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Posted 06 October 2000 - 14:20
Mustn't listen so closely to Jonesy any more...
As for the pulley, I think I recall Bruce telling me that, too.
Posted 06 October 2000 - 14:21
Ian Mountain, Orange (Gnoo Blas) January 1955. I wasn't there but remember it was the year before I first went there. That was January 1956, the first time Reg Hunt drove his 250F in Australia. Also the first appearance of Jack Neal's Jaguar Special that later became the Jagford (I must remember to give Jim Larkin a call, haven't spoken to him for four or five eyars now).
Posted 06 October 2000 - 14:25
Generator on the Vee, not alternator... small difference, but a matter of fact, I suppose.
Posted 06 October 2000 - 14:28
He used to break up laughing at the ridiculous mistakes.
Remember, when future historiands go back to "original source" material, Clyde's Clanger's will be among them. I hope they will be able to sort she sh*t from the clay.
Wasn't it Clyde who raced a Daimler SP250 in Production Sports Cars at Warwick Farm, very slowly, then gave his inexperienced (driving-wise that is) girlfriend Virginia Lighezzolo a drive and she was quicker than he was? I think she drove it all the time after that.
Posted 06 October 2000 - 14:36
Bob and I broke up over that, because we knew that KB had a hand in the preparation and had probably thrown the wrong name to 'Clod Hygene' deliberately.
Posted 06 October 2000 - 14:37
The Vee I had in the 1980s had a generator, but then it had a lot of old stuff on it. My Vee specialist told me I had everything his car had, but I couldn't get near his times. So I entered young Paul Stokell - king of the Vee drivers back then - in my car at Amaroo Park, where he was an ace. He couldn't overtake anyone and was passed by a few. He came back and said, "If that's the best they can do for you, I'd suggest you sell it." So I did. More bad memories to add to the list. There is a story behind what happened, but not for telling here. That's another one for "The Book" to be published after my funeral.
Posted 06 October 2000 - 14:42
What Vee did you have and who prepared same?
Posted 06 October 2000 - 15:05
As for the date of the funeral, it will have to be after I finish all my unfinished projects, perhaps around 2037 or so. You had better stick around because I am planning to have the wake before the funeral so I can attend, and I will have a whole horde of hot looking dancing girls there. It's going to be a hell of a party - very similar to my 40th birthday party (which I haven't had yet due to lack of funds and time).
Jokes aside, you mentioned Mike Kable elsewhere. I went to his funeral and the wake or whatever you call it afterwards. Mike asked me, and I assume most other people, to have a good time, not to be morbid. There was a large roll-up at Cronulla RSL Club. It had a huge dining room with spectacular views up Cronulla and North Cronulla beaches. The big crowd included many ex-drivers - Frank Matich among them, and everyone had a great time. Mike would have loved it.
He could be a pain in the butt at times, especially if you travelled with him (driving to Melbourne for the AGP and 11 days in Italy for the Fiat centenary are two recent experiences I am trying to forget) but he was passionate about motoring and motor sport and did a lot of good for the sport over the years in various ways.
And he went out in style - Alfa Romeo funeral cars and all.
I'll bet he had a smile on his face!
Posted 06 October 2000 - 15:09
I'll make it for the wake, but I don't think I can make the birthday..
Posted 06 October 2000 - 17:07
Originally posted by fines
Oh, and it was Nov 25, 1920, BTW!
Hans, what about the date format ;)!
You are right! Gaston Chevrolet died instantly at the crash on 25 November 1920, whereas O'Donnel died the following day.
Posted 08 October 2000 - 15:13
Don Beauman, born 26 July 1928, killed when he crashed his Connaught sports car during the Leinster Trophy 9 July 1955.
The circuit is not mentioned, I should know it from the race title, but it won't come to me at the moment. Perhaps someone like Roger Clark would know, without having to look for it.
Posted 08 October 2000 - 15:47
Posted 08 October 2000 - 16:35
The race was a handicap, won by David Piper in a 750cc Lotus MG. Beaumann recorded fastest lap on his first of the race. He crashed on his second.
Posted 08 October 2000 - 20:54
Sorry, that's off topic..
I've got a lot of dates for you Barry, will probably post them tonight.
Posted 08 October 2000 - 21:43
I have got myself quite a job. I just updated my list and it's huge.
I expected to find a few more dates, but thats an understatement.
I profes that racing is a sport, but not a game !
Has anyone got somekind of data on the 24 hours of Spa Franchorchamps, I remmeber that on the old circuit their were some casualties and I remmember an accident on the new circuit on top of the radillion there was a crash involving a French reporter that was driving a Porsche 924 in the 24 hours, but i can't figure out who he was, and when it happend.
There are also a lot of men who died when racing Paris-Dakar anyone got something on that ?
What about motorracing ? I'm thinking of the Manx TT for example. Last year i read an article that said that there were 199 pilots killed on the mountain circuit. Any comment an that ?
Posted 08 October 2000 - 21:43
For those who want the updated list, please let me know
Posted 09 October 2000 - 06:07
My Twenty Years of Racing:
"To race is to live. But those who died while racing knew, perhaps, how to live more than all the others. I humbly dedicate these Memoirs to those who died so that others might live."
Juan Manuel Fangio.
Posted 09 October 2000 - 06:19
Yes I would love to have an updated list.
Posted 09 October 2000 - 06:32
Try this for an exercise. Write down today's date and the number of drivers you have on your list. Then look at it in a couple of years time. You will see it was not huge, but tiny.
I have been through this before with lists and databases. If you had any idea how large they would become, you would never start them in the first place.
On the bright side, look at all the assistance and encouragement you are getting here. Much better than the old days of writing it on paper without even knowing if anyone else in the world was interested.
Posted 10 October 2000 - 13:56
Carey Thompson (manager of Larry Perkins), Sept 1980, aged 34.
Colin Trengove, Lola T330/2, Adelaide International Raceway, private practice, 28th April, 1981.
Now some odd ones, maybe shouldn't be here:
Bert Needham Sr, prepared Studebakers... tuning an Avanti and a fan blade broke and sliced into his head.
Evan Thomas... heart attack after practice, November 6, 82.
Peter Gregg (Porsche driver) suicided Dec 16, 1980 after a year without any wins.
Mike Hailwood, road accident (his daughter too, isn't that right?), March 81
Peter Antill, great motoring and road transport pioneer, June 15, 1981.
Garrie Cooper, Elfin designer, builder and driver, heart attack, April 24, 1982.
Merv Waggott (engineer and engine designer and builder), crashed when bird struck his Busby Mini Mustang plane, July 3, 1982.
Gavin Youl, cancer, October 1982 (aged 46)
Bruce Hindhaugh, car owner & preparer & driver, suicided October 15, 1980.
George Coad, heart attack at 55, July 31, 1980.
Norm Saville, after crashing in Repco trial and losing his two young companions, Norm had a cancer develop while recuperating, died Feb 22, 1980.
Jack (Milko) Murray, rally driver, died Feb 10, 1981.
And the one that does belong:
Bob Gardiner (Alfa) Sandown, April 12, 1981.
Meanwhile, the Sandown marshal incident took place Feb 82.
Still haven't found the McDonough incident...
Posted 10 October 2000 - 14:24
Often, too, people ask, "Whatever happened to...?", little realising he was killed or seriously injured.
Which brings up another related issue. It would be good to also make a list of drivers who, through serious injury, have had to retire from the sport, or who have had their careers seriously interrupted.
For one thing, it might save people many hours searching for race results of particular drivers that they're never going to find.
Here is one I just came across in the book Castle Combe Circuit The First 50 Years by Lawrence and Stowe.
1992.1x.?? Mon Castle Combe Ian McArdell, racing driver was killed. Final round Castle Combe FF Series. McArdell was leading the Formula Ford Series and this was the final round. He had only to finish second but collided with his rival while contesting the lead.
There is no date for the meeting other than "late that year" (don't you love these accurate historians?) nor whether it was a Saturday or Sunday meeting, but it does say he died in hospital on the Monday afternoon.
I notice some date discrepancies in Rainer's list, with others I have seen. I can't correct them because I don't know which date is right. But it looks like the common problem of some people recording the date it was reported in the newspapers, rather than going back and working out the actual date.
Also, when people die later from injuries, you tend to get a variety of dates.
A count of Rainer's list shows 503 drivers listed. I believe it will grow to many times this number. Remember, we are talking about 116 years of competition in countries all over the world and if such things as midget speedcars and sprint cars are included (which Rainer already has done, and I have no complaints about that), the list will grow enormously.
When Johnny Rutherford raced at Bathurst I asked him about the old days of sprint cars with no roll cages and packed fields running at high speed on dirt. He said it was "like playing Russian roulette with one out and five in".
Posted 10 October 2000 - 14:56
I just noticed you have Tony Alcock, who died in the aircraft crash with Graham Hill, as "GBR".
Tony was an Australian.
Posted 10 October 2000 - 15:16
Didn't spend all that long looking at the RCNs, I was going through them anyway for a story I was doing, and the obits are always on roughly the same page. There's several years left to be covered... and I didnt't count Mumbles... you know, Frank Gardner's favourite dinner joke subject.
Posted 10 October 2000 - 15:48
Mumbles? Rings a bell, but I can't remember who you're talking about.
I didn't get the bits about Lotus 6s and P-Type MG engines either.
Perhaps you should explain.
By the way, you win tonight. It's 3.00 am and I am going to bed (unless I remember soemthing else that has to be done.
I started work 1.30 pm Monday, worked through the afternoon, evening, night, next day... Finally sent some stories off, fell into bed at 6.00 pm tonight after 28.5 hours straight.
Then the phone rang at 9.15 pm. Mal Rose, wanting to discuss his plans for his assault on Bathurst this year.
While talking to him I saw several unfinished jobs around me, thought I would log on to Atlas F1 (which I now work between my other work very well, I have to say).
Next thing I know it's 3.00 am again and I am being totally confused by you shifting threads to the top of the list while I am going down the list!
By the way. Did you know Frank Gardner is having a big 70th birthday bash next week? I didn't get an invitation but John Stoneham, motor sport cartoonist "Stonie", did, he was just telling me today (or was it yesterday; I can't tell).
So you win Ray. I'm heading back to bed.
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Is that spelled correctly? I don't want to write that often..
Posted 10 October 2000 - 19:31
I've found this on a website that hosts an Ian McArdell trophy.
Posted 10 October 2000 - 22:23
yes, in the accident that claimed the life of Mike "the bike" Hailwood, 3-21-81, died too his daughter, named Michelle.
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I don't have him on my list, but Bill Lawler, the speedway historian has them all documented, I think.
I will see what he is prepared to tell me. But I don't want to push my luck; he is helping me with Jack Brabham's results.
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Posted 12 October 2000 - 15:53
On your driver list you have Herbert MacKay-Fraser as being killed at age 20. I believe this should be age 30 (born 1927, died 1957).
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Posted 16 October 2000 - 12:32
This is as much as I picked up (it is possible I didn't quite catch the name correctly):
Saturday 14 October 2000, Texas, USA (looked like a banked oval). Tony Roper, racing driver was killed, aged 35. Pick-up truck race.
The news item said it was "the third death... this year". I didn't catch if that was, "at this track", or "in this category", or whatever.
Posted 16 October 2000 - 17:49
First there was Adam Petty then Kenny Irwin and now Tony Roper.
There was another fatalitie this weekend in the IHRA dragracers.
Posted 20 October 2000 - 10:02
Three times winner of the Australian GP, a competitor of the highest rank from 1940 to 1960, and then a balls-out racer in whatever anyone would put under him… usually Datsuns.
I first saw him appear over the Northern Crossing, flat out after exiting the esses at Warwick Farm. He hit the crossing too fast, was seemingly out of control, but gathered it all up and pressed on… in the Datsun 2000. That was about 1966, and he'd never been round the Farm before.
Peter Manton didn't race that long, one of his first outings being Lobethal in 1948. He died on January 6, 1978.
Len Lukey, a Gold Star champion and industrialist, raced just inside the rear-engined era in Australia, in fact battled against the last car (the 250F of Stan Jones) to take a front engine over the line in the AGP. He died of cancer on October 28, 1978, leaving his benefactors in a real quandary… for he had wanted to sell the Phillip Island property before he died.
Gunnar Nilsson had died, much younger, on October 20 the same year.
Posted 20 October 2000 - 14:21
Can you tell us more about Whiteford "losing everything"? You sound as though you know the story. What business interests did he have, who did he thump, when, why, what did he do for a living after he lost it all?
By the way, I spoke to midget speedcar historian Bill Lawler about Sid Gamble's crash at Westmead. He said Sid was seriously injured but recovered and sometimes turns up these days at historic speedcar functions.
Posted 20 October 2000 - 20:54
Apparently some joe in the street spoke to Whiteford and he thumped him. The only reference I have ever seen to it was - I think - fairly obscure... in Jim Gullan's limited edition book (see Cummo, the only one I know with a copy). Gullan also referred to fighting back in the forties in which Whiteford got involved, and how his temper was terrible.
Which belied his cool on the circuit?
He was in a motor repair business with Gullan back then, but I know nothing about his later life. The people who ran the Team Datsun racing would possibly know... remember him in those little 1000s at Bathurst?
I might be with Patto this week, I can ask him. John Medley, I think, is another who knows the story, and Roy Williams in Geelong.
Posted 21 October 2000 - 15:05
By "Patto" I take it you mean Bill Patterson?
If so, would you like to ask him what race meetings he ran at in England in 1951 with the Cooper-JAP?
How many meetings, where, anything else he has to offer.
Posted 21 October 2000 - 15:08
I just came across another incorrect entry in your list of driver fatalities that I am sure you would like to put right.
You have 28 June 1946 Rene Mazaud.
This should read 28 July 1946 Robert Mazaud. Nantes is correct and Maserati 4CL.
Posted 21 October 2000 - 18:00
I will correct ASAP and will put out an edited list after the weekend.
Posted 22 October 2000 - 04:30
I'm digging out details of New Zealand drivers who have paid the ulimate price which I will post soon.
Before you update your list there is a correction to be made in the Bill Caldwell listing.
He was killed at Teretonga, which is in New Zealand not Australia, on the 29th of January 1966.
I always thought of him as a New Zealander but I have recently come across a reference to him being a Sheffield-born Scot.
Posted 22 October 2000 - 04:31
From the Edwin C. Waterhouse Motorsport Collection at Watkins Glen
Der Kraftfahrsport im Neuen Deutschaland
Herausgegben von der Oberfte Nationale Sportbehõrde fûr Die Deutsche Kraftfahrt
Adolf Meurer
Verkehrsverlag Deutschand g.m.b.h., Berlin 1935
"In Memoriam 1934" pages 156 – 158, with list on page 157
Helmut Barth
Fritz Baumann
Erwin Braband
Horst Brandstetter
Friedrich Brunswig
Walter Frenzel
Edith Frisch (also on page 180; photo in cockpit of car)
Arthur Gottschall
Karl Hess
Erich Hirth
Erwin Klaile
Klasse (? – only last name given)
Wilhelm Kobbe
Hans Mosick
Wilhelm Murken
Willy Prõtzig
Bertram Rûbsamen
Liselotte Sack
Otto Schanz
Bruno Schmidt
Werner Schmõker
Bernhard Schneid
Willy Werlich
Willy Weskott
Hans Witzel
Hans Zeune
Leopold Démeuter
Gunnar Kalén
Noir (? – only last name given)
Walter Nordem
Speedway News
Art Wright, Editor
Post Office Box 513
Altoona, PA
1932, January: Volume 1, Number 1
"Humble Tribute" on pages six and seven:
* Jimmy Gleason, 17 Feb. 1898 to 12 Sep. 1931; qualifying for Syracuse race
* Herman Schurch, 7 Apr. 1903 to 7 Nov. 1931; in practice on Legion-Ascot Speedway, LA
* Francis Quinn, 22 Mar. 1903 to 13 Dec. 1931; accident on Golden Gate Highway, 5 miles north of Fresno, CA
* Joe Caccia, 19 Jan. 1899 to 26 May 1931; in practice at Indianapolis
* Bernie Katz, 31 Oct. 1902 to 11 May 1931; from injuries suffered on 10 May at Woodbridge (NJ) Speedway
Plus this from a friend:
George Koehne, Lt Col USAF (ret), died in December 1964 from burns. He crashed at Riverside turn 9 on 10 October 1964 while driving his second Genie.
(Note that there were two females who died in 1934 of the 30 listed...all these in Germany!)
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I actually saw a guy named David Dunnage (maybe Dunning) crash fatally at Paddock Bend at Brands Hatch driving a Cooper in a race around 1960.
And nobody seems to have listed that awful day at Rouen in 1970 when 2 young French drivers were killed in separate accident in a race won by another up-and-comer named James Hunt. The drivers, as I recall were Jean-Luc Salomon and Denis Dayan.
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Obama's War on Inequality and How he's losing it.
Jacob Weisberg/Dec. 26, 2010,/Slate
Wasn't reversing the decades-long trend toward income inequality supposed to be the big theme of the Obama administration? The new president sounded it strongly in his inaugural address, stating that "a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous." He followed up with a 2010 budget proposal that sought, in the words of the New York Times' David Leonhardt, "to reverse the rapid increase in economic inequality over the last 30 years." Obama has raised the issue at major occasions since, including his first State of the Union address in 2010, when he noted, "We cannot afford another so-called economic 'expansion' like the one from last decade … where the income of the average American household declined."
But if Obama has declared war on inequality, inequality seems to be winning. In the deal he just cut with congressional Republicans, the president not only agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts for the highest earners but also to eliminate the estate tax for all but the microscopic percentage of people passing down more than $5 million—causing inheritance tax proponent Ray Madoff to declare the battle lost for good.
And despite the role skewed financial rewards played in cratering the global economy, the Obama administration's policy response has failed to address outsized Wall Street and CEO compensation in any meaningful way. Bonus season is upon us, and with the big banks now liberated from their TARP obligations, the general attitude seems to be, "What financial crisis?" Class war, prosecuted from above, is depicted as a threat from below. A few months ago, billionaire private equity manager Steve Schwarzman had the gall to compare the Obama administration's attempt to tax "carried interest" at the same rate as other forms of income to "when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939."
When it comes to raising working-class incomes, Obama has been similarly ineffective. As it is implemented over time (and assuming it survives legal challenge), Obama's health care reform may become a significant factor both in reducing the burden of medical costs on middle-class families and in promoting social equality. From 2008 to 2009, however, the number of people without health insurance rose from 46.3 million to 50.7 million. In the longer term, the key to combating inequality is upgrading the education and skills of American workers. But with the Republicans now in charge of the House, Obama's hopes for major new investments in worker skills seem more elusive than ever. In particular, his goal of every American receiving some higher education is going nowhere. In the coming year, the president will be lucky to protect pro-egalitarian programs that already exist.
Statistics show the problem is getting worse. According to a study by Emmanuel Saez of Berkeley, the top 1 percent of earners captured two-thirds of all income growth between 2002 and 2007. The most recent census statistics show a continued march in the same unbalanced direction. The bottom 20 percent of the population—which earned 5.4 percent of national income in 1967—earned just 3.4 percent of it in 2009. The highest 20 percent went from 41.5 to 49.4 over the same period. The Gini Index—the standard measure of income inequality—ticked up again between 2008 and 2009, from .451 to .458. According to the CIA World Factbook, this figure puts the United States ahead of Russia and Turkey in inequality, and on par with Mexico and the Philippines.
Why is income inequality proving so intractable a problem? If you haven't already, you should read my colleague Tim Noah's excellent series exploring the reasons for the Great Divergence, which began sometime in the mid-'70s. It was around that time, as Malcolm Gladwell described in this New Yorker piece, that stars and professionals across a range of fields simply began to demand a bigger piece of the pie. How much you blame Obama for his lack of success in taking on this trend will depend on whether you see him as a victim of circumstances or of his own mistakes.
On one hand, Obama is up against macro forces like globalization and a system that has grown highly effective at transmuting economic privilege into political power. Somehow, wide majorities have come to support tax law changes that benefit only tiny minorities. While I was writing this column, a press release arrived in my inbox from a New York estate lawyer telling me about the goodies hidden in the new bill: "For the first time, wealthy individuals can make gifts of up to $5 million during their lifetime to anyone, including grandchildren, and pay no tax."
It's like the old Steve Martin routine about how to be a millionaire and never pay taxes—except that instead of "I forgot!" you now say, "I'm allowed!" It is an American peculiarity that rich people want to be thought of as middle class, while those in the middle class identify with the economic interests of an upper class they have only a remote chance of joining. The United States, the land of opportunity, now boasts the world's second-lowest level of intergenerational income mobility.
Meanwhile, the people most alarmed about the rise of new economic dynasties seem to be the enlightened superrich themselves, people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
Obama deserves fault for failing to articulate this abstract threat in a way ordinary people can appreciate. Like the deficit, income inequality never killed anybody—it merely has the potential to sap the entire country's health and spirit. Moving toward an income distribution like Brazil's threatens individual happiness, social peace, and American values. But so far, the president hasn't figured out how to get the public to relate to the issue. In April, Obama told a group of frowning bankers at Cooper Union, "There is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street." But there is, and it is growing deeper every year
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Lately, the topic of choice over at Asexual Explorations has been sexual repression, one that has been on my mind lately as well, in a slightly different sense. As Pretzelboy points out, the term "sexual repression" has roughly as many definitions as it does letters. Thus, when people use the term,
[s]ometimes they mean that a person isn't willing to acknowledge their own sexual feelings. Sometimes they mean that a person is deep-down really interested in sex despite the plain reality that they aren't. Sometimes they mean that not having sex somehow in a super-secret way causes neuroses. Sometimes they mean that a culture is sexually restrictive with its negative messages and oppressive rules about sex. Sometimes they mean that a person isn't able to express their sexuality because of such rules. Sometimes that mean that a person who isn't interested in sex must be disinterested because of such societal rules, ignoring the fact there might be other reasons for not being interested in sex (like lack of desire, for example.)
I've written — rather minimally — in the past about the accusation of sexual repression, particularly the definitions that resemble denial and a reaction to upbringing/ abuse. It's a response asexuals who attempt to come out often receive, and I've stated before how my own experience of the asexual community defies its characterization (from folks like Joy Davidson) as a place where important explorations of self and sexuality are truncated. In response, largely, to Davidson's claim on 20/20 that if you're going to label yourself asexual, "You may as well label yourself not curious, unadventurous, narrow-minded, blind to possibilities. That's what happens when you label yourself as…as…sexually neutered," I pointed out that — since finding the asexual community — I had learned more about myself and my sexuality, expressed more curiosity, adventured further into the sexual world, and opened my mind up more to what sexuality is, how it works, and what it can be, than I ever had as a person defaulting into sexuality. Commenters on that post suggested a similar experience, which is mirrored in the livejournal forums, and presumably on AVEN as well, although I don't frequent the forums there and therefore can't speak to trends. For many of us, it seems, an asexual label — or even interaction with the community sans labelling, which seems to be more of my role these days — allows something that assuming sexuality does not. Introspection, an increase in knowledge/awareness (of sexuality as well as asexuality), and eventually self-actualization seem — at least for some of us — to be outcomes of our interaction with the ase community, even as Davidson and her doppelgangers claim this interaction fundamentally limits us from those experiences. I have seen more willingness to recognize and support fluidity in the asexual community, for instance, than in any other sexual community, straight or queer. Individuals bringing "confessions" to the table — of shifts in orientation within the homo-/ hetero-/ bi- scheme or from asexual to sexual, of realizations that trauma/ religion/ identity confusion/ etc did play more of a role in their asexuality than they previously realized — receieve, in my experience, a similar respect and support to those who come to the forums asking for support of their asexuality. I have yet to see the same for lesbians who come to identify as bi, etc. For many asexual people, there seems to be a fundamental value, which suggests that figuring out one's identity, as an individual, matters significantly more than which identity one determines.
As David said on the Montel show a few years back, "here [in the asexual community] is a place you can come to explore yourself. Here is a place you can talk about yourself. We're not saying, come to the asexual community, and then just give up trying to figure out who you are. It's a community where we're very actively asking questions about ourselves." For some of us asking those questions, the answers lean — in time — toward sexuality. A year ago, I was trying to wrap my head around how to come out as asexual or potentially asexual; I felt recognized in what I read on the subject, and supported in the ace community. Now, although I still respond, act, think, and feel, much more like an asexual person than a sexual one, I recognize that I am — in all likelihood — someone whose sexuality, whatever it looks like, has largely been shut down through negative experiences. My sister's statement to me last year, that it was less likely I was asexual and more likely that I'd been "raised by our parents" — (a reference, largely, to their body-phobic/ sex-negative perspectives) — has proven wise in a way I almost hoped, initially, that it would not. As the therapy I've been receiving for years (for reasons unrelated to sexuality) begins to explore this territory, it becomes increasingly clear that I am in many ways just what the Joy Davidsons of the world are seeking: the girl raised in a (bizarre attempt at rejection of) hyper-religiosity, in a culture of abuse and trauma, with medical conditions (and treatments) that can contribute to hyposexuality. I score at least 3/3 on the trifecta for dismissal. Davidson claimed on 20/20 that "there may be something, maybe something physiological, intricate, maybe something that has to do with trauma or abuse, or repression or a severe religiosity that has predisposed you to shutting down the possibility of being sexually engaged," and here I am — the prototype for this explanation. And yet… I still don't agree with her, and I don't agree with her criticisms of asexuality or the community built around that identification.
For starters, although I can fathom a sexuality I do not yet experience, although I can recognize the multitude of factors that have (most likely) dismantled what might have been a much more "traditional" sexual development, and publicly claim them on this blog, I don't project my experience onto all members of the community. Are there others in the community who have ended up there with the help of trauma or bizarre religious teaching? Certainly. Are they the only people there? I doubt it. And, given the relatively poor understanding the scientific community has about the development of desire, attraction, and orientation, isn't it equally possible that people end up in other orientations for these same reasons? Straight girls try on homosexuality for a semester to rebel against their upbringing. Lesbians are constantly (if decreasingly) accused of responding to trauma inflicted by men through an attraction to women. Gender (and relationships between people of defined genders) are policed as medical issues. So, why is asexuality — which, if it is constructed through personal experience and biology, is no more constructed than other forms of sexuality — so unacceptable?
My personal stance, for some time now, has been that I don't care what I "end up" being — asexual, sexual, or attracted to rutabagas — so long as I can feel that I am genuinely that, and not hiding out in an orientation that keeps me safe from personal realities too frightening to face. And so I move forward, attempting to understand and heal whatever I have left to understand and heal. In the meantime, however, I don't find anything immoral about a temporary identification. I may have chosen against actually self-describing as asexual, but I don't believe there's anything wrong with a person similar to me who chooses to do so. I don't think there's anything wrong with choosing to identify a safe space, in which to do the necessary work.
For many, asexuality is not a safe space. It's an identity, — and one that sometimes brings misunderstanding, pain, and rejection, even ridicule or betrayal. For others, it's the exact security necessary to begin the difficult process of unpacking one's past. Winter, one of the asexual people present on the Montel show said that "We [in the asexual community] are not a place you go to hide from your sexuality," — and she's right. That's not the purpose of the community. "Asexual" is not intended to mean traumatized or confused. Yet, it's unrealistic to suggest that traumatized and confused people will not end up there. Opponents of asexuality attack the community for providing a place to hide, despite the fact that it's not the community's purpose. It's my personal opinion that rather than claiming none of us are hiding, or that those who are have no place in the community, we might choose to ask what's wrong with hiding. I'll say again that I value introspection and self-actualization. However, I know that exploring difficult issues and working to heal them requires the secure environment where one can do so "safely" and with support. Being badgered into sexuality has done nothing for me. Being allowed to identify as asexual has allowed me to address the possibility that I am not. So, while I agree with Winter's statement that the ace community is not intended for hiding, I disagree with what follows, her idea that, "If you are just looking to hide from a problem, we aren't the place for you." The community, with its refusal to force sexuality, its tendency toward supporting folks, and the surprising willingness of (many) members to gradually educate themselves (and in certain cases, each other) about sexuality, may be just that place. I don't advocate hiding forever, but I reject the idea that hiding temporarily can't help. Sometimes we need support in what we have been — or feel we have been — to explore what we might become. Sometimes it's only in finding a place to hide that we uncover the courage to seek.
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"over the past decade, everything has changed…"
This is a blog dedicated to weight health and to the discussion of satiety as the guiding light and principal most likely to result in success for most individuals.
"Satiety" (sa-TY-i-tee) – as I will use it here, is the sense of having satisfied one's appetite for food; one's appetite has been satisfied by the food consumed.
"Weight Health" – refers to the fact that there is a lot more involved in a person's health and well-being than simply how much body fat they may be carrying. The amount of body fat must not be such a dominant concern that other aspects of health and well-being are neglected, discounted or put in jeopardy. A better term would be "body composition health" since it is now understood that many of the people who are slim or have a body weight in the "normal" range are suffering harm from relatively small amounts of body fat, but tucked hidden within their bellies.
Why bother?
Because over the past decade everything has changed. Excitement and hope are the realistic, practical outcome.
We used to think we knew what we were doing when it came to weight (fat) loss. If only people could be disciplined and follow the medical advice, all would be solved. Just eat less and move more. Go hungry, if need be. Even if you get very hungry, tough it out and above all "don't break your diet". "Diet" always referred to a limit on the total calories consumed in a day. (The limit being a calorie number given or being a set limit on total food servings, which is just a less obvious way of setting a calorie limit.)
There is a growing chorus of voices suggesting/demanding a total re-thinking of the approach to weight control, from the basic concepts on up.
Calorie-restricted dieting has not saved us. For the population as a whole, the message has not stopped a growing crisis of obesity. For people who are individually prescribed such diets as part of their medical care, the long-term results are stunningly disappointing. This reality is now just so obvious to everyone that it cannot be ignored or brushed aside any longer. Yes, some people do well and we need to learn from them, but over-all we are getting further behind.
Calorie-restricted dieting may have unexpectedly and quietly caused long-term harm. There is a growing movement of rejection of calorie-restricted dieting for various reasons, suggesting that this practice might increase the risk of dis-ordered eating patterns, eating disorders, food addiction, depression, lowered metabolism, etc. There is an urgent need for research to answer these concerns.
The past decade has brought us new information and understandings that profoundly change our options and demand a re-working of our concepts.
Such as:
Obesity itself is not as much of a major cause of death or illness as we have been thinking. The amount of body fat is generally not the major factor in obesity-associated death and illness, other than at very high levels of body fat. Some people can be quite obese and not have much health impact (excluding effects related to physical size, such as stress on joints.) The type of medical harms that we usually associate with obesity can show up also in those who are in the normal body weight category, but are "metabolically obese".
Metabolic syndrome (basically intolerance of carbohydrates, with insulin resistance and a gradual worsening of blood sugar control) and inflammation are the major "toxic factors" in both obesity and those who are normal weight but with deep belly fat. The increase in health problems that show up in studies on obese people are mostly from metabolic syndrome and inflammation – such as increased hypertension, diabetes, heart attack and stroke (among other impacts). Diabetes then brings its own set of consequences such as kidney disease, eye disease, nerve damage and even further increase in risk for heart attack and stroke. Researchers also feel that the inflammation and the carbohydrate intolerance increase the risk for cognitive dysfunction, dementia and cancer. Most, but not all, people, who struggle with their weight have metabolic syndrome (or show evidence of being headed that way). Most, but not all, people who have normal body weight do not (or not yet) have metabolic syndrome.
The signs of metabolic syndrome can be improved and often reliably and effectively treated by the use of an individually-adjusted carbohydrate-limiting food plan. Also, and critically, most of the benefit of this treatment can be achieved with or without weight loss even close to "normal" range. "Carbohydrates" is the term used for any and all of the sugars and starches in foods. There is carbohydrate intolerance, so lower the intake of total carbohydrates and change the foods eaten to lower the surge of glucose absorbed after a meal. For best benefit, also take other measures to improve carbohydrate tolerance, such as exercise. When carefully applied and adjusted for the individual over time, experienced clinicians find that, almost universally, there is substantial improvement in blood pressure, blood fats and blood sugars and/or insulin levels (among other improvements). (There is consistent clinical experience and some research showing this, more research would help.)
With effective relief from the burden of metabolic syndrome, with its accompanying elevated insulin levels, there is almost always a substantial reduction in excess body fat stores. This is likely related mostly to reductions from previously elevated insulin levels. When insulin levels are high, the body's metabolic machinery favours turning the carbohydrate you eat into fat and storing it. High insulin levels also strongly resist the release of fat from stores to allow burning it off.
Relief from the damaging effects of metabolic syndrome/insulin resistance are much more important medically than whether there is substantial reduction in body weight. Studies into what is "the best" eating plan to achieve weight loss are off the mark on two counts (1) there will never be a best plan, it will depend on the individual metabolism and circumstances and goals and (2) it is vastly more important to find what are the best set of eating plans that, individually, allow the most protection from the harms associated with obesity, principally from metabolic syndrome and inflammation.
Control of body weight involves countless factors and very complex body systems, so no one intervention will ever be all that is needed. Carbohydrate reduction/restriction is of major importance and benefit for those who have carbohydrate intolerance, but not all people who have high body fat have carbohydrate intolerance. Unfortunately, low carb eating is not enough in itself to result in normal weight in all circumstances. It is not magic. Being on a low carb eating plan does not mean that you are living in a bubble, not affected by all the other factors that affect weight control such as high calories, poor sleep, food addictions, medications that promote weight gain, etc, etc.
If you have metabolic syndrome or a tendency to it, low carb eating can greatly improve your health and greatly improve your weight control while you work on finding the other things you need to do to further improve your weight control.
Nutritional ketosis is a powerful medical tool and can play an important role separate from any carbohydrate intolerance and separate from weight loss.
Low carb eating is actually four medical interventions confused together:
- (1) as a means to protect the body from the various harmful effects of carbohydrate intolerance/insulin resistance (metabolic syndrome), including lowering blood insulin levels to allow a tipping of the balance from fat storage to fat release for burning and
- (2) as a means to maintain abstinence for people who find that they have an addiction-like response to sweet or starchy foods or to fatty foods that are sweet or starchy (they can learn that they do not need to eat any sweet or starchy foods)
- (3) as a means to improve the ability to maintain a stable blood sugar within the healthy range by dietary means with or without the help of medications (in the least dosages, thereby lessening medication adverse effects)
- (4) as a means to be in the metabolic state known as "nutritional ketosis". Without going into the details here, nutritional ketosis is a normal physiological state that is part of your basic ancient metabolic flexibility. In this state, you are burning fats and a fat-derived substance called "ketones" for almost all of your body needs. In this state you need and burn a very small amount of glucose. This small amount of glucose is critically needed, but your body can make it from protein and you don't really need any from your food (if your body is working normally – this is not true in certain disease states and with certain medications, such as insulin and others that lower blood glucose).
Are there more than these four types of basic elements of the effects of carb control or low carb eating on health? There is a lot of discussion on this topic, but its too early for conclusions.
By understanding the needs of each unique person in regards to what aspects of carbohydrate control are most important for them, a fully individualised eating plan can be worked out that allows the greatest flexibility and freedom, with the least amount of restriction that achieves their goals and is consistent with their circumstances and informed choices.
Nutritional ketosis is a medical intervention which helps control appetite – independent of whether the person is insulin resistance or not.
Because nutritional ketosis is a tool in itself, it can be targeted more specifically as a goal if the benefits are considered worthwhile in any given person's situation. This may involve avoiding high intake of protein, use of MCT oil (a coconut oil derivative that readily converts to ketones in the liver), use of metformin to reduce abnormally excessive production of glucose by the liver, and other strategies. (MCT oil is stripped of all other nutrients and could only be used sparingly and thoughtfully as a medical intervention.)
Research and clinical experience over decades have improved the understanding of fully individualised carb-controlled eating as a long-term, essentially permanent lifestyle option, so the medical benefits are available in a sustained way (essentially acting like a long-term medication).
Food addiction-like responses, food triggering and brain sensitization have received increasing attention and come to be understood as key factors in weight control. For people who have addiction responses to foods containing sugars and/or starches, the understanding that full abstinence is an option (there is no health requirement for intake of carbohydrates and they can be avoided except for those consumed daily in salads and non-starchy vegetables) can change their lives.
There is also improved understanding of dis-ordered eating patterns and the eating disorders.
This blog is my contribution towards putting into words the facts, concepts and options at play.
This blog is full of hope and enthusiasm that current new understandings and information, along with the networked communication of informed and determined people, can bring the needed tools into the grasp of many (possibly even most) people even with what we know and can share right now.
Let none be left behind – if you have a particularly difficult time achieving weight loss to your best healthy weight, then we all have something to learn from your journey. I have had a personal life lesson in never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never give up and I encourage you (though some days you may need to pause from the striving) to put one try ahead of another. Given the massive research effort and the opportunity the internet gives us to put our heads together, hope is actually a very realistic attitude.
My viewpoint is that all the researchers, clinicians, academics, policy makers and commentators are motivated from a true and honest heart. Each one is striving for the goal of the best health and best fulfillment of life for individuals and for society as a whole. Because there will not ever be one right best answer for weight health, and because not one of us knows yet the full collection of interventions/treatments that will bring access to weight health to all people, there are many different opinions. Passionate discussion and rebuttal is the result. But, "we fight because we care". Individuals who just want to collect their pay and go home would not waste time and energy on vigorous debate. The more the crisis grows, the more testy the interactions can get. We are all striving for the same goal.
This blog is written mostly from the point of view of the usefulness af low-carbohydrate nutrition – as ONE OF the useful interventions to consider. There are countless factors that act together in determining an individual's body weight at any particular time. The vast majority of people who struggle with their weight will need to make use of a number of different interventions/treatments/lifestyle changes in their lives to achieve and maintain their desired healthy body composition. Low-carb eating is not the sole intervention needed, nor is it important for all.
I'm not advocating for low-carb eating for all, I am advocating for the best health and fulfilling life for all, by whatever means prove to be best. The proper stance of any physician, researcher, etc., is "let the truth win out". I write about low-carb nutrition because I think it is critically important that this option be more widely known and better understood. There is a tremendous amount of confusion and mis-information about low-carb nutrition. This is hindering people from achieving what could be life-changing benefits. What I am advocating, also, is that each person be aware that carbohydrate intolerance could be a factor in their health and that they receive knowledgable help, now and over the stages of their lives, in evaluating this impact and what it means for their health and for their food choices.
What I would like to see is carbohydrate awareness and carbohydrate literacy.
Each person's body weight and composition is their own business. I would like to make a contribution towards improving the degree to which it is also their own free choice.


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WESTBOROUGH – A man suspected in a series of violent sexual assaults in summer 2003 that left MetroWest women in fear was arrested Wednesday in New Jersey, police said, and has been brought back to Massachusetts to face trial.
Marcelo Goncalve Mota was arrested in Deltran, New Jersey Wednesday, police said, six years after he was indicted by a Worcester grand jury on allegations he raped two women and tried to rape a third in 2003.
Westborough Police Chief Alan R. Gordon said that Mota, 35, an illegal immigrant who once lived in Framingham, was recently found not guilty of sexual assault charges in New Jersey, but was arrested by Westborough and Hopkinton police before he could be released.
In the MetroWest attacks, authorities say a man broke into the Windsor Ridge Apartments in Westborough on Aug. 6, 2003, woke up a woman and raped her at gunpoint.
On Aug. 13, 2003, a man broke into an apartment at the Village of Walker Meadow in Westborough, where police say he raped a woman while threatening her with a gun and a knife.
The next day a man broke into an apartment at Indian Brook Townhomes in Hopkinton and attempted to rape another woman at knifepoint. That woman fought off the attack.
At the time of the sexual assaults, police did not have a suspect, but plastered a sketch of the man's face on a billboard on Rte. 9. With the spectre of more assaults lurking, area pepper spray sales increased, while police urged everyone to lock their doors and windows.
Those cases remained unsolved until 2007, when New Jersey authorities say Mota confessed to the crimes after being arrested there on charges he raped one woman and attempted to rape a second. In a press release Wednesday, Westborough Chief Gordon said police have DNA evidence linking him to the Massachusetts attacks.
Mota – who was still in jail awaiting his New Jersey trial at the time of his 2008 Worcester indictment – will be arraigned today in Worcester Superior Court, Gordon said.
Mota will be charged with two counts each of aggravated rape, burglary and assault. He is also charged with armed home invasion, armed burglary, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and threatening to commit a crime.
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A period property with lots of character, the views from the offices are stunning and the 2nd floor has some of the best woodland views on the park. Each floor includes shared toilets and a kitchen where you can get away from your office for a bite to eat or a chat and a coffee with your neighbors. As with all the properties at Ransom Wood, Oak House A benefits from on site management by our team of friendly staff and high levels of security including red care and security guards.
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Matthew J. Hennessy's lawsuit against the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority plays a useful role in calling attention to questionable relationships within the murky world of insider influence peddling.
Call it the angry response of a disappointed job seeker — for that's what it is — but Mr. Hennessy's lawsuit raises important issues. Hopefully it will lead to some sort of clarity.
The CRRA is a quasi-public garbage-to-energy agency serving a number of towns in the Hartford region. It has a history of administrative malfunction and financial shenanigans. Under state law, it is forbidden from hiring a lobbyist.
Mr. Hennessy — once the top aide to convicted former Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez — heads Tremont Public Advisors, a consulting firm.
Tremont filed suit recently against the CRRA, The Courant has reported, charging favoritism in the agency's awarding of a contract for "municipal government liaison" services worth more than $250,000 to Brown Rudnick, a law and lobbying firm that employs the highly influential former Democratic House Speaker Thomas D. Ritter.
Mr. Ritter does much of his firm's work for CRRA.
Tremont was one of two bidders on renewal of the municipal liaison contract that Brown Rudnick had held since 2006. Tremont claims that CRRA engaged in a sham bidding process.
It also accuses Brown Rudnick of illegally lobbying for the CRRA, based in part on information gathered from e-mails to and from Mr. Ritter requested by Mr. Hennessy under the state's Freedom of Information Act.
State House Minority Leader Larry Cafero also works for Brown Rudnick, Mr. Ritter's firm. Because of his leadership position in the legislature, he can choose two members of the quasi-public CRRA board — which can decide who wins contracts. The emails show that Mr. Ritter has discussed board appointments with Mr. Cafero and other top legislators.
An exasperated Mr. Cafero said of the appointment power, "That is my total involvement with CRRA. I don't know about a suit. I don't know about a contract. I don't know the price of it. I don't know what it's for. I don't know what they do. I've never worked on a matter concerning CRRA. Period."
Yes, but he can appoint two CRRA directors.
The CRRA, Brown Rudnick, Mr. Ritter (through a public relations firm) and Mr. Cafero all deny the allegations in the Tremont lawsuit.
Mr. Cafero, as a top legislative leader, clearly should not appoint members of the board of directors of an agency represented by the law and lobbying firm he works for. He should recuse himself to avoid a conflict of interest.
About lobbying: Perhaps the General Assembly — if it dares — should define what it considers to be lobbying in greater detail and then, if needs be, draw brighter lines proscribing lobbying by quasi-public agencies.
Mr. Ritter insists that what he did for CRRA was legal work, not lobbying. But others emphatically disagree. And it's hard to see the difference.
This, in microcosm, is life in the public sector at the point where big decisions are made — an incestuous mix of lawyers, lobbyists, politicians and compliant special interests. And there are many more relationships like it at the state Capitol.
Time to put a specimen under the microscope?
Editor's note: This editorial was updated March 15 with new information.


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Investigation of Hydraulic Fracture Re-Orientation Effects in Tight Gas ReservoirsB. Hagemann[1], J. Wegner[1], L. Ganzer[1]
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In tight gas formations where the low matrix permeability prevents successful and economic production rates, hydraulic fracturing is required to produce a well at economic rates. As production from the well and its initial fracture declines, re-fracturing treatments are required to accelerate recovery. The orientation of the following hydraulic fracture depends on the actual stress-state of the formation. The stress alters during depletion and a stress reversal region appears. This behavior causes a different fracture orientation of the re-fracture. COMSOL Multiphysics is used to investigate the re-fracture orientation in a two-dimensional reservoir model. The model represents a fractured vertical well in a reservoir of infinite thickness. Different cases with anisotropic and heterogeneous permeability are set up to determine its significance.
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Bid now and support Jackie Robinson Foundation
Game-used jerseys and team-signed jerseys from celebration up for auction
Adam Jones wore No. 42 instead of his usual No. 10 on Wednesday in Baltimore, collecting two hits and driving in a run as the designated hitter during a 3-0 victory over the Rays. It was a rainout makeup game as part of Jackie Robinson Day around the Majors, when all players wore No. 42 in honor of the man who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947.
"I recognize him every day with how I go out and play the game," Jones said of Robinson. "Every day, to me, is a tribute to Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby and all the innovators for helping myself, countless other African-Americans, Latins, Asians to play this game. I don't just look at it as one day. I look at that [as] how I treat every single day in the Major Leagues."
Now you can own the No. 42 jersey that Jones wore during the game, or any of a wide array depending on your favorite players and clubs. It's time for the annual Jackie Robinson Day Auction at MLB.com, featuring team-signed jerseys, game-used jerseys and a special collector's edition item, as all net proceeds go to the Jackie Robinson Foundation.
The auction includes a special Tommy Bahama Jackie Robinson Shirt with a $500 opening bid. Tommy Bahama and MLB Properties collaborated on this custom silk shirt with hand-painted artwork that wraps around the entire shirt and features a vintage photo of Robinson in a classic Brooklyn uniform. It features the Hall of Famer's signature quote: "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." A limited quantity are produced, each one is numbered, and shirt No. 42 -- the one up for bidding -- is signed by Jackie's wife, Rachel, and daughter, Sharon.
The Dodgers No. 42 road jersey might have special meaning to you because it is the same franchise that Jackie himself represented when he took the field on that historic day at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. One of the players who signed this jersey, outfielder Carl Crawford, said it is important to keep the memory alive -- whether it is wearing 42 on that special day, bidding on a jersey like this to raise funds for the foundation, or just making sure that the youngest generation continues to be educated about the subject.
"It's important, because he opened a lot of doors for us, he went through a lot so we could be in this position," Crawford said. "So each and every day, we have to honor his name. We wear his jersey, and I think it's good for baseball. ... We take a lot of pride -- it's a number that no one else can wear, so for us to be able to wear it for one day, it means a lot."
Want a Mike Trout autograph on a No. 42 Angels home jersey for your wall? His familiar signature is right there on the back with other teammates' autographs, and that had the most bids of all the team-signed 42 jerseys as of noon ET on Friday. On Jackie Robinson Day, Trout hit a towering two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth to send the game against Oakland into extra innings.
Of course, anything with Derek Jeter's autograph on it has extra meaning in his farewell season, and the captain is among many Yankees who signed these pinstripes.
Speaking of Jeter, what would you bid on that ball that Houston starter Scott Feldman hit him with in the shortstop's first at-bat of his final season? It's up for bidding now as well, because in addition to the Jackie Robinson Day Auction, there is also an ongoing Opening Day Auction that is chock-full of significant artifacts like that from openers around the Majors.
The MLB.com Auction was relaunched for this regular season, so this also is a good chance to explore the new touches. Among the enhancements are the ability share your bids on social media; photo enlargement; video highlights for select game-used items; Featured Items and "Hot" Items; Auction of the Week; Ultimate Experiences; and exclusive collectibles.


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Tuesday 13th September saw the 2nd Birthday live recording of The Pod Delusion, at The Monarch Pub in Camden, London.
I wasn't sure if I could make it on time, but James kindly put me late in the bill (1h 4m 32s to be precise) and so all was fine. It was the first time I've done any Skeptics in the Pub style talks, and given it would be late in the evening, tried to keep it short and lively. With very little live stage experience (and being shit scared), I wasn't sure how it would go down - having listened back to it, people seemed to laugh in the right places and there were no overly loud yawns so perhaps it went OK. Not sure I'll become a stand-up anytime soon, though...
Just to competeness, the early heckle that wasn't picked up by the mike was "Are you doing this by First Past The Post or Proportional Representation?" - very Pod Delusion :)
Anyway, here's the script, titled "Perception":
Hello everyone.
Just before we get started, I like to find out the demographic of the audience, so if there was a general election tomorrow, which party would you vote for?
No vote?
OK, - I should point out for the listeners on the podcast that the audience here is roughly 95% conservative voting. So that's a big thumbs up to Cameron and his bunch of massive cuts.
Anyway, perhaps also for the listeners at home, I should paint an accurate picture of the setup here. – there are about 6 or 700 people here in this arena,.... almost entirely women....... aged 20 – 25.
I am standing on a stage a few meters away from the front....6 ft 10 inches tall ..... and naked from the waist up. The small beads of perspiration on my hairless chest are catching the soft sensual glow of the stage lights to form halos which dance across my perfectly chiselled 6-pack.
It's fair to say at this point that the perception of listeners of this podcast may be slightly different to the perception of those watching here and now.And it's perception that I want to talk a bit about tonight.
Just to clarify - people listening at home, the bit about everyone voting Tory and being women is completely true.
Let's look closer at this idea of perception – I'm guessing for the bunch of Tory-loving women as you are, you see something of an idol and a hero in the Member of Parliament for Mid Bedfordshire, Mzzz Nadine Dorries, in the news this week for her amendment to the NHS Bill..
I would argue that her perception via the media to the PASSIVE public is of a women; an ex-nurse, fighting for better access for women to independent abortion counselling. How could anyone not support that?
I haven't time to go into the details here, but with help from friend of the podcast Dr Evan Harris, it became clear this was a Trojan Horse amendment and would have a very different outcome to that which was being touted.
Listeners to the Pod Delusion will know that my infrequent assaults on your sensitive ears are usually regarding alternative medicines and quackery. Perhaps on one level, testing the claims of the product profiteers and perhaps on another level discussing the difference between a seller who is a True Believer and seller who knows he is touting bogus nonsense.
Perception in this field is paramount – think of all the sciency-sounding sillyness that surrounds some wellness products to give it an air of authenticity - ;
weasel words that imply efficacy but in reality may help to reduce some of the symptoms associated with a mild instance of whatever the fashionable malady of the moment is.
In UK we have pretty good laws governing the rights of the consumer:
The Sale of Goods Act 1979 – things must be as described and fit for purpose,
The Cancer Act 1939 – which states that advertisements are prohibited to offer to treat any person or prescribe any remedy for cancer.
We've got the robust but admittedly toothless Advertising Standards Authority ensuring adverts are legal, decent, honest and truthful.
We have the bodies like the Office of Fair Trading and local Trading Standards and services like Consumer Direct – above that we've got EU law further increasing our protection.
All well and good until you go online. I know that on the high street I can go any shop make a transaction and as a consumer, assume these rights mentioned earlier.
If I go online and use a company with a .co.uk website, potentially nothing no rights apply. Using a site that LOOKS like it's in UK doesn't necessarily give you any of the protection, even from EU level.
Perfect for the quack merchant wanting to look like it adheres to UK rules but without actually having to..
The perception of a co.uk website to me is one of trust – in reality all you can safely assume is that it is written in English and will charge you in UK pounds. I reckon I'm savvy enough on this and undoubtedly you, the Conservative Ladies' Guild are too, but I guess there many UK residents who don't realise this.
To circumvent any rules laid down by Nominet,the UK Domain Name registrar, non-UK companies (or potential foreign snakeoil salespeople) only need to nominate a UK agent to register the website, and can pretty much sidestep a lot of consumer legislation. To make a ridiculous comparison, it would be like a non-UK company renting a premises on the high street and selling dubious goods to the public with impunity.
What? Starbucks? Tsk.
You get the point. A company outside the UK could ignore all the consumer legislation and chuck their dodgy product on a UK registered website, complete with disease-busting claims.
Special Rosehips for arthritis (hips for hips, you see), mistletoe for cancer, herbs for high blood pressure. Why not? Everybody can buy, and nobody can close you down.
I've raised this issue with my MP, the Dept of Health, and the Advertising Standards Authority, all of whom point refer me to the UK regulator, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Each time the response comes back from them – outside our power. In the most recent case, I got the following:
"The .co.uk website is registered in the USA and therefore falls outside the remit of the MHRA. We have referred the information about this website to our counterparts in the USA, the Food Drug Administration (FDA)."
What in the name of Ernst does the FDA have to do with anything? As a potential purchaser of products in the UK, I don't give a rat's arse what the FDA think about a website, and I'm pretty sure the reverse is also true.
The recent move by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to cover websites is obviously a positive thing, but this still only applies to UK-registered company – non-UK pill-peddlers are still free to advertise on UK registered websites without much hassle.
Free to offer people like me and millions others of vulnerable people with diseases likewith arthritis, for the tiny sum of £99.95, the false glimmer of hope that perhaps for one day, one hour, even one minute the debilitating chronic pain which affects the person physically and mentally might just be alleviated, but never is. Promoted by the perception that it's a UK website and so... they couldn't sell it if it didn't work, right?
In fact, this goes way past perception. Like my imaginary sixpack, this is an obvious deception. Unlike my imaginary sixpack, it could negatively affect the lives of many UK residents.
This is Dr*T reporting for the Pod Delusion Live.


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Red Wings host Blackhawks tonight
Injury-plagued Red Wings welcome familiar old foe to Joe Louis Arena
DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings begin life without Jimmy Howard for the second time this season when they host the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday.
The United States Olympian re-injured his left knee midway through the second period of Monday's 4-1 loss to St. Louis. Jonas Gustavsson is expected to receive the nod in place of Howard, who was sidelined eight games with the initial injury in December.
Gustavsson, who has been out with a groin injury since Dec. 28, will face a stern test as the defending Stanley Cup champions have won seven straight regular-season contests versus their Original Six rivals. Detroit provided quite the scare for Chicago during the playoffs, however, winning three of the first four games of their Western Conference second-round series before the Blackhawks turned the tide.
Chicago fared well against arguably two of the best teams in the league, posting a 4-2 triumph over NHL-leading Anaheim on Friday before skating to a 3-2 victory against Boston two days later in a rematch of the Stanley Cup final.
TV: 8 p.m. ET, NBCSN, TSN2
ABOUT THE BLACKHAWKS (32-8-11): Former Red Wing Marian Hossa has been on a tear, collecting five goals and two assists during his five-game point streak. Corey Crawford hasn't been too shabby in his own right as he received the NHL's Third Star of the Week. The Montreal native turned aside 34 shots on Sunday and owns an 11-2-2 mark with a slim 1.82 goals-against average versus Detroit.
ABOUT THE RED WINGS (21-18-10): Injuries remain the name of the game for Detroit, which likely will see superstar Pavel Datsyuk (lower body) miss his eighth straight contest and veteran Daniel Alfredsson (back) his sixth. Jonathan Ericsson told reporters that he expects to play, although coach Mike Babcock told MLive.com that "there's a chance" the defenseman would compete. Ericsson has been sidelined since Dec. 23 with broken ribs.
1. Although Blackhawks RW Patrick Kane netted the shootout winner on Sunday, he is mired in a 10-game goalless drought.
2. Detroit captain Henrik Zetterberg has one goal and two assists in his last two games overall - and 47 points (19 goals, 28 assists) in 51 career contests versus Chicago.
3. Blackhawks D Brent Seabrook scored the overtime winner in Game 7 of their series against the Red Wings last season.
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Migration and free movement of people in the EU raised its ugly head in the European Parliament this week. MEPs are furious that EU governments want to deprive the Parliament of its right to legislate on arrangements for evaluating the functioning of the Schengen visa-free travel agreement. It's shaping up to be a rare battle between the EuroParl and the Council of Ministers.
The European Council under Denmark, who currently holds the six month rotating presidency, has engendered wrath from across the political spectrum. Hannes Swoboda, leader of the Socialist and Democrat Group in the European Parliament, made our position clear: "You [the Council] have opened the door to populism and we will stand against you. Because there are so many refugees coming from Tunisia, should we shut down borders?" he asked, adding that "this is the wrong answer to the Arab Spring". Mr Swoboda also warned: "we will use all political and legal tools at our disposal to stop this."
MEPs are, in fact, considering bringing a case to the European Court of Justice.
Though the UK is not party to Schengen, migration and movement of people could potentially affect us, so we should follow this issue closely.
In the debate in the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week, speakers from most political groups strongly criticised the Danish Presidency.
MEPs asked the Danish justice minister Morten Bødskov to come to Parliament to explain why EU justice and home affairs ministers had decided on 7 June to change the legal basis of the rules governing the evaluation of Schengen from Article 77 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU to Article 70. This change effectively meant that the European Parliament no longer has any legislative powers over this draft law. The EU justice ministers merely promised to inform Parliament of the member states' decisions.
Under the new arrangement the European Commission would also be prevented from exercising their supervisory role on behalf of citizens. Member states would be free to ignore any concerns that they put forward.
"This is a legal decision based on contents, not on politics," said Danish justice minister Morten Bødskov. He called on MEPs to "look at this in a broader perspective", adding that "with this compromise we are advocating a model based on more EU".
On the other hand the Swedish Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malstrom said, "I'm convinced that the last word is not said on this, expressing her "clear disappointment" at the Council decision. She added that "We will defend security, but also freedom of movement."
This issue could run for a while longer. It's a very real power struggle between the governments of the EU member states and the European Parliament. Although I suspect there will ultimately be no clear winner, the battle is an important one both on the principle of free movement and the powers of the EU institutions.


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President Obama and his special guest British prime minister David Cameron were in attendance Tuesday night in Dayton, Ohio for the first NCAA tournament play-in game between Western Kentucky and Mississippi Valley State.
The two leaders saw the Hilltoppers overcome a 16-point second half deficit to edge the Delta Devils, 59-58. At that moment, it was the biggest margin overcome in the final five minutes of an NCAA tournament game in the event's history, according to the NCAA.
The President and Prime Minister left after the first game to return to Washington. Too bad for the 'First Hoopster', for he missed a record-setting comeback in the nightcap. BYU, behind Noah Hartsock's 23 points, came back from 25 points down to defeat Iona, 78-72. The Cougars will meet Marquette in Thursday's second round in Louisville, Kentucky.
The previous largest deficit overcome mark was held by Duke, which came back from a 21-point deficit to beat Maryland in a 2001 NCAA national semifinal contest, according to the Washington Post.
In the evening's first game, both teams had a tough time shooting the basketball. The second half saw Mississippi Valley State build a 16-point lead with just over five minutes to go. The Hilltoppers then went on a 22-5 run to advance to a second round matchup with South No. 1 seed Kentucky, also in Louisville.
Western Kentucky guard Derrick Gordon said his team felt pressure playing in the glare of the NCAA tournament spotlight and in front of President Obama.
"We wanted to put on a show. I mean, things didn't work out our way in 35 minutes, but it came out the W. I'm sure he liked what he saw," Gordon told the Sporting News.
In the nightcap, Iona raced out to a 15-point halftime lead on 24-of-35 shooting from the floor. But BYU methodically chipped away in the second twenty minutes and took the lead with just under two and a half minutes to go on a Hartsock 3-point shot.
Cougars head coach Dave Rose said his team had confidence they could make a run at the Gaels in the second half.
"Coming back from 25 points down is really satisfying now that we've won. At the time it wasn't that satisfying being down 25," he joked. "But I don't think that any of us, especially the coaching staff or our players, doubted the fact that we could chip into that lead," Rose told SI.com.
Wednesday night, there are two more NCAA 'First Four' play-in games. Vermont plays Lamar in the first contest to determine the 16th seed in the South region. South Florida takes on California in the second game to find out who will be the South's 12th seed. Both games will be televised on truTV beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET.


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The North Carolina General Assembly this moment is considering the rollback of a longtime requirement for some local governments that legal notices be printed in the local newspaper, a revenue stream for publishers totaling millions of dollars a year. States across the country, including neighboring Virginia, have been gnawing on the issue as well.
Should HB504 become law, nine North Carolina counties, and municipalities within those counties, would no longer be dependent on their local newspapers as a vehicle for notification of bids for state contracts, announcements of property foreclosures, or disclosure of other government or legal business. The counties represented in this bill could instead post notices on their own electronic servers.
What might be lost? The local newspaper itself, most likely, as publications face technological disruptions and the �great collapse� of revenue from classified, display and subscriptions income streams. It�s no secret that the print journalism industry is already struggling to reinvent itself in our brave new digital world.
Since 2007, more than 120 newspapers nationally have succumbed to these struggles. A troubling number of communities across the United States no longer have access to fresh, local news and information. We are more knowledgeable about events around the world than happenings in our own backyard.
Governments should certainly not feel compelled to make a foray into the Fourth Estate as a direct replacement for folded newspapers. Lawmakers should, however, study how they might use their savings to instead trumpet the values that community newspaper represent. We need to preserve the public service that captures community stories and that gives us a sense of ourselves and our place in the world.
Consider using the funds saved from no longer printing legal notices to train a nationwide media corps, �community storytellers,� if you will, much like the writers of the Works Project Administration. Use our underemployed talent, whether fresh out of journalism schools or displaced from the profession or newer community voices, to bolster civic news and information functions.
Even more importantly, boost open government initiatives to create greater transparency, especially in communities that have lost their newspaper watchdog functions. Despite what some individual politicians may think, it truly is in the government�s best interest to be as forthcoming as possible with public information.
There are some who will wring their hands and say that government shouldn�t be funding our news and information. They�ll point to the arguments over our public broadcasting such as NPR and PBS. They�ll say that in this political and economic climate, it would be impossible to redirect these government monies to funding community news and information for a more informed citizenry. We need less government control, not more.
Let someone else pick up the slack, they�ll say, we don�t need newspapers now. We have the Internet.
They will ignore that government is already in our media. They will ignore history that shows that this innovation called a free press was started with government licensing, preferential postal rates, even government-purchased printing presses in places. They will ignore that we would not have the democracy we enjoy if we did not have a free press.
They will believe that newspapers achieved their heights on their own and can figure their way out of their fast race to the bottom on their own, thank you very much. But we�re talking about something more vital to our civic discourse than newspapers. We�re talking journalism, that vital community information function. One that serves our communities and its residents first, by whatever means necessary.
Community news and information for the people, by the people, of the people. And, maybe, funded by the people. Because that�s what the government should be, the collective voice and actions of the people.
For if we do not care now, we will grasp too late the enormity of what we have lost from journalism: The marketplace of ideas, the gathering of stories of about our reality and perhaps the democracy we hold dear.
Michelle Ferrier (email@example.com) is an associate professor at Elon University and vice president of Journalism That Matters, a collaboration of journalists, technologists, librarians, educators and others helping to shape the new news ecology through journalism innovation, technology and interdisciplinary conversation.


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