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Chicago's 2015 Budget Includes Tax And Fee Hikes
Gee, who could've anticipated new fee and tax hikes look to be in store for Chicago next year?
From Fran Spielman over on the Chicago Sun-Times website this morning:
[Chicago Mayor Rahm] Emanuel will campaign for re-election on a budget that raises $62.4 million through "targeted" tax hikes and closing "loopholes," which amounts to the same thing.
People who live, work and play in Chicago will be paying more for everything from parking and vehicle leasing to cable television and stadium skyboxes…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
These individuals have been doing that for a number of years now. Hal Dardick pointed out over on the Chicago Tribune site:
As the Chicago City Council prepares to approve his latest budget Wednesday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel repeatedly has reminded voters that he didn't raise city property taxes during his first four years in office.
But that doesn't mean homeowners haven't had to pay. Under Emanuel, vehicle stickers cost more. Cable TV and phone taxes went up. And water and sewer fees increased significantly…
Taken together, Emanuel's hikes mean the typical Chicago family will pay about $481 more to the city next year than it did in 2011. That's the equivalent of a typical Chicago homeowner paying 60 percent more in city property taxes, which are nearly $800 a year for city and library services on a $250,000 home…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
"Nearly $800 a year for city and library services on a $250,000 home"
In the Chicago neighborhood I recently moved out of, I'm not sure if any inhabitable houses at that price range with more than 2 bedrooms/1 bath even exists. So I'm guessing a number of my old neighbors- who already shoulder a significant tax burden for the city- will be somewhat pissed to hear of this "good news" coming out of City Hall.
That being said, it's not exactly Chicago's "financial reckoning day" we're talking about here. But it's probably not what Chicagoans want to deal with as the holiday season kicks-in.
As for the well-publicized pension crisis going on in the "Windy City," Spielman added:
By December, 2015, the City Council must decide whether to raise property taxes — or find other new revenues — to fund a state-mandated, $550 million payment to shore up police and fire pension funds.
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
So a property tax hike might also be coming down the pipeline.
One more thing. Regarding the ongoing manpower shortage in the Chicago Police Department? That doesn't look like it's going to be resolved in 2015. From the Sun-Times piece:
Once again, the mayor's budget includes only enough money to keep pace with retirements. It also includes roughly $70 million in police overtime, down from $100.3 million in 2013 and a projected $95 million this year…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
"Crime is down!" Yeah, whatever.
As always, I'm glad to see Fran Spielman and Hal Dardick are on top of their game.
What does all this mean for Chicago residents/workers/visitors?
It's probably wise to budget a good deal more money for anything city-related next year. Even more so in 2016 considering what could be in store with the city's public pension mess and what Cook County is telegraphing these days (blogged about Monday).
By Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
(UPDATE: The Chicago City Council approved Mayor Emanuel's proposed 2015 city budget Wednesday by a vote of 46-4, and "puts off dealing with the city's most vexing financial woes until after next year's elections" according to the Tribune Thursday morning)
Spielman, Fran. "Chicago City Council set to pass Emanuel's $7.3 billion budget." Chicago Sun-Times. 19 Nov. 2014. (http://politics.suntimes.com/article/chicago/chicago-city-council-set-pass-emanuels-73-billion-budget/wed-11192014-742am). 19 Nov. 2014.
Dardick, Hal. "Higher Emanuel fees and taxes add up." Chicago Tribune. 19 Nov. 2014. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-emanuel-budget-2015-met-20141118-story.html#page=1). 19 Nov. 2014.
Chicago Transit Authority Train Passengers Now Being Randomly-Screened For Explosives
Chicago Transit Authority train riders may spot something new at the stations in the coming weeks. From the ABC 7 (Chicago) website this morning:
CTA passengers are now subject to random screening for explosives at train stations across the city.
There is no known threat to the CTA, but Chicago police said the precautionary measure is another layer of security. The screenings went into effect Monday morning.
The Multi-Mode Threat Detector is capable of finding trace amounts of explosive compounds, officials said. A team of CPD transit officers will work at one CTA station a day with the machines.
A random number of people will be selected each time. For example, if that number were 10, every tenth person would be approached by an officer and the outside of his or her bag would be swabbed. That swab is then read by the Multi-Mode Threat Detector for the presence of any explosive residue…
"One CTA station a day with the machines." "A random number of people will be selected each time." Not exactly airtight security, but it's a start when it comes to protecting passenger trains and their riders against potential terrorist attacks. And when I say "start," I mean the bare minimum.
Which makes me wonder if it's not all just for show- certain politicians and public safety types trying to give Chicagoland the impression they're doing something to combat potential terrorism, when the reality may be that the measures taken might not be all that effective in stopping a determined bomber.
I hope I'm wrong. But checking around cyberspace, there's no shortage of critics of the new security screenings. Bill Savage, a Northwestern University professor, wrote in an opinion piece on the Crain's Chicago Business website last week:
Maybe this plan will deter any terrorist who happens to pick the one station a day being staked out. That terrorist will, of course, be too nearsighted to notice the cops. That terrorist will be randomly selected. That terrorist will be too tongue-tied to refuse the swabbing and then walk the half-mile to the next station that isn't hosting our crack one-station-at-a-time anti-terror team.
Security Theater will keep us all safe and sound, and everyone will live happily ever after.
Pass the popcorn. This is going to be an entertaining show.
If Chicago is going to perform random screenings for explosives on CTA trains going forward, my wish is that they have a plan in place to develop the program to be truly effective in thwarting a terrorist attack- while ensuring minimal intrusiveness to riders. Otherwise, "Security Theater" might not be able to stop something like this:
Madrid Train Bombings
(Warning: Violent Images)
YouTube Video
God bless those people.
In the meantime, CTA train riders should know the random bomb screenings have now started to take place. It's probably not a bad idea for commuters to factor in a couple of extra minutes for ride times in case they're selected to be swabbed.
By Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
"CTA Adds Random Screenings For Explosive." ABC 7. 3 Nov. 2014. (http://abc7chicago.com/traffic/cta-adds-random-screening-for-explosives-/378414/). 3 Nov. 2014.
Savage, Bill. "It's not CTA security- it's street theater." Crain's Chicago Business. 27 Oct. 2014. (http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20141027/OPINION/141029821/its-not-cta-security-its-street-theater). 3 Nov. 2014.
Chicago Police Department Manpower Shortage Worse Than Portrayed
Something tells me the popular Chicago police blog Second City Cop is going to have a field day with the following. Hal Dardick and Jeremy Gorner reported on the Chicago Tribune website tonight:
The ranks of the Chicago Police Department are well below full strength, even as the rate of hiring has increased in recent years, according to testimony Thursday before the City Council.
The department has 587 vacancies, with plans to hire 200 more officers in coming months — before accounting for end-of-the year retirements, Superintendent Garry McCarthy said during council hearings on Mayor Rahm Emanuel's 2015 budget proposal. The city is working to bring the department up to the full authorized strength of 12,533 officers, he said…
About 200 of the vacant posts are among rank-and-file officers, which would reach full strength at 9,608. The rest of the vacancies are among the ranks of detectives and police brass…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
"Full authorized strength of 12,533 officers"
I seem to recall "full authorized strength" for the Chicago Police Department meant 13,500 officers only a short while ago.
I blogged on October 26, 2012:
The Chicago FOP has argued for the past couple years that the Chicago Police Department should return to its previously budgeted strength of 13,500 officers.
Recently, Mayor Rahm Emanuel presented his 2013 budget to the Chicago City Council. Under "Investing to Enhance Public Safety," the Mayor called for, "Funding for CPD to hire officers to remain at full strength at all times."
I blogged back on October 12:
The Chicago Police Department to finally be at "full strength?"
That I've got to see.
Why do I suspect the goal posts are going to be moved here?
I was thinking of that 13,500 number when I wrote that.
Apparently, Mayor Emanuel and Superintendent McCarthy were thinking more along the lines of a thousand cops less. Dardick and Gorner added:
Before year's end, the city plans to hire 263 more officers, city officials said. And the mayor's proposed 2013 budget calls for hiring an additional 500 officers — four quarterly classes of 125. The goal is to keep the total number of officers at about 12,500.
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
Goal posts moved?
Goal posts moved.
And the CPD currently has 11,946 officers, while full-strength amounted to 13,500 just a few years back.
But seeing that "crime is down" in Chicago. Wink wink. Nudge nudge.
By Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Dardick, Hal and Gorner, Jeremy. "Chicago Police Department not at full strength, top cop says." Chicago Tribune. 30 Oct. 2014. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-police-budget-hearing-met-1031-20141030-story.html). 30 Oct. 2014
Chicago Preparing For Potential 9/11 Anniversary Terrorism?
I'm back. And just in time for the 13th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
While I haven't come across anything (yet?) from the feds about any specific terrorist threats related to tomorrow, I see New York City is ramping up "intelligence gathering and visibility."
Good for them. I've come to believe NYC (in particular, One World Trade Center aka Freedom Tower) and Washington, D.C., are primary targets for the Muslim extremists.
I wouldn't be surprised if Chicago is a target as well. After all, Al-Qaeda has reportedly mentioned the city as being one. I blogged back on May 6, 2011:
After receiving today's marching orders at their place of employment, a number of Chicagoans are settling down at their desks this morning and reading on the Chicago Tribune website:
Some of the first information gleaned from Osama bin Laden's compound indicates al-Qaida considered attacking U.S. trains on the upcoming anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. But counterterrorism officials say they believe the planning never got beyond the initial phase and have no recent intelligence pointing to an active plot for such an attack.
As of February 2010, the terror organization was considering plans to attack the U.S. on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. CNN reports that al-Qaida was particularly interested in striking Washington, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
Sounds like Chicago's Al-Qaeda's kind of town, right?
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
I've heard an Al-Qaeda expert or two say the group is big on "celebrating" anniversaries. Along with that purported Islamic State Twitter post with a photo of the Old Republic Building at 307 North Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago, one might think the City of Chicago, like New York City, would take precautions around 9/11/14.
If they are, major local news outlets aren't reporting it from what I can tell. I just visited a number of MSM news websites a short time ago and didn't see a thing. No news releases from the City of Chicago or its Office of Emergency Management and Communications either.
Now, that's not to say the "Windy City" isn't preparing for a potential terror attack. I'd like to think the City of Chicago and Chicago Police Department are taking a page out of the New York Police Department's playbook when it comes to 9/11 anniversaries. Collen Long of the Associated Press reported yesterday:
New York Police Commissioner William Bratton said the department is prepared.
"We will, as always, ramp up intelligence gathering and visibility," Bratton said. That means thousands of officers in specialized teams, bomb-sniffing dogs who can detect not only the scent of a bomb but the vapors of a moving target, undercover officers and teams of police using radioactive detection devices and other high-tech tools.
Intelligence officers around the globe will be reporting in regularly and monitoring events around the world. If something happens in Gaza, it's instantly felt in New York because of the large Jewish and Palestinian populations.
"Things ricochet real quick here," said intelligence chief Thomas Galati…
Too much to hope for considering the current state of affairs in the CPD?
I understand a new Gallup poll is out showing Americans still aren't concerned about terrorism these days despite the recent emergence of the Islamic State and what looks to be a competition between it and Al-Qaeda to see who can land a major blow against the American homeland first.
I cringe to think such indifference runs rampant among Chicagoans and their leaders too.
By Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Long, Collen. "NYPD says terror threat more complex than ever: 'It is layer upon layer upon layer'" Associated Press. 9 Sep. 2014. (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/9/nypd-terror-threat-more-complex-than-ever/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS). 10 Sep. 2014.
Thoughts On Concealed-Carry Permits And Their Relation To 'Falling' Chicago Crime
"I don't expect to see these numbers being touted by Chicago's mayor or the national media, but they should. The Windy City is one of the areas of the nation most plagued by violence and their efforts to make the entire metropolis a 'gun free zone' have only fueled further violence by those who weren't going to pay attention to the laws in the first place."
-Jazz Shaw, conservative blog Hot Air, August 25, 2014
A number of alternative media outlets are discussing a supposed correlation between concealed-carry permits being issued in the state of Illinois and "declining" crime in Chicago. Kelly Riddell reported on the website of The Washington Times this past weekend:
Since Illinois started granting concealed carry permits this year, the number of robberies that have led to arrests in Chicago has declined 20 percent from last year, according to police department statistics. Reports of burglary and motor vehicle theft are down 20 percent and 26 percent, respectively. In the first quarter, the city's homicide rate was at a 56-year low.
"It isn't any coincidence crime rates started to go down when concealed carry was permitted. Just the idea that the criminals don't know who's armed and who isn't has a deterrence effect," said Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association. "The police department hasn't changed a single tactic — they haven't announced a shift in policy or of course — and yet you have these incredible numbers."
As of July 29 the state had 83,183 applications for concealed carry and had issued 68,549 licenses… A July study by the Crime Prevention Research Center found that 11.1 million Americans have permits to carry concealed weapons, a 147 percent increase from 4.5 million seven years ago. Meanwhile, homicide and other violent crime rates have dropped by 22 percent.
The apparent correlation between more concealed-carry permits and falling violent crime both locally and nationally is interesting. However, in the case of Chicago, I suspect there's more at work here than just Chicagoans now walking around town armed with Illinois Concealed Carry Licenses and handguns.
"Better" policing, as Chicago Police Department Superintendent Garry McCarthy is supposedly countering with?
What changed?
I suspect the "falling" crime rates can also be attributed to crimes like robberies and burglaries just not being reported like they once were. I blogged back on Halloween of last year:
Enter the folks over at the insightful Chicago police blog Second City Cop, and something they wrote earlier this month. SCC blogged on October 16:
Perception is part of the key to people "feeling safe." The other part is actually being safe, having a visible patrol presence, being seen making arrests, performing traffic stops, and interacting with the public. That isn't happening in most "safe" neighborhoods because the manpower has been stripped (or retired without replacement) from those areas.
Add in a massive reclassification of crime, increased response times to discourage reporting of crime, making the 3-1-1 (Alternate Response) a nightmare to navigate through and you have all the makings of betraying trust with the community when they can see the uptick in crimes with their own eyes and they no longer believe your numbers.
Before I exited the city in May, I myself witnessed CPD manpower being stripped from my police district (16th), heard stories about this "massive reclassification of crime"- "downgrade and reclassify"- from Chicago police officers, and read about/personally experienced the "nightmare" in interacting with the Chicago Police Department (procedural, not personnel).
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
Make reporting crime a big pain in the butt for residents, and reported crimes like robbery and burglary plummet. Simple as that.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if a real correlation did exist between more Illinois CCLs out there in the city and less robberies and burglaries. I just don't think it's responsible for most of the drop in crime.
By Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Riddell, Kelly. "Chicago crime rate drops as concealed carry applications surge." The Washington Times. 24 Aug. 2014. (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/24/chicago-crime-rate-drops-as-concealed-carry-gun-pe/). 26 Aug. 2014.
This Is What A Good Old Fashioned Chicago Riot Looks Like
The 1968 Chicago West Side Riots were a little before my time (I was born a couple of years later on the West Side), but I remember hearing stories about the unrest growing up not too far from where they took place.
Here's a little taste of what went down, courtesy of "ChicagoFD1" on YouTube.com:
"Chicago Fire Dept. – Chicago Westside Riots 1968"
YouTube Video
By Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Chicagoans' Personal Safety Compromised By 'Stoning' Of Police In Ferguson, Missouri?
Anyone else been watching the events taking place in Ferguson, Missouri, the last couple of days? I haven't been following the racially-charged protests and looting as much I would have liked to. However, here's one observation I've made that many should do well to recognize in America of 2014:
You and you alone are ultimately responsible for your personal safety.
On Friday, I heard it mentioned in one of the live TV broadcasts from the embattled town that law enforcement was purposely being kept some distance away from the protesters with the idea being that if police officers weren't physically present, they wouldn't incite any violence, and Thursday's relative calm would continue.
Regrettably, things didn't go as planned as the looters moved in to take advantage of this situation (you don't say?). From the FOX News website Saturday:
Looters in Ferguson, Mo., were met with little police resistance Friday night and store owners say they were forced to protect their businesses with their own guns, Fox2Now.com reported…
A reporter from the station tweeted that police cars were seen driving past some of the stores being looted and did not respond. It rained in Ferguson Friday night and protesters could be seen outside until 6 a.m.
Two store owners, standing outside their business holding guns, told Fox2Now.com that when they called 911, they were sent from one police agency to another, and got no response.
One of the owners, with a large black gun resting on his shoulder, told the station that police were lined up blocks from the looting, and did not engage looters making off with large boxes from these stores.
"There's no police," he said. "We trusted the police to keep it peaceful; they didn't do their job."
Former St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch tweeted: "You did not see "police restraint" overnight. You saw police reluctant to act. We cannot keep stoning the keepers at the gate."
"We cannot keep stoning the keepers at the gate."
This activity- which President Barack Obama and others have been charged with undertaking during the Ferguson ordeal- hasn't been lost on at least some in the Chicago Police Department. From the popular Chicago police blog Second City Cop yesterday:
You know what we're hearing, loud and clear?
• Don't get out of the car. Ever. Indianapolis Metro Police Department be damned, if you get out of the car, the media will run half-truths, the community will riot, the brass will turn their backs and the politicians will run the bus over you, again and again and again in a constant loop.
In the urban centers, police work is done and the Law of the Jungle prevails. Protect yourself and your job. We never thought we'd have to type that.
"In the urban centers, police work is done and the Law of the Jungle prevails."
Can't say I blame them for feeling this way.
Consequently, Chicagoans better realize this is how things may stand going forward concerning their personal safety.
By Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
"'There are no police': Ferguson store owners guard businesses; cite lack of police response." FOX News. 16 Aug. 2014. (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/16/there-are-no-police-ferguson-store-owners-guard-businesses-with-own-guns-lack/). 17 Aug. 2014.
"Guess What Message We're Hearing." Second City Cop. 16 Aug. 2014. (http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2014/08/guess-what-message-were-hearing.html). 17 Aug. 2014.
Wilding Strikes Chicago's Uptown Neighborhood
"I had a group of about 20-30 swarm my car as I slowed to avoid hitting these kids. They started hitting and kicking my car and one of them opened my car door from the outside while another was grabbing at me… I also saw them assault other drivers, kicking and hitting their cars as they tried, and in some cases succeeded, in opening car doors."
-NBC 5 (Chicago) website, regarding Monday's wilding in Uptown
Last night, I was watching the WGN 9 (Chicago) evening news with my girlfriend when another wilding/flash mob/mob attack incident was talked about- this time north of downtown Chicago in the Uptown neighborhood. According to the WGN website:
A large group of teenagers caused chaos and damage in the Uptown neighborhood Monday night…
The teens ran and trampled on top of cars around Leland Ave and Beacon Street. Cars were dented, scratched and windshields were broken.
WGN 9 Video
NBC 5 reported there were "20-30 teens." I heard from a different news outlet that the feral youth numbered as high as 100.
My girlfriend said the Chicago Police Department had a strong presence downtown this past weekend. I can't help but wonder if this latest wilding incident might be signaling a new trend, where such criminal activity moves to nearby neighborhoods and streets because of more CPD police officers around the tourist hot spots. Time will tell.
By Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
"Massive 'Wilding' Incident Disrupts Uptown Traffic." NBC 5. 12 Aug. 2014. (http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Massive-Wilding-Incident-Disrupts-Uptown-Traffic-271001461.html). 13 Aug. 2014.
"Video captures vandals damages slew of cars in Uptown." WGN 9. 12 Aug. 2014. (http://wgntv.com/2014/08/12/group-damages-several-parked-cars-in-uptown/). 13 Aug. 2014.
Chicago Police Department Manpower Shortage Continues
It's nice and quiet around the house this Sunday morning. Why's that? My girlfriend is downtown this weekend, hitting the scene with friends from her college days.
So with Chicago's violent crime making headlines worldwide these days, am I worried about her safety?
Not really. First off, she's "street smart," having grown up in the city and lived there prior to meeting me and after we started dating years until we moved to the suburbs in 2013. Second, to quote that 1952 film classic The Quiet Man:
Oh, that red head of hers is no lie.
She'll beat on you if it comes to that…
Third, as I responded to a comment on the blog recently:
The city of Chicago is still generally safe. A healthy dose of "street smarts" and situational awareness goes a long way though when living there on a daily basis (i.e., don't stare at gangbangers, like one of my vehicle's passengers was doing while I was driving on a local expressway some years back)…
The majority of the shootings/murders are still confined to the "seedier" areas of Chicago. But criminal activity seems like it's picking up in a lot of other neighborhoods- including the "safe" ones- though "official" crime stats don't support this. I, for one, stopped trusting the government numbers a long time ago.
Still, I'd feel better knowing there were more police officers around. The manpower shortage in the Chicago Police Department is well-documented (hat tips Second City Cop and the Chicago Reader), and regular readers of Survival And Prosperity know it's something I've been blogging about for a couple of years now. In fact, Mick Dumke wrote the following over on the Reader website just yesterday:
As a mayoral candidate, Emanuel promised to add as many as 1,000 police officers to the ranks. Once he had the job and was in charge of the budget, he switched to saying that he was moving more cops to the street. Then, after shuffling hundreds of officers around, he announced that he'd successfully added more than 1,000 "to the beat."
What Emanuel hasn't mentioned is that the number of police officers on Chicago's force has dropped since he's been mayor. In June 2011, shortly after he was sworn in, there were about 10,900 officers on the city payroll, records show. Now there are about 10,600.
That's potentially 100 fewer cops working around the city at any given time…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
I'm pretty confident my girlfriend and her buddies will be safe. Still, the CPD manpower shortage really needs to be addressed- in addition to other crime prevention/reduction initiatives- for the sake of residents, commuters, and visitors.
Otherwise, Chicagoans will just have to get used to their city being called the "Murder Capital" of the United States. And Rahm Emanuel, "Mayor Murder."
By Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Dumke, Mick. "Beneath the doublespeak, do we need more police in Chicago or not?" Chicago Reader. 9 Aug. 2014. (http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2014/08/09/beneath-the-doublespeak-do-we-need-more-police-in-chicago-or-not). 10 Aug. 2014.
Illinois State Troopers To Join Chicago Police In Patrolling Four City Neighborhoods
From a State of Illinois press release yesterday:
Governor Quinn Announces State Police to Assist Chicago Police Department
Forty State Police Troopers Will Join CPD Officers Following Mayor Emanuel's Request for Assistance
CHICAGO – Governor Pat Quinn today directed the Illinois State Police to deploy 40 state troopers to join Chicago Police officers in patrolling four city neighborhoods. The action follows the city's request for assistance and is part of Governor Quinn's agenda to ensure the safety of all people in every community across Illinois.
"The state of Illinois will do whatever is necessary to protect public safety – in Chicago and every community across Illinois," Governor Quinn said. "Earlier this year I told Mayor Emanuel we would help in any way we could to combat violence in the city. When he requested assistance, I immediately agreed to help."
At the Governor's direction, the State Police will deploy troopers to areas coordinated with the Chicago Police Department (CPD). The State Police and CPD will set up 20 to 25 "surge" teams with five Chicago Police officers and two State Troopers on each team. The teams will focus on apprehending those with known violent criminal histories who are wanted by law enforcement. The troopers will come from State Police districts across the state. The assistance will be accommodated with current State Police resources…
"40 state troopers to join Chicago Police officers in patrolling four city neighborhoods"
Here's what I think about this announcement:
1. Mayor Emanuel and Governor Quinn can tell their constituents they're doing something about violent crime with this action. Personally, I think that's the real motivation behind this announcement as both are running into some campaign headwinds.
2. It's worded at one point- "apprehending those with known violent criminal histories"- so as to not make Emanuel look as if he requires outside assistance. The state troopers are just providing a helping hand. Yeah, that's it.
3. The actual impact on violent crime by this action is questionable. "The teams will focus on apprehending those with known violent criminal histories." How about those without known violent criminal histories? I'm guessing a number of these individuals are contributing to the headline-making carnage as well. I won't be surprised to hear the shootings and homicides are continuing at the same pace as they have been this year.
4. If you ask me, this announcement demonstrates above all else the Chicago Police Department needs a lot more bodies. And not the perforated ones. Remember, the press release specifically calls for state troopers to join the CPD in patrolling city neighborhoods. Not enough personnel to effectively carry out patrols? Time to hire more cops.
Having problems finding the money to pay for these additional police officers? Slash the number of aldermen in the city by half… to start.
That's my two cents. You can read the entire press release on the Illinois Government News Network website here.
By Christopher E. Hill
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Illinois Governor Pushes Ban On 'Assault Weapons,' 'High-Capacity' Ammo Magazines
As Democratic lawmakers can't figure out why shootings and murders have erupted with renewed vigor in Chicago this summer (hints: bare-bones Chicago Police Department, gun-related laws already on the books but not enforced, and shooters not going to jail or for too short a stint), they've resorted to pushing more gun "control" laws on law-abiding constituents who have had nothing to do with the outbreak in violence. From a press release on the Illinois Government News Network website Sunday:
Governor Quinn Fights for Stronger Gun Laws Across Illinois
Congresswoman Kelly Joins Governor to Urge General Assembly to Pass Illinois Public Safety Act and Take a Stand Against the Violence
CHICAGO – Governor Pat Quinn, joined by Congresswoman Robin Kelly, today visited the site a recent fatal shooting in Chicago's Morgan Park neighborhood to urge legislators to stand with families and communities and take action against gun violence. The Governor pushed passage of the Illinois Public Safety Act, legislation that would ban the sale or delivery of assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines in Illinois and require background checks for the transfer of guns. Today's action is part of Governor Quinn's agenda to make Illinois neighborhoods safer.
"The recent epidemic of violence in Chicago is unacceptable and we must join together to fight back," Governor Quinn said. "Public safety is government's foremost mission and Illinois should not wait any longer to act. There are too many victims of a war being waged on our streets, a war fueled in part by the availability of deadly, military-style assault weapons that have no purpose other than killing.
"We must work together to protect the lives of those we love and stop what's happening in our communities. I urge the Illinois General Assembly to take a stand and pass this legislation that will save lives and protect communities."
The Governor today was joined by Congresswoman Robin Kelly who recently released the Kelly Report on Gun Violence in America, the first-ever Congressional analysis of the nation's gun violence epidemic that offers a blueprint for ending the crisis.
Senate Bill 3659 – the Illinois Public Safety Act – was introduced during the recent spring Legislative session by State Senator Dan Kotowski (D-Park Ridge) and supported by Governor Quinn. It bans the possession, delivery, sale and purchase of assault weapons, large capacity ammunition feeding devices such as magazines or clips, and .50 caliber rifles and cartridges in Illinois. Valid Firearms Owners Identification Card (FOID) holders who possess any of these devices at the time the law is enacted would be allowed to keep them, but could not transfer or sell them except to a family member. The legislation also requires background checks for the transfer of firearms except to a family member or at a gun show…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
Of course, the bad guys won't obey what's stipulated in the Illinois Public Safety Act if it becomes law. But here's what's really messed-up about the bans the Democrats are pushing.
According to Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics, so-called "assault weapons" and .50 caliber rifles are rarely used in crimes- particularly murders- around the state of Illinois.
From Table 20, "Murder by State, Types of Weapons, 2012" on the FBI's "Crime in the U.S. 2012" web page (last year I could find pertinent data available for):
Illinois ("limited supplemental homicide data were received")
Total murders ("Total number of murders for which supplemental homicide data were received"): 509
Total firearms: 439
• Handguns: 429
• Rifles: 4
• Shotguns: 2
• Firearms (type unknown): 4
439 firearm-related murders in Illinois in 2012. With a rifle (type unknown) definitely used in only 4 of those homicides.
Ban "assault weapons" and .50 caliber rifles. Yeah, that will solve the rampant violence.
Something tells me these Democratic politicians are trying to dupe voters into thinking they can end the ongoing carnage in this election year with such legislation.
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You can read that entire press release on the IGNN website here. And that 2012 FBI report table here.
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82 Shot, 14 Killed In Chicago Over Long July 4 Weekend
"I heard my mama cry
I heard her pray the night Chicago died
Brother what a night it really was
Brother what a fight it really was, glory be…"
As the local news talked about the high number of shootings that occurred over the long holiday weekend in Chicago, I couldn't help but think of the song lyrics of "The Nght Chicago Died" by Paper Lace. Peter Nickeas reported on the Chicago Tribune website yesterday:
In all, at least 82 people were shot, 14 of them fatally, since Thursday afternoon…
Five of the people were shot by police over 36 hours on Friday and Saturday, including two boys 14 and 16 who were killed when they allegedly refused to drop their guns.
Many of the long weekend's shootings were on the South Side, clustered in the Englewood, Roseland, Gresham and West Pullman neighborhoods that rank among the most violent in the city.
As expected, Mayor Rahm Emanuel used the occasion to push for more gun "control." From the Tribune piece:
Asked why police, even with extra patrols, couldn't tamp down the violence, Emanuel said: "It's a fair question, where were the police? What were they doing? I would also say, where are the gun laws?"
Nickeas added:
He called for "better policing, better prevention" as well as better parenting and tougher gun laws…
Meanwhile, Chicago Police Department Superintendent Garry McCarthy called attention to one of the real reasons why the "Windy City" is experiencing the type of violence seen this past weekend. Stefano Esposito, Frank Main, and Brian Slodysko wrote on the Chicago Sun-Times website yesterday morning:
McCarthy, standing beside a cache of recently seized guns and rifles, touched on one of his favorite themes — the lack of punishment in Illinois for people who illegally own guns…
He repeated his frustration that many of the people who threaten his cops with firearms have been previously convicted of gun crimes. He frequently points out that people arrested for gun crimes are often released on bond. And if they're convicted, they don't serve serious prison time, he says…
"They don't serve serious prison time."
Why is that?
Consider what Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle said back in the fall. The Chicago Tribune's Hal Dardick reported on October 2, 2013:
"I've been quite clear that I don't believe in mandatory minimums," said Preckwinkle, who also made it clear she was referring to both drug and gun crimes. "I think that they're one of the reasons that our jails and our prisons are overcrowded, and they basically tie the judges' hands and eliminate judicial discretion, and the reason we have judges on the bench is to exercise discretion."
Dardick later added:
Preckwinkle is trying to lower the costs of detaining people who are awaiting trial at the overcrowded county jail.
Preckwinkle also has noted the costs to society of get-tough-on-crime mandatory minimum sentences that often put nonviolent offenders — or people capable of rehabilitation — behind bars for long periods, making it less likely they can later launch a productive life.
"All of these people, you know, unless we send them to jail for life, they eventually return to our communities," Preckwinkle said, speaking to reporters after a County Board meeting. "And the longer they stay in prison, the less employable and the more problematic their future outcome."
In the meantime, the carnage continues…
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Nickeas, Peter. "Fourth of July weekend toll: 82 shot, 14 of them fatally, in Chicago." Chicago Tribune. 7 July 2014. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-fourth-of-july-toll-82-shot-14-of-them-fatally-in-chicago-20140707,0,5439185.story). 8 July 2014.
Esposito, Stefano, Main, Frank, and Slodysko, Brian. "McCarthy: Hundreds of extra cops not enough to quell weekend of violence." Chicago Sun-Times. 7 July 2014. (http://www.suntimes.com/28524972-761/mccarthy-hundreds-of-extra-cops-not-enough-to-quell-weekend-of-violence.html#.U7vrD5VOXIV). 8 July 2014.
Dardick, Hal. "Preckwinkle opposes Emanuel on gun crime mandatory sentences." Chicago Tribune. 2 Oct. 2013. (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-10-02/news/chi-preckwinkle-opposes-emanuel-on-gun-crime-mandatory-sentences-20131002_1_preckwinkle-gun-violence-gun-crime). 8 July 2014.
About That 'Sniper Nest' In Chicago
Sorry FOX 32 News in Chicago. As much as I like watching you on TV on weekday mornings (Jake Hamilton, Darlene Hill, Jon Kelley, Melody Mendez are particularly good), whoever penned the following on your website on June 30 needs to be flogged.
The offending article…
Sniper nest discovered near Kennedy-King College
The Chicago Police Department made a frightening discovery on the South Side of the city last week.
Officials say they found a high-powered semi-automatic weapon about a block from the campus of Kennedy King college, near 64th and Lowe last Thursday. Officers say the nest was found on top of a garage across from a soccer field on campus.
At the scene, officers recovered a fully loaded Mac-10…
"Sniper nest?" "High-powered semi-automatic weapon?" "Mac-10?"
I could've sworn the piece originally said "high-powered semi-automatic rifle" when I first read it. But I see it was updated on July 1.
Consider what Elizabeth Kreft reported on TheBlaze website that same day:
The weapon officers recovered at the scene wasn't a rifle but a fully loaded Mac-10.
"I'm not sure why they are calling it a sniper's nest, it was a machine gun, not a rifle," Officer Mike Sullivan, Chicago Police Department spokesman, told TheBlaze.
Sullivan said media members should look up the difference between a Mac-10 and a rifle. "They are very different," he said…
I was kidding with that bit about the author needing to be flogged. But I concur with the CPD- they definitely need to learn more about firearms (Guy Smith's free Gun Facts e-book is a good place to start) or risk "cheapening" the FOX 32 brand.
Not like I'm an expert on the subject of guns myself. But I'm not paid to write about such things.
Now if an unpaid intern wrote the article… lesson learned? I hope so. You'd be doing your future field of work and colleagues a favor.
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"Sniper nest discovered near Kennedy-King College." FOX 32. 30 June 2014. (http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/25910016/sniper-nest-discovered-near-kennedy-king-college). 3 July 2014.
Kreft, Elizabeth. "'Sniper Nest' Found Near College Campus In Chicago — but It's the Type of Gun Found Close by That May Be More Disturbing." TheBlaze. 1 July 2014. (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/01/sniper-nest-found-near-college-campus-in-chicago-but-its-the-type-of-gun-found-close-by-that-may-be-more-disturbing/). 1 July 2014.
Wildings Return To Downtown Chicago
I've been following and blogging about flash mobs/mob attacks/wildings in the downtown Chicago area since January 2011. And here are two things I've noticed:
1. The Chicago mainstream media generally seems to ignore these incidents.
2. The growing number of trolls on the comment area of the popular Chicago police blog Second City Cop keep asking for video evidence of the criminal activity.
Now I can't speak for others, but if I find myself in a situation where feral kids are acting up nearby, I'll be too busy watching after myself/loved ones to worry about shooting some stupid video.
Besides, I own a simple flip phone.
But getting back on track, after a long day my I turned on the 9 o'clock news on FOX 32 and caught a segment about the City of Chicago preparing for summertime wilding. In the piece, the Chicago Police Department acknowledged the wilding from last weekend that Second City Cop/commenters have been talking about (suck it, trolls). Craig Wall reported on the FOX 32 website tonight:
Summer has come to mean more than just scores of shoppers and visitors on Michigan Avenue. It now also brings plenty of extra police officers to discourage would be troublemakers.
Friday night police arrested one man for unknown reasons, but the bigger concern is the mobs of young people who have been terrorizing visitors on warm summer weekends, and giving this vital tourist destination a bad reputation for safety…
Last weekend police sources said there were problems in and around Michigan Avenue, a mob of young people overran the McDonalds at State and Chicago, stealing food orders from patrons and running out.
And in an unrelated incident, a woman who confronted a thug got her car window smashed out. Police hope a very visible police presence will discourage any problems and make visitors feel secure…
(Editor's note: Bold added for emphasis)
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Planning to visit downtown Chicago soon? It's still generally safe, I hear. Just be careful and aware of one's surroundings at all time while in the area, particularly on nice weekend nights.
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Wall, Craig. "CPD Out In Full Force To Deter Crime, Violence." FOX 32. 6 Jun . 2014. (http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/25716966/cpd-out-in-full-force-to-deter-crime-violence). 6 Jun. 2014.
Chicago Reader: Chicago Aldermen Silent On Violence
"Fellow west-side Alderman Michael Chandler (24th) also believes the police could be doing more with the officers they already have. 'They get paid for eight hours of work, but if they just did six hours of work, that would be an improvement,' he said. 'You see them sitting on the side of the road.'"
-Chicago Reader website, June 3, 2014
This morning I spotted an article on the Chicago Reader website that focused on the violence in the "Windy City." Particularly, the response of elected officials- Chicago's aldermen- to the shootings and murders in their wards. Mike Dumke wrote this morning:
But with few exceptions, the elected officials who represent these areas haven't been nearly as vocal as the mayor. This has been especially noticeable in the City Council, where most black aldermen have been quiet, loyal mayoral backers even as their constituents grow increasingly distressed and discontented.
It turns out there's a good reason for the silence: many aldermen aren't exactly sure what to do about the violence, politically or otherwise. That's what I heard repeatedly when I surveyed them on the same day Emanuel made his latest gun control proposal…
Like that introductory quote suggests, Dumke's piece is interesting, insightful, and somewhat controversial ("The police ranks have even shrunk under Emanuel- a point that doesn't sit well with many aldermen, though they've been reluctant to bring it up publicly"), which you can read in its entirety on the Chicago Reader website here.
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When an outbreak of bedbugs overtook New York in 2010, residents, business owners, and members of the media alike turned to Steve Free for help. The expert exterminator had been combating pests for more than 20 years, captaining a team of highly trained technicians at The Bug Stops Here, Inc. Techs went to work immediately and still journey to more than 2,000 local homes, gardens, and workplaces each month to banish unwanted insects and rodents with their comprehensive Integrated Pest Management system. The system combines current information on the lifestyles, habits, and deep-seated insecurities of pests with the sensible use of professional control products, ensuring the most effective results with the least damage to the surrounding environment.
There is a war brewing across America's patios and backyard barbecues. Mosquitoes, ticks, and all pests capable of drawing up battle plans disrupt outdoor gatherings with their bites?a nuisance that the techs at Mosquito Squad hope to eradicate. Treaters of 70,000 households using their EPA-registered all-natural spray system, they mist pest-laden areas with a control solution that repels up to 95% of tiny infiltrators. Alternatively, they can take a natural approach that eschews chemicals for bug-repelling essential oils. However, the bug fighters aren't just focused on making outdoor events more comfortable; they also hope to quell the spread of insect-carried diseases such as West Nile virus.
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Italian developer Est4te Four — the same folks behind gorgeous and fast-selling 160 Imlay — closed on $33,000,000 worth of Red Hook properties last month, and now we have renderings of what they plan to do with it, courtesy of New York YIMBY. They intend to convert the large brick warehouses on Coffey and Ferris Streets to offices and build new five- and six-story buildings with brick on the bottom and glassy top floors, according to the rendering.
They want to demolish the site's "less attractive" warehouses, such as the Daily News' old printing press building. NBBJ is designing the project, which is bounded by Coffey, Ferris and Wolcott Streets and the waterfront. It will also include a waterfront promenade. Altogether it will have 1.1 million square feet of office space.
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Upon the news that LGBT equality pioneer Frank Kameny has died, Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese issued the following statement:
"Frank Kameny led an extraordinary life marked by heroic activism that set a path for the modern LGBT civil rights movement. From his early days fighting institutionalized discrimination in the federal workforce, Dr. Kameny taught us all that 'Gay is Good.' As we say goodbye to this trailblazer on National Coming Out Day, we remember the remarkable power we all have to change the world by living our lives like Frank -- openly, honestly and authentically."
In 2006, Kameny was presented with the National Capital Leadership award at HRC's National Dinner. He said of the honor: "It's always nice to feel that the things that I've worked on have paid off to the extent where they're considered worthy enough to be recognized."
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- Jane Peterson, a 56-year-old woman from St. George, was found dead in Tuttle Creek Lake on February 28.
Peterson was declared missing on January 19, and several search parties were looking in the Tuttle Creek area for weeks before her body was finally found.
Family will be meeting friends for visitation at the Yorgenson-Meloan-Londeen Funeral Home in Manhattan from 3-5 p.m. Saturday, March 8. The family will be having a private graveside service, and she will be cremated.
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A quick glimpse into developer life at Blurb:
I get into the office around 9AM and check email (and make my daily coffee – can't miss it). Great. I usually spend some time cleaning up correspondence between some product owners and our tech leads discussing new ideas around new product X or feature Y. A quick scan of New Relic and Airbrake reveal that the site's humming along well.
I log into Slack, our central communication hub, and quickly get a dump of the conversations by our teammates in the morning and last night. Surprisingly, something as simple as a central chatroom has helped break down some communication walls in our teams. Furthermore, having a continual log of team conversations have helped our remote workers keep abreast of continual updates.
Agile @ Blurb
I log into JIRA and scan the board to check our team status. Looks like we still have a lot of in-progress stories. I'm currently not assigned anything.
At our daily standup, Chris, a senior engineer on my team, is working on story Z. I decide I'm going to ask Chris how he's doing and see if I can help.
Chris tells me that he needs some help writing a few tests for his feature, so I pull up a chair and we jump right into it – he implements the feature, I write the tests. Time passes. We finish our work and we push our branch up to the Github server for some code review.
Code reviews
Code review on our team is done via the pull request system – we ping our teammates on Slack and ask for a code review. The comments begin flowing in, and we respond.
Simulataneously, we're looking at Code Climate to give us feedback on how our code fared against its static analysis tools. Hmm, we seem to have bumped code complexity a bit in this class, so let's sit down and refactor some more. We push a change and we ask folks in our chatroom to help give comments once more.
(Lunch rolls around. We grab some coworkers to stretch our legs and go to lunch at Senor Sisig, which is probably the best food truck in the world.)
Our team works on a 2-"+1" code review system. When we make code changes, we need at least two other people on the team to approve our code. It sounded a little daunting at first, but it's been a good way to make sure that the right conversations are happening around the code.
Robots make life better.
Our hubot sits in the chatroom and tries to be a little helpful. Here, hubot chimes in and lets us know that two people have given their approvals.
Continous integration @ Blurb
We merge the pull request and wait for Jenkins to run the unit test build. We keep a big ol' build light on a bunch of build monitors in our work area. If you break the build, the big red light will radiate waves of Shame upon you until you fix the build.
Once the build passes, it automatically deploys the app to an internal staging environment – the whole process happens within 15 minutes.
Sheree, a test engineer on our team, has already run ahead of us and written some RSpec integration tests prior to our implementation. Chris has already sat down with Sheree prior to beginning the story and defined some of the stories and use cases, BDD-style. We work together to get the integration tests running and working.
All in a day's work.
A big reason I enjoy working here is because our daily development workflow encourages teamwork and collaboration, and you can get feedback on your changes very quickly. And we're making it better! Stay tuned as we continue to write more about our engineering practices.
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Yosemite Wonderers and Wanderers
I saw some old friends in Yosemite last week. And made a few new ones.
I hadn't really expected so much human contact. Sure, I knew there would be bus after bus of Asian tourists, day and night. Probably lots of avid hikers and climbers, clomping around the cafeteria with their big boots and ropes, and racing past me on the trail. And the happy noisy groups of school kids studying native Americans and geology and counting fish in the Merced River – didn't bother me much.
My intention had been to get away from people. Which really wasn't that hard. Sure, 4 million people visit this national park each year, but it's a big place and a steep place. On several popular trails I walked for miles without passing another soul. My plan was for silent communing with massive cliffs and meditative hiking to distant waterfalls, and my hopes were met. One day we drove up to the remote high country and over the 10,000 ft. Tioga Pass, open only half the year. Ours was one of the few cars on the road.
John Muir often called Yosemite a temple, a cathedral, a holy place. Indeed one huge arched rock formation opposite Half Dome is called Cathedral Arch. Yosemite Valley can feel like a giant cathedral, sacred and solemn, high soaring stone, another world, a place to leave behind mundane concerns and stand in awe.
And like many cathedrals these days, it can seem empty. Or so big that even a congregation or a tour group only fills part of its vast space.
But it's never completely empty of human presence or history. In Yosemite, as in many an ancient cathedral, one can feel the spirits of past residents and guardians of the place, those who in centuries past have wandered and wondered and just plain worked in this temple.
One group of old friends I met again were those past guardians I have written of in here for the past five weeks. I surely saw the old tramp John Muir on the trail, one of many grizzled hikers whom I imagine spend much of their lives there. I actually did see the spot where he camped with president Teddy Roosevelt in 1903 and together they "talked forest good."
When we drove up to Tuolome Meadows near the Pate Valley I could imagine there the young Gary Snyder, working on a summer road crew to build the Tioga Pass Road. There he felt the spirits of the ancient Ahwahnechee and their original trails, built with no need for blasting dynamite, and he wrote the poem, "Pate Valley."
I had read how Ansel Adams tried to stop the government from opening up access to this wilderness, from paving this high country paradise, but I had to admit I appreciated the ease now of driving to 10,000 ft. But the wilderness is still in charge. Thanks, Ansel, old friend, for your fierce advocacy for wilderness. And for your creative eye and camera. Your descendents were there in full force, photographers and painters, at dawn, at sunset, alone and in classes sponsored by your gallery, quietly trying to create more sacred icons of this temple.
Two old friends I hadn't expected to see in Yosemite were Mark Liebenow and Phil Frank. Mark should be familiar to Back Road Café readers; he is an old friend of Dale's, and an acquaintance of mine from graduate school days. I had sort of looked at his writings here at the Café, but obviously not too closely. Otherwise I wouldn't have been surprised to find his fantastic book, Mountains of Light, in a prominent place in the Yosemite bookstore. It's an award winning account of his many visits, many months at Yosemite in all seasons, deep reflections on nature and grief and surprise.
I had been secretly praising myself after hiking the 8 mile Panorama Trail from Granite Point down past three waterfalls to the Valley. Then I stood there in the bookstore transfixed by Mark's account of hiking that same trail in winter. And going up the waterfall trails, not down. And how he had planned to do a big loop, but got lost in the snow and had to backtrack and turn back in the freezing dark. That tale was worth the purchase of the book. Better writing than anything I've done here about Yosemite, or much else. Thanks, Mark.
And in the same bookstore I re-met another old friend, Phil Frank, the late San Francisco Chronicle comic strip artist whose pointed and political and hilarious strip "Farley" featured acculturated bears Hilda and Alphonse who summer in Yosemite feeding off tourist cars and hotel dumpsters and winter in San Francisco. Also urban camper Velma Melmak who daily vacuums and bug sprays her campsite. And a host of other odd characters. I bought his collection "Fur and Loathing in Yosemite" and it took me right back to the 70's and 80's, a simpler time when California was more free spirited and less corporate, and when a younger me looked forward every day to that strip. Hello again, old friend.
I could go on about old friends and new. Faithful readers of this column know I love cemeteries. On all my previous trips I had never discovered the pilgrim cemetery at Yosemite, but one day I spent a quiet hour there. The rough graves of Indians, the marker for a young waitress who drowned in the Merced River in 1901, the Polish immigrant who came looking for gold and lived out his days there building trails, the beloved ranger who raised his family there and his son is now a ranger – these and many more new friends.
Ok, one last set of new friends. Two hikers on the Panorama Trail, one of the very few I saw, a very fit young couple with good equipment. We met at a trail intersection, contemplating the sign; they were speaking French. From Montreal it turned out, their second fall in a row spent hiking here, way back and way high. I tried my bad French with them, we shared tales of Yosemite. They said they were leaving that day, but had three open days til returning to Canada. Did I recommend Monterey, where they had never been there? Of course I did, and offered to show them free around the Aquarium where I am a volunteer guide. We parted on the trail, and then later in the day I ran into them again at the top of Nevada Falls. As they walked toward me out of the woods I threw out my arms and shouted,
"Mes amis!"
I liked seeing my old friends the rocks and falls, but my old and new human friends were a treat also. Thanks, Yosemite.
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If you've ever prepared for a concert by Tweeting how you can't wait to finger the artist... You seriously need to reconsider your life.
Sadly, Iggy Azalea has actually experienced people like this first hand, and now she refuses to crowd surf at her concerts.
In an interview with New York City radio station Hot 97, the "Fancy" crooner explained what's been going down lately at her performances.
"I will get lurk tweets for like a week before my show, like 'I'm about to go to the Iggy Azalea show and I'm going to finger her,' and I'll see it and be like, 'please don't!'" she told the hosts. "That's a violation. I don't actually like that stuff."
She continued, "Like, they think I'm real slutty, like 'Oh she got a song called 'P*ssy,' I know what she wants, she wants these two fingers.' Why would I want a stranger to ever finger me? Buying my album for $12 doesn't mean you get to finger me when I come to your city... It's weird."
LOL! Give it to 'em straight, girl. That's nasty.
But even more shocking? It's typically the ladies that are doing it, not the guys.
"The crazy thing is girls will try to do it the most," Iggy went on. "Girls will try to do it more than guys because girls think it's cool, like, 'What? We both got vaginas. It's fine.'"
But the singer makes it clear that it's not okay.
"Now, no lie, I wear two pairs of underpants and a pair of skin-color tights and my pants as like a barrier... No way I'm going to be intruded."
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SALT LAKE CITY — When Saturday finally arrives, the Utah Jazz hope to do what the TV-in-mind schedule is currently doing with a Wednesday through Friday break.
Extend this second-round series with the Los Angeles Lakers, that is.
"We've got to be smart with it," Jazz power forward Carlos Boozer said of the three-day delay, "use it to our advantage and make it work for us."
In the meantime, the Jazz look forward to a repose, recharging before Game 3 tips off four full days after Game 2.
"It'll be good for us," Boozer said after Tuesday's 111-103 loss, which put the Jazz in a 2-0 hole.
"We get a chance to get A.K. a little bit more healthier before he comes back," Boozer added. "The rest of us that are banged up will get a chance to get a little bit more rested up."
The Jazz are planning some film fests, too, in hopes of avoiding a never-surmounted 3-0 series deficit.
"We'll have plenty of time to watch tape and see our mistakes and hopefully be able to fix them for Game 3," Boozer said.
Any tactical tweaks?
Utah will throw in "some different schemes," Boozer said, quickly adding with a grin, "that we're not going to tell you."
USING WILLIAMS: Are the Jazz relying too much on point guard Deron Williams?
TNT analyst and ex-NBA head coach Mike Fratello seems to think so.
"(Williams) was so good against Denver in the first round, but eventually, fatigue does set in," he said. "So much is relied upon this man to make it happen — not only as a defending guard, but he has to push the ball and make shots."
Fratello's insight in Boozer's matchup with Lakers big man Pau Gasol?
"Boozer is trying to figure out how he is going to attack (him)," he said. "Gasol is so long and moves his feet just well enough to bother Boozer. He's always aware that (Gasol) is a shot-blocker."
Then there's this from Fratello, on Jazz rookie shooting guard Wesley Matthews: "(He) is more comfortable shooting a set shot from behind the 3-point line, as opposed to the jump shot."
PUNKS, DOGS AND CHUMPS: Several Lakers are hurting with bumps, bruises, strains and sprains, but few — according to Kobe Bryant — want to admit it.
And fewer still want to miss playing because of it, even if only out of fear of peer pressure.
Said Bryant after Game 2: "I think the thing with the injuries is everybody kind of looks at each other and tries to figure out which one is going to be the first punk. You know what I mean? Because we will talk about you like a dog, like a chump. So nobody wants to be a chump."
As for his own body, nothing speaks louder than Bryant's 31 points in Game 1 and 30 in Game 2.
"I'm just healthier," he said. "It's as simple as that."
Bryant, bugged lately by a sore knee and finger, said he was at his "all-time" worst in Game 4 of the Lakers' first-round playoff series with Oklahoma City — one in which he scored just 12 points — but he has felt progressively better.
HE SAID IT: Center Kyrylo Fesenko, to ESPN.com, on his relationship with Jazz coach Jerry Sloan: "It's hard to say we have a relationship. Sometimes Coach is really harsh on me, but I realize I deserve it. Every player needs to be motivated. He's not trying to offend me. He sees the potential I have, and he wants me to get to there. It's Jerry Sloan, hall of famer. I can't complain. He was in the NBA when my mom was born, so he probably knows more than me. I saw tapes of him as a player, and I wouldn't want to play against him."
MISCELLANEOUS: The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Wednesday that the Hornets' head-coaching search now includes eight candidates: ex-NBA head coaches Fratello, Avery Johnson and Doug Collins; Jazz assistant coach Tyrone Corbin; Dallas assistant Dwane Casey; Boston assistant Tom Thibodeau; Portland assistant Monty Williams; and ex-Jazz point guard Mark Jackson. ... Williams and Boozer were among 31 players named earlier this week to the roster of USA Basketball's national team, which will hold a training camp July 19-24 in Las Vegas. Lakers Bryant and Lamar Odom are included too. ... The Jazz took Wednesday off, but will practice Thursday morning.
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Hannah Rochell, features editor of InStyle magazine, explains how she came to opt for a high-heel-less life and walk on the flat, en brogue or otherwise.
It was a Thursday evening at Waterloo station. I was wearing a pair of beautiful green suede, sheepskin lined, platform boots from Gap and I was running for a train. The floor was slippery because it had been raining and I admit, I'd had a couple of glasses of wine. Suddenly, my feet disappeared from underneath me and I found myself on the floor. My knee throbbed as I heard a voice in the distance cry "oh no! You fell over in your lovely Gap boots!". As this stranger ran to my aid I decided once and for all: that's it, heels. You and me are over.
I'd never really been a fan of heels, but after this incident I gave the couple of pairs that lurked at the back of my wardrobe for special occasions to friends or to charity shops. Those Gap boots didn't survive the cull, nor did my "fall-back" heels (a pair of black patent Steve Madden sandals), nor my vintage Celine kitten heels which I'd bought under the misunderstanding that "kitten" actually means "comfortable" (it doesn't). Although they looked lovely, I haven't missed them. Not for one second. In fact, it felt so liberating looking at my new flat shoe collection, knowing that I could pick any pair and wear them without the fear of falling over in public, I decided to start writing a blog on the subject.
I work in fashion – I'm the features editor of fashion magazine InStyle – so it's a pretty big deal to declare that you're never going to wear heels again in an industry that loves to tell us how vertiginous shoes improve our posture, elongate our legs and transform even the most masculine trouser suit into a feminine outfit. But when I began writing my blog I realised that there are plenty of women – both within and out of the fashion industry – who are fed up of falling over, or being in pain, or having to carry a spare pair of 'walking' shoes in their handbag. Because if you ask me, the FIRST thing you should be able to do in a pair of shoes is walk in them (at this point it's worth remembering that most celebrities have a car and driver to ferry them from A to B), and I definitely don't fall into the category Women Who Can Walk Elegantly In Five Inch Heels. I can barely stand up in them.
The thing with flat shoes, though, is that comfort doesn't always equal beauty, so I wanted to write my blog – and in turn my book, En Brogue – to prove that there are stylish flat shoes out there too. Luckily, there's also been a bit of a sea change in the fashion world recently as designers have had a real focus on flats in the past two years. Karl Lagerfeld even paraded trainers down the Chanel catwalk at couture fashion week in Paris. The knock-on effect is that there's never been a better time to shop for flats on the high street or at more high end brands, and I've never had so many brilliant designs to write about. You CAN get the same rush from saving up for a pair of Church's loafers as you do buying a pair of Jimmy Choo heels. Believe me, I've experienced it. It IS possible to look chic in a flat pump, or feminine in a brogue; the trick is finding well-made shoes with a good design that really make your heart race (and knowing how to style them). My hope is that En Brogue is a friendly helping hand for women everywhere who love fashion and love shoes, but hate heels.
Hannah Rochell, for Waterstones.com/blog
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