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1959 Cadillac Coupe De Ville - No Particular Place To Go
Lou Querusio's '59 Cadillac Coupe De Ville Gives New Meaning To Low, Wide, And Handsome
Lou Querusio, of Naples, Florida, is no stranger to the custom world, having grown up in a time when the Alexander Brothers and Barris ruled the pages of countless little books. It was where his passion for customs blossomed and grew, never letting him forget the fascination they held over him as time passed. With a number of cool cars already under his belt, including a slammed '58 Impala with a six-deuce-fed 348ci mill underhood, it was time to focus on locating the base for his next build. Having always been a fan of '50s-era Cadillacs, he began a search for a '59 coupe De Ville with its mile-long body, flowing lines, and skyscraper-esque rear fins. Wanting to locate a rust-free base to start with, he expanded his search to the Internet and finally found a respectable-looking car in Texas. We all know how the story goes when a car is represented in one way and arrives in another. Well, in Lou's case, the car was far from rust free, but nonetheless it was still workable.
Having been fortunate enough to have worked with Todd Lewis and his talented team at Xtreme Restorations in Slatersville, Rhode Island, on a number of his past builds, there was no doubt in his mind that the team would be the perfect group to take on the '59. Lou wanted to elevate the seductive lines already immersed in the stock design given that it was considered to be one of the most alluring big sleds to roll off the production line back in its day. Working with the design team at Xtreme, which included Todd and Ken Washwell, they pooled their ideas for the numerous changes and brought them to designer Jack Carroll of Carroll Auto Design to bring the concept to life. Now with a visual blueprint in hand they began the process by first tearing the car down to its bare bones. With the body off, the rolling chassis was completely disassembled and sent out to be blasted clean. Once back, it was boxed, filled, and smoothed while also having the driveshaft opening modified for the upcoming ride height changes. To bring the Caddy's underbelly as close to the ground as possible, the suspension was reworked starting out back with the addition of RideTech CoolRide 'bags, along with a set of RideTech tube shocks. The stock smoothed-out rearend was filled with 3.77:1 gears and suspended into place by a boxed original three-link system while RideTech LevelPro self-leveling sensors even everything out. Up front the team infused more voodoo into the mix by combining the original A-arm suspension with RideTech ShockWave 'bags and RideTech LevelPro self-leveling sensors all linked to a RidePro digital control system. Custom fabbed antiroll bars by Xtreme Restorations ensure the car will hit the turns without a hitch. To round out the chassis, the team reworked the braking system to incorporate 10-inch Cadillac discs up front while out back a set of Wilwood Engineering 10-inch discs get the call from a Kugel Komponents dual master with 7-inch booster. Finally for rollers, nothing brings an air of class to the mix like a set of chrome-plated '58 Cadillac Sabre wheels topped with pillow-soft Goodyear Super Cushion skins.
When addressing the driveline, Lou was determined to keep the original mill nailed to the 'rails. Richard Desautels of Xtreme waved his magic wand over the original 390ci V-8 first by grinding the block and heads smooth. His full rebuild included fresh bearings, slugs, and rings while also doing all necessary machining and balancing. To bring a level of excitement to the mix he topped the engine off with a '58 Cadillac Tri-power intake breathing deep through a set of Rochester 2G carbs, which were treated to a full rebuild and dunk in the shiny tank by Holley Custom Speed Shop. Topped with a smoothed '58 Olds J2 air cleaner, the engine comes to life through a Joe Hunt Magneto-look electronic distributor while all belts are run through custom fabbed pulleys and brackets. The team also added a 2-1/4-inch exhaust complete with dash-mounted city/country electric bypass cutouts, and a pair of Dynomax mufflers wrapped and welded smooth. Desautels then rebuilt the original four-speed automatic transmission and let it twist the goods through one of his custom fabbed driveshafts.
With the massive body on the rotisserie, the Xtreme team went to work first smoothing out the entire underside, filling over 75 holes and raising the driveshaft hump 4 inches. They then shifted their focus to instilling many of the mild touches into the exterior to give the car its unique persona. Focusing on the rear, the three-piece bumper was heavily reworked with the ends peaked and all seams welded smooth. From there the team extended the quarter-panels 3 inches, allowing the bumper to be tucked and frenched. The rear body panel was upgraded to accept three rows of bullets (where only one existed prior) while also incorporating an integrated back-up camera into place. One of the many signature updates include the one-off custom steel side molding, which give the body its dramatic appeal. Starting with machined steel blanks, they were form fitted to the exterior contour and when completed, sent out for plating. Moving to the front of the car, the firewall was filled and smoothed, while the hood was molded into a one-piece unit. Addressing the frontend, the grille was treated to a subtle blackout treatment to highlight the chrome bullets while underhood, a custom filler panel was fashioned from fiberglass to take up the glaring space between the grille and radiator support. The five-piece front bumper was then tucked and reworked into a three-piece unit with all seams welded smooth and the license plate recess removed. Finally, the entire body was nosed, decked, and shaved clean. The team should be applauded for the razor-sharp body since blocking an area this massive takes fortitude and dedication to get it right. Ken LaFlamme filled his spray gun and laid out a meticulous Tri-color combination of PPG Soft Yellow, Vanilla Shake, and Chateau Mauve Firemist across the body panels bringing the car to life.
When it came to the interior, Jack Carroll designed a business office befitting one of Detroit's finest and called on Rick Trebino to do the honors. Trebino sculpted a combination of Chateau Mauve leather and plum brocade cloth to cover the '60 Buick Electra 225 convertible front buckets and custom fabbed rear buckets while instilling plenty of signature style into the seating area. A flowing custom console by Xtreme houses the Retrotek Speed Smart Shift and 7-inch Kenwood video screen while the restored dash features neat touches like a custom tach and push-button start. Plenty of thump was added to the mix by Rudy Desautels of Xtreme who installed the Kenwood, Kicker, and Polk audio components as well as wiring the entire deal. The completed car is nothing short of breathtaking and now that it has completed the show circuit, Lou is ready to hit the open road and rack up the miles. That's just wicked cool in our book!
|Lou Querusio
|Naples, Florida
|1959 Cadillac Coupe De Ville
|Frame / Manufacturer
|stock / Cadillac
|chassis boxed, filled and ground smooth, hidden lines and plumbing by Xtreme Restorations (Slatersville, RI)
|Chassis plumbing
|stainless steel
|Rearend / Ratio
|stock / 3.77:1
|Rear suspension
|Rear brakes
|Wilwood Engineering (Camarillo, CA) 10" disc, custom fitted
|Front suspension
|Smoothed stock A-arms, RideTech ShockWave shocks with LevelPro self-leveling sensors, Xtreme Restorations modified stock spindles, custom antiroll bar
|Front brakes
|'75 Cadillac 10" disc with custom brackets
|Master cylinder
|Kugel Komponents (La Habra, CA) dual with 7" power booster
|Front wheel make, size
|'58 Cadillac Sabre, 15x5
|Rear wheel make, size
|'58 Cadillac Sabre, 15x5
|Front tire make, size
|Goodyear Super Cushion, 6.70-15
|Rear tire make, size
|Goodyear Super Cushion, 6.70-15
|Other chassis items
|Wheels restored and plated by Valley Wire Wheels (Van Nuys, CA)
|'59 Cadillac V-8
|390 ci
|Machining / Assembly
|Richard Desautels at Xtreme Restorations / Richard Desautels
|Cooling fan
|Northern (Willmar, MN) dual electric
|Powermaster (West Chicago, IL) PowerGEN
|Manifold / Induction
|'58 Cadillac Tri-power / Carter 2G built and plated by Holley Custom Speed Shop (Bowling Green, KY)
|Ignition / Wires
|Joe Hunt (Rancho Cordova, CA) Magneto-look distributor / Taylor (Grandview, MO)
|Exhaust / Mufflers
|custom-bent 2-1/4" steel / Dynomax (Monroe, MI)
|Other engine facts
|Exhaust features city/country electric bypass cutouts, mufflers wrapped and welded smooth, custom plumbing and engine brackets all by Xtreme Restorations
|'59 Cadillac four-speed automatic
|Retrotek Speed (Hawthorne, CA) Smart Shift
|Trans assembly
|Richard Desautels at Xtreme Restorations
|Custom by Xtreme Restorations
|Body style / Material
|coupe / steel
|Body manufacturer
|Body mods
|custom side moldings, shaved, nosed, decked, smoothed floorpan, rear quarter-panels extended 3"
|stock molded to one-piece unit
|stock with custom accents
|Xtreme Restorations
|Paint type / Color
|PPG (Strongsville, OH) / Soft Yellow, Vanilla Shake, Chateau Mauve Firemist
|Ken LaFlamme at Xtreme Restorations
|Ken Washwell, Todd Lewis, and Jack Carroll
|Headlights / Taillights
|T3 / stock
|Outside mirror
|stock front and rear smoothed and tucked with front plate area removed, rear bumper frenched and peaked on ends
|Other body items
|driveshaft hump raised 4", smoothed firewall, custom filler panel from radiator to grille all by Xtreme Restorations, plating by Paul's Chrome (Evans City, PA)
|stock, custom colored in Plum
|Insert / Gauges
|stock with custom-made radio delete / stock with custom tach added to look factory by Xtreme Restorations
|Stereo / Speakers
|Kenwood (Long Beach, CA) DNX8120 head unit with 7" touch-screen and twin Kicker (Stillwater, OK) amps / Kicker and Polk Audio installed by Rudy Desautels at Xtreme Restorations
|Air conditioning
|Vintage Air (San Antonio, TX) with '60 Cadillac vents and custom faceplates
|Dynamat (Hamilton, OH)
|Painless (Ft. Worth, TX)
|Steering wheel
|stock modified by Xtreme Restorations
|Steering column
|stock, modified by Xtreme Restorations
|Interior mirror
|'60 Buick Electra 225 convertible front with custom rear buckets fashioned from stock '59 bench
|Rick Trebino (Bellingham, MA)
|Material / Color
|custom-dyed leather and brocade cloth / Chateau Mauve, plum
|custom plum loop with stainless mat trim
|'64 Chevrolet with custom Plum webbing
|Other interior items
|Door panel's custom with custom moldings for interior and trunk, push button starter all by Xtreme Restorations


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Piano concerto no. 21 in C major, K. 467 : autograph manuscript, 1785 Mar. 9?
Concertos, piano, orchestra, K. 467, C major
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Pilot's son helps direct rescue effort after banner-towing airplane goes down
An 8-year-old boy and a good Samaritan boater took part in rescuing a pilot whose plane went down in Block Island Sound Monday afternoon.
A marriage proposal also went down.
The Piper Pawnee plane, PA-25, had taken off at the Westerly Airport about 3 p.m., en route to Block Island, towing a banner that said, "Will you marry me," said James Warcup, an aeronautics inspector at Rhode Island Airport Corp.
"Within 10 minutes the pilot reported a loss of power," Warcup said. "He elected to ditch the plane in the Block Island Sound. When he did, the landing gear broke."
The Piper is registered to Mark Simmons of Pawcatuck, owner of Simmons Aviation, which has a division called Banner Tow-USA, according to the company's website. It is unclear if Simmons, a pilot who made a crash landing on a New Jersey golf course in 2010, was at the controls Monday.
Lt. Bryan Swintek, a Coast Guard spokesman at the Southeastern New England Sector at Woods Hole, Mass., said the Coast Guard took a call from New England Air Control about 3:21 p.m. reporting a radio transmission between a pilot and a young child who was later identified as the pilot's son.
Swintek said the pilot was reporting he was in distress and was "going down."
The Coast Guard contacted the boy, who said his dad had put out the distress call soon after takeoff, which helped the Coast Guard's search.
Swintek said as soon as the Coast Guard received the call it immediately put out an "urgent marine information broadcast" on the universal marine radio Channel 16.
Boats from Coast Guard stations at Castle Hill, Point Judith and Block Island were deployed for the search, along with a helicopter from Cape Cod. He said first responders from area towns were also alerted.
"We basically sent everyone in the area," he said. "We didn't have a good location."
He said a civilian boater rescued the pilot from the water about 3 miles south of Ninigret Pond in Charlestown, R.I.
The pilot was then brought aboard a Coast Guard vessel and taken to Point Judith for medical evaluation.
"He was alert and oriented when they got him," Swintek said. "He was speaking and did not appear to have any serious injuries."
Warcup said the Coast Guard dropped the uninjured pilot off at Point Judith about 5 p.m.
Swintek credited the son with being a big help in the mission.
"He was incredibly calm," Swintek said. "He played a key role in helping his dad."
Swintek said the aircraft had not yet been located or recovered.
"We're now making the transition from a search-and-rescue mission to a pollution-and-debris response," he said.
Simmons was the registered owner of another Piper Pawnee PA25 that made an emergency landing on a Westerly lawn on the Fourth of July in 2009. He was not piloting that flight.
Simmons was at the controls of a 1981 Skyhawk in June 2010, that made a crash landing on a fairway of Haworth (N.J.) Country Club after the aircraft lost power at 1,500 feet. Simmons was unhurt in that crash.
According to the FAA report, after landing Simmons had to maneuver the airplane to avoid a golfer. The airplane then became airborne again for about 200 feet, until the right wing struck a tree, spinning the aircraft around and causing it to come to rest in a sand trap.
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The Owling at Kettle Creek program will have people not only learning about owls, but also seeking them out.
The Owling at Kettle Creek program will have people not only learning about owls, but also seeking them out.
Brian Hardiman, an environmental educator at Monroe County Environmental Education Center, will discuss the types of owls that can be found in the area, and take participants on a hike to look for signs of owls.
"There are owls here year-round. The great horned owl and screech owl are year-round. They are nocturnal, so you won't find them like you do other birds during the day," Hardiman said. "There are certain locations on property with a lot of pine trees. Overall, in the two hours, we might walk a mile. It's more about going to spots looking for signs."
The signs that owls are nearby are typically a bit easier to find than an owl itself. Hardiman will lead the way in search of owl whitewash and pellets. That's an indication an owl is nearby.
"Pellets and whitewash is the key," he said. "Tapping on a tree that has a cavity could make an owl stick his head out to take a look."
Some common types of owls to the Pocono Mountains include the northern saw-whet, screech, great horned and long-eared.
"The barred owl is also common in the Poconos, but we've never recorded one on property," Hardiman said. "The barn owl is uncommon here. The two most common locally are the screech owl and the great horned owl."
The great horned owl is the largest you will find in the area. It could stand about 16 inches and would have a wingspan of about three feet. With a bird that large, you might think they would be easy to spot. But in the winter, they typically sleep in a cozy spot when you are out and about.
"These birds wintering here now are snoozing. At night, they are active and about," Hardiman said. "In the spring and summer, they will be focused on breeding and using different areas."
The program is for all ages and family-friendly. Hardiman will discuss the common owls to the area and how to locate them without disturbing them.
"Bring a camera. There is a possibility if we find one, depending on the species, to take a photo if they sit tight," he said.
Hardiman plans to go out a few days before the program to scout out the area, making it a little easier to find the signs of owls, as well as making the possibility of finding an owl greater.
"We'll be walking off trail and will be learning about the owls and signs. To find one will be a bonus," he said. "We'll do the best we can to find one. To find one will be the icing on the cake."


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LPhant 4 is a Fake
From the original post, Lphant 4.0 is a fake, at Triple Clic.
One of the best P2P hybrid clients (ed2k + torrent) till now, lphant, is no longer available at its original webpage. Its latest real version is lphant 3.51.
A company has taken over the webpage, and the new version lphant 4 is not the well known P2P client: it is a fake.
Be careful about installing lphant 4, because we can lose all of our downloads currently in progress. And what is even more important: if we don't keep the lphant 3.51 version installer, we will also lose the option to reinstall lphant again, since lphant version 4 overwrites the former version. In which once was the official webpage of lphant they have erased the previous versions, and they are deleting links to download the older version throughout the main download webpages.
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On March 2009 Discordia Ltd. got by force the lphant domain, by using legal methods. In the past, it has appllied the same tactic with success on the open source project Shareaza in 2008.
Discordia Ltd. is a group which attacks P2P clients and file distribution. In the Lphant case, it got the domain but didn't got the software, because they want to eliminate the orignal Lphant with this procedure:
Lphant advertising software suggests the user to upgrade to the new version 4. You visit the official website of lphant in the hands of Discord, download and install a program. This program deletes the previous version. This program is a fake, a costume, is not compatible with Torrent or eDonkey. At this point the user discovers he's lost lphant P2P client, and the page to download the previous version (v 3.51) no longer exists.
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The following debate between former UN Under-Secretary General, Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict and Sydney Peace Prize winner, Mr. Olara Otunnu, and General David Tinyefuza, a Senior Presidential Adviser on Security and coordinator for intelligence services was moderated by KFM's (Uganda) Andrew Mwenda.--They debated about whether the conditions in Northern Uganda amount to genocide. The following excerpts are attributed to Evelyn Lirri & Jane Nafula who listened in. The excerpts were originally posted on January 18, 2006, on
Mr. Otunnu, why do you describe the situation in Northern Uganda as a genocide perpetuated by the government of Uganda against the people of Acholi?
The human rights and humanitarian catastrophe which is unfolding in Northern Uganda is nothing short of a methodical and comprehensive genocide conceived and being carried out by the government of Uganda. In fact I know of no situation where all the elements that constitute genocide under the Convention of 1948, have all been brought together in such a diabolic and chilling comprehensive manner as in northern Uganda.
The issue of genocide is not a matter of guesswork; it doesn't lie in the eyes of the beholder. We have the Convention, which provides the very specific criteria by which you describe genocide, in fact you take that criteria measure them with the facts on the ground and that tells you whether or not there is genocide.
How does the Convention describe genocide and how are the elements of that definition manifest in Northern Uganda?
Genocide is the project or campaign directed against a particular community and that community can be defined in racial, linguistic, ethnic or political terms and the purpose is to destroy that community in whole or in part, preventing it from preservation of development and typically really what that translates into is the targeting of physical preservation and livelihood, culture and children of the community, family structures and lives of the communities. This is precisely what has been going on in northern Uganda for many years.
Can you give us the specific actions that you think support your argument?
The height of the genocide project is the concentration of camps in northern Uganda. The 200 camps in Acholi, Lango and Teso are the very infrastructure for prosecuting this genocide. We have learnt for example that people are dying at the rate of 1,000 a week in these camps, that's about 50,000 a year in the Acholi region alone, the rate of death in northern Uganda is twice the mortality rate in Darfur.
The infant mortality rate in these camps is the worst anywhere in the world and the malnutrition level is in such a way that 41 percent of the children under five are seriously stunted in their growth. Access to sanitation is abominable. The imaginable situation in which 85 percent of the population have no access to latrines is the kind of emergency situation in northern Uganda.
In Otuboi camp, for example, more than 1,500 people share one latrine, that's about 20 seconds per day per person and in other camps like in Orombo and Lugoro, 4,000 people share one latrine. Access to water takes four to six hours in lines to get water.
Are these manifestations of poverty in Uganda or just incompetence of the government?
Genocide does not occur accidentally; in the case of northern Uganda we have got a well-established pattern of a hate campaign and this punctuates a genocide campaign. A hate campaign led by President Yoweri Museveni himself and his associates and this is well documented and then the camps which are established by the government and the deadly conditions in the camps. Most of the people didn't go to the camps running away from danger. They were uprooted from their land and homes and taken to these concentration camps so the government has created the condition deliberately.
I find it strange that Mr. Otunnu looks at government as perpetrators of what he calls genocide. He does not in any way look, or see any fault in Kony. He is not only an apologist of rebellion but he even sounds an active participant.
What is happening in Northern Uganda is an insurgency and ordinarily the people who are insurgents target civilians. We started fighting Lakwena and UPM before her and even in Teso we had never put people in concentration camps because at that time the mode of operation of rebellion was different.
There were some disagreements in the northern populations and some of the populations did feel aggrieved and they did join rebellion and after some time the people turned against the rebels and therefore the mode of recruitment was abduction, the people were now targeted. The Aboke girls were not abducted by government; Sir Samuel Baker Secondary School was not attacked by government. Lango, which has recently witnessed an uprising, and Teso was not attacked by government. There were two ways to handle this situation.
One, our people would go to exile and it always happens we have almost two million Sudanese people, 1.5 million are resident in northern Uganda in Adjumani, Arua and Masindi. What does that mean? It means that in our situation Southern Sudan was not safe, Congo was not peaceful, we could not allow our people to be targets of these thugs who were abducting people and recruiting them forcefully into rebel ranks.
In other words, we have to make a choice; do we allow Kony to abduct the people, use them against us because his argument is Kony abducts these people, gives them guns and when we fight then we are killing them and we should allow children to cross Karuma when they are armed.
[...] I was reading his article you know these politicians, they think war is about poetry...the bird standing on the tree and singing. When you read that very, very unserious stuff, he is talking about water, sanitation, the toilets, let him come here to Namuwongo; how many toilets are there? What is this man talking about? Almost all the urban centers are the under-development of the African State; they are not better than those camps.
Otunnu says that the population is trapped in the gruesome fight of LRA and the genocide project and the atrocities and humiliation, which are systematically carried out by the Museveni regime…
Are we putting people in camps to exterminate them or to protect them because this is what he is adducing, these are incidental factors they are not the main factors. We have put people in camps but Kony organizes and raids the camps. The people in Teso we had returned them but Kony raided them. So Mr. Olara sees we are the problem and Kony who abducts is not a problem.
I see that he does not challenge facts that are on the ground and instead the General is arguing that these conditions in the camps are generally in Africa.
He said they are not deliberate but incidental and they happen in spite of, not because of the government.
The LRA has been responsible for the brutal atrocities including massacres and abducting children and maiming of people, which they must be accounted for.
However, as you heard from the General, the LRA is being cynically manipulated to divert the attention of the genocide unfolding in the camps. LRA is in fact being used as a pretext to cover the genocide in Northern Uganda. Most of the people in the camps did not run away voluntarily from their homes.
They were given 48 hours and their homes were burnt down by government forces; they were bombed by helicopter gunships. The hate campaign, which I document, shows the kind of dehumanization and demonization such that it prepares the way for genocide and then the camps, which we say, you create concentration camps so that the conditions are rife and they begin to die of those conditions. They begin to die from preventable diseases, from malnutrition, from malaria from preventable diseases. These are conditions deliberately imposed...
I don't know when Mr. Otunnu was last in this country to know what has been happening. I will tell Mr. Otunnu that when we had ADF incursions in western Uganda there were camps in Bundibugyo, in Fort Portal and in Kasese basically to protect the population because in an insurgent situation the population is the prime target because insurgents look for soft targets that's the first duty of the government We have actually put our people in camps to protect them. So it is not an Acholi factor.
[...] I think Olara has no moral authority to speak about the government and President Museveni being an ethnic devil like he said. Olara Otunnu himself was presiding over a rotten regime here when we came here in 1986, you now forget so fast. Uganda was like Somalia. This was a man who was Minister of Foreign Affairs. They should just keep quiet and let us put this country right.
First of all I am not the one who has devil-ized the regime of Mr. Museveni. This is a thing that Mr. Museveni started himself. Let me tell you something...you listen very carefully to what Mr. Museveni said ..."We shall get them like the ensenene insect you know ....those people are not biological human beings ...wait and see we shall teach them a lesson which they will never recover from ....those people are swines... we are killing off the anyanyas... they are not Ugandans the chauvinism of Acholi has to be destroyed... we have not yet punished them enough," and so on.
These are pronouncements, which have defined the hate campaign orchestrated by Mr. Museveni and his associates. In fact last year Uganda journalist not [myself] Mr. Patrick visited Uganda and wrote "Ugandans south of the River Nile and their friends do not know the genocide taking place in Northern Uganda. Now another commentator who visited the region and wrote of what he saw and he wrote and I quote... "Not a single incident can explain the sickening human catastrophe going on. The degradation the isolation and the horrors killing off generations after generations. Frankly I can describe what I saw as extinction facing the people of Acholi and Lango.
I encountered unique and heart-breaking death and suffering, stalking people by the minute, by the hour, every day for the last two decades''. These children, these women have committed no crime to deserve this. They deserve an explanation from their President Museveni, they deserved it yesterday, they do so today and they will tomorrow. Now the General does not discuss these facts put before him instead he goes to discuss other matters.
For example he talks about insurgency elsewhere let him give you a very precise example. In Burundi in 1996, the government started doing exactly what Museveni is doing in the North, rounding up people mainly Hutus and bringing them into concentration camps calling them, just like in Northern Uganda, protected villages making the same argument that this was being done to protect them from the insurgency.
The international community looked at this and said, you must dismantle these camps and let the people go back to their villages and indeed within months the Burundi government had dismantled these camps.
It's the measure of double standards and conspiracy and complicity of the international community that no such position was taken with regard to exactly the same phenomenon in northern Uganda, in which war has gone on for 10 years straight.
In order to commit genocide you do not have to go through this laborious method of putting people in camps; the Rwandese genocide of 1994, people were not in camps.
Otunnu says in Uganda HIV/Aids is being used as a deliberate weapon of mass destruction. Government soldiers are screened and those who are tested positive are then especially deployed in the north with the mission to commit havoc on the local girls and women thus almost a zero base HIV/Aids infection among the rural base has galloped to a staggering level. A recent survey found a 30 per cent infection rate in Kitgum compared to a national level of five per cent.
That is an insult to us and when I hear someone writing that you know these are the biggest collaborators of the rebels. Mr. Olara Otunnu himself I can tell you that his brother who is a professor actually was a [webmaster] of the LRA running their website and up to now we know what is happening. There is nobody who knows what this northern tragedy has caused to our own army.
Our army has suffered most; our soldiers are victims of HIV/Aids. There are many people here who are HIV-positive; they are alive because they have medical care, they do not live strenuous lives, they eat three meals a day. Our soldiers do not have the food to eat they do not have water to drink they walk on foot... To say we screen our soldiers and those who test positive are sent to the North as a matter of fact is actually against the law but we actually screen our soldiers.
These days for anybody to join the army you are screened, anybody to attend courses you are screened because we no longer want to subject our people to these strenuous exercises, which they cannot manage.
The pattern of deliberate rape began in 1996 at that time aimed at humiliating the community; now HIV/Aids is specifically being used as a weapon of mass destruction in Northern Uganda this is well documented. We have testimonies of women who are raped by soldiers who say they are HIV positive and subsequently the women have tested HIV positive. I'm not attacking soldiers because they are HIV positive.
I am attacking the use of the HIV status as a way of spreading the diseases and destroying the community. Figures have shown this.
Thirty per cent of people in Kitgum are positive, 42 percent of women have tested the same and 27 percent of children who have been to Lacor Hospital have tested positive. These figures are all accurate; the General cannot contradict these figures and this is in relation to the situation before the insurgency, where prevalence was almost at zero.
In the history of Uganda and the army, it is only the NRM which has publicly executed soldiers for either murder or indiscipline; 133 soldiers have been publicly executed, 67 of them in northern Uganda for crimes committed against the civilian population. Now on HIV/Aids, the northern Uganda population is mobile; it does not live on an island secured by barbed wires. They come to Kampala, they go back, their children are in Kampala even now in Kampala there are fresh infections of HIV/Aids.
But why is Kitgum infection rate at 30 percent?
Instability does compromise health and medical care in an area. It does compromise the economic setting and the political setting of an area. It does interfere with education.
Gen Tinyefuza, President Museveni, one human being, is guarded by a Presidential Guard Brigade; 12,000 men armed with tanks, mambas and whatever it is. Prof. Nabudere who visited camps in northern Uganda told me that a camp of 15,000 is guarded by 15 soldiers!
There is what we call mobile defense; we put 15 soldiers on static defense they guard the camp but we create mobile units to hunt down the rebels who are moving in the countryside. For you what you want us to do is to bring all those soldiers just like sitting ducks.
Nearly one third of the total defense budget defending only one person. One man needs 30 percent of defense.
There is what we call a centre of gravity. Obote failed to realize that. He thought he was being very smart, he thought that he did not need all that because he was a populist he lost power twice through this country in turmoil, we have not recovered from up to now.
In what respect can one explain to the people of Northern Uganda the concept of peace, stability, democracy, and good governance when what has been going on has been taking place for 20 years non-stop? Unless, of course, the view is that Northern Uganda is not part of Uganda.
Mr. Otunnu, why did it take you so long to raise your voice against what you say is genocide in Northern Uganda?
That's not true. Mr. Museveni, Mrs. Museveni, Mr. Omwony Ojok all got up to attack me because of what I said as far as 2001 in the Commission of Human Rights meeting in Geneva. I made a speech I can make available to you. You also recall that I was viciously attacked by the Ugandan government in Canada when at a meeting discussing children and armed conflict I said the children of northern Uganda were experiencing genocide.
What is happening in northern Uganda is not genocide. There is no deliberate effort to exterminate the Acholi as Otunnu says. In genocide you aim at exterminating people based on ethnicity and race. If we wanted to exterminate the Acholi we would not have taken them to the camps we would have left them and when the soldiers kill them we say [it's] Kony.
How can a ragtag force, 80 per cent of whom are abducted children, involuntary combatants, poorly-trained, armed and poorly-fed confront an army that is headed by educated generals like yourself comprised of 56,000 troops armed with mambas and helicopter gunships for 20 years?
We have been pursuing Kony outside the borders of Uganda and that shows you that geopolitical dimension of this conflict. We have so far rolled back the geopolitical threat and we are willing...
It's not by accident that the LRA and the war in the north have gone on for 20 years. The reason is that the Museveni regime has no interest in ending that war. The war provides a cover for genocide; it provides a cover for corruption.
Let me tell Mr. Otunnu that contrary to what he said that we do not want to end the war in the north, we have by and large actually defeated the LRA.
You have defeated them 30 times…
There is empirical evidence that we have flashed rebels from Congo and Sudan and defeated a group of them. They no longer have any sophisticated arms; we have rolled back the geopolitical threat. We defeated those fellows who were in Sudan, defeated them in Congo and we are rounding the remnants. So contrary to what Mr. Otunnu says, the UPDF and the NRM has actively defeated and continues to weaken the LRA. Very soon our people will move back from the camps. We have so far rescued 17,000 children.
You can mention one million achievements you have made but the problem is that you have not ended the war.
No I heard him talk about the genocide, but I said there is no genocide; there is incidental human catastrophe. Actually for me the condition our people are living in does not amount to genocide. When I challenged him whether we are actively committing genocide, exterminating a group because of its ethnicity, its race, this is what he said. "You can judge genocide from pronouncements." This is what he is saying? He is a lawyer but...
Someone says "Tinyefuza describe the rounding up of 690 civilians and suffocating them in the railway wagon. Is that not a crime against humanity?
Now there are isolated incidents of murder and crime. Genocide is not one of those. It is about the magnitude. People should not be misled those are crimes.
Why doesn't Museveni declare Northern Uganda a disaster zone?
It has its own implications. It was debated in Parliament and if you declare, in fact people who want to declare it a disaster zone are misinformed because once you do so even the rules which apply there will be different. And we don't think it is in the interest of those people. For them they are looking at NGO support.
They are not looking at other limitations to human freedom and so on and therefore the approach will be different and I think we have not gone there yet.
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As Helping Hands for Elders, Home Care Workers Push for Respect
Somewhere in your community today, an elder person is wondering when she'll be able to take her medicine today, or have a chance to see the sun. And her mind will be put at ease once her aide arrives to help her get dressed, eat breakfast or take a walk in the park. For millions of aging households, a home care worker is the only person who provides the day-to-day assistance and emotional interaction they need to function. Yet, typically, that worker is neglected herself--by the government.
Workers caring for our greying population are intimately woven into our family lives, but are alienated from essential labor protections--though that could change soon. As we've reported previously, a longstanding loophole in the Fair Labor Standards Act excludes home care or "companionship" workers from minimum wage and time-and-a-half overtime regulations. Nationwide, about 2.5 million home care and personal assistance aides--projected to grow to about 3.8 million by 2020--work around the clock to help their clients handle the basics of life, while often themselves scraping by on poverty wages.
Back in the early 1970s, Rep. Shirley Chisholm called attention to the plight of home-based workers who had been shut out of regular labor standards. A generation later, workers' rights advocates are pushing the Labor Department to follow through on a proposed rule change to extend federal minimum wage and overtime protections to currently excluded home care workers--who are disproportionately female and of color.
According to the National Employment Law Project:
The annual income for a home care worker employed for 40 hours per week at the 2009 median wage of $9.34 an hour for the industry was just $20,283—far below a basic self-sufficiency income for a single adult, let alone someone supporting a family as many home care workers do.
State laws offer only incomplete protections for these aides. As the need for community-based health services expands and the healthcare affordability crisis strains state and family budgets, advocates say time is running out to create a sustainable home care workforce.
At a recent House subcommittee hearing, NELP legal co-director Catherine Ruckelshaus described how the law hurts both the workers and the people in their care:
[W]hile most home care workers are currently paid a dollar or two more than the federal minimum wage for hours that they work directly providing care, their exclusion from the minimum wage means that employers are not required to pay them for all of their work hours, including work time spent traveling from one client's home to another. …
[The] lack of ordinary overtime coverage has likely been one of the factors that has encouraged the use of a high-hours staffing approach by some employers when serving the very small proportion of home care consumers who receive seven-day-a-week care.
Moreover, as with other marginalized job sectors, such as farmworkers, exclusion from federal labor law means that the home care workforce suffers generally from high turnover, and is more vulnerable to workplace injuries. Adding to the day-to-day miseries of the job is the fact that many of these workers earn so little they have to rely on public assistance to get by. Since the government is footing much of the nation's bill for both elder care services and public benefits for workers, Ruckelhaus stated, "Raising wages modestly could therefore result in an overall costs savings to Medicaid home care programs and state budgets."
The video narrative of Maria Luna from Mexico--part of the Caring Across Generations campaign, which advocates for home care workers' rights--reveals the tender paradox of their struggle:
I heard that older people in the United States spend a lot of time alone, or many times when they are old, their sons and daughters abandon them. And even if these elders had everything, their sons and daughters were not with them... I remember deciding that I'm going to make a difference when I work with elder people. I will BE this difference.
But the grandmother goes on to talk about how workers like her have to struggle without health insurance. Someday she'll need someone to look after her. How sad that the workers fighting to sustain this virtuous circle--the will to care for the generations who raised us--have so long been trapped in the cycle of poverty.
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As With Death-Threat Arrest, AP Treats Wis. Union Intimidation of Businesses As a Local Story
Once again, despite almost two months of national coverage Wisconsin's collective bargaining law and the protests and bad behavior which have accompanied it, the Associated Press is deciding that the nation's news consumers outside of the Badger State don't need to read, hear, or see news relating to unions and leftists acting illegally.
In a post on Saturday (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted that the wire service treated the arrest of Katherine Windels for issuing death threats to all but one of the GOP's state senators as a local story. Later on Saturday, NB's Noel Sheppard noted the virtual absence of media coverage of Windels' arrest on any broadcast network newscast or cable new show (except Fox's O'Reilly Factor).
The AP apparently believes that unions attempting to intimidate businesses into supporting their agenda — or else — isn't something that anyone outside of Wisconsin should care about. Even then, there is a palpable reluctance by the wire service to provide much in the way of accurate detail.
Here are some those details, as reported at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's online blog (bold is mine):
WSEU circulating boycott letters
Members of Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, have begun circulating letters to businesses in southeast Wisconsin, asking them to support workers' rights by putting up a sign in their windows.
If businesses fail to comply, the letter says, "Failure to do so will leave us no choice but (to) do a public boycott of your business. And sorry, neutral means 'no' to those who work for the largest employer in the area and are union members."
Jim Parrett, a field representative of Council 24 for Southeast Wisconsin, confirmed the contents of the letter, which carries his signature. But he added that the union was also circulating letters to businesses thanking them for supporting workers' rights.
Parrett said that since the letters were sent out, he has received threatening phone calls as well as calls from people supporting the state workers.
"I've gotten a lot of threatening phone calls," Parrett said.
… In the letter from Parrett to some businesses, he says that, "It is unfortunate that you have chosen 'not' to support public workers rights in Wisconsin. In recent past weeks you have been offered a sign by a public employee who works in one of the state facilities in the Union Grove area. These signs simply said, 'This Business Supports Workers Rights,' a simple, subtle and we feel non-controversial statement gives the facts at this time."
Parrett said a number of WSEU locals in his region represent more than 1,300 union workers who have a combined yearly income of more than $56 million.
… Terri Gray, executive director of the Union Grove Chamber of Commerce, said she had received many calls from member businesses about the union-led effort. She said most of the calls came from businessmen and women who preferred to remain neutral in the dispute between Gov. Scott Walker and organized labor.
"They don't want to pick a side," she said. "I told them, 'I believe you can choose to not choose.'"
Here is how the AP reported it, in full, on Thursday:
Union warns of boycotts for lack of support
Some members of the State Employees Union are warning businesses in Wisconsin to either support collective bargaining for public employees or face a boycott.
A letter from Council 24 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees asks businesses to express support by displaying a sign in their window. The letter says failing to support the union will mean a public boycott of the business. And, that neutral means 'no' to supporting the union.
Jim Haney from Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce calls the union's letter appalling. Haney says businesses shouldn't be forced to choose if they want to remain neutral.
Council field representative Jim Parrett, who signed the letter, tells the Journal Sentinel that he has gotten threatening phone calls since the letters were distributed, as well as calls of support.
Why either the Journal Sentinel or the AP is particularly concerned about the grief Parrett is getting is beyond me. After all, he is the instigator. Also, memo to AP: Your opening sentence makes it appear as if rogue union members are involved. Parrett and other Council members who were almost surely aware of the letter's content aren't "some members" of the union; they're union officials, and should have been tagged as such in the opening sentence.
The J-S and AP should be more interested in whether crimes are being committed in the boycott threat. Bret Jacobsen at BigGovernment.com notes a couple of laws which have likely been broken.
A Google News search on the "Union Warns of Boycotts" (in quotes, sorted by date, with duplicates) returns 28 items, all of which appear to be Wisconsin-based.
The Windels and intimidation-boycott incidents demonstrate that more than any other single organization in America, the Associated Press is driving national news coverage priorities. If AP doesn't think it's news, it will normally take a great deal of attention elsewhere before it becomes otherwise visible. Likewise, if AP wants to keep a story local by refusing to feed it to its subscribers nationwide, it will take a significant effort by someone else before it will become more generally noticed. Even when made visible by others, the stories involved are far less likely to get the attention of the 80%-85% of Americans who are relatively disengaged and get their news through passive formats like top-of-hour radio broadcasts and television.
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Global shark catch is staggering. As many as 73 million sharks are taken from the ocean each year; most are relieved of their fins and dumped back in the water while still alive. These beautiful and important predators now face serious threats from our wanton harvesting, mostly to satisfy the demand for shark fin soup.
First and foremost this is tragic simply in terms of human decimation of biodiversity. Excepting that ecological concern, there are real reasons to worry from an entirely anthropocentric standpoint. For one, sharks provide ecotourism benefits to many coastal economies, as divers pay substantially to see them. Also, as apex predators, a decline in shark populations can lead to explosions of other species on lower trophic levels, which can threaten ecosystems of commercial importance For example, fewer sharks lead to more rays which lead to less scallops for us to sell for dipping in butter.
Is there an answer? Shark sanctuaries are fantastic; they represent the ideal of conservation. However, given problems with enforcement and the potential for bans to simply displace degradation rather than curtail it, national prohibitions don't seem realistic as a complete solution.
I argue, rather, that we need to recognize — at least in the interim — the reality that shark finning will likely continue. We would do well then to incentivize conservation and better management so that fishermen and fleets develop an interest in preserving rather than over-harvesting. In this class paper, I lay out the economic reasoning for a nation-by-nation transferable shark fishing quota system.
This would push harvests toward social and biological optimums; in conjunction with marine protected areas and fishing best practice standards, a quota system might actually slow the destruction of shark populations worldwide.
It's not a particularly palatable option for shark lovers (myself included). Under a quota system, some number of sharks like the one above will still be killed for an overpriced, elitist broth. But it also might do better to ensure that a sustainable population of sharks sticks around.
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Police: Mobile meth lab found in woman's car
Police in Port Orange making a routine traffic stop said they found a mobile meth lab and arrested the driver.
Officers said they pulled over 37-year-old Cheri Milligan in the 400 block of Herbert Street and found a suspicious backpack in her vehicle.
The backpack had fumes emanating from it, according to authorities.
Police said Milligan gave them consent to search her car, and they found chemicals and materials for the making of meth.
Hazmat crews were called to clean the scene, and Milligan was arrested, investigators said.
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(Pocket-lint) - Canon hasn't announced that it is making a Compact System Camera, nor has it detailed any information about whether it will in the future, but that hasn't stopped one designer creating what he believes a Mirrorless camera from Canon should look like - if the camera company were to make one.
"Like many others, I too have been waiting for quite a while for Canon to release its mirrorless system. There are speculations and indications that they may very well do so this year, but I personally grew a bit restless," writes designer David Riesenberg on his blog.
"Because of this, I decided to put to paper, or rather to CAD and rendering software, my vision of such camera. After about a month of learning, debating, modelling and rendering, the Canon AE-D came to life."
The following 11 renders detail loads of features Riesenberg wants in his new Canon camera, including a cool-looking pop-up flash and an electronic viewfinder that attaches to the hot shoe, but still gives you a hot shoe to attach a flash gun to. Clever.
Retro yes, Olympus OM-D inspired certainly, but we know that if Canon produced anything even half as good we would definitely want one in our camera bag.
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Don't think twice -- Miley Cyrus is doin' Dylan.
The 18-year-old "Can't Be Tamed" singer will cover legendary songsmith Bob Dylan for a charity tribute album, E! News reported on Wednesday.
Other pop stars set to contribute tracks for "Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International" include: Adele, Sting and Ke$ha, according to E!
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Patti Smith and Dave Matthews Band have also signed on for the project, Britain's Daily Express newspaper reported.
The paper noted Ke$ha has told Rolling Stone Dylan was a "huge influence" on her, especially because he "writes his own music and means what he says."
Cyrus may not have name-checked Dylan like she did Jay-Z and Britney Spears in her hit anthem "Party in the U.S.A." But the former "Hannah Montana" star has a history of covering rock classics, according to E! She's done Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn."
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DANCING WITH THE STARS – 9:00PM (ABC) It's the finale tonight, and your three finalists vying for the elite title of Dancingest Star are Jennifer Grey, Kyle Massey (who?), and the immortal Bristol Palin, who has proven that teen motherhood should never be a roadblock to winning a reality show while your mom uses a very small portion of her massive book earnings to spring for daycare. Who will take it? Who will win America's heart? I think it's obvious, don't you? After all, the general public is voting for this thing. "700 Club" viewers will be jamming up the lines, stumbling over their walkers to vote for young Palin. It's in the bag, people. Bet everything you have, even your political credibility. Oh, and Christina Aguilera pops up to sing a song. Because she has a movie to bother you with. ANTICIPATION: PALINMANIA!
GLEE – 8:00PM (FOX) It's an inspired bit of guest casting tonight when Carol Burnett drops in to play Sue Sylvester's Nazi-hunting mother. That is awesome. It's almost enough to get me to watch. Do they still sing on this show? They do? Well then, I'll have to politely decline once more. ANTICIPATION: SUERIFFIC!
REAL SPORTS – 10:00PM (HBO) Tonight on Bryant Gumbel's festival of depression, a look at the ancient sport of falconry. I swear that's what the guide says. They aren't even being jokey about it. And here I thought Will Forte would show up with a stuffed bird. Also tonight, a profile of women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma and a look at hazing among black college marching bands. Is it me, or does this show go out of its way to do stories about sports NO ONE ever watches? Marching bands aren't even a sport. They're sports garnish. And I swear they do a track and field story every other episode. Would it kill them to talk about the NFL or something? Just once? ANTICIPATION: DOWNER!
PARKING WARS – 10:00PM (A&E) Men outside a Detroit mosque become very angry when their cars are ticketed. Chances of everyone in this situation overreacting by a factor of about thirty? One to one. ANTICIPATION: CONTROVERSY!
MILLIONAIRE MATCHMAKER – 9:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal network) Patti sets up a lady who poses for romance novel covers. But how am I supposed to date her with that handsome vampire holding her with her back arched? ANTICIPATION: FABIO!
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There's going to be one whopper of a parade Wednesday in San Francisco to celebrate the Giants winning the World Series, and everyone planning the event has the same message: Build in a lot of extra time for getting around, and if you're looking for trouble, stay home.
And oh, yes - have a great time.
The last time the Giants were baseball's champions, in 2010, more than 1 million people flooded downtown for the 1 1/2-mile parade of players and celebrities up Market Street to City Hall. Authorities expect about the same number this time.
"Our main advice is to be patient," said Alicia Trost, spokeswoman for BART, which will be running trains on rush-hour schedules all day to deliver people to the 11 a.m. parade and take them back home. "This is a family event, so be courteous and know that it will be very crowded - but also know that it's going to be fun and we will get you there safely."
Record ridership
BART ridership during the last parade on Nov. 3, 2010, set an all-time record with 522,200 passengers - about 120,000 more than the usual daily ridership now. A few stations had to shut their doors briefly because the platforms were jammed, and Trost reckons there's a chance of a repeat performance Wednesday.
Similar seat-packing is anticipated for ferries, buses, taxis, trains and any other mode of transportation that can bring people downtown.
Caltrain is adding trains coming up from the Peninsula; Muni will add shuttle buses to augment its Metro service; and the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District will put extra ferries on standby.
Route changed
Unlike in 2010, when the parade started with a hook into the Financial District, this one will begin at the foot of Market Street near the Ferry Building and take a straight run to City Hall. Streets all along the route will be blocked off.
"Last time there was just one day in between the victory and the parade, so this time at least we've got an extra day to prepare, and that helps," said Mary Currie, Golden Gate Bridge District spokeswoman.
There was fear that rain would dampen the frolics, but forecasters now say an incoming storm has slowed and the wet weather isn't expected to descend until around midnight Wednesday.
"No sweat," said Jan Null, who operates the private Golden Gate Weather Services. "Some clouds will come in and there may be some of that misty stuff toward the beginning of the day, but during the parade the weather should be just fine."
Early arrivals
Hundreds of people came to Market Street the night before the 2010 parade to camp out at good spots along the way, and untold thousands took the day off from work or school. There's no reason not to expect the same again.
"I'm definitely not going to school Wednesday," said Aminah Owens, 36, a criminal justice student at San Francisco State University who waited at AT&T Park on Monday with other fans to greet the returning Giants. "I'm super excited."
Mayor Ed Lee shrugged off the idea that Halloween might not be the best choice of days to hold a major parade.
"Oh gosh, I think orange and black on Halloween is very natural," Lee said with a grin. "I think that's a way to actually do two birds with one stone in terms of celebrating, because there were going to be people taking that day off anyway."
Vandalism 'over'
Lee also dismissed the possibility of a repeat of the vandalism that broke out after the Giants' clinching victory Sunday night, when a Muni bus was torched, numerous bonfires were set in the Mission District and 36 people were arrested.
"I think that's over," Lee said. "I think with the arrests, we've set a tone there now."
Although the 2010 parade was noticeably absent of violence or property damage, this year's shift in the parade route is partly the Police Department's doing. Making the route a straight line instead of doglegging it out of the Financial District will make it easier to patrol and to keep an eye on the crowds, Police Chief Greg Suhr said.
"This is a family event," Suhr said. "We want families, children, everybody to come."
But he did add a little fist to the velvet.
"If you're coming to do mischief," the chief said, "don't come."
San Francisco Chronicle staff writers Jaxon Van Derbeken, John Coté and Neal Riley contributed to this report.
Kevin Fagan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: kfagan@sfchronicle


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This Guide is organized around nine fundamental concerns, framed here as questions, which must be addressed when developing a problem-solving capacity within a crime analysis unit. The starting point will vary with the existing resources within the agency and on the extent to which new resources can be deployed. The questions are as follows:
Some of these questions have simple actionable answers; others do not. Many cannot be addressed without the full cooperation of the head of the analysis unit. Still others will require seemingly simple solutions—but in the face of structures that are resistant to development and change. Moreover, care must be taken to ensure that progress does not erode in one area while your attention is directed elsewhere. Attending to each question increases the likelihood that the crime analysis unit will contribute meaningfully to your departmental problem-solving efforts.
Analysts are often asked to perform a variety of non-analytical tasks, including providing computer and software support, secretarial and administrative assistance, and audiovisual and other technological aid. They are often assigned these duties because no one else is available to do them. Consequently, much of their time is spent doing other things. Their skills become more general, rather than specialized, as their time is frittered away on a scattering of requests and demands. If analysts are to perform high order analytical tasks, they must be free from non-analytical duties. Analysts should not be used to cover for departmental shortfalls, technical or otherwise. Neither should they be a crutch for poor resource allocation, training, or time management. Analysts will never fill their proper roles and functions if they cannot be fully committed to them.
In addition to protecting analysts from non-analytical duties, the evolution of problem solving requires that routine analysis be put on hold at certain periods of time. Analysts must be able to dedicate time and effort to learning the new tools and methods needed for problem solving. They must consistently sharpen their skills and knowledge over time.
Too often, crisis management and recurring obligations (e.g., weekly briefings or monthly reports), even when appropriately assigned, can prevent the development of new skills and capacities. Moreover, developing the specialized skills necessary for problem analysis requires ongoing assignment of staff. Consistency and balance in personnel is critical to ensuring that skills are developed and enhanced. The biggest long-term risk to analysts is a lack of professional progression.
Any group of analysts possesses inconsistent skill sets; and indeed, varying skills can be of great benefit to the unit as a whole if properly managed. However, this can result in a disproportionate workload if some skill or another is more needed or appreciated. Thus, you should avoid relying too heavily on any one analyst or any one particular skill. Rather, attempt to establish consistency through training, information sharing, and collective brainstorming. Skills that are shared among analysts will ensure a more balanced workload.
Most analysts have had only limited exposure to the principles of problem-oriented policing and some traditionally trained analysts have never heard of it at all. They must therefore be trained in the core concepts of problem-oriented policing. As a first step, analysts should be encouraged to read Crime Analysis for Problem Solvers3 and to consult materials on www.popcenter.org, the web site of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing. They should also be encouraged to attend training sessions and seminars, including the annual Problem-Oriented Policing Conference and the annual meetings of the International Association of Crime Analysts, where they can network with other like-minded analysts. If budgeting allows, consider hiring experts as departmental consultants and allow analysts to visit agencies with a track record of successful problem-oriented projects. Finally, analysts should be given every opportunity to participate as integral members of the team in problem-oriented projects. Practical experience will help them develop the confidence to apply new techniques and might even allow them to find new uses for old techniques.
Most police meetings about problems are not problem-oriented in nature; neither do they provide the same experience as problem-oriented policing projects. Managers should guide these projects to ensure that problem-solving efforts remain at the core of the approach. A cornerstone of effective guidance and supervision for crime analysts is nurturing a relentless and methodical approach to attacking problems. Problem-oriented methods do not always lead to quick success and, in fact, trial and error learning is expected. This is in contrast to traditional policing approaches, which focus on immediate responses to changing needs and circumstances. Analysts who are used to operating along such traditional lines often struggle with the longer term needs of problem-oriented projects. Scope creep, loss of focus, and confusing tactical responses can fray the edges of any effort. When combined with the myriad challenges associated with real world problem solving, these seemingly minor difficulties can lead to disappointment and disillusion.
It is therefore vital to instill the methodical long-term nature of problem-oriented policing in a team accustomed to non-methodical, short term tasks. When this is done successfully, analysts can sometimes be the glue that holds a project together because their methodical operations push the project from one stage to the next.
Traditional analytical skills closely mirror those needed by problem analysts. Both need timely and accurate information and both engage in similar analyses to distill data. Police data is heavily relational; analysts of both types must understand the nature of these relationships and how they can be deconstructed. However, problem solving calls for a different application of technology and data than traditional tactical analysis. In particular, it requires the analyst to expand the breadth and scope of the data in order to be able to, (1) analyze the diverse factors that contribute to a particular problem and, (2) assess the effectiveness of the responses implemented.
Good data is at the heart of good analysis and it is important that analysts dedicate time to establishing a timely flow of appropriate data. Because data collection is rarely done with sophisticated analysis in mind, data must often be processed for analytical needs. Moreover, because the data flow must be dynamic, changes to data processing are often necessary. As analysts get more sophisticated and the analytical process gets more streamlined, so should the data. Without consistent and accurate data, much of the time and money spent on tools and techniques will be wasted. Flexibility and creativity are more likely to produce better and faster results than are more complicated or sophisticated software products and techniques.
Problem solving also sometimes requires analysts to seek out or even create data sets that have never existed before. Analysts engaged in real world problem solving are less reliant on traditionally-structured quantitative data. Qualitative and unstructured data (including free-form field reports and other unstructured narratives) take on great importance in many problem-solving efforts. Problem-solving analysts must be adept at sifting and shaping these data sets into a cohesive form that can provide meaningful insight into a specific crime problem. But they must also possess an understanding of traditional policing practices and must be able to synthesize their analytical training with traditional theories, data, and technologies. It is this combination of skills—analytical and practical—that makes problem-solving analysts so valuable.
This guide does not consider individual software applications, databases and data structures, or specific analytical techniques. In fact, the only professional consensus seems to be in the types of technologies that are useful—i.e., relational databases, spreadsheets, statistical software, geographic information systems, web technologies, reporting software, link software, text analytics software, online analytical processing (OLAP) software, and so forth. There is certainly no consensus regarding specific hardware or software applications; the best methods for storing, retrieving, and processing various data types; or the best methodologies to apply to specific problems. Moreover, any consensus would likely be short-lived, as all of these applications and processes are subject to dramatic change as technology and methodology evolve due to cost, scale, experience, and any number of other factors.
Automation and newer, easier to use tools are a constant; data storage, structures, and mining techniques change. Analysts should be at the forefront of these evolving skills and technologies. They must be able to take advantage of everything that the current technologies offer while at the same time having the freedom to explore advances that will allow them to maximize their effectiveness in the future. Managers should work to create a professional environment that allows analysts to remain current with evolving technologies so that they can converse fluently with information technology personnel.
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These days, home equity is all the rage. During the housing boom, it was all about tapping into your home equity with a line of credit or a refinance –– the whole using your house as an ATM scheme to make lavish purchases or even pay the bills.
But nowadays, it's all about a lack of equity, negative equity, underwater mortgages, and so forth.
Funny how that works.
This reversal of fortune is a direct result of crashing home prices and zero down mortgages.
You see, many of those currently in trouble purchased homes at the height of the market at unsustainable prices, while at the same time relying on 100% financing to get the deal done.
As a result, they now find themselves between a rock and a hard place –– or whatever's worse than that.
This has caused many to leave or think about walking away, as home price deprecation is the leading driver of default.
But what if you actually want to stick around and ride it out? Well, you may be wondering how to build some home equity so when it comes time to sell (or refinance), you can do so without worry.
Let's look at the many ways you can build equity in your home:
1. Rising home prices – when home prices eventually turn around (I hope), you will gain equity simply because your home will be worth more. For example, if your home is currently worth $100,000, if it rises to $125,000 in five years, you'll have $25,000 more equity. Unfortunately, the opposite can also occur.
2. Falling mortgage balance – as you pay off your mortgage each month, you pay a portion of interest and a portion of principal (assuming it's not an interest-only home loan). Every time you make your mortgage payment you'll gain some home equity.
3. Larger mortgage payments – if you make larger payments each month, with the extra portion going toward principal, you will pay off your mortgage much faster and gain home equity a lot quicker.
4. Biweekly mortgage payments – you can even go with a biweekly mortgage payment plan, where you make 26 payments throughout the year. This will shave down your mortgage term, save you a ton in interest, and help you build home equity a lot faster.
5. Shorten mortgage term – you can also refinance into a shorter-term mortgage with a lower mortgage rate, such as a 15-year fixed, which will increase the size of your payments, but build equity much faster than a traditional 30-year mortgage.
6. Avoid refinancing – conversely, if you don't refinance and pull cash out, you'll retain all the equity in your home. During the boom, many homeowners refinanced over and over until they sucked their equity dry.
7. Home improvements – if you make smart home improvements, where the expected value exceeds the cost, you'll increase your home equity by having a home that's worth more. While it's seemingly completely played out, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances still draw buyers in, and you can sell for more.
8. Maintenance – keep your home in tip-top shape and you will be rewarded when it comes time to sell. If you can unload it for more as a result, you've essentially created more equity in your home.
9. Curb appeal – same goes for staging. Make your home look good when you list it and there's a better chance it'll sell, and sell for more. Simple things can make a big difference, such as new paint, carpet, bright lighting, cleanliness, plants, flowers, etc.
10. Bigger down payment – finally, you can make a larger down payment at the outset to automatically acquire home equity. While this may seem like you're putting money in an illiquid investment, more equity means a lower loan-to-value ratio, which equates to a lower interest rate and easier-to-obtain financing. Over time, that lower rate will mean less interest paid and more equity accrued.
Bonus: If you happen to be an underwater homeowner, get the bank to grant you principal forgiveness and you've essentially built home equity, even if you're still just above water as a result.
This post originally appeared on The Truth About Mortgage blog.
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Basically my take on Jazz's old jester outfit. I'm quite happy with how it turned out. I just hope Lex likes it as well.
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The spate of "Speed on a…" films shows no signs of stopping, because if it did, the action movie industry would explode. And so, because more obvious choices like "Speed on a boat" and "Speed on a train" have already been used, filmmakers have to get slightly more creative with their Speed- (and possibly speed-)inspired versions of the now-familiar "unstoppable destructive thing" genre. Hence the forthcoming indie thriller Grand Piano, about which The Hollywood Reporter encourages you to play the easily bored studio exec and "think Speed at a piano."
Specifically, think how that awkward pitch might apply to the story of a formerly great pianist played by Elijah Wood, whose first concert after a five-year hiatus becomes a quest to save his and his wife's lives after he discovers that someone has marked his sheet music with a "threatening note." We're not sure what exactly "threatening note" refers to, or how Wood's character would recognize it as such: Is it an E♭, where the "♭" is followed by "-omb your wife"? Is it the mythical "Brown Note"? Whatever the tip-off, Wood then knows he has to play "his best concert ever" if he wants to survive, and somehow this becomes "Speed at a piano." We suppose the comparison becomes slightly less ridiculous once you realize that Speed was essentially "Amadeus on a bus."


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