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Thanks, Monza Red, I will give him a try - I looked on his website and it was intriguing.
Although, I am not really an old timer enthusiast, my Dad was and he was a member of Sam. When he passed away, I inherited his current inventory from his life-long model airplane hobby. The last plane he was flying is a re-kitting of a New Ruler w/3 Channel radio. It uses a World Engines Expert radio system, but I replaced the transmitter (broken gimbals) with a Hitec Optic 6/Spectra module and the combo works great. It is powered with a Saito 45 MkI 4S, but I tried it with an old Veco 45 2S for awhile. Jimaroc
Hi, I just popped in to see if the falcon had been made yet, I've got another one, in yellow glosstex this time, came with a thunder tiger 91 fs which was way over the top, have replaced it with a saito 62a which is just perfect for it.
I notice one of the posters said the original shereshaw design was "squirrely", damn right both my falcons are exactly the same, I put it down to the weight of the wing, as it moves it gains inertia, input of opposite rudder takes time to react so more rudder then it's like a bloody big pendulum waggling its wing and all this before it gets off of the ground.
With the tt 91 she literally lept into the air but is much more subdued with the saito.
Soaring wise they are the dogs dangly bits, I've had mine up so high it took 17 spins to get back down to a couple of hundred feet altitude.
There is an enormous amount of construction with them, and they swallow up solartex like it's going out of fashion, same with glue. I reckon it cost almost as much to cover it as buy the kit (well perhaps not but close).
I'm pretty sure the os 52 fs would fly it fine but use a graupner G-sonic 13x6 prop, I changed the engine in my southerner major from the saito 62 to the os 52 fs, the plane is peculiar in that the wing looks too small for the fus even though it's 84" wingspan - the 52 pulls it around very smartly so it should be ok in the falcon. I've flown the southerner major with an original os 40 fs, the 1983 version pre surpass, ok it took nearly 100 yards to get up and the rate of climb was, umm, just about adequate, but it worked so I hope that helps with the engine choice for the falcon. Incidentally, I mentioned in my earlier post that I used to be a fetchermite for the owner of a falcon (he also owned the local model shop) his was powered by a frog 500 a 5 cc or 0.29 cubic inch glow motor, he used to fly it free flight from a sports field and even with a head wind of several mph it used to take two football fields and their associated deadball areas to take off, he sold me the engine for ten bob ( $1.50) in 1956 and I still have it, it was that model/engine combo which gave me the inspiration to put the os 40 fs in the southerner major, btw.
My latest plane is the super scorpion, 66" ws of delight ( there's some pix on my blog on this site), which has the os 40 fs I mentioned above as the prime mover, so I've got the three that eddie keil started marketing just after ww2.
Incidentally I used to live in Wickford in essex, the KK factory was about 150 yards from my home, and one saturday morning in the late 70s, I knocked on the door and the owner let me in and showed me round. But that, as they say, is another story.
I'm a journalist researching for a book on forgotten brands, including KeilKraft - this personal experience would probably be of great interest - any chance of more on the story? Regards
Truth be told, there's not much to tell, it was 30 + years ago and at a time when I'd ditched aeromodelling for shooting, the factory was a red brick affair and was starting to look run down, I remember the car park had a lot of weeds on there and my old spaniel was sniffing round when the guy shouted at me not to let it crap there, that's when I knocked on the door.
He did tell me his name and he was middle-aged or thereabouts, I'm sorry I can't remember the detail.
The office area i'm pretty sure was quite neat but the working part was not. There were quite a few boxes and cartons also some machines there and some advertising stuff on the walls, I was only in there for short time and must have satisfied my curiousity but I can't for the life of me remember the detail. Perhaps it'll come to me but it wasn't what I expected, I'm pretty sure of that.
I have a feeling it was shortly before they closed down. I also remember reading elsewhere that the factory was in an old country house, not so; it was on an industrial estate and looked like the drawing that used to be in the ads, almost art deco with the big keilkraft sign on the wall. It was surrounded by trees but they were of the scrub kind, there were also a lot of rodents round there as my old bitch was demented by them. And, no, she didn't crap on his carpark!!!!!
I'm sorry I can't be more helpful
That more or less fits with my dim recollection of the factory when I visited in the late 60's though it seemed quite busy; I think the place and parking lot was quite clean and tidy at that time.
I was in the area visiting my mother and took opportunity to go over to pick up about a dozen or more 'Senator' kits for the club. KK's Northern sales rep was a club member and registered my address as a hobby shop (!) so the club gained lots of items at wholesale prices. Shortly after he left KK's employment a car stopped outside the house and a somewhat puzzled new representative was studying his records, checking the address, etc. My account was closed forthwith ... lol
Nigel - I have problems thinking of KeilKraft as a forgotten brand!
One other thing I recall about wickford, there was a model shop there, run by the archetypical MOG (miserable old git), I bought several engines off of him as he was closing down ( an enya 35 mk V, PAW 19 and an OS max 25) he, for some reason, would have nothing to do with KK. BTW if you're wondering why I bought the engines when I'd taken up shooting, it was "just in case" oh and because I got the three for £25.
The enya I went on to learn to fly r/c with some 15 years later, the paw did some control line in a club 20 racer converted from r/c (Tarka by david boddington) and the 25 was donated to my eldest son's aircadets for an r/c model they were building.
All of which has sweet fa to do with the KK falcon!!!!!
Was your dad a VAMPS member too? I was (hmmm, membership is 'lifetime' so I suppose I still am).
I have a full scale Senior Playboy short kit I intended to build for my Anderson Spitfire, but after this thread and a couple others like it, I think I'll go electric instead.
Well I dragged my plans out for the Falcon last night and as I'm ready to start something new and I'm in need of something big again it's a good candidate to get started. Being too lazy to look at the SAM rules (and I get bored and confused with them anyway) does the Falcon qualify for any SAM event? I'm planning on building something for the Vegas event next year. I have a brand new Magnum 52 FS, and a new OS 91FS. I'm hoping the 52 would do the trick for the Falcon.
I noticed on the plan that the longerons are 5/16". I'm assuming that's a hardwood and not balsa for those. The hatching on the ends of the crossmembers would indicate a hardwood. I didn't see any other notes on the plan mentioning it.
Last edited by Ian Easton; Feb 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM.
Hy, just came across this thread.
I built one 15 or so years ago, 1st went in a webra belt driven rotory valve fourstroke, i think it was a 60 size, no bigger, it was underpowered, i then fitted an ohllson 60, sounded great but too many complaints, then went in an old o.s. 60 open rocker, it sounded great, enough power, and suited this bird down to the ground.
had one mid air collision, a friend of mine was chasing me, he cut off a 1/3 of the starboard wing, managed to get it down in one peice.
On his next flight, my friend, he was about three hundred feet, when his plane went into a vertical dive, old timers dont do that???? and hit the dirt.
I sold it on ebay about 4 years ago, have no idea who has it now, it was covered in yellow nylon, and fitted with the os, you can just make out the repair on the right hand wing if you look close enough.
Would like to join an old timer club in the south east of the u.k. if anyone knows of one, recently just moved to London
rev dave, try www.bloobirds.co.uk
Ian they should be balsa, in fact there's very little hardwood (or ply come to think of it) in it at all.
If I built another one (I have two) I'd make the following mods, move the engine bearers out to the fuselage sides and mount the engine on an alloy plate bolted to the bearers.
Redesign the u/c mounting, I changed to 4 mm piano wire and added ply to the mounting area, they are dead susceptible to ground loops and the stock (3mm) wire flexes like soft boiled pasta.
Change the wing mounting from rubber bands to bolt on.
Cyno carbon tows onto the cockpit frames so the load is spread down to the main longerons.
Make the tail set detachable, bit of a pig to rig but saves a lot on hangar rash.
OS 52 Surpass will fly it well with a lovely long take off run but beware the ground loops.
Mine have had the following power plants, laser 70, this gives a 60 or 70 degree climb with a 14x6 wood prop, OS 52 surpass, flies well, long take off very sedate, TT 91 fs, it'll almost prop hang with this, saito 62a probably the best match of all, magnum 61 fs about the same as the 52 surpass.
On the TT 91 had a 15x6 master, the 52, 61 and 62 all with a graupner 13x6 g-sonic. All engines on 10% nitro full synthetic fuel, both airframes covered in solartex, auw about 10 -11 pounds. My first one flew in 2003, my second in 2008. I prefer the first one and will sell the second this summer.
My older one has the laser in, the younger now has the saito 62.
Forgot to say, I used 1/4 scale metal geared servos for rudder and elevator in both, 6 volt 4000 mah nimh in mk 2 and 1800 2 cell lipos and bec in mk 1.
I love the way they spin and have had 17 out of mk 1. They thermal extremely well but after 3/4 of an hour my neck can't take any more. Also the large size make them look as if they are flying a lot slower than they really are.
They are quite susceptible to cross winds but if you get the windward wing slightly lower and wack in full rudder to turn them into the wind IMMEDIATELY on touch down they'll live to fly another day.
They are also extremely strong.
Thanks for all the advice - it really helps a lot.
I'm a little surprised at your AUW of 10-11Lbs. My 9ft span "Willis" has a lot of ply and hardwood in it and it came out at 8Lbs. Looking at the plans for the Falcon though I think there's a lot more wood in it. I'll take your advice and make the modifications you suggest as they seem to make a lot of sense.
Last edited by Ian Easton; Mar 01, 2010 at 12:21 AM.
Ian, I overdid it on several things, epoxying the front end for fuel proofing, using solartex, big batteries and so on. On the other hand neither needed nose weight and they handle the wind much better.
If I'm honest, I didn't weigh the second one and the first one was weighed way back in 2003.
IIRC there was a school of thought that said they actually fly better at that kind of weight.
Also I'm pretty sure that I upped the wood sizes in the first one to suit easily available sizes ending up with 3/8 square longerons IIRC; also I used bass for the spars, which was quite difficult to obtain in 4 foot lengths.
I know the extra weight in the wings exascerbated the falcon's only failing, slow control response at low speed leading to oscillations of the plane as the inertia of its components try to overcome the control inputs.
The second one didn't have these spars or wood sizes, by then I'd bought a balsa stripper but both planes respond the same, only on the point of take off it has to be said.
As you say there is a LOT of timber in the construction. Over the years I've used dual rates to combat this failing, unusually using the low rates at take off to combat over control and switching to high once airborne.
Any way I'll pull them out and weigh the components to see if my memory is correct.
Incidentally, both require substantial down thrust, 7 degrees with the laser 70 and about 5 with the saito. I'll also see if my brain can assess how to upload pix here and I'll pop them on here to view.
Last edited by Braddock, VC; Mar 01, 2010 at 04:35 AM.
Well, I had a second set of plans printed so that I can cut them up into a managable size and ordered some of the wood I needed - so things are starting to happen
I'll post the progress...
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"It's stills weird that you have growth spurts like the rest of us." Billy hummed lightly.
He was, as often was the case, with Teddy, and the two were trying to make their way through the mall one day after school.
"It's not weird. Especially because you already knew about it." Teddy retorted after he managed to avoid stepping on a small child. The mall really wasn't one of his favorite places, but he had been growing taller lately, and needed to update his wardrobe. They both did.
"Yeah, I do." Billy snickered softly and safely sidestepped a girl who wasn't looking, and was holding far too many shopping bags.
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An interesting article : "Why do Liberals bleed"
I believe that many here who are obviously, mostly conservative to some degree, will find this article interesting and to some degree worth discussion. It's not a political thread, so hopefully, it won't be treated like those that get closed down. Hopefully it's the right forum section too being it discusses a Civil Right.
It's worth the read to get a little insight into at least one opinion of the anti gun liberal's mind.
From the American Thinker - A female life long liberal's take on why gun ownership IN AMERICA and losing the victim mentality, might not be such a bad idea...
Just one woman's opinion, but I think she's got it right. Her conclusion at the end IMO, is spot on.
The Police officers comment and observations of the victim mentality in Berkeley was also interesting.
Why Do Liberals Bleed?
By Robin of Berkeley
I've been thinking about learning how to fire a gun, maybe even buying one. Now if you are a lifelong conservative, Red State dweller, and NRA member, you might be thinking, "Big yawn. What's next? She'll be telling us what she had for breakfast?"
So let me try to convey to you the enormousness, the Alice in Wonderland quality of my even posing the question, something I've never, ever considered in my life. No one I know owns a gun. I've never seen a gun (well on a holster of a police officer but I never wanted to get up close and personal with it). I have given lots of good money over the years for gun control. Learning to fire a gun seems as ludicrous as deciding to take up brain surgery.
But, I am rethinking absolutely everything. There is not a single thing that I believed, that I held absolute and holy, that is not up for grabs. My brain is in a tizzy 24/7 and I don't know if up is down, or if east is west.
And the thought about a gun just came to me last week when I was listening to talk radio. A caller related how an armed citizen in the South stopped a take over robbery in a fast food restaurant. A light went on in my head. Suddenly I realized that the Red States may be on to something: the police are strongly supported, the citizens have guns, and, therefore, the gangsters may be a little reluctant to take over the local Burger King.
Contrast that to the Blue States where few liberals own guns and the police are being emasculated. You may have heard of the horrendous case in Oakland where four cops were killed by a known felon, on a parole violation for child rape. But the powers that be in Oakland sent out the message to the police to make nice and not scare the populace, so the officers never drew their guns when approaching this felon. (Anyone else notice how the Left is slowly but surely disarming the police and military, situation-by-situation?) When I expressed my heartfelt grief to a friend about the deaths of these brave officers, he said, "The man who shot them was a human being too."
(I'd like to say that, as a psychotherapist, I responded in a sophisticated and psychologically crafty manner. No such luck. I almost blew a gasket, turned bright red, and said with barely contained anger, "He lost his claim to be human when he raped a child." To the friend's credit -- and perhaps some fear on his part -- he shut up.)
So what I realized during the talk show is that in places like Berkeley, only the criminals have the power. Not only do they have the power of guns, they are supported by several thousand brainwashed zombies who give the green light to criminals because they are the victims of someone else's "privilege" and "supremacy" and "imperialism." (Although I was a leftist until recently, I was the rare exception: I never excused crime because of the bad guy's race, creed, age, sex, or daddy being a meanie.)
I recall vividly what a Berkeley police officer once told me:
"Berkeley is a city of victims. You try to understand the street people and the criminals and sit down and talk to them and then they hit you on the head and steal your purse. The police come and then you refuse to press charges. The criminals know this and prey on you."
And he's right: almost everyone I know has been a victim of some awful crime, from being in restaurants during takeover robberies (not uncommon here), to being robbed at gunpoint, to being assaulted for no other reason except a thrill for the assailants. A neighbor, who had lived all over the world, once said to me, "Berkeley is the most dangerous place I've ever lived." Her husband was robbed at gunpoint as were almost all her friends. She couldn't wait to get out of here.
I wish I could say I'm an exception to the victim rule. But several years ago I was coming out of a restaurant in a decent area and was mugged. As Gavin de Becker states in his seminal book, The Gift of Fear, (which I, unfortunately, read after the fact), victims generally sense when they're about to be victimized but ignore the signs in order to be nice and not judgmental. This was my situation exactly. I could tell right away that the guy looked sinister. But it was a major street, at high noon, and I didn't want to seem racist, so I turned the corner a few feet to reach my car, and a minute later, had my purse stolen as well as all my feelings of being safe in the world.
I'll spare you (and me) the horrible details, but the incident ended with my having a broken nose and two black eyes, and needing surgery for the nose several days later. People wrote bad checks and stole rental cars in my name for a year afterwards. I developed a fear not only of people, but of the phone and the mail, as every day was another reminder of what happened.
Witness the response of a left wing friend, Judy, when I told her I was mugged. She said, and I quote, "I don't think what you went through was so bad. And anyway he was a victim too." (Maybe it's a good thing I wasn't armed back then.)
So I'm asking myself whether I should become armed, and I'm also wondering why so many "educated" people (I might have just answered my own question) put up with crime infested streets? Why are the biggest protests against the cops? Why are the innocent viewed as guilty, and the guilty innocent? Why is no one up in arms about liberals literally bleeding?
Then it occurred to me: Stockholm Syndrome, the same brainwashing that turned Berkeley resident Patty Hearst into Tania the bank robber. She was tortured, sexually abused, and kept in isolation by the far left group, the Symbionese Liberation Army (kissing cousins of Bill and Bernadine's Weather Underground). Successfully brainwashed, she joined their twisted and sick "army."
In the real Stockholm, the hostages were locked in a vault for days, came to "love" their captors in that perverted way that an abused woman loves her husband, and refused to testify against them in court. One even became engaged to her captor.
SS (good acronym, huh?) is rooted in a basic, primordial instinct for self protection in the wake of extraordinary trauma and terror. To survive, the victim identifies with the captors and merges psychologically with them. But SS takes on a life of its own when victims stop seeing their own humanity and want only to serve the abuser.
Living in places like Berkeley, being force fed propaganda, with police afraid to protect you, your friends unsympathetic, and no one armed, SS can spread like a virus. What starts out as compassion morphs into complicity. Occasionally there may be someone, like me, who snaps out of the trance they've been in for decades. After all, Tania woke up and became Patty Hearst again and, interestingly, married her bodyguard. (I bet that they own a whole lot of weapons.) But she had to leave Berkeley for a leafy, sheltered life elsewhere to do this.
But then again, I never bought into the notion of collective guilt, that groups of people are guilty because of the color of their skin, and individuals are exonerated because of some protected victim status. I'm the rare bird. In Berkeley, most people are so over identified with their ideology, that their logical, questioning minds have flown the coop along with a God-given knowledge, possessed by every 5 year old, of right and wrong.
As a good, loyal liberal, I always expected others to take care of me. If I gave my unqualified loyalty to the system, I could sleep well at night. But now, with victims left bleeding, a dangerously naive government, and sheep like masses, I see the absurdity of my thinking.
I heard a philosopher once say that one of the biggest existential tasks of life is giving up the fantasy of the ultimate rescuer. Liberalism reinforced this fantasy for me, as it does for so many others. Now I see the truth: We come into this world alone, and we will leave it alone. When we live our lives in the back seat of the car expecting Daddy to drive us, we only have a child's view of the world.
On that very dark day in November years ago when I became an object of someone's evil and inhumanity, I glimpsed a truth I never wanted to see: that there really is no protection, not in the way I had always thought, not by other flawed humans. I didn't know what to do with this insight until 1 1/2 years ago when I discovered that there were others out there like me, that there was something called conservatism, and now slowly but surely the pieces are coming together for me, one by one.
As I continue on the path to independence and personal responsibility, perhaps looking to myself for protection is another step on my journey.
A frequent AT contributor, Robin is a psychotherapist marooned in Berkeley.
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|April 1, 2010, 12:29 PM
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Agreed. I've personally known others that were very anti gun rights that later grew out of the victim mentality and accepted personal responsibility.
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Good post. It's a shame she had to learn through the mishaps and deaths of others though. I for one am glad she saw how absurd some of the comments of the exreme liberals can be on "victims".
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Agreed. I'm in utter amazement at times having discussions with those against personal firearm ownership and the premise of home defense.
Once actually told me the other day, that it was easier and safer to call 911 than to grab a firearm, in a home invasion saying I or my wife or daughters (Both teens) would be unable to get a gun and rack the slide fast enough to defend themselves.
He seemed to believe they'd be better off risking being raped or murdered with 911 on the phone, then to attempt to protect themselves.
Logic like that, I just couldn't argue with ...
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|April 1, 2010, 12:54 PM
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For someone who claims to be liberal she sure spends a lot of time taking cheap shots at other liberals on points not related to her thesis. Threre is a good narrative there; but I'm not a fan of the way it was presented. It looks to me like the article was written more to make "conservatives" feel good about their beliefs.
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Sounds like you believe she may have been being intellectually dishonest, but I don't get that at all. To give an analogy ... I think she's like a smoker who's quit smoking. They're far worse to other smokers than the average non smoker. So perhaps she's got a little animosity to her former way of thinking and those that think like that way.
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|April 1, 2010, 01:32 PM
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Yes, I think the writer is being intellectually dishonest. However, worse than that in my view, is that the writer is only effectively communicating to the people who don't need to hear the author's point of view. This piece is written more as a "Look how smart you are for believing what you do!" piece. Which is OK; but I'm already pretty convinced of that. Having somebody else agree with me doesn't really change or affect my own rationale for why I support self-defense and the Second Amendment.
If the author isn't being intellectually dishonest, she would be better off using that expertise in pscychotherapy along with some empathy to convince some of her liberal friends of her point. Of course, that would mean leaving out irrelevant rhetorical flourishes like "kissing cousins of Bill and Bernadine's Weather Underground)" and "As a good, loyal liberal, I always expected others to take care of me" and using reason to appeal to the ideas that they value.
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Just FYI...
As long as discussion remains focused on traditional liberal (individual) views of gun ownership, how they can be challenged and hopefully changed, it will remain open.
If it digresses into a discussion of traditional liberal (political party) views, or worse yet, diatribes against a political party or parties, it will be closed.
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Everyone interprets the "texts they experience" through the window of their own perspective.
You tell a "friend" that you took a smackdown, got two black eyes, and had to go in for surgery to repair your broken face, and they respond 'ahh suck it up and put on your big girl pants. The perp is a victim of society.'
I believe I'd harbor a bit of animosity against people who think that way as well.
If I were to write a blog piece, I would be writing it "to whom it may concern", not necessarily to one side of a debate or the other. On one hand any author attempts to be pursuasive. On the other, every author can only present their own truth - and not anyone elses...
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I don't doubt she was at one time a "Liberal." At the point she wrote this article she certainly was not. Maybe we will all get lucky and she has converted to classical liberalism.
I hate democrats for stealing the word liberal. Otherwise they are quite nice. I have even dated a few of the "liberal" girls who are ok with guns.
The ONLY way I have ever found it is possible to convert someone who is anti-gun, no matter their political position, is to take them to the range.
Most anti-gun folks feel guns are some sort of mystical super weapon that is uncontrollable and goes off unreliably or something similar born out of ignorance.
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I think "Robin" is a ringer. There's actually very little here about why actual liberals/leftists/progressives might support the Second Amendment, as many of us do. Her point seems more to be something like "I had an epiphany about self-defense, and now I realize how foolish liberals are..." -- where "liberal" is defined by straw-man positions that have little to do with what most people on the left actually believe.
And the stuff (I won't dignify it by calling it an argument) about Stockholm Syndrome, and liberals' lacking the "knowledge, possessed by every 5 year old, of right and wrong" is just... silly and offensive.
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|April 1, 2010, 04:20 PM
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Dunno Vanya...
Perhaps generalizing about what 'people on the left actually believe' only yields what most generalizations do; or perhaps the 'liberals/leftists/progressives' I am acquainted with are not representative.
But I'm acquainted with a fair number of L/L/P intellectuals, and they often demonstrate a trend towards looking at a heinous crime and noting that the perpetrator was a victim as well; a disenfranchised and deprived individual who was structurally channeled to behave as s/he did by the repressive societal structure that exists in the U.S. today. They can explain in great detail the extent to which the perpetrator is a product of a series of external stressors, familial disintegration, economic disparity, and societal marginalization, until the discussion reaches a point where the perpetrators behavior is deeply understood to be a logical product of long-standing systemic failure. In fact, taken to it's extreme, the perpetrators behavior was very nearly pre-determined by this historic and synergistic confluence of causation - to a point where the perpetrator is not really responsible for their own behavior at all. The perpetrator is, rather, a product of their environment; and must be viewed as such.
In my experience, this is representative of how many (not all) 'people on the left actually believe'. To this extent, it would appear that the writer was at least familiar with this peculiar paradigm:
"Its very sad what happened to the victim. But the perpetrator deserves to be deeply understood as not entirely responsible for their actions, which were in fact structurally derived..."
I won't argue against the more provocative phrases being offensive, but IMO the writer - ringer or not - accurately described the perspective of many folks I know who might be described as L/L/P...
Your mileage may vary.
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I dont get this, maybe it is a east west coast thing? I mean where I live everyone has a gun in the house. Many are hunting shotguns and or rifles. But their political affiliations are far different. Some are libs, some are dems, all hunt and shoot.
We label it antis, anti guns, anti smoking, anti freedom. These folks are on both sides, do not kid yourself on that.
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Your location is listed as Iowa. I will make the assumption you also live outside the city limits or in a small agrarian town. I live in a mid sized satellite of Dayton with a lot of local agriculture also. The difference is not east v. west coast, it is not being on a coast IMO. Outside the city limits in Ohio you would find that ALMOST every house has a 12 ga shotgun or 22lr rifle, especially if the resident has lived outside the city for more than a couple years(urban sprawl). A few "pet livestock," such as laying chickens, being attacked by racoon or coyote brings reality to the forefront. In many cases ALL firearms are kept in a safe locked up at all times with only the father/husband having access(usually due to lack of interest of spouse).
Now, the country "liberals" I know own "utilitarian" shotguns and rifles almost exclusively and more than one says that is all that anyone needs and banning the rest is a good idea in order to lower inner city crime(no matter what evidence is presented he holds to this belief). I believe he is an NRA member although he does not broadcast it. He has a few NRA magazines in his house related hunting. He is known to have met unexpected late night guests at the door with an old double, but believes no one needs an "EBR."
Conseratives seem to own at least one or two toys in addition to utility guns and their utility guns seem to be a little ?beefier? than the liberals (30/30 instead of 22 or pump shotguns instead of break).
Inside the city limits, conservatives and liberals alike who fit into the "one gun household" category seem to be ashamed of their firearms, usually a single defensive pistol kept ready in the bedroom hidden but in no way secured even if children are around. They don't tell anyone they have them. A few have told me and they always do it in a sort of hush hush look both ways before speaking in a whisper.
Of course these are just personal observations, but as a libertarian I tend to get into level headed discussions with both "liberals" and conservatives since I agree with about half of what each believes and can always go back to an issue of agreement to calm things down, and many I know would consider me their "gun advice guy." I know, that last bit is absolutely terrifying.
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This has to be one of those anonymous emails that plops into our in-boxes at regular intervals. The conversion story in which some member of the "Other" group sees the light and joins the "us" group.
The writer is not a liberal and never was one. This might have been based on some tenuous truth but there are far too many flaws in describing liberal ideology.
Although given the current level of in-fighting going on lately it's difficult to say there is a discreet thing called liberal ideology.
But there also this article misses the boat. In classic style the article describes the "other" as monolithic and unreasoning.
It also pops up with a typical "weak man" argument, taking the weakest argument made by the other and claiming it is their major one.
If reading this article makes you feel better about your place in the universe, then by all means buy into it. But it is simple propaganda.
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I had a roommate from the left coast for a while during my second year at UAF. He defined himself as a liberal but he was a hard worker, took six or seven seven classes a semester and worked full time, very intelligent. He usually didn't get more than a few hours of sleep a night. Worked his ass off.
This account from the original post may be true, but over the course of the time he spent here in Alaska he realized taxes were taking away his hard earned money to support bums, guns weren't scary after all, trucks aren't evil gas-guzzlers, and socialism isn't a wonderful thing but individual freedoms are.
He went back to the east coast, I heard from him this week. He just bought his first AK-47.
Paradigms change. I've never seen someone go liberal, it may happen but I've never seen it. I've known mild liberals who've gone off the deep (communist) end at liberal colleges. On a few occasions I've seen adults and young adults go conservative, but never the other way around.
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You know what? I think this article is exactly what the gun community does not need. Why? Because I've been barfing the same old rhetoric, opinion and attitude for years in Feminist History Courses, independent student news papers, blogs, forums, bars, conversations, hookah lounges, gun ranges and anywhere else I can talk:
we don't need a left vs. right or a democrat vs. republican or conservative vs. progressive or pink vs. blue or communist vs. patriot or red vs. blue or anything like that. We need to all just be Americans and debate issues and problems as Americans, instead of as some arbitrary side. The people that hate guns aren't democrats or communists or pinkies or leftists or whatever: the people that hate guns are generally the pig headed and the uneducated. That doesn't mean that the other camp (of which I assume we all belong, which is a much better educated guess than to assume all of us on here are "conservative") doesn't have its pigheaded. We need to unite under issues and specific problems, not some banner that's marked by a political party.
As such, I find this article rather disenchanting. It actually offends me, myself being considered "liberal" by most "conservatives" and "conservative" by most "liberals," to see someone make so many awkward "anti-leftist statements" and leads me to believe it was written by a "conservative under the guise of a liberal."
But my major point is this: who the hell cares if you're left or right, what matters is the issues. You can be pro-choice, pro-gun, pro-welfare and still support troops, as such: you can be pro-life, anti-gun, anti-welfare and still support troops or any combinations of the options. Either way: you're still American. This article just further pigeonholes gun owners as one side vs. the other in the "left vs. right" debate.
So, that's my peace.
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My take on this is going to be a little different.
My impression of people here, possibly including myself, is that they aren't exactly conservative but more like going on radical, conservative being a highly elastic term, as is liberal. After all, you don't want conservative gun laws, you want liberal gun laws. Likewise, I don't get the impression that many people here support the police at all, in spite of a lot of them sounding like they'd like to be a policeman. The policeman being an arm of the government. And finally, there is a lot of people here also sound like they think they're victims of something or other.
There's more. When Nixon was president, if you recall, there were references to the "silent majority," and sometimes references to the people in the middle. I don't know if it's good or bad but honestly, I don't think there is anyone in the middle anymore, if there ever was.
And another thing: this business of showing the flag, "supporting the troops," and so on. That's what I call flag waving and amounts to phony patriotism. It costs nothing and does nothing. That American flag decal on the back of your Toyota won't get you into heaven, either. People who support the troops should be buying war bonds, only I'm not sure anyone is selling them. We've still got the ones issued in Richmond.
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Heh...after reading those essays, I'm astonished that militant Berkeley-ites haven't tarred and feathered "Robin", burned out her psychotherapy office, and ridden her out of Berkeley on a rail!!
She's a psychological insurgent!
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To be fair she admits in this year old article that she's becoming conservative after a life of liberalism.
Her very first article there was this one ... Letter of Amends from a Recovering Liberal in Berkeley
So I'm apt to believe my initial impressions. That she was in fact a life long Liberal, that became Conservative. She also has that former smoker syndrome.
As such, for me personally, the article has merit. As I said earlier, I've known others that had the same attitudes and then later on changed them.
I myself am actually an example of this, so I relate somewhat to her view, albeit from a male perspective. I was very anti-gun all through school years. I grew up in a home that never saw a gun. I wasn't so much liberal, as just centrist, which I still am.
I do not believe she's being intellectually dishonest. Just enthusiastic about her new perspective. It's like someone that discovers religion. They want to tell everyone what they see/know now.
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Upon reading the catalog of stuff that comes up on taking that link to "American Thinker", it seems to me it ought to be called "Neo-Conservative American Non-thinker", but that's redundant.
Are you saying that such an analysis is inaccurate and a pile of liberal baloney and so has no credibility? Then as a conservative, where do you suppose criminal behavior comes from- what causes it? If you say "failure of personal integrity" or "a lack of religion" or some such simplicity and leave it at that, you haven't answered the question in any useful way.
As for the OP- She's a liberal no longer (if she ever was one at all, and I'll bet Berkeley was picked because it was thought to be the epicenter of liberalism about 40 years ago), and not much of a psychologist either, which is probably also a fraud. It sounds way too much like it was written by someone of neo-conservative emotions (I'm reluctant to call them "ideas") and is a sham, a fiction whose purpose is to denigrate "liberal" perspectives for the entertainment of non-liberals in a blatant performance of "preaching to the choir". Only those who hate liberals and really don't objectively understand what they stand for would take it seriously.
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General Motors Co.'s move in U.S. bankruptcy court to bar lawsuits seeking economic damages tied to its recalls has put the brakes on consumer class actions across the country—at least for the next month.
GM has recalled 2.6 million cars to fix ignition-switch defects that, by shutting off engines and preventing air bags from deploying in accidents, have been linked to 13 deaths. More than 50 class actions allege that GM failed to tell its customers about the defect, which it learned of about a decade ago. The plaintiffs seek to recover for the lost value of cars they owned or leased. Such claims account for most of the lawsuits yet filed.
On Monday, GM filed a motion that could potentially toss out those class actions on the ground the automaker is immune under the terms of its 2009 bankruptcy from claims for economic damages. The motion, filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, does not seek to bar cases over injuries, physical damages or deaths from accidents.
"General Motors has taken responsibility for its actions and will keep doing so," the company said in a written statement on Tuesday.
Two groups of plaintiffs attorneys are fighting back. One group, led by New York's Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz and joined by bankruptcy counsel at New York's Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe, filed a complaint on Monday, seeking a declaratory judgment that GM is not immune from economic damages. The group alleges that by failing to disclose the defect, GM violated its consumers' due-process rights and committed fraud on the court.
Another group, led by Seattle's Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro and Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro Davis in Newport Beach, Calif., filed an objection on Tuesday, raising similar arguments. This group was joined by bankruptcy counsel at Boston's Brown Rudnick.
"We didn't get due process," Mark Robinson said. "We should have been notified about the defect and the problems, and also been notified about our right to file claims in the bankruptcy court."
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber has scheduled a conference for May 2.
Meanwhile, in motions filed in several of the class actions this month, GM has sought to stay the litigation, citing the bankruptcy proceedings and a pending effort before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to coordinate defect-related lawsuits. Federal judges have granted stays in at least half a dozen class actions.
Plaintiffs lawyers have sought to transfer the cases to U.S. District Judge James Selna of the Central District of California, who oversaw the litigation over Toyota Motor Corp.'s sudden-acceleration defects. Responses to that request, including GM's, are due by Friday.
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Second day of crunch time. Besides a quick run to the beach, I was in the barn all day and late into the night. There was another scare that our LevelLogger data wasn't calibrated… again. With introduction, methodology, and results sections completed, I had little time to blog.
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Students in UT's Creative Writing Program compete annually for the John C. Hodges Graduate Writing Prizes in fiction and poetry. Winners will read from their award-winning works at Writers in the Library, Monday, April 14, at 7 pm in the Hodges Library auditorium. The prizes were endowed by the same long-time UT English professor, author of the Harbrace College Handbook, for whom the Hodges Library is named.
This year's winners are:
1st Place: Charlotte Pence for "Sometimes When a Child Smiles"
2nd Place: Adam Prince for "Love Poem for My Dad"
3rd Place: Tim Sisk for "Learning to Talk"
1st Place: Ryan Woldruff for "Ray"
2nd Place: Otis Haschemeyer for "The Fantome of Fatma"
3rd Place: Beth Keefauver for "Skin"
Dr. John C. Hodges came to UT Knoxville in 1921 and was named head of the English department in 1938, remaining in that position until his retirement in 1962.
His enthusiastic commitment to learning did not end with retirement, however. Three years earlier he had begun the task of improving the university's library collection, and he continued to serve voluntarily as coordinator of library development until his death in 1967.
His 41 years at the University were marked by far-reaching contributions to the study of English literature and the improvement of educational methods. Dr. Hodges' influence on the teaching of English continues today through his Harbrace College Handbook, the most widely used college text in the country.
The current John C. Hodges Main Library, which opened in 1987, was constructed around the John C. Hodges Undergraduate Library built in 1969.


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Well, if nothing else, my post about dealing with disappointment was a great reminder of just how wonderful my support system is. Many of my friends reached out to me, but not just to try to bolster my own confidence. They also shared their own stories of feeling inadequate, increasing my confidence that, you know, sometimes we just feel this way.
In one of these conversations, a friend of mine remarked, "You've just accomplished too much before 30."
That thought struck me for some reason. For pretty much all of my life, I've defined myself by my goals, projects, and what I'm working toward. Right up to your early twenties, that path is almost mapped out for you with school, job hunting, starts of serious relationships, etc. After you hit your mid- to late-twenties, though, there isn't really a map anymore.
Sure, you can start thinking about kids, but you don't have to. Yes, you can buy a house. But a lot of people also don't.
Basically, for the first time ever, I don't really have a five-year plan. Lately, I feel pretty good if I can tell you where I'll be in a year.
And that's…weird.
But maybe it's better to be aware that that's what's bothering me. So I can add it to my goal of "letting things go" more. (Yup, only I could make a goal of not relying so much on goals. It's a sickness.)
Anyway. I just didn't want my most recent post to be such a downer. You know, in case I get hit by a bus or something before I can update again.
How creepy will it be if I get hit by a bus after writing this? I'm going to be extra careful on my commute home.
I think, mostly, I just want to go back to feeling awesome. Feeling like I know what I'm doing and where I'm going and that I have it all together. Not feel like a fraud in any of those things. Basically, I think I need to reignite the Happiness Project. That's a goal I can get behind.
The point is, I'm in a better place a couple of days after writing that other post. I know everything will be fine. It pretty much always is.
I really like that way of thinking about it (as someone else who also might have been too ambitious before 30)…not having a five-year plan is so utterly unsettling, and when I read your last post it was comforting to hear somebody else vocalize it. Maybe if I work on acknowledging that that's the source of my anxiety, it'll help mitigate it a little? Worth a shot. 🙂


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In fact, even the most ardent proponents of genome-comparison research acknowledge that pretty much everything we know so far is preliminary. "We're interested in traits that really distance us from other organisms," says Wisconsin's Carroll, "such as susceptibility to diseases, big brains, speech, walking upright, opposable thumbs. Based on the biology of other organisms, we have to believe that those are very complex traits. The development of form, the increase in brain size, took place over a long period of time, maybe 50,000 generations. It's a pretty complicated genetic recipe."
But even the toughest critics acknowledge that these studies have enormous potential. "We will eventually be able to pinpoint every difference between every animal on the planet," says Lovejoy. "And every time you throw another genome, like the gorilla's, into the mix, you increase the chances even more."
Some of the differences could have enormous practical consequences. Since his discovery that human cells lack one specific form of sialic acid, which was accomplished even before the human genome was decoded, Varki and his collaborators have determined that 10 of the 60 or so genes that govern sialic-acid biology show major differences between chimps and humans. "And in every case," says Varki, "it's humans who are the odd one out." Such revelations could probably lead to a better understanding of such devastating diseases as malaria, AIDS and viral hepatitisand likely do so faster than by studying the human genome alone.
For most of us, though, it's the grand question about what it is that makes us human that renders comparative genome studies so compelling. As scientists keep reminding us, evolution is a random process in which haphazard genetic changes interact with random environmental conditions to produce an organism somehow fitter than its fellows. After 3.5 billion years of such randomness, a creature emerged that could ponder its own origins--and revel in a Mozart adagio. Within a few short years, we may finally understand precisely when and how that happened.


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Anyone else feel like dancing? Like smiling every 30 seconds or so?
Like shouting at the top of their lungs: He's back.
How does it make any sense to have even some small part of our emotional state determined by … a basketball player?
OK, we are talking about LeBron James, the best basketball player on the planet, sure, but a basketball player nonetheless.
But that's how I feel and I suspect a lot of other people around here feel and it's all because … LeBron is back.
Let that sink in for a minute. No, even better, wrap yourself around those three little words:
Feels good, doesn't it? Feels right.
And yet, I didn't think such a thing was possible, couldn't allow myself to believe it until a few days ago. Started to doubt it as recently as Friday morning, then reveled in the reveal Friday afternoon that he was in fact returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
To us.
Some people around the country can't figure it out. They can't understand why LeBron (I can call him that because we go way back, not that he knows that) would want to come back to a bunch of fans that unleashed such vitriol at him after The Decision.
Didn't some of us burn his jersey? Didn't many more of us boo him at every turn when he made his first appearance at The Q as a member of the Heat? Didn't most of us (and, no, certainly not all of us) pull against him and hope he failed in his quest to win those NBA titles we felt he abandoned us to go chase?
And what about that owner? They can't fathom how LeBron could even entertain playing again for Dan Gilbert, who posted an open letter on the team's website calling LeBron's leaving four years ago "a cowardly betrayal" and a "shameful display of selfishness."
And what about us? What about the fans who went from loving LeBron to loathing him after he said those painful words – "I'm going to take my talents to South Beach" — on national TV that fateful July 8, 2010, night.
How, they want to know, can we just hit the rewind button and go back to loving him again?
It's really not that complicated. It's just family.
LeBron, as he said so eloquently in his Sports Illustrated essay announcing his return, is a kid from Northeast Ohio.
"It's where I walked," he wrote. "It's where I ran. It's where I cried. It's where I bled. It holds a special place in my heart. People there have seen me grow up. I sometimes feel like I'm their son."
That's it exactly.
I … we … watched him make us proud as a high school prodigy. I covered one of his first ESPN high school games at The Q, took my then-11-year-old son to see him play in a tournament at Cleveland State, listened to the radio and was saddened when he and his Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary teammates lost in the state final his junior year because it meant he couldn't win four titles.
I … we … were ecstatic when the Cavs got the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft in 2003, knowing our hometown hero was going to be playing for the hometown team.
We saw his amazing talent on display in his first NBA game when he scored 25 points against the Sacramento Kings.
He took us … on his back … to the 2007 NBA Finals with a supporting cast that had no business making it that far.
Along the way we watched him rack up All-Star Game and league MVP awards and an Olympic gold medal all the while making Cleveland games must-see TV on a national scope.
We defended him against the national commentators who didn't know him the way we did who said he didn't have the clutch gene and that killer instinct all the greats have.
But when things went bad, we took our shots at him, too. We questioned his heart, his passion, his elbow injury.
On some level, we took him for granted.
But, again, that's family business.
Families fight. Families tick one another off. Families say mean and vicious things to one another.
But families … real families … also forgive.
Let's face it. It's why his leaving four years ago hurt so much.
It's what so many around the country didn't and still don't understand. LeBron's leaving wasn't just a free agent exercising his right to go to another team and a better situation.
It wasn't just an athlete deciding there was a better opportunity out there for him to win the championship he so desperately craved.
And, no, it was never just about "the way he did it."
It hurt because he was breaking up our family. We thought we were in this together. We thought, especially the way he seemed to know and often referenced Cleveland's heartbreaking sports history, that he understood and was going to do whatever he could to bring us the titles we all so desperately craved.
He didn't owe us anything, but we just refused to believe he would leave us on our own the way he did.
But I love his analogy that his four years in Miami were like going to college … the years he never had jumping straight from the preps to the pros.
How many of us grow up during those college years? How many of us find out then what really matters to us? How many of us decide we loved being away but want to come back home?
LeBron is coming back home.
Let it sink in.
I don't even want to think about possible championships right now. I just want to think about how much fun basketball season will be again. How electric The Q will be, how exciting it will be to once again be the center of the NBA universe.
And how great it will be to see LeBron James … one of us … the best basketball player on the planet not only still in his prime but even better than he was four years ago, playing basketball in his hometown and in front of his home fans once again.
Call us hypocrites if you must. It's true we didn't like LeBron very much for the past four years.
But he's moved on from that and we've moved on from that.
And now we're moving on together.
Tell me that doesn't make you feel like dancing.
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2015 was the year I treated myself to 50 things I've always wanted to do, or just thought I'd enjoy. I was 50 in June and making this list to look forward to definitely softened the blow. What a year- I loved it.
Life is full of surprises
I really would have thought that fat hairy 50+ year old women would be sat invisibly on the proverbial shelf. But it seems not. In fact the opposite. Weird huh?
Yay, last instalment of 50 Things
44 Windmill
I've wanted to live in a turret for years, possibly since I read the Bone People. This was the next best thing- a BnB in the last windmill left in Scarborough. Howling winds, pouring rain, snug in bed. Bliss.
We ventured out for a very posh fish dinner, which involved goat cheese rarebit on some hake. Reader please don't try this at home, it was disgusting. We also passed 'George Michael's Restaurant'. Is this the George or a George, google won't tell me?
45 Ambiente
Spanish food done very well in Leeds. I've been several times this year and enjoyed every morsel. There's a great veggie menu and churros! Next time I'm definitely having the sherry taster.
46. Afternoon tea in London
My dad has spent years researching the best cream teas and this was in his top 3. A swanky 5 star in Kensington called the Milestone Hotel. It was so posh that there was none of that snootiness you get in lesser places. Just very comfortable sofas, delicious and copious food on proper 3 tier tea thingies and staff that were there to help, not judge. Amazing. I doubt I'll be going again as it was so expensive, but I enjoyed every morsel.
47. Art Performance
This was an unexpected find while I was in London. We managed to catch the last day of a video installation by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartantsson 'The Visitors'. It was in an old multistorey car park in Soho, which made it more of an adventure.
We stumbled out of the lift into a dark room full of video screens with people milling around and we weren't sure what to do. It turned out to be a sort of virtual recital, with each screen showing one person playing an instrument and singing along with everyone else via headphones. It was filmed in an old mansion so they all started off in separate rooms, then gradually wandered into each others' spaces then eventually all wandered off over the fields. It's hard to describe how wonderful this was. Made me really think about how separate we all are in our virtual worlds, yet also can connect with each other. The music was repetitive and beautiful, kind of spiritual and made me cry at one point. From everywhere in the room you could hear all the musicians, even when you couldn't see them.
I'd be interested in other stuff the Vinyl Factory are involved with.
48. Port at Gordon's wine bar.
Possibly the oldest wine bar in London, certainly the oldest one I've been to. They serve port from barrels with delicious cheese/meat platters, and there's a cavelike room to gather round candlelit tables, or you can sit outside next to a tiny park by the Embankment.
These pics are from their website:
49. Mudpack
My mate R brought me back a 'mud mask' from Jordan 5 years ago, along with scabies which she kept to herself. Nasty business getting rid, I wouldn't recommend them. She also had a luxurious new bathroom installed last year with a huge walk in shower, so I decided to combine the two on a relaxing winter afternoon. I've now got shower envy- no clammy shower curtain clinging to my back (even though I do have a rather nice periodic table one, also courtesy of R), no black mould and no worrying about falling over whilst washing my feet as it has a very sensible ledge to sit on.
50. Xmas at my dad's
What a lovely end to my best year yet- a quiet family xmas. Dad's wife P is such a generous host.
Finally, I've booked my Fjord visit. Cruising up to Norway with my sister at Easter, can't wait. Fleetway Travel have such good offers.
I've now got a long list of other things I really want to do, but I think one a month is enough and I won't miss having to write about them. I prefer to write when/if the mood takes me, which seems to be once or twice a year.
Setting myself up to do 50 Things in a year has meant that every week I've been thinking about several things I really want to do, then doing at least one of them! A good way to live life I think.
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50 Things Part 10
35. Bonfire
I love burning things, but somehow rarely manage to get out in the garden. This list is really helping me do the things I want to do, my new mantra is 'just do it'.
So, I spent a day burning a huge pile of mountain of hedge cuttings from the last couple of years, which was a massive undertaking, as it was all so wet I had to put it on branch by branch. At the end I was covered in scratches and insect bites, full of splinters, and I'd bruised my lungs by sitting on an old chair which collapsed and threw me against a tree. But I felt very satisfied and have since had a couple of proper bonfires with dry unsmoking wood. It's so relaxing sitting and watching flames.
36 Thai Aroi Dee
Great little Thai cafe in Leeds, People say it's authentic, but I've no idea if that's true. Just very tasty cheap and BYO (for free!). Have been here with work, friends, friends of friends and bf and it's always a pleasure.
37. LED wall clock
No more ticking.
I've included my gorgeous Polish papercut in the pic too.
38 LED watch
I was looking for birthday presents at Bradford IMAX as museum shops often have interesting stuff. What did I see but a plain black rubber watch, which shows the time in LEDs if you press a button. I couldn't resist. Apparently it 'looks like a tag' but I reckon they were just jealous. Reminds me slightly of the Tomorrow People, but I doubt that LEDS were around then.
39 Rug
I've had my living room insulated, plus a new painted floor which needs rugs. There's a whole world out there full of psychedelic designs, it's amazing. I restrained myself somewhat to this swirly one, cheap because it's acrylic, but cleanability (think I made that up) is a priority these days. I won't be changing it before I die, so my green conscience is relatively clear.
40 Sagrada Familia BCN
On my third annual trip to Barcelona with 2 mates, we decided to finally go inside La Sagrada Familia. It was incredible! Nothing like the outside, it's Gaudi at his most restrained. Soaring columns like huge redwoods, fonts made of giant clams. I won't say any more, as I think you should go and see it yourself. It had the most intense colours from stained glass I've ever seen. I could've stayed in there for hours. Book tickets online to cut down on queueing.My pics don't do it any justice, but I'm sure google will help.
41. New bag- Clas Ohlson
Woohoo, huge cheap bag from my current favourite shop. Cross between Ikea & Wilkos, but so much better.
42. Visit York, KT & the Quilt Museum
Lovely weekend in York, visiting an old friend. We saw some amazing modern quilts plus one I loved made out of old clothing labels : Bri-lon and the like. The displays are regularly changed so I'll be going again, though I was a bit miffed we weren't allowed to take photos.. We also had a delicious meal at Walmgate Alehouse (I've tried to recreate the pea pancakes at home, not very successfully) and went to the Gallery to see hundreds of ceramics, including these beauties by Kerry Jameson.
I even walked some of the famous walls on my way back to the station.
43. Cheese cafe
This pop up in Leeds didn't exist when I made my list, but luckily I had a few numbers spare. What a great idea. Plates of cheesy favourites like macaroni cheese and aubergine parmigiana, done really well. The rarebit was the best I've ever had, made with a layer of melted black cheese in the middle. It looked like molten plastic, but tasted amazing. Apparently it was made in remembrance of the miners' strike, is called Char Coal, and actually contains cola. Delicious! I'm not sure how long the cafe will be there, so get down to Homage2Fromage soon. You can pop in for a cheesy bite in the bar or go upstairs for a proper dining experience.
I've been 3 times already !
I'm a bit behind on writing up, but have 2 to go, so should be on target to finish at the end of the year.
50 Things part 9
Walk on Otley Chevin then eat delicious veggie food is my kind of day. Though the servings were so big I should've saved the walk till after. The 'experimental' gig in a Bradford cellar was not the best followup to a vaguely romantic meal. I had to leave C there after 10 minutes of earsplitting noise, er, music. I destroy my hearing for no man, even if it was our first gig together.
31. Fewston Reservoir
Sunny walk around Fewston reminded me of my free festival days. I used to come wild camping here with a bottle of whisky, a manboy and a sleeping bag. What else would we need? We also came to a tiny festival here once, where I was nearly driven off the side of the road by an irate local, who objected to lots of dirty crusties having fun. 3 bolts of lightning hit each other a few feet away from my tent. Exciting times.
32. Castlerigg
My favourite stone circle by far, just outside Keswick. The views all around are so amazing I don't attempt to capture them on film. 360 degrees of mountains and sky, usually with all weathers featuring somewhere. The Bald Hiker has some beautiful pics, including this one.
I was a bit surprised to see an ice cream van up here. I've come for several solstices over the years and more recently the rangers have been very keen to get rid of us as soon as the sun's up. Maybe paying customers are different.
33. Solfest glamping
Solfest is a nice little festival in the NW which has a great healing area I sometimes work in with the Travelling Homeopaths Collective. I decided to treat myself to a squrt (tiny yurt) with bed and bedding supplied. It saved a lot of faffing, but cost a LOT and sadly couldn't dampen the earthshaking qualities of the allnight dubstep bass. My earplugs didn't either.
34. Reflexology
One of highlight of Solfest was a session with Edie 'In Safe Hands'. It was wonderful lying back in the sun having my feet massaged. We then had an hour or so chat which was more like therapy. I was surprised to find myself telling her about my (dead) mum, an old betrayal and many other things. She said she could feel I was holding on to something and later that night I decided to just stop and go with whatever came along. I then spent an idyllic weekend feeling in lurve with C, which is NOT like me at all. Was great fun, but not sure I can keep it up. My critical parent is never far away, which reminds me of 'Games People Play' by Eric Berne. Great book.
50 Things part 8
26. Butterfly House
Hot and humid day in Leeds, why not go to Tropical World? Well, the clue's in the name, it was almost unbearably hot. Butterflies everywhere, chasing each other around. Beautiful.
I love the meerkats but can't help feeling sorry for them. They're so hardwired to be on the lookout that they must be living on adrenaline stuck in a glass box surrounded by constant 'danger'. They seem to do the sentry thing halfheartedly and there's nowt else for them to do. Poor things, just for our entertainment.
27. Lakes
Being chauffered around beautiful mountains, lakes, scary passes (especially Hardknott). Throw in a 4 star hotel offer (Low Wood Bay) and the most comfortable bed I've ever slept in. Bliss. We also looked for several neolithic stone sites mentioned in Julian Cope's Gazetteer, but forgot to bring the OS map so managed not to find any of them.
We did find the Blackwell arts n crafts house, which was beautiful. Am now musing on how to incorporate some into my own. First step DECLUTTER.
28. Massage
A birthday present from a friend. Home visit, massage, job done. Thanks Rita.
29. Isle of Lewis
I've wanted to visit Callanish stone circle for years. Maybe having my birthday on the summer solstice has given me my interest in standing stones. They're also usually in beautiful places and I remember leaning against one at Stonehenge thinking it was amazingly big when I was 10. Such a shame what they've done to it now. Little did I know that Callanish has 3 circles within walking distance of each other, plus on Lewis they seem to be everywhere. As were golden eagles, beautiful beaches, rainbows, Harris tweed, art galleries, fields of buttercups, stone age buildings. Not sure why there is so much pampas grass blowing in the wind (let's not go down the Comic Strip presents route).
We visited an amazing bothy built on a cliff edge, attended an art opening, sewed some more of Jasia's wedding quilt (ongoing for 4 years now) and did a lot of laughing. Thanks to Helen for the marathon drive, and for taking us to the Real Food Cafe in Tyndrum. Perfect pit stop.
This year has involved catching up with so many old friends and reminiscing, but I've decided that that needs to be balanced by looking forwards, making plans and new memories. There are still 31 things on my list to fit in this year, which is becoming more of a challenge than I expected. A good one though 🙂
Dating epilogue
The following contains cliches for which I can only apologise and assure you that every word is true.
So, I deleted all my online dating profiles in May this year having decided I wasn't enjoying it and that I really don't need a man to make me happy. Life has been wonderful recently, in part because the 50 Things list is giving me something to look forward to every week.
3 weeks later I was doing some cava training before my big birthday (which was a great success- I managed to drink and dance till 6am without serious repercussions) and I ended up at the pub. You can probably guess what happened next. Yes, in the age old tradition I dragged a man home whilst blind drunk. I've known him vaguely for years, but we've never spoken more than a sentence to each other that I can recall. And yet, in the midst of the drunken blur I saw something I liked (may have been his dimples).
Anyway, turns out we share a love of fiction, hammocks and making dice decisions amongst other things. I won't bore you with all the details, except to say that I've never dated a grownup before. He can drive, make tea and even offers to pay his own way. What a revelation. He's not only accompanied me on some of my 50 Things, he IS one of them.
Being brought up in a family of humanoid computers I don't naturally touch people or express much emotion. We were happy and secure with no need to talk about it. And yet here I am publicly saying I like another human being. Eek! Must be my hormones, or some chance mix of pheromones.
We both passed our monthly review and I guess we're now in a honeymoon period. Long may it last.


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" Manufacturer: Hap-p-kid / Age: 3+ "
As it was my son's birthday a few days ago, I have found another huge pile of toys to sort through again, I have literally only just got the Christmas toys sorted out!
Last year my Dad had gone mad to get my son (then 5 years old) a walking robot like my younger brother had as a child, but was only able to get a corded one, which in fairness my son persevered with, but due to how sort the cord was on it soon gave up!
So this birthday I wasn't too surprised when a free standing and walking robot was at the bottom of his never ending present pile!
The robot itself is part of the "M.A.R.S." range of toys, with this particular one being called an "armorbot".
The robot itself stands around 5" tall, with it being a very buy and substantial looking machine.
To be honest when first opened it did look like it had more functions than it actually does, as the "armour" having so much detail, with there being numerous buttons and contraptions on the arms and legs, though after closer inspection the detailing is a decorative smoke screen, with only one of the contraptions actually doing anything, this being the button on the arm to activate a claw, though it only opens and closes without actually gripping or grabbing anything, so pretty pointless really.
There is a small button which to be fair looks like part of the body work itself, which when pressed activates the walking motion.
When in walking mode, which can be achieved by changing the switch found on the back of the toy to on, is constant, with all limbs moving in a walking mode, the robot moves though on wheels, but this isn't apparent when watching it.
The movement of the arms is smooth when in action, hinged on the body and having a reasonably wide swing action, with the legs being hinged in the same method but having a much jerkier motion, though still manages to move without getting stuck.
When switched to the off position I was surprised to find that the robot still works, though only when the button is pressed and held, which of course doesn't make it easy to use, but as more of a default position when in the packaging, try before you buy if you like.
Finally there is a final twist to this robot, with it actually being revealed as a space suit for a human, rather than an independent robot, again a fact that we hadn't worked out until a good while after opening it from it's extensive packaging prison (it took ten minutes and a pair of scissors to release!).
The tiny model character is to be found behind the plastic screen up where you assume the robots featureless face is, which can be unclipped and pulled into an upwards position revealing the character.
After checking on www.amazon.co.uk for prices I was more than gob smacked to find it on sale for around the £16.00 mark, in both the colour I am reviewing (blue, grey and silver) and also a vibrant yellow colour, both attractive to the eye, but certainly not worth this type of money.
This is a nice enough robot/space suit that if receiving as a gift or purchased for a nominal amount of money(no more in my opinion than £9.99) would be a welcome addition to any young child's play box, but for the money they are currently being sold for, I would expect much more action elements to the toy and not (with this being a complete assumption, as I am not familiar with the brand name) beig upped in price due to it being merchandise.
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