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Fox's Chris Wallace Fear Mongers About Ebola Being Spread By Illegal Immigrants
Posted by Ellen -7834.60pc on October 05, 2014 · Flag
On today's Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace "just asked" what the chances are that some illegal immigrants will carry the Ebola virus with them when they "come over our porous southern border."
Wallace asked that question to Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infection Diseases.
Before interviewing Fauci, Wallace suggested in a prior interview that there "are some people in the Dallas area understandably, if perhaps unreasonably, panicking."
But he made up for that restraint during his interview with Fauci. There Wallace suggested that either immigrants or terrorists will start an Ebola pandemic. Fortunately, Fauci shot down the suggestion:
WALLACE: What are the chances—another question—what are the chances that illegal immigrants are going to come over our porous southern border with Ebola or the terrorists will purposely send someone here using Ebola as a bio-terror weapon?
FAUCI: OK, two parts to the question. I wouldn't be worrying about illegal immigrants coming from southern borders when we have an issue right now with Ebola in West Africa. I mean, that's a hypothetical, that's very far-fetched.
As far as terrorism: nature right now, Chris, is the worst bioterrorist. I'm worried more about the natural evolution in West African than I am about a terrorist.
WALLACE: I also suppose, if you're going to do a bio-terror weapon, Ebola isn't the most effective one.
FAUCI: That would not be—if I were a bioterrorist, that would not be my choice.
WALLACE: Because it doesn't—
FAUCI: No, it would be inefficient. Nature does it much worse than a bioterrorist.
On today's Reliable Sources on CNN, Media Matters caught PBS' Miles O'Brien slamming Fox's coverage.
Watch the two segments below.
Dave Francis commented 2014-10-06 19:44:17 -0400 · Flag
It saddens me that our government is not telling the whole truth, about the viruses running rampant around the country. Are you even aware that strains of drug resistant Tuberculosis, which had all but vanished from America, has returned to the United States, arriving inside foreign born individuals, and the vast majority of any type of TB is in a person who was virtually born abroad? This is according to Dr. Jane Orient, Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. While this is a major concern this Administration is staying tight-lipped about the virus that it is flooding children's bodies, causing tragic deaths and potential paralysis permanently. The outbreak of a respiratory enter virus D68, which has spread like wildfire in schools likely caused by the surge in illegal aliens, carrying the virus very prevalent in South America. The Enterovirus D68 typically causes flu-like symptoms, but in some cases it can cause wheezing and breathing problems that may require hospitalization. Because of President Obama's refusal to enforce our immigration laws, beginning with the porous borders, and unknown numbers of people from Mexico, the Africa continent, Pakistan, Syria and other Middle Eastern countries with poor hygiene have entered illegally. One of his executive orders to the Supervisors for the US Border Patrol was 'Catch and Release" and now our nation is paying for his inept policies.
According to a report from an interview on BREITBART by Ian Hanchett, Dr. Orient about the contagiousness of and potential for weaponizing the Ebola virus, reporting "the CDC, on its website, still says you can't get it through the air, however, they're putting out more directives of a Canadian public health services saying 'well, maybe you can get it through the air.' This type of air transmission has occurred in animals that had no contact except through the air. And Even so, it's very, very contagious; it only takes between 5 and 10 virus particles to infect a person. You don't have to have cuts…there are receptors for the viruses in [people's] normal skin." And "it's extremely transmissible that's why people who like the idea of killing off 90% of population say it would be an ideal agent for accomplishing that. There have been attempts to weaponize it…but you don't really need an ICBM warhead to transmit this, you just some infected people coming across your border." She further stressed that the government should devote more resources to securing the border to prevent the spread of disease.
IF YOU ARE FEEL MISERABLE UNDER OBAMA GRAND RULE AND HIS TROUBLEMAKERS AS SEN. REID, ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER, SEN. PELOSI check this site that has the phone Numbers and Mailing Addresses of Members of Congress contact them at: www.contactingthecongress to stipulate an end to illegal immigration, the dismantling of our laws, sovereignty, citizen rights and even our of abolition of our military, which is protection against our enemies foreign an domestic. Illegal Immigration is rapidly becoming the top priority for Americans, because they see its impact on the sterile economy and lost jobs. WE NEED TO PLACE OUR OWN PEOPLE IN JOBS AS A PRIORITY, NOT KEEP IMPORTING FOREIGNERS. Thousands of American workers should not be laid off, to give their jobs to cheap labor. Large corporations and big business are laying-off birthright, naturalized citizens and green card holders, making an avenue for lower paid illegal aliens. I personally have become an Independent after decades being in the Lefts aisle. Who cares who votes as long as they are eligible to vote and a US citizen?
BECAUSE OF THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, AMERICANS MUST BE ON THEIR GUARD FOR NON-CITIZENS ILLEGALLY VOTING? Democrats have no sense of honor, to stop illegal aliens from voting or people voting in two/three different precincts or other counties and even violating the law with absentee ballots. Individuals, who want something for nothing, will be in election halls in droves and voting for Socialistic Obama Congressional House. I am sure that ACORN, who violated the law in registering anybody for a dollar or two, is back under another group of names. This is the number for the central switchboard for every member of Congress to address your opposition at 800-224-3121. As an addition you can contact a Senator or Congressman by typing the abbreviation (Sen) or (Rep) name into any Search Engine such as Yahoo. For more details go NumbersUSA, Unipac and the spreading numbers of NATIONAL TEA PARTY Offices.
Aria Prescott commented 2014-10-06 14:54:18 -0400 · Flag
O'Brien isn't the only one- A lot of the medical/scientific community is calling out Fox's Ebola coverage as criminally irresponsible, and dangerous. But I do have a quick snark:
Why is it that we're not seeing Lord Ben Carson of the salvation of Healthcare and Hospitals condemning what they're doing? Why, it's almost like he wants to promote this as his "third term via hysteria" scenario.
@joe Marsh. The random fear mongering of Fux Noise at times overwhelms their aging, white teabagging audience. Brown-skinned illegal aliens, black-skinned Africans, Moose-lim terrorists. Carrying bombs and who knows what type of cooties into the USA. Fux Noise: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Joe Marsh commented 2014-10-06 03:30:03 -0400 · Flag
On more than one occasion over the summer, while ranting about the "invasion" of little brown children, Slanthead Hannity suggested they could be carrying Ebola (in addition to the terrifying cooties and other scourges they could be bringing).
Maybe now, Hannity will think twice about relocating to Texas? The wing nut broadcasters there are sweating profusely. Ebola has been a major topic on that worthless overnight Red Eye Radio, with McNamara and Harley who pollute the airwaves in the wee hours from Dallas.
[For those who haven't had the pleasure, these are two bitter, aging hacks who — when they aren't sharing stories about mowing their lawns filling their pools and visiting McDonalds — screech endlessly about the lying by anyone connected to Obama; "He LIED! She LIED! They LIED!!!"]
Getting back to Hannocchio (speaking of lies), one can almost imagine his utter disappointment when it turned out that Alton Nolen (the Oklahoma beheader) did NOT recently swim across the Rio Grande. Slanthead wants so badly to prove that evil is coming across the border.
And even though Hannity also can't prove that Nolen got his orders from ISIS, he knows in his all-Amerikan heart that the tragedy in Oklahoma was not workplace violence but an act of pure, radical Moose-lim evil!
NewsHounds posted about Fox's Chris Wallace Fear Mongers About Ebola Being Spread By Illegal Immigrants on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2014-10-06 00:14:19 -0400
Fortunately, Dr. Anthony Fauci, of the NIAID, shot down Wallace's suggestion as "very far-fetched."


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Q: Negative exponent of a number I made this program to find the power of any number using recursion and it works, but also I need to find negative power of the number,  for example, I have the base = 2 and the exponent = -3 so the result = 0.125,
what should I do?
public static int power(int x, int n )
        {
            if (n < 0)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("invalid");
                return 0;
            }
            else if (n == 1)
            {
                return x;
            }
            else if (n == 0)
            {
                return 1;
            }
            else
            {
                return x * power(x, n - 1);
            }
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.Write("enter the base: ");
            int x = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
            Console.Write("enter the power:");
            int n = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
            int z = power(x, n);
            Console.WriteLine(z);
        }

A: Since the result of raising a number to a negative power is just 1 divided by the number raised to the non-negative power, you can change you method like so (note that we also need to return a double type, since we're dealing with fractional values):
public static double power(int x, int n)
{
    if (n < 0) return 1 / power(x, -n);  // recursive call with '-n' for negative powers
    if (n == 0) return 1;
    if (n == 1) return x;
    return x * power(x, n - 1);
}

Now it works with negative numbers:
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    Console.WriteLine(power(2, -3));
    GetKeyFromUser("\nDone! Press any key to exit...");
}

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Q: Conditional fields in contact form 7 not working In my contact form I need a drop down for order quantities. On selection of "other", I want to display a number field for input. Below is my code but it's not working. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("OrderQuantity").addEventListener("change", displayNumberField);
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<label id="EnterOtherQuantity" style="display:none;"> Please Specify Your Order Quantity
[number other-order-quantity min:41] </label>

A: You can try this add-on to make conditional fields.
https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-conditional-fields/

A: Note that [select* drop-down-menu id="OrderQuantity"] CF7 shortcode will not output any id for the select, so you cannot use document.getElementById but you can rely on the name attribute:
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    document.getElementById("EnterOtherQuantity").style.display = 'block';
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OpinionCommentary
'Game of Thrones' has a rape problem
Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark and Iwan Rheon as Ramsay Bolton in a scene from season 5 of "Game of Thrones." The show airs Sundays at 9 p.m. Credit: AP, HBO / Helen Sloan
By STEPHEN L. CARTER, Bloomberg View May 20, 2015
"Well, We're Talking About Rape Again," is the headline of a column at Jezebel, but it has nothing to do with debate over the wording of campus disciplinary codes.
The author, Madeleine Davies, is angry about "Game of Thrones." With a couple of repulsive minutes at the very end of Sunday's episode, the show everybody hates to admit they love has suddenly been transformed into the show everybody loves to admit they hate.
You needn't be a fan of the program to be aware of the controversy. Shorn of the trappings of story, what happened is this: Sansa Stark, who has evolved into a popular character, was brutally raped by her husband, Ramsay Bolton, on their wedding night. Ramsay, it should be added, is known to viewers as a psychosexual sadist, whose torture and castration of another character occupied far too much screen time two seasons ago. And the writers have been to this well before.
Davies writes, "This is a series with an unfortunate and well explored history of using the rape of its female characters to shock, entertain, and force character development."
In the past, viewers have complained. This time around, the Twitterverse exploded in fury. Many promised a boycott.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, tweeted: "Ok, I'm done Game of Thrones. ... Gratuitous rape disgusting and unacceptable."
Nor were the professional critics kind. Andy Greenwald at Grantland offered several theories on why the showrunners might have chosen the direction they did, but finally concluded, "I don't think there's really any storytelling acrobatics that can forgive what happened."
And the choice was bizarre. In the books, the torture is mentioned but not shown. In the books, it isn't Sansa who's raped; it's another woman who pretends to be her sister. Although the writers of the television show chose to combine the two women's story lines, in the book, we know about the rape, but we don't "see" it. Here it's not only shown, but shown from the point of view of Theon Greyjoy, the man who was so brutally tortured.
There's a counterargument, of course.
Here's Amanda Marcotte in Slate: "It wasn't played off as rough sex, but as a deliberate act of dominance. For once, rape is being portrayed accurately, as an act of sadism instead of just an overabundance of passion." Her point is that "Game of Thrones" in the past has taken sexual assault too lightly.
Fair enough. Rape is a horrific reality of life, so it has to happen in fiction. But writers must tread warily.
A graphic depiction of rape might sometimes be necessary to advance a story. It should never be reduced to a plot device to shock the audience -- particularly on the screen, where the impact is so great. This is where "Game of Thrones," in its television incarnation, runs into trouble. Sansa's rape serves no story function.
Here's critic Jeremy Egner writing in the New York Times: "Did we need more evidence that Ramsay is terrible? We did not." Indeed, as Egner says, Ramsay's "two-dimensional sadism makes him the least interesting major character on the show."
Author George R.R. Martin, on his website, has offered a tepid defense of the showrunners' choices: "There have been differences between the novels and the television show since the first episode of season one. And for just as long, I have been talking about the butterfly effect. Small changes lead to larger changes lead to huge changes. ... Prose and television have different strengths, different weaknesses, different requirements."
Here Martin is of course precisely right. Fans who criticize the television series for diverging from the books may be passionate, but they are also mistaken. In the act of translation from one medium to another, creative choices have to be made.
What works on the page might not work on the screen, particularly when writers must adapt a tale as sprawling and complex as what Martin has created.
But the relevant criticism in this case isn't that Martin's books have been changed. The criticism is that too much screen time is being spent on rape and other forms of sexual sadism. The complaint, in other words, isn't that the writers have made a creative decision. It's that in returning so often to the well of sexual violence, they've made a bad one.
Don't get me wrong. I don't think the spate of sexual violence has entirely ruined the show. Nobody doubts that Ramsay will soon get his comeuppance, probably with great brutality. The producers, as Martin says, "are trying to make the best television series that they can." And the current season, but for that unpardonable deficiency, has been quite good.
I must confess, however, that I feel rather silly for having written just last week that with "Mad Men" over, I will look forward to spending my Sunday nights watching "Game of Thrones" instead. I'm not ready to join McCaskill in boycotting the show.
But the writers are treading dangerously. Too much sexual violence might drive away even the most dedicated fans.
Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg View columnist and a law professor at Yale.

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  AEUI_PATH = 'aeuis'

  class AlternateEndUserIdentity
    extend ClientWrapper
    include ApiItem

    def self.get_alternate_end_user_information(client, query=nil)
      response = client.make_request(:get, "#{client.concat_account_path(AEUI_PATH)}", query)
      return response[0]
    end
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      response = client.make_request(:get, "#{client.concat_account_path(AEUI_PATH)}/#{acid}")
      return response[0][:alternate_end_user_identifier]
    end
    wrap_client_arg :get_alternate_caller_information
  end
end


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In Photos: Sudan's Transitional Military Council, opposition coalition ink deal on constitutional declaration
AFP , Ahram Online , Sunday 4 Aug 2019
(L to R) Ethiopian mediator Mahmoud Drir attends the signing of the constitutional declaration between protest leader Ahmad Rabie and General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, Sudan's deputy head of the Transitional Military Council, at a ceremony attended by African Union and Ethiopian mediators in the capital Khartoum on August 4, 2019 AFP
Sudan military and opposition move closer in transition talks
Sudan's Transitional Military Council (TMC) and protest leaders Sunday signed a hard-won constitutional declaration that paves the way for a promised transition to civilian rule following more than seven months of often deadly street rallies.
The agreement, signed at a ceremony in Khartoum, builds on a landmark July 17 power-sharing deal and provides for a joint civilian-military ruling body to oversee the formation of a transitional civilian government and parliament to govern for a three-year transition period.
Protest movement leader Ahmed Rabie and the deputy head of the ruling military council, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, signed the declaration at the ceremony attended by African Union and Ethiopian mediators.
"We turned a tough page of Sudan's history by signing this agreement," Daglo, who flashed a victory sign after making a short speech, told reporters.
The signing was met by a wave of applause in the hall as representatives from both sides shook hands.
Overnight, thousands of jubilant Sudanese already took to the streets of the capital to celebrate when the deal was announced before dawn.
A formal signing in front of foreign dignitaries is due to take place on August 17 -- the date on which ousted president Omar al-Bashir is due to go on trial on corruption charges -- another protest leader, Monzer Abu al-Maali, told AFP.
The next day, the TMC and protest leaders are expected to announce the composition of the new transitional civilian-majority ruling council, he said.
"Members of the ruling sovereign council will be announced on August 18, the prime minister will be named on August 20 and cabinet members on August 28," Abu al-Maali told AFP.
Sunday's accord was the result of difficult negotiations between the leaders of mass protests which erupted last December against Bashir's three-decade rule and the generals who eventually ousted him in April.
On Saturday, the Arab League welcomed the agreement saying the signing of the constitutional declaration "would launch a new and important phase in line with the Sudanese people's aspirations".
Sudan's head of the TMC Abdel Fattah al-Burhan lauded the "long-awaited deal" in an interview on Saudi broadcaster Al-Hadath.
Demonstrators among the crowds that took to the streets in the early hours hailed victory in their struggle for a new Sudan.
"For us, the revolution succeeded now and our country set foot on the road towards civilian rule," said 25-year-old Ahmed Ibrahim as he joined the cavalcade of vehicles that criss-crossed the streets of Khartoum, horns blazing.
Fellow protester Somaiya Sadeq said she hoped there would now be justice for those who had given their lives.
"We have been waiting for a civilian state to seek fair retribution from the murderers of our sons," she told AFP.
The Ethiopian special envoy to Sudan Mohamed Darer said that the constitutional declaration puts the basis of the transitional period, including a civil, democratic rule that gives equality to all Sudanese people.
"We have shown to the whole world that the Africans can solve their problems without foreign interference ", he stressed.
(L to R) Ethiopian mediator Mahmoud Drir, protest leader Ahmad Rabie, and General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, Sudan's deputy head of the Transitional Military Council, celebrate after signing the constitutional declaration, at a ceremony attended by African Union and Ethiopian mediators in the capital Khartoum on August 4, 2019 AFP
General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (R), Sudan's deputy head of the Transitional Military Council, and Protest leader Ahmed Rabie shake hands after signing the constitutional declaration at a ceremony attended by African Union and Ethiopian mediators in the capital Khartoum on August 4, 2019 AFP
General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, Sudan's deputy head of the Transitional Military Council, celebrates after signing the constitutional declaration with a protest leader, at a ceremony attended by African Union and Ethiopian mediators in the capital Khartoum on August 4, 2019.
Protest leader Ahmed Rabie flashes the V sign for victory after signing the constitutional declaration with Sudan's deputy head of the Transitional Military Council, at a ceremony attended by African Union and Ethiopian mediators in the capital Khartoum on August 4, 2019 AFP
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Information from the Prison Policy Initiative shows that the United States incarcerates almost 30% of the worldwide total of jailed women. That's twice the percentage who are imprisoned in China and four times the rate of Russia.
"When compared to jurisdictions across the globe, even the U.S. states with the lowest levels of incarceration are far out of line," stated the report. Nationwide, there are 127 women jailed per 100,000 population, just less than Thailand's rate of 130. The state with the highest percentage of incarcerated women is West Virginia, with 273. Rhode Island trails all other states with a rate of 39, just one more than Kazakhstan's 38. The report's authors also point out that Illinois, with a rate of 88, has a higher rate than El Salvador, where abortion is illegal and women are often jailed for having miscarriages.
The U.S. women's incarceration rate has climbed steeply, according to the report. "In the U.S., we are not only incarcerating women far more than nearly all other nations, but we are also incarcerating women far more than we have done in the recent past. The sudden growth of incarceration in our country has been staggering; our incarceration rate nearly tripled between 1980 and 1990," the report said.
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States of Women's Incarceration: The Global Context (by Aleks Kajstura and Russ Immarigeon, Prison Policy Initiative)
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Just to put this article in context: The US has around 25% of total World's Prisoners, and only 6.7% of those are female as of the March 2016 according to the BOP. The US imprisons very heavily, in general, but is in no way specifically targeting women.


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Her mother suffered from Alzheimer's disease. At first Abbit's father was her mother's primary caregiver. Her parents later moved from Florida to California to be near her, their only child, and she shifted from long-distance support to daily caregiving. Eventually, she helped her parents navigate the transition to assisted living, then to a residential care facility and eventually hospice.
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Trick or Treat? Definitely Trick....Definitely.
So my "fun" game on Monday turned out to be something .... different. Usually, my throwdowns with my Tyranid nemesis, Broodnest are hard-fought,comical and generally a good time. I had wanted to test out some flyers and continue the tongue in cheek narrative we had going with the Templars of DOOoom and his bacon loving Tyranids. Right after deployment, this particular game was going down a different road.
I believe my words were "What the hell is THAT?!?" when I saw the whole army was deployed. I just looked him squarely in the eye and said "There is no way I can make a dent in that and there is no way this is going to be any sort of fun" Too many big critters, buffed by psychic powers to make them nastier, just no way for me to cause enough damage even if I could roll half way decent. My dice DO tend to hit OK, its wounding they seem allergic to.... unless Ms. Blinky is shooting, she seems to have issues hitting, must be that single eye.
"Looks scary from up here , Boss!"
Actually, the guys in the tower faired pretty well. Their shooting was suprisingly good, though they seldom wounded. They DID cause wounds. But 2 wounds on a 5 wound Trygon.... meh. I took a gamble.. (that was discussed with my opponent.... like I said, we basically played the game as a training ( I DID learn a LOT) and brought Ms Charlotte in against the Warrior unit that was on the objective in the center- an underground cryogenic storage center, loaded with pork products- which she did he whole balefire deal on to some effect, causing wounds,setting one on fire. The gamble was that my Defiler would hang in to close combat with the Flyrant, which it did not and Charlotte was rectally violated by twin linked devourers on the next turn. A rather unexciting showing for her first time out.
The "Budgie- standing in for a Traitor Vendatta gunship(I NEEEEED to get 1-2 of those)- lazzzed the crap out of one of the Trygons, once again hitting like aces, but failing to wound enough to put it down. Boltgun fire from the tower almost killed the Trygon (again- hit like crazy, failed to wound). It was a scary experience, reminded me of why I don't play tournaments and also of what my armies lack -as in stuff I have yet to purchase. Broodnest, who is a killer player and my painting protege', is going to help me figure out some units and such that will help me against a broader base of opponents, so I can go down to the shop and play. To be honest, I'm not familiar with the local "meta".. and I just build the units I like and think are cool most of the time, so we'll see how it goes. The good news is, I'm actually playing the damned game.
Next time (tuesday) he's breaking out his newish Tau army. That should be new for both of us.
In other news, I've started the first flight base. I have 3 and each one will be a vignette, likely with gretchin doing something goofy. In this one they will be selling beer. Think Lemonade stand.
Last but not least, tomorrow starts a new month. And I've come to a conclusion. I have an aweful lot of troops to paint. Granted, it would have been better to do in October- I could have called it Trooptober or something catchy like that, but instead I'm simply saying that I WILL NOT be painting anything for the next month that is not a TROOP choice. I'll still be working on Charlotte's wings, etc... but I need to build and - most importantly- PAINT- troop units. So expect to see Marines,cultists/guardsmen and some more Marines for the rest of the month.
May I present to you, Lord Inquisitor and Protectorate Marshal of the Crius Archipelago, His Grace, Sir Neville Jaxi Baggibottom the Third.
I'll admit to being a bit of a dope. One of the reasons for the delay in this post was that I HAD done a step-by-step photo bit on how I did the whites and such on His Grace. But, in a sudden fit of stupidity brought on by sleep deprivation and possibly one too many bottles of Woodchuck Hard Cider (Don't photo edit under the influence.. ) ... I, well.. I actually deleted the raw in progress pictures. SO, when I got out of work today, I retook some pictures of the "finished" Inquisitor. I may add some static grass, but I'm calling him done at this point.
Imperial Purple, parchment/warm whites and black are the colors of the Crixus Reclamation Force led by His Grace. He's known as a bit of a "collector"... definitely an eccentric, though saying that too his face is not always recommended. He collects, among other things, Space Marines. If there is a wayward,decimated Chapter struggling for existance or perhaps with its loyalty being questioned, His Grace might just swoop in and "save" them.... for the price of fighting for him, of course. In the process he collects as much information about the chapter,its lore,etc as he can, before using them up in some dangerous mission. Of particular interest to him are chapters of the 29th or Cursed founding, which he finds particularly fascinating. many have speculated there is some great work underlaying the Inquisitors odd compulsion, others write it off as an unnatural fascination.
And one of the leaders of their contingent, a Chaplain. Yes.... that is a feather cloak.
I finally got my stuff from Poland. Finally, shoulder pads for some of the Dogs of Khorne (I didn't order enough-somehow) and some scaley,serpent loving bunch of Slaanesh worshipping gits will be coming along in the not too distant future as well. The next post, however is likely to be a battle report, since I have a game on Monday. We'll see how badly the Chaos dice Gods abuse me.
A night's work, progressing left to right. I noticed about half way through that there were little faces ... or maybe it was sleep deprivation.So, I kind of ran with it a bit. It is a daemon engine afterall, might as well have some tortured souls involved.
The first part of my bits order arrived. Yes, you can still find plastic bits someplace. And the prices were reasonable. Overall, very pleased with my interaction with Hoard of Bits. Payment is through paypal and the package came USPS. OH... and looky what I made!
AND not to be left out, the Cyber-pie got his new tail. Now the Inquisitor is ready for paint.
Once the rest of my parts arrive from Poland, I'll be able to "Bring the NOISE!"... yeah.... there is to be a Slaaneshi contingent for the Templars of DOOooom.
With a fairly beautiful camoflage scheme on the 'Budgie, it was time for decals. I put gloss medium where I thought I might put decals, then went through the daunting task of going through my decal stash, which dates back about a decade, with Games workshop stuff and various 1/48 scale aircraft decals. The Raptors symbols from the forgeworld sheet, then some odds and ends from some Me109 and FW190 sheets. Here's what I came up with.
I had originally wanted a section that looked like it had been recently repainted or repaired. SO... to fix the problem, without having to do a whole repaint of the back end of the model- here was the solution.
With the "crisis" averted, it was on to the standard Althonian Camoshade wash I usually give my Raptors. Remember that nice camoflage scheme I had, that I worked so hard on...... well, its pretty much gone. Then a bit of drybrushing, dusting and weathering.
Still.... looks pretty friggin sweet. I thought about doing a re-application of the camo color, but I think I'm leaving it the way it is and proceding with the weathering powders and detailing (lights,chipping,etc.). Off came the canopy masks (at least that was flawless) and you can see where it stands below.
Finally, shoulder plates inbound for the Dogs of Khorne. The Khorne contingent will be getting an expansion, with a Raptors team. Eventually, there will be some other assorted Khorny units though I have an Eeeeevil idea of building the Khorne contingent so I can use the Space Wolf rules and use it as an Allied contingent for my Traitor Guard. Thunder"wolf" cavalry on Juggernauts? OOooooooo. There is also a Chaos Deamons allied force(which could be played as the primary contingent too) that sits unbuilt, so there is fun to be had there. OH.... and have I mentioned the Slaaneshi contingent? And NO... I haven't forgotten about the girls: Ms. Charlotte and Ms. Blinky. They will be wrapped up sooner than later.
Once again, I feel myself drawn back to the Hive Fleets. This time, Hive Fleet "Beautiful Swimmer" or as I call it "Hive Fleet Blue Crab". I have two old metal Carnifexes that will soon be respawned in a rather savory, Blue Crab asthetic. Fred the paint test termagaunt will be making his debut very soon.
While I'm sure they feel forgotten, I'm planning to finish the Ork Trukk I've been tinkering with. Then I'll finish painting up the Trukk boyz that I started a couple years back to go with it. Building and painting the Stormbudgie have given me the urge to build one of my Orky Fightas for air support as well.
.... or otherwise entitled "Yet Another Reason I Am Not Fond of Florida".
Tonight, I airbrushed the basic paint scheme on the Stormbudgie. Though an old soldier, my nearly 20 year old Iwata airbrush can be tempermental. Not to mention the fundamental problem of airbrushing in the "Sunshine State"- humidity. Somehow, I managed to get through 3 color applications (1 lacquer and 2 acrylic) without and major screw ups. A few minor ones, but nothing major. I probably should have waited for the weather to change tomorrow,when its supposed to be less humid, but this was the best night for a late night for me this week. The results were ... satisfactory.
I started with an overall coat of Testors Model Master Green Drab. It went on fairly without incident, only a couple drops of water in the lines, which doesn't bother lacquers much. Then I thinned down some Privateer Press Battledress Green which is the base color for my Raptors. I tried to let the darker Green Drab show through around the panel lines and recesses, to give it an overall worn/faded look. There were a couple water-in-the-line incidents, but easily dealt with and neither left anything noticable on the paint scheme. At this point I really should have snapped a photo. It looked pretty cool. But as usual, I forgot about the camera while painting. The "field applied camo" color was testors Model Master Israeli Armor Sand Grey. Lots of challenges with the humidity since I was trying to do a line pattern, most I was able to blow away by backing off the paint and hitting it with air through the brush.
Next will be all the detail painting and weathering. I hope to have her done by next week. Also on the workbench (along with many other things) are some of the Angry Magpies. A horrendous dremel mishap, which injured me and the miniature, has made me change course a bit on what the Librarian will look like, but I have laid out the basics of his jump pack. Its not totally done, there will be irridescent blue-black feathers and such, but it gives you a basic idea of colors.
I've also repurposed an older conversion of the Dark Vengeance Chaplain for the magpies. Thanks to some trading of old minis I'm not using, I have 2 Landspeeder Storms on the way. I'm probably going to make one Raptors and one Magpies, but we'll see.
I've had several people ask for some detail shots of Ms. Blinky's eye. So I figured I'd share the montage here as well. It came out so good, now I'm going to have to put more nasty bloodshot eyes in my Chaos army. Way to raise the bar on myself... dumba$$.
More stuff in a day or so. Angry Magpies on the painting table as well as a few other things, plus more work on Charlotte and Blinky. Monday night or Tuesday most likely.
From the Workbench: A 'Budgie,an Eye and a Magpie.
Then, I masked the canopy with good ol' Scotch tape. I've always used it. I give the canopy a good polishing with a t-shirt, to get rid of fingerprints and such. Make sure my hands are clean and cut away (carefully and lightly) along the framing with an exacto knife. I use toothpicks to rub the tape down along the edges first. It never seems to life up, even with multiple spraying/layers of paint. I'm not 100% about brush painting , since I usually airbrush my planes. Next was the front end, which needed a bit of fill and sand work as well as final decisions on the armament. I made a Typhoon missile launcher turret for the nose and decided to mount my assault cannons outboard.
And here's the finished 'Budgie... ready for primer.
The next subject might be a bit of a suprise. You might think I had forgotten about her. She's been looking a bit lonely lately, so I decided to dust her off and stay up all night to do some fevorish painting.
I skipped a few steps here and there with the pictures, because I always forget about the camera when I'm painting, but I'll try to give you the basics. Here I lightened up the base Yellow Oche with bleached bone, then bleached bone and white to give me a brighter area to work on. I hit the edges of this with a shade (the yellowy brown Sepia)... then on to the pupil.


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Moore, Charlene (2019) Analysis of the American Gun Crimes. Undergraduate thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.
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It is said that Gun Control saves lives (Lopez, 2017). It has also been said that it makes no significant difference to death rates. Which theory is right? This document is a detailed analysis on gun violence in the United States of America. The purpose of this report is to analyse a topic of choice for a final year dissertation, at the National College of Ireland. The motivation behind this document is to gain insights into America's gun violence, and surrounding factors that potentially have impact.
Objectives. To analyse America's gun violence, determining links, trends and patterns within past data on gun violence sourced from Kaggle (Kaggle, 2019), where it was downloaded originally from Gun Violence Archive (GVA) (Gun Violence Archive, 2019). The main objective is to try understanding America's gun laws and gain insights their gun violence rates, determine where gun violence is highest, what time of the year has the highest gun violence rate and what firearms are used most to conduct the crimes. Gun violence could be related to many factors such as drugs, gangs, suicides, mass shootings etc., This document proposes a model that allows law enforcement map out the areas where crime rates are high, along with the types of firearms used in the past in these areas to contribute towards the battle of lowering these rates. With this tool, law enforcements in the areas can be proactive rather than reactive.
Methods. Using GVA's data along with data obtained from the US Census, the selection and exploration method was used to determine links, trends and patterns. In conjunction, a literature review was carried out to examine existing knowledge on gun violence, along with what has been done and how this document can be an addition to the existing body of knowledge.
Results. An examination in trends in the states gun violence rates and the different types of crime committed, revealed that there are trends between alcohol consumption, happiness rankings of a state and the gun laws of a state and their gun violence rates.
Conclusions. There is certainly a link between gun violence laws and their gun violence rates. This requires evaluating to improve rates of gun violence. Identification of the violence categories such as gang, drugs and suicide along with time series forecasting would be a very useful tool to law enforcements. In conjunction with gun sales records and the gun types common in the areas that can be determined based on past trend, law enforcement can be proactive rather than reactive in reducing gun violence rates.
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Who are some of your favorite musicians? Many recognizable names, from Hendrix to McCartney to Zappa, would not have achieved their fame without a man by the name of Les Paul, according to Arlan Ettinger, the president of auction house Guernsey's on New York's Upper East Side.
Guernsey's is auctioning off a prototype, known as Black Beauty, that inspired the guitars manufactured beginning in the 1950's by Gibson Guitars with Paul's specifications, one of which was buried with Bob Marley. The auction will take place February 19; there is no current presale estimate, but Ettinger says it could sell for over $2 million.
Black Beauty was actually the second prototype (the first was deemed unplayable by Paul himself), with a mahogany neck, ebony fret board, a Tune-O-Matic bridge and a jack for a microphone. Without Black Beauty, no other Les Paul guitars could exist in the way they are known today. Paul played more than 150 shows with this exact guitar between 1954 and 1976.


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I just got an email from keyboardist & guitar player, and my long-time friend, Tom Kennard, about GigMasters.com. Tom & I had been discussing bands & getting better gigs, and like many musician's, Tom is in multiple bands. In one of the bands, he plays keys for a country singer who may be on the verge of stardom (someday…) and Tom plays "boom-chinka, boom-chinka" piano parts, which is what the original songs call for, but leaves Tom less than inspired.
However, Tom was contacting me because of his 2nd band, called Round Trip. Like Tom, all of these guys are accomplished musicians and they have been rehearsing together for almost a year getting a repertoire of cover songs together. Tom said that they felt like they were ready to go in Feb/ March and put up a web site and a profile on GigMasters.com. In three weeks they had three gigs via GigMasters totaling about $12,000. And the gigs continue to come in.
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Wednesday Jun. 22, 2016
by Donald Hall
In June's high light she stood at the sink
With a glass of wine,
And listened for the bobolink,
And crushed garlic in late sunshine.
I watched her cooking, from my chair.
She pressed her lips
Together, reached for kitchenware,
And tasted sauce from her fingertips.
"It's ready now. Come on," she said.
"You light the candle."
We ate, and talked, and went to bed,
And slept. It was a miracle.
"Summer Kitchen" by Donald Hall from The Selected Poems of Donald Hall. © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)
It was on this day in 1944 that the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 became law — a law better known as the GI Bill. It was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt.
The GI Bill provided a series of benefits for returning veterans: education; unemployment pay; and low-interest loans for houses, farms, or businesses. Although it turned out be a very popular and long-lasting piece of legislation, it almost didn't pass at all. The House and Senate fought about various parts of it. Some legislators didn't want to extend unemployment benefits to veterans because they worried it would stop people from looking for work. Others didn't think veterans would fit in at colleges, which had historically been attended mostly by privileged people.
There was pressure on the government to figure out some solution, to avoid a repeat of what had happened to veterans returning from World War I. The Bonus Act, passed in 1924, was supposed to give World War I veterans a bonus based on their length of duty, but most didn't actually receive it. In 1932, a group of poor, angry, and hungry veterans marched on Washington to demand their money. The standoff lasted weeks, and the number of veterans rose to almost 20,000, many of them living in makeshift camps constructed from scraps and boxes. After the Senate voted against a bill to give the veterans their bonus immediately, the veterans ended up pushed out of the city by federal troops while their camp was burned. Needless to say, it didn't reflect well on the government, which was anxious to do better this time around. Beyond that, they were very concerned about the potential for high levels of unemployment after World War II, and possibly another economic depression.
The GI Bill was a huge success, especially in the realm of education. At its peak in 1947, 49 percent of students admitted to college were veterans. Many institutions of all types and sizes — from Stanford to the University of Georgia to Rutgers — nearly doubled the size of their student body. Of the 16 million World War II veterans, almost 8 million took advantage of education and training programs.
Not everyone was thrilled with the new bill. Before World War II, a small percentage of Americans attended college — in 1937, 15 percent of 18- to 20-year-olds were enrolled — and most of them were from wealthy families. Speaking about the GI Bill, the president of the University of Chicago said, "Colleges and universities will find themselves converted into educational hobo jungles." A dean at Harvard complained, "There is a kind of unhealthy determination to get ahead, a grim competitive spirit, an emphasis on individual careerism and success which is disturbing ... the lights are burning very late and there is not much leisurely talk or fellowship or group spirit." People were surprised when the veterans turned out to be successful students. In 1947, the education editor of The New York Times wrote: "Here is the most astonishing fact in the history of American higher education ... the GI's are hogging the honor rolls and the Dean's lists; they are walking away with the highest marks in all of their courses."
Joseph Heller, the author of Catch-22, went to New York University on the GI Bill, as did Frank McCourt. The poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and novelist Norman Mailer studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.
When signing the bill, Roosevelt said, "The members of the armed forces have been compelled to make greater economic sacrifice and every other kind of sacrifice than the rest of us, and they are entitled to definite action to help take care of their special problems."
It's the birthday of novelist Erich Maria Remarque (books by this author), born in Osnabrück, Germany (1898), who is best known for his anti-war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. At the age of 18, Remarque was drafted into the German army to fight in World War I. He was wounded five times. In 1929, the novel he had been working on for 10 years was published. All Quiet on the Western Front is the story of one man's experience in the war; some critics called it the best anti-war novel ever written. The book was an immediate international success; however, it was banned in Germany, and in 1938, Remarque's German citizenship was revoked. He became a citizen of United States in 1947 and was married to American film star Paulette Goddard. He died in 1970.
It's the birthday of children's book author Harriett Mulford Lothrop (books by this author), born in New Haven, Connecticut (1844). Written under the pen name Margaret Sidney, The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew was published in 1880. It was an idealized story about a young widow with five perfect children, who, although they live in poverty, resolved all their problems with constant cheer. Readers kept writing to ask what happened to the Little Peppers as they got older, so Sidney wrote 10 sequels in which the girls all grow up to have happy children of their own, and the boys all become successful businessmen with cheerful, dutiful families.


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atastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide says 'Superstorm' Sandy will cause between $7 billion and $15 billion in insured losses—possibly making the unprecedented storm the third-costliest in U.S. history.
The estimate includes wind and storm surge damage to residential, commercial and industrial properties and contents, as well as automobiles. Additionally, the estimate includes additional living expenses and business interruption. It also takes into account demand surge.
And the storm system that produced Sandy isn't finished producing damage as it moved inland into Pennsylvania and New York before it turns up to head to Canada.
Eqecat, another catastrophe modeler, earlier released an insured-loss estimate from Sandy of between $5 billion and $10 billion, with total economic losses of $10 billion and $20 billion.
Slideshow: Sandy's Aftermath
Using the high end of AIR's insured-loss range, Sandy would be eclipse 2008's Hurricane Ike as the third-costliest hurricane in U.S. history. Ike caused about $13 billion in damage to mainly Texas and Louisiana, as well as other inland states.
If insured losses from Sandy land anywhere within the modelers' estimates, it will be known as one of the 10 costliest hurricanes ever to hit the U.S.
That is, if Sandy's damages will be considered damage caused by a hurricane. Sandy was downgraded to a post-tropical storm system just before it made landfall in New Jersey. This fact has one important consequence to insurers and consumers—whether insurers will be able to enact the hurricane deductible. Instead of a flat deductible of, for example, $1,000 on a home valued at $200,000, a hurricane deductible if typically 2 percent of a home's value—or $4,000 for the $200,000 home.
Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute, says he's received word the hurricane deductible will not apply in Connecticut, but the matter has yet to be made clear in New Jersey.
"We're trying to get clarification," he says. "The storm wasn't technically classified a hurricane, but it did have winds strong enough for a hurricane and I think hurricane warnings were still in effect on the coast."
Hartwig says Sandy will be remembered as one of the most notable in history—and not necessarily for its insured losses, since much of the losses aren't insured by the private market. For example, municipalities often self-insure. State and federal property are not insured in the private market. Flood perils are insured by the federal government—if residents and businesses even have the coverage.
"Think about the extent of the disruption—The New York Stock Exchange closing for two days [for the first time in more than 100 years]; the airlines grounded; the subways and trains out of service," Hartwig says. "This will go down as a meteorological legend that did something very rare. It hit a concentrated, urban area."


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I'm afraid I'm going to start yet another post about what I did with fabric given to me at my "exit party" last fall. Maybe you're getting a bit tired of this subject, but I have to say I have never before encountered such examples of the "law of unintended consequences". It feels like I'm getting smacked in the face with them. I never expected that suggesting people bring a metre of fabric as a gift to my party would result in changing the way I dress. Who'd have thought?? But as I've tried to match clothing designs to the fabric, that's what's been happening.
The picture on the left is from Simple Modern Sewing, which I've made several tops from. The picture on the right is my version of the wrap skirt. Olivia, my former colleague, supplied exactly one metre of fabric, which wasn't quite enough for this skirt. I had to shorten the skirt, because the full length of front and back panels required about four inches I didn't have. I got some matching fabric for the yoke at the third fabric store I tried. Given that the fabric is grey with a bluish cast, it wasn't as easy as I thought to find a match.
It's an amazingly comfortable skirt. Wearing it feels like wearing nothing, which is great on the one hand, but on the other a bit disconcerting. Any breeze at all will blow this skirt up around my waist, I fear, and I do live on the wet-coast rainforest, which is windy.
It's a nice design, a fake wrap that's really a tube. There are two ties, one of them starting inside the yoke and emerging out of a little hole in the side seam, so you can tie it as tight or loose as you like.
I made the medium and the only change I made was to redraw the sides of the yoke, reducing the slant. This resulted in an extra four inches at the "waist" (my actual waist is quite a few inches higher up).
Now this look is totally me. I haven't worn a skirt this short since I was about 17 (and my skirts then were possibly a full foot shorter), but this is a really comfortable, new look for me. It has occurred to me that the blue-grey fabric (which I love) is maybe too sombre for such a perky design. What do you think? It seems to me more vampish than modest? Does it have a touch of goth? Should I make more? I have a length of dark maroon and grey wool plaid fabric — would that work for a winter skirt? Or should I pick up some lively bright floral fabric to make another summer one?
This week I set myself the challenge of making something from a piece of fabric I was given by a former colleague at my "exit party" last fall. I call the fabric "sturm und drang". Here's a pic: I think you can see the reason for the name. Just to make sure, I checked my closet and saw that there is, indeed, a total absence of print clothing, except for a few tone-on-tone jacquards and stripes. So, this would be a first. I like several of the many, many colours in this fabric, but from a distance it seems dominated by brown splotches that I don't really care for. I thought about the vogue 8786 pattern that I used for "sackcloth and slink", which allows for fabric matching because of the panels and yokes. I also considered that, given the choice between wearing a knitted top and a woven blouse, nine days out of ten I'll choose the knit. Why not match this print with a solid knit that brings out the turquoise and produce a comfortable … uh, wonsie? I'm trying, I'm really trying to use the word "dress", but I hate the word. It suggests everything I hate about cultural ideas of "femininity". I know it's just a word!! Enough, carry on. While I was giving myself challenges, I decided to underline the print fabric so that light wouldn't shine through it. Gawd knows I don't want to wear a slip, of all things. I chose a gauzy pale blue cotton from a turban I purchased last summer at a theatre sale. It turned out that underlining didn't create any extra work to speak of. I pinned the pieces to the print fabric and used an interlock stitch to both sew them together and finish the raw edges at the same time. And I discovered that the print panels had a much nicer 'hand' after the underling than before. And also they were a better match in terms of body and weight to the doubleknit I purchased. I also decided to replace the back seam below the yoke with a button placket and have buttons and buttonholes running up the back. Thankfully I then had an even better idea, and made a fake button placket. That's not terribly clear, is it? I sewed buttons through all layers without bothering with buttonholes. And while I was being innovative, I decided to use a few different colours of buttons. Okay,here's the final product. It's not entirely me, I think. But it's a move in a direction I'd like to go. I tried to style it up a bit. Good use of a prop, eh? Pretending to reach up to the curtain rod, okay?? I like the back — possibly more than the front. The good news is that I'm wearing this, uh, wonsie, as I'm putting together this post. It's comfortable. And not too fancy to be at-home wear.


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Why carmakers say no to battery swapping
Dave Guilford, Automotive News
The auto industry may be skeptical, but Better Place's battery-swapping strategy has attracted government support and $350 million from investors.
There's a strange disconnect surrounding Better Place, the company best known for its plan to extend the range of electric vehicles by relying on speedy battery swaps.
Automotive executives are nearly unanimous in dismissing the idea. With the conspicuous exception of Nissan-Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn, rarely does an executive express interest.
Yet Better Place is getting increasingly credible support from governments, banks and major corporations. So far this year, it has signed an extensive deal with General Electric and picked up $350 million in financing.
In an interview at the Paris auto show, Shai Agassi, the Palo Alto, Calif., company's founder and CEO, attributed his cool reception in automotive circles to "a lack of belief that something that big can happen in the industry."
Chinese automakers are more receptive than traditional industry powers, he added.
"Incumbents in an industry that is slow to change tend to believe that the speed of change will remain constant," Agassi said.
Two big deals
Agassi, a trim, intense 42-year-old native of Israel who made a fortune in the software industry, is out to increase the speed of change dramatically. Two major deals this year validate his vision, he said:
-- Last month's alliance with General Electric calls for cooperation in four areas: technology development, battery financing, fleet programs and consumer awareness. Agassi said making GE chargers compatible with Better Place equipment will expand the reach of both companies.
-- In January, Better Place raised about $350 million from investors led by HSBC. The London-based financial services giant put in $125 million of its own money and took a 10 percent stake and a board seat.
"What you're starting to see is a trend," Agassi said. "It's not just the crazies anymore. It's the leaders."
The new funding is being poured into Better Place demonstration projects in Israel and Denmark. Both government-backed efforts will set up nationwide networks for rapid recharging and battery switching.
Ghosn's support has been crucial for each. The Renault Fleunce sedan, a purpose-built EV, will be the first vehicle using the network. Interestingly, though, Renault partner Nissan chose to use an enclosed thermal management system for the battery pack in the Leaf EV in the United States, meaning the car's battery cannot be swapped.
In both Israel and Denmark, Agassi expects to have a thorough evaluation of the Better Place system by the fall of 2011. He wants answers to three questions:
1. Does the system work?
2. Do consumers like it?
3. Can it be duplicated?
"If the answer is yes to all three, then we replicate it around the world," Agassi said.
Swap time: 59 seconds
Better Place has another project beginning in Australia and, at the behest of the Japanese government, is testing battery swaps with Tokyo taxis. So far, the company says, the average swap time is 59 seconds.
The tough nut to crack is the United States, Agassi admitted. The core issue there is the relatively low cost of gasoline.
Better Place's basic model is to replace the gas station, he said. Investors look at $3-a-gallon gasoline in the United States and figure their return on investment will be better in Europe, for example, where fuel costs twice that.
Nevertheless, Agassi said he expects Better Place to penetrate the United States eventually. He added that he has no interest in the path taken by EV makers that focus on small, limited-range "city cars."
"An American buyer doesn't want to drive a small city car," Agassi said. "You've designed a car for a guy who doesn't have the ability to buy the car. Most of these guys in Birkenstocks, they don't have the $35,000 to buy a third car for the family."
Instead, he wants to persuade an automaker to make an electric, battery-switchable SUV for American buyers. With such a vehicle, Agassi said, there would be "no gasoline, no stigma."
"You've got the Diet Coke of cars," said Agassi, clearly eager. "You've got all the taste and none of the guilt."