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Sunday, January 6, 2013
Idle UFO musings
A lot of that accumulation was a [small compared to my actual collection of resources back home] minor mountain of purchases for a "mirror library" so as to have something to work with while I was here. Most --- well, maybe half --- of those things were duplicates of my real library so I've been carting them across the street to The Paradox Books store and giving them to Tom Stobart, the owner, for free to increase his meagre cash flow. I like Tom a lot, and he has a philosophy of selling things for 50cents. I've tried to talk him out of giving books by Heuvelmanns and Sanderson et al away for only that, and he may price things like In The Wake Of The Sea Serpent for a buck.
As I've given things to Tom and packed up others for home, almost all of the old classics passed one after another through my hands. It brought out to me that some things were FAR more helpful to the understanding of UFOlogy then in their days, and even now in ours. So my idle musing today is to say to myself: for those olden days of UFOlogy, which books were actually "helpful" and generally solid? Which of the oldtimers of the first 25 years or so would I recommend that people today have on their shelves, and hopefully read?
I'm going to pick ten. Anytime one does such a thing, it is bound to upset people in this world and all the way to Tau Ceti, but what-the-hell?, I'm old.
Allen Hynek's The UFO Experience. Allen was a teacher at heart and not at all well-suited for the bravado and extrovertism of the intelligence community. And he was an idealist in his style. So, when Allen left the UFO Project behind [or it he], he approached the field as a teacher would. I have found that people don't think of this book this way, but it is a textbook. Allen was defining "UFO" at the start, classifications of UFOs throughout the middle, and hoping to set the foundations of an academic discipline at the end.
Of course he failed. But it was a noble heroic try for a guy who didn't have much "hero" in him. Had the world been populated by reasonable exploring idealists like Allen, he would have pulled it off. We all know what the world is really composed of.
Despite who "we" are, Allen Hynek's textbook still stands tall. It's good. It's still a best beginning. Bless you, Allen --- given your timid personality and astounding naivete about the military community, you ultimately saw what was going on, and gave us your best. This book, being crafted by a scholarly mind, has the wonderful characteristic of being almost totally unemotional and objective. You are not going to find THAT many places in UFOlogy.
Since we're "here", we might as well list Allen's other book, as it deserves to be in the list too.
This is not at all a textbook but Allen's attempt to give a sort-of personal history of his involvement with the USAF years. It is not as unemotional as the UFO Experience either, as Allen was clearly embarrassed about his [particularly early] behavior "on the job" at Wright-Pat, and massages the history a little to make himself look a little better. Still, the UFOlogy in The Hynek UFO Report is almost always good and the history from his inside standpoint makes this a cherished primary resource. If one read his great book first, then Ruppelt's and then Keyhoe's second book, and followed that with this one, one would be reading a nearly seamless retelling of the early history of UFOs as close to the "inside" as was available for decades. I'd not hesitate for a moment in recommending both Allen's books.
There are UFOlogists who do not like Edward Ruppelt nor his book. They're wrong. They are about as wrong as anyone can be about anything in the field. Captain Ruppelt did this field a service which cannot be overstated. He gave us a pretty accurate look behind the mirror of the UFO project and it was a look loaded with frankness and humility --- as well as astonishing revelations about how good some of the cases that the USAF battled with were. This book is foundational. It in almost every sense inspires the scholar to pursue UFO history. It gives one energy to see, if the FOIA process paid off [and it ultimately did] what the intelligence community actually thought. It hints of the complexity of their divergent views, especially at how to manipulate the public's reactions to the mystery. And in doing all of this, and in stating flatly and honestly that the Air Force was looking at more than 25% unknowns, this book inspired many readers to become lifelong UFO researchers [including this writer, as it was my own "Wow!" moment.]
Shown above is a version of the old ACE undersized paperback edition. All rumpled and worn, it could easily be my own 1956 vintage copy, although mine did not evade ultimate disintegration. Just seeing it there is a nostalgic experience. Three years or so later, the phenomenon blessed me with a nice little well-behaved CE1 to cement what "St. Edward" had told me in his book. Should be on every genuinely interested person's shelves and read at least twice.
Here's the other thing which was nearly an insider look. Don Keyhoe was not inside the Project like Ruppelt was [or Hynek], but he was right at a friendly interface at the Pentagon. Showing up in history at the only fortunate time when powers in the Pentagon who wanted a gradual release of quality information were in the ascendent, Keyhoe benefitted from case releases from public information desk officer, Al Chop, who was getting the go ahead from superior officers such as Dewey Fournet and much higher. During that same golden year of 1952 which saw Ruppelt running Project Blue Book, Keyhoe received a few handfuls of very strong cases from Chop, which contradicted the repeated Air Force mantra about nothing in UFO work being interesting. From these releases came Keyhoe's second, and best by far, book: Flying Saucers from Outer Space.
In the book Keyhoe, as usual, gets almost all the speculations wrong while getting almost all the facts right. If you read the thing with an easy-to-do mental separation between these two elements, this becomes a walloping good UFO book and, when paired with Ruppelt's, a solid foundation for understanding what was happening without hysterics. You will come away from the Ruppelt/ Hynek/ Keyhoe experience with a pretty clear picture of NICAPian UFOlogy --- the UFOlogy which was dominant in the USAF from WWII through the 50s, and which seemed like it could not be anything but advanced aerial technology invading American airspace. No "high strangeness", just fast, maneuverable, solid craft which we can't catch.
This is the first Keyhoe book and the other one you should have on your shelves. Keyhoe's books are a mixed bag and after FSOS [book two] tend to slowly slide downhill in quality until falling off a cliff in his last book [Aliens from Space, or whatever's it's called]. The first book, The Flying Saucers Are Real, is not the resource that FSOS is, but definitely worth the read. Counterintuitively, I think that I'd recommend reading it AFTER reading the ones above. Once you set the real history in mind, reading the naive "first Keyhoe" battling the confusion of what he KNEW somehow to be a MAJOR mystery, becomes not only more understandable, but rather an entertaining Hoot on top of it. You can sit back with FSAR and follow "Just-the-facts-M'am" Don Keyhoe doing his Sgt.Friday impersonation on a 1940s detective hunt. Also, some of the stuff which was making Keyhoe's mind reel, and which left him in tumble-down confusion, will occasionally at least, make you nod and say to yourself: yes, I can see what THAT was and why Keyhoe couldn't understand it [yet]. This was the second UFO book I read, and the last until after getting my PhD and beginning to follow the mystery, still fully inoculated by Keyhoe, Ruppelt, and my own sighting. ... a long trail looking back.
In the 1950s there were very few things in book form which one could read about UFOs which weren't either incompetent or manipulative. Menzel's book was a travesty of intellectual dishonesty by a guy who enjoyed playing pseudoscientific mindgames with people just to go on an ego trip. On the other end of the spectrum were the contactee books, which were usually entirely lies. If they were not lies, they were the productions of delusional minds. I don't say these harsh words lightly. I've studied hundreds of pages of Menzelian correspondence [gawd, what an experience!], and many more of the contactees [I do, afterall house the George Hunt Williamson files, all 15 drawers of them]. There is something in Menzel, admittedly. As the Colorado Project concluded: Menzel was almost always wrong but occasionally his odd atmospheric illusions-style of debunking was correct or at least a possibility. AND there is "something" in the contactees. Mostly just liars, but some are trance control automatic writers so whatever THAT phenomenon is all about should be taken seriously, though, in my analysis, having nothing to do with UFOs.
But, thankfully, the book above, by Aime Michel [with some help from Lex Mebane and CSI-NY] contains none of that crap. Reporting largely on the 1954 European wave, Michel in The Truth About Flying Saucers gives us not only a needed expansion upon purely US-style UFOlogy but also the clear-minded logic which characterizes him. For the vast majority of the pages, this is rock-solid UFOlogy. I, in fact, like it more than his second book, which, although creative in attempting a statistical proof that UFOs represent an intelligently-directed phenomenon, chases what is to me the red herring of "orthoteny", or "The Straight Line Mystery". Even without those theories though, TTAFS did not quite live up to Lex Mebane's high standards. He mainly, and Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher providing support, translated and supplemented the book for the US audience. The publisher [and maybe Michel himself] included a title [and various wordings in the text] which Lex could not countenance. They were too overpositive, too absolute, not cautiously-worded enough. Lex took a copy of the book, changed the title to "Light on the Flying Saucers" with a paste-over, edited the text, and passed on the marked up version to Ivan Sanderson and SITU, where it resides today. Maybe Lex was a little too rough on the editor or maybe not, but TTAFS is a solidly good read, and one of the rare early ones.
When the later 1950s came along and it was obvious that there was essentially nothing that you could hand a naive reader to begin to convince them that UFOs were worth talking about, NICAP felt that void. They were trying to assault the halls of Congress in hopes of opening up Air Force files through congressional investigation, but had no way to get any politician to show any interest --- they would occasionally make a little progress with a single congressman by the method of a UFO incident happening in their district, some stupid-to-insulting USAF announcement made about it, and having a NICAP member from that district "write their congressman" demanding an explanation for the USAF snub. [this is what later happened in a "perfect storm of incompetence" in the 1966 Swamp Gas situation.]
What NICAP needed was an easily readable "hammer" to hit people between the eyes. So Dick Hall went to work. The UFO Evidence was one of the hardest UFO publications to create in our history. Dick took a few years to finish the final version. What NICAP had in the end was a mighty monograph of hundreds of cases in lists with thumbnail descriptions of examples of each category arrayed. Categories of pilot sightings, scientist-engineer sightings, radar sightings etc each had their chapters with their truncated "Anvil Chorus" of many instances. It was a good try and still a valuable tool today. It failed at the time because it came just too late in the NICAP/USAF war which was fought for congress' attention. By the time The Hammer was ready, the USAF had cleverly maneuvered to reinforce the door. Today what you have is a pretty good research document with just small errors of detail here and there, always in my experience understandable as to how Dick got an occasional date or fact wrong. It's a good book and moreso an honorable piece of our history.
Because Hynek had not yet published, by the mid-late 1960s there was really no orderly scientific approach to UFOs available in any normal literary form. Jacques Vallee put a stop to that deficit with his twin volumes Anatomy of a Phenomenon and Challenge to Science. Good books. Jacques Vallee at his best in the minds of many in the serious UFO research community. Even the Air Force, astoundingly, liked them and in one year actually listed one of them in its recommended readings lists on its public relations publications. [This was quickly "rectified" and Vallee's book was replaced by Menzel's the following year].
Vallee's twins are the source of many persons' interests in UFOs in the generation following my own "Ruppelt generation". In them Jacques talks about cases, statistics, science, all in a scholarly and highly intriguing fashion. In his approach, he is trying in his own style to do what Hynek would shortly also try to do: make UFOs a reasonable field of study. Hynek's approach is more traditionally "academic", but his and Vallee's [in these two volumes] are certainly soul-mates. Solid intellectual stuff done before Jacques became disappointed in the intractability of the phenomenon in yielding to science methods, as well as his concerns that what we might call "social" or "organizational" elements were working against a solution, making things nearly impossible. But that latter is not the Vallee of these books, and regardless of what's right in the end, these are two good presentations to have.
The final in my list of ten oldtime classics is the first true attempt at writing a scholarly history of how we humans handled/ botched the UFO mystery. Coming just after the Colorado Report, it was a proper time for an outstanding university [Wisconsin] to grant a graduate student [David Jacobs] the green light to research UFO history for a PhD thesis. Dave did, and so we have The UFO Controversy In America. The thesis was turned into a marvelous history book through the University of Indiana Press and as such is one of the very few things associated with UFOs ever granted admission through any of the channels of academe.
This is a really good history book. Regardless of what anyone wants to think about UFO abductions and Dave's later non-historical work, he is still one of the sharper knives in the drawer when it comes to intellectual analysis and writing and this book shows it. It has stood the test of time astonishingly. In fact, if it were not for such a huge amount of new information via FOIA, and the ability of those FOIA successes to get us finally behind the curtain of secrecy, Robert Powell, I, and the rest of the UFO History Group would not have had to write UFOs and Government and I could have saved four years.
So.... if I had to pick ten oldtimers which still offer something to the modern reader [and these offer a LOT, especially when one values sanity], these are they. There are quite a few more modern books that one should have on one's shelves, but not as many as one would hope even there. Maybe I'll write an entry on those one day. But as most of them are written by friends of mine, that's a dangerous undertaking --- what if I mention buddy A's book and not buddy B's? Hmmmm....
I'll leave you with two other things which would be nice to have in their different ways: The House Symposium is a tour-de-force of pro-UFOlogy in the late 1960s and one way to read something by Jim McDonald. Max Miller's little monograph was a rare piece of intelligent writing from way back in the 1950s. MM went too pro-contactee ultimately but he was a smart and insightful guy.
whew!.... that was harder than I thought.... took three sittings not counting image searches. Don't know when the next might be. Blessings to everyone in the New Year.
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Three skydivers have completed what they hope is a record breaking jump next to Mount Everest, landing at the world's highest drop zone.
The parachutists - two Britons and an Indian - jumped from an altitude of 6,154m to land at the sandy plateau of Gorak Shep, 5,165m above sea level.
The skydivers said they faced high winds and freezing temperatures during the three-minute jump.
But they said that it was thrilling to pass so close to Mount Everest.
The BBC's Joanna Jolly in Kathmandu says skydiving trips next to Everest have been operating for the past year, but this was the first jump to land above 5,000m.
One of the men who took part, British filmmaker Leo Dickinson, said he believed Gorak Shep was the highest landing zone in the world. He hopes to register the feat with Guinness World Records when he returns home.
A spokeswoman for Guinness World Records said that they were aware of the record breaking attempt, but the jump has not yet been officially recognised as a record.
Mr Dickinson said that he saw "a panorama of fantastic mountains" after he jumped, in addition to getting a glimpse of Mount Everest before opening his parachute.
The divers were in free fall for about five seconds before deploying their parachutes and gliding down to the landing zone. All three are experienced skydivers.
The Nepalese government recently allowed skydiving in the Everest region because it adds to the list of activities that the country has to offer tourists in advance of Visit Nepal Year in 2011.
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The Quest for AI Supremacy In the bustling halls of tech innovation, Amazon is not one to rest on its laurels. With a steely gaze set on the horizon, the retail giant is conjuring up its latest marvel: ‘Olympus’, a conversational AI that aspires to scale the heights of its counterparts at Microsoft and OpenAI. This isn’t just any upgrade; it’s Amazon’s bid to leapfrog into the forefront of AI-driven customer service solutions.
Olympus: The New Frontier The whispers around the tech grapevine suggest that Olympus could be the game-changer Amazon has been gearing up for. With a potential debut in December, this large language model is poised to outshine its predecessor, Titan, in a spectacular fashion. But Olympus isn’t just about flexing Amazon’s AI muscles. It’s set to be the bedrock for a plethora of enhancements across the board – think spiced-up features in the retail colossus’s online emporium, a turbocharged Alexa, and a bolstered Amazon Web Services.
A Titan Amongst Mortals? While Titan’s unveiling was met with a muted response, its sibling project, Olympus, is anticipated to dazzle with its ChatGPT-esque prowess. Yet, questions hover like clouds over Mount Olympus itself: When will this AI deity descend? As of now, AWS customers have access to a singular Titan model, dabbling in the arts of app personalization and savvy search features. Its siblings, still shrouded in the mists of AWS’s developmental realm, are biding their time.
The Architect of Intelligence At the helm of this ambitious project is Rohit Prasad, a name synonymous with cutting-edge AI. As Amazon’s head scientist for artificial general intelligence, Prasad’s vision is clear: to forge a tool that not only rivals but surpasses the current titans of text and talk. With his guidance, Olympus may just become the new standard-bearer for large language models.
In the competitive pantheon of AI, Amazon’s Olympus is gearing up for an epic reveal. Will it earn its place in the annals of AI legend? Only time will tell. But one thing is for certain: the race for AI excellence has a thrilling new contestant.
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Elon Musk has a somewhat understated approach to his product reveals. There's no trace of the "amazing!" or "revolutionary!" gobbledygook that accompanies other tech presentations. That's because the, er, gravity of what Musk and SpaceX are doing mostly speaks for itself.
On Thursday, Musk announced the Dragon V2, the next-generation space capsule designed to bring humans to the International Space Station. It carries seven people, can land on the ground with the accuracy of a helicopter — or so Musk claims — and can dock with the ISS directly.


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In 1776, the
first Assembly of the newly-declared
The act creating the county further provided "that it shall and may be lawful for the landholders of said county qualified to vote in the General Assembly to meet at the house of Jonathan Cobun, in the said county, on the 8th of December following, then and there to choose the most convenient place for holding courts for the county in the future."
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Nor can it be stated with certainty who were the first sheriff and clerk of the county. In Monongalia, tradition names Captain John Dent as the first sheriff and Colonel John Evans as the first county clerk, while a Fayette county tradition makes Joseph Coombs the first clerk.
Morgantown.-In October, 1785, the General
Assembly enacted "That fifty acres of land, the property of Zackquell Morgan,
lying in the county of Monongalia, shall be, and they are hereby, vested in
Samuel Hanway, John Evans, David Scott, Michael Kerns and James Daugherty,
gentlemen, trustees, to be by them laid out in lots, which shall be, and the
same are hereby, established a town, by the name of Morgantown." Purchasers of
lots were required to build upon them within four years. In December, 1789, the
time was extended three years, because of Indian hostilities. Five years more
were granted in 1792, as it was found difficult to procure material. An Act of
the Assembly passed February 3, 1810, empowered the freeholders of
The Deckers were the first white men who
visited the site of
David Morgan's Encounter with two Indians is a record of personal heroism exhibited by an aged man. In the spring of 1779, the settlements along the upper Monongahela were comparatively free from Indian attack. Yet the families who the previous autumn had taken refuge in the forts did not venture to return to their cabins. Among those who had sought safety in Prickett's Fort-about twelve miles above the present site of Morgantown-was David Morgan, a bold frontiersman and a near relative to General Morgan, of Revolutionary fame. At the time of which we write he was more than sixty years of age. Early in April feeling somewhat indisposed, he sent two of his children, Stephen and Sarah, to feed the stock on his farm, a mile distant. Becoming uneasy at their long absence, he went in search of them. He found them engaged in clearing a patch for melons, and seated himself on a log to wait for them. He had been there but a short time when he saw two Indians come out of his house and walk rapidly toward the children. Not wishing to frighten them he called to them to go quickly to the fort, and himself answered the whoop with which the Indians started in pursuit. The Indians at once turned on him. He first tried to escape by running, but soon found the fleet warriors gaining on him. He then turned to fire at them. All three sought trees. One Indian, to gain a nearer position to Morgan, threw himself behind a log, which only partially concealed him. Morgan at once shot him, and again tried to escape. Running a short distance, he looked back and saw the other Indian ready to fire. This timely glance saved his life. He jumped aside and avoided the missile. The conflict was now hand to hand. The savage, with a demoniac yell, threw himself on his intended victim. Morgan threw the Indian, but the latter, younger and more active, turned him, and holding him down, reached for his knife. He grasped it close to the blade, and Morgan seizing the handle drew it through his hand, and thrust it into his enemy's side. The Indian sank on the ground, and Morgan fled to the fort.
Indian Incursion on Cobun's Creek.-During the summer of 1778, a body of savage warriors made their appearance on Cobun's creek "and were making their way," says Withers, "as has generally been supposed, to a fort not far from Morgantown, when they fell in with a party of whites returning from the labors of the cornfield, and then about a mile from Cobun's Fort. The Indians had placed themselves upon each side of the road leading to the fort, and, from their covert, fired upon the whites before they were aware of danger. John Woodfin, being on horseback, had his thigh broken by a ball which killed his horse, and enabled them to catch him easily. Jacob Miller was shot and soon overtaken, tomahawked and scalped. The others escaped to the fort."
Indians near Statler's Fort.-About the year 1779, the Indians made their appearance near Statler's Fort on Dunkard creek. The following account of their dread work is subjoined from Withers' "Border Warfare":- "The Indians lay in ambush on the roadside, awaiting the return of men who were engaged at work in some neighboring fields. Toward evening the men came on, carrying with them some hogs which they had killed for the use of the fort people, and on approaching where the Indians lay concealed were fired on, and several fell. Those who escaped injury from the first fire returned the volley, and a severe action ensued. But so many of the whites had been killed before the savages exposed themselves to view, that the remainder were unable long to sustain the unequal contest Overpowered by numbers, the few who were still unhurt fled precipitately to the fort, leaving eighteen of their companions dead in the road. These were scalped and mangled by the Indians in a most shocking manner, and lay some time before the men in the fort assured of the departure of the enemy, went out and buried them."
Attack on Martin's Fort.-In June, 1779, a party of Indians surprised the inmates of Martin's Fort, on Crooked Run. We again quote from "Border Warfare ":- "The greater part of the men having gone forth early to their farms, the women were engaged in milking the cows outside the gate, and the men who had been left behind were loitering around. The Indians, who were lying around the fort, rushed forward and killed or made prisoners of ten of them. Instead of retreating with their prisoners, they remained at a little distance from the fort until night, when they put the prisoners, under the custody of two of the savages, in an old house near, and the remaining eleven went to see if they could force an entrance at the gate. The dogs were shut out at night, and the approach of the Indians exciting them to bark freely, gave the inmates notice of the impending danger in time for them to avert it. The savages returned to the house in which the prisoners were confined and moved off with them to their towns."
Murder of Fannie and Phebe
of these girls lived at the mouth of Pike Run. One day in August, 1779, the two
daughters started for the meadows, near the site of Granville, to carry dinner
to laborers there. The father was to accompany them, but being detained, the
girls proceeded alone. Soon Captain Scott heard the report of a gun. Crossing
the river in all haste, and following the direction of the sound, he ran rapidly
up the path toward the meadows and found the body of his murdered daughter
Phebe. Fannie was missing. The father supposing she was a prisoner, set out at
The State University is located at
In the Richmond
Convention of 1861, which passed the ordinance of Secession, Mr. Willey occupied
a seat, having been chosen without opposition to represent the people of
Monongalia county therein. His last vote in that body was in opposition to the
Ordinance, and on the 21st of April, having obtained a permit from Governor
Letcher to leave the city, he began the journey home. At
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The funds will help the institute advance its efforts to discover and develop independent artists and audiences through labs, grants, its #ArtistServices initiative, and public programs like the Sundance Film Festival. The funds also will help support the institute's feature film, documentary, theater, film music, and Native American and indigenous artists programs through July 2015.
The foundation's previous support for Sundance includes the Annenberg Film Fellows Program, which between 2004 and 2011 helped advance film projects by more than a hundred artists.
"We continue to be impressed with Sundance Institute's role in supporting artists who have a transformative impact on our culture," said Wallis Annenberg, chair, president, and CEO of the Annenberg Foundation. "We have long believed that the arts play a vital role in our communities and improve the public well-being by communicating unique perspectives, new practices, and universal themes. Sundance Institute proves this through its distinguished legacy and ability to promote innovation and creativity in independent film, theater communities, and industries in the U.S. and abroad."

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Mitchell’s Plain police stations are upping their game by ensuring that professional and satisfactory services are delivered to residents, through their Customer is King project.
This new project is an initiative of Provincial Commissioner for the Western Cape, Lieutenant General Khombinkosi Elvis Jula (“Top cop says customer is king”, Plainsman, May 24).
According to the commissioner, the aim of the initiative is to ensure that police stations raise the bar by delivering efficient, professional and satisfactory service to residents.
Hundreds of people visit Mitchell’s Plain, Lentegeur and Strandfontein police station sdaily, for detective services, certification, to report crime or request information.
Mitchell’s Plain police station’s spokesperson, Captain Ian Williams, said it was a multi-disciplinary effort by province, the police cluster and the stations to render satisfactory service to those who turn to the police for help.
“The project should culminate in a smoother process flow and better dissemination of information of the station services.
“For example, people will be directed to the right offices faster.
“People requesting information would be able to consult with the floor manager who would be able to advise and direct,” he said.
Captain Williams added that officers would receive training in client service and telephone etiquette and that calls would be made to those who had used the police services, and victims of crime, to assess the level of service.
Information boards would also be set up and floor managers appointed to help manage the queues at the community service centres(CSCs).
This will also ensure that cases against police members were handled properly.
Managing information officer, Lieutenant Colonel Izana Viljoen, said the other strategies which would be implemented included the speedy attendance to complaints, the implementation of a dedicated desk for certification and suggestion boxes where people could deposit their service evaluations or suggestions for improvements.
Lieutenant Colonel Viljoen said the project kicked off in April and would be implemented in stages. “We have hundreds of people who either call in or walk into the police stations who have been victims of crime.
“Their first point of call are the officers at the CSCs and these front-line services are extremely important.
“This project requires every department to be up to standard and organised. For example the supply chain, making sure that the vehicles are sufficient, fixed and are running,” she said.
Lieutenant Colonel Viljoen said the stations would be monitored as members have to fill in feedback documents. “The project will also look at reaction time and will make sure that follow-up cases are being filled and documented correctly,” she said.
Lieutenant Colonel Viljoen added that domestic violence was a priority for Mitchell’s Plain police and was taken very seriously. “The police stations want to be certain that the dockets are filed and logged correctly. Management will make sure that the process is followed and that residents receive the (required) support,” she said
Mitchell’s Plain Community Police Forum (CPF) chairperson Abie Isaacs said the structure welcomed the initiative.
“Initiatives that evaluate the services of policing in Mitchell’s Plain are always good. As a policing structure, we need to fulfil our obligation to the community by ensuring that the police address the primary needs of the community and are accountable to them,” he said.
Mr Isaacs said there had been concerns about police response times, which he hoped would be addressed.
He encouraged residents to engage with the sub-forums, as well as block and street committees. “We need to work together to fight crime. The police have their strategy to combat crime, but as residents it is important that you work with police, not against. So we encourage you to report crime and be active,” he said.

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Democratic support for the Iran nuclear deal is nearing a level that ensures the U.S. Senate will uphold the accord in a critical vote expected next month.
Senator Patty Murray on August 25 became the 29th Senate Democrat to declare her support for the deal -- bringing the party within five votes of the 34 needed to uphold President Barack Obama's expected veto of a resolution rejecting the deal that Republican leaders are preparing to send him.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid came close to declaring victory after appearing with Obama in his home state of Nevada.
"I felt cautiously optimistic that we would have enough votes to sustain the president's veto, and that seems pretty clear to me," Reid said.
Reid was even hopeful that Democrats might drum up the 41 votes needed to block the GOP's disapproval resolution from ever reaching Obama's desk.
"As far as procedurally stopping this bill from moving forward, I hope -- I know it's a long shot -- but I hope that it can be done," he said.
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"This deal is proving that it can stand on its own merits, but the battle is far from won. Opponents of the agreement are already looking to additional legislation that could complicate implementation and kill the deal. The more lawmakers that come out in support now, the stronger the firewall to protect the agreement in the future. It's time for other key Senators who have not announced their decision - including Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) - to give peace a chance by publicly endorsing this deal."
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Nanoformulated antimicrobial agents for central nervous system infections
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© 2017 American Scientific Publishers All rights reserved. Meningitis and encephalitis caused by bacteria and fungi are among the top 10 lethal types of infectious diseases. The treatment of brain infection is principally limited by the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which restricts the entry of antimicrobial agents to the desired central nervous system (CNS). To address this issue, many different nanoparticles conjugated with targeting ligands have been employed to increase CNS penetration of several antifungal drugs like amphotericin B and itraconazole. However, a wide spectrum of microorganisms have provoked the diseases, and some have developed multidrug resistance to nearly all commercially available antibiotics. Therefore, there is an urgent need to design unconventional nanostructures that possess both novel biocidal modes and brain targeting property. This review focuses on classical nanocarriers enabling brain delivery of loaded antibiotics as well as highlights recent progress in the fabrication of transactivator of transcription (TAT) peptide-containing nanoparticles to circumvent BBB and kill the pathogenic microbes in brain tissue. The later strategy, albeit imperfect, may allow nanoantibiotics to target, diagnose and treat brain infection simultaneously in an unprecedented manner.
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An aroused dog is not necessarily aggressive. In simple terms, aroused means an excited state. If you are the guardian of a dog, you have most likely observed behaviors. An aroused dog is "pumped up" due to heightened emotional state which can be excitement, fear, anger, stress or joy. Arousal can be distressing or it can be fun. If a dog is scared during a veterinarian visit this can be a distressing time for the dog. On the hand when a dog is joyfully jumping and wagging its tail when the guardian comes home, this is a happy moment.
It is important to be aware when a dog is aroused for several reasons.
Aroused dogs typically have less control over their bodies and mouths. If you have ever been training your dog with a game of tug, ball or frisbee, you may have noticed your dog becoming aroused. They are less likely to be responsive to trained cues for trained behaviors. And less likely to learn when they are aroused. When I am working with a client because the dog is reactive barking and lunging at another dog while on leash. I plan sessions to teach the client how to train the dog "watch me" because the dog is not going to learn anything. Aroused dogs can have problems calming down quickly if they just experienced going for veterinarian visit or a visit to the groomer. They may be sensitive to touch and need time to calm down.
As a behavior specialist and trainer its important I set up sessions to help the client and dog. The environment needs to be checked and everything planned and followed. As I coach clients to be aware of triggers because a dog that is over aroused is going to struggle. Arousal levels should be manageable and very low.
Now we can talk about stress. Both stress and arousal are closely related. There are two types of stress eustress and distress. Eustress is good! Most of us dog guardians have seen it. This is a state of excitement and it can be a positive stress. If you have walked in the door and your dog is just so happy to see you that is a good event. For dogs that really enjoy the agility course this too is a good event.
Distress is not good. This is a time when the dog is overwhelmed, with excitement, fear, tension and making the dog very uncomfortable. I have worked with dogs like this and I know to take my time, don't move too fast.
There are levels of stress, low, medium and high. Low levels of stress are not a major concern. These may come and go quickly in different situations. High levels of stress are serious and need to be relieved.
It's important to always consider the context of the entire body and the situation. There are many reasons I always say don't corner a dog. Tight spots are not good!
Low levels of stress:
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• Ears back
• Displacement behaviors: scratching, stretching, self-sniffing, licking, sneezing and shake off
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• Moving away
• Repeated tongue flicks
• Mild facial tension ridges
• Lowered tail
• Hard eyes
High levels of stress:
• Panting and drooling
• Tight, numerous facial tension ridges
• Whale eye
• Tucked tail
• Sweaty paws
• Stiff muscles/ body
• Repeated, loud whining or yelping
• Escape attempts, running away
• Pacing back and forth
It's important to look at everything in the dog's environment. If problems occur during situations, then contact a certified dog trainer for help.
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Employees at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island across the street from the first warehouse to unionize have voted to reject unionization. A lawyer representing the Amazon Labor Union says it plans to challenge the vote.
CNBC reports that employees at an Amazon warehouse on Staten island have overwhelmingly rejected a unionization effort just one month after an Amazon warehouse within walking distance became the first in the United States to vote to join a union. The final vote tally at the LDJ5 warehouse was 380 votes in favor of the union and 618 opposed.
Officials stated that 1,633 workers at the warehouse were eligible to vote on joining the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) and the votes still need to be certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Seth Goldstein, an attorney representing the ALU, stated that the labor union plans to challenge the outcome of the vote.
The ALU called for all LDJ5 workers to receive $30 an hour; a steep increase given that the average hourly starting pay at Amazon fulfillment centers is $18 an hour, according to Amazon. The union also called for longer breaks and improved employee benefits.
Amazon has worked hard to crack down on unionization at its facilities. The company allegedly held mandatory meetings at the LDJ5 warehouse where employees sat through anti-union presentations. The company also hired an influential Democratic pollster to assist with its anti-union campaign at both Staten Island warehouses.
In a statement, an Amazon spokesperson said: “We’re glad that our team at LDJ5 were able to have their voices heard. We look forward to continuing to work directly together as we strive to make every day better for our employees.”
Read more at CNBC here.
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Police arrested a man Wednesday after he and other supporters of two asylum-seeking Kurdish families staging a sit-in outside United Nations University in Tokyo’s Shibuya district got into a scuffle with guards.
The man, identified only as an Iranian, was arrested for assault, having allegedly shoved one of the U.N.U. guards as they were removing posters in support of the Kurds from the university’s walls.
The Tokyo office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which is located at the university, also ordered the families of Ahmet Kazankiran and Erdal Dogan to leave the campus, where their tent is situated, said Fumio Azuma, a supporter and a teacher at the high school that Kazankiran’s daughters attend. The UNHCR office had given them the tent but said that it would not allow them to stay on the premises permanently, the supporters said.


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Chicago has played host to many a film and television series in its time, and for good reason!
Aside from the iconic city views, the abundance of urban green space, the shores of Michigan Lake, the scenic suburbs and other aesthetic values that make filming in the city so desirable, Chicago’s film history actually goes back to before Hollywood’s rise to fame!
Chicago’s century-old film industry history
Chicago’s early film industry
The first film company in Chicago was established in 1907 and was called Essanay Studios, named after the two owners, George K. Spoor and Broncho Billy Anderson (“S and A”). This studio was the first to develop a projector that could project films onto a flat surface, rather than having to look through a little window like on Edison’s Kinetoscope. This new Magniscope, as it was called, changed the film industry forever.
Fun fact: Essanay Studios was also where Charlie Chaplin starred in “His New Job” in 1915, though he left Chicago just a month after working with the studios because he didn’t like the weather. Whatever — his loss.
Because of this small studio’s success in both filmmaking and innovation, Chicago soon became the scene for strategic growth in the film industry. Film companies began developing their own versions of the Kinetoscope, which caused the Edison Manufacturing Company (also based in Chicago) to fight back with lawsuits, patent violations and so forth, leading to a messy system of black market film projector suppliers and illegal motion picture viewings. Eventually, the Motion Picture Patents Company was formed in 1909 to deal with the mess, creating a stable structure upon which the many burgeoning film studios could lean on.
Of course, there are always two sides to every decision, and some filmmakers pushed back against the rules outlined by the Motion Picture Patents Company. Another company was formed just 48 hours after the M.P.P.C. was formed — the International Projecting and Production Company — and the competition continued.
With a highly interested public and plenty of business competition around, Chicago became a hotspot for film production, and within the first decade of the 20th century, Chicago filmmakers and producers controlled nearly 80% of the film distribution market in the entire nation!
Chicago’s film production revival
Although the film industry moved west and settled in Southern California in the 1920s, Chicago still remained a steadfast player in the game. Chicago was full of movie theaters and the enthusiastic public devoured anything that came their way, making overall film reception remarkably steady in Chicago throughout the mid 1900s.
If you’ve ever spent time walking through Chicago’s historic business districts, then you’ve undoubtedly seen the famous Balaban and Katz Uptown Theatre, the Chicago Theater and the Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre, resplendent in their historical architecture and decorated to the nines inside. These famous theaters were all owned and managed by film theater chain Balaban and Katz who, during the golden age of the studio era from the 1920s to the 1950s, were the largest theater chain in the country.
The city was ripe for the picking, figuratively speaking, by the time major film companies established offices in Chicago — the likes of which included MGM, Warner Brothers, Universal and Paramount. All through the 20th century, Chicago residents flocked to the theaters and kept the region very much present in the booming film industry.
In fact, by the 1980s, Illinois had become one of the biggest leaders in spending on film production, proving that Chicago itself still had plenty more the give to the industry. This brought a revival of film production to Chicago, and locally-produced movies like “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “The Untouchables,” and “When Harry Met Sally” made waves in the industry. The state of Illinois also became a leader in film production spending, drawing more and more productions back to the city.
By 2009, Illinois had established a bill that provides a 30% tax credit on all costs spent on production, creating further incentive to bring more production to the city. Just three years after that, the Cinespace Chicago Film Studios was established on a massive piece of land in North Lawndale neighborhood, making it the second-largest film production studio in the United States.
Chicago’s film industry today
Today, Chicago ranks among the likes of Los Angeles, Atlanta and New York City when it comes to film production — and not just the filming part, either!
Cinespace’s studios alone have 36 stages spread over 1.6 million square feet of studio space, as well as production facilities for everything from animation to post-production editing to casting, equipment, lighting and beyond. Their impressive list of movie and television credits filmed include "Divergent," "Transformers: Age of Extinction," "The Shape of Water," "Nightmare Alley," "Black Mirror," "Fargo," "Chicago PD," "American Gods" and much, much more.
Constant evaluation of the state’s tax credits toward movie production means that Chicago is only becoming more and more attractive to producers, and that the likelihood of the film industry leaving the city any time soon is pretty darn low. Of course, who knows what the film world will look like in a decade or two, but there’s a good chance that Chicago will continue to feature prominently on screens, TVs and on old-timey projectors in historic movie theaters for a long time to come.
And who knows? Maybe you’ll catch a glimpse of our luxury Chicago apartments in the background of some future blockbuster!
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