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On a weekday lunchtime, suits and skinny jeans fill the dining hall at Where?House, the pop-up music and food hub occupying the two lower levels of the Argus building.
The food traders are a who's who of hipster Melbourne dining destinations, while a cider company runs a bustling bar. The cavernous, stripped-back space is filled with recycled tables and chairs and curious installations that double as furniture, such as a flower bed-cum-dining bench. Vintage clothes are sold in one corner; in another, there's a wi-fi area stocked with laptops.
The previously disused building has been one of the major attractions of Melbourne Music Week, with events on the first five nights selling out. On Tuesday and Wednesday nights, food traders ran out of supplies. "We've been totally blown away by the response," says Starr Guzman, who, with Kevin Karlberg, runs Marksthespot, the "cultural engineering" company behind Where?House.
The second storey is open from 11am to 8pm every day and includes food, drink, lunchtime gigs and the "Learning Curve" space, where masterclasses are held and documentaries screened.
The main night-time events – mostly DJ sets – are held in the huge warehouse at ground level, with space for 800 guests and a booming sound system. A full bar is well stocked with top-shelf liquor to meet the demand of discerning attendees – they've sold out of Patron XO Cafe, the coffee-flavoured tequila, two nights in a row.
Melbourne Music Week has been running for just three years, but has grown at an extraordinary rate. There are 200 artists in this year's program, up from 170 last year, and a record number of events have sold out.
It's great news for the likes of Guzman and Karlberg, but some prominent figures in the Melbourne music scene have raised concerns about the programming, which has a heavy focus on international acts.
Quincy McLean, co-founder of Save Live Australian Music (SLAM), was appointed a "godfather" of the Self Made section of the program, comprising independently produced local events. In future, he'd like to see Melbourne Music Week have a stronger focus on local talent. "I think that Melbourne Music Week should reflect the incredible community that Melbourne already has," he said.
Patrick Donovan, chief executive of Music Victoria, was involved in Thursday night's Live Music Safari, where more than 40 of Melbourne's top bands and DJs performed across 10 of the city's best-loved venues. It's a way for Melbourne Music Week to give back to the existing venues, Donovan said.
He nominates the Self Made section of the program as a highlight, with council permits throughout the week making it easier for non-established promoters to nurture interesting ideas in different spaces. "I love the fact that you can bring in people who might not be big music fans, they might just be going about their business in the city and bam, there's something amazing happening and they might be drawn in."
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The Majority of Pro-lifers are Misrepresented
The supermajority of pro-life people support contraception and are not represented by pro-life groups. As a result, extremists become free to use these so-called supporters in their statistics and skew the image of what pro-life truly is.
Somewhere in the murky forests of healthcare reform there exists a
little cottage of reason. Or at least there used to. I'm not sure if
it's still there. The cottage was at some point boarded up by
extremists, the entire forest became overwhelmed by weeds and rabid
creatures, nobody goes there anymore.
older generations while I was on vacation with my family. My
grandparents come from a time when the news media could be trusted to
provide timely, reliable, factual information. I, however, come from a
time when the news media can be relied on to broadcast whatever will
get the viewer to stop channel surfing long enough to make it through a
few rounds of Viagra commercials. It can't be trusted. Turning on
multiple 24 hour news networks, I saw little more than a constant
misrepresentation of public opinion and a severe lack of substance. If
I were to take what I saw seriously, as my grandparents do, I would be
under the impression that almost everybody in this country opposes
health care reform and it's being forced upon us against our will. With
constant barrage of clips showing people lining the streets shouting at
each other, people disrupting town halls convened to discuss solutions,
cartoonishly angry
questioners, men showing up with guns for no reason other than to
intimidate, and the endless negativity, it's hard to
imagine that most people actually do support health care reform.
discussion by yelling, screaming, and flat-out lying how are the rest
of us supposed respond? Stooping to the same level of discourse only
helps perpetuate the chaos and confusion extremists want. But the focus being placed on the tiny minority
opinion has blown the entire dialogue into funhouse-mirror proportions.
It has created this illusion that health care reform is about to
destroy all of our lives. And this exact same phenomenon
has taken place within the pro-life community.
focusing on the splintering taking place in the pro-life community over contraception
struck me. In reference to the small percentage of anti-contraception
pro-lifers [forming only 20% of all pro-lifers], a reader going by
Crowepps noted, "20% of the Prolife movement is representative of only
2% of the general population. It's absolutely stunning that media
reports of the public policy arguments seem to highlight the views of
that 20% while ignoring the 80% majority."
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only vital, but finally a part of the conversation, the
pro-life faction hold all the levers of power in the pro-life movement
and is attempting
to steer any discussion of common sense prevention into an iceberg. In
my previous
post about a bill on prevention, I mentioned the overwhelmingly
positive response I received from
many pro-life people who all thought it was important to take
precautions that would decrease the number of abortions. I still hear
similar sentiments often. These are the kind of people who
represent the 80% of the pro-life movement and with this solution, they're on our side. This demographic is key in moving the common ground agenda forward. But first, we
need to make some critical connections. We need to reach out to those whom we know
support pregnancy prevention because we can't enact change without
them. But before we can count on their support, it is they who need support. An organization for pro-lifers who support prevention and contraception needs to be
formed because, as it
currently stands, no pro-life organization does. That means the supermajority of pro-life people are not being accurately represented. This is how
the extremists become free to use these so-called supporters in
their statistics and skew the image of what pro-life truly is. There are
members on both sides of the
abortion issue who want to fix the problem. They do exist. WE exist.
We are not enemies. We are comrades in the
fight to take back that little cottage of reason. We just need to get
together, get mobilized, and get loud.

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According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Reuben (Hebrew: שֵׁבֶט רְאוּבֵן, Modern Shevet Re'uven, Tiberian Šḗḇeṭ Rə'ûḇēn) was one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
From after the conquest of the land under Joshua until the formation of the first Kingdom of Israel in c. 1050 BC, the Tribe of Reuben was a part of a loose confederation of Israelite tribes. No central government existed, and in times of crisis the people were led by ad hoc leaders known as Judges. (see the Book of Judges) With the growth of the threat from Philistine incursions, the Israelite tribes decided to form a strong centralised monarchy to meet the challenge, and the Tribe of Reuben joined the new kingdom with Saul as the first king. After the death of Saul, all the tribes other than Judah remained loyal to the House of Saul, but after the death of Ish-bosheth, Saul's son and successor to the throne of Israel, the Tribe of Reuben joined the other northern Israelite tribes in making David, who was then the king of Judah, king of a re-united Kingdom of Israel. According to the Book of Chronicles, Adina and thirty Reubenites aided David as members of his mighty warriors in conquering the City of David.[1] However, on the accession of Rehoboam, David's grandson, in c. 930 BC the northern tribes split from the House of David to reform a Kingdom of Israel as the Northern Kingdom. Reuben was a member of the kingdom until the kingdom was conquered by Assyria in c. 723 BC and the population deported.
From that time, the Tribe of Reuben has been counted as one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
Tribal territory[edit]
According to Kenneth Kitchen, following the completion of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelite tribes after about 1200 BC,[2] Joshua allocated the land among the twelve tribes. However, "almost all" scholars have abandoned the idea that Joshua carried out a conquest of Canaan similar to that described in the Book of Joshua. [3]
In the case of the Tribes of Reuben, Gad and Menasheh, Moses allocated land to them on the eastern side of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. (Joshua 13:15-23) The Tribe of Reuben was allocated the territory immediate east of the Dead Sea, reaching from the Arnon river in the south, and as far north as the Dead Sea stretched, with an eastern border vaguely defined by the land dissolving into desert; the territory included the plain of Madaba.
The exact border between Reuben and the Tribe of Gad, generally considered to have been situated to the north of Reuben, is somewhat inconsistently specified in the Bible, with Dibon and Aroer being part of Gad according to Numbers 32:34, but part of Reuben according to Joshua 13:15-16. On that basis, some have suggested that the territory of Reuben was an enclave in the territory of Gad.[4]
According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Reuben, the first son of Jacob, and a son of Leah, from whom it took its name. However, Peake's commentary viewed this as a postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.[5]
In the biblical account, Reuben is portrayed as having arrived east of the Jordan after leaving Egypt, but rather than taking land on the west of the Jordan, after conquering it under Joshua, instead took land on the east, as they owned a large number of cattle, and the territory seemed suitable for pasture. Israel Finkelstein et al., however, have claimed that lack of evidence for a systematic conquest or the abrupt appearance of a new culture indicates that the Israelites simply arose as a subculture within Canaanite society.[6] The territory of Reuben encapsulated the territory of the earlier kingdom of Sihon.
According to the ancient Song of Deborah, Reuben declined to take part in the war against Sisera, the people instead idly resting among their flocks as if it were a time of peace, though the decision to do so was taken with a heavy heart.[7] According to the Book of Chronicles, during the reign of King Saul Reuben instigated a war with the Hagarites, and was victorious;[8] in another portion of the same text, Reuben is said to have been assisted in this war by Gad and the eastern half of Manasseh.[9] In the Blessing of Jacob, which some textual scholars date substantially later than these events,[10] the tribe is characterised as fickle - unstable as water, and condemned to dwindle in power and size due to the incest of their progenitor laying with Bilhah.[11]
As part of the Kingdom of Israel, the territory of Reuben was conquered by the Assyrians, and the tribe exiled;[citation needed] the manner of their exile lead to their further history being lost.
See also[edit]
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Reuben, Tribe of". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.
- ^ 1 Chronicles 11:42
- ^ Kitchen, Kenneth A. (2003), "On the Reliability of the Old Testament" (Grand Rapids, Michigan. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)(ISBN 0-8028-4960-1)
- ^ Lester L. Grabbe (1 January 2000). "Writing Israel's History at the End of the Twentieth Century". International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament: Congress Volume Oslo 1998. Supplements to Vetus testamentum. BRILL. p. 210. ISBN 90-04-11598-6. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
- ^ Jewish Encyclopedia
- ^ Peake's Commentary on the Bible
- ^ Israel Finkelstein, The Bible Unearthed
- ^ Judges 5:15-16
- ^ 1 Chronicles 5:10
- ^ 1 Chronicles 5:18+
- ^ Richard Elliott Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible? (Harper San Francisco) (1987) ISBN 0-06-063035-3
- ^ Genesis 49:4


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The "Broadway's Carols for a Cure" recording has become a beloved holiday tradition for Broadway fans who like to support a good cause (Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS) while enjoying holiday-themed tunes from theater's best. After several years of providing show tune lovers with the perfect CD to play during Christmas time, this year will be no exception, offering tunes recorded by stars from Broadway shows, both old and new.
"Broadway's Caroles for a Cure, Volume 15" will feature the original singing Spider-man himself, Reeve Carney, performing "A Savior is Born; Broadway stalwart Faith Prince singing "Children Go Where I Send Thee" with the cast of Annie; Cinderella's Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana, Rebecca Luker, and Ann Harada singing "Happy Christmas, Little Friend"; and Billy Porter and Harvey Fierstein of Kinky Boots crooning "Carol of the Boots".
Cast members from most Broadway shows, including Jersey Boys, The Lion King, Mamma Mia!, Motown, Matilda, Newsies, Wicked, Once, First Date, Soul Doctor, and Rock of Ages, are also expected to record songs for the album. The all-stars of Northport, New York's John W. Engeman Theater and The Broadway Boys will participate as well.
There will also be a special selection from web gossip guru and sometime actor Perez Hilton, who performed Off-Broadway in the revue NEWSical recently. Hilton will perform a number titled "Perez's 2013 Holiday Dishlist," which has original lyrics by George Howe and Lynn Pinto (who created Broadway's Caroles for a Cure), with music composed by Jason Michael Webb.
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Of course, the issue is what is deemed to be "pornography." Apparently making insulting or derogatory statements about the Leader of Russia ranks number one on the hit parade for being "undesirable." Putin fixed the election for president and now he wants to fix it so anyone who opposes his rule is labeled to be an "undesirable."


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CLD should be considered in the same category as IEI-EMF or electro-hypersensitivity, or multiple-chemical sensitivity: they are not recognized diseases and other causes for these symptoms should be sought. Instead, to treat CLD a potentially dangerous protocol using very protracted courses of antibiotics that has shown to make no difference beyond placebo is used.
According to an article in the New York Times, "emerging diseases have quadrupled in the last half-century." The increase is mainly due to human encroachment into and destruction of wildlife habitat. For example, one study concluded that a four per cent increase in Amazon deforestation led to a 50 per cent increase in malaria because mosquitoes, which transmit the disease, thrive in the cleared areas.
Thirty years ago a scientist named Stan Prusiner coined a new word -- prion -- which turns out to be a protein molecule that's misfolded. In many neurodegenerative conditions, something triggers misfolding. If you can interrupt that, then you stop the formation of plaques. If you stop plaque formation in a human brain, you could prevent Alzheimer's, or at least delay it.


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Corrosion mechanism and factors, which we have just analyzed, relate to corrosion phenomena defining by corrosion forms. There are both many metals (about 80) and a lot of environmental types (of course, more than 80!), and we might expect many different corrosion phenomena. All corrosion reactions can be divided according to their mechanism in two types: reactions in the presence of non-electrolytes, and in the presence of electrolytes (electrochemical mechanism). All corrosion phenomena can be also divided into two types: uniform (general) and non-uniform (localized) corrosion. Uniform corrosion is a process when all of a metal surface corrodes, or dissolves. Non-uniform corrosion is a process when only some definite part of a metal surface corrodes, i.e. anodic process concentrates on a small part of themetal's surface. A corrosion phenomenon is a process that occurs on the surface of or inside the metal. The corrosion form is a result of a corrosion phenomenon. It is possible to define the corrosion phenomenon according to the corrosion form. On the other hand, if we know the corrosion phenomenon type, we may expect what corrosion form, or deterioration type, will happen with a metal: uniform thickness loss, pits, cracks, blistering, etc. We have to keep in mind that many corrosion phenomena influence such important functions of metallic equipment as mechanical and electrical properties. All corrosion phenomena and corrosion forms are described by specific mechanisms.
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There was an inquiry regarding using bags that had meat in them. I save my marshmallow, brown sugar etc. bags flat and separately. When I buy a package of meat to be utilized in smaller portions, I put those portions in those bags with a twist tie and then put the batch in a bread bag, label and date it, mark the position in the freezer in pencil on a "what's available in the freezer" list and store. When I use them, I throw them.
I store general sized bags, gallon zip, and sandwich/zip bags separated into three different gallon milk jugs with larger holes cut on the top and laid sideways on a shelf space about that size. They are great for slipping over food in a bowl and many other including sorting errands, groups of similar papers etc.
I dry bags on a mug racks arms. We can use the moisture in the house. They dry nicely on the line in summer even with 3 held from corners by one clothes pin.
I love your validation of my saving ways because I don't get much from anyone else. I've been told,"You are so frugal you make me sick," when I am not that good at it at all. I had attached a dried Hydrangea to a brown paper lunch bag for a gift decoration and closure for a second marriage get together, when the gift inside was handmade but worth $80.
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DEAR P.F.: I lived in upstate New York and had a large-scale deer problem in my yard, so I feel your pain. I've heard border collies are wonderful in helping to scare geese away without harming them. The geese view the collies as predators. They're not a cheap or low-care breed to buy from a breeder, but you can look around for an older dog at the humane society, or try the border-collie rescue in New York at Glen Highland Farm, 217 Pegg Rd., Morris, NY 13808; (607) 263-5415. If you're not interested in taking on a new pet, there are geese-control services that use collies, too. Try Geese Police at 866-NO-GEESE (664-3373). They're based in New Jersey but service parts of New York. If they can't help you, maybe they can refer you to a company that can. You could also post a classified ad. You might find someone who would be willing to bring his or her collie for a friendly visit to help you out. I'm not sure what your ick factor is, but you could use it for garden compost, too.
DEAR SARA: I noticed that some people wash and reuse their plastic zipper-type and sandwich bags. I have started to do this also but only when I have stored nonmeat items. I have been really leery to wash and reuse something that had uncooked chicken or pork in it. Do you also rewash and reuse the bags that you have used to store raw meat, or do you just cut your losses and throw them out? — luvmyhubby, e-mail
DEAR LUVMYHUBBY: No, I don't reuse those baggies for food storage. You could reuse them for nonfood items instead of tossing them away. I know you didn't ask me about drying them, but I thought I'd share a tip. You can repurpose a container, such as a toothbrush holder, and insert chopsticks or dowels into the holes. Then hang your baggies to dry from the "sticks." Some people simply let them dry on their top dishwasher rack or use a bottle-drying rack.
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There was an inquiry regarding using bags that had meat in them. I save my marshmallow, brown sugar etc. bags flat and separately. When I buy a package of meat to be utilized in smaller portions, I put those portions in those bags with a twist tie and then put the batch in a bread bag, label and date it, mark the position in the freezer in pencil on a "what's available in the freezer" list and store. When I use them, I throw them.


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Jones Natural Chews Co of Rockford, Ill. is recalling 2705 boxes of Pig Ears because of they have the potential to be contaminated with salmonella, according to an alert from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Some of the products were sold in Wisconsin.
According to the release, the salmonella "can affect animals and there is risk to humans from handling contaminated pet products. People handling dry pet food and/or treats can become infected with salmonella, especially if they have not thoroughly washed their hands after having contact with the chews or any surfaces exposed to these products."
Healthy people infected with Salmonella should monitor themselves for some or all of the following symptoms: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramping and fever. Rarely, Salmonella can result in more serious ailments, including arterial infections, endocarditis, arthritis, muscle pain, eye irritation, and urinary tract symptoms, according to the alert.
Pets with salmonella infections may be lethargic and have diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, fever, and vomiting. Some pets will have only decreased appetite, fever and abdominal pain. Infected but otherwise healthy pets can be carriers and infect other animals or humans. If your pet has consumed the recalled product and has these symptoms, contact your veterinarian.
Jones Natural Chews Pig Ears were distributed to distributors and retailers between Sept. 15, 2010 and Nov. 2, 2010 .
Here are the products in the recall alert:
Jones Natural Chews Co Pig Ears 2pk bag with header card–item upc 741956001047 lot 2420
Jones Natural Chews Co Pig Ears bulk 100ct box-box upc 741956001139 lot 2490, 2560, 2630, 2700, 2840, 2910, 2980
Jones Natural Chews Co Pig Ears bulk 50 ct box-box upc 741956001504 lot 2490, 2840
Jones Natural Chews Co Pig Ears bulk 25ct box-box upc 741956001467 lot 2700
Jones Natural Chews Co Pig Ears 1pk shrinkwrapped-item upc 741956001146 lot 2700, 2840, 2420
Jones Natural Chews Co Pig Ears 10pk printed bag-item upc 741956001405 lot 2420, 2560, 2630, 2840
Blain's Farm & Fleet Pig Ears 10 pieces bag-item upc 741956001405 lot 2560
Country Butcher Dog Chews Pig Ears 1pk shrinkwrapped-item upc 741956001511 lot 2630
Country Butcher Dog Chews Pig Ears 1pk shrinkwrapped-item upc 741956001146 lot 2420
Country Butcher Dog Chews Pig Ears 12pk bag-item upc 741956001245
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I have an account with Ulster Bank, part of the RBS group. I was letting out my parents' flat in London and thought, wrongly, that I needed an English account to receive the rent, so in June 2008 I opened a NatWest account, also part of RBS. It was a year before the flat was ready and I forgot about the NatWest account and continued to use Ulster Bank.
Last July, £9,526 was electronically transferred into the NatWest account from the lettings company but when I tried to retrieve some of it, the bank said the account was closed.
I discovered that I had been paying £12.95 a month for the account. This was quite unsuitable as I have only a limited income from teaching music.
The charges had sent the account overdrawn until I owed £483. The bank accepted the transfer but now refuses to pay the £9,526. It has, though, deducted its charges and demanded "proof of funds". I faxed the information but nothing happened. Still the bank would not transfer the money to my Ulster Bank account, only offer me a cheque. DMcN, Belfast
You are asking: should you have had the account in the first place and why can't you now access your money?
NatWest is unable to trace the person you spoke to when you opened the account, so we cannot establish what you were and were not told. The bank says there is nothing on the application form to suggest the account was unsuitable, but you are certain that no one mentioned the monthly fee, and that you asked for an account without an overdraft. This is why, when you received the first letters showing you were slightly overdrawn, you assumed it was a mistake. You did not receive the later letters because you had moved.
The rest of the picture is clearer. The bank did not close the account but made it dormant because you had not responded to its more recent letters. This made it suspicious when the £9,526 cheque, a substantial amount, arrived. Even so, it says, you could still access your money and it would have sent you a cheque for the full amount. You rejected that, which made the bank hesitate about an electronic transfer.
The bank has repeated the offer of a cheque but you have chosen to withdraw cash over several days. The account will then be closed. NatWest has refunded all the fees you have paid and refunded the unauthorised overdraft charges, £483 in total.
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In my eyes, Beck is very much still a baby. And then I see another child close to his age and think that they look like a toddler and can't believe that my nugget isn't so little anymore. Then I force him to give me a hug while he squirms away from my grasp. Begin again.
At 17 months, Beck:
– Has three stamps in his passport
– Primarily scoots for transport
– Loves to do the actions to Five Little Monkeys
– Has discovered the joys of chocolate and knows how to ask for it
– Is fascinated with the process of putting on shoes
– Loves pointing out babies
– Created his first crayon drawing on the wall and tried his first taste of crayon (to which his response was, "yuck!")
– Is a social butterfly
– Learns at least two new words a day
– Perches on every ledge he comes across


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RSS Ignominy
For almost as long as this blog has been running, I have been providing an RSS feed. I've complained before about the shitty support for RSS, and now I'm complaining again because things actually seem to be getting worse.
For whatever reason, it now appears that the two major Webkit browsers, Safari and Chrome, have dropped native support for RSS, instead respectively offering the following when you click on a feed link.
Wow that really helps, guys. What user not already familiar with RSS is ever going to go install support for feeds into their browser when they already have little to no idea how feeds are used?
Firefox has not broken their support yet, for what it's worth. When you click on a feed link you get a preview of the posts as well as the option to subscribe directly using a few preset methods. This at least gives some idea why you might want to use a feed (to subscribe FFS).
Another nail in the RSS coffin is Twitter's announcement that they won't be supporting it in the future, in keeping with their new 'fuck you' policy on how twitter data is used by 3rd party applications.
So basically it appears the only way to make sure users will get a consistent experience when they click on your little orange feed link is to set up a FeedBurner account and send them there instead.
This is a totally bullshit solution in my opinion; FeedBurner looks like it hasn't been updated in years, and since Google now owns it it's one of those half-assed services that feels like it could be shuttered at any time. And yet it appears to be the only practical option right now.
Happy Birthday This
This blog is 10 years old!
When I last visited my eye surgeon he asked me if I had a blog, because he had read something funny that someone had forwarded to him and he wondered if it was written by me. That was pretty neat. When I was working at Right Hemisphere in New Zealand a co-worker called me in to show me an article he was using as reference for something. In searching for information about a problem he had stumbled upon something I had written which helped answer his question. That was pretty neat too. I wish I could remember which post that was. I get a kick out of little things like these.
So far I have written 1,100 posts (including this one); an average of 2 per week. These comprise more than 292,000 words; about equivalent to a 660 page paperback. There are 3,434 comments to date; an average of 8 per week since comments were enabled in 2004 when I migrated to WordPress and moved to the intepid.com domain. Prior to that the blog was handled using my own custom solution which involved HTML templates and a shitload of FTP uploading any time I changed anything.
The first entry is time-stamped August 28, 2002, 11:48PM, and is about hexagonal pixels, among other things. I still get a kick out of that idea, and wrote a follow up with a downloadable demo in 2005.
The single most visited entry, inexplicably and by a wide margin, is this one from January 2008, about a horse stabbing that wasn't. Coming a distant second is A Symbol for Atheism.
NB Most new visitors arrive in a steady trickle as a result of web-searching. Here's a 2 week sampling– note how insignificant Bing is to my traffic right now.
Reader: Just because it's free …
… doesn't mean Google aren't being assholes by breaking it. Especially when they try to spin the changes as "improvements" they've made due to popular demand (I'd love to see them publish a before-and-after feature list and still claim that the new version is in any way better).
5 years ago I ditched Bloglines because the relatively new Google Reader was better. Heaps of other people did similar things, and before long there was virtually no serious competition for reading RSS feeds online.
If you make a useful product, get everyone used to it, many dependant on it, then break that product in a ham-fisted attempt to further your ambitions in the social networking space, you are are being a giant dick. Google is being a giant dick.
As depressing as their new flat-n-grey theme is (just like intepid at the time of writing, but I'm just one guy and I'm color-blind), it's the removal of a key feature that has me still fuming even days after the deed was done– the demise of the "share" function.
Before, when I shared a post on Reader it would be available as a special feed to anyone who was interested. Effectively it was an incredibly convenient way to create a curated feed. In fact that's how I've been generating my "Things I'm reading" links in the sidebar here. Anyone could visit an URL to see this feed, regardless of whether they had a google profile or not. I could even share new articles into this feed using a nifty bookmarklet! I also subscribed to the shared feeds of friends, because I am interested in reading the things that my friends deem interesting. If I commented on a post in reader, it would be visible to any of my friends who read the same post.
Now, the only sharing option visible is to hit the +1 button, and then hit it again to Share to your G+ stream. The same stream that has every other bit of ephemeral crap I might fart out on G+. And you can't easily get a feed of that stream, not that you'd really want to. That's why I was starting to use Reader more and more and Twitter less and less. I really don't give a shit about people's status updates 99% of the time. If I comment on a post, my friends don't even see it in G+ unless they are reading the exact same post, which is unlikely because they are probably seeing a version shared in G+ so it has a whole different set of comments attached– unlike in pre-lobotomised Reader, where when you shared a post it would still be the same, canonical post.
I don't have a problem with them adding the +1 sharing option, I just don't see why they had to tear out one of the best features of the product to make room for it.
As of this writing, it seems the shared items feed is still active on the back-end, and can even be added to via 3rd party apps like Flipboard, so I have some small hope they will bring it back. But considering that they've already killed the "Share to Reader" bookmarklet I'm not holding my breath.
Update: Flipboard just removed the ability to share to Google Reader, so I'm guessing it's not coming back. Thanks a bunch, Google.
Tumblr is pretty
WordPress is my current blogging platform, and although I've had my gripes about it it's something I've grown accustomed to and don't plan to change it any time soon. I was going to write my own system for a while, but then realized what a giant waste of my time that would be, just for the satisfaction of doing it myself.
One thing I don't like about WP is that I never seem to be able to find a theme I like, and there's something very boring about WP sites in general. Lately I've been noticing that every time I find myself on a blog thinking "wow, how stylish!" it turns out to be a tumblr blog.
The down side of tumblr for me is actually one of its key features; that infinite re-post regression that can make it really hard to work out whose text you're actually reading. That said, I appreciate the concept.
So I have installed the tumblrize plugin for wordpress, which cross posts my entries to intepid.tumblr.com. I haven't really got a good reason to do this except that it's free, and it slightly increases my web footprint into a demographic for whom WordPress might feel a bit old-world-y.
Yes, Facebook is killing the goddamn internet
If you give a shit about the internet not being a homogenous corporate-controlled walled garden, read this article and get angry.
You can turn your back on the social networks that matter in your field and be free and independent running your own site on your own domain. But increasingly that freedom is just the freedom to be ignored, the freedom to starve. We need to use social networks to get heard and this forces us into digital serfdom. We give more power to Big Web companies with every tweet and page we post to their networks while hoping to get a bit of traffic and attention back for ourselves. The open web of free and independent websites has never looked so weak.
So many people say "I hate Facebook" but they're on it anyway, because everyone else is, and because third party sites are even starting to casually require that users have a Facebook login because it's easier. This, beyond all the insane privacy invading bullshit, makes me want to scream: The idea that it won't be long before you won't even be able to use the internet without a Facebook login. OMFG I hate this.
Update: at 14:40 when I requested from Facebook an archive of all my activity, in preparation for removal of my account. Almost three hours later and the archive is still not ready, even though it will be of relatively trivial size (I was never very active on FB). This is their only nod towards any kind of data portability, and they have clearly not designed the system to be particularly effective. If they simply let me download it instantaneously there is of course the horrible possibility that I might let some competitor import this data… this data, which is mine.
Update-2: I did end up getting my archive, it was available when I went back to check for it. So I have no actual idea how long it took to become available since they never sent the notification email I expected.
What shits me about the state of the Internet(s)
This blog has just turned 9 years old, and for the majority of those years it has, like virtually every other blog in the world, provided an RSS feed for people who wish to subscribe so they don't have to manually check the site for updates.
A feed is a machine readable version of a blog (or any other kind of regularly updated site) which allows the content to be reproduced in other contexts; eg you can see my posts in Google Reader here. This would be fairly pointless if you only read my blog, but if you read 10, 100 or 1000 blogs, you can read new content as it appears, from all of them, all in one place.
Unfortunately, even though blogs have offered these feeds for more than a decade, hardly anyone uses them. A minority of my personal acquaintances have the faintest clue what an RSS or Atom feed even is, let alone how to use it.
And so for this reason, whenever I create a new post I go and post a link to it on Facebook, Twitter, and now Google+. Do you know the main reason why anyone over the age of 15 uses any of these services? I'm pretty sure it is simply so they can keep abreast of what their friends are thinking/doing. That's why I use them anyway.
I'm not claiming that Facebook et al don't offer functionality beyond that covered by blogs with RSS feeds, but it pains me that there are hundreds of millions of web sites out there with built in facility to subscribe directly, and yet so few people use this feature. Instead every entity that wants to be followed must create a stupid page on FB so people can friend or follow them there. And Facebook is a horribly overgrown privately owned walled garden which is designed to suck people in and then discourage them from going out again.
So what if I decide I hate Facebook (which I do) and don't want to have an account with them? Can people on Facebook follow me anyway, seeing my updates on their wall just as they would those of their friends? Long answer: possibly, with the help of some jiggery pokery and maybe an app to facilitate it, but short answer: NO. Anyone who doesn't know what RSS feeds are and what Google Reader does is not going to know how to achieve this. Same goes for Twitter and Google+; if either of these services has a means to subscribe to a third party feed, they sure hide it well.
Worse still of course is that even people on Facebook can't easily follow people on Twitter or Google+, and the same goes for the other way around.
Is this not almost as stupid as email in the 90s when everyone's mailbox was tied to their ISP, and they couldn't easily move somewhere else when they realized that this was incredibly restrictive? When I see someone still using a @bigpond.com.au address, I just feel kind of sad for them. I had a few of those addresses, and of course they are long gone now, along with the messages I received.
My hope is that Google+ entering the Social space will put pressure on all players to allow for some level of interoperability (and transferability) for people who don't want to be locked in to any particular provider or platform, nor to have to maintain accounts on several in order to remain visible to people they want to stay in touch with. In reality there is no sign yet that this will actually happen, and so far Google+ has simply caused Facebook to fart itself awake, steal a few ideas (tit for tat), then roll over and go back to sleep, secure in its obscene level of control over how people interact with each other online.
People I blame for the stagnation and lack of awareness about feeds:
- Google. They own Blogger. Their online feed reader is the biggest and possibly only serious contender for online consumption. And yet when you download Chrome, Google's own browser, it actually has no built in ability to detect or subscribe to feeds. Even if you click on a feed-link using Chrome, nothing useful happens.
- Dave Winer and the rest of the grumpy old men (aka the "blogfathers") who spent a lot of time pissing in the wind about whose contribution was the greatest and what the letters RSS actually stand for, and whether they should play nice with the competing Atom standard, without seeming to notice what an unbelievably terrible job they were doing at making people aware of it. Like classic old-school nerds, they ranted about it being the greatest thing since sliced bread while still revelling in the hard-core aspect of it being only for those in the know. If you really want everyone to use something, write a decent spec and then set it free (and don't make it sound more complicated than it is, you stupid nerds).
- Moveable Type. For being the most hideously bloated and brittle blogging platform imaginable and confusing the shit out of everything with trackbacks and pingbacks when they should have been focusing on really obvious problems like how does one easily subscribe to the replies that might be made to a comment you leave.
- The human brain's inability to take on even the simplest of technical concepts without having it jammed in your face. I freely admit it probably would have taken me a long time to "get" RSS/Atom if I hadn't decided to be a content provider, thus making it imperative that I work out what all this feed business was about.
Some really useful bookmarklets
A bookmarklet is a cute function you can add to your browser as easily as if you were bookmarking a page. It's stored just like a bookmark, only instead of a web address it contains a snippet of code designed to perform a function. Each one of the links below can be simply dragged to your bookmark bar to add the described functionality to your browser for use whenever you need them (or you can try simply clicking on them here to see what they do).
- CSS – Toggles stylesheets on and off for any page, letting you see the content without the style (it's a real eye opener if you're interested in how style is split from content with HTML and CSS)
- Make Editable – This is a super fun one, making a page totally editable so you can delete bits, replace text, drag stuff around etc. Doesn't do any harm, as a page reload will restore the original page, but might be useful for mockups where you want to just make some changes and do a screen grab.
- Subscribe – attempts to subscribe to whatever page you're on in Google reader (so should work on most blogs and news sites). I can't believe Chrome hasn't got this feature built in.
- Save to Instapaper – saves the current URL to an online bookmark list at Instapaper, which can be accessed from anywhere (so it's handy for work if you want to save an article to read later).
Button Cruft & Google+
I've provisionally enabled sharing buttons on posts here, to see if it has any effect on my traffic from social sites. Pictured here is the complete list supported by the plugin I'm using. Who knew there were quite so many ways to share links?
Most of my new traffic still comes from good ol' search, with this post currently being the Google favorite for some reason, and I figured it couldn't hurt to try to encourage a little more sharing. Although I still resent the idea that these buttons need to be plastered all over the web on every article when browser makers could just yank their thumbs out of their asses and recognize the need for these basic defaults in the browser itself, so content providers don't have to clutter their layouts with this cruft.
You'll notice (for now anyway) that I've put the Google +1 button first– this is because I really would like to encourage people to use the only serious Facebook competition I've yet seen… not that I think Google+ is a "Facebook Killer", but more that I hope that as other major players start to occupy this space there will be pressure to allow true interoperability and open data exchange. Such that an individual could maintain a single "social" profile at Google+ but still friend or follow others on Facebook, Twitter or any other platform, and vice versa. Facebook has been happy to scrape other people's data and address books, but won't expose their graph to other major platforms (individuals have access, as do approved apps, but competition is a no-no).
Google is really big now, and some people probably think that's scary, but I've been using their primary services long enough to feel comfortable with them integrating everything together with their browser (Chrome) and their mobile OS (Android). Facebook has no OS, no browser, doesn't own Youtube, and is only just entering the email sphere, and this seems to be where Google's advantage lies. Also, Facebook is a dick (as much as a social network can be) and they know it, but they couldn't give a shit because they are so far ahead right now. Google is no dick, but it can be a dumbass, eg even though their RSS/Atom reader is the most used on the planet their browser has no built in ability to subscribe to a blog or feed, which is just sad. No wonder most people still don't know what RSS even is.
That said, Google does most things very nicely, and is already providing most of my personal "cloud" with email, docs, calendar and contacts all handled by them. If you use a smart-phone and don't sync with Google as an Exchange server you don't know what you're missing!
BTW My Google+ profile is here. I've never been comfortable with the idea of linking to my Facebook profile, but there's no such thing as a friend request on G+ and that fact alone makes it waaaaaay better than Facebook.
Some recent blog stats
Since that reader survey was a bit of a washout numbers-wise, I added a stats plugin to see what people are reading here, and get a better idea of visitor count.
What I find particularly surprising is that for the last 6 weeks (the period covered by the table below) the number one article has been a very old one making fun of terrible horse death/murder coverage, due largely to Google ranking me surprisingly high for thoroughbred horse queries.
Fairly unsurprising survey results…
You know that survey I posted a couple of months back that hardly any of you bothered to fill out? Well it is now closed, so you no longer get to contribute to the results.
Also, not enough of you are definitely women.
Reader Survey
I'm a bit clueless these days as to how many people read this blog (apart from commenters of course, who are the only visible indicator since I junked all my analytics a while back).
So I would reaaaally appreciate it if you, yes YOU, would do me a kindness and complete this short, anonymous survey to let me know who I've been talking at lately.
UPDATE: Survey, and in the future the results, can now be found here.
Now trying WordPress 3.0.4
… just to see how it goes.
Known issues:
- Old style permalinks won't work, which is bad but not the end of the world. I'm looking for a plugin to get around this problem
- unicode characters are getting messed up… there is some setting somewhere I am missing (seems to be specifically emdash – causing lots of probs)


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Country boys love the idea of honky-tonk whores but they always want the angels, and for more than three decades Harris has been one of the unsullied latter, married in spirit to the dead Jesus of country-rock, Gram Parsons.
Her Wrecking Ball five years ago almost took her out of the backup singer/duets pigeonhole.
Produced by Daniel Lanois it was sonic delight that complemented her often ethereal vocals.
Had Lanois been on hand here (it's his surrogate, Malcolm Burn) then we might have been looking at a perfect pair.
But this time out the songs aren't as strong - she wrote or co-wrote almost all, a rare thing from someone who is a scrupulous spotter of a gem-song or rough diamond to interpret - and the frisson of (re)discovery has worn off.
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Lewis Libby, until Friday the chief of staff to Dick Cheney, has been described as "the most powerful Washington figure most people never heard of".
Before his indictment and subsequent resignation, Libby, 55, had single-mindedly pursued anonymity. The discreet Libby is so loyal to his ex-boss that one wit described him as "Dick Cheney's Dick Cheney".
Libby's relationship with Mr Cheney goes back to when the Vice-President was defence secretary during George Bush snr's presidency. Libby crafted a post-Cold War military strategy that many credit with setting out the groundwork for the possible use of pre-emptive force in deterring other nations - an idea embraced by fellow neo-conservatives to help justify the Iraq war.
Official biographies and media profiles are almost bereft of detail about the man depicted by the left as a sinister manipulator who spearheaded the Iraq campaign. He was certainly a leading White House hawk and also has the power to make his opinions felt.
After September 2001, Mr Cheney and Libby believed Saddam Hussein's hostility to the US and his fondness for weapons of mass destruction made him too dangerous to leave in power. Before the war Libby was invited to attend planning meetings with President George Bush, highly unusual for a non-member of the cabinet. He has been a driving force behind demands for a tough approach to states such as North Korea and Iran.
Nicknamed "Scooter" by his father for his cot acrobatics, he went to Andover, one of America's top schools, where his classmates included Mr Bush. At Yale he backed the civil rights movement and Robert Kennedy's truncated presidential campaign and later studied law at Columbia.
One mentor, the World Bank president and former deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, has called Libby "one of the smartest and most perceptive men I have ever worked with".
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EV Buyers In Canada Getting Big Incentives
July 1st, 2014 by Christopher DeMorro
While electric car sales are steadily rising here in the U.S., in the colder climate of Canada, buyers have been slow to warm up to EVs. That could all change with a new round of incentives that in some areas of Canada will chop over $11,000 off the price of an electric car.
The incentives are both private and publicly funded, with the Globe and Mail reporting that Daimler's Smart ForTwo Electric Drive is currently benefitting from a $3,000 dealership rebate. which can be combined with an $8,000 tax rebate from the province of Ontario. That's more than one-third of the cost of the Smart EV, which retails at $29,900.
Meanwhile EV industry supporters are teaming up to spread charging technology. Evatran is working with Mr. Electric to distribute their wireless charging systems which are compatible with cars like the Nissan Leaf throughout the frozen north. These are some pretty hefty incentives for EV drivers, but there are still concerns regarding range anxiety in a country that spends most of the year wearing winter clothing.
Can big cash incentives make EVs work in the Great White North?
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" Author: George H. Bushnell / Genre: Fiction "
This neat little paperback published by the St. Andrews Preservation Trust is a loving reproduction of George H. Bushnells original and sole collection of ghost stories, originally published by the University in 1945. Set in and around the area of Scotlands oldest University, these stories, however fanciful or based on alleged truths, were originally told to Bushnells Celtic Society as entertainment during blackouts in the Second World War. The local basis serves to make it a little unapproachable for the wider readership that it never particularly sought out (and will never attain), but also adds a rather quaint and authentic atmosphere to the five tales, even if its a little naive to assume anyone outside of his immediate, local, 1940s audience will be aided by directions such as where Hendersons corner shop now stands.
Theres a fair degree of variety across the stories in terms of subject matter, style, length and enjoyment, and it should be enjoyed by readers partial to the old-fashioned sort of ghost stories that insist on grounding themselves in specific facts, locations and dates at great length, perhaps in an effort to balance out the supernatural happenings. This is the books most annoyingly outdated feature, as some stories such as the brief The Shadow Man read like nothing more than a dull overview of a historical event that manages to be extremely long-winded despite lasting only seven pages. The conveyance of specifics also spoils some of the better stories by trying the readers patience and thereby dispelling the atmosphere that had been fairly successfully built up by that point, leading to the odd meeting of dull lecture and exciting ghost story of The Screaming Horsemen, which would be the best of the lot if the balance had been shifted towards the latter events rather than the former, unnecessarily long set-up.
As with some of the best ghost stories, the supernatural elements are all toned down into mere apparitions that could, at a stretch and with a considerable degree of scepticism, be put down to natural occurrence or sick tomfoolery. The first story, attractively titled The Closing of the Cloisters, is the most substantial and among the most effective in its tale of an eighteenth-century University professor getting his comeuppance from beyond the grave, in the form of appearances of his erstwhile associates skeletal corpse clad in academic robes, but is curiously and distractingly divided into two chapters; the second is not entirely related to the professors story, and rather concerns a far less interesting account of Johnson and Boswell getting a little creeped-out by the skeleton on their famous Tour through Scotland. The second story, The Tenement, is a shorter and wholly less satisfying account of a supposedly haunted house that it turns out, wasnt really haunted at all, but nevertheless allows its sole buyer to get a bargain purchase. Its not so much a ghost story as something a particularly boring relative would repeatedly tell you with a smug look on their face, but Bushnells descriptions of location remain commendably vivid.
The Screaming Horsemen, when it finally gets round to it, has the books most prominent ghostly appearance as a group of horse-mounted riders gallop into a frozen swamp, taking the body of a crazy old man with them, and its a shame theres so much tedious preamble as the encounter itself is Bushnells writing at its best: genuinely creepy and descriptive, while grounded in realism, though the authors long career as St. Andrews University librarian do lead him to catalogue every detail in irritating depth. The Shadow Man is the only story based entirely in the past and suffers for its lack of relation to (then-) contemporary events, centred around the apparent ghost of a warrior, but thankfully the final offering of the collection makes for a fitting exit. Titled I Shall Take Proper Precautions! for reasons that will only become clear once the whole thing has been digested, this is the apparently true story of one of Bushnells previous assistant librarians (although everything here most likely stems almost entirely from his imagination, its nice to imagine that theres a basis for all of the stories), who finds a curiously new book arriving at the library just as she is closing up on Christmas Eve, and she is forced to take it home for a personal delivery to its local owner and author. This story is filled with everything I enjoyed about spooky short stories when I was a child, from the uncanny book itself that suddenly appears to be old, worn and stained when viewed in the dim bedside light, to the librarians experiences and encounters with its supposed author and the ultimate revelation that the blank pages at the books conclusion were never blank after all, containing everything she experiences on that fateful, snowy morning. This is the most enjoyable story of the lot, largely unhampered by the burden of far too much detail and making a nice link to the University library itself, from whence this whole thing originated.
As George H. Bushnells only collection of stories, this noticeably lacks a distinctly characteristic style aside from its tedious insistence on relating all the information possible, but it fits in rather nicely with the tradition of gothic ghost stories and is interesting in its blending of the authors contemporary early twentieth century and the history of his local Scottish region, mostly through the 1700s. Its a little uneven in tone, with some such as the first story quite clearly being written for speaking without much in the way of adaptation for the page (mostly evident through repeated sound effects), but its a nice gesture that this book was ever considered worth reprinting at all. This paperback is a slim volume of just over sixty pages, and features pretty pencil illustrations from one Mrs. D.H.L. Scott (née Bushnell) relevant to each tale without spoiling its conclusion. If the University of St. Andrews still entertains a Celtic Society, its nice that they have something to show for their history (in a University steeped in history, as Bushnells stories prove more than anything else), and Im sure his own ghost must have been pleasantly surprised to see this new arrival in the Local Fiction section of a library he still watches over to this very day, the silent old man in the old-fashioned clothes...


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A small town in southern New Brunswick which in many cases is the first stop for Americans escaping the United States to Canada
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A song by the Grateful Dead that is pretty obviously about James Joyce. Unfortunately most deadheads are semi-literate pot smoking idiots and don't realize this.
St. Stephen with a rose, inandout of the garden he goes. Country garden in the wind and the rain, wherever he goes the people all complain...
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There is a stereotype attached to an offshore jurisdiction. It is usually an island with a significant finance industry. That industry is unregulated. It is also a tax haven. Its financial institutions are not too choosy, either about their clients or their sources of money. Complex and opaque trust or nominee structures are encouraged to shelter these assets. There are strict banking secrecy laws. Requests from foreign jurisdictions to obtain evidence in relation to these assets are at best ignored, at worst refused. They are, therefore, a haven for money launderers.
Of course, what constitutes an 'offshore' jurisdiction is a matter of perception. To those in France, Switzerland and Germany, the UK is an offshore jurisdiction. Many people would be surprised to learn that some of the characteristics of the stereotype set out at the start of this article are perceived in those countries to apply to the UK.
Certain sections of the tabloid press seem to take the view that the truth should not get in the way of a good story. It can almost be guaranteed that if a criminal money trail ends in Jersey, tabloid articles will seize on Jersey's "excessive banking secrecy laws" as an angle to the story. Yet those laws are virtually the same as England's own Common Law in relation to banking confidentiality – a fact conveniently ignored in the press.
In reality there is little popular understanding of the problems that can face the smaller jurisdictions in relation to requests from court prosecutors seeking international cooperation from offshore jurisdictions (officially known as 'mutual assistance requests'). The two most significant problems are in fact lack of resources and lack of expertise. In many cases the jurisdiction is a low tax area and consequently does not generate the income to put in place a sophisticated police force or law officers department, as public spending is cut to a minimum. Yet as the requested state, the jurisdiction has to bear all the costs associated with the request, which can include litigation. The reality is that sophisticated criminals prey on this lack of resources and expertise.
This selfsame problem of lack of resource carries through into any investigation that the jurisdiction may wish to conduct internally, once the letter of request has brought an issue to its attention. In almost all cases, the conduct generating the illicit funds will have occurred in a foreign jurisdiction. To obtain relevant information and evidence, a letter of request will have to be sent to that country. It may take months, if not years, to obtain the evidence. If it is feasible to try the person who was responsible for depositing the illicit funds, then a formal extradition request will have to be made and the evidence presented to the foreign court. This process again can take months, if not years. Many smaller jurisdictions simply do not have the financial resources for protracted litigation of this type.
It is almost 15 years since the establishment by the 1989 G7 Summit of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF). This inter-governmental body's purpose is the development and promotion of policies, domestic and international, to combat money laundering – and it has teeth.
Today, the kitemark of 'national respectability' that accreditation by the FATF endows is much in demand; the current keenness of Saudi Arabia to achieve accreditation is a prime example of the wide-ranging influence that the FATF wields. However, achieving FATF compliance can be a huge burden for some jurisdictions, as the standard requires not only the establishment of new legislation, but also diligent policing of the new legal regime. This presents some jurisdictions with a dilemma. On the one hand, jurisdictions will need FATF approval if they are to play on the international stage – indeed, additional due diligence will be required of financial institutions dealing with any jurisdictions deemed by the FATF to be non-cooperative; on the other hand, the financial and administrative burden to legislate and police money laundering to the standard required by the FATF is considerable.
Unfortunately, the failure to take action effectively is frequently presented as yet further evidence of offshore jurisdictions' assistance to money launderers. Yet the practical burdens are severe. The 40 recommendations set out by the FATF do, however, contain one pragmatic suggestion, which is the concept of asset-sharing, particularly in relation to confiscated funds. This has some attractions for smaller jurisdictions. If a foreign jurisdiction, through mutual legal assistance channels, obtains a freezing order in relation to illicit funds held in the offshore jurisdiction and subsequently a confiscation order is made in the foreign jurisdiction against those funds, in return for assisting in that process a percentage or share of the fund is given to the offshore jurisdiction. This can then be applied to assist in creating the necessary infrastructure and expertise. The disadvantage is that such sharing is ad hoc and not predictable. It depends on agreement being reached.
Offshore jurisdictions could, of course, do more to prevent the perpetuation of the stereotyped image. The requirements of their mutual legal assistance laws should be clearly ascertainable. In jurisdictions such as Jersey there is no problem in this regard – there is the Criminal Justice (International Co-Operation) (Jersey) Law 2001, which sets out the threshold requirements. Some other jurisdictions are more opaque.
This can result in tensions between offshore jurisdictions and states requesting evidence because misunderstandings occur. A failure to appreciate what is required by the law of the particular offshore jurisdiction can lead to a request for assistance being rejected. Sometimes no advice is given as to how the request could be reframed so as to cross the necessary legal threshold. Failure to do so can lead the requesting state to believe that the offshore jurisdiction is simply being obstructive and looking after the interests of money launderers rather than the victims of crime.
Despite the difficulties, it is clear that the FATF has an important role to play in eradicating the stereotyped image of the offshore jurisdiction. Countries wishing to play on the international stage are increasingly feeling the pressure to demonstrate respectability. FATF approval is key to this, and showing that they have effective systems of mutual assistance and extradition will be key to gaining that approval. No one a few years ago would have laid bets that Saudi Arabia would have been prepared to open its doors to an FATF inspection, let alone pass legislation to ensure that its laws comply with the keynote FATF recommendations.
Nearer to home, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man frequently grant mutual assistance requests to foreign jurisdictions. Jersey in particular in recent years has been proactive in opening its own investigations and supplying evidence to foreign states. It has carried out joint investigations with other jurisdictions, in particular the US. Indeed, it was Jersey that took the lead in the Abacha case, assisting the government of Nigeria to recover $160m (£87.4m) deposited illicitly with one of its financial institutions. It also has a well-regulated financial sector.
Surely it is time to bury the stereotype once and for all and instead focus on what really needs to be done if offshore jurisdictions are to meet the challenge of the heightened expectations of international cooperation now expected of them.
Collingwood Thompson QC is a barrister at 7 Bedford Row and is acting for the Attorney-General of Jersey in the Abacha case


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McAfee Labs compiled a list of security considerations for the 2012 holiday season, including new threats that have only become commonplace in the past few quarters.
The security firm's research team counted 43.4 million suspect websites during the third quarter of 2012, 20 percent more than the number they identified three months earlier.
McAfee considers Android to be the more targeted platform today. The threat is made worse by the fact that only 38 percent of the smartphone holders in the U.S protect their home screen with a password.
To top it off, hackers are also becoming more resourceful. They're leveraging wireless network to obtain user information, and exploit susceptibilities such as the growing number of internet-connected devices found in the hands of children.
"This holiday season will further contribute to the trend of consumers having three or more devices to meet their online lifestyle needs," said Gary Davis, vice president of global consumer marketing at McAfee. "With the increased amount of devices per person and household, comes the increased chance of cybercriminals gaining access and stealing personal information and data. The best way to ensure this is to take the time to secure their personal data as soon as they open their new tech gifts."
McAfee is offering a few tips to protect your data. The firm recommends turning off antennas that are left unused, set controls for gaming consoles, and use security software to protect personal information.
The mindset that security is already a key aspect of technology is shared by McAfee and many others, including Alert Logic CEO Gray Hall. The executive shared his insights on cloud security from the enterprise and provider point of view in a recent interview we published shortly after a hacker group announced it will be launching DDoS attacks against several major financial institutions.


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I chose the domes close to 10 years ago because of the larger chamber heads. Now knowing what i know i wouldn't do it again. That being said this motor has only had a few tanks of gas ran through it. Im not going to tear the whole motor down and start over. Dont have the money and that would take all the fun out of it thats left after a 10 year project with only getting to drive a few tanks through it so far. That being said... if i run a 72cc chamber isnt that defeating the purpose of getting rid of my 882 76cc heads??? I'm still waiting to hear back from Dart if those pistons will be a flat no go or just check them out. As far as feder-mogal who makes the pistons says they should be fine with the 64cc chambers whether we're talking heart shaped or not we'll find out. As far as the compression goes, ya its like 11.67:1 or close to that. I dont care because race fuel is easy to get where im at and wont drive much other than when i want to play with it. So i think im just going to see if i can get them to fit and probably clearance the domes as need be.. A new cam is sooner than later so in the mean time I'm not too worried about that.
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Fans of barbecue and bluegrass music won't have to travel far to find their niche this weekend, as the second annual BBQ & Bluegrass Jam returns to Poplar Grove.
The family-friendly event, held at Steepleview Farm, is expected to be packed with entertainment, including a local act, The Downtown County Band, and the 2015 International Bluegrass Music Association's Emerging Artist and Songwriter, Becky Buller.
"That's a tremendous talent to have in Owen County," event host Marcus Carey said of Buller.
"There needs to be more businesses like the Bird Dog Cafe. It really compliments the small town feel and would likely attract young families."
"I was really excited when I looked at the website, but then I made some calls and everything was closed or had inaccessible hours."
"The wet-dry vote was visibly polarizing in the community. It will probably be a challenge to move past that and come together again."
One service project is all that stands between Wheatley resident Noah Malcomb and becoming the first Eagle Scout of his community in over 40 years.
Malcomb, the 15-year-old son of Steven and Carrie Jo Malcomb of Wheatley, is a member of Troop 891 of Owenton. As a Life Scout, Malcomb has received all the badges required of him to become an Eagle Scout, with just a service project left to complete. Malcomb must fundraise for money and materials, bring in volunteers and manage the project from beginning to end.
A recent spike in heroin-related overdoses and deaths throughout the region has one non-profit organization looking to further their outreach among local youth.
R.E.A.C.H (Reaching Every Addict with Christ's Help), is a volunteer run, faith-based non-profit organization that seeks to "help individuals with substance abuse issues and to raise community awareness of the drug addiction problem."
A public hearing was held by the Owen County Board of Education Sept. 8 for a vote on the annual tax rate. Proposed were a compensated rate or a percentage increase. There were no community members in attendance, but the special board meeting following the hearing led to a 5-0 decision of a 4-percent increase.
The rate was set at 64.6.
By Terry DeMio
The Kentucky Enquirer
The recent overwhelming string of overdoses in Cincinnati and the region during a nationwide heroin epidemic has medical and law enforcement observers betting on sneaky, synthetic opioids as the culprit.
They fear the development is a disturbing harbinger of things to come, with each new heroin knockoff being scarier than the last.
Fall is in the air and the beauty of Owen County is changing colors to shades of a warmer hue. Farmers are in harvest, trees are beginning to turn and a new breath of life has swept through the air.
Local farmer David Chappell says this is the time for one of his favorite crops, mums. The Chrysanthemum, affectionately called the "mum" is one of fall's most popular flowers. David has been in the mum business for seven years.
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