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Previously Convicted Evansville Child Sexual Abuser Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Receipt of Child Sexual Abuse Material
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EVANSVILLE – Wesley Owen Bowles, Jr., 59, of Evansville, Indiana, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to receipt of child sexual abuse material.
According to court documents, on March 20, 2020, law enforcement investigators learned about the transmission of suspected child pornography using Google applications. An investigation eventually led law enforcement officers to Bowles. Between March 1, 2019, and October 13, 2020, Bowles received and downloaded more than 600 images to his Google accounts depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct including images depicting a prepubescent minor or a minor under the age of twelve years and images involving sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence. The Court also imposed a sentencing enhancement because of the defendant's pattern of sexually abusing or exploiting children. In 1999, Bowles was convicted of sexual abuse of a child in Dubois County, Indiana.
Zachary A. Myers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, and Herbert J. Stapleton, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Indianapolis, made the announcement.
The FBI investigated the case. The Evansville Police Department provided invaluable assistance. The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young following Bowles' guilty plea. As part of the sentence, Judge Young ordered that Bowles be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for five years following his release from prison. Bowles must also register as a sex offender wherever he lives, works, or goes to school, as required by law.
U.S. Attorney Myers thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Shellenbarger who prosecuted this case.
This investigation was conducted by the Indiana Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, a partnership of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies led by the Indiana State Police. The Task Force is dedicated to investigating and prosecuting crimes involving the technology-facilitated sexual exploitation of children and the trafficking of child sexual abuse material. Each year, Indiana ICAC investigators evaluate thousands of tips, investigate hundreds of cases, and rescue dozens of children from ongoing sexual abuse. In fiscal year 2019, the most recent year for which data is available, the Southern District of Indiana was second out of the 94 federal districts in the country for the number of child sexual exploitation cases prosecuted.
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The Comedy of Sex
PHOTOS BY DANTE GAGELONIA, ART BY ROB CHAM
Mantle Magazine
Watches and the Pedestrian: Sexy Time
Live performance erotica is here to stay, and it's changing the way people think about sex.
In a dimly lit hall at Makati's Green Sun Hotel, Deus Sex Machina is about to start again after a fifteen-minute break.
The show's concept is simple enough: a group of writers create erotic scripts and have performers read them onstage. But the stories themselves are hardly that straightforward. Each script can range from the domestic to the fantastic, and sometimes fall somewhere between both.
Tonight is Virgins' Night, and what that means is that the show is mostly made up of people who've never done this sort of thing. Nothing to do with whether or not they've actually had sex before. And that hardly matters here, anyway. Because this is one place where sex (and who you have it with) has no stigma at all.
Across the space, you see artists, writers, a few spectators from different countries. Performers with their scripts on hand, getting ready to take to the stage.
Then, the speakers go live and the stories begin.
A tribal council of cavemen creating the first taboos of society. A pair of vegetarian manananggals on a cheat day. The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin in an erotic wrestling match.
You'd never have seen it coming. Only, you do. The performers come—sensually, loudly, graphically. They scream and moan. They twitch and shudder and make overtly suggestive gestures. They bring the stories to life with acting and accents.
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Listen to 'Ladies of the Night,' a story of manananggals going vegetarian
This is the sort of thing Deus Sex Machina has come to be known for over the past four years. It's a celebration of sexuality, of relationships, and of fiction, and it's meant to be performed onstage.
Most of it is done for the laughs, to see the what-ifs, but each piece is also meant to be a commentary on society. The caveman piece explores the concept of societal norms, the manananggal story is about repressed desires, and the wrestling script is a discussion on homoeroticism and masculinity in contact sports.
Deus Sex Machina is part of a movement that's been slowly taking root in the Philippines. A kind of collective sexual awakening expressed through art. You see women telling stories through burlesque and even a Kink Carnival that brings fetishes out of the bedroom and onto the stage.
Listen to some cavemen arguing in 'The Invention of Prudishness'.
"The original idea behind Deus Sex Machina was it was really a joke between four friends." That's what Marco Sumayao, one of its co-founders, says.
But you know how it goes with jokes: sometimes half-meant, sometimes meant completely with intention.
"Before anyone could even say no," Marco says, "he already booked a venue."
And that was how Marco became a co-founder. Not that he's complaining now.
The first show, held in Uno Morato, attracted quite a following.
"We had to turn people at the door because the venue was so full."
But the people, it seemed, didn't want to pass it up, even without seats. So, they stayed, watching through the windows.
Once a Queen, Always a Queen
"So, we realized that this was a thing people were apparently interested in. From there we just kept going."
Today, four years after that first show, Deus Sex Machina stages musicals and rap battles alongside their fiction. Basically, anything that involves sex and can be performed live. One musical, Marco explains, is an emotionally compelling tale about a talking, severed penis.
"It was a very heartwarming piece… a nice allegory for toxic masculinity."
Given the reception we're seeing in this hall—there isn't an empty seat anywhere—it's almost certain that many hearts were warmed.
It seems that the enthusiasm from the first show still hasn't waned. It might even be getting more intense. Green Sun's hall is a large space, but it's hard enough to move around, and a few people are still standing outside, looking in through the panoramic windows.
So, what does this all mean? And where is it all headed?
"There's so much libido waiting to be expressed," Marco says. "Honestly we really just want to open up conversations. The more people are talking about sex in healthy, positive ways, the more people educating people about how to avoid negative behavior and negative attitudes, all the better."
Still, it's mostly for the laughs. But if you're going to laugh anyway, you might as well pick something up from it. And who better to teach you about sex positivity than someone's talking, singing, disembodied junk.
Mantle Magazine February 13, 2019
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The Blue Book Blues
I think that right now a lot of us in UFO land wish we could travel back in time two weeks, to when the world was innocent and unspoiled, and researching the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book UFO case files was fun, free and easy. Well, ok, it wasn't always easy, but it was fun and free.
Back then, in those simpler, carefree times, students of UFO lore like myself could visit www.bluebookarchive.org or www.fold3.com to read Project Blue Book case files to our hearts' content, or until our significant others told us to turn the damn lights off and get to bed. Then, on January 12th, just two weeks ago as I write this, in an interview with UFO news website OpenMinds.tv, John Greenewald announced that he had 1) filed Freedom of Information Act requests to get access to 130,000 pages of documents in the Project Blue Book files, and 2) made those files in their entirety available "in a straight forward, easily searchable database."
The money quote, to me, is right here:
INTERVIEWER: "Why have (the Blue Book files) not been available online for free until now?
GREENEWALD: "To convert and archive 130,000 pages is no easy task. There are some sites that tried to create the archive… but really didn't gear it towards the researcher or the investigator. Some charge for the information (if it's even complete), others make it hard to download or read, and others are just incomplete."
Get that? The interviewer asked a question that was formulated on an incorrect assumption: that the files had never been available online for free until now. Now, it seems to me that the correct response would have been, "Whoa, hold it right there, pal, I never said they weren't available online for free up until now! They have in fact been available for free from two different websites for many years. I have simply attempted to make that same information more complete and more useable. There is no need to make a big fuss over this!"
Then the interviewer might have asked, "Okay, but if this information has been available online for free for several years, what's all this about you filing all these FOIA requests to get this information out in the open?"
Now anyone can learn about UFOs! ...or can they?
(And then, if I had been there, I would have asked, "But if you wanted to make the information more complete, why is a document on your website redacted when the identical document at www.bluebookarchive.org is not?")
God knows what the correct response would have been after that, but I'm pretty sure the whole thing would have ended right there, and not become the latest in a long line of self-immolating public embarrassments to the UFO community.
But no, the news grew and spread and grew and spread until every human being on earth knew, or thought they knew, that the Project Blue Book files had just been declassified by the Air Force and made available to the public online for free for the very first time ever.
And that's where it stood until last night when the files were suddenly and mysteriously not newly available to the public for the very first time. Yes, the Black Vault had gone black, at least where the Project Blue Book files were concerned... And today we learn that some sort of copyright infringement action is allegedly in the works from Ancestry.com, owner of Fold3...
Which is just fantastic news for anyone who believes these records should be available to the public for free, isn't it?
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Labels: Air Force, alien, Blue Book Archive, flying saucer, Fold3, Freedom of Information, John Greenewald, OpenMinds, Project Blue Book, space, The Black Vault, UFO
The Most Amazing UFO Sighting EVER
Damn. I was all set to tell you the strange story of my latest UFO field investigation, the one in which a "trained Advanced Expert for the U.S. Government" and his entire family of Ph.D.s saw an object that at first he took to be a reflection of his son's X-Box but in reality had no distinct shape and that did the following over the course of one hour, ten minutes and twenty-two seconds:
When I see this, I do not automatically think "Aha! A UFO!"
Changed Direction
Turned Abruptly
Changed Shape
Cast Shadow
Cast Light
Projected a Beam
Caused Injury/Death
Hovered
Ascended
Descended
Affected Radio/TV
Affected Magnetism
Affected Timepiece
Affected Animal
Affected Human
Affected Cell Phone
Affected You Physically
Fluttered
Blinked
Pulsated
Glowed
Has all the makings of a classic, doesn't it? Either this is the most amazing UFO sighting ever reported or the guy's hand was shaking when he was checking off the boxes in the "Objects or Lights did the following" section.
Either way, I must pass on it for now, because something really important has come up. The second half of the podcast I recorded for "See You on the Other Side" has been posted today. Go listen to it here...
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Labels: alien, Certified UFO Field Investigator, DARPA, flying saucer, Mike Huberty, MUFON, Ph.D., See You on the Other Side, space, Sunspot, UFO, X Box
UFO Quote of the Day
I've started a new companion feature to "High Strangeness -- The Blog" that I hope you all will enjoy. It occurred to me the other day that there are about a billion websites where you can see pictures of UFOs any time you want to, but there's no place to go to read a good UFO Quote. So why not gather together the very best of the things people have to say about UFOs and deliver one to my audience every day, via my twitter account?
Think about it. Those UFO photos you all look at day after day on other websites? They all look pretty much alike after a while. Globs of light in the sky... Dark, fuzzy shapes... Orbs... The occasional alien corpse... What is the point of looking at more and more and still more indistinct photos of UFOs every day? Where does it get you?
Quotes, on the other hand, are always different! Different people say them, and they use different words. What's more, different people have different levels of understanding and education and different ways of expressing themselves. Some of them believe that UFOs are real objects from beyond space, and some don't. Some of them know exactly what they're talking about, and some don't. Some of them don't even speak English! That's what makes it all so fun!
I decided to start out yesterday with by tweeting a quote with the hashtag #UFOQuoteoftheDay that came from the silver tongue of UFO guru Dr. J. Allen Hynek:
"Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is"
The eminently quotable Dr. J. Allen Hynek
This has always been my favorite UFO quote, so it made a fitting debut for my new feature. Hynek first uttered these words at a gathering of scientists in 1952, and it was kind of a big deal. Hynek, "small potatoes" as he was in 1952, was really going out on a limb... No scientist had ever before spoken out so forcefully in favor of a scientific study of UFOs in front of a gathering of his peers. It might have killed the career of any other scientist, but Hynek was a special case, which is why I'm writing a book about his career.
Anyway, today's quote will be altogether different, and I urge you to get on twitter and look for it at #UFOQuoteoftheDay
You'll be glad you did!
Labels: alien, alien abduction, CIA, Close Encounter, cover-up, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, flying saucer, High Strangeness, NASA, Project Blue Book, Roswell, saucer crash, space, UFO
UFOs on Parade
It's been a big, big month for UFOs in the news, hasn't it?
For the past few weeks, UFOs have been grabbing headlines around the world on a pretty regular basis. And I'm not just talking about headlines on "Open Minds," people, I'm talking CNN, USA Today and Fox News. World-wide headlines!
It's been fascinating to watch, and even more fascinating to think about what could be causing this massive upswing in UFO reportage... It's also been a bit disheartening to realize that all this mega news coverage has, in the end, only served to perpetuate old myths and misconceptions, and create new feuds among UFO people (because that's what UFO people do best), and make us all look kinda stupid.
Way to waste a golden opportunity, UFO people!
Who is this mystery astronaut on Mars, and what is he/she doing to the rover?
Anyway, let's go back to late December, when the CIA publicized a list of the most downloaded documents of 2014 from its website, and revealed that the #1 declassified document of the year was a report of the CIA's top-secret U-2 spy plane program. Okay, not a huge surprise, I guess, but it was interesting that the CIA made a point of emphasizing the UFO angle in this report, not only asserting that mis-identifications of U-2s gave rise to the Air Force's "Project Blue Book" UFO study and that 50% of UFO reports from the late 1950s to the 1960s can be attributed to U-2 sightings.
These are preposterous claims anyway you look at them. The report makes it clear that the first flight of a U-2 took place in 1955, by which time the Air Force had been studying UFOs for the best part of eight years, so how did the U-2 inspire Project Blue Book? That's bad enough, but then the 50% claim isn't backed up by a single shred of evidence. Hey, CIA, why don't you show us some U-2 flight records so we can correlate them with known UFO sightings? Of course that will never happen...
In the end, one is left wondering why the CIA made such a big deal about this, as the section of the report dealing with UFOs is barely a shrug; it amounts to three paragraphs out of a 272-page report. So, why go so far as to send out this tweet on December 29 saying:
"#1 most read on our #Bestof2014 list: Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the '50s? It was us."
Very strange...
Big news item #2 came a couple weeks later when it was revealed that NASA's live video feed from the International Space Station had gone down moments after a UFO was seen in the vicinity of the station. This is huge! It's like an invasion or something!
Sadly, no. We have not been invaded, the ISS feed is back up here, and the "object" seen in the vicinity of the station does not seem to have lived up to anyone's expectations. Indeed, it may have been nothing more than a lens flare. Trouble is, noone really knows, because it hasn't returned. Or has it? It turns out, people have been spotting extraterrestrial artifacts in the ISS live feed since just about forever, and then sharing notes with the people who keep spotting jelly donuts and vandalous earth astronauts in photos sent back to earth from the Mars rovers.
Big news item #3 came about when it was announced by UFO website The Black Vault that the Air Force's Top Secret Project Blue Book files had finally been released by the government, and that The Black Vault had made all those files available online for the first time. Amazingly, lazy reporters around the world, all of whom should have known better, swallowed the story hook, line and sinker, and ran with it. Within 24 hours it was widely believed that this was a watershed moment in UFO history, that the government had finally come clean about its UFO study, and that intrepid UFO researcher John Greenewald had struck a massive blow for freedom of information and had forced the government to reveal its UFO secrets once and for all.
Again, sadly, no. The Blue Book files have been declassified and available online, for free, in a searchable format, for many, many years, which any reporter could have figured out in about three minutes. Now, when the story comes up, awkward qualifiers abound: It's the first time the entire Blue Book files have been made available; It's the first time they've been made available in .pdf document format.
Too little, too late.
So, in summation, if you believe that any publicity is good publicity, then you'd have to be pretty pleased with the abundance of high-profile UFO news hitting the mainstream press over the past month. Good for you!
If, on the other hand, you have a brain, then you know that this publicity has not done a damn thing for UFOlogy. The "CIA U-2" news simply perpetuates the dismissive, condescending, and yet somehow comforting and reassuring way the government has always dealt with the phenomenon. The silly "ISS live feed" story begs reporters to drag out the old "tinfoil hat" meme and brand us all as (mostly) harmless loonies. The "Project Blue Book now on the internet for the first time" story is perhaps the most damaging of all, because of, well, a lot of things...
I'll just point out a few of the problems, and you can add your own: among other things, this story has spawned more feuds between UFO researchers, it's given reporters reason to foster new suspicions about why there are no records of the Roswell "UFO crash" among the Blue Book files, and has given credence to the Air Force's claim that "only" 700-some UFO reports out of the thousands and thousands reported remain unexplained. And now that the backtracking and re-explaining has begun, and the news sites have begun adding disclaimers to their stories, UFOlogy looks once again like the realm of idiots, fools and liars.
What will the rest of 2015 bring?
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Labels: alien, astronaut, CIA, flying saucer, International Space Station, ISS, jelly donut, NASA, Project Blue Book, Project Grudge, Project Sign, Roswell, The Black Vault, U-2 spy plane, UFO
UFOs Over Jamaica
Of course UFOs visit Jamaica.
If you had an anti-gravity craft that could start, stop and change direction instantaneously and zip around at 1,200 mph, wouldn't you bop off to Jamaica every chance you got?
See a UFO? Who cares? It's Jamaica!
I confess I had never thought about this much until I was talking with my Jamaican friend Gxxxxxxx, and he mentioned that Jamaicans see UFOs all the time. Not only are UFOs sighted in Jamaican skies with astonishing frequency, he told me, there is no stigma whatsoever associated with reporting a UFO sighting in Jamaica. Because of this, no one is surprised when they hear a friend or neighbor or family member talk about seeing something strange in the sky. It's just a given that UFOs are real objects, and that anyone who reports seeing one is telling the truth.
Isn't that refreshing?
As comfortable as Jamaicans are with the idea of UFOs, however, they are dubious of alien abduction stories, my friend told me, especially those that originate in the U.S.
"Jamaicans call American UFOs 'gay UFOs,'" He said, laughing.
I didn't get the joke, so he explained: "The UFOs in the U.S. abduct people and put probes up their asses, so we say they're gay UFOs."
I started laughing then, too. Of course, that's not where aliens insert their probes -- at least not all of them -- at least I hope not -- but that's the way Jamaicans see it.
Anyway, that conversation got me thinking once again about how different cultures experience the UFO phenomenon... Last year I learned about how Turkish farmers experience entities that seem to be part UFO-part alien, and now I find that UFOs never abduct Jamaicans and insert probes into their bodily orifices -- "We don't play that way," joked my friend -- but rather save that particular treat for abductees in the U.S.
Labels: abductee, alien, alien abduction, alien autopsy, flying saucer, ganja, Jamaica, NASA, probe, Project Blue Book, space, turkey, UFO
A Break From the Usual UFO Nonsense
As tempting as it is to weigh in again on the brouhaha over the "newly released" Project Blue Book files and all the media attention they've received over the past few days, I have more important business to discuss...
Capt. Picard gets a touch of space sickness in my TNG episode "TImescape"
The first half of the interview I did a few nights ago for "See You On The Other Side" -- talking about writing science fiction and investigating UFO sightings -- has been posted, and I want to invite all my readers to drop whatever they are doing and listen to it now. I know that sounded more like an order than an invitation. So be it.
Go. Click on these words. Listen to it. Now.
Labels: Deep Space Nine, DS9, Gene Roddenberry, Meridian, Project Blue Book, Ray Bradbury, Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Timescape, UFO, Who Mourns For Morn
Drunken UFO Yahoos
This morning as my wife was checking messages on her phone before leaving for work (yes, one of us works!), she said "Oh, my mom just messaged me asking if you had heard the big UFO news."
I knew at once what she was talking about. It wasn't the strange goings on at the International Space Station, which has apparently been single-handedly fighting off an alien attack for the past few weeks. No, the big news this morning was that, thanks to intrepid UFO website The Black Vault, the U.S. Air Force's TOP SECRET Project Blue Book UFO files had just been made available online for the very... first... time... ever!!!!
Project Blue Book officers on the job. And, yes, that's really Col. Flagg from M*A*S*H!
I told my wife to let her mom know that I was on top of it. See, I had just discussed it briefly last night while recording a podcast and knew that the story didn't pass the smell test. I wasn't sure last night just how big a story it would become, but, prompted my my mother-in-law's message, I went online to see how many people were swallowing this load of horse puckey. Turns out, pretty much everyone in the world had fallen for the "big news": as of this writing, Google is listing about 140 articles, all of which seem to have taken the story seriously without doing any actual, you know, double-checking...
USA Today says "Air Force UFO Files Hit the Web"
Fox News just repeats what USA Today said: "Air Force UFO Files Hit the Web" (or did USA Today copy them?)
CNN says "Air Force UFO Files Land on Internet"
The New York Post says "Air Force has 701 'Unidentified' UFOs in Records Now Online" (which is pretty funny in a moronic kind of way if you think about it a second)
ABC News says "Trove of 130K Air Force UFO Documents Available Online"
Even the great io9.com was duped, saying "U.S. Air Force Releases Thousands of Pages Of Declassified UFO Files" (but at least they had the guts to admit that the story was, perhaps... not entirely correct)
I heard that the 'Black Vault' guy was even on The Today Show this morning!
My favorite of all is this idiotic video segment from USAToday.com in which two "journalists" discuss the significance of the release of the Blue Book files. They both seem amazed to learn that pilots, scientists and military people have reported UFOs, and one of the guys says this proves that it's not just "drunk yahoos" seeing things in the sky. Now, that's some kind of cracker jack reporting, eh?
So, anyway, WOW, big news, right? Except for one small thing:
The Air Force's TOP SECRET Project Blue Book files have been available online for years... In a searchable format... At two different websites... For free.
Don't believe me, USA Today? Check it out yourself:
http://www.bluebookarchive.org/default.aspx
http://www.fold3.com/title_461/project_blue_book_ufo_investigations/
I'm not going to get into why the proprietor of The Black Vault website has gone this route, because I don't know anything about the guy or his website. All I can say for certain is this: any claim that "new" Blue Book archives now available at The Black Vault are better than the records available at The Blue Book Archive or at Fold 3 should be taken with a grain of salt.
Here's why: I can only speak for certain about The Blue Book Archive, because that's the site I depend on for my research, but a quick check of the Blue Book file for the 1966 Dexter-Hillsdale, Michigan UFO sightings showed that the "newly" archived document at The Black Vault was redacted, while the very same archived document at bluebookarchive.org was unredacted.
Which site would you rather rely on?
Labels: Air Force, alien, alien abduction, alien autopsy, bluebookarchive.org, flying saucer, Fold 3, MUFON, NASA, Project Blue Book, Project UFO, space, Stephen Losey, The Black Vault, UFO
UFO Puzzler: Insect or Egg?
Along with the new archive of Project Blue Book documents available here, there's been some interesting discussion at a neighboring blog UFO Conjecture(s) about what those documents have to say about the famous 1964 Lonnie Zamora Case. In this incident, a policeman named Lonnie Zamora, from the central New Mexico town of Socorro, was on patrol when he saw a flame from a nearby arroyo. On investigation, he saw a white, egg-shaped vehicle standing on spidery legs with two diminutive humanoid occupants in white jump suits beside it. Apparently realizing they had been seen, the two occupants got inside the craft, launched it straight into the sky on a plume of flame, and flew away into the distance.
What Zamora thought he saw...
The case got a lot of press, in no small part because Officer Zamora was such a solid, dependable witness, and because there was corroborating testimony to back him up. Because any solid sighting was a potential source of embarrassment to the Air Force, Project Blue Book put a lot of effort into investigating this puzzler. Blue Book sent Dr. J. Allen Hynek and his associate Bill Powers to Socorro to meet with Zamora and inspect the "landing site" while the body was still warm, so to speak.
Blogger RR finds a lot of evidence in the newly archived Blue Book files suggesting that the craft Officer Zamora saw was in fact an experimental NASA lunar lander, and it's clear from the files that Blue Book took a serious look at this possibility. Indeed, there is an abundance of evidence that Bell Aero Systems and other defense contractors were working on such vehicles at the time. For some, this explains the case rather tidily: NASA was testing a lunar lander at a nearby base; Zamora got a glimpse of the classified technology and the government tried to hush it up the best it could.
What some people think Zamora saw...
That explanation holds some appeal, in an Occam-y Razor-y way, but I have some reason to question it. First of all, I interviewed Bill Powers shortly before he died in 2013, and he shared some insights from his and Hynek's Zamora investigation (that I will recount in my Hynek bio) that put an interesting spin on the case. Second of all, there are just too many loose ends to the NASA lunar lander hypothesis that bother me...
The nearest NASA facility to Socorro is the White Sands Test Facility, just outside of Las Cruces. White Sands, which was newly-opened around the time of Zamora's sighting, is well over 100 miles from Socorro. I have a hard time believing that any experimental lunar lander could travel over 100 miles from base, and even it it could, why would it? Give me one good reason! I seriously doubt that NASA ever entertained plans to fly over 100 miles across the moon's surface with its lunar lander. Neil and Buzz went down, they came up, that's it.
It is well-known to the geniuses at NASA that the moon's gravity is about 1/6th that of earth. So why test a lunar lander that needs to work against earth gravity, 6 times the gravitational pull that the working model would need to negotiate? NASA would need to design, engineer and build the test lander to be immensely more massive and powerful than the real thing. Is that likely?
As we all know, NASA's real lunar landers came in two parts. Both parts landed on the moon, but only one part left the moon. Why? It was all about efficiency: the landing platform was dead weight once the vehicle landed on the moon, so it was designed to be used once and abandoned. Zamora's vehicle did not leave any part of it behind. Now it's true that the Blue Book evidence shows that at least some of the lander prototypes tested by NASA were a one-piece design, but that leads us to my last point...
The one-piece Bell Aero design seen here is able to function as a single unit because it is a lightweight, spidery thing, all struts and beams. There is no hull, no shell, no fuselage, no scientific equipment, no huge mass of rocket fuel, and, crucially, no pressurized passenger environment. Not only does this insectoid craft not look anything at all like the egg-shaped object Officer Zamora described, it can only hold one pilot. To me, that's the kicker right there, as you will recall that Zamora saw two (2) beings outside his craft.
Does that prove anything? Perhaps not, but it leaves the Zamora case very much an open book to my way of seeing things.
And then there's this one nagging detail that no one ever seems to consider (and which I very much regret not having asked Bill Powers about): At one point, Officer Zamora said that when he first caught sight of the UFO in the arroyo, it appeared to be an "overturned white car ... up on radiator or on trunk"... How does that jibe with his later description of the vehicle as egg-shaped...?
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Labels: Dr. J. Allen Hynek, flying saucer, humanoid, Lonnie Zamora, lunar lander, NASA, New Mexico, Socorro, UFO, UFO occupant, White Sands, William T. Powers
UFO Scavenger Hunt
I lied once when I was a kid. Actually, I wasn't just a kid; I was a Boy Scout. And when a Boy Scout lies, whoo-boy that's bad.
My fellow Scouts and I were on a big campout with hundreds of other Scouts from around the state, and we were all competing in a huge scavenger hunt. It was all pretty simple stuff: find a twig, find a rock, find a ray of sunshine. There was no way we could lose, or so we thought. At the bottom of the list was "Find a price of rabbit fluff."
Rabbit fluff? How the hell do you find stray rabbit fluff laying around the forest? We were screwed, and we were pissed. How could the judges throw us such a screwball? Did they want us to lose??
Can you tell when you're being rabbit fluffed? I can.
As we stood there in the woods, lost in our despair, one of us -- I don't remember who -- picked up a cigarette butt and started picking at it. Somehow, a light went on and inspiration struck. The shredded filter tip looked kind of like.... rabbit fluff. Suddenly we knew we could win; all we had to do was shred the filter tip as finely as we could and then don't crack when the judges inspect it. It was the perfect crime.
The judge was immediately suspect. Clearly, he never expected anyone to come up with any rabbit fluff... He looked at it. He touched it. He smelled it. He lit it on fire and smelled the smoke... We thought we were dead. Then, his face screwed up in disgust, the judge said, "I hate to do it, but it's definitely rabbit fluff."
We won.
Why do I bring this up now? Because I have been trying very hard to catch up on my MUFON caseload this week, and I've noticed something odd. I've been able to interview four witness in the last two days, and, although I can't prove anything, I think I've been rabbit fluffed three times over!
Let's go over the cases one by one:
Case #1: A witness reported seeing two brilliantly-lit objects in the sky fly overhead one after the other. Both were silent and slow-moving, shapeless but with a brilliant white centers and orange outlines. The objects moved across the sky and then disappeared... He tried to chase the second one in his car, but lost it.
In our interview, the witness was very enthusiastic about the brilliance of the two objects, describing them as "plasma lights" over and over again. To me they sounded suspiciously like Chinese lanterns, and sure enough, the witness at one point brought up that possibility... But then he quickly dispensed with that idea, declaring unequivocally that "Nobody around here would launch Chinese lanterns."
The witness seemed sincere, but I couldn't help feeling I was being rabbit fluffed, even if unintentionally. I listed his sighting as a Man-Made Identified Flying Object (IFO).
Rabbit fluff factor: Moderate
Case #2: A witness discovered an object on a photo he had taken last fall. He hadn't seen the object when he took the shot. It was a gray-brown squiggly blurry thing far out over the waters of Lake Michigan. I didn't think to ask him what he thought he was taking a picture of, but I should have, because it's just a photo of some very boring land and water and sky. What he thought was worth photographing is beyond me.
Even though he never actually saw the object out over the lake, he likes to speculate. He told me over and over again that he is convinced the object in the photo looks like a space vehicle with an ion engine, possibly something along the lines of the US Enterprise, or if not that then a US military anti-grav vehicle.
I see a seagull. I listed his sighting as a Natural Identified Flying Object (IFO).
Rabbit fluff factor: High
Case #3: A witness saw a light in the sky and took a very long video from his car as he chased the light. The video is very dark and shaky and indistinct, with lots of lights, and it's difficult to know exactly which light is the strange one. The video has titles, giving us a running commentary of what the witness was saying to himself as he shot the video. At one point he says he is "Talking directly into the mic in case i die or anything."
When I spoke to the witness, it was a very strange & short conversation. He said he had started out feeling very enthusiastic about talking to me, but that "in light of recent developments" he thought that he shouldn't talk to me after all. I asked him what he meant, and he said, "Well, NASA's feed is down," and wouldn't say anything more. When I tried to ask him what he was referring to, he hung up. Then he emailed me to say he really, really couldn't talk to me. I did not respond.
Strange thing is, I checked yesterday after that phone call, and the live feed from the International Space Station really was down. Weird. The error message said the feed was "...either switching camera or experiencing temporary loss of signal..."
Today the ISS live feed is back up, but I did find this weirdness about an apparent NASA UFO Cover-up.
I listed his sighting as "Insufficient Data." And that was being generous.
Rabbit fluff factor: Off the scale
And, no, I don't feel bad about the scavenger hunt. If you ask a bunch of clever boys to find something impossible, what do you think they're going to do?
Labels: alien, Boy Scout, Chinese lantern, flying saucer, International Space Station, ion drive, ISS, MUFON, NASA, plasma, seagull, UFO, USS Enterprise
UFO Anniversaries!
It has occurred to me that marketing my bio of Dr. J. Allen Hynek could be very fun, and very easy. Turns out UFO world is just one big continuous marketing bonanza...
The current goal is for publication sometime in late 2015 or early 2016. It just so happens that a whole hell of a lot of significant UFO events took place in very convenient years, and will mark major anniversaries in the anticipated timeframe of the publication of my book.
Just take a look at this tantalizing list:
August 21, 2015: 60th Anniversary of the "Kelly-Hopkinsville Little Green Men" invasion, Kelly, KY
September 3, 2015: 50th Anniversary of the "Incident at Exeter," Exeter, NH
November 5, 2015: 40th Anniversary of the Travis Walton abduction case, Snowflake, AZ
December 9, 2015: 50th Anniversary of the "Kecksburg Incident," Kecksburg, PA
March 21, 2016: 50th Anniversary of the "Dexter-Hillsdale Swamp Gas" case, Dexter & Hillsdale, MI
Of this bunch, the two hyphenates -- Kelly-Hopkinsville and Dexter-Hillsdale -- are the most closely associated with Hynek, and therefore the juciest anniversaries to exploit.
I've never been able to figure what the hell he's pointing at...
Hynek spent four days on the ground investigating Dexter-Hillsdale for Project Blue Book, with disastrous results. And, while he was unable to do much investigative work of his own on Kelly-Hopkinsville, he did work closely with the two civilian investigators, Bud Ledwith and Isabel Davis, who did such a cracker-jack job investigating the incident that the Air Force ended up pretty much cribbing their work. Hynek was so fascinated and puzzled by this case, and so impressed with the work of Ledwith and Davis, that he discussed the matter at length in not one but two of his books.
Still, I think the date I need to shoot for is March 21, 2016, the anniversary of the legendary Dexter-Hillsdale sightings, the case that, paradoxically, made Hynek both a pariah and a hero. Also, I don't think I can write fast enough to make the Kelly-Hopkinsville anniversary.
And just in case I can't make that deadline, I have a fallback: The 30th anniversary of Hynek's death will occur on April 27, 2016.
That's a whole month and 6 days extra.
Labels: alien, alien abduction, Bud Ledwith, Dexter-Hillsdale, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, flying saucer, Incident at Exeter, Isabel Davis, Kecksburg, Kelly-Hopkinsville, little green men, Travis Walton, UFO
The Interplanetary Parliament of UFOs
I am reading a grimly fascinating book this week with the exceedingly self-explanatory title: "Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima," by James Mahaffey.
I've heard stories here and there over the years about atomic bombs accidentally being dropped by US bombers into the Mediterranean Sea, or nuclear reactor technicians in Idaho being fried when one of them flipped the wrong switch (apparently motivated by marital troubles), but, man oh man... until I started this book, I had no idea how often and how spectacularly nuclear bombs and reactors have come so breathtakingly close to blowing us all to smithereens. Like I said, it's grim.
And, let me tell you, dying as a result of a nuclear accident is not fun. You basically have two choices: getting vaporized by a steam explosion, or being bathed in lethal radiation and spending the next few days vomiting, losing control of your limbs and then watching them fall off. Getting vaporized is quicker, for sure, but then again you don't get to enjoy those brief hours of having the world's deepest, richest tan.
One disaster story in particular stands out. It's the story of a catastrophe at the Mayak nuclear fuel factory (formerly known as Chelyabinsk-40) near Kyshtym in Russia , something the author describes this way: "It may go down in history as the worst release of radioactive fission products to have occurred..."
Ever heard of it? Probably not. The KGB kept such a tight lid of secrecy over the accident that for many years no one even knew when it happened. Sometime between 1954 and 1961 was the best guess anyone could come up with. The CIA knew something bad had happened in the USSR, even if they didn't know what or when, so they sent a pilot named Gary Powers over to Russia in a U-2 spy plane to take a look. That didn't go too well for Mr. Powers or the CIA.
Believe it or not, this is where UFOs enter the story.
The first inkling anyone had that a nuclear accident had occurred in the USSR came about in the June, 1958 newsletter of a UFO group called "The Aetherius Society." For reasons that should be abundantly clear, I find myself unable to adequately describe to you just what The Aetherius Society is, so I'll quote from their website:
"The Society was founded in the mid-1950s by an Englishman named George King shortly after he was contacted in London by an extraterrestrial intelligence known as 'Aetherius'. The main body of the Society's teachings consists of the wisdom given through the mediumship of Dr King by the Master Aetherius and other advanced intelligences from this world and beyond."
This Aetherius fellow had a much better view of the USSR than did Gary Powers, and in April, 1958, he sent the following telepathic message to Dr. King:
"Owing to an atomic accident just recently in the USSR, a great amount of radioactivity in the shape of radioactive iodine, strontium 90, radioactive nitrogen and radioactive sodium have been released into the atmosphere of Terra."
Dr. George King and his band of merry followers.
The article went to state that "all forms of reception from Interplanetary sources will become a little more difficult during the next few weeks because of the foolish actions of Russia." The "Interplanetary Parliament," it continued, would have to use an enormous amount of energy to clean up the mess, although they claimed to have saved 17,000,000 souls...
Inexplicably, the next anyone knew of the nuclear accident was in 1976, when an exiled Soviet biologist wrote about it in New Scientist magazine. Over time, more information leaked, and it was learned that "careless storage of radioactive wastes at Chelyabinsk-40 had resulted in massive destruction." Mahaffey describes the explosion as "the world's first 'dirty bomb.'"
It's a great story, but there's a huge, gaping hole in the middle of it: No one seems to know how in hell "Atherius" knew about it in 1958. I can't figure out why, but author Mahaffey never pursues the question; he just lets it hang there...
He does offer this helpful explanation of UFOs, however: "UFO is an Air Force term, meaning Unidentified Flying Object, or an apparently controlled machine moving through the atmosphere that cannot be classified by type, country or origin, manufacturer, or serial number."
Uh... serial number...?
Whatever... The point is, who in the hell was Dr. George King and how did he learn about a Soviet nuclear disaster years before anyone else did???? Did the information really come from "Aetherius"???? And by "Aetherius" could I mean "CIA"????
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Labels: Aetherius, alien, atomic, Atomic Accidents, Chelyabinsk-40, CIA, Dr. George King, flying saucer, Gary Powers, James Mahaffey, nuclear, Russia, Soviet Union, The Aetherius Society, U-2 spy plane, UFO, USSR
I've been reminiscing lately about a UFO sighting I investigated last year for MUFON. It was a 15 year-old sighting that had only been reported recently, because the witness had been so worried about his credibility and his work as an undercover law enforcement officer at the time it happened...
It was memorable to me for a couple reasons, not the least of which was that it scored close to 15% on the UFO "certainty scale," which is pretty damn high. It also involved a highly credible witness, and the presence of an unmarked military AWACS radar plane flying many, many miles from where it had any business being.
Most memorable of all, however, it also involved what the witness described as an invisible UFO cutting a V-shaped wake through the clouds, which is a very striking image, indeed...
It's a pretty intriguing case, quite inexplicable, and if you're one of those people who can't get enough of my writing you can and should read about it here, and join the debate over what type of AWACS plane it might have been.
The reason I've been thinking about this case the past couple of days is a bit weird, but what isn't here at High Strangeness?
The other day I was watching football on the TV, and at one point an unusual commercial came on. It was unusual because it wasn't trying to sell me anything or change my mind about anything. It was just showing me cool stuff for no apparent reason. First it showed me a flying wing aircraft from the 1950s, then a cool jet fighter, then a stealth bomber, then a -- holy shit, it's an AWACS!
The Grumman Flying Wing, on its very first flight, May 4, 1950. Is it just me, or are those guys standing awfully close?
By this time it's clearly a commercial for a company that builds military aircraft, but to what end? I don't buy military aircraft, nor, I wager, does anyone else who was watching that football game. So why...?
Well, in a few seconds comes the big reveal. It's a message from Northrup Grumman, makers of fine aerial war machines, who apparently just wanted to remind the football-watching American public that they are keeping us safe with their fancy bombers and drones. So, hey, great! "This," intones the commercial voice, "is what we do."
Thank you, Northrup Grumman, I guess! Keep on doing that thing that you do.
Just then, when I think I'm grasping the message behind the imagery, the ominous voice says, "... And who knows what we'll do next?"
And there, on my TV screen, is an invisible fucking aircraft cutting a V-shaped wake through the clouds...
Labels: Air Force, alien, AWACS, Ballester-Guasp Evaluation, flight, flying saucer, Flying Wing, football, invisible, jet, MUFON, NFL, Northrup Grumman, Phantom Menace, playoffs, UFO


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Dmitri Ilyich Ulyanov  (Simbirsk, 16 de agosto de 1874  Gorki Leninskiye, 16 de julho de 1943) foi um médico e revolucionário russo, o irmão mais novo de Aleksandr Ulyanov e Vladimir Lenin.

Como estudante de medicina da Universidade Estatal de Moscovo, se envolveu com a atividade revolucionária e juntou-se ao ilegal Rabochevo soyuza. Foi preso pela primeira vez em 1897. No ano seguinte, foi posto sob vigilância pela polícia de Podolsk. Como a fama de seu irmão cresceu, ele iria sofrer inúmeras prisões. Em 1900, se tornou correspondente do Iskra. No ano seguinte, formou-se na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Tartu.

Como médico e marxista, Ulyanov procurou aplicar sua formação médica para a luta revolucionária. Durante a Revolução de 1905, forneceu assistência médica aos grevistas em Simbirsk. Tornou-se um membro de confiança do Partido Operário Social-Democrata Russo e foi delegado do seu Segundo Congresso. Atuou como representante do Comitê Central em Kiev. Seus deveres o levaram por toda a Rússia e  Ucrânia, primeiro a Serpukhov, depois para Teodósia na Crimeia.

No início da Primeira Guerra Mundial, Ulyanov foi mobilizado para o exército. Atuou como um oficial médico em Sevastopol, em Odessa, e na frente romena, continuando suas atividades revolucionárias secundárias. Em 1916 casou-se com Antonia Ivanovna Nescheretova (). Teve um filho, Viktor, e uma filha, Olga.

Ulyanov permaneceu na Ucrânia durante o rescaldo da Revolução de Outubro e a Guerra Civil Russa, trabalhando para fortalecer o aparato partidário na Crimeia e foi presidente de curta duração da República Socialista Soviética da Criméia. Em 1921, se mudou para Moscou, onde trabalhou no Narkomzdrav (Comissariado do Povo da Saúde Pública), na Universidade Comunista dos Trabalhadores do Oriente, no departamento de pesquisa em saúde do Kremlin e no VI Museu Central de Lenin.

Durante os anos 1930, colaborou com sua irmã Maria para escrever reminiscências sobre seu célebre irmão, publicadas em forma de série. Foi delegado nos XVI e XVII Congressos do Partido Comunista da União Soviética. Morreu em Gorki Leninskiye, mas foi sepultado em Moscou. Muitas ruas e localidades da ex-União Soviética foram renomeadas em sua homenagem.

Bibliografia
V. I. Lenin, Letters from Afar, 1893-1922, complete collected works, 5th edition, vol. 55.
Correspondence of the Ulyanov family, 1883-1917, 1969.
B. M. Wolfson, D. I. Ulyanov, Questions in the History of the CPSU, 1964.
R. Khigerov, "The Younger Brother", chapter of the book The Party Steps into the Revolution, 1969.
Boris Yarochkiy, Dmitri Ulyanov, Young Guards, 1977.

Revolucionários da Rússia
Médicos da Rússia
Naturais de Ulianovsk
Vladimir Lenin
Marxistas da Rússia

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Davin Raiha joined the Business, Economics, and Public Policy group in July 2013, after completing his Ph.D at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. A native of Canada, he also holds a B.Com from the University of Toronto.
Professor Raiha's research is concerned with the intersections of business strategy and public policy. His work examines the various methods and strategies that firms utilize to influence public decision-makers and the reasons for their use. This research on the political economy of strategy also shows how firms respond to - and shape - different policy environments and political institutions. He also has research interests in corporate governance, exploring what factors determine the governance structures that firms employ.
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B.Com (University of Toronto)
Ph.D (Stanford University)
Recent Refereed Articles
Raiha, D., 2018, "Economic Influence Activities", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, October 27(4): 830 - 843.
Abstract: Firms frequently make operational and market decisions to gain political influence. They locate plants, expand workforces, or support programs, with the aim of affecting the economy and, in turn, the electoral success of politicians. This behavior constitutes a non-traditional form of influence, which I refer to as economic influence activities. In this paper I show how such activities influence policymaking and why they may be preferred, by firms, to more traditional influence activities such as campaign contributions. What distinguishes economic influence activities is that a firms strategy choices affects the state of a local economy and, in turn, the evaluations that voters make of the performance of an officeholder. I show how firms can leverage this capability to extract subsidies and policy favors from incumbents.
Link(s) to publication:
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Holburn, G. L. F.; Raiha, D., 2017, "Startups Are Turning Customers into Lobbyists", Harvard Business Review.
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Callander, S.; Raiha, D., 2017, "Durable Policy, Political Accountability, and Active Waste", Quarterly Journal of Political Science, May 12(1): 59 - 97.
Abstract: The policy choices of governments are frequently durable. From the building of bridges to the creation of social programs, investments in public infrastructure typically last well beyond a single electoral cycle. In this paper we develop a dynamic model of repeated elections in which policy choices are durable. The behavior that emerges in equilibrium reveals a novel mechanism through which durability interacts with the shorter electoral cycle and distorts the incentives of politicians. We find that a government that is electorally accountable nevertheless underinvests in policy, that it deliberately wastes investment on projects that are never implemented, and that the type of policy it implements is itself Pareto inefficient. The first two distortions match evidence from infrastructure policy in western democracies, and the third identifies a distortion that has heretofore not been explored empirically. Notably, these effects emerge solely due to the interaction of policy durability and political accountability, and not from corruption, poor decision making, or voter myopia.
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Q: Firefox WebExtension - chrome.tabs.query When I do this:
var a = 'moz-extension://c5b86449-4457-4a39-a758-958faf23fc72/popup.html'
chrome.tabs.query({ url: a }, function(x){});

I get an error:
Invalid match pattern: 'moz-extension://c5b86449-4457-4a39-a758-958faf23fc72/popup.html'
  SingleMatchPattern()   MatchPattern.jsm:49
  this.MatchPattern()    MatchPattern.jsm:103
  self.tabs.query()      ext-tabs.js:556
  callAsyncFunction()    Extension.jsm:422
  inject/stub()          Schemas.jsm:1002

However, that is the URL that I need to match on in the chrome.tabs.query call.
Any suggestions?

A: In Firefox v48 the error message no longer appears, however the moz-extension:... protocol is not yet supported.
chrome.tabs.query returns 0 in x.length if search like this "url": "moz-extension:...", see example:
chrome.tabs.query({ url: "moz-extension://..." }, function(x){
    console.log(x.length);
});

But there is an alternative way to get around the problem, you can search by all tabs without "url:" param, see the following examples:
Get tab data:
function getTab(pageFromAddon, callback)
{
    var uri = chrome.extension.getURL(pageFromAddon);

    chrome.tabs.query({}, function(tabs) {
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        if (tabs && tabs.length) {
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                    break;
                }
            }
        }

        callback(tabData);
    });
}

Usage:
//get id, url, title and other info from tab (or false)
console.log(getTab("view/page.html"));

Open or refresh tab:
function openOrUpdateTab(pageFromAddon)
{
    var uri = chrome.extension.getURL(url);

    chrome.tabs.query({}, function(tabs) {
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Usage:
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Important note
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NGC 1897 је расејано звездано јато у сазвежђу Златна риба које се налази на NGC листи објеката дубоког неба.

Деклинација објекта је - 67° 26' 56" а ректасцензија 5-{h}- 17-{m}- 32,4-{s}-. Привидна величина (магнитуда) објекта -{NGC}- 1897 износи 13,5 а фотографска магнитуда 13,9. -{NGC}- 1897 је још познат и под ознакама -{ESO 56-SC92}-.

Референце

Литература
Revised New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue, Wolfgang Steinicke, 2012. Доступно у овом фајлу са објашњењем на овој страници
SIMBAD база података, Стразбуршки центар астрономских података (CDS), Стразбур

Види још
Нови општи каталог

Спољашње везе

Интерактивни каталог NGC, IC и Месјеових објеката
-{SIMBAD}- база података

Нови општи каталог сазвежђе Златна риба
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Reform of the International Monetary Fund
Publisher – Council on Foreign Relations
Release Date – May 2007
Pages – 48
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Council Special Report
Concise policy briefs that provide timely responses to developing crises or contributions to current policy dilemmas.
Peter B. Kenen
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics
The International Monetary Fund's purpose and scope of work have changed dramatically since its founding after World War II.
Whereas at first the Fund aimed to maintain monetary and exchange-rate stability among a mostly industrialized membership, today most members are developing countries, ranging from large, emerging markets to small, impoverished states. The Fund's surveillance of macroeconomic issues has expanded to cover topics with little direct relevance to its mandate. Moreover, though no industrialized country has drawn on the Fund for more than twenty years, such countries still dominate the Fund's decision-making.
These developments have sparked calls for reform. Proposals to modify the Fund's activities, lending facilities, and governance have come from many experts, including the Fund's managing director. Others, who find the Fund illegitimate or obsolete, have called for its abolition. This Council Special Report, written by Peter B. Kenen under the auspices of the Council's Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, rejects the urgings of the abolitionists and goes on to contend that efforts to reform the Fund deserve U.S. support. Many countries remain at risk for financial crises, and a strong Fund that can take the lead in responding is in the U.S. interest. With well-managed reform, the Fund could also play a useful role in resolving global economic imbalances. Overall, the report argues, the United States should not try to achieve unilaterally what the Fund can and should achieve multilaterally.
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The Worst 50 States in America: The Final Five
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Well, we have reached the end! Last week we set out to list the 50 worst states in America in an ascending list of their worstness, and that's just what we've done. Come run the victory lap with us, please.
To refresh your memories one more time: We were tasked by the U.S. Department of Social Geography to conduct a very scientific poll of our staff. We asked them to rank the 50 American states on a scale of 1-10, based on whatever criteria they so chose. We then took those scores, used enormous calculators to find the average, and our list was born. These five states you will read about today represent the absolute worst, the nadir of American statehood. It's been a long road, but we've made it.
5. Mississippi
The Hospitality State is really only hospitable if you're one exact, specific kind of person.
The Good: Well, let's see here. There are certainly attractive parts of the state. It's verdant and lush and full of magnolias. (Or, you know, supposedly it is, I didn't see any when I was there, or maybe I did and just didn't know I was seeing them.) Oxford, where sorority catastrophe Ole Miss is located, is a fairly intellectual sort of place. If tragedy and struggle breeds creativity, there's no greater proof of that than Mississippi, which has, over the years, been home to many great and important writers (Faulkner, Williams, etc.)
The Bad: Good grief. Well, uh, they don't much care for blacks, or gays, or book-learnin'. Everyone there is fat. And did we mention racist? They're pretty racist. It's actually become part of their economy (says a commenter). Sorry, Mississippi.
Final Score: 3.18
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The Garden State is a garden of both good and evil. But slightly more evil.
The Good: New Jersey is close to things that aren't New Jersey! It's close to New York City and to Philadelphia, so that's very convenient should you want to leave New Jersey. (You will want to leave New Jersey.) There are pretty places in New Jersey like the Pine Barrens and the Kittatinny Mountains and Cape May. Oh, and they have fascinating hill people! Do a reality show on that, MTV. New Jersey also has cultural offerings like the Paper Mill Playhouse and the McCarter Theater. Rutgers has grease trucks where they put mozzarella sticks in the sandwiches. Atlantic City is a haunted version of Las Vegas. Bruce Springsteen.
The Bad: It's not the pollution. It's not Trenton or Camden. It's not Jersey Shore or the Housewives. It's not the accents, the tanning, the jewelry, the hair. It's not the mob. It's not all those things one typically thinks of when "New Jersey sucks!" comes to mind. You know why, at least why I suspect, New Jersey ranked so low on this list? Just go read the comments on this past week's worth of state posts, specifically the ones by people from New Jersey. Have you ever met a person, separate from a Texan, who is more inclined to talk about their state than someone from New Jersey? Holy cow are a lot of Jerseyites completely obsessed with being from New Jersey. And why? It's a small state with no important cities and no major cultural export beyond embarrassing mooks. "Everyone in New York City thinks we suck," they complain. First off that's not really true, but also good grief if you're so upset about New York City, stop constantly defining yourself by New York City! Jerseyites have such a bizarrely inflated ego and defensiveness about their state that it's hard to actually praise it. It's reflexive. You almost need to say something bad about it, just to satisfy these fools' persecution complexes. New Jersey is a fine state with much to offer! But if you keep boostering for it when no one asked you to, everyone else is going to be mean to it. That's all. That's all the problem is here. (It is also polluted and gross and Trenton sucks and ew fake tans, but y'know.)
3. Utah
The Beehive State is an alien landscape full of wonders and weirdos. It's a good place to get lost, or be found.
The Good: So much natural beauty! From the strange, towering spires of Zion National Park to the sad quiet corners of Bryce Canyon, Utah has some nice rocks. The state also has nice mountains for skiing. Nestled up in those mountains is the town of Park City, where the Sundance Film Festival happens every year. I know it's lame to include that in "The Good," being that it's become corporate and overrun with hangers-on and whatnot, but there's no denying that some good, important filmmaking is showcased and sold amidst all the chichi garbage. We've heard rumors that Salt Lake City can be a decent place, but they've never been verified.
The Bad: Everything that's not national parks and quaint little ski/film towns? Abjectly miserable. Desolate, creepy rock and desert. Utah also has the Mormons. Not that an individual Mormon is a bad person! Of course not, that's silly. But when amassed together, when taking orders from the white guys in suits who live in the magic temple, then they can be pretty scary. They don't much like sex or even the suggestion of sex. They only started liking black people in the late '70s. (Though they might still actually not like them very much.) And they take their dislike for gays and export it to other states. They're jerks, kinda! Even worse, aggressively evangelizing jerks. And the throbbing seat of their power rests in Utah, so that's a knock to you, Utah. But other than the Mormons, Utah is bad for being a barren, lonely place. Whether the deserts are orange or a strange, windswept gray, you kind of get the sense that you don't belong there. (Especially if you're black, gay, or an unmarried woman.)
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The Heart of Dixie is alas a clogged artery of bad ideas and other sad stuff.
The Good: Parts of it are nice to look at. Mobile has some pretty old buildings and stuff. Auburn is a good school. As Two-a-Days showed us, if you want your son to play football and be good at it, move to Alabama. (If you want your daughter to play football and be good at it, move to Northampton, weirdo.) The Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery has national recognition.
The Bad: It's tempting to just copy and paste the Mississippi section. Uh, well, in addition to a long and bloody history of racism, Alabama boasts an insane new immigration law, crazy politicians who make crazy ads, and while things are getting a bit better, Alabama is a horrible place to be gay. Aside from the political stuff, Alabama is rural and empty and miserable in the summer and full of tornadoes.
This Photo Will Make You Wish You Lived in Alabama
[Wish you lived in this photo? This beach—perhaps not coincidentally—is called Orange Beach, and…
1. Arizona
The Good: Arizona has lots of natural beauty, from the dizzying Grand Canyon to, well, the areas immediately outside the Grand Canyon (Kaibab represent). That's about it. Well, OK, Flagstaff has its moments.
The Bad: First off, it's the middle of the goddamned desert so why is everyone there? Why is Phoenix? Ecological catastrophes, the twin brown stars of Phoenix and Scottsdale are insanely destructive, places so hot that they have mist sprayers everywhere even though there is no water there. Dreadful! The sheriff of the area is an insane lunatic cowboy wannabe who rules the town like Gene Hackman in the The Quick and the Dead. Alabama's batshit immigration law was inspired by Arizona's own SB 1070, a racist and xenophobic piece of legislation representative of Arizona's roiling immigration crisis that was signed into law by the state's governor Jan Brewer, a perky-eyed psychopath who speaks in tongues. Arizona is swiftly devolving into a dystopic free-for-all of armed mad men patrolling the state with guns, often to disastrous effect. (As witnessed in the Gaby Giffords incident — though, c'mon, you can't blame Arizona for Jared Loughner any more than you can blame Colorado for Columbine.) Arizona is a hissing snakepit of angry old white people (they are angry because they are literally being cooked to death) yelling at the immigrants and other Others whom they fear and loathe, and it is probably going to explode someday soon into a bright ball of orange fire and we will know that either the end times have come for us all or thank god we are finally rid of Arizona.
Jan Brewer Embarrasses Self With Disastrous Opening Statement
Hey, Arizona immigration law haters who are looking for some schadenfreude: it's popcorn time. …
Well, that's it! Thanks for playing along, everyone. This has been both an edifying and stupefying journey to take, and I'm sincerely glad that you came along with us. Even if you were screaming the whole time from the backseat about what a jerk the driver is. And what can we conclude? Mostly that, while all 50 states possess good qualities, mostly this is a nation of horrors and there is no reason that any of us should live here. Goodbye!
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The Worst 50 States in America
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Kansas City is home to a lot of offbeat and fun museums. Here's a few you should know
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Housed in the old Bank of Weston, the National Silk Art Museum is truly one-of-a-kind. It's one of several unique and offbeat museums located in the Kansas City region.
The Nelson-Atkins is great, but don't stop there: The Kansas City region has plenty of quirky, specific and straight-up weird museums. From puppetry to dolls and carousels, these exhibits are definitely worth a trip.
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Here in Kansas City, we're lucky to have an amazing variety of museums featuring art, history, sports, music and so much more.
But there's also a swell assemblage of smaller museums in the region. They are labors of love, the product of passionate collectors and the legacy of a lifetime dedicated to the hunt.
These delightful and uniquely obscure spaces are certainly worth exploring. Most places cost less than $10 per person to visit (usually less for children, seniors and veterans) and often tours can be arranged.
As with most things these days, call ahead to confirm the museum will be open when you plan to visit, since many are run by just a few staff members or volunteers. In some cases, the founder of the collection will be on hand to share their passion with you.
C.W. Parker Carousel Museum: Leavenworth, Kansas
The legacy of Charles W. Parker's carousel business is preserved in the C.W. Parker Carousel Museum, which opened in Leavenworth in 2005.
In the late 1890s, Charles W. Parker started his carousel business, repairing, manufacturing and shipping carnival carousels all over the United States. As the business grew, he moved his operation from Abilene to Leavenworth, Kansas. The company made over 1,000 carousels, only 16 of which still exist.
Now that legacy is preserved in the C.W. Parker Carousel Museum, which opened in Leavenworth in 2005. It's operated by passionate and informative volunteers.
Along with exhibits about the company, the history of carnivals and carousels, the museum includes three working carousels: the 1913 C.W. Parker Carry-Us-All No. 118, a 1950 aluminum Liberty Carousel, and a hand-cranked primitive carousel circa 1850-1860, believed to be the oldest operational wood carousel in the world, though it's no longer rideable.
You can catch a spin on the Carry-Us-All No.118, which took over 1,000 volunteer hours to restore. Bestride a horse with a corn cob behind its saddle, a Parker carousel hallmark, or one of the Kansas jackrabbits. The ride is accompanied by tunes from an Artizan A-X-1 band organ, donated by Leavenworth native Melissa Ethridge, who stopped by the museum in 2021 for a ride.
Allow yourself at least 90 minutes to explore the museum and take a ride or two. You can learn about more about our region's carousels in this 2019 Creative Adventure.
Puppetry Arts Institute: Independence, Missouri
The Puppetry Arts Institute features 300 Hazelle puppets in its collection, as well as other puppets from around the world and across the decades.
In Independence's Englewood Arts District, the Puppetry Arts Institute celebrates the unique legacy of Hazelle Hedges Rollins, Kansas City's puppet maker for the world.
The company operated out of Kansas City for over 50 years. At one point, the company of 50 workers produced 1,000 puppets a week and sold more than a million puppets worldwide. They made hand and finger puppets and marionettes, both for home and educational use. Rollins held four patents for puppetry innovations.
When the factory closed in 1983, the stock — mostly consisting of thousands of puppet heads — were donated to what became the Puppetry Arts Institute. PAI opened in 2001. Today you can attend workshops (or purchase a kit) and create your own puppet with an authentic Hazelle, Inc.-designed puppet.
There's even a little theater for kids to put on plays with their new creations, and the institute hosts puppet shows featuring professional puppeteers throughout the year.
PAI has 300 Hazelle puppets in its collection, as well as a selection of other puppets from around the world and across the decades. Rollins left much of her private collection to museums around the county, including the Smithsonian Institution, which has one of her iconic Teto the Clown puppets.
Currently on display at PAI is an exhibit honoring the Missouri Bicentennial — which includes the collection's Harry Truman puppet. Once the exhibit ends on Aug. 31, 2022, its international puppet collection will be redisplayed.
Medicine's Hall of Fame and Museum: Shawnee, Kansas
The collection at Medicine's Hall of Fame and Museum features over 4,000 relics spanning from ancient times to the 20th century, including this iron lung machine from the 1950s.
Medicine's Hall of Fame and Museum in Shawnee was all set to open in March 2020, until the pandemic delayed the operation. The museum officially opened that October in the former location of the Johnson County Museum, the 1927 Greenwood School.
It's the life's work of Dr. Bruce Hodges, who, at 89 years old, just retired as a practicing physician. He also spent time as a medical missionary, and much of the collection consists of materials he gathered during his travels over the last 50 years.
There are well over 4,000 items in the collection, relics from ancient times to the 20th century. About 80% of his collection is on display. Hodges is the curator of the museum and his son is operations director.
The museum is a self-guided experience, featuring medical artifacts, paintings, sculptures, advertisements and more. Some of the items look like torture devices now, but were considered cutting-edge technology in their own time. The collection includes an iron lung machine from the 1950s and a doctor's Model T Ford, which still runs, as well as a buggy from 1880, which used to be in Hodges' waiting room.
One entire room of the museum is a reconstructed early-20th century apothecary. There are also hundreds of items from African and Native American medical practices.
Hodges' museum isn't the only place you can explore the history of medicine and medical practices in Kansas City. There's the Clendening History of Medicine Museum at the University of Kansas Medical Center, available by appointment only.
Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri, is an unusual specimen concerning the historical treatment of those with mental illness. It's a must-see for anyone wishing to discover the advancement of mental health treatments over the past 130 years.
United Federation of Doll Clubs Museum: Kansas City
The United Federation of Doll Clubs Museum includes dolls from all over the world dating back to the 1700s.
Doll collecting is a fairly common passion shared by people all over the world, but did you know that the United Federation of Doll Clubs has its headquarters right here in Kansas City? In an unassuming industrial area near the Kansas City International Airport, there's a museum stocked with over 1,000 dolls and accessories.
The organization was founded in 1943 in New York, moved its headquarters to Missouri in the 1990s and into its current location in 2001.
This museum was made possible by donations from clubs and collectors and continues to expand. It includes models from all over the world dating back to the 1700s, though a majority of the dolls are either European or American made. UFDC shares videos examining the valuable dolls in the collection.
Many are exquisitely handcrafted, more sculptural than plaything; some are mint-condition, mass-produced pieces from recent decades. There are dolls made of china, papier-mache, rawhide, cloth, wood, corn husks, shells, soap, nuts and even turkey wishbone. Drawers in the museum labeled "open me" share additional materials, such as doll dress patterns.
Can't get enough dolls? You're in luck. There's also the Doll Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri, and, of course, the exquisite dollhouse collection and vintage toys of the National Museum of Toys and Miniatures on UMKC's Volker Campus.
National Silk Art Museum: Weston, Missouri
"Jeunesse" by Leopold Francois Kowalski. Woven by Neyret Freres
Courtesy of the National Silk Art Museum
The National Silk Art Museum features over 500 examples of silk art, including this piece.
Housed in the old Bank of Weston, the National Silk Art Museum is truly one-of-a-kind. Local business owner John Pottie is the founder and curator, having collected silk art for over 40 years and accumulating over 500 examples of the art form. The museum opened in 2013 and rotates its collection regularly.
It includes pieces from over 200 years ago, from 19th and 20th century England, France, Germany and the United States. Though many of the works are reproductions of oil paintings, each took years to make and are each unique.
Many were created with the jacquard weaving technique, which used an intricate system of punch cards, a precursor to the calculator and computer. The museum has a jacquard loom from Germany on display, as well as information about the history of weaving.
They share examples of individual pieces regularly on Facebook, with information about the context and creation of each piece.
Get while the gettin's good
The Arabia Steamboat Museum, currently located in the River Market, is looking to expand its collection and create the National Steamboat Museum. It's unlikely the museum will stay in Kansas City.
Perpetuity can be persnickety. Passions and energies shift, collections outgrow their spaces, new deals lure collections to other locales.
For instance: Leila's Hair Museum in Independence. KCUR's Suzanne Hogan profiled collector Leila Cohoon in 2020 for the podcast A People's History of Kansas City. It's not currently open to the public, having closed during the pandemic.
The Arabia Steamboat Museum, a jewel of the River Market, displays the contents of the 1856 sunken steamboat. With another newly discovered and excavated steamboat, the Malta, the organization is looking to expand its collection and create the National Steamboat Museum. It's unlikely the museum will stay in Kansas City.
The Evel Knievel Museum, founded in Topeka, Kansas, is planning to move to Las Vegas in the next year or so. KCUR's Frank Morris visited the museum when it first opened in 2017.
But who knows what the future holds for offbeat museums in Kansas City? Founders of the LUMI Neon Museum have been saving and restoring iconic neon signs since 2017. They are in talks to team up with the Kansas City Auto Museum (currently located in Olathe), looking for a permanent home in downtown Kansas City.
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Originally from Indiana, Libby Hanssen covers the performing arts in Kansas City. She's written for KCUR, KC Studio, The Kansas City Star, The Pitch, and KCMetropolis. Libby maintains the culture blog Proust Eats A Sandwich and writes poetry and children's books. Along with degrees in trombone performance, she was a Fellow for the NEA Arts Journalism Institute at Columbia University.
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August 1, 2007, - 1:33 pm
Get Ready for PAWNN, The Newspaper: Murdoch's Wall St. Journal Could Take Anti-Israel, Pan-Arabist Slant
A few months ago, on the day Rupert Murdoch announced his intent to bid on the Wall Street Journal, I warned you about Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal, who owns at least 5.46% of News Corporation (he said he planned to acquire more), Murdoch's company which runs FOX News Channel and his other properties. I've written about the Prince before, upon his acquisition of the significant amount of News Corp stock and right after 9/11. He's the one who offered Rudy Giuliani $10 million after the attacks if America would change its policy toward Israel, blaming American foreign policy for 9/11. (Rudy told him where to go.)
I told you how Al-Waleed bragged that when FOX News ran stories on the Muslim riots in France, he called Murdoch to complain. Within a half hour, FOX News stopped using "Muslim" riots and changed to "civilian" riots, even though all of the "civilians" were Muslims.
James Murdoch & the Saudi Prince, Who Tried to Bribe Giuliani,
Now Own & Run the Wall St. Journal
That's why I call FOX News Channel, "PAWNN"–the Prince Al-Waleed News Network. Since the Wall Street Journal is far more pro-Israel and anti-Islamist than FOX News, you can be sure Prince Al-Waleed will be having a lot of conversations with Murdoch objecting to the excellent Wall St. Journal editorials and editorial columnists. Get ready for PAWNN, The Newspaper.
Or maybe the editorials will be changing quickly . . . in the other direction. Today's New York Sun reports that Murdoch's son, James Murdoch–who may run the Journal operation–is virulently anti-Israel:
The just-published diaries of a communications director for Prime Minister Blair, Alastair Campbell, indicate that James Murdoch launched into a foul-mouthed tirade that suggested that the behavior of Palestinian Arabs was justified by their poor treatment by Israelis. The outburst occurred at a private dinner with his father, his brother, Lachlan, Mr. Blair, and others at no. 10 Downing St. in January 2002.
The elder "Murdoch was at one point putting the traditional very right-wing view on Israel and the Middle East peace process and James said that he was 'talking f- nonsense.' [Rupert] Murdoch said he didn't see what the Palestinians' problem was and James said that it was that they were kicked out of their f'Äî homes and had nowhere to f- live," Mr. Campbell recorded, adding that the News Corp. chairman was "very pro-Israel, very pro-Reagan." [DS: Now, he's very pro-Hillary.] . . .
James Murdoch, who heads News Corp.'s BSkyB satellite broadcasting division, has been intimately involved in the firm's $5 billion bid to take over Dow Jones, which publishes the Journal. The elder Murdoch brought James to a critical meeting last month in Manhattan at which the pair sought to win over members of the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones. . . .
It is widely assumed in financial and publishing circles that James Murdoch would have ultimate responsibility for overseeing operations at the Journal if the takeover bid is successful. James Murdoch, 35, is also seen as the most likely heir to chairmanship of News Corp. when his father, 76, retires.
Let's hope for the best with the Wall Street Journal. But expect the worst. Rupert Murdoch has a business to run . . . and a whiny, royal shareholder to please.
And he's shown he's all too willing to give in to that shareholders' demands. With news of his son running the show, looks like the cave-in will happen fast and easy.
PAWNN, The Newspaper.
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Here is my response to Murdoch's sell out and all the traitors in the Media:
9 – Any Media outlet that is trying to cover up or find excuses for the Islamic terrorists or for the Muslims living in this country who are attempting to abuse our system of government and our way of life, must be punished by switching the TV button, not buying the newspaper, not visiting the website and not advertising in it.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/07/rep_steven_chab.html#comments
Independent Conservative on August 1, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I've been a WSJ subscriber for 10 years. If the Journal starts to read like Newsweek, or if the younger Murdoch takes over, I'll switch to Investors Business Daily.
sonomaca on August 1, 2007 at 2:14 pm
How is this any different than the New York Times?
IT'S DIFFERENT B/C THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS BEEN ON THE DARK SIDE FOR DECADES. FOR NOW, THE WSJ IS A GREAT PAPER AND ON THE GOOD SIDE. THAT'S PROBABLY ABOUT TO CHANGE. WE DON'T NEED A SECOND OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST READ NEWSPAPERS GOING TO THE DARK SIDE ALONG WITH THE TIMES.
Burt on August 1, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Debbie, I too have been annoyed that Fox news seems to avoid supporting Israel or denouncing islamic terror. i get the feeling that O'Reilly and Hannity are closet anti-semitic bullies, so it may not be only because some low life Saudi owns 5.5%.
Anonymous1 on August 1, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Editorially, the WSJ is a mouthpiece for the Bush White House, not for conservatives. That's why they were pro illegal immigration in the recent Bush-McCain-Kennedy try at ramming amnesty down the throats of the American people. Any change will be an improvement…
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Burrator Reservoir was constructed in the late 19th century as a storage reservoir for the Plymouth Leat, to regulate the quality and consistency of the leated water-supply to Plymouth. Designed by Edward Sandeman, Plymouth's Water Engineer, it was enlarged between 1923-1928. It includes two dams; Sheepstor and Burrator Dams.
Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.
Burrator Reservoir, constructed in the late 19th century is depicted on the historic map.
Hemery, E., 1983, High Dartmoor, 115-116 (Monograph). SDV249702.
Burrator Reservoir was constructed between 1891-1898 to capture the waters of Newleycombe Lake and Narrator Brook. Designed as a storage reservoir for the Plymouth Leat, to regulate the quality and consistency of the leated water-supply to Plymouth.
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Burrator Reservoir, formed in 1893-98 for Plymouth Corporatio, by two DAMS, The Burrator and the Sheepstor.
Histrically and technological important as 3rd British masonry dam, 1 of only 8 between 1890 and 1904. By Edward Sandman. Group value with Drake's Leat, which it replaced and the remains of which start below Burrator dam; and with the Devonport leat, which now acts as a feeder to the reservoir.
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Burrator Reservoir was proposed by Edward Sandeman (1862-1959) Plymouth's Water Engineer to provide a direct pipeline from there into the Town. The scheme was adopted on March 30th 1892 and work began in 1893, including work on the two dams. The Burrator Dam is built across the river Meavy at the Burrator Gorge. It is constructed of concrete faced with dressed granite. The smaller one at Sheepstor is built on a dividing ridge between the Meavy and Sheepstor Brook and is formed by an earth embankment with a core wall of puddled clay above the original ground level and a concrete section below ground.
Burrator Reservoir was officially opened on Wednesday September 21st 1898 and cost £178,000 of which the two Dams cost £102,000 and £24,000 respectively. Work started on raising both the Burrator and Sheepstor Dams by 10 feet in December 1923. This would enlarge the capacity from 668 million gallons to 1,026 million. The work was financed by the Government as part of an unemployment relief programme. A suspension bridge was erected by Messrs Orr, Watt & Company, of Motherwell ion Scotland, near Burrator Dam to carry traffic while the work proceeded. The enlarged reservoir was opened on Wednesday September 12th 1928.
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Monograph: Hemery, E.. 1983. High Dartmoor. High Dartmoor. Hardback Volume. 115-116.
Report - non-specific: Trueman, M.. 2000. Water and Sewage Step 3 Assessment. English Heritage Monuments Protection Programme Step 3 Report. WIM.I. A4 Unbound.
Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1904 - 1906. Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map. Map (Digital).
Website: Moseley, B.. 2011. Plymouth Data; The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History. Plymouthdata.info. Website. Accessed 2014.
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