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12th Annual Spores N More Mushroom Festival
Come and enjoy the thrill of the hunt for the elusive morel mushroom or come and bid at the auction. Friday night kicks off the event with a welcome dinner, reception and speaker in Windsor. Saturday morning, come and join the hunt for a fee. If you like morels but not the hunt, come to the auction and bid for your winning batch. The 2015 hunt and auction will be based out of Shelbyville's Forest Park.
CITY: Shelbyville
29 West Motel
This charming and quiet facility is nestled in between a beautiful garden and trees. It is conveniently located close to shopping areas and restaurants. 24 well-maintained rooms with discounts available for pool and exercise room use.
CITY: Taylorville
Anderson Prairie
This 25-acre wildlife park, featuring remnants of the original tallgrass Illinois prairie, features a butterfly house.
CITY: Pana
Angelo's Pizza
Angelo's Pizza has been serving Taylorville and surrounding areas service since 1965. Angelo's has gone through many transitions throughout it's lifetime, including expanding the dining room, kitchen and parking lot in order to meet our customers' expectations. Items include pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soup, salad and more. Banquet room available for large groups or special events. Catering available.
CITY: Taylorville
Arches Antique Marketplace
Antiques of all sizes and descriptions, from books and clothing to kitchen utensils and baby items.
CITY: Findlay
Assumption Historical Society/Museum
This museum displays old school pictures and artifacts from the town of Assumption. Open by appointment.
CITY: Assumption
Best Wedding Chapel
This chapel, once a Catholic church, was purchased by the Best family who now offers it for weddings. Built in the 1870s, the chapel has its original 14-foot stained glass windows that complement the 33-foot cathedral ceiling.
CITY: Shelbyville
Boarman Chevy BelAir Museum
This museum openin in 2005 with Bob's private collection. The building is decorated in 50's sock hop style with black and white checkered floors. The walls are lined with 50's memorabilia, chevy clocks and neon signs. A jukbox takes you back to that popular era. The museum has eight vintage cars as well as a 1993 Indy Pace Car with only 28 miles. Mr. Boarman restored most of the cars himself and has been collecting over 25 years.
CITY: Shelbyville
Bottomley-Ruffing-Schalk Baseball Museum
This small museum honors professional baseball players from the surrounding area, including Cooperstown Hall of Famers Sunny Jim Bottomley, Charlie "Red" Ruffing and Ray "Kraker" Shalk.
CITY: Nokomis
Burial Site of "Kay" The Circus Elephant
View the farm grave and marker for Kay, the beloved Carson & Barnes Circus elephant who died on October 21, 1994. Kay is only the second elephant to be buried in Illinois.
CITY: Taylorville
Carnegie Schuyler Library
A full-service library, the Carnegie still contains the original furniture, interior decor and double stairway that was designed and built in 1913 from funds donated by Andrew Carnegie.
CITY: Pana
Chautauqua Auditorium
Built in 1903, the auditorium is the largest building of its kind anywhere in the world, and is included on the National Register of Historic Places. Above the stage are Grecian statues designed by Robert Root.
CITY: Shelbyville
Christian County Coal Mine Museum
Featuring historical items pertaining to coal mining in Christian County, this museum includes coal mining equipment, memorabilia and more. Be sure to visit the coal miner monument on the courthouse lawn. Open Thurs-Sat, 10am-2pm.
CITY: Taylorville
Christian County Genealogical Society
The Genealogical Society is a research resource where you can find history on your family background, microfilm and microfiche, and books. The Society will also research your family for a donation.
CITY: Taylorville
Christian County Historical Society Museum
See an 1820s log house, the 1839 Christian County courthouse where Lincoln argued cases, an 1854 farmhouse and an 1856 one-room school. Also view military weapons from five wars, a collection of 1800s antiques and much more.
CITY: Taylorville
Coon Creek Lodge
Seven clean and comfortable kitchenette rooms with living room, kitchen, bedroom and bath within walking distance of Coon Creek Beach and Boat Ramp. Rooms are equipped with pots and pans, table settings, coffee maker & toaster, towels, and bed linens. Only 1/2 mile from Lake Shelbyville. Open April - November.
CITY: Shelbyville
Cottage Rose Gifts & Crafts
Stop in at the Cottage Rose Gifts & Crafts. We have everything from purses, jewelry, florals, candy, sports fan gifts, Tutu's Baby Clothes and Gifts, hair bows galore, tie dye, gourmet foods, Harry & David , Wind & Willow, Gourmet Village, Amish Popcorn and more.
CITY: Taylorville
Country Charm Bed and Breakfast
The delightful, historic colonial was built in 1858 and sits on a 1/2 acre parcel that boast beautiful views of a mini orchard. There are 4 nostalgic rooms on the 2nd floor. There is boat and RV parking. Open all year and has Wi-Fi. No pets allowed.
CITY: Shelbyville
Country Kitchen
Local establishment serving breakfast all day & other American comfort fare in a casual space.
CITY: Taylorville
Country School Market
Housed in a closed school, this historic brick school building has found a new purpose. It now houses the Country School Market with consignment rooms with antiques, crafts, collectibles, jewelry, books, furniture, railroad items, farm toys, and much more.
CITY: Findlay
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Cowden Pioneer Days
This family friendly festival is set in the city park with plenty of carnival rides, craft vendors, flea market, foods, etc. There is also an IPRA sanctioned rodeo that takes place Friday. A demolition derby takes place on Saturday. You can also enjoy the arm wrestling. There will also be a large parade Saturday morning. Tour the historical cabins set in the park along with collections.
CITY: Cowden
DJ's Custom Framing
Custom framing and matting services. Can also help to restore old photographs.
CITY: Shelbyville


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Remember the 1980s? Neither do we.
Just kidding (sort of)...Back when Nolita was called China town, when there were no trust-fund babies living on Avenue C, back when the Meat Packing District was still the Meat Packing District, only Bono didn't hang out there...Rolex ruled the watch world.
Well not much has changed in that regard, but Rolex really has a strong identity with the octogenarian years of the 20th century. It was a watch that said, "I've made it." Keeping that in mind, we here at Hodinkee want to bring your attention towards the Rolex Datejust, a simple watch that makes a statement.
Unlike the Rolex Submariner, which is a true sportwatch (although try telling that to the gaggles of 20somethings who just blew half their bonus on one, and wear it everywhere they go), the Datejust is subdued; a chameleon of sorts that can be worn in nearly any situation. Sporty yet classy, it is sleek and sophisticated at the same time. Worn with a tuxedo or a t-shirt, in the ballroom or at the beach, this is definitely THE all-purpose watch. Click here for our history lesson on the Datejust.
We have found the quintessential 80s Rolex for you: a 1985 Rolex stainless steel Datejust with quik-set movement, an 18K white gold fluted bezel, jubilee bracelet, Cyclops date window, and original mint condition black dial. The dealer is asking $2,950, which we feel is a reasonable price for a 23-year-old Datejust in great condition. It also includes Rolex service papers from December 2006.
Remember, even though we say this is a real 1980s watch, it is still one of the most timeless and legendary designs in the world. There are countless other manufacturers (many in the same price range), that have done nothing more than duplicate this very watch. There will always be demand for a Datejust, especially with a black face.

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Businesses should think carefully before calling consumers with sales pitches without their permission, it has been claimed.
Richard Shapiro, founder and president of The Centre For Client Retention, warned that cold calling risks alienating people - and businesses cannot afford to take this risk with paying customers.
"Although consumers love their mobile devices, they despise when their phone numbers are used as marketing tools without their permission," he stated.
Mr Shapiro said he had heard of "so many cases" where people were phoned or sent SMS messages by a business without their permission.
This usually has the effect of making them irate, he said - meaning they are less likely to buy from the company at any point in the future.
"Make sure your company not only puts policies in place to ensure privacy, but also has customer feedback mechanisms," Mr Shapiro advised.
This will give consumers an established way of opting out of any unwanted communication, reducing the risk of them being disturbed with a call or message they so not want.
Mr Shapiro said that respecting consumers' privacy is a key element of excellent customer service, and one that should not be overlooked when formulating a marketing campaign.
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Is that a cool cover or WHAT?!? And the insides of this comical comic comic are every bit as awesome! The first story, "Dead Valley," has plenty of Popeye's twister-sock punches Old West Style. And the second story, "Gift from Uncle Ben," features a fantastical and funny creature called a Zoop that will delight fans of the Jeep and the Wiffle Bird! Plus, three boffo one-eyed sailor one pagers--all by The World's Greatest Popeye Cartoonist, Bud Sagendorf!
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Android apps of the day [March 31, 2012]
Posted By Ashraf On March 31, 2012 @ 12:01 AM In Android Apps of the Day | 2 Comments
Android has over 450,000 apps. With so many apps out there, app discovery (aka finding new and useful apps) is extremely difficult. With our Android Apps of the Day [1] initiative, dotTech aims to change that. Everyday we post three apps, allowing our readers to discover new apps, daily. Enjoy! [Subscribe to our Android section to never miss an article: RSS Feed [2] | E-mail [3]]
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[6]On Android there are two types of apps: apps you download and apps that come with your device. Apps you download are easily uninstallable. Apps that come with your device ("system apps" or "bloatware"), however, typically cannot be uninstalled. Root Uninstaller is an app that changes all that. Simply put, Root Uninstaller allows users to uninstall all apps on their devices, whether that be downloaded or system apps.Using Root Uninstaller is very easy — simply run it and select the apps you want to uninstall. System apps are shown in red while downloaded apps are shown in white. As the name indicates, your device must be rooted to use Root Uninstaller.
Version discovered: v1.3
Requires: Android 1.6 and up
Download size: 256 KB
Root Uninstaller on Play Store [8]
[9]iStoryBooks is an app that allows you to download story books for children. Titles include classics like Cinderella and Snow White and other titles, too, such as The World of Trucks. You must download the individual books you desire so you need access to an Internet connection, but once you download a book you can read it offline. All books include color pictures and text with the option to read the books in "Move Mode" which flips through the pages automatically as opposed to you manually doing it and/or have the book "Read to me" which narrates the book as opposed to you or your child reading it.
If you are worried about your children having access to book you don't want, don't worry. iStoryBooks has a "Library" where all downloaded books are stored. If you don't want your child to have access to a book, remove it from the library and unless they are old enough to do addition, they won't be able to download it again.
Version discovered: Varies with device
Requires: Varies with device
Download size: Varies with device
iStoryBooks on Play Store [11]
[12]Turn Off The Lights is a simple app that does one thing and one thing only: turns off your device's screen and locks your device without having to press the Power button. With Turn Off The Lights you can turn off your device's screen and lock your device by either long pressing the Search button (if your device has one) or adding a "Turn Off" icon to your homescreen and tapping that.
Take note before you have use Turn Off The Lights you must enable it (run Turn Off The Lights from your app tray and there will be a button to enable it) and you must disable Turn Off The Lights before you uninstall it. Also note Turn Off The Lights does not work on Ice Cream Sandwich.
Version discovered: v1.9
Requires: Android 2.2 and up
Download size: 29 KB
Turn Off The Lights on Play Store [14]
dotTechies: We have tested all the apps listed above. However, Android Apps of the Day articles are not intended as "reviews" but rather as "heads-up" to help you discover new apps. Always use your best judgement when downloading apps, such as trying trial/free versions before purchasing paid apps, if applicable.
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How to get iOS 7 'silde to unlock' feature on older firmwares [iOS]
Posted By Alihassan Mahdi On November 2, 2013 @ 7:30 AM In iOS | 1 Comment
iOS 7 is definitely one of the major changes Apple made this year . The OS hadn't changed much since 2007 and it was time for Apple to make a move considering the intense competition it's facing with Android . iOS 7 features many changes and enhancements and one of them is the lockscreen which has been completely revamped . The lockscreen's interface and functionality is completely different compared to previous firmwares .
Those days are gone when we had to put our finger on the slider and slide it to unlock. With iOS 7, you can just slide your finger left to right anywhere on the screen to unlock the device . If your on iOS 6 and wished you had this feature too then good news is that a recently released cydia tweak called Unlock7 allows users running iOS 6 to experience the iOS 7 'slide to unlock' on their device . It also increases the font size of the clock giving it an iOS 7 look . Heres how it looks on an iPhone running iOS 6 :
Unfortunately Unlock7 only adds the unlock feature to iOS 6, it lacks the ability to redesign the lockscreen to look much like iOS 7 though you can download one from many Winterboard themes available on Cydia to get your device look as close as possible to the iOS 7 lockscreen .
So far, the tweak is working smoothly and I would recommend anyone with iOS 6 to grab this tweak as soon as poosible . It's free and available on ModMyi repo .
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Since 1971, The Fletcher School's International Security Studies Program (ISSP) has prepared students for public and private sector careers in international security. Established with the assistance of the Scaife Family Charitable Trusts, the ISSP was one of the first graduate programs at a public or private American university dedicated to teaching and research on a broad range of international security issues.
Our curriculum is geared towards developing graduates who can effectively analyze, discuss, and act on key challenges in the international security environment. The achievements of former students and military fellows attest to the success of the program. They have gone on to work in a variety of fields to include:
The ISSP is comprised of three conjoining activities:
First, we offer a full schedule of courses and seminars at the graduate level as a distinct field of study within the multidisciplinary curriculum of the Fletcher School. Our course offerings encompass the security spectrum, offering theoretical and practical instruction, in the first place, on enduring core courses focused on the role of force in world politics; the foundations of strategy; the causes, conduct and termination of war; decision-making and policy analysis; and crisis management. Our curriculum also reflects those new issues that emerged in the Post-Cold War and Post 9/11 security environment to include: peace operations; internal and transnational conflict involving armed groups; cybersecurity; the strategic dimensions of China's rise; and WMD proliferation.
Second, ISSP sponsors a diverse range of "outside the classroom" educational activities. It brings senior level civilian policymakers and military commanders to Fletcher to engage with students on the key security issues of the present day. It holds in conjunction with the Institute of Foreign Policy Analysis conferences devoted to a critical defense-related issue. Often these programs are co-sponsored with one of the US military services or commands. ISSP also holds an annual two-day simulation exercise focused on crisis decision-making. Finally, we annually host a group of senior level military fellows who represent each of the US military services. These officers, who hold the rank of Lieutenant Colonel or Colonel, are fully engaged with both the Fletcher students and faculty, providing unique insights and bringing vast real world experiences to our classes and outside the classroom extracurricular activities.


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Peterman TA, Tian LH, Metcalf C, Malotte CK, Paul SM, Douglas JM Jr. for the RESPECT-2 Study Group. Persistent, undetected, T. vaginalis infections? (research letter), Clinical Infectious Diseases, 48, pp 259-260, 2009.
Bleakley A, Merzel C, Messeri P, VanDevanter N, Gift T, Malotte CK, Middlestadt S. Check Out That Body: A community awareness campaign in New York City. Journal of Primary Prevention, 29, pp 331-339, 2008.
Helms DJ, Mosure DJ, Metcalf CA, Douglas JM, Malotte CK, Paul SM, Peterman TA. Risk factors for prevalent and incident Trichomonas vaginalis among women attending three sexually transmitted disease clinics. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 35, pp 484-488, 2008. [Link to PDF]
Hogben M, VanDevanter N, Malotte CK, Middlestadt SE, Messeri P, Ledsky R, Bleakley A, Larro M, Gift TL, Merzel C, Hennessy MH, St. Lawrence JS. Community-tailored interventions to promote adolescent and young adult health care-seeking. In Pierce RW and Schwartz RI (ed.), Health Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices, pp 47-69. New Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2008.
Myint-U A, Bull S, Greenwood G, Patterson J, Warner L, Vrungos S. Safe in the City - The design, development and pilot-testing of an effective, theoretically based HIV and STD prevention video for STD clinic waiting rooms. Health Promotion Practice, June 10, 2008 (epub ahead of print).
Tian LH, Peterman TA, Tao G, Brooks LC, Metcalf C, Malotte CK, Paul SM, Douglas JM Jr. and the RESPECT-2 Study Group. Heterosexual anal sex activity in the year after an STD clinic visit. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 35, pp 905-909, 2008. [Link to PDF]
Warner L, Klausner JD, Rietmeijer CA, Malotte CK, O'Donnell L, Margolis AD, Greenwood GL, Richardson D, Vrungos S, O'Donnell CR, and Borkowf CB, for the Safe in the City Study Group. Effective of a brief waiting room video intervention on incident infection among patients attending sexually transmitted disease clinics. PloS Medicine, 5(6), 2008. [Link to PDF]
Kominski GR, Varon SF, Morisky DE, Malotte CK, Ebin VJ, Coly A, Chiao C. Cost and cost-effectiveness of adolescent compliance with treatment for latent tuberculosis treatment: Results from a randomized trial. Journal of Adolescent Health, 40, pp 61-68, 2007. [Link to PDF]
Mackenzie SLC, Kurth AE, Spielberg F, Severynen A, Malotte CK, St. Lawrence J, Fortenberry JD. Patient and staff perspectives on the use of a computer counseling tool for HIV and sexually transmitted infection risk reduction. Journal of Adolescent Health, 40, 572 (e9-16), 2007. [Link to PDF]
Satterwhite CL, Kamb ML, Metcalf C, Douglas JM, Malotte CK, Paul S, Peterman TA. Changes in sexual behavior and STD prevalence among heterosexual STD clinic attendees: 1993-1995 versus 1999-2000. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 34, pp 815-819, 2007. [Link to PDF]
Peterman TA, Tian LH, Metcalf C, Satterwhite CL, Malotte CK, DeAugustine N, Paul SM, Cross H, Rietmeijer CA, Douglas JM Jr. for the RESPECT-2 Study Group. High incidence of new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the year following a diagnosis of an STI; the case for rescreening. Annals of Internal Medicine, 145, pp 564-572, 2006. [Link to PDF]
Warner L, Macaluso M, Newman D, Austin H, Kleinbaum D, Kamb M, Douglas J, Malotte CK, Zenilman JM. Condom effectiveness for prevention of C trachomatis infection (Letter). Sexually Transmitted Infections, 82. 265, 2006.
Gift TL, Malotte CK, Ledsky R, Hogben M, Middlestadt S, VanDevanter N, St. Lawrence JS, and the GCAP Study Group. A cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions to increase repeat testing in patients treated for gonorrhea or chlamydia at public sexually transmitted disease clinics. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 32, pp 542-549, 2005.
Hogben M, Ledsky R, Middlestadt S, VanDevanter N, Messeri C, Merzel C, Bleakley A, Malotte CK, Sionean CK, St. Lawrence JS. Psychological mediating factors in an intervention to promote adolescent health care-seeking. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 10, pp 64-77, 2005.
Metcalf CA, Douglas JM Jr, Malotte CK, Cross H, Dillon BA, Paul SM, Padilla SM, Brookes LC, Lindsay CA, Byers RH, Peterman TA for the RESPECT-2 Study Group. Relative efficacy of prevention counseling with rapid and standard HIV testing: A randomized controlled trial (RESPECT-2). Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 32, pp 130-138, 2005. [Link to PDF]
VanDevanter N, Messeri P, Middlestadt S, Bleakley A, Merzel C, Hogben M, Ledsky R, Malotte CK, Cohall R, St. Lawrence J. Community-based intervention to increase preventive health care-seeking in adolescents: The Gonorrhea Community Action Project. American Journal of Public Health, 95, pp 331-337, 2005.


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HYPERTENSION"Is it my Blood Pressure doc??" As a GP this question may be quite a familiar one when faced with someone who has recently been diagnosed with heart disease. Contrary to popular belief high blood pressure or hypertension is NOT heart disease itself but is simply when a particular bodily measurement [the pressure in your arteries] is found to be above certain widely accepted limits. The measurement is taken with a blood pressure machine [the Sphygmomanometer] when the familiar cuff is placed around the patient's upper arm, inflated and then slowly released. High blood pressure if left untreated can lead to stroked or hear attacks but if left untreated for a long time can lead to kidney failure and eyesight problems. It is for this reason that we [the health professions] take its finding and treatment so seriously. Most people with high blood pressure have no idea they have it as it rarely makes you feel ill. It is for this reason that blood pressure is so readily measured when you make a visit to a nurse or doctor. The actual measurement consists of two readings: a higher or systolic reading and a lower or diastolic reading. The pressure is created by the action of the pumping of the heart and the highest reading is caused by the contraction of the heart [a heartbeat] and the lowest the pressure between heartbeats. Blood pressure is measured in millimetres of mercury. Normal blood pressure in adults is generally taken to be below 160/90 but for those people who already have heart disease, have had a stroke or suffer with diabetes the target blood pressure is lower. The cause of high blood pressure is largely unknown in that for nine out of ten people who have high blood pressure there is no single underlying cause found. This is known as 'essential hypertension'. There are certain things that can contribute to having a high blood pressure. They are being overweight, smoking, having excess salt in your diet, drinking too much alcohol and physical inactivity. If high blood pressure runs in your family you may also be at greater risk of developing it yourself. When high blood pressure is picked up by a health professional it is usually repeated a number of times over a period of between three and six months before a decision is made as to whether to treat it with tablets. During this period of time you would also be asked to have a general examination and some basic tests such as blood and urine tests, an ECG [electrocardiogram] which is a test to record the electrical activity of the heart and possibly a chest X ray. It is these tests which can help to confirm whether you have any other problems which may be contributing to the high blood pressure. If you should have your blood pressure measured and are told it is too high it is important not to become too worried about it as worry or stress itself can cause the blood pressure to become raised. In some cases when further blood pressure readings are taken they settle down and the blood pressure does not need treating but merely observing intermittently. If you are found to have high blood pressure be reassured you are not alone and for the majority its finding will not have a detrimental effect on your lifestyle. Your doctor may recommend tablets but they would also advise on some very important lifestyle alterations, which can help lower your blood pressure. The importance of lifestyle changes and the effects these may have on your blood pressure cannot be overestimated. The most important lifestyle changes that would help to lower your blood pressure are being more physically active, losing weight, cutting down on salt intake, drinking within sensible limits, stopping smoking and reducing stress. Finally, if you are concerned you may have high blood pressure please don't hesitate to have it taken either in your surgery by your practice nurse or GP or in your local pharmacy where they may have the facility to do so. Remember, you'll never know until you do!! Dr. Watkins Say you saw it on "Broadstone NET" |


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Two members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill today, asking the U.S. to add 16 Russian officials to a sanctions list for human rights violators.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina met privately with Sens. Ben Cardin, D-Md., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., to discuss human rights abuses in Russia.
"We'd like to remind our government that they have obligations that they have signed that they have to honor and we would like them not to continue having such an anti-Russian policy as they do have right now," Tolokonnikova said at a news conference through a translator.
"One of the main slogans of President Putin is 'stability,' whereas today we can state that Putin is leading Russia not to stability but to complete instability and chaos."
The lawmakers praised the two women for speaking out about Russia's abuse of human rights.
"It is my pleasure to welcome to the United States Capitol members of the Pussy Riot," Cardin said. "We had a chance to talk with them about the conditions today in Russia, the experiences that they had, including the fact that they were arrested and sent to prison, how they had tried to help the citizens of Russia deal with the current deterioration of human rights in Russia."
"The only way we're going to get advancements on human rights is to put a spotlight on those who are violating human rights to stand up and make it clear that we will not accept these behaviors," Cardin added.
Tolokonnikova and Alekhina were famously arrested in 2012 after protesting against Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Moscow cathedral.
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Members of Pussy Riot meeting with senators today to talk human rights in Russia pic.twitter.com/AzKRh8iwdD
— Arlette Saenz (@ArletteSaenz) May 6, 2014
Sen. Blumenthal, et al at US Capitol w two members of #PussyRiot re Russian human rights, etc pic.twitter.com/QeoGOvbZVn
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The Sacramento Bee has a series of time series photographs will chronicle the changes to areas devastated by the Japanese tsunami six months ago. Three views are provided; one immediately after the disaster, the second three months later and the third at six months. One reduced size photo is after the Read More.
The Urbanophile has another set of time series photos, this time taken in America. It shows an aerial photograph of a Detroit neighborhood in 1949 and again in 2003. The leftmost photo is 1949. The 2003 photo shows that much of the neighborhood has reverted to prairie.
Taken together the photos pose two questions. What drove the change? And is the direction of change good? Time Magazine in a special titled "The Tragedy of Detroit" has a ready answer for the second set of photographs. The change was bad and racism, "hubris" and the lack of an industrial policy were allegedly responsible for the decline of a once great city. The obvious solution now is for the Federal Government to invest billions and transform these ruins "into the Arsenal of the Renewable Energy Future".
Back in the '50s, the Federal Government began investing what would eventually reach half a trillion dollars in what became the interstate highway system. You could have considered that an incredible subsidy for the auto industry — which it was — but it was also an investment in the nation's future.
It's an adaptable model. The fuel-cell technology that dazzled me at the GM Tech Center is less about autos than it is about energy — energy, as hydrogen, that exists in every molecule of water. What's to stop us now from turning Detroit — its highly trained engineering talent, its skilled and unskilled workforce desperate for employment, its underutilized production facilities — into the Arsenal of the Renewable Energy Future?
If we did, Detroit could go back to building something America needs. As a nation, we could prove that we can still make things. And while we're at it, we could regenerate not just a city but our sense of who we are.
But not everyone is convinced. The Urbanophile on the other hand takes the view that many of Detroit's previous problems disappeared when the city killed itself. Because the parasites who feasted on the city have gone away from what they believe to be a carcass picked clean, re-building is happening all over the place, but in the shadows. Now if Time Magazine would only leave Detroit alone and keep the Federal Government from imposing Green Energy Arsenal scheme, Detroit might actually develop into something worthwhile, but organically and not necessarily according to some planning mandate.
In Detroit, the incapacity of the government is actually an advantage in many cases. There's not much chance a strong city government could really turn the place around, but it could stop the grass roots revival in its tracks.
Can you imagine a two-story beehive in Chicago? In many cities where strong city government still functions effectively, citizens are tied down by an array of regulations and permits that are actually enforced in most cases. Much of the South Side of Chicago has Detroit like characteristics, but the techniques of renewal in Detroit won't work because they are likely against code and would be shut down the minute someone complained. Just as one quick example, my corner ice cream stand dared to put out a few chairs for patrons to sit on while enjoying a frozen treat on a hot day. The city cited them for not having a license. So they took them away and put up a "bring your own chair" sign. The city then cited them for that too. You can't do anything in Chicago without a Byzantine array of licenses, permits, and inspections.
In central Indianapolis, which is in desperate need of investment, where the city can't fill the potholes in the street, etc., the minute a few yuppies buy houses in an area and fix them up, they immediately petition for a historic district, a request that has never been refused, ensuring that anyone who ever wants to do anything will be forced to run a costly and grueling gauntlet of variances, permits, hearings, etc. Only the most determined are willing to put up with that.
In most cities, municipal government can't stop drug dealing and violence, but it can keep people with creative ideas out. Not in Detroit. In Detroit, if you want to do something, you just go do it. Maybe someone will eventually get around to shutting you down, or maybe not.
Viewed in this perspective, the time series photographs are really a portrait not of the physical landscape, but of the human factor: the society that creates the landscape. In Japan the physical tsunami has rebounded against the resilient people. In Detroit, the political tidal wave proved too strong, too devastating; but now that it has receded the survivors are picking up in its wake.
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45 Comments, 45 Threads
1. Baobo
Last year the sheriff in Orange County FL raided nine barbershops for barbering without a license. There was one cocaine arrest and minor amounts of marijuana were recovered.
Perhaps demonstration "awareness raids" by the FBI would have dissuaded these criminal coiffeurs in the first place… No risk necessary, and the agents still get to be heroes.
November 21, 2011 - 10:03 am Link to this Comment -
2. Walt
If Detroit is the wave of the future, it will be a pretty grim future.
November 21, 2011 - 10:14 am Link to this Comment -
3. Blast From the Past
In Japan Recovery will be when the stranded ship is turned into a shopping mall. In Detroit Recovery will be when the stranded rail station is turned into a hundred small businesses serving each other. In other words, a ship.
Culture matters. Detroit was destroyed by overpaid proletarians and uneducated corrupt politicians supported by semi-educated academics who believed that the "surplus value" generated by Capitalism is a bad thing. The surplus wealth generated by Capital, finance industrial land or labor, is a good thing. In Japan it is rebuilding Fukushima. In Detroit the unused land is a form of Capital that is being reallocated. Bankruptcy is a good thing because it allows capital assets to be reallocated. What happened to Detroit and Gary and in Eastern Europe can happen anywhere but recovery will happen as soon as the boot of a corrupt government is lifted. That does not mean that all government is corrupt.
How to deal with those who actively impede the generation and saving of wealth, as the parasites of Detroit did, is a larger political problem. Solving that problem while remaining a Democracy is difficult. In America it becomes linked to issues of race culture and politics. In other places, such as in Israel, it becomes tied to even more existential threats.
Did you create more wealth than you consumed this week?
November 21, 2011 - 10:19 am Link to this Comment -
4. Jane Mee
Looks like one could have a mini-estate in Detroit; your own park land. Probably be a good idea to market the lots like that to attract homeowners/builders.
November 21, 2011 - 10:22 am Link to this Comment -
5. anton
I am a life-long resident of the Detroit area, a point of both pride and pain. The socialist government that killed Detroit is finally dying now, the city has wasted away from 1.5 million residents to a hugely (upwardly)fudged population of 600K. The Golden Goose of tax-paying corporations have fled to the surrounding communities (or more often to the southern business-friendly states).
The state of Michigan poured billions into Detroit in a hopeless effort to keep the city alive but the rampant corruption and welfare-statism were relentless in their assault on civic life. This effort has bankrupted and impoverished the state. With the collapse of state funding the vultures are finally leaving the sorry corpse of Detroit. This leaves space for new growth, the most obvious is nature.
Old Mother Nature will not be denied, tress and shrubs grow everywhere in the city now, one of my favorites is a tree growing in the crumbling remains of an old hotel on the northwest corner of Woodward and the Davison Freeway. For the past six years it has reached skyward, even thought the floors beneath have collapsed and it is now three floors down into the structure. I now understand how the Mayan became a "lost" civilzation so quickly. Nature is unstoppable.
One has little to fear from code-enforcement officers in the city if you are a resident; it is a different matter if you are a "gentrifying cracker" from the suburbs, this will gaurantee that you are subject to the full focus of every rule, regulation and code. This is the biggest obstacle to progress in the city. Unless you are a multi-millionaire like Mike Illich (owner of the Red Wings, Fox Theatre and lots of othet high-ticket entertainment franchises) you can't fight your way past the the wall of regulations the city has built to defend its failures.
The very last thing the state of Michigan (or Detroit) needs is the Feds coming in and throwing around a ton of money. It will prolong the agony, not end it. Like an alcoholic, Detroit needs to hit rock-bottom before it can start to recover, it needs to admit that it has a problem and that problem's name is Socialism.
Sorry about the long-winded rant.
November 21, 2011 - 10:23 am Link to this Comment -
6. michael hoskins
Then of course, the entire City paradigm could be revisited. Cities were originally met the need to concentrate labor and other resources at the point of production.
Hitler's Speer changed all that. Personal transportation, Detroit's creation, has helped reduce the density required.
There are inherent conflicts. Less urban density should impress the Greens on one hand and drive them crazy, based on energy consumption, on the other. Then there is the concept of Cottage Industries, an idyllic dream for the romanticist.
Interestinger and interestinger.
November 21, 2011 - 10:31 am Link to this Comment -
When I worked in the DC area in the early 90′s I recall reading where a Virginia farmer had been sent to prison.
He owned some property that was considered to be a wetlands by the Federal Government. He wanted to provide a safe habitat for injured waterfowl to recover and made some mods to his property for that purpose. He was sent to prison for converting part of a natural wetlands into an …. improved wetlands more suitable for waterfowl. The bastard! Why didn't they give him the chair?
Also around that same time we had the LA riots. Pres Bush went to LA to tour the riot areas, and a young black woman was heard complaining that she could not talk to him. Asked by reporters what she would say she to the POTUS took them on a tour of places where "the government" should do this and that. Build playgrounds and fix things up and so forth. The fact that she lived in an area with lots of people that had nothing to do and that proposing self-help projects would make even the LA government deliriously happy never occurred to her. "The government" should come in and do all this neat stuff she thought up. The people who lived there apparently were so unselfish they won't even do things for themselves.
In Detroit racism supposedly caused it to fall apart. Okay, so there was less racism in 1949 than there is today? Yes, that is the case, because the govt in its various forms imposes racism in ways and to an overall extent that was unthinkable in 1949. In 1949 we had just defeated a philosophy that calculated the percentage of a given ethnic group's blood in a person's veins and treated them on that basis. Today that same philosophy is exalted – and official government policy.
November 21, 2011 - 10:42 am Link to this Comment -
8. anton
4. Jane Mee
"Looks like one could have a mini-estate in Detroit; your own park land. Probably be a good idea to market the lots like that to attract homeowners/builders."Something similar has been done in several areas, they are rather like feudal estates (complete with surrounding walls and armed guards) There are(were) many magnificant homes in Detroit, some survive, others are rotting away. Do a Google Earth street-veiw of the homes west of Woodward and south of Eight Mile Road, they are very fine. Then shift your focus a mile or two south, or west, or east. It quickly becomes areas that police are leery about entering.
The biggest problem that Detroit faces in attracting outsiders is that the city has no services to speak of, the schools are a terrifying cross between a prison and an insane asylum, and all of the retail establishments normally found in a major metro area are located in the surrounding suburbs.
There have been efforts to "sterlize" entire square mile areas,(to remove the residents and eliminate streets, sewers and electrical services) so that farming can be re-established INSIDE the city. I suppose you could do the same with a housing development but the staggering surplus of houses in the area would probably make it unprofitable.
November 21, 2011 - 10:42 am Link to this Comment -
9. vanderleun
Burn, crush, and bury all vestiges of government.
November 21, 2011 - 10:43 am Link to this Comment -
10. Morton Doodslag
Anton – your story resonates. Im originally from Michigan, but left for California 30 years ago where I made a small pile of cash. I began buying foreclosed homes in the cities outside of Detroit (Redford and Livonia) which have traditionally been well run blue collar mixed race neighborhoods with solid houses and solid communities. Some of the renters I found were black working refugees from Detroit, whom I naively thought would be thrilled to rent houses in these better neighborhoods. Keep in mind, these are older established neighborhoods where the renters and owners get along pretty well, so there can't be any credible claims of racism as to why the black detroiters can't make a go of it.
That was about 18 months ago. Now I have evictions under way for every one of the human scum which came from Detroit due to non-payment. They all still have jobs, but act like absolute babies with never-ending excuses as to why the rent check is late or bounced this month. This, on top of never-ending demands to buy them things like central air, and new carpets. These houses all had $5-10k invested to make them cozy and habitable. I'd live in any one of them. And by comparison, my other renters of all colors are doing just fine. Yet the poisonous filth from Detroit have proven that their Black racist entitelment culture has corrupted them fatally.
November 21, 2011 - 11:02 am Link to this Comment -
11. westerncanadian
Detroit appears to be located in the U.S. Ecoregion 212 – the Laurentian Mixed Forest. Give it 120 years or so and natural succession will produce an attractive valuable forest. The old Detroit has gone. Why not let a new urban Detroit develop all by itself amidst a long term improvement in the surrounding vegetation? Just a a bunch of independent people developing new industries and a few basic bye-laws required.
November 21, 2011 - 11:21 am Link to this Comment -
12. spindok
I live in a place similar to Detroit. It is actually not all that bad or depressing, in fact very nice. There are vast tracts of crumblng old buildings, vacant lots and failed attempts at rehab projects, but one drives right past them between the outer rings of suburbs and the few remaining hubs of activity in the central regions.
Traffic problems are few, land and housing is cheap. Instead of the grand factories and institutions of the past, smaller enterprises have sprung up. It is a big city but does not feel like one. More like a collection of communites, most of which are fairly prosperous.
I am always reminded of Asimov's Foundation series when I think about cities like Detroit. History never quite turns out the way we think it will. It will be all right despite the planners:
"And Mallow laughed joyously. "You've missed, Sutt, missed as badly as the Commdor himself. You've missed everything, and understood nothing. The Empire has always been a realm of colossal resources. They've calculated everything in planets, in stellar systems, in whole sectors of the Galaxy. Their generators are gigantic because they thought in gigantic fashion.
"But we,—we, our little Foundation, our single world almost without metallic resources,—have had to work with brute economy. Our generators have had to be the size of our thumb, because it was all the metal we could afford. We had to develop new techniques and new methods,—techniques and methods the Empire can't follow because they have degenerated past the stage where they can make any vital scientific advance.
"With all their nuclear shields, large enough to protect a ship, a city, an entire world; hey could never build one to protect a single man. To supply light and heat to a city, they have motors six stories high,—I saw them—where ours could fit into this room. And when I told one of their nuclear specialists that a lead container the size of a walnut contained a nuclear generator, he almost choked with indignation on the spot.
"Why, they don't even understand their own colossi any longer. The machines work from generation to generation automatically and the caretakers are a hereditary caste who would be helpless if a single D-tube in all that vast structure burnt out.
"The whole war is a battle between these two systems; between the Empire and the Foundation; between the big and the little. To seize control of a world, they bribe with immense ships that can make war, but lack all economic significance. We, on the other hand, bribe with little things, useless in war, but vital to prosperity and profits.
"A king, or a Commdor, will take the ships and even make war. Arbitrary rulers throughout history have bartered their subjects' welfare for what they consider honor, and glory, and conquest. But it's still the little things in life that count—and Asper Argo won't stand up against the economic depression that will sweep all Korell in two or three years."
― Isaac Asimov, FoundationNovember 21, 2011 - 11:21 am Link to this Comment -
13. maineman
Microcosms of what's now underway in Europe. R.R. Reno over at First Things has a nice little article about the death of social democracy.
The irony is exquisite: the moment for the bust-out move by the left is neck and neck with the crashing and burning of all its products.
It's not funny, really, but almost.
November 21, 2011 - 11:23 am Link to this Comment -
14. Baobo
12. spin, I believe Asimov was one of several science fiction authors who disseminated warnings that were told to them – not from this world!
November 21, 2011 - 12:01 pm Link to this Comment -
15. tm
This area of Detroit is even worse now. Here a google map of the area:
The Church is gone, a school is gone and almost all the houses are gone.
November 21, 2011 - 12:31 pm Link to this Comment -
16. Victor
Another human factor
Dozens of U.S. spies captured in Lebanon and Iran
Current and former U.S. officials concede that CIA suffered difficult blow; sources say Lebanon informants were compromised by meeting CIA agents at a Beirut Pizza Hut.Hizballah, together with the Lebanese government, has rolled up what is believed to be the vast majority of the assets of the Central Intelligence Agency in Lebanon.
http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawama/2011/11/what-you-need-know-about-cia-getting-rolled-lebanon-and-larry-munson.htmlIt sounds like some sloppy trade craft–like the disaster in Khost in 2009
November 21, 2011 - 12:35 pm Link to this Comment -
17. toadold
So culture triumphs over technology given equal levels of technology?
November 21, 2011 - 1:07 pm Link to this Comment -
18. wretchard
Maybe the US should pick up a lot of Hezbollah agents, including those in Latin America and tell the Nasrallah that if he can find a branch of Domino's in Beirut he can his agents back if America can get its agents back.
November 21, 2011 - 1:11 pm Link to this Comment -
19. Don51
The History Channel had a series Life After People on the subject of what urban environments would evolve/devolve to in the absence of man -
Of course there are innumerable ghost towns west of the Mississippi dating from the various 19th Century 'booms and rushes' and even today a depopulation of the Great Plains is on going -
These are not centers of former political power and thus hardly garner the attention and 'solutions' being sought.
November 21, 2011 - 1:20 pm Link to this Comment -
20. javathread
Reminds me of a story from a couple years back about hunting racoon in Detroit. The tag line "the best sauce for coon is hunger"
http://detnews.com/article/20090402/METRO08/904020395/To-urban-hunter–next-meal-is-scampering-byNovember 21, 2011 - 1:52 pm Link to this Comment -
21. Baobo
16. Victor, did you read what people are saying about it: CIA Spies Caught, Fear Execution in Middle East
I've never seen so many disbelieving posts on a populist news site – over 7,200 comments and the skeptics are modded way up. Usually the "loons" are mocked and berated.
People aren't buying the story.
November 21, 2011 - 2:09 pm Link to this Comment -
22. Josh
Detroit was built on the government-union-corporate model of US socialism that "worked" well through the 1960s, until we were challenged from the outside, by Japan. Whatever de facto racism existed in Michigan through the 1960s was certainly broken by the early 1970s – but unfortunately just as the region was doomed to go into steep decline anyway. Seriously bad timing. Like Minas Tirith begin polluted down to Minas Morgul, the place now seems damned. Maybe the best thing that can happen is bulldoze the whole region, let it lie fallow for a century, let the deer and wolves have it, until the evil is washed away. Unfortunately, the robots have taken over 80% of the jobs that used to be there, and those jobs will never come back. So, let it grow buffalo or acorns or winter wheat.
In Long Beach, California (go south from LA, past Compton, towards the port where the coast curves around), two major boulevards from downtown north go through the local ghetto (original home of Snoop Dogg and others, but really not nearly as grim as that might suggest). Anyway, when the suburban model of commerce changed in the 1980s, the two boulevards started to lose all their major businesses. City finally adopted the regulations and practice of bulldozing any commercial properties that were vacant more than X long (there may be more to the regulation than that, but that's the basic idea). But it hasn't stayed vacant. Over twenty years a fair amount has been converted to public/private housing, and by all appearances quite successfully. The old ghetto area, such as it ever was, is under far more assault by Hispanic/illegal neighborhoods, also Little Cambodia on one side, than by poverty as such.
City still has reasonably upscale neighborhoods both on the coast and on the knoll north of the ghetto, in one stretch they are (modestly) successfully developing new street traffic and commerce, and that's even in the recent weak economy. It's only a shadow of what it looked like in the 1950s and 1960s, but for Obamaville, it's OK.
(speaking of which, BAC stock down to $5.49 again today …)
(oh, also, Obambus just Spoke again, blaming the supercommittee failure on Republicans, he is our first black schlemiel)
November 21, 2011 - 3:13 pm Link to this Comment -
23. Cowboy
For those who haven't heard of The Curley Effect here's this:
It contains an analysis of the disaster that befell Detroit under Coleman Young, one from which it has yet to recover.
November 21, 2011 - 5:14 pm Link to this Comment -
24. stoicheion
18. wretchard, why would we want them back? HumInt is expensive and mostly more trouble then it's worth. The CIA doesn't (or maybe I should say didn't) recruit in the Islamic crescent. They try to hire 2nd generation Americans. Most Islamic walk-ins are plants. Wanna-be double agents. Most of the intelligence services in the Islamic crescent have been staffed by families for the last few thousand years. Positions are passed down from Father to son. That makes them difficult to infiltrate and very professional.
They took their money along with their chances. SigInt is more reliable in that part of the world. The CIA is a babe in the woods compared to the GDSSI (Egyptian Intelligence Service) or the SAVAMA, in Iran. The CIA has a bigger budget but it takes tons of money to compete with generations of operational experience.
Here is Wiki's list of intelligence services;
It is not easy to keep track of the various names, since a name change is never a bad thing so far as a spy is concerned.November 21, 2011 - 5:39 pm Link to this Comment -
25. Forgotten Man
I think it is a waste of Federal money into Detroit. The city should be left to return to nature. If you want to stay in Detroit pay for the services you need or do without. Maybe hunt Yacks or Muskox for a living.
November 21, 2011 - 5:45 pm Link to this Comment -
"Time Magazine in a special titled "The Tragedy of Detroit" has a ready answer for the second set of photographs. The change was bad and racism, "hubris" and the lack of an industrial policy . . ."
Or maybe the cause was the surroundings: the sewer plant on the North, the Detroit City Airport a few blocks to the Northeast, a 30-track-wide railroad yard to the West, and an impressively sized GM factory to the Southwest (apparently with it's own sewer plant).
A quick zoom out on TM's helpful Google link (#15 above) shows all of these. I don't know Detroit, but Photo #2 is apparently the "I-94 Industrial Park Renaissance Zone", a gem of a real estate parcel that would be cleared for heavy industry in most cities hungry for jobs.
Interestingly, the City of Hamtramck, across the tracks to the West, was voted "Most Walkable City in Michigan 2011″ by walkscore.com, and was ranked the "Most Densely Populated City in Michigan" in the 2000 Census.
November 21, 2011 - 7:21 pm Link to this Comment -
27. Robert Shallow, Esq
The real comparison is Detroit vs Silicon Valley.
Americans have always moved on and left towns behind them. I don't know any other country that celebrates its Ghost Towns. The vein runs out, land everywhere is cheap, and everybody moves on. From the cold winters of Detroit to the orchards of San Jose.
This is Creative Destruction in Action. All the productive people have left the city, built South Center, Grosse Pointe, Farmington Hills, and Ann Arbor. All those are part of the Detroit Suburbs. Others have left for Texas, California, and others Lands of Promise.
Why reinforce failure in Detroit? Go West Young Man!
No other country will cut its losses like this.
November 21, 2011 - 7:40 pm Link to this Comment -
28. westerncanadian
23. Cowboy
The Curley Effect is a great link. I've always assumed that redistribution policies affected the giving and taking populations via a mechanism similar to the classical malaria equations that Robert Ross presented, or later extensions like Lotka's equations. Two simultaneous differential equations describing rate of change, one each for host/parasite or predator/prey populations. Each equation included the population size of the other. The host equation included the parasite population and vice versa. Integrate both equations and you can define equilibrium conditions where host and parasite populations remain stable or fluctuate in a stable manner. You can also find conditions necessary for the crash of host and/or parasite.
But the Curley Effect paper is much better because it is designed specifically to describe a scheming politician who just wants to be boss, even if he has to create a manure heap in the process. In his mind it's better to be King of a manure heap than to be no King at all.
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29. Morton Doodslag
RT – #OccupyDetroit happened 50 years before #OccupyWallStreet – and you see the results. The theme was the same, demand State intervention to address nurtured grievances, demand free housing, free food, and all manner of redistribution and "Social Justice" for the victims of white paternalism and capitalism. BTW, the Detroit infrastructure/ layout worked like a dream for the first 60 years – it allowed Detroit to lead the world in manufacturing and productivity during it's golden age. But when the Great Society hit like a tsunami, the pols took the black community and turned them into an angry mob of occupiers – they nurtured them on hatred of white society – "social Justice" – and how much America owed them. They viciously guilt tripped whites and demanded so much and threatened so much, that whites virtually stampeded out of Detroit into the suburbs as fast as they could flee… As whites removed themselves, Detroit inevitably and rapidly began to crumble, and in less than a decade, Detroit went from a functioning productive metropolis into a sewer filled mostly with black angry people….
By the end of the sixties, there were murderous race riots. I remember vividly as a child the cynical attempts to wreak havoc on the whites by "busing" the ghetto kids into the functioning schools located in the white suburbs, and the reverse for the white kids into the ghetto. This was ostensibly proposed to rectify the "Social Injustice" of failing Detroit schools, blaming the whole fiasco on white racism and unfair distribution of wealth.. Of course everyone understood that the real motive was to punish whites, and to terrorize them into shelling out billions of tax dollars to bring black schools up to white standards. This was only reversed when it became clear that it would have resulted in a blood bath. But the cynical, vengeful, divisive actions were emblematic of the period, and illustrated how incompetent, ruthless, vicious, and vengeful the radical Left could be.
The reckoning for the fiasco of #OccupyDetroit is only hinted at in those Google images. On the ground, the nuclear bombed streets and endless idle black pissed off hoodlums is devastating to behold. The Leftist criminals who caused it have never been brought to account. The human waste is mind boggling. And I'll bet you a bag of donuts that blacks in Detroit voted for Obama 100% and support the #Occupy_______ movement 100% as well. On some level they deserve everything that has happened to them.
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30. Victor
@ 18. wretchard
I like your solution– a more civilized sort of the Russian solution–you take our agent–we send you the body parts of your agents
Apparently the tri border region of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay is where the
Hezbollah agents operate from.
Pity– because Iguassu Falls is one of the wonders of the world.
Apparently Michael Yon is going to dispatch from South of the Border and the tri border will be a good place to start.
Michael Yon has the Special Forces background and guts to do such reporting
–he does not do travelogues
Great to see he has joined PJM
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31. beverly
This reminds me of Rudyard Kipling's story of "Letting In the Jungle":
–Mowgli fulfilled his vow to kill the tiger Shere Khan and to lay his hide upon the wolfpack's Council Rock, but was cast out of the human village after its chief hunter, Buldeo, learned of his friendship with wolves and accused him of sorcery.
Mowgli returned to the jungle and tried to forget humanity, but Akela [wolf] told him that Buldeo was still searching for him. Grey [wolf] Brother suggested killing Buldeo, but Mowgli angrily forbade him.
Mowgli and the wolves stalked Buldeo and eavesdropped on his conversation with some charcoal-burners. Mowgli was shocked to discover that the villagers had imprisoned his adoptive human parents, Messua and her husband, and were planning to execute them for fostering Mowgli.
Ordering the wolves to harry Buldeo and prevent him from returning to the village, Mowgli returned there to rescue his parents. He discovered that his adopted wolf mother, Raksha, had also arrived, and warned her to keep out of sight while he freed Messua and her husband.
Messua was thankful that her son returned to save them, but her husband was resentful at losing most of his money and possessions and showed no paternal warmth toward Mowgli.
The next day Mowgli told Bagheera he had a plan to take revenge on the villagers, a plan that involved Hathi the Elephant and his sons. Bagheera was sceptical that Hathi would answer Mowgli's summons, but was surprised when he did so. Mowgli wanted Hathi to destroy Buldeo's village as well, but to take more time doing so.
Over the course of several weeks, the village fields were invaded by herds of pigs, deer, and Wild Asian Water buffalo; the livestock was harried by wolves; and the elephants destroyed the grain storage bins. While all this was happening, Mowgli kept well out of sight so that the villagers would not suspect his involvement.
Finally, as the rainy season set in, the elephants tore down the village huts, and any villagers who had not already left, fled for their lives.
Six months afterward the wreckage had been completely swallowed by wild jungle, and Mowgli's revenge was complete.
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32. Tee
I thought the same thing; a quick zoom-out shows other neighborhoods in much better shape. Whole blocks being depopulated and cleared does suggest that someone has other plans. Though I don't want to minimize the evocative images either – I did go elsewhere and saw posts and videos, made by residents, touring areas of blight and showing examples of looming and near majestic decay. And hardly any people.
Not knowing exactly what I am seeing, and noting the ideas of others and the descriptions of Detroit as cynical, divisive, and opportunistic, it's not hard for me to believe that the grand plan is to wait until most of the population dies, kills each other, or moves out, and then it's on to revitalizing a more manageable city with more manageable people in it. A leftist's dream.
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33. Beverly
And Mr. Doodslag is spot-on, as usual. This husk of a city filled with teeming indolent, indoctrinated haters is the dirty work of the Left.
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34. Xennady
#29 & #10 Morton Doodslag,
I still live in the Detroit metro area, alas.
I know people with children in the local public schools. Based upon what I'm told it seems every possible problem that could be expected in the worst urban school district imaginable- i.e. Detroit- has appeared in the suburbs. Blame vouchers or the out-migration from Detroit, but be thankful you left. Again, I mean.
Worse, the collapse of the housing bubble and/or the local economy has made housing in the suburbs cheap enough that the worst of the worst from you-know-where can afford to buy a house, especially with the near-zero down loans still available.
In other words, the cancer that killed Detroit is spreading. You already know this I'm sure.
November 22, 2011 - 3:32 am Link to this Comment -
35. anton
Ham-Town (nicknamed for the Polish hams that were a speciality in days gone by) was preserved by the close-knit Polish population. They resolutely refused to budge whem crime and riot became the norm. Thisd has faded over the years, the Poles have been replaced by Albanians and other inward-looking ethnic populations that take pride in their twon and feircely defend it against the sewer that they are surrounded by. Conversely the city of Highland Park (which houses Ford's first significant factory) was once the jewel of the Mid-West with masions built by the like of Frank Lloyd Wright. It fell to chaos when the wealthy businessmen discovered the joys of living in the "country" and moved to the suburbs.29. Morton Doodslag
You hit the nail on the head32. Tee
Be careful about the borders, there are some very nice towns that directly abut Detroit. Use the Street View function on Google Earth to get the full effect of the sorry state of affairs in Detroit. Google Earth drove through the city snapping pictures as they went, no agenda, no political/racial/economic axe to grind simply photo-journalism in it's purist form; I came, I saw,I took pictures. An informal, unscripted, anonymous recording of a day in the city; literally a "fly on the wall".34. Xennady
Another Metro Detroit denizen! Glad to see that I'm not the only Clubber in this area. I live in the NE corner of Warren and work in Ferndale, I hope you are surviving well in this most Depresseed part of the most Depressed State in the Union.A former DPS employee (she quit because she couldn't stand it any more) pointed out to me the other day that Detroit pays more per Grade Point Average than any school district in the state by several orders of magnitude. DPS delivers education at about 1/40th of the effiency of the average state-wide.
And you are right, the toxic culture spreads like ripples in a pond.
November 22, 2011 - 4:48 am Link to this Comment -
Morton #29:
Well said!
You know, 20 years ago I saw an interview with Michael Moore. He talked about how proud he was that his family participated in union strikes at the auto plants. And he was so very angry that the auto industry picked up and moved away. "They were making plenty of money!"
Indeed, and so they could just keep paying the UAW more and more for less and less work, ad infitum. In the 90's the UAW was striking for less overtime and more permanent workers, not higher worker pay and benefits.
It was not just Japan that killed Detroit. The Big 3 could go to southern and western states and not have to worry about the Unions being prevalent. When GM went to Oklahoma in the late 70's only the very top executives could apply for a transfer. Everyone else, even engineers and white collar workers, had to present themselves at the plant and apply. The companies were running from Detroit attitudes. In Georgia and Alabama and South Carolina they talk about not how proud they are that shut the plants down but how proud they are they started them.
The Curley Effect applies to the unions as well as their purchased politicians.
November 22, 2011 - 5:59 am Link to this Comment -
37. Kent Gatewood
Climategate 2 now breaking. see Climate Audit, The Air Vent, Tallblokes
November 22, 2011 - 6:42 am Link to this Comment -
38. jms
If you zoom down to "street view", you can walk the empty streets of St. Syril. Cooper School is gone in the satellite view, but its ghost remains in the street view. It's an empty husk, stripped of windows, doors and facade ornamentation. It's as if no one has the money to board it up. Or the interest.
I think that every city mayor, councilman and planner should, as a part of their training, spend some time playing SimCity. Not because it provides an fully accurate model of how to make a city succeed, but because it provides a reasonably accurate model of how human folly on the part of government can kill a city. The natural tendency on the part of the player is to spend every penny coming in building roads, plumping up city services, and building parks, museums, universities, and passing the full menu of do-gooder ordinances like the clean air and the recycling programs, and all of which require continuous funding.. You can do this for quite a while, and if nothing bad happens, you can have a very pretty city. Then something happens and you run a momentary deficit. Your roads don't get repaired, police and schools are defunded, and instantly all the "high wealth" areas turn vacant. Then tax receipts and population crash in an unstoppable death spiral and in minutes your city is Detroit.
I use a big old car as an analogy. You're driving down the road in a big old car with a big V8. You're the government and the V8 engine is the economic engine of the private sector. You've got the air conditioning running and the radio blasting. This puts a load on the engine, but the engine has enough power to move the car and do all those things. Now you ascend a steep hill. A recession. The engine starts to labor. You see the engine temperature gauge start to rise.
Anyone who's ever owned a big old car knows what they have to do. Turn off the air conditioner and radio and shift into a lower gear. Reduce the load on the engine to get up the hill. Maybe even have the passengers get out and walk alongside the car for a bit. Even turn on the heater and open the windows to suck some of the heat off the engine block, and absorb some of the discomfort for the sake of protecting the engine.
But Government's response seems to be the opposite. Leave the AC and radio on, refuse to accept any discomfort, any inconvenience, and cross your fingers that the engine won't blow up. After all, it's all the hill's fault.
Then the engine throws a rod and you have Detroit.
Damn hill.
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39. Eggplant
jms @ 38 said:
"I think that every city mayor, councilman and planner should, as a part of their training, spend some time playing SimCity. Not because it provides an fully accurate model of how to make a city succeed, but because it provides a reasonably accurate model of how human folly on the part of government can kill a city."
I strongly agree. I would also argue that playing SimCity should be part of the high school curriculum teaching kids about government. It's a fun game and kids learn about weakly coupled nonlinear systems and how dynamic processes tend to have significant lag times, e.g. you do something expensive/unpopular early in the game that offers no initial benefit and then later on the earlier action is all the difference in the world between the city living and dying. If you completely screw up with SimCity then you end up with a creeping blight such as seen in Detroit that eventually kills the city. Sadly, SimCity is now considered an obsolete game and kids tend to play Sim3 instead (my daughter is hooked on it). Sim3 is more about personal relationships and consumerism rather than civic planning. Sim3 is still beneficial as a teaching tool because it's essentially a dumbed-down CAD package.
There is a gotcha with games like SimCity in that the model can be tweeked to advance a particular political ideology. Case in point: churches pop up randomly in SimCity. You can waste effort bulldozing churches but the churches just pop up somewhere else. Generally speaking, SimCity is apolitical (technocratic) and represents an honest attempt to provide a simple simulation of a real city. I wish my daughter would play SimCity rather than Sim3.
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Love him or hate him, The Two Moons:
Back in 1951, [a political analyst] came up with the theory that at any time in America there's a Sun Party, which drives the agenda, and a minority Moon Party that shines by reflecting its rays. But these days, "we are living in the era of two moons and no sun," writes David Brooks of the New York Times. "Neither party has been able to rally the country behind its vision of government."
With the public divided or agnostic, "both parties have developed minority mentalities," becoming insular and combative. "The Republicans feel oppressed by the cultural establishment, and Democrats feel oppressed by the corporate establishment." They're both too weak to push their agendas, but too stubborn to compromise. "Independent voters are trapped in a cycle of sour rejectionism—voting against whichever of the two options they dislike most at the moment." So both sides occasionally win big elections, "which only re-enforce their worst habits."
Grover Norquist's tax pledge isn't really about public policy; it's a chastity belt Republican politicians wear to show that they haven't been defiled by the Washington culture.
Those who have an allergic response to the "both parties are at fault" analysis need to seriously consider the possibility of a permanently divided USA. That too is on the table.
November 22, 2011 - 10:55 am Link to this Comment -
41. Mad Fiddler
YBR – "a permanently divided USA" has existed for a very long time. The only thing we have to quibble over is the qualifier "permanent". Go back over a century and consider what sort of smugly git mind would choose the term "Progressive" as a banner round which to rally.
Yeah, Define yourself as the people who are modern; who have advanced beyond the OLD and TIRED ways; who are clearly smarter, more clever, more discerning, more insightful, et cetera.
It's "The Emperor's New Clothes" all over again, and all the people too dumb to grasp the wisdom of that story have latched onto the PROGRESSIVE agenda like ticks on a bison. They will either suck the blood till the beast collapses and dies, or until some hideous tick virus comes along and miraculously shrivels'em.
I'm quite sure there's no Avenging God of the Oil-Soaked Q-tip to smite them all.
You'd need an Ocean of Mineral Oil…
I think things are going to get a lot worse before they start to get better.
Self Reliance, folks.
November 22, 2011 - 11:49 am Link to this Comment -
MF@41: "a permanently divided USA" has existed for a very long time.
"That" distinction is as old as politics, and arguably species-specific.
Competing visions of the future need to be reconciled, not denied (nor reduced to psychological profiles that transcend ideological belief systems.)
What's different now is that, in the past, that tension was a key strength. Today it is a weakness of threatening proportions. One hopes that this country will not be brought to its knees by vocabulary alone.
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43. tm
I loved simcity but once you realize how anti-car it is and tear out all the roads and run single line rail EVERYWHERE it's an easy game. Will Wright didn't like cars I guess?
I find the disaster that is Detroit fascinating it's like a train wreck. Below is a site that documents some of what was Detroit. Clicking the TOUR button is a good start.
November 22, 2011 - 6:03 pm Link to this Comment -
44. Eggplant
tm @ 43 said:
"I loved simcity but once you realize how anti-car it is and tear out all the roads and run single line rail EVERYWHERE it's an easy game."
I'll have to try that.
My earlier comment about SimCity caused me to do some research on it. Even though I enjoyed SimCity, I haven't played it for years. It appears that "SimCity 3000 Unlimited" is the version to play. There are more recent versions but apparently they suffer from "bleeding edge" issues. Also "SimCity 3000 Unlimited" comes in a Linux version which appeals to me since I'm a Linux bigot. Apparently when the DotCom was going full bore, a small startup firm obtained access to Maxis' source code and ported the software over to Linux. Like almost all DotComs, the small startup eventually went broke and the Linux version became orphaned but supposedly it's not an issue because the software was already mature before it was ported to Linux. I'm hoping I can dangle SimCity 3000 in front of my daughter and lure her away from Sims3 (yes, I'm dreaming).
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45. Ari Tai
The progress in Japan is stunning. Be interesting to know how much of what is being done (and paid for and managed) by neighbors, the larger community and township, and their central government.
They give me hope.
While I despair as I think about our own enclaves of dependency either at or on the path to being a Detroit.
Seems a Swiss-Canton-like radical decentralization would fix this too. If Detroit were to become four nearly sovereign states of, say, 150,000 people each they would sort it out – or sell out – or quickly go bankrupt – and the problems would be self-correcting. Where a bankruptcy of a public entity might well be used to create a tax and regulation free (given personal residency that insures shared risk in every area deregulated) zone for the new owners.
I suspect that the stronger property rights are the less chance there is of this type of decay. Where the largest contributor to a lack of renewal because of diminished property rights are zoning regulations and growth controls (as seen in the absence of long-term decay in places without either).
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