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Morning Half-Day Multnomah Falls and Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Tour from Portland
Escape the hustle and bustle of the city for the day on this guided tour to Multnomah Falls and the Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls. Travel along the historic Columbia River Highway National Scenic Byway and stop at the magnificent falls of Multnomah, Latourell, and Bridal Veil.
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Day Trips
Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls and Mt Hood Tour from Portland
Experience the unrivaled beauty of the Columbia River Gorge, Cascade Mountain Range and Mount Hood on this full-day trip from Portland. In the comfort of a luxury vehicle, enjoy a guided tour of the Gorge's top destinations, including dramatic waterfalls, the Bridge of the Gods, Hood's Timberline Lodge, and the charming city of Hood River.
Nature and Wildlife
Afternoon Half-Day Multnomah Falls and Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Tour from Portland
Escape the city for an afternoon exploring some of greater Portland's most scenic falls. Set out to see Multnomah Falls as well as other falls along the Columbia River Gorge, home to the largest concentration of waterfalls in the country. Take plenty of pics of the cascading waters or simply bask in their beauty. You'll enjoy incredible panoramic views from the Crown Point Vista House while an expert guide fills you and your group in on local flora, fauna and history.
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Oregon Coast Tour from Portland
Explore Oregon's rocky northern coastline on this scenic full-day trip from Portland. Travel the picturesque US Hwy 101 through quaint beach towns, stopping in Cannon Beach, Ecola State Park, and Oswald West State Park. Spend a luxurious day enjoying panoramic coastal views, geological wonders, and wind-swept beaches.
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Mt Hood Day Trip from Portland to Multnomah Falls and Hood River
Immerse yourself in the beauty of Columbia River Gorge on this full-day trip from Portland to Mount Hood! With your small group, take a guided tour of such iconic Oregon destinations as Multnomah Falls and the famous Timberline Lodge, and enjoy lunch in the charming city of Hood River.
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Oregon Coast Day Trip: Cannon Beach and Haystack Rock
Explore the stunning beaches and beautiful towns along Oregon's northern coast on this full-day trip from Portland. Visit the charming towns of Manzanita and Cannon Beach—home of the famous Haystack Rock—browse antique shops and art galleries, and stop several beaches to maximize your time at the Oregon Coast.
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Nature and Wildlife
Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Tour from Portland
Species seen nowhere else in the world, dramatic basalt lava flows nearly a mile deep, and some of the world's most beautiful waterfalls are a few of the sights that await you on this tour. Come experience the grandeur of the Columbia River Gorge, one of the United States' most photographed Natural Scenic Reserves. We will drive along the oldest scenic highway in the US, stopping at sweeping viewpoints, flowing falls, a historic lodge, and the famed Bonneville Dam Sturgeon viewing center.
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Sailing Adventures on a Classic 38' Yacht in the Heart of the Columbia Gorge
Sailors will enjoy a private two hour sail aboard a beautiful yacht in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge. Each person can interact with the captain, learn to sail, steer the boat, winch in the jib sheets, or just relax on the deck as we navigate up and down the mighty Columbia in the wake of Lewis and Clark.
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Mountain Bike Tours
Portland Brewery Bike Tour
Explore beautiful central Portland and sample some of the city's iconic brews on this afternoon bike tour. Accompany your expert guide on a leisurely bike ride to several classic Portland microbreweries, including Lucky Lab and Rogue, for some fun and informative beer tasting.
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The Banks Vernonia Bike Trip from Portland- Temporary sub for Columbia Gorge
Bike and trek through the magnificent Columbia River Gorge on this half-day trip from Portland. Experience the iconic beauty of the Pacific Northwest as your guide leads an all-ability bike ride through the Gorge, stopping to hike and explore majestic waterfalls.
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Mountain Bike Tours
Essential Portland Bike Tour
Take a spin around the City of Roses with this bike tour of essential Portland. Pedal through the city's historic Old Town, along the river on the Waterfront Esplanade, through the Park Blocks with their many green spaces and the hip Pearl District. Learn about the spirit of Portland from knowledgeable guides as you see the city as many of the locals do—by bike.
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Hike and Bike: Columbia River Gorge Hidden Waterfalls
Our tour provides the best of its category -- best bicycles, best guides, best vehicles, best snacks! We transport our guests and bikes in Mercedes Sprinters, and our guides ride with our very small groups. You'll get personal attention and the safest experience we can provide. Like no other active tour of the gorge, we tell the stories that are just beginning to awaken from this place. Beyond the 180 years of pioneers and loggers, before the century-old highway, this was the land of people with a rich mythology. We tell the stories that have been told to us by the indigenous people as best we can. But what's most important, we remember the long long history this place holds. Our tour also provides the most active hiking and visits waterfalls you will not see on other tours.
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Wine Tastings
Full Day Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls and Wine Tasting Combo
This tour is currently running on a modified itinerary due to a wildfire in the Columbia River Gorge. Visit the top attractions on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge and 2 amazing wineries on this guided, Gorge/Wine Tour. Visit the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum, viewpoints, Beacon Rock, and the Washington Shore Visitor Complex of Bonneville Dam. After lunch, we will visit 2 vineyards in the region for some amazing wine tasting and learn about the region history and culture as it has developed in the wine industry in the area. Discover the postcard-perfect scenery and great wines of the Columbia River Gorge during this flexible-length sightseeing trip from Portland. Gaze in wonder at the Gorge's towering cascades including Multnomah Falls, enjoy the charming town of Hood River, and make stops at two local vineyards for included tastings. Round-trip hotel transport is also covered.
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Mountain Bike Tours
Downtown Portland Bike Tour
Immerse yourself in the beauty and culture of central Portland as a local would—by bike. On this bike tour, ride through Portland's historic west side, exploring art galleries, food carts, iconic breweries and 19th-century architecture. Then head to Waterfront Park for great river views and bridge spotting.
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Mountain Bike Tours
Bike Around Portland: Bridges, Doughnuts, Poetry and Roses
It's all about the bike ride! We like to spend more time riding in small groups, but always stopping to smell the roses. Start in the inner Eastside neighborhoods, where we will safely fit you for a bike and helmet, ready for a sweet 9-11 mile ride through a pretty residential neighborhood, to our favorite rose garden, into an art-heavy industrial district, across the sexy Tilikum Bridge, and onto Portland's waterfront. From there, it's a visit to Old Town, and tell the story of Voodoo, before we head back over another bridge back to our shop! You'll visit a total of 5 of the city's quadrants, ride over two bridges, and along the Willamette River. We'll visit almost-secret beaches, read poetry written in sidewalks and rocks, see public art of every shape, color and texture. And have you tried some of the city's best doughnuts? Learn our favorites! All along the way, we'll tell the stories of the city we love. Bikes, helmets and water provided. Please wear masks for bike sizing.
Day Trips
Northern Oregon Coast Day Trip
This day trip is a customized tour along a section of rugged coastline along Oregon's northern coast. There will be one or two town stops, and multiple stops at headlands and beaches. After your pickup in Portland, we'll discuss the interests of people in the group, and your guide will customize the itinerary to those interests. Regardless of interests, the trip will include driving the Pacific Coast Scenic Byway with a short hike through oldgrowth Sitka spruce forest, beach time, tide pools, sea stacks, viewpoint stops, and a lunch stop in a charming coastal town. If group interest allows, stops with a more technological history focus may be made, such as the Tillamook Air Museum, Tillamook Creamery (currently closed due to COVID-19), or Camp 18. - Please be prepared for whatever the weather may be when your tour runs (e.g. rain gear, sunglasses, hat, extra layers, sunscreen). - Wear shoes that you don't mind getting sandy and wet.
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Willamette Valley Wine-Tasting Tour from Portland
Experience the best of Willamette Valley wine country on a guided wine-tasting tour from Portland. With a small group of fellow wine lovers, spend half a day visiting three handpicked wineries such as Colene Clemens Vineyards and Montinore Estate. Meet local vintners and sample award-winning varietals while marveling at Oregon's stunning countryside.
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Day Cruises
2-Hour Columbia River Gorge Dinner Cruise
Start your evening on the Columbia River on a dinner cruise that provides views of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area from a historical sternwheeler. A seasonal menu features local ingredients for the 3-course dinner with bread, salad, main course, and dessert. Along the way, listen to stories and history about the river from the captain. Drinks are available for purchase.
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2.5-Hour Dinner Cruise Through Downtown Portland
Whether you want to relax after a long day of sightseeing or need to unwind at the end of your workweek, a sunset dinner cruise along the Willamette River is sure to do the trick. The journey offers spectacular views of the Portland skyline and city's main landmarks. Listen to live music while you enjoy a freshly cooked Pacific Northwest meal.
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Forest Park: The Urban Hiking Tour
When tour guests asks us, "what one thing should I not miss in Portland," we pick the 4.5- to 5-mile (8-9 km) hike in Forest Park. No matter what the season, hiking in the park is entering another world right on the borders (and through the fabric) of the city. We offer two daily departures, both with varied terrain and about 900 ft elevation gain. The morning hike is focused around a classic Northwest Portland experience, and ends at the International Rose Test Garden, the Forest Park Experience (9 a.m. to noon). The afternoon hike starts at Goose Hollow, weaves through the neighborhoods and up into the park, the Goose Hollow to the Forest (1 to 5 p.m.). Both pass the iconic spots; Japanese Garden, Pittock Mansion, and Witch's Castle; but take a different approach to the forest. Being in Forest Park is to be immersed a fluid place that exists both in and out of time. In the forest—within minutes leaving the street—you can forget, or wonder at the fact that you are still in a city.
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Half-day Tours
Best of Portland Morning City Tour
Explore Portland on a 3.5-hour city sightseeing tour that travels from downtown Portland to the Pearl District to Nob Hill. Take a tour of the Pittock Mansion and see Lan Su Chinese Garden, a collaboration between Portland and sister-city Suzhou, China. Stroll through the International Rose Test Garden, located in Washington Park and boasting more than 7,000 rose plants with 550 varieties represented. Learn about the history and culture of Portland, which has been growing rapidly in recent years. Your tour includes pickup and drop-off from downtown Portland hotels.
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Day Trips
The Mt St Helens Adventure Tour
Discover lava tube caves, old-growth forests, waterfalls, and more on a guided tour of Mt. St. Helens. The park's vastness and variety of attractions can be overwhelming on your own, but by visiting with a guide you don't miss any of the highlights. Plus, you can learn about the area's geology, ecology, and history—much of which you might miss if visiting the park on your own.
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Beer & Brewery Tours
Haunted Pub Tour
Explore the eerie side of Old Town with this haunted pub tour in Portland. Learn about some of the city's scary history as you walk through 19th-century buildings. Sample seven local beers as you hear about Portland's era of kidnapping, gangs, prostitution and opium dens.
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Best of Portland Afternoon City Tour
See the best Stumptown has to offer on a small-group tour of the city's top sights and attractions. Learn about local history, culture and everyday life while exploring downtown and its surrounds. Peruse the revamped Pearl District and visit Pioneer Square. Experience what makes Portland unique with stops at the International Portland Rose Garden, Pittock Mansion and Lan Su Chinese Garden. Walk away with a better appreciation for and knowledge of Oregon's largest city.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The answers provided below are based on answers previously given by the tour provider to customers' questions.
What are the best tours in Portland?
The best tours in Portland according to Viator travelers are:
- Morning Half-Day Multnomah Falls and Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Tour from Portland
- Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls and Mt Hood Tour from Portland
- Afternoon Half-Day Multnomah Falls and Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Tour from Portland
- Oregon Coast Tour from Portland
- Mt Hood Day Trip from Portland to Multnomah Falls and Hood River
What tours in Portland are taking additional safety precautions?
These Portland experiences are providing additional COVID-19 safety measures:
- Morning Half-Day Multnomah Falls and Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Tour from Portland
- Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls and Mt Hood Tour from Portland
- Afternoon Half-Day Multnomah Falls and Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Tour from Portland
- Oregon Coast Tour from Portland
- Mt Hood Day Trip from Portland to Multnomah Falls and Hood River
What tours in Portland are good for avoiding crowds?
These hidden gems in Portland may have limited interaction with crowds:
- Morning Half-Day Multnomah Falls and Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Tour from Portland
- Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls and Mt Hood Tour from Portland
- Afternoon Half-Day Multnomah Falls and Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Tour from Portland
- Oregon Coast Tour from Portland
- Mt Hood Day Trip from Portland to Multnomah Falls and Hood River
- Oneonta Gorge
- The Grotto
- Wahkeena Falls
- Powell's City of Books
- Latourell Falls
- Forest Park
- Portland Japanese Garden
- Portland Art Museum
- Pittock Mansion
- Mt. Hood Railroad
- Mt. Hood
- Alphabet District
- South Park Blocks
- Portland Steel Bridge
- North Mississippi Avenue
- Lan Su Chinese Garden
- Portland Chinatown
- Pioneer Square
- Oregon Zoo
- Oregon Rail Heritage Center (ORHC)
- Portland Pearl District
- International Rose Test Garden
- Columbia River Gorge
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
- Hoyt Arboretum
- Multnomah Falls
- Washington Park
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Chef Marc Quinones of Más in Hotel Andaluz in Albuquerque, New Mexico shows us how to make Berkshire Pork Belly with Anasazi Bean Ragout, Yellow Corn, in a Harissa & Sherry Reduction.
One 10 pound Pork Belly
1 quart of chicken stock
1 quart of duck sauce
3 cups of Sherry wine
2 cups of harissa paste
Salt & Pepper to taste.
Salt & Pepper Pork Belly and then sear on both sides until golden. Deglaze with Sherry and reduce by half or until alcohol is cooked out. Add chicken stock, harissa and duck sauce and simmer on low heat for 6 hours. Or in oven at 285 for 5 hours. Remove Belly from liquid and press over night. Reserve braising liquid to heat up and use as your sauce. Cut Belly into squares and fry until Crispy. Toss in remaining sauce and plate.
For Anasazi Bean ragout
2 cups of Anasazi beans cooked
1 cup of heavy cream
1/2 cup of Parmesan cheese
1 tablespoon of chopped green onion
Salt and Pepper to taste.
Heat ingredients up and simmer until beans are coated with the cream and cheese has melted.
Sauté Corn in Butter.
Plate the dish as you wish. Garnish with little herbs.

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Tonkatsu (豚カツ, とんかつ or トンカツ, [tonꜜkatsɯ]) pork cutlet, is a Japanese dish which consists of a breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet. There are two main types, fillet and loin. It is often served with shredded cabbage. In Korea, tonkatsu is known as don-gaseu (돈가스) or don-kkaseu (돈까스), which derived from a transliteration of the Japanese word.
The word tonkatsu is a combination of the Sino-Japanese word ton (豚) meaning "pig" and katsu (カツ), which is a shortened form of katsuretsu (カツレツ), the transliteration of the English word cutlet, which again derived from French côtelette, meaning "meat chop".
Tonkatsu originated in Japan in the 19th century. Early katsuretsu was usually beef; the pork version was invented in Japan in 1899 at a restaurant called Rengatei in Tokyo.[1][2][3] It was originally considered a type of yōshoku—Japanese versions of European cuisine invented in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—and was called katsuretsu or simply katsu.[4]
The dish was introduced to Korea around 1930s during the Japanese rule period, but the thick, Japanese-style tonkatsu failed to seize popularity.[5] don-gaseu became popular in the 1960s, with the spread of gyeong-yangsik—light western food— restaurants.[6] The dish, although called by Japanese-derived name don-gaseu, followed western pork cutlet recipes such as those of Austrian schnitzel: thinned by pounding before breaded and deep-fried.[6] It was not pre-sliced, and served with bread. Western-style appetizer soup was served before the dish. Don-gaseu developed into two distinct varieties. In 1977, gyeong-yangsik-style don-gaseu with thin meat became a popular menu in gisa-sikdang—drivers' restaurant, similar to transport café, for taxi drivers— with the addition of chili peppers and kimchi as an accompaniment.[7] As gyeong-yangsik restaurants nearly disappeared, this style of don-gaseu is now commonly served in drivers' restaurants and bunsik-jip (snack restaurants).[6] Second style of don-gaseu, with thicker meat and served pre-sliced following the Japanese method, was made popular in 1983 by a restaurant called Myeongdong Dongaseu.[5] This style of don-gaseu is now commonly served in authentic Japanese restaurants.
Either a pork fillet (ヒレ hire) or pork loin (ロース rōsu) cut may be used; the meat is usually salted, peppered, dredged lightly in flour, dipped into beaten egg and then coated with panko (bread crumbs) before being deep fried.[8]
Tonkatsu is generally served with shredded cabbage.[9] It is most commonly eaten with a type of thick Worcestershire sauce called tonkatsu sauce or simply sōsu (sauce), karashi (mustard) and perhaps a slice of lemon. It is usually served with rice, miso soup and tsukemono and eaten with chopsticks. It may also be served with ponzu and grated daikon instead of tonkatsu sauce.
As well as being served as a single dish, it is also used as a sandwich filling or in combination with curry.
Korean don-gaseu is different from Japanese tonkatsu in that it is not served pre-sliced—thus eaten with fork and knife, not chopsticks—, thinner, and is served with demi-glace on top of the fried meat (or in case of fish cutlet, tartar sauce on the fried fish).[6] Common accompaniments include shredded cabbage sprinkled with ketchup-mayonnaise mixture, baked beans, macaroni salad, sweet corn, and danmuji (yellow pickled radish). Green chili peppers and doenjang (soybean paste) or ssamjang (wrap sauce) for dipping the chili peppers, baechu-kimchi (cabbage kimchi) or kkakdugi (radish kimchi), and rice with Korean or Japanese style soup can be served with the don-gaseu plate.[7] Alternatively, bread can replace rice, in which case Western-style soup is served before the main plate as an appetizer.[6]
Tonkatsu is also popular as a sandwich filling (katsu sando) or served on Japanese curry (katsu karē). Tonkatsu is sometimes served with egg on a big bowl of rice as katsudon.
In Nagoya and surrounding areas, miso katsu, tonkatsu eaten with a Hatchomiso-based sauce, is a specialty.[10]
Variations on tonkatsu may be made by sandwiching an ingredient such as cheese or shiso leaf between the meat, and then breading and frying. For the calorie conscious, konnyaku is sometimes sandwiched in the meat.[citation needed]
Several variations of tonkatsu use alternatives to pork:
A similar cuisine with ingredients other than pork, beef or chicken is called furai (fry), not katsu (cutlet), such as aji-furai (fried horse mackerel) and ebi-furai (fried prawn).[11]
Difference between katsu and furai is not defined explicitly; however, cuisine made of fish or vegetables are not called katsu but called furai.
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In just over seven weeks, voters will decide the fate of the three 2012 state marijuana initiatives to legalize possession and use of the plant for adults in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington State. As the polling data available for these measures continue to warrant optimism among those in favor of ending marijuana prohibition, it is no surprise that nine former heads of the Drug Enforcement Agency recently wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder encouraging him to take a public stance against the legalization initiatives.
The letter itself isn't entirely notable for any detailed policy advocacy. It simply says silence on the issue is tantamount to acceptance while also making the rudimentary point that state ratification is irrelevant, as federal law preempts state law and marijuana remains criminalized at the federal level.
However, one small aspect of the letter warrants attention, and that happens to be the language describing these initiatives as "dangerous." The letter did not go on to say why these ballot measures are dangerous or what the danger of a legally regulated market for marijuana encompasses. It did not explicitly outline what dangers are posed by these legalization initiatives, but these former DEA chiefs are likely referring to public safety and crime.
It is a common argument among the most ardent proponents of drug prohibition that liberalizing marijuana laws will lead to increases in crime. Drugs and crime go hand in hand together, they argue, so by making marijuana legal and more readily available, increases in violent and property crime will naturally follow.
Similar contentions have been made regarding states that have already passed medical marijuana laws. The perception is that making marijuana more available through brick and mortar medical dispensaries actually creates the conditions for crime to thrive. This argument can be equally applied to the three state legalization initiatives that would allow for brick and mortar selling of recreational marijuana.
This was even one of the reasons specifically cited by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer when she opposed Arizona's medical marijuana law, claiming dispensaries would essentially serve as a magnet for criminal activity. Moreover, law enforcement officials in Colorado also contend that crime associated with medical marijuana dispensaries is on the rise, though there is no concrete evidence to back up the contention.While prohibitionists are concerned that liberalizing marijuana policy, even via careful regulation of medical marijuana, will result in an increase in crime and threats to public safety, the evidence of empirical studies suggests otherwise. In fact, the only methodologically rigorous research to tackle the association between crime and medical marijuana dispensaries found no correlation between marijuana dispensaries and crime.
In a paper recently published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, UCLA scholars Nancy J. Kepple and Bridget Freisthler discovered that "density of medical marijuana dispensaries was not associated with violent or property crime rates" in Sacramento, California.
The paper used the routine activity theory to attempt to understand how the existence of medical marijuana dispensaries may impact crime. In criminology, routine activity theory posits that crime results from the convergence of three conditions: (1) a motivated offender; (2) a suitable target (based on value, access, visibility); and (3) the lack of a capable guardian (such as inadequate security or the absence of management or agents to watch and monitor behavior).
Kepple and Freisthler go on to explain how medical marijuana dispensaries and their surrounding areas may be suitable targets for crime (citations removed):
"Applying routine activity theory to medical marijuana dispensaries suggests that dispensaries may uniquely contribute to crime even when other contextual factors associated with crime have been controlled. They have on-site stock and sales of marijuana and are a predominantly cash-based business. The centralized location of the goods—marijuana and cash— within the dispensaries makes the location a suitable target for a potential offender who might be motivated to seek out ways to obtain the desirable goods, particularly where security appears to be absent. Based on the conditions described above, dispensaries can be at risk for property crimes, such as burglary. Employees of the dispensaries can be at risk for violent crimes, such as robbery or assault, because they are gatekeepers to both the marijuana products and the cash at the site. Estimates from the western United States and other countries show that users of medical cannabis are primarily male (i.e., two thirds to three fourths of all users) and White, with a wide range of ages (i.e., late teen years to old age; median age between 30 and 50). The typical clientele for dispensaries (i.e., older White men) are not associated with being at risk for perpetrating crime. However, they are at risk for being targets of violent crimes, such as robbery, because they are likely carrying cash on entry and some physical amount of marijuana product on exit. In addition, medical marijuana dispensaries have a diverse clientele, with some who are older, frail, and/or diagnosed with chronic, debilitating conditions. These more vulnerable clients may appear to be easier targets for a motivated offender and are at higher risk for victimization."
The authors then "used an ecological, cross-sectional design to explore the spatial relationship between the density of medical marijuana dispensaries and crime rates in the City of Sacramento." In sum, the study finds that "cross-sectional results suggest that dispensaries are not associated with crime rates."
While commercial zoning, one-person housing units, and the unemployment rate were all positively associated with both violent and property crime rates, "no cross-sectional associations were observed between the density of medical marijuana dispensaries and violent or property crime rates, controlling for ecological variables traditionally associated with routine activity theory."
From these findings, the authors draw two possible conclusions:
"First, the density of medical marijuana dispensaries may not be associated with neighborhood-level crime rates. For example, dispensaries may be associated with crime but no more than any other facility in a commercially zoned area with conditions that facilitate crime. Alternatively, the relationship between density of medical marijuana dispensaries and crime rates is likely more complex than measured here. The study did not measure on-site security or guardianship at the dispensaries. If medical marijuana dispensaries have strong guardianship, such as security and monitoring systems, routine activity theory would suggest that the three necessary conditions for crime are not met. Place-specific guardianship would decrease the accessibility and increase the risk of being caught, decreasing the suitability of a target."
While the study cautions, "no conclusions can be made about causation," at the "aggregate level, dispensaries in Sacramento are not associated with crime cross-sectionally," the authors also discuss other possible, yet unmeasured factors, such as sample size, locations of illicit drug markets, marijuana dispensary locations, and alcohol stores that may be at play. And they further note that greater exploration of these conditions, as well as others, including dispensary owner decision-making, larger cities, and dispensary vulnerability or resistance to crime is essential to build on this initial research.
As the authors' findings suggest, their research stands in stark contrast to the arguments of prohibition advocates against legalization initiatives. As we move closer and closer to election day, however, and the real possibility that at least one of these legalization initiatives will pass, we should expect to hear more and more from opponents of marijuana legalization.
Yet while an official of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy recently claimed to embrace a scientific approach to drug policy and argued that legalization advocates are blinded by their ideological zeal, the science, in this instance, contradicts the main argument of prohibition advocates, showing that there is no correlation between the increased existence of brick and mortar marijuana dispensaries and violent crime or property crime.
Notes:A study predating this one finding crime increasing after medical marijuana dispensaries closed was pulled for alleged methodological reasons.


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Iraq's security forces are reeling from last week's ferocious Islamic State takeover of the capital of Iraq's largest province and must regroup before even thinking of staging a counterattack, a senior State Department official said Wednesday in the Obama administration's most sober assessment to date of the battle.
U.S. officials are still "trying to piece together exactly what happened" when Iraqi forces retreated from Ramadi in Anbar province during the Islamic State offensive, said the official, who could not be further identified under the conditions of the briefing he gave reporters. He said the focus now is to "just basically hold together" the Iraqi army's units that retreated at Ramadi.
The Ramadi outcome underscored how difficult defeating the Islamic State will be, the official said, repeating the Obama administration's warning that it will require years of effort.
For one thing, the official said, the Islamic State is an enemy like no other, with an estimated 22,000 fighters from 100 countries – twice as big as and far more diverse than the forces that flooded Afghanistan over a decade to battle the Soviet Union there.
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Will Smith: How to Bend the Universe to Your Will
Source: Mind Bending Videos
The message in this interview with Will Smith is brilliant. Unfortunately, the audio is a bit rough and it's difficult to hear, so below this video we have transcribed the full text. The video begins with the interviewer asking a question related to the book The Power of Positive Thinking, and then Will Smith takes over with a passionate speech about the power of the human will.
Will Smith: It's interesting – as an actor, I search for the one thing that I connect to with the character. Whether it's, you know... before I play a character I want to build on one thing – what is the one connective idea, that connective tissue between myself and this character that I can have.
And Chris (Chris Gardner, writer of The Pursuit of Happyness) and I were both raised in very spiritual households, and we both believe – whole-heartedly – that our thoughts, our feelings, our dreams, our ideas, are physical in the universe.
That, if we dream something, if we picture something, and we commit ourselves to it, that that is a physical thurst towards realization that we can put into the universe.
That the universe is not a thing that is going to push us around. That the world, and people, and situations are not something that is going to push us around.
That we are going to bend the universe, and command, and demand that the universe become what we want it to be.
And that links back to a very spiritual upbringing. For me it was my mother and grandmother, and... for Chris it was his mother, and there's a term that Chris always uses -- I want to get it right, Chris, you called it, uh – Spiritual Genetics.
That, there is a spirit of a person – and he feels that it was his mother – he has these spiritual genetics that his mother embodied, and that is the idea that was my... the first connective tissue that I connected to with Chris.
And, you know, if there's one thing that people would walk away from this movie with, that would be my deepest hope...
Someone asked me a question – I was in Europe a few weeks ago promoting the movie – and the person asked me what is my preoccupation with happy endings, right?
And I was sort of thrown by that a little bit, you know, am I preoccupied with happy endings? And, the tone was that that was unrealistic, and the question threw me because I feel like "don't we all want to a happy ending?"
Like is anyone sitting out there right now like "damn, I hope I get hit by a car when I go outside. You know life's too good I just want someone to run me the hell over when I go outside!"
I feel like, the first thing – YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE IT. Right? Like, you've got to believe that you can be married happily for 50 years if you ever expect to be married happily for 50 years. Like, you can't talk about how unrealistic it is to be married happily for 50 years and expect it to happen.
It's unrealistic to walk into a room and flip a switch and lights come on... that's unrealistic. Fortunately, Edison didn't think so. It's unrealistic to... (audience member interrupts with some shouting to which Will jokingly responds "Security!")
It's unrealistic to think that you're going to bend a piece of metal and fly people over an ocean in that metal. That's unrealistic, but fortunately, the Wright brothers and others didn't believe that. And it just seems like such a ridiculous idea to me to embrace the idea that "it's not going to happen," and "that's not real for that to happen."
As soon as you say it, now you just made that real, you know? I connect it to... also with racism. People ask me about racism in Hollywood. Why would I acknowledge racism? When you acknowledge the obstacle you actually give it power by the acknowledgement of it.
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A Flood of Unread Emails
Gmail tells me I have 1,884 unread emails in my inbox. Calmail informs me I have 121 unread emails. And mail.yahoo.ca urges me to attend to 295 unread emails. Fortunately, at least in the case of Gmail, the number is "off." What happened was, when I first started my Gmail account, I retrieved all the emails from my Calmail account. They were all marked as "Unread" when they arrived in Gmail. However, since then, scores of unread emails have been added: Facebook notifications ("XYZ added you as a Friend"; "RFY commented on your status"; "GHI superpoked you!") I never got around to deleting; Second Life friend adds that I never glanced at nor was invested enough to actually banish from my inbox; Napster, Youtube, Google News Alert updates; insane spam messages that have somehow managed to evade my high filter settings; messages from Nigerian "entrepreneurs" on phishing expeditions; The New York Times daily Opinion briefs; Digg notifications; Barack Obama futilely exhorting me for donations; Cal Athletics telling me about upcoming events; random newsletters I must have signed up for; and legitimate emails I meant to attend to but never got around to; etc etc etc, ad nauseam. I will never revisit 99% of these emails, or ever delete them-it is far too late now. I am sure somewhere in there are important emails that just got lost in the crowd, I don't know.
The growing number of unread messages glares at me every single time I log on, taunting me, telling me that I am somehow inadequate, that I am behind, overwhelming me with the sheer number of emails I will never get to.
It is not a trickle, it is a flood. What do I do? I cannot possibly delete my account and start a new one; then I'd have to bring over all Gmail, Yahoo, AND Calmail messages, for I cannot bear to delete emails. I have emails going back to 1996. I have emails in duplicates, in triplicates even, some finding their way from Yahoo to Calmail and then to Gmail…and not knowing which ones they are, I end up not deleting them anywhere. And thusly the floodwaters threaten to overrun the landscape of my networked life. Oy.
I am resigned to having these mostly unnecessary, unwanted words camping out in my inbox for an eternity, carving our undeletable illegal dwellings. Kind of like textual tenants that you can never evict. Any advice is welcome: if you don't want to comment here, shoot me an email. Or then again, maybe not.


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Olga Román
- Career Highlights
- Recipient of a Berklee scholarship and a Fulbright grant
- Released four albums under her name with her own compositions: Vueltas y Vueltas (2001), Olga Román 2 (2005), Seguir Caminando (2011), and De Agua y Laurel (2012)
- Collaborated with many great musicians and top singers in live concerts and/or recordings including Danilo Pérez, Oscar award winner Jorge Drexler, renowned Spanish poprock singersongwriter Joaquín Sabina, Luis Eduardo Aute, and Argentinian singer Juan Carlos Baglietto, among many others
- Composed and/or sang many songs for films, and her song "Again," from Vueltas y Vueltas, was the main theme for the movie The Open Sky (Miguel Albaladejo)
- Quero was the main theme for the Spanish Goya Film Award winner Nothing to Lose (Rafa Russo)
- Tours throughout Spain, Latin America, and Puerto Rico
- Currently teaching at Berklee College of Music, Valencia campus; Escuela de Música Creativa; and Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio, Madrid
- Conducts/hosts "Madrid a Otro Ritmo," a small section of the program Hoy por Hoy Madrid at Cadena SER
- Works on a project called Growing Harmonically with business coach and advisor Fernando Botella (CEO at Think & Action), and collaborates with Fundación Theodora.
- Awards
- Nominated for the Spanish Goya Film Awards 2002 as best original song; "Again"
- Education
- Professional Diploma, Berklee College of Music, summa cum laude
In Their Own Words
"I have an individual approach to each student, and I try to offer them a safe environment to feel comfortable and free to explore and learn. My goal is to help my students find their own voice, their uniqueness, and give them tools in order to manage as a musician in the professional world. After 30 years in my musical career, I try to teach what I think is most important for a vocalist."
"A musical piece, a song, can be approached from different perspectives: lyrics, melody, rhythm, harmony. For a singer it's very important to work on all of them but we have to emphasize the importance of 'telling' the lyrics, telling the story, the commitment with the emotional flow of the composition, the importance of intention and attitude."
"We work on vocal technique and on rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ear training exercises. I want them to understand what's going on underneath the melody. A singer should understand all the layers that support the melody and not only care about the leading line. That will allow them to move freely inside a song, to improvise, to hear and sing vocal harmonies, and to develop their own version and arrangement."


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The Art of Voice with Dr. Kay Cosgrove and her students
Poetry reading | Refreshments | Fun Activity:
At this event, Dr. Cosgrove, Visiting Assistant Professor of English and her creative writing students will read selections from The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice. Written with wit and style, this craft guide approaches poetry through that vital and mysterious literary element: voice. Bring paper and pen to do a writing exercise from the book.
Tuesday, April 16th
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PLC, 2nd Floor Lounge
Mark your calendar and come join us!


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Caveat Emptor AND Venditor: Security is Up to Everyone
Recently, a slew of companies announced bug bounty programs. That's great that businesses are taking more responsibility for proactively catching problems that can turn into security vulnerabilities. It's also a great reminder of the "seller beware" counsel. But do bug bounty programs go deep enough? What else can sellers do to protect themselves and their customers from potential security risks? Regardless of whether you sit on the seller or buyer side of the technology fence, understanding the ripple effects of an organization's level of security—good or bad—is paramount.
Not only is it time consuming and extremely expensive to clean up after a breach, but the fines associated with noncompliance can also hit hard. For instance, Finra, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, reported in its 2015 annual report that the average compliance fine is $205K. HIPAA fines for non-compliance range from $100 to $50,000 per violation with a maximum of $1.5M.
And if the financial penalties of today aren't motivating enough, consider the ramifications of tomorrow. Cyber security issues uncovered through due diligence during a merger or acquisition can often end up being a deal breaker or price cutter, as CSO/Australia reports.
Meanwhile, according to the 2016 Financial Industry Cyber security Report, the U.S. commercial bank with the lowest security posture is one of the top 10 largest financial service organizations. And, several malware families were found at 75 percent of the top 20 U.S. commercial banks.
Taking Action
One effort, as reported by Fortune, is being led by a former hacker to devise a security ratings system for software, akin to a nutritional label. This will help customers, of course, but what about the sellers of that software? Companies in the business of selling software or other technology need to think about what they can do during the design and deployment phase.
Those who are users of that software or technology also have a responsibility: to have reflexive and responsive protections in place, from a visibility and security standpoint. It's what ensures the integrity and value of your company—to customers, partners, employees, investors, and others.
For tight security, organizations need to take a holistic approach with a 360° view. When you move out of the defensive-reactive posture, it makes all the difference. And that means thinking about security from the manufacturer's view, as well. This is why Ixia creates technology that spans end to end: from development to deployment.
Ixia test solutions help manufacturers test their technology to ensure it is bug-free and that it will perform as promised. On the customer side, Ixia test, visibility, and security solutions help businesses assess the resilience and strength of their networks and applications before deployment by emulating the type of traffic, threats, and other conditions that they typically or potentially could experience. And, in operation, the Ixia Security Fabric combines resilience and context-aware data processing to continue to secure and strengthen the infrastructure. When combined with global intelligence, such as what the Ixia Application and Threat Intelligence Research Center feeds into the fabric, the entire infrastructure is bolstered.
Learn more about Ixia's Security Architecture and how test, visibility, and security can help strengthen sellers'—and buyers'—security.


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Ha! Look at me, trying to catch up on the Reverb 10 project. While I was writing on five prompts in a row, my annoyed, critical side (critical of the project this time, not of me. This is progress!) was saying, "Oh, come on! This is a waste of your time! What the fuck are you doing? And why do you insist on writing the word "fuck" every day?"
It was good for me, the writing I did this morning. Instead of doing a regular undisciplined free write (which I do daily anyway whether I mean to or not since writing is like breathing for me and if I don't do it, I die a little bit), I focused on specific topics, like a school girl. This made me feel grumpy, but young. It's always good to feel young.
(on a random note having nothing to do with writing, which the Dec. 2 prompt covers, the pink streak my daughter put in my hair yesterday has already faded. I forgot about it and washed my hair this morning. Oh well. A stronger dye next time?)
I've drafted responses to five of the Reverb 10 prompts. They are dull responses, too long, uninteresting even to me. Well, that's a lie. I just think I'm uninteresting from the outside looking in. Must remember something my lovely friend and poetry teacher Diane Frank insisted to those of us who attended her first in-person Bluelight Press workshop in 2009 (talk about wonder and feeling alive!). We're all unique to other people. The way we view the world and experience our lives is unlike anything any of us has ever seen (hahahaha! Laughing at myself. That is NOT the kind of thing I usually say).
I'll just post Day 2 for now and add the others later when I have time, after I've gone to the store (the bread is stale), picked up my girl from school, gone to her dad's to get the toiletries left behind (including her contacts), taken her to the mall for warm boots.... Um. It's possible this paragraph answers Leo Babauta's question, but I suppose I'll include the babble I did earlier just because.
December 2 – Writing. What do you do each day that doesn't contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it? (Author: Leo Babauta)
I wish I could say that everything I do contributes to my writing, but that's impossible and not true and shouldn't be true.
I'll start with the bad, "shameful" stuff that's really no more than procrastination:
I spend way too much time online. I have a space at a "diary" site where I've been writing for nearly eleven years. I spend too much time reading other people's "diaries," writing notes to them, writing my own entries about absolutely nothing.
(Will say, however, that much of the writing I do there, more of it private than not, leads to publishable poems, essays, fiction, so it's not a complete waste; it's just a little bit of a waste. Plus, I've made some amazing friends through that site.)
I watch too much bad television. I really don't watch much television, but even an hour of bad television a week is an hour too much.
I'm not addicted to Facebook, but it's kind of like reality TV, and unless I'm simply connecting with people I love, it feels like any time spent there is too much time.
I read too many blogs and find other blogs to read by following the links on comments. I follow too many links on Twitter and end up finding stories that make me want to find more information about the topic of the links. Read too many news sites that make me crazy and cranky and inclined to want to do more and more research either to find support for my gut feelings...... All these things take away time from writing.
I probably sleep more than I need to during the weeks when my daughter is at her dad's and I have more freedom to focus. I waste the freedom sleeping.
During those (sad) weeks when my daughter is not with me, I rent too many DVDs and spend too much time watching movies that are sometimes not worth my time, though like reading, for me, watching movies does sometimes give me writing ideas. I love movies. Maybe I'll leave this off my list.
During the happy weeks when my daughter is with me, when it appears I am in more danger of losing writing time, I do a lot of things that appear to have nothing to do with writing. I will not give up the things I do with my daughter, none of those things, not letting her color my hair, not sitting next to her on the sofa while she does homework or chats online with her friends with her music playing on her laptop or Family Guy on the TV even though it would be easier for me to work if I escaped to my study. I won't give up the spontaneous teen gatherings we have in my basement rec room or the occasional "GNG" (Girls Night Gang) sleepovers we have. I won't stop giving her friends rides home after school.
Aside from the fact that I'd rather spend time with my daughter than write (and I love writing), everything I do with her and her friends somehow ends up in my work, sometimes accidentally or unconsciously, sometimes more deliberately. Maybe I shouldn't have listed any of this "daughter stuff" as not contributing to my writing, though I have to admit, Family Guy is not much of an inspiration to the kind of poet I am or for the kinds of fictional pieces I write.
The things that I do that don't contribute to my writing that don't involve my daughter or my family are small and insidious enough that I don't always realize how much time I've spent on them. I could keep track, maybe set a timer for myself, limit how long I am online or how many hours of bad TV I watch. Maybe I'll try that.
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Another minister is having their policies torn apart by government officials.
Typically for Labour ministers they are just plowing on regardless because they know best. Quote:
Housing Minister Phil Twyford's package of tenancy law reforms would likely drive up rents by causing some landlords to get out of the market, officials have told him.
Officials said while most of the tenancy law overhaul and other changes to the rental market considered by the Government would not have much of an effect on their own, their cumulative weight could lead some landlords to sell their properties to owner-occupiers.
Because owner-occupiers typically have less people in a house than renters, this could lead to a further shortage in rental properties – and higher rents.?End quote.
The exact opposite of what Labour is trying to achieve.Quote:
The advice came in?a late-April paper produced for Twyford by the Ministry of Business?Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and obtained by?Stuff?under the Official Information Act.
The policies discussed include the Healthy Homes Guarantees Act, which sets more strict standards for rental properties, the extension of the Bright Line Test taxation change, and the expected end of "loss ring fencing" for landlords, a setting that allowed landlords to offset losses on one property against another.
"While these effects should be minor, the cumulative effect of changes to the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 may lead landlords to perceive the effects as more than minor. As a result, even if legislative changes did not materially affect the financial returns of landlords, some many nevertheless choose to sell their rental properties," the officials wrote.
"The combined increase of these policies will be to increase sales of rental properties, with fewer landlords purchasing."
The analysis was focused on areas which already had a shortage in rental housing and an increasing level of demand – most notably Auckland and Wellington. There was no modelling done on how large this increase could be.
The officials believed that the Government's attempts to increase supply would not materially change things for at least the next two years, with the housing shortage increasing by 14,600, even if 6000 KiwiBuild homes are built.?End quote.
They are a long way off even getting close to building 6000 homes.?Quote:
Twyford said the advice was "only a scenario" and he "wasn't assuming that is going to happen."
"They've explored one risk scenario. I think there are too many variables at play. I think we have to be alive to that scenario, but I'm not assuming the numbers [on the housing shortage] they have are?going to happen."?End quote.
He only thinks they've got it wrong. Never before have I seen a minister so convinced of his own infallibility. His arrogance knows no bounds.?Quote:
He accepted the basic assumption that rentals being sold to owner-occupiers would make the shortage worse as rentals had a higher occupancy rate, but said supply was being increased to make up for it.
"The collision between under-supply and excess demand that has been a feature of the market for so long is much less of an issue now," Twyford said.
"Investor activity in the market hasn't reduced. In fact investor activity with multiple properties has actually increased over the last couple of months."
He admitted some landlords could exit the market – but said the market itself would stay strong.
"For some landlords, the idea of having to put in a heat pump, or the idea that you may not be able to get rid of tenants using a 90-day notice, may be the straw breaks the camel's back – but in general I think markets are very resilent."?End quote.
He might be surprised. But then again he often is.?Quote:
National Party housing spokeswoman Judith Collins said the advice proved what the National Party had been saying – that the reforms would drive landlords out of the market.
"We have been saying one change landlords can cope with, a whole lot you have people leaving," Collins said.
"This is going to put more stress on the rental market, put rents up, and at the same put much more people onto the social housing waitlist."
Collins wouldn't commit to reversing any of the policy changes Twyford was making if National came to Government in 2020 but wouldn't rule it out either.
The way to fix the rental market was to encourage new supply by reforming planning laws, Collins said – something she said Twyford was talking about but not actually doing.
"What are are going to have is fewer landlords and the ones that are there are going to be asking for higher rents." End quote.
Twyford is dreaming if he thinks increased costs on landlords won't lead to increased rents. No one ever sees rents go down, and with these reforms, rents will go up to cover the increased risk of dud tenants and capital expenditure on improvements.
As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he's not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn't do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can't ignore him.
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Apache Guacamole Critical Vulnerabilities Put Remote Desktops at Risk
Security researchers at Check Point have uncovered multiple critical reverse RDP vulnerabilities in the Apache Guacamole. Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH, together with MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication), compliance checks on the BYOD side, and several security controls like IPS, SOC anomaly detections and more. […]Read More →


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The word for today is Confrontation!
" Speaking the truth in love".
It often happens that you have to face a confrontation to clarify a relationship that is about to rotten!
When I face a confrontation I find a thousand excuses for not doing it!
This is because the confrontation implies things I do not want to say to people I do not want to confront.
I do understand, however, that without confrontation the relationship inevitably tends to poison and eventually die!
How did I learn to confront others?
First of all, I understand that the word confrontation, in itself, means facing in the front, mind with mind, culture with culture, perspective with perspective.
This way of confronting puts the interlocutors on the defensive by giving ample space to prejudices and postures that determine a destructive end before the confrontation begins!
I found that two elements can be the basis of a constructive confrontation : Honesty and Sincerity.
I must be honest and objective in showing and communicating the reasons for the confrontation ! I must understand the position of my interlocutor and give him the benefit of the doubt before arriving at a collision course!
But the secret of a successful confrontation is sincerity!
Sincerity gives precedence to the heart and not just to the mind. Sincerity gives space to our feelings more than our words!
When honesty and sincerity take the lead in the confrontation , then and only then we can find a positive and constructive solution to solve our problems!
Our culture seems to have become increasingly violent and belligerent, aiming at a confrontation that almost always produces an abortion!
With honesty and sincerity change the course and intentionally study yourself to make a healthy confrontation that will result in a better relationship!
Guy Sottile
The word for today is Confrontation!


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Stuntman (Platinum Range) - Playstation 2
Stuntman (Platinum Range) - Playstation 2
In Stuntman, you play as an aspiring stunt car driver, working on major motion pictures. You begin your trek as a Rookie, working on low-budget films. As you gain notoriety, you will get offers from big budget, Hollywood films, complete with large stunts and pyrotechnics.
Stuntman takes place in six different locations, each location shooting a different movie. There are four to eight different missions for each movie. Some will have you chasing a car around a harbor, to jumping between two trains, to jumping through windows. When a movie is complete, you can view a trailer of the movie, with your stunts worked into it.
Aside from the Career mode, you can choose to play various driving tests, such as Speed Tests, Precision Tests, and, of course, Stunt Tests. Stuntman also includes a stunt park editor, where you can place ramps, obstacles, and other equipment in an arena, and then choose to play it.
As a Stuntman, you get to drive a variety of cars, such as police cars, sports cars, trucks, and armored vehicles.
Stuntman can be informative, as well. Before each stunt, your character will describe what he has to do, and how important timing is. You can learn various techniques that real stunt drivers use, such as the cannon roll and the nitro boost. You can also learn what the different pieces of equipment are called, such as the "side pipe", which is used to roll a car onto it's side.
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Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground is a four-star value hotel at Walt Disney World.
It's a campground, but the campsites do offer a paved drive, grill, picnic table, electricity and city water. Almost all have sewer hookups, too. Private showers, restrooms and laundry facilities are available in communal comfort stations throughout the campground. Note that the available cabins are considered "Moderate" price. Fort Wilderness also is home to the popular Hoop-Dee-Doo Review musical dinner show and Trail's End buffet restaurant.
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Category Archives: Liberal populism
Protected: Trump renews racist attack on Squad: 'They're not capable of loving the US'
Protected: Trump praises 'incredible' crowd who chanted 'send her back' at Ilhan Omar – as it happened
Protected: 'It's a political civil war': Trump's racist tirades set tone for 2020
Liberal populism and the glocal politics of precarity
A rise of illiberal populism?
Chinese diplomats have been having a bit of fun with human rights discourse recently, effortlessly batting away US criticisms of the forced assimilation of Uighur Islamic people by pointing to historical and ongoing US abuses of African Americans (from slavery to Jim Crow to contemporary inequality and overcriminalization). To rub salt into the wounds they've been using the Trump-favored Twitter as their platform. For Western critics and Occidentalist Chinese, the fact that the platform is banned in China functions an icon of the Communist Party's abuse of political rights. However, for the Party and many mainland Chinese the diplomatic use and domestic ban of Twitter exemplifies China's increasing ability to manage not just the message but the medium too.
The language of rights in this time of Chinese ascendancy and Western precarity isn't what it used to be. We are a long way from the last Cold War in which the US enjoyed great political mileage in using refugee rights as a means of battering the legitimacy of the Soviet Union without and socialism and communism within. Western states are suffering from a rights-credibility deficit. The nationalist anti-immigrant discourse of MAGA and Brexit are pretty much incompatible with the post-war ideological rights game. Alongside transformations in discourse and norms are changes in structures and practice. The US has withdrawn from the UN Human Rights council and made a travesty of its obligations under the Refugee Convention. England's (read 'the UK's') attempted withdrawal from the EU is strong motivated by a desire to end the extension of residence rights to European migrants (particularly rights-dependent asylum seekers), and its tradition of bashing China for its human rights abuses has been muted if not totally abandoned.
liberal multiculturalism, liberal pluralism, …
So if rights discourse and liberal multiculturalism are becoming dud currencies then who or what is to blame?
Liberal commentators are pointing the finger at myriad forms of retrogressive populism, by which they generally mean anti-elitist popular politics, drawing on people's baser instincts. We'll return to the issue of what populism is below. For the moment let's take the obvious point that politicians like Trump and Johnson are represented as manipulating the resentments of those who feel disenfranchised by an established liberal hegemony and its norms of globalist tolerance. A key part of the way that this is said to work is through an affective transformation in political discourse and performance.
The apparently uncensored character of Trump's discourse – the tearing down of the 'fake news' of 'political correctness' – appeals to his supporters in part because it creates a dialogic space for the previously unspeakable. The politician has unleashed, for his base at least, a pleasurably transgressive carnival of misrule with claims that it is time (actually way past time) that 'we' should feel free to speak and take action against the undeserving who threaten 'our' way of life.
Part of the fun is naming the previously unspeakable (taboo) others. Immigrants – especially impoverished and Islamic immigrants from 'shit-hole' states – threaten from without. Dissenting people of colour, feminists, socialists, liberals and queers threaten from within,1 in part through efforts to facilitate the threats from without. The performance of re-bordering America, appearing to fight to make the US a gated community replete with its own material-symbolic wall is crucial to this discourse of xenophobia and symophilia (love of the 'we'), along with practices of exclusion, expulsion, adverse inclusion and containment.
Send them home. The iconic moment that many commentators identify as the basis of the president's 2020 re-election strategy had been trialed with some success against Colin Kaepernick's bend the knee protests. The San Francisco 49ers quarterback refused to stand for the national anthem, his protest supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and their campaign against police shootings. The president found tweeting that Kaepernick should try to find a country that works better for him energized his base, the negligible liberal accusations of racism feeding into a storm of Blue Lives Matter patriotism.
Send them home. Democrats representatives Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. In early July 2019, they escalated their campaign for improved treatment of migrants by taking part in a Congressional Hispanic Caucus visit to a detention facility at Clint, on the Texan-Mexican border. The CBP (Customs and Border Protection) agency had recently been subject to criticism for its abusive treatment of migrant children at the facility. After the visit, Ocasio-Cortez described the treatment of the detainees as 'horrifying', involving 'systemic cruelty [with] a dehumanizing culture that treats them [migrants] like animals'. Female detainees told the visitors of staff calling them whores, of being kept in cells with no water and told to drink from the toilets if they were thirsty.
On a Sunday when another round of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids were about to commence, after a week when the progressive Democrats were embroiled in disagreement with the party's Pelosi-led moderates over issues including funding for the border security bill the president tweeted
Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime[-]infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can't leave fast enough.
The squad were targeted for symbolic deportation. The president believed that their prominent criticism of the border regime, their feminism, Congresswoman Omar's Islamic faith and criticisms of US policy on Israel and the distance of their socialist politics from those of the moderate Democrats could damage the party in the 2020 elections. He chose that particular moment to escalate a campaign of racialized red-baiting because the squad's house committee testimony resonated with many viewers. Congress had already learned of children separated from their parents and caged in detention camps, of children deprived of sleep, denied access to blankets or mattresses, not allowed to wash their hands or brush their teeth; left alone on cold, hard floors, traumatised, silent and, in some cases, suicidal. Homeland Security secretary Kevin McAleenan complained. Hitherto, the department had emerged from the official reports of mistreatment relatively unscathed, but the Congresswomen's 'unsubstantiated' allegations had 'created a sensation'.
Trump calculated that the squad's use of affective politics could be turned against them. Several days day later he stokes the xenophobic passions of a crowd at the North Carolina political rally. The president weighs in on Congresswoman Omar, evincing and endorsing catcalls from the crowd like a modern day Arturo Ui, commentating as they cheered the spectacle of a protester being forcibly evicted – 'He goes home to mommy, to mummy to get reprimanded.' Segues from the live expulsion to the virtual. Representative Ilhan Omar. Trump pauses for a full 13 seconds of sustained booing. Omar has a history of launching vicious anti-Semitic screeds. Discontented rumblings morph into a chant 'send her back, send her back, send her back'. He builds on their theme. '[L]et 'em leave. They're always telling us how to run it, how to do this, how to do that. You know what? If they don't love it, tell 'em to leave it." The president looks on approvingly as some chant Send them home, send them home. He equivocates long enough to distance himself from any allegations of racism, then doubles down on the support, calling the chanters 'incredible patriots,' using the media spotlight to further demonize the squad: 'They're incapable of loving the US'.
The culture of targeted hatred Trump orchestrated at North Carolina was well established by the summer of 2019, in part through the administration's symbiosis with Fox News. Murdoch's media giant had consistently supported Trump's xenophobic discourse from the time of their enthusiastic backing of his 2016 campaign scapegoating Mexican immigrants and promising to end Islamic immigration. Presenter Tucker Carlson contributed to the summer's escalation with a vitriolic diatribe on Congresswoman Omar: 'A living fire alarm' possessing 'antithetical values' and 'undisguised contempt for the American people'. The US cannot expect to survive, he warned, if it continues to 'import large numbers of the people who hate it'.
Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez encountered some of the culture's more subterranean social media in the lead-up to the Clint facility visit. Facebook chat among CBP (Customs and Border Protection) staff involved "sharing memes about dead migrants and discussing violence and sexual misconduct towards members of Congress." One fake image of the president pressing the congresswoman to a submissive act showed the group members clearly saw Trump as a leader of their pussy grabbing alien hating culture.2 Ocasio-Cortez focused on the implications for the detained migrants. The culture of the staff involved being incompatible with the humane care of refugees.
White House spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway later defended the president and the CBP officers with an aggressive diatribe:
(Conway) He's tired, a lot of us are sick and tired of this country, of America coming last, the people who swore an oath of office, sick and tired of our military being denigrated, sick and tired of customs and border patrol people, protection people I was with who are overwhelmingly Hispanic, by the way (she smiles) in McAllen Texas, sick and tired of them being —
(Journalist Andrew Feinburg) I understand —
(Conway) No, you don't understand because you didn't go, of them being criticized, being doxxed, by a bunch of Hollywood D Listers, who have nothing else to do but sit on their asses on Twitter all day and try to doxx brave men and women who are diving into the Rio Grande to save people who are drowning, who are taking other people's babies into custody and diapering them and feeding them and looking the other way while people are running across with drugs –that's happening!
The exasperated, aggressive style worked as part of an affective politics of resentment. It gave emotive resonance to her triangulation between border staff, foreign threats, and border regime critics. Conway represented border staff as heroic and compassionate, patriots protecting American borders regardless of their 'Hispanic-by-the-way' ethnicity. The foreign threats figured as drug and migrant trafficking, the migrants as irresponsible vulnerabilities – drowning themselves, losing or neglecting their babies, causing officers to have to take them into custody, disabling their fight against drugs. Conway's vitriol was saved for those who would facilitate the foreign risks, the superficial, unimportant critics of the border protection regime. The spokeswoman later explained the acceptable approach for Americans of mixed heritage is her own. 'I am proud of my ethnicity, love the USA and grateful to God to be an American'. The denigration of which she, the president and their audience are sick and tired of is unpatriotic, its speakers lacking the virtues of love and gratitude.
Conway's speech here, consistently with much of the president's discourse, worked to other the border regime critics via selective rather than blanket cultural racism, rendering them undeserving, illegitimately ethnic Americans. Borrowing from the satirical trope about over-criminalization … found guilty of being Black while driving, we could say Trumpians targeted the squad for the crime of dissenting while being women of colour, and particularly, for putting the interests of foreigners above those of Americans. Conway's speech works to widen the xenophobic appeal beyond the white supremacist base. Hispanic Americans, Irish-Italian Americans, Americans-regardless-of-ethnicity should love and not denigrate those who serve to protect their American way of life (in this speech CBP and military staff, in Trumpian discourse more generally, the police).
Incapable of loving America. In the president's discourse of cultural racism and xenophobia congresswoman Ilhan Omar serves as a particular foil for the targeting of Islamic people and particularly Islamic asylum seekers. Trump portrays the Minnesotan Representative as someone who blames the US for terrorist attacks in America, has compassion for ISIS terrorists, and slanders peace keeping American troops. The image of the Representative as an (Islamic) enemy of the state is supported by several American-liberal tropes. Trumpians slate Omar as a freedom hating socialist for her criticism of US policy on Venezuela, and as an anti-Semitic racist for her criticism of the government's policies on Israel and Palestine. The icing on the demonizing cake is Trump's claim that the congresswoman practiced incest, and that she did so in accordance with the illiberal un-American culture of her ethnicity and faith.
The North Carolina performance of this scapegoating portrayal of a hate filled extremist built and elicited the now infamous 13 seconds in which the president milked the crowd's hatred: send her back, send her back, send her back.' The president quickly made use of his invented demon, Omar a synecdoche for not just the Congresswomen Trump calls Radical Left and Communist Democrats, but for a wider social threat: send them back, send them back, send them back. Ilhan Omar famously defined the source of his fears: I am the president's nightmare for being part of the diverse mosaic of America'. (fn) Diversity and tolerance then, versus monculturalism and intolerance. Could we say: Liberal democracy versus illiberal populism?
Trumpian politics:
populist, illiberal and anti-social
19th Century political theorists had not discovered the term 'populist' but the liberals among them would have loved it. J.S. Mill, for example, had a visceral hatred of common people, viewed them as ignorant, irrational and vulgar and greatly feared democracy's potential for the rule of the mob.
American liberalism is a broad church with a stratifying history and political philosophy. For Ian Hanley Lopez, its consists of freedom from interference by government (negative liberty), freedom to participate equitably, and thus have the conditions that enable participation (positive liberty), and freedom to exclude so that the environment can actually support the practices of freedom (protective liberty). For J.S Mill, the enjoyment of negative liberty required emphasis on protectively positive liberalism. The working class, to take the infra-national example, should undergo the tutelage of education and work in order to raise their capacity (or quality [suzhi]) to a level at which they could participate in liberal society (gaining the franchise, for example). Savages, to take an extra-national example, might need to undergo a period of slavery, learning the lessons of obedience, discipline and work on their longer journey towards sufficient capacity. Like the vulgar mob in their unreasoning passionate natures they could not yet be expected to rule themselves, but had to be ruled by the gentle yet firm hand of government, which would have to be despotic when the passions of the mob or of savages became too heated or violent. Mill's liberalism clearly involves negative, positive and protective freedom, and its teology works across a continuum of civilizational development, with savages and mob at the bottom and propertied and educated English men at the top. At the very heart of English liberal philosophy we find a combination of what came to be known as racism and elitism.This structure of political belief and practice has been highly influential, forming the basis of not just the English political system, but also those of the Anglo settler colonies, New Zealand, Australia, Canada among others.
The race- and-class phobism of Mill's political theories was not exceptional among the architects of classical liberalism. Gholam Khiabany (3/282) notes that liberal thinkers were united by contempt for colonial peoples and working class people. Political philosopher Phillip Cole argued that liberalism's exclusions need to be understood historically. Domenico Losurdo (2011, 20) noted that liberal thinkers including Locke, Smith and Franklin endorsed slavery and the 'systemic expropriation and practical genocide first of the Irish and then of the Indians'. Classical liberals shared a belief in Anglo-European superiority, and in the superiority of educated and propertied elite men over working class men and women (even when these were also Anglo-European). Racism was cultural and inferiority ascribed to whole groups with abject equivalence. Irish were regarded as little more civilized than African Americans, and the uneducated mob was seen as little better. All of them posed savage or barbaric risks to the civilised sphere of liberal individualism. Their rule could therefore, as Mill argued, be despotic, and the treatment of such people should be both educative (progressing them towards higher states of civilisation) and expropriating (benefiting the progress of civilised society).
Liberal inclusions were conditional and graduated. Democracy, self-rule and suffrage were limited to those deemed capable of rational participation. Adverse inclusion was endorsed for some groups as part of their tutorage and as a necessary contribution to development. African Americans were deemed to benefit from the benevolent education in work and discipline provided by slavery. White colonial laborers were deemed to benefit from the wages set too low to allow them to set up their own small-holdings, tying them into debt-bondage and the building of profitable colonial economies from which they would, eventually, benefit as citizens. Emancipated West Indian plantation workers were to be prevented from fleeing to their hillside smallholdings in order to ensure the ongoing viability of the sugar industry, no matter how low the wages or poor the conditions. Emancipated African Americans in the US southern states were to be criminalised under the Jim Crow laws, ensuring the ongoing supply of a cheap and docile workforce. Each of these moments of inclusion in the sphere of liberal democracies was posited as a step up on the ladder of civilised life even as those subject found the freedom proffered to be a mirage, and nothing like the individual agency allowed the propertied and educated Anglo-European elites.
The American federation was built on a racialized form of liberalism, in which the frontier sphere of expansion provided a rolling wave of caucasian inclusion in the benefits of liberal citizenship through the genocidal displacement of native American tribes and the enslavement of African Americans. As Greg Grandin argues, the idea and practice of the westwards frontier bordered the line between the civilized and barbaric, between those populations which could be included in the liberal sphere and those that needed to be excluded in order for the sphere to remain liberal.
The socio-economic stratfications of liberalism in practice gave rise to visceral investments and disinvestments in relation to one's place along the continuum that ran from the abject unfreedom of enslavement to the ambivalence subjectivity of debt bondage through to the agent autonomy of propertied individualism. In the US, emancipation of Afro-American plantation workers brought with it the invention of 'white' Irish workers. Irish worker identity was defined by virtue of not being a 'nigger' identity. Colonial white Australian settlers defined themselves by virtue of not being the abject Aboriginals and Chinese. White master workers defined themselves as respectable, refining themselves through education, skill and culture as a class distinct from the uneducated rougher sorts.
Clinton and Obama: affective and violent propensities of liberal politics
Populism has become a keyword for the new politics of post-globalist times. It is taken to mean politics by appeal to the crowd's baser instincts. …
Racism, cultural racism, sexism, xeno, Islam, pink and red phobias. In the liberal logic Trumpians are populists cynically exploiting public ignorance and anxieties, stoking speech, beliefs and actions that can be characterized as illiberal. The appeal of this politics is said to rely on misinformation and irrational emotion, as opposed to credible information and rational objectivity.
The seeds of the Trumpian universe lies in that of the Clintons. Rather than viewing an opposition between nationalist fascism and globalist liberalism it might be better to view these as variations on a theme and oscillations in a pattern.
Trumpian logic leads to violent dichotomies of good selves and bad others, while liberal logic is supposed to leads to to the tolerant co-mingling of diverse groups.
affect and violence
As if liberalism was free of affective investment
Objective, universal position
Not equal but fair, equal opportunity, not equal outcome
Imperative: That things should be fair
Illiberal populism
The populism of liberalism
Disguised violence through capacity stratification.
Manifold violence, perpetuation of Hobbesian micro-implosions re failures of meritocratic performance
sadistic enjoyment of justice. Kamal Harris, Clinton's, criminalization, corporate lobby dependent led inequality
Historical example; abjection, working class whites, Indigenous (Australia), African Americans, hierarchies of colour and class.
Biden Harris Omar for President
affective politics of empathy … Jacinda Arden …Popular affective politics in Western countries does not have to rely on Orientalist othering. The groundswell of support for the politics of the squad has the potential to expand beyond its base. New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Arden's affective politics of empathy provides one example. …
1. Connolly, 2018. 67/115.
2. Connolly, 2018. 70/115.
Connolly, W. 2018. Aspirational Facism.
Hanley Lopez I. Dog Whistle Politics.


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Take Your Baby to Storytime at Bon Air Library March 30
Studies show that babies begin learning as soon as they're born, and parents see it from firsthand experience. Your baby begins to learn the sound of your voice, which toys they like best and sometimes, it even seems like they've learned how to wake you up the moment after you finally fall asleep. Help them learn to develop the skills they're going to need for the rest of their lives at Baby Storytime at the Bon Air Library.
Storytime for Babies
Baby storytime at the Bon Air Library is designed to help develop your baby's motor, sensory, social and even pre-literacy skills. Parents participate in the activities that are led by a librarian. Storytime uses songs, movement and books to keep babies engaged and entertained, to get their little brains working and developing new skills. Storytime is designed for babies from birth to 24 months old.
Be at the Bon Air library for baby storytime at 9:30 am. That's at 2816 Del Rio Place, just a short drive away from Wellington.
Living Well in Wellington
It's easy to like the traditional, classic architecture in Wellington and to fall in love with the quiet, winding streets next to the Sullivan University campus. But when you're here, you'll quickly find out why so many people want to live in Wellington. It can be summed up in three words: location, location, location.
Wellington is part of the Upper Highlands, and just down the road from Assumption High School. The neighborhood has easy access to Bardstown Road, the lifeline of the Highlands neighborhood. Wellington is within walking distance of the health food store, the donut shop and more than one delicious restaurant. The golf course is a quick drive away, and the Zoo is just on the other side of the Highlands.
How well will you fall in love with Wellington? Take a look at the neighborhood this March, and you may find yourself looking at your own future.
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Organ Recitals
The Minster hosts a number of organ recitals during the year, featuring highly-skilled performers from around the UK and beyond. Explore the range of repertoire you could experience in this year's series by following the links below.
To see the full programme of music at each of the organ recitals, view the leaftlet below.
Use the toolbar to move around the leaflet and to download a copy as a pdf, if you wish.


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So, in an earlier post, I made an outline of the steps in front of me:
Because of how quickly this project has been moving, I've managed to lose all track of where I am and where I'm going.
So, in order to collect my thoughts, I'm referring back to that outline, and taking stock of the steps, their completion status, and their relationship to reality:
- Modify the Scumm HE engine to display a 16-bit background resource when the freddicove demo is loaded (to test my understanding of the resource format and standard rendering process).
- Integrate this functionality into the standard running of the Scumm HE engines. — Kirben did these three.
- Add 16-bit support in place for other resource types. — Kirben did these three.
- Modify rendering, for 16-bit HE games, such that the 8-bit resources are rendered using the palette->rgb mapping system that the game engine provides. (possibly involves implementing this functionality) — Kirben did these three.
- Perform unit tests to ensure that all 16-bit Scumm HE games are rendering properly — Partially done, remainder delayed until completion of API work
- Hack the mouse cursor for 16-bit support because the erroneous display is incredibly annoying.
- Reimplement 16-bit cursor support in a less hackish manner because that was ugly.
- Discuss with mentor at length to determine ideal API behavior for bit-depth/pixel format negotiation between game engines and backends. — Not just my mentor, but most of the dev community. (Here are the final results.)
- Implement hackish proof-of-concept API while awaiting discussion from dev community.
- Implement support for this API in SDL backend and Scumm HE engine. (The real one) — This is basically done, although I want to change the behavior of a few things slightly. — (This is the point at which the mouse cursor will be upgraded, because between the in-game mouse cursor and the in-game menu, at least one must be assured to display properly if any meaningful testing is to be done.) — This turned out to be a lie. See steps 6 and 7
- Document this API exhaustively. — This may be difficult, and I will have to discuss with Sev about where and how I should do this.
- Finish testing 16-bit Scumm HE games. — I think I have all of them but pjgames, now.
- See what can be done about engines other than Scumm.
- NEW! See about fixing up the gui, SDL backend, and scalers for 24/32 bit color support.
Because of Kirben's intervention, this whole task has been going much more quickly than even my most optimistic expectations. I imagine that, on my own, I might have finished step 3 by now, but I really am not sure. Certainly I was expecting it to take at least another month to get to this point.


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Numerical Evaluation of the Influence of Urbanization in the Convection and Precipitation Patterns in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo
Abstract Studies indicate that urban areas can become Urban Heat Islands (UHI) mainly due to the lack of green areas, high emissions of air pollutants and presence of civil materials, which absorb and retain more heat for a longer time than natural, which makes the temperatures of these sites higher than the surrounding areas. The influence of convective processes in rain formation in order to modify the rainfall region are discussed in the scientific world, since that processes also depend on the local temperature. In this context, the influence of urbanization on rainfall in the metropolitan region of São Paulo (MRSP) was assessed by means of statistical methods and numerical simulations. The WRF model was used with different soil type and usage settings, namely: 1 - current urban sprawl; 2 - expanded urban area; 3 - urban sprawl replaced by native forest. The numerical simulations were performed for events in which convection played a key role in setting rainfall. The analysis of time series of precipitation has shown indications of change of pattern behavior in the MRSP mainly in the 1980s and 1990s and 2000 to the present, although it has not shown tendency to increase or decrease the average rainfall in the MRSP. The simulation results highlighted the strong influence of urbanization on atmospheric dynamics and consequently the UHI of the MRSP, culminating in severe and concentrated convective precipitation event around and inside the urban area. Simulations in which urbanization was changed to native forest, precipitation occurred, in most cases, in a more spatially distributed way and with less intensity cores.