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23/09/2002 at 16:21
Just what is it about people with motorbikes and Sundays??
I cycled from Bloxham to Chipping Norton and back yesterday. A distance of about 10 miles each way and all the time I was being passed at high speed by groups of bikers. Then it seemed that the same ones (?) turned around and went zooming back again. I swear I saw th same bunch at least three times. There were others too. I've noticed many times in the past that Sundays seems to be bikers day. They often park en masse in a town and walk up and down the line admiring each others' bikes, jump on them and ride off again. I'm sorry but I don't undersatnd.
I know there are bikers on the forum so please can someone explain what it's about?
23/09/2002 at 16:51
You wanna try North Wales in the Summer Ratbag ! I'll be slogging my guts out on my pushbike over the hills and these dudes come blatting over the hills at HUGE speeds. Then we all stop in the same cafes.
I think they like the bends and the speed - sure can't be the scenery as that is just a blur. And it can't be the cafe in Ruthin or on the Horseshoe - they'd be better off in their local Starbucks !
Quite often though, not all of these bikers make it back home again. :-(
Why do these bikes need such huge top speeds ?
23/09/2002 at 17:00
You should try Box Hill on a Sunday guys! And loads of people gather to watch, making the whole thing seriously dangerous. The police (any of you out there?) don't seem to do anything.
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23/09/2002 at 17:15
My husband is a bit of a bike enthusiast, he owns two and Sunday is generally our day to go out on them. We aren't the speeding types (one of the bikes is a Harley so speed isn't an option!) I can safely say that we are courteous road users (possibly because I run and he cycles at times? Whenever we stop and park up we get a bit of attention, either because of the chrome on the Harley or his MV Agusta which is a bit of a rarity on the roads
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23/09/2002 at 18:33
I've got to own up. This used to be me. I used to sacre the excrement out of myself every Sunday on my huge red V4.
It's exhilerating, but potentially very bad for you. If you don't fall off, you get little exercise and tend to drink huge quantities of ale and sleep in tents.
loved it at the time, but gave up the day Mrs Barkles told me she was expecting.
Besides it's important that the kids at school know I'm a great role model.
Argue and I'll piss on your drive.
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24/09/2002 at 08:58
Yeah, but nobody can really explain the fact that they all park up and then wander up and down looking at each other's bikes. You don't get car drivers doing that. Is it some kind of sexual substitute?? Like who's got the biggest engine or something? And why only on a Subday, as it seems? What do these people do the rest of the week???
Still don't understand it...
24/09/2002 at 10:17
Well, Ratbag, you do get car drivers doing just that in country pub car parks! It just depends on what you drive. Anyway, it's all about boys and their toys, and maybe it's a substitute for something, who can be sure. I'm a biker myself, but I couldn't see myself doing the kind of thing you're describing. I enjoy riding a nice bendy road at legal speeds, and there are trackdays if I want to go flat out. My excuse for owning a bike is that I don't have a car and probably never will - they clog up the road, consume more petrol and make their owners into lazy bun-munching couch potatoes, because it's just so much easier to drive there than to walk, or take the bicycle or the bus...
But riding up and down the same road and spending hours admiring each other's bikes? No thank you!
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24/09/2002 at 10:35
It's a what you are thing: -
You are a runner
Your are a cyclist
You are a biker
What ever you are you go out and do it at a weekend (since you have to work all week)
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24/09/2002 at 10:46
Maybe us runners could all meet in car parks and admire each others trainers or our 'engines' :-) There's one on the A46 near Bath we're people seem to do this!!!!! Very scary
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24/09/2002 at 10:57
I was a biker until recently (when I had to sell my BMW R1100S). At heart, I still am, and I can't wait to get another one.
It's like all hobby things - it's good to meet people with similar interests. Riding a bike is exhillarating - even at slower speeds.
People also do customise their bikes - even sports bikes. When you meet someone for a ride, it's quite natural to look at what they're riding.
And the police do do things about it. Believe me - become a biker and you'll soon feel victimised. How often do you get police stopping cars at car parks checking for tax, illegal number plates, loud exhausts etc? Not very often. You get a recognised bike event, and you can guarantee there will be the over zealous plod there.
And cars do do this too. Have you not seen the boy racer GTI clubs, with their loud music, even louder exhausts, and often very irresponsible driving?
Sure - bikes can be ridden poorly, but in my experience, car drivers are worse in towns where injuring pedestrians is more likely.
There. Minor rant over.
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24/09/2002 at 12:36
There are irresponsible cyclists, bikers and car drivers, just like there are sensible ones from all of the above categories. And thanks Mr B, I'll avoid the A46 in future!
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24/09/2002 at 19:32
Just like you have favourite running routes, bikers have fave roads, so you ride them again and again. Anywhere around Devil's Bridge in Kirkby Lonsdale does fine for me. There's a car park with a sign that says 'Monday to Saturday any vehicle, Sundays Motorcycles only'. About the only positive discrimination for bikers I've ever come across.
Sunday's the day you get to enjoy riding purely for the pleasure of it, rather than as a means of getting from A to B - and as for admiring each others bikes it's really just down to jealousy. Someone on this thread mentioned an MV Agusta, now that's making me really green....
Agree with the comments about irresponsible speeds and behaviour though, but I've yet to come across any group of road users who are all completely responsible all the time...
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24/09/2002 at 21:17
At Vyrnwy the Sunday before last a few bikers were a nuisance round the course. There's no excuse for bikers weaving in and out of runners - which a few of them did. It's not as if the road goes anywhere either - just around the lake, so why they had to ride around it defeats me. It would be much better if the organisers applied to close the road to traffic and that would stop the cars too, although I didn't notice any cars weaving in and out.
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25/09/2002 at 06:56
Slowboy - I showed my husband this thread (he's the lucky Agusta owner) and he laughed out loud at your comment. He gets an incredible amount of attention from other bikers when he's out on it. I am not sure that my description of it as 'a really pretty bike' goes down quite as well as it might though.
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25/09/2002 at 09:31
Slowboy, there's no need for that sign on Devil's Bridge since there's no hope of gettting a car parked there on a Sunday anyway!
Anyway, isn't there some talk of banning them from there? (don't shoot the messenger)
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25/09/2002 at 09:44
Gnasher, I'm not suprised he gets attention, that's a bike that's not so much rare as legendary.
Laura, there have been rumours of bikes being banned from Devil's Bridge rumbling on for years. Hopefully it'll come to nothing and we can all go on enjoying ourselves in our different ways.
By the way, looking at your profile on the URWFRC website I see you finished the Paris Marathon just ahead of me - I came in in 4:14:20, so you almost certainly ran past me (i felt like I was going backwards by this point).
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25/09/2002 at 10:08
I was trying to resist posting in this thread as it is a conversation that I have regulary at work with non bikers.
As for what we do when we 'inspect' other bikes; it usually a mixture of technical things like tyres and suspension settings (you can really feel the difference on a bike between a bad tyre and a good one) and just a good look at the latest bikes or indeed a look at some classic bikes.
Will summed it up perfectly!
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25/09/2002 at 10:20
Runners do miss out on a lot of 'tecchie' things really. As a cyclist I will have a look at a fellow cyclists bike if its got some nice bits on it. But when I'm running I can't really go up to someone and admire the cut of their shorts.
Advantage is that running is much cheaper though.
27/09/2002 at 16:43
Tell me about it, I've just bought a bike for the triathlons: 625 £sterling, reduced from 1000, it's worth more than my car and this weekend the children will be travelling on the roof rack while the bike reclines on the back seat!
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27/09/2002 at 17:05
Attagirl Monique.
I had the girls from the office round last week, and they insisted that my wife got the wedding album out.
They were a bit surprised to find my bike in a few of the shots before we went to the church.
(it was a very nice bike and only a few weeks old) And lived in the front room for a while too.
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tribal public health officials in evaluating the potential benefits, health risks,
and costs of developing prepositioning strategies in their community.
Recommendation 5-2: Integrate ethical principles and public engage-
ment into the development of prepositioning strategies within the
overall context of public health planning for bioterrorism response.
State, local, and tribal governments should use the following principles
as an ethical framework for public health planning of prepositioning
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romotion of public health—Strive for the most favorable balance
of public health benefits and harms based on the best available
research and data.
tewardship—Demonstrate stewardship of public health resources.
istributive justice—Distribute benefits and harms fairly, without
unduly imposing burdens on any one population group.
eciprocal obligations—Recognize the professional's duty to serve
and the reciprocal obligation to protect those who serve.
ransparency and accountability—Maintain public accountability
and transparency so that community members grasp relevant poli-
cies and know from whom they may request explanation, informa-
tion, or revision.
roportionality—Use burdensome measures, such as those that
restrict liberty, only when they offer a commensurate gain in public
health and when no less onerous alternatives are both available and
ommunity engagement—Engage the public in the development
of ethically sound dispensing plans for medical countermeasures,
including plans to preposition antibiotics, so as to ensure the in-
corporation of community values.
Recommendation 5-3: Consider the risk of attack, assess detection and
dispensing capability, and evaluate the use of prepositioning strategies
to complement points of dispensing.
State, local, and tribal governments should, in partnership with each
other and with the federal government, the private sector, and com-
munity organizations:
onsider their risk of a potential anthrax attack.
ssess their current detection and surveillance capability.
ssess the current capability of and gaps in their medical counter-
measures dispensing system.
ased on their risk and capability assessment, evaluate whether
specific prepositioning strategies will fill identified gaps and/or im-
prove effectiveness and efficiency. The decision-making framework
should include, for a range of anthrax attack scenarios:
— valuation of the potential health benefits and health risks of
alternative prepositioning strategies;
— valuation of the relative economic costs of alternative preposi-
tioning strategies;
— omparison of the strategies with respect to health benefits,
health risks, and costs, taking into account available resources;
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— onsideration of ethical principles and incorporation of com-
munity values (see Recommendation 5-2).
Recommendation 5-4: Give priority to improving dispensing capabil-
ity and developing prepositioning strategies such as forward-deployed
or cached medical countermeasures.
In public health planning efforts, state, local, and tribal jurisdictions
should give priority to improving the dispensing capability of points of
dispensing and push strategies and to developing forward-deployed or
cached prepositioning strategies.
The committee does not recommend the development of public
health strategies that involve broad use of predispensed medical
countermeasures for the general population. In some cases, however,
targeted predispensed medical countermeasures might be used to ad-
dress specific gaps in jurisdictions' dispensing plans for certain sub-
populations that lack access to antibiotics via other timely dispensing
mechanisms. These might include, for example, some first responders,
health care providers, and other workers who support critical infra-
structure, as well as their families.
Personal stockpiling might also be used for certain individuals who
lack access to antibiotics via other timely dispensing mechanisms (for
example, because of their medical condition and/or social situation)
and who decide—in conjunction with their physicians—that this is an
appropriate personal strategy. This is allowed under current prescribing
practice and would usually be done independently of a jurisdiction's
public health strategy for dispensing medical countermeasures.
The following are federal/national-level actions that would facilitate the
evaluation and development of prepositioning strategies.
Recommendation 4-1: Develop national guidance for public-private
coordination in the prepositioning, distribution, and dispensing of
medical countermeasures.
The Department of Health and Human Services should convene state,
local, and tribal governments and private-sector organizations to de-
velop national guidance that will facilitate and ensure consistency for
public-private cooperation in the prepositioning, distribution, and dis-
pensing of medical countermeasures and help leverage existing private-
sector systems and networks.
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Recommendation 5-1: Enhance assessment of performance in imple-
menting distribution and dispensing plans for medical countermeasures.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should continue to fa-
cilitate assessment of state, local, and tribal jurisdictions' performance
in implementing dispensing plans for medical countermeasures, in ad-
dition to assessing planning efforts. More specifically, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, in collaboration with state, local, and
tribal jurisdictions, should facilitate assessment of the entire distribu-
tion and dispensing system by:
• d
emonstrating Strategic National Stockpile distribution capabilities
to high-risk jurisdictions;
• f
acilitating large-scale, realistic exercises in high-risk jurisdictions
to test dispensing capability; and
• c
ontinuing efforts to identify objective criteria and metrics for
evaluating the performance of jurisdictions in implementing mass
Recommendation 5-5: Do not pursue development of a Food and
Drug Administration-approved MedKit unless this is supported by
additional safety and cost research.
The committee does not recommend the development of a Food and
Drug Administration–approved MedKit designed for prepositioning for
an anthrax attack until and unless research demonstrates that MedKits
are significantly less likely to be used inappropriately than a standard
prescription and can be produced at costs comparable to those of stan-
dard prescription antibiotics.
The significant costs of establishing and maintaining a distribution and
dispensing system warrant a thorough understanding of the most efficient
and effective mass prophylaxis strategies for a community. Throughout this
report, the committee has highlighted areas in which additional research is
needed to better characterize the risk of an anthrax attack, the distribution
and dispensing capability needed to provide prophylaxis for a population
within an appropriate time period, what that time period is, and the role
of prepositioning in an overall bioterrorism preparedness and response
system. The remaining evidence gaps in each of these areas, as well as
others identified below (see Table 6-1), need to be filled in a systematic and
rigorous manner by quantitative and qualitative research. Any and all data
from real-world events should be used to guide the formulation of research
questions. The committee does not intend that decision making should
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Evidence to Inform Prepositioning Decision Making: Research Needs
General Category Specific Research Areas
Epidemiological – Further understanding of the distribution of incubation
and Medical Issues periods across a range of plausible exposures, and to
Regarding Anthrax what degree exposure influences the incubation period
and Postexposure – Efficacy of prophylaxis by host factors and timing
Prophylaxis (PEP) of initiation
for Anthrax
– Alternative agents for drug-resistant anthrax
– Development of appropriate pediatric formulation
for PEP and impact on home stockpiling
– Improvement of early detection through environmental
sensors, clinical diagnostics, and other means
Operations and – Evaluation of an operational target (time window)
Logistics for dispensing initial doses of prophylaxis to the entire
at-risk population
– Exploration of a logistics model to assess the
effectiveness of current distribution strategies for
different jurisdictions and the cost-effectiveness
of various alternative distribution strategies for filling
gaps in capability
– Demonstration of the current time to receive medical
countermeasures (MCM) from the Strategic National
Stockpile (SNS) in a target community
– Assessment of costs and effectiveness of alternative
means to improve SNS distribution time
– Accurate assessment of local dispensing capacity,
including existing closed points of dispensing (PODs)
– Assessment of populations not adequately served
by PODs
– Further assessment of existing prepositioning models,
including the MedKit component of the postal model
– Potential impact of behavior of the public on a
dispensing system (e.g., if individuals with home stock-
piles also attempt to receive MCM from a public POD)
– Potential impact of antibiotic prepositioning strategies
on time to initiation of anthrax vaccine
– Logistics and costs of replacement and appropriate
disposal of prepositioned antibiotics
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TABLE 6-1 Continued
General Category Specific Research Areas
Behavior and Attitudes and behavior related to different
Communications prepositioning strategies
– Acceptability of a given strategy in the absence of a
perceived acute threat
– Trust and perceived inequities regarding availability of
antibiotic prophylaxis, use of different antibiotics, and
potential need to change public health recommenda-
tions after an attack
– Prescriber behavior around personal stockpiling
Effectiveness of communications
– Compliance with public health messaging
– Directions for storage, preparation for pediatric dosage,
saving drug for attack, direction for use during attack
– Assessment of the risk for inappropriate use among
varied populations: willingness to take drugs only upon
– Behavior of the public in response to other disasters
(e.g., U.S. use of potassium iodide after Japanese
nuclear disaster)
Safety – Adverse events and impact on adherence
– Impact on general community antimicrobial resistance
– Influence of packaging of predispensed antibiotics on
inappropriate use
Cost-Effectiveness – Further assessment of the likely total costs of alternative
prepositioning strategies in different communities
– Further assessment of health benefits of alternative
prepositioning strategies in different communities
– Further assessment of cost-effectiveness of alternative
prepositioning strategies in different communities
await the research results, but those results should be used to refine plans
in the future.
Recommendation 6-1: Perform additional research to better inform
decision making about prepositioning strategies.
Results of such research would strengthen the decision-aiding frame-
work proposed in this report for determining whether prepositioning
strategies would be beneficial within a community. The Department of
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P riority Research Needs
urther understanding of the anthrax incubation period, i.e., the
minimum time before symptom onset and the distribution of the
incubation period for a set of exposed individuals (e.g., what sub-
population factors affect anthrax incubation periods);
valuation of a standard goal for the time within which jurisdictions
must administer an initial dose of prophylaxis to the entire at-risk
ssessment of costs and effectiveness of alternative means of im-
proving Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) distribution time;
ssessment of factors related to behavior and communication, in-
cluding acceptability of, trust in, and adherence to recommended
medical countermeasures (MCM);
stimate of rate of misuse of antibiotics in a home stockpiling con-
text; and
ssessment of the likely efficacy, costs, costeffectiveness, and
safety of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved home
Health and Human Services should conduct additional research in the
following broad areas: epidemiological and medical issues regarding
anthrax and postexposure prophylaxis for anthrax, operations and
logistics, behavior and communications, safety, and cost-effectiveness.
In recognition of limited public health resources, Box 6-1 summarizes
the research needs that are most critical.
Prepositioning is just one potential component of a larger endeavor to
enhance the nation's capability to prevent illness and death from an anthrax
attack. Other components include national security efforts to prevent an
attack or mitigate its effects; efforts to enhance detection and surveillance
capability; further development of strategies for anthrax prevention (e.g.,
anthrax vaccine) and treatment (e.g., anthrax antitoxin); continuous re-
finement of the current medical countermeasures (MCM) distribution and
dispensing system; and efforts to engage the private sector in both the
development and the delivery of MCM. To best protect the public's health
and to make optimal use of resources, decision making about preposition-
ing must take place within the context of the entire system.
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According to Norm, The University of Leiden in the Netherlands uses an extract from Michael Moore's Stupid White Men in its English grammar test, in which Mr Moore rants about the stupidity of most of his countrymen.
Norm thinks this is outrageous. I think it's funny.
We mock the Americans for being fat, stupid inbred rednecks. We mock the French for being arrogant, lazy and malodourous; we mock the Germans for being officious and boring; we mock the Scots for being drunk, violent and on the dole. We're aware it has only a limited basis in reality, but it annoys the relevant group and therefore is worthwhile.
Norm is right to say that there would have been more of a fuss had the university chosen a text that focused on any other nation or group. However, he draws the wrong conclusion from this. Rather than trying to excise anti-Americanism, we should aim to treat people of all nationalities the way we treat the Septics.
Don't mention the Roma
Jerusalem Post writer Tom Gross is a wanker of the first order (bugmenot required). He seems to be implying that if you say the Nazi death camps killed a lot of gypsies, that makes you a Holocaust denier.
"The Guardian also couldn't resist greatly exaggerating the numbers of Roma (Gypsies) who died in the camps. (Perhaps the paper isn't aware that inflating the number of Roma and homosexuals killed by the Nazis, in order to try to de-emphasize the Jewish centrality of the Holocaust, is now a favorite trick of revisionist historians.)"
I've read the Guardian's coverage around Holocaust Memorial Day. It appears to have no data at all concerning Roma deaths. It does say "(Roma, communists and gays also suffered and died in the camps)", and "Six million Jews died in the Nazi camps, along with millions of others, including Roma gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, political opponents of the Nazis, homosexuals, beggars, alcoholics and mentally ill and disabled people".
Independent stats suggest that 500,000-1.5 million Roma died in the Holocaust (absolute numbers are hard to come by since the prewar Roma population was fairly definitionally rather hard to count). If I were a gypsy, I'd be strongly inclined to punch Mr Gross in the head.
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For just $30 per 30 teabags, you too can make your "breast enhancement regime incredibly easy to follow and more enjoyable. Customer(s) can take it anywhere and take them whenever they like. One cup of tea at bedtime can significantly boost results…".
Strictly for oral administration only, of course.
We heart junk science
This 'danger, Splenda is toxic and anyone who eats anything sweet will surely die' website is entirely bollocks from start to finish. One thing I love about the Internet is the number of utter nutcases who think they're Doing Science and Saving The World, rather than scaremongering and wasting everyone's time.
My favourite part of the whole text is "the manufacturer claims that the chlorine added to sucralose is similar to the chlorine atom in the salt (NaCl) molecule. That is not the case". What, so Splenda's makers have added extra neutrons to their chlorine? Truly they are evil scientists…
Murdered for marijuana
At SBBS, we love the war on drugs. This is because we are sick bastards who enjoy seeing innocent people suffer and die. We also love the war on pornography. This is because we are sick bastards who enjoy seeing innocent people thrown into jail.
If you approve of drug and/or pornography prohibition, please make a coherent case for them in the comments (if your 'coherent case' mentions metaphysical bollocks such as God or 'human dignity', I'll track down your IP address, come round your house, and fuck you up).
(side note: how can anyone claim with a straight face that the US is 'more free' than the UK?)
Links via the unmissable Vice Squad.
Ahead of next week's Nathan Barley TV show, here is a compendium of all of Nathan's TVGoHome moments.
Oh, and Googlebombishly: Penta Water; Kilroy Veritas.
Anyone who seriously thinks Trevor Beattie's Labour posters were antisemitic (muppetry here, here, and everywhere) is an idiot.
Anyone who doesn't seriously think this, but is raising false charges of antisemitism to tar their opponents while trivialising real antisemitism is… err… doing exactly what the Israeli right and its supporters do to anyone who thinks Israel should return to 1967 borders, so no great surprises there.
Pension revisionism
I love the Adam Smith Institute. Err, sorry, what I meant to say was 'I think the Adam Smith Institute are an absolute bunch of jokers'.
They're trying to blame the UK pension funds crisis on Labour's not very onerous pension taxation. My personal suggestion might be that it might be closer related to… oooh… the existence of a bloody great stock market bubble that artificially inflated returns for years, led to companies taking pension holidays they couldn't afford, and made everyone believe they had adequate savings when they didn't.
Presumably the reason for ASI's sophistry is that the things that went wrong in the UK are pretty much inevitable if your pensions system is privatised. The claim 'the UK system only went wrong because everyone involved was greedy and stupid' wouldn't necessarily inspire hope and optimism about Bush's latest crazy rip-off.
Bunch of Chappaquidicks
I'm not, as I may have said before [*], a person who normally wishes horrible fates on people. However, I would like to see how all the right-wingers who purport to hate Edward Kennedy over Chappaquidick would react if they were trapped in a sinking car.
I'm sure that every last one of them would do the brave and heroic thing and risk their own life to rescue the girl. And I'm sure that if they didn't, then they'd feel they deserved exactly the same level of contempt and visceral abuse that they've visited on Senator Kennedy over the last 30 years.
After all, if they were to do otherwise, then they'd be vicious partisan hacks cynically exploiting a young woman's death to attack someone with whose political views they disagree. I wouldn't want to level such an accusation at my worthy adversaries.
[*] Generally in the context of wishing horrible fates on people. This in no way invalidates my assertion.
I take it all back
Apparently blogs are relevant after all. It's good to see the downtrodded 'rulers of the world' class reasserting themselves at the expense of the now-discredited 'finding out the truth about stuff and reporting on it' community.


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"Not what I expected, either"
This is a book that all liberals need to read. It provides an infusion of strength and purpose. The author is certainly not a hippie, but neither is he neo-conservative. He doesn't glorify violence, but he does preach conviction and dedication, and he acknowledges that as long as there are things worth fighting for, you'd better be prepared to fight. There's a big difference between standing up for what's right and just waxing philosophic about "the way things ought to be", and we liberals have largely forgotten that. This book is a much-needed wakeup call.


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This is an important announcement to confirm that I will roundhouse kick anyone who tries to touch the exquisite and adored genitalia. If I had wanted to choose a life of porn, I wouldn't start at the airport, I had plenty of opportunity for that kind of thing but it's not for me. My angry junk will remain covered by an angry fig leaf.
But you know, trying to turn the TSA checkpoints into some kind of pervert and pedophile play land is about a billion times worse. I'm not sure every photo from the pornoscanners doesn't goes directly to Michael Chertoff's porn collection — where he's covertly running the largest pedo image database for all these sicko, though the evidence is abundant.
This nigga (I can say that, my junk is black) in the oval office is truly crazy if he thinks Americans won't violently rebel to the checkpoint society — as indignation piles upon indignation, a more agitated nation pressed closer than ever together. We may be divided and re-homogenized more efficiently than in the history of all our black asses, but terrism ain't nothing but a strategy, not an enemy.
As Snoop Dogg famously said, "if you kill a fly, the next day another motherfucking one will be flyin' around."


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They're all elements of film noir, a term now tossed around in far too many film reviews and egghead dissertations (note to the kiddies: Tarantino is not the genius you think he is). To remedy this situation, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston is bringing the real deals back to the big screen; starting October 2, the "Universal Noir" series showcases that studio's finest efforts in the genre.
"Contemporary audiences may laugh at noirs because of their dialogue and dated delivery," admits Marian Luntz, the MFAH's film curator. "It's almost a guilty pleasure, that combination of glamour and seediness."
The term film noir (literally, "black film") was coined by French moviegoers, who responded enthusiastically to the hard-edged American crime dramas. Though meant mostly as B-movie entertainment, the films' cynicism, paranoia and dark view of human behavior struck a chord with post-WWII audiences; by comparison, Hollywood's melodramas and happy fluff seemed like relics of another era.
More modern noir interpretations have ranged from the excellent (Chinatown, The Last Seduction, L.A. Confidential) to the execrable (Palmetto, The Hot Spot). Tarantino and his fellow purveyors of "espresso violence" have brought at least the textbook techniques into the '90s with wink-wink homages, but their work is no match for the quality of these originals, which -- in an odd twist -- are now more familiar to mass audiences in the form of their oft-parodied characteristics.
It's the kind of irony a private eye would ponder. In the neon-lit rain. As the woman in the low-cut dress walks out of his life.
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The "Universal Noir" series screens at the MFAH's Brown Auditorium, 1001 Bissonnet. The complete schedule for the series includes: October 2 -- Double Indemnity, recently named no. 38 in the American Film Institute list of the Top 100 films of all time (7:30 p.m.) and Phantom Lady (9:30 p.m.); October 3 -- Ministry of Fear (7:30 p.m.) and The Big Clock (9:15 p.m.); October 4 -- Touch of Evil (5 p.m.) and The Blue Dahlia (7 p.m.); October 18 -- This Gun for Hire (1 p.m.) and The Glass Key (2:30 p.m.); October 25 -- The Killers (1 p.m.) and Criss Cross (3 p.m.); November 1 -- Blast of Silence (1 p.m.) and the original Cape Fear (2:30 p.m.); and November 7 & 8 -- a documentary on one of the best modern noir writers, James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction (7:30 p.m.). Tickets are $5 for one film or $6 for the double feature. Matinees (before 4 p.m.) are $4. Call 639-7515 or visit www.mfah.org/film/schedule.html for more details.


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That sort of thing used to be cool, as ludicrous as it sounds. But the new cool looks something like this: not the desiccated atmosphere of a furniture showroom but rather an eclectic, bohemian approach, like someplace a very successful artist might live — someone like, say, Julian Schnabel, who by an extraordinary coincidence happens to have designed the interiors at the Gramercy Park Hotel, along with the famous British architect John Pawson. And instead of a velvet rope lined with vapid party people, you'll have some genuine exclusivity about the place: a bar for drinks and socializing, not staged photo ops.
If this is indeed the new face of the boutique hotel, then the coming years, as competitors scramble to imitate the place, will be happy ones: we're all for bigger, more livable rooms, bathrooms spacious enough to function properly, professional service, an art collection straight out of MoMA, and a tinge of nostalgia for the refined glamour of prewar (or at least pre-disco) Manhattan.
Among the Gramercy Park's attractions is Maialino, by the award-winning restaurateur Danny Meyer (Gramercy Tavern, Union Square Cafe, Shake Shack), with designs by David Rockwell and inspired by Meyer's love of Italy. The hotel also offers the Rose and Jade bars, the spa and fitness center and, of course, the park: guests have access to Gramercy Park itself, the only private park in Manhattan.
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The City of Sierra Madre Huck Finn Fishing Derby was held this past Saturday, March 29, 2014. This year 247 youth ages 3-15 participated in the Huck Finn Fishing Derby with many parents, family and friends in attendance as well. The fishing was fantastic this year as most young anglers caught at least one trout and many caught their limit of three! Awards were given in the following four age categories, as well as the Largest Overall fish and Smallest Overall fish. Age category winners were based on the total weight of a maximum three fish.


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A Santa Clara tow company is suing San Jose, saying its permit system is a sham. But even a constitutional issue of due process is a hard sell to a world that despises being towed.
By Vrinda Normand
THE FINE LINES around Lorrie Augustine's blue eyes and the gray streaks in her brown hair are signs of stress the past two years have brought. Her husband passed away in 2003, and now her business, Tow Service Inc., has dwindled into a small operation in Santa Clara that tows about 600 cars a year.
Before her current permit battle with San Jose, Tow Service was one of the largest companies of its kind in the area, towing approximately 6,000 cars a year.
"I kid you not," says Augustine. "You can't tow that many cars and not get complaints."
And Tow Service did get complaints. But it still took Augustine completely by surprise when she received notification on Dec. 4, 2002, that her permit would be revoked unless she attended an administrative hearing on Dec. 18. She received documentation from the city to support the 17 charges against her only two days before the hearing.
Augustine's fate was decided in an informal hearing run by former San Jose Deputy Police Chief Adonna Amoroso, and a city appeals board confirmed Amoroso's decision in April of 2003. Augustine felt both hearings were a shamwho, after all, is going to have any sympathy for the owner of a tow truck company, or even care if she gets due process under the law? Now she's challenging the authority of San Jose to regulate her business, and her case, set to be heard in federal court this summer, could loosen the reins city governments have over two companies nationwide.
Michael McGovern is Augustine's Tennessee-based lawyer. He calls the charges against Augustine "bogus" and the administrative hearing a "kangaroo court."
"The whole process was just atrocious," he adds. "From a standpoint of American justice, it was just unbelievable what went on there."
McGovern used to serve as general counsel for the Towing Recovery Association of America and has represented hundreds of tow companies over the past 20 years. In 2000, he won a landmark case that effectively deregulated the industry when, in Tocher v. City of Santa Ana, a federal appeals court determined that state and local governments may not pass any law affecting the "price, route or service of any motor carrier."
The repercussions of this legal decision reached San Jose, and in April of 2001, the city halted its permit program for tow-car businesses. Then, in the summer of 2002, a Columbus, Ohio, case added a key exemption to the debate: states and cities can regulate tow companies, but only for safety reasons.
Defining "safety" has been the challenge since that turnaround. McGovern argues that cities tend to slap the label on any law they want to enforce, such as the towing ordinances and permits that San Jose reinstated in August 2002.
McGovern says San Jose is overstepping its bounds by requiring permits in the first place.
"The city controls who gets the permits and who doesn't, and they aren't very fair in the way they dole them out," he says.
Angry Undertow
Towing is a customer-service job that often involves pissing people off. One Santa Clara tow truck driver, Teresa, says 90 percent of the time she's helping people with lockouts, flat tires, jump-starts or consensual tows for broken down and wrecked vehicles. "But some of them aren't very happy campers," she adds.
For nonconsensual tows on private propertythe hottest point of contention in the industryTeresa has to deal with the wrath of drivers who have parked illegally and return to find their vehicle missing or in the process of being hooked up.
"People come screaming and hollering, some cussing at me and threatening me," she says. "I try to deal with it in an adult manner." She calmly explains that she can release the vehicle for a drop fee, half the cost of the tow. If the person refuses to pay, she offers to take the car to the impound yard where the cost will be at least twice as much.
"I've heard a lot of stories," Teresa says. "Grown people lie. Some stand on the back of my truck so I can't drive away. I just sit in my truck and block them out until they calm down."
Most tow truck drivers attempt to steer clear of angry vehicle owners by hooking up cars as quickly as possible. (Teresa preferred not to give her last name because she feared such people might track her down). Confrontations still abound at impound yards, however, and tow company owners say they often have to call the police in order to keep the peace.
Law enforcement officials hear complaints from both sides and fall back on regulatory laws to establish order. In the process, though, they have become entangled in the battles that characterize this controversial industry.
Due Process?
At Augustine's 2002 hearing, she showed up at the city attorney's office with her witnesses: a handful of tow truck drivers, a security guard and a property manager. For the first five days of the hearing, a local attorney represented her, but because of the prohibitive cost, she defended herself for the remaining four.
The city called as witnesses several police officers and citizens who had lodged complaints.
One complaint addressed at the hearing shows how drastically two sides of the same story can differ. At an apartment complex, a man parked in a red zone while he ran upstairs to get his wallet. He says he left his 5-year-old daughter in the car and returned to find a tow truck lifting the vehicle into the air. He then jumped into the car and tried to drive it off the lift.
On the other hand, the tow truck driver says he hooked up to an empty car, and while it was lifted, the owner ran out of his apartment, threw his little girl into the back seat and then hopped in. The driver told the man to get out of the vehicle and reproached him for jeopardizing his daughter's safety. When the man refused, the driver called the police and at the officer's order, dropped the car without
a fee.
On a less dramatic note, the city accused Tow Service of taking vehicles with tow slips that were signed but not completely filled out. These slips, Amoroso reasoned, could be used to take cars that were not designated by the property manager, although no complaints of such mistaken tows were reported.
Tow Service also had to answer for allegedly charging excessive fees: $120 for a tow instead of the San Jose police rate of $110. State law says the city or the county can determine maximum rates; Augustine counters that her rates compare with surrounding cities: Mountain View and Palo Alto allow for $140.
Jeff Hunter, executive director of the California Tow Truck Association, says it is unreasonable to expect tow companies to charge 10 different rates for varying cities in an area; he believes a company should be able to use a combined average.
Complaints like the ones brought against Augustine are very common, Hunter says, and for the number of tows that she does every year, he thinks her business has a pretty good record.
"People have violated laws when they parked," he points out. "You would think the city would be more concerned about that."
The Complaint Department
City Attorney Rick Doyle says the length of Augustine's hearingnine dayswas "out of the ordinary" for the amount of time the city spent on the case. Although the evidentiary standard was lower for the purposes of informality, he adds, "That does not mean there was a lack of due process."
Stephen Bundy, a law professor from the University of California at Berkeley, says nine days is "a significant investment of public resources to get it right," although the time Augustine was allowed to prepare her defense seems "awfully short."
"We wouldn't be revoking their permit unless there were extreme circumstances," Doyle says. He recounts the anecdote about the little girl (only from the complainant's perspective) and the argument about excessive fees. SJPD permits officer Mark Bennett, according to Doyle, warned Augustine to clean up her act at least five times in two years leading up to the hearing. She allegedly never cooperated.
Augustine says she never received such warnings, although Bennett did call her about a woman who said she had $90 stolen. She told him many people lie about theft because they are angry about their car being towed. In the hearings, Bennett would testify that he stopped calling Augustine about complaints because she always became defensive.
"I was flabbergasted at half of the charges," Augustine says. "Had I known about them, I would have delved into what was going on. No business of our size would want to jeopardize its relationship with the police."
Finding the truth in many of these intangible disputes is a challenging task
one even police investigators haven't seemed to master. SJPD Lt. Todd Martin says he uses his intuition.
"Sometimes you just really never know," he says. Still, he assumes the majority of complaints the department receives about tow companiescurrently a couple every month, he saysare "probably valid."
As far as complaints about tow companies go, the SJPD has heard it all: excessive fees, rude conduct by tow truck drivers, damage to vehicles, theft, towing before the time was up on metered spots and, in one case, a driver who staged photos by moving cars into fire lanes so he could tow them with "evidence" that they were illegally parked.
Scandal and Reform
Augustine's case follows in the wake of one homegrown scandal. In 1999, Ray's Towing was booted from San Jose when it was discovered the company had towed legally parked cars from Chuck E. Cheese to a nearby parking lot, charging vehicle owners for both labor and storage.
More recently, a 2003 San Francisco Chronicle investigation revealed that City Tow, San Francisco's largest tow company, had received more than 2,000 complaints in two years, some from citizens alleging their cars had been sold without proper notice. San Francisco is one of the few major Bay Area cities to maintain a towing permit program.
Bill Hemenez, owner of Palace Garage in San Leandro, says he operates all over Alameda County with no required local permits. He gets a motor carrier license from the DMV (as do most tow companies, including Tow Service), which is applicable statewide. Hemenez contends that should be enough.
One San Jose tow company owner, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation from his competitors, says Tow Service must have been doing something pretty bad to lose its permit. "You don't go around doing the stuff they were doing and get away with it," he adds, although he wouldn't specify what that might have been.
At the same time, he says citizens are always complaining, no matter what the tow company. He'll look into an issue if he hears one, but "ninety-nine percent of the time, you're catching a lie."
He's not expecting sympathy for Augustineor the rest of the tow industryanytime soon.
"Everybody says tow companies are shysters," he says.
In case you get your car towed and have to confront that uneasy feeling of being scammed, here are a few things you should know about your legal rights:
According to state law, a tow truck driver or company must allow you to use a credit card for any payment; if they demand cash, they are liable to pay you back up to four times the cost of towing and storage, but not to exceed $500.
If you find a tow truck approaching your car, the driver may not charge you a drop fee unless he/she has actually lifted your vehicle. In San Jose, the driver has to be fully connected to your car, including safety chains and lights, in order to charge a fee.
A drop fee cannot be more than half the cost of the tow (the city or county sets a maximum rate for the tow).
Tows on private property must be authorized by the property owner or manager, unless the car is parked blocking a fire lane, fire hydrant or handicapped spot (in which case, the driver has to take a photo of the illegally parked vehicle).
If your car is towed in San Jose and you have a complaint, you can call the San Jose Police Department permits unit at 408.277.4452; an officer may investigate, but you'll have to settle monetary disputes in civil court.
After your car is towed, the company has one hour to report it to the police department so you do not think it was stolen.
If you attempt to pick up your towed car during nonbusiness hours, an employee must meet you at the yard within 25 minutes of your call.
If you see a tow truck approaching your car, you have five minutes to move it to a legal spot before it can be taken.
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During World War II, the remote western Arizona desert proved an ideal place for the U.S. Army to test a bizarre weapon designed to blind and baffle the enemy. Camp Bouse was a top secret base established in 1943 as part of the California-Arizona Maneuver Area to prepare tanks and troops for the war in Europe. Commanded by General George Patton, the base accommodated 5,000 soldiers and was
located 30 miles northwest of Bouse in the McMullen Valley. The troops trained using a secret weapon invented by the British. Nicknamed "the Gizmo," the device was a tank-mounted, 13-million-candlelight arc beam with shutters and colored filters – essentially a giant mobile strobe light – that would theoretically confuse the enemy during night attacks. The concept proved successful in training exercises, but Allied commanders couldn't decide how to employ the weapon in combat. Consequently, Gizmos were used only to provide light for security and construction purposes. Camp Bouse was decommissioned in 1945; only scattered foundations bear testament to what may have been the military's first attempt at a "shock and awe" campaign.