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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
just found this photo of a wool quilt while surfing, awesome!
I found this tutorial while surfing on wool quilts, Enjoy!
First thing I would do with all that fabric is machine wash and dry it at warm temperatures. (overcast the edges so it doesn't fray.
AVOID HOT water and long agitation times
Many wool fabrics wash up beautifully if not "shocked" by water temperature extremes.
Sheep get rained on and they don't seem to shrink.
I just checked out all of the wonderful sites that you have all suggested, SO much info, and cool ideas, thank you all so much!
.....but what would happen if you tossed the sheep into the hot mineral bath at the local spa.....lol
I love working with wool, my favorite quilts to make :)
i use a slightly wider seam allowance than 1/4", but probably not quite 1/2", press seams open on the heavier fabrics, to one side it they are thin, and go that way ok...i tried fusable once for my appliques...did not like the results at all, it was hard to work with and hard to stitch through...now i just use freezer paper templates and if i need to hold an applique in place while sewing it down i use pins, but usually i just hold it with my fingers if it's a small piece, pins for large ones. make sure you wash all of your wools before beginning, as long as you wash them in hot water, rinse in cold, then dry in hot dryer your wool will not fray when you are hand stitching it. my last big wool quilt i used an awesome double sided heavy flannel from benartex for the backing and a wool batting...it is SOFT, FLUFFY, OH SO WARM, AND just an awesome quilt!!! the one i'm working on now is more crazy quilt style with embroidered blocks, appliques, what ever...it's gonna be great! if you visit the web site for the cotton patch quilt shoppe (in East Tawas, Michigan) one of the links is for customer show and tell...my black wool quilt is the one she shows on the link :)
jump right in, once you start working with wool you will find you want to use it more and more...at least i did.
good luck.
I have just started to look up patterns and info on Pendleton wool quilts and found someone who abuts her pieces and joins them with different edging and decorative stitches. Sounds good to me to eliminate that bulk but what do you wool-experienced quilters think. I really don't want to felt the fabric.


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Mali and Mohamed Sissoko (loaned to Fiorentina in the winter transfer window) ended the tournament with a 3-1 win over Ghana in the third-fourth play-off match in the Africa Cup of Nations 2013 in South Africa.
Nigeria, who beat Mali in the semi-finals, defeated Burkina Faso 1-0 in the final on Sunday.
Africa Cup of Nations 2013 - Third-fourth play-off
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium (Port Elizabeth)
Goals: Samassa (21), Keita (48) and Diarra (90) for Mali, Asamoah (82) for Ghana.
MALI: Diakité - Diawara, S. Coulibaly, A. Coulibaly, Tamboura - K. Traoré, M. Traoré - O. Coulibaly, Keita (c), Samassa (Diarra, 78) - Diabaté. Coach: Patrice Carteron.
GHANA: Dauda - Afful, Vorsah, Boye (Mensah, 46e), Boateng - Asante, Awal, Asamoah - Atsu (Adomah, 70'), Mubarak - Gyan (c) (Clottey, 75'). coach: James Kweshi Appiah.


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White Beach, Puerto Galera
Proximity - Because Puerto Galera is among top 10 destinations in the Philippines which is only 3-4 hours away from Metro Manila.
Variety – Sabang and White Beach are the two most popular tourist centers in Puerto Galera. Most of the foreign tourists prefer to stay in Sabang while most of the local (Filipino) tourists go to White Beach.
Sabang boasts of many high-class resorts that offer the best dive education in the country and dive sites are literally a stone's throw away. Sabang also has a distinct nightlife reminiscent of the old Ermita, former red light district of Metro Manila.
Sabang, they say, is for divers, for the young and adventurous; while White Beach is for families and for the tourist who is content with the sun, sea and sand, for friends who want to escape Manila, recharge their batteries while relaxing in nearby Puerto Galera.
Nature – Puerto Galera's natural landscapes both above and under water are its foremost tourism asset. There are many beaches and coves, named and unnamed; mountains and forests with orchids, known and unknown; waterfalls and rivers ideal for picnics and sports; 33 spectacular dive sites very close to shore; and Puerto Galera Bay which is now regarded as one of the most beautiful in the entire planet.
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The Blue Sky Venture Capital fund for alternative assets has purchased a stake in Melbourne-based pharmaceutical company
The investment was part of a $12 million syndicate led by Australian venture capital firm OneVentures and will fund development of a new head lice treatment to be launched in the United States in 2016.
The treatment, called DeOvo, will kill lice and eggs in a 10-minute treatment without the need for nit combing. VC Investment Director at Blue Sky, Dr Elaine Stead, says there was a global market opportunity of more than $700 million a year for lice treatment.
"For children under 12, head lice are more common than all communicable diseases – other than the common cold – put together, so there is a huge opportunity we want to capitalise on," she says.
"Hatchtech has developed a pioneering treatment that is safe, more convenient and, we believe, more effective than any product available globally."
Hatchtech had already raised $23 million of previous investment from biotechnology investors. Existing investors include the University of Melbourne, the Queensland Biotechnology Fund and Uniseed.
The deal shortly followed an investment in US biotech Conventus Orthopaedics which has developed wrist-fracture technology.
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BRITISH holidaymakers heading to Italy this summer may be advised to keep an eye on public notices after as numerous councils have brought in lists of silly laws.
Power-crazed mayors are enforcing a zero tolerance summer across the country after being given sweeping new powers to protect public security as well as clamping down on illegal street selling.
Already this summer an Austrian tourist was fined 1,000 for buying a fake Louis Vuitton handbag after being spotted by patrolling officers on a beach near Venice. Austrian pensioner Ursula Corel, 65, was spotted handing over seven euros (5) for the handbag copy from a street vendor and hit with the penalty as part of a clampdown on unruly behaviour.
Last week Giada Carnevale, 24, and her friend Ignazia Fronterre, 25, were fined 100 each for "breaching public decorum" simply for sitting on the steps of a statue at Vigevano near Milan.
Giada said: "We had only been there for about ten minutes. It was really hot so we sat down for a while - it was the only place to sit. The bar was looking at a minimum purchase of 5 euro to sit at a table in the piazza.
"We weren't smoking, eating or setting up a tent; we were only talking. All of a sudden a police car stopped and said we had to get up and move on.
"Next thing I knew he had asked us for our documents and given us a fine. There was no sign or anything that we could see."
Local mayor Andrea Sala said: "Ignorance is no excuse. I will not go into individual cases, but I will say that every month we spend a small fortune on cleaning the square and statue."
Among other edicts that have amounted to the ultimate "stato di nonna" - or nanny state - are bans on public kissing, sand castles, noisy sandals, lawn mowers and leaving a towel unattended on the beach to bag a top spot.
Italy's interior ministry gave town mayors sweeping powers as part a public order clampdown which says they now have powers to "operate wider and better safeguard the security of citizens".
The move was part of a wider effort by Silvio Berlusconi's government to make local people feel like they had more involvement in local law enforcement.
Other examples include the town of Eboli near Salerno which has introduced fines of 500 euro (412) for anyone found in a parked car in an amorous clinch.Extra patrols have been dispatched to a park on the outskirts of the town frequented by courting couples and already more than a dozen lovers have been fined.
At Eraclea, near Venice, a popular destination for British holidaymakers, the mayor has banned the building of sand castles and all ball and racquet games on the beach.
For good measure the mayor has also banned collecting shells and sand from the beach as a souvenir.
Fines for breaching the laws go from 25 euro (21) right up to 250 euro (210), and if you're thinking of diving into the sea - don't because that is also banned.
Having a picnic on the picturesque beaches of Capri, Positano and Ravello has also been banned.
Noisy sandals are outlawed in Capri and using a lawn mower during the afternoon siesta in snooty Forte dei Marmi on Italy's Tuscan coast is also a big no-no.
Walking around town in a bikini or bare-chested is also forbidden in the seaside resorts of Alassio, Diano Marina, Riccione and Amalfi.
But its not just seaside towns that have introduced mad by-lays, mountain areas in Alto Adige and the Gran Paradiso are also off limits to mushroom pickers - and collecting berries is banned, too.
Feeding pigeons in Venice has also been made illegal as has giving food to stray cats, as officials say the mess they leave adds up to a 5 million a year cleaning bill.
Italy's La Stampa newspaper said that on the last count there were 156 new bylaws that had been created by Italian councils dealing with "decorum".


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The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has predicted that UK online ad spend will overtake national newspaper advertising by the end of 2006, after reporting that the web's share of the ad market reached double figures in H1.
The study, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers on behalf of the IAB, showed firms spent £917.2m on online advertising in Britain between January and June, a 40.3% rise over the same period last year.
The IAB said the web continued to be the ad industry's fastest growing sector during the six months, having increased its market share to 10.5% from 7.3% a year before.
It is now within 1% of the national press, which the IAB said commands 11.4% of the market.
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my cat misses me when i stay at my girlfriend's house overnight.
my cat meows when i don't come home at night. it bothers my roommates, and i sure don't want her to be sad. my gf says i can bring her over with me, but she has two cats already,and i don't want them to fight. also i don't want fights to happen with my roommate's cats when mine comes home smelling like strangers. is my kitty better off staying home without me? or should my gf and i plan to carefully introduce our kitties, so we can visit her place together?
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Hi there,
You have to pay more attention to your cat' "desires."
If not your cat will get depressed, and a lot of other bad things. You ask a good friend to do for your cat exactly what you do for: play in some way, careses, "talks" to her, put her on the lap etc. You have to leave in the places where your cat sleeps your clothes in order for her feels your smell.
When you are out your cat has to be "busy" so no more time to think about you.
Out pets deserve all our best in taking care of them. They give us a lot of love and appreciations.
God bless you all.
Member 1141478 answered on 11/19/12. Helpful? / 0
Vios is right. I wouldn't take your cat visiting because exactly what you're afraid of could happen. If you have a good relationship with your roommates and they like your cat, ask if one could spend some extra time with your cat while you're away. If your cat gets along with the roomie's cats, then she shouldn't be that desolate without you. Your roomies can play with ALL the cats. If you and your gf move in together in the future, THEN is the time to intro the 2 cats.
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Here are some more quotes from Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography. (See this earlier posting, with another quote (about the Arctic), at the top of which I list all the earlier quotes from this book that I have displayed here.)
These ones are about what happens when European Imperialists ignored geography (p. 146):
When the Ottoman Empire began to collapse, the British and French had a different idea. In 1916 the British diplomat Colonel Sir Mark Sykes took a chinagraph pencil and drew a crude line across a map of the Middle East. It ran from Haifa on the Mediterranean in what is now Israel to Kirkuk (now in Iraq) in the north-east. It became the basis of his secret agreement with his French counterpart Francois Georges-Picot to divide the region into two spheres of influence should the Triple Entente defeat the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. North of the line was to be under French control, south of it under British hegemony.
The term 'Sykes-Picot' has become shorthand for the various decisions made in the first third of the twentieth century which betrayed promises given to tribal leaders and which partially explain the unrest and extremism of today. This explanation can be overstated, though: there was violence and extremism before the Europeans arrived. Nevertheless, as we saw in Africa, arbitrarily creating 'nation states' out of people unused to living together in one region is not a recipe for justice, equality and stability.
Prior to Sykes-Picot (in its wider sense), there was no state of Syria, no Lebanon, nor were there Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Israel or Palestine. Modern maps show the borders and the names of nation states, but they are young and they are fragile.
So, what happens if you ignore geography like this? Answer: geography comes back to bite you. More to the point, it bites all the people upon whom you have inflicted your indifference to geography (p. 148):
The legacy of European colonialism left the Arabs grouped into nation states and ruled by leaders who tended to favour whichever branch ofIslam (and tribe) they themselves came from. These dictators then used the machinery of state to ensure their writ ruled over the entire area within the artificial lines drawn by the Europeans, regardless of whether this was historically appropriate and fair to the different tribes and religions that had been thrown together.
Iraq ...
To name but one.
… is a prime example of the ensuing conflicts and chaos. The more religious among the Shia never accepted that a Sunni-led government should have control over their holy cities such as Najaf and Karbala, where their martyrs Ali and Hussein are said to be buried. These communal feelings go back centuries; a few decades of being called 'Iraqis' was never going to dilute such emotions.
Time I finished my review of this book.
I am nearing the end of Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography. Apparently the paperback of this book is now on the paperback best-seller list. This is good news, because it is very good, and quite lacking in any major traces of leftist delusion or silliness.
Here, for instance, is what Marshall says about the Middle East (pp. 176-180):
… Until a few years ago Turkey was held up as an example of how a Middle Eastern country, other than Israel, could embrace democracy. That example has taken a few knocks recently with the ongoing Kurdish problem, the difficulties facing some of the tiny Christian communities and the tacit support for Islamist groups in their fight against the Syrian government. President Erdogan's remarks on Jews, race and gender equality, taken with the creeping Islamisation of Turkey, have set alarm bells ringing. However, compared with the majority of Arab states Turkey is far more developed and recognisable as a democracy. Erdogan may be undoing some of Ataturk's work, but the grandchildren of the Father of the Turks live more freely than anyone in the Arab Middle East.
Because the Arab states have not experienced a similar opening-up and have suffered from colonialism, they were not ready to turn the Arab uprisings (the wave of protests that started in 2010) into a real Arab Spring. Instead they soured into perpetual rioting and civil war.
The Arab Spring is a misnomer, invented by the media; it clouds our understanding of what is happening. Too many reporters rushed to interview the young liberals who were standing in city squares with placards written in English, and mistook them for the voice of the people and the direction of history. Some journalists had done the same during the 'Green Revolution', describing the young students of north Tehran as the 'Youth of Iran', thus ignoring the other young Iranians who were joining the reactionary Basij militia and Revolutionary Guard.
In 1989 in Eastern Europe there was one form of totalitarianism: Communism. In the majority of people's minds there was only one direction in which to go: towards democracy, which was thriving on the other side of the Iron Curtain. East and West shared a historical memory of periods of democracy and civil society. The Arab world of 2011 enjoyed none of those things and faced in many different directions. There were, and are, the directions of democracy, liberal democracy (which differs from the former), nationalism, the cult of the strong leader and the direction in which many people had been facing all along - Islam in its various guises, including Islamism.
In the Middle East power does indeed flow from the barrel of a gun. Some good citizens of Misrata in Libya may want to develop a liberal democratic party, some might even want to campaign for gay rights; but their choice will be limited if the local de facto power shoots liberal democrats and gays. Iraq is a case in point: a democracy in name only, far from liberal, and a place where people are routinely murdered for being homosexual.
The second phase of the Arab uprising is well into its stride. This is the complex internal struggle within societies where religious beliefs, social mores, tribal links and guns are currently far more powerful forces than 'Western' ideals of equality, freedom of expression and universal suffrage. The Arab countries are beset by prejudices, indeed hatreds of which the average Westerner knows so little that they tend not to believe them even if they are laid out in print before their eyes. We are aware of our own prejudices, which are legion, but often seem to turn a blind eye to those in the Middle East.
The routine expression of hatred for others is so common in the Arab world that it barely draws comment other than from the region's often Western-educated liberal minority who have limited access to the platform of mass media. Anti-Semitic cartoons which echo the Nazi Der Sturmer propaganda newspaper are common. Week in, week out, shock-jock imams are given space on prime-time TV shows.
Western apologists for this sort of behaviour are sometimes hamstrung by a fear of being described as one of Edward Said's 'Orientalists'. They betray their own liberal values by denying their universality. Others, in their naivety, say that these incitements to murder are not widespread and must be seen in the context of the Arabic language, which can be given to flights of rhetoric. This signals their lack of understanding of the 'Arab street', the role of the mainstream Arab media and a refusal to understand that when people who are full of hatred say something, they mean it.
When Hosni Mubarak was ousted as President of Egypt it was indeed people power that toppled him, but what the outside world failed to see was that the military had been waiting for years for an opportunity to be rid of him and his son Gamal, and that the theatre of the street provided the cover they needed. It was only when the Muslim Brotherhood called its supporters out that there was enough cover. There were only three institutions in Egypt: Mubarak's National Democratic Party, the military and the Brotherhood. The latter two destroyed the former, the Brotherhood then won an election, began turning Egypt into an Islamist state, and paid the price by itself being overthrown by the real power in the land - the military.
The Islamists remain the second power, albeit now underground. When the anti-Mubarak demonstrations were at their height the gatherings in Cairo attracted several hundred thousand people. After Mubarak's fall, when the radical Muslim Brotherhood preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi returned from exile in Qatar, at least a million people came out to greet him, but few in the Western media called this the 'voice of the people'. The liberals never had a chance. Nor do they now. This is not because the people of the region are radical; it is because if you are hungry and frightened, and you are offered either bread and security or the concept of democracy, the choice is not difficult.
In impoverished societies with few accountable institutions, power rests with gangs disguised as 'militia' and 'political parties'. While they fight for power, sometimes cheered on by naive Western sympathisers, many innocent people die. It looks as if it will be that way in Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and possibly other countries for years to come.
Sustained gunfire rang out over central Tehran on Monday afternoon as anti-aircraft guns targeted what officials said was a drone flying over the Iranian capital.
Many residents ran to rooftops and craned their necks to see what was happening. Others sought shelter as bursts of machine gun fire echoed through the streets.
The semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted Tehran Governor Isa Farhadi as saying that the gunfire targeted a drone near restricted airspace in the capital.
It wasn't clear who owned the drone, which he described as a quadcopter. That suggests it may have been operated by a local hobbyist or aerial photographer rather than a foreign government. The purpose of its flight also wasn't clear.
The drone escaped - apparently intact - as Gen. Alireza Elhami, deputy chief of Iran air defense headquarters, was quoted by the semi-official Fars news agency as saying the drone flew out of the restricted airspace once it came under fire.
This was not the first such recent incident.
I told you these things were going to cause a world of trouble.
How soon before there are pitched battles between squadrons of these amazing things?
Here are some photos from the archives, of front pages from a year ago tomorrow:
It's interesting how Donald Trump was even then so recognisable from behind, because of that weird hair.
Will anyone try to ban President Trump from visiting Britain, I wonder? Nobody of any significance, surely. What Trump was saying then was that radical Islam is a serious problem and that he was going to give it hell. And what has happened since says that Trump is one clever operator. Which means that we now live in very interesting times.
I seem to recall thinking, around then, that Trump might win. But by the time the election came around, I was surprised as anyone that he did. And I wasn't the only one.
I continue to photo London's black cabs and their adverts, particularly when they are entirely not black, because of being covered in a big taxi-shaped advert.
Here, for instance, is an unblack cab that particularly caught my eye, in Oxford street around a week ago:
What strikes me about this image …:
… (and oh look, I managed to save the picture without all the website verbiage on top of it), is that London looks … well, see the title of this.
The way the website puts a logo of Principal Tower in the middle of that picture makes it look like Principal Tower is right in the middle of all this foggy drama. Actually it's way off to the left, near Broadgate Tower, beyond Liverpool Street Station.
As for this looking like Dubai, I have in mind pictures of Dubai that look like this:
I guess there's something rather appealing about the idea of living in a magic tower which just hovers in the sky, with all that mess below blotted out. Unless you need to nip out to do some shopping.
New, big and impressive bridges have been somewhat rare here, recently. All the great bridges of my time seem to have been done at least a decade ago, or of course longer ago. Very recently, not so much. Financial crisis, I guess. Not so much "infrastructure".
But, feast your eyes on this (that being a link to a recent posting about it at Dezeen):
Click on that to get it bigger.
The Guardian has more:
Tabiat ("nature") bridge, the largest of its kind in Iran, was architect Leila Araghian's first project. She designed it five years ago while a student, winning a local competition for a plan to connect two parks separated by a highway in north Tehran.
It was built over two years and was unveiled in late 2014 by Tehran's mayor, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. It has since become a popular place for hangouts and morning sports. Last month, as Iranians celebrated an ancient festival of outdoor picnicking, thousands flocked to the bridge.
"I didn't want it to be just a bridge which people would use to get from one park to another," said Araghian, who is now 31. "I wanted it to be a place for people to stay and ponder, not simply pass."
Built on three large pillars, the 270-metre curved structure has broad entrances, multiple pathways and three floors of restaurants and cafes and sitting areas. It was recently named among the winners of the Architizer A+ awards, a global architectural competition based in New York.
I love it when bridges are not just things to go across, but places to be in. London used to have a great example of such a bridge. It should again.
Nothing much here today, but I just did three Samizdata postings today and yesterday:
Brexit – the argument from confusion.
Dominic Frisby takes on the Edinburgh Fringe
I have always felt that the fascination with cat photos that has engulfed the internet was somehow more important than just being a matter of cat photos, engulfing the internet. Now it seems that cat photos are a threat to Islam, and must be forbidden. For me, cats means pure fun. No purpose is served. Other than the purpose (purr-puss) of having fun. And it seems that there is this crazy Sheikh who also thinks that photoing cats is pure fun also, and that this is why photoing cats should be forbidden. For him, I guess, fun is never pure. Quite the opposite.
I keep wanting to write about music, but (a) it isn't easy, unless both you and your readers know all the technical terms of your preferred sort of music. And (b) whereas words go fine with music, words about music, especially if they are attempting to be descriptive of a particular piece of music, can be devilishly hard to contrive in a way that is comprehensible without being banal and superficial and generalised.
A specialist blog or website devoted to a particular sort of music, with musical illustrations supplied to click on rather than only descriptive verbiage, whose writer(s) and readers are united by their taste in that particular sort of music, that makes perfect sense to me. I don't read any such blogs, but it makes sense. I do read old school paper magazines (I see that there is a new one of those out that I've not yet seen) exactly like this. But a blog about other things which from time to time goes musical, not so much. I have no problem at all with my favourite bloggers (6k and Mick Hartley spring to mind) doing postings every so often about music that they happen particularly to like. Their gaffs, their rules. But I mostly skip such postings. I possess a lifetime and more of music in the form of a vast CD collection that I already want to listen to.
So, I do not wish myself merely to do postings about bits of music that I happen to like, hoping - implicitly or explicitly - that others will be infected with my tastes. I love Western classical music more than life itself, often a lot more. But most people don't these days, and that's fine with me. If I thought that western classical music was about to be completely expunged from the earth any time soon, I might feel differently about trying to infect others with the love of it, but it isn't. Meanwhile, this music is, for me, mostly a personal thing. It is not an evangelical religion. If I meet a fellow devotee, we exchange enthusiastic exclamations of love for this or that piece or performance, but I mostly refrain from inflicting such True Believer talk on non-believers.
I am evangelical and anti-evangelical about some things. If you are not a libertarian, I want that to change. You should become a libertarian forthwith. If you are a Muslim, I want you to know, now, that I think you should stop being a Muslim, now. But if you hate Beethoven and adore hip-hop, that's fine with me, so long as you have no plans forcibly to stop me listening to Beethoven or to force me to listen to hip-hop. If you merely want me to adore hip-hop, or even to stop adoring Beethoven, again, fine. Just so long as you don't recommend the use of sticks or stones to make those points. Insofar as you do, then shame on you. But exactly the same point applies to people who force Beethoven upon those who resist Beethoven's charms. I am evangelical about that sort of behaviour also. Are you threatening others with Beethoven? Stop doing that, now. Do you favour such behaviour by others. Don't even think that.
However, more general postings about music (this one being an example) about the different ways we listen to it and enjoy it, how love of music spreads or should spread (that is what this posting has partly been about), about how those who contrive it contrive it, and so on, of the sort that all music lovers can read and tune into, even as they are hearing in their own heads quite distinct musical illustrations concerning whatever is being said, that makes more sense to me, and - memo to self - I want to do more of such postings here.
The rise and (I now fondly hope) fall of Donald Trump continues to fascinate.
This bloke says it very well, I think:
Trump is powerfully illustrating the fraud at the core of his case for the nomination. He claims that because he is a successful businessman he would be much more adept than conventional politicians at mastering the intricacies of problems and processes. He will, he brags, figure out how to deal with challenges in a way that maximizes American interests, assembling the best, most competent people to execute his plans of action. As a result, we are told, American will "win, win, win" with such numbing regularity that we will be bored to tears by all the success.
But look what is happening. The process of choosing a Republican nominee for president, while far from simple, is not as complicated as many of the challenges that cross an American president's desk. There are, moreover, countless experienced hands who know how the process works and how to build an organization nimble enough to navigate the array of primaries (open and closed), caucuses, party meetings, varying delegate-allocation formulas, etc., exploiting or mitigating the advantages and disadvantages these present for different kinds of candidates. Yet, Trump has been out-organized, out-smarted, and out-worked by the competition – in particular, Ted Cruz, whom I support.
Trump is not being cheated. Everyone is playing by the same rules, which were available to every campaign well in advance. Trump simply is not as good at converting knowledge into success – notwithstanding the centrality of this talent to his candidacy. Perhaps this is because he is singularly good at generating free publicity (and consequently minimizing the publicity available to his rivals). Maybe he underestimated the importance of building a competent, experienced campaign organization. But he can hardly acknowledge this because it is a colossal error of judgment – and his purportedly peerless judgment is the selling point of his campaign.
My first reaction to Trump was guilty pleasure, and the belief that he would win. Now it looks like he won't win. Now it looks as though he has done America the huge favour of (a) destroying everyone in the Republican race except the man I support, Cruz, and then (b) showing himself to be unfit to run for President, let alone win, which means that Cruz could now be President, if he can beat Hillary Clinton (or whoever). Would Cruz now have such a good chance of becoming President without Trump having flailed about like a wrecking ball, wrecking everyone except Cruz?
It is said that Cruz is a Bible Thumper. (Trump worships only himself.) But for me, frankly, Bible thumping just now is a feature rather than a bug. I reckon the Western World could damn well do with a bit more Bible thumping than it has been doing of late.
Yes, I'm talking about Islam. The rich Christians right now are turning poorer Christian's cheeks a hell of a lot too much at the moment.
On that subject, I also recommend this posting at Mick Hartley's, where MH has this to say:
What I'd like to see is more robust criticism of Islam itself. Given the role Islam now plays globally in ISIS, Boko Haram, al-Qaeda; its insistence that the Koran is the immutable word of Allah; its general refusal to accommodate to the modern liberal scientific world; its misogyny; its violence, this shouldn't prove to be that difficult. What stands in the way - apart from lack of courage - is that this comes at a particular post-colonial moment in history when we in the West seem to have lost confidence in our own liberal secular tradition.
There is also, perhaps more importantly, a general confusion about a belief and the people who hold that belief, which is perfectly exemplified in the term "Islamophobia".
It's a key part of our secular culture that we distinguish between the person and their opinions and beliefs. I think we inherit this to some extent from our Christian tradition - freedom of conscience, "love the sinner, hate the sin", and all that - but however it was arrived at, it's a key enlightenment concept that underpins our sense of justice and our sense of democracy. So we should be quite comfortable criticising Islam while maintaining a proper respect for individual Muslims. ...
The word is that Cruz has dared to criticise Islam. Is that true? It would appear so. Good. The anti-anti-Islam tendency is not happy. Good again.
Or: Spoughts thoughts? You choose.
Sport (spought) has been good to me of late. Last summer, England won the Ashes. My local cricket team, Surrey, got promoted to division one, and also got to the final of the fifty overs county knock-out tournament. England then defeated South Africa in South Africa. England (a different England but still England) won the Six Nations rugby Grand Slam. And now (back to cricket again) England have got to the last four of the twenty overs slog competition, alongside the Windies, India and New Zealand. Few expect England to win this. But then, few expected England to get to the last four. No South Africa (beaten amazingly by England). No Australia (beaten today by India (aka Virat Kholi)). No Pakistan or Sri Lanka. But: England still involved.
Concerning the Grand Slam, the best thing about it was England winning all its games, but otherwise it was … a bit crap. The recently concluded World Cup, in which England did rather less well loomed too large over it. The World Cup featured no Six Nations sides in its last four, and when watching our local lads stressing and straining against each other you couldn't help (a) thinking that the Southern Hemispherians would murder them, and (b) that a lot of the best Six Nations players seemed to be Southern Hemispherians themselves. I mean, what kind of rugby world are we living in when the most threatening French back is called Scott Spedding and was born in Krugersdorp, South Africa?
The Six Nations was worth it just to hear Jonathan Davies, a man whose commentating I have had reason to criticise in the past, say that a certain game is "crucial", and that Wales have "matured":
As for the twenty-twenty slogfest now in full slog, well, I have been rooting for England (England's best batsman being a bloke called Root), but also for Afghanistan. You might think that as a devout anti-Islamist, which I definitely am, I would be rooting for the Muslim teams to lose. But actually, I think sport is one of the leading antidotes to Islamo-nuttery, and it is my understanding that the Islamo-nutters regard sport and sports-nuttery not as an expression of Islamo-nuttery, but rather, as a threat to it. Sports nuttery ultimately causes fellowship with the infidels rather than hatred of them, underneath all the youthful antagonisms which it does indeed inflame. It's hard not to get pally with people when you play or follow games with them and against them, especially as you get older, and remember previous hostilities with fondness rather than anger.
So, in short: go Afghanistan! The Afghanistan twenty-twenty cricket team, I mean. Afghanistan gave England a hell of a fright and nearly beat them. And yesterday, they actually did beat the West Indies, even though it didn't count for so much because the Windies had already got through to the semis and the Afghans would be going home now no matter what. But, even so, beating the Windies was a big deal, and the cricket world will have noticed, big time.
Here is Cricinfo, at the moment of Afghan triumph:
I love it when a T20 game really boils up, and they put "dot ball" in bold letters, the way they usually only write "OUT" and "FOUR" and "SIX" and "dropped", or, as in this case, "an amazing, brave, brilliant running catch!"
And soon after that climax to the game, came this:
Chris Gayle is quite a character. Having scored a brilliant century against England that won the Windies that match and put England in the position of having to win everything from then on, his commitment to the West Indian cause is not in doubt, as it might have been had he celebrated like this with the Afghans without having done any other notable things in this tournament. He has quarrelled with West Indian cricket bureaucrats over the years, and has definitely seemed to have like playing for the Bangalore Royal Challengers more than for the West Indies.
His demeanour after today's Afghan game is in sharp contrast to his lordly impassivity after taking the wicket of David Miller of South Africa, which reduced South Africa to 47-5, a predicament from which they failed to recover
One of the delights of virtually following this tournament is that it has been possible to watch little videos of dramatic moments, like the one of Gayle taking this wicket and then not celebrating very much. The graphic additions to this posting are merely screen captures. Clicking on them accomplishes nothing. But if you go to the original commentary from which I took my graphics, you can click on the little black video prompts, and get a little video of the drama just described.
Also: Happy Easter.
Popular Mechanics has an interesting article about Why Cranes Keep Falling. (Thank you Instapundit.)
For me the interesting stuff is about why they may not be falling quite so often in the future:
We've already reached the next step in safety. Crane manufacturers are now trying to build in new automatic features to keep disaster from striking their equipment. Modern-day mobile cranes have load moment indicators that, when they are properly programmed, act as limit switches. These switches limit operators from moving loads deemed too heavy for the crane. The high-flying tower cranes have controls to limit loads in various places on the hoist line, depending on the function of the crane at any given point.
Tower and mobile cranes now can come equipped with video cameras to show views of the loads and work zones in the operator cab - the newest cranes include this technology in "head-up displays" that require no looking down to see the images - to manage blind lifts. Additionally, crane operators can expect to use anti-collision systems to stop a crane from moving outside its engineered zone.
The most recent crane malfunction I can find having happened in London was this one, in Ealing. Nobody hurt.
Different story altogether when a crane recently fell over in Mecca. Death toll: 107.
This prang, on the other hand, was not a crane collapsing, rather was it driven into by a helicopter. Ever since that happened, in January 2013, London's construction cranes have all had bright red lights on the top of them. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "red light district":
Those cranes are across the river from me, photoed by me last November. Not the best photo you've ever seen, but it does the job of showing you what I'm talking about.
I did a posting at Samizdata in 2012, about a trip I made to One New Change, but I don't believe I ever displayed this photo, which I took soon after visiting the top of that excellent venue:
It is quite clear that this is a drycleaners. Its name, alas, is not, in my photo, quite so clear.
Photo of this enterprise taken without my deliberate and rather malicious mistake here.
I have just got back from a party at Mchael J's, having failed to do anything here before departing to it, and this was all I could manage.
But, I can add this. During that party Michael said, while travel-talking about the Middle East:
The thing you have to remember about that part of the world is that Hezbollah are the good guys.
I think he was talking about Syria, but I could be wrong. It was a good party.
Perry de Havilland also said something else very funny, but I have forgotten what it was. It was a good party.
Good night. Sleep well. I will.
I see that of Counting Cats, in the person of Julie near Chicago, recently linked to a piece by the late Antony Flew entitled The Terrors of Islam, a piece which I had totally forgotten about. But I am sure that this piece influenced me very strongly when I read it. And I definitely did read it because I published it, for the Libertarian Alliance (Chris Tame Tendency).
It always pleases me hugely when someone links to an old LA effort of mine like this. Not exclusively mine, you understand. Somebody else had to write it. But … mine. And this particular piece of Flew's is downright prophetic.
Counting Cats had a strange outbreak of junk postings about fake university essays a week or two back but seems to be over it now.
How much you learn from something that you just read depends not only on what it says, but on what you knew before you read it. And for me, this short paragraph cleared up several big blurs in my knowledge of Olden Times:
The new technique of fighting which had won the battle of Hastings for the Normans was also adopted in England; instead of standing or riding and hurling the lance overarm, these new warriors, the knights, charged on horseback with the lance tucked beneath the arm, so that the weight of both horse and rider was behind the blow and the weapon was reusable. Though it required discipline and training, giving rise to the birth of tournaments and the cult of chivalry, a charge by massed ranks of knights with their lances couched in this way was irresistible. Anna Comnena, the Byzantine princess who witnessed its devastating effect during the First Crusade, claimed that it could 'make a hole in the wall of Babylon'.
That's from the second page (page 8) of the first chapter of Agincourt, by Juliet Barket.
That bit in school history where they explained what a knight was and what knights did and how the knights did it … well, I missed it. And ever since, everyone talking about such things has assumed that I knew it very clearly, when I didn't. It's so obvious. How would someone like me not know it?
Oh, I sort of knew it, from having seen a hundred films where film actors did this, in film battles and in film tournaments. But I had not realised that it was a military innovation like the phalanx or gunpowder or the tank or the airplane or the atom bomb. I had not properly realised that the essence of Knighthood was collective action rather than mere individual virtue, the point being that it was the former which required the latter. And I had not realised that it was what won the Battle of Hastings. Or, even more interestingly, I had not realised that it was what won the First Crusade. (After which, I'm guessing that the Muslims then copied it.
Medieval society did not give rise to Knights. The Knights technique of fighting gave rise to Medieval society.
I remember reading Tom Holland's Millennium, and being presented right at the end with the result of the First Crusade, without there having been any mention (that I recall) of how a European military innovation was what won it. (That doesn't mean Holland does not mention this, merely that I don't remember him mentioning it.)
So, at the heart of the European years between Hastings (1066) and Agincourt (1415 (when I now suppose the Knights to have met their nemesis in the form of the next big military innovation, the Archers (hence the picture on the front of Agincourt))) was a technique of fighting. Like I say, I sort of knew this, but have never before isolated this fact in my head, as a Big Fact. Instead, I have spent my whole life being rather confused about this Big Fact, reading a thousand things where the Big Fact was assumed, but never actually explained.
Why did I not correct this confusion decades ago? Because, not knowing it properly, I had not realised what a huge confusion it was.
More and more, I find myself interested in not only architecture but vehicles. Time was when I would always wait for vehicles to move out of the way, while I took photos of more properly photographic things, like buildings. But vehicles are also interesting. It is interesting, for instance, that most of the photographers I like to observe still regard vehicles only as an aesthetic interruption, rather than as being worthy of aesthetic reflection in their own right.
A particular category of vehicle I have recently been hoovering up with my Lumix FZ200 is "black cabs that aren't actually black". I chose this particular specimen because this is Friday and there is a big cat involved:
For Londoners, it's an obvious fact, a fact not worth discussing, that whereas many black cabs are indeed black, many are not. But how many of those unfortunates who do not live in London, or who do not even visit London regularly, or who may never have visited London, know that black cabs aren't necessarily black? Such persons may be interested by this, to them, unobvious fact.
Okay, not so very interesting, especially if you are a Londoner. But what do you make of this car?:
I photoed that soon after photoing the bald selfie stick guy in this earlier posting.
As it sped away I took another photo of this car, which was very blurry but which did just about tell me what its very distinct number plate was. And I can definitely tell you that the car is this car. It's an example of something called "car wrapping", whatever that may be. Comments anyone?
Even weirder is this car, which I photoed yesterday afternoon, in Victoria Street, soon after photoing the taxi in picture number one above:
What on earth is that? The www told me nothing.
I note that this weirdmobile has a distinctly Middle Eastern flavour to it, including what looked (in other blurrier pictures) like quite a lot of Middle Eastern writing on it, in among the English verbiage. But what it all means, or what kind of service is being sold or publicised, I have no idea. Again: can anyone tell me more?


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Took the V (with 2 kids) up to Long Island from Virginia (and back) on Saturday. About 650 miles round trip. Some general observations:
(about 85 degrees and 3000% humidity, no rain. Premium fuel, 1400 miles on odo at start.)
1) Pure highway average gas mileage at about 75 mph: 22.8 mpg (per computer)
2) Overall average for the trip (miles divided by gallons, including traffic jams, etc): 20.5
3) Oil temp per gauge (car built 03/04, so I assume that the reflash is needed): 235-240 (I have never seen it exceed 250, but I have not spent a day at the track).
4) Water temp: 192-195 at cruise; as high as 208 in traffic
5) Tire pressure: with 30 psi cold in each tire, they maxed at 36 psi hot.
6) Oil pressure at cruise: 46-48 psi
7) Brake dust: Car started off spotless, wheels and fenders ending up quite dusty. All had fresh coats of wax.
8) Suspension: No FG2, but as the NY guys will likely agree the BQE (Brooklyn-queens expressway) was just painful. That's a notoriously bumpy urban highway, and the V is just not meant for that type of riding. Probably painful in any car, and it always rattled my interior loose in my mustangs. The V hit it very hard, but at the end of the trip there does not seem to be any rattles.
Aside from the BQE, the car was a comfortable highway cruiser. Periodically I needt to turn off the radio to make sure that, as the road surface changed and the LOUD tire noises changed pitch, that I did not blow the rear diff. So far, still quiet. Lots of cars were seemingly inviting to "play" on the interstates, but that was not an option with my cargo (and of course since it would be illegal. I might or might not even really been going 75 mph, since that might be interpreted as going above the posted speed limit).
On the way home I passed Bald Hill, where I hear that they sometime have cruise nights; I saw some "tuned" trucks and some japanese tuners hanging around (sat night at about 8:30); no other V's so I didn't stop.


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I was forced from a desk job of 8 years to a warehouse job in my company in May 2009. In Feb 2010 I went to the Dr for leg pain. After 3 months, a MRI showed a herniated disc. I ended up with surgery in 2011 and now have more problems. My Dr, chiropractor and surgeon wouldnt touch workers comp. It absolutely wasnt workers comp they said, at the same time they said it took alot to herniate a disc, but it wasnt from work. I selected orders for a food distributer in 2009 and operated a stand up forklift in 2010 with moderate heavy lifting still at that point. I told them the same thing. I am getting to the point where I cant handle work anymore, my back and leg are in worst shape and I dont live a hard core lifestlye that would have caused this.
Until you find a doctor who is able to provide causation (say that what you did at work caused your injury), there is NOTHING that even the best of us can do for you.
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I agree with Mr Candiano that you will need a physician to state that your condition is work related. Please consider seeing a workers compensation atty for a free consultation where they can discuss how to do this and may even have some physicians that they know that understand the workers compensation system and what will be needed.Ask a similar question
Get a free consultation with an attorney to review your case. If you treated you will be able to expand the Statute of Limitation for 5 years. Your case should be filed as a CT (continuous trauma) due to the fact that there is no specific date of injury but more of a accumulation of job duties that gave rise to your current condition. COnsult with a WC attorney ASAP. Good Luck!
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The injury may have been caused by work, or now is being aggravated by work due to repetitive stress and strain on your body. Sounds like you have a legitimate concern and may have a case. Speak to an attorney for a consult and representation.Ask a similar question
Can you get Comp Benefits specifically for a surgery back in 2011? Nope.
All the billing statements from all those docs will swear under penalty of perjury NONE of your diagnoses were work-related.
So FIRST you desparately need a new chiro and a new physician!!! Every time you go to these boobs, they send a bill to private health insurance SWEARING you have no work-related conditions, which clearly can't be true.
while it's way, way to late to pursue benefits for what went on in 2009-2011, YOU CAN PURSUE A CONTINUOUS TRAUMA FROM JULY 2012-JULY 2013 (June 2012-June 2013 if you hustle and get a great certified specialist attorney in a few days... but hustling doesn't seem to be your forte).
YOU HAVE ONLY ONE YEAR from the date you knew the injury was work-related to submit the claim clearly (in writing, preferably) making cystal clear to the employer "this work for the past year hurt me and I need medical treatment from you'.
YOU'LL LOSE IF YOU SAY I'VE BEEN hurting from work for three years and I knew 2 years ago this was work related but just didn't around to claiming it until and it's my doctor's fault.... THAT gets you ZERO. so DO NOT say you've been certain your back troubles have been work=related for years, or your claim is barred by the statute of limitations.Ask a similar question
You can file a Cumulative Trauma claim for you back alleging the repetitive duties of working in the warehouse caused injury to your back. There is a one-year statute of limitations (SOL) in workers' compensation matters but that SOL does not start to run until you have disability coupled with knowledge that your injury was work related. Your "hunch" it was work related will not generally start the SOL to run especially if your private physicians, who do not understand WC law, are telling you the back injury was not work related.
You should consult a reputable WC attorney. An Application for Adjudication can be filed and a medical-legal evaluator can determine if your back injury was work related. Generally only after you have such a med-legal report will the one-year statute of limitations start to run.
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NEW YORK -- On a rainy Wednesday, the kind of day that intensifies our anticipation of a covered court at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the talk of the U.S. Open still spun around Victoria Duval, the irresistible 17-year-old who knocked off 2011 champion Sam Stosur on Tuesday.
For Duval, this was a tremendous victory. But for all the adults on the scene -- the marketers, the media, the sponsors, the agents, the coaches and, not least, the USTA -- this was a dream result as well.
NGUYEN: Duval stuns 2011 champ Stosur in first round
An ascendant player arrives on the big stage. She has the requisite "backstory," the term of art to describe the ability to tell a larger narrative through this athlete. (Surely you've heard about her kidnapping as a 7-year-old and her father's remarkable survival during the 2010 Haitian earthquake.) That Duval speaks flawless (if impossibly high-pitched) English and is able to address the crowd here in her native tongue doesn't hurt. Nor does the fact that she is (sort of) a product of the much-embattled USTA.
Tennis tends to eat its young. And that's after assaulting them in other ways: drowning them in hype, peppering them with requests and burdening them with expectation. The compendium of upstart players who rode a wave after a successful tournament only to crash ashore is a vast one. Duval had barely finished giving her endearing postmatch interview on Tuesday -- winning over still more fans -- when she was being compared to other prospects at her age. To Venus Williams, who broke through in 1997, when she made the final as an unseeded player in her U.S. Open debut. And to Melanie Oudin, the cautionary tale, who reached the quarterfinals here in 2009 and has seldom been heard from again.
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To hype or not to hype is a vexing question. On its face, it seems distasteful. These are teenagers, seduced by bright lights -- Duval appeared on Good Morning America on Wednesday -- and attention. Unlike team sports, there is no infrastructure to handle requests and shield the player from the cameras, microphones and glad-handers. The interest of agents, usually a membrane of protection, militates against a measured approach. (You represent Duval? It would be a dereliction of duty not to try to cash in on this surge.) Pity the kid. And, some would say, LEAVE HER ALONE!
But these calls of "Give her space" and "Give her time" also seem a bit disingenuous. Part of the pleasure of being a sports fan entails finding the Next Big Thing. Whether it's watching the NFL draft or trying to steal a fantasy-league bargain, spotting future stars is part of the drill. There's an expression in tennis, "If you play, you're fit. If you're fit, you play." It applies to injuries, but could apply to hype as well. If you're out there, you've inherently agreed to a certain level of scrutiny. If you're not ready for the acclaim that comes with winning, don't turn pro.
Don't tag Duval the Next Big Thing? Fine. But declining to express admiration for her performance against Stosur and (measured) excitement over her prospects? That's naive.
The good news here: If Duval's play on the court is an indication, her factory setting is "poised." Part of what made her first-round win so sweet is that it was Duval who had the superior will and served out the match at 5-4 in the third set against a veteran opponent. You'd like to think that an athlete capable of handling that pressure can deal with what comes next. Whatever that might be.
Anyone else notice Victoria Duval wearing a dress from Venus Williams' EleVen clothing line?
-- Adam Hyland, New York
• Yup. We might say that Venus already has a material impact on Duval's career. Sorry.
Seriously, we also noticed 18-year-old American Sachia Vickery saying that Venus gave her tips before her first-round match that helped her defeat Mirjana Lucic Baroni. Take note, haters.
GALLERY: Fashion at the U.S. Open
Given the havoc created by early rain in some years, why do they persist in stringing out the men's first-round matches for three days? Who benefits? They don't do it with the women, after all.
-- Gavin Spencer, New York
• To borrow from Sarah Vaughan, whatever TV wants, TV gets.
I loved Francesca Schiavone's hug with the ball kid during her first-round match against Serena Williams. Who doesn't need a shoulder while getting a beatdown in front of millions of people? I wondered if what she did was against the rules, though. Could she have received a code violation? Just curious.
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• I'm sure there's a zealous attorney out there who'd make the case that Schiavone's gesture constituted impermissible physical contact with an official. But this is why the chair umpire needs some "spirit of the rules" discretion. It was lovely moment -- one of the few for Schiavone that night -- and what a shame it would have been to have invoked the code.
Kudos to Donald Young for winning his first-round match. He has had an up-and-down career, sometimes self-inflicted. However, he got into the main draw by playing the qualifying tournament and played a strong first round.
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• I confess I saw little of Young's 6-1, 6-0, 6-1 victory over Martin Klizan on Tuesday. The social media traffic seemed to indicate that this was as much about Klizan's non-effort as Young's channeling his inner Rod Laver. Still, give Young the credit. He's struggled mightily over the last few years, taken hits from all corners (some deserved, some not) and burned through his ration of wild cards. He had to qualify for this main draw -- i.e., earn it -- and it seems to have served him well. Perhaps there's a larger lesson in there.
Jerzy Janowicz = Ernest Gulbis? Talented but erratic ...
-- John, Elysian Fields, Texas
• Janowicz was visibly injured in his first-round loss, his lower back wrapped in enough tape to cover an HVAC system. Gulbis is in another class.
Varvara Lepchenko-Alexandra Dulgheru, Christina McHale-Julia Goerges, a Venus blowout of Kirsten Flipkens -- I blew off work to watch this??? No thanks, guys, I've got plenty of Law & Order reruns to watch.
-- Paul R., Easton, Mass.
• Look at it this way: At least you didn't work, come home to relax by watching tennis only to see Serena defeat Schiavone 6-0, 6-1 and Victoria Azarenka beat Dinah Pfizenmaier 6-0, 6-0. Seriously, tennis tournaments are like Gumpian boxes of chocolate. Some matches you get stinkers. Some matches you get Victoria Duval. All part of the appeal.


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Oh man, why did you have to post this today of all days, I just loaded my first 40 rounds today.
This is a discussion on Blown-Up .338 Lapua Improved within the Cartridges & Calibers forums, part of the Sniping Related category; I was at the range today helping with the annual clean-up. And I saw something that really, really scared me. I saw a completely blown-up ...
I was at the range today helping with the annual clean-up. And I saw something that really, really scared me. I saw a completely blown-up rifle. Now this gun was literally blown to smithereens. It is a miracle that the shooter was not killed.
The shooter had a .338 Lapua Improved. He was trying to fire-form cases using pistol powder. He used too much pistol powder and destroyed the rifle. I saw the aftermath of the explosion. There was piece of barrel about 6 inches long and this just gives you an idea of the damage.
I took a picture and I will get Jeff Dorr to help me post it here. When you see the picture, I hope it will scare you. Handloading is safe; however, the potential for disaster is always out there if we get careless.
Oh man, why did you have to post this today of all days, I just loaded my first 40 rounds today.
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Loading ammo is perfectly safe. Unless you are a schmoe. If you can count to ten without help, you can handload ammo. Just always understand that you must alway put safety first.
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Thanks for that fluffy, and thank you again for the help with those SMK 190 loads, Ill let you know how they work out
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Pistol powder in a rifle. I really wonder what some people are thinking sometimes.
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Pistol Powder?
Schmoe is too kind a word! Obviously, the idiot has more $$$ than sense.
BTW Anyone that comes along with stories about how they always use pistol powder to fire-form their cases is a schmoe too!
You thought I've been joking but you'll be sorry when the Star Cruisers arrive!
I disagree with some of the opinons voiced on this thread. Using pistol powder, tissue paper and cream of wheat to fireform Improved cartridges is a common method of fireforming. The obvious key is using just enough powder to reach the necessary chamber pressures without overdoing the upper end of the curve. Even one grain too much powder can be disasterous. If he used too much powder or had a muzzle break installed and the tissue paper blocked the muzzle it would have nasty consequences.... This guy didn't do it right.
Personally I don't form using pistol powder, because I don't trust the pressure curve (meaning I have no experience doing to this way), not to mention I prefer not to sand blast my barrel with cream of wheat.
When I form mine, I try to use a forming barrel (one that is totally shot out and then chambered in my cartridge) and a gunpowder that I have on hand, but do not normally use in my current shooting. For my 284 Improved, I'm using V.V. 150 and 540, IMR 4895, and RL-19, for my 338LM Improved, I'll likely use the same powders and possibly RL-22.
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Fiireforming cases with pistol powder is a tried and common way to fireform.
Obviously, the guy who blew up his rifle didn't know what he was doing. Using the tissue paper method with a muzzle brake is a known disaster waiting to happen.
Many loading manuals have sections on fireforming wildcat brass using pistol powder and a filler, usually cream of wheat. Usually, it is about 10 grains of powder. When searching, the articles, I saw a long range forum discussing this method for a 338 Lapua improved. One of the posters said to use 40 grains of pistol powder and top off with the cream of wheat. I've been handloading for 40 years. That statement made the hairs on my neck stand up. You have to know what you are doing and be careful. Taking recommendations off of a forum chat site (even this one) is an accident waiting to happen. One mis-typed number can be a disaster. Many loaders do not like to post their favorite loads on a forum, just for that reason. I have about 20 printed loading manuals on hand to refer to. All loading recommendations from a chat site need to be confirmed with a good loading manual before setting off 60,000 + P.S.I. next to your face.
I reload for one wildcat cartridge, but for my case forming, I only need a forming die to do the job.
Here's a few articles on it from the net.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lo ... reform.htm
http://www.beartoothbullets.com/tips/ar ... ips.htm/17
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And what should we call it when a woman lets her baby daughter die because she refuses to believe the baby has a treatable illness? A murder?
Christine Maggiore, one of America's most prominent AIDS denialists -- someone who believes HIV is not the cause of AIDS -- just died at the age of 52, three years after her daughter's death, according to the L.A. Times:
Maggiore, 52, was founder of Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives, a nonprofit that challenges "common assumptions" about AIDS. Her group's website and toll-free hotline cater to expectant HIV-positive mothers who shun AIDS medications, want to breast-feed their babies and seek to meet others of like mind. She also had written a book on the subject, titled "What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?"
In 2006, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office decided not to file criminal charges against Maggiore, whose daughter died the year before in what the county coroner ruled was AIDS-related pneumonia.
Los Angeles police had been investigating whether Maggiore and her husband, Robin Scovill, were negligent in not testing or treating Eliza Jane Scovill for the human immunodeficiency virus before her May 2005 death.
Maggiore had said that she did not take antiviral medications during her pregnancy and that she did not have her daughter tested for the virus after birth.
AIDS denialism has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths in South Africa (see my previous post explaining why), and now two more here in the U.S.
Any other idiots want to kill themselves or their children today? Anyone else out there with an HIV diagnosis want to just believe it's a harmless virus?
Edited to add: While I have been allowing denialists to vent in the comments section of this posting, I won't allow them to link to or promote any of their propaganda, which I consider lethal. I have edited some comments below to remove some links, and have deleted at least one post that was purely promotional. I consider AIDS denialism to be similar to a deadly virus, and won't let it infect this blog.