A summary article by PolitiFact Wisconsin's Tom Kertscher contributes new evidence supporting our claims that PolitiFact checks facts poorly and applies its standards inconsistently. We'll address the latter point in a later post.
"The Republican governor of Florida has forbidden any state employee ever to use, either orally or in writing, the words 'climate change.' "
A news report in March 2015 made that assertion, though the governor, Rick Scott, denied it.
The story Kertscher linked in support, however, dealt only with Florida's Department of Environmental Protection. The State of Florida has quite a few employees outside of the DEP. On the face of it, Clinton exaggerated wildly and the best PolitiFact Wisconsin can do in response is prop up a he-said/she-said facade supporting Clinton.
PolitiFact Wisconsin reported falsely. The March 2015 news report made no assertion that Gov. Scott placed a "climate change" gag order on every state employee in Florida.
We sent a message to Tom Kertscher on March 30, 2016 pointing out the error.
We'll update this item if we receive any response.
We said before that PolitiFact does not hold itself to the same standard it applies to others. Though perhaps PolitiFact's scarce adherence to any consistent standard makes that inevitable. Our example comes from a March 20, 2016 fact check of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
PolitiFact noted in its fact check that Democrats did, in fact, hold up the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork, whom Reagan nominated in 1987. So how does it work out that Reid's statement is "mostly true" anyway?
It's tricky, in keeping with PolitiFact's tradition of convoluted and selective justification.
In context, Reid stipulated that he was talking about lame duck cases. That makes his statement literally true false (see Update below) under an expansive interpretation of "lame duck," since Bork was nominated before 1988, Reagan's final year in office.
Up through this point, one might argue PolitiFact is treating Reid unfairly by rating his true statement only "Mostly True."
But there's much more to this story, and PolitiFact leaves out important parts.
First and foremost, there is no historical parallel to the current situation with the Supreme Court. The Bork nomination is considered a prime turning point in the politization of the confirmation process, and there is no example of a lame-duck nomination since Reagan.
And the current situation during Obama's last year in office sets a new precedent because his choice would not replace a liberal justice but a conservative justice. With his choice of Bork, Reagan was trying to replace the Nixon-appointed Justice Lewis Powell.
PolitiFact's effort to help us understand the truth in politics completely omits any information about differences in the ways these nominations would affect the political balance on the Supreme Court. It's apparently unimportant context in PolitiFact's eyes.
Bork did face a hearing and a Senate vote, which he lost, but his confirmation process made the rules of the game more contentious.
What's left out? The Democrat-controlled Senate Committee that sent Bork's nomination to the Senate recommended the Senate reject the nomination. And Democrats had enough of a majority that Bork had no chance with 52 of 54 Democrats voting against him (four Republicans often associated with the acronym RINO also opposed Bork).
Why is this background important? Let's revisit the context of Reid's reply to Meet the Press host Chuck Todd. Todd played a clip from 2005 of Reid saying the Senate has no constitutional duty to vote on a Supreme Court nomination. Now Reid says the Republicans have that duty. Todd asked Reid what changed. What changed, Reid said, is that the Democrats have never opposed a lame-duck nominee--a history running right up through 1988, before Reid ever claimed the Senate has no duty to vote on a nomination.
Reid's answer to Todd was complete baloney, in context. PolitiFact's fact-check does nothing to emphasize that context to its readers. Instead, PolitiFact readers get a misleading headline sending the message that Democrats hardly at all obstruct the Supreme Court nominations of Republicans.
PolitiFact: Putting the Clintonian "is" in "nonpartisan" since 2007.
Jeff D. points out the elephant in the room.
Before we rule, we wanted to note a slight error in the second part of Reid's statement that "since 1900 in a lame-duck session, there have been six (nominees) that have all been approved." We have found in a previous fact-check that since the early 1900s, there have been six Supreme Court nominees in election years, and all were confirmed. However, only one was clearly a "lame-duck" nominee, meaning the president making the nomination was no question on the way out (Reagan). The others were nominated by presidents running for re-election to serve another term (Herbert Hoover, William Howard Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, who nominated two people in 1916).
Reid's stipulation that he was talking about lame ducks makes his statement literally false, contrary to the charitable reading I gave it in the post above. Reid's statement was flat wrong, but PolitiFact arbitrarily determined that Reid's exaggeration of 500 percent (of the number of "lame duck" Supreme Court nominations) was a "slight error" that does not appear to count against Reid's eventual rating.
PolitiFact used tweezers to pull out the most truth it could from Reid's statement, leaving behind plenty of falsehood.
Correction March 23, 2016: Replaced "Mostly False" with "Mostly True" in referring to the rating Reid received from PolitiFact. March 31 update: Added strikethrough of "true" and added "false" to clarify the meaning.
Ted Cruz fully to blame for giving Obama too much blame?
Does PolitiFact show a left-leaning bias in the blame game?
We thought PolitiFact went a bit easy on President Obama in a State of the Union speech some time ago. Obama said businesses had created so many jobs. PolitiFact said Obama's claim was "Half True" but then later elevated the rating to "Mostly True" because the president did not take as much credit as PolitiFact had first believed.
No, of course there was no concrete explanation for why PolitiFact changed its opinion.
PolitiFact played the blame game again on March 16, 2016, this time with Ted Cruz.
PolitiFact said Cruz said President Obama has been presiding over U.S. jobs going overseas. PolitiFact reasons that Cruz gives Obama too much blame and so rates Cruz's claim "Mostly False."
[Meet the Press host] Chuck Todd played a clip of Obama saying the Republicans are significantly to blame for the angry tone of politics today.
To factually conclude that too much blame was placed, the fact checker needs a blame baseline. Knowing whether Cruz blamed the president too much requires the fact checker to reasonably gauge how much blame Cruz placed on the president.
We think Cruz made that very difficult for PolitiFact with the wording he used, for Cruz did not single out the president. Cruz first mentions anger at "politicians in Washington" and after that makes clear Obama is included in the group ("including you").
So how much blame is Cruz placing on Obama, based on what Cruz said? How is the blame divided up between "politicians in Washington" and President Obama?
We don't see any way for PolitiFact to make that determination without simply making an assumption. Cruz offered no guidance. There's nothing in the context that helps. At least in the earlier case featuring President Obama we have the context of the State of the Union address. Presidents use that address to implicitly play up the benefits of their policies.
PolitiFact apparently assumes Cruz is blaming the president particularly for some unspecified role in allowing jobs to go overseas. Cruz doesn't even specify how much blame falls on Washington politicians, let alone the president. It isn't even necessary to assume that the anger at Obama and other Washington politicians is justified anger.
Is this fact-checking? It's hard to see how it qualifies.
PolitiFact has no trouble at all, despite the ambiguous nature of Cruz's claim, finding that Cruz placed too much blame on Obama. And PolitiFact likewise has an easy time assigning blame to Cruz for wrongly assigning blame, ergo the "Mostly False" rating.
PolitiFact considered no Cruz blame on "Washington politicians" other than President Obama.
In a way, it's easy to understand why PolitiFact left the other Washington politicians out of its consideration. Keeping them in consideration makes the fact check even more difficult than doing one that places an unspecified degree of blame on Obama. Pretending Cruz did not spread the blame around makes it easier for PolitiFact to maintain the fiction that Cruz placed too much blame on Obama.
We hasten to point out that such an approach hardly qualifies as unbiased.
In our PolitiMath series we look at how numerical errors correlate to PolitiFact's ratings.
PolitiFact's March 7, 2016 rating of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suits our purposes well, with Sanders claiming Flint residents pay three times for water what Sanders pays in Burlington, Vt.
When we look at average annual bills from January 2015, Sanders' 3-to-1 comparison is pretty close. But after August, Flint customers were paying a little more than twice as much as Burlington residents.
A judge's order in August 2015 rolled back water rates. Therefore, as PolitiFact notes, Flint residents now pay about twice what Burlington residents pay, counting Flint's charges for the home water meter. Burlington doesn't charge for the water meter.
To us, it's okay if Sanders wants to round up to get to his "three times" figure. So for PolitiMath purposes, we'll calculate how much 2.5 exaggerates the difference in water rates between Flint and Burlington.
Going by PolitiFact's chart, "a little more than twice as much" turned out to be about 2.4, leading to a very modest exaggeration on Sanders' part: about 4 percent. Yes, allowing for rounding up helped Sanders immensely. That's okay. We'd handle this the same way for a conservative.
PolitiFact gave Sanders a "Mostly True" rating, by the way, for a claim that was literally false.
What's new from "Objective, Nonpartisan" PolitiFact?
The expert fact-checkers/liberal bloggers at PolitiFact show everyone how to figure out whether legislation kills jobs.
PolitiFact uses two methods. The first method shows whether the Affordable Care Act caused job loss. The second method shows whether the North American Free Trade Agreement caused job loss.
Cruz said that Obamacare cost the country millions of jobs and had forced millions into working part-time.
The government's employment surveys show no sign of that occurring. By every measure, millions more people are working and millions fewer are stuck unwillingly in part-time work since the time the Affordable Care Act became law. The law might have affected part-time work for certain kinds of people, but that didn't change the improvement in the overall numbers.
PolitiFact apparently reasons that if that overall employment numbers improved then it doesn't count toward Cruz's point that "The law might have affected part-time work for certain kinds of people."
Sanders said that NAFTA, which Clinton used to support, cost the U.S. economy 800,000 jobs. There is a report from a left-leaning policy group that reached that conclusion. On the other hand, many other nonpartisan reports found that the trade deal produced neither significant job losses nor job gains. This is a result of competing economic models and the challenges of teasing out the effects of NAFTA from everything else that has taken place in the economy.
The report Sanders cited is an outlier, and his use of its findings ignores important facts that would give a different impression. We rate his statement Mostly False.
The biggest difference between the two methods comes from PolitiFact's reliance on raw employment numbers when checking the claim from Cruz. Raw employment numbers were a non-factor in checking Sanders but the key to giving a "Pants on Fire" rating to Cruz.
PolitiFact cited studies supporting and contradicting Sanders, but gave no evidence supporting Cruz. The fact check of Cruz omitted mention of a Congressional Budget Office report estimating supply-side net reductions in labor (workers deciding not to work or to work fewer hours), the equivalent of about 700,000 full-time jobs.
We reason that since PolitiFact is objective and non-partisan, it follows that only a non-objective and non-non-partisan (okay, partisan!) source would mention the findings of the CBO relating to unusually slow job recovery following the 2008 recession. In the world of PolitiFact, supply-side job loss doesn't count and doesn't even apparently affect the economy.
Or, to borrow a bit from Stephen Colbert, the fact[checker]s have a liberal bias.
Jeff Adds: Note that Jon Greenberg wrote both the NAFTA and ACA pieces. This makes it even more difficult to reconcile the use of two different methods in performing the fact checks.
Correction March 10, 2016 (bww): I inexplicably identified Delaware as the state Bernie Sanders represents. The text has been changed to identify Vermont as the state Sanders represents in the Senate.
Did you know that PolitiFact is objective and nonpartisan?
Yes, well, it was a trick question.
"None of the GOP candidates have a climate change plan"
"There is not a single candidate in the Republican primary that thinks we should do anything about climate change."
Does PolitiFact writer Lauren Carroll make an effort to justify her paraphrase of Obama? Not from what we can tell.
Bush, who was in the race when Obama made his comment, and Kasich both have said they believe human-caused climate change is real and have said pursuing these alternative energy sources could mitigate the problem. But neither has outlined a specific plan.
For some Republican voters, this stance might be a plus. But it doesn't change the veracity of Obama's statement.
So advocating increased private-sector reliance on renewable energy sources to mitigate climate change means that Bush and Kasich think we should do nothing about climate change?
One can make Obama's statement somewhat true by (charitably) assuming that by "we" he means the federal government. If we make enough unfounded assumptions, we can find some truth in Obama's statement. But by the time we've made those assumptions we're not really engaged in fact-checking.
Yet that's what PolitiFact did, effectively putting its PolitiFingers on the scale. It's not logical to conclude that lacking a plan for the federal government to act means that there is no desire to address a problem.
This was yet another sham fact check from the fraudsters at PolitiFact.
Jeff Adds: This editorial from Carroll seems like a rating searching for a quote. PolitiFact openly admits they select claims to rate partly based on what they find interesting.
In this case, it's easy to imagine Carroll wanting to highlight (in her view) the GOP's lax attitude toward the climate change issue and went fishing for a quote to use as a vehicle for her to express that view. That scenario would plausibly explain how she made the leap from Obama's explicit claim to the different (and invented) claim she rated.
This example highlights the selective nature of PolitiFact's body of work. Contrary to the myth that they're dispassionate researchers uncovering the truth of all claims, they're partisan actors promoting or ignoring narratives as they see fit.


text:
from unittest import TestCase
import tempfile
import os

from wifi import Cell
from wifi.scheme import extract_schemes, Scheme

NETWORK_INTERFACES_FILE = """
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

iface wlan0-work inet dhcp
    wpa-ssid workwifi
    wireless-channel auto
    wpa-psk 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

iface wlan0-coffee inet dhcp
    wireless-essid Coffee WiFi
    wireless-channel auto

iface wlan0-home inet dhcp
    wpa-ssid homewifi
    wpa-psk  2222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222
    wireless-channel auto

iface wlan0-coffee2 inet dhcp
    wireless-essid Coffee 2
    wireless-channel auto
"""

class TestSchemes(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.tempfile, interfaces = tempfile.mkstemp()

        with open(interfaces, 'w') as f:
            f.write(NETWORK_INTERFACES_FILE)

        self.Scheme = Scheme.for_file(interfaces)

    def tearDown(self):
        os.remove(self.Scheme.interfaces)

    def test_scheme_extraction(self):
        work, coffee, home, coffee2 = extract_schemes(NETWORK_INTERFACES_FILE)

        assert work.name == 'work'
        assert work.options['wpa-ssid'] == 'workwifi'

        assert coffee.name == 'coffee'
        assert coffee.options['wireless-essid'] == 'Coffee WiFi'

    def test_str(self):
        scheme = self.Scheme('wlan0', 'test')
        assert str(scheme) == 'iface wlan0-test inet dhcp\n'

        scheme = self.Scheme('wlan0', 'test', {
            'wpa-ssid': 'workwifi',
        })

        self.assertEqual(str(scheme), 'iface wlan0-test inet dhcp\n    wpa-ssid workwifi\n')

    def test_find(self):
        work = self.Scheme.find('wlan0', 'work')

        assert work.options['wpa-ssid'] == 'workwifi'

    def test_delete(self):
        work = self.Scheme.find('wlan0', 'work')
        work.delete()
        self.assertIsNone(self.Scheme.find('wlan0', 'work'))
        assert self.Scheme.find('wlan0', 'coffee')

    def test_save(self):
        scheme = self.Scheme('wlan0', 'test')
        scheme.save()

        assert self.Scheme.find('wlan0', 'test')

class TestForCell(TestCase):
    def test_unencrypted(self):
        cell = Cell()
        cell.ssid = 'SSID'
        cell.encrypted = False

        scheme = Scheme.for_cell('wlan0', 'test', cell)

        self.assertEqual(scheme.options, {
            'wireless-essid': 'SSID',
            'wireless-channel': 'auto',
        })

    def test_wep(self):
        cell = Cell()
        cell.ssid = 'SSID'
        cell.encrypted = True
        cell.encryption_type = 'wep'

        scheme = Scheme.for_cell('wlan0', 'test', cell, 'passkey')

        self.assertEqual(scheme.options, {
            'wireless-essid': 'SSID',
            'wireless-key': 'passkey',
        })

    def test_wpa2(self):
        cell = Cell()
        cell.ssid = 'SSID'
        cell.encrypted = True
        cell.encryption_type = 'wpa2'

        scheme = Scheme.for_cell('wlan0', 'test', cell, b'passkey')

        self.assertEqual(scheme.options, {
            'wpa-ssid': 'SSID',
            'wpa-psk': 'ea1548d4e8850c8d94c5ef9ed6fe483981b64c1436952cb1bf80c08a68cdc763',
            'wireless-channel': 'auto',
        })

    def test_wpa(self):
        cell = Cell()
        cell.ssid = 'SSID'
        cell.encrypted = True
        cell.encryption_type = 'wpa'

        scheme = Scheme.for_cell('wlan0', 'test', cell, 'passkey')

        self.assertEqual(scheme.options, {
            'wpa-ssid': 'SSID',
            'wpa-psk': 'ea1548d4e8850c8d94c5ef9ed6fe483981b64c1436952cb1bf80c08a68cdc763',
            'wireless-channel': 'auto',
        })

SUCCESSFUL_IFDOWN_OUTPUT = """Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.4
Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/wlan0/9c:4e:36:5d:2c:64
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/9c:4e:36:5d:2c:64
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on wlan0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
"""

SUCCESSFUL_IFUP_OUTPUT = """Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.4
Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/wlan0/9c:4e:36:5d:2c:64
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/9c:4e:36:5d:2c:64
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.113 -- renewal in 2776 seconds.
"""

FAILED_IFUP_OUTPUT = """Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.4
Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/wlan0/9c:4e:36:5d:2c:64
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/9c:4e:36:5d:2c:64
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
"""

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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She was a very charming little girl and a very bright student, and was the apple of her teachers' eyes.
He loved his daughter very much. She was the apple of his eye.
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The young couple had a beautiful little son, and he was the apple of their eyes.
He was the apple of her eye, and she promised to take care of him for as long as she could.
My granddaughter is the apple of my eye, said the old man, lovingly looking at her playing in the distance.
The phrase originally had anatomical reference and was used to denote the central aperture of the eye. The expression first appeared in Old English in 885 AD, in a work attributed to King Aelfred (the Great) of Wessex, titled Gregory's Pastoral Care. It was later used by Shakespeare in 1600 in his play A Midsummer Night's Dream and also appeared in English translations of the Bible in 1611. However, the phrase was more commonly used after it appeared in Sir Walter Scott's novel Old Mortality in 1816.
You say this phrase first appeared in 881AD. Not so. This is straight from the Bible. The term was used by King David in describing God's attitude towards him. Look up Psalm 17 and verse 8. This was written in David's lifetime, somewhere around 1010 to 970 BC.
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text:
LETTER FROM HERNANDO PIZARRO TO THE ROYAL AUDIENCE OF SANTO DOMINGO. NOVEMBER 1533. Письмо Эрнандо Писарро Королевской Аудиенции в Санто Доминго, ноябрь 1533.
Письмо Эрнандо Писарро Королевской Аудиенции в Санто Доминго, ноябрь 1533.
LETTER FROM HERNANDO PIZARRO TO THE ROYAL AUDIENCE OF SANTO DOMINGO. NOVEMBER 1533.
LETTER FROM HERNANDO PIZARRO
ROYAL AUDIENCE OF SANTO DOMINGO.
To the Magnificent Lords, the Judges of the Royal Audience
of His Majesty who reside in the city of Santo Domingo.
MAGNIFICENT LORDS,—I arrived in this port of Yaguana on
my way to Spain, by order of the Governor Francisco
Pizarro, to inform his Majesty of what has happened in that
government of Peru, to give an account of the country, and
of its present condition; and, as I believe that those who
come to this city give your worships inconsistent accounts,
it has seemed well to me to write a summary of what has
taken place, that you may be informed of the truth, from
the time that Ysasaga came from that land, by whom your
worships will have been apprised of what had taken place
up to the time of his departure.
The Governor, in the name of his Majesty, founded a town
near the sea coast, which was called San Miguel. It is
twenty-five leagues from that point of Tumbez. Having
left citizens there, and assigned the Indians in the district
to them, he set out with sixty horse and ninety foot, in search
of the town of Caxamalca, at which place he was informed
that Atabaliva then was, the son of old Cuzco,1 and brother
of him who is now Lord of that land.2 Between the two
1 Ynca Huayna Ccapac.
2 The puppet set up by Francisco Pizarro, when he murdered Atahu-
•\llpa, and who died two months afterwards.
brothers3 there had been a very fierce war, and this Ataba-
liva had conquered the land as far as he then was, which,
from the point whence he started, was a hundred and fifty
leagues. After seven or eight marches, a Captain of Ata-
baliva came to the Governor, and said that his Lord had
heard of his arrival and rejoiced greatly at it, having a strong
desire to see the Christians; and when he had been two
days with the Governor he said that he wished to go for-
ward and tell the news to his Lord, and that another would
soon be on the road with a present, as a token of peace.
The Governor continued his march until he came to a town
called La Bamada.4″ Up to that point all the land was flat,
while all beyond was very rugged, and obstructed by very
difficult passes. When he saw that the messenger from
Atabaliva did not return, he wished to obtain intelligence
from some Indians who had come from Caxamalca ; so they
were tortured,6 and they then said that they had heard that
Atabaliva was waiting for the Governor in the mountains to
give him battle. The Governor then ordered the troops to ad-
vance, leaving the rear guard in the plain. The rest ascended,
and the road was so bad that, in truth, if they had been
waiting for us, either in this pass or in another that we came
to on the road to Caxamalca, they could very easily have
stopped us; for, even by exerting all our skill, we could
not have taken the horses by the roads; and neither horse
nor foot can cross those mountains except by the roads.
The distance across them to Caxamalca is twenty leagues.
When we were half-way, messengers arrived from Ata-
baliva, and brought provisions to the Governor. They said
J Ynca Huascar and Atahuallpa.
« A hut covered with the branches of trees. Apparently a name given
by the Spaniards to the place at which they halted, at the foot of the
mountains.
5 This was the regular custom of Hernando Pizarro, to torture the
Indians before asking them questions. The consequence was, that he
was told lies, and as in this instance, as will be seen further ou.
that Atabaliva was waiting for him at Caxamalca, wishing
to be his friend; and that he wished the Governor to know
that his captains, whom he has sent to the war of Cuzco,
had taken his brother prisoner, that they would reach Caxa-
malca within two days, and that all the territory of his father
now belonged to him. The Governor sent back to say that
he rejoiced greatly at this news, and that if there was any
Lord who refused to submit, he would give assistance and
subjugate him. Two days afterwards the Governor came in
sight of Caxamalca, and he met Indians with food. He put
the troops in order, and marched to the town. Atabaliva
was not there, but was encamped on the plain, at a distance
of a league, with all his people in tents. When the Gover-
nor saw that Atabaliva did not come, he sent a Captain/with
fifteen horsemen, to speak to Atabaliva, saying that he
would not assign quarters to the Christians until he knew
where it was the pleasure of Atabaliva that they should
lodge, and he desired him to come that they might be
friends. Just then I went to speak to the Governor, touch-
ing the orders in case the Indians made a night attack. He
told me that he had sent men to seek an interview with
Atabaliva. I told him that, out of the sixty cavalry we had,
there might be some men who were not dexterous on horse-
back, and some unsound horses, and that it seemed a mis-
take to pick out fifteen of the best; for, if Atabaliva
should attack them, their numbers were insufficient for de-
fence, and any reverse might lead to a great disaster. He,
therefore, ordered me to follow with other twenty horsemen,
and to act according to circumstances.
When I arrived I found the other horsemen near the
camp of Atabaliva, and that their officer had gone to speak
with him. I left my men there also, and advanced with two
horsemen to the lodging of Atabaliva, and the Captain an-
nounced my approach and who I was. I then told Ataba-
liva that the Governor had sent me to visit him, and to ask
him to come that they might be friends. He replied that a
Cacique of the town of San Miguel had sent to tell him
that we were bad people and not good for war, and that he
himself had killed some of us, both men and horses. I an-
swered that those people of San Miguel were like women,
and that one horse was enough for the whole of them; that,
when he saw us fight, he would know what we were like;
that the Governor had a great regard for him : that if he
had any enemy he had only to say so, and that the Governor
would send to conquer him. He said that, four marches
from that spot, there were some very rebellious Indians who
would not submit to him, and that the Christians might go
there to help his troops. I said that the Governor would
send ten horsemen, who would suffice for the whole country,
and that his Indians were unnecessary, except to search for
those who concealed themselves. He smiled like a man
who did not think.so much of us. The Captain told me
that, until I came, he had not been able to get him to speak,
but that one of his chiefs had answered for him, while he
always kept his head down. He was seated in all the
majesty of command, surrounded by all his women, and
with many chiefs near him. Before coming to his presence
there was another group of chiefs, each standing according
to his rank. At sunset I said that I wished to go, and
asked him to tell me what to say to the Governor. He re-
plied that he would come to see him on the following morn-
ing, that he would lodge in three great chambers in the
courtyard, and that the centre one should be set apart for
That night a good look-out was kept. In the morning
he sent messengers to put off his visit until the afternoon;
and these messengers, in conversing with some Indian girls
in the service of the Christians, who were their relations,
told them to run away because Atabaliva was coming that
afternoon to attack the Christians and kill them. Among
the messengers there came that Captain who had already
met the Governor on the road. He told the Governor that
his Lord Atabaliva said that, as the Christians had come
armed to his camp, he also would come armed. The Go-
vernor replied that he might come as he liked. Atabaliva
set out from his camp at noon, and when he came to a place
which was about half a quarter of a league from Caxamalca,
he stopped until late in the afternoon. There he pitched
his tents, and formed his men in three divisions. The whole
road was full of men, and they had not yet left off marching
out of the camp. The Governor had ordered his troops to
be distributed in the three halls (galpones)6 which were in
the open courtyard, in form of a triangle; and he ordered
them to be mounted and armed until the intentions of Ata-
baliva were known. Having pitched his tents, Atabaliva
sent a messenger to the Governor to say that, as it was now
late, he wished to sleep where he was, and that he would
come in the morning. The Governor sent back to beg
him to come at once, because he was waiting for supper,
and that he should not sup until Atabaliva should come.
The messengers came back to ask the Governor to send a
Christian to Atabaliva, that he intended to come at once,
and that he would come unarmed. The Governor sent a
Christian,7 and presently Atabaliva moved, leaving the armed
men behind him. He took with him about five or six
thousand Indians without arms, except that, uuder their
shirts, they had small darts and slings with stones.
6 The word galpon is not Spanish. Garcilasso says that it belonged
to the language of the Windward Islands, and that the Spaniards adopted
it. ' The word means a large hall or court. The Yncas had such halls
attached to their palaces, which were so large that festivals were held in
them, when the weather was rainy. Such vast halls may still be seen
among the ruins of Hervay and Pachacamac. In Cuzco they have been
converted into modern houses. The villages of slaves in modern haci-
endas on the Peruvian coast, which are enclosed by high walls, are called
galpones.
7 Xcrcs says that he refused to send the Christian. See p. 50.
He came in a litter, and before him went three or four
hundred Indians in liveries,8 cleaning the straws from the
road and singing. Then came Atabaliva in the midst of his
chiefs and principal men, the greatest among them being
also borne on men's shoulders. When they entered the
open space, twelve or fifteen Indians went up to the little
fortress that was there and occupied it, taking possession
with a banner fixed on a lance. When Atabaliva had ad-
vanced to the centre of the open space, he stopped, and a
Dominican Friar, who was with the Governor, came forward
to tell him, on the part of the Governor, that he waited for
him in his lodging, and that he was sent to speak with him.
The Friar then told Atabaliva that he was a Priest, and that
he was sent there to teach the things of the Faith, if they
should desire to be Christians. He showed Atabaliva a
book which he carried in his hands, and told him that that
book contained the things of God. Atabaliva asked for the
book, and threw it on the ground, saying:—u I will not
leave this place until you have restored all that you have
taken in my land. I know well who you are, and what you
have come for." Then he rose up in his litter, and addressed
his men, and there were murmurs among them and calls to
those who were armed. The Friar went to the Governor
and reported what was being done, and that no time was
to be lost. The Governor sent to me; and I had arranged
with the Captain of the artillery that, when a sign was
given, he should discharge his pieces, and that, on hearing
the reports, all the troops should come forth at once. This
was done, and as the Indians were unarmed, they were de-
feated without danger to any Christian. Those who carried
the litter, and the chiefs who surrounded Atabaliva, were
all killed, falling round him. The Governor came out and
seized Atabaliva, and, in protecting him, he received a knife-
8 In liveries of different colours, like a chess-board, Xeres tells us.
cut from a Christian in the hand. The troops continued the
pursuit as far as the place where the armed Indians were
stationed, who made no resistance whatever, because it was
now night. All were brought into the town, where the
Governor was quartered.
Next morning the Governor ordered us to go to the camp
of Atabaliva, where we found forty thousand castellanos and
four or five thousand marcos of silver. The camp was as
full of people as if none were wanting. All the people were
assembled, and the Governor desired them to go to their
homes, and told them that he had not come to do them
harm, that what he had done was by reason of the pride of
Atabaliva, and that he himself ordered it. On asking Ata-
baliva why he had thrown away the book and shown so
much pride, he answered that his captain, who had been
sent to speak with the Governor, had told him that the
Christians were not warriors, that the horses were unsaddled
at night, and that with two hundred Indians he could defeat
them all. He added that this captain and the chief of San
Miguel had deceived him. The Governor then inquired
concerning his brother the Cuzco,9 and he answered that he
would arrive next day, that he was being brought as a
prisoner, and that his captain remained with the troops in
the town of Cuzco. It afterwards turned out that in all this
he had spoken the truth, except that he had sent orders for
his brother to be killed, lest the Governor should restore
him to his lordship. The Governor said that he had not
come to make war on the Indians, but that our Lord the
Emperor, who was Lord of the whole world, had ordered
him to come that he might see the land, and let Atabaliva
know the things of our Faith, in case he should wish to be-
come a Christian. The Governor also told him that that
land, and all other lands, belonged to the Emperor, and
that he must acknowledge him as his Lord. He replied that
9 Ynca Huascar.
he was content, and, observing that the Christians had col-
lected some gold, Atabaliva said to the Governor that they
need not take such care of it, as if there was so little ; for
that he could give them ten thousand plates,1 and that he
could fill the room in which he was up to a white line, which
was the height of a man and a half from the floor. The
room was seventeen or eighteen feet wide, and thirty-five
feet long. He said that he could do this in two months.
Two months passed away, and the gold did not arrive, but
the Governor received tidings that every day parties of men
were advancing against him. In order both to ascertain
the truth of these reports, and to hurry the arrival of the
gold, the Governor ordered me to set out with twenty
horsemen and ten or twelve foot soldiers for a place called
Guamachuco, which is twenty leagues from Caxamalca.
This was the place where it was reported that armed men
were collecting together. I advanced to that town, and
found a quantity of gold and silver, which I sent thence to
Caxamalca. Some Indians, who were tortured,2 told us
that the captains and armed men were at a place six leagues
from Guamachuco; and, though I had no instructions from
the Governor to advance beyond that point, I resolved to
push forward with fourteen horsemen and nine foot soldiers,
in order that the Indians might not take heart at the notion
that we had retreated. The rest of my party were sent to
guard the gold, because their horses were lame. Next
morning I arrived at that town, and did not find any armed
men there, and it turned out that the Indians had told lies;
perhaps to frighten us and induce us to return.
At this village I received permission from the Governor
to go to a mosque of which we had intelligence, which was
1 Tejuelos, square pieces of metal, on which the points of gates or
large doors turn. Quoits are also called tejuelos.
2 Here the ruffian is at his torturing tricks again; and is again only-
told lies for his pains.
a hundred leagues away on the sea-coast, in a town called
Pachacama. It took us twenty-two days to reach it. The
road over the mountains is a thing worth seeing, because,
though the ground is so rugged, such beautiful roads could
not in truth be found throughout Christendom. The greater
part of them is paved. There is a bridge of stone or wood
over every stream. We found bridges of network over a
very large and powerful river, which we crossed twice,
which was a marvellous thing to see. The horses crossed
over by them. At each passage they have two bridges, the
one by which the common people go over, and the other for
the lords of the land and their captains. The approaches
are always kept closed, with Indians to guard them. These
Indians exact transit dues from all passengers. The chiefs
and people of the mountains are more intelligent than those
of the coast. The country is populous. There are mines in
many parts of it. It is a cold climate, it snows, and there
is much rain. There are no swamps. Fuel is scarce. Ata-
baliva has placed governors in all the principal towns, and
his predecessors had also appointed governors. In all these
towns there were houses of imprisoned women, with guards
at the doors, and these women preserve their virginity. If
any Indian has any connection with them his punishment is
death. Of these houses, some are for the worship of the
Sun, others for that of old Cuzco,3 the father of Atabaliva.
Their sacrifices consist of sheep and chicha,4, which they
pour out on the ground. They have another house of
women in each of the principal towns, also guarded. These
women are assembled by the chiefs of the neighbouring
districts, and when the lord of the land passes by they select
the best to present to him, and when they are taken others
are chosen to fill up their places. These women also have
the duty of making chicha for the soldiers when they pass
3 The Ynca Huayna Ccapac.
* Fermented liquor from maize.
that way. They took Indian girls out of these houses and
presented them to us. All the surrounding chiefs come to
these towns on the roads to perform service when the army
passes. They have stores of fuel and maize, and of all other
necessaries. .They count by certain knots on cords, and so
record what each chief has brought. When they had to
bring us loads of fuel, maize, chicha, or meat, they took off
knots or .made knots on some other part; so that those who
have charge of the stores keep an exact account. In all
these towns they received us with great festivities, dancing
and rejoicing.
When we arrived on the plains of the sea coast we met
with a people who were less civilised, but the country was
populous. They also have houses of women, and all the
other arrangements as in the towns of the mountains. They
never wished to speak to us of the mosque, for there was an
order that all who should speak to us of it should be put to
death., But as we had intelligence that it was on the coast,
we followed the high road until we came to it. The road is
very wide, with an earthen wall on either side, and houses
for resting at intervals, which were prepared to receive the
Cuzco when he travelled that way. There are very large
villages, the houses of the Indians being built of canes; and
those of the chiefs are of earth with roofs of branches of
trees ; for in that land it never rains. From the city of San
Miguel to this mosque the distance is one hundred and
sixty or one hundred and eighty leagues, the road passing
near the sea shore through a very populous country. The
road, with a wall on each side, traverses the whole of this
country; and, neither in that part nor in the part further
on, of which we had notice for two hundred leagues, does it
ever rain. They live by irrigation, for the rainfall is so
.great in the mountains that many rivers flow from them, so
that throughout the land there is not three leagues without
a river. The distance from the sea to the mountains is in
some parts ten leagues, in others twelve. It is not cold.
Throughout the whole of this coast land, and beyond it,
tribute is not paid to Cuzco, but to the mosque. The bishop
of it was in Caxamalca with the Governor. He had ordered
another room of gold, such as Atabaliva had ordered, and the
Governor ordered me to go on this business, and to hurry
those who were collecting it. When I arrived at the mosque,
I asked for the gold, and they denied it to me, saying that
they had none. I made some search, but could not find it.
The neighbouring chiefs came to see me, and brought pre-
sents, and in the mosque there was found some gold dust,
which was left behind when the rest was concealed. Alto-
gether I collected 85,000 castellanos and 3000 marcos of
This town of the mosque is very large, and contains grand
edifices and courts. Outside, there is another great space
surrounded by a wall, with a door opening on the mosque.
Tn this space there are the houses of the women, who, they
say, are the women of the devil. Here, also, are the store-
rooms, where the stores of gold are kept. There is no one
in the place where these women are kept. Their sacrifices
are the same as those to the Sun, which I have already
described. Before entering the first court of the mosque,
a man must fast for twenty days; before ascending to the
court above, he must fast for a year. In this upper court
the bishop used to be. When messengers of the chiefs,
who had fasted for a year, went up to pray to God that he
would give them a good harvest, they found the bishop
seated, with his head covered. There are other Indians
whom they call pages of the Sun. When these messengers
of the chief delivered their messages to the bishop, the pages
of the devil went into a chamber, where they said that he
speaks to them; and that devil said that he was enraged
with the chiefs, with the sacrifices they had to offer, and
with the presents they wished to bring. I believe that they
do not speak with the devil, but that these his servants de-
ceive the chiefs. For I took pains to investigate the matter,
and an old page, who was one of the chief and most con-
fidential servants of , their god, told a chief, who repeated it
to me, that the devil said they were not to fear the horses,
as they could do no harm. I caused the page to be tortured,
and he was so stubborn in his evil creed, that I could never
gather anything from him, but that they really held their
devil to be a god. This mosque is so feared by all the
Indians, that they believe that if any of those servants of
the devil asked them for anything and they refused it, they
would presently die. It would seem that the Indians do
not worship this devil from any feelings of devotion, but from
fear. For the chiefs told me that, up to that time, they had
served that mosque because they feared it; but that now
they had no fear but of us, and that, therefore, they wished
to serve us. The cave in which the devil was placed was
very dark, so that one could not enter it without a light,
and within it was very dirty. I made all the Caciques,
who came to see me, enter the place that they might lose
their fear; and, for want of a preacher, I made my sermon,
explaining to them the errors in which they lived.
In this town I learnt that the principal Captain of Ata-
baliva6 was at a distance of twenty leagues from us, in a
town called Jauja. I sent to tell him to come and see me,
and he replied that I should take the road to Caxamalca,
and that he would take another road and meet me. The
Governor, on hearing that the Captain was for peace and
that he was ready to come with me, wrote to me to tell me
to return; and he sent three Christians to Cuzco, which is
fifty leagues beyond Jauja, to take possession and to see
the country. I returned by the road of Caxamalca, and by
another road, where the Captain of Atabaliva was to join
mo. But he had not started; and I learnt from certain
5 This was Chalcuchima.
chiefs that he had not movea, and that he had taken me in.
So I went back to the place where he was, and the road
was very rugged, and so obstructed with snow, that it cost
us much labour to get there. Having reached the royal
road, and come to a place called Bombon, I met a Captain
of Atabaliva with five thousand armed Indians whom Ata-
baliva had sent on pretence of conquering a rebel chief;
but, as it afterwards appeared, they were assembled to kill
the Christians. Here we found 500,000 pesos of gold that
they were taking to Caxamalca. This Captain told me that
the Captain-General remained in Jauja, that he knew of
our approach, and was much afraid. I sent a messenger to
him, to tell him to remain where he was, and to fear nothing.
I also found a negro here, who had gone with the Christians
to Cuzco, and he told me that these fears were feigned; for
that the Captain-General6 had many well-armed men with
him, that he counted them by his knots in presence of the
Christians, and that they numbered thirty-five thousand In-
dians. So we went to Jauja, and, when we were half a
league from the town, and found that the Captain did not
come out to receive us, a chief of Atabaliva, whom I had
with me and whom I had treated well, advised me to advance
in order of battle, because he believed that the Captain in-
tended to fight. We went up a small hill overlooking Jauja,
and saw a large black mass in the plaza, which appeared to
be something that had been burnt. I asked what it was,
and they told me that it was a crowd of Indians. The
plaza is large, and has a length of a quarter of a league. As
no one came to receive us on reaching the town, our people
advanced in the expectation of having to fight the Indians.
But, at the entrance of the square, some principal men came
out to meet us with offers of peace, and told us that the
Captain was not there, as he had gone to reduce certain
chiefs to submission. It would seem that he had gone out
6 Chalcuchima.
of fear with some of his troops, and had crossed a river
near the town by a bridge of network. I sent to tell him
to come to me peaceably, or else the Christians would de-
stroy him. Next morning the people came who were in
the square. They were Indian servants, and it is true that
they numbered over a hundred thousand souls. We remained
here five days, and during all that time they did nothing
but dance and sing, and hold great drinking feasts. The
Captain did not wish to come with me, but when he saw
that I was determined to make him, he came of his own
accord. I left the chief who came with me as Captain there.
This town of Jauja is very fine and picturesque, with very
good level approaches, and it has an excellent river bank.
In all my travels I did not see a better site for a Christian
settlement, and I believe that the Governor intends to form
one there, though some think that it would be more con-
venient to select a position near the sea, and are, therefore,
of an opposite opinion. All the country, from Jauja to
Caxamalca, by the road we returned, is like that of which
I have already given a description.
After returning to Caxamalca, and reporting my pro-
ceedings to the Governor, he ordered me to go to Spain,
and to give an account to his Majesty of this and other
things which appertain to his service. I took, from the
heap of gold, 100,000 castellanos for his Majesty, being the
amount of his fifth. The day after I left Caxamalca, the
Christians, who had gone to Cuzco, returned, and brought
1,500,000 of gold. After I arrived at Panama, another
ship came in, with some knights. They say that a distri-
bution of the gold was made; and that the share of his
Majesty, besides the 100,000 pesos and the 5000 marcos of
silver that I bring, was another 165,000 castellanos, and
7000 or 8000 marcos of silver; while to all those of us who
had gone, a further share of gold was sent.
After my departure, according to what the Governor
writes to me, it became known that Atabaliva had assem-
bled troops to make war on. the Christians, and justice was
done upon him. The Governor made his brother, who was
his enemy, lord in his place. Molina comes to this city,
and from him your worships may learn anything else that
you may desire to know. The shares of the troops were, to
the horsemen 9000 castellanos, to the Governor 6000, to me
3000. The Governor has derived no other profit from that
land, nor has there been deceit or fraud in the account. I
say this to your worships, because if any other statement is
made, this is the truth. May our Lord long guard and
prosper the magnificent persons of your worships.
Done in this city, November 1533. At the service of
your worships.
HERNANDO PIZARRO.
В категорії нотатки Позначено carta, castellano, Domingo, General, HERNANDO, hernando pizarro, historia, huascar, Huayna, Letter, Lima, Molina, news, Pachacamac, Panama, Peru, pizarro, ROYAL, royal audience, Santo, santo domingo, traducción, VILLA
Cartas del Marques Don Francisco Pizarro (1533-1541). Письма маркиза дона Франсиско Писарро
PEDRO SANCHO. REPORT OH THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE RANSOM OF ATAHUALLPA. Доклад нотариуса Педро Санчо о Распределении выкупа Атавальпы.

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Anita and Clive Debanks have been married for 28 years and have led an uneventful life. But all that is about to change. Although in a loveless marriage, Clive has never been unfaithful. However, as preparations for his fiftieth birthday are underway, Clive feels that life is passing him by and has...
Love on the Beach
Tom Millard's world has been shattered by the unexpected death of his wife. Having now realized that life is short and precious, Tom makes a bucket list and starts working his way through it. His first aim is to take early retirement and live by the sea. His two married daughters are unhappy...
Nana is losing control – of her mind and her life. Forced to live with her daughter Janice and her feckless family, Nana is frustrated with how they live. When her winning numbers come up on the Lotto, the family are ecstatic – until it becomes clear that Nana won't disclose...
Mad Sisters
Mad Sisters is an uplifting and joyful comic romp that reminds us just how wonderful and truly mad our sisters can be. Daphne adores her sister Anne. To Daphne, Anne is beautiful, successful and smart - all the things Daphne longs to be. Anne on the other hand wants nothing to do with her sister...
Make Time for Love
They say behind every successful man is a supportive woman, and Julie Hardisty is certainly that. Her husband, Brian, is a pillar of society and well respected in the local community. For her part, Julie enjoys the status their lifestyle brings. However, all is not as it seems in this idyllic...
Manly Mates
Set in 1972, Manly Mates features the most famously controversial state premier of them all, Sir Robert Askin. He and his Police Commissioner took regular bribes from crime bosses. He sold knighthoods. He took regular cutbacks from developers. In Manly Mates he holds court to a team of his more...
Fanny Price is the poor relation of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram. From the age of 10 Fanny has lived with the Bertram family at Mansfield Park. The shy and retiring Fanny is an intelligent observer of the flirtations and foibles of her four cousins and the sophisticated brother and sister,...
Menopause Made Me Do It
It has been ten years since the last reunion of the Crazy Ladies. Menopause has arrived and the ladies are crazier than ever. The mission is to convince Kay, the gun totting tom-boy, to marry Shaun (the guy she once kidnapped and held accountable for the sins of all men). Hilarious......
Much Revue About Nothing
The Wharf Revue sold out season after season for the Sydney Theatre Company and now forty timeless sketches are available for performance for first time. Over 20 years Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott have plundered all forms of theatrical entertainment from...
Murder Afoot
The action unfolds in the Drawing Room of wealthy factory owner Titus Platt's rather stately home somewhere in 1930's England. Titus is murdered and Inspector Bullock of the Yard is sent for. When he starts to investigate there are many suspects: the son, Malcolm; his sister Penny; her...
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My Henry Lawson
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My Husband's Nuts
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"On Air ! On Air !" takes you on a lightning paced, funny and at times, sad journey behind the glitter of advertising, exposing a world of high pressure, memorable characters and ethics which change conveniently in their desire to succeed. In the hectic copy writing...
Over Paid Over Sexed Over Here
It's mid 1942 and Australia is at war. As our able bodied men fight overseas a sleepy seaside Aussie town is about to experience an invasion by the Americans. The arrival of the yanks brings much needed excitement for the ladies, but for the local lads there are three big problems with the...
Persuasion is the bittersweet story of love that might have been. At the age of 19, Anne Elliot was persuaded to refuse an offer of marriage from a young naval officer. Their paths cross again eight years later, but now Anne is a faded spinster and her fatheris badly in debt, while Captain...
Pride and Prejudice : A Play
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Round the Houses
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School For Murder
An isolated house in the Cotswolds is the scene where the lady owner, Sandra Maitland, takes in paying guests. She has organised a Writers' Seminar for aspiring crime writers for which four ladies have applied. DJ Burrows, an established writer, is the tutor and all is set for a...
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Silly Old Buggers
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This pantomime follows closely the story of the famous fable but in a special twist replaces dwarfs with garden gnomes. It means your company can cast regular sized people. All of the traditional adventures are in the hilarious script. There is of course a wicked Queen, the Magic Mirror on the wall...
Some Of My Best Friends Are Women
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Spy Club
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The Jailhouse Frocks
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The Love Nest
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The Supermarket Sisterhood
As if the daily skirmishes with farcical customers and the dim-witted men in their lives, wasn't enough, the women who operate the checkouts at the Discount Co supermarket are now facing a new boss and the prospect of losing their jobs to newly installed automated checkout aisles. If the...
H.G. Wells' classic tale about a Victorian inventor who builds a time machine and visits the far future is beautifully adapted into a ninety minute play. The inventor soon discovers that progress doesn't lead to a perfect world. Instead, he finds the future populated by two races. Above...
Twas the Fight Before Christmas
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Viagara Falls & The 70 Year Old Virgin
A colourful cast of characters collaborate and connive in this hilarious tale of misplaced unisex Viagra pills resulting in mishap and mayhem of "afflicted" residents in Serenity Gardens Retirement Village, Cemetery Road. So, take a new-age, three time divorcee and bride-to-be gran, her...
Wedding of the Century
"The Wedding of the Century is Devon Williamson at his funniest. Laughs come thick and fast, be warned your sides will ache." Bay of Plenty Times. Sister Dorothy, a 99-year-old nun, is visited in her nursing home by a 'Goth Girl' school student. She tells the cheeky student that not only...
What's A Calorie Between Friends
A comedy with eight strong roles for women and two for men. The Countdown Club appears to have become more of a social club than a slimming club. Wilma, the class clown and her pals Kath and Susan have little success on the slimming front but are determined to have some fun during classes...


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CAT faces multi-million dollar shortfall as lawsuit over Pa. Turnpike tolls lingers in court
Published: Mar. 08, 2019, 5:38 a.m.
Capital Area Transit, and transportation groups around the state, are facing a $330 million shortfall so far as funding is held up over a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Turnpike. CAT officials say it could mean putting some projects on hold, and if the suit isn't resolved, could eventually result in a reduction of services.PENNLIVE.COM
By Steve Marroni | smarroni@pennlive.com
Capital Area Transit is under new management, but now that state funding has been put on hold, any improvements the bus service has been making could stall out.
It's a long chain of transferred money that starts with travelers paying tolls to traverse the Pennsylvania Turnpike and ends with some of that money being funneled through PennDOT to CAT and other transit organizations around the state.
A federal lawsuit filed against the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and PennDOT has put those funds in jeopardy, which could end up meaning reduced service to CAT riders.
"Our immediate concern is that our funding for operating next year will be flat," said Richard Farr, executive director of CAT and rabbittransit. Long-term, the effects could be much worse, he said.
The toll money is earmarked for CAT's capital projects, such as the repair and replacement of buses and upgrading facilities. If that money dry up, service cuts would be necessary to pay for those needed repairs.
"Our system would be greatly smaller than it is today," Farr said. "We have not done that math yet, and I don't think we want to do it, either. It's going to be a scary outcome."
It all started with a lawsuit.
Two trucking organizations -- the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and the National Motorists Association -- filed a federal suit last year seeking nearly $6 billion in refunds from Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls they say were excessively charged, adding the money was improperly transferred to PennDOT to fund public transit.
They argue it is unconstitutional for the Turnpike to give PennDOT $450 million a year, as required by Act 44 of 2007 (and the later amended Act 89,) to help pay for non-turnpike projects. As of the filling of the suit, the turnpike had paid $5.875 billion to PennDOT.
The Commission argues in court filings there is no evidence the tolls are so high that they interfere with commerce.
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission CEO Mark Compton said Thursday an agreement struck with PennDOT and the state Office of Budget puts on hold the transfer of those toll funds while the lawsuit is pending. As of now, three fiscal quarters have passed and about $337.5 million has not been dispersed to CAT and other public transportation organizations.
Farr said if the Turnpike loses the lawsuit, CAT would lose $40 million over the next five years, which would make it impossible to stick to its schedule of bus replacement and repairs, driving up operating costs.
And long-term projects such as a new $60 million facility to replace the one on Cameron Street – which is a throwback to the days of the trolley – would be unlikely. As it is now, the facility does not have the modern capabilities allowing for a switch from diesel to more energy-and-cost-efficient fuels like compressed natural gas or electric. Compressed natural gas has already saved rabbittransit 30 to 50 cents per gallon in York, he said.
The downtown transfer center is also in need of a $20 million upgrade to make it a true connector, he said.
"These are long overdue and should have been addressed 20 years ago," Farr said. "None of those projects are possible if the Turnpike situation is not resolved."
Transportation funding has historically come 20 percent from the state and 80 percent from the federal government, but over the last 25 years, without an increase in federal transportation funding, that figure has dwindled, Farr said. It's more like 50-50 now, meaning CAT and others rely more and more on these state funds – all of which are coming from tolls.
Others are feeling the pinch, too, like Rabbittransit in York, which Farr also oversees, and SEPTA in Philadelphia, which now has numerous projects on hold, Philly.com is reporting.
Last year, rabbittransit took over the management of CAT.
State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale had recommended CAT consolidate with Rabbittransit after a study found $5.2 million could be saved in five years, noting CAT and its riders "could well benefit from the expertise offered by Rabbittransit's management team."
DePasquale's office recommended Rabbittransit take over CAT operations after Cumberland County Commissioners found executive staff members received two public pensions, as well as other "questionable practices and costly shortcomings."
Since Rabbitttransit took over CAT operations, Farr said things have been going well, besides the situation with the turnpike lawsuit.
They spent the first year taking a close look at CAT's operations to see how they can be modernized. This year, plans are in place to upgrade the fare-collection system, moving towards modern electronic fare collection and mobile ticketing.
"We're moving towards making a modern transit system that the community can be proud of," he said.
And much of that is reliant on the Turnpike funding.
Commission CEO Compton said the suit has not yet affected the Turnpike's day-to-day operations. He is not sure what will happen if the Turnpike lose the lawsuit, but he said its attorneys are confident they will prevail.
"If it's decided in our favor, we will make them whole on the money that we technically owe them," Compton said about the payments to CAT, via PennDOT.
He said all of the parties have submitted their evidence and arguments, and they are awaiting a ruling.
Right now, it's in the hands of federal Judge Yvette Kane, who will likely decide one or three things: to dismiss the case, to push it to trial, or to hand down a ruling based upon the information provided.


A teenager was arrested and is in police custody assisting with investigations into the gruesome murder of a Mahaicony Businesswoman early this morning at her home.
Police sources have confirmed that the 14-year-old from Good Faith, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara; described as a person of interest was arrested after neighbours disclosed to police that the suspect was engaged in a heated argument with the businesswoman several days ago over some coconuts.
The body of 56-year-old Bibi Ally of lot 6 Novar, Mahaicony, E.C.D. was discovered by her nephew at about 6:00hrs with her hands and feet tied and her mouth gagged. There were also marks of violence about her body.
Divisional Commander, Marlon Chapman earlier confirmed that it is not clear what is the motive behind the murder was, however, when police arrived on the scene, the house was ransacked.


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MLB Home Run Derby Field: It's Bryce Harper And Some Other Guys In D.C.
by Mike Cole on Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 8:03AM
With all due respect to everyone involved, this isn't the most impressive Home Run Derby field we've seen — far from it.
Major League Baseball on Wednesday announced the eight-player field for next Monday's contest at Nationals Park in Washington, and there is one superstar name even casual fans will recognize.
Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper is far and away the most recognizable name in the field. After that, though, let's just say we're not dealing with household names.
Here's the full field.
Bryce Harper (Nationals) vs. Freddie Freeman (Braves)
Max Muncy (Dodgers) vs. Javier Baez (Cubs)
Jesus Aguilar (Brewers) vs. Rhys Hoskins (Phillies)
Alex Bregman (Astros) vs. Kyle Schwarber (Cubs)
Obviously, those are all very good players capable of hitting baseballs very far distances. Freeman is an MVP candidate for an upstart Braves team, while Bregman and Baez are two of the most exciting young infielders the game has to offer. Saying these players won't generate buzz is different than saying they're not good baseball players.
But it's telling who's not in the field this season. There are eight players in baseball with at least 23 home runs this season. One — just one! — will participate in the Home Run Derby, and that's Aguilar. In fact, just two of the top 20 home run hitters in MLB this season (Aguilar, Harper) are in the derby. What's even the point?
To put that in perspective: Of last year's eight participants, all but one was in the top 20 in home runs at the All-Star break. The only player not in the top 20 was Gary Sanchez, who had missed part of the first half. Four of the top six home run hitters in the first half participated.
There will be little to no excitement entering this season's Home Run Derby and for good reason.
Thumbnail photo via Philip G. Pavely/USA TODAY Sports Images
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Intel To Revitalize White-Box Servers
Intel India will re-ignite the white-box server market with the launch of its next generation Xeon platforms—E3 and E7. The E3 platform allows white-box server manufacturers to configure an entry-level tower model for less than Rs 30,000.
"The Intel server board S1200BT takes advantage of the architecture capabilities of Sandy Bridge. Because of their deployment and configuration flexibility, S1200BT products enable resellers to offer customized solutions for their small business customers at aggressive price-points," said R Ravichandran, Director, Sales, Intel South Asia.
Ravichandran admitted that there has been a slight decline in white-box server sales in India, and stated that Intel's top priority is to revive the market. "We are launching a number of customer-facing programs to make further inroads in the SMB market."
Intel is confident that the new products will ramp up in the next two quarters. "We are currently in a transition phase as many OEMs are carrying inventory based on older versions of Xeon," Ravichandran explained.
Meanwhile, channels are hoping for a better response to the new platform. "There's always a first-mover advantage for system builders since the OEMs are yet to launch the new servers. We want Intel to create higher demand for the new platforms which will help us leverage the early opportunities. But right now the processors are expensive, and we are yet to see availability of boards for E7," said Sunil Kumar, CEO, Lampo Computers, Bengaluru.
Intel is also focusing on its modular server platform which, according to Ravichandran, has given the white-box channel a stronger play in the blade server market. "We are happy with the initial numbers of white-box blade servers, and we plan to create more such opportunities for server channel."
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British Gas warns punters about rogue diallers
British Gas is writing to all of its 400,000 telephone customers warning them about rogue dialler scams that hijack their computers and run up huge phone bills.
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DIY phishing kits hit the Net
Do-it-yourself phishing kits are being made available for download free of charge from the Internet, according to anti-virus firm Sophos.
Nintendo patents key console online gaming features
Nintendo has been granted a US patent that yields it the ownership of key online multi-player gaming facilities, including player league tables, voice communications and online gaming host services.
Lindows postpones IPO
Lindows is postponing its IPO, citing market conditions. The Linux distro vendor has not abandoned the idea altogether - its S-1 registration statement remains on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Cornice countersues Seagate
Cornice has countersued hard drive rival Seagate, the maker of micro hard drives said yesterday.
Microsoft wins another Eolas web patent battle
The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has ruled, once again, that The University of Califonia's controversial '906' browser patent is invalid. The decision gives Microsoft the upper hand in its battle with university spin-off Eolas, the sole licensee of the patent.
Sony, MS trim UK console prices
Microsoft and Sony yesterday trimmed the prices of the Xbox and PlayStation 2 as the pair square up against each other for the coming Christmas sales period - not to mention couch potatoes who've spent the summer on the sofa, eyes glued to the Olympics.
Aussie wireless broadband firm hints at iTunes launch
An Australian WISP has signed a deal with Apple that suggests the Mac maker will soon open its iTunes Music Store down under.
Number crunching boffins unearth crypto flaws
Cryptographic researchers have discovered weaknesses in the encryption algorithms that underpin the security and integrity of electronic signatures.
Google goes GOOG at $85 a share
Google has finally set its IPO share price at $85 and will debut on the Nasdaq today as GOOG. The news follows the Securities and Exchange Commission's decision, yesterday afternoon, to greenlight the IPO.
3 UK claims 1.2m subscribers
3 UK today claimed 1.2 million subscribers, at last taking it above the million subscriber target it set for itself to reach by Christmas last year. Worldwide, the Hutchison Whampoa-owned 3G mobile phone network operator has 3.2 million subscribers as of today, a net gain of 2.5 million customers in six months.
Virgin Radio touts Napster chart deal
UK station Virgin Radio is to begin broadcasting weekly chart rundowns based on Napster's online single sales figures, even as the Virgin Group's own digital music business, Virgin Digital, prepares to launch in the US and UK.
Alienware evolves from gamers to corporates
Alienware UK has updated its web site in a bid to shed its image as a purveyor of odd-looking, geek-friendly systems and recast itself as a provider of odd-looking business, creative consumer-friendly products.
Nortel fires seven beancounters (and 3,500 more)
Nortel Networks is firing seven finance employees in the wake of an accounting scandal which has already claimed the scalps of its former president and chief executive officer, chief financial officer and controller. At the same time the data networking equipment vendor is waving goodbye to 3,500 staff, mostly in North America, in cost-cutting moves.
US broadband use tops dial-up
More people access the Net in the US using a broadband connection than by dial-up, according to the latest stats from Nielsen//NetRatings.
Oracle joins the monthly patch bandwagon
Oracle is following Microsoft's lead in adopting as monthly patch cycle starting at the end of this month.
Amazon snaps up Chinese etailer
Amazon.com is moving in on China, by buying Joyo.com, the country's biggest retailer of books, music and videos. The deal values Joyo.com - which is headquartered in the British Virgin Islands - at $75m (£41m).
Epson parades tea cup-sized flying robot
Epson has developed a flying-robot that is the size of a teacup, but which is controlled remotely by Bluetooth for the duration of its three-minute flights.
Neptune shows off five new moons
A team of international astronomers has found five new moons orbiting Neptune. Previously the planet had seven known moons, including a couple of oddities: Triton and Nereid. The moons were discovered in observations made from ground-based telescopes in Chile and Hawaii.
Motorola plumps for HP Linux-on-Itanium bozes
In a somewhat surprising move, telecommunications equipment maker Motorola has chosen a variant of Hewlett-Packard's Itanium rack servers and Carrier-Grade Linux as the foundation of two of its next-generation lines of mobile telecom switching equipment. HP will be pleased with the news, as it proves that its Itanium platform has genuine market potential.
South Pole 'cyberterrorist' hack wasn't the first
It's a tale Tom Clancy might have written. From their lair in distant Romania, shadowy cyber extortionists penetrate the computers controlling the life support systems at a Antarctic research station, confronting the 58 scientists and contractors wintering over at the remote post with the sudden prospect of an icy death. After some twists and turns, the researchers are saved in the fourth act by an international law enforcement effort led by FBI agents wielding a controversial, but misunderstood, federal surveillance law.
Cisco warns on router bug
In briefCisco yesterday warned of a bug in its routing software that could be exploited in denial of service attacks. The network giant has issued a software patch for its Internetwork Operating System (IOS) software to defend against exploitation.
IBM threatens SCO with GPL hearing
Tech behemoth IBM has accused SCO of copyright infringement because it did not abide by the GNU General Public License (GPL) in using IBM's copyrighted work. IBM is seeking summary judgment for an injunction against SCO.
Should Google blame Foot in Mouth disease, or Evil Bankers?
AnalysisThanks to a cocktail of junk science and blind faith, techno-utopians love to believe that markets are "self-correcting". Only this doesn't apply to the stock market this week, they now tell us. Google's admirers are determined to believe that Wall Street has somehow conspired to wreck the company's initial public offering.
Court tells RIAA and Congress to let P2P software thrive
The same court that once helped shutdown Napster delivered a punishing blow today to the record labels, confirming an earlier decision that P2P networks are legal. The court then went one step further to say it's unwise to alter copyright law in a way that could stifle innovation just to suit well-established players in a market, given the ways in which technology often changes the market for the better in the long run.
Database snafu puts US Senator on terror watch list
US Senator Ted Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) was prohibited from flying because his name sparked a terror alert, the Associated Press reports. Apparently, the Senator's name came up on a terrorist watch list, or no-fly list, while attempting to board a US Airways shuttle out of Washington.
Infected in 20 minutes
OpinionWhat normally happens within twenty minutes? That's how long your average unprotected PC running Windows XP, fresh out of the box, will last once it's connected to the Internet.