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OPEN FOR BOOKINGS! a few summer weeks left.. CONTACT US, AND WE WILL BOOK it * you will save on the credit card fee, if so. This site will be expiring in early april.. pls book now!
Ocean Grove---voted one of the world's top 10 beaches by fodor's in 2014!
Excellent central location! = Only one tiny block from Ocean Grove's 'Main Ave', and only 3 tiny blocks from the auditorium. 1.5 BLOCKS to the BEACH! ALL within an EASY WALK! We are also less than a 10 minute walk to Asbury Park's boardwalk and it's vibrant, sophisticated downtown with many eclectic, and highly rated restaurants. A tranquil and quiet oasis, this is -- yet also, everything at your fingertips! You deserve the best!
*House received a full inside and outside painting in 2016!
* Rental is on the second ocean block, with ocean glimpses from the porch.
* 25 windows--VERY SUNNY, bright and airy.
*Fully air conditioned.
* Comes with two adult bikes - a must have on the Jersey Shore!
* BEACH SUPPLIES = Umbrellas, at least 6 beach chairs, 2 boogie boards, raft, and a beach cart to carry them in, provided. Small blow up pool for tiny kiddies!
* SIX beach adult badges provided
* Beautiful, Comfortable Beds w/ new mattresses: top-grade Sealys and a Sealy posturepedic in Master Bedroom. Thick, 100% cotton covered mattress pads are provided and pillows are a selection of down and hypo-allergenic. Dust mite covers are on everything! Quilts and blankets, included.
*CHEMICAL FREE WATER--- we have a two douton water filters for the kitchen, and all bathroom showers have "aquasauna" filters. Necessary!
* 2 full bathrooms--include a tub.
* Large basement with WASHER AND DRYER
* Cablevision high quality Wi-fi, DVR record, cable, DVD player, VHS and phone
* A GARDEN PATIO with: grill, tables and chairs, and
many types of ever -blooming flowers! We provide a person to water the plants!
* Two refinished 'full sized' wood porches with roofs.
* Original hard-wood and tile floors
* Fully Furnished w/ basic linens, soaps, paper goods.
*Very Quiet-- has only 1 full time neighbor on ALL sides, including across the street!
*8 hours are spent cleaning the house and yard to make it beautiful for you!
AUTHENTICITY OUTSIDE: You will find only the authentic in this house. We strive to provide the best! OUTSIDE, are two naturally stained mahogany wood porches. Comfortableness on the porch is maintained by providing three 'anti-gravity lounge chairs'- which enable the lounger to raise their feet above their heart, and have adjustments for both the back and legs. Besides this, are 2 hand-painted wooden tables-- (not shown in pxs.) The siding of the house is made of cedar shingle, on top of which is the cheerful and mystical color you view in the pictures. THE GARDEN---has two flowering hydrangea bushes, and one very large and one small " Rose of Sharon", two small azaleas. There are multiple colorful seasonal flowers: hydrangea, roses, echinecea, daisies,. and, paca-sandras, and the ever-green pine-type bushes. We now have a gardener that comes to water the plants--No worries! Two maple trees lean over from the neighbor's and sway gracefully in the ocean breezes, creating a relaxing sound.
AUTHENTICITY INSIDE, down: INSIDE---The KITCHEN has a multiple-hued creamy coffee color ITALINATE tiled floor. The cabinets are a pale maple and counter tops the best-hygienic 'corian'. Two real ovens are available, along w/ a micro-wave. Double filter for fresh drinking water, dishwasher, and adjustable recessed ceiling lights are pluses! The dining set is oak, has 6 leaves, and is over 100 years old! It Expands to seat 10. The chairs were chosen for their comfortableness!
LIVING ROOM-- beautiful, original, golden pine floors, and mahogany stair rail and baluster. Victorian prints and two real paintings! Large, gold embellished box-style Victorian mahogany mirror; Ornate marble Victorian coffee table; and, two more one-hundred-year-old-plus side tables highlight the wainscoted Provincial--soft-yellow colored room. There is amble room for all your magazines and books. Some nice ones have been left behind, and we have a few games available, also. You can check your email at the comfortable desk.
AUTHENTICITY INSIDE, up: We offer 4 bedrooms upstairs. All have ACs, fans, and 3 of 4, closets. They are entered through '6 -paneled' doors which are made of real wood and accented with lovely pewter egg-shaped knobs. Stained glass, century-old wall hangings, real paintings, shells highlight. MASTER BEDROOM---'Breezy blue'---very large wing-backed chair, bird's eye maple bureau, English pine bedside tables, Queen sealy poster-pedic bed, 3 authentic Victorian framed prints.
2ND QUEEN BEDROOM---blue-green--True Victorian 'East Lake Bedset',with extra high bed, beveled bureau with top mirror, fabric cushioned chair, stained glass ceiling light, framed Victorian print, and real water color painting. PURPLE CREAM BEDROOM--'the wicker room'-- pine distressed cream-colored twin bed, wicker cushioned chair & bureau, 2 wicker mirrors, 3 paintings. DOUBLE BEDROOM---hand painted bureau, full 'double futon' couch/bed, TV with small bureau, two real oil paintings. Everywhere-- A pleasure to see! THANK YOU--for sum'r '16---rented !
OUR RATES---Please click on the Rate TAB, and then press "view all RATES", to see if the property is within your means, before contacting us. thanks!
THANK YOU!! Everyone who worked on the house this year thanks you for your patronage, for a full season of summer rentals---10 years in a row! ***We are continually updating everything, and just completed painting in 2017, so this year will be just as nice! Hope to see you!
julie purchased this house in 2007
Upon review, the Ocean Grove Historical Preservation Committee proclaimed this house to be "one of the top 100 historic homes in the town".
The house is within walking distance of many things to do like--art shows, flea markets, plays, and two movie theaters! Everything is close by, and no car is needed! Many come here to partake in the spiritual programs offered by the Methodist Camp Association. Besides this, there is such a friendly air about Ocean Grove - its quaintness is comparable to none--with its over 1,000 victorian homes. It is great to bike, too---you can go for many miles along the coast either way--we provide the bikes!!
I choose to buy this property because of its beauty, and the fact that it is one of the few houses in the second beach block of Ocean Grove, that has a side or back yard. There is a sense of privacy and quiet here, while you are still so close to the beach, town, and Asbury Park, too. I love the open feeling of the downstairs---the Living room is large, and so is the eat-in kitchen. The kitchen and the bathrooms are beautiful, and i have also decorated the rooms with great care.
OCEAN GROVE---voted one of the world's top ten beaches by foder's in 2014! Magnificent! The beach is very wide, and you can always find a spot!
At the house, it is great to have the option of being cool , on the porch in the shade of two large maple trees! On sunny days, it is sometimes better than going to the beach! We recently have had two tiny tress grow on two other sides of the house, allowing for bird chirps to be heard from many locations! Quickly---The side yard is a rarity in this 2nd from the beach OG block. Special things--2 hot water heaters, bikes, filtered water throughout the house, , full spectrum lighting, DVR TV, Wi-fi, garden..
You feel really taken back in time, being surrounded by the beauty of the authentic antiques and lovely wall hangings. Every room, lovely!
The house is only 1.5 blocks from the beach; 1 tiny block from town; 1 block from the grocery store; 4 short blocks to the Great Auditorium, and to central Asbury Park it is less than a 12 minute walk.
I loved this house so much that after staying there in July, we came back for the end of the summer. It is impeccably kept - even had new touches from our last stay just a month earlier (new throw pillows, new decor). I love this house. It is right around the corner from town and only 1.5 blocks from the beach. Could not be situated any better. And the owner is a pleasure to work with and is beyond accommodating in answering questions and providing direction. I give this house an A+++++ and highly recommend it.
The property was everything Julie said it would be -- close to the beach, immaculate, tastefully decorated and totally accommodating. This was our best VRBO vacation rental ever and we will definitely return next year! Great location for families with small children or elderly parents -- the town is clean, quaint, quiet and so memorable. Do book this one and ENJOY!
We had a wonderful week in this charming Victorian with front and side porches, just two blocks from the beach and steps from town, including Day's Ice Cream. We were an extended family of 8 and the beautifully appointed house suited our needs perfectly, and was surprisingly roomy. The kitchen was well-stocked with cooking supplies and bathrooms were newly updated. We also loved the bikes and riding them on the boardwalk in the early mornings! Would recommend to anyone looking for comfortable vacation in Ocean Grove.
If you are looking for a charming, amazingly well kept and clean house around the corner from town and only 1.5 blocks from the beach - this is it! We cannot say enough about how perfect this house was with 2 full baths, 4 bedrooms (small but big enough!), even a little washer and dryer for an emergent beach towel load! In addition, property manager/owner could not have been nicer to work with, left detailed instructions on how to use appliances in the house and in case of emergency who to contact. WiFi worked great too. We definitely will be staying here agin and highly recommend this house to anyone looking to stay in Ocean Grove.
Plenty of space for relaxing. The side porch and the bistro tables are so inviting!
Kitchen is really well equipped (except for a dirth of ice cube trays)
The grill worked great and was very clean.
I've had the pleasure of staying at Julie's gorgeous home in Ocean Grove on several occasions. Each time is better than the next. Her home is at once spacious and cozy; elegant and eclectic in design. Each room is beautiful decorated with a lovely mix of antiques and more modern elements and the house itself is immaculate. A large eat-in kitchen, two outside areas (a private garden patio area and porch), and beautifully maintained room, make the house ideal for a family. The location is on a quiet street, away from the hustle and bustle of Main Street. At the same time, it is close enough to some of Ocean Grove's unique boutiques, restaurants, and art galleries and only a few blocks from the beach. As an avid traveler, I've stayed at beach homes all over the US- from East Hampton, to Marin, to Nantucket. This is hands down my favorite place of all!
VICTORIAN HOUSE ---is a 3 mt. walk to the beach; 2 mts, to town; 5 mts to the GREAT AUDITORIUM; and only 10 mt walk to ASBURY PARK. OCEAN GROVE--only in recent years has come back to its full glory.
CLOSE WALKING area--has classical concerts--with well known names from NYC or abroad;pop concerts in 3,000 seat auditorium; & free concerts on the street. Plays; amusement park; boardwalk with shops;antique shops; restaurants--ranging from NYC ones, to Caribbean to Greek! Bakeries, cheese shop,etc, provide so much more! Parasailing and other activities might need a car. Taxis are readily available, though, day and night.
Go fishing on the pier, or jetties, walk the pristine beaches and b'wlk for miles, or use the 2 COMPLIMENTARY BIKES. It is the type place where people will look you in the eye and say hello. The town was originally founded as a spiritual community, activities of this nature keeps everyone 'nice'. The architecture really takes you back into another world!
Golf: RENTAL TIMES---- For summer 2012, we are now renting Friday--Friday.. Come in at 3:00 in Fri.,and be out at 10 am on Friday. This is the best choice as there are so many activities in Ocean Grove on the Weekends, that parking is sometimes hard, on Saturdays. We want your transition into the house to be an easy one. With a Fri, PM, check-in, You can then be all ready for the w/e with food, ect.. Thanks for understanding!
Other seasons---we can be flexible..
***There must be golfing in MONMOUTH COUNTY, nearby.
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1. RENTS do not include taxes and cleaning fees, which are 15%. BIG REDUCTIONS FOR LONGER STAYS! 2. Return renters = 5% discount. 3. Will not rent to high school groups or for prom parties. 4. Cleaning is provided every two weeks for 1 month stays. 5. Security--will be a min. of $1,000. 6. CANCELLATIONS-- If you cancel within 2 mos prior to the rental, & If we cannot fill your spot = 30% fee of rent is due. 7. INSTANT QUOTE RATES on vrbo and homeway.com, are not entirely accurate, due to computer set up.. the rates that are sent to you, in the email from us, ARE.. 8. RATEs are subject to change, until confirmed. 9. we are doing all bookings, to a later notice..
1/3 of the rent is required, to save your place, provided there is more than 2 mos to rental time. If there is less than 2 mos, 1/2 will be required. all rent and security deposits must be in, 2 weeks prior to renting.. thank you! checks are accepted, only.


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December 21, 2011
First Proposed in Mayor Bloomberg's State of the City Address in January, Bill Allowing Livery Cars to Accept Street Hails Will Bring Safe and Legal Service to Millions of New Yorkers
Sale of New Taxi Medallions Will Generate $1 Billion in Revenue for the City
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky today joined with livery drivers and legislative leaders to celebrate the historic agreement to bring legal taxi service to the 7 million New Yorkers who live outside Manhattan's Central Business District. First announced in January in Mayor Bloomberg's State of the City speech, the bill will create a new class of livery licenses, which will be able to pick up passengers on the street in Northern Manhattan and outside Manhattan. The Taxi and Limousine Commission will issue up to 18,000 of these new licenses, 20 percent of which will be wheelchair accessible. The agreement will also generate a billion dollars in revenue for the City through the sale of 2,000 new yellow medallions, all of which will be wheelchair accessible. Mayor Bloomberg made the announcement at Seamen Car Service in Washington Heights and was also joined by Assembly Member Carl Heastie, Assembly Member Karim Camara, Assembly Member Guillermo Linares, Assembly Member Felix Ortiz, Council Member Robert Jackson, Council Member Fernando Cabrera, Livery Base Owners Coalition spokeswoman Cira Angeles and Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities Acting Commissioner Jason Mischel.
"For the past year, we have been advocating for change that has eluded the City for three decades," said Mayor Bloomberg. "Now that we have achieved this historic agreement, millions of New Yorkers who have never been able to get a cab in their neighborhoods will have access to safer and less costly taxi service; thousands of hard-working livery drivers – many of them immigrants – will be able to come out of the shadows and into the legal economy; and the City will receive a much-needed billion dollars in revenue."
"Government can achieve great things when there's a clear vision and the will to see it through," said Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky. "This plan will provide quality taxi service to borough residents who never enjoyed it before, it represents new transportation options for persons with disabilities, and it will generate jobs. There's something for everyone."
"The new agreement improves upon the original proposal which provided car service to the outer boroughs by ensuring transportation access to the disabled as well," said Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. "Importantly, the bill will bring significant revenue to New York City without raising taxes, which will preserve vital services. I am glad that we were able to resolve the issue and I congratulate the Governor, Mayor Bloomberg, and my colleagues in the Assembly for their hard work in accomplishing a win-win result."
"This bill continues the legacy of MOPD Commissioner Matt Sapolin, who was a tireless warrior for the inclusiveness of all in everything New York City has to offer, including the accessibility of city transportation, right up until his untimely passing a few weeks ago," said Jason Mischel, Deputy Commissioner/General Counsel of the Mayor's Office for People With Disabilities. "I look forward to continuing Matt's fight by working closely with our partners at TLC, as well as advocates for the disabled and the taxi and livery industries to ensure that a long term disability plan is put into place that will benefit all residents of, and visitors to, our great city."
"I want to congratulate all of my colleagues in government, particularly Governor Andrew Cuomo, Speaker Sheldon Silver, Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and Senator Marty Golden for the passage of this bill which will improve and increase taxi service in underserved areas," said Assembly Member Heastie. "In doing so, we are legitimizing a service that has been in the shadows for decades and injecting $1 billion in revenue to our city, at no cost to the taxpayers. Let me give kudos as well to Mayor Bloomberg for initiating this legislation, acknowledging the need and showing leadership. For all those that decry Albany and our process, the passage of this legislation illustrates our openness, our ability to address the diverse needs of our constituents and further dispels the notion that we are a dysfunctional body. I am proud that after hours, days and months of deliberation, we were able to reach an agreement that benefits the industry, its workers and most importantly, the people of New York."
"I want to congratulate all of my colleagues in government, particularly Governor Andrew Cuomo, Speaker Sheldon Silver, Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and Senator Marty Golden for the passage of this bill which will improve and increase taxi service in underserved areas," said Assembly Member Heastie. "And, I want to especially thank Mayor Michael Bloomberg for initiating this legislation, acknowledging the need and showing great leadership."
"This taxi legislation gives New Yorkers a chance to see their leadership at work. I applaud all the key players in this recent deal, including Mayor Bloomberg for his vision and persistence," said Assembly Member Camara. "New Yorkers will now have more transportation options and the potential for significant small business and job creation. It's a win-win situation for everyone."
"In this holiday season there isn't a better present for the men and women in the livery industry than this historic agreement to make legal what has been the practice in our communities for the past four decades," said Assembly Member Linares. "Now, New Yorkers in my district and in minority and working class communities outside of Downtown Manhattan will have access to reliable, accessible transportation services from an industry that I was part of when I first came to New York City. I applaud Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg, my Speaker, Sheldon Silver, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, my colleague Assemblyman Carl Heastie and the many legislators in the Assembly and the Senate for supporting the livery industry which is a major source of jobs and economic activity in our communities."
"As Chair of the Assembly Mental Health Committee and Chair of the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force, I strongly support the Governor's decision to sign into law the livery cab bill. This piece of legislation will not only provide jobs to livery cab, it will end the lack of access to livery cabs by those living and working in the outer Boroughs. Most importantly, it will improve access to transportation for wheelchair bound people and those living with disabilities," said Assembly Member Ortiz.
"This is a huge victory for the city and especially the over 6 million residents of the outer boroughs as this legislation will now address their needs and demands for accessible livery cab services. The legislation will also generate $ 1 billion in revenue through the sale of 1,500 yellow taxi medallions. The Caucus has been a leader in championing this issue for our communities and I am proud to stand by my colleagues as this historic legislation is signed into law. My heartfelt thanks to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the advocates that have played a vital role in making this happen. Congratulations to all New Yorkers," said Council Member Jackson, Co-Chair of the Black, Latino and Asian Caucus.
"The taxi cab industry is a New York icon," said Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez. "Now, it will be stronger and more equitable for thousands of drivers who rely on it to make a living. We stand shoulder to shoulder with the drivers and will continue to work for transportation solutions that help both the driver and the customer."
"Today is a great day for Upper Manhattan and outer borough residents," said Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito. "Finally, our communities will have access to the same safe, dependable street hail service that residents of the Central Business District have, and the drivers and bases that have served our neighborhoods for decades can provide this service legally. I congratulate Mayor Bloomberg, Commissioner Yassky and all of the livery bases and drivers who have advocated so strongly for the passage of this legislation. I also thank Governor Cuomo for arriving at a fair resolution on this bill."
"The passage of this historic bill will allow thousands of livery drivers and base owners, hardworking minority and immigrant workers who are part of the economic backbone of our communities, to support their families by legally doing what they have been doing for over 40 years: picking up hails and responding to pre-arranged calls," said Cira Angeles, Spokesperson Livery Base Owners, Inc. "This legislation will allow our industry to continue to provide vital transportation to residents outside Downtown Manhattan and to disabled New Yorkers while raising much needed revenue for our city to maintain critical social services."
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So are the investigative agencies with Gestapo powers.
"Like I've always told my conspiracy theorist friends: If you geometrically increase the number of dots and remove the sequential numbers, you can draw any picture you want."
Authorities are often the worst buyers into conspiracy theories.
Endless, ludicrous stories there.
Some actually true. Some not.
Usually there is huge over reactions from the basis of statistically small events with investigative agencies with Gestapo powers. Usually these statistically small events are genuinely scary.
Even then, the dots can be numbered in many different ways. This is the source of many conspiracy theories. For a current example consider this "numbering" in Infowars: Tsarnaev Brothers had a CIA Connection.
With dot-relationships like this, how does one decide which are valid and which are irrelevant?
Some might dismiss this as, "Well, that's just conspiracy theorists." But the same problem also results in convictions of the innocent; both legally and in the public mind.
As a result, it seems to me that it is just as specious to say, "Well, we were able to connect the dots afterward..." as it is to complain about "not connecting" them beforehand.
Open Secrets
In it, he draws a distinction between puzzles and mysteries. He defines a puzzle as a situation where you lack information, and finding more of it is the key to solving the puzzle. A mystery, on the other hand, he defines as a situation where you already have plenty of information and the challenge is to make sense of it. In a mystery, it's not lack of information you need to address, but the abundance of it; simply gathering more will achieve nothing but muddy the waters further.]]>
"If the FBI had spent less time, money, and effort manufacturing cases (see Trevor Aaronson's The Terror Factory), harassing peace activists (see www.stopfbi.net), 'enforcing' websites' Terms of Service (see the prosecution of Aaron Swartz), and being hand-maidens to the MPAA (see the extra-territorial, and from all appearances extra-judicial) prosecution of Kim Dotcom, is it possible that they might have had some time, money, and effort to 'connect the dots'?
Didn't the Russians point a finger at these two?"
That is what I am thinking. 700,000 people? Really?
I liked Bruce's statement about increasing the size of the haystack to look for needles, in this context.
They probably are doing what all such agencies have a tendency to do, and as they have a history of doing -- looking in New York for a coin they dropped in LA. Because they like NY better. :/
John Magic
I believe many intelligence failures can or could have been avoided by TLA's working together and sharing information in a much more efficient way than is happening today. Unfortunately, most - if not all - are secretive little kingdoms with their own little princes, constantly fighting amongst each other over budgets, jurisdictions and esteem. The DHS only came about because everyone in Washington DC and beyond knew this was never gonna happen, so they decided to create yet another one to avoid the Kafkaian nightmare that would have ensued trying to align and integrate existing agencies.
As every engineer knows, technical solutions often are far easier to solve than the political issues that come with them, and throwing more resources at a problem not necessarily a better strategy than trying a different approach.
Like refusing to be terrorized, we just need to accept that preventing evil is science fiction (and usually dystopian SF at that). Nobody wants to prevent auto crashes with 5 MPH cars, and nobody really wants to spend what would be required to prevent terrorism.]]>
But, after the Boston bombing, we learn that the brothers had been questioned before, that the Russians informed us that the older brother was dangerous, and that the Saudis told us the same thing. When two nations, one of which we are not on good terms with, tell the US government that an immigrant is dangerous, then we should act. (There were grounds to deport the older brother.) This wasn't a situation of picking out a potential terrorist among millions of non-terrorists. It was a situation of completely ignoring evidence of criminal intent. It was inexcusable.]]>
In turn, sharing his (known now) Chechen connection back to NKVD could have obtained more details from them in trade. Same with Saud, the reason for his visa denial was never explored.]]>
The FBI is adding straw to the haystack - not the data. In fact, IMHO, they're building lots and lots of haystacks that they know are completely devoid of needles - just so they can get paid to search them.
If the FBI stopped doing this, they would have more eyes/hands/ears/brains working on that haystack - and they'd find that needle much quicker (and without the easy solution of burning the haystack down...).
The expression hasn't aged well; the key is finding one special something in a large stack of similar-enough somethings. I think finding a needle in a needlestack might well be the best translation to modern ideas.
I agree with your central point but you do not stress one fact enough, the fact that stories work. President Obama said that his number one regret of his first term was he had wished he had spent more time with telling stories rather than developing policy.
The battle between complex policy and simple stories is a losing battle for complex policy in a democracy where 50% of the population has an IQ below 100 . But that is OK. Because the truth is that the stories that we tell each other and which we tell ourselves are not inevitable. The fundamental problem is that we have let a "security narrative" dominate our society. It is the story we tell ourselves and each other. But there is a civil liberation narrative that can be told. The Americans who passed the Bill of Rights told that story. We can too.
You once said that poor hackers hack machines and great hackers hack people. Hacking people is more than just psychology. It is poets and novelists and screenwriters. It was Freud who said, "no matter where I have been analytically some poet has been there first."
The challenge that faces those who care about liberty is developing a new narrative of liberty. So long as civil liberties are always on the defense they will always fight from a weakened position and will more often than not lose. Let's stop bemoaning the calamity of hindsight bias and start telling our own stories, to ourselves and to each other. We should not be afraid of fighting on that battleground; we can win it.
What is so hard about finding a needle in a haystack? Simply pass the hay over a magnet or a metal detector. Might be a bit time consuming but you could put a 3rd grader to work doing this.
And the needle would be found fairly quickly.
I do like the "needle in a needlestack" analogy that Harvey used. I assume that you meant a specific needle in a pile of similar needles. I'd not heard it before but am going to appropriate it.
It makes much more sense in this and any other context where the haystack metaphor might be used.
John Henry]]>
He was married to the daughter of CIA biggie Graham Fuller. He registered a Chechan activist group using Fuller's home as the address.
He apparently worked for USAID in Kazakhstan.
His is currently a very well connected oil/gas lawyer.
Did he and/or Fuller pull strings to get the boys admitted to the US? Did they pull strings to get them US citizenship?
How did Uncle Ruslan become a citizen? Did he get any special treatment?
This seems to be something nobody wants to talk about.
John Henry]]>
In this case we are looking for which bad guy in a huge list of bad guys is about to do something that the media will care about. A more correct analogy would be:
This is like finding a needle in a needlestack.]]>
You are correct to criticize the FBI and other agencies for manufacturing cases. It's theater. However, we don't even know for a fact that these two bombers were actually working on their own. It's possible, but there's a lot of evidence that suggests that they were patsies for the CIA, and other CIA contractors on scene. Were they? We may never know.
We just don't know what the hell happened, who did it, or why.
No matter what actually happened, the US media is certainly developing a narrative far from the truth with an agenda to continue the senior government's objectives (regardless of party).
Just read Chris Hedges interview with Julian Assange: http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/the_death_of_truth_20130505/
What is reported and what is are almost always completely different things, and the most important things aren't reported at all.
The surveillance state is just the next stop in the course of empires. If you study the historical precedents, it is all completely predictable.]]>
It is more like pictures of the lives of every person living in this country at any particular moment (over 300 million). Reduced to dots. And then those dots overlaying the dots of the pictures of every other person that they've been in contact with or occupied the same space as or etc, etc, etc.
So they will never be able to "connect the dots" PRIOR to an attack. All they can do is reconstruct the person's life AFTER they've been identified.]]>
In other words, data mining and monitoring and collection is going to keep happening whether it's effective or not.]]>
Obviously should have been on a watch list, maybe taken into custody just in case. And yet 30 years later, we're relatively productive unconvicted members of our communities. If the FBI had spent any time on us it would have been wasted and then some.]]>
This principle would serve us better than people seeking to blame others for political gain over perceived intelligence failures.]]>
It's even worse than that, they aren't bad guys until they actually do something so there is no possible reliable indicator of potential badness until the act is in progress. People ask why the Tsarnaev brothers weren't picked up some time ago but the fact is that at that time they hadn't done anything wrong that would justify such measures. Unless the public is willing to inter and prison millions of people based on no evidence on the off chance that they might commit a crime, or alternately continue turning the country into the worlds largest open air prison (take that Austrailia!).
That doesn't even take into account the factor that enhanced security and military measures induce far more crime and violence in retaliation than they prevent.]]>
That seems like a comforting belief to have, as opposed to the alternative world where sometimes it might not be possible to find a terrorist before they attack. "Intelligence failures" like this poke holes in that comforting belief, which could be part of the source of the reaction.]]>
seems well-informed.]]>
Even if the FBI spent all its time and effort on terrorism, that doesn't mean the job becomes easier. As Bruce pointed out, more hay on the haystack doesn't make finding the needle easier. It's entirely possible that without the extra data point of "these guys committed a terrorist attack" pegging them as terrorists wasn't really possible.
You're proving his point with the comment about the Russians. That seems like smoking gun style information after we already KNOW they're terrorists. But without that extra piece of information, connecting the dots might not be so easy. The Russians aren't magic terrorist detectors either, they have their own set of dots they're trying to connect, and passing those dots along to other countries doesn't necessarily make the problem any easier to solve.]]>
If the FBI had spent less time, money, and effort manufacturing cases (see Trevor Aaronson's The Terror Factory), harassing peace activists (see www.stopfbi.net), 'enforcing' websites' Terms of Service (see the prosecution of Aaron Swartz), and being hand-maidens to the MPAA (see the extra-territorial, and from all appearances extra-judicial) prosecution of Kim Dotcom, is it possible that they might have had some time, money, and effort to 'connect the dots'?
Didn't the Russians point a finger at these two?]]>


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ParksCity of Wilkes-Barre
Kirby Park
Location: Just across the Market Street Bridge from downtown Wilkes-Barre (for GPS and online map services, please use 280 Market Street, Kingston, PA 18704 as an address for the park)
Wilkes-Barre's beautiful 52 Acre Kirby Park is one of the region's most valued recreational resources. Given to the City of Wilkes-Barre by the Kirby Family, the park welcomes hundreds of thousands each year. The park is the setting for the City of Wilkes-Barre's annual Cherrry Blossom Festival, held during the last weekend of April, the city's Old Fashioned 4th of July Celebration and countless community events.
Amenities: Tennis courts, a fitness trail, pond, walking paths, running track, softball fields, parking area, volleyball courts, pavilions and more.
Barney Farms Park
City Location: South Wilkes-Barre on Gordon Avenue
Size: 13.1 acres
Amenities: 4 tennis courts, 1 baseball diamond, 2 basketball courts, 2 paddleball courts, parking area, and storage area
Charles Street Park
City Location: South Wilkes-Barre on Charles Street
Size: 1.0 acres
Amenities: Playground
Coal Street Park
City Location: Heights section on Coal Street
Size: 37.0 acres
Amenities: 2 lighted basketball courts, tennis courts, an ADA playground and a multi-use sports field.
Dillon Street Park
City Location: Miners Mills on Dillon Street
Size: 3.2 acres
Amenities: Storage area, playground, softball field, basketball and volleyball court
Eyerman Park
City Location: Rolling Mill Hill on Andover Street
Size: 1.4 acres
Amenities: Playground, basketball court, and storage area
Firwood Park
City Location: South Wilkes-Barre on Carey Avenue
Size: 0.9 acres
Amenities: Small open space park with benches
Gordon Avenue Park
City Location: South Wilkes-Barre on Gordon Avenue
Size: 4.4 acres
Amenities: Baseball field and soccer field
Hollenback Park and Golf Course
City Location: North Washington Street
Size: 8.8 acres (park) and 102.6 acres (golf course)
Amenities: 9 hole golf course with clubhouse, shelter, storage areas, picnic areas, playground, baseball and softball fields, and parking area
Huber Street Park
City Location: Mayflower section on Stanton Street
Size: 1.9 acres
Amenities: Shelter, storage area, playground, basketball court, little league field
Madison/Flood Park
City Location: North End on North Washington Street
Size: 1.7 acres
Amenities: Storage area, playground, basketball and volleyball court
Miner Park
City Location: South Wilkes-Barre on Old River Road
Size: 11.5 acres
Amenities: Shelter area, equipped playground, wading and swimming at Kistler Elementary School, 1 baseball diamond, 2 softball fields, 2 basketball courts, 4 parking areas, and 2 storage areas.
Miners Memorial Park
City Location: Miners Mills on Dewey Lane
Size: 13.5 acres
Amenities: Shelter, storage area, playground, 5 tennis courts, 2 baseball fields, 1 volleyball court, parking area, and 1 handball court.
O. Karma Terrace Playground
City Location: Under the South Street Bridge
Amenities: Shelter and storage area, playground, basketball court
Parsons Park
City Location: Parsons on O'Brian Drive
Size: 3.8 acres
Amenities: Shelter, playground, baseball and softball field, and parking area.
Public Square
City Location: Downtown Wilkes-Barre
Size: 3 acres
Amenities: Open space park, benches, restrooms, stage area, storage area, and Farmer's Market
River Common
City Location: River Common on South River Street
Size: 17.3 acres
Amenities: Open space area with benches
Scouton Lee Park
City Location: Parsons on Parkin Street
Size: 7.3 acres
Amenities: Shelter, playground, baseball field, and basketball court
Frances Slocum Playground
City Location: Pennsylvania Avenue
Size: 1.0 acre
Amenities: Playground and basketball court
Spruce Street Park
City Location: Rolling Mill Hill on Spruce Street
Size: 1.8 acres
Amenities: Playground, storage area, horseshoe court
Weissman Park
City Location: East End on Scott Street
Size: .04 acres
Amenities: Playground, shelter, and storage area
To book a pavillion in Kirby Park for your event, please contact Special Events at (570)208-4149.
CLICK HERE for summer softball league information.
To rent a field in Kirby Park for your next game or for more information regarding the Golf Course, please contact Parks and Recreation Manager: David Iskra
Phone: 208-4251 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Hollenback Golf Course:
Fees and Events:
Weekday Green Fees: $9.00
$7.00 after 4:00 p.m.
$6.00 after 6:00 p.m.
Weekend Green Fees: $10.00
$8:00 after 4:00 p.m.
$6.00 after 6:00 p.m.
Pull Cart: $2.00
Club Rental: $9.00
Gas Carts:
Single Rider: $8.00 – 9 holes
$14.00 – 18 holes
Two Riders: $12.00 – 9 holes
$24.00 – 18 holes
Father's Day: Fathers play free with one paid green fee
Tuesday's and Thursday's: $6.00 for women and seniors over 60
Weekends: Foursome for $32.00
W-B City Golf League at Hollenback on Thursday nights with tee times starting around 5pm There will be a meeting this Thursday at 5 pm to discuss the league. We are looking to start around the 21st of April anyone interested can call 570-472-2304.


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It works!…Sunday, October 12th, 2008
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If you've been here in the last few months you'll have read about my ISP issues. Add to that some summer vacations, and preparing for the arrival of our first child (who's currently featured in the header image) and you end up with a situation that left P{three-sixty}5 on the back burner for a while.
Well, I'm happy to announce that I'm getting back on the horse. We've ironed-out the server issues, upgraded WordPress and, if a few more tests go well, you'll be seing regular posts again.
Until then, if you have an Apple laptop with a Sudden Motion Sensor (built-in to sense if you drop the computer) you can play with this sketch that lets you draw by tilting your computer around. It uses the Processing Unimotion SMS library by the always inspiring Daniel Schiffman.


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Monday, November 28, 2016
Power Poppy Poinsettia in pinks
Power Poppy is Pinks. I stamped the poinsettia in memento black and colored it with copics. I added some stickles to the center and the berries and cut it out with a label 4 spellbinders die and edged it in gold pen. The background is a cuttlebug embossing folder and the corners were done with a Creative expression Sue Wilson Australian corner. I finished the corners with a gold pen and added a pearl to each one.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Scenic stamping weekend
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2 TBSP extra virgin olive oil
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I love dead zones. I know it's weird, but that's the only time I get to indulge in my cell phone games without distraction. In New York City, the ultimate dead zone is the subway. When the train conductor announces that we?re ?experiencing delays due to tunnel traffic. Please be patient,? other people may groan, but I?m thrilled. ?Awesome! I get to complete this level now.?
My latest obsession is Enigmo. This is a cool, crazy game that started out as an OS X program before showing up as an iPhone/iPod Touch app. You enter a surreal, futuristic setting to redirect water, oil and lava?in the form of blue, green and red droplets?into vases by dragging drums, sponges and other objects into their paths. Sounds simple enough, but as you level up, the challenges become mind-bending. Enigmo's advanced levels appear to defy gravity, as buckets start showing up above the streams, behind walls and sometimes even inside a maze.
The UI is gorgeous, optimized for the huge 3-inch iPhone screen, and it doesn't take long before the glowing, colored liquids are bouncing and cascading all over the place like a light-and-fountain show on Mars. It's a beauty to behold, and oddly soothing as the brain goes into hyper problem-solving mode.
This is highly addictive stuff (especially if you?re a wannabe engineer like me). The self-satisfaction of solving these seemingly impossible puzzles is tough to give up, even when the subway reaches its destination. Or when you have to switch to another program. Enigmo saves completed levels, but not one that's in progress, so if you go look up an address or write a text, you?ll have to start it over again when you come back. Small price to pay, though, for having total mastery over the laws of physics.
At $1.99, Enigmo's sale price offers a lot of play for a ridiculously cheap cost. And once you've finished the 50 supplied levels, you can connect to Pangea Software directly from your phone to download custom levels made by other players.
This little game has become my most used app ever. I just tap the water droplet icon on my home screen, and I've got plenty to keep me happy until out of the dead zone.


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Cleto Chiarli Lambrusco Emilia IGT Nivola (NV)
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Prounounced "San-joh-vay-say," this Italian wine varietal is Tuscany's #1 red wine grape. It's the pistol of Central ...
History of the grape: There is evidence that the ancient Romans were drinking wines made from Lambrusco, a grape that...
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Not as full-bodied as advertised, but it is a very satisfying table red that will be easy to finish and come back for more Read More
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This is a lovely, dry Lambrusco with hints of plum and cherry. Very nice! Available in the Netherlands also with www.rodebubbels.nl. Read More
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Sometimes it's funny how a sort of group unconsciousness seems to permeate the ... the ... of the Week - Cleto Chiarli Lambrusco Pruno NeroSometimes I don't want to have to think too much about my wine and never is that more true than after a day's worth of tasting. With a light(ish) dinner of salumi, cheese and polenta on an early spring eve... Read More
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Sometimes I don't want to have to think too much about my wine and never is that more true than after a day's worth of tasting. With a light(ish) dinner of salumi, cheese and polenta on an early spring evening that hinted at the summer's warmth to come I opted to revisit an old friend, Lambrusco. I could have a grabbed a Lambrusco with more com... Read More
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I love this Wine! It would be great with Turkey on Thanksgiving! It pours so pretty with a pretty pink froth. It is pleasantly sweet not over the top sweet. Plus it is only 8% Alcohol which some people like I'm sure it is readily avalible in the Cleveland, Akron, Warren, Niles, Youngstown area's maybe even Colunbus abd Cincinatti Cheers to you all! Read More
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Always one of my favorite bottles of Lambrusco. This has a touch of violet on the nose with rich, fresh sour cherry and black raspberry fruit. In the mouth it's got a whisper of sweetness but is bursting with red plum and black raspberry fruit that is just a touch astringent and bitter, balancing the sweetness perfectly. The finish has a great a... Read More
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The Tour de Yorkshire makes a triumphant return to our cycling-crazy county at the end of April and we couldn't be more excited. With the last stage of the race set to come to Sheffield, the outdoor city is gearing up for a high-tempo weekend of world-class cycling not seen since the Grand Depart graced our streets back in summer 2014.
This is the first time the Tour de Yorkshire will visit Sheffield in what will be a real high point of the cycling year. The Tour de Yorkshire was set up following the success of the Grand Depart in 2014 as a means of retaining a cycling legacy for Yorkshire and ongoing connection with Le Tour de France.
It's Stage 3 of the race - the final stage, which they're calling The Yorkshire Terrier - which will sweep into Sheffield on the last day of the Tour weekend, Sunday 30th April. Riders will follow a 194.5km route from Bradford to Fox Valley in Sheffield, taking in the delights of Bolton Abbey, Saltaire, the Dales and Holmfirth before embarking on a gruelling final straight in and around Stocksbridge. This 22km finishing circuit includes than four categorised climbs at Deepcar, the fantastically-named Wigtwizzle, Ewden Height and Midhopestones before the race reaches its climax at Fox Valley. It's sure to rival the highs and lows of Cote de Bradfield and Cote de Jenkin Road in 2014.
The race timings have now been confirmed and the peloton will exit Bradford's City Park at 12:10pm, taking a scenic trip to the Dales before heading back along the Aire Valley for the first of eight climbs on the Cote de Silsden at 14:04pm. The Cotes de Haworth and Leeming then follow in quick succession at 14:22pm and 14:32pm respectively before the race reaches the Cote de Shibden Wall. This cobbled beast will be crested at 14:54pm before an intermediate sprint takes place in Clifton at 15:09pm. There's no respite as the race passes into South Yorkshire, and the final sprint points are up for grabs in Stocksbridge at 16:47pm before the weary riders tackle a gruelling 22km concluding loop featuring no less than four categorised climbs. The Cote de Deepcar is first up at 16:52pm and the Cotes de Wigtwizzle (16:58pm) and Ewden Height (17:01) come one after the other before one last drag up the Cote de Midhopestones at 17:07pm. Anyone left in contention after that will duke it out for the stage and overall victory in Fox Valley at 17:15pm. Full race timings are here.
If you think you're tough enough to ride the Tour de Yorkshire route yourself, why not register for the sportive on Sunday 30th April which is now open to riders. Based in Sheffield in the Fox Valley, the Maserati Tour de Yorkshire Ride features long, medium and short routes plus a women's cycletta, meaning there's a race for every level of serious road cyclist.
Whether you're planning on taking part or simply spectating, keep checking back here for updates on this year's race action. Expect great things, high drama and a warm Sheffield welcome as the outdoor city gears up for the return of the Tour.


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(en) Anarkismo.net: Interview with Felipe Ramirez of FEL-Chile by Scott Nappaloss
Date Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:33:10 +0200
Scott: How does the system of representation function for students in Chile? --- Felipe: Ok, there, we must make a distinction. The Chilean student movement is divided between high-school and college. There are two organizations that tie the high-school movement. One is the ACES (Coordinating Assembly of Secondary [high-school] Students), and the other is CONES (National Coordinator of Secondary [high-school] Students). These two organizations have their own models of representation and structure. At the university level, the movement is unified by CONFECH (Confederation of Students of Chile) which gathers student federations of different universities. Usually it gathers the more traditional universities, basically the ones that existed before 1981 which is when the dictatorship generates a new law for universities, and during last year, a series of private universities (that emerged after 1981 and did not have an official organization) have been incorporated.
So these federations have to make annual choices on directions and objectives in a democratic manner without the intervention from the authorities of the university so that that there is transparency and respect for the autonomy of the student body at the time of choosing their leaders. It basically functions like that.
Scott: And with 2011, how were the students agitated? For example: Was it a spontaneous fight or were there joint campaigns from different groups? Was it just some groups? How did it happen?
Felipe: I think that the mobilization of 2011 can be classified as many things except spontaneous. But not because political groups had been doing specific work that was dedicated to make this happen, but because the objective circumstances of the country, in general, were the conditions that made students come out en masse to protest. On the one hand, there was the combination of the end of a withdrawal produced both by the defeat of the high-school movement in 2006 and the university withdrawal after the mobilization of 2005. Both 2005 and 2006 were very intense years for mobilizations, and then both defeats (and movements) converge in 2008, when a new law for education is approved. 2009 marks the lowest point in mobilizations and then in 2010, we start seeing important signals that the movement is waking up and that the circumstances are generating a more active student movement, more mobilized, etc. Similarly, combined with the fact that in 2005, after the signing of the defeat of the student movement and the creation of equity loans, the first generation of students entering with those credit loans is graduating in year 2011. That means that all the damage and all the debt that accumulates from the year 2006 with the new credit loans explodes in 2011 in examples like the indebtedness of the CAE (the equity loans from the state), the indebtedness of other credits that were borne out of this new system of financing like the CORFO credit which had an interest rate of 8% and allowed family assets to be confiscated from students, expropriated as part of payment, etc. All this produced an environment that for anyone, it implied a social explosion. At the same time, the country was generating a mobilization; there were mass demonstrations in the Magellan's area in the far south, just at the beginning of this year there were massive demonstrations on the issue of power plants, the environmental issue and so on, so there was an atmosphere that allowed you to predict that 2011 was going to be a powerful mobilization. No one imagined it would be so strong, but overall we could see it coming. And within that environment, the different organizations tried to fulfill their roles. During that time, the leftist organizations of every stripe and every color, tried to position themselves, and to come up with certain guidelines as the year developed.
Scott: There was a period where FEL was small, and a period where FEL grew and become very large. What changed? Was it only the objective situation, or were there different strategies?
Felipe: I think the most crucial thing for the growth of FEL and for the strengthening of the national organization was its political maturity. At first, the FEL was an organization that had very few policy plans. Proposals toward the student movement emerged in a complicated context in 2003, there was a whole mobilization against the financing laws, the new framework laws that were being implemented, and overall, the financing issue that explodes in 2005 from which forms this powerful movement that finishes with the agreement between the heads of the student movement and the ministry of education to create the state run Crédito con Aval, the entry of banks to the finance system, etc. Faced with these situations, the FEL begins to slowly start building the framework for its political line, its proposal to education and the funding issue and all that somehow congeals in 2011. The mobilization catches us with an organization that is starting to grow along the heightening of the student movement and we see high school students go onto college, and these students come with a history of struggle and mobilization already, and they're interested on the left and that also allows us to accumulate part of the whole process. The year 2011 forces the organization to throw the muddle, to understand that anarchism can not remain a sum of values, a sum of words of good upbringing or books that were written 140 years ago, nor moral principles, nor ethical ones. Anarchism has to be a policy, and without it being a political policy, it dies. And faced with this dilemma, luckily the organization opted for political discussion, for the creation of concrete proposals to give to the movement, understanding that we are not fighting for the revolution but for the specific conditions that accumulate towards a project of the working class, and that has allowed us to grow and consolidate as a national structure and also carve out a place among the leftist organizations.
Scott: In the press, we hear only about the big issues in the student struggle such as free education, privatization, and debt. Are there other smaller fights, where the FEL participates or other students are involved (for example if classes are canceled or similar things)?
Felipe: Well, that's a whole topic. On the one hand, there's the issues that are structural, as in structural models of the Chilean education, and on the other, there's the concrete interaction of this educational structure within the institutions themselves. It is impossible to separate the internal conflicts, the curriculums of our careers, the precarious conditions, the lack of economic resources within each college or career, the educational policy of the ministry of education, and finally the role of the state and the unlimited power of the private corporations within the educational system, in that context. Every college and every career has small struggles, they have local claims, but what really matters and where you actually define the future of education, is not in these struggles, but rather the struggles around structural issues. Nothing matters if you lose the national struggle, that is to say, you can postpone the effects of structural policy, but not forever. There's no simple solution to a problem that affects all universities equally.
Scott: What happened with the struggles of 2011, and which battles are present now?
Felipe: Well, 2012 is characterized by the student movement having to confront that the conflict of 2011 isn't over. There is neither an agreement nor is there a complete defeat. What eventually happens is that the student movement returns to school without acknowledging a defeat and handing over the summer holidays as a kind of ceasefire. And in 2011, during the first semester until July what the movement tries to accomplish is to retake the demands of the previous year, in the context that the government, the state, and the political parties have control over the political initiative through reforms like the tax reform, through austerity measures like the ministry's educational proposals…Basically what it seeks ultimately is to try to disarm this rephrasing of the student movement after the impasse of the summer. And while that proves to be difficult during the first semester, right now, in this precise moment in August, we can see high-school students trying to appropriate their struggle; there's already dozens of high-schools taken all throughout the country, and we hope to see different universities generating mobilizations soon, we want the last half of August and the first half of September to allow us to see a much stronger movement than the one we've seen this year.
Scott: How will the elections affect the student struggle? Because October's coming soon...
Felipe: Sure, there are local elections coming now, and the reading we get is that the parties of the more reformist left who bet on this path of municipal elections, and next year's presidential and parliamentary elections, what they want is to package the demands of the student movement toward institutionalization—strengthening their own political alternative as a tool for conflict resolution. We think that this is an illusion that is often created in any electoral path especially with the big parties like the democratic one and so on, who are largely responsible for the current situation. So then, neither the state nor the political party system deliver basic conditions to the social movement or to the student movement in particular, to be able to see them as a solution. So, of course, it all presents a problem because the idea that the elections are part of the solution will be presented with great force and from many sectors, so there we have to see how we are able to maneuver and prevent the social movement from being co-opted.
Scott: What relations and exchanges are there between the student movement and other struggles in Chile, such as workers, households, etc.?
Felipe: Look, I think starting from 2011 with the series of fights that I already described, the regional conflicts that develop both in Magallanes, as in Aysén, in the northern mining areas, the environmental struggles, the student struggles, and the different trade union struggles and mobilizations taking place, allowed us to understand one thing: Chile is a country deeply dependent on the capitalist periphery of the world, and a place where resources are highly concentrated in a few hands, in a few families. The responsible ones for the environmental conflicts with thermal or hydro plants, the poor working conditions, the low wages, and the extreme privatization that we already have with the education system, with the debt problem, and having to pay quadruple the cost of rent, are all the same culprits. They are the same entrepreneurs, they are the same faces, and the same holdings—national or international, repeated again and again. So, the enemy is finally clear. And it's not a matter of values, not a matter of uniting the different causes due to some metaphysical reason, it is a concrete thing. We face an economic, political, and social system that is concrete, that has concrete and real expressions in our daily lives, and which deeply intersects the different spheres of our lives. In that sense, the student movement as well as other struggles have been slowly trying to understand this reality and trying to articulate in some way or another a political alternative to deal with these facts. That is a long and very difficult process in a country that is just recovering from the defeats suffered by the popular movement, which is just rebuilding its organizations after the defeats of the years '88 and '73, when fear reigned massively even until 2011, and where social organizations are really disarmed still. But we have seen some pretty encouraging signs, some union sectors such as the miners or longshoremen where libertarians have a pretty important position, have organized sympathy strikes paralyzing labor [inaudible] which is something not seen since the days of popular unity. So there are some encouraging signs that are positive though very isolated at the moment, but they still allow us to believe that it is possible to move towards a reconstruction of the popular movement and they also allows us to slowly build a political alternative.
Scott: Ok, perfect. Thanks.
Translated by Mónica Kostas.
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 04:51:29PM -0800, William Chan (?????????) wrote: > > I must say I'm a bit shocked by this behaviour which is very inefficient > > from a TCP point of view. This means you have two possibilities for sending > > your requests then : > > - either you keep Nagle enabled and your requests wait in the kernel's stack > > for some time (typically 40 ms) before leaving, even if the request is > > the last one ; > > > > - or you disable Nagle to force them to leave immediately, but then each > > request leaves with a TCP push flag, and then your TCP stack will not > > send anything else over the same socket for a full RTT (until its pending > > data are ACKed), which is worse. > > We disable Nagle on our sockets. I must be missing something. Why > would the TCP stack only send one packet per roundtrip when you > disable Nagle? I do not believe TCP stacks only allow one packet's > worth of unack'd data. I'm sorry William, I was wrong. I had memories from debugging a TCP stack on a mobile network where each PUSH caused a stall waiting for an RTT, which we attributed to the way they used nagle with the Minshall's modification which consists in waiting for all small packets to be ACKed. But this does not apply when NODELAY is set : >From linux:net/ipv4/tcp_output.c: /* Return false, if packet can be sent now without violation Nagle's rules: * 1. It is full sized. * 2. Or it contains FIN. (already checked by caller) * 3. Or TCP_CORK is not set, and TCP_NODELAY is set. * 4. Or TCP_CORK is not set, and all sent packets are ACKed. * With Minshall's modification: all sent small packets are ACKed. */ static inline bool tcp_nagle_check(const struct tcp_sock *tp, const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int mss_now, int nonagle) { return skb->len < mss_now && ((nonagle & TCP_NAGLE_CORK) || (!nonagle && tp->packets_out && tcp_minshall_check(tp))); } That said, the points remains that you don't necessarily want to push many small packets over the wire! > > I did not understand you meant delay between objects while parsing, I > > thought you meant delay between groups. > > Indeed, there's a delay between objects. There must be. As previously > stated, we have no means of predicting the future. We do not know that > there are more objects in the document yet to be parsed. When we > encounter an object during parsing, we request it immediately. Got it. > >> > Concerning response headers, I'd say that you emit a first response > >> > group with the headers from the first response, followed by the > >> > response. When another response comes in, you have two possibilities, > >> > either it shares the same headers and you can add a response to the > >> > existing group, or it does not and you open a new group. > >> > >> Wait, is this the critical misunderstanding? Are you maintaining state > >> across requests and responses? Isn't this a minor modification on the > >> "simple" compressor? I was assuming you were trying to be stateless. > > > > I'm having a hard time following you, I'm sorry. What state across requests > > and responses do you mean ? The only "state" I'm talking about is the list > > of common headers between the current message and the previous one in fact. > > This is true both for requests and responses. > > Yes, this is what I refer to as "simple" compression, as coined by > Mark (see http://www.mnot.net/blog/2013/01/04/http2_header_compression): > """ > ?simple? - Omitting headers repeated from the last message, tokenising > common field names, and a few other tweaks. Otherwise, it looks like > HTTP/1. > """ Not exactly. The difference is that if we want to compress based on what the previous request was, we just have an optimistic compression mode which depends a lot on how requests are ordered. If we consider that a browser sends grouped requests, then we can hope they're much better ordered because its job will precisely be to be smart about how to group them (eg: take care to avoid minor header variations that are not indispensable and which might happen from time to time without this consideration). > I consider this a form of stateful compression. If you are fine with > that, then great, I think we've made significant progress in our > discussions here, and it's a good starting point for discussing > connection state requirements. As I said, I think that if the state itself is never larger than a request and substitutes for the request, it's not that big of a deal. What we must absolutely avoid is to cumulate states on intermediaries (and to a less extent, servers). But considering that part of the request will be reused for subsequent requests might be OK. In order to avoid undesired memory allocations, we could even state that if a request holds data, then it must be the last one in the group so that we don't have to keep the state when we need the space to receive a message body. WillyReceived on Wednesday, 23 January 2013 07:34:30 UTC
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Arsenal 7 - Blackburn 1: 'Take Ox to the Euros'
REASONS to be cheerful may not always be easy to find for Fabio Capello, but two of Arsenal's bright sparks should have lifted his mood.
At the end of a week that saw Capello lose John Terry as his England captain and Jack Wilshere's latest stress fracture confirmed, he found a couple of positives at the Emirates.
Theo Walcott returned to form spectacularly and teenager Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain further underlined his immense promise in this demolition of 10-man Blackburn.
Capello was not there to see it, but he should make a point of watching the DVD.
Oxlade-Chamberlain notched the first Premier League goals of his career, while Walcott managed a hat-trick of assists – not bad for somebody who supposedly has no end product.
Inevitably, Robin van Persie scored a hat-trick, but he was eager to stress that it was not all about him – for once.
If Oxlade-Chamberlain and Walcott were Dutch, Van Persie would be demanding the pair be taken to Euro 2012. Surely, what is good enough for him and Holland is good enough for Capello and England.
Alex is a fantastic player already and he's only 18
"Alex is a fantastic player already and he's only 18," said Van Persie. "He's good on the ball and he has everything.
"He is so quick, and has movement and technique. He can score a goal and give an assist. He has a great future.
"Can he make the England team? Why not? He is a big prospect. Everyone is enjoying watching him as he brings something extra to the game.
"If he were Dutch I'd take him to the Euros. He reminds me of myself when I was breaking through. When you have all these qualities, it gives you confidence and you can enjoy yourself."
Two of Van Persie's strikes came from Walcott assists, and he also teed up the second Oxlade-Chamberlain goal.
"I love Theo, I honestly love him," said Van Persie. "I don't understand the criticism he gets.
"He was sharp, he was playing fantastically and, like anyone, he misses chances. But I miss chances, Cristiano Ronaldo misses chances and Lionel Messi misses chances. It's life. If you look at his assist rate, it is unbelievable. And trust me, he will score. He will get 20 goals at least every season. Have faith in him. I do."
Striker Van Persie had put Oxlade-Chamberlain through for his first Premier League goal and the Dutchman scored his treble after Francis Coquelin found him unmarked in the box.
Mikel Arteta and on-loan substitute Thierry Henry completed the rout, as the home side took full advantage of Gael Givet's red card for a foul on Van Persie after Blackburn had levelled via a free-kick from Morten Gamst Pedersen.
Arsenal will now try to extend Henry's loan, which expires on February 16, by 10 days.
With Givet suspended and Ryan Nelsen now at Tottenham, Rovers manager Steve Kean said his club must resolve their dispute with Chris Samba.
"Without going too deep, because I'm not a legal expert, Christopher is fit and available,' said Kean. "But I decided not to put him in the squad. It's a position we'd like to get resolved as soon as possible because it is not helpful for anybody."


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English Language > Creative Writing > Writing for moving images
Planning to write text for moving images
There are a number of types of writing that accompany moving images, like films or animations. You can:
- review a film
- write a script
- write the script for a voice-over
- think of words for a TV or online advert
Always consider GAP when you plan your writing - genre, audience and purpose. Because then you'll get the style right.
The first thing you'll need to do is to look at examples of the form you are going write in. This Revision Bite gives you two examples of moving-image assignments:
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2007-01-05: Our warmest thanks go to
Yaroslav Halchenko
who has taken over the maintenance of the Debian package for Lush.
2006-09-07: version 1.2.1 is out!
2005-01-18: A version of Lush compiled for the Sharp Zaurus is
here (no X-window and no dynamic loader support).
Our thanks go to Michael Neuroth.
2004-09-18: A new library Support Vector Machine (SVM) and
kernel-based methods was added to the CVS version (see lush/packages/svm).
2004-06-13: added support for serial and parallel port in CVS version.
2004-01-24: Problem on Mandrake 9.2/10.0:
it seems that the version of GCC distributed with Mandrake Linux
(and other distros) has a bug that prevents Lush from running
properly. The fix? edit lush/src/Makefile and change the "-O3" by a "-O2"
in the line that begins with "OPTS=".
2003-11-15: Version 0.99 is out. Lots of bug fixes,
new libraries, improved documentation, Cygwin compatibility,
support for communication and control of remote Lush processes,
package for quadratic programming (svpq.lsh), joystick support,
optional support for MPI (message passing interface for parallel
programming), and a simple GUI tool for neural net building and training
A new "contrib" directory was added. It contains Simon Anders's
sparse matrix classes.
2003-02-19: Rejoice, rejoice! Thanks to Leon, the CVS version
now compiles and runs on Windoze under Cygwin. Be sure to read the
README.cygwin before installing. What works: the interpreter, the
compiler, the dynamic loader, X11 graphics and events. What doesn't
(yet) work: external packages such as GSL, SDL, OpenGL....
2003-02-04: Lush 0.97 is released!
This version has: a pre-tokenized environment which makes the startup
sequence very quick; much improved scripting capabilities; a demos
directory with executable demo scripts; initial versions of opencv
(computer vision package), torch (machine learning library), inventor
(3D scene graph rendering), and libdc (firewire frame grabbing).
2003-01-29: many changes in the CVS version: pre-tokenized
environment makes startup very fast; much improved scripting capability
(the standard environment is now loaded by default); added self-executable
demos; added initial versions of opencv, torch, and inventor interfaces;
updated handling of destructors in compiled code; release 0.97 is coming soon.
2003-01-07: Lush 0.96 is released!.
A huge amount of stuff has been added since version 0.95:
comdraw/ivtools graphic driver; gblearn2 machine learning library
(including a convolutional neural net training demo);
prompt line edition, history, and symbol completion; BSD support;
updated video grabbing library; and numerous bug fixes and
documentation updates
2002-11-07: The comdraw/ivtools graphic driver is in the CVS!
This wonderful thing, written be Secil Ugurel,
allows to pipe Lush graphic commands to comdraw. Comdraw is
a graphic/drawing editor distributed as part of the ivtools
package (available at http://www.ivtools.org/ivtools/index.html).
With this, Lush-generated graphics are instantaneously editable!
2002-11-04: Leon added readline support to the CVS version. This
provides Lush with prompt-line editing, history, symbol and filename
completion, etc, without having to run Lush within Emacs.
2002-11-03: Lush 0.95 is released!.
Get it and report any problem you find to the
bug tracker so we can
converge quickly to a 1.0 release.
2002-10-24: ALSA, audiofile, and OpenCV are in the CVS.
We need a couple juicy demos and sample code for those.
2002-10-17: We are very close to a first release (v0.9).
This first version may come without some of the packages
(e.g. Torch). These packages are essentially
ready (thanks Jie!), but they need a couple more weeks of work.
When they are ready, we will release version 1.0.
2002-10-16: no release yet, but everything is in place for
it. Get a CVS snapshot if you are in a hurry.
2002-10-16: the Lush web site is up!
2002-10-11: Jie has been working on an interface to the
Python API and to the JavaVM API. With these, you will be
able to call Python and Java from Lush.
2002-10-10: We have almost completed a graphic driver that will
send Lush graphic commands to comdraw (part of the
IVtools package).
This will let Lush users generate editable graphics.
Being able to edit graphics produced by Lush is
a very useful feature when preparing publications
or reports.
2002-10-09: We are working on a new set of plotting
functions. The ones currently included in the CVS are
very old, and very outdated. Suggestions for features
are welcome.
2002-10-08: We committed a brand new documentation
system and browsing tool. Like the old system, this new
system allows to include documentation in the source files
or in separate documentation files. Unlike the old system
it uses a syntax that looks like a mixture of HTML and
pseudo-lisp. on-screen help, HTML, and LateX can be generated
from this format.


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What's so special about Mayor Brown's firing of city engineer Daniel Kreuz? Nothing really; Kreuz got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and the mayor laid down the law. Good for the mayor. Hopefully other city employees are sweating a little.
What's so wrong about city government, however, has certainly not got anything to do with his age.
buried in paragraph nine of today's Buffalo News article: "Kruez was one year away from qualifying for the highest tier of pension benefits."
Kruez is 29 years
ago employed with the city and he's 51 years old. Assuming (perhaps wrongly) that it takes at least a two-year college degree to become an $81,000 city engineer, this means that at most, Kruez has been professionally employed for all of eight years , yet was almost qualified for a full pension.
How could any city contract negotiating team possibly allow this type of employee contract? I don't want to point the finger at any of our former mayors, but I believe that this had to have been negotiated under one of their watches. I highly doubt that such a perk, now considered an entitlement by all city employees, will ever be taken away in subsequent contract negotiations. City taxpayers and the State, however, could potentially pay that bill for 45 or 50 years after an employee leaves the city's employ.
I guess I have nothing critical to say today about the City of Buffalo and their labor contracts. I stand corrected. Thank you Becky for your comment.


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Jim Sundberg
Biographical Information
Sundberg graduated from the University of Iowa. In 1974, he made the rare jump from Class A level baseball to the major leagues with the Rangers, and finished fourth in the Rookie of the Year balloting (teammate Mike Hargrove won the award).
He was mostly known for being one of the best fielding catchers of all time. He has a .993 all-time fielding percentage, and won 6 straight Gold Glove Awards. He completed 145 double plays in 1927 games in his career.
Sundberg ended his career with 1493 hits in 6021 at bats, good for a .248 batting average. He had 95 home runs and 624 RBI's in 1962 games. Sundberg won a World Series with the Kansas City Royals in 1985 (See: 1985 World Series).
Sundberg was the first catcher to win 6 American League Gold Gloves, although Bob Boone won 5 in the AL and two more in the NL.
Despite his popularity and success, the Rangers never retired his uniform number-10-which is currently being worn by Michael Young.
The Rabbit is a Yin,
and is the Fourth sign of the Chinese horoscope.
Birthday: May 18, 1951
A sacrifice must be made in order to gain something of great value.
Abundance, fruitfulness and fertility; perhaps marriage or children.
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Welcome to the most fabulous club on SPPf!
In this club, fans of the Pokemon character Cilan/Dento can discuss to their heart's content about the green-topped Gym Leader of the Unova region.
We may also talk about his brothers, Chili and Cress, but it's obvious that they won't be the main topic of this club. ;)
Who is Cilan, you ask?
Cilan is one of three Gym Leaders from Striaton City in the Unova Region, the other two being his brothers Chili and Cress. He works at the restaurant in the city, which doubles as the Gym itself, with his two brothers, as waiters/cooks. He is a user of Grass types, but Anime!Cilan is seen using various other types in his Pokemon roster, such as Dwebble and Stunfisk. In the anime, he calls himself a Pokemon Connossieur (Sommelier in the Japanese version), a type of person who can see the bond between humans and their Pokemon, and strives to be the best Connossieur there is. To achieve that goal, he has decided to travel with Ash and Iris on their adventures in Unova, leaving the Gym to his brothers in his absence.
In the games, Cilan is a bit of a shy, almost nervous type of boy. He doesn't have much confidence in his and his brothers' abilities in being Gym Leaders, but he is still confident in his battles.
In the anime, he is referred to as a gentleman, and is constantly polite in his manners. He is the cook of the group, and always references foods and flavors whenever possible. He can get a bit over excited at times, especially when it involves a hobby of his that he loves. He also believes that anything can be explained through logic, reason, and science, therefore he is constantly at odds with Iris for her belief in the supernatural.
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Prince Harry supports Everest expedition
2012-02-13 22:19
London - Britain's Prince Harry is to support a group of injured servicemen as they attempt to climb Mount Everest.
The 27-year-old royal - who has not yet revealed whether he will be able to join the trekkers on their mission - is backing the expedition in his capacity as patron of the Walking with the Wounded charity.
Speaking at the launch of the mission, Harry said: "Walking With The Wounded has become a household name. It has changed from being a one-off expedition into a fully-fledged charity.
"It now blazes the trail in showing wounded servicemen and women that hope remains."
'Job equals security'
While it is thought Harry's military commitments could prevent the prince from joining the servicemen on the Everest expedition, he is determined to support them all the way.
He added: "It's not just about the men that you see before you. It's about the future of so many more.
"The expedition to the Himalayas, of which I am so proud to be patron, is raising money to train and educate those with physical and cognitive injuries suffered in war to manage their transition into civilian employment.
"The concept is quite simple - a job equals security. They have given their all for our security, security is the very least as a nation that we owe them."
In 2011, Prince Harry joined the Walking with the Wounded expedition team as they became the first team of unsupported amputees to reach the Geographic North Pole.