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Last year we opened our garage doors to show you what we drive in our own time. Well, we've been busy buying again. Here's what we've acquired in the past 12 months.
Matt Prior - Baja Bug (1961)
The Ariel Nomad is to blame. I drove it, loved it, and three days later my colleague Lewis Kingston and I were sharing posts from a sandrail buggy forum's 'For sale' section. Two clicks away from a rolling buggy chassis (that would have been killer with a turbocharged Subaru engine) was this, a 1600cc 1973 Volkswagen Beetle in 'Baja Bug' style.
It was cheap, pink, available, didn't need much work and, I thought, might just answer my need for a deft, softly sprung car that would be as entertaining on a green lane or field as it would be on the road. It doesn't.
Dynamically, the Bug is quite possibly the worst car I have ever driven – and I've driven a Tata Safari. The ride is appalling, it feels unstable while cornering, and there are clonks and bangs from places that, I suspect, are referenced in the two pages of 'advisories' that I should but haven't looked at from its MOT test. The wiring is a joke and you can see daylight through the dashboard. None of which I care less about. This is a cool car.
I've painted it an early 1970s VW van colour I'm fond of and will add race numbers and some stickers for the full Baja Rally look. The wheels and mirrors need to change colour, but I'm going to leave the interior shade alone – although I'll add black carpets and door cards to tone it down. And I have a roof rack that needs to go back on, after I've fixed it. It fell off on an A-road, you see.
It is one of those cars that will probably never be finished, but that doesn't matter. It is not the air-cooled, rear-engined German car that cliché suggests I should have, but it is the one I could afford. Whatever arrives in future, I suspect I'll always find a place for it somewhere. Unless Ariel will accept it as a deposit.
Jesse Crosse - Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec R34 (2000)
If you do this job for long enough, sooner or later a particular car comes along and gets under your skin. At the Autocar Handling Day in 1999, the line-up included a Bayside Blue Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec and the sheer shock-and-awe presence of the thing took my breath away. After driving it, I scribbled in the notebook "the sort of handling you expect from a race-prepped car. Turn-in ludicrously sharp. Fantastic grip despite the power" and parked the R34 in my fantasy garage.
The search began early this year and the value of importing direct from Japan soon became obvious. There's no salt used on the roads there and it's not hard to find completely rust-free cars, but finding a standard Skyline is much harder than finding a good one. With 330bhp as standard, the RB26DETT 2.6-litre twin-turbo straight six has enormous potential and 600-800bhp is not uncommon in road cars. The V-Spec has the ATTESA E-TS Pro active all-wheel drive system, which controls torque split front to rear and across the back axle. It also has Brembo four-pot calipers on the front and HICAS all-wheel steering, so the whole package is perfect for tuners.
I'd never usually buy a car unseen so I called Newera Imports for help. Based in Japan, the team there has years of experience, knows exactly what things are worth and what to look for in terms of condition and takes the hassle out of the import process.
Trawling through the online sources one day, there it was, listed with USS Auctions in Tokyo with just under 40,000 miles on the clock. The condition was listed as 'Grade 4.5B', which is good. Newera had also spotted it and we swung into action.
The auction was a thrill, some early-hours emails and pictures confirmed we'd found 'the one', and an hour later, the long-range deal was done. It has some nice options, such as a Nismo exhaust and tail-lights, Nismo instruments and some aftermarket Öhlins dampers, but it's otherwise standard. How do I feel a few months down the line? Thankful I was able to turn fantasy into reality.
Steve Cropley - Lotus Elise (2000)
It was always a wrong move to sell my first Elise S1. As soon as that car departed my garage after a three-year ownership in the early 2000s, I realised I'd sold much more than a car. A whole bunch of memories and preferences and career connections went with it.
The Elise was nothing more than a rumour when I arrived at Autocar in the early 1990s. I helped with the early scoop stories, the launch stories, the drive stories and the comparisons and I drove the long-termer. The car touched every base with me: it was pretty, simple, light, roomy (apart from the ingress/egress) and steered and gripped in the best Lotus traditions. Yet I sold it.
When a late S1 appeared on the forecourt of Paul Matty Sports Cars earlier this year, a 70,000-miler that drove with a zest that suggested its engine had been chipped, I knew I had to grab it. It came my way for £10k, a bargain when people are paying much more for lesser, older classic sports cars.
The Elise has been easy to own and fun to drive. It feels quick and agile. It looks special, at least to my eyes. In short, it has been one of the wiser purchases of my distinctly chequered car-buying career.
Allan Muir - Triumph Speed Triple (2011)
Some of my colleagues were no doubt picturing a TR6 or Stag when they found out I owned a Triumph, but this one has two wheels rather than four. Purchased last autumn, the Speed Triple was my way back into biking after a gap of several years.
Much as I wanted a new Ducati Multistrada, spending £16k on a weekend toy couldn't be justified, so the 2011, 12,000-mile Speed was the ideal compromise, being desirable, fun to ride and affordable at £5800.
It's no tourer – the ride quality is on the harsh side and there's little wind protection – but there's nothing better for a Sunday blast. The 1050cc three-pot engine is torquey and characterful, and the sound that comes out of the optional Arrow 'lowboy' titanium exhaust on the overrun – like sustained artillery fire – adds to the Speed's bad-boy image without being too anti-social.
A more comfortable bike will no doubt have to replace the Speed one day, but I'm in no hurry. Why would I spend three times as much money to get that Ducati when owning this British icon gives me so much pleasure already?
Lewis Kingston - Dodge Charger (1968)
I had been looking for a clean, standard Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R for a long, long time. So, completely illogically, what I actually ended up with was a 1968 Dodge Charger 440 that had been sitting for a decade.
There was method to my madness, though. A project was the last thing I wanted, but when I saw the Charger advertised locally, my curiosity was piqued. An inspection revealed it to be straight and honest, but it was predictably in need of a comprehensive recommissioning.
It wasn't cheap, at £15,000, but with values skyrocketing it represented potentially my last chance to own one. The more I thought about it, the more it appealed. Here was a car that would be tough, reliable, easy to upgrade and immense fun to simply burble around in.
Fortune favours the bold, so I scraped my savings together, borrowed some money and bought it. In the end I spent some £8000 reviving the Charger, but it repaid my hefty investment by going straight through its first MOT test. Cost effective? Perhaps not. Worth it? Totally. It's a delight to drive, and when you blip the throttle and the horizon tilts in the rear-view mirror, you can't help but grin.
Mark Tisshaw - Mini Cooper (2014)
Yes, dear reader, your eyes do not deceive you and your memory is not failing. This Mini Cooper does indeed look familiar, and you have most definitely read about it and seen it on these pages before. That's because this is the very Mini that was my long-term test car between the summers of 2014 and 2015.
I'd bleated on about how wonderful it was for so long in my reports that I thought I should put my money where my mouth is, especially when it fitted my partner and my needs so perfectly. The mileage is now up to almost 20,000, a beat has yet to be missed and there's still no other small car I'd rather drive around in.
Richard Bremner - Rover 75 (2001)
You might think that with 10 cars in my possession, there'd be no need for another. But a year ago I needed a car that worked, ruling out all 10 classics. I didn't want to spend much because I like trying to beat the system in James Ruppert Bangernomics style.
So this was a fine excuse to indulge a guilty pleasure and hunt for a Rover 75. I know they look as go-ahead as a quill and came from a brand rotten with corrosive history, but these are good cars, built to BMW standards and still half-competitive today.
Plus they're cheap and fairly plentiful and can be had with a string of luxuries to divert you from your cheap wheels moment. Which is how I came to buy a 51,000-mile 2001 Rover 75 2.5 V6 Connoisseur SE for £800 from a dealer operating out of a shipping container.
I had the timing belts replaced – a pricey £500 – changed the oil and filters and could have done nothing else if I'd held to the Bangernomics faith. But 6000 trouble-free and sumptuously comfortable miles have seen me improving this car, with sexier factory alloys, a modern sat-nav and a bit of paintwork. It's been the best value for money I've ever bought.
Andrew Frankel - Citroen 2CV (1958)
In our ideal worlds, we'd all like to drive flat out on deserted roads, but we can't: our cars are too fast, our roads too full. Or so conventional thinking goes.
Think again. The faster the car, the shorter the time spent between leaving one block of traffic and arriving at the next, ergo the more time you spend in traffic. Therefore the slower the car, the less time you spend in traffic. Don't believe it? You would if you owned a 1950s 2CV.
My 1958 2CV has perfect performance: if you drive it as fast as you can, it just about keeps up with everyday A-road and B-road traffic. So all you need is one gap in that traffic and you'll have the road to yourself all day. It provides time to appreciate a car of absolute charm.
The 2CV looks so simple, but by 1950s standards, it's wildly sophisticated. It has independent interconnected suspension (you'll need a McLaren to find that these days), a flat formation boxer engine to drop the centre of gravity, a fully convertible roof and featherweight seats you can remove in less time than you've already taken reading this sentence, so wherever you go, you always have somewhere to sit. And there is nothing superfluous: to save weight, the wiper motor and speedo drive are one and the same, so the faster you go in bad weather, the more you get to see.
The result is a joy without end, a car with hilarious handling, wonderful looks, incredible ride quality and so little performance from its 12bhp 425cc motor that you have no choice but to keep busy all the time, clinging to your hard-fought speed. I've bought a lot of cars over the years but, save the Land Rover in which I passed my driving test, only one I know I'll never sell. If you could drive it, you'd know why, too.
John McIlroy - Mazda 3 (2015)
It may not be immediately obvious, I admit, but the humble metallic grey Mazda 3 you see before you is, in fact, our family's dream car. Specifically, it is automotive nirvana for Mrs McIlroy, who has held what even she admits is an irrational love of Mazdas ever since her first car, a 323F.
The 3 – a 2.0-litre petrol – is also a tribute to the sort of PCP deal that dominates the market these days. We had a two-year-old Kia that we owned and decided to trade it in. It was enough for a hefty deposit, a chunk of cash back and monthly payments of about £100. God bless 0% APR, I say.
I still couldn't have stomached it if the Mazda were an iffy choice – but it does some of the basics really well. The gearshift is as sweet as you'll find on any family car, and the petrol engine is loosening up nicely. I'm not sure I'll ever love it as much as my better half does, but it's growing on me.
Ben Summerell-Youde - VW T3 Syncro (1990)
Since I've owned the Syncro, which you may remember from its appearance in this feature last year, I've been weighing up swapping the engine for either a tidy but expensive flat four Subaru unit or a factory-friendly Volkswagen 1.8T. The 1.8T won in the end because I wanted to keep all things VW, and the in-line four block from the 1998 Passat donor car matches perfectly with the bell housing from a diesel Syncro.
The stock Passat engine had 150bhp, but an ECU remap helps it to push out 200bhp at the flywheel, an impressive number for a four-cylinder, 25-year-old van. Now I'm just waiting for an invitation from Lewis Kingston to do a drag race against his Charger…
Richard Webber - Peugeot 206 GTI (2005)
Typically unswayed by my suggestion of a first-generation Ford Ka, my wife insisted that I find a Peugeot 206 to fill the sub-£2000 hatchback-shaped void in her life. Indifference turned to interest when, among the dreary 1.4s, this gleaming blue, 40,000-mile, 138bhp 2.0-litre GTI appeared.
This particular car is one of those rare hot hatchbacks that was originally bought more for its trim than its vim, and it had led a gentle life at the hands of one mature lady owner. (Ever-discriminating Granny Webber was custodian of several mint Volkswagen Golf GTIs in the same vein.) A deal was struck at £1550 and my wife has been enjoying the strong engine, 'Sport Pack 3' bodykit and leather and Alcantara interior opulence since.
A change of cambelt looms, but new rear brakes and a replacement power steering pressure sensor barely broke £40. Being above Hobbit height, I find the driving position indefensibly bad, but this peppy little Peugeot suits my halfling spouse perfectly.
Jim Holder - Renault Zoe (2015)
"An electric car?" The tone may vary, but the opening response is always the same. The voice is intrigued or baffled or indignant. There is no in-between.
It's a niche choice, I know, but that's always been the point of electric cars: the limitations are obvious, but if they fit in with your lifestyle, they suddenly make heaps of sense. We have a driveway and garage, and we have two cars, and therefore access to one that can do more than 100 miles before needing to stop for several hours. My wife is self-employed, so there are tax savings, and we live in London, so we can save the Congestion Charge if we ever go into the Big Smoke. Our current petrol Ford C-Max drinks £20 of fuel a week, despite doing only 100 miles (all stop-start from cold).
With lease deals on the Zoe at rock bottom in late summer, we took the plunge based on the sound financial sense. For a £75 deposit and £75 a month (plus a further £80 a month for battery lease), the car is ours for the next two years. We have the value of the 2007 C-Max in the bank, plus no tax and no repairs (hopefully) to worry about. In theory, we've swapped an eight-year-old car for a new one, and it is going to be saving us money, too.
But it isn't just a decision based on sound financial logic. Getting in on the small but significant movement towards electrification feels exciting. Like it or not, it is a crucial part of hitting emissions targets and something we all have to face up to, either in hybrid or full-battery form. The momentum is building and trying it for ourselves, every day, in real life, is an adventure I couldn't be more excited about.
Rory White - BMW 520i 24v Auto (1994)
Following 10 months of happy Jaguar XJ6 (X300) ownership – brought to an all too abrupt end by a white van – I began thumbing the classifieds for something else. The budget remained tight, so classic insurance was still a must.
After considering and viewing a range of cars all more than 20 years old, including Audi Cabriolets and Mercedes-Benz W124 300CEs, this BMW E34 520i popped up and, £850 later, I was the owner.
I know, I know: it has fake Alpina wheels. But it came with a fresh 12-month MOT certificate and no advisories, just 84,000 miles and near-perfect paintwork and interior. Fingers crossed, it'll be just as enjoyable as the Jag.


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In the human brain discovered quantum tunnel
A group of canadian researchers from the University of calgary and University of Alberta, found possible evidence of a fundamentally new type of communication between neurons in the brain — photon tunnels. To such conclusion experts have come through mathematical modeling.
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Experts say that many questions in neuroscience are still open, and if quantum tunnel in the human brain are indeed present, it would get closer to the answer to such questions. Scientists explain that they took into account the fact that the nerve cells can emit photons, and tried to understand whether the brain can use this in the exchange of information between neurons.
In the study, researchers came to the conclusion that as waveguides to guide the biophotons, there may be the myelin sheath covering the axons of neurons and provides their electrical insulation. As experts explain, the refractive index of myelin is higher than that of the intercellular environment, which theoretically allows it to pass through the photons. Thus, the myelin sheath and biophotons can form in the brain a quantum optical network, according to the scientists.
Biophotons, which are the result of oxidation reactions, according to the authors of a new study can be a perfect carrier of information, since body temperature may influence the movement of electrical impulses, but not on the propagation of light. Besides, the transmission of information via photons could be millions of times faster than in a way that today seems well-known.
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by Matthew S. Bajko
Supervisor David Campos, the board's openly gay freshman member, has proven to be a wild card among the political body's six-member progressive majority since his swearing-in 10 months ago.
Rather than vote lock step with his allies on the board, Campos at times has taken the counter position. Nor has he been shy about going head-to-head with the mayor, and as a former police commissioner, he often asks pointed questions of law enforcement officials.
He caused a stir in August with his pushing legislation that would restrict undocumented youths suspected of criminal activities from being turned over to federal authorities until they are convicted of a crime. It would reverse a change to San Francisco's sanctuary city policy Mayor Gavin Newsom imposed last year; local authorities now contact their federal counterparts at the time of a felony arrest.
"He has set the right tone of exerting leadership on issues he cares about. He knows how to play well with others while sticking to his convictions," said former out lesbian Supervisor Leslie Katz, who supported Campos during his campaign last year. "He has been doing a great job."
With the board gearing up to return from its summer recess next week, Campos recently sat down with the Bay Area Reporter to reflect on his time in office. Despite the public feuding and heated meetings, Campos said so far he has enjoyed every minute of his new job.
"It is the best job I have ever had. It is very interesting and everyday is unique," said Campos, who turns 39 on September 28. "I go into the day not knowing what to expect."
With his stances on immigration issues, Campos has gained national attention, more so than the board's other new members. It comes as no surprise, as Campos first came to the United States at the age of 14 as an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala and promised to be a vocal advocate for the city's immigrants during last year's campaign.
But his positions have brought him withering criticism. Arthur Evans, a frequent critic of the board, took Campos to task earlier this summer over the issue of how to handle immigrant youth who are arrested.
"David Campos is out of control. Not only is he not promoting public safety, he seems to be doing everything he can to thwart it," wrote Evans, a gay man who has also attacked Campos for his policy position on regulating medical marijuana dispensaries.
In terms of his legislation pertaining to undocumented youth, Campos said "no one is condoning criminal activity" and that "we should report them to federal authorities" if they are convicted of their crimes. But he stressed "there is a distinction between being accused of criminal activity and having engaged in criminal activity."
"You are innocent until proven guilty," said Campos, who is a lawyer. "Let them have their day in court. If the court decides they committed the crime, we will report them" to federal immigration officials.
He said he is looking forward to working with new Police Chief George Gascón on the issue. While chief of Mesa, Arizona's police department, Gascón publicly quarreled with his county sheriff over the issue of immigration.
"I spoke briefly to the new police chief. I am very hopeful about this chief. He gets San Francisco and how we do things differently here," said Campos.
He may not always see eye-to-eye with Newsom, but Campos was invited to be part of a mayoral working trip to Mexico City last month. He had to decline, however, as he already had made plans to vacation in Playa del Carmen outside Cancun, Mexico with his partner, Phil Hwang, and spend time with his family in southern California.
Since January Campos said he believes relations between the board and Room 200 of City Hall have gotten better. But the supervisors, he said, also need to strike a balance between working with the mayor and fighting for their principles.
"I think there has been some improvement in the board's relationship with the mayor," said Campos, who has yet to endorse Newsom's gubernatorial bid. "I also feel we as a board need to assert ourselves more. Working with the mayor doesn't mean you give up your own views."
A member of the board's budget committee, Campos did not hide his anger at Newsom's funding priorities this year, siding with fellow progressives on the fiscal oversight panel in moving $80 million out of public safety agencies into the budgets for health and social service providers. He further antagonized foes of the funding switch when he declared that Newsom's proposed budget could only be called perfect by "wealthy, straight, white males from Pacific Heights."
He also fought to include a reserve fund to help offset funding cuts from Sacramento, and Campos has pledged to fight to see some of that money be funneled toward AIDS and HIV programs faced with nearly $4 million less from the state this year.
"We as a city need to see what we can do to protect those basic services," said Campos. "Everything needs to be on the table right now."
City staffers and department heads have also faced harsh questioning from Campos over the awarding of no-bid city contracts, something he made a priority during his campaign last year. When he served as general counsel for the city's public school district, Campos said he spent a lot of time reviewing contracts.
He has been critical of how the board has handled the issue, chastising it for spending countless hours on seemingly trivial matters while approving contracts worth millions of dollars with little debate.
"I am making sure the city is spending taxpayer money properly and we are getting the most bang for our buck," said Campos. "What I have seen has been a lot of sloppy contracting that goes on. I've made clear to departments that we will read the fine print and make sure contracts go through competitive bidding. Even though it doesn't get headlines, I think we are making progress."
Campos succeeded Tom Ammiano, now a state Assemblyman, as supervisor and has taken his seat in the board chambers next to his gay colleague, Supervisor Bevan Dufty. He said the seating assignment has proven to be advantageous, especially during marathon meetings.
"It is a dangerous proposition having two gay men sitting next to each other," joked Campos. "There is no gossiping going on, I can assure you."
Dufty had high praise for his counterpart, although at times they are at odds when it comes to legislation or policy matters. Both men served on the budget committee this year, no easy task as the city faced its worst financial crisis in decades, and Dufty said Campos carried himself with aplomb.
"I think he has been hardworking and resourceful. He is a joy to work with; he has a great sense of humor and he is fun to sit next to," said Dufty, who also backed Campos in his election campaign. "Moving into Tom Ammiano's chair is not an easy task. He has done a wonderful job; it is clear why Tom supported him so strongly."
Campos showed his independent streak early on when he bucked his progressive allies by casting the determining vote to elect Dufty chair of the San Francisco Transportation Authority. The rest of the left-leaning bloc had backed Supervisor Chris Daly for the job.
"Bevan has the expertise to do a good job in that role," Campos said regarding his vote.
It was the second time he had broke ranks. In January he nominated, and then stood by, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi to be president of the board during four rounds of voting before finally throwing his support to Supervisor David Chiu, helping to elect the freshman board member to the post.
"With each issue I ask myself, what do I think is right," said Campos, adding that for the most part, the progressive bloc on the board has "agreed on most issues. You will always have some differences of opinion. I am trying to do what I think is right."
One of two openly gay Latino elected officials in San Francisco – the other is city Treasurer Jose Cisneros – Campos said he has also strived to serve as a bridge between the city's LGBT and Latino communities. He noted that the effort to defeat Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, failed last fall due to the LGBT community's inability to reach out to minority communities.
"When I go to a Latino event, I try to raise issues important to the gay community. I have a responsibility to talk about gay issues. Likewise when I go to an LGBT event, I raise issues of concern to Latinos, such as immigration," said Campos. "As a community we can not expect others to support issues like same-sex marriage if we aren't supporting their issues."
LGBT leaders said they have so far been impressed with Campos's leadership on the board.
"He is one of the hardest working members of the Board of Supervisors. He really walks the walk," said Laura Spanjian, who serves with Campos on the Democratic County Central Committee and is running to replace Dufty next year. "A lot of the reforms and issues he discussed on the campaign trail he is really working on and talking about at City Hall."
Fellow DCCC member Scott Wiener, a gay man who is also running for Dufty's seat, backed Campos in his race even though Campos voted to replace him as chair of the local Democratic Party last summer. Nonetheless, Wiener praised Campos's time on the board.
"When he voted for Bevan to be chair of the transportation authority over Chris Daly, I was very happy that David did that. It showed independence and was the right vote because I think Supervisor Dufty has done a terrific job as head of the transportation authority," said Wiener. "While I have not agreed with Supervisor Campos on every position he has taken, I think he has been a very active and engaged and hardworking supervisor and I respect him."


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Legal- A Summary
Driving a car is already a challenging tasks, what more if you are not focused because you have something else in your system. Anywhere in the world, driving while intoxicated is one of the most dangerous and probably the deadliest crime as well which takes so many lives of people. DUI or driving under the Influence is a very serious offense. A driver is mentally impaired when he is driving under the influence of either drugs or alcohol making their motor skills weakened.
Their reflexes and focus are not fixed on the road where they are driving as well on the vehicle they are maneuvering. This causes the accidents because they are no longer able to make smart decisions should there be surprises on the road. Some even fall asleep as they are driving which is not only harmful to the person in charge of the steering wheel but to those who are on the other side of the road as well. Accidents resulting from these incidents are sometime fatal which can even cause death. Those who commit these are bound to be sentenced with jail time depending on the severity of the situation.
A good lawyer can help you lessen your jail time should you be guilty. This is a serious offense that should be dealt with accordingly but people should be treated fairly as well that is why the best lawyer should be your choice. The length of punishment you will be receiving will be based on the court's decision but with their expertise, the They will be able to convince the court to lower your sentence. Without someone who knows the exact process, you can be sure that you will be kept inside your prison cell for a long period of time and this is something you would not want to happen.
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You may have some ideas about legalities but when it comes to having your own legal issues, hiring a lawyer is the best decision you can do. Sometimes, even if you are really a good person, something bad can really happen and having a lawyer to defend you can be beneficial. There are many reasons why you should have a professional legal council at your side when it comes to legal matters. You may have some problems with family disputes or a custody battle or you may have some issues with somebody that is unresolved for so many years, a lawyer is your best ally.
The chance of losing the battle just because you do not have an expert helping you out is not a good option. If we take time to read about the law and its implementation, we can certainly gather some information but it wouldn't be enough to win the case. Having expert lawyers will keep the burden off your shoulder. To think, even lawyers seek for someone's help when they are the ones needing representation at the court. Getting yourself legal assistance means providing yourself a competitive edge against your opponent.
If you are trying to win the case, your opponent wants that as well. Legalities are never easy to tackle. Each area has its own technicalities and an expert will be able to evaluate and plan the next move accordingly. Losing is not an option for dedicated lawyers and these are the experts that you should be searching for. Your defense should be their topmost priority, whether you are the one being tried or the person who filed the complaint. You should be represented by someone who knows exactly how it is to work around the process to make it lean towards your favor so you can win the case. .


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Base material of GEC KT88 Feb 1960
I have a GEC KT88 made at Hammersmith works February 1960.
Can anyone tell me what the base material is made of? The part into which the tube pins are set.
It's sort of light brown colour.
I'm seeking to establish it's properties. Specifically, how hot it can get without damage.
Bakelite? Possibly with a sawdust filler?
The KT88 sheet says:
"Base: Metal shell wafer octal"
Tbulb maximum is 250 degrees centigrade.
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Just Adventure (Feb 15, 2012)
Unless you have a strong stomach, I also suggest not eating while you play. Parts of the game have definite barf-bag potential. I consider this a plus, BTW. I'm quite impressed by the amount of genuine horror that's been successfully captured in Corrosion. Developer Daniel Lee Peach of Viperante really knows what he's doing when it comes to this sort of thing. Corrosion is the kind of game that shouldn't be rushed. Taking your time will enable you to savor every dreadful morsel it has to offer. Were it not for the game's first puzzle, I'd award Corrosion an A+. However, both the presence of the puzzle and the fact that players are hit with it right off the bat knocks the grade down to a A-. Still, that's not too shabby.
GameBoomers (Apr, 2012)
Corrosion: Cold Winter Waiting isn't an easy game, so it ended up being a good length, and it kept me engaged and wanting to play some more. It suited a lot of my preferences, and what didn't appeal was outweighed by what did.
Game Debate (Apr 26, 2012)
After ten hours of creeping through Cold Winter Farm's eerie corridors, we sat back and considered the key question: is Corrosion actually scary? It's surprisingly tough to answer. Playing alone in the dark with earphones, we were definitely creeped out. After unlocking the door to the medical lab or morgue, we hesitated before plunging inside, for fear of what we'd stumble into. Some of the contraptions we saw, including a particularly memorable chair, definitely surprised or shocked. Those with weak stomachs will also balk at some of the diary and computer entries, while the sinister music gets under your skin and creeps you out.
Adventure-Treff (Mar 15, 2012)
Corrosion - Cold Winter Waiting ist ein interessantes Spiel, das trotz technischer Unzulänglichkeiten in der Lage ist, die Motivation zum Weiterspielen aufrecht zu erhalten. Es nutzt die Neugier des Spielers, die Hintergründe des Geschehenen erfahren zu wollen, geschickt aus, indem es bröckchenweise Informationen heraus gibt. Die Mängel in der grafischen Präsentation treten dabei in den Hintergrund, so dass sie zumindest aus technischer Sicht ihren Zweck erfüllt. Die Spielzeit dürfte, je nachdem wie gut der Spieler die nötigen Informationen finden und verarbeiten kann, bei 5 bis 6 Stunden liegen. Corrosion kostet als Download knapp 19 Euro, damit dürfte das Preis-/Leistungsverhältnis gerade so passen.
Adventure Gamers (Apr 02, 2012)
It pains me to be so negative about a game that is clearly a labor of love, but there it is. Corrosion is sub-par in most departments, and average in the rest. There are so many similar, better-made games out there that it's hard to recommend Corrosion at all. It commits many of the cardinal sins of adventure game design: obtuse, unforgiving puzzles, an utter lack of feedback, and an uninvolving storyline without the requisite tension. One can hope that the developer will take his obvious passion for adventure games and try again, learning from the mistakes that are so prominent in Corrosion. But this time around, players would be well served to do as the title suggests and keep they mystery of Cold Winter waiting.


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Perhaps meltdown is too Skip Bayless-y of a way to describe the Miami Heat losing three straight games to the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals, but it's rather apt at this point. After winning 94-90, the old ass Celtics are in control of their own destiny to eventually lose to the San Antonio Spurs or Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals. However, I imagine that the "us against the refs" narrative that both teams' fans are playing will guarantee us a Heat win in Game 6 and a Game 7 for the ages.
In the meantime, Game 5 gave us the above wonderful picture of New York Knicks forward Amar'e Stoudemire courtside with his new fiancée and eventual Basketball Wives star, Alexis Welch, who is already the mother of Stoudemire's three kids. It also gave us a classic moment in "Nice move, dipsh*t" when the NBA on ESPN people accidentally posted this picture to Facebook.


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Release Notes: This release features search time display in zquery.pl and updated components. It is a further step in replacing the default full text engine with Indexdata's Zebra.
Release Notes: This release improves the integration of Zebra as a full text engine and features some simplification in broker administration and creating new gatherers.
Release Notes: This release features a Russian translation of the user's manual, bugfixes in the PowerPoint summarizer, an improved SOIF to XML filter, a fix for a crash bug in essence, and an improved user interface. The broker now can have duplicate data under different URIs.
Release Notes: This release adds Dutch, French, Italian, and Swedish user interfaces and support for PowerPoint presentations. It also features portability improvements for FreeBSD, and fixes compilation issues with GCC 3.3.1.
Release Notes: This release adds a Dutch user interface and addresses gcc 3.3.1 compilation problems.
A Fluent OpenStack client API for Java.
A TWiki appliance that is easy to use and lightweight.


text: Deadmau5 has been pretty busy. He recently posted a couple of clips to his SoundCloud, but it's today's demo that really intrigued us. "Satellite" is a more downtempo track featuring vocals from his fiancee Kat Von D, and is definitely interesting. The mau5 says there's "still lots of work to do" to this track, but you get the gist of the intro and the first verse here. Should be an interesting track, whenever it gets completed.


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Everything you need to know about Tom...
To the Max
I just realized something: don't look at anything on this site, because it's filled with like year- old crap, especially the movie and maybe some of the music. If I weren't so lazy, I would get rid of a lot of these crappy pages or update them or something, but don't judge me by anything on this site (the wisdom is still updated weekly).
If you like Metallica and play guitar, IM me.
I've decided to share my knowledge with you, so this week's daily dose of Tom's wisdom is:
Just remember- POOP.
What happened when EDDIE interviewed me (from Useless Things and Hobos).
Useless Things and Hobos, (http://bumatwalmart.tripod.com/) (EDDIE's and Nathananiel's site).
The Tale of a Certain Playmate's Special Journey
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LOOK AT IT! It's funny- that's why I posted it.
Okay, Evan- I finally put this picture up. Now everyone leave me alone! A webmaster needs his peace and quiet too! ah- screw it... hey- does webmaster still sound gay?
New monkey species: Black- Headed Sagui Dwarf; just who does this remind you of? (lemme give you a hint: what would happen if you cross- bread Britney Spears with Snoop Dog).
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Vladimir Petkovic hasn't yet decided how to replace Miroslav Klose against Catania, but Mauro Zarate's inclusion "depends entirely on him."
The Lazio boss had dropped Zarate in recent weeks due to a lack of effort in training, but he could be needed on Sunday in Sicily as Klose is suspended.
"Zarate does not depend on Klose, he depends on himself. His situation depends entirely on him," said Petkovic in a Press conference.
"Over the last few days he has seemed a little better, with the hunger to prove his worth and this gives me hope he wants to get back on the field. Then he must confirm his desire to start again."
Hernanes and Cristian Ledesma return from suspension, but Ederson and Federico Marchetti are still sidelined.
"First I will decide who plays, then I'll decide on the tactical system. I don't know whether Hernanes will be in a more advanced role, considering Klose's absence.
"In other games we have been more solid with Stefano Mauri close to the two strikers, so I still have to evaluate many things.
"Alvaro Gonzalez is tired, but so are others. It's only normal, as we have played so many games this season. I am not so much worried about fatigue as the changes I have to make due to suspension or injury."
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'Pixels' is the latest action-comedy from director Chris Columbus, who has previously brought us classics such as 'Home Alone', 'Mrs. Doubtfire' and the first two Harry Potter films. Starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Peter Dinklage and Josh Gad, 'Pixels' from Sony Pictures opens in U.S. theaters on July 24, 2015.
Sandler plays Sam Brenner, a home entertainment installer whose life hasn't quite panned out as he hoped it might, until he receives a call from old friend Will Cooper (James) who is now the President of the United States. It seems that aliens have intercepted video feeds from Earth of classic arcade games, and misinterpreting them as a declaration of war have decided to launch a pre-emptive strike on the planet using the games as models. Will recruits Sam to lead a team of old-school arcade experts who are tasked with fighting off the alien threat and ultimately saving the planet.
Prime Focus World became involved with this movie early in the post-production process, called in by 'Pixels' stereographer Marcus Alexander. Marcus worked closely with PFW Senior Stereographer Ben Murray and the associate stereo supervision team of Ritesh 'Ricky' Aggarwal, James Rees and Brian Lee.
"We've worked with Marcus before on shows such as 'Seventh Son' and 'Wrath of the Titans'," said Ricky Aggarwal. "It's always fun working with him, and on this show it was even more so due to the style of the 3D that Marcus wanted."
"'Pixels' was an opportunity to really play with the depth," agreed James Rees. "Marcus wanted lots of 3D moments in the movie, with elements flying 100 or sometimes 200 pixels into negative. He really used the full potential of the 3D on this show."
One of the key scenes in the movie was the Pac-Man chase scene, which sees an oversized Pac-Man chasing our heroes around a city in minis (which represent the ghosts in the original game).
"This is a crazy, action-packed 10 minute chase scene," continued Ricky. "You have pixels flying out into the theater - Pac-Man is chomping through the city and sending particles and pixels flying everywhere. Marcus wanted these elements to fly out further than we've ever taken things before, which presented quite a challenge in terms of the conversion process. The final results look amazing though and were well worth the extra effort."
"Another fun element of this movie was Q*bert," said James. "As you might remember, Q*bert has a very long nose, and Marcus decided he wanted to totally re-rack some of the Q*bert shots and create a false mask at the bottom of the screen, so that it feels as though his nose is hanging out into the theater. In another sequence he's jumping on trampolines, and flies up out of the screen in a top-down shot that brings him way negative of the screen plane. Again, we animated the top and bottom of screen so that he breaks frame."
"Apart from cuddly arcade characters with long noses breaking frame, and space invaders flying out of the screen, and giant Tetris blocks falling and crushing cities, this was a pretty normal show," joked Ricky. "We created head geometry for the main characters from cyberscans of the actors and tracked it in to ensure consistency and accuracy of the facial sculpting, and we received and broke out element packages from the VFX vendors to ensure that the amazing VFX work looked as good as possible in stereo."
The stereography team ran the show creatively and handled client reviews in Vancouver, with shot production taken care of by PFW's stereo teams in Mumbai under the supervision of stereographer Jimmy Philip.
"Even though we started work early on 'Pixels', it was such a VFX heavy show that we were still receiving VFX deliveries days before delivery," concluded James. "This was probably our biggest challenge on 'Pixels', but one that we are very used to and that we can handle due to the scale and flexibility of our stereo team."
'Pixels' is out on July 24 in the U.S., August 7 in India and on August 12 in the U.K.
RELEASE: July 24, 2015 (US), Aug 7, 2015 (India), Aug 12, 2015 (UK)
Director: Chris Columbus
Studios / Distributors: Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Releasing
PFW Credits
Senior Stereographer - Ben Murray
Senior Stereo Producer - Rohan Desai
Stereo Producer - Chad Cortvriendt
Stereo Production Manager - Cassius Vaz
Editorial Supervisor - Richard Pring
TDs - Isaac Guenard, Charlie Luce
Associate Stereo Supervisor Team
Ritesh Aggarwal, Brian Lee, James Rees
Stereo Digital Production Team
Bakshad Amrolia, Jessica Carrington, Tim Sharp, Naline Amaral
Stereo Conversion Leads
Grant Robertson, Rio Harrington, Matthew Lutes, Jason Dougarian
Stereo Editorial Team
Lewis Menga, Ryan Loates, Bec Cranswick, Baljot Bhatti
Senior Stereo Supervisor - Merzin Tavaria
Senior Stereo Producer - Gaurav Jain
Stereo Producer - Franklin Mascarenhas
Stereographer - Jimmy Philip
Stereo Producer - Subbu Pillai
Stereo Production Managers - Ravi Shetty & Ashish Dadhich
Stereo Production Coordinator - Shohil Vohra
Stereo Pipeline Supervisor - Parminder Chadda
TD - Piyush Jain
Associate Stereo Supervisor Team
Abhishek Warang, Ankit Jobanputra, Athmi Rai, Bhavya Dixit, Dhiraj Sukheja, Gourav Gupta, Himanshu Ajmera, Manu Jain, Puneet Samra, Rahul Wagh, Rakhee Ghosh, Rohan Tirkey, Sameer Samant, Swapnil Shelar, Varion Pereira
Stereo Conversion Leads
Ambikesh Patel, Biswaranjan Mohanty, Darshan Deepak Rane, Dixa Hemant Desai, Gopinath Kotalwar, Harshad Masurkar, Manish G Chavan, Jignesh Vinodbhai Solanki, Kalpita Tendulkar, Keshav Parab, Krushna Raja Ram Udavant, Nitesh Chandra, Nitin Ravindra Chavan


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Stereotactic iodine-125 brachytherapy for the treatment of focal brainstem gliomas WHO grades I and II: long-term outcome
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Objective: In the literature, microsurgical resection for accessible focal brainstem gliomas (F-BSG) World Health Organization (WHO) grades I and II is the most suggested treatment option. However, due to localization in a highly eloquent structure of the brain, resection is associated with a postoperative permanent morbidity, ranging from 12–33 %. Scarce reports have suggested stereotactic brachytherapy (SBT) with implantation of iodine-125 (125I) seeds as a treatment alternative.
Methods: Between 1993 and 2010, 47 patients (including 26 children aged <20 years) were treated with SBT (125I seeds; cumulative therapeutic dose 50–65 Gy within 9 months) for inoperable F-BSG WHO grades I and II. We evaluated procedure related complications in the early postoperative period and in the long-term run, as well as clinical outcome, progression-free survival (PFS) and survival (OS). Median follow-up was 81.6 months (range, 3.2–188.6 months).
Results: Procedure-related mortality was zero. Within 30 days after seed implantation 8 patients (17.0%) showed transient neurological deficits and 2 patients (4.3%) permanently deteriorated (mild hemiparesis / tremor in one patient, 6th nerve palsy in the other). Radiogenic complications, in terms of space occupying cysts occurred in 6 patients (12.8%) after a median of 28.5 months (range, 13.6–49.9 months), requiring surgical intervention (cyst evacuation and/or resection). Nine patients (19.1%) presented with tumour relapse after a median of 56.6±33.2 months (range, 7.9–118.0 months). The remaining 39 patients revealed complete response in 23.4 %, partial response in 29.8%, and stable disease in 27.7%. The actuarial PFS rates were 97.7±2.2%, 92.6±4.1%, 80.7±6.7%, and 61.5±10.5% at 1, 2, 5, and 10 years, respectively. The corresponding OS rates were 100%±0.0% (1 yr and 2 yrs), 97.4% ±2.6% (5 yrs), and 87.6% ±7.0% (10 yrs).
Conclusions: SBT is a comparatively safe, minimally invasive, and highly effective local treatment option for patients with F-BSG WHO grades I and II, and deserves further evaluation in prospective randomized trials.


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SYDNEY, May 6 (UPI) -- Australia's Sydney Anglican Media, under the control of the Archbishop Peter Jensen, has created a television show on the Ten Network called Good Sex.
The program features Christian panelists, including "sexologist" Patricia Weerakoon and advertising copywriter Janet Evans, talking with invited guests about orgasms, penis pumps, masturbation, and pornography, The Australian reported Thursday.
The team makes sure to tell viewers that God approves of all sorts of naughty acts, provided they remain inside marriage.
Mark Hadley, director of radio and TV for Anglican Media, said the church had the idea after Ten offered it an 11.30 slot Wednesday nights. "When we looked at the timeslot we said to ourselves there's no way a traditional Christian program is going to work and work well here," Hadley said. "Instead, we did what any producer does. We researched the demographic and looked at the carry-over audience from Sports Tonight. We were looking at men between the ages of 25 and 35. What is it that captures the attention of men in this age group? We thought, hey, we'll put on a program about sex."


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Travel Writing and the American Gaze: The Best American Travel Writing, edited by Anthony Bourdain and Jason Wilson
(Disclaimer: I feel super obsolete writing a review of a 2008 collection. In fact, I even felt obsolete reading this book in public. The downside of including years in collection titles [as opposed to, I suppose, big Roman numerals, or even Arabic numerals; see the "Now That's What I Call Music" CD series]. I'll just pretend that 2008 was a good year for wine and travel essays.)
I would never have read this book, but my mom happened to have it and was no longer interested in reading it. My mom regularly checks out plastic-coated hardcovers from the library that some American woman or British man or vice versa wrote about their lovely summer or decade in Tuscany or the south of France or Venice or where-have-you. She thought this would be in keeping with her reading proclivities, but no— the book is instead filled with reporter-at-large type essay dispatches from Chad, Cambodia, northwest Pakistan, Turkmenistan. Full of danger and discomfort; not stories where you necessarily want to trade places with the protagonist. She blamed series guest editor Anthony Bourdain, whose brand is after all titled "No Reservations."
She thought it would be my thing though. And I guess it kind of is.
The diversity of the stories and the journalistic clarity of the writing (the most-represented major publications here are The New Yorker and Travel + Leisure, with some Harper's and Slate thrown in) made for consistently interesting, entertaining reads. I've never followed travel writing as a genre, but there's something to be said for getting the opportunity to be thrown into a far-flung place for 6-12 pages at a time, learning minutiae about a country or city or neighborhood you'd maybe never have thought of otherwise, much less visited.
But I have my complaints. And I don't know if I should lay these complaints at the feet of individual writers and editors, or upon the shoulders of the genre as a whole.
The first thing that struck me, several stories in, was that most of the writers were men. Four out of the twenty-five essays were written by women. It took about ten essays to get to the first woman-penned story, and, lo and behold, it was a super-short, semi-humorous, quasi-poetic reflection on a bathroom hookup with a hot Israeli in a Brazilian youth hostel ("Mr. Tingler," by Emily Maloney). Not exactly comparable in gravity to, say, the embedded reporters in African war zones (see: "African Promise," by J. Malcolm Garcia; "The Border," by Peter Chilson).
I get that this is largely a question of access. While women can and do travel most of the world, there are places and contexts where they aren't quite as welcome, and spaces that are not as easy to penetrate and move freely in. (Exceptions, maybe, can be found in Kristin Ohlson's "Kabul Nights," in which she visits secret restaurants in the Afghan capital, and Annie Nocenti's "The Most Expensive Road Trip in the World," in which she and a female documentarian ride along with Qatari princes and real estate magnates on a falconing trip through some of Pakistan's least hospitable parts.)
This lack of representation makes sense, but it's still disappointing. It's like living in a little world where, superficially, women have every opportunity that men do, but then zooming out and remembering that they don't, that the outside world is even farther from a liberal paradise than America is.
When I went to Lebanon solo (I swear, I'll shut up about this some day), I felt extra apprehensive because of my gender. My fears proved mostly unfounded, though I definitely attracted strange looks wandering the streets of Beirut by myself, taking pictures. When I arrived in Paris, before my (male) friend met up with me, I was hassled by two separate panhandlers in front of Sacre-Coeur within two minutes; after he joined me, there was no similar incident for the remainder of the trip. When a female friend told me about her solo travels in Eastern Europe, she recommended attaching oneself to older local women to safeguard against creeps. Shit, even here, when I walk home from BART at night, I have my spidey senses on for the entire walk home (it's generally a pleasant enough suburban neighborhood, but there is the occasional crime in the area and there's almost no street light, which turns every shadowy passerby into a potential misogynistic psychopath).
So maybe there are problems in other parts of the world, presenting us with a stark dichotomy of gender access, and this isn't the fault of the authors or editors of any one travel volume. But my other complaint was the way the writers themselves, these American men, talked about the cultures they visited, in particular foreign women, their interactions with them and how they are treated by their countrymen: what I like to call the American gaze.
In particular, two stories rubbed me the wrong way. The first was "The Woman in the Kuffiya," by Jeffrey Tayler. You might already be apprehensive because of the title. I was too.
"The Woman in the Kuffiya" is a short, three-page personal anecdote originally published on WorldHum.com. In it, Jeffrey Tayler retells a brief encounter he had with an Arab woman in southeastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, in a town called Harran. He is walking along a road by himself, "lost in thoughts about history and the Bible." Then, the young woman in the kuffiya, or red-and-white-checked Arab scarf, pulls up her horse-drawn cart and offers him a ride. She speaks no English, and he converses with her in his limited Arabic. Her name is Hawa'. He asks if she is married, she is. She offers him fresh baked bread. She complains about the men in her village and how lazy they are.
But mostly, Tayler is captivated by her beauty. When she first releases her kuffiya, it unmasks "a comely, full-lipped mouth and clear bronzed skin." Aware of the fact that he is in an Islamic country, he tries to avoid staring, but "she was just too beautiful."
When they reach his destination, he turns to say goodbye, and they share a charged gaze filled with a shared "repressed lust." Then she readjusts her kuffiya and moves on.
Tayler ends by contemplating the strength of his attraction to this woman. The last two lines:
"The oft-maligned Islamic custom of purdah does much to preserve passion in its most urgent and ineffable form. No topless beach has ever, to me, looked the same after Harran."
I'm really not sure how to take this. On the one hand, he could be commenting on the paradoxical tendency of sexual repression to perversely promote sexuality and bring it to the forefront of thought, something Foucault wrote about and Russell Brand adapted in a bit to apply to the Jonas Brothers' purity rings, which I don't disagree with. But what else is happening here? Is he Orientalizing/fetishizing Islamic womanhood? Is he placing an entire culture and its participants within the context of his own male, desirous American gaze? ("Gee whiz, I don't really believe in women covering themselves, but now that you mention it, it's pretty awesome for my libido.")
Admittedly, it's a brief, subjective piece, and it's Tayler artfully, un-self-consciously reproducing the experience exactly as he lived it. But sometimes the way we live things doesn't deserve to be transferred unfiltered from head to page, where it can sit with an undue sense of its own weight and authority.
The second story was "Looking for Mammon in the Muslim World," by Seth Stevenson, originally published on Slate.com, about the author's through-the-looking-glass trip to Dubai. This one I was a little more ambivalent about, because in some ways it feels like it could have been written by the male me. Like "The Woman in the Kuffiya," it's more overtly subjective than most of the other essays in this collection, and the dude doesn't try to hide his insanely American and Western worldview. In fact, he comes off sounding like he's never even been a travel writer before this moment—there's a sense of innocent wonder in his story lacking in the work of the other writers, who tend to favor feigned objectivity or, at the very least, wry appreciation.
On the flip side, Stevenson's naïveté also means he seems to have embarked on this little journey with only the shallowest understanding of Islam and the Arab world, likely gleaned from cable news channels and newspaper headlines. His mission: to understand the bizarre spectacle of capitalism in the middle of the Middle Eastern desert that is Dubai, and to extrapolate that to grandiose statements and solutions on the East-West cultural divide. For him Dubai is confounding: how can the Arab world have its own answer to Las Vegas? How can a religion so often at odds with Western civilization enjoy the fruits of our decadent, consumerist system?
For the most part he tackles these questions with humor and levity, and for the most part that's fine. But at one point, he goes into a little "aside" in which he lists three bones he has to pick with the way women are treated in the U.A.E. He puts these "bones" in list form, which was such a total me move that I almost liked him for it—but then, the content of this aside was stunning in its ignorance (not me, I hope):
"1. It seems horribly unfair that the men's dishdashas are white, while the women's long cloaks (called abayas) are black. I ask you: Which would you rather wear beneath a blazing desert sun? If Arab culture weren't otherwise so progressive on gender issues, I might say this was a clever means of discouraging women from leaving the house.
2. The unfairness becomes crystal clear when you go to the beach here. The Emirati women keep their abayas on. Meanwhile, their husbands strip down to tight, short bathing suits—exposing their flabby stomachs and hairy backs.
3. I'm fine with the headscarf that covers the hair. (This seems not unlike wearing a yarmulke.) But the face veil is fundamentally different and, in my view, not okay. One cannot happily contribute to society when one has no face. The veil transforms women into a pair of downcast eyes. And again, it seems, more than anything else, like an enticement to stay at home."
Oh. Kay. So. Many things wrong. Here.
…Let me respond with my own mini-listicle.
1. Seth, you're speculating. Nothing else in this fun little story gives me any confidence that you've studied Arab history, social or sartorial, so I'd be careful about making any bold hypotheses on the development of gender practices, lest you influence a young mind as impressionable as your own. Read: Your one visit doesn't make you an expert. And that whole "progressive on gender issues" line? Just snarky. Especially because I feel like you'd be one of those people who'd ask me how much I had to cover myself in Lebanon and how hot it was in the desert there. (For those people: No more than here, and Lebanon isn't desert.)
2. Considering your #1 and #2 make the implicit assumption that these hypothetical beachgoing couples are Arab, your observation on the hairy backs sounds vaguely racist.
3. Oh, so we're starting from the place where all things associated with Jewish culture or religion are deemed "good" and a Western-sanctioned benchmark as to what types of head coverings are acceptable? Alright, so with that potentially flawed premise, let it be known that Seth is fine with the headscarf, but he draws the line at the face veil (as he calls it). "Not okay," says Seth. Those women are oppressed, those men are bad, and Seth is standing by shaking his head. It's just that simple, people.
Anyway. Believe it or not, this wasn't the part that gave me the most pause. The pausiest part was later, as Seth tries to wrap up all of his uninformed observations and cultural aggrandizement in one neat little bow, if that bow were a horrible anecdote that somehow managed to be offensive to both Western and Eastern sensibilities at the same time.
It happens when he and a friend go to a club called Cyclone, which is full of prostitutes. The scene disturbs him: young, attractive women playing up to old, bald men, as security looks on to make sure "transactions" are made outside of the club and not in. He even notes the "desperation" in the air, as strong as the scent of one of the Hungarian hooker's perfume. After scurrying out:
"Let it be said: I have witnessed sexual deviance being tolerated—or at least ignored—within the borders of a Muslim country. And I'm declaring it a promising sign. If there's one thing the West and the Middle East can come together on, it's a Hungarian hooker."
Whether or not this was slightly tongue-in-cheek (it may have been, but still ultimately fit with the overall earnestness of his article), this sentiment kind of took me aback. Coming together over the shared notion of women as prostitutes? Hookers as preferable to women wearing veils? Middle Eastern society being viewed as "progressing" no matter what attribute of Western society it adopts/shares? So creepy in so many ways. (And really: you witnessed sexual deviancy in an Arab, Muslim country? Do tell! …This is kind of like the moment when you're a certain age and you realize your parents had to have sex to have you.)
Note that the entire essay was written from the point of view of someone who clearly deemed himself a progress-minded liberal, who ended his little story by criticizing some British teenagers who called the Arabs backwards. Racist teenagers. Always easy bait. (See: Twitter.)
These were the two stories that I found the most problematic, maybe in part because of my own focus on the Middle East. But there were others, other stories that produced uneasiness about the nature of the white, male, American gaze, activated in a foreign land. "African Promise" by J. Malcolm Garcia, which unquestioningly adopts the ironic phrase of the title. "Dark Passage" by Peter Gwin, which comfortably revisits Heart of Darkness for the 21st century. "Wheels of Fortune" by Peter Hessler, which basically talks about how much everyone sucks at driving in China.
Travel literature by its very nature must be subjective, a reflection of the society the writer represents entering the society the writer visits. For the American traveler, the American gaze is unavoidable. But I wonder—as a newcomer to the genre—can you write around it? Can I take the scribblings in my travel journals of yore, which admittedly contain signs of my own American gaze, and translate them into something I'd be comfortable publishing? Do Americans have to encounter the world this way—so limited, yet so assured?
I'd be interested to know. Because I kind of want to be a travel writer.
The intersection of world and page
The page tore on page 34 of my copy of Mimesis as I was standing on the MUNI platform at 4th and King, from the divergent pressures of my thumb holding down the page and the wind suddenly and violently whipping it upward. I said "shit!" quietly to myself, but then imagined it as a mark of physical reality being imposed on my text, which may seem essential and untouchable but is really just a single, unique copy with the same mimetic words printed on it. Erich Auerbach himself, on the very page, inserted himself into the narrative ("As I open Rostovtzeff's work to check the quotation above, my eyes fall on this sentence: 'The question, however, arises, How are we to account for the existence of comparatively large numbers of proletarians in Italy?'"), which was an alarming departure from the otherwise omniscient authority of his literary criticism. I'm now reassured to know that future holders of this book will have tangible evidence of that single wind on Monday August 13th 2012.
On Road Trips and Road Literature: Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
Subtitled: America, like it or not it's beautiful, even if patriotism isn't in vogue, because I haven't been patriotic since post 9/11 pickup trucks turned me off the idea ten years ago, but I think I still love America, kinda
Having recently completed a five-day road trip across the American Southwest, I found myself reflecting on the soul of America.
I don't know how much I, personally, can speak to it, not having been to the Midwest OR the South which are America's proverbial heart(andsoul)lands. But I've been to three corners and three islands of the contiguous country—15 states—besides myself living in the West — so that's a pretty good chunk of it eh? And not one but two books I've recently read—Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, and American Gods, by Neil Gaiman—deal with the topic of traveling the road in America, as does one of my favorite books of all time, Nabokov's Lolita. And with the American road trip, intentional or not, comes the search for the meaning of America.
Into the Wild is a nonfiction work by outdoors journalist Jon Krakauer that chronicles the life and death of Chris McCandless, self-dubbed Alexander Supertramp, focusing on the two years he spent living out of his backpack in the Western United States in the early 1990s up to his untimely death. He perished in the summer of 1992 after months of living out of an abandoned bus near Denali National Park, at the edge of the Alaskan wilderness. He probably starved.
In terms of what drove him on this crazy quest: Chris was from a fairly well-to-do DC-area family, but had a difficult relationship with his parents, who he seemed to see as Caulfieldian phonies. As an honors student at Emory University he experimented with asceticism and grad-student theory, growing increasingly disillusioned with his privileged lifestyle and fantasizing about throwing all material possessions and former-life connections to the wind, and instead just existing, body and nature and no commitment to the corruptions of modern human society.
A lot of people think he was stupid or crazy, or at least arrogant, and there is definitely an argument to be made in that vein. But Krakauer's portrait is deeply sympathetic. He interposes a personal story of his own foolhardy attempt to climb a glacial mountain in Alaska as a youth, solo, as well as the stories of many others who have wandered off into the wild for various reasons and, in most cases, not survived. McCandless, Krakauer implies, was not some loony but rather an idealistic young man following the time-honored tradition of looking for meaning and fulfillment in nature.
On my own road trip, my path twice crossed Krakauer's and McCandless's, once in the physical sense and once in the narrative sense. McCandless lived and worked for a time in Bullhead City, Arizona, which sits just across the river from "Las Vegas for families" Laughlin, Nevada. We stopped at this hokey casino town on the Colorado River for a very hot, very dry, not entirely interesting night.
Say what you will about Laughlin, but it truly is an American place, down to its classic American origins story of pluck and business know-how. Don Laughlin (b. 1931) worked in Vegas and attended card dealing school, teaching himself all the tricks of the casino trade, before buying an old hotel in this rundown little community across from Bullhead City. This he gradually grew into a mini-gambling empire that was later named for him. "What you're looking at is the realization of one man's dream," the tour boat guide (a recording) told us. The American Dream, right?
For many tourists, it's a weekend trip from their nearby Arizona, Nevada, or California hometowns; for (less fortunate) others, it's their vacation destination of the year. For me, it was a pit stop on a road trip and nothing more, a mere geographic location, something that wasn't made for me and that didn't really welcome me in the physical or metaphysical sense. For McCandless, it was also just a stop: a stop on his cross-Western journey, where he put in hours at a part-time food service job to help pay for his ultimate destination, Alaska.
"Bullhead City is a community in the oxymoronic, late-twentieth-century idiom. Lacking a discernible center, the town exists as a haphazard sprawl of subdivisions and strip malls stretching for eight or nine miles along the banks of the Colorado, directly across the river from the high-rise hotels and casinos of Laughlin, Nevada. Bullhead's distinguishing civic feature is the Mohave Valley Highway, four lanes of asphalt lined with gas stations and fast-food franchises, chiropractors and video shops, auto-parts outlets and tourist traps." (p. 39)
The second time my path crossed McCandless's was when we browsed a tiny espresso 'n' books 'n' outdoor gear store near our hotel in Kanab, Utah, a small town located just north of the Arizona border and south of Utah's grandiose national parks. The subject of several of the display books was young Everett Ruess, one of those other foolhardy youths that Krakauer speaks about in his book.
Everett Ruess (b. 1914 in Oakland, CA– a fellow East Bay Areaite!) left his family and friends at age 16 to hitchhike around the West and live out of his backpack. This he managed to do for a few years, until somewhere between 1934 and 1935, in the Utah wilderness near Glen Canyon Dam, he disappeared. All that was left of Everett were his packs and his mules. They never found out what happened to him; it's surmised he probably fell off a cliff. Whatever the case, the mystery surrounding his wanderlust-fueled death transformed him into a local legend, if the proliferation of Everett Ruess-themed books in the area gift shops is any indication.
For all the times that McCandless seems like an idiot who didn't plan ahead—kind of like Aron Ralston of 127 Hours fame, except that dude pulled through—there's this flip side of empathy because he did what maybe a lot of us have thought about, even just for a brief second. Maybe he lived in a way that none of us ever will: with no earthly connections, existing in nature and outside the bounds of society, being completely self-sufficient. There's times when I've gazed out a car window and wished I could just hop out the door and run out into a particularly beautiful landscape (kind of a comical image, I know) but reason and logic and practicality and fear of bugs and all these other societal values and inhibitions forbid me. Sometimes I want to make snow angels in a dry meadow. Grass angels.
The search for the transcendent, the desire for life to have meaning could undoubtedly be considered universal sentiments. So could the desire for absolute freedom, particularly as the conditional freedoms of technology bind us, as we are ever more connected and ever more restricted by our connectedness. Even more, though, the special brand of McCandless's search could, I think, be considered an American sentiment: a messy mixture of rugged individualism and self-reliance and reverence for the natural world that McCandless found in American writers like Emerson and London and Muir. (He also loved Tolstoy.) That these values ultimately took precedence over self-preservation (even before his sojourn to Alaska, McCandless put himself in danger several times) says a lot about their power.
For what it's worth, I don't have a lot of patience for people who profess or attempt to live lives of utter self-sufficiency. I think it's a uniquely American fantasy that's incredibly indulgent, manifested politically in Ron Paul-style libertarianism. The rejection of society—the societal fabric, the society of others—is a lie unless it is undertaken to its utmost extremes (I'm thinking, hermit on an island?), and anyone else who claims it is a hypocrite who doesn't appreciate that society does so much for them, that society made them.
McCandless was probably indulgent; he was a privileged kid who hadn't really experienced hardship; he undoubtedly failed to live completely independently, whether or not he thought that he had. But that doesn't mean he didn't succeed to a greater extent that most people ever will; and it definitely doesn't mean there isn't value in his story. Even as I shake my head at him, I admire him.
(The film version of this book, by the way, is lovely. Sean Penn directed it and Eddie Vedder wrote a perfect, rambling acoustic soundtrack, and Emile Hirsch was a very fitting and earnest McCandless. Ironically, the relationships McCandless made on the road while trying to escape society were unnaturally deep and meaningful for their short duration—he made an impression on everyone he met, and the film captures this beautifully. Most touching is the scene when Hal Holbrook's character "Ron" [name changed from real life], who lost his wife and kids in an accident decades earlier, asks to adopt McCandless as a kind of grandson. McCandless demurred until he got back from Alaska, which of course he never did. I openly wept. Holbrook was nominated for his first Oscar.)
Into the Wild is compelling because from the very first page we know what happens in the end. Yet despite the inexorable direction of the story and McCandless's sensational death (I was too young to follow the news in 1992, but my mom tells me it was a big story), the real value of the narrative is the journey– which in an ironic-but-oh-so-expected twist is ultimately and chiefly life-affirming.


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