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Crimes Of Passion (1984)—"Joanna Crane/China Blue"
KT: Well, Ken Russell, honey. I mean, Ken Russell, he was a genius. Ken called me a few months ago because he wanted to shoot Alice In Wonderland, and he wanted me for the Red Queen. And we were talking about it just before he died. That was a real shocker. I understand they're going to go ahead with the film, but for me, the point was Ken. Just to work with Ken. He was absolutely certifiable, the man. But, in truth, a genius.
KT: I think that was some of my best work, honestly. That he really challenged me.
AVC: What was it like to be directed by Ken Russell?
KT: Confusing, at times. He drank a lot. He drank from early in the morning on, so as the day progressed, you'd have different levels of comprehensive ability, in terms of what he wanted from his direction. So you kind of had to take that into account, but at the same time, his passions were so contagious, he made you risk more than you normally might with someone else.
AVC: Your leading man in that movie was Anthony Perkins—
KT: Whoa, that was tough. I can say this, because it was all public. He was doing this stuff—I believe it was a form of nitrate that was a step down from amyl. So we'd rehearse, and then just before Ken would roll camera, Anthony would pull out this little bottle and sniff it, and he'd go all red and break into a sweat and you go, "I don't know what's going to happen now." So that was kind of scary at times.
AVC: That's reflected in the film.
KT: That was really tough. When I came home from that film, my fiancé at that time picked me up from the airport and took me out to our country place, and he told me I slept 22 hours. He said if I got to 24, he was going to take me to the hospital. That was hard.
Finally having a pint with Ollie again in that big pub in the sky….
Ken Russell R.I.P.
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Some years ago in London, at the premiere of John Cage's "Europeras 3 & 4," I bumped into Ken Russell in the press queue. He complained that he had been marginalized in film and television, where it was becoming next to impossible to do anything imaginative. He had lately been staging operas and raised so many hackles that he didn't think he'd have much more of a career in that. So he thought he'd become a music critic.
"But that's what you've always been," I said.
"Oh, you noticed," he replied as he headed for the Champagne.
I don't know that Russell, who died in London on Sunday at 84, ever actually wrote any reviews. He did write some books about composers once his film career had tanked. They include "Elgar: The Erotic Variations" and "Brahms Gets Laid." They are not what he is going to be remembered for.
But neither do I predict that Russell ultimately will be known as "the chief defiler of celebrities of the past and present," which is what Pauline Kael called him. Russell was not only one of the most musical of all filmmakers, he was one of film's great imaginers of music. No one made music films so infused with, so intoxicated by, music.
Yes, he could be puerile. He portrayed Liszt as a sex-crazed rock star pursued by a giant penis. He showed Richard Strauss cavorting with Hitler so salaciously that the censorious Strauss estate has managed to get that particular television documentary pulled from circulation. The neurotic, erotic carryings on of his Mahler and Tchaikovsky don't qualify as proper musicology.
But Russell always started with the music — how it made him feel, how it took over his life. Music was, for him, the key to our inner lives. It gave us permission to fantasize, to dream, to be extravagant. That is what he showed. He said he made films to get pictures music created out of his mind.
He began with black-and-white, low-budget documentaries on composers for a highbrow BBC television show called "Monitor," in which it was thought improper for actors to portray the subjects in documentaries. Russell soon changed that.
"Elgar: Portrait of a Composer," one of Russell's early "Monitor" documentaries, opens with a shot of the boyhood Elgar riding his horse in the country to the accompaniment of his high-spirited Serenade for Strings. The image illustrates the music, not the other way around, and you are immediately hooked on Elgar.
Three years later, after films on Bartók and Vaughan Williams, Russell was already significantly pushing limits in "The Debussy Film." He begins like a French New Wave film, with a film crew arriving on a location to stage Debussy's funeral. A beautiful girl in a T-shirt is pierced with arrows. A silly British reporter shows up. It is not until seven minutes in that any music is heard, and by then it sounds miraculous.
"Song of Summer," Russell's deeply moving 1968 account of Delius' last five years, is often called his masterpiece by people who couldn't stand the director's later, more outrageous films. It chronicles the relationship between a syphilitic composer — blind, paralyzed, impossible — and a young composer, Eric Fenby, who helped Delius write his final works.
Delius had all but consumed Fenby's own creativity, and when Fenby saw the film he found it so true to life that he had a nervous breakdown. He also developed a skin condition that made it impossible for him to wear any clothes for a year, as if all that he had suppressed throughout his life came pouring out of his body thanks to this unflinching, mesmerizing film and its ability to reveal the haunting quality of Delius' music.
The success of "Song of Summer" allowed Russell to begin making feature films, and along with such notable successes as "Women in Love," he made his three, increasingly eccentric composer biopics. "The Music Lovers" starred Richard Chamberlain as Tchaikovsky. Next came "Mahler," then Lisztomania," with Roger Daltrey as the composer. All were ahead of their times, particularly "The Music Lovers," which, in 1970, explored Tchaikovsky's homosexuality at a time when that wasn't an open topic. It is a flamboyant film, certainly. But it is also honest with a sophisticated screenplay by Melvin Bragg. It makes clear, as few biopics ever do, what is fanciful. And Tchaikovsky's music, superbly conducted by André Previn, makes clear why.
Russell also deserves credit for hiring major composers to write soundtracks for many of his other films. Peter Maxwell Davies was one. He scored "The Devils" and the musical "The Boy Friend," which starred Twiggy. Now "Sir Peter," the Master of the Queen's Music and one of Britain's most distinguished composers, Davies remembered Russell Monday in the Guardian newspaper.
"His approach to film-making," Davies said, "was very similar to that of a musician: his films evolved in long musical sentences."
In the '80s and early '90s, Russell turned to opera direction, and just as he had made his movies operatic, he made opera outlandishly cinematic. At a festival in Florence, he set Stravinsky's "Rake's Progress," an opera about moral decay, in Margaret Thatcher's Britain, and he invited Derek Jarman (a striking and controversial filmmaker in his own right) to design the set. Abbott and Costello were inspiration for Russell's Geneva Opera staging of Rossini's "Italian Girl in Algiers."
There is so much more. Among his exceptional and, sadly, exceptionally hard to find these days television films are one of Bruckner in a sanitarium, an exuberant "ABC of British Music" and a Fellini-esque illumination of Holst's "The Planets."
Music made Russell what he was, and he paid music back royally.
— Mark Swed
"Ken Russell, the British director whose daring and sometimes outrageous films often tested the patience of audiences and critics, has died," reports the AP. "He was 84."
"Known for a flamboyant style that was developed during his early career in television, Russell's films often courted controversy," writes Henry Barnes for the Guardian. "Women in Love, released in 1969, became notorious for its nude male wrestling scene between Alan Bates and Oliver Reed, while Tommy, his starry version of The Who's rock opera, was his biggest commercial success, beginning as a stage musical before being reimagined for the screen in 1976. But Russell fell out of the limelight in recent years, as some of his funding resources dried up and his proposed projects ever more eclectic. He returned to the public eye in 2007, when he appeared on the fifth edition of Celebrity Big Brother, before quitting the show after a disagreement with fellow contestant Jade Goody."
Earlier this month, when the British Film Institute announced that it'd be giving The Devils (1971) its first-ever release on DVD, we posted a roundup on what long-time Russells champion Mark Kermode calls "his most incendiary work." (See, too, Adrian Curry in 2009 on the poster.) And last month, we noted that Russell's collaboration with The Who's Roger Daltry would carry on after Tommy with Lisztomania (1975), which NPR's Phil Harrell calls "a bit over the top," a mini-review that might serve for nearly all of Russell's work and one that he himself would surely relish.
Updates: From the BBC: "He specialized in the interpretation of the great classical composers, extravaganzas which matched powerful images with a dramatic score…. He harbored a childhood ambition to be a ballet dancer but, instead, joined the Merchant Navy as a teenager. On one occasion he was made to stand watch in the blazing sun for hours on end while crossing the Pacific. His lunatic captain feared an attack by Japanese midget submarines despite the war having ended. A nervous breakdown ensued and, it was during his recovery that he first heard Tchaikovsky on the radio, inspiring a lifelong obsession with the classical composers. After a spell in the Royal Air Force he became a photographer and first made amateur films while working for the magazine, Picture Post. Music became his passion. Delius, Debussy, Elgar, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Mahler and Liszt were among the composers given the Russell treatment."
Related reading from Rouge 8: Donald Phelps on "Ken Russell's Portraits of Elgar, Delius and Mahler." And in February, Mike Dempsy noted that Elgar (1962) "is still regarded by the BFI as one of the best television documentaries. In 1966 Russell made Isadora Duncan and a year later Song of Summer — a beautifully crafted piece on the closing years of British composer, Fredrick Delius. This for me was the culmination of Russell's trail-blazing work in this 'dramadoc' genre."
On the occasion of a retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in the summer of 2010, Nicolas Rapold wrote in the Voice that "art and history were carnival grounds for exhilarating spectacle and Romantic mania…. Case in point: The Music Lovers, an extended 1970 fever dream on Tchaikovsky's sexual torment that opens in medias res with a wordless scene of lushly scored winter revelry. In a favored Russell technique, single events — like a public recital wracked with excitement and insecurity — are elongated by long fantasy sequences, and whole stretches of images seem pushed and pulled along before our eyes by projected desires and anxieties. Cutting himself off from a secret relationship with a count, Tchaikovsky convinces himself to accept the fanaticism of an admirer ([Glenda] Jackson, a Russell axiom), and weds to pursue a new fantasy. As the composer-conductor, Richard Chamberlain looks like he might shiver into pieces."
"The typical line on Russell is that he blew open a stagnating British film industry with iconoclastic blasts of bad taste and a virtuoso style that rubbished the rulebook," wrote Justin Stewart for the L at around the same time. "It is true that the industry there was not flourishing as the 60s became the 70s, though Ken Loach's Kes, a beautiful movie with a sensitivity galaxies removed from Russell's self-indulgence, came out in 1969. Joseph Losey and Kubrick were flourishing in England. Peckinpah made Straw Dogs in '71, Hitchcock Frenzy in '72. But American funding was drying up along with fresh ideas and methods, and George Lazenby was James Bond, so the time was right for a Brit enfant terrible like Russell. With years of work as a photographer and maker of arts documentaries for the BBC, he had just the right mixture of technical adequacy, industry pull, personalized vision, and a trendy beatnik streak to echo, in his own way, the exciting things that were starting to happen in American moviemaking."
From Film Comment: Gene D Phillips's 1970 interview and Stephen Farber in 1975 on "Russellmania!"
Catherine Grant has begun "assembling links to scholarly studies of Russell's work, and to related online resources."
Viewing (15'03"). Shelagh Delaney's Salford, Russell's portrait of the playwright who died just a week ago.
Viewing (1'56"). On the BBC, Michael Winner pays tribute and notes that he saw what was cut out of The Devils: "It was almost longer than the film itself!" And more viewing (2'50"). The BBC's video obit.
More from the Guardian, which has a special section devoted to Russell: Stuart Jeffries's interview from April of this year, an image gallery, a collection of clips and Bernard Rose in 2008: "François Truffaut once said that if you love a man's work, you love all of it. That's how I feel about Ken Russell. Of the British directors active in the 1960s and 1970s who inspired me, Nic Roeg and Jim Henson were mentors in a very direct way (I worked for them), while Stanley Kubrick and Lindsay Anderson were remote, mythical figures. But Russell was my hero, the heir to Michael Powell's peculiarly emotional Englishness and vivid visual rhapsodies. And, sadly, a controversial figure more loved abroad than here."
Women in Love, Russell's "sexually-graphic 1969 adaptation of DH Lawrence's novel, earned him an Oscar nomination and international recognition with Glenda Jackson picking up the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the movie," notes Murray Wardrop in the Telegraph, adding that Oliver Reed "said that Russell 'started to go crazy' when he worked with him on the film. Reed said: 'Before that he was a sane, likable TV director. Now he's an insane, likable film director.'" And the Telegraph's posted an image gallery.
"He ventured into the American studio system with Altered States (1980), a hallucinogenic science-fiction film starring William Hurt," writes Dennis Lim in the New York Times. "In his autobiography Mr Russell revealed that he was hired by Warner Brothers only after 26 other directors had passed on the project. He feuded with the screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky, who took his name off the project, but Altered States earned him some of his best reviews and has since developed a cult following…. But even with his directing career in eclipse, Mr Russell kept busy with films and documentaries for British television, occasional acting roles and self-financed low-budget features like The Fall of the Louse of Usher, a 2002 horror spoof literally shot in his backyard. He wrote several novels — including a few on the sex lives of famous composers (Beethoven Confidential, Brahms Gets Laid) — and made his off-Broadway directing debut in 2008 with Mindgame, a play starring Keith Carradine…. In a column in The Times in 2008 about a critical biography on him by Joseph Lanza titled Phallic Frenzy, Mr Russell reflected on his longtime status as a critical punching bag. 'I believe in what I'm doing wholeheartedly, passionately, and what's more, I simply go about my business,' he wrote. 'I suppose such a thing can be annoying to some people.'"
For the Telegraph's Tim Robey, The Devils "come to be seen as the defining film of a great hellraising career: one in which hell was sometimes almost literally raised, as at the castle of Lord Byron in his 1986 literary fantasia, Gothic…. There was mischief, insult and daring in Russell's vision, and a playfulness that made him unique — his favorite game was to exploit the starchy norms of British prestige cinema and then abruptly throw an orgy, or blow loud raspberries in the direction of the church. In this sense he followed the rudely provocative tradition of Fellini or Buñuel, but fused that with an antic spirit of thoroughly British eccentricity."
John Bridcut, who wrote and directed Elgar: The Man Behind the Mask (2010) for BBC4, and is currently working on a film about Delius, in the Guardian: "People sometimes look back wistfully to Russell's early work at the BBC, where he first made his name, under the fond illusion that, when he was making films for Monitor, he had not yet gone off the rails. His 1968 Delius film Song of Summer (in my view the best composer film he ever made) featured Max Adrian as the blind and paralysed composer, with [Christopher] Gable again as his gawky amanuensis, Eric Fenby. Even here there were telltale flashes of sexual fascination, with clerical groping in the church, or the supposition that Delius's wife had a lesbian relationship with Ida Gerhardi. But the sombre outcome of Delius's tertiary syphilis for some reason steered Russell away from the raunchy sex life that Delius had had as a younger man. Perhaps the ageing Fenby kept Russell's eye on the music." As for Elgar, "it would not be an exaggeration to say that, more than any other single factor, it triggered the Elgar revival, which has continued unabated to this day. For that alone, Russell deserves a place of glory."
Viewing (1'06"). Russell tells a story about Fellini.
Viewing (1'51"). Martin Scorsese tells the BBC about his admiration for Russell. Listening (3'32"). More on the BBC from an angry Glenda Jackson.
"In March last year, I interviewed Ken Russell," recalls Sean O'Hagan. "We spoke over the phone about his days as a working photographer in the 1950s. It was a tough call: he was slightly deaf and very grumpy. Our first attempt at communication ended abruptly when he shouted: 'That will be all, thank you very much!' and slammed the phone down. I persevered and, with the help of Lucy Bell, who was hosting an exhibition of his work in her gallery in St Leonards-on-sea, finally got a more illuminating interview…. [H]e referred to his photographs as 'still films' which, in a way, they were. Initially he was a street photographer, wandering the streets of London's Notting Hill 'until something caught my eye.' He also made portraits, mainly of the lithe and pretty girls with whom he had studied dance. Even then, the surrealism of his later films was evident."
Also in the Guardian, Derek Malcolm writes that Russell "was so often called rude names – the wild man of British cinema, the apostle of excess, the oldest angry young man in the business – that he gave up denying it all quite early in his career. Indeed, he often seemed to court the very publicity that emphasised only the crudest assessment of his work. He gave the impression that he cared not a damn. Those who knew him better, however, knew that he did. Underneath all the showbiz bluster, he was an old softie. Or, perhaps as accurately, a talented boy who never quite grew up…. Whether you loved or hated his work, he was an original. And not quite the 'shrill, screaming gossip' Pauline Kael called him. He once wrote an article entitled 'The Films I Do Best Are About the People I Believe In.' And he made a television programme called Ken Russell's ABC of British Music (1988) which proved that point absolutely. It won an Emmy for the best performing arts programme. Look at that film and at Song of Summer and the Elgar film and you have the best of Russell on television. Look at The Devils and Crimes of Passion — and the first quickfire 20 minutes of Tommy — and you have just about the best of him in the cinema."
Gerard Raymond interviewed Russell for Slant in 2010.
"Russell told of his four-decade 'crush; on actress turned MP Glenda Jackson in his final TV interview," reports the Telegraph. The as-yet-unseen interview will be broadcast on Friday on Sky Arts.
For Glenn Kenny, The Boy Friend (1971) is "a genuinely clever slice of affectionate post-modernism that toggled between delicacy and grotesquerie more purposefully than many other of his films ever would."
Time's Richard Corliss: "It's strange that people can't reconcile vulgarity and artistry,' Ken Russell told his biographer John Baxter. 'They're the same thing to me. But don't get vulgarity mixed up with commercialism. By vulgarity I mean an exuberant over-the-top larger-than-life slightly bad taste red-blooded thing. And if that's not anything to do with Art, let's have nothing to do with Art.'" Further in, Corliss notes that, when it came to Elgar, BBC exec Huw Wheldon "told Russell he could use actors only mute and in long shot. The director used that restriction as an advantage, creating a hallucinatory musical landscape. As Michael Brooke writes for BFI Screenonline: 'When Russell's camera isn't swooping and gliding over Elgar's beloved Malvern Hills, it's fixating on strangely arresting shots: the sequence covering Lady Elgar's death begins with tendrils of mist snaking through a silver birch wood, continues with a dark room full of mysteriously shrouded furniture and ends with the bereaved Elgar's new and obsessive interest in microscopic natural phenomena.'" And Corliss himself on Altered States: "It's an anthology and apotheosis of American pop movies: Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Nutty Professor, 2001, Alien, Love Story. It opens at fever pitch and then starts soaring — into genetic fantasy, into a precognitive dream of delirium and delight. Madness is its subject and substance, style and spirit. The film changes tone, even form, with its hero's every new mood and mutation. It expands and contracts with his mind until both almost crack. It keeps threatening to go bonkers, then makes good on its threat, and still remains as lucid as an aerialist on a high wire."
"It was as if," suggests the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw, "Russell looked around at the stupefying dullness of Britain in the Heath/Wilson era and thought: what can I do to shake this lot up? 'I conduct to live; I live to compose,' says Robert Powell in Russell's 1974 movie, Mahler — and perhaps Russell, in his heart, admired the clarity and calm of an artist who could keep distinct money-making endeavour in the public sphere, and creative labour in private."
The Guardian also collects tributes from Glenda Jackson, Robert Powell, Melvyn Bragg, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter Maxwell Davies, Douglas Hodge and Don Boyd.
IndieWIRE asks Shade Rupe, a personal friend of Russell's, for his thoughts. He begins, "Kenneth Alfred Henry Russell entered Earth on July 3, 1927, in Southampton, England and quickly found his way to the cinema, citing Milton Rosmer's 1934 picture The Secret of the Loch as his first bout at the flickers. The story of a loonish Scottish academic trying to convince everyone the Loch Ness Monster was a real beast would find a new home in Russell's skull in his hypersexual The Lair of the White Worm…."
Viewing (13'14"). Guardian film writers Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard and Andrew Pulver discuss the legacy. And more viewing (1'25"). Vanessa Redgrave on the BBC.
Ken Russell on Sir Richard Attenborough:
"Sir Richard ('I'm-going-to-attack-the-Establishment-fifty-years-after-it's-dead') Attenborough is guilty of caricature, a sense of righteous self-satisfaction, and repetition which all undermine the impact of the film."
A House in Bayswater, by Ken Russell, 1960
An early Ken Russell documentary which looks at the Bohemian residents of a rooming house in West London.


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Friday - 8/8/2014, 12:06pm EDT
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A woman who flew from San Jose to Los Angeles without a boarding pass and has made repeated attempts to sneak aboard flights was arrested again Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport after wandering through terminals without an airline ticket, authorities said.
Marilyn Jean Hartman, 62, was taken into custody a day after a judge had ordered her to stay away from LAX unless she had a paid ticket, airport Police Chief Patrick Gannon said.
Hartman took a morning FlyAway shuttle bus from downtown's Union Station to the airport. Gannon said he had a feeling Hartman was going to come back to LAX without a valid ticket, so police had passed out fliers with pictures of her to airport police officers and staff.
"She was seen wandering through several terminals today in what appeared to be a scouting mission," he said.
Hartman was arrested for violating terms of her 24-month probation, which was issued Wednesday after she pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of willfully and unlawfully entering the city as a stowaway on an aircraft.
When she left court, Hartman said she would never try to sneak onto a plane again. "It was stupid, and it is something I don't want to repeat," she said.
Hartman was being held on $10,000 bail. A court hearing will be set on Monday.
It was unclear what charges she could face after Thursday's arrest. Los Angeles city attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan said officials plan to review the police report while she is in custody.
A call to her attorney, Elsie Wanton, was not immediately returned.
Hartman had recently left mental health treatment that she had been ordered to attend and said homelessness drove her to take "desperate measures." She said she feels safer being in airports than in the streets.
On Monday, Hartman had tried at least three times to get to a plane before she finally went past a security screener who was busy checking a family's documents at Mineta San Jose International Airport, according to law enforcement officials. They would speak only on condition of anonymity because the security breach is being investigated.
Hartman then went through the electronic screening process before entering an airport terminal.
Her boarding status was discovered once Southwest Airlines Flight 3785 landed in Los Angeles, the officials said.
Her breach of security caused federal officials and the airline to launch investigations. It also prompted criticism of San Jose's airport in light of the trespassing of a teenage boy who stowed away in the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines flight and survived the arduous journey to Maui.
In February, Hartman was sentenced to 18 months' probation in San Mateo County after being arrested for attempting to board three Hawaii-bound flights at the San Francisco International Airport on three separate days. In November 2010, Hartman made it as far as the airport baggage claim on the Hawaiian island of Kauai before being arrested, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Hartman told authorities in the past that she wanted to fly somewhere warm because she had cancer, said Steve Wagstaffe, district attorney for San Mateo County. Hartman had cancer, but she has been in remission for several years, the Chronicle reported.
Authorities placed Hartman in treatment for mental disorders in May but said she stopped attending last month. Wagstaffe said he had no plans to take any additional measures against her.
"She declined all of our efforts to offer her assistance," Wagstaffe said. "And we tried all of the alternatives we had because we weren't interested in locking her up on our end."
Collins reported from San Francisco.
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Current condition of the car:In April of 2013 a large hole appeared in my ERL 2.1 liter sleeved block while chasing a Corvette ZR1 around Big Willow so I began parting out all the aftermarket stuff on my car. I finally finished up putting it back to almost stock and installing a used longblock in early December 2013. Then I towed the car over to FFTEC for them to give everything a final lookover. They were supposed to button up a few loose ends, prime the motor and tune it. After having the car for a few weeks, they finished up the peripheral stuff and then ended up spending many hours reviewing the electrical system which all checked out fine but the car just wouldn't start. So they determined that the original ECU in the car had some unspecified issue where it was not sending electrical signal to the starter. So I located a used ECU and brought it to them, the car still wouldn't start. They believed that this ecu along with the keys needed to be VIN coded by the dealership so I towed the car to Capital Mitsubishi in San Jose. After having the car for a few days they told me they were unable to get the ecu coded and they no longer wanted to work on the car because it had aftermarket parts and it wasn't the original ecu or a brand new one purchased through them. I towed the car back home and it's been sitting because I was busy with my wedding & honeymoon.
Details and history of the car:I'm the second owner, the car is clean title in hand, no accidents, all VINS match, it has always been garaged in northern California and is completely rust free. There are some small scratches, tiny dings and chips in the paint from normal driving but not a single dent or anything major. It's currently registered non operational and would need to be smogged if it's staying in CA but should pass no problem given it's stock like setup. It has been to the drag strip twice and to the road course once. It was pretty heavily modified before but has been returned to stock aside from the few mods listed below.
2008 Lancer Evolution GSR~68K Chassis~35K Longblock (good compression, not abused motor which can be verified by KTMotoring that I purchased it from)~30K OEM turbo
All other drivetrain & components are original and have the same mileage as the chassis. I have never had any issues with the transfer case, ACD or anything else at all aside from blowing up shortblocks. Aside from whatever is currently up with the ECU I believe the car to be in 100% functional and good condition. Only things it needs is the A/C recharged and possibly the rear main seal since FFTEC noted a small amount of oil near it when they primed the motor so that may just have been a spill/drip from somewhere else or it may not to be replaced. Oh and the lug nuts are all mismatched, FFTEC said they wouldn't dyno the car without a proper full set.
I was very careful while returning the car to it's current stock-ish condition and during the reassembly replaced all gaskets with brand new OEM, plus FFTEC has reviewed my work and they believe all is good with the car aside from the ECU. All the fluids are brand new Redline or OEM, the engine has been primed with Valvoline VR1 20w50, new NGK spark plugs and more. I have tons of receipts and a spreadsheet showing all of the maintenance and modifications done while I owned the car.
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Inside the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum
The new George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is an emotional place. How could it not be, with so much space devoted to 9/11 and the aftermath? Here are some snapshots of what you'll find inside. No matter what your political persuasion, it's worth the trip to Dallas. To see behind-the-scenes images from Bush's […] [Read More]
Hop a ride on The Polar Express
PALESTINE — On a warm winter night in this East Texas town, a radiant moon and holiday lights bring the train depot to life. It has only just gotten dark, but all the children waiting by the Texas State Railroad tracks — along with a few sporting moms — are wearing pajamas. Inside, five toddlers […] [Read More]
Meeting Larry McMurtry in Archer City
I'm in Archer City, TX to cover the auction of hundreds of thousands of Larry McMurtry's books. Yesterday I met the man himself in Booked Up No.1, the only bookstore of the four he owns and runs in Archer City that will NOT auction its stock. McMurtry — who, of course, is a novelist and […] [Read More]
10 weird, wonderful places to see before you die
The new edition of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die has arrived — and it is thick with possibility. Here are author Patricia Schultz's top 10, hand-picked destinations in the "Weird and Wonderful" category. Dream big and travel far in 2012! [Read More]
Dickens on the Strand and the ghost of Bob Marley
Dickens on the Strand, the annual Galveston event that gathers all things Victorian and pirate and Steampunk into one big public party, is a family tradition in my house. Plus, the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth is just around the corner. When I told my mother, who lives in New England, that we were off […] [Read More]
Hey Jack Kerouac, an On the Road app!
Penguin Classics is bringing the road to your fingertips. Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the Beat bible, is now an app. [Read More]
Bookish on the radio & summer reading lists
I was a guest on Tom Ashbrook's "On Point" NPR radio show, which airs out of Boston. Click the link below to hear it and see my summer reading list, as well as the lists from the show's other guests, Michael Kindness and Jamil Zaidi. [Read More]
So long for now
Bookish is on vacation until Aug. 9. I'll be eating soft-serve yogurt, munching Johnson's popcorn, devouring my mom's pesto and walking the boards. On my Kindle: The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman. Nothing like reading about newspapers when you're on vacation from one… Happy reading, everybody! –Maggie [Read More]
Mr. Zei, the Great Wall poet
Rebecca Roper Mr. Zei, outside his home near Qiangzilu. Meet Mr. Zei. I was lucky enough to make his acquaintance on a recent trip to China with my pals, Darcie and Rebecca. And if I had to give China a face, it would be his. A former teacher, Mr. Zei lives 60 miles northeast of […] [Read More]
Off to China!
Natalie Buster Shanghai's Old City To anyone who stumbles upon this blog in late April or early May, 2010: Bookish is not sleeping. Or dead. Rather, I have flown off to China for some cultural enrichment — and yummy food and beverages — with a battered copy of The Good Earth tucked under my arm. […] [Read More]
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WASHINGTON , Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript of a reporters roundtable discussion with Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey : 10:35 A.M. EST ATTORNEY GENERAL MUKASEY: Good morning...
QUESTION: But it really goes to whether you're satisfied with the techniques that are now in place.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MUKASEY: The techniques that are now in place are, the President has said that the revision of, the 2008 revision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has put in place all of the surveillance techniques that we need to keep us safe. And that's good enough for me.
QUESTION: Just to get back to the transition for a second. You said, the fact that the transition people are not yet members of government makes a difference. We've been told that there was extensive security clearances before the election. So, are you saying even people with Top Secret security clearances who are on the transition team may not have access to some things because they are not yet part of the government?
ATTORNEY GENERAL MUKASEY: That's a possibility. It's an abstract possibility and I don't want to get into --
QUESTION: I guess what I'm wondering is, are there documents that the President-elect's people will not see until January 20th ?
ATTORNEY GENERAL MUKASEY: There may very well be.
QUESTION: Has your term here, while it's not up, can you give us a sense of what the highlights and the lowlights have been in this past year?
ATTORNEY GENERAL MUKASEY: Other than this one. This of course is one of the highlights.
QUESTION: Yeah, sure.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MUKASEY: As I think I told you previously, I don't do a sort of on-going highlights film, or lowlights film. When I got here, I said that my top priorities were going to be national security and then, in no particular order, civil rights enforcement, violent crime enforcement, including drugs, guns and gangs, public corruption and the Southwest Border. And I think we've made some progress, and I've tried to push in each of those areas.
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QUESTION: And those took effect two days ago, Monday.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MUKASEY: Right.
QUESTION: Okay. And no chance that they'd be subject to rollback by the new administration under regulatory procedures?
ATTORNEY GENERAL MUKASEY: That's really up to the new administration. They went into effect.
QUESTION: Let me ask you a little bit about the subject you wrote about in The Wall Street Journal on the day that you upstaged yourself. The -- because we're going to face, obviously, both presidential candidates said they wanted to close Guantanamo. Eric Holder's talked about it. The incoming President has talked about it, so what's the right way to do this and what does Congress need to do? How does Congress need to contribute?
ATTORNEY GENERAL MUKASEY: I think what I've urged is that Congress pass legislation to help us deal with habeas corpus procedures in a way that allows the use of classified information in a fair way and yet in a way that protects the classification of that information.
The President, himself, has said he wants to close Guantanamo, but he wants to do it in a responsible way that doesn't result in the compromise of the security of this country. But Congress can contribute, certainly, by passing legislation that allows at least for uniform standards in habeas cases so that we don't get a widespread of cases with resulting appeals with yet more delay of the sort that was condemned by the Supreme Court.


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I, along with many others, thought the San Antonio Spurs' Manu Ginobili was finished at the end of last year's NBA Finals. But Manu had other ideas.
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22 points (9-11 FG, 0-0 FT), 4 three-pointers, 2 rebounds, 1 assist, 0 steals, 0 blocks, 1 turnover vs Bulls.
If you watched any of the NBA finals last June, the Manu Ginobili you saw, was a shell of his former self. Consequently, I steered well clear of Ginobili in all of my fantasy drafts in October, thinking that his role as part of the Spurs' "Big Three" was over.
Fast-forward to March, and Ginobili is the 78th ranked player in fantasy basketball according to Basketball Monster.com. More impressively, his rank jumps to 33rd if we narrow our focus to the last two weeks of action.
In those two weeks, Ginobili is averaging 15.6 points, 2.0 three-pointers and 5.3 assists on 55.7 percent shooting from the field and 89.5 percent from the line. What's even more amazing about these numbers, is that he is registering all that fantasy goodness in just 23.5 minutes per game.
Now, we know that Ginobili is somewhat frail, so fingers crossed he doesn't miss any more time. He already missed eight games at the beginning of February, so perhaps that's the extent of his injury problems of this year. We can only hope.
In the last two games, Ginobili has totalled 46 points with six three-pointers and six assists and with the way he's continuing to play, he should be 100 percent owned. He's not at the moment, so have a quick peek on your waiver-wire to see if Manu is available. If he is, you know what to do.
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(Sports Network) - A lot of NFL personnel people think they are the smartest guy in the room. Few are ... especially when Bill Belichick enters.
The Patriots coach and general manager is generally two or three steps ahead of his competition and nothing magnifies that more than draft day.
Belichick and the Pats' brain trust set up their draft day in free agency and this season New England attempted to remake its wide receivers corps, brought in veteran safety Adrian Wilson and added former Raiders defensive tackle Tommy Kelly to an already impressive front seven.
If wide receiver Danny Amendola can stay healthy, he'll be a more than adequate replacement for the departed Wes Welker in the slot. The real lynchpin to the Pats' moves at wide receiver, though, was Emmanuel Sanders, a restricted free agent from Pittsburgh who signed a one-year offer sheet. The Steelers matched the offer, however, so getting a real vertical threat is still needed,
The Patriots could also use some depth on the interior of the offensive line and at cornerback and safety.
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RBC — Rain, snow, bright sunshine, warm temperatures, possibly all in a matter of hours — sounds like another summer day in Colorado. Indeed, the weather across the state has been variable the past week or so, and that is reflected in the outlook for fishing.
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With the American election season FINALLY over, now might be a great time to look back at some of the absurdity of it all. For example: Hank the Cat ran for a seat in the Senate in Virginia. He ended up coming in third as a write-in candidate, earning more than 6,000 votes. We won't have the EXACT tally until November 13, however Hank's tweets suggest that 6,000 number.
So who is Frank? According to his website:
From the very first day, Hank has been a fighter. Born to a single mother living on the streets, Hank, his mother, and his siblings were taken to an animal shelter and sat on death row. Shortly before their execution, Hank and the rest of his family were saved by an animal rescue group called Animal Allies. Hank was adopted to a loving family, and was raised by his adopted brother Sammy.
Being from the streets and having nothing, Hank learned the value of hard work. Putting himself through school while working, Hank was simply too stubborn and driven to let his disadvantages dictate his future. After graduating with honors, Hank quickly entered the business world and brought himself up to start and run a number of successful local companies.
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The Neillsville boys basketball team improved to 4-0 on the season with a 60-30 win over Loyal on Tuesday night.
The Warriors (4-0) took a 15-6 lead after one quarter thanks in part to 9 points from Matt Dux. Dux finished the first half with 18 and Neillsville led 32-15 at the half.
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Gary <gdriggs () gmail com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Benji wrote:
Command execution through Dynamic DNS setup is quite clearly not
expected functionality.
Agreed but that's still not "remote command execution" per my explanation
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Benji wrote:
Command execution through Dynamic DNS setup is quite clearly not
expected functionality.
Agreed but that's still not "remote command execution" per my explanation
Assuming it works as the original poster described (I don't have the
hardware to check, but similar issues have been found on the firmware of
various other home routers), then why not? Yes, it does require
authentication, so you might want to call it "authenticated remote command
execution", but you still get arbitrary commands executed through CSRF.
There are some rather aggravating details about this happening on a device
such as this:
1. Most home routers (again, I don't have the hardware so I must assume
here) use HTTP basic authentication, which can be embedded in request URLs
using the 'http://user:password () host/path?param' syntax, so forging an
authenticated request does not require a login -> obtain a valid session ->
submit with session, it can be done single-shot if the user and password
are known, which brings us to...
2. Most home routers use default, known username/password combos which are
available in public documentation. Since a large percentage of home users
do not change these, and also use the default IP ranges, the chances of
hitting a vulnerable router by using the '
http://user:password () 192 168 0 1/action?params' URL (replacing relevant
elements as required, of course) is rather good.
3. Finally, on many of those devices the HTTPd process is running as root.
So, you can do pretty much anything you could do with a root shell.
Yes, there are restrictions, and yes, I am assuming things work as
described by the original poster, but I don't see the need to be
authenticated as being the major issue here, but rather the possibility of
arbitrary command execution through CSRF.
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5949 S Fontana Ave has a Walk Score of 37 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so most errands require a car.
This location is in the Sunnyside neighborhood in Tucson. Nearby parks include Mission manor park, Tucson, AZ, Mission Park and Sunnyside Park.
Nearby schools include Childrens Success Academy, Drexel Elementary School and Liberty Elementary School.
The closest grocery stores are Super Carniceria El Ranchito, Grand Market and Peoples Choice Video Express.
Nearby restaurants include Casa Bonita, Amigos Burgers and Beer and Mr.K's BBQ.
5949 S Fontana Ave is near Mission Park, Sunnyside Park and Rodeo Park.
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When she smiles, I smile and that makes me happy.
When she smiles, I smile and that makes me happy.
Time is the only thing we can't get more of. Each person has a set amount of time on this earth. Essentially it is the most valuable thing in the world because it can not be bought or sold. So if someone asks you multiple times to spend time together, shouldn't that mean they value you highly enough to give you something they can never get back?
I should be reading, maybe doing homework, or looking to see what I can do to get ahead.
Instead I'm watching TV, still trying to organize my room, and being anti-social.
The whole girl thing really isn't working out again. I should really just buy a fucking motorcycle.
He's had a rough year to say the least, so I know he'll absolutely love the things mom and I got him. I don't really think I'll be getting anything for Christmas this year, but I have my Dad and that's all I need. It would have been a much sadder Christmas without him.
Charlie Brown and I have so much in common.
True story.
Firstly, I don't usually use tumblr as a diary of sorts, so if you're like "what the hell is this?" just keep on scrolling, but for those of you who may be interested, read on.
Christmas has always been my favorite time of the year. Growing up it was the most exciting, magical time of the year. Each year it became a different kind of magic, but something cherished nonetheless. This year is different. So may big life changes have happened this year. The biggest of these is my father's accident.
The other day my father, mother, and I were sitting around the table and they were asking me what I want for Christmas, and since I know money is tight I said "I want either an SLR or an iPhone but I know I can't get that so I don't know" and it was quiet for a minute and my father chimed up, "I'd like a leg, or at least one working one". And it just hit hard. I'd do anything in the world to give him that, but nothing I can do can ever bring that functionality back. And then again it was quiet, just me and him sitting at the kitchen table and he looked at each other and I could see the tiredness and sadness and frustration in his eyes. Apparently he tried to reach for something earlier and he just couldn't reach it. He was a few inches short, but short nonetheless. That very simple act of reaching for something got him so upset I felt terrible. he's an amazingly strong man, but even so, it's so frustrating. I do everything I can to help him but getting him to a level of independence he's ok with is a struggle. I just want to help him as much as possible and I can't. Who am I to ask for material things when I have a father who just wants to move his leg again. I just can't.
This is also the first Christmas season I've spent in recent years single. As sappy as it sounds, it's kinda quiet. I miss looking for that Christmas present that will make her face light up with excitement and happiness and then cuddling up and watching a holiday movie. It's a weird feeling, never before have I had so many friends from home and school that all want to know what I'm up to and how I'm doing and to meet up, yet even with so many awesome people around, I still miss having that one person that understands and cares above them all. Will I survive? Yes. Am I really all that bothered by it? No. But it's still a change that's sucks. But those whole relationship thoughts are an entirely different cup of tea that's not really worth going into.
I guess my summary as this year is headed towards a close is, who would have thought that I would be here right now? Amazing the changes that can happen in a year.


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Buying a home can be seriously stressful, but mobile app Zillow has been providing folks with great real estate information on local homes for a while now. I've used it several times to compare prices across homes I was interested in buying, as well and to just check out the kind of home my friends can buy, because I'm pretty nosy like that.
The Zillow app just updated with a fantastic new feature, too: instant mortgage pre-approval. This is a huge deal, as being pre-approved can make sure that your offers on homes, especially in hot markets like San Francisco and New York, are taken seriously. Pre-approved home loans are a great way to make that happen.


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I wrote the following article for the "Close Guantánamo" website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by email.
Last week I published "The 9/11 Trial at Guantánamo: The Dark Farce Continues," the first of two articles providing updates about the military commissions at Guantánamo.
The commissions were established under President George W. Bush in November 2001, were ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in June 2006, revived by Congress in the fall of 2006, suspended by President Obama in January 2009, and revived again by Congress in the fall of 2009, but they have always struggled to establish any credibility, and should not have been revived by the Obama administration.
Last week's article, as the title indicates, covered developments — or the lack of them — in pre-trial hearings for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks, who were held and tortured in CIA "black sites" for years before their arrival in Guantánamo in September 2006. Read the rest of this entry »
I wrote the following article for the "Close Guantánamo" website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by email.
Last week, largely unnoticed in the mainstream media, a Periodic Review Board (PRB) took place — at a military location in Virginia — for Muhammad Murdi lssa al-Zahrani, one of the last Saudi nationals held in the prison, who joined the board — and was visible to the handful of media representatives in attendance — via video link from Guantánamo. 44 or 45 years old, he was seized in a house raid in Lahore, Pakistan, at the end of March 2002.
The PRBs — which involve representatives of the Departments of State, Defense, Justice and Homeland Security, as well as the office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — were established last year to review the cases of 71 prisoners designated for ongoing imprisonment without charge or trial — or for trials that were later dropped — in January 2010 by the high-level, inter-agency Guantánamo Review Task Force that President Obama appointed shortly after taking office in 2009.
Those prisoners who were designated for ongoing imprisonment without charge or trial had those designations made on the basis that they were "too dangerous to release," even though insufficient evidence existed to put them on trial — highlighting, to acute observers, that there are fundamental problems with the so-called evidence. Read the rest of this entry »
Six weeks ago, I reported on the Periodic Review Boards for two "forever prisoners" at Guantánamo — Ghaleb al-Bihani and Salem bin Kanad — who are both Yemenis, and were regarded by the Guantánamo Review Task Force, appointed by President Obama to review all the remaining prisoners' cases in 2009, as too dangerous to release, even though it was acknowledged that insufficient evidence existed to put them on trial.
The PRBs — involving representatives of the Departments of State, Defense, Justice and Homeland Security, as well as the office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who meet at an office in Virginia and hear testimony by, or on behalf of the prisoners by video link from Guantánamo — took place to establish whether these two men should still be regarded as a threat, or whether they should be recommended for release.
This category of prisoner — as opposed to those approved for release, or those recommended for prosecution — is particularly problematical, as it relies on a presumption that the so-called evidence against the Guantánamo prisoners is somehow reliable, when that is patently not the case. The files on the prisoners are for the most part a dispiriting collection of unreliable statements made by the prisoners themselves or by their fellow prisoners in circumstances that were not conducive to telling the truth — immediately after capture, in America's notorious prisons in Afghanistan, or in Guantánamo, all places and circumstances where torture and abuse were rife; or, in some cases, where bribery (the promise of better living conditions, for example) was used to try to secure information that could be used as evidence. Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday, two disturbing letters from Guantánamo were released by Reprieve US, the US branch of the London-based legal action charity whose lawyers represent 15 of the 154 men still held at the prison, and I'm posting them below, because they shed light on what Reprieve described in a press release as the "escalating, brutal punishment of hunger strikers," who continue to be force-fed, even though the World Medical Association denounced force-feeding in the Declaration of Malta, in 2006, calling it "unjustifiable," "never ethically acceptable," and "a form of inhuman and degrading treatment," if inflicted on a patient — or a prisoner — who is capable of making a rational decision about his refusal to eat.
The letters were written by Emad Hassan, a Yemeni prisoner who has been on a hunger strike — and force-fed — since 2007, even though he was cleared for release by President Obama's high-level, inter-agency Guantánamo Review Task Force in January 2010. 77 of the men still held have been cleared for release — 75 by the task force, and two in recent months by a Periodic Review Board — and 57 of these men are Yemenis, but they are still held because of US fears about the security situation in Yemen — fears which may be legitimate, but which are an unacceptable basis for continuing to hold men that high-level review boards said should no longer be held.
In February, I made available a harrowing letter written by Emad, and in March he launched a historic legal challenge, becoming "the first Guantánamo Bay prisoner to have his claims of abuse at the military base considered by a US court of law," as Reprieve described it. Read the rest of this entry »
On Monday, a Saudi prisoner at Guantánamo, Muhammad Abd al-Rahman al-Shumrani, refused to attend his Periodic Review Board, convened to assess whether he should continue to be held without charge or trial, or whether he should be recommended for release. He refused to attend for a reason that his personal representatives — two US military officers appointed to represent him — described as "very personal and tied to his strong cultural beliefs." The representatives explained that he "has consistently stated his objection to the body search required to be conducted prior to his attendance at legal meetings or other appointments," adding that he regards "the body search as conducted, which requires the guard to touch the area near his genitals," as "humiliating and degrading." The representatives stressed, however, that his refusal to attend, because of his problems with the body search, does "not imply an unwillingness to cooperate."
The PRBs were set up last year to review the cases of 71 of the remaining 154 prisoners. 46 of these men were recommended for ongoing imprisonment without charge or trial by the high-level, inter-agency Guantánamo Review Task Force that President Obama appointed to review all the prisoner's cases shortly after he took office in 2009.
The task force issued its report recommending prisoners for release, prosecution or ongoing imprisonment in January 2010, and in March 2011 President Obama issued an executive order authorizing the ongoing imprisonment of the 46 men, on the basis that they were too dangerous to release, even though insufficient evidence existed to put them on trial. Read the rest of this entry »
This article, looking at the recent Periodic Review Board for Salem bin Kanad, a prisoner held at Guantánamo since January 20, 2002, is the last of three providing updates about developments in the Periodic Review Boards, a system put in place last year to review the cases of 71 prisoners (out of the 154 men still held), who were designated for indefinite detention without charge or trial, or designated for trials that will not now take place. The original recommendations were included in a report that was issued in January 2010 by a high-level, inter-agency Guantánamo Review Task Force that President Obama had appointed to review the cases of all the prisoners still held when he took office in January 2009.
The task force recommended 48 men for indefinite detention without charge or trial, on the extremely dubious basis that they were too dangerous to release, even though it was conceded that insufficient evidence existed to put them on trial — which means, of course, that the so-called "evidence" is no such thing. In March 2011, President Obama responded to the task force's recommendations by issuing an executive order authorizing their ongoing imprisonment without charge or trial, although he did promise that the men would receive periodic reviews to establish whether they should still be regarded as a threat.
Disgracefully, the Periodic Review Boards did not begin until last November, after two of the 48 "forever prisoners" had died, and 25 other men had been added to the list of prisoners eligible to take part in them — men who, although recommended for trials, will not now be prosecuted, after appeals court judges overturned two of the only convictions in the military commissions at Guantánamo, on the basis that the war crimes of which the men had been convicted were not internationally recognized, and had been invented by Congress. The boards consist of representatives of the Departments of State, Defense, Justice and Homeland Security, as well as the office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who meet at an office in Virginia and hear testimony by video link from Guantánamo. Read the rest of this entry »
I wrote a version of the following article, under the heading, "Who Are the Two Guantánamo Prisoners Released to Saudi Arabia?" for the "Close Guantánamo" website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by email.
On Monday December 16, the Pentagon announced that two Guantánamo prisoners — Saad al-Qahtani and Hamoud al-Wady — had been released to Saudi Arabia over the weekend. In the Miami Herald, veteran Guantánamo reporter Carol Rosenberg noted that, "according to government sources, the Saudi repatriations, carried out in a secret operation Saturday night, were voluntary."
The Obama administration is to be commended for releasing these two men, as it shows a commitment to the promise to resume releasing prisoners from Guantánamo that President Obama made in May, after a two and a half year period in which just five prisoners were released, even though over half of the 160-plus prisoners held throughout this period were cleared for release in January 2010 by a high-level, inter-agency task force that President Obama established shortly after taking office in 2009. These releases bring the prison's total population to 160 prisoners, of whom 80 have been cleared for release.
The release of prisoners had largely ground to a halt because Congress had imposed onerous restrictions on the Obama administration, requiring certifications to be made guaranteeing that no released prisoner would be able to take up arms or engage in terrorism against the US — promises that were extremely difficult, if not impossible to make. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week I published an article, "Meet the Guantánamo Prisoner Who Wants to be Prosecuted Rather than Rot in Legal Limbo," about Sufyian Barhoumi, an Algerian prisoner, following up on an article written by Jess Bravin for the Wall Street Journal and published in July. As I explained at the time, "Throughout the spring and summer, while the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo raged, taking up most of my attention … I missed some other developments, which I intend to revisit over the next few weeks."
Following up on that promise, this article revisits an Associated Press article by Ben Fox, published in June, which featured an interview with Ahmed Zuhair, a Saudi citizen and former sheep merchant released from Guantánamo in June 2009, whose story I covered in detail three months before his release, in an article entitled, "Guantánamo's Long-Term Hunger Striker Should Be Sent Home." This recent article was based on a phone call with Zuhair, who is now 47 years old, for which Fox was accompanied by Ramzi Kassem, a law professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), who represents other men still held, including Shaker Aamer, the last British resident, and Abdelhadi Faraj, a Syrian prisoner.
At the time of his release, Zuhair was one of three hunger strikers who had been on a hunger strike since the summer of 2005, when as many as 200 prisoners engaged in prison-wide hunger strike, and had not given up when the first restraint chairs arrived at the prison in January 2006. Fox noted that he now weighs 190 pounds, but that, in December 2005, he weighed just 108 pounds, and, prior to his release, just 115 pounds. Read the rest of this entry »
This is my 2000th post since I began writing articles about Guantánamo on a full-time basis as a freelance investigative journalist and commentator six years ago. Please donate to support my work if you appreciate what I do.
As the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo reaches its 128th day, we are still awaiting action from President Obama, who promised three weeks ago to resume the release of cleared prisoners (who make up 86 out of the remaining 166 prisoners), and to appoint new envoys in the State Department and the Pentagon to deal with the resettlement of prisoners.
In the meantime, conditions in Guantánamo are harsher than they have been at any time since President Obama took office, nearly four and a half years ago. Two months ago, the authorities staged a violent dawn raid on Camp 6, where the majority of the prisoners are held, and where they had been allowed to spend much of their time communally, and locked everyone up in solitary confinement.
Militarily, this may have restored order, but it has not broken the hunger strike, and morally and ethically it is a disgrace. The reason the men are on a hunger strike is not to inconvenience the guard force, but to protest about their ongoing imprisonment — in almost all cases without charge or trial, and literally with no end in sight, after their abandonment by all three branches of the US government. As a result, a lockdown, which involves isolating these men from one another while they starve themselves, and while many of them are force-fed, is the cruellest way to proceed. Read the rest of this entry »
Seven years ago, late in the evening on June 9, 2006, three prisoners — Ali al-Salami, a Yemeni, and Mani al-Utaybi and Yasser al-Zahrani, both Saudis — died at Guantánamo, in what was described by the authorities as a triple suicide, although that explanation seemed to be extremely dubious at the time, and has not become more convincing with the passage of time.
At the time, the prison's commander, Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., attracted widespread criticism by declaring that the deaths were an act of war. Speaking of the prisoners, he said, "They are smart, they are creative, they are committed. They have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us."
I described the deaths in my book The Guantánamo Files, published in 2007, after a fourth death at the prison, of Abdul adman al-Amri, a Saudi, on May 30, 2007 (see here and here), and I wrote my first commemoration of the men's deaths on the second anniversary of their supposed suicide, followed, in August 2008, with a skeptical analysis of the report of the deaths by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), which took over two years to be made available.
The next year, 2009, the anniversary was overshadowed by the death of a fifth prisoner, Muhammad Salih, another Yemeni.
I call this the season of death because all five men died in a two-week period at the end of May and the start of June, and to this day none of the deaths have been adequately explained. It is also, I believe, significant that all five men had been long-term hunger strikers. Read the rest of this entry »
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If you're looking around at a room full to switches, it could be time for a lighting upgrade. Lutron recently announced a new dimmer, the Skylark Contour. It's now shipping in four different versions.
The Skylark Contour dimmer is an update to the Skylark, which was first introduced in 1983. Promising a new look and feel, the dimmer features a rocker switch for turning lights on and off, but can also accommodate a favorite preset lighting level.
The four versions include:
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Hey everyone, I hope this isn't against the rules but I am posting this from another forum I often frequent. I felt as if it would be of some interest to some of you...
Hi Guys,
May be some of you will disagree with me because godaddy is very famous and they have wide customer base. But I'd like to share with you my experience with godaddy and will leave you to decide your self.
I was using godaddy for about one year without any problem. Their normal support didn't have live help but was satisfactory.
They had slow mysql connection on shared hosting so moved to vps no problem. I never thought that much more problem are to come later.
That is till yesterday. when due to a spammer misused my free image hosting service to upload images used in spam operation. Once my website blocked by spamhaus, go daddy didn't wait a bit and didn't even give me any time to try to sort things out. they suspended my domain and hosting account without any notice and left me without nothing to do risking me losing of my one year business which never had the chance to make money yet.
At that stage their support became extremely horrible. Most of their replies by emails are sterio-type emails.
I called them several times a day but most of the time I get a recorded voice not a human. And even the one time I could reach them they didn't seem to be co-operative at all. They stopped my whole website and even prevented me from moving to another provider. They ask for $75 just to allow me to move to another provider and lose the months I paid in advance in hosting. They don't care that I never make money yet from my website. They never care I didn't abuse their service and I was just a victim like them.
My website completely got down and they seem they never care or bother. I have been a user of godaddy for more than one year and didn't ever cause any troubles or get convicted in any suspicious or illegal activity. And I'm also somewhat old in this forum. never posted spam or disobeyed rules.
I discovered they don't care losing innocent customers just because an abuse caused by another person I don't know and the abuse itself didn't last for more than 2 days before getting blocked and suspended. which is done too fast to be able to take any measures. How cruel is that!!!
I really hope I could know that before I see their ugly face this way.
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Recalls can be a big problem for car rental companies. The companies make money by renting as many vehicles in advance as possible, and an entirely booked fleet can be a recipe for profits. But what happens when there is a recall on a car or truck that is already scheduled for rental? Does the rental company call the customer and tell them that their order can no longer be fulfilled? In some cases, the rental company may want to wait until the vehicle isn't needed to get the problem looked at, which could potentially put the customer at risk.
How do you fix the problem of rental car companies failing to execute their recalls in a timely manner? The New York Times reports that the American Car Rental Association, which consists of 95 companies and all major renters with the exception of Hertz, feels a two-tier recall system would work best. Under the two-tier system, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and automakers would determine which recalls were serious enough that they needed to be done immediately, and which ones could wait a bit. The multi-tier approach would, in theory, force rental car companies to act quickly for serious recalls, while still maintaining the luxury of waiting for the right time to repair others. Rental companies would no doubt love such an arrangement, but safety advocates aren't so sure.
NHTSA's response is that the agency takes all recalls seriously, while other advocates like Rosemary Shahan, the president of Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety calls the proposal "rental car roulette" and says that it will "allow rental car companies to get away with renting out vehicles that are so unsafe they are being recalled." Senator Charles Schumer (D, NY) has asked the Federal Trade Commission to look into the fact that dealers are legally forbidden to sell vehicles with open recalls while rental companies can rent cars to customers with open recalls.
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Thank you so much everyone for the support of likes and shares of my work with your fellow Deviants.
I have been busy in the studio, and out, creating. Have several shows coming up, two small works,
and several towards the city of Melbourne.
I am very excited to say I just had a show and SOLD "Downtown" on opening night, and "Shallow Waters" the
next day of the show. It is a great feeling to see you art being appreciated. I feel I have finally found where
my art fits in and is much appreciated.
Have plenty to share with all of you in paintings and photography... even a few sketches.
But as usual these days, inspiration is screaming at me, so I am grabbing my camera and heading outside.
Keep creating!