually there will be some progress, then the progress slows yet continues to rise more slowly, then maybe there's a plateau, then some more upward movement, and so on. However, after a certain amount of time, there is usually a dip in performance: people actually start to do worse at the task with more experience. This dip is short-lived, fortunately, and after some more practice, the curve swings sharply upward again. The dip comes when a person reaches a point where they've done something enough times that they're no longer paying attention to every detail like a hawk, but they haven't yet internalized enough of the task to be able to do it without great attention.
During my time as an instructor, I saw many, many students make great progress toward solo, then have a bad lesson or two and start to get discouraged. However, after a lesson or two more, they're ready to be signed off. They hit that dip, just as so many others did before them, and as I did myself. When learning new things, I've found that same pattern happen to me time and time again.
Some aviation statistics suggest that the most dangerous time for pilots, the time when they're most likely to have a fatal accident, is not when they're brand new. New pilots generally don't push themselves into situations that require extreme tests of their tender skills. However, between 150-500 hours, the dip in performance (as shown by a rise in accidents) occurs for licensed pilots
This same thing was happening here, albeit compressed substantially. I was starting to get comfortable in the sim and getting a decent grasp on my duties, but still lacked the experience to allow me to get relaxed about it. Although I was hoping to be more polished and ready for the checkride, by the time Day 6 was over, I was confident that I'd have all the remaining bugs shaken out by the end of Day 7.
The last day, Day 7, I was declared ready for the checkride. I thought I could have done better, but even if I had 17 sessions I'd probably have said the same thing. Besides, after almost every session I felt like I could have done better. Nonetheless, there comes a time when you just have to step up to the plate and swing the bat.
Next up: stepping into the batter's box for the big checkride.
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The author is an airline pilot, flight instructor, and adjunct college professor teaching aviation ground schools. He holds an ATP certificate with a DHC-8 type rating, as well as CFI, CFII, MEI, AGI, and IGI certificates, and is a FAASafety Team representative and Master-level participant in the FAA's WINGS program. He is on Facebook as Larry the Flying Guy, has a Larry the Flying Guy YouTube channel, and is on Twitter as @Lairspeed.
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Emergency Solutions Grant Conference Call
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is expected to change the name of the Emergency Shelter Grants Program to the Emergency Solutions Grant in forthcoming months. Along with this change will be the issuance of new programmatic guidelines from HUD. As the state administering agency of the Emergency Solutions Grant, Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) will issue amended administrative rules and also provide new programmatic guidelines.
OEO solicits the support of homeless providers and advocates to serve on the newly established North Carolina Emergency Solutions Grant Advisory Committee. The purpose of this committee is to advise how Emergency Solutions Grant funding can best enhance service delivery, complement existing funding directed to entitlement areas, and meet COC objectives including 10-Year Plans to End Homelessness. The advisory committee will help shape public policy and in doing so it will assist in creating a competitive model of funding for the North Carolina Emergency Solutions Grant.
The Emergency Solutions Grant Advisory Committee, composed of approximately 15 persons, will primarily consist of homeless providers representing transitional, day only, 24 hour, and domestic violence shelters from urban and rural communities in North Carolina. The advisory committee will also include representatives from the NC Balance of State Continuum of Care (COC).
OEO invites you to participate in a conference call to discuss the Emergency Solutions Grant and the North Carolina Emergency Solutions Advisory Committee. Please telephone 1-877-685-5350 and use passcode 319492 to learn about proposed changes.
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Do they look like M'sians?
CLAD in 1Malaysia attire, do they look like Malaysians? The airports, for the past 48 hours, are crowded with "tourists" wearing 1Malaysia attire.
They look like Bangladeshis and have suddenly become 1Malaysia fans!
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Emails from Air Asia & MAS expose desperate Najib in airlifting of ILLEGAL VOTERSWritten by Sarawak Report
Down at the airport is where it is happening with the Malaysian elections right now. Secret flights are heading out loaded with cash.
Meanwhile overloaded chartered jets are flying in crowded with foreign workers, suspected of being dragooned into voting for BN.
It would appear that the rats are leaving the sinking ship, while the PM is still desperately trying to win this election "at any cost"
Emails from Air Asia and Malaysian Airlines (MAS) expose a desperate PM
Emails leaked to the opposition by staff working at both Air Asia and MAS have left Najib Razak desperately exposed.
They indicate that while his departing henchmen and rich businessmen have increasingly been losing faith that he can win this election, the PM has been caught red-handed trying to ferry tens of thousands of dubious voters over to KL to influence the outcome!
Staff insiders at Air Asia and MAS have just leaked the devastating email interchanges, which lay bare the whole operation with both sets of emails implicating the Prime Minister personally in the extraordinary operation.
As his UMNO troops have started to desert in their private jets, can the PM survive this devastating exposure?
Rats leaving the sinking ship?
Because chartered jumbos are not the only unusual traffic that has been raising eyebrows.
Private jets have also been busy as rich Malaysians are getting their money out by whatever means it seems. One the eye-witness account from air crew came through to Sarawak Report yesterday of:
"a private plane leaving Subang filled with a collection of luxury bags,and one large gunny sack stuffed with US dollars-estimated value RM 2.5 billion. Bags were dropped off by men in suits driving a couple of sliver Mercedeses , number plate 11"
From vote buying to vote flying!
As for the traffic moving in the other direction, PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim has come out stating that his information is solid that these are foreign workers being ferried to KL to be used as 'voting fodder'.
PKR have made clear that they believe that the UMNO supporting Election Commission (both the Chairman and deputy were card-carrying UMNO members) are registering them as new voters.
One senior PKR member told Sarawak Report:
"The National Registration Department which issues I.C.s (Identity Cards) secretly issue these cards to the PM's Office, which then gets undercover agents to recruit foreign nationals, who get their pictures taken and then superimposed on the I.Cs and then the Election Commission which is in charge of registering voters simply key in the data of these new I.C.s into their system. Voila! New voters!"
And today Najib indeed appears to have been caught red-handed, bringing in dubious workers from the two East Malaysian states to vote BN in marginal seats in peninsular Malaysia.
The leaked emails indicate that the Prime Minister has been urgently coordinating the chartering of massive 747s to ship over 40,000 Indonesians or East Malaysians from Kuching and KK, airports, backwaters that normally never see the like of such aircraft.
The incriminating evidence is there in snapshots, emails and aircraft information that are currently going viral on the web.
Both the emails leaked from Air Asia and MAS indicate that the matter is being coordinated by the Prime Minister's office. One from MAS makes plain that the chartered planes are to "ferry voters and election workers from BKE and KCH".
Since when did these sleepy plantation states become packed with poor West Malaysian workers needing charter flights back to KL or indeed East Malaysian, who might be registered in West Malaysia and need to go back to vote?
Suspicions are now rife that many of these individuals may be foreign plantation workers, doing their masters' bidding.
Moreover, while all names are obliterated from the MAS emails, the ones from Air Asia show clearly who many of the key writers and recipients of the emails are. They include the Chief Executive Aireen Omar.
See this smoking gun email below from Omar with a second reference to the need to report back to the PM herself:
One wonders how BN has the brass necked cheek to pose as the party of 'stability' when it indulges in such grossly provocative acts as this plan to plane and then bus thousands of foreigners to the polling stations of such places as Selangor on Sunday?
Cooperation from BN's 'fixed deposit' states
And how typical of the two corrupted BN tyrants of East Malaysia, Chief Ministers Taib Mahmud and Musa Aman to cooperate in such a scandalous activity.
Both men are exposed up to their necks in graft, with billions in kickbacks firmly labelled against their names. Therefore both are desperate to do what they can to save Najib who will protect them for as long as they can provide BN the seats he needs to keep power.
40,000 plantations workers on a plane by the weekend to vote in Selangor? Why not!
Sabah's Project IC is the direct comparison. Then UMNO 'legalised' foreign nationals to steal the East Malaysian state from its native voters.
Now it appears they are flying those workers over West Malaysia to steal their states too!
Malaysian air crew speaking to journalists at Heathrow airport had this to say Tuesday morning:
"Was at Heathrow on Tuesday and met some senior aircrew. They claim that Najib is using MAS old 747s (the ones which were old and replaced by the new A380s) to fly foreigners in from both KK and Kuching….. there have been several of these flights over the past weeks"[UK journalist].
As per Tony's email!
The involvement of the Chairman of Air Asia is also plain in this trail of emails. Tony Fernandez (now world famous as the owner of QPR Football Club) is the BN client and supposed 'whizz kid', who went from nowhere to the head of a major airline in a twinkling of an eye having caught the eye of Mahathir some years back.
He clearly owes his political allies some loyalty:
Anwar Ibrahim has released this compelling evidence of the 'vote flying' in an urgent press statement followed by a release of the evidence that BN are now being forced to struggle to explain.
Crowd buying now shopping for Bangladeshis
There is another issue that has been gaining attention across the blogs. Concern has grown that BN has been paying a different section of Malaysia's community of foreign workers to perform another aspect of its election strategy.
This is crowd buying.
BN's oil flushed, timber flushed solution to all its problems for the last 50 years has been "if you need it, buy it".
And in this election it seems that as it has become harder to buy up their own Malay supporters for the party, they have started to pay poor immigrant cheer leaders to wear their T-shirts and wave their flags.
Meanwhile, the real UMNO troopers are concentrating on getting their money out of town.
The level of graft of by the ruling elite, which is currently pouring its money out of KL and into foreign safe havens has been causing even the banking community to feel sickened at the sight, according to insiders who have confided to Sarawak Report.
Follow the money to see what a growing number of panicking UMNO bigwigs think the outcome of this election will be. Last year as many Malaysians as British nationals bought property in Central London. One told a London estate agent before Christmas:
"I will buy any property you have in Central London on your books. I need to get my money out as there is to be an election in Malaysia soon and the next government may be stricter about people like me taking out money like this!"
But, while BN's henchmen are starting to run round like disturbed ants, there is one man who is determined that the party should win this coming election and that is the PM Najib Razak, whose pride depends on success.
And if that means shipping in tens of thousands of foreign illegal voters and putting tens of thousands more into BN T-shirts all to con an election from his own people, then it seems he is prepared to try and carry it off.
But Najib's actions are being watched by the entire nation now and they are likely to do far more damage than good to his cause of winning this election "at any cost".
Friday, 03 May 2013 14:24
ALREADY, FRAUD FOUND: EC, ministry officials involved will be PUNISHED - PR warnsWritten by Malaysia Chronicle
Pakatan Rakyat has growing concern with indications of electoral fraud and so that Malaysians are fully aware that we have to come out in maximum numbers on Sunday to vote to overcome the possibility of this fraud. There are 3 aspects of this fraud.
Massive numbers: 50,000 journalists?
One is the massive numbers involved in postal voting process over 250,000 people have been issued postal ballots. Now we have verified there were over 50,000 actually issued to media personnel, so it seems shocking that suddenly the media industry in this country has grown to 50,000. Who are this 50,000 people who been issued postal ballots and who have apparently cast these ballots?
That's one big concern because there is no transparency in the process. We don't know where ballot papers have been kept, we don't know what has been done with the ballot papers. We only know that of course in the established process that these ballot papers will be opened on Sunday at 5 o'clock and will be counted. We know from previous history that it's those postal ballots that are suddenly use to transform, to change the outcome in that particular constituency.
Security of ballot boxes in question
The second concern is about the security of the ballot papers used for early voting process. We know of course the boxes are sealed, we know that they have been kept, for example in Subang the boxes for Subang constituency are being kept in USJ police station. But we still remain concerned because we have the same concerns about who is actually having access to the process because we have been told that we can't access, so we can't watch those ballot boxes and these will be kept in so-called secure places like lockups and only opened on Sunday. So our concerns remain about those ballot boxes.
Real or fake Malaysians?
Third is now this emerging information about large numbers, we are talking about 40,000 - 50,000 possibly even more voters being airlifted from Sabah possibly Sarawak as well to come to vote in critical seats in West Malaysia, with specific focus on Selangor. And we see now the flip-flopping position of Umno-Barisan Nasional initially denying it and now finally saying 'we accept those flights are real, it's actually happening and some friendly people are paying for them'. We are not concerned about who's paying for them, we are concerned about who is sitting in the planes to vote, that's the issue.
We are concerned about whether those people are legitimate voters or fraudulent registration and that is the concern. Who are these people who are flying in tens of thousands from Sabah to vote in Selangor. Are they real Malaysians, are they fake Malaysians who been illegally given blue ICs and registered? And if that is the case, then officials in the SPR (Election Commission), the Home Ministry are acting in conspiracy to commit an offence that for me is comparable to treason, where you commit treason on the interest of Malaysian people to a free and fair election by allowing this to happen.
Full weight of the law
And again, I will reiterate the Pakatan Rakyat warning to all officials, public service who are involved - if we find you involved in this process later, the full weight of the law will be thrown at you. If you are found to be involved, under now PR government please take note, that these acts by any senior civil servant from the SPR, from the others ministries, (if you are) established to be involved in any of this will, you meet the full weight of the law because this is an offense which will be treat as a very serious offense.
Friday, 03 May 2013 08:24
Tengku Adnan admits chartering flights for voters
Tengku Adnan, however, denied allegations by the Opposition that BN was flying dubious voters from Sabah and Sarawak to the peninsular to shore up BN's position in the polls.
"There is no substance whatsoever to the Opposition's allegations that the passengers were anything other than registered Malaysian voters.
"The flights in question were organised and paid for by friends of BN. They brought registered voters to their home (states) so that they may vote in the upcoming election," he said.
Tengku Adnan said as a norm, many organisations and political parties conduct "get out the vote" campaigns.
"The Opposition themselves have chartered buses to bring voters back from Singapore, and Bersih, an NGO (non-governmental organisation) connected to the Opposition, has paid for Malaysians to fly back from Shanghai and Hong Kong," he added.
Tengku Adnan said the Opposition was casting doubts about the fairness of the electoral system in a sinister attempt to undermine Malaysia's democracy.
"It is a calculated campaign to discredit the electoral system ahead of the election. The Opposition is preparing an excuse for their likely loss," he added.
Yesterday, Pakatan Rakyat de-facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim claimed the coalition had received documents which purportedly relate to an operation to fly about 40,000 "voters" from Sabah and Sarawak to vote in the peninsular.
He claimed the documents obtained show that 16 daily chartered flights, including a Boeing 747, were being used to bring in groups of foreigners between April 25 and this coming Sunday.
Among the "evidence" was a copy of an email correspondence allegedly leaked from the Prime Minister's Office, in which details of the purported operations by national carrier Malaysia Airlines and budget airline Air Asia, were discussed.
"We have credible documentary evidence that foreigners are being transported from the airports to various sequestration points within Selangor and Kuala Lumpur and the other 'affected' states," Anwar told a press conference at PKR headquarters.
He claimed that information leaked by staff from both airlines revealed that on average, about 4,500 people were flown in daily from Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan in Sabah and Sibu and Miri in Sarawak.
Election Commission (EC) chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof, however, described such operations as being "impossible".
Abdul Aziz said it is not uncommon for voters to travel back to their hometowns to vote, including those residing in Sabah and Sarawak who are registered voters in the peninsula.
"What is so sensational about that (travelling)? It is not a crime for them (voters) to return to their own state. Even Anwar (himself) stays in KL but is voting in Penang," he retorted, demanding Anwar produce proof of his allegations.
In an immediate response, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's office has denied any involvement in such operations.
"The Prime Minister's office denies any involvement in these flights," Bernama quoted a government spokesman as saying.
"The Election Commission has gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that the electoral system is stronger than ever, and the elections are free and fair," he added.
Meanwhile, a picture of a chartered flight schedule and screen shots of internal email correspondence between airlines' management on the operations have gone viral on social media, fuelling speculation of attempts of election fraud.


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Can you tell it's my favorite time of year? Long live Dia de los Muertos!
Some of my favorite "Dia de Los Muertos" (Day of the Dead) images from Oaxaca, Mexico and celebrations here in Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. This holiday is truly a joyful celebration of deceased loved ones' lives, and I love everything about it. Wish I were in Mexico to witness this truly magical holiday...(miss the "killer" mezcal too, they sure know how to make it in Oaxaca).
More photos to come throughout the week!
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Fall happenings...camping, sketching and studio tours.
Some of my work showing at Lynn Scott Studio during the Edmonds Art Studio Tour.
Art in the works...encaustic and mixed media.
I had the privilege of participating in the Edmonds Art Studio Tour at Lynn Scott Studio, September 17 and 18. We enjoyed varied weather (sun, rain, clouds) and LOTS of interested visitors. Lynn's entire house was filled with beautiful art, both upstairs and down! I demonstrated encaustic technique for most of the weekend, while gazing at the beautiful Puget Sound and Whidbey Island (through the studio window). What a treat!
There is A-R-T happening in my studio, in "fits and start" due to work and family obligations, but at least something is taking place! Shown above, I am experimenting with encaustic and mixed media (Pieces of Love and Happiness).
My partner, David, and I (and Chai the Bishon) recently went on a camping trip to Eastern Washington, to a beautiful lake near the small town of Winthrop. We were able to enjoy 80 degree weather, gorgeous "high and dry" views of desert, rolling hills and mountains. We had an abundance of quality sketching and reading time. We even caught a few trout! Chai had a wonderful time chasing ducks and fish, but kept "forgetting" how to swim...David even did some landscape sketching with me, under that beautiful tree by the lake.
But, in all this beauty, there is sadness this month. Chai (the Bishon) passed away on October 8. We are so thankful that we had one last camping trip together before she left this earth. I hope that she is chasing ducks and enjoying naps, wherever she is now...
Chai, 2000 (?)-October 8, 2011
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Last week I, for the first time, bought 2 fillets of salmon trout from my local supermarket, as I got to know and trust the Greek Fishmonger that works behind the fish counter.
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1 tablespoon toasted sesame seed oil
Chilli oil to taste {optional}
Make the dip first and leave it to marinate until the fish is ready to serve.
Mix all the ingredients and adjust the measurements to suit your taste.
Remove the skin from the trout and discard it.
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