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Apple is making a billion dollar bet on sapphire as a strategic material for mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad and perhaps an iWatch. Though exactly what the company plans to do with the scratch-resistant crystal – and when – is still the subject of debate.
Apple is creating its own supply chain devoted to producing and finishing synthetic sapphire crystal in unprecedented quantities. The new Mesa, Ariz., plant, in a partnership with sapphire furnace maker GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) of Merrimack, N.H., will make Apple one of the world's largest sapphire producers when it reaches full capacity, probably in late 2014. By doing so, Apple is assured of a very large amount of sapphire and insulates itself from the ups and downs of sapphire material pricing in the global market.
In keeping with long-standing practice, Apple has never publicly discussed the Arizona project or what it intends to do with such a vast amount of sapphire material. Rumors and more or less informed speculation have flourished in that silence.
The Arizona project was revealed in November, with Apple paying $578 million for GTAT to install and run its advanced sapphire growth furnaces in a plant built and owned by Apple. The news triggered a frenzy of speculation that Apple planned to use sapphire crystal sheets to replace the glass currently used in touch displays for its 2014 iPhones, iPads or a new line of "wearables" such as the long-rumored iWatch, or all of the above.
That's only the tip of Apple's investment. Once the 253-pound "hockey puck" shaped sapphire boules emerge from the furnaces, they'll be shipped to Apple's supply chain partners in Asia, including Biel Crystal Manufactory and Lens One Technology Co., for slicing, polishing, laser cutting, coating and eventual assembly.
+ Also on NetworkWorld: The great 'iPhone 5c is a failure' freakout +
But to do all this, these companies, and Apple, will have to invest heavily in new equipment that can handle sapphire, since only diamond is harder, and handle it in the quantities that Apple will produce. That's not a simple process.
Natural sapphire is a gemstone variety of the mineral corundum, a crystalline form of aluminum oxide. Corundum is colorless, but in natural sapphires, various impurities create a range of colors: chromium makes the gem red, becoming a ruby; iron and titanium create the prized cornflower blue of a true sapphire.
Synthetic sapphire is colorless, unless deliberately colored. GTAT's ASF uses a variation of what's called the Czochralski process, combining the melting of aluminum oxide, a seed sapphire crystal, and heat extraction to crystalize the alumina melt. [For more details, see the accompanying slideshow: "Why Apple's sapphire plan is as hard as the mineral itself"] Like natural sapphire, the synthetic is incredibly hard and that hardness creates challenges for using it.
"When the [sapphire] area is larger, with the increased hardness, it takes more aggressive abrasives to grind and polish it," says Jennifer Stone-Sunderberg, who has a Ph.D. in solid state chemistry and crystal growth, and now consults in this field as a managing director of Crystal Solutions of Portland, Ore. "It's time-consuming to polish something that hard."
Secondly, it means overcoming a surprising problem: despite its hardness, synthetic sapphire can be prone to fracturing, at almost any point in this finishing process, due to impurities or to the presence of unresolved strains in the crystalline structure.
"That's something that's being very carefully measured and tested," says Stone-Sunderberg. "Fracturing is probably of the highest concern. If a product is released with a more expensive touch screen [cover] and consumers experience fracturing, they're going to be highly disappointed. It would be devastating to the sapphire industry."
Tackling these issues on this scale and schedule has never been attempted before.
"GTAT and the rest of the Apple supply chain involved in this new sapphire component indeed have to execute an unprecedented - for the sapphire industry - ramp up, both in term of scale and timeline," says Eric Virey, senior market and technology analyst for LED devices and materials at Yole Developpement, a market research firm headquartered in Lyon, France. "Execution will be key and a lot could go wrong. This ramp up is stressing the entire supply chain, including raw materials and component suppliers."
The big sapphire shift: from specialty to mass markets
Sapphire has been used in a variety of specialized applications for years, where its purity, clarity, high stable dielectric conductive properties, and high optical quality, along with its hardness, have made it worthwhile despite its relatively high price. It's been used in lasers, as covers for point-of-sale barcode readers at grocery store checkout aisles, in high-end watch faces, as the principal integrated circuit substrate for LED manufacturing, and more recently as a lightweight replacement for conventional "bullet-proof" glass in some military vehicles.
Some luxury smartphones, with luxury prices, have been released with sapphire covers, such as the new Tag Heuer Meridiist Infinity or the Vertu Ti. China-based Gionee early in 2014 was the first to release a barely-under $1,000 smartphone with a sapphire screen.
But no one has used sapphire in large-scale consumer electronics or consumer goods products. Apple created a sapphire cover for the iPhone 5 camera lens, and for the iPhone 5s Touch ID fingerprint sensor. It's mainly the sheer foundry capacity that Apple is creating in sapphire that fuels the speculation that it has big plans for sapphire in bigger uses – as a replacement for the cover glass, presumed to be Corning Gorilla Glass, in at least the high-end iPhone model.
"We believe that GTAT Mesa plant has already started producing the sapphire slabs and that the supply chain is currently building up inventory," says Yole's Virey. "We expect full capacity operation at the beginning of Q4. Under our scenario, we expect Mesa to be able to provide about 30 million display covers by the end of September and a total of 42 million by year end (all numbers accounting for downstream manufacturing yields)."
(Virey goes into considerable more detail, on both the GTAT-Apple deal and the global sapphire market, in the March 2014 report, "Sapphire Applications and Market: From LED to Consumer Electronics," offered for sale by Yole.)
That's a capacity unheard of in an industry where sapphire is used as a pricey option in relatively small scale applications.
One example is Ocular LCD, of Dallas, which has used sapphire in its custom capacitive touch displays for medical device, point-of-sale, and gaming customers who have specific, demanding requirements. "It's highly scratch-resistant and impact resistant," says Shahna Kothapally, Ocular's vice president of engineering. "It's a nine on the Mohs scale [of mineral hardness]. Diamond is a 10. We've done impact testing and it's one of the best [materials] in terms of cover glass options."
One design challenge Ocular faced was due to the dielectric properties of sapphire. Dielectric is a measure of the relative "permittivity" of a material, which is an indication of how easily an electric field propagates through it (such as happens in a capacitive touch screen). A higher dielectric constant means more propagation, which also increases sensitivity. "The dielectric constant of the cover glass is very important in touch panel designs," says Kothapally.
Sapphire has a very high dielectric constant, higher than other glass substrates currently used for touch panel cover glass. "When designing with a high dielectric constant material such as sapphire, modifications have to be made to the touch sensor stack-up to get the optimum performance," she says. "Based on available thickness of the cover glass, adjustments must be made to the adhesive thickness between the touch panel and the cover glass. The sensor glass thickness must also be adjusted to keep the Y sensing electrodes further away from the finger -- from the surface of the cover glass -- for a balance in performance."
The why of sapphire
So why is Apple treating sapphire as a strategic investment? Most of the reasoning on this question is speculative and inferential. A sapphire cover screen on at least the high-end iPhone model would seem to do at least three things for Apple, and its customers:
+ Minimize phone screen breakage. GTAT marketing documents claim that "Research indicated there is about a 12% probability that a smartphone display screen will break at some point during the first year of its use (for some models)." In the case of the iPhone's "in-cell technology" which now in effect blends the touch sensing panel with the underlying LCD assembly, replacing a broken screen can require replacing the entire display assembly, a costly process to Apple if the phone is under warranty, or to the phone's owner if it's not.
+ Warranty cost savings. "While broken displays are not systematically replaced, there are multiple anecdotal evidences that Apple stores do replace them on a case-by-case basis," says Yole's Eric Virey. "Estimates for the cost associated with those replacements vary from $500 million to $1 billion."
+ Improve the "user experience." A scratch-resistant, shatter-resistant cover has value to consumers, many of whom already routinely buy protective screens and cases for their iPhones, says Stone-Sunderberg. "I wear a watch with a sapphire face because I don't want it scratched," she says. "I have an iPhone and I spend $25 to buy a protective screen. That's the first thing a lot of us do. I'd be happy to have that built into the smartphone [via a sapphire cover glass] and would happily pay for it." (Aero-Gear offers its adhesive-backed Flight Glass SX Sapphire Crystal protective screen for the iPhone 4. 5 and 5S, priced at $69.)
There may be additional reasons. As noted by Ocular's Kothapally, sapphire's dielectric properties could lend themselves to improving the speed and accuracy of the iPhone's touch interface, and perhaps to supporting a wider array of gestures. And a sapphire cover glass eventually could be married with big changes to the underlying LCD technology, such as OLED or Quantum Dots, which are nanocrystals that can be used to create displays that are more accurate in rendering colors and use much less power than today's LCDs.
What will it all cost?
The biggest hurdle facing widespread use of sapphire in displays has been its high cost compared to the alumino-silicate "super glasses" such as Corning's Gorilla Glass. GTAT in fact got into the sapphire business with its 2010 acquisition of Crystal Solutions precisely to commercialize that furnace technology and make sapphire crystal more affordable, according to GTAT spokesman Jeff Nestel-Patt.
The company's mission in sapphire is to make it available more economically and in much larger quantities, he says. In 2013, GTAT began ramping up a new business: besides selling the furnaces, it's also using them to become a sapphire producer.
"They are very serious about trying to reduce the spot price of sapphire for five-inch or similar sized panels," says Vinita Jakhkanwal, director of mobile and emerging technologies for IHS, a business research firm. "That's the single most important factor for them to address."
"Most people who want sapphire are willing to pay a premium for it over other superglass options," says Paul Massey, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Ocular. "They'll pay a premium of 30% to 50% but not 200%. It's not a price point yet that will let it be taken to the mass market."
But Apple and GTAT seem set on doing exactly that.
The most extensive cost and price projections that are public seem to have been done by Yole Developpement, based on its own sapphire manufacturing cost model. According to Virey, and assuming a display size of 2.75 x 5.39 inches (larger than the current iPhone), the Yole model estimates that the initial cost is $6.40 per unit at the slab level, before the raw material is cut, polished, and processed.
If that turns out to be true, it's a huge achievement in cost reduction for the raw material. It ultimately hinges on squeezing the maximum number of high-quality wafers from each boule, and preserving them through the finishing process to assembly.
"We modeled a $17 cost initially for the finished part," Virey says. Adding in margins for the various supply chain partners, "we expect Apple to initially pay around $20 per part," he says. "That's a significant increase compared to an equivalent part made of Gorilla Glass, which should cost around $3."
If Apple releases sapphire for only the high-end iPhone model, and not for the 'c' variant, it could possibly pass the cost to the buyer in the form of a higher price. Or Apple could absorb the costs itself, reducing the iPhone's margin and hence its profitability at least temporarily. Virey notes that some of the added costs could be offset by savings in warranty costs due to fewer cracked iPhone screens.

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Apple finally agreed to terms with Universal Records, who was the last of the four major labels holding out for their iCloud/iTunes streaming music service. But it might only be for the tracks you buy from Apple.
This, along with the other labels and distributors they've agreed to terms with, gives Apple the streaming rights for a large chunk of songs. Cnet's sources also say that, for the time being, the service will only stream tracks that were purchased in iTunes (bleck).
Streaming will not be available on Monday but will be offered soon, the sources said. They added that an Apple digital locker will store only music purchased at iTunes. The company is said to have plans to store songs acquired from outside iTunes sometime in the future.
As for pricing models, it will likely cost you, one way or another. According to the LA Times, Apple's iCloud service may be made available as a free trial at launch, with an annual subscription eventual costing "about" $25 per year. Oh, and there may, uh, be ads—although it's not clear what form they'll take or how invasive they'll be. [Cnet]
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This study was carried out in 16 university hospital departments of neurology, geriatrics or psychiatry in ten cities with 686 outpatients suffering from AD. This population is representative of the AD population seen by clinicians in daily practice. Patients were evaluated by a geriatrician every six months for up to two years, and their degree of cognitive impairment was measured using the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE). At the same time, a "one-leg balance" (OLB) test was given, where a participant was asked to stand on one leg for as long as possible. The OLB test was reported as abnormal when the participant was unable to stand on one leg for 5 seconds or more.
Participants with an abnormal OLB at baseline or/and during the follow-up showed significantly more cognitive decline at 12, 18 and 24 months than the participants with a OLB test normal at baseline and normal during the follow-up. The worst condition (having an abnormal OLB at baseline and during the follow-up= no improvement) was associated with a mean adjusted cognitive decline of 9.2 points. The best condition (having a normal OLB at baseline and during the follow-up = no worsening) was associated with a mean adjusted cognitive decline of 3.8 points.
Senior Investigator Yves Rolland, Inserm and the University of Toulouse, France, states, "Our results suggested that an abnormal OLB is a marker of more advanced dementia (worst baseline characteristic) and an independent predictor of cognitive decline in AD. Our results reinforce in an AD population, the growing evidence suggesting a link between physical performances and cognitive decline. If these results are confirmed by other data, the OLB test could be adopted in clinical practice to identify AD patients at high risk of rapid cognitive decline."
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Rafinesque, 1810
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Chaetodontinae (but see text)
The butterflyfish are a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae; the bannerfish and coralfish are also included in this group. The approximately 129 species in 12 genera[1] are found mostly on the reefs of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. A number of species pairs occur in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, members of the huge genus Chaetodon.
Butterflyfish look like smaller versions of angelfish (Pomacanthidae), but unlike these, lack preopercle spines at the gill covers. Some members of the genus Heniochus resemble the Moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus) of the monotypic Zanclidae. Among the paraphyletic Perciformes, the former are probably not too distantly related to butterflyfish, whereas the Zanclidae seem far less close.
Description and ecology[edit]
Butterflyfish mostly range from 12 to 22 cm (4.7 to 8.7 in) in length. The largest species, the lined butterflyfish and the saddle butterflyfish, C. ephippium, grow to 30 cm (12 in). The common name references the brightly coloured and strikingly patterned bodies of many species, bearing shades of black, white, blue, red, orange, and yellow. Other species are dull in colour. Butterflyfish are a boundless, different group of marine percoids with delegates on practically all coral reef frameworks and in every single tropical ocean. Their bright and color patterns have drawn in much consideration, creating an abundance of data about their conduct and environment. [2] Many have eyespots on their flanks and dark bands across their eyes, not unlike the patterns seen on butterfly wings.[3] Their deep, laterally narrow bodies are easily noticed through the profusion of reef life. The conspicuous coloration of butterflyfish may be intended for interspecies communication. Butterflyfish have uninterrupted dorsal fins with tail fins that may be rounded or truncated, but are never forked.
Generally diurnal and frequenting waters less than 18 m (59 ft) deep (though some species descend to 180 m (590 ft), butterflyfish stick to particular home ranges. These corallivores are especially territorial, forming pairs and staking claim to a specific coral head. Contrastingly, the zooplankton feeders form large conspecific groups. By night, butterflyfish hide in reef crevices and exhibit markedly different coloration.
Their coloration also makes them popular aquarium fish. However, most species feed on coral polyps and sea anemones. Balancing the relative populations of prey and predator is complex, leading hobby aquarists to focus on the few generalists and specialist zooplankton feeders.
Butterflyfish are pelagic spawners; that is, they release many buoyant eggs into the water, which become part of the plankton, floating with the currents until hatching. The fry go through a tholichthys stage, wherein the body of the postlarval fish is covered in large, bony plates extending from the head. They lose their bony plates as they mature.[3] Only one other family of fish, the scats (Scatophagidae) express such an armored stage.
Taxonomy, systematics and evolution[edit]
The Chaetodontidae can be, but are not usually, divided into two lineages that arguably are subfamilies. The subfamily name Chaetodontinae is a little-used leftover from the period when the Pomacanthidae and Chaetodontidae were united under the latter name as a single family. Hence, Chaetodontinae is today considered a junior synonym of Chaetodontidae. In any case, one lineage of Chaetodontidae (in the modern sense) contains the "typical" butterflyfish around Chaetodon, while the other unites the bannerfish and coralfish genera. As the Perciformes are highly paraphyletic, the precise relationships of the Chaetodontidae as a whole are badly resolved.[4]
Chaetodontidae is classified within the suborder Percoidei by the 5th edition of Fishes of the World, but they are placed in an unnamed clade which sits outside the superfamily Percoidea. This clade contains 7 families which appear to have some relationship to Acanthuroidei, Monodactylidae, and Priacanthidae.[5] Other authorities have paced the family in the order Chaetodontiformes alongside the family Leiognathidae.[6]
Before DNA sequencing, the taxonomy was confused about whether to treat these as species or subspecies. Also, numerous subgenera have been proposed for splitting out of Chaetodon, and it is becoming clear how to subdivide the genus if that is desired.[7]
The fossil record of this group is marginal. Their restriction to coral reefs means their carcasses are liable to be dispersed by scavengers, overgrown by corals, and any that do fossilize will not long survive erosion. However, Pygaeus, a very basal fossil from the mid- to late Eocene of Europe, dates from around the Bartonian 40–37 million years ago (Mya). Thus, the Chaetodontidae emerged probably in the early to mid-Eocene. A crude molecular clock in combination with the evidence given by Pygaeus allows placement of the initial split between the two main lineages to the middle to late Eocene, and together with the few other fossils, it allows the deduction that most living genera were probably distinct by the end of the Paleogene 23 Mya.[8]
The bannerfish-coralfish lineage can be further divided in two groups; these might be considered tribes, but have not been formally named. Genera are listed in order of the presumed phylogeny, from the most ancient to the youngest:[4][9]
Bannerfish/coralfish lineage 1:
- Amphichaetodon Burgess, 1978
- Coradion Kaup, 1860
- Chelmon Cloquet, 1817
- Chelmonops Bleeker, 1876
Bannerfish/coralfish lineage 2:
- Forcipiger Jordan & McGregor, 1898
- Hemitaurichthys Bleeker, 1876
- Heniochus Cuvier, 1816
- Johnrandallia Nalbant, 1974
The "typical" butterflyfishes may eventually come to contain more genera; see Chaetodon:
- Chaetodon Linnaeus, 1758
- Parachaetodon Bleeker, 1874
- Prognathodes Gill, 1862
- Roa Jordan, 1923
Copperband butterflyfish, Chelmon rostratus
The enigmatic Johnrandallia nigrirostris
Sunburst butterflyfish, (sometimes placed in Lepidochaetodon)
Bluelashed butterflyfish, Chaetodon bennetti (sometimes placed in Megaprotodon)
Further reading[edit]
- Pratchett, Morgan S. & Berumen, Michael L. & Kapoor, B.G. [Editors] : Biology of Butterflyfishes. CRC Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4665-8290-3
- General
- Fessler, Jennifer L. & Westneat, Mark W. (2007): Molecular phylogenetics of the butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae): Taxonomy and biogeography of a global coral reef fish family. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 45(1): 50–68. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.05.018 (HTML abstract)
- FishBase [2008]: Family Chaetodontidae – Butterflyfishes. Retrieved 2008-SEP-02.
- Hsu, Kui-Ching; Chen, Jeng-Ping & Shao, Kwang-Tsao (2007): Molecular phylogeny of Chaetodon (Teleostei: Chaetodontidae) in the Indo-West Pacific: evolution in geminate species pairs and species groups. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 14: 77–86. PDF fulltext
- Sepkoski, Jack (2002): [Chaetodon]. In: A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. HTML database excerpt
- Specific
- ^ "FAMILY Details for Chaetodontidae - Butterflyfishes". www.fishbase.org.
- ^ Smith, W. (2003). The evolution of the laterophysic connection with a revised phylogeny and taxonomy of butterflyfishes (Teleostei: Chaetodontidae). Cladistics the International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society., 19(4), 287–306. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0748-3007(03)00070-7
- ^ a b Johnson, G.D.; Gill, A.C. (1998). Paxton, J.R.; Eschmeyer, W.N. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-12-547665-2.
- ^ a b Fessler & Westneat (2007)
- ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 453. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- ^ R. Betancur-Rodriguez; E. Wiley; N. Bailly; A. Acero; M. Miya; G. Lecointre; G. Ortí (2017). "Phylogenetic Classification of Bony Fishes – Version 4". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (162): 162. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3. PMC 5501477. PMID 28683774.
- ^ Fessler & Westneat (2007), Hsu et al. (2007)
- ^ Sepkoski (2002), Fessler & Westneat (2007)
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Chaetodontidae" in FishBase. February 2013 version.


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Note: The Clintons and Bushes face immediate arrest.
We can now report that Hillary Clinton made a call to her CIA 'handler' daddy Bush aka George Herbert Walker Bush to hack and steal five (5) states on election night 2016 on behalf of Satanist lesbian Hillary as daddy had done for his Satanist homosexual son in the year 2000 election coup d'état.
After a half an hour after the 2016 election coup was ordered by pedophile daddy Bush (George H.W. Bush) the patriotic U.S. Military stepped in and stopped the election hacking operation and tuned off the Tristar and Israeli satellites that were about to steal yet another U.S. presidential election.
Sunday November 20, 2016
PizzaGate is PedophileGate
by Tom Heneghan, International Intelligence Expert
BREAKING NEWS: Podesta Brothers Pedo Ring
November 19, 2016
Breaking news to share today as the Podesta #PizzaGate scandal is cracked wide open.
Anon has discovered that the Podesta Comet Ping Pong photos contain encrypted data which if decoded my lead to smoking gun evidence of pedophilia.
But even more stunning is the news that according to FBI and intelligence sources, the Podesta brothers were in Portugal on May 3, 2007, the date of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Beyond Disturbing: DC's "Comet Pizza" Pedophile Ring May Literally Bring Down Our Government!!
by Bix Weir
Comet Ping Pong – Pizzagate Summary
Know the enemy. See it and wrench it out of the shadows, into the light.
I just broke down into tears. After spending the last evening going over this material particularly as it pertains to the #Spiritcooking/#pizzagate/Comet Ping Pong connection.
This looks like the face of the enemy. Why? It appears on its face to be nothing more than a hipster dive pizza shop run by the "49th most connected man in DC", but somethings struck me as very odd.
1.)Satanic Comet Ping Pong Wall Murals. Circles/emphasis mine. Nothing too sketch about those at all, eh? Certainly looks like something you'd want to have your fucking kids looking at while playing ping pong.
2.) Amanda Kleinman, one of the purported musicians' who performs here (again in front of children) music is freakishly satanic and disturbing. Examples, HERE Titled, "All the children" with hellish images of symbolic pedophilia, EXAMPLE.
Additionally, you might notice further down the very distrubing Heavy Breathing website, images of a young woman behind a symbolic brick wall being strangled from behind by a shadowy figure with a black glove.
Other music videos/material posted to the Amanda Kleiman YouTube mention pedophilia directly in text on the screen as seen HERE
Additionally, her creepy, disturbing spoken word stuff certainly doesn't evoke family friendly feelings in the pit of my stomach, not to mention the somewhat tenuous connections to the Paul Sizemore video taken at Comet Ping Pong. Nevertheless, some of the images of Paul Sizemore's son on his blog are quite disturbing and dark
But wait, there's more.
Guess what else they have at Comet Ping Pong?
Wait for it… wait for it. Yes, an after school children's club which teaches children, amongst other family-friendly and uplifting things such as the following ON VALENTINES DAY: MONSTER VALENTINES / MONSTERS IN LOVE. Monday, February 13; 4 – 6pm Viewing Valentine's Day through the eyes of imaginary monsters and considering how these creatures' ideas of beauty may differ from our own, youth will create valentines either for monsters, by monsters, or both.
Very interesting how the Podesta emails make constant reference to Pizza as well as seek to organize gatherings at this place for social events/Pizza Parties.
But in the over arcing theme of things there are two main common denominators that keep popping up.. Kids and Pizza.
We are dealing with the Dark Lord here, friends. On what level or to what extent I am not sure, but I feel it in me.
BREAKING: From the anon who brought you the Laura Silsby connection: I have uncovered a pedophile with links to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, David Brock, George Soros, Marina Abramovic and the Podestas
by IWB · November 7, 2016
by PleadingtheYiff
The individual I have mentioned is one James Achilles Alefantis. Mr. Alefantis is the owner of the Washington DC pizza parlor Comet Ping Pong. There are disturbing indications that Mr. Alefantis is running some form of pedophile ring that involves quite a few public figures in Washington D.C. It would appear that he is the "Achilles heel" for all these people of stature.
Since the investigation began, Mr. Alefantis has deleted many of his posts and set his social media to private. We have archived the entirety of his online presence however. Links posted here are both archives and screenshots I took while helping to investigate.
First I will discuss Alefantis' links to powerful people, then outline the preponderance of evidence that he is a pedophile and uses Comet Ping Pong as a front for his sex trafficking ring.
I. Connections between Power Brokers and Alefantis
David Brock, director of Correct the Record
James Alefantis is the owner of pizza joint Comet Ping Pong, he is the romantic partner of former CTR director David Brock. Here is a link confirming this and showing them caught up with another individual in some kind of blackmail love triangle:
Here is a photo of Brock on Alefantis' Instagram:
Hillary Clinton
Here is a letter Alefantis posted from Hillary thanking him for helping with a fundraiser that involved the Podestas:
An FEC search also shows payments made to Alefantis from the Clinton Campaign and pro Clinton PACS
Barack Obama
Here is a photo Alefantis posted showing Obama playing ping pong with a young boy:
Obama has also been identified in the Wikileaks Podesta dump as having held phone banks at Comet Ping Pong's location:
Alefantis is also listed in White House records as having visited a few times:
George Soros
Yes, George Soros even is involved with this pizza parlor. He is listed as a major donor to the American Bridge 21st Century PAC:
This PAC is on record with the FEC as having made several donations to Comet Ping Pong:
Marina Abramovic
Alefantis appears to have some form of relationship to spirit cooking "artist" Marina Abramovic as he references her in his instagram:
He also posted a photo which appears to possibly make a Moloch reference:
Here is Alefantis posting a photo of Tony Podestas house:
You may remember this "Arch of Agony" statue from the house of Tony Podesta, as seen in this Washington Post article:
Keep in mind that this house contains art showing child abuse by Biljana Djurdjevic:
II. Implications James Alefantis is running a pedophile ring out of Comet Ping Pong
A. Sexual references made in Comet Ping Pong and by Alefantis online
First. Comet Ping Pong advertises itself as a "family place for parents and their kids"
This website here shows that a reviewer mentioned the presence of hidden doors in the establishment (it also revealed that the Food Network show host Guy Fieri has done an episode there). Link and screenshot of relevant portion here:
Despite it's claim to be "family friendly" the restaurant has a number of disturbing sexual references inside and James Alefantis makes a number of references to pedophelia both overtly and implicitly online. Alefantis actually posted a photo of an "art" photo piece which appears to show a man vaginally penetrating what could be an underage girl. I have decided not to share it here but it has been archived. He has since deleted the photo.
EDIT: People suggested I post an edited version of the photo. Here it is, with all NSFW parts removed:
Here is a photo showing the inside of Comet Ping Pong where graffiti saying "shut up and fuck" and "Amen" are clearly visible:
He posted a disturbing image of a little girl taped down to a table in Comet Ping Pong:
He joked about purchasing infants:
Here he posted a photo featuring a man wearing a shirt that says "I love children" in French:
Here he reference a "boom boom room" which sounds disturbingly like a play on the phrase "boom boom" used by foreign prostitutes to describe sex:
More on the above photo:
A photo showing children engaged in some strange ceremony or ritual:
Another odd photo someone tagged at Comet Ping Pong:
Here Alefantis posted a photo of a man with a yellow bead necklace around the head of a young boy. A quick search reveals yellow sex bracelets imply analingus, and the hashtag #chickenlovers in the instagram post is a pedophile reference to adult men who are attracted to underage boys. Links below:
B. References to pizza in a was that is either sexual or involved children
Alefantis and others clearly use the term "pizza" to allude, at the very least to sex (I believe it to mean sex with minors). Here are a number of references from Alefantis and others tagged at Comet Ping Pong making sexual innuendos about pizza and children:
C. Innuendos to systematic child abuse and trafficking
Comet Ping Pong's posters for the "concerts" played at their venue show references to abuse and pedophilia.
Here is an poster which may refer to the out of body experience children have when experiencing extreme abuse:
Here is one showing a band called the "Lolitas" played at Comet Ping Pong:
More disturbingly Alefantis has posted a number of photos showing very suspicious rooms, construction of underground chambers and openly joked about "filling them" with his friends on Instagram.
Here is a photo Alefantis posted showing men digging a hole. Him and his friends joke about "filling it" and a commenter claims his hole has "been full for quite some time now." They also joke about doing a "line up" at the hole in the near future.
Another photo he posted appears to shows a large freezer, which could appear to be a location used for some kind of imprisonment or torture. Commenters on the photo joke "rinse it off when you're done" and "kill room."
The man who commented "kill room" on the above photo has a number of images on his Instagram appearing to show he makes child sized coffins:
Here is a disturbing Wikileaks email where a "torture chamber" is referenced:
Finally, people have noticed that pro-Hillary groups own ALL the properties on the block where Comet Ping Pong is located.
As noted in the previous picture, some of the company logos of nearby groups who have offices near Comet Ping Pong look similar to known images used by pedophiles as per this FBI document:
What can we do about this?
It seems fairly likely that the DC police and FBI will not do anything about this situation. Raise public awareness! Our best tool to combat the people in power on this issue is to build publicity until the public demands a change. Get the word out!
Credits to all the anons on /pol/ who have been working around the clock on this, as well as our own nimble navigators, especially /u/dota2_scrub who found the Soros/Obama documentation.


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Ozark Marriage
These fibers are 100 percent organic and are a very renewable resource. However, just like the lambs these beautiful locks come from, after two weeks we were very glad to have them removed. We can only imagine how the little lambs feel at the end of a year.


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Friday, 27 March 2015
I have neither as I have some of Dag's dinner on my sleeve and red wine in my glass.
But what I do have is a terrible nostalgia for the harbour, summer nights in the city, beer and jukebox playlists, running along the shore in Merihaka (my old jogging route) to some Marko Haavisto, driving my old Taunus to the same playlist. (Which I can't do because Eddi has lost he keys to the Taunus and it has now been parked for xx years under an apple tree at the farm. This summer it will happen though. Locksmith. Clean up. Roadtrip, if only just a small one around the corner.)
We have this this Finnish music- challenge going on on Facebook and listening trough my favourite Finnish songs (which all tend to lean to the rautalanka sound) I got an itch for all of the above and some more. I was sure I had posted this song by Marko Haavisto & Poutahaukat here before (as seen in The Man Without a Memory by Kaurismäki) but apparently I hadn't. Well, here you go - it does not get more Finnish than this.
Now I'll have another glass of wine and play some rautalanka and then watch some more Kaurismäki clips.
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Labels: cinema, lifestyle, me, music, this and that
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
They go well with the vintage deadstock knit top that I got from Style me Betty a few years back.
Posted by The Freelancer's FashionBlog at 00:38 11 comments
Labels: Minna Parikka, muoti, outfits
Monday, 23 March 2015
Some plants I've managed to keep alive and even grow for years*, but the ones I try to treat like they should be treaten over winter (like my geraniums) always die. So I've just stop doing that, and the ones that are by the window all-year round instead of being put in winter-mode make it.
(*btw, someone was worried that the large plants in the living room would not make it as they were not by the window but I can let you know that they are doing just fine ;)
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Labels: at home, countryside, living room, plants, sisustus, spring
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Spring is here, Easter around the corner, pretty much all food featured anywhere is yellow.
So I am not going to be any worse - here's a yellow cake suitable for the season! (Or at any other time of the year, of course.)
You will need:
A couple of mangoes, cashews, pecan nuts and almonds, lemon juice, dried dates, dried pricots and cocoa butter.
This recipe makes for a rather small cake, 20-25cm in diameter.
Let the apricots and dates soak for about 10-15minutes in water so that they soften up.
I used six (small) apricots and 2 dates.
Make the crust first. Mix almonds and pecans in a mixer; I used 1,5dl of both. You can use just pecans too if you so like (and perhaps live somewhere where pecans are not ridiculously expensive). You don't need to mix them all smooth, leave a little crunch. Add the apricots and dates plus a pinch of salt and mix.
Press the crust out in a baking mold. Add a baking paper or plastic film if the mold does not have detachable edges. I usually put a bit of baking paper in the bottom anyway.
Put the crust the fridge while you make the filling.
First start by puttig the cocoa butter, 1-2 tbs, to melt in a cup or glass placed in a bowl with hot water.
Mix 200g cashews along with some squeezed lemon juice in the mixer (about half a lemon). You can add a few drops of lemon more after a while to make the mixing easier. Use a spatula to push down any cashew crumbs that rise along the edges of the mixing bowl. The mixture has to be very, very smooth. It has to be all smooth before you add anything else; you can not "go back a step with this one". The mix will start forming a ball when it is ready.
Slice one mango and add it in pieces. Mix smooth.
If you want you can add in a spoon of honey or agave (or some sweetener of your choice), but it will be fine without.
When the cocoa butter has become liquid (add some more hot water to the bowl if it has not yet melted), pour it in a thin string while mixing. Mix for a while so the cocoa butter blends in well.
The cocoa butter is used for firming the filling. You could also do this with coconut oil.
Take a couple of slices of the other mango and put it in the mixer with the filling. Mix for a while so the mango gets a bit chopped up and mixed in, but it does not need to dissolve completely.
(Use the rest of the mango for decoration on the cake or just go ahead and eat it while you wait for the cake to be ready.)
Take out the crust and pour the fill on. Put in the fridge for a couple of hours or in the freezer for about half an hour before serving.
Then enjoy!
Next time I think I will take some bits of dried mango and grate in on top of the cake for some extra mango-ness!
The cake will stay fresh some 3-4 days when kept cool.
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Tuesday, 17 March 2015
EDIT: If you don't bother to read the text beneath the pictures or can't grasp it; these pictures are for a drag (-king) performance mixing burlesque and boyelsque, playing with gender roles and also doing a parody on nineties boy bands such as NKOTB, East 17 N'sync and, well, whatever their names were, as well as on those pierced-tattooed-trying-to-be-badass metal-hiphop-genre mixing bands of the early '00s with a little dose of Magic Mike male stripping in it ;) Next Friday at Drag Me To Hel.
Because as you may know, burlesque is about more than just sequins and fluff (and corsets and top hats, which seem to be the most widespread stereotype). Although I do like sequins and fluff very much too.
I took these pictures of us last night at our studio after my pilates class. It was probably the quickest "photoshoot" we've ever had.
Last year I went to Drag Me To Hel as a spectator (dressed as Mr.Freelancer) with my fellow Bitty-lads, and here the idea for a super corny boy band act was born. And alas, this year the BittyBoyZ will share the stage with drag queens and -kings, faux queens as well as other gender bending burlesque acts. At Dubrovnik on March 28! Whoop whoop! I mean ye ye! Or something that one of the Boyz could say. Now if you excuse me I have to go watch some East 17 videos (and Magic Mike clips too once I am at it. Heh).
And a little psst. If you have a moment go drop our pages at the London Burelsque Festival -we'll head there in May- a like? Mine, The Rubies and the Bitties (in a bit more glitter and fluff).
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Monday, 16 March 2015
I have a fear of everything even slightly uncomfortable and always think of pants and jeans as going into that category when these in fact do not. Must remember that the next time.
My jeans are Emmy Design, from Pinup Garage.
Posted by The Freelancer's FashionBlog at 02:05 3 comments
Sunday, 15 March 2015
Well I have been doing other things than working too. The other week I was invited over to the British Embassy for afternoon tea. Or, afternoon tea and gin tonics, to be more exact.
So I grabbed my passport and wore plaid (quelle surprise) and head up to the big pink house at the top of the hill in the big park in the city, where a bit of the UK faces a bit of America.
And those huge windows too. The view is a quite amazing one of of the park with Finnish Bay opening up behind it.
Sibelius was here once too.
Now, I was not invited by the embassy but rather to it, but by Pernod Richard Finland for an event regarding the release of the new Beefeater 24 gin (which is, for those of you who know about, or are interested in these things, a premium gin distilled with - among many other things- grapefruit peel and two different kinds of tea. And thus goes surprisingly well together with tea too. It was good. Very round and soft to taste). The event consisted of a little introduction to the British tradition of afternoon tea as well as the history of gin and tonic and gin in general and the making of it (distilled by hand, in London). Most definitely one of those things that you never knew you wanted to know about before, but now do. Really interesting once you get into it, especially if told by a connoisseur with a passion for the subject, like bar tender-master Timo Siitonen from A21 Cocktail Lounge (one of the best in town btw).
Time for tea! Served by a silent butler who showed up to fill my cup before it ever got empty.
The cucumber on the sandwhich was infused with gin.
And then gin and tonics! Here a classic triple-citrus one served the Spanish way in a round glass. (You learn something new everyday). I got a big urge to go home and throw a fancy party with a proper bar and drinks. (My friends once hosted a cocktail party for new year's. 2007 I think. They had made an amazing amount of small cocktail bites to eat that were really good and we made drinks out of an 1960's drink recipe book. The drinks were all very strong it turns out, most tasted rather awful due to that.)
Well, anyway. I also got to notice the big difference between tonic water and tonic water.
After this event I will propaböy never be able to fully enjoy a regular GT at a bar knowing how it could taste...
Tasting and smelling the ingredients of the 24 gin.
Mr.Siitonen giving some tips and tricks on how to spice up the original gin and tonic - herbs and spices are easy ways to give the classic a new twist.
My cocktail party itch got even more serious by this point because all of the versions looked ridiculously inviting.
For those of you who go virgin I'm sure a fine tonic (this was Fever Tree, Fentimans was also very good) with the same ingredients would most likely taste rather swell too.
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Wednesday, 11 March 2015
...which means summer will soon be over. Because that's the way it goes you know. Fast.
Oh well hello there! Yes I am still very much alive, although it may seem a little too quiet over here. With all the work, hanging out with Dag, puzzling babysitting around for my work as Eddi is abroad because of his work all the time and when at home out on the farm because the older boys go to school there now and I'm kind of living part-time in my car due to all the going back-and-forth between homes and jobs and gigs and rehearsals plus the pilates training I am studying I have a pile of posts stacked up that will soon be too old to post anyway.
Well that was a long sentence. But it pretty much describes how things are for the moment, in the way it was structured. A highly energetic mess. But, here are some thing's I've been up to the past week as my phone and Instagram saw it:
We have started our own recurring club at Mascot -
Go ahead and like our page to find out the dates for the following ones as we set them!
Then I came back home and by yesterday spring had arrived for real! I'm tempted to say the classic "finally" but to be honest it's pretty early and apart from that magical Christmas week winter was not that long or cold or white but seemed to pass rather quickly this time. We took a walk outside and it was warm. I feel all my shoes starting to wake up from their winter sleep and making small sounds in the closet already.
Also yes, that is how my son keeps putting his glasses on, constantly.
Oh well hello there! Yes I am still very much alive, although it may seem a little too quiet over here. With all the work, hanging out with Dag, puzzling babysitting around for my work as Eddi is abroad because of his work all the time and when at home out on the farm because the older boys go to school there now and I'm kind of living part-time in my car due to all the going back-and-forth between homes and jobs and gigs and rehearsals plus the pilates training I am studying I have a pile of posts stacked up that will soon be too old to post anyway.
Well that was a long sentence. But it pretty much describes how things are for the moment, in the way it was structured. A highly energetic mess. But, here are some thing's I've been up to the past week as my phone and Instagram saw it:
We have started our own recurring club at Mascot -
The first of Rubies Klubit was last Friday under the theme 'Abstinence'. It was a really good night!(The last shot is from the curtain call at the end of the night that I took from our golden gogo-boy's Instagram, orginally taken by JBM.)
Go ahead and like our page to find out the dates for the following ones as we set them!
Then I came back home and by yesterday spring had arrived for real! I'm tempted to say the classic "finally" but to be honest it's pretty early and apart from that magical Christmas week winter was not that long or cold or white but seemed to pass rather quickly this time. We took a walk outside and it was warm. I feel all my shoes starting to wake up from their winter sleep and making small sounds in the closet already.
Also yes, that is how my son keeps putting his glasses on, constantly.
Posted by The Freelancer's FashionBlog at 02:19 2 comments
Labels: burlesque, instagram, iphone photos, kids, lifestyle, me, my work, oma elämä, out and about, spring
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
And the result turned into exactly what it was supposed to! We performed our little play together with the festival's jazz trio improvising in the background (and that band is so good! They made it perfect). It was the most fun I've had on stage in a long time; to make something totally new and rather unseen before. Burlesque, in short, is entertainment, and you aim to please the audience, but at certain events -like a festival - you can go for different numbers, stretch the limits of what belongs to which genre and please the audience by giving them something else than the expected. (This number is not for the dinner parties no). And most spectators loved this -but not all liked it (because we were not being "just" pretty and dancing in beautiful costumes which some want to limit down to because they don't think about the whole spectrum of what a performance can be; this also in short). In this case I am happy about that; doing something that was not meant to make everyone love it straight away but to rather to make people go 'Oh, you can do it like this too?'
And I have to add that that robotic metallic hair I was working on at 3am last week turned out pretty good.
Because this after all is burlesque I am not going to show you the pictures from the end of the play but yes; the robot takes over the world.
For those of you suffering from burlesque abstinence from the festival week Tinker and me are throwing a small relaxed burlesque club at Mascot this Friday. (And then I am off performing for a Women's Day part-charity-show spectacle in Turku on Saturday in case you still want some more.)
Photos 1, 3&4by Tuomas Lairila and 2&5 JBM.
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Twice in the last few years a deer has hit my car.
Yes, I meant to say the deer hit me. The animals bolted from a wooded area into my path (only one survived).
Turns out a lot of the damage done to cars in this country isn't from colliding with another automobile. Two-car accidents make up less than half of all incidents, according to an analysis by CarInsurance.com, which provides insurance advice and online quote comparisons.
CarInsurance.com looked at data submitted by more than 42,000 car insurance shoppers. As shoppers compared rates for liability, comprehensive, and collision policies, they reported their previous accidents. From that data, the website compiled its top "hit" list.
"We buy auto insurance because we envision two cars careening toward each other and screeching brakes," said CarInsurance.com managing editor Des Toups. "But more than a third of all incidents involve things like a parked car, the weather, vandalism, hitting animals or road debris."
The percentage of people who struck another car or were struck was about 45 percent. But here's a breakdown for other accidents:
■ Single-car accident: 7.9 percent.
■ Act of nature such as flood, hail, or fallen tree: 5.8 percent.
■ Struck a parked car or tree: 5.4 percent.
■ Car struck while parked: 5 percent.
■ Debris or other nonaccident damage (such as hitting a pothole): 2.9 percent.
■ Vandalism: 2.4 percent.
■ Struck animal: 2.4 percent.
■ Windshield or glass: 2.2 percent.
■ Theft of car/theft of parts: 1.5 percent
■ Hit a pedestrian: 0.4 percent
Some shoppers weren't sure how to classify their accidents such as hitting a mailbox, so those incidents were not included on the list. Toups said when you're shopping based on price alone, it's easy to neglect to ask important questions such as "Will this policy cover the damage I am most likely to encounter?"
"If you write a check every month, you tend to believe you're covered," Toups said. "After all, you bought insurance. But many people, maybe most, don't really know what they've bought."
Although a deer running into our car might do the same amount of damage as hitting a tree, it's the collision with the tree that is more likely to trigger an increase in your car insurance rates because it's classified as a collision claim, Toups said.
CarInsurance.com has created an interactive online tool — with crashing sound effects — so that drivers can see what type of insurance would cover six common accidents: hitting someone else's car, crashing into another car that you own, or running into a tree, animal, pothole, or garage door. They call it the "Crash-o-Matic." The tool compares hypothetical rates for liability, comprehensive, and collision coverage on select 2013 vehicles. You can find it by going to www.carinsurance.com and searching for "You hit what? The Crash-o-Matic."
Comprehensive coverage reimburses you for loss due to theft or damage caused by something other than a crash with another car or object, according to the Insurance Information Institute. Collision coverage pays for damage to your car resulting from a collision with another car, object, or as a result of flipping over. Property damage liability covers damage that you or someone driving your car with permission may cause to someone else's property. Every state except New Hampshire requires liability insurance coverage or some proof of financial responsibility, according to CarInsurance.com. New Hampshire requires that you demonstrate financial ability to cover damages once you have an accident, Toups said.
If you buy only liability insurance, as many people do, repairs to your car will not be covered under almost all of the damage scenarios featured in the in the Crash-o-Matic tool, Toups said.
So let's say a deer runs into your car (because of course you wouldn't hit the poor animal on your own). This accident generally falls under your comprehensive coverage, CarInsurance.com says. If you have only liability coverage, you will be responsible for the repairs.
"We wanted to give people a good idea of the likelihood of different types of damage," Toups said. "The tool we built goes even further, matching up various sources of damage with the coverage needed to fix the car and whether a claim is likely to raise future rates. The biggest mistake regarding claims that we see is people trying to get their money's worth. Insurance companies keep score. Save your coverage for the big things you can't fix on your own."
I know times are tight and you may be trying to cut your insurance costs. So you might drop coverage or opt for the lowest amount of coverage. But be sure to compare rates with different insurance companies. Don't underestimate how much coverage you will need, especially if you aren't a careful driver or if you don't have savings to cover damage. Or if you live where there are a lot of deer.


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Libertarians blame rent stabilization for the problems of tenants in cities like New York, but there are few rent stabilized apartments left in this town or this building. Most people in this building pay $4000 to $5000 a month for a "luxury rental" the size of a working-class Hoosier's garage. Certainly the fee the landlord collects is luxurious. Nothing else about the place is. Particularly not luxurious is the lack of heat, now in its second day. Snow falls, arctic winds blow, but the $5000/month luxury building is as cold as a dead seal.
The building once employed a certified plumber capable of fixing the constant leaks and other woes that plague this building and are common to poorly maintained high-rise apartments thrown up in the go-go 1970s. But the managing agent was always six months late paying the plumber's bill, and often argued about the charges months after they were incurred.
"I'll pay for one guy," the managing agent would tell the plumber six months after the plumber used three guys to fix an emergency in the building.
In cheating the licensed plumber, the managing agent did not act on the tenants' behalf or with their knowledge or consent.
Eventually the competent licensed plumber grew tired of losing money every time he saved the building from disaster, and stopped accepting jobs here. The competent licensed plumber's competent licensed colleagues did likewise. Thus the building placed its tenants at the mercies of the incompetent.
In the past 24 hours, four different low-cost plumbing companies have come to this luxury high-rise to fix its unconscionable heating problem. As a result of their efforts, the doctor's office in the lobby has been flooded, and a pipe broke on the third floor, filling a tenant's apartment with steam and pouring boiling water on her floor. Into this boiling water the tenant stepped when the steam she mistook for the smoke of a fire awoke her. I am grateful to hear that she is not seriously injured. Meanwhile, there is still no heat, and our daughter is sick with a hacking cough.
N.B. As a long-time tenant, I do not pay anything like $4,000 or $5,000 a month, but most people in the building do.
[tags]NYC, landlords, tenants, tenant rights, competence[/tags]


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New Mid-Month Biblioblogger Ranking
And guess which Blog is now ranked 2nd, topping all but one of them? *Cough*. Thanks to all my readers. It means a great deal to know people are interested in what some guy in Indiana has to say.
You live in Indiana? Congrats. John. I see that you put a tremendous amount of effort into you work and that you have many negative critics (you have an incredible amount of patience). thanks for your efforts.
Yay! Kudos to you, this says something about your effort. Now someone will try to redefine biblioblogger so it means only those who blog about the first verse of Gen. 1. :)
Keep up the good work!
Yeah, I too am interested in what James McGrath has to say. :P
Congrats John,
I love this blog.
Be well.


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Peanuts Worldwide has been appointed the merchandise licensing agent for The Elf On The Shelf: A Christmas Tradition brand. The Elf On The Shelf: A Christmas Tradition tells the story of magical scout elves who are sent to children's homes to watch children and report to Santa if a child has been naughty or nice. After each elf has returned from reporting at the North Pole, it can be found hiding in a different location. The activity transforms The Elf On The Shelf into a hide-and-seek game.
Each Tradition-in-a-Box comes with a scout elf, a hardbound children's book, and keepsake box for easy storage. Peanuts Worldwide will develop a global licensing program, for children ages 0-8 years, which will initially focus on social expression, ornaments, stationery, holiday décor, gifts, interactive, confection, apparel, and accessories.


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Justin Cole stands like a proud parent beside the car he shepherded through a meticulous restoration process, turning it into something it never was — a completed automobile. Or is it really a complete hoax?
Cole is president of Benchmark Classics in Middleton, Wisconsin, and the project that has consumed so much of his attention is among the rarest of cars: a 1948 Tucker convertible. It is, in fact, the only one in existence. The car, and Cole, are also the center of a controversy in the world of classic cars with some doubting the car's authenticity.
The Tucker Corporation built 51 complete cars including the initial prototype before production ceased in 1948. Enough body shells and parts for eight more cars remained in the factory when it closed. Cole refers to his convertible as Tucker #57 as that number is stamped on a number of the body panels.
According to the story that comes with the car, Preston Tucker secretly planned to build a convertible version of his car. Work was begun at the Tucker facility but the car was later moved to Lencki Engineering, the firm that Tucker had employed to build his first prototype, the Tin Goose. Unfortunately, removing the top had weakened the structure significantly so Lencki engineered a new frame from thicker gauge steel and welded a tubular steel insert in it for additional strength.
Work on the convertible was abandoned when the Tucker company shut down and its founder was about to face a grand jury over allegations of fraud. The car remained at Lencki until a retiring employee bought it. In 1981 Al Reinert of Burlington, Wisconsin, purchased the car and planned to finish the job that Tucker and Lencki had started some 32 years earlier.
Reinert worked on the car off and on but never finished it. He did find an authentic Tucker engine and a correct Cord transmission, which were missing, and replaced the car's troublesome elastometric rubber suspension system with a modern coil over setup, an alteration that a other Tucker owners have made.
Cole acquired the Tucker in December of 2008 after running into Reinart at a swap meet earlier in the year. What he got was a rolling chassis and an assortment of body parts as well as the car's instrument cluster and seat frames. Missing were the rocker panels, the rear quarter panels in front of the rear fenders and the panel between the convertible top and the rear deck lid. The car also had no upholstery and no convertible top fabric.
Over the next year he and his staff at Benchmark Classics spent more than 5000 hours restoring the car to its current condition. Cole painted the car Waltz Blue, one of Tucker's original colors and said to have been the color of one of Vera Tucker's favorite dresses. The interior is upholstered in a cream-colored leather loosely patterned after the Tucker's original design.
With the work essentially complete, Cole took it to the Russo and Steele auction in Scottsdale last January. The bidding on the car reached $1.4 million but didn't hit Cole's reserve price. He also listed it on ebay in March where bidding approached $900,000 but, again, didn't meet the reserve. The car is still listed for sale on Benchmark's Web site.
While there are those who doubt the authenticity of the car, and thus its value, Cole has no regrets about taking on the project.
"Ever since I was a little boy, I've always been stubborn," he says. "I was always going to see this through."
Even doubters admire the car and admit that it truly is a Tucker and truly is a convertible. The question, really, is just when its conversion took place. The answer to that question could have a profound impact on the value of the car. But as Cole observes, his Tucker will always be "a super star in the car world, no matter what."
But Is It the Real Thing?
The Tucker Automobile Club of America has this to say about the Tucker convertible on its Web site:
"While TACA is certainly not ready to completely dismiss the possibility that a Tucker convertible could have been built by the Tucker Corporation, we have never discovered nor been presented with sufficient evidence to prove such a car was planned for or started at the factory."
The position of the club is that the Tucker was probably converted to an open car well after the company went out of business. The club goes on to admit, though, that the convertible is built from "many authentic Tucker parts" and that it probably represents "what a Tucker convertible would have looked like had one been produced".
Cole counters that the convertible was a secret project and that Tucker purposely kept no records related to it. He also has a number of documents including sworn affidavits supporting the contention that there was an in-house Tucker convertible project.
A third explanation recently surfaced on a Tucker discussion board related to the convertible. According to this theory, Preston Tucker ordered that two of the body shells be altered as props to show the grand jury as proof of his intentions to establish an ongoing manufacturing operation. One was to be a supposed 1949 prototype and the other a convertible.
The purported props were never needed and were kept hidden away until long after litigation was finished, according to this theory. This reasoning is purely conjecture and there is no hard evidence to support it but it is quite plausible, given Tucker's propensity for theatrics.
In the end, it may not matter. A car as unique and striking as the Tucker convertible will take on a life of its own and will find its own value. Classic cars, as with any collectible, are worth whatever a potential buyer is willing to pay. And in this case, that could be a lot.


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You only think you own your music, you thief
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Wireless: What the new Zunes will and won't do
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One call, out of the blue, $500,000, and no strings attached. Wouldn't that be nice? Unfortunately, this only happens to geniuses…
I'm talking about the MacArthur Foundation's 'genius grant,' which yesterday was awarded to 23 recipients. Among them were authors Junot Diaz, writer of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the more recent This is How You Lose Her, and Ethiopian born Dinaw Mengetsu, whose two published novels are The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air.
Both authors have had the chance to share their jubilation upon receiving the news, and what it means to them. Mengetsu was as far afield as Nairobi when he received his call:
It was obviously amazingly overwhelming and at the same time felt remarkably appropriate to be there and to be in a community that I felt I was desperately trying to reach out to… Part of what the MacArthur fellowship does is remind me that the work I've done is relevant – not necessarily what I write about, but the people who populate my work. That those people have a significance and meaning that sometimes might be overshadowed or lost in the larger narrative of the world, and it's important to keep writing out of those experiences.
Interestingly, both writers are immigrants to the US, Mengetsu as a toddler and Diaz as a teen. That seems to have influenced their writing and style, and in turn caught the Foundation's eye, which said of Diaz that he creates "nuanced and engaging characters struggling to succeed and often invisible in plain sight to the American mainstream." Diaz reflected on the honor of the award in an interview with AP:
It left me thinking about my childhood … It would never have dawned on me to think such a thing was possible for me … struggling with poverty, struggling with English. … I came from a community that was about as hard-working as you can get and yet no one saw or recognized in any way our contributions or our genius. … I have to wonder, but for circumstances, how many other kids that I came up with are more worthy of this fellowship than me?
The Columbian author also said the grant would be "transformational" for him and his work. "It allows you to focus on your art with very little other concerns. It's kind of like a big blast of privilege."
For those who've never heard of the grant or its criteria, the Foundation's website offers some information for aspiring geniuses:
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world… [It] awards five-year, unrestricted fellowships to individuals across all ages and fields who show exceptional merit and promise of continued creative work.
A full list of the recipients and their bios can be found at the MacArthur Foundation's page for the fellows of 2012. Among them is the creator of "The Wire," two filmmakers, a pediatric neurosurgeon at Boston Children's Hospital, and a certain mandolin player who incredibly thought this life-changing call was a robocall. You can read more on that, here.
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