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Here's another installment of the series in which STB writers travel around to other cities and make wild generalizations about their transit and land use. This post will arbitrarily grade San Diego's better-than-I-expected transit system.
San Diego's Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) offers bus, light BRT, light rail, and heavy rail commuter service. It's one of the older systems in the country, operating continuously under various names and owners since the 1880s, when horse-drawn streetcar service came online.
My wife grew up in San Diego, and her whole family lives in America's Finest City. So I visit San Diego frequently, and I've thought a lot about San Diego's sprawling land use and car dominance.
Land Use: C-
Like other Sun Belt and Southern California cities, contemporary San Diego is built for cars. However, as with Los Angeles, San Diego's nearby big brother, San Diego does have several walkable, dense urban villages.
Pacific Beach, Ocean Beach and Hillcrest are all comparable to dense West Coast neighborhoods like Ballard, Alki, or Capitol Hill, respectively. The large mesa east of downtown is a lot like North Seattle. It features crisscrossing boulevards; reasonably frequent bus service; a major university, San Diego State; and streetcar suburb-era single family homes punctuated by walkable urban villages. Unfortunately, the transit there leaves a lot to be desired, as I explain below.
San Diego also features a thriving downtown. Gleaming residential high-rises abound, and they're new: Downtown's full-time population grew by 97 percent between 2000 and 2017. There, the Trolley's three lines run as a loop circulator tram with its own right of way, and buses abound. On weekends and for events like Padres games or Comicon, a heritage trolley contributes additional circulator service.
But that's just a small portion of the much bigger picture. San Diego sprawls over 372 square miles, an area even larger than New York's 302 square miles. San Diego's 1.4 million residents would only amount to 16 percent to New York's population of 8.6 million. The City of San Diego's 2016 population density ranked below places like Anaheim and Las Vegas.
Basically, beaches and historic center aside, San Diego is all 'burbs.
Mode Share: D+
By raw numbers, San Diego has strong ridership. The San Diego Trolley, the city's light rail system and transit backbone, had a ridership of more than 37 million in 2017. That's about 65 percent more riders than Link in the same year.
Systemwide, San Diego ranks a respectable 13th in U.S. weekday boardings even though the metro area ranked 17th in U.S. estimated metro area population in 2017.
Here's the rub. I recently made a two week long visit to celebrate Christmas and a wedding. During that time, we were mostly driving—cars are, by far, the dominant mode in San Diego. I walked and bussed when I was getting around on my own on a handful of days. When I'd mention walking or busing to friends and relatives, I got confused and/or concerned reactions along with an offer for a ride.
That's because driving a car is the default for most San Diegans. The 2017 American Community Survey estimates that nearly 85% of San Diego county residents commute by car.
This is because transit is always slower than driving in San Diego. The city shares LA's spread out design, but not the congestion that belies central LA's surprising density. There are almost never traffic jams in San Diego: the freeways are vast, plentiful, and always moving.
When driving becomes to be painful and frustrating, cities often gain transit mode share. That's the phenomenon behind Seattle's recent, national-trend-defying transit ridership growth. In San Diego, driving is free and easy.
But there are those high ridership numbers. It's a paradox: San Diego has high raw rider numbers, but a low mode share for residents. Therefore, a large number of riders have to come from out of town.
They do, sort of. A large portion of MTS riders cross the international border from Mexico every day, and ride the Blue Line Trolley from Tijuana into central San Diego.
Transit Centers: B-
San Diego's transit centers are a mixed bag. I started and ended my trips on the Trolley system at the Old Town Transit Center, a major bus transfer point and a Coaster commuter rail stop.
The Old Town Transit Center is marooned far from the dense, populous neighborhood, Point Loma, that it's closest to. It's on the wrong side of Interstate 5, and very close to the massive clover junction of I-5 and Interstate 8. I reached the transit center via a slow-moving local bus route, which struggled through freeway on- and off-ramp traffic without signal priority. The transfer environment was fine, but probably would not have felt safe at night.
Downtown, the rider experience is pretty good. The same is true in the fairly dense neighborhoods east of downtown. There, I found the experience to be similar to using Portland's system, with at-grade stops and platforms at similar height to the sidewalk. Passengers walked across active track mid-platform without an afterthought.
Wayfinding for Trolley lines was solid. Transfers between trains are easy and well-marked. Most of the time, center platforms allow passengers to stay put and wait for the right train to arrive.
Bus transfers were more confusing. I didn't see any signage directing me towards bus routes or bus-only destinations, and had to wander around the City College Transit Center to find the correct BRT line, which stopped on the other side of the block—several BRT-branded stops were in the vicinity, creating confusion. While wandering, I missed a bus, and had to wait about ten minutes before another arrived.
The Trolley doesn't run anywhere close to San Diego's weirdly small and centrally-located airport, which is only about 2 miles away from downtown. Unfortunately, the airport's closest Trolley station is about the same distance from the air terminal, at about 1.7 miles. A pedestrian would have to navigate busy streets and several large parking lots to make the trip.
The most interesting transit center I encountered was at the Blue Line's terminus at the San Ysidro Border Crossing. (More on that in a later post.) Tens of thousands of commuters from Mexico traverse the border on foot every day, and ride the Trolley into the center of town.
Trolley Right of Way: B
San Diego has done a solid job giving the Trolley its own right of way. At no point does it share track with car lanes. However, it does run at grade for significant portions of the system, particularly downtown, which means the Trolley must cross busy intersections. The train does seem to have signal priority, but on my downtown trips, it did have to wait a few times for the light to change and crossing bars to drop.
Elsewhere, the Trolley enjoys elevated grade separation reminiscent of Link, and even a subway station at San Diego State University. The Green Line is almost entirely grade separated, running through the densifying Mission Valley area at elevation.
A major, largely elevated extension of the Blue Line is underway to UCSD in La Jolla. UCSD students and faculty will enjoy a one seat ride to the Mexico border when it opens.
My experience on the Route 215 "BRT" line was frustrating. The 215 doesn't have its own right of way, as far as I could tell, for any of its length, except for a handful of island platforms in the middle of busy arterials. The 215 definitely doesn't have signal priority, waiting in long light cycles. There wasn't any offboard payment option.
As far as I could tell, the only thing that made the 215 anything like BRT was branding, inaccurate real-time arrival information, and upgraded shelters at stops.
It's a shame, because the part of town that the 215 serves is densifying and could turn into something like near North Seattle. Several walkable neighborhoods, and major draws like Balboa Park, the San Diego Zoo, museums, and SDSU, could be knitted together quite easily by high-quality bus service. At present, the 215 is just not as good an option as driving.
That's how I'd sum up my experience on MTS. The Trolley is a high-quality service, but the limitations imposed by sprawl and mediocre bus service mean that transit will probably remain a last resort in San Diego for a long time.


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2 bucket car wash method
2 Bucket Car Wash Method is the most efficient and cost effective way of cleaning your car
Swirl-marks, spider webs and light scratches are easy to put into your car's paint surface during the process of washing and drying your car, if incorrect techniques and products are used.
Those light marks that are easy to see in the sun, are usually caused by dirt and grit particles being rubbed against the paint surface and actually 'scratching' it permanently.
Washing and drying your car safely should be easy if you use quality products and good techniques. The 2 bucket method combined with a microfibre mitt and waffle weave drying towel should virtually eliminate swirls and leave your car looking great.
In addition if your car's paint is 'protected' with a quality sealant or wax then these swirl-marks are harder to put in, mostly because dirt cannot stick to the car as easily and therefore more will rinse off before washing.
Tips before starting:
Always work in the shade or inside and ensure the car and paint surface is cool.
What you need:
A hose or pressure washer, a soft wash mitt – preferably microfibre or lambswool, a soft drying towel – preferably waffle weave microfibre or similar, 2 buckets, and a quality pH neutral shampoo.
Take your first bucket add one or two capfuls of pH neutral shampoo, this small amount is usually suffice for a quality one. Take the second bucket and fill with just clean fresh water to rinse your mitt.
Then thoroughly hose / rinse off your car to remove any loose dirt and dust, starting from the roof down.
Take your soft microfibre wash mitt and load it with shampoo solution from the first bucket, squeeze over the section of the car you are going to wash. Lightly wash over this section, applying no pressure to the surface – then put your mitt straight into the second bucket, this will rinse out any dirt collected from the car.
Next re-load your mitt with shampoo solution from the first bucket and wet the next area of the car. Again lightly wash over this area with the mitt, then go straight back in the second bucket to rinse.
Follow this 2-bucket method over every section of the car until complete.
Take your hose or pressure washer and rinse off the shampoo well from the roof down, good shampoos should not leave any residue behind.
For the drying stage take a microfibre waffle weave drying towel and start to dry your car section by section, preferably in a straight direction following the lines of the car. This super soft cloth will reduce the chance of marking your paintwork but will still hold lots of water. When full of water, simply wring out and then wipe over the next area.
Once you have finished the outside of the car, take a second smaller cloth that is easier to use when nearer the ground, and wipe over the door surrounds to soak up any last water. A second cloth is advisable also because in these areas you are likely to collect more dirt particles, that you do not want to put near the rest of the paint, it can easily scratch and mark.
For enthusiasts who want to add extra protection to their car, the regular wash stage is the perfect time. For a quick boost to gloss and protection something like Duragloss Aquawax can be used after rinsing and before drying. Or for an added shine and protection after drying; use a Protection Quick Detailer like Red Mist or Fast Clean & Shine.
Ongoing Tips & Troubleshooting:
Always rinse your mitt in the top-half of the second/rinse bucket, this will allow all dirt to fall out of the mitt freely and fall to the bottom, thus leaving you with a perfectly clean mitt for the entire wash. Your shampoo bucket should remain clean to the end and therefore not offer any chance of putting dirt particles back on the car as you wash.
Never rub or scrub your paint, this type of abrasive motion will scratch. For stubborn stains like bugs and bird droppings that will not simply wash off; rinse thoroughly first. Then take a soft cloth or towel, soak it in the shampoo solution and place over the bugs or droppings and leave for 5 minutes. Try to wash off again with the mitt, if the marks are still stubborn, repeat the soaking for another 5 minutes and then wash off.
If your car's paint is 'protected' with a quality sealant or wax, swirl-marks are harder to put in, this is mostly because dirt cannot stick to the car as easily and therefore more will rinse off before washing.


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Adrian Holmes
Acteur de 46 ans (31 mars 1974)
Adrian Holmes is an actor with various television and movie appearances. His TV work includes a recurring role as Basqat on the long running, the WB/CW television series Smallville.
Holmes was born in Wrexham, North Wales, and lived in both Liverpool and Chester, before moving to Canada at the age of five. The eldest of three boys, Holmes loved to entertain as a child, doing Michael Jackson impressions for anyone who would watch. After high school, Holmes studied nursing at Douglas College and worked at Vancouver General Hospital.
Holmes studied in Vancouver with acting coach Larry Moss and in New York City at Black Nexxus Inc. at the Times Square Arts Center. In 2004, Holmes received a LEO award nomination for Best Guest Performance for his work in the series The Collector. He currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. He auditioned and was considered for the role of Richie Ryan in Highlander:the series earlier in his career.


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Dr Joel Fuhrman's motto is "Smart Nutrition, Superior Health", and that's the basis for his nutritional plan, "Eat for Health", also known as the anti cancer diet.
By extensively researching and cataloging the data from numerous studies, he has found a list of foods he believes are superior, and some that are criminal. His
eating plan also balances the body, allowing for weight gain.
H = N / C is Fuhrman's equation, standing for Health = Nutrients / Calories. This is the formula he uses to calculate the nutrient density of a person's diet. He theorizes that cancer protection comes from eating the foods that have more nutritional value than calories and avoiding the empty ones.
Anti Cancer Diet – The Method
The anti cancer diet requires the dieter to 1 raw salad, 2 cooked veggies, raw nuts and seeds, and 4 fruits. An acronym, G-BOMBS, was developed to teach proper eating protocol: greens, veggies, beans, onions, mushrooms, berries, seeds.
A pound of greens is approximately 100 calories, and the density of the nutrients is higher than any other food. Cruciferous vegetables have glucosinolates, which convert to isothiocyanates in the body. Isothiocyanates are a chemical with anti-cancer properties, known to remove carcinogens and stop tumors from connecting to a blood supply.
Beans are a nutrient-dense carbohydrate source, high in soluble fiber and resistant starch. This allows them to stabilize blood sugar and lower cholesterol. The fatty acids from beans help prevent colon cancer.
The allium family consists of onions, garlic, chives, and scallions, all known for a chemical called organosulfur. Like isothiocyanites, organosulfur inhibits cancer growths by removing carcinogens and halting cancer cell growth.
High in antioxidants such as quercetin, onions induce cell death in colon cancer.
Chinese studies have found that women who eat 1 mushroom each day have a 64% decreased risk of breast cancer. All the major mushroom types are known for having some
property or another; anti-inflammatory, immuno-stimulating, cancer-cell killing, another property to be added to the list is estrogen-inhibiting. Mushrooms are high in aromatase inhibitors, the same drugs sold to treat breast cancer.
However, always cook mushrooms as they contain agaritine, a carcinogen that breaks down in heat. Berries are more than worthy of the superfood title. High in antioxidants and flavonoids, berries protect the heart, reduce inflammation, protect the DNA, and even
reduces the risk of diabetes. They've even been credited with the improvement of motor function and memory.
Seeds are high in fats.. healthy fats. The human crusade against the fatty chains that heal our body has deprived us of phytosterols, lignans, and omega-3s. Lignans are known to have anti-cancer effects, omega-3s are known to protect the heart and maintain brain function while reducing inflammation, and phytosterols inhibit cancer growth.
The Reasoning Behind The Anti Cancer Diet
Using this information as the basis, he has created a new type of diet type, developing what he calles Nutritarians, people who eat for nutritional value.
His process starts with understanding and finding solutions for food addiction. By teaching nutrient density values, he explains how to change our thoughts to stop our "slow suicide" by food.
Getting organized and being prepared allows a dieter to cook some meals ahead of time, leaving them more free time overall.
Teaching the practicality of frozen vegetables in modern life, he guides a dieter into better habits, re-training the person's taste buds to enjoy flavor over salt and sugar. By channeling cravings for sweets into nutrient-dense foods, this diet teaches the dieter to accept their natural sweet tooth and reward it with fruits, such as berries, to continue healing and building their body.
By informing the dieter of the proper way to take in vitamins and minerals, this diet teaches a person long-lasting skills related to superior health.
Ten Foods to Eat; Ten Foods to Avoid
The Anti Cancer diet follows a similar list to most diets.
- Eat lots of green, leafy vegetables, cruciferous vegetables, berries, beans, mushrooms, onions, nuts,seeds.. the whole foods everyone knows and loves.
However, his list to avoid includes
- luncheon meats, smoked meat, barbecued meat, red meat, salted foods, soda,sausage, donuts, trans-fat containing foods such as stick margarine, sugary dairy products like ice cream and high-sugar yogurts, and white flours and sugars.
- All these anti cancer diet foods should be avoided like the plague!
Some of this list is well-known, such as the refined items, however, luncheon meats and red meats have been linked to cancer, and should be avoided on the anti cancer diet ,as such.
All in all, the anti cancer diet is a plan to use natural cancer-fighting chemicals in foods found in our normal grocery stores to do amazing things.
- For breakfasts, mix some blueberries in yogurt and drink a cup of green tea.
- For dinner, make a bowl of curried beans over quinoa.
- Turmeric suppresses tumor growth.
Make your meals your medication, and live a long and healthy life.
There you have some really good information about the anti cancer diet and if you follow this advice you just may be one of the lucky ones who lives cancer free.
Also, by Dr. Joel Furhman…the Eat To Live Diet..a must read


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Lloyd loves shrimp. I mean he loves shrimp. If it were legal to marry crustaceans, our marriage would be in some kinda trouble. (Well, except that he'd go to jail for eating his spouses… probably for a long time considering the polygamy/murder thing.)
I do not love shrimp. I do not love lobster. Once I went to a very fancy restaurant and ordered lobster, and when the waiter brought it out I suddenly remembered some documentary that showed the mama lobster doing a handstand in the water and shaking all the tiny lobster babies loose from her abdomen into the sea, and suddenly I was not hungry for this very expensive critter. No amount of butter could wash away that vision.
Shrimp are kind of the same. I can eat a couple if they are pre-shelled, despite the fact that it feels like eating a caterpillar. Lloyd had a pound left over from New Year's, so he finished them off this week. We boiled them, though there are many ways to prepare them, and he ate them over noodles for two dinners. Note: A pound of shrimp is not actually extravagant that way. However, they will stink up the house mightily.
Look at those sad little legs.


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Russia has announced a further round of expulsions of British diplomats, escalating the fallout over the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
Britain has pointed the finger firmly at the Kremlin for the Salisbury attack and expelled 23 Russian diplomats, a move swiftly followed in kind by Russia, which also closed down the British Council, the cultural arm of the British government.
The Russians have now ordered Britain to reduce its diplomatic staff in Russia to the same level as Russian diplomatic missions in the UK. It comes after irritation in Moscow that Britain has persuaded so many other countries to expel Russians.
Russian officials have been taken aback by the level of coordination in the expulsions, and the number of countries willing to go along with Britain. The US expelled 60 Russian diplomats and Ukraine 13, while many other countries expelled smaller numbers.
In total, more than 150 Russian diplomats, many of whom are believed to be intelligence operatives working under diplomatic cover, have been expelled from two dozen countries.
On Thursday, Russia made symmetrical responses to all the countries that expelled its diplomats, and now Britain has been given 30 days to reduce the number of stationed in Russia.
Russia's foreign ministry summoned the British ambassador, Laurie Bristow, on Friday morning in light of the "provocative and unsubstantiated actions by Britain, which instigated the expulsion of Russian diplomats from various nations for no reason".
"It's regrettable but in light of Russia's previous behaviour, we anticipated a response," said a spokesperson for the UK Foreign Office (FCO). "However, this doesn't change the facts of the matter. The attempted assassination of two people on British soil, for which there is no alternative conclusion other than that the Russian state was culpable."
It was not immediately clear how many people work at Russia's UK missions and therefore how many British diplomats in Russia will need to be shed.
The Russian embassy in London said via a Twitter direct message that "the British side is aware of the figures in question" but declined to give a number, while a spokesperson for the embassy in Moscow said it was too early to say, and that the FCO did not give figures for employees at its missions due to security reasons.
Russia has vehemently denied being behind the attack on Skripal, who was sent to Britain during a 2010 spy swap. Scientists have determined the Skripals were poisoned using novichok, a nerve agent produced in the Soviet Union.
The preferred narrative in Russia is that Britain orchestrated the attack as a "false flag" operation to cast blame on Russia. Andrei Bezrukov, formerly a deep cover Russian spy in the US, said on state television this week that the poisoning was a diversionary tactic organised by the Tory government to save Theresa May.
The foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, has suggested the same, posting on Facebook a clip from the 1980s comedy Yes Prime Minister, in which the characters consider expelling Russian diplomats to distract attention from a scandal at home.
Zakharova has said the response to the Salisbury incident has been "a huge manipulation of public opinion with the participation of the British authorities", while Russian officials have accused the UK of hiding evidence.
On Thursday, reports emerged that Yulia Skripal, 33, is conscious and talking, having apparently made a surprising recovery from what was considered a grave condition. Her father's condition is described as critical but stable.
Investigators continue a massive operation to determine how the poisoning took place, with the latest reports suggesting the poison was most likely placed on the front door handle at Skripal's house.


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The Sochi Winter Olympics, which begin next week, will forever be known as Putin's Games. However they eventually pan out, Russia's President has staked a good deal of political capital on their success — not to mention plenty of actual capital, too — and his legacy will ultimately be coloured by that of the project he has spearheaded from the get-go. At more than $50 billion, Putin's Games can claim to be the most expensive in history, costing five times more than original estimates, $10 billion more than Beijing, and more than all previous Winter Olympics combined. They have already won gold by a significant margin in terms of alleged corruption as well. Whether or not they become the most violent — and terrorist attacks in Volgograd in December have raised concerns that they might — remains an open question.
One person interested in the answer is Dr Mark Galeotti (@MarkGaleotti), clinical professor of global affairs at New York University and an expert in Russian security affairs and transnational organised crime. Not that he expects to see the sort of attack within Sochi that many have expressed concern about.
"Making predictions is always giving a hostage to fortune," Galeotti told Crikey, "but I think an actual attack inside the security cordon is unlikely. The massive security operation is frankly as good as the Russians reasonably could mount, considering the limitations on protecting any such public event. It's not quite how Western powers would try to secure an event, to be sure, but that shouldn't blind us to the measures that have been taken.
"I think the real threat will be to other Russian cities," he said. "The insurgents need to launch attacks to keep up their propaganda initiative, but Sochi may be too hard a target. Instead, they're likely to look at other cities in the country's south, close enough to benefit from the international media spotlight, but less well-protected, especially as some of those cities' police have been sent to guard the Games."
The problem for Putin is that the narrative he hoped might surround the event — which he has always seen as "an opportunity to show the world just how efficient, solvent and welcoming the new Russia could be under his wise leadership", as Galeotti puts it — keeps being hijacked by competing ones. In the same way that Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader and anti-corruption activist, has commandeered the narrative of the Games with his remarkable online compendium of alleged corruption, so too have the North Caucasus' insurgents wrested from presidential control the terms in which the event will be experienced and remembered. "Simply by shaping the debate, by making the Sochi story one about terrorism, the rebels are actually winning the political campaign at the moment," Galeotti said.
"But the actual threats to Sochi are, as much as anything else, economic, environmental (the ecological damage has been appalling), political and reputational. And the terrible quality of much construction there means that I wouldn't be that surprised if something collapsed, flooded or otherwise embarrassed the government in the next month."
For all Sochi's shortcomings, it also worth remembering that the hubris and cronyism surrounding the event merely represent "an especially egregious case" of a tendency common not only among Olympic host cities, but among host cities for any number of such large-scale events. Vladimir Putin may be "desperate for his grandstanding moment", as Galeotti puts it, but he is hardly the first national leader of whom this has been true.
"In a sane world, no national government should bid for any of these sporting mega-events," Galeotti said. "Much is made of their value to tourism, the chance to increase a country's global profile, the legacy benefits. But when do these ever genuinely benefit the host country, or at least host population? They are vanity projects for national leaderships and cash cows for certain industries."
Galeotti has written 11 books (two of which are forthcoming) and edited several more. (Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991 came out last year and was a surprise hit for Osprey Publishing, which will follow it up with Russia's Wars in Chechnya 1994-2009 in December.) But he hardly limits himself to the ivory tower or the world of academic publishing. In addition to writing for op-eds for multiple newspapers, appearing on cable news shows and regularly co-hosting Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's excellent Power Vertical podcast with Brian Whitmore, he is an active participant in the thriving online community of Anglo-American Russia-watchers, professional and amateur alike, whose Twitter feeds and blogs constitute one of the most passionate and, at times, venomous conversations on the internet. (Galeotti prefers the term "Russia-watcher" to more pejorative terms like "Russophile" and "Russophobe", which he rejects as "sterile, unhelpful and often applied in a laughably crass way — and I say this as someone who has been described as both a 'pathological Russophobe' and a 'Kremlin stooge'".) Like Galeotti's blog, In Moscow's Shadows, his Twitter feed is a must-read for anyone interested, not only in the Sochi's "ring of steel", but also in Russian security issues more generally.
"On the one hand, Twitter's my curated news service," he said. "Most things that happen in the world that match my interests? Odds are that someone I follow will tweet it. Secondly, it's a place for conversation.
"The problem, needless to say, is that often there is little meeting of minds, and instead a reliance on assertion, passion and downright character assassination. That's not unique to discussion about Russia, of course, but it is a country which tends to arouse particular passions, for reasons historical and political.
"Twitter's also a dangerous potential time-sink and it's important to realise that not all human life is there."
Which is one of the reasons he tends to keep the particulars of his own life away from it.
"My Twitter feed is like a dot-to-dot image of who I am and what interests me," Galeotti said, "but only insofar as my professional interests are concerned. I've never been into the blended personal/public exposure of the trivia of my life.
"I'm generally not going to be tweeting what I had for breakfast alongside my views on violence in Ukraine or the latest gangster hit."
Mark Galeotti's #FF:
- The Calvert Journal (@calvertjournal): "An eclectic guide to Russian culture that helps show how dynamic and exciting it can be."
- The Interpreter (@Interpreter_Mag): "A great sources of analysis on Russia and, especially, translations of Russian press articles that deserve a wider audience."
- OCCRP (@OCCRP), which "provides often-amazing and ground-breaking research into organised crime's impact, conducted by brave, brilliant journalists."
- RuNet Echo (@runetecho): "An essential guide to what's going on in the Russian infosphere."
- Russian History Blog (@RussHistBlog): "A great collection of history-oriented bloggers."
On Putin's determination to host the Winter Olympics …
When Putin launched his bid to host the Sochi Winter Olympics, everything seemed to be going his way. The economy was strong, with money to spare for such a venture. The Chechen resistance was pretty much smashed, and the other North Caucasus jamaats were not yet as strong or as active as now. Politically, he was unassailable. So Sochi 2014 was going to be the opportunity to show the world just how far the country had come.
Ah, hubris, what ambushes you lead us to, with a cheery twinkle in your eye!
The world fell into the Great Recession, with Russia's hydrocarbon economy still performing pretty sluggishly now. The fires of the North Caucasus burned ever higher. And Putin, insulated behind an increasingly thick wall of yes-men, failed to realise just how badly his public-private machine could work, especially when allowed such free rein to embezzle. And Putin, being Putin, hopes to succeed by bulling through, with the odd sacrificial sacking here and televised dressing-down of a subordinate there.
It may still work, if the Games go off smoothly, but the odds are not great. Already the terrorism issue is overshadowing much, the preparations are behind schedule and often terribly shoddy, and the scope for further upsets considerable. The best I think Putin can hope for politically is to break even.
Overall, I can see why he made the decisions he did back then, but even so there were worrying indicators of potential trouble ahead to be seen. He chose to ignore them. Ultimately, he made the call and chose to spend $50 billion on Sochi instead of roads and pensions.
On Chechnya, Doku Umarov and the legacy of Russia's wars in the republic …
[In the middle of January, Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov claimed that Doku Umarov, a Chechen Islamist militant and the self-proclaimed Emir of the Caucasus Emirate, had been killed. I asked Galeotti if he believed the reports.]
We've been here before. Umarov's greatest (and perhaps only) talent is Not Being Killed, so it's a tough call. I think that this time he probably is dead or, as he has before, lying low somewhere as he recovers from a serious injury. But I don't think it will make a great difference to the situation on the ground: even a more able and charismatic "emir" — and that's not exactly the highest bar to vault — would be unlikely to be able to bring great cohesion to the diffuse insurgent forces of the North Caucasus. And even if one did, that might actually make them more vulnerable to the Russians.
The Chechen wars did not exactly spawn the insurgencies in the rest of the North Caucasus, but it certainly helped galvanise them and add the distinct jihadist discourse to what were essentially struggles against alien and corrupt misrule. And Ramzan Kadyrov's regime is in many ways the very epitome of the worst characteristics of Putinism, shorn of any moral, legal, cultural or political constraints, so it is also a useful benchmark and cautionary tale.
To be honest, it's actually very difficult to untangle Chechnya, Putin, the resurgence of Russian militarism and nationalism, xenophobia on the streets and an antagonistic relationship with civil society at home and human rights institutions abroad. I could no more say that Chechnya caused these other problems as that it is just a symptom of them. It's both, and also a handy lens through which to look at the differences between Yeltsin's wasteful and rudderless "time of troubles" and Putin's often clumsy and brutal but in some ways necessary "gathering of the Russian lands" after that decade of self-indulgence and drift.
I can't claim any deep on-the-ground knowledge of the North Caucasus. I mostly work from secondary or out-of-area sources. I do this for all kinds of reasons, including my general lack of enthusiasm for being kidnapped, shot or arrested. But also because I don't present to be a North Caucasus culture specialist. Indeed, for my work on Chechen gangsters I am far more interested in what they are doing in Moscow or, indeed, Munich.
It may be naive of me, but I don't believe any area is doomed to eternal misery, even if the North Caucasus tests that optimism to the fullest. Ultimately, though, the problems of the region are products primarily of poverty and imperialism, and both of these are just as serious at the moment as they were 50 or 100 years ago, alas. Unless and until they are addressed, then it's hard to see the region moving forward. But just Europe has moved surprisingly quickly from being a cockpit of conflict and xenophobia into a strikingly stable and unified region, and just as in fifty years the spites and feuds of the Balkans will probably be history, so too is there definite hope for the North Caucasus. Even anvils rust and break over time.
On the Ukrainian protests …
What we're seeing in Kiev is qualitatively different to the anti-Putin protests of 2011-12 and reflects, I believe, the equally qualitatively different threat the state realises it is facing. This is a malign combination of panic and irresolution: less panic would mean a softer hand, as in Moscow; more resolution might mean a sustained and methodical campaign of violence, as in Tiananmen Square. In Ukraine, political and economic protest combine with nationalism in a way we don't see in Russia. And a tradition of having genuinely contested elections and changes of government, as well as the Orange Revolution, has been a powerful force in the political imaginary: people can believe they might be able to force change onto the government in a way fewer can in Russia.
This is, after all, one of the two key challenges for the Russian opposition: make people believe that they can actually achieve something. (The other is building a real political machine: you can't rely purely on Twitter, vKontakte and the hipsterati of Moscow; ultimately you need people willing to knock on doors and hand out leaflets in Khabarovsk and Krasnodar.)
On corruption as a national security threat …
Corruption is a practical security issue in that it drains budgets of money that is meant to be spent on security. But far more serious is the way in which it drains professionalism and legitimacy. Corruption is the magic universal key that can unlock any border, open any security seal. When corruption is endemic, every state secret is potentially available for auction, every guardian is for hire, every law and regulation is just the start of a negotiation. And, just as importantly, so long as people know this, why should they trust the laws and their makers and enforcers? The lives of ordinary Russians may seem — and are — worlds apart from those magnates and officials pocketing huge sums from Sochi, but as above, so below: when people know that this is how the bosses behave, then of course they will believe they have the same license to thieve.
On the need to listen to more Russian voices …
Putin is not an alien invader. He came into power because figures within the elite, from Yeltsin down, needed someone like him, and he stays there not just because the elite find him useful but also because enough of the population regard him as the right man for the job. Russians are no more gullible than anyone else. To this end, rather than talking just about the machinations of elite politics, however important they are, or the aspirations of reformers, however laudable they may be, but to consider more clearly what Russians of different strata are looking for in their leadership. Without getting mired in the Orientalism of the historical/political culture debate (that so often defaults to "the Russian is comfortable with the firm hand of the state and become nervous and giddy when granted excessive freedom"), let's try and listen to Russian voices more.


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The founder of the global chemicals group Huntsman, Jon M. Huntsman, died on February 2nd in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Huntsman was a pioneer in the chemical industry, having founded the Huntsman Container Company in 1970, which revolutionised packaging and plastics, and was the initial predecessor to what is today known as Huntsman Corporation. In 1974, he created the clamshell container for fast-food sandwiches and went on to invent as many as 30 other popular products, including the first plastic plates and bowls.
Jon M Huntsman
In 1995, he contributed $100 million to set up the Huntsman Cancer Institute, a pioneer in genetic research and treatment in Salt Lake City.
Peter Huntsman, his son and head of Huntsman, said: "Some 10,000 Huntsman employees today mourn the loss of our founder - Dad loved to visit our sites around the world. Many of our employees knew him personally, and he knew many of them by name. All respected him deeply. They regarded my father as their personal coach, mentor and friend. While never a chemist, he knew more about human chemistry than anyone I have ever met.
"His passion was building a great company from assets and people that others had seen less value in than he. He leaves behind a great company, but even more so, a legacy of optimism, ethical behaviour and philanthropy that will serve as his greatest accomplishments."


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Bideford Bar
I was against one of the most pompous and self-important barristers IŌĆÖve ever met today (which is saying something). It was a very small personal injury action in which a fisherman was claiming for whiplash as a result of a Russian registered boat having accidentally knocked his own boat. If there was any doubt as to what my opponent thought of himself, you only had to look at the italicised description that he had put of himself at the bottom of his lengthy (and almost incomprehensible) skeleton argument: ŌĆ£BigHead is a world renowned expert [IŌĆÖm not kidding] in private international law and in particular shipping and the commercial matters which arise therefrom. He travels extensively throughout the world [donŌĆÖt we all on our holidays] and also acts as an expert witness for English law in this area.ŌĆØ
Except that today we werenŌĆÖt in Monaco or Athens but instead we were in the county court of Barnstaple and it was clear that the deputy district judge had the measure of my opponent from the moment he started addressing the judge as ŌĆ£My LordŌĆØ. ŌĆ£Well, Mr BigHead, itŌĆÖs very nice of you to visit our humble little court here in North Devon. Must be quite a change from what you are used to.ŌĆØ
Without even realising that the judge was ribbing him, BigHead replied, ŌĆ£Indeed, though I have to say that I find itŌĆÖs good for the soul to do a few of these little cases now and again and to remind one what the rest of the profession has to put up with.ŌĆØ
Ouch. But that wasnŌĆÖt the end of it.
ŌĆ£Well, Mr BigHead,ŌĆØ said the judge. ŌĆ£IŌĆÖve read your extremely thorough skeleton argument and as I understand it your main point is that we do not have jurisdiction to hear such a weighty matter as this and that instead it should properly be heard in the Admiralty Court in London?ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£Precisely, My Lord. I have absolutely no idea why anyone would even have dreamt that such a case could be heard in a county court.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£I see. Just for the sake of completeness, do you have any further points to add beyond the skelton?ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£No, my Lord, I think it makes the point fully.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£Yes, quite.ŌĆØ The judge then turned to me. Now I have to admit that jurisdiction had not even been something I had considered and given that IŌĆÖd only received the skeleton that morning I was, to say the least, a little out of my depth on this point. I waited for the judge to start grilling me. ŌĆ£Now, Mr BabyBarista, he started. ŌĆ£I assume you want to rely upon section 27(1) of the County Courts Act 1984 which gives certain courts, including I might say this one, admiralty jurisdiction?ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£ErŌĆ"ŌĆØ I had the rabbit in the headlights look and as I stared at him I could actually make out that he was nodding at me as if telling me that was exactly what I wanted to be relying upon. ŌĆ£Er, yes, of course, Sir. IŌĆÖm extremely grateful. My point exactly.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£Excellent. Well, Mr BigHead, for a shipping lawyer as important as your skeleton says you are IŌĆÖm extremely surprised that you didnŌĆÖt know that a few of us coastal courts can also manage the odd bit of shipping law on the side.ŌĆØ
BigHead was lost for words. Then the judge added: ŌĆ£I donŌĆÖt know whether youŌĆÖve heard of the Bideford Bar, Mr BigHead but itŌĆÖs provided more than a few shipping cases in its time, I can tell you.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£Oh,ŌĆØ said BigHead. ŌĆ£IŌĆÖm afraid I hadnŌĆÖt heard of it. Does it have a particular specialisation in shipping?ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£You might say that,ŌĆØ said the judge with a wry smile before delivering the killer blow. ŌĆ£Though for your information itŌĆÖs a sand bar at the end of the estuary and has nothing to do your own, er,ŌĆØ he looked directly at BigHead, ŌĆ£esteemed profession.ŌĆØ
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barnacle bill - December 4, 2009
My father would have loved that, as a "Master Mariner" his ashes were scattered over Bideford Bar.
Whilst a long time before that I had been christened with water out of his ship's kettle at Appledore Quay!
I hope you enjoyed your time down there.


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Poultry Livestock Sensor System (PouLSS)
Academic team: Lucy Asher (Newcastle), Malcolm Mitchell (SRUC) & Alan McElligott (Roehampton)
Commercial team: Greengage, Campden BRI, Tioga
Project Aims: to create an environmental indicator and animal welfare monitoring system for intensive poultry production units.
Rationale: Real time monitoring of welfare and environmental parameters would improve productivity and welfare by enabling early and precise intervention.
Underpinning Science: Welfare measures which have been scientifically validated will be further developed to allow automation in the sensory system. These measures are: image analysis, vocalisations and thermography.


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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Anyone who has sat in traffic on I-94 headed north on a Friday knows that Minnesota's cabin culture is the real deal. But how many Minnesotans actually own cabins?
It's a difficult question to answer. According to data from the Minnesota Department of Revenue, about 122,000 properties have ID numbers assigned to "seasonal/recreational properties."
Jeff Forester, president of the Minnesota Seasonal Recreational Property Owners Coalition, breaks down the various types of properties.
"The majority are hunting shacks or cabins. For instance, the Legislative Districts with the most cabin owners living in them are up north around Virginia, International Falls. These are folks who have a house in town and cabin out in the woods," said Forester.
But not all of those 122,000 properties are owned by Minnesotans. According to Forester, about 21 percent are owned by non-residents.
Of course, there are a number of Minnesotans with properties in Wisconsin, Iowa or the Dakotas.
And that 122,000 property owners-number vastly underestimates the number of people who claim ownership of a cabin.
Mark Johnson, editor of Cabin Life Magazine, says we're all connected to a cabin somehow.
"If you don't have one you have one in the family, you have a friend who has one. [Cabin culture] may be beyond the American DNA, it's in our DNA as humans," said Johnson.
Early Minnesota cabin culture wasn't about driving hours to the cabin, it was about going to White Bear Lake or Lake Minnetonka.
The Thompson cottage on Minnetonka was completed in 1887, just 30 years after Minnesota became a state.
Photographer Doug Ohman took a look at 90 different cabins from around the state in his book "Cabins in Minnesota." He says that the cabin commute was largely traffic-free.
"The railroad or the trolley car took them out there back in the day," said Ohman.
At first, cabins were just for wealthy people to escape the pollution and heat of the city during the summer.
"The advent of the automobile opened it up for all of us; rich or poor or in between," he said.
Today, the Minnesota Seasonal Property Owners Coalition says the average cabin owner is 62 years old, the average household income is $58,000, and the average Minnesota cabin has been in the family for 25 years.
"This is something you want to hang on forever and pass on to your kids, your grandkids," said Johnson.
So take 122 thousand cabin owners, add the kids, grandkids and cousins: Forester from the owners group says you could easily have one million Minnesotans claiming a piece of a cabin.
"The cabin isn't about the structure, it's about the experience. That is part of our DNA in Minnesota. We have to get away," said Ohman.
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