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Silent Film 'Shoes' is a Surprisingly Moving Portrait of Hardship in the Early Twentieth Century
by Nicole Ackman
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While certainly giving into some of the melodrama common in silent films of this era, Lois Weber's Shoes is a moving tale about poverty and the lengths one young woman must go to to provide for herself. (NBA: 4/5)
Review by FF2 Associate Nicole Ackman
Lois Weber was a prolific director whose films often made relevant commentary on social issues of the day; Shoes is a prime example. The silent film starring Mary MacLaren was released on June 26, 1916, and was popular with both critics and the public. Directed and adapted by Weber, it was based on the short story "Shoes" by Stella Wynne Herron, which was published in Collier magazine in January of that year. It had been inspired by Jane Addam's "A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil," a nonfiction book about prostitution. The film explores the effects of poverty on a young woman who eventually sells her body to be able to buy herself the new pair of shoes she desperately needs.
"Eva Mayer" (MacLaren) works at a five-and-dime store and takes her paychecks home to her mother. While her father sits around reading instead of finding a job, her mother struggles to make ends meet for Eva and her three younger siblings. Cut off from credit at the store and with no wages but Eva's, the family is in danger of going hungry. Eva's shoes are falling apart despite her reinforcing them with cardboard, and she longs to replace them with a pair she gazes at through the store window. When it becomes clear that her earnings are needed at home and that she won't soon be able to buy her new shoes, Eva turns to the man who visits her friend at work and has made his interest in Eva clear.
The film has a great deal of sympathy for Eva and her mother, who work hard despite little help from her father, who's unwilling to find a job. Eva's contempt for her father is evident in MacLaren's performance, as is her mother's distress. It's easy for the viewer to feel for the women of this family, and it makes a powerful statement about the sacrifices that women made in the early twentieth century. At one point, in a progressive special effect for the time the film was made, the hand of poverty reaches out to Eva as she sleeps in her bed.
Silent film is a very different form of storytelling than modern cinema that relies heavily on actors' facial expressions. Unlike modern movies, most of the film's shots are stationary aside from one impressive tracking shot that is a close-up on Eva's shoes, which are falling apart as she walks through the rain. Weber does use different camera angles, especially to highlight Eva's shoes. There are various locations in the film, from the Mayers' apartment to the store where Eva works to the Blue Goose Club. The score helps Weber tell the story and sets the tone of the piece.
Weber was one of the most influential silent film directors, and the massive amount of films she worked on has caused comparisons to D. W. Griffith. Born in Pennsylvania, Weber was an actress, director, writer, and producer. Her films often focused on social justice topics from abortion to poverty, many of which would still be considered daring for a director today. She mentored young actresses and became the first American female director to have her own studio in 1917 when she founded Lois Weber Productions. Weber worked on hundreds of films, though only a couple dozen have survived.
Some sections of Shoes have been preserved better than others, but the film's quality is remarkable overall. The piece is well-designed and well-acted and demonstrates Weber's skill as both a writer and a director. Its somber ending doesn't let the audience off the hook. Even today, it's a moving piece on the evils of poverty and how sometimes women are forced to do what they must to survive. Shoes is not only a fitting testimony to the issues and the filmmaking of 1916 but an engaging watch over a hundred years later.
© Nicole Ackman (11/03/20) FF2 Media
Top Photo: Mary MacLaren in Shoes
Middle Photo: William V. Wong in Shoes
Bottom Photo: Mary MacLaren in Shoes
Photo Credits: Bluebird Photoplays
Does it pass the Bechdel test?
It's more difficult to tell if a silent film passes the Bechdel test as sometimes conversations are implied and not fully shown on screen. However, Eva and her mother certainly discuss the state of her shoes, so it does indeed pass.
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Nicole Ackman is an FF2 Media Associate based in North Carolina, after living in London and New York. She graduated from Elon University with a Bachelors degree in History and Strategic Communication and from City University of London with a Masters degree in Culture, Policy, and Management. She is a theatre and film critic and is a member of the North Carolina Film Critics Association. Her taste in film tends towards period dramas, movie musicals, and anything starring Saoirse Ronan. In addition to film, she is passionate about history, theatre, Disney parks, and classic novels by female writers.


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It's a driver's worst nightmare. You're moving along just fine and you get stuck in a jam. You try to get a better view of what's ahead when you see it – an entire house in the middle of the street being pulled on a sled by oxen and horses. Luckily it's 1896 and you're likely the only person in Boston with a car. But while it might seem slightly crazy, that's how the oldest house in Boston got to its current location in Boston's Richardson Park.
The James Blake House was built in 1661 by – you guessed it – James Blake. The well to-do Blake served as a Deacon at the First Church, as well as a constable, town selectman and deputy to the General Court.
The structure mostly stayed in the Blake family but was eventually sold to the city of Boston who were going to demolish it to make way for municipal improvements. That is, until the Dorchester Historical Society stepped in to preserve the home as a relic of Colonial America, which is how they broached the concept of moving the house.
Often when a house is moved, it is taken apart and put back together like a puzzle. But the James Blake House only had about 500 feet to get to its new location. So after careful planning by the Historical Society, they decided to move in winter when the ground would be frozen, and perhaps to add to the winter aesthetic, it was pulled on a massive sled by oxen or horses. Overall, it cost the Society a total of $295 in 1896 money, or around $10k today.
The James Blake House was recently written up in the book, "Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them" which won a Preservation Prize. Today, the house operates as a museum with a dedicated caretaker who lives there, a tradition dating back to 1910. You can find it still at the corner of Pond and Cottage Streets in Boston – unless, of course, it packs up and moves again.
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Just Say No - I will find something I routinely do and just say no to it.
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BREAKING: Electoral College REVERSAL Announcement - Voters Stunned...
The majority of Americans would prefer a national popular vote over America's current Electoral College system.
The announcement comes from the Pew Research Center after they found that 63% of Americans would prefer our presidential election just be a popular vote.
That number has grown since last year.
In 2021, only 55% of Americans were in favor of a popular vote.
This is noteworthy because two presidents in recent history have still been awarded the presidency despite losing the electoral college.
Both of them were Republicans.
George W. Bush and Donald Trump.
Perhaps that's why so many more liberals want a popular vote.
They definitely made their voice heard in this poll:
Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to support moving from the current Electoral College system to a popular vote system (80% vs. 42%). https://t.co/s80q8QXdk6 pic.twitter.com/udubInqFYw
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) August 5, 2022
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Organisers and playwrights mourn the loss of London's VAULT Festival for third year running
The VAULT Festival sign above one of the underground venues - Copyright VAULT Festival
By Jonny Walfisz • Updated: 06/01/2022
VAULT Festival 2022 officially announced its cancellation on Jan 4, just three weeks before the three-month-long performing arts festival was due to begin.
Announced on Twitter, the festival's official statement wrote, "We have made the gut-wrenching decision to cancel VAULT Festival 2022."
"Since the emergence of the Omicron variant, we've explored numerous options to still be able to deliver our 10th anniversary Festival safely and successfully, all of which were found to put our staff and artists at risk of being subjected to months of stress, uncertainty, and insurmountable financial vulnerability."
It is with broken hearts that we announce the decision to cancel VAULT Festival 2022. Our full statement follows in the thread below and is available now on our website at: https://t.co/o5zp2Pq1SPpic.twitter.com/ExknqfUcDS
— VAULT Festival (@VAULTFestival) January 4, 2022
The VAULT Festival is an annual celebration in London of emerging theatre artists. The three-month schedule features hundreds of fringe theatre shows, cabaret, and musicians. VAULT Festival 2022 was planned to include over 500 productions, with 2,000+ performances to over 80,000 people.
"It was an incredibly challenging and emotional time as we considered a vast array of factors. We had to focus on putting people first - we always want artists, audiences and the people we work with to have an enjoyable experience, as we fundamentally believe this permeates everything," Adam Gray, executive director of VAULT tells Euronews Culture.
Theatre and cabaret artists preparing to perform at VAULTVAULT Festival
"It takes 120 people to provide this experience over the eight weeks - the scale of the festival would inevitably see people fall sick, require staff and performers to isolate and cancellations would be in abundance."
"The impact of the Omicron variant would interrupt the festival to a point where it would be detrimental to everyone's health, safety and wellbeing," he adds.
This is the third year running that VAULT has had to cancel the festival in some form. Taking place from January to late March, the festival had to pull its 2020 run midway through when London was put under lockdown due to the outbreak of the pandemic. The festival's 2021 run was also shelved during the planning phase in the summer of 2020.
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The news of the festival's cancellation immediately caused an outpouring of grief for the damage to emerging playwrights across the UK.
"The most important piece of advice I want to give anyone with a cancelled Vault Show is to give yourself the time to grieve it. Whether it returns or not is of no matter if you burn out getting it back on stage. Take a breath, take some time & then regroup," wrote writer and performer Tabby Lamb on Twitter.
The most important piece of advice i want to give anyone with a cancelled Vault Show is to give yourself the time to grieve it. Whether it returns or not is of no matter if you burn out getting it back on stage. Take a breath, take some time & then regroup.
— Tabby Lamb (@TheTabbyLamb) January 4, 2022
Lamb was working on bringing an installation to the festival that would last the entire three-month run. Artists also at the Festival could use the space Lamb created to do whatever they needed in the build up to their own performances, and would then write on the windows what they would have paid for the usual use of such a space.
"The idea was to expose everything else that goes into making theatre that audiences may not be aware of."
Although naturally devastated to see the performance cancelled, Lamb accepts it was the only decision the festival could make. "With the rise of cases and the current omicron threat, cramming a bunch of people together in small damp underground rooms just doesn't seem safe."
"The initial reaction we've heard from artists is a mix of relief, disappointment and understanding. I share their grief, and their desire to create and showcase their works. The performing arts sector has been severely disrupted and damaged over the last two years," Gray says.
Jon Barton was due to hold writing workshops across the festival for playwrights looking to develop their craft. A writer with nearly a decade's experience in theatre, he laments the removal of opportunity for new artists.
We risk losing an entire generation of artists
"New artists cannot emerge if there's nowhere to emerge from. At VAULT Festival, it's possible to get scouted for paid commissions. And because it kicks off the year, VAULT historically fuels work that goes on to other festivals, including Edinburgh."
"We risk losing an entire generation of artists with the continued disruption, and the government support for freelance artists has been pitiable. All this has a significant long-term effect on who gets to create work, and ultimately narrows the pathway to success," he says.
Inside one of the venues before a show at VAULTVAULT Festival
UK government complacency?
When asked about government help for the festival's decision-making, Gray prefers to focus on the positive support from artists, audiences and the festival's partners. But he remains clear about the support from the top.
"We have not received any support from the government in response to the Omicron variant."
Lamb, by contrast, tells Euronews how creatives in the UK have been hung out to dry - not by the festival's cancellation - but by the British government's inaction.
"Other industries when they shut down were bailed out by the government, or given loans to continue paying their staff but as theatre runs on freelancers we've just been left in the gutter."
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Brighter skies ahead?
Despite the sadness expressed universally for the cancellation of the festival, a silver lining appeared in the huge amount of support offered by other theatre institutions across the country.
Countless theatres have offered affordable slots in their programming for cancelled fringe shows, artists have made public offers of consolation, and there have been suggestions of reworking shows for new mediums.
So sad to hear about @VAULTFestival huge hugs going out to all involved (& the mighty V crew!)
Once regrouped, if any emerging theatremakers have a show ready to go, we offer box office splits with no fees & would love to offer space where poss! info@breadandrosestheatre.co.uk
— Bread&Roses Theatre (@BreadandRosesTC) January 4, 2022
Were you producing a musical or piece of music theatre at @VAULTFestival? I'm wondering about creating an album with a fully produced song from each show. If you're interested get in touch.
— Adam Lenson (@AdamLenson) January 5, 2022
"I imagine everyone is worried about their security in the future and for 2023. We're working and strategising hard now to re-imagine what 2022 will look like, and how the Festival will look in the future," Gray says.
"We feel fortunate there is overwhelming support for VAULT, and for the vibrant artists we work with. It is heartwarming to read the comments and reactions people have on social media - the festival is loved, and there is an outpouring of emotion and love for it."
"We are gutted that the Festival for 2022 isn't going ahead as planned, however that's not the end of the story. There are great things to come this year and beyond," he says.
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It's race day for Andrew!
5 miles @ 8:39 average.
It started off just raining really hard and then it turned to snow half way through my run= I was frozen down to the bones because I was wet from the rain.
I FORGOT THE BRAID… but luckily the snarls weren't too bad afterwards.
Skye wanted to share her pacifier with you.
Leg day!!! Taking today and tomorrow off and then continuing the taper.
Question: How many utensils does it take a 6 year old to make a peanut butter sandwich?
Hopefully this will be the last gas station hot chocolate of the season.
Stopped to pick up his bib.
Excited to see most of her name on a chair.
A play area in a running store = genius.
SO MUCH FUEL… I picked up mine for race day too!
His stuff is out and he is ready to go!
Tell me 3 things that you are doing today!
Mixing a family and a bunch of tangents (including a race this weekend)!!!
3 things: penguins, online shopping, getting rid of a pesky cough……at least it waited until after the half marathon.
Thank goodness it waited! Get well soon Loribeth!
I'm a piano teacher & it's piano festival weekend… 25 students participating! It's like our race days Fri & Sat. It's a marathon full day for me helping with it. Exciting and fun.
About to head out on a short run before everything starts.
Oh this sounds like so much fun! Have the best time seeing your students do their best (and sleep well tonight after everything)! I hope your run was great Jan!
ran a mile (WOOOO!) after a long two months off; work; hopefully watching Bohemian Raphsody……I LOOOVE Queen!
You are back!!!! I hope that mile felt so so good. Thanks Lee and keep me updated with how your comeback is going. Enjoy!
20 miles, taking kiddos to in-laws for a free days, ice bath!
20 miles wahooo! Go Baili go!!!!
Getting my hair done, crafting and avoiding thinking about a guy I've been dating. Hahah but seriously dating shouldn't be so complicated! I hope today is fabulous!!
I'm running a 5K tomorrow and can't even wrap my head around the distance you are about to take on! You're a brave man!
I hope you get some Dylan's hot chocolate or at least a donut from Tasty's! Have a great day!!!
Good luck Andrew! Can't wait to hear how it went. I desperately need to sign up for a race. I need the motivation and it's been 3 years since my last one. Oops!
Good luck to Andrew! I hope the weather isn't too terrible for him and I hope the kids have fun spectating!
We are so boring, Saturday = cleaning, running and maybe a park this afternoon.
Today is introducing my parents to a cute little fishing/shopping area near us (the Tarpon Springs sponge docks), running some errands, and a home pedicure.
So fun!! Best of luck to Andrew!!
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Good luck Andrew!! You're going to do awesome!
Going to get a longish run in, still on the elliptical (darn hip), then off to a reception for the college our son will probably be going to, then home in time for his senior Sadie's dance!
Did 10 miles with my "up north" friend who I convinced to join me for our first marathon next month! Ran 60 miles this week! Going snowmobiling today and then shopping for my daughter's 10th bday party tomorrow! Good luck Andrew and you too Jenae on your 50 miler soon!
1. 8.05 mile run – DONE!
Good luck Andrew!! You got this!! Today I'm grocery shopping, cleaning and anticipating a delicious steak dinner out with my husband.
Relaxing, relaxing, and more relaxing. This week was a beast! Have a great weekend!
That running store looks amazing. So many options!!
-18 mile run – DONE!
Have a great race, Andrew!!
I must have missed something along the way. I thought your races were the same day????
HEY!!! That was the original plan… with finishing up nursing school he realized he just didn't have the time he thought he would to train. So he did a 25k today and rocked it. I hope you are having a great day Donna!
Hope Andrew had a great race today!
This morning I went out to run 13 miles by myself and it was gorgeous and my legs felt like they could go forever. I'll take that.
We headed to the beach – cold but so nice, and so peaceful and now at home watching tv runs. I am watching re runs of Beverly Hills 90210 because I grew up on that show! It is a blast to my past.
Was just looking through this post and noticed the beautiful portrait of Mary above your in-laws mantle. It made me wonder if they were Catholic or if LDS members also typically have images like these? It's just that I've never seen non-Catholics display portraits of Mary before but this image is my favorite!
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Mysterious Money and Motive Behind Monster Mosque in Murfreesboro
Why is a 53,000 square foot mega mosque needed for so few Muslim families?
Eric Allen Bell
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Why is it such a big deal that a Muslim community is simply trying to build a house of worship?
Let's start with a little math. Murfreesboro, TN has just over 100,000 residents. According to estimates provided by the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, there are 200 to 300 Muslim families living in the area. When they announced their plans to build a 53,000 square foot mega mosque, a lot of questions came up. One subject of concern was why they needed such a huge compound for so few families. What is particularly disconcerting is that, according to their own documents (attached 2009 annual report) the ICM only has 45 active paying member families. Naturally this begs another question – who is paying for this massive compound?
And, what will it really cost to build something that looks like this, per square foot, at 53,000 square feet, when the project is completed? How many millions of dollars will these "45 active members" be coming up with – and where is all this money coming from?
Now the question of who is paying for this Islamic compound and why is it so big, begs another question:
Why is it that after 9/11, mosque construction in America has nearly doubled?
It's not as if the population of Muslims in America suddenly spiked – not even close. Muslims make up less than 1 percent of the United States population. So is there any logical explanation for the rapid expansion of new mosque construction?
One need only look to the history of 1,400 years of Islamic conquest to understand that according to the Hijra, the Islamic doctrine of cultural invasion, Muslims are required to build mosques following a successful attack.
But shouldn't the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro have the right to build anyway? Is this not a right, given to all religions and protected under the First Amendment?
In order to understand what Islam is and is not, it is important to note a few basic facts. Well under 20 percent of Islamic scripture talks about religion in any way. The rest concerns itself with fighting the infidel, conquest, spreading the tyrannical Islamic political system and enforcing brutal Islamic Law (Sharia) on the non-believers.
Another glaring detail that our last few Presidents left out, when telling us that "Islam is peace" is that Islam is sort of obsessed with hating the Jews. In fact, the Prophet Mohammed had an entire Jewish tribe murdered. Here is a bit of Islamic scripture that I find to be very revealing, when it comes to "the religion of peace":
"The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him." (Sahih Muslim, 41:6985; see also 41:6981-84 and Sahih Bukhari, 4:52:176,177 and 4:56:791)
So actually, Islam is a political and legal system with a thin veil of religious doctrine, thus giving it just enough cover to be protected by our laws, provided no one shine the light of truth and thus exposes to Americans what Islam actually is.
And the glaring fact that the Islamic scripture is a hate manifesto with a blueprint for worldwide domination of the infidel, well, who wants to confront the elephant in the room and be labeled "intolerant"? That said, until someone successfully challenges this in court, Islam has been deemed a religion in the United States, and when that premise is questioned in a court of law, Eric Holder sends officials from the Department of Justice to intervene on behalf of Islam.
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About Eric Allen Bell
Eric Allen Bell is a filmmaker, columnist and counter-jihad activist. He was banned from the liberal-progressive Daily Kos for writing 3 articles about Islam which ran afoul of the politically-correct mindset there. He is director of both Global Infidel TV and Mosque Confidential and is currently in production on a documentary feature titled "American Infidel." You can read more about Bell's conversion story in "The High Price of Telling the Truth about Islam." Visit him on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/EricAllenBell or go to www.EricAllenBell.com.


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Sept. 27, 2021: Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $48,277,913 firm-fixed-price order (N0001921F0398) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001919G0008). This order procures ancillary mission equipment in support of Lot 15 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter production aircraft for the Navy and Marine Corps. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed in December 2024. Fiscal 2019 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $48,277,913 will be obligated on this award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
Dec. 22, 2021: Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $211,223,665 firm-fixed-price undefinitized contract modification (P00001) to an order (N0001921F0398) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001919G0008). This modification adds scope to procure ancillary mission equipment in support of Lots 15 and 16 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter production aircraft for the Air Force, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers, and non-Department of Defense (DOD) partners. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed in December 2024. Fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $68,860,141; FMS funds in the amount of $52,813,715; and non-DOD partner funds in the amount of $89,549,809 will be obligated on this award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
May 5, 2022: Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas is awarded a $372,461,030 undefinitized firm-fixed-price modification (P00003) to an order (N0001921F0398) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001919G0008). This modification adds scope to procure F-35 Lightning II Lots 15-16 ancillary mission equipment requirements for the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps. Additionally, this modification adds scope to procure F-35 Lightning II initial spares for the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers, and non-U.S Department of Defense (DOD) participants. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed in December 2024. Fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $116,596,160; fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $49,860,712; fiscal 2020 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $11,732,939; fiscal 2020 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $ 90,680,424; FMS funds in the amount of $2,067,174; and non-U.S. DOD participant funds in the amount of $3,483,749 will be obligated at the time of award, $92,413,363 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
Sept. 30, 2022: Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas is awarded a $35,834,613 firm-fixed-price modification (P00005) to an order (N0001921F0398) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001919G0008). This modification adds scope and increases the contract ceiling for F-35 Lightning II Lot 15-16 Batch 2 Ancillary Mission Equipment for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force, non-U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) partners, and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed in December 2025. Fiscal 2022 appropriation (Air Force) funds in the amount of $49,860,712, fiscal 2022 appropriation (Navy) funds in the amount of 5,663,940, fiscal 2021 appropriation (Navy) funds in the amount of $3,496,750, FMS customer funds in the amount of $4,809,862; and non-U.S. DoD participant funds in the amount of $12,117,124 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
Oct. 4, 2022: Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas is awarded a $35,834,613 firm-fixed-price modification (P00005) to an order (N0001921F0398) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001919G0008). This modification adds scope and increases the contract ceiling for F-35 Lightning II Lot 15-16 Batch 2 Ancillary Mission Equipment for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force, non-U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) partners, and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed in December 2025. Fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $9,746,938, fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $ 5,663,940, fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $3,496,750, FMS customer funds in the amount of $4,809,862, and non-U.S. DoD participant funds in the amount of $12,117,124 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
Oct. 21, 2022: Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $12,052,847 firm-fixed-price modification (P00006) to an order (N0001921F0398) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001919G0008). This modification adds scope to procure Lot 15-16 gun pod containers in support of F-35 Lightning II aircraft ancillary mission equipment for the Navy, Marine Corps, non-U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) partners, and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed in February 2026. Fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $11,218,945; FMS customer funds in the amount of $457,865; and non-U.S. DOD participant funds in the amount of $376,037 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
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The 21st century has seen an explosion in information services, and our government have expressed their ambition to make more information available to consumers and businesses. In the spirit of this there are now many different sources to obtain historical information about houses and land. This article examines some of these sources and introduces a new House and Land History Search.
The current Title Register contains details of the current ownership, the date of purchase, the date the property was first registered, and the price paid for the property. If the property is leasehold it will state the date the lease was created and provide the names of the parties to the original lease. It will also state the length of years the lease was created for.
The current Title Plan will show the current outline of the property, edged in red and may contain coloured tints, hatching and lines to denote rights, covenants and ownership, as explained in the Title Register.
Prior Copies of the Title Register will show the ownerships and mortgages as at the date searched for. It is possible to obtain Prior Copies back to 1993. The Register will change every time there is a new owner or new mortgage.
Prior Copies of the Title Plan will show an outline of the property as it was at the time searched for, again, back to 1993. The property extent may change over time, e.g. because part of the property has been sold, or because it borders a river that has changed its course.
Prior Copies are useful for checking if the Land Registry have made an error in the currently registered documents.
Conveyancing Deeds, in particular the conveyances or the transfers, will provide details of the purchaser and vendor at the date of the conveyance or transfer, even if it is further back than 1993. Not all conveyancing deeds can be obtained, but those that have been retained by the Land Registry in digital format are noted in the Register, which can quickly be checked to see what is available.
Historic England maintain Historic Environment Records (HERs). This includes archaeology and the historic built environment. Examples of the type of historic information in these records are sites where prehistoric flint tools have been found, medieval castles, second world war pillboxes, historic buildings and landscapes, and local archeological sites and finds.
Records for selected major historic towns and cities are held within UADs, and which can be accessed through Historic England. These records are specialist records relating to the material past of certain towns and cities where long-term human habitation has resulted in a strong record of the past. Much of this has been gleaned from waste, which until the 19th century was not disposed locally by the people creating the waste.
These records are mainly found in Google's Scholarly Articles.
Most buildings erected before 1840 are listed. As a matter of practice buildings younger than 30 years are not usually listed. Once a building is listed it comes under the protection of the planning system.
Grade II - Of special interest. More than 90% of all listed buildings fall into this category, which would mean that most home owners living in a listed building would have this listing.
Listed buildings will be found in the records kept by British Listed Buildings, as well as Historic England.
This record is kept by Historic England and comprises a selection of nationally important archaeological sites. These sites are closely managed. To be nationally important regard is had to the sites period, rarity, finds and documentation, group value, condition, vulnerability, diversity and potential.
Scheduling does not give the public a right of access to it, if the land is in private ownership.
A register of Historic Battlefields is kept by Historic England. There are presently 46 registrations. The purpose of the registration is to protect them through the planning system, and to help the public better understand their significance.
There are many websites in each county providing details of our Stately Homes. Stately Homes are large and impressive historic houses, mansions or the like that are often open to the public and that are or once were occupied by an aristocratic family (persons of noble birth holding hereditary titles and offices).
Prior Copies Search (with or without the Conveyancing Deeds).
House and Land History Search.
The Prior Copies search has options to include a copy of the Current Title Register, the Conveyancing Deeds and/or a Prior Copy of the Title Plan.
If selecting only a Prior Copy search you will be asked to select either the copy immediately prior to the date of the current Title Register, or else will be asked to specify a date that you require the Prior Copy for.
Amongst other things the Prior Copy Title Register will state the name and address of the then owner, the price paid for the property (if after 1993), the date of registration of his purchase and any mortgages current at that date.
These documents come together in a bound PDF cover, appropriately indexed.
Obtain prior copies of the Title Register as well as options to include the Current Title Register, the Conveyancing Deeds and/or a Prior Copy of the Title Plan.
This search provides All Prior Copies of the Title Register and all digitally held Conveyances and Transfers for the property as well as options to include Census and Electoral Records.


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Public Interest Technology at UC Berkeley
The landing page for Public Interest Technology at UC Berkeley has moved! Find the latest news about PIT at UC Berkeley.
Public Interest Tech at UC Berkeley
On March 11, 2019, the Public Interest Technology University Network — at the time, a partnership of 21 colleges and universities dedicated to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists — was announced. UC Berkeley is a charter member, indicating its commitment to educating the next generation of students to more effectively design, build, influence, and govern new technologies in ways that advance the public interest. Professor Deirdre Mulligan was the original UC Berkeley representative to the network.
The idea of conceptualizing public interest technology as a field draws on the history of public interest law which emerged in the 1980s, transformed legal education — fostering the development of legal clinics serving the poor and vulnerable and advocating on behalf of the public — and opened up new career pathways for law school graduates.
In joining the network UC Berkeley played a leadership role in establishing and defining the field of public interest technology within academia and spurring the development of a robust pipeline of students seeking to pursue careers in public interest technology.
Berkeley's Role in Public Interest Technology
Berkeley has been building the field of public interest technology from the bottom up for nearly two decades. A host of research centers, working groups, experiential learning opportunities, and curriculum have made UCB fertile ground for faculty and students in the field of public interest technology. Faculty and students find support for public interest-oriented research in centers such as the Algorithmic Fairness & Opacity Working Group (AFOG) — an interdisciplinary group of UC Berkeley faculty, postdocs, and graduate students developing new ideas, research directions, and policy recommendations around issues of fairness, transparency, interpretability, and accountability in algorithms and algorithm-based systems, the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) — a multidisciplinary research center exploring the most pressing technology law and policy issues, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) — a West Coast hub for global development research identifying and testing innovations designed to reduce poverty and promote development, the Center for Human Compatible AI (CHAI) — a multi-institution research group aimed at developing the conceptual and technical wherewithal to reorient the general thrust of AI research towards provably beneficial systems, and CITRIS and the Banatao Institute — a center that leverages the research strengths of University of California campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz to facilitate interdisciplinary work among hundreds of faculty members, students, corporate partners, and international institutions to address critical challenges such as designing sustainable energy, water and transportation systems; improving the human experience with robotics and inclusive intelligence; modernizing health care delivery; promoting diversity in the tech sector; examining the future of work and the global economy in the age of automation; and fostering responsible tech policy through the CITRIS Policy Lab. The CITRIS Policy Lab supports interdisciplinary technology policy research and engagement to support public- and private-sector technology and policy strategies in such areas as inclusive artificial intelligence, personal data privacy, digital access equity, and the influence of social media on democracy. The CITRIS Seed Funding Program provides early-stage funding to collaborative projects involving technology in the public interest aligned with the research areas above.
Public interest oriented students find additional support at student-led centers and initiatives including the Center for Technology, Society & Policy (CTSP) — a multidisciplinary research & design/build center focusing on the emergent social and policy issues arising from the development and adoption of technology, and the Graduates for Engaged and Extended Scholarship in Computing and Engineering (GEESE) which supports a community of graduate students and postdocs interested in working at the intersection between engineering and the social sciences and humanities to prepare themselves to tackle the emerging ethical dilemmas and opportunities for social change presented by new forms of technological disruption.
Students gain hands-on training on public interest issues at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic — the leading clinical program in technology law and the public interest, the Human Rights Investigations Lab — the first university-based initiative of its kind in the world engaging students from multiple disciplines in real-world open source investigations of human rights abuses and potential war crimes, the Citizen Clinic — the world's first public-interest cybersecurity clinic supporting the capacity of politically-vulnerable organizations and communities — including media outlets, human rights groups, and non-government organizations — that are at risk of cyberattack, the CITRIS Tech for Social Good Program, which provides funding support to undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students in interdisciplinary research teams to develop hardware, software, events or programs that support healthy, sustainable, connected, and equitable livelihoods in the United States and abroad, and the CITRIS Invention Lab, which provides expertise, community knowledge, tools, and materials to support students, faculty, staff, and individual researchers in moving their public interest technology from idea to prototype.
These programs are helping to build the public interest pipeline.
Berkeley Alumni in the Field
Meet some of our alumni to see the positive change they make in the world.
Alessandro Acquisti, (Berkeley School of Information Ph.D. 2003), Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University
"Put simply: I would not be where I am now without Berkeley. My Ph.D. at the I School, and the interactions with so many great scholars (and fellow students) opened my horizons and gave me the opportunity to do, today, the research I love."
Joshua Blumenstock, (Berkeley School of Information Ph.D. 2012), Professor at Berkeley School of Information
"Berkeley in general — and the School of Information in particular — provided a unique environment that allowed me to explore different disciplinary and methodological approaches to tackling social problems. I felt privileged to have close advisors from several different departments, who each took me on as one of 'their own,' though they had no formal obligation to do so."
danah boyd, (Berkeley School of Information Ph.D. 2008), Founder of Data & Society Research Institute and Researcher at Microsoft
"I came to Berkeley because of Peter Lyman, who was my advisor, mentor, and advocate…He helped me channel my energy towards viable systemic change. He helped me understand that the fight was long-term and that I needed skills, networks, and knowledge to make change."
Brian Carver, (Berkeley Law J.D. 2006, Berkeley I School Faculty 2008-2015), Copyright Counsel at Google
"The opportunities that Berkeley Law provided to work with faculty such as Pam Samuelson and to participate in the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic were exactly what I was looking for in terms of technology law projects that really understood the importance of the public interest in technology policy."
Will DeVries, (Berkeley Law J.D., 2004), Senior Privacy Counsel at Google
"It is safe to say my choice to go to Berkeley set my professional path. The most interesting thing happening in law and policy was technology, and Berkeley was the place where it was happening. More than just 'how to be a technology lawyer,' Berkeley offered 'how technology will change society and how to be a professional that shapes those changes.'"
Dipayan Ghosh, (UC Berkeley Postdoctoral Researcher), Pozen Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
"Having the chance to work with professors like Deirdre Mulligan and Shankar Sastry was a dream come true. Here were two people at the top of the field and who personally encouraged and supported my interest in public policy and government."
Jess Hemerly (Berkeley School of Information MIMS 2011), Manager, Government Affairs & Public Policy at Google
"I would not have entered the technology public policy field if it wasn't for the guidance and mentorship of Deirdre at the I School. What's more, the range of practical experience I gained at the I School—from Python to quantitative research methodologies—put me in a position to work really well cross-functionally in my current role."
Jennifer King, (Berkeley School of Information Ph.D. 2018, MIMS 2006), Director of Consumer Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School
"Attending Berkeley was a game-changer for me. I found a community that understood that building and studying technology included more than chasing the latest start-up trend or only focusing on the engineering aspects — I found people who also cared about how technology shapes society, and the need to build systems that respect human values."
Alex Kozak, (UC Berkeley B.A. Philosophy, 2009), Public Policy Manager at X, the moonshot factory
"My experience at Berkeley was foundational for my career in public policy. The Philosophy department was great training for tackling deep questions and debates with intellectual rigor and honesty. The I School gave me tools to think about how technology design, law, and the public interest intersect."
Michael Lissner, (Berkeley School of Information MIMS, 2010), Executive Director at Free Law Project
"The final project I completed in 2010 while a student at Berkeley was CourtListener.com. At the time it was a simple project to keep track of new court filings, but since then I worked with my advisor from Cal to form a non-profit to support the effort, and now, nearly a decade later, we work hard to make a more competitive, just, and fair legal system in America."
Andrew McDiarmid, (Berkeley School of Information MIMS 2008), Sr. Project Manager for Product Trust at Twitter
"Pam Samuelson, Deirdre Mulligan, and their colleagues working in law & technology turned me on to technology's role in the exercise of rights and the need for democratic norms & values to inform technology's development."
Nicole Ozer, (Berkeley Law J.D. 2003), Technology and Civil Liberties Director for the ACLU of California
"I came to Berkeley because I read that it was about to open the Samuelson Clinic — the first public interest technology law school clinic in the country. The Clinic and the broader Berkeley academic community is directly responsible for the course of my legal career and my 15 years building and leading the Technology and Civil Liberties Project of the ACLU of California."
Heather Patterson, (Berkeley Law J.D. 2012), Senior Research Scientist at Intel
"The Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic provided me with a social justice community and a roadmap for pursuing public interest work. It also provided me with some particular areas of interest. I often think that my first Clinic project really set the stage for my life's passion."
Emily Paul, (Berkeley School of Information MIMS 2016), TechCongress Fellow
"During my time at the I School I was able to study the theory behind the different disciplines involved in creating technology and understanding its implications and to put those different disciplines into practice. That experience helped me see the importance of all the decisions that go into determining how and in what contexts [technology] is implemented and how it is used on a daily basis."
Aaron Perzanowski, (Berkeley Law J.D. 2006; Microsoft Fellow 2008-09), Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University Law School
"My time at Berkeley Law, and in particular my experience in the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, profoundly shaped my career. In many ways, my research agenda continues to explore issues I first encountered fifteen years ago as a clinic student. More fundamentally, I attribute my understanding of the ways in which law and technology implicate the interests of consumers and the public broadly to my experiences at Berkeley."
Aaron Rieke, (Berkeley Law J.D., Certificate of Law and Technology, 2010), Managing Director at Upturn
"At Berkeley, I didn't just learn about law or technology. I learned about both in an interdisciplinary, service-oriented setting that set the tone for my entire career. Almost a decade later, my Berkeley professors and classmates are important professional colleagues."
Stacey Schesser, (Berkeley Law J.D., 2006), Supervising Deputy Attorney General at California Department of Justice
"Berkeley gave me an incredible foundation for my career. As a member of the Samuelson Clinic, I solidified my interest in public interest technology legal practice. I also felt empowered and inspired seeing women in technology law, and confident that I could enter this area of the law. I am deeply grateful for my time at Berkeley."
Sherwin Siym, (Berkeley Law J.D. 2005), Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University
"The Samuelson Clinic was my first real exposure to the breadth of work that goes into public interest technology law — not only the doctrinal matters at issue, but also how new issues get framed in the press, what a press release looks like, how the law is formed, and more."
Steve Trush, (Berkeley School of Information MIMS 2018, Graduate Certificate in ICTD), Deputy Director of Citizen Clinic at Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
"I came to UC Berkeley to learn how to create technology for positive social impact. From the support of the Center for Technology, Society, and Policy, the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, and the School of Development Practice, UC Berkeley set me on a path towards a career focused on protecting marginalized communities and at-risk populations from emerging sociotechnical threats."
Jennifer Urban, (Berkeley Law J.D. 2000, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic Fellow), Clinical Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law, co-director Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
"Berkeley is the very heart of my career! At the time I came to Berkeley for law school, it was rare to see tech issues like IP and innovation policy connected to public interest issues, but Berkeley was way ahead of the pack. I benefited enormously from Berkeley's innovative and rich program. Today, I get to collaborate with the fabulous faculty, staff, and students at Berkeley Law, the Information School, and other programs on campus."
Emily Witt, (Berkeley School of Information MIMS 2017), User Researcher at Salesforce
"It was not only the professors and curriculum, but also through ongoing conversation with classmates that helped me build the habit of critically examining proposed technology solutions to complex social problems while maintaining an energetic optimistic pragmatism towards thoughtfully using tech to support human efforts to work towards justice and equity in our communities."
Sidebar Text
The Public Interest Technology University Network began as a partnership between the Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, New America, and 21 colleges and universities dedicated to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists. UC Berkeley is a charter member.
Algorithmic Justice For The Win: I School Scholars Receive Public Interest Tech Grant
UC Berkeley receives grant from PIT-UN to enhance curriculum and elevate the next generation of civic-tech leaders
Top Universities Join to Push 'Public Interest Technology' (New York Times)
Bringing public values into technical systems (Berkeley News)
Public Interest Technology University Network (New America)
Building the Field of Public Interest Technology (Inside Higher Ed)


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Alan Lomax
Dedicated chronicler of America's musical traditions
John Fordham
Two key elements preserved much of what has survived of of the New World's early folk music, and African-American folk music in particular. The technological element was recorded sound; the temperamental element was the dedicated obsessiveness that led a coterie of enthusiasts to document the achievements of obscure musicians that would otherwise have vanished into the street corner air.
The musicologist, writer, promoter, record producer and sometime disc jockey Alan Lomax, who has died aged 87, was one of the most respected of those enthusiasts, who chronicled a social, real-time art form that had evolved without being written down. The immense growth of interest in American folk music that began after the second world war, and continued into the blues and rhythm and blues revivalism of the 1950s and 60s, could be attributed as much to his work as to that of any other single individual.
Iconic figures of the transition from unplugged rural blues to the streetcar clang of the amplified urban version - like Huddie Ledbetter and Muddy Waters - were brought from obscurity to widespread adulation by Lomax. That Bob Dylan inspiration, Woody Guthrie, was similarly accorded the place in his country's cultural history he had long deserved when the musicologist investigated his work in the 1940s.
Lomax hated the homogenisation that the corporate recording industry imposed on 20th-century music. He felt that his work represented not simply the preservation of unique creativity, but was one of the keys with which humanity could unlock its past.
He also provided jazz historians with fascinating oral histories of the pre-recording era, such as the rambling, if self-aggrandising, monologues of the pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton for the US Library of Congress, taped in the late 1930s. Morton's recollections are like a documentary movie of a lost age, and, though he insisted he had invented jazz singlehanded, the insights Lomax's work gleaned none the less filled many gaps in the early jazz jigsaw. In 1949, he published the book Mr Jelly Roll.
Lomax was born in Austin, Texas, the son of John Lomax, himself a musicologist who had studied the origins of cowboy songs. Young Alan read philosophy at the University of Texas and anthropology at Columbia University, New York, but his principal pursuit in those years was helping his father.
In 1932, with Alan only 17, the two undertook what was then the most ambitious musicological fieldtrip ever embarked on in the United States, a gruelling, four-month expedition to the mountains, sharecropping towns, penitentiaries and saloons of the southlands, sponsored by the Library of Congress. By the end of the decade, they had recorded more than 3,000 songs on an Edison cylinder machine, taking in urban and country blues, union and protest music inspired by the depression, Cajun music, gospel, jazz, voodoo music and much more. The west African ancestry of many songs and performers mingled with the raucous, multicultural noise of a fast-changing America. Together, the Lomaxes wrote the studies American Ballads And Folk Songs (1934) and Our Singing Country (1941).
Alan Lomax made it clear that merely presenting this work divorced from the social conditions that had spawned it, or simply talent-spotting for recording stars, was not his objective. He frequently included contextualising interviews with the artists, and was messianic in his determination to get the story, whatever the obstacles - including sometimes being hounded out by local employers, convinced he was encouraging dissent.
In 1935, in search of music from the Georgia Sea Islands, near Florida, he darkened his skin with walnut juice to avoid the attentions of local racists. In 1934, he and his father discovered the untutored genius of Ledbetter serving a man-slaughter sentence in Angola jail, Louisiana, and, at the end of the decade - after securing Ledbetter's parole - Alan produced the Leadbelly collection Negro Sinful Songs, a profound influence, in its explosive dignity, on future generations of folk and blues musicians.
Lomax also documented the work of the blues guitarist and singer McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, who was to have a profound influence on the 1960s r&b boom. The postwar traditional jazz revival was also partly fuelled by Lomax's work with Jelly Roll Morton.
Apart from his vast research, Lomax had a busy radio career, from his weekly educational show on CBS in 1939, through his own programme, Back Where I Come From, and, in 1948, his hosting role for On Top Of Old Smokey. But though he had by now taken over his father's post as curator of the Archive of American Folk Song, and become director of folk music at Decca Records, McCarthyite America was an uncomfortable place for such a sympathiser with the underprivileged.
From the mid-1950s, he began researching European folk music in England, Spain and Italy, broadcasting extensively for the BBC. When McCarthyism passed, he went home, and recommenced his southlands fieldwork. He also began researching in the Caribbean, and became increasingly fascinated by the connections between musical languages ostensibly evolved thousands of miles apart.
Lomax was a purist - he even got into a fight with Bob Dylan's manager after the singer's adoption of rock devices - and many of the popular mutations of the roots music he had unearthed did not appeal to him. He appeared to see himself as a forensic scientist, gathering evidence that would eventually release a truth otherwise ignored, give a voice to the voiceless, and, in the process, help the species understand its common humanity better. As Studs Terkel said in 1997: "He is a key figure in 20th-century culture."
Lomax leaves a daughter and stepdaughter.
· Alan Lomax, musicologist, January 31 1915; died July 19 2002


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Apparently there's a petition going around
from someone who works at Staples who's pissed that hours are being cut to avoid some of the Obamacare costs. Said petition says "Will you greedy bastards just pay for my Obamacare and not cut my hours?"
I thought about finding a way to ask "And what will you say if the company decides to keep a smaller number of full-time people and fires everyone else because THEY CAN'T AFFORD THAT CRAP?", but decided I'd pissed-off enough people lately without that.
Labels: Socialized Medicine
Tab clearing
Hamas-linked CAIR (Council on Anti-American Islamic Relations) leader told a crowd at a rally for Islam that members of the faith should not be bound by American law. "If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land," said Mustafa Carroll, executive director of CAIR-Dallas branch.
What? The Obama/Holder DoJ doesn't want to provide information? Who'd have suspected such a thing?
"What? Let the common rabble actually VOTE on this? Ridiculous!"
Representative Bob Goodlatte: one more backstabbing Stupid Party dirtbag.
Another reason the EPA should be closed down. And the IG of said agency terminated.
Preferably- well, I'll let that go.
24 of the various scandals the media doesn't want to talk about(guess who's involved?).
Another democrat trying to hide Obamacare numbers.
The decay of the profession of arms.
Having listened to some of sons' stories about Army idiocies, I believe it.
The accordion; I KNEW the damn things were evil.
Labels: Corrupt Bureaucrats, EUnuchs, General Dumbassery, Justice Department, Media Malpractice, Military, Peace: Religion of, Stupid Party Follies
If buying a car were like buying a handgun in Western Australia
Borrowed from Jigsaw:
Step 1. Join a recognised car club. Be a financial member for 6 months, do a safety training course and undergo (and pass) a safety test.
Step 2. At the end of the six months, find a car that you want. Ensure that it is a car which has a use at the club of which you are a member, and which:
a) is no shorter than 3 metres,
b) is no wider than 1.2 metres,
c) has no silencer on the exhaust,
d) has a fuel tank no larger than 10 litres,
e) has a manual gear-box (no fully automatics allowed),
f) has an engine capacity of less than 3.8 litres
g) is not used by the police or military.
Step 3. Pay the vendor/dealer the full amount, and (for an additional fee) receive a copy of the serviceability certificate which contains the VIN number. (Note, you can only purchase one car in the first six months).
Step 4. Apply to your car club for support of your purchase of the car, providing all details of the car, and specifying your intended use within the club's activities.
Step 5. Ensure that your garage meets the requirements regarding construction material, and number of locks. Fill in a Statutory Declaration to this fact and take supporting photographs.
Step 6. Ensure that you have acceptable separate storage for both the fuel and fuel tank.
Step 7. Once you have passed the safety test, have the serviceability certificate and the club support letter, statutory declaration and photographs fill in the online form. Detail your medical and mental health, genuine need for owning the car, intended use, and other miscellaneous information.
Step 8. Print out the completed form.
Step 9. Sign the form and take the signed form, supporting documentation and photographs along with 100 points of ID to a participating Post Office.
Step 10. Hand form, supporting documentation, $246.30 and ID to the Post Office worker (after waiting in Post Office queue). Wait while they take your photograph and lodge the form.
Step 11. Wait approximately 6 – 12 weeks for the paperwork to be processed and a letter, your licence and your "extract of licence" card to be sent to you.
Step 12. Take the licence to the seller (with the receipt) and collect your car. Being sure to drive it directly home.
Remember cars can only be driven between your place and an approved club activity; your place and the police station and your place and mechanic.
At all other times they must remain in the locked garage that no one else but you has access to, with the fuel tank, and fuel stored separately.
Labels: Gun Bigots, Right to Arms
I may have to change the 'Dumbass Feminism' label to 'Idiot-level'
because that's what this is.
I'm not going to excerpt; you really need to read it all to get the full flavor of this.
Labels: Dumbass feminism
Because studying data points takes my mind off
the last few days:
Labels: The Experiment
Snork...
Every time I get a death threat I let the person making the threat answer two questions that will dictate the circumstances of his demise. Please pay careful attention to the following questions.
1. What are your preferences concerning shot placement?
2. What are your preferences concerning bullet size?
More details at the link
Labels: Self-Defenders
A place self-defenders should go
and do some reading. Lots of information, including
All too often the subject of criminal and dangerous behavior -- especially the aftermath -- is muddled up with ideology, rhetoric and even politics. Often the actions of the criminal and violent person is explained away as a result of injustice, oppression or societal failure. However, by looking at crime and violence from the perspective of extreme selfishness and lack of concern for others, you begin to see more of the 'charging lion' nature of the subject.
And make no mistake, that criminal coming at you is like a charging lion ... intent on eating you alive.
Automatic rifle from a Lee Enfield
Hey Ford, this does NOT give me reason to trust you
Because of the GPS units installed in Ford vehicles, Ford knows when its drivers are speeding, and where they are while they're doing it.
Farley was trying to describe how much data Ford has on its customers, and illustrate the fact that the company uses very little of it in order to avoid raising privacy concerns: "We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing. By the way, we don't supply that data to anyone," he told attendees.
And we're supposed to believe that why?
Why We Don't See You As Officer Friendly Anymore(Reasons #372 and 373):
A case of alleged police brutality dating back to 2009 is being investigated and three officers are on paid leave in New Hampshire after a video of an incident seems to have resurfaced this week.
Michael Bergeron, 19 years old at the time of the incident, said he has chipped teeth and a permanent lump on the back of his head as a result of the treatment by Seabrook police officers.
A California father of four died after being beaten by police outside of a Bakersfield hospital, while witnesses say he begged for his life. A couple witnesses filmed the gruesome scene, but say they were later forced to give their cellphones to authorities and have yet to receive their devices back.
"We had stopped by Taco Bell to get something to eat, and we were eating and at about 3 a.m. two detectives showed up, barged in without my permission and demanded to see my boyfriend for his phone," Melissa said.
She said she and her boyfriend were essentially kept captive inside their own home until they released their phones.
As was reported earlier, the boyfriend eventually gave up his phone without a search warrant being presented because he had to be at work at 8 a.m. and didn't want to be late, she said.
Bloomberg & Co. are corrupt blood-dancers; we already knew that. But nice to have it in writing.
A rush to maximize political benefit from the Newtown school shooting, bickering over celebrity sponsors and snarky commentary on some of the nation's most prominent politicians are among the things to emerge from communications between former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's New York City Hall staff and executives at the Bloomberg-founded group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG).
1. Little Separation Between City Hall and Political Nonprofit: 'Must Have Some Metrics'
New York City Hall employees, paid by the city's taxpayers, spent significant time intertwined with a national group that had nothing to do with gun policy or any other policy in the New York City limits.
Among the prominent city hall staffers involved in seemingly every minutia of the anti-gun group was John Feinblatt, the chief adviser to Mayor Bloomberg for policy and strategic planning and the criminal justice coordinator. The bulk of e-mails were between Feinblatt and Mark Glaze, the director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
But in numerous e-mails, various other city hall officials were cc'd.
Gee, isn't using public employees for personal reasons kind of illegal?
The oil ticks have a real problem with our fracking; makes me wonder if that's the big reason Obama wants to make it as difficult as possible.
Most transparent administration ever! my ass.
President Barack Obama's deputies have picked one of his political donors to investigate the IRS' attack on independent political groups during the 2012 election, according to California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House investigations committee.
"We request you immediately remove Ms. [Barbara] Bosserman from the ongoing investigation," said a Jan. 8 letter from Issa to Attorney General Eric Holder.
The secret selection of Barbara Bosserman, a lawyer in the Department of Justice's civil rights division, was revealed by a committee investigation after the DOJ stonewalled the legislators.
I wonder if this was connected with Gunwalker, or a separate thing?
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents and U.S Attorneys held secret meetings with drug trafficking organizations, especially the Sinaloa cartel, on Mexican soil, revealed Mexico-based newspaper El Universal.
The DEA and the U.S. Attorney's office are both components of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Official and court documents from the U.S and Mexican governments were cited as the source in the Jan. 6 news report.
And sounds just like Gunwalker,
El Universal alleges that the DEA operations were carried out without the knowledge of the Mexican government.
Labels: Business dirtbags, Corrupt Politicians, Gun Bigots, Gunwalker, Justice Department, Sorry Excuses for Lawmen
I'm actually better this morning,
but that's after a night of lousy sleep and if you don't count the headache. But better.
I remember all the 'satanic abuse' bullshit going around back then, and it's one reason I consider any therapist or psychiatrist suspect; because those 'professionals' were right in the middle of this, egging it on and insisting "Kids would not lie about something like this!" while the bastards were talking the kids into more and bigger lies.
Bad enough the hard they did; think any of the bastards will face any punishment for what they did?
Labels: General Idiocy, Medical Malpractice
I've had some but the last few days
that produced a very sore throat, a stuffed and runny sinus system, and general tired.
And I flat hate having a runny nose.
The good news of the day: Rep. "The shoulder thing that goes up" McCarthy is leaving Congress. If you've not heard why I call her that,
She had no damned idea what she was talking about, and tried desperately to avoid answering, but the interviewer wouldn't let her get away with it. NO idea what she's talking about, but she felt entitled to make laws to prevent honest citizens from having firearms with features she didn't like, until she could get around to flat banning all firearms.
Cancer is nasty, with the exception of people like Stalin and Hitler and Castro I don't think I could wish it on anyone; Really do hope it can be treated, but I AM glad she's gone. Borrowing Seans' last line, Goodbye. Good riddance. Get well.
Labels: Corrupt Politicians, Gun Bigots
Yeah, Lyndon Johnson didn't give a rats ass about troops lives, either.
So Obama was sending our young men and women off to a meat grinder with no real confidence in the likelihood of success. How like Lyndon Johnson.
I'd add '..., without caring about lives lost, and without the balls to just pull the troops out. Because reelection means more than people dying and being crippled."
Over at Ace found this video
and some background. Yeah, in Basic they work you hot, cold, tired and hungry; you make mistakes there so you can learn to do it right when you're hot/cold/exhausted/hungry in some nasty place.
Which reminds me of a story son told me: unit was on a training mission in a place I won't mention, and he sent a guy he considered 'very special' to do something. Little while later someone said "Sergeant, where's X?"
"That's a good question, he ought to be back. Get some binoculars and go over there, I'll go over here and see if we can spot him."
They did spot him, got on the radio:
"X, where are you?"
"I don't know."
"Look around, what do you see?"
"A bunch of holes in the ground."
"That's because you're in the mortar impact area. Now turn around, walk in your own footprints and get back here."
They ought change the headline to '- giving up on gun control FOR NOW.' Because soon as they think it's safe to do so they'll be right back at it.
This has to annoy hell out of all the right people.
I do wonder, are they looking forward to or dreading someone being jailed, or maybe shot during arrest, for the horrendous crime of having a metal or plastic box that's too big?
Labels: Corrupt Backstabbing Politicians, Gun Bigots, Military
Why I have a label of 'Dumbass Feminism', also probably
another reason why lots of guys look a college and think "I'm supposed to go into debt for this? To be treated this way?"
Last February, one year after the encounter, the other shoe dropped: Yu was informed that Walker had filed charges of "nonconsensual sexual contact" against him through the college disciplinary system. Two and a half weeks later, a hearing was held before a panel of three faculty members. Yu was not allowed an attorney; his request to call his roommate and Walker's roommate as witnesses was denied after the campus "gender equity compliance investigator" said that the roommates had emailed him but had "nothing useful" to offer. While the records from the hearing are sealed, Yu claims his attempts to cross-examine his accuser were repeatedly stymied. Many of his questions (including ones about Walker's friendly messages, which she had earlier told the investigator she sent out of "fear") were barred as "irrelevant"; he says that when he was allowed to question Walker, she would start crying and give evasive or nonresponsive answers. Yu was found guilty and summarily expelled from Vassar.
Yu, a U.S.-educated Chinese citizen, is now going after the Poughkeepsie, New York, school in federal court, claiming not only wrongful expulsion and irreparable personal damage but sex discrimination. His complaint argues that he was the victim of a campus judicial system that in practice presumes males accused of sexual misconduct are guilty.
Crap like this is also why I told some women the '1 in 4 women is raped in college!' line is bullshit. 'RAPE' has an actual meaning, and it does not include "Damn, I was drunk, wish I hadn't done that." Or other such "I'm not responsible" garbage.
Speaking of which: interesting that women are simultaneously strong a capable, and so weak and afraid that they can't be held responsible for what they do. According to these clowns.
Hey, actual law enforcement doesn't have the status of 'national security'. Also, you can probably get more money claiming the latter.
Another socialist who whines about people 'not paying their share' while cheating on her taxes... Hey, they've got our former treasury secretary and Charles Rangel as examples to follow.
And the Obamites find another way to screw over veterans. Disgusting bastards, aren't they?
US veterans started receiving letters from the government last year informing them that they are disabled and not allowed to own, purchase or possess a firearm. If the veteran does decide to purchase a firearm he will by fined, imprisoned or both.
This comes on page 2 of the VA letter.
The majority of US veterans receive basically the same letter. Many of the veterans do not even know the VA declared them incompetent. The targeted veterans say the VA offers an appeals process but then does not share required information.
When you've got this many people 'reporting' bullshit, either they're flatly incompetent or they're trying to hide/direct attention away from something.
Labels: Dumbass feminism, Law enforcement bullcrap, Media Malpractice, PC at any cost, Screwed by government
No surprise to us, but think the gun bigots and hoplophobes will pay attention?
A study published in the latest issue of the academic journal Applied Economics Letters took on many of the claims made regularly by advocates of stricter gun laws. The study determined that nearly every claim made in support of stronger restrictions on gun ownership is not supported by an exhaustive analysis of crime statistics.
The study, "An examination of the effects of concealed weapons laws and assault weapons bans on state-level murder rates," conducted by Quinnipiac University economist Mark Gius, examined nearly 30 years of statistics and concluded that stricter gun laws do not result in a reduction in gun violence. In fact, Gius found the opposite – that a proliferation of concealed carry permits can actually reduce incidents of gun crime.
Labels: 2nd Amendment, Self-Defenders
In the Dark and Fascist State of New York, some pigs are WAY more equal
than everyone else:
Lacking a laser pointer, Hauer drew his handgun and used the laser target designator attached to it to draw attention to the salient point. According to the officials the incident "rattled" three members of the Swedish delegation "when the gun's laser tracked across one of their heads before Hauer found the map of New York, at which he wanted to point."
But wait! There's MORE!
It is not clear why Hauer, who is not a law enforcement officer, was allowed to carry a loaded handgun into a state office building. Hauer "was disabled by a stroke a few years ago and can be unsteady," according to the Times Union, but he does have a license to carry a firearm in Albany and New York City. Reporters questioning whether Hauer received a "carve-out" from the Public Facilities Law that would have barred him from carrying a weapon inside a state office have so far not received an answer.
Of course not; and unless they push really damn hard or get really lucky they won't; the Official Class is covering for each other.
So: actions that would have had a plain citizen in a cell get cover-up for a Only One.
Wonderful place, New Effing York.
Labels: Downright Disgusting
COMRADES! New chief commissar approves new housing
for commone- proletariat! Care so much for you that rent only nine-hundred capitalist dollars for THREE HUNDRED SQUARE FEET!
Per month!
Pay no attention to Chief Commissar and mansion; not your concern, comrade.
Labels: Socialist Crapweasels
Yeah, blowback's a bitch, isn't it?
Democrats came under heavy criticism Friday for driving Magpul Industries out of Colorado by pushing an aggressive gun-control agenda, a move that could cost the state more than $80 million annually.
Add in the other businesses that've left or cut back, that's a big chunk of change Colorado has lost.
On the "I'm really sorry now that it blew up in my face!" front,
Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, told The Daily Caller that Melissa Harris-Perry and MSNBC engage in racial McCarthyism to silence mainstream black voices.
"I'm an African-American, and I'm a liberal," said Meyers, longtime former member of the ACLU's Board of Directors and onetime aide to legendary NAACP executive director Roy Wilkins. "I shook when I watched that segment where they were calling out the African-American grandchild of Mitt Romney. I was really appalled."
Gee, another socialist politician who's corrupt? Who could imagine such a thing...
New York City, you wanted it; you'd better hope he uses some lube.
Jeez; the RPG may not be your friend, even if you or your friend is the one using it.
Labels: Gun Bigots, Gunny Stuff, Racist Bastards, Socialist Crapweasels
Because 'The Soviet Union was run by butchers who used starvation to murder millions'
isn't tolerable to Ta-Nehisi Coates, so it becomes It really is chaos out there. It's always been chaos out there.
Because dealing with "It's COMMUNISM, you moron" just isn't doable.
I haven't read Bloodlands yet; have a copy of The Black Book of Communism I keep having to put down and I've read a number of things about the famines(ORDERED famines, remember) the Soviets used to kill in mass. To call the Soviet Union anything other than evil is stupid. And blind.
Unfortunately, lots of people in both categories.
Labels: Communism, Progressive Morons
Tried a new recipe today,
and it came out pretty well. Daughter found it here. I used a roast instead of brisket, and following her advice I used Simply Apple juice instead of cider, and on my own I left out the parsnips and threw in some new potatoes. The meat's fork-tender, and tasty. Which was a relief; it got done before I'd thought it would and I'd worried it was overdone.
I think next time I'll fiddle with spices a bit. And you could probably use water and some suitable beer instead of juice/cider; all kinds of possibles come to mind.
If you were gonna build a house is southern Louisiana,
say around New Orleans, you'd use materials you KNEW could take the temperatures and humidity, would you not?
Unfortunately, Make It Right has found that TimberSIL can't stand the moisture in the balmy city and has turned dark gray and begun falling apart. The organization has replaced wood in 30 homes and is considering legal action. TimberSIL has reportedly caused trouble for at least one other client: a project in Western Massachusetts that had to be repaired when the builders found the wood retained too much moisture and couldn't hold paint.
Apparently if you say 'Eco-friendly! No nasty chemicals! It's great!', that's enough to make a lot of people not think to ask "Has this shit been tested in these conditions?"
Which reminds me of something Og posted a while after Katrina:
All of the buildings and residences damaged beyond repair by Katrina were ground up in such a manner. What, might you ask, would they do with all this debris? Well I'll tell you what they ARE doingh with it: Making new levees.
My contribution:
I read a book a while back that had a description of the construction of levees in the 19-teens & twenties. I specifically noted that fill brought in or scraped over was inspected to get rid of any wood- logs, lumber, whatever- they could find because it would rot and make weak spots in the construction.
And now they're using ground-up houses...
The ultimate ideal of Government Motors: make cars too expensive for the peasants to afford.
Except they'll have special prices for union and Party members, of course.
Higher Indoctrination(sure-hell doesn't count as 'education'):
Until 2011, students majoring in English at UCLA had to take one course in Chaucer, two in Shakespeare, and one in Milton —the cornerstones of English literature. Following a revolt of the junior faculty, however, during which it was announced that Shakespeare was part of the "Empire," UCLA junked these individual author requirements. It replaced them with a mandate that all English majors take a total of three courses in the following four areas: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Disability and Sexuality Studies; Imperial, Transnational, and Postcolonial Studies; genre studies, interdisciplinary studies, and critical theory; or creative writing.
In other words, the UCLA faculty was now officially indifferent to whether an English major had ever read a word of Chaucer, Milton or Shakespeare. . . .
Well, here's a Colt that's gonna go for a tall price.
And on the "Global Warming/Climate Change all the ice is melting(except right here)!" front,
Responding to a request from Russia, China and Australia, a U.S. Coast Guard heavy icebreaker will leave Australia for Antarctica on Sunday to rescue more than 120 crew members aboard two icebreakers trapped in pack ice near the frozen continent's eastern edge, officials said.
The nearly 400-foot cutter, the Polar Star, is set to assist the Russian and Chinese ships because "there is sufficient concern that the vessels may not be able to free themselves from the ice," the Coast Guard said in a statement.
In case you haven't followed this, they're stuck because they went to rescue a bunch of AGW researchers who went there to show 'all the ice is melting!' and got stuck.
Be it noted that a lot of scientists are not real happy with the idiots who started this chain of events.
Boiling water sprayed into a -41F day
Wonderful people, aren't they?
A Kuwaiti woman who is called an "activist" and former candidate to the Kuwaiti parliament, spoke to the Kuwait Times about the establishment of a new law permitting men to buy and sell non-Muslim girls, captured in jihad, as sexual slaves in order to protect Muslim men against seductive sexual immorality. The Arabic Al Arabiya had more details on what that woman, Salwa al-Mutairi, is advocating:
Also in the mid-East, what Syrians are putting together as artillery.
Labels: 'Higher' Education, Enviroweenies, Globular Warmering Bullcrap, Gunny Stuff, History, Media Malpractice, Peace: Religion of, Screwed by government, Weather
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