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You have reached the homepage for Grant Searle's bits and bobs. Please feel free to browse!
|Hi. This page links to my other
electronics and computer pages.
A bit of background... I live in the UK (Wales, actually). I was born in 1966 and had my first soldering iron when I was eight. After many years of burnt fingers I am still going strong with electronics. From mid 1975 until late 80s I subscribed to Everyday Electronics - still have them all in a big stack, and have also managed to get hold of the ones from issue 1 to when I started. Also bought Practical Wireless, Popular Electronics, Hobby Electronics etc, to name a few. My interest in computers started in about 1977, so I was very active with the home computers at the start of the 80's and started with a Dragon 32 then went on to the wonderful BBC Micro. Over recent years I have turned to collecting some of the old computers, electronics kits and TV games, and I have rebuilt some of the computers (see below).
Have fun browsing, I've spent a lot of time on these pages and hope they are of use to you.
Regards, Grant.
Scroll down, or jump down from here...
My CP/M design | My simple 6809 design | My simple Z80 design | My simple 6502 design | My simple video/kb interface | Low cost FPGA projects | Space Invaders | My electronics kits | My pong TV games | ZX80 | Jupiter Ace | UK101 | My computers | Pong | My new 70s TV game | PW Tele Tennis | Super Breakout | Other Stuff
- my own design
A fully functional Z80 CP/M machine using only 9 chips
Click here to see my home-designed CP/M machine built on breadboard. I designed the circuit and wrote the BIOS and much of the monitor myself.
Simple 6809 - my own design
A complete 6809 computer on 6 chips
In the same style as the Z80 computer below - can't get simpler than this!
I designed this to be as simple as possible while still allowing it to be expanded.
Click on the picture to go there.
Simple Z80 - my own design
A complete Z80 computer on 7 chips
In the same style as the 6809 computer above - can't get simpler than this!
I designed this to be as simple as possible while still allowing it to be expanded.
Click on the picture to go there.
Simple 6502 - my own design
A complete 6502 computer on 7 chips
In the same style as the 6809 and Z80 computer above - can't get simpler than this!
I designed this to be as simple as possible while still allowing it to be expanded.
Click on the picture to go there.
Simple Video and Keyboard interface
Text/graphics PAL or NTSC video and a PS/2 keyboard interface.
Ideal for any computer (such as my designs) which has a serial port.
Click HERE to see it.
Low-cost FPGA projects
l have created several recreations of computers on a very low cost FPGA board. Some are published here...
|A complete UK101 with internal 4K RAM
|Multi-option design-your-own computer
...ideal to get you started with FPGA
Space Invaders
My redesigned circuit build using a Z80 with the ORIGINAL arcade ROM code so is fully faithful to the original, and can be used as a replacement in a cabinet if needed. You can see it running in the picture at the top of the page. The sound circuit is the same and the shifter circuit is very similar to the original, but the rest of it is totally redesigned from the basics to allow the use of a Z80 processor instead of the 8080. Fully shared memory with the CPU and graphics with efficient bus contention arbitration. The chip count, although high, is significantly lower than the original. Click HERE to see it.
My electronics kit collection
My first kit, when I was eight, was the "Science Fun Experiments In Electronics" by Logix Kosmos. The first circuit that I ever built was on that system and I've kept going ever since. I don't have much of that kit left, unfortunately.
Here is my unintentional collection of electronic kits from the 60's, 70's and 80's.
My TV game ("pong") collection
Back in Christmas 1976, my present was a Videomaster Superscore black and white unit with a pistol. Unfortunately it only lasted a few days before it failed, so I then got (and still have) a Grandstand 3000 colour one instead. Over the last few years I have been collecting some more machines from this era.
Here is my collection.
My new 70's TV game design
A faithful (as possible) recreation of the classic 70's TV games done on a modern microcontroller and very few other parts. Based on the Atmel ATMEGA328 processor using Arduino code. Can be build on an Arduino board or using a stand-alone microcontroller (Arduino hardware/software not needed).
Click HERE to see it
Home-built micros
Build your own
I have produced chip labels for all projects on my pages. Please go HERE to get them.
I have built a few of the home micros using the schematics. To see the results, please visit the following pages:
My machines
Over the years I've been collecting the
micros which were popular, mainly in the 80's. I currently have about 70
different computers, plus several "spares". Here is a selection of what I've got.
Click on the picture for details:
My machine collection
Arcade Pong
I decided to build an
arcade Pong machine using the original Atari schematics and a large number of
chips in my spares box. I was pleased that it worked first time. If you want to
see the results of my weeks work, please go to my Pong pictures
Also included there is a build of a magazine-published version of Pong. This
differs from the arcade version because it is an analogue design, popular with
the very first home consoles, instead of the digital version used in the arcade
Practical Wireless "Tele-Tennis"
|First published in 1974. I wanted to build this for a long time, so finally in 2008 I did so. Click here to see the results. Included on this page are scans of the complete construction articles, re-published with kind permission from the copyright holder, PW Publishing Limited.
Super Breakout
The arcade version
|I won an old Arcade Super Breakout board from eBay. It was a major restoration, but here is how I did it.
Other stuff
The Ladybird Radio
Many (!) years ago I built a great medium wave radio from a Ladybird book. I still have it, and here are photos of it,
Anyone interested in the MK14 computer
may want a copy of the original SCMP datasheets which I've scanned:
SCMP datsheet scans
Sinclair Spectrum clone
I had been following, with great interest, Chris Smith's "Harelquin" Spectrum
Clone here:
I was so impressed that I HAD to have a go myself. I am very pleased that I managed to get the design working.
You can see my version (some differences to Chris's design to simplify the Sync circuitry) here.
(not much there, yet, but please look at Chris's log pages for some excellently detailed information)
Contact me
My contact address is currently:
I will always try to get back to you, but I don't always get the time, so please be patient. No requests for buying anything off me though, please
Please note... if I start getting spam on this address then I will drop
this address and use a new one.
(If you have contacted me and have not had a reply, check back on this page to see if it has changed)


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Thursday, August 29: Watch Guess, Williams-Sonoma
John Shipman takes a look at which stocks traders will be watching during market action, including Guess? Inc., Williams-Sonoma, and Signet Jewelers. Photo: AP.
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Are Wall Street speculators driving up gasoline prices?
WASHINGTON — Oil and gasoline prices are rising fast as Memorial Day weekend approaches, but not because supplies are tight or demand is high.
U.S. crude-oil inventories are at their highest levels in almost two decades, and demand has fallen to a 10-year low, but crude oil prices have climbed more than 70 percent since mid-January to a six-month high of $62.04 on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, although refiners are operating at less than 85 percent of capacity, which leaves them plenty of room to churn out more gasoline if demand rises during the summer driving season, the price of gasoline at the pump has climbed 28 cents a gallon from a month earlier to $2.33.
This time, Wall Street speculators — some of them recipients of billions of dollars in taxpayers' bailout money — may be to blame.
Big Wall Street banks such as Goldman Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley and others are able to sidestep the regulations that limit investments in commodities such as oil, and they're investing on behalf of pension funds, endowments, hedge funds and other big institutional investors, in part as a hedge against rising inflation.
These investors now far outnumber big fuel consumers such as airlines and trucking companies, which try to protect themselves against price swings, and they're betting that the economy eventually will rebound, that the Obama administration's spending policies and Federal Reserve actions will trigger inflation — or both — and that oil prices will rise.
"They're buying because they think it will diversify their portfolio, and they think it will diversify their portfolio against inflation, and maybe they think the economy will turn around," said Michael Masters, a hedge-fund manager who testified before Congress last year about the consequences of what are called exchange-traded funds.
Oil contracts are traded mostly in U.S. dollars, and inflation would erode the value of oil earnings, stocks or any other asset denominated in U.S. currency. Many investors are pouring money into oil futures — contracts for future deliveries of oil at specified prices — in the belief that oil prices will rise as inflation erodes the dollar's value.
This turns oil futures contracts into a way for investors to hedge against inflation at the expense of American consumers, who have to pay more to fill their gas tanks as oil and gasoline prices rise.
Masters and other critics say this speculative flow of money into commodities markets is a self-fulfilling prophecy that's distorting the usual process by which buyers and sellers set prices and is driving up the prices of oil, gasoline, grains and other essentials.
"There is definitely an inflation premium at work here," said John Kilduff, a senior vice president of MF Global in New York, a brokerage house that helps large investors trade in energy markets.
In a report May 6, CNBC television senior energy correspondent Sharon Epperson said that traders told her that prices were disconnected from supply and demand.
"Nymex traders tell me they're seeing new money coming in from passive funds that are reallocating assets away from precious metals and into energy holdings. It's this money flow — rather than the fundamental supply-demand data — that's driving oil prices higher," she reported.
Morgan Stanley didn't respond to requests for comment via e-mail and telephone.
"Goldman Sachs declines to comment for your story," spokesman Michael DuVally said.
In a report April 16 on last year's spike in natural gas prices, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission concluded that similar investment flows drove up the price that consumers paid to heat their homes with natural gas.
"This increase in commodity prices occurred as large pools of capital flowed into various financial instruments that essentially turn commodities like natural gas into investment vehicles," the report says. "Ultimately, we believe that financial fundamentals . . . explains natural gas prices during the year."
During a visit to McClatchy's Washington Bureau, hedge-fund manager Masters also said that big institutional investors were sucking the air out of the fragile economic recovery, in part because their Wall Street partners were exempt from federal limits on how much they could bet on commodity prices.
"What they don't realize is because we don't have position limits, the money they put in is driving up the price" for oil and other commodities, he said.
Contracts for future deliveries of oil and other commodities are traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange, and the futures market for oil has position limits that restrict how much of the market big speculators can control.
However, big Wall Street banks are exempt from these restrictions, and there also are no such limits in derivatives markets. These vast unregulated markets involve private contracts between swaps dealers — usually big Wall Street banks — and large investors. These dark markets, also called over-the-counter markets, are thought to be 10 times larger than the futures market, and they have no position limits and no regulation.
"We were in essence operating with a blindfold on for those over-the-counter markets that we couldn't see," Michael Dunn, the acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, acknowledged last week during a news conference to announce proposed new regulation of derivatives markets.
A stream of financial deregulation under the Clinton administration, culminating in the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, led to a global race away from regulation.
"The Modernization Act specifically said we were not going to look at those; we weren't going to regulate them. Times have changed, and now we think it is time for us to look at them," Dunn said.
Does Dunn think that Wall Street is partly to blame for the current $27-a-barrel run-up in oil prices or for the 12-month run-up from $70 to last July's record $147, followed by the four-month collapse in prices to $56?
"Everybody has an opinion of what drove the market in the energy crisis. Do I think it was part of the problem? I do," he said. "Do I think it was all of the problem? No.
"I think monetary policies — a weak dollar — had an impact on it. I think speculation by the herd, people saying prices of fuel are going to go up and I want to get in on that" also played a part.
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, which represents the big players in these markets, said in a statement to McClatchy that fundamentals, not speculation, were driving up prices.
"Oil prices are fundamentally driven by macroeconomic factors affecting supply and demand," the group said. "Energy derivatives are a key tool for helping companies manage the resulting fluctuations in prices."
Michael Masters' report "The 2008 Commodities Bubble"
Masters PowerPoint presentation
To ask a question about this story or any economic question, go to McClatchy's economy Q&A
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Over 180 participants attended the very successful and widely received 2011 Sao Paulo Culture|Futures conference, assisted by many partner organisations.
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Dino Hunt Dice
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How many dinosaurs can you catch? Roll the Dino Hunt Dice and see!
Based on the original Dino Hunt Dice . . . but now the dice – and the dinos – are in your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad! And it's free!
In this quick game for parents and kids, you're capturing dinosaurs for your zoo. Push your luck to catch as many as you can, but stop rolling before you're stomped three times, or you'll lose them all. Catch 20 dinos to win the game!
Ogre War Room
for iOS and Android™ devices
This is a free helper app for Ogre. This is not a standalone game! You will need a copy of the Ogre board game (or Ogre Miniatures) to play a game.
Use the app to score a game for up to six players and any number of Ogres.
The app also includes PDF Record Sheets for both the Ogre board game and Ogre miniatures. You can print these directly from your phone!
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Eat brains. Don't get shotgunned.
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W.H. dials it down on immigration
The White House is trying to dial down the partisan rhetoric on immigration — and it's asking its allies to do the same.
In meetings with immigration reform advocates, White House officials have said President Barack Obama won't threaten to take unilateral executive action — at least not yet — and that he wants to give House Republicans some breathing room to try to pass legislation this year, said immigration advocates who have participated in the sessions.
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While Obama is blaming Republicans for blocking the rest of his domestic agenda, and congressional Democrats see immigration as a winning 2014 issue for them if Republicans are seen as the boogeymen responsible for blocking reform efforts, activists in touch with the White House said Obama won't use his bully pulpit to embarrass or chasten the GOP on immigration. That includes Obama's State of the Union address next Tuesday.
( PHOTOS: Immigration reform rally on the National Mall)
"You're not going to see the president talking critically or negatively about Republicans on an issue like this when he wants to see this happen," said Jim Wallis, president of the Christian social-justice organization Sojourners. "They're not looking for conflict here, they are looking for cooperation and collaboration."
The president has softened his language of late. He went from demanding the House pass the Senate's comprehensive bill to saying at a pre-Christmas news conference that it was "a concept that has bipartisan support. Let's see if we can break through the politics on this." Before a Cabinet meeting last week, Obama issued a vanilla reminder that "we know that we need to get immigration reform done — a major piece of unfinished business from last year." Obama also discussed immigration reform during his Wednesday night session with Senate Democrats, according to the White House.
"I'm not getting the sense that they are going to spend half the speech on this," Ali Noorani, the executive director of the National Immigration Forum, said of the White House. "What we're looking for in the State of the Union is quality and not quantity."
( PHOTOS: Scenes from State of the Union 2013)
A White House official declined to discuss the details of the State of the Union address but said Obama will give House Republicans time and space to reach an immigration solution. "We're focused more on the result and less about the process," the official said. "If they have to jump through a series of hoops, we're happy to let the House work its will."
House Republicans have pledged to issue long-awaited principles on immigration in the coming weeks that would lay out their alternative to the comprehensive reform bill the Senate passed in June. A key sticking point between the forthcoming House GOP principles and the White House and immigration reformers will be placing undocumented immigrants on a path to legal status, rather than citizenship, according to people briefed on the discussions.
( Also on POLITICO: Lee to give tea party SOTU response)
Meanwhile, unlike other issues in which Obama is threatening to use executive actions, White House officials are telling immigration activists what the president has been saying publicly for months: Sit tight and stick with us, because there will be no executive action to stop the record number of deportations that has enraged Obama's more liberal critics.
"We've said the same thing privately that we've said publicly," White House spokesman Bobby Whithorne said. "The administration will continue to enforce the law and pursue meaningful legislative reform. The only way to effectively address these concerns to reform the system is for Congress to pass common-sense immigration reform."
Republicans remain skeptical of the White House approach.
"Playing nice has not been a hallmark of this administration," said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). "But if we're going to solve our immigration challenges, the White House and its allies will have to understand that the House is going to take its time and get this done the right way."


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Parmesan Chicken (that's a tomato on top. Notice the noodles!)
Emma and Dougie have always loved helping out in the kitchen. A few weeks ago, Emma and I were talking about the
duty joy of cooking supper. I shared with her that some friends of ours have each of their teenage children be responsible for one supper a week. Well, Emma thought that was a great idea and asked if we could do that, to which I responded, "SURE!"
So this past Saturday, we were doing basically nothing. I was napping in my our room and Emma came in and asked what we were having for supper. I think I mumbled something like, "I have no clue." and then rolled over. Then she asked if she and Dougie could cook something and again I mumbled, "sure."
After a few minutes (I think), they came back to tell me what they had chosen. They would be making Parmesan chicken, spaghetti and a fruit dessert. At this point, I realized that they were serious about this so I gave a quick lesson on cooking with chicken safety. They informed me that they had the chicken thawing and everything was under control. I went into the kitchen to make sure they had enough chicken for all of us. Once I heard them put the chicken in the oven, I peeked in to see how things were going. Emma was opening some packages of ramen noodles. When I asked why, she informed me that we didn't have any kind of spaghetti noodles or pasta, so they were going to use the ramen noodles without the seasoning. I thought that was pretty inventive! After that I was banned from the kitchen, which you can see from the sign on the door.Within an hour, dinner was served!
Garlic breadsticks!!!
They even went out in the yard and got some fresh flowers! So sweet!
Everything was so good! The chicken was cooked to perfection and tasted so good. Emma told us that the recipe called for italian bread crumbs but we had plain bread crumbs. So she just took some different spices and seasoned the bread crumbs. My girl is definitely not afraid to cook!
I forgot to take a picture of the dessert. We were all given a choice: blueberry, peach or strawberry. (Because that's what we had in the freezer.) They took your choice of fruit, put it in the blender with a little bit of sugar and blended it. They placed it in a bowl and put it back in the freezer. It was soooo yummy, light and refreshing!
It was a wonderful evening and I was so proud of Emma and Dougie. We will definitely be letting them cook dinner again, soon!
Here's the recipe for the Parmesan chicken:
4 chicken breast
4 tsp. Italian bread crumbs (not sure what spices Emma used)
1/2 c mayo
1/4 c parmesan cheese


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Private vs. Visitor Messaging
Recently, I've seen folks looking to contact another member individually using the Visitor Message option rather than the Private Messaging option. Visitor Messages are visible in the posting string if you select "What's New?" or if you open the receiving member's profile. Private messaging is just between the members. Think of Visitor Messages as public, just like a post, and if it is personal, use Private Messaging (PM).
Also, members can elect to be notified by email that they have received a PM, which may speed up a response to you. That function is not part of Visitor Messaging.
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Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
Continuing Education Task Force Records
Archives 174
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
- Title
- Continuing Education Task Force Records
- Archives 174
- Date
- 1980
- General Physical Description note
- approximate 20 items .25 linear feet 1 containers
- Abstract
- Includes a single Task Force report with 19 sections.
Organizational History:
The [University] Task Force on Continuing Education was appointed by Vice President Wallis Beasley in April of 1979. The purpose of the task force was to describe the extent of Washington State University's continuing education efforts and to detail the need and potential use of a conference-continuing education center. Further, they were to determine what programs might use the facility, what programs might be added or amplified if WSU had such a facility, and what space requirements and building layout might be needed. The study was to be concluded by April of 1980. The findings of the Task Force, as reported in May of 1980, supported the strengthening of continuing education and public service activities, but recommended establishing another task force to determine the feasiblity of building a facility that could house several complementary programs in addition to continuing education outreach programs.
Arrangement note
The records of the Continuing Education Task Force consist of a single Task Force Report with nineteen reference sections. The collection is arranged numerically by reference section number.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Librarieshttps://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Terrell Library
P.O. Box 645610
Pullman, WA, 99164-5610
Conditions Governing Access note
The Collection is open for research use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
The records of the Continuing Education Task Force were transferred to Washington State University Libraries in July of 1980 (UA80-13).
Processing Information note
The records were processed by Leslie J. Tevebaugh in January of 1985.
Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
- Washington State University. Continuing Education Task Force--Archives
- Washington State University. Continuing Education Task Force--Records and correspondence
- Washington State University. Task Force on Continuing Education.
Geographic Name(s)
- Pullman (Wash.)--Study and teaching (Continuing education)--Archives
- Colleges and Universities
- Continuing education centers--Washington (State)--Archives
- Continuing education--Washington (State)--Archives
- Washington (State)
Collection Inventory
Report of the Task Force Study 1980 1.0 item
Reference #1-#4 1980 4.0 items
Reference #5-#10 1980 6.0 items
Reference #11-#19 1980 9.0 items


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Fathom & Cinedigm: reinventing cinema entertainment/
Tuesday's post on A POWERFUL NOISE introduced me to Fathom. It seems like a great service but I have no idea about the pricing. I am curious to hear more from folks that have used it.
Fathom, the entertainment division of National CineMedia (NCM), is reinventing the who, what, when, where and how of cinema entertainment. It's a revolutionary concept that uses NCM's vast nationwide Digital Content Network to deliver truly one-of-a-kind entertainment events — all showcased in amazing High Definition with Cinema Surround Sound — to movie theatre audiences across North America. And each benefits from extensive marketing support.
Working directly with the country's leading entertainment producers, Fathom offers unique marketing and distribution opportunities for highly coveted programming: live concerts, theatrical and DVD premieres, live broadcasts from The New York Metropolitan Opera, sports events, exclusive stand-up comedy engagements and much more.
The Digital Content Network is comprised of more than 14,500 digital screens, with 75% of the screens in the top 49 markets. This puts well over half of US households within 10 miles of the theatres, including Regal Cinemas, United Artists, Edwards Theatres, AMC Theatres, Cinemark/Century, Clearview Cinemas, Kerasotes Theatres, Goodrich Quality Theaters, Hoyts Theatres, Marcus Theatres, Malco Theatres, National Amusements Theatres and Georgia Theatre Company. Additionally, Fathom has limited distribution in local performing arts centers and theatres in specific markets.
Fathom's technical staff receives, tests, encrypts and digests source content for seamless playback over the network to all participating theatres' auditoriums. Each auditorium is tested for optimum audio and visual presentation prior to event day. Plus, Fathom has a dedicated "event management" department that manages all troubleshooting before, during and after the event to ensure its success.
It's mostly been opera, concerts, and anime so far, but they have also presented This American Life and a live event with the film IOUSA. The full list is here.


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Accused Cyberstalker Claims to Be Former Romney Campaign Intern
(GREAT NECK N.Y.) -- A man who claims to be a former intern for the Romney presidential campaign has been arrested and charged with cyber stalking and Internet extortion after he allegedly obtained nude pictures of 15 women illegally and threatened to make them public.
Adam Savader, 21, of Great Neck, N.Y., was arrested by U.S. Marshals Tuesday and booked into the Nassau County jail, according to a jail spokeswoman. He is being held without bail.
If convicted, Savader may face up to five years in prison, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Michigan, which is prosecuting the case.
According to the criminal complaint, Savader anonymously contacted 15 women via text message through a string of Google voice phone numbers. In his messages, he told the women -- many of them college students -- he had obtained nude pictures of them and threatened to send them to their parents and friends if they did not comply with his requests to send him more lewd photographs, the complaints states.
He reportedly proved to some of the women he had gotten a hold of their private pictures by posting them online to public photo sharing websites, the complaint stated.
He also threatened that he was going to send some of the victims' revealing pictures to the Republican National Committee, according to the complaint.
On his LinkedIn profile , Savader identified himself as a former vice presidential operations intern at Romney for President in Boston, as well as a special assistant to the chief operating officer of Newt Gingrich's 2012 campaign in Arlington, Va. Attempts to verify Savader's titles were not successful, but his Facebook page includes photos of him with Romney and Gingrich.
"If we don't have a deal I will send the pictures to those people. Is that what u want? remember what's at stake. do u want ur family and everyone in DC to see ur [breasts]? Just agree to e-mail me a pic of u in ur bra [sic]," he texted one woman, according to the complaint.
Many of Savader's victims told authorities they had nude pictures on their personal email accounts that had been password protected, which Savader allegedly hacked into. Some said they received notifications that their passwords had been changed before receiving threats from Savader, the complaint stated.
Savader began contacting women from September 2012 to February 2013, according to the complaint. He allegedly used the alias "John Smith" to contact these women. "John Smith" never spoke to them over the phone, only through text messages.
Authorities were able to link some of the Google Voice accounts Savader used to his IP addresses and personal cell phone account, registered in his father's name, the complaint read.
The case was brought to the attention of the FBI by detectives from the Ann Arbor Police Department who received a complaint from one of the victims, the U.S. Attorney's Office news release stated.
At least four of the women attended the same university as Savader in Michigan, the complaint stated. Other women who were allegedly blackmailed by Savader lived in Detroit, Washington, D.C. and Long Island, N.Y., according to the U.S. Attorney's Office's press release.
The criminal complaint against Savader was filed on April 17 by an FBI agent in Detroit. The warrant for Savader's arrest was issued on April 22, according to the court docket.
Attempts to reach Savader's attorney, Michael Soshnick, were not successful.
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DETROIT >> Quick update from the Wings' morning skate at Joe Louis Arena prior to their game against the Buffalo Sabres.
Daniel Alfredsson (back) took part in it after not skating since last Sunday's game against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Wings coach Mike Babcock said Alfredsson will be reassessed when he returns later this afternoon.
Wings general manager Ken Holland said he thinks Alfredsson will play.
Babcock said he didn't know who would be the healthy scratches if Alfredsson can go, but from how the morning skate looked it would be Todd Bertuzzi and Joakim Andersson.
Pavel Datsyuk confirmed he will play tonight against the Sabres, his first game back after missing the last 16 resting inflammation in his left knee.
"I expect him to play well if you're playing," Babcock said of Datsyuk. "He's a world class player, I expect him to play good. We'll see how he plays and we'll play him accordingly. We have him on the power play. We have him on a line. We'll play the game and watch and see what happens.
"I don't think fatigue will be a factor tonight," Babcock added. "It will be a factor if he's playing tomorrow."
Datsyuk will center a line with Darren Helm and Justin Abdelkader.
"It's not about Pavel Datsyuk tonight it's about the Red Wings, he's got to fit in," Babcock said.
Babcock didn't want to break up the Kid Line – Riley Sheahan, Tomas Tatar and Tomas Jurco – or the top line of David Legwand, Gustav Nyquist and Johan Franzen.
"I think it's hard to play with good veteran players because you feel the need to give them the puck," Babcock said. "That's why I keep those kids together because they don't worry about that they just do the right thing. As soon as I play them with a senior type player they want to look after that guy.
"My thought process is Nyquist is playing great where he's playing so I don't want him deferring and giving it to Pav, I want him shooting it in the net," Babcock added.
The Wings are 8-6-2 without Datsyuk over the last 16 games, but have won their last three games in a row, including a 3-2 win over the Eastern Conference leading Boston Bruins on Wednesday.
Detroit also leads the race for one of two wild card spots in the Eastern Conference.
Datsyuk played for Russia at the Olympics, but has only been able to play in two games with the Wings since returning. He last played on Feb. 27, leaving in the second period of a 6-1 win over Ottawa.
The Wings announced they were shutting Datsyuk down for three weeks at the trade deadline to rest his ailing left knee. Friday marks the fourth-week in that timeframe.
Datsyuk, who has 15 goals and 18 assists in 39 games this season, has played in just four games since the Winter Classic.


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Kenneth Ward Escapes From Custody
The Natrona County Sheriff's Office is looking for an escapee.
Kenneth Ward was being transported by an independent transporting agency, when he escaped at the Independence Rock Rest Area, on State Highway 220, at about 5:40pm on Saturday, August 31st.
He is described as a white male, 6'0", weighing 180 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
Ward was last known to be wearing khaki shorts, a black shirt, flip flops and was handcuffed in front of his body.
He is known to have a violent past.
If you see him, contact the Natrona County Sheriff's Office.


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Record Store Day has become something of a holiday for music fans around the world.
And even for some performers.
Detroit duo Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. will play its third consecutive Record Store Day concert on Saturday, April 19, this time moving to a sold-out Royal Oak Music Theatre. Even though they aren't doing a special release this year as it has in the past, Josh Epstein says he and partner Daniel Zott still look forward to tapping into the spirit of celebrating independent record stores and physical music product in the digital download age.
"It's the only day I can think of that at all resembles my early childhood, where I would wait in line to get a record that was coming out, or concert tickets," explains Epstein. "The whole connection people have with music is so different now than when you used to only be able to get it in record stores and you'd wait in line the day they came out.
"Record Store Day is like that now, people lining up to get these collective things that come out. I think it's kind of cool."
Record Store Day enters its seventh year getting bigger and better than ever, with eight other countries — the U.K., Canada, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Mexico and Italy — taking part. Inspired by independent dealers' Free Comic Book Day, the program was founded in 2007 by a coalition of independent music store owners and has annually featured special events and scores of limited-edition, one-day-only releases —many on vinyl — by both superstar and cult-level artists. Public Enemy's Chuck D is serving as this year's Record Store Ambassador, and lines routinely start forming outside stores well before doors open.
"It's the biggest day of the year," notes Mike Rome of Oak Park's Street Corner Music, one of metro Detroit's 12 participating Record Store Day merchants. Street Corner will have DJs spinning all day as well as free coffee and record-shaped cookies, and Rome says it's a great chance to remind music fans about the unique experience of going to a store rather than clicking a mouse.
"I think there's more creativity that goes into it than your typical mass-market CD release," he notes. "To come in and see everybody and share the excitement ... it's 20 times better than a download."
Moving 244,000 units, last year's Record Store Day set a high for vinyl album sales since 1991, when Nielsen SoundScan began measuring music sales. Total sales at independent stores jumped 59 percent over the previous week and were up three percent from 2012's Record Store Day. This year, more than 450 titles will be released especially for the event, including Green Day's "Demolicious" collection and R.E.M.'s "Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions," both of which will be mass released next month, Creedence Clearwater Revival's "The 1969 Singles" compiled on a 10-inch disc, the Dave Matthews Band's "Live Trax Vol. 4" vinyl box set, a reissue and more.
Street Corner's Rome, meanwhile, says there's particularly high interest at his store for the reissue of the Doors' "Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine" compilation, Donny Hathaway's "Live at the Bitter End 1971," Ann Arbor singer Mayer Hawthorne's "Wine Glass Woman/In a Phantom" single with Shintaro Sakamoto and releases by Devo, Joy Division, Nirvana and the Velvet Underground.
"I know people who nickname it 'Expensive Record Store Day,'" Rome notes with a laugh.
This year's best Record Store Day stunt, meanwhile, comes courtesy of Jack White, the Detroit native who was last year's Record Store Day Ambassador. This year White and his Third Man Records label in Nashville will try to set a record for the world's fastest record release from studio to store, recording a live version of a title track from his upcoming solo album, "Lazaretto" on Saturday morning, then rushing it a nearby record pressing plant where it will be pressed and sold by the afternoon.
The recording will be available for one day only, but White has promised that he'll press as many copies as there are fans to buy them on Saturday.


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I recently published this on the StartSomeGood blog and wanted to share it here too for anyone who might have missed it there.
During my recent trip to Australia I attended two beautiful weddings. At one of them I was asked to do a reading. I agonized just a little over the choice, consulting with several friends for ideas and preparing a short-list of my favourite poems and speeches. I wanted something that spoke to the glorious adventure my friends were embarking on, that didn't pretend it would be easy or always fun but which acknowledged the significance, magic and importance of the journey itself. Eventually I realized that as is true for so many things Dr Seuss said it best.
I want to share this with you because I think the journey of a social entrepreneur, like that of a marriage, contains all the elements the good Dr. writes of. The journey of being an entrepreneur, but especially of being a social entrepreneur, setting out to do something much harder than simply make a buck, is a long road filled with obstacles and incredible highs and meaning. Most of all it is an expression of true agency, the decision to create a more perfect world, the dedication to see this decision through: "You can steer yourself in any direction you choose."
Like a marriage being a social entrepreneur is a journey of a thousand miles fueled by hope, passion and commitment. It is filled with uncertainty, requiring a determination to stick with it through good times and bad. Marriage is a statement of connection with an individual while being a social entrepreneur is a statement of connection with a community or even with the whole world.
When you choose to devote yourself to a cause it's often a choice driven by a sense of need, of needing to do something about an issue, needing to reach out, connect, help those in need. Putting your shoulder to the wheel of history and moving it in the direction of justice is mighty work, and there will be setbacks. "Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you." You will feel tired and dispirited sometimes. You will feel uncertain about the way forward. You will wonder "what next?".
But we need you. We need your passion, your smarts, your refusal to give up. The world needs people as brainy and footsy as you to be part of creating a better future. To help us see things we couldn't see before, to go places previously unexplored, reveal things previously misunderstood. And as you go on this journey you will find connections and create successes that will fulfill and sustain you, inspire and uplift you. You will have fun, despite the hard work, because there's nothing more exciting than creating your own destiny and working with a community of people in the pursuit of the future you all imagine together.
Your mountain is waiting. So get on your way!
Nb: when I read this to the bride and groom I changed "guy" to "guys". Because there's two of them.
Oh! The Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.
You'll look up and down streets. Look'em over with care. About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there." With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down a not-so-good street.
And you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town. It's opener there in the wide open air.
Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you.
And when things start to happen, don't worry. Don't stew. Just go right along. You'll start happening too.
Oh! The Places You'll Go!
You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.
I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.
You can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch. And your gang will fly on. You'll be left in a Lurch.
You'll come down from the Lurch with an unpleasant bump. And the chances are, then, that you'll be in a Slump.
And when you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.
You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?
And if you go in, should you turn left or right…or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite? Or go around back and sneak in from behind? Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.
You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place…for people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting.
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite or waiting around for Friday night or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil, or a Better Break or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants or a wig with curls, or Another Chance. Everyone is just waiting.
No! That's not for you! Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing. With banner flip-flapping, once more you'll ride high! Ready for anything under the sky. Ready because you're that kind of a guy!
Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.
Except when they don't. Because, sometimes, they won't.
I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
All Alone! Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you'll be quite a lot.
And when you're alone, there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.
But on you will go though the weather be foul. On you will go though your enemies prowl. On you will go though the Hakken-Kraks howl. Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. On and on you will hike. And I know you'll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are.
You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)
Kid, you'll move mountains! So…be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ale Van Allen O'Shea, you're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So…get on your way!


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Equality for Dalits: Does it exist? - Kashmir Times
Equality for Dalits: Does it exist? - Kashmir Times
|Equality for Dalits: Does it exist?
|Book Review
Justice, Liberty, Equality: Dalits in Independent India
Author: Lenin Raghuvanshi
Publisher: Frontpage Publications, London, U.K
Year of Publication: 2012
Price: Not Mentioned Pages: 135
Dalits in India have been suffering since time immemorial in India. Hinduism which believed in Varna system of caste coupled with the Aryan supremacy structured the prejudice, bias and exploitation against dalits. It was deemed to be God ordained commandment on the higher castes to demean, exploit and kill them with impunity. They were destined by God to suffer immortally, thus placed outside the Varna system. The upper castes by trampling their rights and perpetuating atrocities against them were fulfilling the God's plan. This situation should have changed after the Independence of India in 1947. Indian State adopted secularism and democracy as its foundational pillars of constitution which guaranteed equal rights to all irrespective of religion, caste, color, class, gender, region and community. These constitutional guarantees and rights should have been translated into action, but alas this is not the case.
The present book under review by the versatile activist Lenin Raghuvanshi is a testimonial documentation of atrocities, exploitation and abuse of rights of Dalits in "free India'. In the Introduction of the book, Lenin depicts the police violence against Dalits, Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, Crimes against their women and how the culture of impunity shields the guilty. This culture of impunity against the criminals is the biggest threat to the rule of law in India. Lenin woefully states about the Dalit women as, "Dalits are considered untouchables in Indian society yet rape of Dalit women is not considered a taboo by the upper castes. In fact, the latter uses rape as an instrument of continuous subjugation. Dalit women bear a triple burden: discrimination and exploitation based on caste, class and gender. Women are also victims of violence by security forces and armed opposition groups, traditional justice delivery system like 'caste panchayat' (illegal body of caste based system in villages) and cruel cultural practices like sati, honor killing and witch hunts. Discriminatory attitudes and lack of sensitization to the dynamics of crimes involving sexual or domestic violence leave victims without critical police aid or redress to which they are entitled".
Talking about the state of impunity enjoyed by police and security forces Lenin states "In fact, almost every section of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPc), 1973 provides some kind of impunity. For example, section 46 empowers the police to shoot to kill any accused charged with a crime punishable by death if that accused person attempts to escape from police custody. The police forces of Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have made extensive use of this section to cover up fake encounters, killing hundreds of hapless detainees".
Lenin then goes on to describe south of every village as South Africa because it contains Dalits against whom invisible apartheid is still prevalent. The discrimination against Dalits is both intrinsic and external. The Dalits are illiterate hence they are not aware of their constitutional rights; hence fail to alleviate their status. Rest the caste system is embedded in the Indian society and it manifests itself in various forms. The state of impunity is reinforced by the caste considerations as police fails to bring the culprits of crimes against dalits to book either due to caste bias, influence or lure of money. Dalits many times are collectively punished by the upper castes for the crime or mistake of a single Dalit. These examples bring fore the sad fact that spread of literacy hasn't helped people grow more empathic towards dalits. Also it unveils a gory reality that Indian State has failed to inculcate spirit and virtues of equality and harmony among its institutions.
Lenin then moves on to document the plight of Musahar community and their day to day woes. He laments at the post active attitude of the administration in curbing the starvation deaths in this community. The land that is allotted to the Dalits is taken away by upper caste people, and the upper caste Hindu money lenders keep them under perpetual bondage. In this age too there exist bonded laborers in the community. Lenin has worked for Musahars despite impediments by releasing many bonded laborers and establishing a community school, as previously most children were drop outs. He holds the public distribution system responsible for the starvation deaths, as it is corrupt. The medical facilities are lacking which add to the mortality rate. The police still operate on the colonial structure with a communal mindset. Lenin is of the firm opinion that Indian police learnt demoralization and community punishment from the practice of caste system. He then relates many stories of police torture victims. The role of police in fake encounters is also well known, and how they operate in communal riots reinforcing victimization of the minorities.
The police torture is widespread in India, and "The biggest problem in combating the State on the issues of torture in India has been the non availability of verifiable data" (P-48). In many cases false medical reports of torture victims are produced in league with medical doctors and sometimes reports are concocted by Police themselves. Lenin is aware of the Legal flaws, "The judiciary is hampered by lack of specific legislation to address cases of torture and human rights violations by the security forces as well due to delayed judicial processes. All these leave the poor victim lonelier, shattered and completely disintegrated, irrespective of economic status" (P-49). Lenin wants and desires, "India is yet to adopt any legislation recognizing the right to compensation for human rights violations. The government continues to maintain its reservation to Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which states that under the Indian legal system there is no enforceable right to compensation for persons claiming to be victims of unlawful arrest or detention against the State. The courts and National Human Rights institutions, however, have awarded compensation for human rights violations, including torture". (P-49).
The chapter on Testimonial Therapy is the jewel of the book. It gives hope to the victims of torture to overcome the psychological trauma in post torture phase. But only a few pages are dedicated to explain the testimonial therapy. Lenin abruptly moves to the Shrinking Livelihood in India. He quotes as case studies, the decline in the production of world famous Benaras Silk, as a result of the rival Chinese silk. Lenin relates the diseases associated with the handlooms and the Tuberculosis being rampant among the handloom workers and weavers. Then he again states about the severe malnutrition in Uttar Pradesh, though it is not Somalia. Lenin continues with the child starvation deaths this time in Ghasias community, who are also victim of government apathy.
The last two chapters deal with Rule of Lords, Political Patronage & how caste, patriarchy and corruption help in perpetuation of the same. Lenin relates violence against women, in the form of infanticide, honor killings, domestic violence, child marriages, infant and maternal mortality rates. If certain women make it to the panchayats still their husbands control the affairs.
Lenin then goes on to track the record of victims of fake encounters, extra and custodial killings by the Police since 1960s, which rose to epidemic proportions in early 1990s when innocents were being targeted as Maoists, Sikh militants or Islamic Jihadi extremists. The incompetence of National Human Rights Commission to protect human rights of innocents has rendered it as a toothless tiger. The State also acts softly on Hindutva fascist cadres. To add insult to injury criminalization of politics is ruling roost.
Overall the book is a welcome read and must for everyone who wants to be aware of the underbelly of Indian State. But the scheme of chapters and selection of case studies at times betray the title of the book, the scope of the book is much wider than its title conveys. It covers a lot of ground, but thematically it appears to be jumbled in a hurry. Despite its flaws Lenin needs to be congratulated for his endeavor. This book is a testimony to the fact that there are serious problems and grave issues with the project of 'Shining India'.
(The author is Writer-Activist based in Srinagar, Kashmir and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com)
Thursday, July 5, 2012
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