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October 21, 2018 by James Christie
The dragons of the unknown; part 5 – accident investigations and treating people fairly
This is the fifth post in a series about problems that fascinate me, that I think are important and interesting. The series draws on important work from the fields of safety critical systems and from the study of complexity, specifically complex socio-technical systems. This was the theme of my keynote at EuroSTAR in The Hague (November 12th-15th 2018).
The first post was a reflection, based on personal experience, on the corporate preference for building bureaucracy rather than dealing with complex reality, "Facing the dragons part 1 – corporate bureaucracies". The second post was about the nature of complex systems, "part 2 – crucial features of complex systems". The third followed on from part 2, and talked about the impossibility of knowing exactly how complex socio-technical systems will behave with the result that it is impossible to specify them precisely, "part 3 – I don't know what's going on".
The fourth post "part 4 – a brief history of accident models" looks at accident models, i.e. the way that safety experts mentally frame accidents when they try to work out what caused them. This post looks at weaknesses of of the way that we have traditionally investigated accidents and failures, assuming neat linearity with clear cause and effect. In particular, our use of root cause analysis, and willingness to blame people for accidents is hard to justify.
The limitations of root cause analysis
Once you accept that complex systems can't have clear and neat links between causes and effects then the idea of root cause analysis becomes impossible to sustain. "Fishbone" cause and effect diagrams (like those used in Six Sigma) illustrate traditional thinking, that it is possible to track back from an adverse event to find a root cause that was both necessary and sufficient to bring it about.
The assumption of linearity with tidy causes and effects is no more than wishful thinking. Like the Domino Model (see "part 4 – a brief history of accident models") it encourages people to think there is a single cause, and to stop looking when they've found it. It doesn't even offer the insight of the Swiss Cheese Model (also see part 4) that there can be multiple contributory causes, all of them necessary but none of them sufficient to produce an accident. That is a key idea. When complex systems go wrong there is rarely a single cause; causes are necessary, but not sufficient.
Here is a more realistic depiction of what a complex socio-technical system. It is a representation of the operations control system for an airline. The specifics don't matter. It is simply a good illustration of how messy a real, complex system looks when we try to depict it.
This is actually very similar to the insurance finance applications diagram I drew up for Y2K (see "part 1 – corporate bureaucracies"). There was no neat linearity. My diagram looked just like this, with a similar number of nodes, or systems most of which had multiple two-way interfaces with others. And that was just at the level of applications. There was some intimidating complexity within these systems.
As there is no single cause of failure the search for a root cause can be counter-productive. There are always flaws, bugs, problems, deviances from process, variations. So you can always fix on something that has gone wrong. But it's not really a meaningful single cause. It's arbitrary.
The root cause is just where you decide to stop looking. The cause is not something you discover. It's something you choose and construct. The search for a root cause can mean attention will focus on something that is not inherently dangerous, something that had previously "failed" repeatedly but without any accident. The response might prevent that particular failure and therefore ensure there's no recurrence of an identical accident. However, introducing a change, even if it's a fix, to one part of a complex system affects the system in unpredictable ways. The change therefore creates new possibilities for failure that are unknown, even unknowable.
It's always been hard, even counter-intuitive, to accept that we can have accidents & disasters without any new failure of a component, or even without any technical failure that investigators can identify and without external factors interfering with the system and its operators. We can still have air crashes for which no cause is ever found. The pressure to find an answer, any plausible answer, means there has always been an overwhelming temptation to fix the blame on people, on human error.
Human error – it's the result of a problem, not the cause
If there's an accident you can always find someone who screwed up, or who didn't follow the rules, the standard, or the official process. One problem with that is the same applies when everything goes well. Something that troubled me in audit was realising that every project had problems, every application had bugs when it went live, and there were always deviations from the standards. But the reason smart people were deviating wasn't that they were irresponsible. They were doing what they had to do to deliver the project. Variation was a sign of success as much as failure. Beating people up didn't tell us anything useful, and it was appallingly unfair.
One of the rewarding aspects of working as an IT auditor was conducting post-implementation reviews and being able to defend developers who were being blamed unfairly for problem projects. The business would give them impossible jobs, complacently assuming the developers would pick up all the flak for the inevitable problems. When auditors, like me, called them out for being cynical and irresponsible they hated it. They used to say it was because I had a developer background and was angling for my next job. I didn't care because I was right. Working in a good audit department requires you to build up a thick skin, and some healthy arrogance.
There always was some deviation from standards, and the tougher the challenge the more obvious they would be, but these allegedly deviant developers were the only reason anything was delivered at all, albeit by cutting a few corners.
It's an ethical issue. Saying the cause of an accident is that people screwed up is opting for an easy answer that doesn't offer any useful insights for the future and just pushes problems down the line.
Sidney Dekker used a colourful analogy. Dumping the blame on an individual after an accident is "peeing in your pants management" (PDF, opens in new tab).
"You feel relieved, but only for a short while… you start to feel cold and clammy and nasty. And you start stinking. And, oh by the way, you look like a fool."
Putting the blame on human error doesn't just stink. It obscures the deeper reasons for failure. It is the result of a problem, not the cause. It also encourages organisations to push for greater automation, in the vain hope that will produce greater safety and predictability, and fewer accidents.
The ironies of automation
An important part of the motivation to automate systems is that humans are seen as unreliable & inefficient. So they are replaced by automation, but that leaves the humans with jobs that are even more complex and even more vulnerable to errors. The attempt to remove errors creates fresh possibilities for even worse errors. As Lisanne Bainbridge wrote in a 1983 paper "The ironies of automation";
"The more advanced a control system is… the more crucial may be the contribution of the human operator."
There are all sorts of twists to this. Automation can mean the technology does all the work and operators have to watch a machine that's in a steady-state, with nothing to respond to. That means they can lose attention & not intervene when they need to. If intervention is required the danger is that vital alerts will be lost if the system is throwing too much information at operators. There is a difficult balance to be struck between denying operators feedback, and thus lulling them into a sense that everything is fine, and swamping them with information. Further, if the technology is doing deeply complicated processing, are the operators really equipped to intervene? Will the system allow operators to override? Bainbridge makes the further point;
"The designer who tries to eliminate the operator still leaves the operator to do the tasks which the designer cannot think how to automate."
This is a vital point. Systems are becoming more complex and the tasks left to the humans become ever more demanding. System designers have only a very limited understanding of what people will do with their systems. They don't know. The only certainty is that people will respond and do things that are hard, or impossible, to predict. That is bound to deviate from formal processes, which have been defined in advance, but these deviations, or variations, will be necessary to make the systems work.
Acting on the assumption that these deviations are necessarily errors and "the cause" when a complex socio-technical system fails is ethically wrong. However, there is a further twist to the problem, summed up by the Law of Stretched Systems.
Stretched systems
Lawrence Hirschhorn's Law of Stretched Systems is similar to the Fundamental Law of Traffic Congestion. New roads create more demand to use them, so new roads generate more traffic. Likewise, improvements to systems result in demands that the system, and the people, must do more. Hirschhorn seems to have come up with the law informally, but it has been popularised by the safety critical community, especially by David Woods and Richard Cook.
"Every system operates always at its capacity. As soon as there is some improvement, some new technology, we stretch it."
And the corollary, furnished by Woods and Cook.
"Under resource pressure, the benefits of change are taken in increased productivity, pushing the system back to the edge of the performance envelope."
Every change and improvement merely adds to the stress that operators are coping with. The obvious response is to place more emphasis on ergonomics and human factors, to try and ensure that the systems are tailored to the users' needs and as easy to use as possible. That might be important, but it hardly resolved the problem. These improvements are themselves subject to the Law of Stretched Systems.
This was all first noticed in the 1990s after the First Gulf War. The US Army hadn't been in serious combat for 18 years. Technology had advanced massively. Throughout the 1980s the army reorganised, putting more emphasis on technology and training. The intention was that the technology should ease the strain on users, reduce fatigue and be as simple to operate as possible. It didn't pan out that way when the new army went to war. Anthony H. Cordesman and Abraham Wagner analysed in depth the lessons of the conflict. They were particularly interested in how the technology had been used.
"Virtually every advance in ergonomics was exploited to ask military personnel to do more, do it faster, and do it in more complex ways… New tactics and technology simply result in altering the pattern of human stress to achieve a new intensity and tempo of combat."
Improvements in technology create greater demands on the technology – and the people who operate it. Competitive pressures push companies towards the limits of the system. If you introduce an enhancement to ease the strain on users then managers, or senior officers, will insist on exploiting the change. Complex socio-technical systems always operate at the limits.
This applies not only to soldiers operating high tech equipment. It applies also to the ordinary infantry soldier. In 1860 the British army was worried that troops had to carry 27kg into combat (PDF, opens in new tab). The load has now risen to 58kg. US soldiers have to carry almost 9kg of batteries alone. The Taliban called NATO troops "donkeys".
These issues don't apply only to the military. They've prompted a huge amount of new thinking in safety critical industries, in particular healthcare and air transport.
The overdose – system behaviour is not explained by the behaviour of its component technology
Remember the traditional argument that any system that was not determimistic was inherently buggy and badly designed? See "part 2 – crucial features of complex systems".
In reality that applies only to individual components, and even then complexity & thus bugginess can be inescapable. When you're looking at the whole socio-technical system it just doesn't stand up.
Introducing new controls, alerts and warnings doesn't just increase the complexity of the technology as I mentioned earlier with the MIG jet designers (see part 4). These new features add to the burden on the people. Alerts and error message can swamp users of complex systems and they miss the information they really need to know.
I can't recommend strongly enough the story told by Bob Wachter in "The overdose: harm in a wired hospital".
A patient at a hospital in California received an overdose of 38½ times the correct amount. Investigation showed that the technology worked fine. All the individual systems and components performed as designed. They flagged up potential errors before they happened. So someone obviously screwed up. That would have been the traditional verdict. However, the hospital allowed Wachter to interview everyone involved in each of the steps. He observed how the systems were used in real conditions, not in a demonstration or test environment. Over five articles he told a compelling story that will force any fair reader to admit "yes, I'd have probably made the same error in those circumstances".
Happily the patient survived the overdose. The hospital staff involved were not disciplined and were allowed to return to work. The hospital had to think long and hard about how it would try to prevent such mistakes recurring. The uncomfortable truth they had to confront was that there were no simple answers. Blaming human error was a cop out. Adding more alerts would compound the problems staff were already facing; one of the causes of the mistake was the volume of alerts swamping staff making it hard, or impossible, to sift out the vital warnings from the important and the merely useful.
One of the hard lessons was that focussing on making individual components more reliable had harmed the overall system. The story is an important illustration of the maxim in the safety critical community that trying to make systems safer can make them less safe.
Some system changes were required and made, but the hospital realised that the deeper problem was organisational and cultural. They made the brave decision to allow Wachter to publicise his investigation and his series of articles is well worth reading.
The response of the safety critical community to such problems and the necessary trade offs that a practical response requires, is intriguing with important lessons for software testers. I shall turn to this in my next post, "part 6 – Safety II, a new way of looking at safety".
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The dragons of the unknown; part 4 – a brief history of accident models
This is the fourth post in a series about problems that fascinate me, that I think are important and interesting. The series draws on important work from the fields of safety critical systems and from the study of complexity, specifically complex socio-technical systems. This was the theme of my keynote at EuroSTAR in The Hague (November 12th-15th 2018).
The first post was a reflection, based on personal experience, on the corporate preference for building bureaucracy rather than dealing with complex reality, "The dragons of the unknown; part 1 – corporate bureaucracies". The second post was about the nature of complex systems, "part 2 – crucial features of complex systems". The third followed on from part 2, and talked about the impossibility of knowing exactly how complex socio-technical systems will behave with the result that it is impossible to specify them precisely, "part 3 – I don't know what's going on".
This post looks at accident models, i.e. the way that safety experts mentally frame accidents when they try to work out what caused them.
Why do accidents happen?
I want to take you back to the part of the world I come from, the east of Scotland. The Tay Bridge is 3.5 km long, the longest railway bridge in the United Kingdom. It's the second railway bridge over the Tay. The first was opened in 1878 and came down in a storm in 1879, taking a train with it and killing everyone on board.
The stumps of the old bridge were left in place because of concern that removing them would disturb the riverbed. I always felt they were there as a lesson for later generations. Children in that part of Scotland can't miss these stumps. I remember being bemused when I learned about the disaster. "Mummy, Daddy, what are those things beside the bridge? What…? Why…? How…?" So bridges could fall down. Adults could screw up. Things could go badly wrong. There might not be a happy ending. It was an important lesson in how the world worked for a small child.
Accident investigations are difficult and complex even for something like a bridge, which might appear, at first sight, to be straightforward in concept and function. The various factors that featured in the inquiry report for the Tay Bridge disaster included the bridge design, manufacture of components, construction, maintenance, previous damage, wind speed, train speed and the state of the riverbed.
These factors obviously had an impact on each other. That's confusing enough, and it's far worse for complex socio-technical systems. You could argue that a bridge is either safe or unsafe, usable or dangerous. It's one or the other. There might be argument about where you would draw the line, and about the context in which the bridge might be safe, but most people would be comfortable with the idea of a line. Safety experts call that idea of a line separating the unbroken from the broken as the bimodal principle (not to be confused with Gartner's bimodal IT management); a system is either working or it is broken.
Thinking in bimodal terms becomes pointless when you are working with systems that run in a constantly flawed state, one of partial failure, when no-one knows how these systems work or even exactly how they should work. This is all increasingly recognised. But when things go wrong and we try to make sense of them there is a huge temptation to arrange our thinking in a way with which we are comfortable, we fall back on mental models that seem to make sense of complexity, however far removed they are from reality. These are the envisioned worlds I mentioned in part 1.
We home in on factors that are politically convenient, the ones that will be most acceptable to the organisation's culture. We can see this, and also how thinking has developed, by looking at the history of the conceptual models that have been used for accident investigations.
Heinrich's Domino Model (1931)
The Domino Model was a traditional and very influential way to help safety experts make sense of accidents. Accidents happened because one factor kicked into another, and so on down the line of dominos, as illustrated by Heinrich's figure 3. Problems with the organisation or environment would lead to people making mistakes and doing something dangerous, which would lead to accidents and injury. It assumed neat linearity & causation. Its attraction was that it appealed to management. Take a look at the next two diagrams in the sequence, figures 4 and 5.
The model explicitly states that taking out the unsafe act will stop an accident. It encouraged investigators to look for a single cause. That was immensely attractive because it kept attention away from any mistakes the management might have made in screwing up the organisation. The chain of collapsing dominos is broken by removing the unsafe act and you don't get an accident.
The model is consistent with beating up the workers who do the real work. But blaming the workers was only part of the problem with the Domino Model. It was nonsense to think that you could stop accidents by removing unsafe acts, variations from process, or mistakes from the chain. It didn't have any empirical, theoretical or scientific basis. It was completely inappropriate for complex systems. Thinking in terms of a chain of events was quite simply wrong when analysing these systems. Linearity, neat causation and decomposing problems into constituent parts for separate analysis don't work.
Despite these fundamental flaws the Domino Model was popular. Or rather, it was popular because of its flaws. It told managers what they wanted to hear. It helped organisations make sense of something they would otherwise have been unable to understand. Accepting that they were dealing with incomprehensible systems was too much to ask.
Swiss Cheese Model (barriers)
James Reason's Swiss Cheese Model was the next step and it was an advance, but limited. The model did recognise that problems or mistakes wouldn't necessarily lead to an accident. That would happen only if a series of them lined up. You can therefore stop the accident recurring by inserting a new barrier. However, the model is still based on the idea of linearity and of a sequence of cause and effect, and also the idea that you can and should decompose problems for analysis. This is a dangerously limited way of looking at what goes wrong in complex socio-technical systems, and the danger is very real with safety critical systems.
Of course, there is nothing inherently wrong with analysing systems and problems by decomposing them or relying on an assumption of cause and effect. These both have impeccably respectable histories in science and philosophy. Reducing problems to their component parts has its intellectual roots in the work of Rene Descartes. This approach implies that you can understand the behaviour of a system by looking at the behaviour of its components. Descartes' approach (the Cartesian) fits neatly with a Newtonian scientific worldview, which holds that it is possible to identify definite causes and effects for everything that happens.
If you want to understand how a machine works and why it is broken, then these approaches are obviously valid. They don't work when you are dealing with a complex socio-technical system. The whole is quite different from the sum of its parts. Thinking of linear flows is misleading when the different elements of a system are constantly influencing each other and adapting to feedback. Complex systems have unpredictable, emergent properties, and safety is an emergent outcome of complex socio-technical systems.
All designs are a compromise
Something that safety experts are keenly aware of is that all designs are compromises. Adding a new barrier, as envisaged by the Swiss Cheese Model, to try and close off the possibility of an accident can be counter-productive. Introducing a change, even if it's a fix, to one part of a complex system affects the whole system in unpredictable and possibly harmful ways. The change creates new possibilities for failure, that are unknown, even unknowable.
It's not a question of regression testing. It's bigger and deeper than that. The danger is that we create new pathways to failure. The changes might initially seem to work, to be safe, but they can have damaging results further down the line as the system adapts and evolves, as people push the system to the edges.
There's a second danger. New alerts or controls increase the complexity with which the user has to cope. That was a problem I now recognise with our approach as auditors. We didn't think through the implications carefully enough. If you keep throwing in fixes, controls and alerts then the user will miss the ones they really need to act on. That reduces the effectiveness, the quality and ultimately the safety of the system. I'll come back to that later. This is an important paradox. Trying to make a system more reliable and safer can make it more dangerous and less reliable.
The designers of the Soviet Union's MiG-29 jet fighter observed, "the safest part is the one we could leave off", (according to Sidney Dekker in his book "The field guide to understanding human error").
A friend once commented that she could always spot one of my designs. They reflected a very pessimistic view of the world. I couldn't know how things would go wrong, I just knew they would and my experience had taught me where to be wary. Working in IT audit made me very cautious. Not only had I completely bought into Murphy's Law, "anything that can go wrong will go wrong" I had my own variant; "and it will go wrong in ways I couldn't have imagined".
William Langewiesche is a writer and former commercial pilot who has written extensively on aviation. He provided an interesting and insightful correction to Murphy, and also to me (from his book "Inside the Sky").
"What can go wrong usually goes right".
There are two aspects to this. Firstly, as I have already discussed, complex socio-technical systems are always flawed. They run with problems, bugs, variations from official process, and in the way people behave. Despite all the problems under the surface everything seems to go fine, till one day it all goes wrong.
The second important insight is that you can have an accident even if no individual part of the system has gone wrong. Components may have always worked fine, and continue to do so, but on the day of disaster they combine in unpredictable ways to produce an accident.
Accidents can happen when all the components have been working as designed, not just when they fail. That's a difficult lesson to learn. I'd go so far as to say we (in software development and engineering and even testing) didn't want to learn it. However, that's the reality, however scary it is.
Sidney Dekker developed this idea in a fascinating and important book, "Drift Into Failure". His argument is that we are developing massively complex systems that we are incapable of understanding. It is therefore misguided to think in terms of system failure arising from a mistake by an operator or the sudden failure of part of the system.
"Drifting into failure is a gradual, incremental decline into disaster driven by environmental pressure, unruly technology and social processes that normalise growing risk. No organisation is exempt from drifting into failure. The reason is that routes to failure trace through the structures, processes and tasks that are necessary to make an organization successful. Failure does not come from the occasional, abnormal dysfunction or breakdown of these structures, processes or tasks, but is an inevitable by-product of their normal functioning. The same characteristics that guarantee the fulfillment of the organization's mandate will turn out to be responsible for undermining that mandate…
In the drift into failure, accidents can happen without anything breaking, without anybody erring, without anyone violating rules they consider relevant. The idea of systems drifting into failure is a practical illustration of emergence in complex systems. The overall system adapts and changes over time, behaving in ways that could not have been predicted from analysis of the components. The fact that a system has operated safely and successfully in the past does not mean it will continue to do so. Dekker says;
"Empirical success… is no proof of safety. Past success does not guarantee future safety."
Dekker's argument about drifting to failure should strike a chord with anyone who has worked in large organisations. Complex systems are kept running by people who have to cope with unpredictable technology, in an environment that increasingly tolerates risk so long as disaster is averted. There is constant pressure to cut costs, to do more and do it faster. Margins are gradually shaved in tiny incremental changes, each of which seems harmless and easy to justify. The prevailing culture assumes that everything is safe, until suddenly it isn't.
Langewiesche followed up his observation with a highly significant second point;
"What can go wrong usually goes right – and people just naturally draw the wrong conclusions."
When it all does go wrong the danger is that we look for quick and simple answers. We focus on the components that we notice are flawed, without noticing all the times everything went right even with those flaws. We don't think about the way people have been keeping systems running despite the problems, or how the culture has been taking them closer and closer to the edge. We then draw the wrong conclusions. Complex systems and the people operating them are constantly being pushed to the limits, which is an important idea that I will return to.
It is vital that we understand this idea of drift, and how people are constantly having to work with complex systems under pressure. Once we start to accept these ideas it starts to become clear that if we want to avoid drawing the wrong conclusions we have to be sceptical about traditional approaches to accident investigation. I'm talking specifically about root cause analysis, and the notion that "human error" is a meaningful explanation for accidents and problems. I will talk about these in my next post, "part 5 – accident investigations and treating people fairly".
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The 10th Edition of the Singapore Grand Prix – and a New Racing Section to this Blog
Chase Carey of Liberty Media at Singapore GP 2016. Photo: Brad Spurgeon
This weekend marks the 10th edition of the Singapore Grand Prix, the first running of which took place in 2008, as Formula One's first ever night race. As it happened, that first edition would take place just as the world financial markets began to fall apart in the beginning of the financial crisis the effects of which we are still feeling today. I recall the strange atmosphere in the paddock perfectly: We were gathered in the financial hub of Southeast Asia in the slickest racing environment in a downtown setting that we had ever seen, and basking in the paddock in an atmosphere of wealth and luxury. While all the talk was about the underpinnings of that wealth and luxury falling apart around us – banks going bust, the global financial system sinking into an apparent abyss, and with it, the prospect of so many of the series' sponsors pulling out and leaving Formula One adrift in a series that survives on begging for money.
As the series continues to negotiate for a new contract with Singapore, and in a season in which a new company has taken over the running of the series – the U.S.-based Liberty Media – I thought it would be a great time to look back at a couple of the stories that I wrote in the past, as well as to start a new auto racing section on this blog. Today I am running what I feel is the biggest story I wrote about Formula One as almost classical theater, a big, world story of glamour, glitz and drama. This was a Page 1 story in the International Herald Tribune, and later ran in the New York Times, and summed up the state of Formula One at the time, at its biggest race of the season: The Monaco Grand Prix. Read the story and tell me if the series is the same today 15 years later?
Tomorrow, I will run my preview for the first ever Singapore Grand Prix, and talk a little more about how the weekends go in Singapore.
By the way, while we all thought the first night race and the collapsing financial markets were the biggest story of the weekend in 2008, it turned out that there was a much, much bigger sporting story going on behind the scenes. But that scandal would only be revealed a year later when Nelson Piquet Jr. told the world that he (and his team directors) had staged a fake crash in order to help his teammate at Renault, Fernando Alonso, with his race strategy. The help would lead to Alonso's first victory that season, and a year later, to the banning of two of the team's directors from the series in one of the sport's worst cheating scandals. Last year also marked the beginning of the Liberty Media story, as the announcement of the takeover of Formula One had just been made at the beginning of the month and Chase Carey, the new boss, visited the Singapore paddock – his first ever visit to a Formula One Grand Prix.
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Mick Jagger and Me on the Grid in Monaco – and a Wombat at the Mecano
Freeze-frame after 15 seconds this video below of Mick Jagger visiting the Monaco Grand Prix and you will see me just behind him preparing my camera for a photograph of Mick that I eventually put on this blog. I did not realize at the time that the line I would start my Formula One race report story with and that Jagger said at precisely this moment – "What a madhouse!", had been caught on video with me in it. Talk about multimedia! Here am I and my New York Times story lede quote being put up on the Rolling Stones web site. I had actually thought I was the only one who heard him say "what a madhouse." So I suppose that is my 15 seconds of fame…. (you get the video directly in the link above, if you click on it below you get an advertisement first….)
Anyway, it would have been a much better story if Mick showed up for my second gig in a row at the Sunday brunch at the Mecano yesterday. I had to settle for Dan Haggis, the drummer and singer of the band the Wombats, who was there talking to Earle, eating brunch, and eventually listening to my first set. A very cool, down-to-earth guy, was Dan of the Wombats. A contrast to Mick? I wouldn't know. I was so dumbstruck facing Mick that I could not think of a thing to say to him. It was only after I returned to the media center and saw my guitar sitting there ready for playing at McCarthy's that night that I said, damn, I could have asked Mick to jam with me….
Anyway, the afternoon yesterday was another great success, and this time not only did I play three sets, but Rafa Ellan played a long set, Les DeShane played a short set and the daughter of a friend of Earle's played a few songs too. Let's hope this is the beginning of a new tradition.
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Last Night in Monaco Jackpot at McCarthy's Irish Pub
Monaco may be known for its casinos, but I felt I won the jackpot in the music stakes on my last night in Monaco on Sunday when I finally found a place to play. It would have been my first Grand Prix since 2008 that I did not sing and play at had I not found the place on Sunday night – and taken the risk to go to a place that was not, strictly speaking, holding a jam or open mic.
After learning that BOTH of the open mics I attended in Nice last year no longer existed (Johnny's Wine Bar and Ma Nolan's Pub on the old port in Nice), I decided to make one last attempt at finding a place to play, after the race. I had, yes, rocked on the rock, as I said in my previous post. But that was playing in private at the home of a friend of Vanessa's. It was not playing in public, the way my quest is supposed to be done. But that friend, Jasmine, had told us that her favorite pub, McCarthy's Irish Pub, was a very convivial place that had a kind of open jam night and that was very open to letting others play and that I should try it.
So after the race ended and I wrote my story on Mark Webber's victory, I called McCarthy's and asked if the had live music tonight.
"Yes," said the man with an Irish accent, "we have a cover band."
I told him I'd heard they sometimes let people go up and sing a song, and asked him if it would be possible for me to do that. He said I probably could, but he was slightly cagey: "If you CAN sing, and CAN handle it, yes."
Clearly he did not just want a drunk going up and making a mess of things, and that was a signal I would receive later when I got to the pub and asked again.
But that's jumping ahead. I took my guitar and computer and walked over to McCarthy's Pub, since it was only around 25 minutes walk from the paddock, located on the other side of the tunnel where the Grand Prix cars race. You almost always end up walking along the race track in Monaco during the race weekend, and going to McCarthy's was no exception. Last year I never did find a place to play in Monaco itself, and thought that such a thing was impossible. It turns out that Monaco is very alive musically during the race weekend, and on several occasions I felt I was walking through Istanbul with music coming from all directions in a cacaphony of different genres and styles and sounds. It made me drunk with feelings.
The walk to McCarthy's was no exception as I heard and saw music being performed all along the periphery of the harbor, including at the Rascasse and a little farther down the track from there where a couple of crooners sang in the street outside a restaurant.
Once I got there, I could see why McCarthy's was Jasmine's favorite hangout in Monaco. It is very laid back, very Irish, very pub, and musically it was also a pleasure, and relaxed. I had feared when I heard there was a cover band that it would be a giant stage with a huge setup including drums, keyboards, flashy spotlights, the whole deal, and that any effort I might make to sing would be received very coolly, and I would not be very comfortable. What I found was two or three ampliphiers, a couple of mic stands and this all set up beside the bar against the wall. The band would not start until around 11 PM, and that gave me time to go eat dinner in an Italian restaurant nextdoor.
When I returned the band was setting up. It would be an electric bass, two acoustic guitar players and a singer who occasionally played the bongos – as did the bassist, who also played acoustic between sets. The band was a new one, having only practiced together for a few hours on three different occasions before doing the gig. Three of the men were Italian and one – the lead guitarist and sometime singer – was French. They all lived in France.
It was indeed a cover band, but it was very laid back, low key and friendly. They called themselves, appropriately for the weekend, The Petrol Heads. They sang all the usual stuff: Mustang Sally, Smoke on the Water, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, the usual Nirvana stuff, and Beatles, and others. The lead singer had a very good voice with some emotion and grit and grain to it.
The bar became increasingly crowded with people from all nationalities – including a number of Irish people – and they were warm, outgoing and loved to dance. But they were never too rowdy.
I made a lot of videos as every time I heard a new song I knew it and wanted to do something with it on video. But it would be far too heavy here, especially considering the darkness of the videos, to put up that many.
In any case, after their first set I asked one of the band members if I could play and sing a song or two. He accepted immediately, and I plugged in and went up to the mic and introduced myself. Since this was not an open mic, I decided to tell the audience that I was actually a journlist present to cover the race, not a musician, but that I took my guitar with me to all the races to play. Normally I don't mention that, but in a situation like this one, I felt I should give an explanation, and I also pointed out how nice it was for the band to allow me to play, as they had never heard me before.
The manager, as I said, was actually a little worried, as he had no doubt had some pretty bad people trying to sing and breaking the atmosphere in the past. But it worked out. I sang two songs and decided not to push it, since I was up against a very together group and me with just the guitar…. During my first song, though, (yes, Crazy Love), the singer from the band came up and started playing bongos with me. He continued for the second song.
I thanked the band and the audience and then sat and listened to the band's second set. After the second set, they let a guy from the audience grab one of the bongos and he sat in front of the playing area on the floor and began to bang out a pretty primal rhythm. The bass player took the other bongo and joined in, and the guitar player played a rhythm to it, and people began dancing. It was a pretty Bacchic moment, but amongs the fishing boat decor, the wooden panel walls, the long bar and the sports on television, it was a true moment of controlled mayhem in the Irish pub that showed they really are open to the jam situation, and audience participation, and in a way this could definitely be categorized as a jam.
By the time that ended it was around 1 AM and I decided to leave. On my way out I said goodbye to the band members. They all told me they enjoyed my stuff. One of the guitar players said the only problem was that it was too short. Another band member agreed on that and said, "If you want to play again, go ahead."
So I accepted, returned to the pub, took out my guitar and did another two songs. I was in heaven. And I had achieved something I had not been able to do the previous year, to play in Monaco and not just close to it….
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What is Discovery in a Florida Personal Injury Case?
May 22, 2019 in Personal Injury
Discovery in a Florida personal injury case is the opportunity for both sides to investigate and gather evidence. It's a formal court procedure that allows each party and their Tampa personal injury lawyers to demand evidence using the powers of the court.
The purpose of discovery is to narrow the issues in the case and put the evidence out in the open. Discovery can help the parties resolve the matter because everyone knows what the evidence is in the case.
What Are the Discovery Rules in a Florida Injury Case?
Florida's rules of discovery come from Florida's Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 1.280-1.410. The rules cover what kinds of things you can discover and how to initiate discovery. For example, there are rules for what a subpoena has to look like and how many interrogatory questions you can serve.
There are also guidelines for when the court can intervene if a party doesn't answer a discovery request or the parties disagree about what one of the parties has to produce. Both parties have to follow the Rules of Civil Procedure when they prepare and respond to a discovery request.
What Are the Kinds of Discovery in a Florida Personal Injury Case?
Some of the kinds of discovery that you might use in a Florida personal injury case include:
Interrogatories – written questions to the other party that they answer under oath
Depositions – requiring a witness or adverse party to answer questions orally
Admissions – asking the other side to admit that facts are true
Subpoena – a court-order to a party or witness; the person may need to appear or produce records
Inspection – one party may want to inspect the property that's in the hands of the other party
Examination – a party may ask for their own physical or mental examination of the other party
Are There Limits to Discovery in a Florida Accident Case?
Yes, there are limits to discovery in a Florida accident case. All discovery must be relevant to the case. In other words, a party may only request relevant evidence or information that may lead to relevant evidence. For example, if the other party asks for medical records from your emergency room visit right after the accident, that information is relevant. However, if they demand medical records from a routine medical exam that you had 15 years ago, that information probably isn't relevant.
There are other kinds of limits to discovery in addition to relevance limitations. A party can't demand discovery just to be burdensome to the other party or try to overwhelm them so they stop pursuing the case. Also, a discovery request may not ask for privileged information between the other party and their attorney. If you don't want to respond to a discovery request, there are procedures to make an objection or move to quash a subpoena. You must follow the rules to properly object to the other side's discovery request.
What Happens If the Other Side Doesn't Respond to My Discovery Request in a Florida Personal Injury Case?
If the other side doesn't respond to your discovery request, you can file a motion to compel the production of discovery. The motion brings the matter to the attention of the court. Before you make the motion, you must speak with the other side and try to resolve the dispute informally.
If you make a motion to compel and the court agrees with you, they may order the other party to pay your attorney fees for the cost of bringing the motion to compel. Florida Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 1.380 give the rules for how to bring a motion to compel discovery.
What Types of Evidence Do Parties Ask for in a Florida Car Accident Case?
Here are some of the kinds of discovery that you or the other party might look for in a Florida car accident claim:
Names and contact information of anyone in the other vehicle
Contact information for any other known witnesses
A copy of the other party's driver's license
Car insurance information
Driving history, criminal history
Substance use history; drunk driving history
A list of claimed injuries
Copies of medical bills
Verification of missed work, pay stubs
Available photos of the accident scene
Medical records that relate to the accident
Names of any experts that the other party might use in the case like an accident reconstructionist or medical experts
Admissions from the other party of fault or admissions that specific facts about the case are true
Discovery in a Florida Personal Injury Case
As the accident victim, it's essential to understand how discovery works in a Florida personal injury case. It's also important to know the common challenges and issues that can arise in an accident case. For example, the other side may try to seek irrelevant and embarrassing information in an effort to make you give up on your case. They might ask for medical records that aren't relevant to the case or ask for other personal information. Your Florida personal injury attorney knows what to do to shut down this kind of harassment.
When used properly, discovery can be a helpful tool for any Florida injury victim. In fact, it's one of the most helpful ways to show the other side the strength of your case and work towards resolving the case through a settlement. When the other side knows that you have strong evidence and that you're working diligently to prepare the evidence in your case, they're more likely to come to the table with a fair settlement without needing to take your case to trial.
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Освалду Алкантара (; настоящее имя Балтазар Лопеш/Лопиш да Си́лва; , 23 апреля 1907 — 28 мая 1989) — поэт, романист, филолог. Писал на португальском языке. Родился на острове Сан-Николау, входящем в состав островов Зелёного Мыса (сейчас — Кабо-Верде).

Участник и соучредитель группы «Кларидаде» (Claridade, «Свет»). Занимал должность ректора лицея Жила Эанеша, крупнейшего учебного заведения на островах Зелёного Мыса. Его «Шикинью», написанный в 1936 и опубликованный в 1947 году, считается величайшим романом в литературе Кабо-Верде.

Стихотворения Алкантары были включены в следующие антологии:
 Antologia da poesia negra de expressão portuguesa («Антология негритянской поэзии на португальском языке»), Париж, 1958.
 Modernos poetas caboverdianos («Современные поэты Зелёного Мыса»), Прая, 1961.

На русском языке стихи Освалду Алкантары впервые были опубликованы в 1973 году в сборнике «Поэзия Африки» — 131-м томе «Библиотеки всемирной литературы».

 Было время, тебя величал я богиней.
 Мир
 нерасчленённый стоял на уровне глаз.
 Дешёвый словарь
 тысячу слов предлагал. И мог я заимствовать клички.
 Так отыскал я универсальное средство —
 антибиотик, анестезин, панацею от всех незадач.
 Ну а потом потянуло порыться в больших лексиконах,
 и постепенно я обнаружил клады, залежи слов,
 неисчерпаемые покрывала для тела богини…

Свои последние дни Освалду Алкантара провёл в Лиссабоне, где лечился от цереброваскулярных заболеваний. Умер 28 мая 1989 года.

Примечания

Писатели Кабо-Верде
Португальские писатели
Португальские поэты
Поэты XX века
Поэты Кабо-Верде
Поэты по алфавиту
Педагоги Кабо-Верде
Персоны, изображённые на банкнотах Гвинеи-Бисау

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"There are many reasons to believe in a better tomorrow: For every corrupt person, 8000 people donate blood. For every person who thinks the country won't stand on its feet, 3 million children are taking their first steps. For every lazy person in Ramadan, 13 million mothers are preparing Iftar. For every piece of bad news, there are more than 50 jokes. For every dark street, 32 million lanterns shine in Ramadan. And for every person who sees the glass half empty, millions offer each other Coca Cola".
Overly heart-warming? Perhaps.. but I love it! Statistically accurate? Highly doubt that..
I hate corporate advertisements/marketing in general, but especially when it Islamic themes. These ads don't give a damn about Islam or Ramadan; they wanna get in good with Muslims so that we'll be more inclined to consume their products.
I COMPLETELY agree with Imran, but it tickles me because if many Americans/British/Canadian non-Muslims knew CocaCola was having advertisements geered towards Islamic trditions they'd probably burn a bunch of Qur'ans, have a demonstation... and then drink a Coke! LOL!
You've been mistaken, the first commercial is actually a pakistani commercial in urdu not arabic.


I…am a lover of words. Just thought I'd point that out.
Short story long, I'm prolific, you guys.
So when I first found out about OneWord365, my immediate thought was, "Impossible!" followed by a lengthy dissertation on why that was Impossible! for someone like me.
And what a fancy word, right!
But it is what I want to be this year. In every aspect.
Deliberate in my relationships. With my husband, my children, my family, my friends. When I find myself losing patience, I will on purpose lower my voice, inhale nice and deep, and start anew. I don't ever want my loved ones to feel as if they are an afterthought or a nuisance or a bother, so I will drive home the point that their presence makes me soar.
Deliberate in my writing. This is going to be a big one for me. Until I have a paycheck to tack onto my excessive word count, there is nothing holding me to the passion God has grown in me this past year. I will on purpose write more, write often, and, eventually, write better. Always better. I think it is high time I stepped out of my comfort zone and pushed my words just a little bit farther, and maybe to expect them to start pulling their weight around here.
Deliberate in my faith. Yes. I will on purpose saturate God's presence, soak up His character, and fill myself more with Jesus, so that He is what overflows out of me. Amen.
What is your One Word for 2012?
Love it! My word is expect. I've been blogging about it the past few days, nothing great, but I'm still chewing on it.
Expect is a weighty one! Pretty sure God will blow your mind with that one.
Nice choice. Simple, yet not.
Yes. I also considered "all-encompassing," you know, to satisfy the excessive, but this works too.
It helps to have just one word bring all my aspirations into focus.
My word is "Ballin'". I plan to live up to that.
I am not at all disappointed in your word choice.
I also plan to ask you on December 31, 2012 how that all went down.
This exchange gave me my BIGGEST smile of the day. So thanks. To the big baller and the one who's not at all disapointed.
My one word is: Potato. No, that's terrible.
I chose: Purpose. Similar to yours, but spelled different and fewer syllables.
We can be purposefully deliberate (deliberately purposeful?) together.
Good stuff, JButt. And for the record, I noticed. (Because we share a need to shatter word counts).
Mine is "connect." I want to connect more with my wife, my kids, my friends (online and off), other people I don't even know, and with writing.
I tend to want to make my universe very small and manageable because that gives me control, but life is much more rich when my universe opens up to new things/people.
Good grief. Even my comments are rambly.
Connect is a great one! Especially with the loner tendencies writers/bloggers tend to have.
Love this! Being deliberate will invoke good, positive change. I can't wait to see where it takes you. Especially with your writing!
Good, positive change. Yes. All of the above.
I love your word choice, deliberate. Mine is "Hope". I wrote a short post about it at the beginning of the year.
I love hope! It makes me think of being filled with bubbles from the inside out.
I think that one word packs a lot of punch!
Right! We'll see where it leads. Deliberately.
This bar mitzvah is going to be me undoing. I'm trying to be deliberate, but no one else is cooperating. It is hurting my head and my heart. Which I don't think it is supposed to do.
I think I just started a blog post.
My word for you is CALM. Maybe. Or maybe HIREDHELP. Except I cheated.
Because deliberate is GREAT. As was "peace" which I just saw and also "fearless" which I admire.
Still. I'm going to go ahead and stick to my guns and go with JOY.
Because really, what's better than that?
Deliberate is an excellent word. It sums up a lot of what I want for 2012 as well.
Mine would have to be diligent. I've decided this is going to be a big year for me. I already have an illustration job and the first draft of my new junior novel turned out better than I expected. So diligent with my art, my writing and my editing.
That is an exciting word to carry! Exciting as an artist, I mean. Looking forward to hearing more from you!
thanks for sparking the more concise goal for the year!
Some words don't leave our brains alone for a reason. What a great word for this year!
Deliberate is a great word. Mine is Community.
Larry the Deuce, I'm part of your community!
In real life community I mean.
I'm deliberately commenting on way too many of your posts tonight. I like you, JButt.
Hi,,, great word…mine is PLENITUDE !!!


What is Meta Abstract Tag in SEO?
The meta tag abstract can be utilized to show in only a short sentence what the site page is about. So every site page of your site gets it's own particular theoretical tag.
The meta tag abstract can be used to indicate in just a very short sentence what the web-page is about. ... This meta tag appears to be equal to the description meta tag but they are different. The description meta tag is used by many search engines as a small text under the click-able title.
The meta tag abstract can be used to indicate in just a very short sentence what the webpage is about. So every webpage of your website gets it's own abstract-tag.
Generally the Abstract META tag is a one line sentence which gives an overview of the entire webpage.
thank you very much for the information right there.
The abstract-tag is hardly used by anybody. But there are several search engines that use this tag to archive your page.
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Dedications:
To my wife, she suffered through another go-around with Tim and we're still married!
To Vix Kirkpatrick, my peanut butter supplier and beta-reader, thank you for your hard work.
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My name is Timothy and I AM alive...I think. The last thing I remember with any clarity was the stupid little fucking kiddie party, the hot red-headed bitch, and eating my dad. Wait rewind that last part.
My fucking head is killing me. Feels like I took a bullet to the brain. I have really got to stop sticking cheap vodka in that old Grey Goose bottle. Live it up! You only live once. But wait, that's not right either.
GOD! I hurt!
DYING!
ripped across my brain plate like steel-tipped fingernails over a megaphone-amplified death metal scream.
"What...the...fuck...was that?" I asked myself – I was also asking the unknown voice in my head.
"HUGH DYING!"
I first thought he said 'You dying!' And it sure felt like that; but no, he…it…
was specific in his reference to Hugh. And like a wave crashing over a beach or an oversized offensive lineman crashing into a cornerback, it slammed into me. The whole entire fuck-fest slammed into me. The kid party. The getting sick. The screwing and sumptuous eating of Gina, my dad, a few other unlucky bastards. The most beautiful woman – nun or not – that I had ever encountered, and then Danielle. Had I saved her? Was she still alive? And then what; I saw two men, one a black man easily equal or better my size and a feisty wo...bitch shot me! THE BITCH SHOT ME! I'm fucking dead! But I wasn't, not yet anyway. Close though.
My mind was frying like in those sci-fi movies you watch after the hero's ship has been slammed with some photon bombs or some shit and the lights are flickering and sparks are arcing wildly all over the place, everything is at a forty-five degree tilt and short-circuiting sounds are happening all over the place. Only this wasn't some ship in deep outer space; this was my fucking mind. MY fucking mind…well…and Hugh's I suppose. We were technically buddies now.
"Woo-wee! Look at the size of that fucking zombie! Must have eaten a village, kind of like Clarence here," I heard someone say. Might as well have been from the surface of the moon it was so far sounding away.
"I hate clowns," I heard a young female voice say. Even from the depths I was in I could tell there was a tremor in her voice.
"Think it has still got its nose under that body somewhere? I really want it, kind of like a souvenir," I think the original speaker said.
"Don't go near that thing, Tyler!" the girl shrieked. I wanted to eat her kidney just to make her shut up. Well, that and it sounded good.
"Clarence, go check for a red nose," Tyler said.
"Fuck that. I'm not going near that thing," Clarence stated.
Hugh was able to slowly roll up our one good eye. Crusted blood had nearly caked it shut and actually helped to keep the action from being noticed. I was now looking at the world through rose-colored glasses – or more likely a thin film of blood.
I was staring at a kid in his early twenties: skinny as a scarecrow and looked like a stiff breeze would take him for a ride. The girl was a few years younger. From the looks of her frame, she was related to the Straw Man.
"EAT....SAVE!!!!" Hugh screamed. I initially thought it was so loud that our potential dinner guests would hear it and leave before we had a chance to get to know each other better.
"Don't move, Hugh!" I told him. "Do not move!"
They needed to get closer. There wasn't any way on God's brown, disease-riddled world that I'd be able to catch them. I wasn't even sure I could move my mouth if given the opportunity.
Then hope surged (or is it sprang) eternal as – I assumed it was Clarence, the third of the party – came into view. He was huge! In the 'I live in my momma's basement and play Xbox 360, 24/7 kind of way.' Or maybe
…whatever. He had enough nourishment on him to allow Hugh to fix ALL that ailed us.
"Steady, Hugh," I said, trying to calm us both down. If my heart could have taken it, it would have been slamming in my chest. He looked like a giant meat-and-blood-filled cupcake and I wanted to dive in face first.
"Come closer, you fat bastard," I hissed internally. I don't think I had enough energy to push air over my vocal chords.
"He smells like shit," Clarence said, taking a step closer, then stopping.
"Duh…look at his pants," the girl said. "They're filled with it."
"Come on, man, check his pockets. I want the nose, then we got to get back with these supplies," Tyler told his large traveling companion.
"Come on, Tyler, I'm not checking that thing." Clarence's voice quivered.
"Listen, Clarence, Staid said I was in charge of this expedition. If I tell you to do something…you have to do it," Tyler said with
all of his Napoleon complex leaking through.
"This is bullshit," Clarence said as he approached. "Oh…gross, oh gross," he said as he pulled his shirt up over his nose. By the way his eyes crinkled and watered up, I don't think that was a very effective odor shield.
"Tyler?" Clarence turned just as he got close.
"Do it!" Tyler shouted, a twinkle of mischievous evil in his eye. He loved forcing the bigger kid to do his bidding, especially something as distasteful as this. I loved myself and I don't think I would have approached me.
Clarence pushed his rifle into my belly to see if he could get a reaction.
"There's a bullet hole in its fucking noggin, you dipshit. It's dead, just get me the nose," Tyler cajoled.
Clarence prodded further with his rifle, not accepting his 'friend's' less than accurate description on my state. It seems that word of my demise has been grossly exaggerated. When Clarence realized he wasn't going to be able to roll me over with his rifle, he put it over his shoulder and reached down. The look of wretched terror and stomach quavering sickness dominated his features as he placed one hand on my shoulder and the other on my hip.
He was so close that I could feel my saliva glands shooting jets of liquid in expectation of sliding his meaty parts down my gullet.
"Zombies!" the girl shouted.
Clarence and Tyler turned to follow her pointing back the way I had originally come. Clarence's forearm was less than an inch from my mouth; I could smell the essence of him. It was like sweet ambrosia. I almost ended everything when I sent my tongue out. I licked the salty, iron taste from his skin.
"What the fuck!" Clarence shrieked.
Too late! My head was on the move. I bit hard, just catching a pinch-worthy piece of him in between my teeth. I tasted coppery blood and a bit of skin that wouldn't have fed a hungry maggot.
Tyler moved faster than I would have expected when he heard Clarence cry out. He whipped out the pistol he was wearing on his hip and, for the second time that day, I caught a bullet in my head. I couldn't imagine anything being more painful than that as my head was slammed into the ground with the force of a sledgehammer.
At the same time that was happening I have to go back
to the science fiction description, I felt like I was being whipped through a tunnel much like when the starships go into that faster-than-light bullshit that scientists say is impossible. Back into blackness. It was peaceful and, even better, it was pain free. Maybe death wasn't so bad.
"Did he bite you?" Tyler was screaming the question at Clarence.
"I...I don't think so." Clarence was looking at his hand. "I mean…he was dead, right? How could he have?"
"I saw its fucking head move!" Tyler was almost shrieking hysterically.
"Tyler, you have to shoot him," Anne told her traveling companion.
"Wait," Clarence said, standing up. "I just caught its tooth with my sleeve, that's all. I pulled his head…that's it."
"Let me see your hand!" Anne asked.
Clarence held out his hand.
"He's bleeding, Tyler. You have to shoot him," Anne said coolly. "And then we gotta go." Zombies were fast approaching.
"Look, Tyler!" Clarence pleaded. "It's a scratch. It's not even a bite, you have to be bitten, man!"
"Fuck. I'm not going to shoot
you. But you can't come back with us. If you're still alive tomorrow I'll come get you. Do not show up at the store or I'll have to shoot you."
"Tyler, you can't leave me out here, I'll die!"
"You'll die if you follow us. Let's go," he said to Anne.
Clarence started to follow. He didn't know what else to do.
"You stupid fuck," Tyler said, turning and putting a bullet into the side of Clarence's thigh.
Clarence began to cry.
"Go hide, you stupid fat fuck. If you live, I'll come get you tomorrow!" Tyler shouted as he and Anne were in full retreat mode.
Clarence turned to look behind him; the zombies were within a hundred yards and closing. He headed back to the convenience store they had been raiding. The door was still mostly intact and he thought he could barricade it enough to keep the zombies out. The problem now was going to be getting there before they did. The muscle in the thigh that had been shot was twitching spasmodically. He could no more control it than he could those stupid remote control helicopters they sold in the middle of the mall every Christmas season. For five years he had been duped into thinking that the new and improved design would allow him to fly it like a pilot. After an accumulated flying time of twenty-seven minutes, he was out close to three hundred dollars, two lamps, and an antique vase of his mother's that he'd never fessed up to.
He dragged his leg uselessly behind him and began to hyperventilate from the exertion. He had lost twenty pounds since the zombie apocalypse started, but he was easily still close to three hundred and fifty pounds and endurance had never been his strong point unless one were talking about his thumbs which were legendary as any opponent in
would attest to – if any of them were still alive.
He hazarded a look behind him. The zombies had halved the distance and he still had a good fifty yards to go. At this point, he had a better chance of losing his virginity than of making sanctuary, and the closest living girl was about a quarter mile away by now.
"I don't want to die!" he huffed as he moved. His injured leg seized up, the spasms so crippling he was afraid to move it for fear that he would tear something. "I'm dead."
He had completely forgotten about the rifle on his back. He could hear the zombies closing in. He dared not look, he didn't think he could take it if his last vision on earth was of a zombie biting through his neck.
Clarence closed his eyes in preparation for his painful departure from earth. He wondered for a moment if he would be 'reborn' in another locale much like his characters in the video games. He didn't have much true life reference to go on. He thought in school that one of his teachers had talked about reincarnation; maybe the teacher had gotten the idea from the games.
It could be based on fact
, he thought.
He squealed in fear as a zombie came up behind him. The zombie
was sniffing around his head, even licking his skin once. Another zombie got down by the bullet's exit wound and was also sniffing excessively. Clarence was sniveling as he was surrounded by no less than seven zombies, all of them vying for a spot around him. They were in varying degrees of sniffing and smelling him, but none of them were biting him.
What the
hell?
he thought. A long stain of urine flooded down the front of his sweat pants. That seemed to send the zombies around him into a sort of frenzy.
Oh God, oh God!
"What the fuck?" I put my imaginary hands up to my imaginary head. The world around me was in complete blackness. "Is this hell? I'm not impressed!" I shouted.
I was figuring on brimstone, fire, lava flows, the screams of the damned, all of that. I started to think about the Devil. What the hell…it looked like I had time to kill. Was he truly a being of evil? I mean, hear me out. His job is obviously to torture and torment all of the sinners that the world has produced. Doesn't that make him a saint? I mean, he's paying back all the assholes on earth that never got their due. He's the final hand of karma. I think the whole 'falling out' thing with God was just a story of convenience. God just really doesn't like to get his hands dirty is what it comes down to. Tough to preach about love, kindness, and forgiveness while you're pulling someone's intestines out through their asshole. Hell of a visual.
I bet God and the Devil meet every Saturday night and drink a little Sacramental wine. The Devil probably fills him in on the newest bunch of ass-wipes he's received and what he plans on doing with them. At least that's my take on it. Maybe God lives vicariously through the Devil. Wouldn't that be something?
"Hey! Let's get this show on the road!" I shouted again.
"Who's that?" rang out.
I tilted my hallucinatory head. "Hugh?" I asked cautiously. It couldn't be Satan unless he was scared of meeting me. I know I'm an asshole and I'll have my fair allotment of things to atone for, but there were far worse monsters that roamed the world.
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Влади́мир Ива́нович Мозгово́й — советский и российский журналист. Живёт в г. Москве.

Биография
 1954, 10 января — родился в г. Верхний Уфалей (Челябинская область)
 1976 — окончил журналистский факультет Уральского государственного университета
 1976—2002 — жил в г. Магнитогорске, где работал корреспондентом, заведующим отделом и обозревателем газеты «Магнитогорский рабочий» (писал на социальные темы, о культуре, политике и спорте). Там же работал телеведущим и телекомментатором, заведующим литературной частью нескольких театров, а также собственным корреспондентом газеты «Спорт-Экспресс».
 1979 — родилась дочь Наталья, впоследствии — известная израильская и американская журналистка
 1997 — стал лауреатом областного журналистского конкурса (г. Челябинск)
 2002 — переехал в Москву.
 2002—2003 — заместитель главного редактора всероссийского еженедельника «Весь хоккей»
 2003—2009 — спортивный колумнист Интернет-издания Газета.Ru
 с 2004 — обозреватель «Новой газеты»

Литературная деятельность

Циклы стихов

Книги
 1992 — Меценаты души (интервью с деятелями искусства). — Магнитогорск, «МАГИ», 280 с. Тираж: 3000 экз. ISBN 5-88400-007-3
 1993 — Действующие лица (интервью, репортажи, очерки). — Магнитогорск, Магнитогорское полиграфпредприятие, 226 с. Тираж: 3000 экз. ISBN 5-7114-0027-4
 2013 — Больше, чем игра (двухтомник о магнитогорском хоккее; статистика, зарисовки: Владислав Рыбаченко). — Магнитогорск, Издательская группа «АЛКИОН», 2013—236 с.: ил/В двух книгах
 2013 — Чемпионы наших сердец (фото-книга памяти хоккейной команды «Локомотив»). — Ярославль, Хоккейный клуб «Локомотив», Ярославль, 2013—296 с.
 2016 — Путь к триумфу: быль о хоккейной столице. — Магнитогорск, Магнитогорский Дом печати, 2016. — 154 с.: ил.

Публикации
 Поэт и учитель (к 70-летию Н. Кондратковской). — «Комсомолец» (Челябинск), 19 ноября 1983.
 Неюбилейная беседа (к 75-летию Н. Кондратковской). — «Магнитогорский рабочий», 16 ноября 1988.
 Олег Хандусь: «Я ещё не всё сказал» (интервью). — «Магнитогорский рабочий», 4 июля 1992.
 Нина Георгиевна Кондратковская. — «Магнитогорский рабочий», 16 февраля 1991.
 «Уходят из гавани дети тумана…» (памяти А. Стругацкого). — «Магнитогорский рабочий», 25 октября 1991. — Веб-ссылка
 Ты иногда вспоминай… (к 50-летию Сайдо Курбанова). — «Магнитогорский рабочий», 7 июня 1997; с. 1, 4.
 На букву «Ша» (дорожные впечатления с лирическими отступлениями). — «Магнитогорский рабочий», 30 мая 1998, с. 7—10.
 Где-то в Хельсинки… (дорожные впечатления с лирическими отступлениями). — «Магнитогорский рабочий», 6 февраля 1999, с. 5.

Звания и награды
 «Лучшим пишущим журналистам, освещающим хоккей»
 золотое перо (2003)
 серебряное перо (2002, 2004)
 Премия областного журналистского конкурса (г. Челябинск, 1997) — за серию материалов «Хоккей в Магнитке»

Литература
 Аристов В. Слово о ВИМе. — «Магнитогорский рабочий», 31 декабря 1999, с. 2.
 Давлетшина Р. Помозгуем с Мозговым. — «Магнитогорский металл», 20 февраля 2014. — Веб-ссылка

Ссылки
 Статьи Владимира Мозгового на сервере «Газета.Ru»
 Статьи Владимира Мозгового на сервере «Новой газеты»

Выпускники Уральского государственного университета
Журналисты СССР
Журналисты России
Журналисты «Новой газеты»


This is a photo which won't fit into the "Go to sleep Lydia" project obviously, but I think you can tell it's taken during the same period. Playing around with different light sources. Trying to see the world through her curious eyes. It's helping me to stay curious as well.


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Making it into the playoffs for the 18th consecutive year is a respectable goal, yet that bar is far too low for the veteran Hornets that have much higher aspirations.
With a schedule that will drag them through the best of 1-AA, 1-AAAAAAA's Tift County, and then of course 1-AAA, head coach Bobby Jones already knows what his senior leadership has to bring to the table.
Youth will not be a problem for the '17 Hornets thanks to 14 returning starters. Then, new offensive coordinator Bill Wiles also brings a new style of offense to Adel, but a focus on the run game will still be instrumental to the Hornet attack.
With this template, making the playoffs is attainable, winning region is plausible and making a deep playoff run in feasible, but the Hornets' priorities are well established.
"Everyone wants to win a state championship and go play college football, but we feel like if we develop young men who will be the leaders in our town, we've accomplished our goals," he said.