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In Wildomar Where Anything Goes
In Wildomar anything goes, we currently have a planning commissioner that is delinquent in paying property taxes on 15 of 16 properties owned in Riverside County. Some of these properties have delinquencies dating back to 2007. (Information currently available from the Riverside County Tax Assessors Office without a title report)
THIS PAGE HAS BEEN UPDATED COMPLETELY AS OF TUESDAY JULY 18, 2017. It is now time for the citizens of Rural Wildomar to ask for this persons removal from such an important position
This situation was first discovered while reviewing the parcel tax reports included in the CITY OF WILDOMAR MEASURE Z OVERSIGHT ADVISORY COMMITTEE AGENDA Packet for the May 25, 2017 meeting. Wherein delinquency information current as of February 22, 2016 shows this planning commissioner currently has 6 parcels that were delinquent as of the report date. (This shows that property taxes were not paid as of December 10, 2015).
I have provided the relevant pages as photos showing the properties. All one has to do is look at the who is on the planning commission to figure who is being talked about.
This issue rested in the back of my mind while I looked a little deeper into this situation. Especially after remembering that one of the delinquent properties showed up in a City Council Agenda Packet for a Special Meeting on March 29, 2017 under the Closed Session for which public comments are allowed. This closed session claims the council will Confer (have discussions; exchange opinions) with legal council and conference (a formal meeting for discussion) with real property negotiators.
The property in question showed up on the Measure Z delinquency report as being owned by this planning commissioner.
This was verified by requesting a copy of that person's Statement of Economic Interest Form 700 (a form required to be filled out by all elected and appointed officials listed in California Government Code Section 87200) of which planning commission is one listed.
Link to pamphlet showing positions required to file Form 700, see page 3
http://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/TAD/Form%20700/2016-17/Ref_Pamphlet_2016_2017.pdf
So now you really know who the questionable character is
Something to notice about this form.
The Filed Date is April 20, 2017:
FPPC requires notification by March 1st that this form is to be submitted no later than Monday April 3, 2017 of each year. (This planning commissioner has been in this position since 2010 so he knows the drill) Also have to wonder if a fine was levied as permitted by the FPPC, the fine is $10.00 per day up to $100.00 (This form was 17 days late and as such was subject to the maximum fine of $100.00)
http://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/TAD/FilingOfficer/700FO-Folder/Late%20Fine%20Guidelines.pdf
On April 24, 2017 this property was withdrawn from the County of Riverside Auction List, three days before the auction was to open, when the property was redeemed by the owner when they paid the property taxes for Fiscal Year 2007-2008.
Tax records pulled on June 22, 2017 show that the taxes have not been paid for Fiscal Year 2016-17.
It was discovered through further research that this person owns 16 total parcels in Riverside County. After reviewing the tax bills for these properties it was discovered that this was not a new situation for this person as several properties owe back taxes as far back as 2007 and all but one is delinquent for this past tax year.
I will not bore you with a lot tax bills. I will show the ones with prior years taxes due.
One such property is in Wildomar
Upon further inspection this property is incorrectly listed on the Form 700. The address list on the Form 700 is 32381 Christopher Ln, this address does not exist according to the County of Riverside Tax Assessor and Map My County. But a tax bill is sent to the Planning Commissioner P.O Box 1229 Wildomar, Ca 92595 for a parcel with the address of 33891 Christopher Ln, Wildomar, CA.
A complaint will be filed with the FPPC for this error and the wildomar city clerk will also be notified.
Prior Years Taxes are due on this property.
The saga continues with and additional 8 properties with past years taxes due. All of the tax records shown are also currently FY 2016-17 delinquent.
Other than some information about a defunct Domestic Non-Profit Corporation that is currently SUSPENDED by the California Secretary of State and the Franchise Tax Board my job is done. I have provide the evidence that this planning commission who cannot manage his own life should have never been on the Wildomar Planning Commission nor should he continue to be on a planning commission where he is indirectly managing the lives of the almost 36,000 residents of Wildomar.
It is now time for the residents of this RURAL Community to stand up and ask for this persons to be removed from this important position.
This entry was posted in Future City of Wildomar, Shenaigans on July 17, 2017 by Kenny.
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6 thoughts on "In Wildomar Where Anything Goes"
Martha Bridges July 18, 2017 at 5:28 pm
We must thank Mr. Mayes for taking the time to amass this comprehensive documentation of a widely known problem which the City Council has failed to address for years. It should leave the good people of Wildomar concerned about what other issues are being swept under the proverbial rug by our city officials.
Planning commissioners are selected by city council members, and in making those selections each council member has the responsibility of nominating someone who is at the very least a law abiding citizen and who pays their taxes.
Kenny Post author July 18, 2017 at 11:09 pm
Thank you Martha for your kind comments. It does take a lot of work that I gladly do as I wish this community to be a well run community with lots of citizen involvement which has been discouraged by the city council for years (All they want is one on one meetings so they can buffalo anyone who questions the city's motives). Hopefully the citizens will wake up and speak up before what little RURAL left is gone.
Pete Kee July 20, 2017 at 1:54 pm
Normally I would not have an interest in Wildomar's political dirty laundry but, it disturbed me, as it does others in the Murrieta neighborhood of Grizzly Ridge to read about this property tax discovery.
Mr.Smith pretty much drove the planning commissions decision to forward a recommendation to the Wildomar city Council on the Camelia Townhome Project. For those who aren't familiar, it would put 163 two story units , just feet off our back property wall. It should be no surprise to us that a person who has no respect for his own Wildomar neighbors when it comes to slyly avoiding his fair share of taxes would show respect to the neighbors in Murrieta.
As Mr. Mayes pointed out, is it ok to have him in any position to make decisions that may change people's lives ?
We see how previous conduct by bad politicians in every city has eroded public confidence. It's time to turn the corner and correct what's obviously a problem…
Thank you Mr. Kee for your comments, not only is this person currently leading the Planning Commission as it's Chairman while mocking the whole system, but has been practicing this behavior for years. The city council this past weekend laughed at the citizens of wildomar when they honored this man with accolades in a park for which he has contributed nothing for this year and previous years because property taxes in wildomar include our Measure Z Parcel Tax which fund our parks. I believe it is time for wholesale change in our leadership which is selling its citizens down the river in favor of one their favorite sons.
Monty Goddard July 21, 2017 at 4:08 am
Hey Kenny, A couple years back, did not a Wildomar planning commissioner step down/get asked to resign/or was fired because he did not pay his rent?
Kenny Post author July 21, 2017 at 5:00 am
Mr. Goddard you are absolutely correct, the facebook crowd ripped apart former Planning Commissioner Bobby Swan in a matter of days with the charge led by another blogger, the city council in that instance was quick to ask for Mr. Swan's immediate resignation. It funny how not all community leaders are treated equally when their integrity comes into question.
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Q: Ajax can not send a request other than GET I just can not. For 4 days I have been struggling to send data ajax using a different method than GET and I can not advise. I create a project in Spring Boot. I have created a mapped address controller
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Though the founder of "Christian Worship Hour" has passed away, the program and ministry are expected to continue on for years to come.
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Pastor Salem's funeral, which occurred on Wednesday, can be viewed on the ministry's Facebook page.
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Anyone who has delved into the internals of the iPhone's OS probably knows that, for whatever reason, .png files on the iPhone are encoded in a manner that makes them unreadable by normal image editing programs. There is a tool out there to handle the simple conversion, but this tool is a two-step process, only handles one file at a time, and doesn't come precompiled. I took a few minutes the other day to produce an modified version (precompiled universal binary and source code included) that recursively handles foldered content and perform all necessary conversions in one step.
The usage is straightforward. In the Terminal, type "./iPhonePNG <input>" where <input> is either a single .png file or a folder. If you're providing a folder, iPhonePNG will first create a full copy at the path <input>-Decoded, and then proceed to convert every .png file in the folder, leaving you with a folder with all original non-image content preserved and all .png resources decoded into a readable format.
This certainly isn't something that will be useful to many people, but I wanted the tool for internal purposes and since it doesn't cost anything to release, I might as well make the modifications public.
Thanks! I was just poking around with the png files and wondering why they were unreadable by everything, and now I stumble upon this. I wonder what kind of craziness they're doing… Perhaps the file structure changes are to support the higher DPI screens?
Thanks for the .png decoding tool! I was going nuts thinking my .png files were somehow being corrupted in transfer. I've got modding to do now…again, thanks!
Just thought I'd let you know, you also have to unpremultiply the images as part of the conversion process. No iPhone png conversion tool that i've seen does this, but it is a necessary step. PNG files that ship with the iPhone are stored with channels swapped, and alpha premultiplied so that drawing them is faster. For images that don't make use of the alpha channel, the premultiplication is not very noticeable, but for images like the icons, the shadows look awful unless you unpremultiply them. Just a heads up.
How can I encode .png images to iPhone format?
Is there any utility for going the other direction? That is, take a normal PNG and convert it to iPhone wallpaper format?
Thanks for this! I had to use a Windows version until I found your blog.
It's important to note that transferring back the other way (regular PNG -> iPhone PNG) is not necessary, as the iPhone OS can read either format.
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Packers Are Motivated, But Vikings Have Key Edges As Season Series Sweep Looms
Struggling Aaron Rodgers may no longer have the edge on the Vikings. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty ... [+] Images)
The tables are turned for this late-season game between the Vikings and the Green Bay Packers. In most years, the Packers have locked up the NFC North title by now while the Vikings are usually trying to overcome a season of wasted opportunities and somehow find a way to squeeze into the playoffs.
That's certainly not the case this year because the Vikings have clinched the division, have an outside chance at the top seed and are fighting to hold on to the No. 2 seed. The Packers have won three games in a row and they are sniffing at the final NFC playoff spot, but they are still below .500.
Green Bay may desperate for a win when the two teams take the field at Lambeau on Sunday, but it will be anything but easy for them to defeat the Vikings. Aaron Rodgers is feeling the aging process in 2022 and he does not have the weapons he once did. The Packers used to be able to light up the scoreboard like an old-school pinball machine and easily outdistance opponents, but that is no longer the case.
Rodgers has become quite prone to missing his receivers, and that's something that Patrick Peterson and Harrison Smith should be able to take advantage of. Rodgers has completed 318 of 491 passes for 3,331 yards with 24 touchdowns and 11 interceptions this season, and he has been sacked 29 times for 225 yards in losses.
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He no longer has the zip on his fastball, and that's largely due to a thumb injury that he has been playing with the majority of the season. That thumb injury has regularly prevented him from hitting his receivers in stride on medium and deep routes. That accuracy used to be Rodgers' greatest asset, but it is not something his team can count on any longer.
However the sight of the Vikings should bring about Rodgers' best effort, and he compared the Green Bay-Minnesota rivalry favorably to the traditional Green Bay-Chicago battles.
"They've been a little bit better consistently since the [Brian] Urlacher crew kind of left Chicago," Rodgers said. "Seemed to be a few more battles that had a lot more on the line, obviously when Mike Zimmer was there. Felt like we played a lot of big games when they got that defense rolling."
Harrison Smith may give the Vikings the edge in their Week 17 matchup with the Packers. (Photo by ... [+] Adam Bettcher/Getty Images)
The Packers are the only team the Vikings have defeated this season by more than one score. The Vikings won the season opener by a 23-7 margin at U.S. Bank Stadium, and that game set the tone for both teams this season.
After the Vikings scored early in the first quarter, the Packers had a chance to do the same when Rodgers found rookie wideout Christian Watson running a deep pattern with more than a step on the defense. The pass hit Watson right in the hands, but he dropped the ball and the Vikings were on their way to a 23-7 triumph.
The game is clearly important to both teams. Realistically, the Vikings want to hold off the 49ers and retain the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoff structure. That would allow them to play the No. 7 seed, which could be the Commanders, Seahawks, Giants or Lions. More than that, it would allow the Vikings to host the Niners if the seeds hold up and they meet in the divisional playoffs.
That would certainly be a better alternative than falling to third place and having to go to the Bay Area for the postseason matchup.
That motivation should be enough for the Vikings to come through with their best effort against their most difficult rival. The Vikings have not swept the season series from the Packers since 2017, and the Packers have regularly made the Vikings look silly in recent seasons.
This could be payback, as former Packer Za'Darius Smith is ready to assert his dominance as a pass rusher and Danielle Hunter is coming off his best game of the season. If both men are on their game, and the duo of Smith and Peterson can have an impact in the secondary, this game has a chance to get ugly and stay that way.
Green Bay needs the game, but Minnesota is the better team and the Vikings come away with a two-touchdown victory in this Week 17 game.
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Sory Kandia Kouyaté was born into a prominent family of musicians and storytellers in pre-independence Guinea. He moved from the royal court of a local ruler to the urbane company of revolutionary artists and future politicians until in 1958, the year of Guinea's independence, his strong, resonant voice was at its peak. The president and the new government of Guinea knew how important Sory Kandia was as a cultural ambassador to Guinea and he in turn understood and supported the revolution. The 'Voice of the Revolution' represented Guinea at the United Nations, throughout Africa and behind the Iron Curtain.
Sory Kandia Kouyaté has one of the most powerful voices I have ever heard. The Independent writes "this is shivers-down-the-spine stuff." Here is a singer whose voice is so powerful, the microphones back in the late 50's had trouble handling his range. It is no wonder that Sory Kandia is considered one of the most important West African griots to have ever lived. While there is little information about this master available online, the good folks at Sterns Music have been busy reissuing his material and today will release a two-disc set of Sory Kandia Kouyaté's music entitled La Voix de la Révolution. The material ranges from the contemporary to the traditional. This is your chance to get more familiar with a musical legend from Guinea, whose music is timeless. Take a listen to "Souaressi" from this new release below.


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Fabulous Fun
The Frederick Divas take Glitz and Glamour to Campy Heights for Charity
By David Morreale | Photography by Tuner Photography Studio | Posted on 11.20.13 – In the Studio, Lifestyles
"Who Doesn't need a little drag in their lives, hmm?" It's a wild night at the lodge on U.S. 40, and this rhetorical question, posed to the crowd by a sequined, 6-foot-tall man in a dress that would make Liberace seem sedate, signals the start of an evening of unstoppable, campy, glitzy, glamorous fun. The Frederick Divas, a group of drag performers from Western Maryland and beyond, are hosting their yearly Deadliest Diva Contest and mistress of ceremonies Nicole James gets a decidedly non ladylike reaction that clearly communicates that the question is rhetorical.
The Deadliest Diva Contest is an evening devoted to drag queens lip-syncing to pop songs and camping it up on the dance floor. Nicole calls them "entertaingerous," as in, "Our next entertaingerous is our reigning Deadly Diva, Ms. Chastity Vain!" Ms. Vain, an aloof figure, deigns to enter the room as Nefertiti, on a litter carried by four, bare-chested young men. She is a he, though you'd have to know it to know it. She cuts an impressive figure, with her retinue of dancers around her, bowing and dancing in vaguely Ancient Egyptian fashion.
The show is part contest, part show, with very serious judges at a table with little lights illuminating their faces from beneath. They do not smile while judging, as the performers dance and act out parts from movies with innuendo-laden camp. The audience is wildly diverse. There are men dressed (badly) as women, there are women who may be men (in a darkened club, one uses context clues and from across the room, there isn't enough context to tell and it would be rude to stare). There are straight couples, gay men and ages ranging from 21 to 81, all of whom appear to be having a great time amongst the pageantry.
Merriam-Webster defines "cognitive dissonance" as the "mental conflict that occurs when beliefs or assumptions are contradicted by new information." To experience this show, made up of men being more woman than the actual women at this log cabin gay bar that, for the most part, exists peacefully near one of the more popular biker bars on the East Coast … well, the level of cognitive dissonance creates a head-spinning C.D.U. (Cognitive Dissonance Universe) all it's own, whose laws seem only to be based in fun, entertainment and enough glitter to choke a horse.
After the show, the Divas met up in the narrow kitchen of The Lodge for a chat about the meaning behind it all. For these divas, this is both a hobby and a way to help others while engaging in an admittedly different kind of art form.
"I started doing this in the 1980's when AIDS was really first starting to kill people." Nicole sweeps an elegant, glittering arm through the air, taking in all the sequined, mascara-ed pageantry sitting in the kitchen: "I was asked by some folks to help out in a benefit they were doing. They asked me to dress up as a girl and lip-sync to music. And I said, 'Uh, OK, that's different.'" That first show led to many others, and, to date, The Divas have raised tens of thousands of dollars since forming their group at The Great Frederick Boat Float in 2007. "From then on, it was all about the fundraisers we were asked to perform at. We raised money for hospice care, for [Hurricane] Katrina victims, for breast cancer, children's homes, church benefits, and we were able to do that while competing in national competitions also."
Ashley Bannks is the current Miss Gay Maryland and is representing Maryland's sisterhood at the national competition in St. Louis. Her costume is a slinky, black number, festooned with white, fluffy rat toys that bring out the white and black streaks in her elaborate pageboy haircut. "We all want to be the best, and we mess with one another sometimes. We'll sabotage another performer's costume or whatever, but when it comes down to it, we defend one another. We work as a family unit, even though we compete against one another, too."
The Frederick Divas do their wild thing at The Lodge once a month, an effective way of letting off steam, and leaving your troubles in your old kit bag. Especially if that old kit bag is a sparkly purse full of glitter and sequins, carried by one with a big, big heart.
According to Nicole (drag performers, in the main, prefer to be called by their female names when dressed in costume, to the point that their male names were never even revealed) the Frederick Divas are "just a group of guys looking for a way to share their art form with the world while making a difference in people's lives at the same time. Even if it's just making them smile or laugh for a few hours. We need that in today's world where every day seems to be filled with negativity in the news. It also helps us to forget the problems we face at different times."
One drag performer that the troupe knows even tours with Reba McEntire, having first performed as Reba in a stage show visited by the county legend. "Hired her on the spot! The next day she was flown out to join Reba's tour as the illusion of Reba onstage," Nicole says.
But it's not all glamorous fun and big wigs. Nicole gets a unanimous murmur of disgusted, resigned agreement when she points out, "I'd have to say my overall pet peeve is the question, 'Do you do this for sexual reasons and why do you wanna be a woman? My answer is, I don't and I don't.'"
"We come here as guys, and we leave here as guys," adds Nicole, "We are not transvestites, we are performers. We dress up and raise money for charity."
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My new Lenovo Thinkpad E440
Important Update: In late 2014, Lenovo stared shipping their systems with adware that poses significant security threats to the users. I therefore recommend not buying any Lenovo products. The review will stay up for historical purposes, but my next Laptop won't be a Lenovo.
It's been a while since I bought a new Laptop. The last one I blogged about was an ASUS eeePC 1000HE, which is still in use as my sole Windows XP machine for interfacing with my Commodore 64 and to test games on an old Atom and GMA 950 graphics. In 2010, I bought a 13" MacBook Pro with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo which served me well until late 2013 when I wanted something with a higher screen resolution (1280x800 just wasn't that great for some things) and a more power without sacrificing on battery life, Windows 7 compatibility or the ability to actually do work.
I ended up with a Lenovo ThinkPad E440.
Specs and Delivery
I ordered my E440 on February 24 as a BTO (Build-to-order) for a bit less than $700 including Tax and Shipping. For that money, I got
Intel Core i5-4200M CPU (2.5 GHz Dual Core with Hyperthreading)
14.0" 1600x900 AntiGlare Screen (16:9 Aspect Ratio)
Bigger Battery (62WH compared to the stock 48WH)
Intel 7260AC Dual Band (2.4/5 GHz) 802.11 ac/a/b/g/n Wireless
Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit
Intel HD 4600 Graphics
500 GB 7200 rpm hard drive and a DVD-R drive
The laptop was delivered on April 1 - that's 36 days between ordering and delivering. This is rather ridiculous for a business laptop. Lenovo explained they had an unexpected surge of orders that clogged up their manufacturing capacity, but still, that was a bit much.
The Laptop has two memory slots, one which was filled with the 4 GB Memory I ordered and one that was empty. I had a fitting 4 GB Memory still lying around (Kingston KVR16LS11/4), so I upgraded it to 8 GB RAM immediately. I also had a 256 GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD lying around which immediately replaced the 500 GB Hard Drive.
Every Laptop should use SSDs - it makes a massive difference even over 7200 rpm drives, and the lack of a moving part increases the overall resilience. It's also extremely quiet since pretty much only the CPU draws any real power. The Graphics is an Intel HD 4600 - not the most amazing gaming chip, but it runs Reaper of Souls in 1600x900 perfectly fine, so it's good enough for my mobile gaming needs.
For reference, the AmazonBasics 14" Sleeve fits perfectly, although no space for any accessories.
Anti-Theft systems and other security features
The E440 comes with Intel Anti-Theft and Computrace. Now, by virtue of being an Anti-Theft system, the Laptop will continuously send data about its location over the internet and this is enabled by default - not everyone needs it or is comfortable with it. For some in-detail look into Computrace, read this article.
Lenovo allows you to not only Enable/Disable the features, but you can even permanently disable it. They warn you that you can never re-enable it, so I assume its wiping the option ROM. After permanently disabling both Intel AT and Computrace I didn't see any of the services that Securelist identified running.
The E440 also comes with a TPM Chip, useful for Bitlocker. A Fingerprint reader is an option as well, although I ordered mine without. Both features can be disabled in the BIOS if there's no need for them.
Finally, UEFI Secure Boot can be toggled, but what's even more important, you can enter "Setup Mode" which allows you to enter your own keys. This is important if you use non-Windows OS but still want to use Secure Boot.
I can't really say too much about the preinstalled software. I noticed that it came with stuff already installed on it, but the first thing that I did was reinstall Windows on the new SSD.
Lenovo offers Windows 7 Professional as a BTO Option, which is great since there's no good successor to it on the market yet but they include neither installation media nor a product key sticker (UPDATE: There is a real Windows 7 Product Key sticker - it sits under the battery). I had a Win7 Professional DVD lying around from another computer and used the free MagicalJellyBean Key Finder to extract the product key from the installation.
When it comes to non-Apple laptops, you should ALWAYS install them from scratch if you want a clean Windows installation without any crap on it, but as said, I haven't done a thorough investigation on the E440 before I wiped it.
The Screen
Two features sold me immediately: The screen is Anti-Glare, and it's 1600x900 on 14". Anti-Glare used to be the default for laptop screens because it makes it better to work with, but with the influx of Entertainment-focused laptops in the late 90's, the Anti-Glare was omitted, leading to screens that have deeper blacks for games/movies but make it a nightmare to work with.
From what I can see, the screen is a TN Screen, not an IPS. This means color distortion from an angle. The E440 doesn't distort much when viewing from the side, but doesn't have a really wide vertical angle. I'm a programmer, so that works perfectly fine for me, but if you're in need of accurate color representation, don't get a TN screen.
1600x900 on 14" is awesome for me. I have enough real estate to have all the stuff open that I want and I can still read it without having to use the utterly broken Windows DPI Scaling feature. Here's a screenshot, click for full size:
Mouse-replacement - Touchpad and Trackpoint
When it comes to Laptops, there is one major issue: The Touchpad that's used in lieu of a mouse. Apple's Macbook touchpad is phenomenal, it's lightyears ahead of anything the Wintel crowd sells. The problem is that I don't really like their current lineup of Laptops, and since I don't use Mac OS X anyway (I run Windows 7 on both my main machine - a Mid 2010 Mac Pro - and on my MacBook Pro before I sold it) I could safely look at all the options on the market.
One of the key reasons to go Lenovo ThinkPad was because of their TrackPoint, a little "joystick" sitting in the middle of the Keyboard (between G, H and B keys) that can be used to move the mouse pointer. It takes a little bit to get used to, but then it's pretty awesome and precise. The main touchpad is acceptable as well, but the Synaptics TouchPad driver isn't as good as what Apple offers in Bootcamp. Specifically, scrolling with two fingers has a slight delay before it returns to normal operation and doesn't work in all apps (e.g., in Steam it doesn't really emulate a scroll wheel).
The Keyboard itself is awesome, the chiclet style and size of the keys makes typing straight forward and easy, I didn't have any issues hitting the right key (and only that key, not some neighboring keys as well). What has really sold me is the fact that there are dedicated PageUp/Down and Home/End/Insert/Delete keys. That actually took me a whole to get right, because after working on a MacBook Pro for a long time, I'm so used to Fn+Up for PageUp or Fn+Left for Home that I needed to retrain myself for this keyboard, but now it's awesome for programming. The one thing I wasn't willing to relearn though is the positioning of the Fn and Ctrl keys - Ctrl is the bottom-left key, Fn is to the right of it. Lenovo has acknowledged this and offers a BIOS option to swap Ctrl/Fn to their correct order.
The F-Keys default to their alternative mode, where F1 is "Mute" and F5 is "Brightness Down". But again, there's a simple way to change that, Fn+Escape switches it around so that F1 is F1 and Fn+F1 is "Mute". This setting persists across restarts, which is awesome!
It's definitely one of the best Laptop Keyboards I worked with.
Lenovo did a spectacular job on the BIOS. It's a bit sad that this has to be explicitly pointed out, but they allow you to toggle or tweak almost every feature the Laptop offers. I assume that by virtue of being a business laptop, they assume that they are selling to IT System Administrators.
The Laptop isn't too heavy and has a good battery lifetime with the 62WH battery - I can go through a whole day of working without any issue. I do not know if the 7200 rpm hard drive would draw a noticeable amount of power as I immediately replaced it with an SSD. Despite being made out of plastic, it doesn't feel cheap, although of course it's not in the same league as Apple's unibody.
The touchpad cannot hold a candle to Apple. But when it comes to PC touchpads, it is definitely workable. The Trackpoint stick is a great way to control the mouse pointer as well if you're used to it. Tap to click works pretty well, although there's no "tap bottom right corner" to right click (you can set it to "tap with 2 fingers to right click").
Overall, I'm very pleased with the E440 once it finally showed up on my doorstep. For the money I got almost all the specs that I wanted without having to make compromises, although of course I'm not factoring in the $200 SSD that I still had lying around. But even for the $1000 that it would cost, it's worth the price for me.
Putting in the SSD and RAM was easy - unscrew three screws at the bottom (with a normal screwdriver, not some special nonsense), unclip the plate the screws are holding, voila, HDD and RAM is right there. This is how PC Laptops are done since forever, and this is something I missed on my MacBook Pro where changing the Hard Drive was a loathsome operation. Also, the battery is a removable part, as it should be.
I like it. A lot.
April 6th, 2014 in Hardware	| tags: fluff


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A Brief History Of Blackjack
From the taverns of Europe to the digital delights of the web, Blackjack has travelled more than its fair share of miles from its humble beginnings to its reputation today as one of the world's most popular casino games.
Compared to other past times, not a great deal is known about how the card game once known simply as '21' evolved, though there are a few things we do definitely know. Here then, is a brief history of the game, from French and Spanish origins to online Blackjack, and everything in between.
The evolution of Blackjack
It's probably fair to say that Blackjack didn't necessarily leap into existence in its current form, but rather evolved over time, crossing continents and centuries and collecting up different elements as it went, all en route to becoming the game as we know it today.
The first known references to a game of 21 comes from Spanish writer Migeul de Cervantes, whose classic story 'Rinconete y Cortadillo' features protagonists who thrived on cheating to win at a game called Veintiuna, the Spanish word for 21.
Though Cervantes story was written in the fifteenth century, the next phase in Blackjack's history, according to most casino historians, seems to come from 16th century France, where the game of Vingt-et-un ('Twenty One') was a popular pastime.
As cross-continent transportation became more accessible, these Europeans began making their way to The New World taking, among other things, their favourite card game with them.
No exact records appear to detail which of these immigrants introduced the game to the United States of America, though we do know that it still retained its original name, now Anglicanised to "21" when it was first introduced to Las Vegas players back in 1931, the same year that the state of Nevada legalised gambling.
Twenty One Becomes Blackjack
It was in time that the early casinos, faced with stiff competition in an exciting new market, began to offer attractive bonuses and unique bets in order to lure in players. Among them was a special game in which either the Jack of Clubs or the Jack of Spades (black-coloured Jacks in a standard pack of playing cards) coupled with the Ace of Spades yielded 10-to-one payouts.
Though this bonus eventually faded away, the name stuck, and thus today we still find ourselves clamouring around the card table to play the game we all know and love as Blackjack.
Not that evolution ended there of course. Over the years, Blackjack made its way back out from America to the European countries where it first found its fame. In doing so, the game began to enjoy its own spin offs and variations as new groups of players adapted and evolved Blackjack to suit their own preferences.
Playing Online
Of course, we'd be amiss in talking about the history of one of the worlds' most beloved casino games if we didn't take at least a little bit of time to talk about online Blackjack. You can click here now and play your favorite blackjack with the players from any part of this world. make sure you are registered to the gambling site before starting to place bets.
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The image of integration is the union mystica, the fusion of opposites. This is a time of communication between the previously experienced dualities of life. Rather than night opposing day, dark suppressing light, they work together to create a unified whole, turning endlessly one into the other, each containing in its deepest core the seed of the opposite.
The eagle and the swan are both beings of flight and majesty. The eagle is the embodiment of power and aloneness. The swan is the embodiment of space and purity, gently floating and diving upon and within the element of the emotions, entirely content and complete within her perfection and beauty. We are the union of eagle and swan: male and female, fire and water, life and death.
The card of integration is the symbol of self-creation, new life, and mystical union; otherwise known as alchemy.


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ARTHUR is DYING! Please help to close the Mendoza Zoo!
by: Angel McKellar
recipient: Government of the province of Mendoza and the Mendoza Zoo
Poor Arthur is dying. He is a polar bear kept in a zoo that exceeds over 40 degrees everyday and he is now sunburnt and cannot escape the heat. Your signature is so important, not just for Arthur but for any animal in captivity that is there just for a profit!
HERE IS THE ORIGINAL POST TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH
It is important to educate new generations that the false idea that a Zoo is educational is wrong. Is it educational if it is a place where the animals are behind bars? Where a polar bear must tolerate temperatures exceeding 40 degrees? We must begin to educate for the future... that new generations learn and apprehend the respect not only of their human counterparts, but the respect for the environment and nature... we need to build a better future understanding that animals have a right to freedom, right to health, to a life worthy... rights that are clearly violated in the circumstances in which they live not only in this zoo, but in all them. This is why we call on the authorities to close the Mendoza Zoo. That is why I leave a post showing the atrocities committed there... and also I hope we as humans learn from our mistakes. Society has condemned many animals to a barbaric death... let us not condemn the bear Arthur to the same demise. We CAN make a change... let us unite our voices and they will listen to us.
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Government of the province of Mendoza, Mr. Gdor. of the province of Mendoza Dr. Francisco Pérez
Honorable Chamber of deputies of the province of Mendoza, my Diputados
Carlos Germán Ciurca, Lieutenant Governor and President of the Honorable Chamber Senators of Mendoza
I turn to you for the purpose of petition you the immediate release of the only surviving polar bear in the country, Arthur, as also the closure of the Zoo and the relocation of their animals in institutions for their rehabilitation and subsequent release.
As signer of this petition believe that it is important to educate new generations leaving to create the false idea that a Zoo is educational. Do educational is a place where the animals are behind bars? where must a polar bear tolerate temperatures exceeding 40 degrees? We must begin to educate for a better future... that new generations learn and apprehend the respect not only their human counterparts, but the respect for the environment, nature... need build this better future understanding that animals like us have a right to freedom, right to health, to a life of dignity, rights that are flagrantly violated in the circumstances in which they live at the Zoo in its province. As society have condemned to bear Winner to death... we going to condemn the Arthur bear to the same destination? In us is change, that is why we asked them to listen to us and from duties raise the necessary means to make this change possible.
Update #35 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9trVDdWc98
Watch this if you dare, but I must warn you this is very hard to watch! This will show you why this petition is SO important! Please help me, we are so close to reaching our goal of 10,000 signatures! Won't you share and help get Arthur out of this awful place! Thank you!
Dear friends of Arthur! We are so close to getting our 10,000 signatures for Arthur! I am so proud of everyone and grateful too whomever has been helping me! Let's help me make a final push to get the rest of these signatures so that we can get Arthur out of there NOW! Please share everywhere you can so that we can DO THIS!
Dear Friends of Arthur, We have received over 5,000 signatures as of today! I am so proud and grateful to everyone who is standing up for this magnificent animal that is being treated so terribly! In an effort to help even more I have raised the petition signatures to 10,000 to have more of an impact! I believe that with your help we can do this. Help me to help Arthur and share this petition as much as you can! Thank you all every so much!


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Post Shipbuilding Projects
Robin Rigg Wind Farm
Scotland's first offshore wind farm.
Scot Renewables SR250
Blackford Dolphin - The Accommodation Module
Designed and built to UK HSE standards for the North Sea, included cabins for 130 people, galley, mess rooms, HVAC rooms, etc. Work commenced in Fanuary 2006, the unit was delivered September 2006
Blackford Dolphin - Power Generation Module
Harland & Wolff were responsible for the manufacture, assembly, outfitting and mechanical completion. Work commenced in Fanuary 2006, the unit was delivered December 2006
Met mast
Destined for installation in Liverpool Bay, the first 1,500 tonne substation left Belfast on Monday, 13 August, 2012. The contract to construct the two offshore substations was awarded by Siemens to H&W in July 2010. The two platforms, were built side by side in the companies Blocking Shop.
No. 7 - Myrina The first supertanker to be built in the UK was the 190,000 dwt Myrina. Because the length of the ship (1,085 feet) could not be accommodated within the length of the largest shipyard slipway, the Myrina was constructed by sliding the after part of the vessel down the slipway, stopping it, and constructing the forward end on the vacated part of the slipway before finally launching.


[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are in the middle of a massive shift in human history, and it's so big it eclipses the achievements of Gutenberg & his little press.
If you were born in Europe back then, there's a 90% chance you'd be born a farmer of some sort. And that pretty much holds true for the next thousand years.
This isn't the idyllic farming either. This is the tough, back breaking, hard manual labor that ruins your body kind of farming.
This is the "It rained one too many times at the end of the summer and now we're going to starve to death because our food will rot" farming.
There's a small chance you'd get a cool job being a knight, but 9 out of 10 times, you're a subsistence farmer.
There's some guy by the name of Johannes Gutenberg who develops a technology that enables him to print books faster & more accurately than any time in human history.
Previously, books were so incredibly difficult to make they were prohibitively expensive for anyone who wasn't exorbitantly wealthy. In a sense, the knowledge in the books was doubly valuable: you had to be rich to get the book in the first place, and the knowledge contained in it could easily be worth more.
Case In Point: Sun Tzu's masterpiece of strategy "The Art of War" was kept from all but the most senior military officials. It's dangerous to have a clever army that can think for itself. . .
So along comes Gutenberg who can churn out any book he wants at a speed & volume never possible since books were first invented.
In the small sense, he figured out how to make books faster. In the larger sense, however, he completely revolutionized the world. He released the genie from the bottle, and there was no going back.
With books becoming less expensive, there were more of them around, and more people were exposed to new ideas much more frequently.
In this new world of easily-gotten information there were clear winners (the population at large), and losers (kings, rulers, and anyone benefitting from controlling information).
Case in Point: It's hard to believe, but there was a time in the middle ages where the information on how to make mirrors was so jealously guarded that if you were suspected of trying to steal it from the only people who knew how to do it properly, you were executed. Straight up murdered over shiny glass.
The creation of the printing press, and the consequent flood of books into the world were the first wave in a revolution that would play out over the next 500 years.
In that time we'd discover the scientific method, telescopes, medicine, and most of the leaps forward that directly contribute to our standard of living today.
The year is 1946 and the world's first computer is turned on.
It's a monstrosity that takes up a whole room. It weighs 50 tons. It's clunky. It's awkward. It can do simple calculations used in figuring out artillery angles.
And it can do it faster than anyone else alive.
Then it's the 60's and we send men to the moon and back with computers that have less computing power than the phone you have in your pocket.
In the late 70's we figure out how to get the increasingly capable computers to talk to each other. Now, instead of being limited to a single machine, you can now access the processing power of a whole network of these things.
The creation of the internet is the second renaissance and we're not even beginning to see how profoundly it's changing our lives.
Gotten a postcard from someone on vacation?
Looked something up in the Encyclopedia?
This new dynamic is more than having any answer at your fingertips & a computer. This is way beyond Googling a trivia question.
Not only are you able to consume information, you can create & share anything you think of at the speed of light.
Our world's most important events are happening in a virtual world that doesn't exist.
We have a president who enacts "diplomacy" via Twitter.
People like to blame free trade for taking their jobs overseas. While that might have been true for a short period, what's really to blame is automation. Artificial Intelligence. Smart robots.
Technological advancements have made millions of human jobs irrelevant.
It's cars vs horses all over again, and we're the horse.
Back in ancient Egypt you probably moved rocks. Through the dark ages you moved dirt. Through the industrial revolution you got paid to move goods.
You move information. Ideas are the new economy.
For the few who recognize this massive shift in the world, they are going to win big. It's the value of your idea that will make or break you.
Never before have Carnegie's words of "Think and Grow Rich" been truer.
Those who don't adapt to the post physical idea economy will be left with little or no means to create something the economy finds valuable. Human labor jobs are simply too expensive to continue. They may not disappear completely, but they're on their way out.
After all, I guess horses are still around (for novelty's sake). . .
The way of life we've been sold our entire lives has disappeared. The offer on the American dream of working hard and retiring with the same company is null and void.
With the very technology that has destroyed the labor & goods economy, you can create an incredible life.
Just like fire; it can destroy, but when used properly it can be incredibly useful.
In the idea economy it doesn't matter where you live. You can be on a beach in Borneo or at a coffee shop in Iowa.
In the idea economy it doesn't matter how hard you work. Your muscles have very little to do with how much you get paid. Sweat not required.
In the idea economy you're not limited by space & time. Your ideas can be in all parts of the world instantly, and it can happen thousands of times a second, every second.
With the Post Physical Economy Mindset you transcend the limitations of physical reality. Your success is no longer tied to a desk. A location. Time.
The new future is complete & total freedom.
Absolute control over how you spend your time & attention.
You need no more resources than you already have access to this instant, so it isn't a question of more stuff.
It's the mindset. You don't have a deep understanding of the new reality.
Allow me to introduce Ken Wrede.
Ken is a client of mine, a friend, and phenomenal storyteller.
When we first started working together he knew he had a lot of experience & useful knowledge that could make a huge difference in the lives of young leaders everywhere. What he didn't know, was how to communicate that valuable experience in a way that would position him as the expert he is.
Using tools that are available to you right now I helped him build a platform that he now uses to get scheduled on radio shows, write a book, promote speaking engagements, and more.
He now understands how to leverage his experience (which the robots will never have) in a way that allows him the freedom to choose how he spends his time, and where he chooses to do it.
What's your story? How are you surviving in the new economy?
If you'd like some help, I'd love to be there for you.
Because, really, who better to guide you through an economy of ideas than a mind reader?
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The Death of Kalief Browder Exposes the Lethality of the Court System
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by Raj Jayadev (This piece originally ran in the Huffington Post)
Kalief Browder
To call the death of 22-year-old Kalief Browder a suicide is not the full truth. Kalief Browder may have hung himself, but he was killed by the brokenness of our court system.
The story of his short life, told by Jennifer Gonnerman in The New Yorker last year, chronicles the horrors of a 16-year-old who was charged for a stealing a backpack, sent to the isolation and brutality of Rikers Island prison for three years, only for the charge to eventually be dropped by the prosecutor. Follow up articles report that Kalief was so profoundly haunted from his mental and physical abuse inside that upon his release, he was hospitalized and told his mother, "I can't take it anymore." Ultimately, he hung himself with an air-conditioner cord at his home this June.
The ubiquity of his name online is a different sort of morbid hashtag. It seems social media adds a new name every week of an African-American killed by police, with a hashtag prefix added on. The names we are familiar with — #MichaelBrown, #TamirRice, #FreddieGray — point to obvious culprits and have fueled a new national movement for police accountability and reform. But the #KaliefBrowder name points to a less talked about, yet as his case shows, equally lethal injustice. Continue reading →
Appreciating Our Dads On Father's Day
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We couldn't fit everyone into one picture, but we'd like to take a moment to honor all the amazing ACJP fathers whose love we get to witness every week. Time and time again, we've heard dads say "I'm fighting for my family." And that powerful love carves paths that break through the justice system's walls. We honor you today on Father's Day.
Jonathan Rapping: REAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM REQUIRES THAT WE CHANGE HOW WE THINK ABOUT JUSTICE
Check out the latest piece by Jonathan Rapping of Gideon's Promise…
As the nation finally awakens to the reality of our broken criminal justice system, a long overdue conversation about how to reform it has emerged. But the solutions being proposed are destined to fall short, as they focus exclusively on changing policies while the challenge demands a transformation of hearts and minds. Until we recognize the need to tackle the problem of culture, and focus on how we can build a movement to change it, equal justice will remain an illusion.
The assumptions driving our current criminal justice system have been forged by a narrative honed over four decades that has cast poor communities of color as dangerous and persuaded us to adopt policies that made it easier to monitor, control, and punish these other-ized populations. Continue reading →
David Bornstein's New York Times Column on Participatory Defense
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We were very grateful for David Bornstein's thoughtful and comprehensive article on the growth and potential of participatory defense. His New York Times column is called "Fixes, which looks at solutions to social problems and why they work." Check it out!
Guiding Families to a Fair Day in Court
By DAVID BORNSTEIN, NEW YORK TIMES
…Today, Jayadev says, when a loved one is arrested, the most that many families feel they can do is hope for a good lawyer. Participatory defense expands their sense of agency. And if the goal is to build the political will to end mass incarceration, he says, "This seems like the most natural mass movement building approach — because it is about people seeing their own power in their own communities, as intimate as the fate of their own families." CLICK HERE TO READ MORE>>>
ICYMI: New York Times Feature on Our Social Biography Videos
In case you missed it, De-Bug/ACJP was featured in a front page story in the New York Times for our social biography video concept. Check it out:
A Flattering Biographical Video as the Last Exhibit for the Defense
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD, NEW YORK TIMES, MAY 24, 2015
GILROY, Calif. — About 3,000 miles from New York, members of a camera crew gathered around Anthony Quijada, trying to do for their not-famous, not-rich client what some high-priced lawyers are doing for theirs in New York courts: Make a video that can keep him out of prison.
Lawyers are beginning to submit biographical videos when their clients are sentenced, and proponents say they could transform the process. Defendants and their lawyers already are able to address the court before a sentence is imposed, but the videos are adding a new dimension to the punishment phase of a prosecution.
Judges "never knew the totality of the defendant" before seeing these videos, said Raj Jayadev, one of the people making the video of Mr. Quijada, who lives in this Northern California city of about 52,000 people. "All they knew was the case file." CLICK HERE TO GO TO FULL NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE>>>
Video of the Moment Arthur Erased His Name
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This is Arthur erasing his name from our weekly ACJP meeting. His dad Kenny would add his name up on that whiteboard for years. Last Sunday, Arthur came home from prison after eight years, having beaten a life sentence due to Prop.36, and erased his name. It is the one ceremony we have at our meetings — erasing the name means a family has won the freedom of their loved one.
We had only known Arthur through his letters from prison, and his stories from his father Kenny — that he was a great son and looked out for his brothers. Every Sunday Kenny would come to De-Bug to help think through Arthur's case. In 2006, Arthur agreed to a deal after he was told that if he pled guilty, his brother — one of the codefendants in the case — would be released. He thought he would be serving somewhere around 8 years. When the Judge handed down a life sentence during his court hearing, everyone in the courtroom was stunned. That was the first time Arthur or his family had even heard of 'life' being on the table. So when Kenny first came to De-Bug in 2008, they were still reeling from the pain of losing their son to prison, even though it had already been 2 years. But with the support of his community, Kenny — on the outside — and Arthur on the inside — worked to undo his case. On Sundays, Kenny and the De-Bug team would lay out 4- inch binders of paperwork to help construct possible ways of appeal. We met with his appellate attorneys, wrote back and forth to Arthur, even met with decision-makers to find openings. Meanwhile, Kenny and Arthur held strong — working through depression and a host of health issues that Arthur faced inside the prison. Then when Prop 36 passed in November 2012, a glimmer of hope came. Arthur was contacted by the Santa Clara County Public Defender's office who represented him at his resentencing. Kenny collected letters of support that demonstrated Arthur's network that would give him a solid reentry plan, and last year, a judge agreed to release Arthur back to his community. Check out this Time Saved Party video, where Kenny talks about the day he found out his son had an "out date." On May 5th, he came home. On May 31, 2015 — 7 years after Kenny first walked into the doors of De-Bug — Arthur walked in with him. Submission Post by Charisse Domingo
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It's decided: this year the stress and fatigue of the return to work won't get the best of me. To prolong the benefits of the vacations and ensure a smooth transition, I put together a short list of tips to stay on top and get back to work strong.
Even at the end of the summer, the days are still long and the sun is still good. I take advantage of it and try to spend as much time as possible outside for activities like having lunch in a park close to work, drinking coffee on a terrace, reading a book on the balcony or organizing outdoors activities on weekends. Natural light is beneficial because it acts directly on the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that regulates the secretion of hormones and controls appetite, libido, sleep, mood, energy ... In short, enjoying the sun is a key aspect in overall wellbeing!
This year, stress will not spoil the positive energy accumulated this summer. How to fight it? Breathe through the nose. By practicing a few simple exercises, the simple habit is fast and effective. Even in the office, I take a few minutes to breathe deeply and relieve tension.
After the freedom of the holidays, I return to balanced meals at regular times. First, I always attack the day by having a real lunch. It is a capital meal not to be neglected. Then, at noon, at the office, I prefer to have a lunch. To avoid hyper-processed industrial products. Finally, in the evening, I opt for a light dinner so as not to disturb my sleep. Among other habits to keep after the summer: good hydration, little sugar.
For daydreams? I eat an apple, a pear, some grapes, a banana or dried fruits. Not only am I full of vitamins and in the last two cases, magnesium, a trace element essential to resist stress and fatigue. A great way to be in good shape for this busy season.
Moving is good for health, morale and tone! So I choose my favorite activity and practice it regularly. Tennis, running, swimming, gym ...: the important thing is to move!
The first step to increase my energy is to become aware of what I eat.
I prefer seasonal products and fill up on vitamin C to fight against fatigue (red peppers, papaya, kiwi, orange, mango ...). I increase the amount of fiber on my plate to help me digest (onions, artichokes, asparagus, leeks, broccoli ...). I'm full of smoothies to place fruits and vegetables at the center of my diet and varies sources of protein with 100% natural vegetable protein.
Here, with these few tips, you have everything you need to get back to work strong!


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How to lose money investing in Bitcoin – The case of the Osprey (OBTC) bubble
With Bitcoin (BTC) at all-time highs over the weekend, spare a moment for investors in Osprey Bitcoin Trust (OBTC: Pink sheets. Closing price $21.00). While an investment in the underlying Bitcoin has been extremely profitable since the launch of the Osprey trust, each and every retail OBTC investor has lost money to date. Some investors are down 57% (OBTC buyers on February 17, when BTC was trading at $ 48,000).
There is no logical reason for this to be the case. OBTC is an investment trust launched in February of this year that holds only one asset, Bitcoin, and has very few other frictions (read: fees). Granted, Bitcoin has its own issues when it comes to safe custody and tax, to name two. But other crypto funds are no longer as out of touch with their fundamental value as Osprey is and, especially, has been since its launch.
This blog investigates why a bubble in Osprey, bearing no obvious relationship to it only asset (BTC), was so easily able to destroy investor wealth after its launch in February.
To be absolutely clear, I am astounded that, while every single buyer in history in BTC was in positive territory by this Sunday, every single retail who ever bought Osprey was down, mostly in double figures.
Worse still, OBTC still trades at a premium to its underlying assets, while all other trusts trade at a discount to their Net Asset Values (NAVs, see below).
What occurred? The answer will confound finance academics, practitioners and, indeed, any proponent of any version of the efficient market hypothesis, for some time.
The "law of one price" suggests that Osprey should trade somewhere close to its NAV. In illiquid markets in frothy times, that can be a premium, especially if other options are limited. Generally, however, trusts without redemption features trade as a discount (Lee et al 1990). The main reason is fees.
We should expect the trusts to track NAV in some way. But, since inception, the correlation between Osprey and its underlying asset is very close to zero (see left): Osprey's price performance is completely unrelated to its underlying assets.
The only possible explanations are that (1) all OBTC investors are irrational and/or (2) OBTC was highly manipulated in an elaborate "pump and dump".
This because these is no fundamental reason for a price premium in Osprey to exist. Like all Bitcoin trusts in the bull market, OBTC launched at a substantial price premium to the only underlying asset in the trust, Bitcoin. The justifications for a premium are/were many in earlier times. The trust, like others such as Greyscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC – OTCQX), offered the most tax-efficient play on BTC. Better still, Osprey's fees were one quarter of GBTC's. Furthermore, when what are effectively closed end funds are the only entry into a hot market, premiums above the underlying assets are almost guaranteed. Greyscale popped on issuance to more than double its NAV, so why shouldn't OBTC?
But this excuse still doesn't wash. GBTC had no competition when it launched in the Bitcoin Iron Age, 2013. OBTC not only has direct competition, but also more efficient vehicles in Canada and, potentially, on the horizon in Osprey's own playground, the US. The post-launch OBTC bubble is impossible to justify in these circumstances.
ETFs as GBTC/OBTC killers
Exchange-traded funds and mutual funds that allow redemptions of the units for the underlying assets are the solution, practically guaranteeing that the investment will track the underlying. However, the SEC has been reluctant to approve a Bitcoin ETF reserving the right to efficiently invest in Bitcoin funds to "accredited investors", which to date has meant mostly large arbitrageurs.
While other explanations have been proffered, it seems the final straw for the trust premium was the launch of the first Bitcoin ETF, in this case in Canada (Purpose Bitcoin ETF). Why risk your investment failing to track BTC when an ETF's relationship with the underlying is all but guaranteed?
Institutions win (again)
The egregious "BlockFi / Three Arrows" arbitrage based on the physical delivery of BTC in exchange for trust units at NAV disappeared almost in both GBTC and 3iQ earlier in the month. It should have: Closed end funds on reasonable liquid assets should and (eventually) usually do trade at a significant discount. How double-digit premia were sustained for so long will always be a mystery. Giving institutions arbitrage privileges was banned in mutual funds a few decades ago, as it was grossly unfair to retail investors.
In any event, with the loss of the GBTC premium, it was no longer profitable to deposit BTC into the trust in return for units that could be sold at a later date for a premium.
But the arb still has not disappeared in OBTC, though time will tell if the twelve-month lock in will prove profitable for institutional investors. To date, few institutional buyers are not suffering. They were able to exchange BTC for shares at NAV, and on a mark-to-market basis they are at worst down only slightly.
Finance and irrationality
What to make of the OBTC premium and price volatility? Well, it's no secret that the buyers of the trust were (very) small retail. In financial theory, it's though that the presence of ill-informed "noise traders" can skew prices away from efficiency. Though such irrational activities are often short-lived, long bull markets might reward and therefore encourage momentum strategies (see Tesla, for example). Such traders fail to do enough analysis to identify true bubble investments.
My personal theory is that OBTC investors were victims of ignorance, irrationality and manipulation. There is some logic to momentum strategies in any bull market, assuming you can identify one while it is occurring. Tesla and Bitcoin post March 2020 offer two such examples. There can even be some argument that GME is a steal at $300 plus. A bubble is extremely difficult to identify.
Yet OBTC was (and to some extent remains) obviously and by any measure irrationally over-priced. Its only asset was easily available in almost identical form at a much lower premium (in GBTC) or easily and directly available (but not tax-advantaged) at a much lower price, and these facts have been true for all of OBTC's history. Disappointing OBTC investors further, the tax benefits of the trusts become a downside when losses accumulate, as such losses can't be deducted from taxes owed.
On top of that, for the foreseeable future, Boomer financial capitalists are set to profit in fees, no matter what the performance of the trusts. There is no process by which the size of the trusts can be reduced.
Was the price action a "pump and dump"? We will never know, though it is very clear that institutional (momentum, HFT and arb) funds profit from many such short-term bubbles (e.g. the first spike in GME).
A warning
The sad story of OBTC's collapse needs to become better known, if only as a warning to those who buy momentum stocks because they have gone up. Even in a bull makret, not all stocks go up. Mom and pop Boomers who were sold the trusts as an easy way to get into crypto end up paying directly into the pockets of the hedge funds and other financial capitalists. It's ugly to watch.
The finance behind crypto remains important to understand the space. The key takeaways are:
Follow the money. If institutions are borrowing BTC and buying funds in private placement, there is generally free money (or a least the chance of low risk profits). The existence of an institutional arbitrage usually signifies a loss to someone else elsewhere (usually but not always retail investors).
Funds referencing reasonably liquid assets without effective redemption mechanisms should be avoided, even if taxed advantaged, when trading at a premium. They should and usually will trade at a discount eventually.
Watch the NAV. Buying a dollar for two dollars is generally a bad idea. (Note that this is happening in the SPAC bubble as well: CCIV post-announcement pricing was extremely difficult to justify based on fundamentals). If you buy something a twice fair value, it has to double just for the fund's assets to bring you back to breakeven.
Any assumptions regarding rationality in finance can be easily shrugged off. Noise traders can remain solvent and irrational for a very long time. Bubbles can exist.
Crypto markets remain inefficient in many cases, much like capital markets were in the 1980s-early 1990s. If you do not know if you are being arbitraged – that is, if something seems to good to be true – you probably are.
Crypto plumbing: How it started and how it's going
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Киюмарс Хейдари (; 1964, Керманшах, остан Керманшах ) — иранский военачальник, бригадный генерал. С 2016 г. — командующий Сухопутными войсками Иранской армии, сменивший на этом посту по указу аятоллы Али Хаменеи бригадного генерала Ахмад-Реза Пурдастан.

Биография
Киёмарт Хейдари родился в городе Сахне провинции Керманшах в 1964 году и получил начальное и среднее образование в Керманшахе.Прежде чем присоединиться к армии, он начал свою военную деятельность в Басидже в качестве добровольца во время ирано-иракской войны в 1982 году. Гейдари присоединился к Сухопутным войскам в 1984 году и начал свою официальную карьеру в 81-й бронетанковой дивизии Керманшаха из рядов пехоты.  Между 1984 и 1998 годами он командовал взводом, ротой и батальоном в этом отряде.

Гейдари был назначен командующим лагерем Южная Незаджа в 1988 году и проработал на этой должности до 2005 года.В 2005 году кратковременно был заместителем по операциям сухопутных войск, а с 2005 по 2007 год работал заместителем координатора сухопутных войск (начальник штаба Незаджа). Гейдари был назначен заместителем командующего сухопутными войсками в 2007 году и проработал на этой должности до ноября 2015 года.С 2015 года командует сухопутными войсками.

8 мая 2021 года начальником штаба вооруженных сил от главнокомандующего был награжден знаком ФАТХ первой степени. Основаниями для получения данной медали являются выполнение поставленных задач по повышению обороноспособности и боевой мощи, преобразование в структуре и оснащении сухопутных войск армии, поддержка сил фронта сопротивления, эффективное присутствие на восточных и северо-восточных рубежах
Командующий штабом Сухопутных войск на юго-западе Ирана (1998-2005 гг.)
Заместитель координатора Сухопутных войск (2005 - 2008 гг.)
Заместитель командующего Сухопутными войсками (2008 - 2016 гг.)
Командующий Сухопутными войсками (с 29 августа 2016 - настоящее время)

В сентябре 2022 года Хейдари был внесён в санкционные списки Управления по контролю за иностранными активами  Министерства финансов США (OFAC), наряду с другими высшими руководителями иранских организаций безопасности.

В ноябре 2022 года он также был внесён в санкционные списки Европейского Союза, наряду с другими высшими руководителями иранских организаций безопасности. Причинами санкций являются участие Сухопутных сил Иранской армии, находящихся под командованием бригадного генерала Хейдари, в подавлении беспорядков в ноябре 2019 года, которые привели к гибели сотен протестующих. Также в середине сентября 2022 года войска принимали участие в борьбе с протестами, вызванными смертью Махсы Амини.

В январе 2023 года Великобритания ввела санкции против большого числа иранских физических и юридических лиц, Киюмарса Хейдари в том числе. Причина – «жестокие репрессии» в отношении своего народа, включая подавление антиправительственных протестов.

Примечания

Военачальники Ирана
Бригадные генералы (Иран)
Бригадные генералы
Родившиеся в 1964 году

Участники Ирано-иракской войны
Командующие Сухопутными войсками Ирана


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FAQs & Fatwas • Islamic Studies
Is it permitted to discuss dreams at night?
by Suhaib Webb
Is it permitted to discuss dreams at night? I was told not to. Also, shouldI follow Islamic books on interpretations of dreams.
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate
Indeed, discussing dreams is from the Sunna of the Prophet (Peace and blessing of Allah be upon him). There are a number of sound narrations where the Prophet (sa) would ask his companions (May Allah be pleased with them), after the Fajir prayer, if they had any dreams. In another narration the Prophet (sa) equated the righteous dream with a part of Prophet-Hood itself.
However, there are a few points that should be noted:
1. There is an agreement amongst the scholars that dreams cannot be used as proof regarding Islamic Law.
2. The interpretation of dreams and the like is not something that is learned, but is a gift from Allah (The Most High) given to some of His servants.
3. Good dreams should be shared with one's close and sincere friends. I would personally recommend sharing it with one's Sheikh or Imam only for the following reasons:
a) You will avoid the jealousy and animosity of others.
b) You will avoid the danger of showing off and falling into showing off.
4. If one has a frightening dream, he should spit on is left side and not inform others of it. This is based on the statement of the Prophet (sa) related by Al-Bukhari:
"The good visions are from Allah and the evil dreams are from Satan. If one sees a dream which one does not like, one should spit on one's left side and seek the refuge of Allah from Satan; it will not do any harm, and one should not disclose it to anyone, and if one sees a good vision one should feel pleased but should not disclose it to anyone but whom one loves."
5. Regarding the different books written on dream interpretation there are a few important points that should be noted:
a) Such books represent opinions that might or might not be correct pertaining to the person. Thus, when consulting such works, the opinions expressed should not be accepted say, as a hadith or verse of Qur'an. In others words, such interpretations are not Qat'i (decisive)but mere opinions. They might be right, or they might be wrong.
b) Many of the books written on the subject do not contain sound chains back to the claimed author. For example, the famous work of Ibn Siren is not authentically traced with a sound sanad back to the great Tab'i and scholar Ibn Siren (May Allah's mercy be upon him). For this reason it might be best to avoid such books and refer one's dreams directly to a scholar or local person of knowledge.
6) Any advice given regarding dreams and their interpretations must not contradict the Sacred Law. If such advice is given seek clarification from the interpreter. If you are certain that this is advices contradicts the Sacred Law then leave it.
May Allah grant us dreams of the Prophet (May Allah's peace and blessing be upon him) and bless us to join him (May Allah's peace and blessing be upon him)
And Allah (The Most High) knows best
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Suhaib Webb is a contemporary American-Muslim educator, activist, and lecturer. His work bridges classical and contemporary Islamic thought, addressing issues of cultural, social and political relevance to Muslims in the West. After converting to Islam in 1992, Webb left his career in the music industry to pursue his passion in education. He earned a Bachelor's in Education from the University of Central Oklahoma and received intensive private training in the Islamic Sciences under a renowned Muslim Scholar of Senegalese descent. Webb was hired as the Imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, where he gave khutbas (sermons), taught religious classes, and provided counselling to families and young people; he also served as an Imam and resident scholar in communities across the U.S.
From 2004-2010, Suhaib Webb studied at the world's preeminent Islamic institution of learning, Al-Azhar University, in the College of Shari`ah. During this time, after several years of studying the Arabic Language and the Islamic legal tradition, he also served as the head of the English Translation Department at Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah.
Outside of his studies at Al-Azhar, Suhaib Webb completed the memorization of the Quran in the city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia. He has been granted numerous traditional teaching licenses (ijazat), adhering to centuries-old Islamic scholarly practice of ensuring the highest standards of scholarship. Webb was named one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in 2010.
Feda says:
Asslamu alaykum; Sheikh Suhaib,
I usually leave my dreams uninterpreted; however, there are a few recent ones that have raised my curiosity. Do you know of or recommend anyone certified I can reach who can interpret them for me?
Jazak Allahu Khair!